Volume II, Chapter 23, On Politics 2

Yang Xiu is not as arrogant and arrogant as described in history, but is wise and kind.

There is no wall in the cottage, but the location is hidden by the wind and water, and the view is wide, and you can overlook the entire underworld. The two sat opposite each other, and the boy served tea.

"God, this is the tea made from the young leaves of my Immortal Forgetting Grass, you can taste it."

In the Han Dynasty, tea was boiled, not brewed, and Yang Xiu retained the traditional craftsmanship of tea brewing in the Han Dynasty, and the aroma of boiled tea was stronger. The bun smelled the fragrance first, guessed that this tea must have been made into bricks, sealed and fermented for many years, after smelling the fragrance, a refreshing sweet "good tea, good tea" bun praised "It has been ten years, right?" ”

Yang Xiu smiled and said nothing, and the boy interjected, "The guest doesn't know, this is from the Yuan Dynasty." ”

Yang Xiu waved his hand and returned the boy, saying, "If the gods come a few days earlier, I still have a few Tang Dynasty tea bricks, but it's a pity that I gave them to Freud." ”

Baozi scratched his head, "I am a human race, and I think about problems for no more than a few years, you are a human immortal, and you have the courage to swallow for thousands of years, incomparable, incomparable." ”

Yang Xiu said: "God is humble again. You are the envoy of the Heavenly King, with extraordinary bearing and talent. ”

Baozi sighed, "I don't know, how did I become a special envoy of Northern Europe in a daze, this matter is still a mystery." ”

Yang Xiu laughed: "I know a little bit about this." Your umbrella still has a relationship with me. When I accompanied the prime minister to the north to conquer Yuan Shao, Guandu defeated Yuan Shao's army with fewer victories, chased and killed the remnants of the army all the way, and killed Yuan Shao's son Yuan Tan without a fight. When raiding Yuan Shao's mansion, the adviser Xu You got a giant umbrella and a deerskin map in the back hall, no matter how wise Xu You was, he couldn't guess the origin of the giant umbrella and the pointing of the map. Xu You tried to open the treasure umbrella several times, but the umbrella seemed to be welded, and it did not move. Xu You presented the treasure umbrella to Prime Minister Cao, who knew that the prime minister could not open it, but Cheng was sensitive, and after looking carefully, he read a piece of Sanskrit from the ribbon that bound the umbrella. The prime minister asked the ministers, who knows Sanskrit? Liechen class was silent, at that time he was young and vigorous, and he knew Sanskrit, so he took it to translate, which roughly means that he heard more about the treasure umbrella of the heavenly king, and those who got it and opened it were enshrined as envoys, and they had the privilege of communicating with the immortals and the underworld; Whoever cannot open it will die. If it cannot be opened, the treasure umbrella will be buried in the north of the Shenshan Lake in Liaodong according to the map. ”

"Prime Minister Cao Cheng regards himself as the first minister, and in his heart he has regarded himself as the king of a country, and even he can't open the treasure umbrella, isn't it an ominous thing. The prime minister was careful and heavy, knowing that Yuan Shao had the treasure umbrella but did not obey the order, and ended up ruining the family and the country, guessing that the umbrella was a bad thing, so he ordered the soldiers to burn it in public, but the fire burned for two hours, and the treasure umbrella did not even fall off. Then he ordered the soldiers to split them with chariots, four chariots with eight horses, and several ropes were broken, but the umbrella was not deformed at all. Prime Minister Cao Cheng knew the power of the treasure umbrella, and the prime minister immediately ordered Xu Yu to hurry up and send the treasure umbrella to the hands of the Taishou Gongsun Du of Liaodong, and according to the location indicated in the map, he was buried with the ceremony of Jiuxi, and allocated a sum of money from Yuan Shao's mansion to accompany the funeral and escort it over.

How could Xu Yu be bold in his heart, eclectic to one pattern, never believed in the ghosts, gods and immortals, and was busy with official business, so he put this matter down. How do you know that not long after, Xu Yu was drunk and suddenly uttered evil words, which angered General Xu Chu and was stabbed to death by Yishuo. Xu Yu died violently, Cao Cheng was very panicked about the treasure umbrella, bathed and changed clothes, swore to the sky, and then added a funeral, and arranged a mighty escort team to go straight to Liaodong. Liaodong Taishou Gongsun Du did not dare to slack off, and was buried in Luding Mountain with the rites of the prince. However, for fear of thieves digging up, the model of the tomb in the tomb was designed, and the appearance was stamped according to the standards of ordinary wealthy households. Taishou put the general burial goods in the front room, did not dare to place nine tin, and was afraid that Cao Cao would blame, so he painted nine tin on the mural, so as to pay the errand and prevent thieves from coveting. So the umbrella awaits you in the tomb. Until two thousand years later. ”

"So, the Umbrella chose me, but what is my mission?"

Yang Xiu smiled, "Aren't you doing it?" “

"Breaking the Dead Sea, breaking the ghost gate?"

Yang Xiu shook his head, "That's just a pre-dinner ceremony, be more attentive, and follow your own path." “

"Master, this is the key issue, please make it clear" Baozi eagerly thought to his task.

"If you know the mission, I'm afraid you won't be able to complete the mission"

"What's the explanation?"

"What you want to do in the future is to ask for people, not adults"

"What is an adult and what is an important person?"

"God, sometimes we measure the height of a person's life by the size of their achievements, which is just Confucian thought. In fact, across the long river of history of tens of millions of years, a person who really plays an important role may be a small person, who appeared in the right place at the right time and did the right thing, so that history changed and mankind advanced. For example, Chen Yuanyuan, who angered Wu Sangui, and Gavrio Princip, who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand. Hehe, if they knew their fate, they would definitely not be willing, so your life is not to be an adult, but to be an important person, wrapped in God, can be solved? “

"I've been a little person all my life, right" Baozi was infinitely melancholy.

"At least that's your place in the Terrans, at least in my calculations. To be precise, you are more like Zorro, a picture of the appearance of a person, a heroic tiger courage. “

"But I also have ideals, I also want to go to university, graduate school, and I also want to fight in the field of scientific research, not to hunt ghosts and exorcisms."

"A person's life, good luck after birth, ten years of good luck, the passing years are like water, the cycle repeats, the trend of great luck, there are ups and downs, the rich are so, the beggars are so. Fortune is coming, shining in front of people, and everything is auspicious; Fortune is gone, everything is empty, and there is no way to cry. People often attribute it to themselves or others, thinking that they are villains or that they are not working hard enough, but they don't know that everyone is just a fallen leaf on the river of fortune, fluttering with the ups and downs of the waves, what qualifications do we have to talk about the future. Yang Xiu sighed, why didn't he say this, knowing that Cao Zhi could not be supported, but he went against the sky, provoked sibling disputes, accelerated Cao's internal friction, and he was also in a different place.

"Then, let's talk about some specific issues, I want to enter the ghost gate" Baozi stared at Yang Xiu and said, "It is said that the ghost gate is related to the heavenly court, but there is such a thing."

Yang Xiu took a sip of tea: "Everything in the world is related to heaven. Everything grows in checks and balances, there is no absolute moral high point, there is no absolute moral low point, only the unbalanced development, the bigger and stronger, need to be contained, the small and weak, need support, and there is no right or wrong. It is right for you to look at one thing from the perspective of the human race, but it is ridiculous to look at it from the perspective of the immortal race. Heavenly Court is not the Heavenly Court of your Dongsheng Shenzhou, but the Heavenly Court of the four major continents, just ask Germany in the north of Luzhou and China in the East of the Shenzhou suddenly war, which side should the Heavenly Court support. Therefore, what Heavenly Court can do is checks and balances. “

"In other words, adding a hell on earth and a vain dead sea under the nose of the underworld you preside over is the way of the heavenly court to check and balance you."

"Before it dies, it has a role."