The Gate Inn was burned by the fire, and Xu Beiyou and his party continued to walk in the direction of Dunhuang City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Along the way, Zhiyun was silent a lot, and seemed to be preoccupied, perhaps because he was suspicious of the world after seeing the face of the archdeacon of the Demon Suppression Palace, or it could be that Xu Beiyou finally started killing people under the teaching of Gongsun Zhongmou, which made her very unaccustomed to it, but no matter what the reason, she has changed a lot compared to before, and this change may be called mature.

Xu Beiyou couldn't guess what was going on with the girl, and he didn't have time to guess, now he not only had to cultivate the Dragon and Tiger Pill Recipe modified by Gongsun Zhongmou, so as to collect the Tianlan Sword Qi Divine Sense in his body that had not yet been turned into his own use, but also take into account the most difficult Sword Thirteen among the first thirteen swords. Just these two things have already exhausted Xu Beiyou, and he really doesn't have the time to care about other things.

As for Gongsun Zhongmou, the nominal sect master of the Sword Sect, while teaching his apprentices, he began to prepare to return to his old business, so when the three of them finally saw Dunhuang City, the capital of Xiliang Prefecture, Gongsun Zhongmou informed the two that he was going to meet an old friend, gave Xu Beiyou five hundred taels of silver, and let the two enter the city on their own.

Xu Beiyou knew that this was what the master had been doing in the past few decades, so he didn't ask anything, he took the forged road guide given by the master, and gave the gatekeeper thirty yuan, and then took Zhiyun into Dunhuang City smoothly.

The first thing Xu Beiyou did after entering the city was to pick an inn, located in the northwest corner of Dunhuang City, where fish and dragons were mixed, and it was barely a good place to live. This time, there was no Gongsun Zhongmou, he asked for two rooms, one room for Zhiyun and one for each person.

The reason why this is so is because Gongsun Zhongmou is not around, Xu Beiyou does not want to continue to repeat the previous embarrassment, and the second is because Gongsun Zhongmou will never be short of money Xu Beiyou, although the Sword Sect and the Gongsun family have been destroyed, but the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, Gongsun Zhongmou still has a huge hidden inheritance in his hands, most of which is hidden in some unknown place, and a small part is stored in various money banks. And this small part, for Xu Beiyou, it is also an astronomical number that makes me feel awe when I hear it.

After Xu Beiyou was settled in the inn, he did not continue to practice his own kendo cultivation, but took out a thick thread-bound book from his luggage, with the four big characters "Xiliangzhou Chronicles" written on it.

This is a new rule set by Gongsun Zhongmou for him recently, when he is on the road, he mainly focuses on his own kendo cultivation, but after settling in a certain place, he must change to study classics and history.

This is also one of the contents of the agreement between Han Xuan and Gongsun Zhongmou at the beginning, neither of them wanted the only heir to become a sword idiot who only knew how to practice swords, or a brutal martial artist who could only be a knife in the hands of the superior, so Xu Beiyou's teaching process was divided into three parts, one was for the strategy of the sword, the other was the martial arts of the sword, and then there was to follow the Gongsun Zhongmou all over the world, and saw the sinister hearts of the people.

If Xu Beiyou is the kind of rough person who has a headache when he sees books, it is too much to underestimate the vision of Gongsun Zhongmou and Han Xuan, on the contrary, Xu Beiyou is not only not stupid, but also very smart, in the past ten years, Xu Beiyou has followed Han Xuan to lay a good foundation, and what he has to do now is to learn what he should learn with the momentum of swallowing.

Xu Beiyou didn't have to participate in the imperial examination, so he really didn't seek to understand or refine, but to seek a doctorate. In addition to the must-read classics of Confucianism, such as the Four Books and Five Classics, there are also Daomen's "Nanhua Sutra", "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing", Legalist's "Book of Law", "Han Feizi", Bingjia's "Martial Preparations", "Mu Gong's Art of War", and then there are some "Taiping Huanyu Ji", "Shaking the Dragon Sutra", "Black Capsule Sutra", "Book of Changes", "Shujing Direct Interpretation", "Emperor Jian Illustrated" and other huge and miscellaneous books.

Among them, "Shujing Straight Interpretation" and "Emperor Jian Illustrated" are the works of Zhang Jiangling, the former emperor of Wenzheng, and Xiao Yu, the founding emperor of the Great Qi Dynasty, highly respected the former emperor and praised his "merit in the world, benefit in the future, the end of the Zheng Dynasty, only Jiangling is a phase." And his nickname was changed from Wenzhong to Wenzheng. Moreover, many of the governance directions after Xiao Yu ascended the throne and established the dynasty were also deeply influenced by Zhang Jiangling, so Xu Beiyou wanted to understand the imperial court, so he definitely couldn't get around Zhang Jiangling.

Gongsun Zhongmou will also add some books to Xu Beiyou from time to time according to the actual situation, such as the "Chronicles of Western Liangzhou" that Xu Beiyou is reading now.

"Chronicles of Xiliangzhou" is a local chronicle to put it bluntly, boring and boring, but through it you can quickly understand Xiliangzhou.

Xu Beiyou compared the "Chronicles of Xiliangzhou" in his hand, combined with what he saw along the way, and already had a general initial impression of Xiliangzhou under his feet.

Before the first emperor Xiao Yu entered the Central Plains, he had always been the master of the northwest. On the vast territory of the northwest, Xiliangzhou is undoubtedly the top priority, and the Hexi Plain and the Xiliang Corridor within its territory are known as the south of the Yangtze River outside the Yangtze River, and there is the most fertile land in the entire northwest, so it is not only an important land for soldiers, but also the granary of the entire northwest.

At that time, in the northwest, in addition to the central capital, Xiliangzhou was still the most important.

After Xiao Yu entered the Central Plains and ascended the throne as the emperor, a large number of military generals from Xiliang Prefecture were meritorious from the dragon, although most of the generals followed His Majesty the Emperor to settle in the imperial capital, but there were still a small number of military attaches who chose to return to their roots, after two generations, created a strange scene of Xiliang Prefecture all over the gates, at its peak, there were 800 generals in the land known as Xiliang Prefecture. At the beginning, Xu Beiyou saw the three Li brothers in Danxia Village, and they were from Jiangmen, Xiliangzhou.

Dunhuang City, as the capital of Xiliang Prefecture, is naturally the top priority, and is called "the land of a city, three hundred gates" by the world, in which various forces are intricately intertwined, even the three divisions of the yamen who dominate a state do not dare to say that they can do whatever they want.

The rise of the power of the Jiangmen nobles not only affected the real power of the local yamen, but also greatly weakened the power of the Daomen in this place.

This made Xu Beiyou fall into deep thought. In his opinion, wanting to rely on the remnants of the previous dynasty or the "remnants of the Sword Sect" to deal with the imperial court and the Daomen is tantamount to a fool's dream.

In today's world, only the imperial court can deal with the Daomen, and conversely, only the Daomen can deal with the imperial court. If you want to take revenge, you must fight against the other by serving one side, and you can only fight with strength.

He didn't think Master didn't understand this, but he was unwilling or unable to do so for some unspoken reason.

From Mao Shi to Xu Shi, Xu Beiyou finally finished reading this Xiliangzhou Chronicle as if he was swallowing dates, rubbed his eyes, got up and went to the next door to call Zhiyun to eat together.

Now his time is really precious, and he has to read "The Straight Explanation of the Book of Books" at night, originally Gongsun Zhongmou meant to let him start directly from "The Illustrated Legend of the Emperor", but Xu Beiyou thinks that "The Straight Interpretation of the Book of Books" is already his limit, no matter how advanced he is, it is not that he does not seek to understand, but he really does not understand.

There are also "Nanhua Sutra" and "Shangqing Dadong True Scripture", after practicing the Dragon and Tiger Dan Dao, Xu Beiyou also has a lot of understanding of the concept of Taoism, and wants to take time to read these two books, and strive to start studying the "Taoist Classics" that many Taoists have read all their lives as soon as possible.

More than half of the tens of millions of Daomen methods come from this general outline of the world's Dao Law, and the Sword Sect, as a part of the former Daomen, naturally also has the "Dao Classic" circulating, as for how much can be comprehended from it, it depends on Xu Beiyou's own understanding.

When Xu Beiyou and Zhiyun were sitting in the corner of the inn lobby eating, Xu Beiyou's mouth was vague, and he suddenly said: "I want to be a person with status, the kind that is both civil and military." ”

Zhiyun asked curiously, "How can it be regarded as both civil and military?"

Xu Beiyou showed a big smile and said: "Wu, even if you can be like Master, as for the text, you can write a splendid article like "Chuan Yu Tianxia". ”

Xu Beiyou put down the chopsticks in his hand and slowly recited: "The sound of the class moves and the north wind rises, the sword qi rushes and the south is flat, the mountains collapse and the wind and clouds change color." If we use this to control the enemy, why will the enemy not be destroyed?

"The words are still in my ears, and I will not forget my loyalty. A handful of soil has not dried up, and what can be done with six feet of loneliness?"

"Look at the world of today's domain!"