"Foothills...... Is it true that the longevity of the yang is over?" Even though he had seen with his own eyes the crumbling Shouyuan fire of Lin Lushan, like a candle in the wind, Wu Xie still had a little fluke thought, and this fluke thought made him come to Xiao Buyi's house in the middle of the night, disturbing his friend's cultivation, trying to ask for some valuable news, looking for a glimmer of hope that did not exist at all.

"Wu Daoyou, you are already a figure who soars in and out of the clouds, and your magic eyes are like torches, and you are not inferior to my method of calculation. You must have seen what the situation is. Xiao Buyi's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he persuaded, "For those of us who pursue immortality, mortal relatives and friends are just passers-by in life, and we must leave in a short time...... Maybe it was just a retreat, and when I came out, I didn't make any significant progress, but the former youth was already full of gray hair...... There is no way around this kind of thing. ”

Wu Xie was silent for a long time, and sighed deeply after the last sigh.

This is not to be done, everyone knows it.

"Actually, I don't think Prime Minister Lin should mind." Xiao Buyi also said, "His life is legendary, he became famous as a young man, his official residence is a high-ranking position, and he is in a high position. He reported to the country, went down to help the people, did countless things, and achieved countless achievements, and countless officials and scholars in the seven countries of Kyushu praised him, praising him as the white jade pillar of the Great Chu, and the purple gold beam of the sea...... What is there not to be satisfied with when it comes to being a human being?"

Wu Xie couldn't help but sigh deeply again.

"Daoyou, you only know one thing, but you don't know the other!"

Because horizontal and vertical is a matter to be made public, he has no intention of keeping it secret, and explained to Xiao Buyi in detail Lin Lushan's understanding of culture, his attitude towards culture, and the set of cultural theories that he is now writing and preparing to vigorously promote.

As he expected, Xiao Buyi's eyes widened wider and wider, and his mouth slowly opened, and he was completely stunned when he reached the end, and he couldn't even speak for a while.

Prime Minister Lin ...... Actually...... Unexpectedly...... he "actually" several times, but he still couldn't think of suitable words, and he could only praise at the end, "It's really a lucky person!" Sure enough, he is worthy of being a character of Wanzhang Wenhua Chongxiaohan!"

"Do you think he's right?"

Xiao Buyi pondered for a moment and nodded: "Although it is slightly extreme, his thinking is correct." If culture is to develop, it must be confined to a broader world and be confined to the literati circle forever, just like a small tree in a flower pot, no matter how delicate it is, it will not grow. Only by transplanting it into the mountains, forests and fields can it grow into lush branches and leaves, grow into a big tree, and even grow into a towering ancient tree - maybe it can also grow into Senior Brother Su. ”

Wu Xie was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered that Su Lin's true body was a thousand-year-old tree, and couldn't help but laugh: "There is indeed this possibility!"

After laughing, the conversation returned to culture.

At Wu Jie's suggestion, Xiao Buyi took H very seriously. As expected, the future cultural trend of the land of Kyushu has indeed seen a great prosperity.

There are two possibilities for culture to prosper, one is that a large number of outstanding talents have appeared in a short period of time, guiding the high-end trend; Another possibility is that a large number of people are engaged in culture, which promotes the development of the foundation.

The former may not be non-existent, and it is not very likely - whether it is Wu Xie or Xiao Buyi, there is no sign of a group of talented people in the world. Well, of course, it's the latter possibility.

"It seems...... Lushan, he really did a great thing!" Wu Xie smiled, rejoicing in the success that his righteous brother was about to get.

"But there will be a lot of resistance to this matter, you have to be mentally prepared." Xiao Buyi said solemnly, "By doing this, he is demolishing the entire literary world, and he will definitely be attacked by the crowd below." If he is still alive, as the prime minister of a country, many people dare not speak even if they have grievances in their hearts. But he ...... When he dies, I'm afraid he's going to be infamous!"

Wu Xie smiled disdainfully, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.

Infamy? He wanted to see if the heads of those clamoring people were as strong as the immortal mountains in the East China Sea!

Wu Xie is a reasonable person, but he only reasoned with those who were willing to be reasonable. For those who pretend to be crazy and stupid, pretend to be stupid, mess around, be unreasonable, and reverse black and white...... His choice was to smash a fireball directly into it and shut up those bastards with practical actions!

As the saying goes, you have a clever tongue, and I have a quick knife. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, those so-called Qingliu who talked about the truth one by one were "persuaded" by the Qing people to honestly shave their hair and become obedient people. On the contrary, the people at the bottom who are not good at lip service have used practical actions to resist tyranny, sweating and blood, and have persisted for decades.

There are many differences between the Kyushu World and the Earth, but there is not much difference between the human heart. At the beginning, even a weird hairstyle like a money rattail pigtail could be carried out violently, just to defend Lin Lushan's reputation and achievements, it should be no problem.

Well, he doesn't care if there's a problem! Anyway, he can live for at least a few hundred more years, and there is time to slowly compete with those old people. As an immortal cultivator, he also has enough patience to persist for decades and hundreds of years...... But he bets with his head that those guys who stick to the old ways will never be so stubborn and persistent from generation to generation.

Even the country will perish, what is the point of the literary world!

Xiao Buyi has been in the world for many years and has rich experience in the rivers and lakes. As a Xiangshi, he was originally very good at observing his face, and he could see the killing intent and determination contained in Wu Jie's sneer at a glance, and he couldn't help but secretly shake his head.

"Wu Daoyou, don't be extreme!"

"Don't worry, I won't overdo it."

Xiao Buyi saw that Wu Jie's attitude was so resolute, and it was not easy to persuade him repeatedly, so he had to sigh lightly and expose this topic.

"By the way, a while ago, I visited the old man of the sword."

"Old Man Sword?" Wu Xie was stunned, "Who is that?"

"Oh...... You don't know this yet. The swordsman 'Taboo', who was originally called a half-soul Daoist, changed his title about twenty years ago and called himself 'Sword Old Man'. Xiao Buyi explained, "I think this title is much better and more appropriate than his previous title." ”

"I see...... Did he say anything when you visited him?"

"He said that recently, he realized the heavenly opportunity in silence and found that the national fortune of the Great Chu State was about to run out."

Wu Xie was taken aback, and his voice couldn't help but be a little higher: "Really?"

He stared at Xiao Buyi tightly, and couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart.

As a Chu person, he still cares about his motherland very much. Although it is an eternal common sense to say that people have life and death, and that countries rise and fall, just as a relative has a disease and must try to treat it, and the motherland must try to save it when it is in trouble, this is not some hypocrisy or cannot be let go, but human nature.

Xiao Buyi sighed, looking a little regretful.

"Senior Brother Su and I have both accounted for H, and the national fortunes of the Great Chu State are indeed in decline......

"I've known this for a long time, but decline and exhaustion are two different things! Since ancient times, there have been many countries that have been in decline but have been able to thrive, even if they can't thrive, they may not have exhausted their national fortunes!" Wu Xie couldn't help but say, "For example, the Great Qi in the north occupied the entire eastern part of the country back then, and then the faint monarchs came out one after another, and the people were not able to make a living, so Xiong Da, the Taizu of the Great Chu State, raised the banner and rebelled, and the soil was torn to become a country...... But the Great Qi Kingdom still retains half of the country, and it has not been destroyed until now!"

"That being said, we don't see any hope that the national fortunes of Chu can be maintained." Since Xiao Buyi had already made his words clear, he simply confessed very bluntly, "In fact, the national fortune of the Great Chu State has declined once before, but that time it was supported by the cultural fortune of Lin Lu Mountain...... The cultural movement colluded with the fortune of heaven, and in turn continued the fortune of the country, so that the country that was about to be destroyed escaped the catastrophe. ”

"In that case, shouldn't there be a period of ZTE?"

"Do you think that in the past few decades, the Great Chu State has not been regarded as Zhongxing?" Xiao Buyi asked rhetorically, "In terms of internal affairs, with Zhaoyang County as the core, all localities have maintained basic stability, and even in the face of a major drought, it has not caused serious disasters; Diplomatically, the big man who was eyeing him had not found a chance to make trouble before, and recently he was too busy fighting drought to find trouble; Militarily, Dongshan County withstood several provocations from the Great Qi State - especially in the last battle, the 6,000 elite soldiers of the Qi State were wiped out, and the morale was greatly reduced, and at least one generation did not dare to talk about war again...... If this is not ZTE, your requirements will be too high!"

Wu Xie was stunned for a while, recalled carefully, and realized that what Xiao Buyi said was very reasonable.

Although political corruption is rampant, because of the efforts of a group of officials led by Lin Lushan, the whole country has not completely slipped into the abyss of corruption; The achievements in people's livelihood, diplomacy and military are obvious to all...... In the past few decades, the Great Chu State seems to really be regarded as Zhongxing.

"ZTE of a generation...... It's too short!"

"The so-called prosperity is often just a generation." Xiao Buyi sighed, "Wu Daoyou, don't you think it's just that you're in it, look at the history books, how many of those prosperous eras of the past dynasties can last for several generations?"

"This year is already the thirty-second year of the Great Chu Kingdom's Heavenly Blessing, from the Xiong Ho Rebellion to the present, the whole thirty-two years of peace are not easy!"

Wu Xie was silent for a moment, sighed, and nodded heavily.

"Forget it, don't mention it! How is his condition when you visit the old man this time?"

Xiao Buyi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "What else?" His situation is like that, his life has long been over, and it is only because of his humanitarian luck that he has been able to live until now. But his soul is already gradually drying up, even if he freezes his body with ten thousand years of Xuan Ice and constantly nourishes it with spiritual veins, he is only lingering. ”

"When I went to see him, there were already many cracks in his body sealed in the ice, and the sound coming from him was intermittent, and he probably couldn't drag it out."

"It's all bad news!" Wu Xie couldn't help but be a little irritable, his fists clenched and released, and the cycle went on and on, calming his mood through this action, but he couldn't dispel the depression in his heart, "Is there any other bad news?" If you have one, let's just say it together!"

"Your Majesty, Emperor Xiong Er, is probably about to die." Xiao Buyi hesitated for a moment and whispered, "I have shown several of his sons, and none of them are long-lived. And Ning Feng, who was in charge of teaching them, also thought that they were all very mediocre, not to mention pioneering or prosperous countries, I am afraid that even if they just maintained the current national strength, it was beyond their ability. ”

"Not really! A group of children, how can they be able to teach a decent one!" Wu Xie couldn't help but want to scold the thief, "Doesn't he have six sons!" Of the six sons, none of them have become a complete instrument?"

"One is impatient as if he is sick, one is born with insufficient intelligence, one reads Buddhist scriptures and is completely obsessed, one is an unobtrusive literary maniac and pervert, one is obsessed with seeking immortals, and one is cold oozing from his bones...... Which of these six do you think can be entrusted to him?"

Wu Xie gritted his teeth for a long time, and sighed helplessly.

"So, you can only choose the last one?"

"Probably...... The cold guy might be a tyrant, but at least this one is a little bit more human-like than the others. Xiao Buyi couldn't help but smile bitterly as he spoke, "You're just afraid that you're going to jump when you say it, this kid is only thirteen years old this year, and he already has a child!"

"Huh?!" Wu Xie was really taken aback, "Thirteen years old?!" Isn't he twelve—"

"That's right, this guy seems to be very talented, and matured very early in that area." Xiao Buyi couldn't help but show a strange smile, "So His Majesty Emperor Tianyou hesitated again and again, and finally made him the crown prince." The reason is - even if he is not reliable, at least he can have children, and if he has a few more children, he may be able to appear reliable. ”

"This is completely abandoning his sons and pinning his hopes on his grandchildren...... Wu Xie shook his head, very unoptimistic about the idea that this kind of writing is "far-sighted" and reads "unrealistic".

"I think it's okay, after all, his sons are really unreliable. Therefore, pinning hope on the grandson's generation is also a helpless choice. ”

Wu Xie Gang wanted to nod, but he thought of another thing and asked, "Your Majesty's eldest son is almost thirty years old this year, how is his son?"

"He didn't have any sons at all, he gave birth to eleven daughters." Xiao Buyi's face was expressionless, "Your Majesty invited a monk who is good at medical skills to check and confirm that he was congenitally deficient, and he can indeed only give birth to a daughter, but not a son." ”

"What about His Majesty's second son?"

"gave birth to two sons, but the eldest son had an extremely violent personality, and killed people in the street many times, and once kicked the iron plate and was stabbed to death; The second son has a pathetic cowardly personality, and when he speaks a little louder, he shrinks his head and shrinks his head, and there is no way to become an emperor at all. ”

"What about the children of the other princes?"

"The third child is equivalent to a monk - you know, he has no children at all; The fourth child likes men, although he also has concubines, but he is rarely pampered, and has only given birth to a daughter so far; The fifth child is only fifteen years old this year, and he is not as talented as the sixth child, and he still has no children. ”

"What a strange thing this is!" Wu Xie was about to go crazy, "Is it really the decline of the country's fortunes!"

"It was ......"

Wu Xie couldn't help but read it for a long time, and then calmed down. He decided not to think about the bullshit of the royal family anymore - it is going to rain and the mother is going to get married, so let him go!

"By the way, you've been monitoring the drought all these years, right? How's it going, is there any momentum for improvement?" He found a more meaningful topic to try to make his mood better.

This topic is really good, much better than the hellish news of the royal family.

Xiao Buyi had been prepared for this, and said confidently: "I have a good news and a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

"Let's listen to the bad news first, I've heard enough bad news today, and after listening to this, I'll change the good news, and finally have a good ending." Wu Xie said angrily, "But when did you learn this bad habit!" There's good news and bad news, but what's not 'good news and not so good news'?"

That's a good statement! Say so next time. Xiao Buyi smiled, took out a jade slip and handed it to Wu Jie, "Look at it yourself, the information is more detailed, and it is difficult to explain." ”

Wu Xie probed his divine sense into the jade slips, and what he saw was a large number of observation data, as well as the analysis and collation of these materials, and the final calculation results.

The drought will last for about 30 years, and in the last decade or so, there will be a drought of such scale that it may even cut off the flow of several major rivers along the Kyushu border. That's terrible news! Wu Xie read the information several times over and over again, and silently calculated it in his heart, but the results obtained were indeed similar, and some of the inconsistencies in the details may be caused by his own calculation level not being clever enough.

"That's bad news!" He sighed and put the jade slip aside, "And what about the good news?"

"The good news is just that." Xiao Buyi said, "According to astrological calculations, there will be a comet crossing the sky at the end of next year. If it can be intercepted, it will bring a massive rain to the world. ”

"That's good news! You have to smash a star down to get rain...... How are we going to take that damn comet down?" Wu Xie couldn't help but complain, "It's not tolerable to knock down a star!"

"No matter how difficult it is, there are people in history who have done it." Xiao Buyi looked at Wu Xie with a smile, "Isn't this kind of thing the responsibility that you Qingyangguan and these major sects should bear?" I'm sure you can do it!"

Wu Xie rolled his eyes, he didn't have such strong confidence!

For a long time, Xiao Buyi seems to have an inexplicable liking and longing for famous factions, and even their strength is overestimated - not to mention anything else, knocking down a star from the sky and giving a heavy rain to the world...... This kind of thing is impossible no matter how you look at it!

"It's not completely impossible, it was done back then." Du Xin suddenly said, "There was also a great drought when His Majesty the Holy Emperor was under His Majesty, and I did something similar at that time. ”

"That's the Holy Emperor Lixin!"

"He can do it, and of course future generations can do it." Du Xin said calmly, "I believe in your abilities. ”

Wu Xie thought for a moment, spewed out two puffs of white gas from his nose, and nodded heavily.

Whether you can do it or you can't do it, in short, this opportunity is indeed not to be missed!