Yanzhou is not the largest of the eighteen states of Shu, nor is it the smallest; Not the most prosperous one, nor the poorest one; Not the most boisterous one, nor the most sparse one; Not the most important one in terms of geography, but certainly not the one that is insignificant in military terms either.

It is only one of the most famous of the eighteen states of Shu.

Yanzhou is not far from Kunzhou, where the center of Shu State is located, and it is not far from Junzhou, which has developed maritime trade in the south.

And the farthest state - it is not certain whether it is the state of Shu - is in the midst of a war and chaos at this time, and whether it will continue to survive as an independent state between Shu and Western Vietnam, or whether it will be the nineteenth state of Shu will not be known until half a year later.

However, the emperor of Shu seems to have a clear idea of the outcome half a year later, which can be seen in a map hanging in his palace of nourishing hearts: the western independent country, which is longer than twice the distance from Yanzhou to Queensland, has been erased and replaced with two palm-sized vermilion characters: Xizhou.

If there is any other place in Shu that can be as famous as Yanzhou, Xizhou - yes, the emperor has the power to seize life and death, if he calls it Xizhou, then it doesn't matter what the name is, just be wiped out - is the only one.

The people of Yanzhou are wise.

The state of Shu has been in power for 400 years, and it has reached the 28th emperor. Those who have good deeds have calculated that during the reign of the twenty-eight emperors, a total of forty-two prime ministers were appointed, of which thirty-seven were born in Yanzhou!

Even within the same dynasty, among the officials above the third rank, there will never be less than half of them from Yanzhou.

The founding emperor of Shu once said, "If Yanzhou is stable, then Dashu can be postponed for 800 years." Regardless of whether the national fortune of Shu is so long, but at present, this sentence has been confirmed half right.

In the hearts of the people of Shu, Yanzhou is not only a temple of knowledge that the world's scholars ardently yearn for, but also the spiritual sustenance of ordinary people to work and live in peace. Therefore, when the only special law in the history of Shu was promulgated, "those who are convicted for words in Yanzhou will not be killed, those who are not guilty of crimes can be exempted, and those who will die for serious crimes will not harm others" was promulgated, except for a few people who opposed it, the vast majority of people fully supported it.

And the few people who oppose it are precisely the people of Yanzhou themselves -- in fact, not all people in Yanzhou are opposed, after all, people are not sages, who do not have the idea of power, wealth, sex, and greed, in case they accidentally turn their ideas into practices, it is also excellent to suffer less imprisonment.

It's just that even if only one person opposes it, the superior must pay enough attention to it -- at least on the face of it.

Because that part of Yanzhou people is called "Confucianism".

The founding emperor of Dashu is said to have the courage of 10,000 people, who can single-handedly enter and exit the enemy's position to take the head of the enemy's generals, and can scare off millions of male soldiers with a thunderclap, but he is helpless against the "Confucian students".

Historians recorded that the emperor was often told by a group of Confucian scholars in the court that he was full of anger but had nowhere to vent, so he had to write on a piece of paper who would not let me come to the stage, and let the eunuch stand three feet away from him and scold at the paper. Basically, as long as there is no other political matter, this scolding is from morning to night, and finally attracts hundreds of dogs in the capital to bark before they are willing to stop. On the second day, the emperor still pretended to have nothing to do and continued to go to court, and should be with "Aiqing is reasonable", "Aiqing is extremely critical", "I know that I am wrong, Aiqing and dissipate my anger"......

Therefore, the emperors of later generations were either afraid, annoyed, tolerated, or endured, in short, there was never a word of "like" for "Confucianism".

Coincidentally, the emperor at that time was an extremely "tolerant" person.

The reason for Confucianism's opposition is nothing more than the cliché that "Shu law is accurate to etiquette", and crimes that violate "etiquette", such as the eight discussions, official duties, ten evils, unfilial piety, retention, and crimes according to uniforms, cannot be spared, let alone "exempt from crimes".

This is contrary to "etiquette", which the Confucian scholars will never tolerate.

Since you can't tolerate it, then I will tolerate you. The emperor at that time had such an idea, didn't you say that you could not be "exonerated from sin"? Then I'll remove this one.

So the three articles became two, and there was the current "Shu Law" in the current "Shu Law" "Yanzhou is convicted of words will not kill, and those who will die for serious crimes will not harm others".

If Yanzhou's fame was obtained by relying on a group of Confucian scholars who were not afraid of life and death and dared to fight to the death with the emperor's court, then today's reputation of Yanzhou is only one person who has won the Three Kingdoms.

No one knows what this person looks like, and even if this person's name is just a few words from a few people who claim to be the disciples of the old man, they are honored as "Mr. Sorrow".

"Sir" is the student's honorific title for the teacher, and "sorrow" is the expression that the old gentleman often puts on.

However, if it is just a person who has never seen it, just a mysterious name, the people of Yanzhou will not pay attention to it - this is like the trade of a roadside melon dealer, you see that the other watermelons are round, red and black seeds, five cents a piece; Suddenly, the melon dealer brought a gourd-shaped one, and told you that you are a gourd made of jade, and a seed made of gold, and you will not buy it if you sell it for five taels of gold? Unless you are willing to cut open to see if the inside is real or fake, it will only make people think that you are bragging.

If it's a person, you can't cut it and look at it.

But the people of Yanzhou just believe in him and respect him. Not for anything else, just because the prime minister who was born in the court and non-Confucian was his student, because the Zhanzhou guard who resisted Xiyue and Beidi with the strength of a state was his student, because the old god who claimed to have lived for three hundred years was his student, and because the madman who spread rumors about the ruin of the country and the family everywhere was his student.

It is even rumored that the current emperors of Dashu, Xiyue, and Beidi are also his students - although these three have never even met the old gentleman, although the rumors say that the emperor of Dashu is actually the most unsuccessful among them......

More than that, the people of the Three Kingdoms felt that this "Mr. Sorrow" was amazing, and Yanzhou's reputation also rose.

Yanzhou's reputation is like the rising sun, rising high; Xizhou's reputation is a fishing fire near the water, and it may be extinguished by someone at any time.

Xizhou people are still brave.

How many years has Shu been founded, and how many years has Xizhou been independent in the name of the country.

It makes no sense that a place that can exist between two great powers for more than 400 years is a simple place.

According to historical records, the founding emperor of Shu made three expeditions to the west, but all three times he returned with a feather.

The most recent expedition to the west was carried out about 100 years ago, purportedly during the Zhongxing era.

At that time, the emperor who succeeded to the throne was not weaker than the founding emperor's general eloquence, and at the right time when the country was steaming, after gathering 500,000 troops and agreeing with Xiyue to "attack and divide the rule together", Hao Hao Tang Tang advanced to Xizhou.

Three months later, Emperor Shu was plundered and killed by the Chinese army, and Emperor Yue was hanged under his tent.

Xizhou is colorful, and the world is vegetarian.

The Shu State regarded it as a hatred in its heart, but Xiyue regarded Xizhou as a "couch tiger" from then on - it is unimaginable that a vast country would be afraid of a single state!

The people of Shu regarded Xiyue as a traitor and a waste, and in the following 30 years, they also fought several battles with Xiyue, but the results were shocking - the Xiyue who looked spineless and soft on Xizhou had an astonishingly high combat effectiveness.

Confucian scholars naturally don't understand the truth, no matter how thoroughly they study "human nature", "the king's heart is unacceptable" is also the truth drawn by the sages.

It wasn't until twenty years ago that Shu vaguely knew some inside information. On the same day, the emperors of the two countries were killed, but the Xiyue Kingdom suffered the "extermination" of the entire imperial family in the next two days.

How many people are in a royal family? How many people would it take to slaughter them all in two days?

This is not tied to a rope and kneeling on the ground waiting to be cut off, this is not all gathered in a courtyard, washing their necks in order and honestly sending them to the blade, nearly 10,000 royal families scattered in the seven counties of Xiyue, regardless of men and women, young and old, were all beheaded within two days.

And this is just the work of one person!

This person has the surname Huangfu, and his single name is a "戾".

Huang Fuer!

The emperor who puts the safety of a city on the body of one person, the emperor who makes the land of a state stand proudly, and the people of Xiyue are afraid and fear the emperor who is called the peerless sword saint!

Of course, in the eyes of Xizhou people, Huangfu is just a sword idiot; In the eyes of the people of Shu, his various behaviors, from the perspective of the hordes of defenders, are no different from the devil.

Whether it is a sword saint or a sword demon, whether it is praise or disparagement, they have to admit that Xizhou has survived so far under his protection.

And that's just "so far".

Three months ago, there were rumors that Huangfu was mad and broken his meridians due to sword training, and he was afraid that he would soon die. Visitors from all over the Shu Kingdom also sent back news that three of the four disciples of Huangfu Er, who had been training outside, had rushed back to Xizhou City in the starry night.

A qiē seems to confirm that the person who is against the sky is going to die.

Therefore, the emperor of Shu had the confidence to mark the word "Xizhou" on the drawings;

Therefore, the Xiyue State sent a peace envoy at the first time, and the discerning people knew at a glance that the peace family was on leave, and the good thing of rebuilding the country was really -- Xiyue wanted to gang up and prepare for a bloody flattery.

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Yanzhou is mountainous.

The huge Yanzhou, which can be ranked in Shu according to its size, is only one city in Yanchang, and this city will never be ranked in the top 50.

But if the mountains of Yanzhou are ranked second in Shu according to their fame, they can find one at random, which is the place where the great Confucian lectured in the previous dynasty, and which immortal cultivated the realm of legend.

Twenty miles west of Yanchang City, on the halfway side of a mountain, a child, an old man, and a lame donkey are slowly descending.

Looking at these two people and a donkey, I saw Tong Sheng's sad face, as if he could cry at any time and look at the donkey under his buttocks; The donkey was led by the old man, and a hemp rope was tied to the tail, and the hemp rope was strung with wooden plaques in the shape of spiritual positions, some of which said Wang Ba, some of which said mung beans, and even one of which drew a circle like an egg behind the sign that said Wang Ba - or an egg like a circle, like a monk's wooden fish, sounded like a monk's wooden fish.

The old man looked like he was almost a hundred years old, with his back on his back. In fact, his back was not so bent so badly, but it was uncomfortable for anyone to carry a basket full of books on his back.

The old man is called Death and Eternal Life.

The man of death and eternal life was also famous fifty years ago.

Fifty years ago, the death of the first phase master of Beidi immortal life caused a lot of waves even in the other two major countries.

Even if this wave is a big joke.

Death and immortality are very accurate to see people "before death", but anyone who has met one person can accurately tell the other party's temperament, family background and even the fate of good and evil, which includes the usurpation of the throne of the king of Beidi Qingyang, the lack of heirs, the fate of the rebellion and the prophecy of "seeing the sun from the clouds" - and the current lord of Beidi, the lord of the clouds, was only a baby less than three months old in the womb of a slave at that time.

But even if these prophecies are proven to be true, there are times when the "First Face Master" has no face, for example, when he gives himself a face and says that he has a smooth life and is blessed and long-lived, but on his fiftieth birthday, the Beidi people found his body in a wine jar.

Death and eternal life don't care about face and reputation.

When he was in a good mood, he went out of the mountains to show off everywhere; When he was in a bad mood, he stayed in the mountains all day to show the donkey.

At this time, he was in a terrible mood, and while he led the donkey down the mountain, he said a word to the boy on the donkey's back.

"Sir, will he really come to assassinate Emperor Shu?"

The old man couldn't figure out why the sword ruffian didn't come early or late, why he rushed to assassinate after he went mad and fell into the demon meridians.

"I don't know." The boy on the donkey sighed and said, "Maybe the tendons in the head are broken." ”

Dead Changsheng felt that Mr.'s analysis made sense. He asked again: "Then it's just a matter of assassinating Emperor Shu, what are we hiding?" ”

As soon as he asked this sentence, Death Changsheng immediately regretted it-which pot he didn't open and mention!

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, Tong Sheng, who was about to cry at any time with a sad face, actually cried "wow"!

"I'll go to the emperor of his eight ancestors! Kill Emperor Shu and kill it, what does it matter to me! Why do you have to send a message saying that you will kill me first! Is it nice to bully your own junior brother? What kind of ability is it to bully an eight-year-old child...... I'm going to his grandma's moth! ”

Tong Sheng was really angry, crying, and waving the whip that drove the donkey and pumping the wooden sign tied behind the donkey's tail.

"Fuck you bastards! Kill you mung bean eyes! Mother...... No, Lao Tzu said at the time that you wouldn't marry my daughter-in-law if I didn't succeed you, but now it's good, before it's time to marry my daughter-in-law, my senior brother is going to kill me...... My life is so miserable, my heart hurts! Phoenix! Help......"

Probably thinking that the group of old bastards who were already dead couldn't be counted on, Xiao Tongsheng turned his face and threw himself on the dead immortal in front of the donkey without saying a word.

And then...... A miserable child's voice rose from the mountainside.

"You're fucking dead and immortal! You are trying to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors! How can you not catch me! How can you be worthy of your future little master...... Woo woo, it hurts me! You liars! ”

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Some people don't want to cry, but they can't help but cry when they fall and are scared.

Some people obviously want to cry, but after experiencing some encounters and gaining some insights, they feel that it is unnecessary to cry again.

Liu Anle looked at a stubborn stone a foot away in front of him in a daze, and he had been "gridded" for more than an hour.

He thought of an interesting story about a certain sage he had seen many years ago when he was a student.

It is said that this sage had an epiphany one day: if you want to be a saint, you must first cultivate things. As for how to "grid" the method, we need to practice it carefully to know. So, the sages "checked" against a lush bamboo forest at home. At the beginning, he felt that the bamboo forest in front of him was dense and dense, and he didn't know how much work it would take to look at them one by one, and he found nothing after staring at them for a long time, but his eyes were sour, so he turned to concentrate on "grid" a bamboo. I saw that the mouth of this bamboo bowl is thick, the branches and leaves are sparse, and the highest point is directly in the sky. He first thought of the usefulness of this bamboo, setting up a shed to enjoy the cold, cutting chopsticks and picking vegetables, which has many functions; I also thought that the bamboo posture is beautiful, there is air and knots, and it is very connotative into the painting and poetry. Then I thought that bamboo leaves can be used as medicine, can clear stasis and dispel cough, but always humbly, not to be uplifted, and very aggrieved!

In this way, the sages thought about bamboo for seven days, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that there were too many things that this bamboo could "get". On the seventh day, he was dizzy and dizzy, and in the end he couldn't hold on, but fell seriously ill.

When he started to read it, Liu Anle felt that this sage had the name of a sage in vain, and even Huangkou Xiaoer could recite the sentence "I don't eat all day long, I don't sleep all night, I think about it, it's useless, it's better to learn", how can this old fool be so ignorant!

But now, Liu Anle feels that the sage is a sage in the end, and he may be half a beat slower than others in terms of reason, but in terms of perseverance, it is still worthy of the name.

He didn't want to be bewitched by a blind man to come here inexplicably, and he didn't want to have any grievances about the lives of those people who died tragically at the hands of Emperor Yang Jing of Xiguo.

It hurts, it hurts.

Feeling out the copper coin tied with a red rope in his neck, Liu Anle recognized that this was a coin minted in the early days of the founding of the Xi Kingdom, and the back of the copper coin was written with the words "Xi and Yongshou" in ancient seals.

With just this penny, let alone saving your life, you can't do it with a full stomach!

Liu Anle stood up and looked at the same mountains around him - perhaps, starving to death here is also good, the wolf dog is of the same clan, filling the hungry wolf's belly, and for himself and Miss Qing, it is also a kind of renewing fate!

Liu Anle thought about it, and Fu planned to just lie down and wait for death, or what the blind man said, "Yang Huafei, Shu Dao is difficult, cut off Zhu Xiao to see the sun, and there is no history of Hu'an" is casually.

Immediately, Liu Anle dispelled this idea again, he didn't think it was funny at all...... Amusing yourself is an abnormal thing no matter how you look at it.

He felt like he was going crazy.

Especially when the immature cry came from far and near, the child in the old man's arms flew over when he saw him more than a hundred feet away, and shouted the words "father-in-law, help" to him with hoarse tears in his mouth......

Liu Anle is really crazy!