"Master, what you said, Mr. Zhang also taught me, you suddenly said this today, why did you say this?" Chen Qi's words said this, Wei Xu no longer pretended, and his words were no longer polite.

"Mr. Zhang?" Chen Qi thought for a while, it seemed that he had heard Wei Xu mention it before, he was his father's advisor and his enlightenment teacher. Chen Qi suddenly felt a little bad, it seemed that someone was robbing him of an apprentice, one more person to teach, one more idea, and it would be more difficult to fool Wei Xu, but he still had confidence in himself, but his face was silent and sighed.

"Alas, in recent years, the climate in Kyushu has been capricious, droughts, floods, locust plagues, plagues, and various natural disasters have occurred frequently, and today's upper echelons of the court are vying for power, deceitful and deceitful, regardless of the life and death of the people, middle and lower-level officials, bending the law for personal gain, corruption and bribery, and preying on the people. ”

"Master, your news is lagging behind, it's not that the world is about to be in chaos, but it's already in chaos!"

"Oh, Weishi has been busy with disputes in the rivers and lakes recently, and he doesn't know much about the affairs of the world, what news do you have?"

"Let's talk about the Central Plains first, floods, locusts, famine and famine, the people finally lived, and they rose up one after another, but there were more than a dozen anti-thieves in Yuzhou, they burned and looted, did all kinds of evil, wandered around, the imperial army was exhausted, and the harm was better than the red turban thieves. ”

"Then there is Guanzhong, the land of Guanzhong has been dry for a year, the famine broke out, the people fled one after another, there is a cult Red Lotus to take the opportunity to buy people's hearts, gather people to make trouble, in a short period of time to develop to hundreds of thousands of people, I heard that it has surrounded Xijing Chang'an, is attacking day and night. ”

"Then there is Shuzhong, the Tusi rebellion in various places, often attacking each other, chaotic, Lingnan Shanyue also went down the mountain to attack, but was blocked by your grandfather. ”

"Although the world is chaotic, these are small skin diseases, the troubles of the court, inside and not outside. ”

"Master, what do you mean?"

"The Great Liang Dynasty has ruled the world for more than 200 years, and its roots are deep, and it is not so easy to shake. But the fortress is often broken from within, and now above the court, the three major forces of eunuchs, families, and relatives stand together, which seem to be very stable, but the contradictions may be triggered at any time, and large-scale bloody political incidents will break out, shaking the foundation of the Liang Dynasty. ”

"Master, could it be that chaos may break out in the imperial court at any time?" Wei Xu was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed eagerness.

"Don't worry, the superior must be moody, learn to hide himself, and not be easily seen through by others. ”

"Teach in vain!"

"On the contrary, if the world is peaceful, they may fight to the death, but the world is in chaos, they will unite together to suppress the turmoil, after all, the premise of their struggle for power is that the Liang Dynasty rules the world, if the Liang Dynasty falls, what are they fighting for?"

"I see. ”

"Therefore, you still need to accumulate strength in Lingnan, wait for the day, and don't be in a hurry. ”

The two talked secretly for a long time in the backyard of the Tang Mansion, and then agreed to return to Lingnan together.

On the second day, after noon, Chen Qi, Wei Xu and Tang Qian said goodbye at the city gate.

In addition to Chen Qi and the two who left, there was also Tang Qian, although he distributed food to the victims, but his reputation in Xinye County was completely stinky, and rumors about his favoritism and corruption of disaster relief grain and grass were promoted by people with ulterior motives to spread throughout the city overnight, and they could not be washed away.

Tang Qian had a straightforward personality and was unwilling to be driven away, so he decided to retain his last self-esteem and hang up his seal.

Looking at Tang Qian's lonely figure on the carriage in the distance, Chen Qi and the two sighed, then got into the carriage and the team set off.

"What do you think of those families in Xinye County, and what do you think of the world's families?" Chen Qi suddenly asked.

"Well......" Wei Xu knew that the master was examining himself, and pondered for a while and said, "Those big families in Xinye County are really hateful, selfish, holding local authority, coercing the court officials, and their actions should be punished, but Mr. Zhang used to say that the world's families are huge and their relationships are intertwined, and if I want to fight and rule the world in the future, I must rely on these families." ”

"Yes, I hate them and I have to rely on them. Then do you know why the great clans can win for a long time, and even the emperor can't help them?"

"I don't know," Wei Xu thought for a long time and said a few answers, but they were all rejected by Chen Qi, and he could only admit that he didn't know.

"Knowledge! They have a monopoly on knowledge, and that's the root of their supremacy. The emperor ruled Kyushu, and he couldn't rule the world alone, he had to have the help of many knowledgeable officials, and the big families monopolized knowledge, and most of the scholars came from them, and most of the officials came from them, and they could threaten the imperial power if they were united. ”

Although the imperial examination system has broken this monopoly to a certain extent, it has little effect, because under the current technical conditions, the number of pen, ink, paper and inkstone is scarce and expensive, and the children of ordinary people cannot afford to study at all, while the family members rely on rich financial resources to send more children to study. ”

"Master, do you mean to popularize knowledge?" Wei Xu was very smart and understood the meaning of Chen Qi's words, "But Confucius said that the people can make it happen, but they can't make it known, isn't the sage's words wrong?"

"This is not right or wrong, the stupid people are easy to govern, and it is not difficult for the smart to understand knowledge, their knowledge is taught by you, since he was a child, he has been taught to be loyal to the monarch and patriotic every day, every day, every month, every year, when he grows up, he will be loyal to you, maybe there are individual differences, and it is harmless. ”

"Oh," Wei Xu thought thoughtfully, "but, master, how can we popularize knowledge?"

"It's not difficult to do this, when I go back to Lingnan, I'll start handling it," Seeing that Wei Xu was about to fall into the pit he dug, Chen Qi smiled in his heart, "Our Chen family's craftsmen have recently improved papermaking and printing, using water power instead of manpower, the output has increased more than ten times, and the cost has dropped a lot. ”

"In order to avoid attracting attention, our Chen family will come forward to run a school in Lingnan University in the name of benefiting the township, so that the children of those poor people can go to school for free, so that you can conquer the world in the future and govern the country and cultivate a large number of talents, without being constrained by those big families. ”

When Chen Qi and the two were talking, the carriage suddenly stopped.

"What happened?" Wei Xu lifted the carriage and asked the guards beside the carriage.

"Shizi, it's getting dark, and the guide said that there is a Zhuangzi two miles away, should we camp on the spot, or go to Zhuangzi to stay?"

Wei Xu looked at the damp and dirty ground, and was a little disgusted, "Go to the Zhuangzi in front and go faster." ”

The carriage continued to move forward, but as he walked, Chen Qi felt that something was wrong, it was already completely dark, he roughly calculated the time, and at their speed it should have been out of five miles, but why Zhuangzi had not arrived yet, he called the guide to ask, and he swore that he had walked this road many times, and Zhuangzi was two miles away.

Chen Qi was a little suspicious that he had made a mistake, so the convoy continued to move forward, this time Chen Qi calculated carefully, and found that he had walked more than ten miles, but still did not reach the village.

"It's... We seem to have been to this place before!" a guard pointed to a big tree next to him and shouted, it was a big willow tree hugged by several people, curved and hollow, a little terrifying in the night, so it made people deeply impressed, and Chen Qi vaguely remembered.

But they kept moving along the straight road, and there was no fork in the road at all, how could they get lost inexplicably?

"We won't be blocked by ghosts, will we?!" At this point, the guide reacted and immediately knelt on the ground, bowing in all directions, and kept chanting words in his mouth. When the others saw it, they also used the dirt method they had heard of to break the way of the ghost.

Some pee, some curse loudly, and some suddenly turn around and threaten.......

All the methods were used, and the team was apprehensive again, but soon they were back in their original position.

Deep fear enveloped the entire team, some of them were timid and almost cried, and the same was true for Wei Xu, although he was precocious, he was young, and he was most afraid of these ghosts.

"Haha," Chen Qi laughed, "what are you afraid of? Ghosts and monsters all become people after death, and you will become ghosts after death, why are you afraid of them?"

When everyone heard this, this was reasonable, and the fear in their hearts was reduced a lot, but there were still people who were very afraid, but they didn't know what they were afraid of.

"Why do you think these ghosts in the shadows are blocking our way and covering our eyes?" Chen Qi asked the crowd.

"Do you have to eat us?" replied in fear.

"Maybe, but they want to murder us, why don't they just rush up, anyway, the ghosts are invisible, and we can't resist. ”

"You mean, those ghosts in the shadows are too weak to directly harm us. "Some people's brains spin faster.

"It should be so, those ghosts are relatively weak, and can only use illusions to trap us, so that we are frightened, keep running away, and finally die of exhaustion. Chen Qi expressed his guess.

After listening to Chen Qi's words, everyone calmed down a lot, and some people asked hopefully, "Chen Gongzi, can you crack the illusion of these ghosts?"

"Let me think about it and give it a try," Chen Qi pondered, "The so-called illusion should be to use mysterious power to blind people's five senses, although human beings use their five senses to perceive the outside world, but all perceptual signals will pass through the nervous system and converge to the brain, so the brain and nervous system are most likely to be manipulated." ”

Speaking of this, Chen Qi circulated the internal force in his body in the brain and the nervous system of the whole body, and sure enough, he found cold xenogeneous energy in some places of the optic nerve and auditory nerve.

Chen Qi transported the Supreme Pure Yang True Qi to the Yang and drove away these Yin Qi, and the scenery in front of him suddenly changed greatly.