"Little brother, do you remember what I said about Emperor Xiaotian using his iron and bloody hand to force the sect to submit?"

Lone Star said: "Naturally remember." ”

The shopkeeper played with taste: "Then what does the little brother know about the fate of these sects in the future?"

Lone Star thought about it, and then sighed: "I'm afraid there won't be a few left." ”

"Haha, the little brother guessed wrong. ”

The shopkeeper suddenly smiled and said: "Although this Xiaotian Emperor intends to weaken the power of his own sect in the country by the hands of the Six Kingdoms, he is also reluctant to let them die, on the contrary, he cherishes them very much." ”

"How?"

Lone Star wondered, "Didn't he put so much effort into bringing them to the battlefield?"

"There is such a reason, but it is also a last resort, under the internal and external troubles at that time, he really can't spare his mind to analyze whether these sects will take the opportunity to make trouble, and in desperation, he has no choice but to put them on the battlefield, otherwise, I think he will never touch them, because they should be the best whetstones of the four major families. ”

"Do you want to use the hands of others to achieve yourself, it is really a good plan, but unfortunately, his plan was completely disrupted by this war. ”

Lone Star felt helpless and said: "But this is also a matter of no way, after all, people are not as good as heaven." ”

"It's up to people to make things happen, and it's up to heaven to make things happen, that's right, but there's another sentence I don't know if the little brother has ever heard?"

"Oh, what?"

"Seon lost his horse, and he was not blessed. ”

The shopkeeper made up his mind: " Although this war disrupted his entire plan, and caused the Chu State to lose nearly one-third of its territory in his hands, it was not all bad, the cohesion of the Chu State reached an unprecedented strength through this war, almost to the point that all the people were soldiers, under this sense of crisis, the new generation of the Chu State was far more than the previous generations in terms of heart and cultivation talent, not only that, but the power of the various sects of the Chu State was also cultivated into a delicate balance by him under the pretense of war, and under this balance, the four major families he selected have also ushered in their golden age。 ”

I see, this should be what people often call the dependence of good and bad. ”

Hearing this, Lone Star sighed lightly: "In this battle, the Chu State seems to have lost a lot, but in fact, it is not, because sometimes giving up is a real possession, if all this is planned by the Emperor of Xiaotian in advance, then he is too terrible, such an opponent is a nightmare for anyone." ”

"Nightmare?"

The shopkeeper muttered a sentence, with an inexplicable nostalgia in his tone: "If he is still alive, it will not be as simple as a nightmare." ”

"Alive?" Lone Star suddenly froze when he heard his words, listening to what the shopkeeper said, the cultivation of the Laughing Heaven Emperor can also be described as terrifying, if he is still alive......

Immediately shook his head again, and smiled ridiculously consciously, now it is already seven hundred and forty-five years in the Chu calendar, and more than four hundred years have passed since that era, where can anyone live so long, even it is impossible for him.

"For the death of the Xiaotian Emperor, the seniors seem to be very sad?"

Seeing this, Lone Star comforted and said: "People are born, old, sick and die, this is really no way to do it, let your life and power be monstrous, and your achievements will be eternal, so what, in the face of the years, it will be just a piece of loess, and the predecessors need to look at it." ”

"Hehe, the little brother misunderstood, the old man just couldn't bear it. ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he calmed down a little and said: "After all, if such a character goes, I don't know when the next one will appear, but the old man was not born in the same era as him, and now there is only a share of remembrance, sigh, sigh." ”

Seeing his annoyed look, Lone Star really couldn't say anything, but he was a little amazed, it turned out that a person's own personality charm could really influence future generations for so long, and he had conquered future generations in front of hundreds of people.

"Could it be that the atmosphere of Chu Country has changed because of this?"

At the mention of this, Lone Star suddenly remembered the question he asked when he first met Brother Bao, and immediately asked: "For some reason, I always feel that this place is far from what I expected. ”

Even if this is the border of Chu State, it shouldn't be this kind of atmosphere, I'm used to hearing the rivers and lakes in the old man's story, Lone Star always feels that there is really less happiness and enmity here, and it's not a river and lake at all.

"Jianghu?"

Immediately, I only heard the shopkeeper snort coldly: "Heh, since this Chu Feng Emperor ascended the throne, where are there any rivers and lakes in this Great Chu, the world of this Great Chu has long been interpreted by him as a battlefield, and he can't wait to put everyone on the front line." ”

"Well, although there is less flavor of rivers and lakes, this move is not to let the whole people fight against the barbarians, so what's wrong?"

Lone Star asked rhetorically: "If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid that the Laughing Heaven Emperor back then relied on such means to make the Chu State completely strong." ”

The shopkeeper didn't hide it when he heard this: "Little brother guessed right, that's true, the Xiaotian Emperor back then was able to support a country from being destroyed, but please don't forget, little brother, I also said that it was back then." ”

"Back then?" Lone Star was stunned: "What is the difference between then and now, isn't it all barbarian unjustified aggression?"

"Back then, it was more than just a barbarian. ”

The shopkeeper said melancholy: "Qi, Shu, Yan, Zhao, Song, Wu and which of the six kingdoms did not want to put the Chu State to death, it was a mortal situation at that time, and now although the war is tense, how to compare it with that year, it is really a small thing." ”

"I see. Lone Star was relieved, and suddenly realized that he knew too little about the world's major events, so that when talking to people, he always felt a sense of powerlessness.

"Oh yes, just now the predecessors said that the four major families ushered in their own golden age because of the first war, so what does it look like, after all, no matter what, the number of family members is too small, as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, how can other sects be vegetarians?"

I saw that the shopkeeper shook his head, and said without sadness or joy: "After the first war of the year, although the large and small sects of the Chu State are still strong, how can they compare with the four major families who have sung all the way, just like the same army fighting, the soldiers are not in the number but in the elite, in contrast, although the number of the four major families is less, but the cohesion is far beyond the other sects, a sect that has lost its cohesion is simply not able to stand, so within three years, the sect of the Chu State is only left with the four major families to divide the world equally. ”

"Cohesion?" Lone Star was surprised: how powerful is the power of cohesion?

The shopkeeper smiled: "If the hearts of the people are united, the mountains can be removed, what is so strange about this?"

"Well, although I still can't understand it, what the seniors say must be true, and the younger generations can't believe it. ”

Lone Star said: "These four major families rose so suddenly, and developed into the four largest sects in the Chu State, can't the royal family feel threatened?"

The shopkeeper said: "Of course not, what a character the Emperor of Xiaotian, the lord who has never suffered a loss, seeing this situation, even if he issued a holy decree to recruit troops on a large scale, but there is a requirement, all those who join the army must go to the four major families to sharpen for a period of time before conscription, and only by sharpening can they successfully enter the army, and the four major families are also happy to accept this suggestion, after all, the opportunity to expand their power for themselves under the guise of the royal family is really rare, and they have worked hard for a while, for fear of being compared with the other three." ”

Lone Star smiled and said: "This is interesting, with the character of the Emperor who laughs at the sky and does not suffer, how can they be allowed to cheat, I am afraid that in the end, they will only make wedding dresses for the royal family." ”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper also hooked the corners of his mouth slightly, and said noncommittally: "In this conscription, the four major families thought that they had taken a big advantage, and they were almost happy to themselves, but they didn't know that everything was actually just a good show, but it was ridiculous that they were fans of the authorities." ”

"Are you carried away by the immediate benefits?" Lone Star smiled and asked playfully, "And what is the price?"

The shopkeeper suddenly narrowed his eyes: "It's nothing, it's just that some of the powerful elders and some other elite disciples in the sect were all replaced by that Xiaotian Emperor for the lame reason of discussing academics." ”

After speaking, the shopkeeper didn't seem to have enough fun, and then sarcastically said: "Of course, this Emperor Xiaotian is not a person who rushes to kill everything, all of this has a time limit. ”

"Time limit?" Hearing this, Lone Star suddenly pursed his lips, and his intuition told him that with this Laughing Heaven Emperor's temperament, there was no reason not to fight for his own interests.

"What's the time limit?" Curious, Lone Star couldn't help but ask again.

"Not much, only ten years. ”

The shopkeeper seemed to say calmly, but the playfulness in his eyes became deeper and deeper: "After the conscription, the Xiaotian Emperor ordered, because the recruited recruits have gone to the four major families to hone their training, the army is temporarily short of some manpower, so it has to be filled by those new sect members, of course, if you have no intention of staying, after ten years, you can leave on your own." ”

"Hehe, how can this person be put back in the hands of the royal family, this time the four major families really lost their wives and soldiers. ”

Lone Star also said sarcastically when he heard this: "But they also suffered on their own, if they weren't overly greedy, where would there be such a thing, otherwise, even if the imperial court intends to rectify them, without a suitable reason, it shouldn't have gone so smoothly." ”

"The little brother is right, this time the four families can be described as dumb and eat Coptis chinensis, and they can't say anything about their suffering, and they were originally supported by Emperor Xiaotian, so it is naturally not good to say anything about this matter, and the right to repay the favor of the royal family is to repay it, and everything seems to have passed like this, but what happened afterwards made the four major families change from the initial fear of the royal family to a deep awe, so that they were willing to bow down to the court. ”