After dinner, there was nothing to do, everyone chatted around the fire, and after the hour was about to begin, they each meditated and vomited, Wei Xiaozhuang was already able to get up and move around, but the operation of the aura was still a little difficult, and it was estimated that it would take two days to completely improve.

Su Emei took the initiative to take on the task of being on duty at night, responsible for adding firewood and guarding against wild beasts and villains, Li Ye didn't care about this, but he was also happy to save the effort of arranging the vigilance array, the most important thing in walking the rivers and lakes is to pretend to be a bear and hide his strength, which is the same as walking outside without exposing his wealth.

Li Ye didn't have anything to swallow, he just took the opportunity of the meditation to think about the situation in Qingzhou.

As the core of Pinglu, where the Jiedu envoy governs the state, Qingzhou has gathered the most wealth in Pinglu, and correspondingly, in addition to Penglai Daomen, the largest forces are also here. I have learned from the Tsing Yi Yamen before that there are four major families in Qingzhou, two of which are old scholars and two are emerging wealthy families.

There is a Tang Dynasty, although the tribute system has a scale, but because of historical reasons, at the beginning of the hundred years is still the strength of the scholars, especially the Helong family, which is a hundred years of inheritance of the aristocratic family, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the Shandong scholars have also risen one after another, in the court and officialdom to gain a firm foothold, the strength should not be underestimated.

It's just that in the Anshi Rebellion, the Shi family was badly harmed, and after that, the feudal towns were lined up in the localities, and the power of the Shi family was hit hard. The collapse of the government military system stemmed from the serious land annexation, the displacement of hundreds of people, and the displacement of people everywhere, so the conscription system arose, and the feudal towns recruited displaced people to form the feudal town army, and these displaced people were recruited by the feudal towns, and the unfair treatment they suffered in the past, and the demand for not wanting to be deprived of land anymore made them hold on tightly to form a new displaced force in the feudal town, or the feudal town army force, which was very strong and stubborn.

They are resentful, so they take their own interests very seriously, the origin of the arrogant soldiers, is that in order to protect their own interests, the exiled feudal town army rebelled against the local expropriation of the Jiedu envoys, and the later the feudal town army became more and more arrogant, if the Jiedu envoy did not know how to sympathize with the soldiers, did not protect the interests of the feudal army, the feudal army will expel it.

After the rise of the feudal army, in the control of land and property, it is inevitable to have contradictions with the old scholar family, but the people are the army, and the show meets the soldiers, it is reasonable to say, no matter how many monks of the scholar family are, it is not comparable to the army of tens of millions of people, and the power of the scholar family has been weakened step by step.

Therefore, it can be said that the decline of the scholar family in the long river of history is the rise of the tribute examination (imperial examination after the Song Dynasty) system on the one hand, and the establishment of feudal towns on the other hand. Tribute to the Song Dynasty can be called Daxing, in the Hanmen scholars through the imperial examination system, before the status of the scholar family, to give the scholar family a heavy blow, or the late Tang Dynasty five dynasties of the feudal town power.

The four major forces of Pinglu, or the four major families, the two scholar families, and the other two are the two big surnames in the Pinglu Domain. Originally, these two were the same thing, and Li Ye may not have no chance to take advantage of it, but Pinglu also has one of the five major gates in the world, "East Penglai".

The cultivation of the head of Penglai has reached the ninth layer of Qi training early, and now he is in retreat to impact the real realm, and the masters of Penglai Xianmen are like clouds, and there are thousands of years of heritage, and the power of monks alone, the Shence Army cannot be compared with it, Penglai Daomen's influence on Pinglu is too great, and it has infiltrated the four major families, just like the leader of Xiuzhen, Li Ye wants to completely control Pinglu, let Pinglu obey him, and first have to cross the threshold of Penglai.

Li Ye was able to kill Liu Xingshen in the battle of the palace change, or relied on the power of Penglai's golden elixir, and now his golden elixir has run out, but who knows how many Penglai, if Li Ye rushes in, people rush out of a large group of qi cultivation nine layers, what should he do?

Penglai, as a thousand-year-old Taoist gate in Pinglu, has a deep-rooted influence on Pinglu, and the scholar family and the feudal army cannot be compared, so no matter how hostile the two are, they must be controlled by Penglai, not to mention, Penglai is still the leader of the Pinglu rivers and lakes, all kinds of rivers and lakes, who is not in awe of Penglai? Penglai has a life, who dares not to obey? It is like the leader of the Pinglu Wulin Alliance.

And Li Ye, in the eyes of many people, to put it bluntly, is to be an official for one term, and he will leave in a few years at most, and many festivals have been made to the localities, and it is for this reason that the official character is good to do some political performance projects, and the official department has a good assessment for promotion, and the official character is poor or there is no hope for promotion, and he directly embezzles and accepts bribes, expropriates and expropriates violently, and seizes the time to absorb wealth, or both, completely ignoring the damage to the locality.

This has become a pair of irreconcilable contradictions with the local forces, the festival has made the local disaster finished, patted the ass with the wealth and left, the cloud is light and the wind is light, the local forces are rooted here, and they will continue to survive here, they have to clean up the mess, and over time, they can have a good face for the festival?

The five prefectures of Pinglu, Qi, Zi, Qing, Lai, and Deng, from west to east. The reason why Li Ye went to Qizhou first was to "lay" a piece of territory first, as a bridgehead and springboard, to further control Pinglu, in the words before the crossing, this is the front-line base, Li Ye must first run Qizhou, this is in Pinglu, with his own force, at this time into Qingzhou, he can be regarded as having room to advance and retreat.

With Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang, entering the Pinglu rivers and lakes, it will not be abrupt and attention-grabbing, Li Ye wants to take this opportunity to see with his own eyes what the rivers and lakes of Pinglu are like, looking for opportunities to break the situation.

Otherwise, he plunged headlong into Pinglu, and in the face of the complex situation in Pinglu, Li Ye didn't know where to start.

Li Ye was in his mind, and when he was sorting out these things, Su Emei had already given up Tuna.

Although she was still sitting cross-legged, her mind was a little messy.

In these days of going down the mountain, walking into the rivers and lakes, all kinds of sensory impacts are similar to Grandma Liu's entering the Grand View Garden.

Su Emei thought about what she had seen and heard these days, and her attention couldn't help but fall to Li Ye, who was the stranger she had been with the longest time in the rivers and lakes, although her appearance did not meet Su Emei's aesthetics, but Su Emei was not the kind of woman who judged people by her appearance, thinking of Li Ye's various actions today, she had a strong curiosity about Li Ye, and wanted to see what kind of person this guy was.

Li Ye became the medium for Su Emei to understand the world.

"I just don't know how to cultivate. Su Emei closed her eyes and thought silently in her heart, "Master said, people in the rivers and lakes, cultivation is the most important thing, as long as the cultivation is high enough, everything is fine." ”

Su Emei thought about all kinds of things, and she didn't notice that someone had already appeared in the darkness behind the carriage.

In all directions, inside and outside the forest, nearly ten black shadows who were good at concealment were approaching them in the body of a cat.

Suddenly, a streamer flashed.

The fire in front of Su Emei burst out without warning, firewood and fireworks bloomed, and the bright and extinguished fire was suddenly extinguished when it just rose, and the surroundings fell into darkness in an instant.

Su E's eyebrows were startled, she grabbed the long sword beside her, and pulled it out of its sheath with a bang.

Before she could see the scene in front of her, in the pitch-black darkness, a bright light suddenly exploded in front of her eyes, the white light was extremely strong, I don't know what kind of magic weapon it was, which brightened Su Emei's beautiful and nervous face, and also damaged her eyes, she had to turn her head to dodge and reach out to block in front of her.

And at this moment, three sword qi had already flown towards Su Emei from different directions, and her vision was greatly damaged, and she could only see a little starlight, and the sword qi was in front of her!

Although Su Emei has no experience in the rivers and lakes, she has not experienced battles, and her Wei Xiaozhuang's cultivation has been tempered by the master on the mountain.

Su Emei will not forget that on many dark and moonless nights, Master and Xiaozhuang would break in through the window and assassinate her, and she would not forget the panicked appearance of the other party when she and Master went to assassinate Wei Xiaozhuang.

Su Emei retreated sharply, and the long sword stabbed obliquely.

Countless pieces of sword light splashed like fish scales, connected into an arc, lit up in front of her, and a flying sword qi was directly shattered by the fish scale sword light.

At the same time, she leaned back and twisted her slender waist, and a sword qi swept past her chest.

However, at this time, Su Emei, whose body was in a state of change, could no longer avoid the sword qi on the left that was approaching her waist!

In an instant, Su E's eyebrows were pale, her hands and feet were cold, and she leaned back, and just saw a black shadow jumping out of the forest behind her.

The other party was under the crescent moon, just blocking the moonlight, and in the other party's hand, a sword qi had already been split, like a comet falling, and it was in front of her in an instant!

"The middle stage of Qi training!" Su E's eyebrows shrank suddenly.

The other party turned out to be in the middle of Qi training, and her cultivation was not much weaker than her, and she couldn't hide from this sword practice, and she couldn't take it!

Su Emei never expected that someone would suddenly come out in the middle of the road, and the technique and cooperation were so skillful, and they launched a thunderous assassination on her!

Before going down the mountain, the master never said that there were any enemies under the mountain. Her reaction and response were fast enough, but she still couldn't cope with such a stealthy and spicy Jianghu assassin!

In Su E's eyebrows, a touch of deep despair flashed, she felt as if her heel had been kicked by something, and as if she had been kicked by something, very abruptly, and her backward body was immediately uncontrollable and fell straight down!

The fine sword qi on the left swept directly from her chest, and the navy blue robe was immediately cut open, and the cold sword qi made Su Emei's towering chest feel the coolness soaked in the snow muscles!

But it didn't stop there, the sword qi didn't hurt her in the slightest.

However, Su Emei was not surprised at all, because the sword qi in mid-air had already arrived in front of her, and in her eyes, a fishing line suddenly enlarged, and the dazzling light had already illuminated her pale face!

A wisp of green silk swept across Su Emei's cheeks, and the touch was itchy, and then Su Emei saw a sleeve rise in front of her, looking like someone was palming it to the sky and lifting it up.

But in an instant, the sleeves were retracted, and Su Emei regained her vision again, but what she saw was a sky full of stars, in the unreachable night sky, the Milky Way was like a belt, better than all the brilliant pearls in the world!

What about the knife gas?

Su E was surprised to find that the sword qi was completely gone.

It was only then that she felt that her back had not landed, but had fallen to a warm place, as if someone was sitting cross-legged on her lap, not cold at all.

Before Su Emei could figure out the situation, the Milky Way was blocked by the bird.

It was not a bird, but a figure that jumped high like a bird!

They raised their long swords high and slashed down at Su Emei, and with their leaping movements, their long hair was thrown straight upwards violently, and the sword qi fell like a waterfall, blocking the galaxy stars!

The assassins' attacks were unexpectedly continuous, and there was no gap between the front and back.

The rapidly changing image flashed in Su E's eyebrows, and the four sword qi had already slashed in front of her, and she didn't even have time to jump!

Between the lightning and flint, she felt a warm big hand, holding her waist, Su E's eyebrows widened, and just as she wanted to speak, she felt a whirlwind of the sky, and four sword qi fell around her!

In the crisp sound, the blown dirt splashed up like a splash, and Su Emei felt the coolness of the cold wind, but she didn't feel pain, because none of the sword qi hurt her!

Su Emei suddenly felt light, she looked up in amazement, and found that she was flying towards the stars.

The night breeze whistled in my ears.

The dirt that was blown away by the sword qi didn't fall on her at all!

One arm straightened her shoulder, and then it reached the waist, wrapping around her lower abdomen from behind, the warm palm felt so clear, and the subtle touch was like thunder and lightning, which shook Su E's eyebrows and body, and she finally found that she had risen into the air, and the forest and the official road were all under her feet!