The Great Shang Dynasty sat on the land of Kyushu in the world, namely: Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Kyushu is called the Inner Court, and its own Shang King and the Imperial Court preside over the affairs of the Inner Court. Outside the inner court, there are four barbarians, for the east Yi, Xirong, the south barbarian, the north mang, collectively called the outer court, now there is Taishi Wen Zhong sitting in the outer court. The king of Shang is known as the prince of 800 towns, with a vast territory and the first in the history of the human race.

Yanzhou has a Langya County under its jurisdiction, Haiqu County, close to the sea, with a lot of businessmen coming and going, and it has been a prosperous area since ancient times. However, no matter how prosperous the place is, there are also dilapidated alleys, although there is a saying that the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, but if the wine is not aged and the food is not delicious, how can it attract high rollers? Because the tavern shopkeeper who does not understand any human feelings and only reads the book of immortals, even the surrounding villagers and regular customers rarely come to take care of his business.

However, on this day, the tavern ushered in a sloppy old man who was obviously a foreigner, and there was an idler lying on a chair with a fan to cover his face, raising his fan and slanting his eyes, and watching the old man walk to the door of the "Tao Hui Tavern" with a big and small tone, with a face full of disdain: "I think it is such a sloppy old man who deserves this tavern, maybe it can match the smell of Lu Shang, don't you say?" So a few guys who were idly picking their feet next to him burst into laughter and followed the gossip. But the old man was dumbfounded, reached out and lifted the curtain to block the wind and walked into the tavern.

As soon as I entered the tavern, I saw a few neatly arranged tables and chairs that were shabby but relatively clean, and I turned my head to see a man reading a book on the table in front of the door with the paint peeled. The man was in his thirties, with a square face and a blank expression, a medium and strong build, a slightly dark complexion, thick finger knuckles, and layers of calluses, obviously from a poor family. Years of hard work have not sharpened his bookish anger, but the title of the book engraved on the tape measure in his hand makes people feel a little outrageous, and the sloppy old man fixed his eyes to see that it was a book that had been turned over and the cotton thread in the middle was about to be disconnected.

The old man couldn't help laughing, shook his head and asked to himself, "Another idiot who wants to ask about immortality?" After choosing a place in the corner and sitting down, the old man clasped the table with his fingers and said slowly: "A pot of good locally aged Jiannanchun, a plate of peanuts, and a pound of sauced beef." After finishing speaking, Yu Guang saw that the man was only looking at the book, as if he hadn't heard it, and didn't react. The old man didn't bother him silently, but just sat and waited, and sat until sunset.

It wasn't until the sky was getting dark, and the words on the bamboo slips were no longer real, that the man woke up like a big dream, looked at the old man in a trance, and had not spoken for an afternoon, and his voice was a little hoarse: "What kind of wine and food do the guest officials want?"

The good-natured sloppy old man had already begun to doze off, he waited for a long time, and he was not angry after being woken up, but just touched his rosacea, and said with a wry smile: "When people are old, they are not in good spirits, and they are easy to doze off at every turn." The shopkeeper, a pot of Jian Nanchun, a plate of peanuts, and a pound of sauce beef. ”

There was not a single guy in the shop, and after a long afternoon, there was not even one customer, and the tavern keeper was not disappointed at all, but he just carried the wine and served the food in a proper manner. After arranging a bottle of wine and two dishes, the numb shopkeeper went back to flip through the book. The old man took chopsticks and chewed peanuts slowly, and said, "Shopkeeper, talk to the old man?"

The man's usually numb face showed some hesitation, glanced at the old man, nodded, and sat down opposite him. He didn't speak, his big eyes were just empty, and he still didn't have much energy.

"The shopkeeper wants to cultivate immortals?" the old man asked intentionally or unintentionally.

Obviously, the expression of the man who thought that the next sneer did not change at all, just like he had been asked countless times before, Mu Ran nodded.

"Is there a way?" asked the old man, munching on peanuts and taking a slow sip of wine, sipping the aroma of wine in his mouth.

The shopkeeper with a rigid face looked at the west, and it was rare for him to speak, but he didn't say anything shockingly: "Towering, Kunlun." ”

The sloppy old man didn't show how shocked he was when he heard this, but still asked flatly: "Mortals have the pleasures of mortals, and immortals have the loneliness of immortals." If there is no immortal fate, why do you have to force it to become an immortal?"

The middle-aged man's voice did not fluctuate, but his tone was loud enough to swallow the entire country:

"Whoever wins me will get 800 years of national transport. ”

"It's just that I was born at the right time, and in a few decades, the world may be in chaos, and I can use my talents and learning to seek peace for the people and countless slaves in the future. ”

Is it notoriety or good fame? If this man doesn't say anything, no one knows what he thinks in his heart.

"Therefore, I want to learn to become an immortal, so that I can live a long life and ensure that I can live to that day. ”

The old man was not surprised when he heard these rebellious words, but he just looked at the shopkeeper who looked through the vicissitudes of the world with an ordinary face and was in the prime of life, stretched out his chopsticks to the sauce beef, paused, and asked: "Why do you assert that the world will be in turmoil in a few decades? If someone wants to rebel, why don't they take advantage of his unstable foundation to rebel?"

The man who was called Lu Shang by the idle man at the door was silent, and at this time his eyes at the old man were no longer so empty, and he was becoming more and more energetic.

The old man smiled consciously: "I forgot to introduce myself, the old name is Chu Xuan, a doctor who has traveled in the world." If the gentleman is willing to say something heart-wrenching to the old man, the old man will not say it to the second person even if he brings them into the loess. ”

Maybe he thought about it for many years, but no one could listen to him and believe him as the shopkeeper of a small tavern who was born poor and trapped in a frontier place. Or maybe the eyes under this old man's sloppy appearance are too trustworthy. The shopkeeper Lu was heartbroken, no longer silent, but began to state what he had learned and thought over the years like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

"Now that my great merchant emperor Xin has ascended the throne, I heard that not only is he extremely talented in cultivation, but there is also an unfathomable gray-clothed person behind him guarding the Zhuhuang Palace, and even the ancestor Zhu Rong of the remnants of the Wu clan was also frightened. ”

"The rumors in the market may be exaggerated, but in the nearly one year since Di Xin ascended the throne, he has carried out drastic political reforms in the Korean and Chinese armies, and revised many of the 500-year-old ancestral regulations of the Great Shang without major turmoil. I know that there must be a strong force in the court to deter the ministers, perhaps because of His Majesty's own wisdom and martial arts, or because of the rumored gray clothes. ”

"Why did the Son of Heaven and Yaxiang drastically cut the branches and plant new branches? It was this pair of monarchs and uncles who saw the many problems that the Great Shang had accumulated for a long time. Old gentleman, you are a doctor, I will give an example, now Dashang is like a terminally ill person, if you don't use fierce medicine and move a quick knife in the face of Shen Zhen, let it rot a little bit, sooner or later it will be a ruin of a country and a family. ”

At this point, his mouth was a little dry, and the old man poured him a glass of wine and motioned to continue.

Lu Shang took a sip of it, and his pride suddenly became angry, and then he said: "Merchants all believe in ghosts and gods, from the powerful to the common people, and then down to the many slaves whose life is worse than death. In this way, I am afraid that only the generals who have killed the army can be relieved by facing life and death all day long. However, since the advent of the three emperors and five emperors, it is not by virtue of the two fists in his hands, he has built a hut, drilled into the ground and fire, chiseled a stone axe, drove away wild beasts, and asked the sky, so it has gradually become a climate. However, back then, Emperor Tang had nine tripods in Xia Wei, first preaching the criminal deeds of the tyrant to the world, and then borrowing the power of ghosts and gods, so that the people's hearts of the 'Xia surname family in the world' turned to Yin Shang. There is nothing wrong with such an act of founding the country, but the old custom has been passed down to the present world, and even the Son of Heaven has to make a divination every time he deals with a political matter, so isn't it not that he has abandoned the original and the last and abandoned the king's power in favor of ghosts and gods? The will of the ghosts and gods was originally arbitrarily decided by the high priest, and what if the high priest had bad intentions? In some places, even merchants only knew about the high priest but did not know that there was a merchant king, is it not ridiculous? Not to mention that many local officials were wanton extorting and extorting money in the name of ghosts and gods, and the people were already miserable. ”

"There is also the problem of the dynastic number of slaves that make up five or six out of ten of the great merchant population today. It has been a thousand years since the Xia Dynasty, and many slaves have been oppressed every day. Not to mention the pity I have for them in my heart, let's just say that although they are now accustomed to living in dire straits, sooner or later they will set off a miserable storm after the outbreak of contradictions between the court and the people, although it is not fatal because of the lack of armor and weapons, but it may also become the last straw that breaks the camel's back. ”

"I have a great business to get Di Xin and Ya to do it, it is the sky that will not kill me, one trusts the emperor's uncle wholeheartedly, entrusts him with political affairs, and takes into account both military and martial arts practice, and one can be the prince without two hearts, devoting himself to assisting his nephew, and has the ability to govern a large country such as cooking delicacies, so bright and virtuous, rare in the world. They can clearly understand the crisis of the big business, and they may not be able to work together to reverse the trend of the building's collapse. ”

"The reason why I say that I have to wait for decades is that I am waiting for variables. What I Lu Shang has learned, all of them are based on the people of the human race, and there is no use in today's world of respecting ghosts and gods, at most I can govern a county, and then I will be squeezed out and made difficult, with my arrogant character, it is just a miserable end that ends in depression, it is better to be comfortable in the fireworks of the mortal world. ”

"And decades later, there are only three endings in the world, one of which is Emperor Xin and Bigan joined forces, exhausted the ghosts and gods deposited in the five hundred years of the Great Shang, and called all beings to realize that they are worthy of respect. ”

"Either the untalented Bigan died early, the absolute force behind Di Xin was not on his side, and the forces that had been suppressed for a long time in the DPRK and China rebounded at that time instead of now, and the benefits that could be reaped were the greatest. What's more, I think that Emperor Xin is such a virtuous minister and Yao Gao is such a good general, he will not be willing to be a king, but will open up the territory again and subdue the barbarians, so as to leave an immortal reputation. In this way, it will consume the national strength of the Great Shang, and the high priest who has recuperated will fight back, and if he doesn't grasp it well, he will lose the whole game. But even so, with Di Xin's peerless talent, Taishi Wenzhong has been powerful for many years, and the victory or defeat is still between five and five. At this time, I re-enter the office, I can solve the king's worries, and then bring the military book "Liutao" written by many years of painstaking efforts to clear the Quartet, when I can cure my dynasty of serious illness, Zhongxing business, and return the world to the people of the world. ”

"It's ...... or not"

The old man looked at Lu Shang, who was suddenly silent, and already had an answer in his heart, but he still asked with a smile: "What is the third variable?"

Lu Shang gritted his teeth, and concluded that this would definitely cause an uproar in the court, and his eyes burst with incomparably dazzling brilliance: "Either the immortals in the sky will go down to Kunlun to meddle in human affairs, and there will be a stronger force than the gray-clothed man to intervene." When the time comes, the heavens will be blinded, or the chaos of dragons and snakes will arise. Yin Shang will undoubtedly be defeated, Ya Bigan may still be able to fall into the name of a virtuous minister, Di Xin will definitely be ruined, the new dynasty wants to win the hearts of the people and orthodoxy, and he will be stained as a faint monarch like Xia Wei. ”

"In such a situation, I have to cultivate the immortal road and worship the famous teacher, and use the towering Kunlun as the Diaoyu Tai to overlook the world. ”

"The day I catch that golden crow is the time when I, Jiang Ziya, will open a peaceful and prosperous world for thousands of people of the human race and seek fame for myself through the ages!"