On the head of the south of Tai'an City, an old man and a young man stand out in the iron armor, the old man is dressed in sackcloth shoes, carrying a long sword, and the appearance of a normal swordsman, the girl is in the middle of the body like a spring sprout, with a bit of slenderness, she not only carries a sword, but also wears a double sword around her waist, and holds a sword in her hand, so she does not look like a female swordsman, but like a little girl who sells swords on the street. The two of them are Chai Qingshan, the contemporary suzerain of Dongyue Jianchi, and the single bait clothes of "Green Water Pavilion Sword Record" that was presented by the young feudal king in the summer escape town. Previously, several people went out of the city violently, but they flew back to the city upside down, and the corpses were embedded in the city wall, like flies and mosquitoes swatting on the windows, and the tragic situation made many martial artists with the title of Liyang General at the head of the city feel frightened, and subconsciously glanced at the pair of sword pool masters and apprentices with a huge age difference, and finally recovered a little courage.

The girl's face was a little pale, this is not that her physique is not as good as that of ordinary soldiers, but after the martial arts really enter the hall, the qi induction between heaven and earth will be different from ordinary people, this is like ordinary people who see the river rolling, only feel magnificent, but the qi practitioner can see the signs of the flow of qi in the world.

Her master Chai Qingshan, as a well-deserved kendo master, since he chose her as a closed-door disciple, he naturally took a fancy to her outstanding root bone talent, and even when he chatted with the old master of the Wu family's sword mound before, he was quite conceited and said that his female disciple's kendo talent was second only to Jiang Xi, the empress of Western Chu. The girl with the homonym of the name "three-two-one" only felt that she was standing at the head of the city of Emperor Wu, and the next moment she would be killed by the monstrous waves at the head of the city, she gritted her teeth and clenched the long sword, and her delicate body was shaky, until Chai Qingshan stretched out a hand to support the ancient sword "Young Phoenix" on her back, the girl was relieved, exhaled a long breath, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, what is the official Cao going to do? Do you really want to break through the capital with your own strength?

Chai Qingshan, who has taken the girl to the south and north in recent years, shook his head and said: "Master doesn't know what Cao Changqing wants from Confucianism to domineering. ”

The girl looked at the lonely green shirt outside the city, some inexplicable sorrow, it is rumored that the official who once served as the edict of Xichu Chess, has a heart of admiration for the Queen of Western Chu, but has never shown it in his life, and has always abided by the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, and finally ended up with a yin and yang separation without breaking the mind. The girl doesn't care about the scholar who became a Confucian saint in the ancient battlefield of Xileibi, whether it is the most proud of the Cao family, and she doesn't even care about Cao Qingyi's feat of passing through the Liyang Palace three times in her early years, and she has a little bit of affection for the ignorant girl who quietly sends her heart out, but she is a little envious of the poor woman who has been scolded for 20 years and has been scolded for the country and the people, even if she is written as an unbearable fox spirit by various wild histories, and is regarded as the culprit of the fall of Great Chu, but the girl just thinks that if she dies one day, there is still such an infatuated person who thinks about it with her heart after death, it's really good. Thinking of this, the girl sighed softly, raised her arm, and quietly patted her chest with the sword body of the half-formed new sword "White Python" in her hand. There, I guess that's where her heart rests. It is also the reason why she really practiced swords with her heart for the first time after leaving Beiliang. The young man was slender, so when he talked to her in the summer town at the foot of Wudang Mountain, he had to bow his head, although he smiled gently, he only regarded her as an innocent girl in the rivers and lakes, and it didn't matter if there was a reunion in the rivers and lakes after passing by. She didn't like that.

As Cao Changqing dropped the chessboard again, the rainbow light as thick as the pillars of the Wuying Hall fell sharply from the sky. Tai'an City was shocked again.

Chai Qingshan didn't look at the magnificent pillar of light in the city behind him, and said with emotion: "My generation of swordsmen, from ancient times to the present, has tirelessly pursued the Dacheng realm of angry bullfighting and qi Changhong, and I never thought that Cao Changqing would be able to introduce the majestic righteousness of the abundant heaven and earth from the blue sky into the world. Gao Shulu's so-called mysterious and mysterious celestials, but that's it. is a good Cao Changqing, which is tantamount to adding ten feet to a hundred-foot picture scroll. ”

If there are Beidi Fulong Qi practitioners standing at the head of the city at this time, they will find some wisps of purple qi in Tai'an City, like gurgling water slowly flowing into the girl's seven orifices, and the girl herself is unaware, and even Chai Qingshan, who has reached the Tongyou-Cave Micro Finger Realm very early, is not aware of it. Interlaced like a mountain, although the two realms of celestial phenomena and terrestrial immortals are only one layer apart, they are two completely different worlds.

The girl suddenly asked curiously: "The people of the three religions other than pure martial arts, the Buddhist monks enter the first product is King Kong, the Taoist real people enter the first product is the Xuan, and Confucianism is one step to the heavens, Master, you used to always be vague, why only say that the three are actually not high or low? and why is it especially difficult for Confucian saints to become saints?"

The old man hesitated for a moment, as if he was not very willing to break through the heavens, and as if he didn't want his proud disciple to contact that level too early, and finally couldn't survive the girl's pitiful eyes, Chai Qingshan said helplessly: "Master, you have heard what you said next, forget it, don't take it seriously, let alone pay attention to it, so as not to be uncertain about the sword and delay the sword path you should have taken." In his early years, Master often went to Daxueping in Huishan Mountain, and had many long conversations with a scholar named Xuanyuan Jingcheng, who had a very unique insight into the matter of the saints of the three religions, and his words were not shocking, such as when he talked about the commonplace things in the world. Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha', you must have heard this statement countless times, Xuanyuan Jingcheng's view on this is not the same, he said this is very good, there is a merit of admonishing the world to abandon evil and follow good, but at the same time it is not shallow, you must know that to become a Buddha, only rely on gradual penance, you need to work hard to die, just like the phrase "the article is born into a wonderful hand", the writer who said this is naturally very reasonable, but for many "others", it is very unreasonable. Xuanyuan Jingcheng said that many people who pioneered, especially those who read after the traveler became a tyrant in the past thousand years, all pursued the three immortals advocated by the sage of the Zhang family, and made meritorious contributions, Xuanyuan Jingcheng had a unique face to this, not that he had objections to the teachings of the sage, but that the people of later generations had gone astray, and he gave an example of burying his son and serving his mother, which was undoubtedly in line with the first hundred virtues and filial piety, and was respected by countless people, but Xuanyuan Jingcheng asserted that this person was destined to be a rare good fruit, if there is really an afterlife, if there is really a providence in the underworld, then what this person does, is destined to suffer from the curse of heaven and cannot be detached。 All things are born to support people, according to common sense, one report and one report, and people should feed back the heavens and the earth. The Taoist sage left 3,000 words to warn future generations very early, 'Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs', which is exactly the selflessness of the Heavenly Dao, not the so-called superficial 'unkindness and injustice' that some people mistakenly think, Xuanyuan Jingcheng is very recognized' Heaven and earth are not benevolent', but at the same time, he also said that they are scholars, precisely to know that the mandate of heaven cannot be violated, but to go against the current, to set rules for the heavens, earth and the world, in order to achieve long-term peace and stability for everyone, so with the five words of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith to set up a framework, and finally extend the incomparably heart-wrenching sentence, 'Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations!' But, disciple, think about it carefully, if there are gods in heaven and earth, do you need us people to point fingers? Therefore, the people who really have great wisdom in Confucianism, especially those who have become Confucian saints, do not worry about themselves and future generations, and all of them are generous to death with the passionate mind of tens of millions of people, and they do not hesitate to burn the jade of the Heavenly Dao. ”

The girl sighed.

After the old man said this, he sighed and sighed frequently, with mixed feelings.

Chai Qingshan smiled and asked, "Understand?"

The girl grinned and said confidently: "I don't understand at all." ”

The old man couldn't help but laugh a little and rubbed her head, "I don't need you to understand. It's good to be confused, live for a hundred years, and be at ease. Otherwise, you will be full of depression and too tired. Those of us who practice swords, it is enough to be able to sound uneven with a three-foot sword. ”

Chai Qingshan said softly: "After going to Beiliang, seeing the desolate border scenery with my own eyes, and seeing the battlefield passes everywhere, I will know that our Jianghu people are happy and happy, and it can't stand scrutiny." But apprentice, you don't need to blindly dislike Liyang because of the grievances for Bei Liang, Master tells you that if there is really a day when the Bei Mang army breaks through the border between the two Liao, countless people in this city who scold Bei Liang today will also fight hard, and they will die if they say they die. Even if the Northern Mangmang barbarians fight all the way to the Guangling River, they will never walk like they are in a no-man's land, but will only be on both sides of the hooves of the iron horse, all of whom are the people who died in the battle of Liyang. ”

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the Central Plains scholars traveled to the north to study, and the Liyang rangers went to the south to fight for righteousness", and the latter had a lot of indiscriminate and forbidden actions, which made the Central Plains countries led by Dachu always regard Liyang people as unteachable northern barbarians. But in the past 20 years, especially Gu Jiantang's resignation from the Ministry of War Shangshu into the two Liao, and Xu Xiao's Beiliang Iron Cavalry left and right to guard the border gates, Beimang can not go south half a step, the entire Central Plains singing and dancing to level up, the south wolf smoke only reports the peace and does not report worries, plus countless scholars into the Shiliyang, the imperial court has a great imperial examination, and opens the dragon gate for the world's Shu Han scholars, the capital only says that the country is a prison, it accommodates nearly 30,000 scholars from the south and the north, and the large influx of scholars like carp crossing the river, as well as the gathering of gentry and giants from all over the world, in just 20 years, it has created the prosperity of Tai'an City in the early years of the capital of Chu。 Emperor Zhao Dian spared no effort on the promotion of literati in the temple, when the two peaks confronted Zhang Lu Gu Lu, in the capital for the official Qing Party officials almost all are literati, a large number of young scholars were able to enter the court, the style of Jiangnan Road for the imperial court to send a large number of pillars of materials, even to the West Chu old master Sun Xiji led by a large number of Western Chu remnants, have put aside the national enmity and choose to serve the Zhao family, on the other hand, the military generals in power are almost no exception are the old men of the Spring and Autumn Period, Liyang Imperial Court after more than 20 years of recuperation and upward and downward effect, has revealed the pattern of high and low martial arts, if it is not for the restoration of the West Chu and the chaos of Guangling Road and Beiliang"Ready to move", I am afraid that even Ma Zhongxian, who is the first-class meritorious portal of Liyang, will not be able to become an envoy of Jing'an Daojie in this life.

At the moment of Liyang, on the surface, the country is at its peak, and even the rebellion in Western Chu has to be suppressed, but even Chai Qingshan can see that it is a delicate situation with wind leaking from all sides.

The girl has never been interested in the general trend of the world, and pursed her mouth, "But I still think Bei Liang is even more pitiful." ”

The old man smiled: "Master didn't say that Bei Liang is not worthy of your grievances, but I just hope that you will not be too angry in the future, and don't anger the innocent at will, do you know why Master admires that young vassal king more and more?"

As soon as she heard the young vassal king, the originally absent-minded girl's eyes immediately lit up, and she immediately had an inexhaustible spirit, and her face was full of energy, "Master, speak quickly, I'll listen." ”

The old man was quite helpless, and laughed angrily: "Don't say it!"

The old man really kept silent, in addition to being a little angry, more Cao Changqing's fall outside the city was getting faster and faster, and he had to concentrate on gathering momentum.

Today, he Chai Qingshan is standing here with a long sword on his back, but he is not here to see the scenery.

The girl pursed her lips, and she didn't ask if she knew the master's temper.

Chai Qingshan squinted into the distance, and the old man's gaze followed the city head and threw it at the green shirt together.

There are bed crossbows at the head of the city, and there are 6,000 sharp archers with superior strength under the city.

The upper and lower arrows were overwhelming.

The old man had a strange idea for no reason, if the Beiliang Xu family had no grievances with the Liyang Zhao family, and the young vassal king had no regrets and was dedicated to being that loyal minister, and the emperor of the Zhao family was also convinced of him, and vigorously reinforced Beiliang, with the Central Plains as the backing, to support the Beiliang Iron Cavalry and the two Liao border armies to fight against Beimang, how good would it be? If that Cao Changqing outside the city can be like Sun Xiji and many remnants of Western Chu, enter the court as an official, maybe now he is the first assistant of Liyang, then there is no need to go to the Yin School Palace's Qi Yang Dragon out of the mountain to turn the tide, there is Cao Changqing leading the Yonghui Old Spring and Xiangfu New Year, together strategizing, there are 300,000 Beiliang iron cavalry and 200,000 Liao border troops, why worry that the world is not peaceful? Even if they are given hundreds of thousands of more soldiers and armor to Beimang?

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On a small road in the northern part of Gyeonggi, I rode south to Taean Fortress without hurrying.

There is a stall selling dumplings and tea and wine on the side of the road, and a pair of young men and women are sitting, each with their heads buried in eating the two large bowls of dumplings.

The rider turned over and dismounted, led the horse to the table, and asked, "Can you sit?"

The young man glanced at him, "Since you don't have a knife, you can sit." ”

So Gu Jiantang sat on the bench next to Xu Fengnian and Jiang Ni.

After the powerful Great Pillar Kingdom sat down, he asked with a smile: "Xu Fengnian, you invite me to eat a bowl of dumplings, and I will help you become the emperor, can you do this deal?"