"Ladies and gentlemen, don't you have anything to ask?" Master Zuo walked back to his seat, put the blaster back on the lifting platform, and asked.

Qingzhou General Ma Kaiming raised his hand to signal him to ask a question.

"General Ma, please speak!" Zuo Shishidao.

"I have two questions." Ma Kaiming said.

"Please."

"The first question, what is Vitality? Do we ordinary people have vitality? Ma Kaiming asked.

"General Ma, these are already two questions." Master Zuo smiled slightly, and everyone also smiled happily, "But you asked this question very well!" ”

Yuanqi is an ancient philosophical concept, referring to the primordial substance that produces and constitutes all things in heaven and earth, and was first found in the pre-Qin philosophical work of the Chinese Dynasty. Yuan, through 'Yuan', 'Shiye', refers to the origin of all things in heaven and earth. The ancient philosophical theory of Yuan Qi is the worldview of people's understanding of nature, which can be traced back to the 'Tao' of Lao Tzu, a sage of the Chinese State, and was basically formed in the 'Theory of Heart and Qi' of Song Yu and Yin Wen in the Warring States Period, that is, the 'Monism of Qi', and developed in the 'Theory of Yuan Qi Naturalism' of Wang Chong in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the 'Ontology of Yuan Qi' advocated by Zhang Zai in the Northern Song Dynasty. According to the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", the vitality is stored in the qi sea cave, and the structure and veins of the human body are the same, so in principle, there is vitality. ”

"I roughly understand, can I think that ordinary people also have vitality, but whether it has been stimulated through cultivation like Teacher Zhang Xuangen, is that so?" Ma Kaiming asked.

"Yes," Zuo Shishi replied, "or to use a more technical word, 'awakening.'" ”

"The second question, if only a few people can achieve the release of vitality, what is the significance of the kingdom?" Ma Kaiming asked, "After all, there are only a few ancient martial arts cultivators, and there are even fewer people who can achieve the same martial arts cultivation as Teacher Zhang Xuangen!" ”

Several of the generals in the audience nodded in agreement.

"I don't mean to offend you, General Ma, but the information I got is contrary to what you said, I heard that there are already many people in the kingdom's army and among the common people who are practicing ancient martial arts privately, and after the 'Datong Qianzhuang series of robberies', the number of ancient martial arts practitioners has increased dramatically. In the sixteenth century, hot weapons such as guns and cannons arose, and the practice of ancient martial arts gradually declined. In the past thousand years, many martial arts and kung fu have been lost, and we can safely and boldly say that ancient martial arts practitioners are a minority, but what about the future? Master Zuo smiled and said, "I'll let you see a few things!" ”

Master Zuo turned his head and motioned for the attendants to take out the things from the side hall, and after a while, several attendants came out of the side hall with a few thick stacks of books from the side hall and placed them on the conference table in front of Master Zuo.

"Guwu Translation?" Yanzhou General Sima Long suddenly asked.

"Hehe," Zuo Shishi said with a smile, "General Sima really has good eyesight, this is the so-called ancient martial arts translation that is popular in the army and among the people nowadays, since General Sima can recognize it at a glance, I dare to guess that General Sima should have seen a lot." ”

Sima Long shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips and said he would not comment.

"These ancient martial arts translations were collected by Shi Taihong, the commander of the Wangcheng Forbidden Army, from the ordinary soldiers of the Wangcheng Janissary Army, this book is called ......" Zuo Shishi picked up a copy casually, glanced at it and said: "This book is called "Shi's Star Scripture," After speaking, she put it on the table.

Then she picked up another one, "This one is called the Sword Sutra." ”

"This book is called "Plum Blossom Knife Method".

"This one, "Yijin Jing".

As he spoke, Master Zuo slapped the stacks of translations with both hands, and then picked up a stack of ancient animal skins on the lifting platform and said, "Of course, these translations are all translated from the ancient animal skins unearthed in the Qinghe dungeon, and this is not news. ”

"Well, even if our soldiers practice ancient martial arts privately, so what's the matter?" General Ma continued, "No matter how much you break a cultivator, won't you be killed with a single shot?" ”

"General Ma, I don't dare to agree with what you say. The Datong Qianzhuang series of robberies was personally supervised by me, and the more than 1,000 brothers who were killed and wounded were also mainly soldiers of my 'Jizhou Legion', and the main culprit Ye Tian was really not as easy to deal with as you said, not to mention killing him with one shot, the hundreds of heavily armed soldiers of my 'Jizhou Legion' failed to trap him, but let him kill and wound dozens of people and successfully escaped. Jizhou General Yang Zhaoye took over the conversation and said.

"I guess the implication of Zuo Shishi's words is that he is worried that ordinary soldiers will continue to practice like this, and once they make a breakthrough and become a strong man like Ye Tian, there will be a situation that we can't control, and once the superior officers can't control the lower-level soldiers, the army will be prone to mutiny, am I right?" Yang Zhaoye asked.

"That's right! What General Yang said is extreme," Zuo Shishi replied, "According to our investigation, Ye Tian is a senior ancient martial arts practitioner, he has practiced Wing Chun for thirty-five years, because of his talent, at the age of forty-eight he has reached the cultivation stage of 'refining and refining Qi', in order to capture him alive, our General Yang's 'Jizhou Legion' has killed and injured more than 1,000 brothers, most of them were injured by explosive guns, it can be seen that ordinary soldiers in the army practice ancient martial arts privately, how dangerous it is for the country and the army? One Ye Tian can set off such a big storm, what about ten? What about a hundred? With a thousand such cultivators, wouldn't the world be in chaos? ”

Everyone was silent, but they thought it was true.

"In addition, I learned from other sources that the governments of the three countries of Europe, Kushan, and Equatoria are also facing the problem of the proliferation of ancient martial arts cultivation in the army and among the people, which is not only a problem of our country, but a global problem!" Zuo Shishi said in a deep voice.

"So how to solve it? Forbidden by law? Ma Kaiming spread his hands and asked, "I can't think of any good way for the time being!" ”

"So I called you here today to discuss with you how we, as the administrators of the kingdom, can deal with the flood of ancient martial arts in the army and among the people. Let us all have your opinions! This concludes my report, Lord Regent! After speaking, Master Zuo bowed to the regent and the others, and then sat back in his place.

"Thank you Zuo Shishi for giving us a very wonderful report," the regent Hao Lian Aliluo said, "Next, I would like to hear the views and suggestions of the state generals on this matter, Yang Zhaoye, you have supervised the 'Datong Qianzhuang series of robbery cases', and you are more familiar with the situation, so let's start with you!" ”

******

The night is deep, the bright moon is in the sky, and the royal city is in the dormitory.

Looking at the lady Queen Cui lying beside her, her nose moved lightly from time to time, her lips closed with her breathing, and her snoring gently fluctuated, but the regent Hao Lian Aliluo tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and when he was upset, he simply got up quietly and went to the back garden alone to relax, and unconsciously walked to the "meditation" pavilion by the lake, and then stepped into it and sat on the stone chair looking at the sparkling lake in a daze, and the personal attendant quickly put on a warm coat for him, and served hot tea and desserts.

The military meeting held in the military aircraft hall during the day was spent in a quarrel and debate, and the meeting finally decided on a 12-character policy: "Guidance is the main thing, effective control, and use it for my own use." The meeting also decided to hold an annual "Ancient Martial Arts Cultivator Selection Competition" in the capital Tongwancheng, inviting military and civilian ancient martial arts practitioners to sign up to participate, using the gimmick of ancient martial arts practitioners serving the country and promising official titles, money and reputation, but the real purpose was to monitor and control the ancient martial arts practitioners and make use of them to avoid chaos.

In fact, it is not difficult for ancient martial arts practitioners to appear in the army, military merits, honors, military ranks, money, etc. can guide them positively, but what really makes Hao Lian Aliluo feel a headache is Hao Lian Mu Zhang'a, the king of Yong, who did not attend the meeting during the day, for Hao Lian Aliluo This is the "sword of Damocles" hanging over his head.

Hao Lian Mu Zhang'a was ordered by the old king to pursue and suppress the rebels in many provinces all the year round, during the old king's pro-government period, Hao Lian Mu Zhang'a once wiped out all the domestic rebels, and led the "Kyushu Army" 300,000 elites to guard Yongzhou for many years to resist the invasion and plunder of the Kingdom of Kyushu by the beastly domain of the Dongwu Kingdom.

But since the two were divided, Hao Lian Aliluo on behalf of the old king in the central government, the domestic rebels have revived overnight, and the combat effectiveness of the comeback rebels has been upgraded, used to be beaten by the "Kyushu Army", but now it can wrestle with the "Kyushu Army", and after several years of fierce fighting, the rebels are fighting bigger and bigger, fighting more and more, and there is a tendency to spread to the hinterland of the Kyushu Kingdom.

In the fifty-fourth year of Taijia, there were capable officials who played the old king to impeach King Yong, saying that King Yong "raised his own respect, killed good and risked merit, and the officials and bandits were a family", and was stripped of his official position and demoted to the common people by the old king in anger, and since then the ministers of the court and the central government have been silent, but the ministers of the court and the central government have understood that the crimes listed in the impeachment chapter are not groundless but have evidence, such as the weapons used by the rebels, from the previous copycat version to the standard version, where do these standard weapons come from? The standard weapons manufactured from the Iron and Steel Works of the Underworld have been repeatedly robbed by the armed escort convoys that were secretly sent to various provinces, who leaked the news? Who is behind this?

Hao Lian Aliluo drank the tea that was about to cool in his hand.

Kingdom Kyushu, except for Yongzhou, there are eight state generals who attended the meeting during the day, among which only Yan and Yang generals are the old subordinates of the old king, and they belong to the center; The general of Yuzhou was personally promoted by him, and he was regarded as his own person, while the other generals of the five states were all from the "Kyushu Army", but they were the descendants of Hao Lian Mu Zhang'a.

Now the old king Hao Lian Kyushu is not dead, and Yu Wei is still there, so the general of the eight states still accepts the moderation of him as the second deputy commander on the surface, but when the old king returns to the west with his life, how many states can he, the second deputy commander, control?

Hao Lian Aliluo shook his head a little self-deprecatingly and smiled bitterly, picked up the teapot on the stone table, and filled it himself.