Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Inner Sage and the Outer King
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"Woo ......" The silver-armored young general stopped his horse, his expression relaxed, and he smiled slightly: "It's good to catch up." ”
Su Bai looked intently and saw that he was wearing a powerful armor, and he must be a lieutenant general.
It's just that the identity of the gentleman and the young general in the silver armor are put together, but it gives people some thoughts: "You were sent by that gentleman?"
Su Bai saw that the silver-armored young general dismounted, and there was a trace of hostility in his eyes.
"Qi Gongzi can't order me!" The silver-armored young general said respectfully: "Chen Zilong, the deputy general of the garrison of Xishan County, is hereby invited by the general to invite you to the camp tent. ”
"What, do you want to introduce me into your army?" Su Bai said coldly.
"Your Excellency does have some skills, but it is inevitably a little conceited, and if you want to take down Your Excellency, you don't need those thousands of troops. The silver-armored little Chen Zilong was full of confidence, and smiled slightly: "The young general is not talented, although he does not say that he will definitely be able to win Your Excellency, but he still has that confidence." ”
"Under Su Bai!" Su Bai looked at Chen Zilong and said, "You have also practiced martial arts, and you have become a martial artist." The son of General Naqi is arrogant and domineering, and he is the party to the disaster, how can you be willing to worship under such a person. ”
"Qi Gongzi is Qi Gongzi, General Qi is Qi General, although they are father and son, they are not all the way. Chen Zilong didn't care about what Gongzi Qi did, and said lightly: "I am only responsible for inviting Gongzi Su, and I don't ask anything else." ”
"So I have to go?" asked Su Bai.
"Then it depends on how Su Gongzi understands, General Qi's order to me is to be sure to bring you to the camp. Chen Zilong said neither humbly nor arrogantly, always carrying out General Naqi's orders, and was very loyal.
"Okay, I'll see what kind of character this General Qi is!" Su Bai threw his hand away, and the catch fell to the ground quickly, he didn't look at it, as the silver-armored young general Chen Zilong left Xishan County, all the way south, he saw a camp tent standing outside the city, soldiers and horses coming and going, and he heard the sound of drills from a distance, deafening, and neat.
Looking at the carriages coming and going, pulling the whole car of grain and grass, constantly transporting them to the camp, looking like they were preparing before the war.
"The general is waiting in the main tent, Su Gongzi, please!" Chen Zilong stepped aside, he stood aside and didn't go in, opened the curtain, and just stood outside.
In the main tent, there are four long tables on both sides, a long table in the middle, and a sword hangs behind the table.
Hearing the strange noise behind him, the man turned around, but he was a general, with a square face and long beard, and his eyes were focused, not like ordinary generals who were brave and unscrupulous, but this one was a wise and brave all-rounder who was good at using his brain.
This person is Qi Hengyuan, the commander of the garrison of Xishan County.
"Presumably Your Excellency is the master who taught the dog a lesson, right?" Seeing Su Bai come in, Qi Hengyuan smiled, put down the brush in his hand, and greeted him, he looked up and down, and couldn't help but praise: "If you are really a heroic boy, there is a martial artist style at such a grade, Qi admires it." ”
"General Qi has a good reputation!" Su Bai replied and said: "Your son is arrogant and domineering in this county town, and he swaggers through the city by virtue of the general's prestige, and he happened to meet him in Xishan County on the next path, but he didn't know that it was the general's son, and he also looked at the general Haihan." ”
"Dog Ning Xiu has lacked discipline since he was a child, and he is used to it, and the son made him suffer some losses, so he knows that there is a sky outside the sky, and there is a mountain outside the mountain, so as not to suffer a big loss in the future, and it will be too late to regret it. This Qi Hengyuan did not have a trace of reproach in his expression or words, but he was very happy that Su Bai had taught him a lesson, but it was incomprehensible that it was so abnormal, and the reason for it needed to be investigated.
"Oh yes, I don't know your Excellency's surname?" Qi Hengyuan's voice just fell, and then he said again.
"Tongtianfu Su Bai. Su Bai didn't hide it, and immediately reported his birth name. His name is not loud, but the name of Tongtianfu is a famous place in the entire Central Plains, and there are not a few people who know it.
"Tongtianfu?Su Bai?" Qi Hengyuan's face changed, and he immediately asked: "Su Gongzi's father is a generation of literary heroes Su Yi Su Yuanwai, but the Su family of the Imperial Zhengde Family?"
"Exactly!" Since the other party asked, he must have known something about his own family, and he did not hide it. The Su family is the home of Zhengde, and anyone in the world who has a heart can know that his father Su Yi is a generation of writers, and he is also well-known in the literati circle.
"Unexpectedly, after being a literati, he had a relationship with the head of Su Yi's family back then, but he didn't have the opportunity to make a deep friendship, and today he can make Su Bai Xiaoyou, which can be regarded as a kind of fate. Qi Hengyuan was even more pleased when he learned about Su Bai's family background, and his face was full of smiles.
"General Qi, I heard that you came to me to talk about something?" Su Bai asked, "But you and I seem to be meeting for the first time today, but there is nothing old to talk about, right?" If there is nothing to do, I will leave next, and I will travel all over the Central Plains, north, south, east and west. ”
"Su Gongzi's ambitions are not comparable to those of our martial artists, but if there is turmoil today, and the heroes rise together, it is the time for a good man to show his strength, how can he waste such a great opportunity?" Qi Hengyuan had something to say, which was quite meaningful.
"What does the general mean by this?" Su Bai was puzzled, so he asked.
"Su Gongzi, please!" Qi Hengyuan led Su Bai to the long table and pointed to a map spread out on the table, which was a very detailed map of the Central Plains, marked with almost all prefectures and counties, official avenues, and even some famous mountains and rivers, and natural hazards and obstacles were also clearly marked on the map.
Qi Hengyuan pointed to the map and said, "Since the eunuch Hai Mingsha usurped the throne, the world has long been divided, and the people are dissatisfied. Today, Yunzhou in the east has occupied three prefectures and six counties, in the north the snow country has turned a radius of thousands of miles into a snow country, and in the west the barren continent has crossed the long gorge and annexed ten prefectures and twenty-four counties. Although the land of my Central Plains is vast, but it can't withstand being encroached upon by foreign enemies, Haiming Sha is a eunuch, how can He De sit on that dragon chair, and now the army of the former dynasty is retreating one after another, retreating without attacking, it is simply a turtle with a shrunken head, and his own momentum has plummeted. As far as I know, there are now as many as 20 prefectures and counties that intend to oppose the cadres, and the number of former dynasties has been exhausted. ”
"General Qi, you are blatantly rebelling!" Su Bai pretended to be surprised and said in a lost voice.
"Now even if Qi picks up the banner and writes the reverse word, what can it do? The whole world is opposed, what is the difference between one more me and one less me?" Qi Hengyuan said calmly.
"General Qi wants to sit on the great event of a thousand years, I don't know what is the matter with calling me a martial artist to come?" Su Bai pretended to be confused and said, in fact, he knew in his heart that this Qi Hengyuan knew his skills, and wanted to win him into his command as a general, so that he could fight the world for him in the future.
"Qi is now thirsty for talent, but he sincerely invites Su Gongzi to go to the great cause with me, and he will be prosperous and rich in the future, and he will naturally share it together. Qi Hengyuan looked complacent, as if the world was already in his hands and in his chest.
"Is General Qi going to fight this world for the sake of glory and wealth?" Su Bai's eyes condensed slightly, and he looked directly at Qi Hengyuan.
"Naturally not!" Qi Hengyuan agreed neatly: "If the people's grievances are everywhere today, Qi naturally responds to the people's voices and wants to save the people from fire and water." ”
"Hehe, hehehe!" Su Bai couldn't help but sneer when he heard Qi Hengyuan's words.
"Why is Su Gongzi laughing?" Qi Hengyuan didn't know why Su Bai was smiling, so he asked.
"General Qi, let me ask you, your son, Qi Ningxiu, swaggered through the city in Xishan County, became a local ruffian bully, robbed the people's daughters and harmed the people, why don't you care?" Su Baiyi was stern and serious.
"Qi has no skills, he has to consider the general trend of the world, where is there that idle mind to care about him, he has to let him continue to mess around, this is also a matter of no way. Qi Hengyuan replied solemnly.
"No tricks?" Su Bai suddenly felt funny: "You are the commander of the Tang Tang and Tang garrisons, and any subordinate can restrain the behavior of your son, but you don't have the skills to open your mouth?"
"And!" Su Bai immediately said: "The two followers who followed your son were obviously sent by the soldiers in the army to protect his safety, and you simply indulged him, regardless of whether he asked, and let him do whatever he wanted." ”
"You said that you are worried about the suffering of the people of the world, so why don't you save the people of Xishan County, and let them live in the shadow of your son's bullies?" Su Bai said sternly and unceremoniously: "Don't take evil as small and don't do it as good, you don't even turn a blind eye to the suffering of the people around you, don't control your own children and harm the people, and you are righteous and awe-inspiring to save the people of the world from fire and water, don't you think it's funny?"
"Su Gongzi, the world is so big, it is not possible to take it into account, for the sake of the overall situation, even if some ordinary people are sacrificed, as long as they can be exchanged for peace in the world, this is enough, and these small people are unscrupulous on weekdays, and they should be let know what to fear, otherwise it is not impossible for them to gather a crowd to rebel after being encouraged by others in the future. Qi Hengyuan's words were still so righteous and awe-inspiring, and he didn't feel that he was wrong at all.
"Hey!" Su Bai sighed and walked away: "The Tao is not the same, the emperor is in power, the inner sage and the outer king, the internal saint and the outer king, the internal like a saint to exercise his talents and virtues, love the people like a son in order to be admired by the people, and build an indestructible merit; And you, you may have some royal spirit, but without the way of a saint, it is difficult to achieve the road of the emperor. ”
Su Bai walked to the curtain and was about to leave, when he saw a flash of coldness, the head of a spear poked into the tent, and then the silver-armored young man Chen Zilong blocked in front of Su Bai.