In the new year, when the people go to their relatives and kowtow to press the New Year's money, good news from all over the country is frequent.

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

First of all, there was news from 'Beichuan' that Fang Bing killed the two generals who led the mutiny, and the mutiny stopped. The rebellion of the displaced people in Western Xinjiang has been suppressed.

The seventh day of the Lunar New Year.

The 'Northern Calamity' and the 'Tianxiong Kingdom' turned against each other, the 'Wolf Rider' and the 'Golden Rider' clashed, and the two sides suffered casualties and casualties, and the 'Northern Calamity' tended to cooperate with the 'Tianmang Dynasty'.

The ninth day of the Lunar New Year.

Nineteen officials, including Liu Weide, the governor of 'Mijindu', were promoted, and twenty-two officials, including Li Wei and Zhang Tong, were reinstated.

The eleventh day of the first month.

'Beichuan' was a good news, Fang Bing led his troops to repel the golden cavalry and beheaded more than 300.

The emperor began to check the empty salary personnel of the forbidden army and the army deployed in the capital, and within a few days found 39,928 empty soldiers, some of whom were still paid after the dismissal, some were fictitious names, and what was even more excessive was that some were still receiving money after more than 20 years of death.

The twelfth day of the first month.

The emperor issued an order to abstain from luxury, prohibiting officials from extravagance, prohibiting their female music, gambling, and prostitution, and promoting the ideas of Mojia thrift and funeral, and named Chu Zefeng, the giant of the Mo family, as the national teacher, and built the Mojia ancestral hall for Mozi as the ancestor, and Mozi as a god, and titled "Ming Punishment and Practice the Tao to protect the goodness of Jingyu Youxian and respect the great god of heaven", and created "Xuanqi" as the holy beast of the Mo family, as powerful as a tiger, as kind as a deer, as good as electricity, as quiet as water, its shape is clear, black and white, quiet as the strength of Mount Tai, moving like a river pouring ...... From now on, the emperor will set an example, follow the example of Taizu, wear regular clothes, live in a normal place, do not wear beautiful jade, do not perform gold and silver, do not build construction, do not work the people, and ...... with the people with every vegetarian meal.

When the people heard this, they ran to tell each other, bowed down and cheered.

On the same day, the emperor ordered the redundant personnel of the forbidden army, the 'Golden Guards', and the 'Inner Governor's Mansion', and in order to avoid similar unjust, false and wrongful convictions, the Emperor decreed that the powers of the 'Inner Governor's Mansion' and the 'Golden Guards' were restricted, and ordered that unless there was rebellion and rebellion, all those who overturned the case would be transferred to the Three Law Divisions for interrogation, and they were not allowed to be tortured privately. The 'Golden Guards' gradually moved closer to the establishment of 1,000 households from 1,000 households, and the original full number of 20,000 or 30,000 'Golden Guards' was reduced to a full number of only 4,000 or 5,000 .......

The people celebrated.

The fifteenth day of the first month.

Lantern Festival. Zhang Yan wrote a book, saying that the emperor's Hongfu, there were some small contradictions within the 'Yang Dao League', nothing serious, just leave it to them to solve it themselves, and wrote five or six thousand words to say such an inconsequential news, and then the whole article was sycophant, and the emperor couldn't help but cry and laugh after reading it for a long time, but fortunately, he didn't pay attention to it.

The twenty-third day of the first month.

The emperor ordered the imperial examination to be opened and talents to be selected, and the topic of the imperial examination will be extracted from the Mohist doctrine, so that the world's scholars can prepare early. Under the order, there was a lot of discussion in the private schools of the world's academies, and there were even more people who supported and cursed. More than 100 Confucian scholars from all over the country jointly wrote a letter to cite scriptures and classics to oppose it, from the 23rd to the 27th to the 27th of the book to oppose the voice, there are good words and admonishments and there are also those who insinuate that the emperor forgets his ancestors, those courtiers who have just been promoted have also written a book, and the emperor has not done a serious matter every day and argued endlessly, the emperor was overwhelmed, so he ordered that it should be so only in Enke, but the opposition has not stopped, and the emperor has no choice but to put it aside for the time being. The courtiers took advantage of the victory to write a letter to exempt Mozi from the title, but the emperor did not allow it, and then the will to build the ancestral hall of the Mo family was repeatedly rejected.

The twenty-eighth day of the first month.

Count nine.

The 'Six Dragons Gang' asked for overseas islands, intended to expand their territory overseas, establish a kingdom, and the emperor approved a special decree, a golden order, a sword from Shang Fang, and a unicorn to the 'Dragon God', and specially allowed to recruit craftsmen, sailors, etc.

The thirtieth day of the first month, the night.

Although it has been spring, the weather is still cold, 'Jiuyuan blacksmith shop' Chang Lao Jiu is waiting to close, suddenly two people came to the street one after the other, walking in front of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, the young man walked in a tiger's step, majestic, exuding a breath that was extremely incommensurate with his age, behind the young man was a middle-aged man in a green shirt, the man was holding an ancient sword in his hand, and the sword intent on his body was circulating while walking.

"What a clever sword intent. Chang Laojiu's eyelids raised, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, he had guessed the identity of the person who came.

The young man walked to the blacksmith and stopped.

"Two guest officers, please. Chang Lao Jiu let the two of them into the house, the young man entered first, and the swordsman followed, and the moment the swordsman stepped into the room, the sword intent spread like water, and the wind and grass in any corner of the entire room were in the swordsman's hands.

"Sir, do you have any good weapons to sell?" the young man raised his eyes and forgot to glance at the dazzling array of weapons on the weapon rack in the room, and asked Chang Lao Jiu.

"What weapons do you want from the guest officer?" Chang Lao Jiu asked with an indifferent expression, just like he would treat an ordinary guest.

"A weapon that kills. The youth said.

Chang Laojiu's sleeves flicked, and a sword on the weapon rack was rolled over, he pulled out the sword out of the sheath, the cold light in the room suddenly appeared, Chang Laojiu's wrist trembled, the sword flashed and immediately wrote a word on a wooden card, the word meandered, like a snake swimming, but it was a small seal of the word 'sword', Chang Laojiu said:" The sword is the king of a hundred soldiers, open the double edge to break the hardship, from the double to cut the thorns, it is like a bamboo and straight, its evil is like a snake and bend, the king is good and righteous but seeks from the bend, not delicate, not hypocritical, with the gentleman can keep his way, so the slander can not be destroyed, and then the bend can be straight, can the guest officer be satisfied?"

The young man shook his head and said: "The blade opens the double blade and hurts oneself and hurts others, the sword is easy to learn but difficult to master, I am afraid that I will hurt myself before I hurt others." ”

Chang Lao Jiu returned the sword to the sheath, probed the hand to take the knife in the void and split, the sound of the knife was Huo Ran, such as broken skin and flesh, Chang Lao Jiu said: "The knife is the commander of a hundred soldiers, the blade is like a thousand armies, the order is out, the movement of the thousands of armies is not two, the blade is invincible, destroying the city and breaking the armor, the knife is the weapon of the brave, the butcher and the cook have a knife can also cross three points." ”

The young man shook his head and said, "The mad knife is deceased, and the person who is now the knife may not have the guts!"

Chang Laojiu returned the knife to the sheath, reached out and took out a dagger, and before he could speak, the young man shook his head and said: "The dagger is good at treacherous, and it is possible to defend yourself against a sneak attack, but it will be difficult to meet the enemy in the end." ”

Chang Laojiu took out another stick, and the young man shook his head again: "The stick is the ancestor of a hundred soldiers, if the young man is the power to subdue the tiger and leopard, gallop the world, and then hold the stick to resist the enemy with the old body, I am afraid it will be difficult to dance by himself." ”

Chang Laojiu took out a gun and shook it in his hand, slapped it on the butt with one palm, the spear flew out like a dragon, and entered through the wall, Chang Laojiu said: "The gun is the king of a hundred soldiers, fierce as a dragon galloping for thousands of miles, fine as embroidered carved wood, longitudinal iron riding gallops thousands of troops is unstoppable, and the narrow road is against the enemy." One gun battle and one sword may not be invincible, ten guns against ten swords will not be defeated, and ten thousand armies with guns will not be close to a million swords. ”

The young man nodded, shook his head again, and Chang Lao Jiu said: "In this way, only the bow and crossbow can defeat the enemy." The young man's expression remained unchanged, he still shook his head, but Chang Laojiu's face suddenly changed.

The young man's fingers slowly touched the scabbard and scabbard on the table, and he sighed and said, "Have you ever heard of the 'Legend of Ink Spring', sir?"

The young man did not wait for Chang Laojiu to answer, and said to himself: "Therefore, according to the old legend, there is a pond at the northern foot of Kunlun, which is thousands of zhang deep, 300 miles wide, and there is a spring under the pool, which is as big as a bucket, and there is water all day long, and its water is black, such as ink, so it is called the ink spring, and people and animals drink it, and they all die." When the state capital of the world heard the news, it made people go, and each of them scooped it with strange weapons, and rushed to pass it on, and poured it into Jiuquan. If it is a year, the black pool is exhausted, then the salary is placed on it, the snow of Kunlun is melted, and the water in the pool is pure! The next year, the water in the pool is like ink, and when it is smelled, it is desperate, so that people scoop it up with strange weapons, and rush to pass it on, and pour it into the ...... of Jiuquan. ”

This is an endless legend, as long as you are happy, you can keep talking about the next life, the young man muttered to himself, said it five times in one breath, Chang Laojiu finally opened his mouth: "The emperor wants to eradicate the enemy?" It turned out that the young man was the emperor, and the blue-shirted swordsman behind him was Zhuang Zejing.

The emperor smiled slightly, stopped, his eyes fell on Chang Laojiu's face for a long time, and Fang said: "It is difficult to go to the outside world, the military expenditure of the imperial court is increasing, and the suffering of the people is flourishing, and if this goes on for a long time, the world is afraid that it will be dragged down and collapsed.

Chang Lao Jiu said: "The grass people can't even keep their own arms, how can they help the emperor go to the enemy?"

The Emperor said, "A few months ago, I was just a piece of milk that had not dried up. ”

Chang Laojiu said: "The emperor is one step late, and the 'Throwing Spring Thunder' has been sold out." ”

The emperor said, "Sir is still there." ”

Chang Laojiu smiled and said: "A spring thunder can be made in half a year, and it can be made in a year, and it costs a lot of money, and it is extremely dangerous. ”

The emperor said: "The 'Ten Monsters of Leishan' have been waiting in prison for a long time. ”

A gleam flashed in Chang Laojiu's eyes, and he suddenly said, "Is the emperor sure that these ten people can be trusted?"

The emperor said: "It has been screened repeatedly, and three of them should be credible, not to mention what benefit will it do to them after the country is broken?"

Chang Lao Jiu said: "Having said that, you must not be guarded against. ”

The emperor said: "The old and young in his family have mastered it, and then the 'Golden Guard' is secretly monitored, and if there is any abnormal move to kill him, it will not be spread outside." ”

Chang Lao Jiu pondered for a long time, and finally nodded and said: "The grass people still need to accept an apprentice, and the four of them will share a quarter of the skills, even if there is betrayal, they will not lose completely." ”

The emperor said, "How long will it take, sir?"

Chang Lao Jiu said: "The nephew of this family has a good character, is intelligent, has learned the development of firearms since childhood, and can arrive within a month, if it goes well, this autumn the grass people can lead everyone to develop spring thunder, but there is a flaw in this thing." ”

The emperor said: "Is it enough for a thousand dead soldiers?"

Chang Lao Jiu finally nodded.

The emperor took his leave and went out.