Chapter 4: The Patriarch of the Mountain, Riding the Savior Alone
In the case of Bai Yijing's annihilation, Qin Keji, together with Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, investigated for two years, but failed, and in frustration, he took Bai Rose to worship in the One Sword Sect and carefully taught her martial arts.
In the fourth year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong ordered the Hanlin Academy to read the classics, based on "Erya Shitian", and hereby issued an edict to change the "year" to "carry", and to sing merit.
Shangluo County, Shangzhou, Shangluo County is also known as "Shangluo", the ancient belongs to "Shang Yu", it is the fief of the Qin State Doctor Shang Ying, here the cliff is high and the valley is deep, there are many passes, the pre-Qin period is the border of Qin and Chu again, it has always been the place where the soldiers must fight, according to legend, the king of Chu Huai was detained here, and finally died in a foreign land, and the descendants of Jing Chu always have sad and resentful feelings every time they talk about this place.
For example, it has been peaceful for a long time today, and this Shangzhou City is also full of traffic, bells are boiling, and it is very lively.
There is an inn in the city called "cyclamen", it can be regarded as a little famous here, it is noon at this time, there are quite a lot of diners, there is a square podium on the second floor of the inn, there is a three-foot square desk in front of the stage, it is the place where Mr. Storyteller talks about tea, I saw a folding fan on the table, a piece of waking wood, and a pair of white sweat towels folded neatly, there are two pillars behind the stage, respectively write "open the table and be full of friends" and "wave the fan mouth like a hanging river".
After a while, an old man in a cyan robe came to the stage, this person has white hair and long beard, a thin body, a tall posture without rickets, but also quite a bit of fairy wind bones, the old man's surname is Mo, is the storyteller here.
After the old man Mo came to the stage, he waved around three times, and opened his mouth to ask first: "Have you ever heard of the One Sword Sect?" Someone at the bottom accosted: "The number one sect in the world, of course I have heard of it!"
The old man squinted his eyes and asked, "Who is the current sect master, can you know the rank?" The audience continued to talk: "Now it is the early sect master of Ji Benchu who is at the helm. ”
"Sect Master Ji is a powerful hero, and it is not unusual for you to hear of his name, if I say another person, you will definitely not know. Old man Mo was very sure.
"Tell me about it. ”
The gentleman said again: "Who is the master of the Ji Sect Master?"
The diners in the audience whispered, but did not answer, which shows that the name of Master Ji Benchu is not so loud. The old man stroked his long beard and said with a smile: "Sect Master Ji's master is surnamed Chai, his name is Wanfeng, he is the previous sect master of the First Sword Sect, and the name of the First Sword Sect has never been heard of because of his poor martial arts. ”
A young man in the audience shouted, "Then why haven't you heard anyone talk about it?"
"Mr. Evening Wind is talented, through the five classics and six arts, quite an ancient sage, but he is not keen on chasing fame and fortune, because he is too indifferent by nature, when he is in office, although the One Sword Sect is not defeated, but it is also declining, but it is a pity that it is a pity" Old man Mo sighed and shook his head, in the end, he is an old artist, and his voice is full ......of emotion.
The old man said: "But if you really want to trace its roots, the decline of the One Sword Sect did not begin with Chai Wanfeng, and you have to count it further, Mr. Wanfeng's master is surnamed Mu, and his name is unparalleled. ”
The old man stopped to watch, and saw that everyone in the audience was concentrated, and he became more and more energetic, and talked eloquently: "As for Mu Wushuang's master, that is simply a fairy-like figure, this person is the founding ancestor of the One Sword Sect - Lu Yuanyi!"
Suddenly, there was a "pop", and the old man signaled everyone to shut up.
"Today, Xiao Lao'er will tell everyone a story of 'Lu Yuanyi, the founding patriarch of the One Sword Sect, riding the savior alone'"
"It is said that this Lu Yuanyi is not a pure Central Plains blood, his father's name is Lu Botao, but he is a Fulu person, dare to ask all the guest officials, do you know where this Fula country is located?
He also said: "This country is not Tubo, not the Yan, nor Hui, it does not border with my Tang Dynasty, the west out of the Anxi Protectorate, through Tocharo, over the big food country, continue to the west is the country of Fula." Lu Botao often followed his uncle to the Western Regions to do business in the early years, and admired my Tang Dynasty fame for a long time, and then studied in Chang'an alone, for convenience, he gave himself a name in the Central Plains, this person is ingenious, will repair the palace, build water conservancy, quite appreciated by Emperor Taizong, at the beginning of the Yu Department of the Director, and was later awarded the post of Langzhong in the Ministry of Works. ”
The old man took a sip of tea and continued: "After that, Lu Botao settled in my Tang Dynasty, and married the Chang'an girl Zhang, and gave birth to a son named Lu Yuanyi. It is rumored that Lu Yuanyi, who is of half-Yi blood, looks exquisite, but he is stubborn and abnormal, he does not read the theory of the four books, does not learn the strategy of Tao, and does not like to dance with knives and sticks, and only loves to travel around the world.
In the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong's troops were divided into three routes, and the imperial army personally conquered Goguryeo. Lu Botao is good at developing siege equipment, so he asked him to take the post of the lieutenant commander of the treasury department, accompanied by the eastward expedition, our army crossed the Liao River, and successively conquered Beisha City and Baiyan City, and the soldiers pointed directly at Anshi City, but the high walls of this Anshi City were thick, and the soldiers in the city were stubbornly resistant, and they could not attack for a long time.
The words are divided into two ends, and said that this Lu Yuanyi traveled to the territory of Wuling County, Langzhou, and for some reason did not return for eight years, but kept carrying letters home, talking about his chance to meet a master of the Tao, and intended to practice martial arts with this person, eight years passed in a blink of an eye, this day Lu Yuanyi returned home after studying, listened to his mother talk about the Eastern Crusade, and thought that his father was safe, so he rode a fast horse to Liaodong alone.
When Lu Yuanyi arrived in Anshi City, he was just in time for Taizong to be trapped and sealed Longshan, which was originally called Zhuhua Mountain. It's just that Anshi City has been unable to be attacked for a long time, and the two sides have reached a stalemate in restraining each other, and seeing that late autumn is coming, it is extremely unfavorable for our Celestial Empire army to drag on like this. Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, thought of a plan to lure the snake out of the hole: let General Shiyun pretend to be cold and withdraw his troops in a hurry, lure the thief army out of the city, and set up an ambush twenty miles north of the city. Taizong adopted Li Daozong's strategy, and added a plan: ordered the scouts to spread false news, saying that the emperor was unwell in water and soil, and was ill, and then ordered Li Shichang to leave all the grain and grass when he retreated, pretending to be in a hurry, so that the thief army would believe it. But as the old saying goes, 'you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder' Taizong's plan is wonderful, but he was told by the traitor, the enemy army came to a general plan, at dawn while the sky was blurry, only a small force of cavalry was sent to chase Li Shixian, but the army went out of the city from the side gate, along the path to the garrison Hua Mountain, straight to the Taizong army tent, Taizong only had a few personal guards around him, and fought and retreated, and was trapped on the main peak.
When Goguryeo was about to burn down the mountain, Lu Yuanyi arrived at the battlefield, seeing such a scene, where could he still care about the friendship between father and son, Lu Yuanyi simply inquired about the battle situation, and then rode alone to the city of Anshi, on the way, three punches and two feet intercepted three iron guns of the enemy soldiers.
Lu Yuanyi's famous life began with these three iron spears, and I don't know where he learned such profound martial arts, only to see him throw out the first iron spear, which was like a knife into tofu, straight into the city wall! Lu Yuanyi tapped his toes, jumped up more than two feet, fell directly on the iron spear, as if walking on the ground, and threw the second iron spear to a high place, and then moved four zhang away from the ground, the guards on the battlements were already pale with fright, and they didn't know what to do, the third iron spear was concocted in the same way, but in a moment, Lu Yuanyi climbed the wall of Anshi City without breathing, and went straight to the city lord's hall. At tea time, Lu Yuanyi appeared on the city again, only this time with two people tied like zongzi in his hands, one was Yang Feichun, the city lord of Anshi, and the other was the postal supervisor sent by Quangai Suwen, the Goguryeo soldiers had already been frightened, who would dare to stop him! Lu Yuanyi jumped off the city wall with one person in one hand in front of everyone's eyes, and fell to the ground suddenly, and the three of them were unharmed, it was really a god who descended to earth!"
The old man calmed down his excitement and continued: "Lu Yuan drove a horse to Fenglong Mountain, and the thief army saw that the commander was captured, and fled in all directions, or was intercepted and killed by the army led by the eldest grandson Wuji, or fled back to the city of Anshi, and shrank away, since then, the siege of Fenglong Mountain has not been broken!"
Emperor Taizong was overjoyed and praised Lu Yuanyi's martial arts again and again, crowning the world. Immediately ordered, ordered the left and right guards to execute Yang Feichun and the two, Lu Yuanyi stepped forward to dissuade: "As far as I know, the reason why the soldiers in the city are so stubborn is because General Li Shiyun once said that on the day our army broke the city, there were no chickens and dogs, which aroused the resistance of Anshi City, and I also knew that this was General Shiyun's intimidating words, not really to slaughter the city, if Your Majesty beheaded these two people, not only will it not be an example, but it will only make the soldiers and civilians in the city resist to the end."
When Taizong heard this, not only was he not angry, but he liked his outspoken character, so he gave up and let the two go back to the city.
Taizong wanted to seal Lu Yuanyi as a general and let him serve the country to fight in Liaodong, but Yuanyi did not accept it, and replied to Taizong: 'When learning art, the family teacher repeatedly warned that martial arts can only be used to stop fighting and help the poor, and must not be used to commit murder'
Seeing that it was already winter, Anshi City still couldn't be attacked for a long time, but God didn't bless me Datang, Emperor Taizong sympathized with the suffering of the soldiers in the winter, so he had to return in a huff.
After returning to the dynasty, Taizong wanted to seal Lu Yuanyi as the general of Zuojin Wuwei, Lu Yuanyi refused again, and said on the table, "Favored by the Son of Heaven, in the lower sincere fear, not in the lower does not know how to advance and retreat, repeatedly refute the anger of the dragon face, it is really a vulgar temperament that is unbearable to use, in the next intention to open a mountain and establish a faction, defend Jinggi, pass on His Majesty's martial style, Yutian Dynasty tiger and wolf teacher, Yuan Yi swears, forever protect my Tang Sheji." As for the war in Liaodong, forgive all for saying that Your Majesty does not need to devote all the strength of the country to crusade against the frontiers of the projectiles, but only needs to send a small force to constantly harass him, and Goguryeo will die from the inside.
As soon as Lu Yuan's words were earnest, Taizong gave up and gave him the false title of 'Tianwei Protector General', allowing him to use Huashan as the foundation to establish a sect in Huazhou, and personally gave him the name of the First Sword Sect. ”
The old man sighed and said: "The One Sword Sect has been founded so far, and it has been more than a hundred years since the six emperors, and it has been beautiful and lonely, it can be said that it has been weathered, and now it is still the leader of the world's martial arts." Woohoo!
Xingmu patted it, and the old man said again: "Let's talk about it for everyone today, if you want to know what will happen to the First Sword Sect, you will find out next time." ”
The audience suddenly became agitated, there were clapping applause, and there were also muttering and talking, but the black-clothed diner by the window in the northwest corner of the hall gently picked the corner of his mouth, as if he was laughing and mocking, and then dropped the half-hanging copper coin and walked away, and no one cared about his going or staying from beginning to end.
"Old man Mo, tell us a little more, tell us why the Vientiane Gate broke away from the One Sword Sect and set up its own door. "A young queen gave rise to coaxing.
The old man coughed dryly and said: "The reason for this is quite tortuous, involving many levels, I can't explain it clearly for a while, and I will talk to the guest officer next time." ”
"It is said that the Duanyang competition two years ago was originally won by the First Sword Sect, but at the last moment, Sect Master Ji was forced by pressure from all sides to let Master Wang make a move and a half, but is there such a thing?" The man was not satisfied with Old Man Mo's prevarication, so he asked again. When Old Man Mo heard this, he changed his face, glared at him fiercely, and said gloomily: "Don't talk nonsense about unclear things, be careful that trouble comes out of your mouth!"
The later life was bored, lowered his head and took a sip of tea, the person at the table with him was also a young man, seeing that the atmosphere was embarrassing, he changed the topic and shouted at the stage: "Old man, you have told enough stories of heroes and heroes, can you tell more interesting things in the palace next time?"
The old man scolded with a smile: "Bastard boys, after the meal is over, and the drama is enough, let's get busy with our own livelihoods, Hugh wants to make fun of my old man, don't I know what you have in mind? ”
The old man walked to the top of the stairs, turned around to himself, and said with a sneer: "If you really want to hear something interesting, come to the big locust tree in front of the land temple in the south of the city after the unitary time. ”