Yunyin City is the capital of Yin Xun Prefecture, one of the nine states of Great Xia. Since the founding of the country, Bactria has built a total of 19 prefectures, with a number of county governments within the jurisdiction of one state and a number of county towns under the jurisdiction of the county. Because of the weakness of the dynasty that year, when many small vassal states rebelled from Great Xia, several state capitals bordering it also occasionally rebelled, and the land of five states became the territory of other countries one after another. The next few emperors worked hard to merge the fourteen states into Kyushu. In addition to setting up a state capital and a governor to oversee local civil affairs, each state also canonized eight royal sons and descendants of the founding fathers who had made outstanding achievements in the counterinsurgency as pillar states, and hereditary repudiation of the prince. The Eight Kings were stationed in the remaining eight states except for Zhongyao Prefecture. Eight people can merce tens of thousands of private soldiers, and can have the right to control the garrisons within the jurisdiction of each region without the emperor's will. However, over the years, no one in this unfortunate favor has really been arrogant, and even when the border is full of wolves, no one really dares to transfer troops without authorization before asking for an order. Not to mention whether it will anger the royal majesty and the emperor's rebellion, the suspicion of the eight kings supporting the army and self-respect alone is not uncommon in the twists and turns of the assassination history in various places and the impeachment of the court officials.

These princes and generals above 10,000 people under one person all cherish their feathers, and they are all glorious during their lifetimes, but they are also worried that after they turn into loess, their descendants will leave a little stigma in the history books and the conversations of the people after tea and dinner, so that the world pokes the backbone of their descendants and abuses.

Among the eight pillars in the world, four of them were royal relatives, and they were all descendants of the four county kings during the troubled times. Although they all share the surname Chai with today's son, the blood relationship with today's royal family is really as weak as brewing more than a dozen bubbles of tea. Especially after the successive emperors of later generations ascended the throne, although they would follow the ancestral system, they would still make the descendants of the four kings hereditary, and inherit the ancestral princes when they became adults, and after the new kings passed the year of their establishment, the imperial court would order them to lead troops to clear the border bandits, or lead troops to invade several small surrounding vassal states. After that, in the name of "Meritorious Service in Quelling Rebellion" or "Triumph of Conquest", several young new kings will be promoted to the Shangzhu Kingdom. But no one knows that these princes just rode horses and led troops to walk around the border, which was "great military achievements". And the titles of the kings and pillars of these four clans have long become the laughing stock of temples and rivers and lakes. Compared with the brothers and uncles of the emperors who were canonized as kings in the hinterlands of the states, the latter, although the succession of titles will be reduced from generation to generation, and they will not hold military power, but they can be powerful and prosperous in the rich and prosperous fiefdoms, and it is better than the former like the family dog who was exiled to the border to guard the family of the Chai family.

But what is completely different from the situation and identity of the four Zhuguo surnamed Chai is the four kings with different surnames. The four people are also nicknamed "Turning Clouds and Rain" by the Jianghu people, and they are based on the surnames of the four families. These four families were the Yuwen clan that guarded Bokan Prefecture in the north, the Fan clan who seized the Kunding Prefecture in the southwest, the Fu clan who supported the Qianjin Prefecture in the northwest, and the Yun clan who lived in the Yinxun Prefecture in the southeast.

The ancestors of the four clans are all the four meritorious deeds who followed Emperor Taizu to conquer and expand the territory before the capital of Great Xia. Among them, the Yuwen family was originally a martial arts family that had been inherited for thousands of years, because they were dissatisfied with the mediocrity of the late emperor of the previous dynasty, and could not bear the misery of the people, so they mobilized many forces in the rivers and lakes and joined the righteous army organized by the Chai family at that time. The Xia Dynasty was founded, the Yuwen clan walked into the temple from the rivers and lakes, and today's Yuwen family not only controlled the rivers and lakes in the north of Daxia, but also held the military and political affairs of a state in Bokan Prefecture, and there was also a place for the children of the Yuwen clan among the civil officials and military generals in the Daxia court.

The Fan family was a wealthy merchant who controlled more than half of the pawnshops and money houses in the previous dynasty at that time, and not only supplied a steady stream of silver and materials in the Chai family's four wars, but also took out more than seventy percent of the family funds and put them into the treasury at the beginning of the Xia Dynasty. According to historical records, the money donated by the Fan family to the Bactrian treasury at that time supported the imperial court to exempt the national tax for three years, and the country's military and political affairs operated without worry. Therefore, the Fan family was also crowned king, and the rich and prosperous Kunding Prefecture was by no means inferior to that of Zhongyao Prefecture. But Fan's ambition is not to be in the government and the opposition, but to love the rivers and lakes. Almost all the masters of the Fan family in the past generations only appeared in python robes when they inherited the title or the new emperor ascended the throne, and the emperor would appear in python robes after he was established, and the rest of the time all the affairs of the palace were taken care of by the staff, and they did their best to play the game everywhere under pseudonyms. Despite this, three taels of silver flowed out of every ten taels of silver from various shops in Kunding Prefecture and even in the entire southwest of Great Xia. No wonder there are rumors that today's Kunding Prefecture does not know the will of the firewood and only follows the will.

Compared with Fan's actions behind the scenes, Fu can be said to be the most high-profile party among the eight pillars. Fu himself was a retainer of the Chai family, and since Emperor Taizu was a teenager, he was loyal. Later, Taizu was mandated by heaven to do righteous deeds, and the first big pillar country of the Fu family was the first soldier of Emperor Taizu. With the identity of the Chai family's retainers, after the Xia Dynasty established the capital, Emperor Taizu I took Qianjin Prefecture, where the Chai family's ancestral land was located, as the fief of the Fu family. It is rumored that before Emperor Taizu's uprising, he found the dragon vein in the ancestral land. So let the Fu family guard here for generations. In recent years, the Fu clan has become more and more arrogant, and a large number of young children have been placed in the military forces in various places, and they are in important positions, and they have almost incorporated the Jianghu forces in Qianjinzhou and the prefecture into private soldiers.

And the most embarrassing of the kings is the Yun family. The ancestor of the Yun family is also the first generation owner of Yunyin Villa, and he was a master of the previous dynasty. This person does not have too high talent for martial arts, but he is familiar with the music theory of hundreds of schools of music in the world. In order to complete a set of ancient music scores, he visited the world's music houses and music celebrities and hermits. When I walked to the waterfall at the bottom of a cliff, when I took a break in the water, I suddenly heard someone on the top of the cliff stroking the piano and singing, and the sound of the piano suddenly seemed to rush straight down, suddenly like a high mountain to stop, suddenly like spring and snow, and suddenly like winter thunder. And this person's singing voice is sometimes as drunk and generous as the world, and sometimes as sad and melancholy as a deep concubine. The listeners sometimes boiled with the sound of the piano, and sometimes burst into tears. He followed the sound of the piano and climbed the rock, and finally found an old man in sackcloth with white hair and beard stroking the piano under a boulder at the top of the cliff. The old man vomited blood every time he played a song. The whole body is already red. He sat cross-legged and untied the piano behind him, echoing the sound of the old man's piano, his fingering was a little clumsy at first, and his playing was stretched. But after getting better, I was so forgetful that I was in love, and my heart was screaming.

When Zhang Lulang opened his eyes again, it was already starry and moonlight. At this time, the cliffside only smells the mountain wind caressing the frost leaves, and the autumn insects step on the elegy. At this time, the old man's eyes were closed, and his long beard and linen robe had been dyed brown with blood. On his knees was the blood-stained xylophone. Zhang Lulang wanted to get up, but he didn't want to take off in the air just a thought. He suddenly looked into his whole body, and found that he had actually jumped from a bent Lower Martial Realm martial artist to a Upper Martial Realm master of the Soul Realm.

The realm of a martial artist is from the mud embryo realm that has entered the threshold of a martial artist, and he has to go through the Ying Bone Realm, the Heavenly Milk Realm, the Mengyuan Realm, the Plastic Birth Realm, the Kiln Realm, the Imperial Soul Realm, and the Soul Realm. The first three realms, also known as the Lower Martial Realm, are designed to hone the physique of the martial arts, build a foundation and quench the bones, so that the physique of the martial arts can be turned into a solid container to contain the vitality of heaven and earth. Later, the Three Realms are also called the Zhongwu Realm, which is for cultivators to feel the vitality of heaven and earth, absorb the vitality of heaven and earth into the body, and at the same time turn to cultivate the inner world. The last three realms are the upper martial realms, focusing on the cultivation of the soul of the martial arts, from feeling the vitality of heaven and earth and cultivating the small world in the body to gradually transforming into the integration of the inner world and the outer world. And these nine realms are collectively known as the Mortal Martial Realm. It means that the process of cultivation of martial artists is still a mortal body, and only cultivators who have broken through the shackles of the Divine Journey Realm can be regarded as standing on the top of the mountain of cultivation, overlooking all living beings, and regarded as the Xuan Realm.

In addition to their own talents, the guidance and hard work of famous teachers, the breakthrough of each realm also requires great opportunities, in addition to their own accumulation and precipitation, opening up enough internal acupoints to complete the inner world, but also need to understand heaven and earth and martial arts. Especially the span between every three realms, like a fish jumping over the dragon gate, Jiaolong walking the river is even more obstructive. Some people stop at one realm all their lives, but they can't break through.

And a person like the first owner of Yunyin Mountain Villa with mediocre talent and no enthusiasm for martial arts cultivation is just a lifelong stop in the lower martial realm, which is nothing more than a little stronger than the physique of mortals. And at this moment, because Fuqin broke through to the Shangwu realm in a few hours, anyone who is afraid that even if he has experienced it himself, he can't believe it.

Although this person's martial arts talent was mediocre, his talent was quick, and he was stunned for a moment before walking towards the old man sitting cross-legged. The old man laid one hand flat on the piano and lowered the other hand to his side. After bowing down, Zhang Lulang stepped forward to investigate, and found that the old man had been driving the crane for a long time, and his liver and intestines were broken. He looked at the guqin on the old man's knees, which was carved in black wood, and there was no carving at the head and tail, only the blood stains that were still red on the body. He gently picked up the piano, and the bottom of the piano was engraved with the word Ziya. Seeing this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

It is rumored that before Liangjiazi, there were two people in the music world who were romantic, one was good at flute, wearing a purple bamboo flute named Fangcun, and one loved to stroke the qin, often accompanied by Wutong casting the qin, called Ziya. In addition to being amazing and brilliant musicians, the two of them also integrate music and martial arts, and thus transcend the shackles of the Xuan Realm. The two sympathize with each other, although they have reached the peak of the world, they are not greedy for power, have no intention of disputes in the rivers and lakes, but are intoxicated with the nature of heaven and earth. But it seems that because the two of them peeked through the Xuanwu Heavenly Opportunity and encountered heavenly jealousy, Fang Cun soon disappeared from the world because of the death of his master. Ziya has also sealed the piano since then, and the world has only heard of the music scores written by the two, and there is no legend of the two. To this day, on the cliffside, there is only one person in the world who can hear the sound of the teeth.

Since this day, there has been one less Zhanglu Lang in the court, and a Shangwu Realm pianist Yun Ziya has been born in the rivers and lakes. It is rumored that although this man claimed to be a luthier, no one had ever seen him carry a luthier. This person can kill the fugue with a detachment, and every time he fights with someone, he can turn the piano out of thin air. Or take heaven and earth as the harp, the grass and trees as the strings, or the night as the harp, and the rain as the strings.

He met Emperor Taizu's sister in the rivers and lakes at that time, and the two hit it off at first sight, fell in love with each other, and made a private decision for life. As a result, he joined the Chai Rebellion. When the rebel army besieged the royal city of the Old Dynasty, the eight iQue Jing powerhouses and the three Xuan Realm masters of the former dynasty Da Nei attacked in unison. Among the rebels, there were only two Xuanjing powerhouses and five iQue powerhouses in the ranks, and the rest of the masters were all leading troops to surround and suppress the remnants of the soldiers. When the rebels were defeated and retreated by the counterattack of the Ouchi masters, Yun Ziya actually used himself as a harp and his own meridians as strings, killing two masters of the Divine Journey Realm and seriously injuring one master of the Xuan Realm. It was his action that turned the rebel army into victory and turned danger into victory, thus laying the foundation for the final victory of the Great Xia Founding War. But because of this, his meridians were cut off, and it was difficult to use force again.

When the founding of Great Xia rewarded the ministers of all walks of life, Yun Ziya's name was the first to reward everyone, and he was crowned the king of Xia, and the descendants of the Great Pillar Kingdom were hereditary. What an honor it is to be titled by one person with the name of a country, therefore, many people are jealous, and they are even more worried that a Yun family with no background will rise from now on and divide the interests of everyone. Many people mentioned that Yun Ziya was the identity of an old minister of the former dynasty, and even more sour and rotten Confucians wrote a thousand-character text accusing Sang of scolding Huai, openly and satirizing him as a servant of two surnames; some people rumored that he was a man of the wind and dust, saying that he was from a lowly background as a piano master; some courtiers were worried that he would become a waste person for Great Xia, and they would be resentful because of this, and if he was given real power, his descendants would inevitably have revenge on the court and the royal family in the future; and there were even people with vicious words, saying that his cultivation was not martial arts but demon methods, such as Yunyun.

At that time, Emperor Taizu on the dragon chair was about to reprimand angrily, but outside the main hall, a woman in plain clothes walked in with a long sword in hand. Just when someone wanted to scold, who dared to go to the temple with a weapon, he recognized the long sword in the woman's hand, this sword was originally named Mandarin Reed, but after the woman traveled through the rivers and lakes a few years ago and met a man, she changed her name to Mu Yun. This person is the sibling sister of the person in the yellow robe on the dragon chair.

The woman looked around at the Zhou people present, and then glanced at Emperor Taizu, who had a sullen face, and said coldly: "If anyone dares to say half a sentence of Yun Ziya's right or wrong, his life will definitely end before his words!"

But to everyone's surprise, Yun Ziya did not open a government in the hinterland of Yin Xun Prefecture, but renamed a small city adjacent to the border of Southern Liang in the state as Yunyin City as his fief, and also built Yunyin Villa due north outside the city as the real location of the palace. There is a mansion in the castle that deals with the affairs of the city's civil affairs.

The children of the Yun clan in the past dynasties, although they are still hereditary princes, there are few people who have really stepped into the core of the court. However, there will occasionally be a few famous martial arts wizards in history, who are famous in the southwest region and even the entire Southern Liang and Great Xia.

In the turmoil of the dynasty a hundred years ago, Yunyin Villa almost exerted all its strength to fight against the army and masters of the rivers and lakes of Southern Liang, and finally defended the land of Yizhou and the people from being disturbed by war. It is rumored that after the dust of the rebellion settled, the people of Yinxun Prefecture were vegetarian for 100 days, did not eat hot food, did not drink alcohol, and all Fengyue places, casinos, and restaurants were closed to mourn the martyrs of Yunyin Villa who died in battle. It was also because of this scene comparable to a national funeral that the new emperor of the current dynasty was furious, but he was forced by the people's wishes, dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, nor did he have the slightest praise for Yunwangfu. Since then, Yunyin Villa seems to have become a vacuum area in Great Xia, almost no one cares about the court, and there are few rumors or deeds of the children of the villa in the rivers and lakes. Some people say that the Yun family was angry with Long Wei, and they were suppressed and collapsed, some people say that the Yun family was greatly damaged after the war, and they have been in obscurity all these years, and some people say that in that war, the Yun family lost its learning, so it is difficult for the Yun family to do anything. It can be said that there are different opinions, and it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the false.