Chapter 8: The Millennial Ink Gate
Li Jia continued to say that when the first emperor Yingzheng swallowed up the six countries and ruled the world, he believed in Han Feizi's Legalist doctrine, and the Legalists believed that 'Confucianism messes with the law with literature, and chivalry violates the ban with martial arts,' Yingzheng appointed the legalist Li Si to 'burn books and pit Confucianism', and the Momen was even more exterminated, because the Momen not only allowed the chivalrous to violate the ban, but also because the Mohists advocated 'non-attack', when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, many Momen disciples participated in the army of the Six Kingdoms to help the Six Kingdoms resist Qin. β
"In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty listened to Dong Zhongshu's words, 'depose a hundred schools, respect Confucianism alone', at that time, Taoism is good at itself, Legalism has already become the knife in the hands of the emperor, but the Mojia has become a thorn in the emperor's eyes, because Momen in addition to chivalrous and righteous, often for the people to stand up against the government, but also advocate 'Shang Xian', Mozi said in "Shang Tong": 'Choose the world's virtuous and sage people who know how to be wise, and establish themselves as the Son of Heaven. That is to say, the emperor cannot be hereditary, and the people of the world should be elected! Therefore, the emperors of the dynasties hated Momen to the core, and at that time, people in Momen such as Guo Xie and others were all killed in a tragic move. Momen has since gone underground, until today, Momen is not righteous and brave, talented people do not accept, and strictly keep it secret from the outside world, and even in addition to the giants, the people in Momen know each other in addition to the people who are related to each other, although they are not acquaintances with the same door, if it is not necessary, the people in Momen also easily do not show their identities, so everyone in the world thinks that Momen is extinct, in fact, Momen is still a lot of people, but covered up in various identities, such as Zuo Ci during the Three Kingdoms, Cui Hao during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Zu Chongzhi, Di Renjie during the Tang Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan of the Northern Song Dynasty, Di Qing, Zhang Shijie at the end of the Southern Song Dynastyγ There are those who are hidden in the rivers and lakes, those who are in the market, and more people who are hidden in the court. β
"At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng, the king of Wu, was also a member of my Momen, and he was also in the position of protector of the law, but I didn't expect it? Momen can exist for thousands of years, the main reason is that each generation of Momen in addition to the giant, the protector of the law, but also set up a special record of the classics and the keeper of the classics, the former is responsible for recording the various theories and doctrines of the Momen of this generation, as well as a variety of discoveries and inventions, covering astronomy, geography, military economy, martial arts, etc., the latter is responsible for the preservation of the classics of the past dynasties, and passed on to future generations, these classics are the source of the Momen's life, the Momen people call it the "Book of Ink". β
"Li Jia said that there are two reasons why he revealed so many things in Momen, one is to ask me to find books, and the other is to say that Xiaoyue is a talent that is unique in ten thousand, and I hope he can join Momen. β
"I flatly refused Satsuki's entry at the time. I agreed to him right away, but I wondered why it was me and how I could help him?"
"He was not disappointed in Xiaoyue's affairs, but he just said that with his ability to observe people, Xiaoyue will be a person from Momen in the future, maybe the opportunity has not arrived, and he will not force it. β
"When Momen arrived in the Northern Song Dynasty, there were new changes in the theory, and on the original basis, he advocated 'benefiting the world', that is, not for one family and one country, let alone for the monarch and emperor, but everything that was done as long as it was for the common people in the world, it could be done, but the goal was correct, even if it was unscrupulous. During the Southern Song Dynasty, due to the division of the country, the northern land was occupied by Liao and Jin, and the northern Momen and the southern Momen were split into two factions, becoming the Momen North faction and the Momen Southern faction. Jin, the emerging rise of Mongolia is also unstoppable, rather than sacrifice in vain, it is better to avoid the limelight for the time being, you can first build an ocean-going giant ship, go south to the South Sea, go west to the West, follow Li Tang's practice of opening up the Western Regions, go south to the ocean, and expand my Chinese territory and sea. The Hu people in the north are nomadic people, and the land of the Central Plains is a land of farming, and their people will not be able to last. β
"At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Shijie, a giant sent from the north of Momen to the south of the Yangtze River, on the one hand, he actively resisted the Yuan, and on the other hand, he wanted to build ships from Quanzhou and open up sea routes. Then use Leizhou Island as a base to resist the Yuan, and if it is uncontrollable, it can also go south to the South Seas. Although Momen has many skilled craftsmen and money, it is not possible to build a sea ship overnight, and the Yuan soldiers are already in front of them. As a last resort, or Zhang Juzi became a big thing, he was informal, and robbed Pu Shougeng's more than 400 sea ships. β
Pu Shou Geng was not only a Persian merchant, a martial arts master, but also one of the leaders of overseas Persians, and also an official of the Southern Song Dynasty. β
Pu Shougeng was very angry, and then rebelled, killed all the Southern Song Dynasty royal family, officials and Momen people in Quanzhou City, and sent Quanzhou to Kublai Khan with both hands, and at the same time sent the "Book of Ink", and the "Book of Ink" of the Northern School recorded the roster of personnel of the Northern School of Momen at that time, so Kublai Khan secretly arrested these Momen people who were originally hiding in the north one by one according to the map, and all of them were executed. As far as I know, there are one hundred and six people in all. All of these people were tortured by the people, but none of them betrayed Momen. After this incident, the Northern Sect of Momen was destroyed. And Zhang Shijie was also assassinated by Pu Shougeng on the way to find a sea route in Annan Zhancheng.
Li Jia continued, "The Book of Ink must be in the hands of the Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and he helped me find and raid Timur, and after the Yuan army was defeated, I secretly handed over the Book of Ink to him. It's a win-win situation for me to work with him, and of course both parties need to keep it secret. He wants to keep the secret of Momen, so that the world does not know about their existence, and once I leak it, it will be a crime of deception, or even a crime of rebellion, and there will be a disaster of killing the head and robbing the family. β
Lan Yu continued, "I also knew that this was a great risk, but the desire for victory and the cherishing of the lives of my soldiers made me agree to join forces with him without hesitation, and swore an oath. β
Immediately, Li Jia took out a map of a parchment scroll from his strange large backpack, covered with words that were as incomprehensible as tadpoles, pointed out the location of Temur, and found out the sevenfold secret post arranged by the Northern Yuan. To be honest, I really can't understand how he got this information, but I believe it. It can only be said that Momen is unfathomable, they do not identify themselves, and you never know who is in Momen. According to the position mentioned by Li Jia, the enemy is still thousands of miles away from us, and in order to avoid the enemy's outpost, the troops sometimes have to make a detour, so it takes 10 days to reach the fishing sea. But he stopped him, saying that the enemy's secret post has a unique communication system, which is transmitted every day. As soon as it stops, the main forces of the Northern Yuan do not receive information and will immediately transfer. β
"After calculation, he has predicted that fifteen days later, there will be a small sandstorm at the location of Yuer Haibeiyuan, and the error before and after will not exceed two days, so that when our army arrives at the front of Yuerhai, it will quietly ambush, and once the sandstorm comes, it will launch an attack, and it will be able to kill the enemy by surprise!"
"I kept all the plans in my mind, and the next morning I raised the big tent, with Wang Bi as the vanguard, and everything marched according to the plan. β
"You all know the next process, fourteen days later, our army attacked the enemy army in the fishing sea on the yellow sand, and the Northern Yuan was defenseless and could not resist at all. The Yuan army Taiwei barbarian was hacked and killed on the spot. The Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty only fled with his eldest son Tianbaonu and dozens of people from the Prime Minister's Martyrdom, and he couldn't take care of everything else. The army of more than 100,000 was leaderless and chaotic. β
"In this battle, more than 50,000 enemies were killed, more than 70,000 soldiers were captured, and more than 100 people were captured by the second son of the Northern Yuan Emperor, the crown princess, more than 100 princesses, and more than 3,000 princes and ministers, and a complete victory!"
"However, the emperor's seal and the "Book of Ink" could not be found, the seal was something that the saint had instructed before the expedition, and without the seal, how could he recover his life? Could it be that he was taken away by the ancient thoughts in a hurry? I couldn't find out how the "Book of Ink" could face Li Jia, who had made great contributions? At that time, I thought that the matter of the jade seal could be interrogated by the land protector and a few princes and ministers, but the "Book of Ink" could only be secretly inquired about by knocking on the side. It was already dark, and while I was thinking, I went into my tent and suddenly noticed something unusual. β
"I saw something leaking under the paperweight in front of the case, took away the paperweight, and found that there was a note pressed underneath, with a few words written on it: 'Looking for the jade seal, the third watch arrives, the first Shenfang, alone to come, don't wait. 'The pen is beautiful, there is no payment, but it is obviously a woman's handwriting. I went out and asked the tent guards if anything had been there, and the answer was no. When asked what was unusual, the guard replied that everything was normal, but just now there was a sudden gust of wind that blew out the torches, but immediately lit them again. β
"At that time, there were more than 100 captured princes, princesses, princesses and princesses of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and I placed them in sixty tents numbered by the heavenly and earthly branches, and they were well guarded. β
At that time, I also thought about going alone like this for fear of attracting tongues, so I directly brought someone over to arrest and retry it, but if the other party didn't admit it or had other hidden secrets, it might be a big deal. β
When he arrived at the tent of Jiashen, he ordered the guards not to let anyone in, and then he entered the tent. β
"The account was unusually dim, and I whispered, 'Lan Yu has come to visit, show up!' and no one responded, only a faint glow from a red candle. I looked around and saw that the tent was empty, except for a red tent inside, which was vaguely a feather bed, and a square box seemed to be placed on the dressing cabinet outside the bed. β
"I moved over to the bed and tried to open the box. Since the light was too dim, I lit half of the red candle on the table with the fire fold I had brought with me. A faint sweet fragrance came with the candlelight, and the front of the bed brightened. A jade seal is impressive!"
"By the bright candlelight, I carefully observed: the size of this seal and the same size as the jade seal of the country, carved for the white jade of Lantian, only in a corner of the slight damage, with gold to fill the corner, according to legend, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty to the Empress Dowager Xiaoyuan to ask for the jade seal, the queen mother was furious, threw the jade to the ground, damaged a corner, to make up for it with gold, is therefore the jade seal is also called gold inlaid jade. The tiger button is placed on the top, and the face is engraved with eight seal characters - ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang. β
Holding the jade seal in my hand, my heart couldn't help but beat fast, my brain was also inexplicably excited, a strange feeling flowed in my heart, and in an instant I felt that my heartbeat connected the jade seal through the pulse of my fingers, and the jade seal had a life, became a part of my body, or I became a part of the jade seal. There were auspicious clouds around me, golden light, my body became light and fluttering, and finally lost its weight, holding the jade seal in my hand and flying in the air, I looked down on the earth in the air, everything became so small and unreal. Flying over the desert, flying over the grassland, flying over the mountains, flying over the Great Wall, flying over the towns, in the blink of an eye I flew to Jingshi. Hundreds of civil and military officials went out of the city to greet me, and the saint praised me greatly, comparing me to Wei Qing of the Han Dynasty and Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty! Xu Da and my brother-in-law Chang Yuchun also came to the palace to congratulate me, praising my achievements and going down in the annals of history like them. And my long-lost lady also looked at me affectionately, and gently touched me with her gentle and amorous jade handβ’β’β’β’β’β’"
Suddenly, I felt that something was wrong, and then I remembered that Xu Da Chang Yuchun had been dead for many years, how could it appear? Suddenly, people seemed to fall from the sky, only to find themselves sitting on the edge of the bed, holding a jade seal in his hand, covered in sweat. Half of the red candle around him had long been burned out, and even the candle at the door was blown out by the wind at some point, and there was silence and darkness around, but there was still a faint sweet fragrance wafting in the tent. β
"I don't even know how long I stayed in the tent, but fortunately the jade seal was still there, so I hurried back to my tent. Feeling a splitting headache, he didn't take off his coat and slept with a jade seal. β
"The next day, I was pushed awake in my sleep and found Wang Bi standing in front of the couch with a strange expression and an embarrassed expression. Only then did I find out that it was already the third pole of the sun. I am an extremely self-disciplined person, smelling the chickens dancing every day, and I have not stopped for decades, but that day somehow, I thought it was caused by days of fighting, overwork, and the sudden relaxation of Yuxi's mood. I slept too hard to sleep, the guards couldn't wake up, others didn't dare, so Wang Bi could only push me awake. β
"I asked Wang Bi what happened, Wang Bi said that something happened to the Jiashen tent, and I couldn't tell the specifics, he had blocked the tent, and I would go and see it. I handed over the jade seal to Wang Bi, and hurried to the Jiashen tent. β
"The furnishings of the tent are exactly the same as yesterday, except for three more people and a sword. β
Three dead people, two of them were strangled to death, and the owner, who should have been Yuan Defei's eyes wide open, disheveled, holding a sword, fell on the bed, and it seemed that she had been humiliated and then pulled out her sword and committed suicide. β
"My head hurt again, and the house was empty when I came last night, and three bodies were found this morning. Looking at the sword again, it was very familiar, and subconsciously wiped his sword, only the empty scabbard hung from his waist. That sword, the sword that killed Concubine Yuande, is mine!"
"Obviously, with Wang Bi's shrewdness and ability, he had already asked the guards of the Jiashen who had come last night, and he had seen the sword he was familiar with at the scene. He was now wondering whether his marshal had been carried away by the victory, and had drunk and had a rambling spirit, or had he suddenly lost his mind?"
"I said to Wang Bi: 'I didn't do it! Would you like to have some confidence in your eldest brother and superior? What about the box for you? Look at it! That is the jade seal of the country, I came last night, looking for the jade seal. ββ
"Wang Bi opened the box and saw that it was indeed a jade seal that could not be found, and he was overjoyed, and said: 'I knew that the marshal could not do those things, someone must have framed you!
"I suddenly thought of that note, and thought that the note would definitely wash away my injustice, and when I thought of this, I immediately took Wang Bi back to my tent. Sure enough, after returning to the account, I couldn't find the note, and I thought, I have to sleep with the jade seal, otherwise the jade seal will also disappear, and that is to jump into the Yellow River and can't wash it!"
"I told Wang Bi the situation briefly, and asked who was secretly framing me?"
"Wang Bi said: 'It can't be his own family, it must be an outsider, hmph! There is one in the camp now, I will go and arrest him.' ββ
"I know that he is talking about Li Jia, and I think that you will see this one outsider, and you will turn a blind eye to the tens of thousands of Beiyuan people who have been captured! β
"When I came to Li Jia's tent, I told the ins and outs as fast as I could, Li Jia found a silver needle to pierce my fingers, squeezed out the blood and dripped it into the porcelain bowl, and I found that the blood that should have been bright red turned pink. Li Jia took out a small jar from a pile of bottles and jars, dripped a few drops of unknown liquid into the porcelain bowl, and after a while, the pink blood turned blue. β
"Li Jia said that I was hit by a poison called 'Hundred Days of Beauty', which was first used by adulterers, if it was given to a woman, it would make people lose their minds, have high lust, obey people's commands, and be at the mercy of others, and for a long time. β
"Li Jia said: 'What you are taking is an improved version of high-grade goods, this medicine does not need to be taken, it can also be poisoned if inhaled, and the only flaw is that it has a faint sweet fragrance. After taking it, the blood is pink, so the face will also appear pale pink, which is really peachy!"
Speaking of this, Li Jia, the strange man, actually laughed heartlessly. β
"But what is the purpose of the other party?" I asked Li Jia. β
"This improved version of the medicine can't be seen by outsiders after taking it, and it's usually the same as a normal person, but when the practitioner says a specific code word, the person taking the medicine will obey the practitioner unconditionally. β
"I asked him the question that is my biggest concern at the moment - is there a cure?"
Li Jia smiled and said that you have found the right person, and I just happen to have it. β
"I'll tell you slowly, what if you arranged all this, and the antidote is actually poison?"
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