The soul locking array has been forged for thousands of years, and I don't know when it will go to nine days.

The bitterness will come one day, and the immortal merit will be on your shoulders.

I once again entered this long-lost dreamland, my soul was imprisoned in this soul locking array, my body could not move a bit, the powerful current transmitted from time to time on the soul chain kept stimulating my soul body, so that the consciousness of my soul body woke up from the deep coma, my soul body is in this way, constantly switching back and forth between coma and wakefulness.

In this way, the consciousness of my soul body, sometimes awake and sometimes unconscious, was tormented in endless pain, this pain of wanting to die but not being able to die, I don't know when this pain will stop.

I don't know when, I don't know how long it took, somewhere in this area of the Soul Locking Array, the space fluctuated, and the old man in white, who was both familiar and unfamiliar, appeared in this space again, he looked at me who was being tortured in the Soul Locking Array, his eyes showed a trace of pity and admiration.

At this time, with a wave of his big hand, a golden halo flew out from his hand, and this halo shrouded me who was tortured in this soul locking array, and when this halo wrapped my soul in the array, the soul chain on my body disappeared in an instant, and at the same time, this halo was quickly repairing, and my already broken body.

When the consciousness of my soul body woke up again, I saw the old man in white, looking at me with a kind face, and said: "Your thousand-year sentence has expired, and now you are exempted from natural disasters in recognition of your merits, and you are now allowed to re-enter the reincarnation, and Feng'er I will be the emperor, so as to benefit the people of one party, and complete your greater merits!" ”

When the old man in white finished speaking, he immediately waved his hand, and before I could react, my soul body involuntarily traveled through countless time and space again, and was born into a family in Jiyang County, Chenliu County, during the first year of Jianping in the Western Han Dynasty, the Liu family.

In 6 BC, the Liu family had a bumper harvest of rice, and there was even a phenomenon of one stem and nine ears in the field. In December of this year, a child of the Liu family was born, which is me in this life.

His father Liu Qin is the order of Nanton County, when the child was born, the whole family was surprised, only to see the whole house was shrouded in red light, the interior was bright, the head of the Liu family thought that the child must be different from ordinary people in the future, Liu Qin and his wife were very happy that the youngest son was born in such a good year, and specially named him "Xiu", which means that the crops produce good ears. Then he was named Liu Xiu, the word Uncle Wen, that is, the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

Although Liu Xiu is far away from the royal sect, when he was born, his family was still quite good. Liu Qinfan and his wife are very loving and have had many children. Liu Xiu has two older brothers: Liu Yan and Liu Zhong, and two older sisters: Liu Huang, Liu Yuan and a younger sister Liu Boji.

When I was nine years old, my father, Liu Qin, passed away. Since then, the three brothers have lived in the house of our uncle Liu Liang, and the sisters have continued to live with their mother.

At that time, I had a gentle temperament and liked to play in the fields, and the tenant farmers of the Liu family inevitably took care of me. Over time, I gradually developed a strong interest in farming, and often put aside my identity as a small master and worked the fields with the tenant farmers. My brother Liu Yan's personality is just the opposite of mine, he has no interest in rural life, he likes to make friends, make chivalrous spirits, and raise many heroic teenagers in the countryside. He was very unaccustomed to my attitude towards life, and often laughed at me for being unproductive.

In 8 AD, Wang Mang abolished the Han Dynasty and established a new dynasty, and the descendants of the Liu clan lost all their privileges and wealth. I'm 14 years old, and it seems no surprise that I'm going to be a farmer for the rest of my life.

In this dilemma of changing the dynasty, the Liu family soon became ordinary people, living a completely different and embarrassing life from before. This kind of life made my eldest brother Liu Yan very dissatisfied, and he often complained at home, claiming that he was determined to revive the Han Dynasty. When he saw that I was still looking like I was going to be a farmer, he was anxious.

One day, I was hoeing grass in the field, and Liu Yan led the clan brothers and guest knights to come over. Liu Yan pointed at me and said to everyone: "My younger brother Liu Xiu likes to farm and can feed a person's stomach, isn't it very similar to Liu Zhong, the elder brother of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty?" The crowd burst into laughter. Liu Yan said: "If you can achieve great things, don't forget to mention my little brother." "Everyone was talking and laughing at me. My face flushed, and I suddenly realized: "The world is in chaos, and indulging in idyllic songs and engaging in farming is not a long-term solution." So, I stepped on the seedlings with my foot, threw the hoe, and said angrily: "The great husband grew up in heaven and earth, you can make meritorious achievements, and I can also be famous in the annals of history!" ”

At a time when friends of the same age were getting married and indulging in the joy of family, at the age of 20, I made another decision to go west to Chang'an to broaden my horizons and study knowledge.

After I came to Chang'an, I became a student of Xu Ziwei and studied the most classic and profound knowledge of the time, such as the Book of Shang. I am a brilliant man by nature, and I have quite a bit of insight into this work on political affairs, and many people have expressed great surprise at his genius.

Due to the family's poor wealth, the tuition fee is insufficient. I sometimes have to think a little bit to earn money to support myself, and I once bought a donkey in a joint venture with a classmate and asked the servants to drive the donkey and pull the feet to earn money. Soon, my plate fee was still exhausted, and I had no choice but to return to my hometown. After returning home, I found my confidant among relatives and friends, Deng Chen, the husband of my sister Liu Yuan.

As a younger brother, I often visit my brother-in-law in Shinno and often stay at my sister's house. It was under such circumstances that Liu Xiu met the most important woman in his life, the future Empress Guangwu Yin Lihua.

Yin Lihua's mother's surname is Deng, and she is related to my brother-in-law Deng Chen. Yin Lihua is more than nine years younger than me, and she is still a naïve girl at this time, far from the age of marriage. However, her beauty and filial piety have become very famous in the Xinye area, and she is known as the first beauty in Xinye.

I've lived for more than 20 years, and I've never had a heart for a woman, but I don't know why, as soon as I heard the name of Yin Lihua, I was a little daunted. Remembering the majesty of the 2,000-stone official who opened the way for the emperor in front of him when he saw the emperor on patrol in Chang'an City, I couldn't help but make a wish: "To be an official should be to be a Jinwu, and to marry a wife should be to marry Yin Lihua." ”

Yin Lihua was a wealthy family in Nanyang Xinye at that time, and its family property and scale are said to be on par with those who were crowned kings at that time. The era in which Yin Lihua grew up was the era when Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, and after Wang Mang reformed, he continued to attack the descendants of the Liu family, and I was one of them when I was in Nanyang's "After the Emperor".

When I was young, I fell in love with Yin Lihua at first sight and set my own life goal, "Shi Eun should be the ruling Jinwu, and marrying a wife should be Yin Lihua." "Zhijinwu is to be a high-ranking official in the imperial court, but such a dream is also empty talk, because at that time the Western Han Dynasty had experienced more than a dozen emperors, and I, a dilapidated nobleman who was far away from the emperor's bloodline, had long lost his former prestige, not to mention that now Wang Mang is in power, and the descendants of the Liu family have been hit, and the aristocratic status is gone.

Someone sarcastically said that my dream of marrying Yin Lihua is a fantasy that is not boundary, and I don't look at my own ability. My wealth and prestige in the township can't be compared with the Yin family at all, although I am familiar with Yin Lihua and beautiful, and I want to marry Yin Lihua, but I can really marry her as my wife, it is still a very slim thing, I just thought about it in my heart at that time.

But sometimes it's just a coincidence, the failure of Wang Mang's restructuring has caused chaos in the world, there are wars everywhere, and heroes from all walks of life have also begun to raise troops against Wang Mang, and the Green Forest Army I formed is also one of them.

But the first emperor Liu Xuan killed my brother, I was in order to hide people's eyes, I went to the first emperor to apologize, and began to live alone, do not associate with other people, do not mourn my brother, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the first emperor, my forbearance made the first emperor feel very embarrassed, so he sealed me the title of Marquis of Wuxin. Another gain I forbearance this time was to marry Yin Lihua and realize my first dream.

Less than three months after I got married to Yin Lihua, I left my wife and went to Luoyang to start my own business. After I sent Yin Lihua to my mother's house, I met Liu Yang, the former king of Zhending, who had more than 100,000 yuan and was attached to Wang Lang's regime, in Zhending County. In order to facilitate the cooperation between the two sides, I decided to marry Liu Yang's niece Guo Shengtong to strengthen the mutual trust between the two sides. At this time, Liu Yang also needed someone to show his merit in front of the first emperor. This marriage gave Liu Xiu a great political advantage, and many cities began to fall to my side after this marriage, and eventually prompted me to become emperor.

In the second year of my reign as emperor, I encountered the problem of choosing a queen, and I now have two wives, Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong. Because Guo Shengtong and I shared weal and hardship together, laid down the Eastern Han Dynasty, and she already had a child at this time. But Yin Lihua is her own wife. It's my dream when I was a teenager.

In the end, I decided to leave the position of the queen Yin Lihua and sent Fu Jun to usher her to Luoyang. Unexpectedly, Yin Lihua said: "The feeling of distress cannot be forgotten, and Guo Guiren has already given birth to a child." "I insisted on refusing to accept the queen's canonization, and I had no choice but to set up Guo as the queen and seal Yin Lihua as a nobleman. Yin Lihua's humility has brought him a huge reputation, her humility and her famous family style is inseparable, and she is very strict with her relatives, Yin Lihua's brother Yin Zhi because of the military conquest meritorious service, I was going to break the award to show compensation for Yin Lihua, but was rejected by Yin Zhi, he said: "The world is initially decided, the generals have many meritorious deeds, and the relationship between the ministers and relatives cannot be shown to the world to be unfair." "Ten years after I became emperor, I finally made the country's economy turn into normal, and the world returned to the heart, at this time I remembered that after the establishment of Yin Lihua, the cause was because of the killing of Yin Lihua's mother and brother.

In the Han Dynasty, the people were fierce, there were many thieves, coupled with the turmoil in the country in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, thieves and rebels were in turmoil, threatening and blackmailing and even kidnapping princes and ministers became a normal phenomenon, and the wealth of Yin Lihua's family was also targeted by the rebels, and his mother and younger brother were killed by the rebels.

Originally, the imperial concubine's family was killed, and it was normal for the emperor to issue an edict to comfort her, but my edict focused on emphasizing the hardships between myself and my original partner Yin Lihua, and criticized the queen Guo Shengtong, thinking that she had neither virtue nor grace, and the edict made it very clear that the position of this queen should be Yin Lihua's, and Guo Shengtong was able to become the queen, all of which was the result of Yin Lihua's "fixed words", and it was also a hint that all the treatment given to the Yin family was due and unquestionable for Yin Lihua. In this way, Guo Shengtong completely fell out of favor in front of Liu Xiu, and two years later, I abolished Empress Guo and established Yin Lihua as the queen.

I apologized for Yin Lihua's long time, and finally got a chance to make amends. Although Yin Lihua really didn't have the idea of being a queen, she also understood my true feelings for her, and she was naturally very satisfied. But she still has the same original intention, frugal and benevolent, humble and self-restrained, does not like to laugh, is cautious and supple in things, and cherishes and loves everywhere, and the world calls her the virtuous queen.

My wife Yin Lihua has been cautious all her life, has noble moral character, has never interfered in court politics, and is more able to restrain her family.

After my death, Yin Lihua's son Emperor Han Ming succeeded to the throne, honored Yin Lihua as the queen mother, Yin Lihua died seven years later, and I was buried in the original mausoleum. Since ancient times, the harem has competed for favor, and the emperor's marriage rarely has happy results, but I show and Yin Lihua have created an exception, in addition to my more kind, Yin Lihua's character is also one of the major reasons, but unfortunately although Yin Lihua tried her best to avoid relatives from interfering in politics, but the Eastern Han Dynasty eventually died with relatives, and the situation of alternating dictatorship between relatives and eunuchs in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was unexpected.

History is a mirror, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, responded to the voice of the people according to the will of heaven and calmed down the heroes. During his reign of 33 years, he ruled the country with jiu-jitsu, unified the disintegrating Chinese nation, and created a prosperous era of "Guangwu Zhongxing".

I am magnanimous, very humble, respectful, and approachable; Never self-righteous, arrogant, and belittling others. Because of this attitude of conduct, my subjects loved me so much that even those who were prejudiced against me came into contact with me and came into contact with me because of my modesty.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, I first properly settled the founding heroes. For the founding heroes who fought the world with him, on the one hand, he gave them high lords and generous gifts, and at the same time, he did not forget to recall these heroes and his own difficult journey of fighting the world on various public occasions, so as to show that he would not forget their merits. Ding Gong, a scholar, felt that it was inappropriate, and said to me: Is it appropriate for you to seal so many marquis and give them such fiefs? Aren't you afraid of becoming a national hazard? I laughed at Ding Gong's words: "The country must be destroyed because the emperor has no way, how can there be any such thing in the world as a country because of many rewards for meritorious heroes?" "My confidence is evident.

Once, when I went out hunting late at night, I wanted to enter the city through the northeast gate of Luoyang City, but the official in charge of this gate, Zhi Yun, refused to open the door. I asked people to light torches and told them that the emperor had returned, and Zhi Yun said, "The fire is flickering, and it is far away, so I can't see clearly." "I just don't open it. I couldn't, so I turned to the east gate and entered the city. The next day, Zhi Yun wrote a letter criticizing me, saying that I had been hunting in the mountains and forests, working day and night, leading a bad atmosphere and endangering the country. Not only did I punish him, but I rewarded Zhi Yun with 100 pieces of cloth and demoted the official in charge of the East City Gate to the lieutenant of Dengfeng County.

At that time, there was a man named Zhou Dang in Guangwu County, Taiyuan County, who was very famous in the local area, because he did not want to be an official, he wore short cloth and wrapped his head in bark to see Liu Xiu. According to the etiquette at that time, the Zhou Party should report Liu Xiu's name, but the Zhou Party did not report it, only saying that he was not interested in being an official, and I did not embarrass him. Doctor Fan Sheng wrote a book, believing that the Zhou Party was arrogant and rude in front of the emperor, and that it was to gain a high reputation and should be punished for the crime of "great disrespect". I took Fan Sheng's letter to the ministers to circulate, and issued an edict saying: "Since ancient times, the holy lords of the Ming Dynasty have people who are unwilling to be ministers for him, and Boyi and Shuqi will not eat Zhou Su. The Zhou Party in Taiyuan did not accept my Yulu, which was also their own volition, so give him 40 pieces of silk. ”

I will never abandon my friendship with cloth and clothes, and I will not be difficult to force others. In my early years, I studied in Chang'an and got acquainted with Yan Ziling, who was very famous at that time. After I became the emperor, I repeatedly recruited Yan Ziling, wanting him to contribute to the imperial court. There was no way, Yan Ziling had no choice but to go to Jingshi. I was warmly welcomed, and the two of us talked until the end of the night, and slept together. However, seeing that Yan Ziling had no intention of going out, Emperor Guangwu let him go into seclusion and met his friends.

If I know it, I will change it, and I will be good at it. Song Hong, the great Sikong, was invited to participate in Liu Xiu's banquet, and saw that the new screens in the palace were painted with beautiful ladies, and I paid attention to the pictures of ladies from time to time during the banquet. After hearing this, I immediately sent someone to remove the screen, and said to Song Hong with a smile: "If you hear the correct truth, you will immediately correct your mistakes, okay?" ”

I have always been able to maintain a sober and sometimes disgusting attitude towards the praise and flattery of my subordinates. I would prefer to praise more upright officials. In the edicts, I often called myself "Debo", and those who asked him to read should not call him Shengming. The counties often reported some so-called "Jiarui" things, and the ministers asked the historians to write these "Jiarui" records into a book to pass on to future generations, but I did not allow them to be allowed.

There have been Wenchen military generals who have repeatedly admonished me to hold a ceremony to seal Zen, but I am very modest in the edict and said: "I have been on the throne for 30 years, and the people have complained and have not seen merit, how can I have the qualification to seal Zen." At the beginning, Qi Huan Gong wanted to seal Zen, but was criticized by Guan Zhong. In the future, who dares to speak falsely and seal Zen, he will be severely punished! Then no one of the ministers said anything more. My Mingjun demeanor has made the Liu Han family prosperous in the world and realized the "prosperity of Guangwu Zhongxing".

On the day of February in the second year of Jianwu, I passed away in the front hall of the South Palace at the age of sixty-two. The edict said: "I am not beneficial to the people, and the future affairs will be according to the system of Emperor Xiaowen, and I must be thrifty." Assassins and 2,000 stone chiefs should not leave their cities, and do not send officials or send letters of condolence through post letters. "After my death, my son Liu Zhuang succeeded to the throne, and on the day of Ding Mao in March of the same year, Liu Xiu was buried in the original mausoleum, and the temple was called Shizu and Emperor Guangwu.

In this long dream, when my soul finally performed Liu Xiu's glorious life, my own consciousness suddenly had a hint of enlightenment, that is, the ancient Ming monarchs and sages, set a model for future generations in terms of moral integrity, and also laid a cultural inheritance for future generations.

In fact, it is not important how much merit a person can accomplish and how much material wealth in the world he can have, but a person's virtue is the most valued by the world.

Therefore, cultivating virtue is the most important thing to do from emperors and generals to ordinary people, and cultivating virtue can run through every moment of a person's life, according to Buddhism, people accumulate virtue in the world, which will bring great blessings to their current and future generations. Who doesn't want to have a great future?

In this period of history performed in my dream, Liu Xiu is a Ming monarch who revived the Han dynasty and revived the Han dynasty from the dead, and continued intermittently. Some people even call him the most knowledgeable emperor in Chinese history, the emperor who is the most proficient in imperial power, the emperor who is the best at using soldiers, and the emperor who has the best "ninjutsu", and can be called the pinnacle of Chinese emperors. Literary talent, martial arts, appearance, and character have reached a level that no one can match. Indeed, among these emperors, Han Gao was black-hearted, Wei Wu was cruel, Song Zu was greedy for cups, and Ming Zu was thirsty for killing, but Guangwu did not have these distinctive things that impressed future generations. Because of this, he is not even as well-known as those who have fallen away.

The ideal realm pursued by the Chinese is to be soft and rigid, rigid and soft, rigid and soft, and impartial.

This point is most vividly expressed in the Taiji diagram: in a circle there is a white yang fish and a black yin fish, the yang fish head hugs the yin fish tail, the yin fish head hugs the yang fish tail, tangled with each other, blended and tactful, just into a circle, no beginning and no end, no head and no tail, no front and no back, no height and no bottom.

The best thing is that there are yang eyes in the yin fish, and there are yin eyes in the yang fish, which tolerate each other, contain each other, stimulate each other, transform each other and promote each other.

We once vigorously criticized this way of dealing with the world, but when we really contemplate this small Taiji diagram, we cannot but admit that it contains the supreme truth in the universe, and it is also the highest standard for us to deal with human affairs.

The idealized way of life pursued by us Chinese is to overcome rigidity with softness, and to combine rigidity and softness.

It is a pity that both in history and in reality, there are more rigid people and fewer soft ones. If you can focus on softness and be rigid in softness, its expression is the "judo" that people respect.

However, although "judo" is the best way to govern the country and the people and behave in the world, people generally do not use it or do not practice it well because of the weaknesses of human nature such as greed, irritability, quick recklessness, quick success, and short-sightedness. Liu Xiu is one of the few outstanding people who will deal with the world with "judo" and govern the country with "judo" to the fullest. He was an emperor who founded the country and ruled the country with softness, and he embodied this spirit in both political and military aspects, and it should be said that he brought China's "judo" to a very high level.

His success fully proves that "judo" is more effective than "gangdo", and its characteristics of getting twice the result with half the effort and benefiting for a long time are even more unattainable than "gangdo".

Although I am still asleep, but my consciousness is still there, in this Liu Xiu's dream, I also experienced the different laws of the way of heaven, that is, the principle of "combining rigidity and softness", now I find that the way of heaven is endless, and you will never realize what the ultimate truth is.

When Liu Xiu's soul crossed back to that canyon from countless voids, the old man in white had already been waiting there, and as soon as my soul appeared in this world, the old man in white waved his hand and beckoned my soul to him, and still said to me with a loving face: "You have a good interpretation of Emperor Liu Xiu's life, he has benefited the people, is sincere, and has set a positive example for future generations, and you have also enriched your merits on the basis of the original merits, and there will be great rewards in the future!" ”

When the old man in white finished speaking, he did not send me away, but left me in this canyon, and with a wave of his hand, a soft force slowly lifted me up, so that my figure involuntarily followed him, and he led me to a small cabin in the depths of the canyon.

When I saw this cabin, I found that this cabin gave me a sense of history, it is located in the depths of the forest, the cabin is not the whole body of the color, because it will change color over time, next to the cabin a bend of the stream slowly flowing, it seems to give me a deep and secluded feeling.

The body of this small wooden house seems to have been baptized by the years countless times, and it looks a little vicissitudes, but it is not the kind of dilapidated house. Some of the wooden rings on the log cabin are clearly visible, and they stand out on the wood, which looks unique.

Next to the cabin, there is a tall tree, this tree is lush, shrouding the whole cabin below, many beautiful birds, chirping in the trees, there are some flowers and plants, in full bloom freely.

The old man led me here and instructed me, "In this Nine Heavens Mysterious Land, you should recuperate and prepare for your next mission in the future." With that, he disappeared into thin air.

I looked around curiously, casually pushed the door into the wooden house, on the outside looked not very big wooden house, when I entered the house, but there was a hole, inside is a huge living room, in the middle of the living room on the wall hanging Taoist "Tai Ji Tu", he is regularly turning forward and reverse, looking very mysterious.

There are all kinds of tables and chairs in the room, and the things to eat and drink are placed on the table, when I randomly pick up a fruit and put it in my mouth, this fruit actually melts in my mouth, it is very sweet and delicious, and I don't need to chew it at all, and what is more amazing is that after the fruit on the table is not there, after a period of time, new fruits will automatically appear on the table.

Inside are some rooms that look like they are used for resting, and there is nothing special. I continued to walk inside, and found that there was actually a second floor in this room, I went upstairs, stood in the middle of the large living room on the second floor, and found that on the wall in the middle of the second floor hung the golden "swastika" of Buddhism, and he was also turning forward and reverse regularly, which looked very magical.

The interior of the house on the second floor is about the same as the first floor, the only difference is that I feel as if the first floor is Taoist, the second floor is Buddhist, only these slight differences.

I randomly picked a room on the second floor and entered, and found that the furnishings in this room were very simple, only one bed, and there were no tables and chairs in the room, so I sat on the meditation bed and sat cross-legged.

I found an interesting phenomenon, that is, when I crossed my legs, from the walls around this room, there would be a soft energy slowly flowing into my body, washing and condensing the meridians in my body, bringing me an itchy and comfortable feeling, and soon I entered an ethereal state......

The next day, I woke up from my sleep and lay in bed looking at the ceiling in a daze, wondering which was the reality and which was the dream.