A system that is gradually aging is, fundamentally speaking, a system that favors stability and city defense.

It's a very natural shift.

For the majority of the system, this is a very good and benign change, because this is in line with a country after experiencing a period of stability after the development of the country, just like the Han Dynasty in history, if it were not for the peace policy of the two emperors of Wenjing, there would not be a rich and strong people during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and has always supported this majestic emperor, driving the entire Xiongnu Empire out of Southeast Asia.

A certain degree of stability is the stage that every mature system needs to go through and must go through, and the 'harbinger' of this stage is the death of the first generation of founding kings and the aging of the generals who fought in the south and the north at the beginning.

It is not difficult to find from history that if one generation of monarchs is brave and good at fighting, the second generation of kings will inevitably be a king, and if the second king continues to repeat his father's actions, it will easily lead to the demise of a regime.

Among them, the one that can be used as a reference, and the most referential, is undoubtedly the Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty.

Some of the emperor's practices seem to be at nothing wrong in the eyes of future generations, but why was he crowned with the hat of a faint monarch and directly overthrown by later generations?

Brutality may be one thing, and the centralization of power is also a very important reason, but the most important thing is also the most important, please think about what kind of era Yang Guang took over the Sui Empire.

At that time, the Sui Dynasty had just pacified the Central Plains, and the people of the whole world hoped to get a certain degree of stability and respite, and finally survived his father Yang Jian, but who would have thought that the second emperor who had just ascended the throne was actually a poor soldier?

Everyone is tired of fighting and doesn't want to fight anymore, and at such a time you have to start a war, and you have lost several times in a row, in this case, it is a miracle that everyone does not overthrow you!!

In contrast, the successors, Li Yuan and Li Shimin, although they seem to be on the same path as their predecessors, but Li Shimin's prestige among the people and his ability to control the army are higher than Yang Guang at that time, and when he was the most angry, on the one hand, Li Shimin had the foundation left by Yang Jian, on the other hand, Li Shimin's Tang Dynasty launched several foreign wars and still won more and lost less, and each victory brought enough rich rewards to the warlords. And took advantage of the war dividends to make a lot of money, took the opportunity to establish the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty, and had enough resources to develop the domestic economy!

Therefore, the success of the Tang Dynasty may have factors such as time and place, but the most important thing is that Li Shimin's vision, thinking, popularity, and luck are much better than Yang Guang!

As for the later dynasties, Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, who made the same moves, is the same.

Among them, history is like a mirror, as long as you read through it with your heart, you can summarize many paths and truths from it, and even if this law is extended to reality, there has never been any fundamental change.

Ahem, ahem, a little off topic.

Generally speaking, the above statements are just some experiences summarized from history, and this law is also willing to be followed by the officials of Emperor Wu City, who have experienced the Sui and Tang dynasties.

But here's where the trouble comes in.

At present, the backbone level of Emperor Wu City is still past the age of fighting, but on the contrary, Lan Li, as a monarch, is still young and strong, and can even be called a youth (or a baby)?

Such a situation leads to a fundamental conflict.

A few years ago, Lan Li sent troops to exterminate the surrounding 'bandits', arrest people for trafficking, and was able to use his own prestige and the convenience brought by the excellent system, and the dividends brought by the war as a hedging reward, but now, the 'enemies' that can bring benefits around him have been sold out, and after the conflict with the martial arts people, he can't bring actual or identity benefits, and the current system of Wudi City is no longer willing to conflict with people.

In other words, in the most practical terms, everyone thinks that either you will be nurturing in your heart, have more good governance, and hide your wealth from the people, or you will obediently step down and hand over your position to your heirs to deal with.

This may seem unfair to yourself, but it seems like a very good decision for everyone but you.

Of course, no one dares to say this to Lan Li for the time being, but in fact, just from everyone's attitude towards Lan Li on weekdays, he can distinguish this very clearly.

After all, Lan Li is a smart person, isn't he?

And the current martial arts incident is just a cause of this attitude, a kind of temptation for Lan Li by many people in power in the system of Emperor Wu City.

The reason why they chose to make Lan Xin'er famous at this time this time was to see if Lan Li had any intention of delegating his subordinates to his children.

After all, her daughter is famous, so she can be convincing in the future, and she can pave the way for taking over the power in Lan Li's hands.

In the same way, the short-term tough posture shown by Lan Li and Zuo Zhong is also a state of affairs for Lan Li about the current situation.

And there is no doubt that in the face of his strength, Zuo Zhong only gave a certain degree of advice, if Lan Li continues to be tough, there is no doubt that Zuo Zhong will be very resolute in carrying out the orders he has given.

But this time the admonition had already made Lan Li test Zuo Zhong's attitude, so Lan Li did not choose to continue to implement it, and finally after thinking about the tiger, he chose to give Zuo Zhong a certain degree of room for maneuver.

Lan Li replied like this: "Xin'er is still young, I don't want her to be only fourteen years old this year, and get involved in a bunch of twists and turns.

Zuo Zhong. ”

"The old servant is here."

"Dispose of it as you please."

After saying this, Lan Li seemed to have spent a lot of experience, waved at Zuo Zhong, signaling that he could leave.

When Zuo Zhong left, Lan Li sat alone in the study, staring at the empty study in front of him.

After being in a daze for an unknown amount of time, he suddenly laughed at himself with some sadness.

"What did I say back then, don't get involved in the imperial power and politics, these bad things are a dung pit, if you want to live a chic life, don't get involved.

But after saying it so many times, how did you end up and fall into it inexplicably? ”

Stretching out his hand and touching his forehead, which seemed to be hot, the picture in Lan Li's pupils continued to be empty, and he stayed in the study for a long time in a blank posture.

It wasn't until noon that Green Yi, who came to call him for lunch, knocked on the door and woke up Lan Li, who was in a state of trance.

Dressed in an ordinary palace costume, after receiving Lan Li's response, the green clothes walked to his side in small steps.

Seeing a trace of resentment hidden on Lan Li's face, Green Yi smiled and helped him tidy up his clothes:

"What's the matter, there is something in the city that upsets the husband?"

"It's okay."

Lan Li shook his head, not wanting to mention this to Lu Yi, so he changed the subject and said, "By the way, I heard that the little ancestor on Wudang Mountain came to the city this morning, have you seen her?" ”

"The concubine has seen it, the little girl looks pretty good, like her mother, not like her father."

"Huh! What you said reminds me of a joke. ”

"Huh?" Hearing this, Green Yi blinked.

Lan Li stretched out his hand, stroked his wife's hair, and said a joke from memory:

"Green clothes, you say, with the drag of our Guo Daxia's appearance, how lucky must this little ancestor from our mountain be to grow into such a beautiful appearance today?"

"Huh? Childe, what do you say? Hearing this, Green Yi's face was a little confused, as if he couldn't understand Lan Lide's words.

But in his heart, he had already guessed a little bit of his son-in-law's meaning.

Sure enough, then I heard Lan Li laugh and said: "I mean, do you say that it is possible, the biological father of this little Guo Nuxia is someone else, otherwise, how can she not inherit the appearance of Guo Daxia at all?" ”。

Sure enough, this is the sentence!

After quenching Lan Li's random arrangement in his heart, the green clothes made a little sudden look on his face, and then said to Lan Li with a straight face:

"Husband, if you don't go to the banquet again, many people in the family will go hungry to work in the afternoon."

Lan Li: "......"

How so?

As he gets older, Green Yi seems to be more and more calm, and he doesn't give any response when he flirts, and it seems that he is not interesting at all.

On the contrary, it is Zixuan, who gave birth to a daughter, and the two are still the same girlish heart when they are alone.

Thinking of this, Lan Li sighed in his heart, but he didn't continue to look for himself.

However, he didn't mean to go to dinner with Green Yi, but asked Green Yi to invite Zixuan to entertain guests, and he, the 'annoying' host, didn't go to join in the fun.

Hearing Lan Li speak like this, the green clothes pursed their lips and walked away with a smile.

Thinking about it, it is also clear that in the eyes of many people in Wudang, his husband is equivalent to a large source of danger to that little ancestor, if you don't want to see it, it's better not to meet and avoid suspicion.

It's just that I can't see my husband at noon, and I'm afraid that little Guo Woman will be disappointed again!

Really.

At the hospitality banquet at noon, it was found that Lan Li was not involved, and the disappointment in Guo Xiang's heart was almost written on his face, and even when Zixuan, the host, chatted with him about some things on Wudang Mountain, Guo Xiang seemed a little uncertain.

After the banquet, Guo Xiang immediately found Lan Xin'er, who was eating fruit, and said that he wanted to visit Lan Li very much.

Lan Xin'er also happily agreed.

But who would have thought.

When the two came to Lan Li's study, they were told that Lan Li was invited by a distinguished guest and went directly to the vast East China Sea, and when they asked when they would return, they got an unknown answer.

By the way, Guo Xiang, who couldn't see his idol, was naturally very disappointed.

In the following afternoon, the girl looked sullen, even if Lan Xin'er found a lot of interesting things to share with her, it only put her mind on hold.

I just wondered in my heart, did Lan Li choose to leave because I didn't want to see her.....

Apparently, she guessed right!

Lan Li left this matter just to avoid her.

Someone who has already started a family doesn't want to make the ancestor on his mountain angry because he has some relationship with this little girl.

Reverse scales or something......

So then again, where did Lan Li go?

Above the vast East China Sea.

In the direction of the original Xia Ke Island, a glittering mountain of gold is like a large lighthouse, attracting many ships swimming on the sea, and they like to stay here for a while.

Because of this, the original old port of Xia Ke Island has been renovated by sea merchants over the years.....

Ahem, ahem.

To be reasonable, in the shabby place of Xia Ke Island, there is no special output, second, non-military land, and third, there is no large population, and many merchant ships stop here, at most they can replenish the fresh water resources on the cabin.

As for the mountain of gold on the island of chivalry?

Well, that's really out of reach!

The gold mountain is there, and it's still pure gold, but you can only watch, let alone run to dig a few hoes, and even getting close is an extremely difficult thing for most merchants.

It's just because over the years, for some reason, this golden mountain has actually walked around from the inside out, a kind of breathtaking coercion.

Because of the existence of this kind of coercion, the idle martial artists could not get close to the location of the Golden Mountain at all.

Martial artists in the Grandmaster realm can only get close to the distance of a hundred zhang near Jinshan.

When you reach the Great Grandmaster, you can hold on to about thirty zhang.

Only when you cultivate the Dharma can you get close to within ten zhang.

Only when the martial arts realm has reached the level of initiation can he have the opportunity to climb this golden mountain and go to the top of the mountain to serve the surrounding scenery.

As for digging or something ....

Someone had tried, but when a master who had been immersed in the realm of the Dao for thirty years spent three days picking up a fist-sized gold nugget from this golden mountain, and was shocked by the counterattack brought by the golden mountain to vomit blood, everyone also gave up the idea of profiting from it.

But even so, it has never cut off pedestrians on the island.

Every once in a while, there will always be merchant ships carrying guests to the island to see the 'mountain made of gold', which is a wonder of the world!

And right now, there is also such a wave of people on Xia Ke Island, standing on Xia Ke Island and ten zhang away from the Golden Mountain, looking at this huge piece of gold in front of them.....

As the leader, it was a young woman dressed in white, carrying a long sword, and wearing a veil.

Of course, that doesn't seem to be the point.

Because right behind him, there were seven or eight bald monks.

And after they looked at the mountain of gold in front of them for a long time, they began to communicate.

"I am a Buddhist believer, and now I am new to this world, and I have to meet this treasure mountain, as far as the poor monks are concerned, this seems to be a hint that the Buddha gave me and so on.

The poor monk wants to take advantage of this golden mountain to make a Buddha statue for my Buddha, but unfortunately there seems to be an enchantment around this mountain to block it, and I am afraid that the poor monk will not be able to do it if he exhausts his life.

It is precisely because of this that the poor monks have invited you, and they have also invited a few senior brothers and girls to get the help of the poor monks and set up this great event to spread the unscrupulous merits of my Buddha's power! Good, good, good! ”