Chapter 257: Emperor

"Li Mu, you still speak so straightforwardly!" Lu Wu said with a smile.

Li Mu smiled: "In the middle of the day, the moon will be eaten, and the extremes of things will be reversed, and it will be too late." Rahu led the three thousand demon gods to show off their might, and they came violently, how could they last long!"

"The nature of immortals is difficult to change, and to be the master of their own hearts, they can only rely on self-discipline. I heard that your way of practicing is very special, and in order to check your words and deeds, you put two jars in the cave house, one for black beans and one for soybeans. Whenever a good thought arises in the heart, a kind word is spoken, or a good deed is done, a soybean is thrown into the bottle, and on the contrary, if there is any bad thought in the heart, or if there is any fault in words and deeds, a black bean is thrown. In the beginning, there are more black beans and less soybeans, and you keep reflecting and motivating yourself. Gradually, the number of soybeans and black beans will be equal, and you will continue to work hard and be more strict with yourself. Over time, the soybeans in the can accumulate more and more, and the black beans become more and more insignificant. With this kind of long-lasting restraint and encouragement, I continue to cultivate myself and improve myself. "Akamatsu admiring the road.

Li Mu said modestly: "But I am still too far behind you." I heard that before you attained enlightenment, you fled with many people one summer. Due to the long journey and the hot weather, everyone felt hungry and thirsty. At this time, there happened to be a large pear tree on the side of the road, full of sweet pears. Everyone scrambles up the tree to pick pears to eat, but you sit under the tree and are unmoved. The people thought it was strange and asked you. But you said that the pear tree is not your own, how can you pick it indiscriminately! Everyone laughed and said, 'The situation is in chaos, everyone has fled, and the owner of the pear tree has long since disappeared, so what do you care about?' At this time, you said a deafening sentence: 'Although the pear has no owner, I have a master in my heart!' This is self-discipline, this is nobility. Think about it, if I were in that situation, would I be able to hold on to the tree?"

"People in the world are fighting for a little benefit, and people are complacent about taking advantage, and they all think that they have won and earned. I never thought about the difference between myself and those animals who only know how to fill their stomachs and don't care about everything? The reason why people are human beings is because they can be the masters of their own hearts!" Li Mu said with emotion.

"This is self-discipline, the highest self-cultivation. This is what the so-called 'gentleman always blames himself, and villains blame others more'. Self-discipline is to discipline oneself with the standard of discipline and the mentality of discipline. 'Those who want to cultivate their bodies must first correct their hearts', self-discipline is a kind of demeanor, but also a transcendence. ”

Dahong also came over and said: "Great joy is easy to lose words, anger is easy to be rude, great surprise is easy to lose shape, great sorrow is easy to lose face, great happiness is easy to lose sight, and great fear is easy to lose temperance." Self-discipline requires courage, backbone and confidence, the laity say: 'self-discipline is enough to convince others, the amount of leniency is enough to win people, and the body is enough to lead people', only by being strict with themselves, consciously abiding by the principles and rules, and performing everything in a down-to-earth manner, can we develop the habit of self-discipline. ”

Guirong District Name Dahong, Minister of the Yellow Emperor, he once wrote three articles of "The Art of War in Guirong District".

Legend has it that Dahong often trained the army of the Yellow Emperor in Guci Mountain, and later people called the peak where he trained his troops Dahong Mountain, and the place where the troops were stationed was called Dahong Village.

Dahong and Chang Xian and Feng Hou are all together.

Chang Xian, there is a sister Chang Yi, also known as Chang Xi, who is a minister of Emperor Xuanyuan.

Chang Xian invented many hunting tools.

Once, Chang first killed a bison and put the skinned cow on a wooden pier.

The mound was empty and had a thick hug. After a long time, Chang Xian actually forgot about it. After a long period of exposure to the sun, the bison skin shrank, wrapping the empty wooden pier tightly.

One day, when Mu Hai was taming a horse, a young man named Liqi accidentally found a bison skin covering the wooden pier, and slapped his hand casually, who knew that this beat actually made a clanging sound.

Liqi beat hard again, and the sound was louder. Liqi thought it was fun, so he found two wooden sticks and shook them with both hands, and the sound was like thunder.

When Muhai's horses heard this, they were frightened, rushed out of the wooden pen, and all ran away. He rushed over angrily, grabbed Liqi and hit it, and asked what Liqi was knocking while fighting.

At this time, Chang Xian rushed to persuade the two of them to leave, and asked about the situation, only then did he suddenly realize.

It turned out that Liqi knocked on the bison skin he had dried earlier. Chang first asked Liqi to quickly help him turn the wooden pier upside down to see, it turned out that it was empty, and he also patted it with his hand, which also made a clanging sound.

Chang first found a large deerskin, covered the other end of the wooden pier, and then struck it with a wooden stick, and the sound was louder and better than before.

He thought it was a useful thing and decided to make another one. He chose a hollow tree with good wood, made it round at the inside, and covered the two ends with deerskin and goatskin, which he could hold with one hand.

He also asked Cangjie to give it a name, called "Drum".

However, the deer skin and the wild sheep skin were not strong, and they broke when they were knocked hard, so they had to use bison skin instead.

However, catching bison is not an easy task, as bison are exceptionally ferocious animals. How do you get bison hides?

Chang first lay under a big tree, thinking and thinking.

Before I knew it, I fell asleep.

At this time, the Nine Heavens Xuannu sent the "Book of War" to the Yellow Emperor, and when she passed by this big tree, she found that Chang Xian was sleeping under the tree, and when she looked at it again, she knew that he was worried about the lack of suitable skin for the drum.

She wanted to wake Chang Xian up, but she thought that she couldn't talk to mortals casually, so she had to give Chang Xian a dream: she said that there was a Liupo Mountain in the East China Sea, and there was a kind of monster in the mountain, shaped like a cow, but without horns, only one leg; the body was surprisingly large, and it was usually inactive, but when it appeared, it was either windy or raining on the ocean; the light from the two eyes was like the sun and the moon; and the roar was louder than thunder, and this monster was called Kui Niu. Razor has a thunderbeast that is carefree all day long, likes to lie on its back, and takes pleasure in hitting its belly with its claws, and every time it slaps its belly, a loud thunder sounds.

The Nine Heavens Xuannu also said: "Use the cowhide to cover the drum, use the bones of the thunder beast as the drumstick, when you knock it up, the earth shakes the mountains, and the power is infinite." ”

Chang woke up first and busily told the Yellow Emperor about the dream. After hearing this, the Yellow Emperor ordered Yinglong and Dahong to send a few experts who knew how to go into the sea to catch monsters.

Within a few days, the Kui Niu and the Thunder Beast were captured and killed, and then, according to the design of Chang Xian, in 50 days, it was covered with 80 Kui Niu Drums and 16 Thunder Beast Drumsticks.

Before the start of the Zhuolu War, the Yellow Emperor had ambushed the eighty-faced Kui Niu drum in the dark, when Chi You's army rushed to the forward position of the Yellow Emperor's army, the Yellow Emperor waved his hand, and the eighty big drums beat together. The Yellow Emperor's army launched a general attack with the sound of drums and wiped out Chiyou in the field of Zhuolu in one fell swoop.

Since then, the drum has become an indispensable tool in warfare, and people will later call it "war drum".

After the wind is the courtier of the Yellow Emperor, who is in charge of astronomy and predicts wind and rain.

He was born in the corner of the sea, farming and self-farming, proficient in the number of "Yi", clear in the way of heaven, willing to be poor, and happy to hide.

The Queen of the Wind was the first prime minister of the Yellow Emperor, so later generations called him "the prime minister of the opening".

The guide car and formation invented by the Wind Queen are unparalleled in the world, and they have made indelible contributions to the unification of the Central Plains by the Yellow Emperor, the most famous of which is the "Eight Formations of the Wind Queen". "Eight Formations of Soldiers", four is positive, four is strange, and the rest is Qiqi, or a general term.

The picture is divided into nine pieces, one is the main picture of eight formations, and the other eight are eight formations, namely: the sky covering the array, the ground carrying array, the wind lifting array, the cloud hanging array, the dragon flying array, the tiger wing array, the bird flying array, the snake pan array, it has great academic significance and value for the formation and development of military history and military theory for later generations.

In the battle of Zhuolu, the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou each set up their own positions, and for a while, strong winds and heavy rain accompanied by heavy fog followed.

First of all, the Yellow Emperor's ministers used a guide car to guide the department out of danger, and then the Yellow Emperor's daughter Nulu went out of the battle to disperse the wind and rain, disturbed the soldiers with the sound of horns and drums, adopted varied tactics, and achieved victory.

There is a story to the invention of the guide car after the wind.

It was three years of war between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, and they fought seventy-two battles, all of which failed to achieve victory. In a great war, when Chi You was about to fail, he invited Feng Bo and Yu Shi to call for wind and rain, causing difficulties for the attack of the Yellow Emperor's army.

The Yellow Emperor also hurriedly let the drought cast a spell to stop the wind and rain, so that the army could continue to advance. At this time, the scheming Chiyou released a heavy fog again, and the four fields were filled in an instant, making the Yellow Emperor's army lose its direction.

The Yellow Emperor was so anxious that he ordered his army to stop advancing and stay put. He immediately convened the ministers to discuss countermeasures.

Ying Long, Chang Xian, Da Hong, Li Mu and other ministers all arrived, but after not seeing the wind, some people wondered if the wind queen was killed by Chi You.

The Yellow Emperor immediately sent people to look around, but after looking for a long time, there was still no trace of the Wind Queen, so the Yellow Emperor had to look for it himself.

When the Yellow Emperor came to the battlefield, he saw the Queen of the Wind sleeping alone on the chariot. The Yellow Emperor said angrily: "What time is it, why are you still sleeping here?"

After the wind sat up slowly, "Where am I sleeping, I'm trying to figure out a way." ”

Then, he pointed to the sky with his hand and said to the Yellow Emperor: "Look, why does the Big Dipper in the sky turn but not turn? Can we make something that can point in the direction according to the principle of the Big Dipper, and with this kind of thing, we are not afraid of losing our way. ”

When the Yellow Emperor heard this, he smiled and said, "It turns out that you are lying here thinking about this." ”

The Yellow Emperor told the ministers about the idea of the Wind Queen, and everyone discussed it and thought it was a good idea.

Then, it was designed by the queen of the wind, and everyone made it by hand. After several days and nights of hard work, he finally built a device that could guide the way.

After the wind, it was mounted on a chariot with a dummy mounted on it, pointing to the south.

"If you are caught up in fog during a battle, you can immediately identify the south, east, west, and northwest as soon as you look in the direction the dummy in the guide car is pointing." ”

From then on, the army of the Yellow Emperor was no longer afraid of the fog of Chiyou.

Everyone was brave and good at fighting, and they fought bravely to be the first, and finally defeated Chi You and chased him all the way to the field of Zhuolu and killed him.