Chapter 303 – King of Western Chu (Four)
Tai’an City is south of the city head, an old and a young in the iron armor clanking appear to stand out, the old man linen clothes and shoes, carrying a long sword, quite normal swordsman appearance, the young girl is at the time of the body hair such as spring buds, with a few points of slender flavor, she not only carries a sword, the waist also wear double swords, the hands of the more sword, so it does not seem to be a chivalrous swordsman, but rather like a small girl selling swords on the street. The two people are the contemporary patriarch of the East Vietnam Sword Pond, Chai Qingshan, and the single bait clothes in the town of Summer Escape, which was presented with a copy of the Green Water Pavilion Sword Practice Book by the young feudal king. Earlier, several people went out of the city in a furious manner, and ended up flying back to the city upside down, with their bodies embedded in the city wall, like flies and mosquitoes giving swatting and rotting on the windows, the tragic situation made many martial artists at the city head who had the title of real general of Liyang feel their hearts jumping, and subconsciously glanced at the pair of Sword Pool masters and disciples who were of different ages, and only then did they manage to regain a few points of boldness.
The young girl’s face was a little pale, it was not that her physique was not as good as that of an ordinary soldier, but after the martial arts had truly ascended to a higher level, the sense of the qi between heaven and earth would be different from that of ordinary people, just like a mortal looking at the rolling river, only feeling magnificent, but a qi practitioner would be able to discern the signs of qi flow in the world based on this.
Her master, Chai Qingshan, as a worthy master of the Way of the Sword, since the selection of her as a closed door disciple, naturally, is to see her outstanding talent in the bones, and even earlier and the Wu family sword mound when the old master chatted, quite conceitedly said that his female disciple talent in the Way of the Sword is only second to the Empress of the Western Chu, Jiang Si only one person. The young girl whose name harmonized with “three, two, one” only felt that she was standing at the head of the Wudi City, and the next moment she would be slapped to death by the monstrous waves at the head of the city, and she clenched her teeth and gripped her long sword tightly, and her delicate body swayed until Chai Qingshan stretched out his hand to support the ancient sword “Fledgling Phoenix” that he was carrying, and only then did the young girl feel relieved. Only when Chai Qingshan stretched out his hand to support the ancient sword “Phoenix” on her back did the girl feel relieved, let out a long breath, and said in a trembling voice: “Master, what is Cao Da Guan Zi trying to do here? Does he really want to use his own strength to break through the capital? Kill the palace for the fifth time before giving up?”
In recent years, Chai Qingshan, who had taken the young girl on many journeys, shook his head and said, “Master doesn’t know what Cao Changqing is looking for when he switches from Confucianism to hegemony.”
The young girl looked out of the city that attacked the lone green shirt, some inexplicable sadness, rumor has it that the once served as a Western Chu chess waiting for the edict of the great official son, the Queen of the Western Chu with adoration, but a lifetime have not revealed, always abide by the courtesy of the ruler and the courtier, and ultimately ended up in a yin and yang apart also did not say that the heart. The young girl does not care about that in the west wall of the ancient battlefield among the Confucian saint of the readers, is not what the Cao family is most pleased, and even do not care about Cao Qingyi early years, three times away from the Yang Palace such as over the corridor of the feat, there have been some love quietly hair heart of the ignorant young girl, just some envy of that was scolded twenty years of scourge of the country and calamity of the people of the poor woman, even if it is written by all kinds of wild pen for the unpleasant vixen, was treated as a major culprit for the downfall of the Chu, but the young girl just thought that if she had a day also have a day, but she did not know that she had a day, and she did not know that it is not a day. The young girl just thought that if she one day also died, after death there is still such an obsessive person with a heart to think about, really good. The young girl thought of this, gently sigh, raised his arm, with the hands of the half into the new sword “white python” sword, quietly patted the chest, where, through the spring thinning shirt, put a yellow secret book “green water pavilion”. There, is probably her heart resting place. It was also the reason why she really practiced her sword with all her heart for the first time after leaving Northern Liang. That young man was slender, so when he spoke to her in the Escape Summer Town at the foot of Wudang Mountain, he had to bow his head, and although he smiled gently, he only treated her as an innocent jianghu maiden, a jianghu latecomer who didn’t care if she ever met again if she brushed by her shoulders. She did not like this.
As Cao Changqing once again flicked a piece onto the chessboard, rainbows as thick as the corridors of Wuying Hall plummeted from the sky. Tai’an City shook with another loud boom.
Chai Qingshan did not go to view the magnificent pillar of light falling to the ground in the city behind him, and lamented: ”My generation of swordsmen, from ancient times to the present day, have tirelessly pursued the great realms of Qi Chong Dou Niu and Qi Gong Chang Rainbow, but I never imagined that Cao Changqing was already able to bring that vast and righteous qi, which enriches the heavens and the earth, from the blue sky to the earth. Gao Shulu’s so-called metaphysical celestial being was nothing more than that. A good Cao Changqing is like adding another ten feet to a hundred-foot scroll.”
If there is a Northland Fu Long Qi Practitioner everyone standing at the head of the city, they will find some Taian City wisps of green and purple Qi, such as gurgling water slowly flowing into the seven orifices of the young girl, and the young girl herself is completely unaware of it, and even Chai Qingshan, who has reached Tongyi Dongwei Finger Xuan realm a long time ago, also didn’t notice it. The two realms of Heavenly Elephant and Land Immortal, although only one layer apart, are two very different worlds.
The young girl suddenly asked curiously: “Purely martial outside of the three religions, Buddhist monks into the first grade that is vajra, Taoist real people into the first grade that refers to the Xuan, Confucianism is a step straight to the heavenly image, master you always before incoherent, why only say that the three are actually not high and low distinction? And why is it especially difficult for a Confucian to become a saint?”
The old man hesitated for a moment, as if he was not too willing to break the mystery of the sky, but also as if he was not willing to his favorite disciple too early exposure to that level, ultimately could not withstand the girl’s pitiful eyes, Chai Qingshan helplessly said: “Master next words you heard this even if, do not take it seriously, and even more not to be concerned about, so as to avoid uncertainty of the sword, misleading the sword path that you should have taken. Master often go to Huishan Daxueping in the early years, and a reader called Xuanyuan Jingcheng had many knee to knee long talk, he has a very unique insight into the three saints, the words do not shock, for example, he talked about the world’s clichéd ‘put down the butcher’s knife to become a Buddha’, this statement you must have heard countless times, Xuanyuan Jingcheng’s view on this is not the same. Too the same, he said that this is very good, there are exhortations to the world to give up evil from the virtue of good, but at the same time also harms a lot of people to know that the matter of becoming a Buddha, the only thing to rely on the gradual cultivation of hard work, the need for hard work under the dead force, just like the ‘article of the sky into a wonderful hand occasionally get’ a phrase, said the words of the literary hero is naturally a great deal of sense, but for many of the ‘others’, it would be quite unreasonable. Xuanyuan Jingcheng said a lot of pioneers, especially in the last thousand years from the traveler into the great valve after those readers, all of them do not pursue the Zhang family sage advocated the three immortal, standing virtue, standing merit, standing words, Xuanyuan Jingcheng this is a different way, not that he has objections to the saint’s teachings, but lamented the later generations of the people of the misdirected, he cited an example of the burial of the child to serve his mother, this move undoubtedly fits the hundred good filial piety first, by countless people to respect, but Xuanyuan Jingcheng asserted that the child’s mother is a good person, but the child is a good person, and the child is a good person. But Xuanyuan Jingcheng asserted that this person is destined to be difficult to get good results, if there really is an afterlife, if it is really the will of heaven, then this person is destined to suffer the wrath of God is not transcendent. Born to feed people, according to common sense, a reward for a reward, people should feed the world is right. Taoist saints have long left three thousand words of caution for future generations, ‘heaven and earth is not benevolent, to all things for ruminants’, said precisely the impartiality of heaven, not some people mistakenly think of the so-called shallow ‘unkindness and injustice’, Xuanyuan Jingcheng is very recognized! ‘Heaven and earth is not benevolent’ four words, but he also said that they readers, precisely to know that the fate of heaven can not be violated, but to swim against the current, for heaven and earth to set the rules for the world, in order to achieve long-term peace and security of all people, and therefore to benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust five words to build a framework, and ultimately extend the incomparable stirring words, ‘for heaven and earth to establish the heart, and the heart of the world, the heart of the world, the heart of the world, the heart of the world, the heart of the world’. ‘To establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a life for the people, to succeed the great learning of the past saints, and to establish peace for the ages! However, disciple, think carefully, if heaven and earth are divine, do they need us to tell them what to do? To take a step back, is peace on earth for all times really in line with the rules of the heavenly cycle? So say ah, Confucianism really have great wisdom people, especially those among the Confucian saint of the great sages, do not worry about their own worry about the future generation, all are not harboring although millions of people I go forward to the impassioned chest, at the expense of the heavenly way of jade and stone, all are not in the generosity of the death ah.”
The young girl gave an oh.
After the old man finished these words, he frequently let out a long breath and sighed with mixed feelings.
Chai Qingshan smiled and asked, “Hear that?”
The young girl grinned and said with a straight face, “Didn’t understand at all.”
The old man couldn’t help but rub her head, “You don’t need to understand. It’s good to be confused, life is a hundred years, easy and comfortable. Otherwise living a life full of depression is too tiring. We sword practitioners, we can use our three-foot swords to sound out our grievances, that’s enough.”
Chai Qingshan said softly, “I’ve been to Northern Liang, I’ve seen the desolate border landscape with my own eyes, and I’ve seen that one battlefield pass, and only then will I realize that our jianghu people’s easy and fast life is too much to stand up to scrutiny. However, disciple ah, you also need not because of the fight for the northern Liang and anti-LiYang, master tell you, if there really is a north mang army to break through the border of the two Liao that day, today this city countless characters who curse the north Liang, will also defy, the same will be said to die. Even if the North Mang barbarians fought all the way to the Guangling River, they would never walk as if they were in no man’s land, but would only be on both sides of the hooves of the iron horse, all of whom I have died in battle in Liyang.”
The people of Liyang martial arts, since ancient times, there is “the Central Plains scholar to the north, Liyang ranger to the south of the righteousness”, the latter is quite a lot of martial arts chaotic prohibited, which makes the Chu led by the Central Plains countries have always regarded the Liyang people as uneducable northern barbarians. But in the past twenty years, especially Gu Jiantang resigned as Secretary of the Ministry of War to the Lord of the two Liao, and Xu Snapdragon’s Northern Liang iron cavalry one left and one right to guard the border gate, the Northern Mang can not go south half a step, the entire Central Plains song and dance, the south of the wolves and smoke only to report the peace but not to report the worry, coupled with countless scholars to serve as a Liyang, the court of the Imperial Examination, for the world of the commoners and the poor to open the door to the capital only to say that the State Academy of a place, to accommodate nearly 30,000 students from the south of heaven and north of China, the students are like a scholar, and the students are as good as a scholar. Scholars, readers as a large influx of crucian carp, as well as all over the world, the convergence of the gentry and magnates, just two decades, created the city of Tai’an is not inferior to the early years of the capital of Chu’s heyday weather. The late emperor Zhao Dun on the promotion of the literati in the temple is spared no effort, when the two peaks of the confrontation of the Zhang Lulu Gu Lulu outside, in the capital for the Qing Party officials are almost exclusively literati, a large number of young readers to be among the hall, the literary style stretches the Jiangnan Road for the court to transport a large number of pillars of the material, even to the West Chu old master Sun Xizhi as the head of a large number of the West Chu relics, have put aside the national enmity to choose to serve the Zhao room, the contrary, when the powers that be the military generals! Almost without exception are on the age of the spring and autumn old man, Liyang court after more than twenty years of rest and recuperation and upward and downward, has revealed the pattern of high civil and low military, if not for the restoration of the West Chu chaos of the Guangling Road and the Northern Liang’s “stupid”, I’m afraid that even if it is the Liyang as a first-class meritorious gateway of the Ma Zhongxian, this life will not be able to go out to become a Jing’an Road The current Liyang, on the surface, is not a good place to be.
The current Liyang, on the surface of the country’s power is not false, even the West Chu rebellion will be suppressed, but even Chai Qingshan can see that it has been a delicate situation of leakage on all sides.
The young girl has never been interested in the world’s situation and pouted, “But I still feel that Northern Liang is even more pitiful.”
The old man laughed: “Master did not say that Northern Liang is not worthy of you for its injustice, just hope that you do not have too much hostility in the future, do not feel free to anger the innocent, know why the master more and more admire that young feudal king?”
Upon hearing the young feudal king, the originally absent-minded young girl’s eyes immediately lit up, and she immediately had an inexhaustible amount of energy, full of vigor, “Master you quickly say, I’m listening.”
The old man was quite helpless and laughed in exasperation, “Don’t say it!”
The old man really shut up, in addition to a few gambling, more or Cao Changqing’s fall outside the city is getting faster and faster, he had to concentrate to build up his qi.
Today, he, Chai Qingshan, stood here with his long sword on his back, not to watch the scenery.
The young girl skimmed her lips, knowing her master’s temperament she didn’t ask any further questions.
Chai Qingshan narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance, the old man’s line of sight following the rain of arrows at the top of the city that he didn’t know how many waves it was already, and threw them together onto that one green shirt.
A bed crossbow at the top of the city, and six thousand sharp bowmen with superior brawn below the city.
The two sets of arrows from above and below covered the sky.
The old man had a strange thought for no reason, if the Xu family in Beiliang has no grudges with the Zhao family in Liyang, that young feudal king has no grudges and no regrets to be a loyal subject, and the Zhao family’s son of heaven also has no doubt about him, and vigorously reinforces Beiliang, and uses the Central Plains as a backing to support the Beiliang Iron Cavalry and the border army of the two Liao to jointly fight against the Northern Mang, then it would be so good? If that Cao Changqing outside the city can be like Sun Xiji and many Western Chu remnants, into the dynasty as an official, maybe now is the Liyang’s chief minister of the Lord, then there is no need to Shangyin Palace of qiyanglong out of the mountains to save the tide, within the Cao Changqing led the gang of Yong Hui old spring and Xiang Fu Xinchun, together with a tent, and outside of the 300,000 Beiliang iron cavalry and two hundred thousand two hundred thousand Liao Liao Border Army, why worry about the world is not peaceful? Even if you give them hundreds of thousands of more soldiers and armor, what can you do?
On a small road in the northern part of the capital, a horseback rider went south to Tai’an City without any hurry.
On the side of the road, there was a stall selling dumplings, tea and wine, and a pair of young men and women were sitting there, each eating two big bowls of dumplings with their heads buried in their mouths.
The first rider rolled over and dismounted, leading his horse near the table and asked, “Can you sit?”
The young man glanced at him, “Since he didn’t bring a sword, he can sit.”
So Gu Jiantang sat on the bench next to Xu Fengnian and Jiang Nai.
After sitting down, this powerful Great Pillar State asked with a smile, “Xu Fengnian, you treat me to a bowl of dumplings and I’ll help you become the emperor, is this a deal?”