"I see... Wrong! Boy, you dare to talk big about your grandfather, don't you want to die? If he is a spy, he will never fight alone, how can anyone who is caught in the case go to the criminal department to solve the case? Even the horses on our mountain are all in a group of people, and you dare to send them to Beijing if you only catch one? ”

After finishing speaking, Shen Gui slapped the thunder short sword on the edge of the kang, and made a crisp bang: "I see that your kid doesn't cry when you don't see the coffin!" ”

After listening to Shen Gui's words, Yuan Delin's heart suddenly relaxed, and he didn't smile on his face:

"Hehe, the king really has a good experience! Indeed, our Xilin Mansion captured and killed a total of four Youbei spies this time, and the dead ghost at the entrance of the village was an accomplice who came to rescue them, and he also stabbed to death the prefect Kong in public! The bodies of the other three main criminals are still stored in Yizhuang in Xilin Mansion, waiting to be used when negotiating with the Youbei barbarians! ”

"Negotiations?"

"That's right, it is said that the Youbei spy who led the team this time is still a big official, and our Lu Jiaotou said that we can use the three of them as a bargaining stake to cut off a large piece of fat from the Youbei people!"

"General Lu?"

"That's right, it's the head of all our city guards in Luxi, Lu Tai!"

It's really a meeting of mountains and rivers!

When he first stepped into the rivers and lakes, Shen Gui thought that the rivers and lakes were very deep, as if they could accommodate all things in heaven and earth; But after experiencing it himself, the bottomless rivers and lakes peeled off the veil in front of him little by little, but he found that the whole rivers and lakes were as simple as a white painting, and there was no half of concealment.

The rivers and lakes are very large, and the rivers and lakes are also very small; Shen Gui has traveled all over the Huayu Continent, and has seen all kinds of strange people and strange things, three religions, nine streams, five elements and eight works, he has all made friends, but now looking back, it seems that these people who seem to have no connection with each other actually have a bond that cannot be recognized by the naked eye, and after being entangled with each other, they tightly bound themselves in a silk cocoon, and the tighter and tighter they became.

Lu Tai, the head of all the city guards of Lu Xi's generation, did have a deal with Shen Gui. But the life debt between him and Li Xuanyu has been offset by himself. Shen Gui thought that he would never have any more entanglements with him in this life; But now when he hears this name again, he has formed a new life debt with Scar Man.

And this time, the debt is four lives.

With Lu Tai's handsome sword skills and boxing skills, it is not difficult to get a bite to eat anywhere. As the so-called learning literature and martial arts, selling goods to the emperor's family, and joining the army is the most orthodox way out for those who practice martial arts. But the problem is that the collusion between Lu Tai and Di Ting is not a secret to Shen Gui, so is he colluding with the Lu Xi Confucian School for the purpose of hiding his identity, or is it a task that Di Ting gave him to perform?

If it is the former, then there is no problem, after all, every Jianghu person will have another layer of identity, and the profession of chivalry itself cannot produce any economic benefits; But once this matter is involved with Di Ting, then the inside story is quite interesting.

Throughout the rise and fall of ancient and modern times, the change of dynasties, the emperor on the Huayu continent has changed countless homes, it can be said that you sing and I take the stage, and it is dizzying. However, just the prefecture and Yafu County near Luxi, from the ancient classics that have survived to this day, it is already a piece of land reserved by the Holy Master Confucius's family. There are so many heroes who gallop across the battlefield and raise swords to quell the troubled times, and so many generations of holy lords who have created a century of prosperity and prosperity, which king has never had the idea to hit this large piece of land? But who can really succeed? Let you do all kinds of tricks, and I will not move. There are countless disciples of the sage, who have glorified the Huayu Continent for thousands of years, although they have also retreated for a while, but they have never collapsed.

The greatest secret that enabled these people to stand for thousands of years without falling has been written in the texts left by the saints. No king can endure the supremacy of his own hands, shared by a people as cheap as a weed; Nor can any wise lord or virtuous minister accept the just law that "the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people"; The idea of "the people are noble and the monarch is light" advocated by the Confucianism school can indeed well reflect the magnanimity and open-mindedness of the monarch, but after all, it can only become a slogan on the lips, a layer of fur on the outside of flesh and bones.

From the perspective of balance, Emperor Zhou Yuanqing has played the imperial checks and balances to the extreme. The two auxiliary ministers of the imperial court under his command, one is a representative of traditional Xianxue - Cai Xi and Cai Xianyang; The other is a representative of cutting-edge miscellaneous science - Wang Fang and Wang Mubei. Judging from the backgrounds of these two cabinet members alone, it can reflect the overall idea of Emperor Tianyou to build the civil official system of Northern Yan: to educate the people with traditional learning, and to govern the world with miscellaneous theories.

In fact, there is no distinction between the high and low theories, but only different tools. Which tool is more effective depends only on the current social environment and the level of governance of officials at all levels of the imperial court. For the Northern Yan Imperial Court, even though Wang Fang has a hot temper and is informal, he is a miscellaneous scholar who has studied both ancient and modern, both civil and military. The national policies and ideas he put forward are full of strong personal style, and he will not stick to a certain fashionable theory, nor will he belittle those traditional old schools that have been annihilated in the long river of history, and everything is based on practical results. It can be said that the cultural atmosphere of the Northern Yan Dynasty was established by Wang Fang.

If Cai Xi is a teacher who is interested in entering the school, then Wang Fang is the teacher of the people of the world. Even those lowly people who can't read a word, such as craftsmen, merchants, farmers, and female musicians, have directly or indirectly received the favor of Wang Fang.

Wang Fang's influence is already so terrifying, but after so many years of fighting openly and secretly, he still repeatedly suffers from Cai Xi's injuries; Although there is a reason why Zhou Yuanqing played with the emperor's mental tricks, it can also reflect from the side how unbreakable Cai Xi and the entire echelon of the Confucian school behind him are!

The right to speak is in their hands; The books of history are also written entirely by them. The names before and behind are already in the pen and ink of Shizi, and how many heroes and heroes in the world dare to ignore the rules they have formulated?

Although the Cai family is also a famous family on Ludong Road, he has the same surname as the saint after all, but how can he carry the banner of the Confucian school?

The fundamental reason is that the southerners pay more attention to the clan bloodline; The northerners, on the other hand, pay more attention to cultural identity. For example, for people south of the Huajiang River, if two strangers worship an ancestral hall together, then even if they look at each other very much, they will consciously hug each other tightly, sharing weal and woe. But if the two northerners are distant relatives who have not met each other and only heard their names, they may not be able to form a community of interests.

There are many wars in the north, and there are few displaced people in the south of the Yangtze River. As the wheels of history roll forward, two distinct networks of people have emerged. In other words, for the Confucian school in the Northland, the criteria for choosing the person who bears the flag are not the blood and lintel; Rather, it lies in the moral character and academic attainments of the person; If you want to be more utilitarian, it is to see who among the three thousand disciples under the sect can climb to the highest position in the civil official sequence of the imperial court, then whoever can immediately get the heart of the world's scholars!

The Confucian school, which has been in this atmosphere for thousands of years, has naturally formed a set of standards for how to distinguish people from each other. It is also appropriate to describe it with the sentence "everything is inferior, only reading is high". Farmers and merchants, craftsmen and martial artists, at least within the sphere of influence of the Confucian school, all fall into one category. Regardless of the sage in ancient times, what was the original philosophy of learning; However, after thousands of years of evolution, the literati style of the Confucian school has become an unpleasant and despicable deply.

To put it simply, all walks of life on Ludong Road, as long as they can catch up with the Confucian school, must be driven by these students. Those who have silver give silver, and those who do not have money exert their strength. And even if you don't spare any effort to offer incense, you can't get into the eyes of those saints and disciples at all. If you want to break into their circle, you have to work hard more than just yellow and white things! Even if you don't know a rough person, you must follow the living habits of the students and masters, and follow those vast daily etiquette; Mix the rare written vocabulary into daily communication, so that you can have a few words with those students and masters!

If you want to change from a farmer's son to a scholar who has the opportunity to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister, then the hardships required must not be much easier than those who have cultivated the Heavenly Spirit Vein. Although this Confucian school does not talk about blood relations, they pay attention to family background! If he is the son of a merchant, even if he obtains fame and eats a bite of King Lumi, he will definitely not be able to enter the core sequence of the civil service system.

The class barrier on the Zijin Hall in Yanjing City is still so unbreakable; So for the Confucian school's own place, Xilin City, wouldn't it be even more dark?

Scar man Lu Tai, as a Jianghu man and a top martial arts master, if he wants to hide his identity, where can he go to live a peaceful life? After all, he is a person who listens to the truth, and it is impossible to lack money without anything, so why bother to be angry with this group of literati and old men?

Therefore, Shen Gui judged that the reason why Lu Tai was in the base camp of the Confucian school and became the chief instructor of the city guards should be due to the instructions of the Di Ting. However, in this Xilin City, where martial arts are not as good as dogs, even if he Lu Tai is proficient in martial arts, what great news can he hear when he lurks here?

Maybe it was because Di Ting wanted to play chess in the next step, burn a cold stove, and provoke some more internal and external disputes by the way, so that they could take advantage of the situation to make a few national fortunes.

can talk about small means such as sowing discord and demagoguery, these weak scholars who have read the words of sages are all grandfathers who listen to the truth!