The next day, the Anxi army set up camp and went to Xiazhou.

When the army was marching out, Xue Shao personally went to see him off.

Wang Fangyi took out a ruler-length dagger with a rough sheath and a dark blade, and said to Xue Shao that this dagger was made by him and had been with him for more than thirty years. Don't look ugly, but it's very easy to use.

After that, Wang Fangyi casually picked up a fist-sized pebble on the ground, and gently threw it into the air with a volley, and the pebble cracked in half in response!

"What a knife!" Xue Shao was amazed. I really can't imagine that in the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, someone could still cast such a sharp knife!

"It's a pity that back then, the old man only got a small piece of iron like this. Otherwise, I will definitely build tens of thousands of good swords to kill the enemy and assemble them for every soldier of the Anxi Army! Wang Fangyi put the knife in front of Xue Shao with both hands, "Please don't dislike the young marshal and laugh at it, keep it as a memorial of this battle!" ”

"A gentleman does not take the love of others. This dagger is the old general's beloved thing, how can Xue Shao possess it? Xue Shao declined.

"In fact, for so many years, the old man has always wanted to give it to a person who has the same interests as the old man and is worthy of this dagger." Wang Fangyi's tone was very sincere, and he sent the dagger forward, "Now that the old man is almost sixty years old, I don't know how many years I can still pounce on the field." If one day the old man is shrouded in horse leather or disarmed and returned to the field, if the young marshal can take it to gallop across the field, it will be like bringing the old man. The husband's life is sufficient! ”

Hearing this, Xue Shao was both moved and shocked. Lao Jifu is inspirational for thousands of miles, nothing more than this!

"The heart of the old general's fist, Xue Shao has already understood. In this case, Xue Shao had the courage to accept it! Xue Shao took the dagger with both hands and put it into the breastplate, and immediately untied the Qianniu Imperial Sword from his waist and offered it with both hands, "Come and don't be rude, old general, this is Xue Shao's saber, please accept it to keep a souvenir!" ”

"It's not going to work!" Wang Fangyi waved his hand again and again, "This is a thousand cattle knife given by the emperor, which is rare in the world!" How dare the old man accept it? ”

Xue Shao smiled slightly and said: "This is indeed a royal gift of the Thousand Ox Sword, only Feng Chenwei's Thousand Ox Preparation can be possessed after the victory of the Thousand Cow Martial Arts Conference." The old general, Xue Shaoyi, is still shallow in his career, and has not achieved any success or glorious deeds. For now, most of the qiē I have comes from my family background and my origins. Only this knife has little to do with my father's generation, my family background and my identity, it is something that I earned by ability, and it is also one of the few things I can hold and dare to share with the old general. If the old general doesn't dislike it, please accept it! ”

"The young marshal is sincere, and the old man knows everything!" Wang Fangyi took a deep breath, took the knife with both hands, pulled the knife out of the sheath with a bang, squinted at the blade, and praised loudly: "Good knife, good knife, what a good knife to kill the enemy!" ”

"That's what the old general said. Since it is a good knife, it should be used to kill the enemy and serve the country! Xue Shao smiled.

"Take care, young marshal, old man is going!"

Wang Fangyi didn't say anything more, picked up his sword, mounted his horse, and led his Anxi Tiger Division to go high.

At this moment, Xue Shao suddenly had a strong impulse to ride on a horse to catch up with Wang Fangyi and go with him to the Yellow Sand Border Pass where the sun sets on the long river and the horses are roaring.

Life at the border must be very difficult, but there is freedom, blood, righteousness, and the pride of a man who is flying and galloping.

When I returned to Chang'an, there were many people who dreamed of beautiful women in brocade clothes and jade food, and they were blessed with fame and fortune. But only after you really have it will you know, and over time, these things will be woven into a beautiful cage, and whoever plunges into it will not want to come out again.

"Perhaps, I was born to belong to the army......" Xue Shao sighed softly, and no one could hear it.

At this time, Guo Yuanzhen, who was behind Xue Shao, sighed and shouted, "Oh, I don't want to go back to Chang'an!" ”

"Don't you want your parents and wives?" Xue Shao looked back and smiled.

"Yes! But I want to take them all over and experience this life with me! Guo Yuanzhen said with a smile, "My heart is relatively wild, and I always feel restrained in Chang'an. Or is it better and more comfortable to live in the army. Bitterness is a little bitter, but you can be happy in bitterness! - The taste of bitterness and happiness is much more comfortable than soaking in a honey pot every day! ”

"Slut." Xue Shao scolded and rode past him.

"It's really cheap." Xue Chuyu muttered and walked past Guo Yuanzhen.

Xiao Zhizhong walked over, Guo Yuanzhen pointed at him and shouted: "Xiao Changshi, you won't scold like them, right?" Beware of insults! ”

Xiao Zhizhong smiled, "I just want to say that what the young marshal said is true!" ”

"You! ……”

Guo Yuanzhen blew his beard and stared, and the others laughed and rode away. Guo Yuanzhen hurriedly caught up with Xue Shao and others.

The weather is cold and the wind is cold. The laughter of Xue Shao and the others drifted away with the wind and went straight into the sky.

……

Wang Fangyi is gone, and Xue Shao's task as the commander of the counterinsurgency is basically completed, but as the envoy of the three states, he still has a lot of things to deal with.

Bai Tieyu's rebellion did not pose a major threat to the Tang Empire. However, it has brought a blow to the local people's livelihood in Sui and Yan Prefectures. Many officials were killed, many men died in the fighting, and many more people fled their homes and became displaced people. Most of the fields and crops have been left uncultivated, and the industrial and commercial treasury has been exhausted, and it will be difficult for these two states to recover in less than ten or twenty years.

Every time he thought of this, Xue Shao had a thousand impulses to cut Bai Tieyu into pieces and swallow them one by one, making him turn into in his stomach.

If you don't experience war, you don't know the value of peace.

Now, the people of Suiyan Erzhou, who have awakened, are no different from Xue Shao's thoughts, and many people come to Xue Shao's official office every day to kneel down and ask for their lives, wanting Xue Shao to execute Bai Tieyu in public and give them justice and an explanation.

But for a "repeat offender" like Bai Tieyu, Xue Shao must bring him back to Chang'an to be punished by the Ming canon.

In the face of the people's pleas, Xue Shao could only persuade him with good words and refused again and again. But the more Xue Shao persuaded him, the more people came to ask for his life. Gradually, it has become a flood trend.

Most of the people who came to ask for their lives were former believers of Bai Tieyu.

What is even more tragic than living in dire straits is living in deception and deception. How much these people trusted and loved Bai Tieyu before, and how much they spurned and hated Bai Tieyu now. Even if they "eat their flesh and sleep their skin", I am afraid that they will not be able to completely eliminate their current anger.

Seeing the surging public sentiment, Xue Shao decided to transfer Bai Tieyu away from Chengping County. Qin Cha Xingyuan also moved along the way and moved to Yan'an.

For the sake of safety, Xue Shao deliberately chose to set off at dawn. When he was traveling, Bai Tieyu was loaded into a prisoner car. Four hundred thousand cavalry, guarding and transporting along the way. Rao is like this, and it still attracts the attention of the people.

After a few shouts, soon thousands of households turned on their lights, and the people jumped out of the hot quilts and poured into the streets to find Bai Tieyu to settle accounts. If it weren't for the strong impeachment of the Thousand Cavalry Guards, it would have caused a riot.

Bai Tieyu stood in the prisoner car and saw the scene in front of him, and shouted loudly: "My believers, I will go to Tushi Huacheng in the near future!" I will be waiting for you there, ascend to Bliss early! ”

His shout was like pouring a scoop of water into a pot of boiling oil, and the people exploded on the spot!

Countless people desperately rushed forward, wanting to beat Bai Tieyu to death. There were also some people who smashed whatever they could pick up at hand desperately at Bai Tieyu's prisoner car. Many of the thousands of guards guarding Bai Tieyu's prisoner car were injured by mistake, and some even broke their heads and bled out.

Bai Tieyu laughed in the prisoner car, looking up to the sky and laughing.

The people are even more angry, seeing that the situation is about to get out of control!

It is difficult to disobey the will of the people.

Just when Xue Shao was about to order Bai Tieyu to be beheaded on the street to appease the people, Xuan Yunzi and Sima Chengzhen arrived on horseback. The two of them flew and jumped into the prisoner car, and Bai Tieyu shouted excitedly, "Queen, you are here to save ......"

Before he finished shouting a sentence, Xuanyunzi said lightly, Lin Xingdu, Yu Zi, and said, "Seed and ring, right locust, and right locust."

The people were suddenly dumbfounded, and many people did not smash out the things they were carrying in their hands.

After a series of previous "touring" Buddhist speeches, Xuan Yunzi and Sima Chengzhen have become the new idols in the hearts of the people of Suizhou.

Xuan Yunzi and Sima Chengzhen didn't say a word, they each sat down cross-legged on the side of the prisoner car, closed their eyes, and began to chant the famous Buddhist mantra, the six-character mantra - "Om Ma Ma Bang Mi Ng"!

Something magical happened.

The originally very irritable people and the turbulent crowd miraculously quieted down. Many people put down the sundries they were using to attack, sat on the ground like Xuanyunzi, closed their eyes, and began to chant the six-character mantra.

Gradually, more and more people sat down and chanted mantras together.

On the street of Chengping, a dense crowd of people soon sat down. The sound of the Buddha's chant resounded throughout the city.

Xue Shao was stunned.

Xuan Yunzi got up and walked to Xue Shao's side, "Young marshal, we can go." ”

Xue Shaoshen glanced at Xuan Yunzi twice, and nodded lightly, "Let's go!" ”

The procession set out again, and there was no one to stop it. Walking along the way, I only heard the sound of "Om Mani Horn Mi Mi". This magical sound makes people's hearts inexplicably peaceful and inexplicably ethereal. It seems that all the sadness, anger and exhaustion have gradually disappeared with the sound of such Buddha chantings.

"It turns out that this is the power of religion." Xue Shao couldn't help but sigh.

Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly and said, "Force, in fact, is not the best way to solve the problem. Force, which often leads to more and stronger violent protests. Everyone has something on their minds, pain that needs to be vented and wishes that need to be fulfilled. Bai Tieyu was very good at perceiving people's hearts, and he exploited these weaknesses in human nature to gain his trust, and he worked hard to manage this way for more than ten years, and finally established a religious dynasty of his own. Although this puppet dynasty was quickly overthrown by the Tang Empire's military suppression, it has to be admitted that controlling the mind is the most powerful way to control it in the world. Bai Tieyu is a good player. ”

"You're right." Xue Shao nodded and sighed lightly: "When our body is born, there is medicine to treat; When our hearts are sick, they need to be healed as well. This may be the meaning of religion and belief. It's a pity that Bai Tieyu has embarked on the evil path, otherwise he would really be a character. ”

"The doctor heals the man, and the Taoist heals the heart. Poor Dao said very early on that Gongzi was born with a Taoist heart and a fate with the Tao. Xuanyunzi smiled slightly, "Poor Dao can't help but send another invitation to Gongzi, if you have time, you will come to Xuanyunguan in Zhongnan Mountain to make tea and discuss with Poor Dao, how about it?" ”

Healing?

Perhaps, I really need to be healed......

Xue Shao smiled slightly, "Okay." ”

Xuan Yunzi smiled. The willow eyebrows are curved and the apricot eyes are slightly raised, but she still smiles with her eyes.