When Liu Qing was defeated by Li Taibai and returned to the mountains and forests, there was a young man who entered the rivers and lakes at the beginning of the year.

This young man heard about Li Taibai's deeds when he first entered the rivers and lakes, and he yearned for it, which also strengthened the determination of this young man to mix in the rivers and lakes.

It's a pity that the young man's martial arts training qualifications are not very good, and his family background is impossible to talk about, such a little person will soon be buried in the waves of the rivers and lakes, and there will be no waves.

But the young man did not give up, but walked in the rivers and lakes step by step, studied hard, and slowly changed from an unknown boy to today's Gu Kaizhi.

After becoming famous, Gu Kaizhi once invited Li Taibai to compete in the iron bucket, and the two of them clicked until the end.

Gu Kaizhi won, but Li Taibai didn't lose either.

On the way to martial arts, Gu Kaizhi defeated Li Taibai.

But in the way of the sword, Li Taibai is still the first in the world.

After that, Gu Kaizhi personally sent Li Taibai out of the iron bucket pass, and bowed to Li Taibai three times with a junior courtesy.

After Li Taibai walked out of the iron bucket pass, he laughed three times and left, "I am a Jianghu person!"

It's a pity that no one around heard such an evaluation at that time.

Gu Kaizhi did not respect heaven and earth in this life, but respected Li Taibai.

"Spring and autumn for a hundred years, the common people into the oven. Guigu, you said that if the old man slaughtered you, would he have a great credit to this heaven and earth?"

The old man of Guigu smiled slightly, and he didn't care about Gu Kaizhi's words. During the Spring and Autumn Period, or after the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, none of those remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period wanted to kill themselves like Gu Kaizhi.

They want to kill themselves with ten thousand knives, and then whip the corpse after death, which may not be able to eliminate their hatred for themselves.

It's just that in the battle of Changling, the old man of Guigu once used a pit to kill 300,000 soldiers, resulting in no grass growing on the current Changling Plain, and everything is missing.

"What the old man wants to do, you can understand. ”

Gu Kaizhi glanced at the old man in the Ghost Valley and asked, "If you are stopping the old man from going to the Liang Palace, then I will really beat you to death here." ”

The old man of Guigu didn't go around in circles, and said directly: "Stop you, I can't do it, but the old man wants to make a deal with you, I don't know if you want to?"

"Tell me about it. ”

Doing business with an old man in Guigu who is very particular about doing things fairly, Gu Kaizhi is the second time. I made a deal with the old man in front of me for the first time, and that transaction completely changed Gu Kaizhi's road to the rivers and lakes, which is why Gu Kaizhi was willing to stop and talk some "nonsense" with the old man in front of him.

"You let Zhao An go, and the old man will choose an opponent with the same strength as you for you?"

Gu Kaizhi does the same thing as the old man in Guigu, and he also pays attention to a "fairness", but this "fairness" is not so fair to the people in the rivers and lakes.

Within the Iron Bucket Pass, anyone who competes with Gu Kaizhi will not ask for their lives. But outside the Iron Bucket Pass, Gu Kaizhi punched, regardless of victory or defeat, only life and death.

In the iron bucket pass, there are people who compete with themselves, which is to promote the juniors of the rivers and lakes.

But when you get to the Iron Bucket Pass, you old man's men are defeated, and living is a drag on this river and lake, so it is better to die.

Since the old man of Guigu, who knew Gu Kaizhi's style of acting, dared to stop Gu Kaizhi on the road before Gu Kaizhi, he naturally had his own solution.

"Who is the opponent of equal strength?"

Gu Kaizhi was interested in what the old man in Guigu said, and took the initiative to ask.

Since entering the Immortal Realm, Gu Kaizhi has never met such a person again.

When the old man of Guigu saw Gu Kaizhi's appearance, he knew that the conditions he proposed today had the possibility of success.

"Not now, maybe someday in the future?"

Gu Kaizhi chuckled, "One day in the future, will there be such a person after the old man soars? What does the old man promise you to do now!"

"Rest assured, no more than fifty years, maybe even shorter, this person will appear. ”

Gu Kaizhi shook his head, obviously this martial artist was very dissatisfied with the arrangement of the old man in the Ghost Valley.

The old man of the Ghost Valley knew that Gu Kaizhi would not agree to this, "What, you Gu Kaizhi are in such a hurry?"

Gu Kaizhi smiled, brushed his sideburns with both hands, and sighed slightly, "The old man has been waiting on the rivers and lakes for more than thirty years, and I don't see anyone who can defeat the old man, how about waiting for another fifty years." ”

This time it was the turn of the old man in the Ghost Valley to be a little confused, you Gu Kaizhi thought so, why didn't you agree to your proposal, what did you Gu Kaizhi do?

Without waiting for the old man of Guigu to ask, Gu Kaizhi said directly: "The old man is a martial artist, a pure martial artist, and he only believes in his own pair of fists. You, an old man who can only play tricks, the old man looks down on you, and you don't look down on it, and you talk about it, the old man just hasn't become famous in the Spring and Autumn Period, otherwise he will see you and beat you once. ”

The old man of Guigu didn't show any signs of anger, brushed his beard with his right hand, looked at Gu Kaizhi in front of him, and was silent.

"Li Taibai said a good thing back then, the old man once begged Li Taibai to write it himself, and it has been hung in the study so far. Do you know what it is?"

The old man of Guigu didn't answer, Gu Kaizhi smiled, turned his head, and asked Zhang Yi who was hiding aside, "Do you know?"

Zhang Yi shook his head, where did he have the heart to guess which words Gu Kaizhi liked about Li Taibai, now he just wanted to get out of here quickly, and he didn't want to see Gu Kaizhi again.

"So, in the world, the old man also admires Li Taibai. ”

After that, Gu Kaizhi shook his head, then got up, and said to Shanshuilang who wanted to get close not far away, but was afraid of him: "Go back, the old man won't go to King Liang's mansion, by the way, bring a word for the old man and King Liang." ”

A person walked out of the landscape, looking like a scholar, clasping his hands in front of his chest, and bowed to Gu Kaizhi, "I don't know what Senior Gu wants to say to my prince?"

Gu Kaizhi got up, stepped out, and walked hundreds of miles in an instant, "Tell King Liang that the old man looks at him very pleasing to the eye." ”

"Also, the old man of Guigu, I hope you won't have to wait too long for what you said. ”

Shanshuilang, who stayed in place, was relieved, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, lowered his head, looked at his sweat-soaked clothes, and smiled bitterly.

The old man of the Guigu Valley beckoned to Zhang Yi who was not far away, and had made up his mind to pretend to be dead in front of Gu Kaizhi, but Zhang Yi, who was hiding behind the pillars of the mansion, jumped out in an instant and came to his master.

"Master, you 。。。。。 ”

Without waiting for Zhang Yi to finish speaking, the old man of Guigu spit out a mouthful of blood, and his face was very ugly.

Zhang Yi's face changed drastically and he took it out of his arms

A pill was put into his master's mouth.

The old man of Guigu who swallowed the pill instantly lifted his qi and used his internal force, and after his injuries were stabilized, the old man of Guigu slowly opened his eyes, looked in the direction of Gu Kaizhi's departure, and smiled bitterly, "What an old horseman." ”

Zhang Yi was a little uneasy, and asked with concern, "Master, what are your injuries?"

The old man of Guigu waved his hand, signaling that his disciple didn't have to worry about himself, "It's okay, it's just a small injury, it will be fine in a few days, since Gu Kaizhi is no longer looking for Zhao An, then we are also going to leave." ”

The old man of Guigu got up directly, came to the scholar-like Shanshui Lang, and said bluntly: "Go back and tell your prince, don't forget the things you promised me." ”

Although the scholar-like Shanshui Lang has a very high status in Shanshui Lang, of course he doesn't know this kind of secret that only the prince and the old man of Guigu know. What's more, he is also a messenger.

"I will keep the words of the old gentleman in the next by all means. ”

The old man of Guigu nodded with satisfaction, and then left with his apprentice Zhang Yi. Then the mountains and rivers on the street also disappeared, and the streets were crowded with people, and there was no one anymore.

Chang'an City, Yang Mansion.

Yang Zhao, who returned from the next dynasty, was in a good mood, and the "Twelve Policies for Governing Jiangnan Province Taxes" proposed by him at the court meeting today was valued by His Majesty, which showed that he could finally meddle in the affairs of Jiangnan Province, and the only thing he was waiting for now was that His Majesty summoned him to the palace and stated the specific details in person.

Walking on the road in the mansion, looking at the servants beside him who saluted him, Yang Zhao felt particularly pleasing to the eye, and waved his hand to beckon the housekeeper, "Go and give five taels of silver to all the subordinates each." ”

The housekeeper left in response, without asking why, what his master said was what he did, and he did it.

Yang Zhao walked into the house, and under the service of the maidservant, he changed into regular clothes, holding a teapot from the Great Qin Dynasty in his hand, lying on a rocking chair, humming a small song.

Yang Zhao is happy for a reason, although the Yang family can now be regarded as a top-level gate valve in Daming, and there is a younger sister in the palace to respond, as long as the Yang family is not stupid enough to rebel, then you can sit back and relax. Even in the future, if his sister can give birth to an heir, then the future throne may not be the turn of who will sit on it.

But no one will dislike having a lot of money, and no one will be satisfied with their own power.

Jiangnan Province is the richest area in the Ming Dynasty, and the annual taxes paid can account for half of the Ming Dynasty's taxes.

It's just a pity that half of Jiangnan Province was returned to King Cheng, and the remaining half, some were given by the emperor to his son King Zhao, and the rest were divided among the families.

It's just a pity that there was a natural disaster in Jiangnan Province last year, and the grain harvest may not even be one-tenth of the annual harvest.

But the most critical problem is that there is no food in the imperial court, and when Emperor Taizu was fighting for the world, he realized the importance of food. A total of nine granaries were set up in various parts of the world to prevent wars or natural disasters.

Then the problem comes, the imperial court wants to provide disaster relief, but the food in the treasury has been arranged, and if there is no food to provide disaster relief, those people in Jiangnan Province will starve to death.

So at the beginning of this year, Yan Zhiwei had an excerpt before leaving for Liangzhou, but unfortunately no one paid attention to it.