"Do you mean to say that Shaolin disciples don't look like monks at all?" Cui Ling said with a smile, when this sentence was first met with Lu Yi's father Lu Bing, the old sword king Cui Ying had induced Cui Ling to say that the honest Shaolin host Wu Su was red-faced and red-eared.

Lu Yi nodded and said: "Since ancient times, Shaolin has been a political zhì Buddhism, never willing to be lonely, we look at the past dynasties, whenever there is a major event or a change of power, there is no lack of Shaolin's shadow, from which Shaolin also seems to have gained a lot of benefits." Today's Shaolin, there are two people who are the smartest and most ambitious and very smart, one is unfathomable, but some Shaolin abbots who are eager for quick success. There is also a restrained and low-key, but more dangerous Wuling. ”

"I can see Wu Ling's cleverness, but how do you know that he is dangerous, don't tell me sù It's intuition and speculation." Cui Ling said.

Lu Yi smiled and said: "Naturally not, haven't you found some clues?" ”

"For example?" Cui Ling was puzzled.

"For example, now Wu Ling is spreading Buddhism in Nanjing City, recruiting a wide range of people, and he has a large team, and he began to spread teachings to the army, but Buddhism does not kill, Wu Ling is alive, claiming that he is ordered to break the vows, and killing the enemy is just for the common people in the world, and every time he kills a person is a practice." Lu Yidao.

Cui Ling said: "Isn't this right, so that the soldiers can fight bravely to kill the enemy, it is really beneficial to our army." ”

"I didn't say it's harmful, it's just that religion is difficult to control, it's really a double-edged sword, if you use it well, it can be greatly powerful, and if you don't use it well, it will lead the wolf into the house. If one day. When they have something that we can't meet, or when we go against the grain, if half of the soldiers at the bottom are Buddhists. And it has been brainwashed, and the doctrine is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, so what should we do? You may say that I think too much, but you see that Wu Ling's recent actions are not only to promote Buddhism to grassroots soldiers and generals, but he knows that most of the high-level generals have clear beliefs or understand that religion is sometimes just a tool to serve the government, so he did not promote Buddhism to the high-level soldiers. But it still tried its best to win over. What is the purpose of co-optation? I don't know, but the motive is only afraid of impurity, and the merchant cannot afford to make a profit. Now I didn't expect the monk to do the same. Although Gosu is also dangerous, he only knows how to maneuver between various forces and use these powers to achieve his own ends, in fact, he does not make good use of the power of religion. Compared with. Wu Ling is more like a monk. At least on the surface, he holds the power in his own hands, and he does not need to be attached to others at all. Lu Yi said.

Cui Ling nodded: "According to what you said, this Wuling is really suspicious, take it away, and take it with you." ”

"That's it." Lu Yi said that at this moment, there was a movement of soldiers rushing outside the door. The two stopped talking, only listened to the sound of shouting all the way outside the door, and Lu Yi let the soldiers in. Soldiers said a letter had been shot inside the city.

Lu Yi opened it and looked at it a few times, then handed it to Cui Ling and said, "Cui Ling, take a look, this is Zhao Yu's explanation to you." ”

"I'll just say, she'll keep her word." As he spoke, Cui Ling took the letter and read it.

It turned out that Zhao Yu was originally a Dongying woman, her original name was Iga Qingliu, and her father's name Zhao Yilang was Iga Ueno. Originally, the Iga family was a family of ninjas, and their status was quite high, but the Hojo clan, a relative of the later source clan, ended in power, and the unity slowly broke down, and various daimyo sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Most ninjas have gone from being on a samurai level to being domestic slave assassins, and they have stepped down from the battlefield to become workers who specialize in spying and assassination.

Later, because of the war, several major ninja schools perished one after another, and became hundreds of small schools. And the treatment of ninjas has gradually decreased, and it is much lower than that of samurai. But the loyalty of the ninja is comparable to that of the samurai, and even more discipline and greater effect. And the ninja has to endure a lot of grievances, and he can be reused after becoming famous as a samurai, and the ninja is also the leader of the genre or the shadow in the end. They are troops hiding in the shadows, doing things that can't be put on the table, so naturally they can't be elegant, and the ninjas are particular about hiding in the dark, if they appear among the public, everyone knows their appearance, but I'm afraid that it will be difficult to act in the future.

As the war expanded, even the famous Iga family broke up, and Iga Ueno became a samurai under the daimyo. The samurai are in the light, the ninja is in the dark, the two sides hate each other in the light and the dark, and both feel shameful of each other, for the sake of livelihood, Iga Ueno can only pretend to be a samurai, and even mock the ninjas with other samurai, saying that they are beam-jumping clown jugglers.

In fact, down-and-out ninjas can really be clowns or jugglers, but more often than not, it's just for the needs of their work, whether it's reconnaissance or spying, these are necessary. Ninja is a humiliating job that requires the tempering of the mind. During that time, it was both Iga Ueno's self-training and the shaping of his mind by the outside world, and slowly Iga Ueno became a general, and with a superb martial arts, he gradually became famous in Japanese territory. But just when Iga Ueno was stagnant, Japan underwent earth-shaking changes again, and this change originated from the attack of a Ming minister, this person named Lu Bing.

At that time, Iga Ueno had already married and gave birth to the eldest daughter, Iga Kiyoryu, who later became Zhao Yu. After Lu Bing's conquest of the Ryukyus, because of his disgust for the Japanese people and the hatred of the Japanese people for repeatedly committing the Ming Dynasty, he led his troops to attack Japan. Since then, Japan has become even more chaotic, and Lu Bing is the embodiment of the devil in the eyes of the Japanese. A large number of daimyo and shoguns were killed, and when Lu Bing received the holy decree and led his army to leave Japan, there were no tigers and monkeys in the mountains to claim the king, and Iga Ueno rose from then on and became a daimyo himself.

Since Iga Ueno's identity became a daimyo, he immediately set out to learn the technology of the Ming Dynasty. His life seems to be very hidden, but it can't fool the eyes of many ninjas. Many nearby ninjas know that Iga Ueno is a ninja, so they will naturally bring ninjas with them. They weren't wrong, Iga Ueno really treated them well. As a result, more ninjas came to Iga Ueno with their entire clans, and since then Iga Ueno has an incomparably powerful ninja army in his hands. At the same time, Iga Ueno also began to equip the army with firearms used by the Ming army, and he really saw the power of firearms on the previous battlefield. With this firearm and the two sharp swords of the ninja legion, Iga Ueno was invincible and occupied a large territory in an instant.

Coincidentally, in several other regions. There were also ninja leaders who began to rise, some overthrew the daimyo and replaced them, and some were behind the scenes. Firmly control the real power and do not compete for fame. The status of ninjas has risen to unprecedented prosperity, and at the same time, samurai have been recruited into the ninja industry, and since then, samurai and ninjas have been on an equal footing, and their power has snowballed.

About five years passed. Japanese ninjas are divided into five major sects. There are dozens of schools in each of these sects, and everyone is good at different things, and they are more powerful when they cooperate with each other, and Iga Ueno is one of the five major sect masters. During this period, someone united with the Ming thief Bai Yu to launch a war against the Ming Dynasty, but it ended in defeat, and Iga Ueno did not participate in this war, and he was thinking about a problem, that is, how to achieve a real victory. Why is Japan repeatedly defeated in such a decadent country as the Ming Dynasty?

In the end, he found out that the Ming Dynasty was not because there were generals who could fight well, nor because the soldiers were strong in combat. Rather, it was caused by the lack of unity among the Japanese and the continuous civil war. Iga Ueno, who had read Han poetry and books, decided to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and found the descendants of the Zhao Emperor. Iga Ueno abdicated to make way for Xian, set up the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, and let Zhao Yuanji ascend the throne as emperor. And Iga Ueno began to walk some remarks, such as the demise of the descendants of China, the Ming Dynasty is just a lowly country strung by the Mongols, etc., by the way, he also mentioned that Lu Bing once conquered Japan, causing national shame and hatred, thus gathering great momentum.

Originally, Japan was a culture that worshiped the Han nation, and when the Song Dynasty fell, they were still vegetarian in the whole country, and did not descend to the Mongols, and now they were so fooled by Iga Ueno, they instantly deepened their contempt for the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time remembered the previous invasion They also hated the Ming Dynasty, and the hatred blinded their eyes, making them forget that it was the Ming that they harassed first to bring about the catastrophe later. But in any case, these Japanese invaders united, and many scattered forces began to join Zhao Yuanji, the puppet emperor, and finally the other four suzerains also submitted to the Great Song Dynasty regime established by Iga Ueno, and the country was basically unified, and the power gradually became stronger.

After a lot of fighting and cultivating the Japanese forces along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, Iga Ueno decided to launch an attack on the Ming Dynasty. In order to convince the public and show his loyalty, of course, the main thing is to show other affiliated forces, so Iga Ueno asked Zhao Yuanji to give himself the surname Zhao, named Zhao Ichiro, and sent his young daughter to Zhao Yuanji, and recognized Zhao Yuanji's younger brother as his father. In the eyes of outsiders, this qiē is as if Zhao Yuanji is really the king of a country, and it is even more justifiable and worthy of submission, but they don't know that this qiē is controlled by Zhao Yilang.

Later, after the war began, Zhao Yuanji really acted, and wantonly gathered forces in the territory of the Ming Dynasty to cultivate his Han power, trying to get rid of Zhao Yilang's control, and the other four major suzerains also had such thoughts. Zhao Yilang's previous actions could only be concealed from the people and ordinary people, and for those sect masters who stood at the pinnacle of power, this dirty deed still couldn't blind their eyes.

Even so, Zhao Yilang still controls the main force, so Zhao Yu can't let Zhao Yilang fall, because once it falls, Japan will continue to be chaotic, and the balance of power between the leaders will be broken, and Japan will fall into a new round of war. And the dreams of the Iga family, as well as the ambitions of the Iga family, will be shattered from then on, for the sake of selfishness and father-daughter love, Zhao Yu begged Cui Ling to let Zhao Yilang go.

This letter roughly means this, Lu Yi looked at Cui Ling again and again after reading it and asked, "Dude, last time you saw that Zhao Yilang's prominent status was definitely not a follower, why do you still do such a foolish thing." As the saying goes, the thief captures the king first, and now the thief's head is captured by you in the enemy camp, once you kill him, the Zhao family will be in chaos, and from then on it will fall into the war again. I didn't expect you to do the opposite, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was in front of you, but you let Zhao Yilang go, hehe, you are really powerful. By the way, God knows this, you know and I know, my father hates the Japanese the most, I am afraid that he will vomit blood in anger by you when he finds out. ”

"Cut, don't taunt me, I don't listen to you." Cui Ling pursed his lips and said: "No matter what, Zhao Yilang is Zhao Yu's father, Zhao Yu is begging for mercy in front of me, how can I be willing to kill him." If you want to kill Zhao Yilang, you will inevitably hurt Zhao Yu, and I am not so ruthless anyway. ”

"Do you think Zhao Yu is sincere in her relationship with us, and she will treat us as friends?" Lu Yi looked at Cui Ling meaningfully and said.

Cui Ling nodded: "Of course, although the beginning of the period was to get close to us, and the motive was not pure, there must be true feelings in it." If you really don't have any feelings, how can she tell you the secret that there is an enemy attack on the river? ”

"We have expected this for a long time, why didn't she sue us earlier?" Lu Yi said: "I guess she just didn't expect you to let her go so happily, and she couldn't bear to sue you for a while." Hehe, in this way, Zhao Ming's city is really not deep, it is still the mind of the youngest daughter, I am afraid that it will take a few years of training to grow. ”

Cui Ling rolled his eyes and said, "You always think of others as evil, is there still a good person in your eyes?" Hmph, I'm afraid you don't have anyone you trust except yourself, right? ”

"Don't say that, I don't even trust myself, but I trust your brother. Only when I'm with you will I be completely relaxed, you are the one I dare to show your back to you without defense. Lu Yi said, this word is sincere. Cui Ling heard this, and a trace of warmth rippled in his heart, it was true that Lu Yi dared to sleep soundly in front of him before he dared to be unlucky to defend himself, thinking about it, in fact, he was so tired and pitiful to live like this, only he could trust, and he actually missed the opportunity to make Lu Yi fall into a more tired realm.

Cui Ling thought of this, his eyes were a little dark, Lu Yi naturally saw through Cui Ling's thoughts, patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Come to Japan, we have a chance, don't let me down next time, brother." ”

"Yes." (To be continued......)