Chapter 137, if there is no way, it is hidden

The rivers and lakes have been quiet for two years, the Sun Moon God Sect does not fight with other sects, and the Wuyue Alliance does not make any more moves under the undefeated coercion of the Sun Moon God Sect Leader Dongfang.

However, the peace was soon broken, and the Sun Moon God Sect produced a chief steward, Yang Lianting, and once again started the battle with Wuyue. Wuyue was originally very jealous of Dongfang's undefeated, but the two battles Dongfang was undefeated did not appear, which made them feel a lot more relieved. Moreover, soon the Sun and Moon God Cult withdrew its troops and stopped fighting, and there was nothing wrong for several years.

The outside is worry-free, and often there will be an undercurrent inside. On the side of the Five Peaks Alliance, the other four factions are increasingly feeling the pressure from Songshan. And within the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, Xiang Wentian, the right envoy of light, was unwilling to endure Yang Lianting climbing on his head and escaping, and his daughter gradually grew up, and began to inquire about the news before her father's death, intentionally or unintentionally, she always thought that her father was dead.

Then the contradictions broke out one after another, whether intentionally or unintentionally, both sides were involved in the whirlpool of chaos, Zuo Lengchan, Let Me Go, and Yue Buqun, who participated in the game of chess, died one after another, and Dongfang Undefeated, who embroidered on the Black Wood Cliff, also died, but Li Shucheng had two more spaces. However, this time there was a brilliant Linghu Chong, leaving a legend in the martial arts.

This time the rivers and lakes are in turmoil, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue really can't tell which side is a good guy and which side is a bad guy, just like watching a movie. After that, he began to study smallpox, traveled all over the world, and taught smallpox prevention inoculation techniques from time to time. In addition, it is to cut hair. The two felt that compared to intervening in the disputes in the martial arts, these things were beneficial to the people.

Smallpox is a disease with a high mortality rate of contagion, many people will be infected even if they don't die, and there will be shallow pit scars on their bodies and faces, according to legend, Kangxi in the Qing court drama who poisoned the public in his last life is a pockmark, and the kind of yin and yang head in the play that shaves half of his hair is in the late Qing Dynasty, and Kangxi was not much better than the money rat tail at that time.

In addition, from the emperor and nobles, down to the common people, and even beggars, they all have long hair. This is influenced by the Confucian saying that "the body is skinned, and the parents dare not destroy it", but in Li Shucheng's view, this is not a good habit. Rich people take care of it every day, and wash it every few days at most, so it's naturally fine. But for the ordinary people who sweat profusely and haven't bathed for a long time, not having time to take care of it is not only ugly, but also prone to lice, fleas, and diseases.

In order to be convincing, Li Shucheng also cut his hair himself. For people who suffer hardship, it doesn't matter if you keep your hair or not, as long as you find a suitable reason, it's good to wash your hair after cutting. Li Shucheng used several releases he had seen in his previous life, and they felt strange when they first saw this person who cut off his hair, but after a long time, he cut his hair one by one and looked quite energetic. Gradually, more and more people began to cut their hair.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, whether it is martial arts or the imperial court, battles always come and go.

In the eighth year of Wanli, at this time, Wudang Chong and Chongxu, Shaolin Fangzheng, Beggars Gang Xie Feng and other top masters have passed away one after another, so that Hu Chong and his wife have disappeared from the rivers and lakes for many years, and the long-dormant Sun and Moon Divine Sect once again provoked disputes, this time, they are doing it with the intention of unifying the rivers and lakes.

Just as the two sides were in full swing, Ling Hu Chong suddenly appeared and defeated the masters of the Sun Moon God Sect with a rusty iron sword. However, how could Shaolin Wudang and other sects just let go of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, they were also afraid that the Sun and Moon Divine Sect would attack again in the future, so they took this opportunity to pour out of the nest, severely damage the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, and break through the Black Wood Cliff.

After this heavy blow, the master was almost dead, and the martial arts cheats were lost, never recovered, and gradually disappeared into history.

In the twelfth year of Wanli, the second year after Zhang Juzheng's death, the emperor ordered a raid on Zhang Juzheng's house.

"This little emperor is ruthless enough!" Li Shucheng said, "No matter what Lao Zhang said, he left him a rich treasury, and he just copied people's homes, so who would dare to sell his life to the emperor!"

"Although what he did was beneficial to the emperor, he offended the officials below. Jiang Mingyue said, "That official doesn't have a large piece of land in his house? With such an inventory and measurement of the fields, how can they hide it, and how can they pay less taxes? If so many officials want to raid the Zhang family, the emperor will also consider it for the sake of the stability of the government." Besides, Zhang Juzheng is a strong first assistant, and the emperor should have been suppressed so hard these years, and he has already wanted to breathe a sigh of relief. This is like the Shang Dynasty in the Qin period, whether it is beneficial to the emperor or not, as long as it is harmful to the officials, they will retaliate. ”

"Officials are selfish, the system is collapsing, and it is difficult to return. Li Shucheng said, "Out of sight, out of mind, we still leave Daming, and we can cultivate with peace of mind." ”

"That's good. Jiang Mingyue said, "You haven't noticed that our appearance hasn't changed at all over the years, but in fact, there are still changes in the body, some cells are aging faster, and then they die and become dandruff." ”

Li Shucheng listened to Jiang Mingyue's words and felt his body carefully, it is true, although it is nourished by innate vitality, the vitality of a small part of the cells has decreased.

With this discovery, Li Shucheng no longer delayed, and the two hurriedly returned to the island of the year again to meditate and cultivate. As for eating, marine fish, river fish, rice, cattle and sheep, and vegetables all grow in the space, and there is no need to go out to sea to fish.

I don't know how many years have passed, Li Shucheng suddenly noticed that there was movement in the soul in the upper dantian, and after the two communicated, they decided that the soul would change, and maybe it would wake up.

Another three years, maybe four years, anyway, the two didn't pay attention to the passage of time, and they roughly felt the same, and their souls woke up one after another. In the short time when the soul awakened, the two of them were like standing on a high place and looking down, and within twenty zhang of the surrounding area, they could not only see clearly, but also feel that they could control everything in this range. But the feeling came and went as quickly as it came, and then the soul fell into a deep sleep.

Although the soul is asleep, they find that the sleeping soul rises and falls, just as a person breathes when he is asleep. Between the ups and downs, there is something peculiar that is very similar to the innate vitality, but it is definitely not the innate vitality. And although this kind of thing is weak and intermittent, it is more beneficial to the body than the innate vitality. After discussion, it was named Soul Power.

With a direction, the two of them continued to cultivate, at least to let the soul power continue to come to an end.

I don't know the sun and the moon, and I don't know how many years have passed, but the soul is finally able to continuously exude soul power to nourish the body. At this time, the two found that although the soul was asleep, it could be "woken up" once every two or three months, but the soul would wake up for a while and then fall asleep, and it would only exude soul power again after two months. In this way, after trying it once, in the spirit of not wasting soul power, they will no longer let the soul awaken.

Back in the Central Plains, Li Shucheng found that the streets were full of men with money rat tails, and he didn't see any of the hairstyles that Li Shucheng brought, and Li Shucheng knew at a glance that it was now the Qing Dynasty.

After a little inquiry, the common people gradually spread hair cutting in the Ming Dynasty, but scholars and officials, who thought that they were upper-class figures, adhered to dogma and thought that cutting hair was unfilial. But later, the Houjin, the predecessor of the current Qing Dynasty, rose up, and after entering the customs, he ordered to shave his hair, and even the people who saw the hair had to keep the hair on the back of their head long according to their regulations, and shave off the rest, so that everyone would be ugly together.

The Ming Dynasty still perished like that, and Li Shucheng had already brought muskets and artillery during Zhu Di's time, but they didn't change anything for so many years except for building them step by step. No, it can't be said that the Tiger Zun Cannon made by Qi Jiguang is useless, not only has it not been improved for many years, but the quality has declined because of shoddy manufacturing. Moreover, there is an internal struggle for power and profit, centrifugation up and down, and frequent natural disasters, so it is strange that the Ming Dynasty does not perish.

However, the rat tail of the Qing Dynasty also made Li Shucheng disgusted, so he simply continued to live in seclusion.

went to Wudang, and Li Shucheng found that the house in the back mountain of Wudang had been bulldozed. In today's Wudang, practicing martial arts is only simple. Perhaps, they found out that there were people watching inside the door, and they no longer practiced advanced martial arts, for fear of being leaked out.

Li Shucheng feels that Wudang's martial arts will decline if it goes on like this, but it is not easy to make a move at this time. However, as long as Wudang is still there, even if the profound martial arts are lost, there will be time to hand over the Wudang martial arts to them in the future.

The two of them who lived in seclusion went outside to buy some salt, and hoarded a bunch of them each time, which was enough to use for a long time, so more than a year passed after the war with the red-haired ghost, and Li Shucheng came out to buy salt before he heard about it.

"Red-haired ghost, it should be British. Li Shucheng thought, "First of all, the British will come in, and more and more countries will come in in the future." ”

"Last year, the British fought a battle with the Qing army, and the Qing army lost. Back home, Li Shucheng told Jiang Mingyue the news he heard.

"That country on a small island?" Jiang Mingyue sighed, "I didn't expect it! Such a small country back then is actually calling now." And this Qing Dynasty has not changed at all. "When Zhengde, Spain had already come, and the Netherlands also came, but there was no big war, this was the first time Jiang Mingyue had heard that a country far away in the West had fought with the Central Plains Imperial Court, and they had won.

"Changed. Li Shucheng said, "They don't think muskets and artillery are easy to use, but big knives and spears are easy to use." If you don't need it, why bother looking at it. ”

"But that's fine. Jiang Mingyue said, "The foreign forces are strong, and they will soon make people sober up, and they will learn from others." ”

"Well, I did the math, this Qing Dynasty is almost two hundred years old, and the interior has already decayed. Li Shucheng said, "The day of a change of dynasty is not far off." He really doesn't want to see yin and yang heads everywhere, and he wishes to change the dynasty as soon as possible. However, he felt that it was not far away, but it was the time of ordinary people in a lifetime.

However, since the Qing Dynasty has gone downhill, the trip to Wudang should be on the agenda.

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