Chapter 0007: The Temptation of Martial Arts
Li Yuan had heard Dugu Shun briefly mention this matter before, where was he willing to let his son take risks, so he gritted his teeth and said: "But everyone in the world knows that Li Mi is dead, how can Jiancheng pretend to be him?" β
"It's okay, Li Mi's head has been secretly replaced by us, and anyone with a discerning eye will recognize that the head hanging on the city is not Li Mi himself, and everyone will believe that Li Mi is not dead, and we still have Zhai Rang's handwritten letter."
Dou Qing raised the silk in his hand, "I believe that Zhai Rang will admit that it is Li Mi." β
Dugu Shun next to him also persuaded Li Yuandao: "Actually, Zhai Rang just wants to cooperate with our Guanlong nobles, it doesn't matter if it is Li Mi or not, we just want to protect you and not let Yang Guang know that Jiancheng went to Wagang, so we let Jiancheng go to pretend to be Li Mi, I think, Zhai Rang will cooperate with us to keep this secret even if he knows it." β
Li Yuan knew that he couldn't object, but he didn't know the cause and effect of this incident, how could he rest assured that his son would go to Wagang Village, he groaned and asked, "How sincere is the Wagang Army?" β
Dou Qing smiled at him: "Zhai Rang sent Wei Zheng to secretly contact us two months ago, hoping to get our support, originally we didn't want to consider the Wagang Army, but since Yang Xuangan has failed, it is also beneficial for us to incorporate this army, so I discussed with the head of the Dugu family and decided to send Li Mi to collect the Wagang Army, but Li Mi died, so I had to let Jiancheng replace him." β
Li Yuan secretly thought in his heart, this matter has both disadvantages and advantages, although there are certain risks, but if it can be successfully incorporated into the Wagang Army, it is likely to become a big boost to his career in the future.
Thinking of this, he finally nodded in agreement, "Okay! Then let Jiancheng go to Wagang to struggle. β
Seeing that he agreed, Dou Qing happily brushed his beard and said, "In order to protect the safety of the built, I plan to let Wang Bodang accompany him." β
Li Yuan hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you, father-in-law, for your thoughtfulness." β
Dou Qing said loudly: "Bodang, come in!" β
Wang Bodang walked into the room again, he bowed and bowed, and stood with his hands down.
Dou Qing and the three of them glanced at each other, and Dou Qing tried his best to say in a soft tone: "What I told you last time, are you ready?" β
Wang Bodang nodded silently, he knew that he was going to Wagang, but Li Mi was already dead, who would he go with?
"You are going with Jiancheng, be sure to protect his safety!" Dou Qing seemed to know his thoughts.
"Built?"
Wang Bodang was stunned, but he immediately reacted and immediately said: "Obey the order!" β
Li Yuan next to him bowed, "Bodang, please leave it to you when it is completed." β
"Please rest assured that Bodang will do his best to protect his safety!"
At this time, Wang Bodang remembered Zhang Xuan, who was still waiting to be seen, and hurriedly said, "Do you want to see Zhang Xuan?" β
Dou Qing smiled slightly, "Actually, I've already met him, this person is very good, his strategic insights are very clever, and he is a rare talent." β
Wang Bodang was very surprised, when did the master see Zhang Xuan, why didn't he know?
"Brother Dou won't want him to join the Wuchuan Club as well!" Dugu Shun next to him was slightly displeased.
Dou Qing has been the head of the association for more than a year, and he has recruited many children from the poor family to join the Wuchuan Society, which makes Dugu Shun, who attaches great importance to the bloodline portal, very dissatisfied, and now there is a person who doesn't know where, he has taken a fancy to it again, saying that he has a little talent, is Wuchuan Mansion a vegetable garden? People who can grow and order food are pulled in, what a system!
Dou Qing heard Dugu Shun's dissatisfaction, so he told everyone Zhang Xuan's core theory of Guanlong and Hebei, and said with a smile: "This person has a unique vision, and he has deeply analyzed the importance of Liaodong to Hebei and the great strategic significance of fighting Goguryeo, which is the talent that our Wuchuan Association lacks the most, maybe he is not a Guanlong nobleman, but I hope to absorb him into the guild exceptionally." β
Li Yuan praised: "This person is indeed very insightful! β
Dou Qing said very formally, Dugudun is not easy to veto directly, he has to take care of Dou Qing's face, but he is unwilling to let him compromise like this, as long as this kind of precedent is opened once, I don't know what kind of chaos will be in the future.
Let's wait a while.
Dugu said coldly by the way: "If Brother Dou must let him join the association, I have no objection, but I hope that I still have to act according to the rules of the Wuchuan Society, and observe him for at least three months, in case he is an internal response sent by the Bohai Society." β
Dugu Shun said very reasonably, the rules of the Wuchuan Club are here, and even if Dou Qing is the head of the club, he can't violate the rules and make exceptions.
Dou Qing was helpless, he thought about it and said to Wang Bodang: "According to the rules, you must not tell him in advance about absorbing Zhang Xuan into the club, I don't care what excuse you use, what method you use, in short, you have to keep him in Luoyang for three months, at least until the end of this year, it is best to let him live in your house, so that we can easily observe him." β
Wang Bodang scratched his head, this matter made him very embarrassed, he can't lie by nature, what excuse does he have to keep Zhang Xuan?
Li Yuan saw Wang Bodang's embarrassment, so he had the heart to help him, "I have a ready-made excuse, but how to make Zhang Xuan stay willingly, Bodang has to figure out his own way." β
Uncle Wang was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Please teach me Gong Li!" β
Li Yuan smiled slightly, "Isn't he the only eyewitness to Yuwen Shu's private release of Yang Xuangan?" With this only eyewitness, you can ask him to stay, but most people will not easily agree to be such a witness, so it is necessary to give him a little favor and make him willing to stay. β
Dou Qing also happily brushed his beard and said: "This excuse is good, Bodang might as well talk to him to see what he needs most?" β
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There is a rockery on the west side of the courtyard, and there is an octagonal pavilion built on the rockery, Zhang Xuan sits in the pavilion boredly waiting for Wang Bodang's return, and from the pavilion you can clearly see the situation on the other side of the courtyard wall.
To the west of the guest hall turned out to be a martial arts training ground, the size of half a football field in later generations, and there were several rows of swords, guns, swords, and halberds on the side, but the martial arts training ground was deserted, and there was no one.
Although Jang Hyun could easily climb over the wall, he decided not to act rashly with the lesson he had just learned.
"What is Childe looking at?" Wang Bodang's voice suddenly came from behind him.
When Zhang Xuan turned around, he saw Wang Bodang standing at the gate of the courtyard, but he didn't know when he would come back?
Zhang Xuan hurriedly walked down the pavilion and said with a smile: "I saw a martial arts training ground opposite, and I was a little curious." β
"Oh, do you want to try it?" Wang Bodang smiled slightly.
"This ...... May I? β
"Of course it doesn't matter, that's where I teach my disciples to practice, let's go and see it together!"
Li Yuan's excuse for keeping Zhang Xuan is indeed very simple, but it is not easy to make Zhang Xuan stay willingly, this tricky task is a headache for Wang Bodang.
Wang Bodang is not good at strategy, he has nothing to do if he wants to come and go, so he can only follow the suggestion of the master to contact Zhang Xuan first to see what Zhang Xuan needs most.
The two came to the martial arts training ground, Wang Bodang took a big iron gun from the gun rack, and asked with a smile: "I found that the virtuous brother is very concerned about the silver spear in my family, could it be that the virtuous brother is also a person who practices guns?" β
Zhang Xuan's face turned red, and he hurriedly said: "Where am I a gun practitioner, I don't know anything about martial arts, but I yearn for it." β
"Brother Xian is too modest, that silver gun is actually my father's gun, it weighs fifty pounds, he wants to practice sixty pounds of guns all his life, but he has never been able to break through, so he pinned all his hopes on me, fortunately, I didn't disappoint him."
Wang Bodang put on a posture, easily stabbed a few iron guns, handed it to Zhang Xuan and said with a smile: "This is also a fifty-pound gun, the same as the one in my family, give it a try!" β
Zhang Xuan yearned in his heart, he moved his wrist and took the big iron spear, only to feel that the workmanship of this iron spear was obviously rough, not as smooth as the silver spear in Wang Bodang's house, he used to be famous for his great strength, but this spear made him feel very difficult.
He can do it with a few swings, but if he wants to use it as a weapon, it is absolutely impossible, he is really strange in his heart, Wang Bodang is obviously not as good as his weight and height, and he is even struggling with a fifty-pound iron gun, why can he still use a sixty-pound iron gun?
Wang Bodang seemed to understand his thoughts, glanced at Zhang Xuan, took out two horizontal knives from the knife holder next to him, and said with a smile: "Do you want to come and have a discussion?" β
Zhang Xuan had practiced a very practical fighting knife technique before, and he was eager to try it in his heart, put down the iron gun, hugged his fists and smiled: "Then I won't be modest!" β
Wang Bodang laughed, "Recklessness is the true nature of a man, although the son lets go of his hands and feet!" β
The two came to the center of the martial arts training ground, Zhang Xuan slowly pulled out the knife from the sheath, the cold light was shining, and the sharpness was abnormal, it turned out to be the army's horizontal knife, and the weight was just right, which was very handy.
Wang Bodang held the knife in both hands and put on a strange posture, like a wild goose flying sideways.
"Brother Xian, please!"
Zhang Xuan was not polite, shouted, stepped forward, and the knife in his hand slashed at Wang Bodang, this knife was simple and abnormal, there was no superfluous moves, full of strength, he practiced hard qigong, one punch can break four bricks, the power of this knife is enough to split the stake.
"Good time!"
Wang Bodang was a knowledgeable person, so he couldn't help but praise him, but he didn't dodge, swung his knife and slashed horizontally, colliding hard with Zhang Xuan's knife.
Just listen to 'When!' With a stabbing sound, Zhang Xuan's arms were numb from the shock, the knife in his hand almost came out, and Wang Bodang was also shocked to take a step back.
"Good knife technique!"
Without waiting for Zhang Xuan to put away the knife and go back, Wang Bodang slashed with a backhand, the angle was tricky, fast as lightning, Zhang Xuan hurriedly waved the knife to block, when the two knives hit again, Zhang Xuan found that Wang Bodang's strength suddenly increased more than twice as much, he could no longer hold the knife, the knife came out of his hand, and flew out of two zhang away.
"I lost!"
Zhang Xuan raised his hand and said with a wry smile: "I'm really confused, how can I be Brother Wang's opponent?" β
Wang Bodang put away the knife and smiled: "You are wrong, in fact, your strength far exceeds mine, but you don't know how to use it at all, and you don't have the greatest effect." β
"So how do you get the most out of it?"
"It's hard to put into wordsβ"
Wang Bodang pointed to the pavilion not far away and said with a smile: "Where are we going to talk!" β
The two came to the pavilion and sat down, and Wang Bodang said with a smile: "Actually, I have long seen that the virtuous brother has not built a foundation, nor has he practiced Yijin, right!" β
Zhang Xuan shook his head, "I don't understand, I haven't practiced what you said, what is it?" β
"Actually, it's easy to understand, my brother Wang Yi has never practiced martial arts, he is half a head shorter than me, thinner than me, his arms are much thinner than me, and his muscles and veins are far less thick than me, if I didn't build a foundation since I was a child, and I didn't practice Yi tendons, then I would be the same as him now."
Zhang Xuan understood, "Brother Wang means that building a foundation and changing tendons is to make people grow tall and strong, right?" β
"That's half right, growing tall and strong is only a part, and more importantly, only if you have built a foundation since you were a child, and break through the easy tendons, you can do the third step, that is, wash the marrow, and dig out the real strength of people, for example, the virtuous brother can only lift two hundred pounds of weight, but in some kind of emergency, he can lift five hundred pounds of weight, have you ever had this experience?"
Zhang Xuan nodded, he did encounter it, I believe many people have encountered it, some weak women in order to save their relatives, they were able to lift the car, in his time, this is called potential.
Zhang Xuan suddenly understood, could it be that Wang Bodang's marrow washing is a way to tap potential? The potential that can only appear in a hurry can be turned into the norm and can be brought into play at any time.
"Brother Wang, I seem to understand a little."
"Actually, the truth is very simple, the key is how to do it."
Zhang Xuan had a bad feeling in his heart, and asked tentatively, "Then how did Brother Wang do it?" β
"I started to build a foundation at the age of six, I began to practice Yijin at the age of eight, and when I was sixteen years old, I broke through the Yijin twice, and I began to practice the power of the dantian, which also washed the marrow and led the power of the dantian to the whole body, and my strength increased twice as much as when I was sixteen."
Wang Bodang sighed, "The key is the number of Yi Jin breakthroughs between the ages of eight and sixteen, I only broke through twice, but the Yuwen Chengdu you saw is said to have broken through four times, so he can become a peerless general, this is his talent, not everyone can do it." β
"What if you can't break through once?"
"That's the quality of mediocrity, at most to be a fire commander or brigade commander, it is impossible to become a general, the premise of being a general is strength, the reason why Yuwen Chengdu can become the first in the world is that he has unparalleled strength, relatively speaking, tricks are really only secondary."
Jao Hyun's heart is cold, does that mean he doesn't have any hope? He is already twenty-two years old, long past the age of breakthrough.
Wang Bodang stood up and patted him lightly on the shoulder, "You don't have to be depressed, you have such a tall figure, such a strong physique, and your muscles and veins are no less than mine, this is talent, as long as you can draw out the power of the dantian, I believe your achievements will far surpass me, you are a late bloomer." β
At this moment, Wang Bodang suddenly understood what Zhang Xuan needed most.