Huaiyuan County, the fief of Liu An, King of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty.

Liu An was bent on rebellion, and he was worried that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che would find out, so he recruited talents in Bagong Mountain, wrote books and theories, and compiled the famous book "Huainanzi" through the ages.

"Huainanzi" is the whole of Huang Lao's learning, emphasizing how to cultivate one's self and cultivate one's nature, and rule by doing nothing.

After the compilation was completed, Liu An specially presented it to the imperial court, saying that he believed in the rule of inaction and would never rebel. When asking the talented Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che to cut the domain, don't cut yourself.

"Huainanzi" has beautiful words, rich historical materials, and rigorous arguments, which can be called a must.

There are not many people who know "Huainanzi", because the common people are concerned about food, clothing, housing and transportation, so what people remember is another thing, that is, Liu An's great contribution to Chinese cuisine - tofu.

Xiong Chu stayed here, not just to eat the tofu invented by King Huainan.

Xiangyang is thousands of miles away from Fengyang Mansion, and it is not possible to reach it when it is said.

Xiong Chu's identity is sensitive, and he has just fought another battle with the Quanzhen Sect and Shaolin Temple, which has already alarmed many people.

It's such a long way now, and if you're not careful, you might have to go wrong halfway.

Xiong Chu went to Fengyang Mansion to worship his ancestors, and he didn't want to cause trouble, because he was a person who was most afraid of trouble.

In order to reduce the trouble as much as possible, Xiong Chu stopped after half a month of rushing to Huaiyuan County, and then asked Mo Jiuniang to get in touch with the local dark line to find out what was going on in Fengyang Mansion.

Although he has some understanding of the situation in Fengyang Mansion, he must not act rashly.

Entering the imperial tomb is not a simple matter, and if you want to worship your ancestors, it is a big thing that cannot be concealed. Just the incense paper candles, it will take several large trucks to tow.

Mo Jiuniang went to be busy in the dark, and the Xiong Chu had nothing to do, so he naturally needed to pay a visit to the relics of the old ancestor Emperor Taizu, that is, the Shangyao Mountain Cave Mountain Temple.

Because there is a legend, when Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was begging for food when he was a child, he used to use the cave here as an inn for no money.

Xiong Chu also had to eat, and took Lan'er from Xinyang Prefecture to Luoyang, but was tricked into Jiudao Villa, and then a series of things happened.

Because of his personal experience of asking for food, Xiong Chu was naturally able to understand the hardships and hardships of asking for food, so today he took Yan Erniang, Mandaili and the twelve people of the White Phoenix Guards to climb the mountain, wanting to see the remains of his ancestors who asked for food back then.

The cave has been turned into a temple, and the experience of the ancestors asking for food has become a legend.

Including Emperor Taizu slaughtering the calves of the rich man's family under the mountain, this has become a beautiful legend.

These legends are not told by others, but by the monks of Dongshan Temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang of the Taizu royal family ate other people's calves, and was afraid that the rich man would find trouble, so he stuffed the cow's tail into a mountain crevice. When the rich man's family came to him, he said that the oxen had gone into the mountains, and there was only one tail left.

When the monks talked about this legend, they were all impressed: Emperor Taizu was so smart at a young age, and he was really a god from heaven and should be the emperor.

Originally, there was nothing, but after Yan Erniang heard the wonderful legend, her expression was a little strange.

seems to want to laugh, but also feels disrespectful, because the protagonist of the story is the ancestor of Xianggong or Emperor Taizu.

I want to laugh but don't dare to laugh, of course, I hold it very hard, and my face is naturally not good-looking.

Xiong Chu also felt that this legend was simply unreasonable, and he didn't care about these things, and when he saw Yan Erniang's ugly expression, he said: "If you want to laugh, laugh, don't suffocate your body." ”

If Xiong Chu was wearing a coat and a scarf and not speaking, he would be fine.

But he spoke, and pulled down his scarf.

As everyone knows, this Dongshan Temple is basically a royal temple, and the monks in it are not foreign, but have a special origin.

For example, if you commit a crime as an official, you can apply to become a monk to atone for your sin.

Of course, there are also children of eunuchs who take the initiative to apply to come over to become monks, such as accumulating merit for the royal family, and when they reach a certain time, they can go out to become officials.

These people have all seen the Zhu family without exception, so Xiong Chu exposed his entire face, and immediately alarmed one person: the Zhike monk of Dongshan Temple.

Xiong Chu is a killer, and his internal strength cultivation is increasingly entering the peak state, and his perception of the surroundings is getting stronger and stronger.

Although the Zhike Monk couldn't see the change on his face, an extremely complex aura suddenly emanated from his body, which aroused Xiong Chu's idea.

Shock, hostility, and murderous aura are intertwined, which cannot but arouse Xiong Chu's idea.

Xiong Chu is not a newcomer, although he noticed something different, but his face was also expressionless.

But the uniqueness of the Shangqing Mind Method is always there, Xiong Chu secretly investigated a little, only to understand that the monk in front of him was actually hidden, and his martial arts cultivation was not under Yan Erniang.

Fortunately, in addition to Yan Erniang, who also has some internal strength and domineering exposure, Mandaili and others have the same dual cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism as Xiong Chu, and have become completely restrained and become an ordinary person. As long as they don't do it, no one knows that they are the top masters in the rivers and lakes.

Because of this, even if there are many masters of the rivers and lakes hidden in Dongshan Temple, Xiong Chu is not worried. Because the monk has only found Yan Erniang as a strong opponent so far.

There was nothing to see now, so the bear prince took the girls down the mountain after a random turn.

Unexpectedly, nothing happened until he returned to the inn, and Xiong Chu felt that he was a little allergic, and then he put it aside and didn't care about it anymore.

It can't be done if you don't put these things aside, because Mo Jiuniang brought back a good news and a bad news.

The good news is: the imperial court guards in the Jianghuai area have received the military order to go north, and there are no other armies around Fengyang Mansion, only more than 2,000 garrisons of the imperial tomb, and there is no main general so far.

Since there is no sign of increasing the number of troops in Fengyang Mansion, it means that Prince Xiong will get the tomb guards according to the original plan, and then it will be much more convenient to go in to worship the ancestors, of course it is good news.

The bad news is: Zhang Xianzhong led the righteous army to cross the Yellow River north to Liaozhou, Shanxi to Yushe, Heshun, and then to Shouyang, Yuci, and Pingding, posing a threat to Taiyuan.

The Ming Dynasty used the traitor Han Jixi of the rebel army to divide and deliberately create chaos, causing discord within the rebel army, and mutual suspicion of each other, especially between the leaders.

Wang Ziyong, Zhang Xianzhong, Chaoshi Wang, Guan Suo, Luo Rucai, Chuang Collapse and other units composed of 36 battalions, each unit of the number of people varies, the number of people in the majority is tens of thousands. Now they are all acting independently, fighting on their own, and have become real rogues, and have begun to spread eastward.

There were already tens of thousands of people in the Heze area who were making trouble under the banner of the White Lotus Sect, and if those rebels who fled east colluded with the rebels in Heze and then crossed the Yellow River south, no one knew whether they would attack Xuzhou.

If there is a war in Xuzhou, Fengyang Mansion is afraid that it will not be able to stay out of the world.

In this way, the attention of the imperial court will be diverted, and the risk of Prince Xiong's ancestor worship will be greatly increased, which is definitely bad news.

Yan Erniang quickly expressed her attitude: "No, we will rush to Fengyang Mansion tomorrow, finish the matter of worshipping our ancestors early, and then leave this place of right and wrong as much as possible." ”

Xiong Chu nodded and didn't make a sound, and set off early the next morning in the cold wind, his face was still not good-looking.

Yan Erniang thought that there were some more variables that made Xiong Chu unhappy, and Mandaili didn't dare to speak more.

But they were all mistaken, Xiong Chu's face was not good-looking, not because his operation might be in trouble, but because of the new situation in Shanxi and Hebei.

Now there are more and more homeless rebels, hundreds of thousands of people at every turn.

Let's not talk about other destructiveness, it's just that these people have to eat, and they also need hundreds of thousands of catties of food every day.

In this way, what is left of the hundreds of thousands of people who have passed through the rolling process?

Also, in order to encircle and suppress these hundreds of thousands of people, the imperial court also needs to mobilize at least more than 100,000 people.

In the process of moving the imperial army, it is different from the homeless rebel army, their treatment is higher and the cost is greater.

When the two are combined, the consumption per day is an incalculable number.

In the long run, is the Ming Dynasty still the Ming Dynasty?

In this chaotic trend, where should Xiong Chu go, Xiong Chu can't find a direction.

Is it possible to join the rebel army of the displaced people and kill all the officers and soldiers of the imperial court? I am afraid that the chaos caused will be even greater, and the disaster will be even greater, and it will certainly not be a good choice to solve the problem.

Assisting the officials and the army in exterminating the rebel army of the exiles? Not to mention whether the imperial court will agree to have a large army, it is estimated that the one in the Beijing division will definitely not allow him to legally possess an army.

Even if the one in the Jingshi declared that he was not a rebel and allowed himself to lead troops, would he really bear to slaughter the homeless rebels? Aren't those homeless people just ordinary people who have nothing to eat? Do they really deserve to die?

Neither of these two paths worked, and Xiong Chu felt that he had the ultimate martial arts in his body, and he couldn't do anything at all, and he couldn't change anything.

In the current bad era when state affairs are becoming increasingly difficult, he can only be a spectator, so Xiong Chu is more confused than ever.

Mandaili returned at this time, and the cry also interrupted the Xiong Prince's train of thought: "Childe, there are people blocking the road more than ten miles ahead, it doesn't seem to be a good road." ”

Prince Xiong was shocked when he heard this: "How many people are there, and what is the preliminary judgment of the source?"

Mandaili turned the horse's head in circles, came to the right hand of the Xiong Prince, and walked on the horse: "Judging from the dress, it is the local people, which is about the level of a middle-class family. There were more than twenty people in total, and all of them were cavalry. Two little guys in the way, both with iron spears in their hands. ”

Xiong Chu frowned: "Didn't you ask them what they were doing and what kind of power they belonged to?"

Mandaili shook her head: "Can I not ask, but they said that there is a Changjia Village in front of us, so let's change the route now." How could there be such neat figures in a small village?, so I had the twelve sisters stalemate in front of me, and came back to listen to what Childe had to say. ”

"Changjia Village?" Yan Erniang thought for a moment, and patted her head after a while: "This place has not yet entered the territory of Fengyang Mansion, and it still belongs to Huaiyuan County." There are not many people with the surname Chang here, could it be that they are the descendants of the Duke of Eguo who often meets spring?"

Xiong Chu nodded: "Chang Yuchun died of a violent illness when he was only forty years old, and died on the march, the most painful thing for Emperor Taizu is to lose Chang Yuchun." However, Emperor Taizu was buried under Zhongshan Mountain, and his direct descendants should all have moved over, right?"

Yan Erniang shook her head: "After Chang Yuchun died, his eldest son Chang Mao violated military discipline and was demoted to Guangxi, and died soon after. The inheritance of the title has to be Chang Yuchun's second eldest Chang Sheng, and the third Chang Sen feels that it is too dangerous at the feet of the Son of Heaven, so he moves back to his hometown. ”

"If the front is really from Changjia Village, it may be a descendant of Chang Sen. However, this is the only way to enter Fengyang Mansion, and we can't go around in a big circle. Xianggong, lend me your gold-dipped furnace gun to try, if it is really a descendant of Chang Yuchun, then it must be Chang's marksmanship. ”

Xiong Chu took off the gun and handed it to Yan Erniang: "Don't hurt anyone, if it's really a descendant of Chang Yuchun, it's my relative." You must know that Chang Yuchun's eldest daughter married my ancestor Zhu Biao as the concubine. Although she is not the biological mother of her ancestor Emperor Jianwen, she is also a relative. ”

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