Chapter 21 Who's in the World?
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The air was fresh, and the overnight autumn rain drove away the heat and dryness in the air. It also brought muddy water from both sides of the river, causing the Han River to rise and become much more turbid.
On the surface of the Hanshui River, all kinds of big boats lined up in long pairs, and Zhao Tianyan was arranging for the Tiejianmen and the Zheng family to come on board. Although most of the servants had already boarded the ship yesterday, the people who stayed were all people with a high status in the Zheng family in Xingyang.
The hustle and bustle of last night has completely disappeared, and the bustle has dissipated.
On the Baiyun Tower, there are only Wang Li and Lu Youdao on the second floor.
The two looked at the busy Iron Sword Gate and the Zheng family on the dock from the window.
"You say, is the rumored potential force real or fake?" Lu Youdao lowered his head and played with the lid of the cup between his fingers, and asked Wang Li.
"I don't know." Wang Li didn't seem to want to discuss this issue too much.
"The more you can't find it, the more it looks like it's real." Lu said again, grasping the topic tightly, "You say, is there really something that we can't find?" “
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Wang Lili ignored Lu Youdao's words, and looked at the Zheng family who were busy on the dock outside the window. The wind blew, and Lu Youdao was not embarrassed and continued to play with the lid of the cup.
"Yesterday, you were really boring to yourself, why did you talk to Old Man Zheng so directly?" After a while, Wang Li glanced at Lu who was playing with the lid of the cup and asked.
"You know, I don't like Old Man Zheng's face the most. This time, you and I came to Xiangyang, which has already explained our sincerity and attitude. The Zheng family just let him come, the old man is still going around, he is old, I don't want to test anything with him. Besides, why is he testing us here, he has nothing to do, and honestly opens a Pu bureau in Xingyang. If you want to come to me to be a good person, I just don't come with him, if you can say it directly, just say it directly, and then try to come and go like this, be careful that I pump him. Lu Youdao shrugged his shoulders and squinted at Wang Lidao.
"Rest assured, the Zheng family is located in the Central Plains, a place where a hundred battles must be fought, and they will always be in the whirlpool one step ahead of other families. On the contrary, your Lu family is safer, and it is a big deal to keep contacts with the grassland to the north, so you don't have to worry about trade routes, and you can't fight back and forth like us. Wang Li put his hand on the railing and smiled, "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, you're already doing this." ”
"Fifth brother, we have missed the best time. That guy Li Ping said a very interesting thing, boiled frogs in warm water. We are facing a crisis that has not been encountered in several dynastic changes. What is the attitude of the Wang family this time? Lu Youdao asked with a restrained smile, and asked Wang Li solemnly.
Wang Li didn't seem to hear Lu Youdao's question, and quietly looked at the ships waiting to depart on the Han River downstairs.
"The world will always be in the hands of some families, and this will never change, no matter when." The second floor was silent for a long time, and Wang Li's voice sounded low, like a statement, and like a categorical judgment.
Back then, Li Yuanba sent the Li family to the table with a hammer. In the year of Zhenguan, the eldest grandson's family came up; In the Year of the Divine Dragon, the martial arts, come up. These are indispensable to the Wang family. In the past, whether it was the eldest grandson Wuji, or Wang Maozhong, or others. No matter who is on stage, he can make his voice, but there can only be one loudest voice in the court, and that is our voice, the voice of our major families. The world is not anyone's world, it's our world! Speaking of this, Wang Li suddenly turned around and stared at Lu Youdao.
"The world, just like this Baiyun Tower, what if there are a few more people and a few fewer people to eat, that's it. Dongying is a small country, but Henan Province is large, and it has never been at war. Zhuang Zhou also said that the two countries on the snail's horn are prone to millions of corpses. No matter how big or small the country is, a family can't eat. Therefore, I admire the Wang family very much, and I don't fight for the world, but among the people who eat, I can't miss my Wang family. ”
"Now, the Li family in Longxi doesn't think so. Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, his appetite is the whole world, and the whole world wants to be his own family. Emperors of all dynasties have had this idea, and there is nothing wrong with it. Whether it is Wei Wu or the Sima family, or even the well-dressed Nandu, it has been hundreds of years, and this world is theirs and has always been ours. Wang Li said this, and his voice gradually increased, "When you arrive at the Yang family, what kind of discipline is you doing!" Hey, I'm out of bounds. 'Emperor Yang is desolate, brutal and unreasonable, killing the country and destroying the country, laughing for the world. How good it is, doesn't the world believe it? Every time I stand in the ancestral hall of the royal family and look at the tablets of the ancestors, I always have full respect, this is the strength of several major families, this is our strength. Of course, it is precisely because of this that the Li family was given a chance. However, the Li family didn't learn a lesson, didn't cherish it, forgot how his world came about, and wanted to continue to play the Yang family's set, and it intensified. Then we, you and I, have this responsibility to remind them of it. "The secret of the extinction of an empire, the secret of a few major families hidden for nearly a hundred years, revealed a trace of the original truth in Wang Li's indifferent telling.
In the small town of Ritsu in autumn, the sun near noon shone on the body of the man who spoke, casting a clear shadow on the floor of the second floor. Wang Li opened his arms and said the above words, just like countless ancestors of the Wang family said. This day is the twelfth year of the Great Qin Dynasty, the fifth day of the ninth month. What is said today, there will be people in the next few generations and dozens of generations of the Kenneng royal family who will say the same. At present, what Wang Li has to do is to push the family he is proud of to a higher glory and pass it on to his descendants.
"Baiyun Building is not bad for people to eat, even if there are more on the second floor, it doesn't matter. But you can't crowd everyone to my table to eat. Several old people think that this is a bit of a loss of face, and face doesn't matter to me. Food, you can eat it, you have to be at the table I designated, and if you go beyond this rule, we will lose the world. The Wang family has been inherited for hundreds of years, and I can't lose control of this world in my hands. If we tear our faces, we don't mind turning the Li family into a former dynasty. ”
"Of course, like you said, we've really missed the best of times. According to the method of dealing with the Yang family, it is no longer possible, and our generation must use our own methods. Speaking of this, Wang Li paused for a moment, as if summing up what he thought, "So, if you want to go to Mount Tai, I agree, pull out all the people who want to eat vegetables and take a look, and everyone in the province is staring at the table behind their backs." On the table, we can kick them down again. Not only to kick to death, but also to let generations stop worrying about this table. Wang Li waved down and slapped it on the table, silent and silent, and the tabletop under the palm of his hand instantly became powder, and the light and shadow in the chaos dispersed with the wind.
"Feng Chan Taishan, let's see a few, the peak, okay......"
"Feng Zen is the peak, what is after the peak, you know?" Wang Li raised his head and looked at the patterns on the beams in the Baiyun Tower, as if he was asking Lu Youdao, and seemed to be talking to himself.
"It's a ...... of decline"