After hearing these words, Hu Long hurriedly stopped and put the old man down, walked quickly to the door of the Taoist temple, bowed to the person who came out of the temple in a polite manner, and called out: "Master!"
After the old man landed, he did not tangle with Hu Long again. He followed Hu Long honestly, saluted the man and called out: "Little Senior Sister!"
What made these two living treasures, the old and the young, instantly become good-looking was a beautiful Taoist nun wearing a feather coat and a crane's cloak, holding a fly whisk in her arms. She looked like a girl in her thirties, with eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like autumn water, peach cheeks condensed with fat, and cherry blossoms. The lips contain elixir, the skin is like jade, and there seems to be precious light flowing under the skin.
She looked at the two people standing in front of her with their heads down, shook her head and said, "Come in and talk."
After saying that, she turned around and walked towards the Taoist temple.
Hu Long and the old man winked at each other and followed one after the other.
When the Taoist nun came to the main hall of the Taoist temple, she first burned incense and bowed to the Sanqing statues enshrined above, and then sat cross-legged on a futon in front of the incense table.
Hu Long took a few steps forward and said with a smile: "Master, I have been in retreat for a long time, but what have I not gained?"
The Taoist nun sighed softly and said: "It is said that after practicing martial arts to the point where all eight meridians are connected, the governors are intertwined, and the true energy penetrates the whole body and circulates around the sky, you can try to measure and open the 'Xuan Guan Yi', and achieve the goal." Reach the innate realm of seizing the creation of heaven and earth and invading the mysteries of the sun and moon.
"It's just that at the end of the previous dynasty, there were so many warriors in the world, but no one could sense the existence of the mysterious entrance, and the secret methods used by various sects to detect the mysterious entrance were all ineffective.
"Although people say that the root cause of this change is the change of heaven and earth, which cannot be reversed without human power. But I have already reached the threshold of the innate realm, and I cannot give up unless I try it myself.
"After you mastered the 'Xuan Su Tai Yin Gong' passed down by your master, you realized the changes in yin and yang and created your own 'Liang Yi Xuan Gong', which makes hardness and softness go the same way, and yin and yang are unified. I really want to try this. Gong can get a glimpse of the mysteries of innate nature, but it’s a pity...God is not fake, so there is nothing you can do!"
Hu Yuan saw that his master, who had always had a calm temperament, was rarely disappointed, so he quickly made jokes and explained: "Master, your martial arts are already the best in the world, and even if you break through to the innate realm, you are still the best in the world. Cheng Yu If it doesn’t work, there’s no need to worry about it.”
The Taoist nun burst into laughter: "Ignorant boy! When I first became a teacher, I practiced martial arts to clear my vengeance, but later I fell in love with the process of using martial arts to see the secrets of the human body and the wonders of the universe. How could it be for the sake of Lao Shizi's 'No. 1 in the world'" False name?"
After laughing, she temporarily let go of her worries, turned to the old man and asked, "My nephew arrived two months earlier than usual. Is there something going on with Director Hu?"
Seeing that it was time to talk about business, the old man changed his expression solemnly, cupped his hands and said: "The good teacher learned that this year, the one hundred years period set by my father in his last will will be completed. My nephew I have taken that thing out and handed it over to Commander Hu for disposal. However, Commander Hu said that it was time for my junior brother to leave the mountain, and he planned to leave the matter to him."
When the old man mentioned "that thing", the Taoist nun looked calm and unmoved, but Hu Long's brows jumped a few times, and his face was full of joy.
The old man's full name is "Wei Hutou", and his father was a strange man who was active in the Kangxi period.
This person was not only a lifelong friend of Kangxi, who rose to the rank of General Fuyuan, and was given the title of First-class Luding Gong; he was also a disciple of the former Ming eldest princess, the one-armed nun Jiu Nan, and the chief helmsman of the Tiandihui, Chen Jinnan, and served in the Qingmu Hall of the Tiandihui. In addition, he also serves as the White Dragon Envoy of the Shenlong Sect, one of the only two eminent monks of the "Hui" generation in Shaolin, and even the Count of the Rakshasa Kingdom.
He dealt with various forces that were incompatible with each other, and at the beginning he was able to get both sides right and left like a fish in water. But later on, the conflicts between the parties intensified to the point of being irreconcilable. When it came time for him to make a choice, he thought about the word "loyalty" and refused to hurt any of the parties he was close to. He simply cursed and shouted, "I don't want to make a decision." Let’s do it.” Then he took his seven beautiful wives and flew away, no longer paying attention to the disputes in the world.
Hu Yuan's master's Taoist name was "Evergreen Sanren", and his lay name was Lu Siniang. He was a disciple of the one-armed nun Jiu Nan Shitai in his later years, and he was a brother and sister of the same sect.
Hu Long, the man who runs the wine shop, has another identity. He is the grandson of Emperor Hu De, the founder of the Tiandihui. He is now the fourth chief helmsman of the Tiandihui, and he also has a deep connection with him.
In his previous life, Hu Long lived in a prosperous city filled with materialistic desires for thirty years in his later life. As a "programmer", he became an insignificant screw in the huge and complex modern social machine. Working all day long for food, clothing, housing and transportation, immersed in desks from morning to night, I have to treat myself like a tireless machine.
Occasionally, when he had some free time from his busy schedule, his only pastime was to take three glasses and two glasses of fine wine and have a drink to relieve the heavy fatigue that had already penetrated his body and mind.
One day, he fell asleep after drinking, and when he woke up, time had changed, his face was completely changed, and he became a newborn baby who could only croak and cry.
When he learned that he was born in a family that had been engaged in rebellion for hundreds of years, and later became a master who had cut off the head of Emperor Yongzheng, Hu Long knew that his relationship with the Manchus was destined to be a life-or-death relationship, even if there was no previous life. The oath of "not rebelling, no matter what" is always vigilant, and we can only actively devote ourselves to the great cause of rebellion without hesitation.
The original Tiandihui has been declining in the past few decades, and in the past ten years, it has been overtaken by the "Honghuahui", a younger generation who is also aspiring to rebel.
When he got older, even if he said some shocking words, he would only be regarded as a prodigy rather than a monster, so Hu Yuan began to try to provide suggestions to his father.
Although he has lived a lifetime, he is just a "programmer" who works with keyboards and data all day long, and his knowledge of history and military affairs is really limited.
Fortunately, he was born in an era of information explosion. In his previous life, Hu Long had seen a lot of various whimsical ideas called "brain holes" that covered a wide range of fields, so he instilled into him bit by bit the things he felt were useful. My own father.
As a true veteran expert in rebellion, when his son, who was only seven or eight years old, was selling various "rebel strategies" to him in a serious manner, Chief Hu just laughed at it at first, but later he seriously accepted many of the suggestions that seemed absurd at first. I'm trying to figure out some of the flavor.
Among them, there are two most useful ones: one is the strategy of "developing obscenely internally and blooming externally"; the other is the prophecy that "those who gain the advantage of firearms will conquer the world".
After truly understanding the essence of these two suggestions, he began to comprehensively adjust the development direction of "Tiandihui".
First, on the one hand, most of the capable Chinese forces were gradually transferred overseas to develop their power among the many Chinese immigrants in the Nanyang Islands; on the other hand, the forces remaining in the inland were fully transferred underground, from instigating uprisings every now and then to gathering forces. Intelligence and covert infiltration.
The second step is to recruit craftsmen to build gunpowder workshops on hidden desert islands overseas, and develop various gunpowder weapons such as muskets and artillery according to the ideas provided by Hu Long.
But no matter what kind of business you run, you always pay attention to "before the troops and horses are moved, food and grass go first." This is especially true for such great undertakings as rebellion.
Although the power of the "Heaven and Earth Society" has quietly grown rapidly, a large amount of money has been spent like water, and the savings accumulated over the years have gradually been emptied.
Although Hu Yun later tried to remedy the situation and proposed a strategy for operating maritime trade, the accumulation of capital always had to be a process, and for a while it was not enough to quench the thirst of the nearer.
Faced with the huge financial gap that prevented the "Tiandihui" from breaking through the development bottleneck, Hu Long still relied on the advantage of the time traveler's foresight and knowledge to set his sights on his long-dead Master Wei.
