Luoyang City.
In the royal study.
Wang Ming has been practicing here in seclusion.
This is the tenth year since Wang Ming came to this world.
In this world, Wang Ming basically never left the Luoyang Palace.
Basically, he stayed in the royal study room to practice martial arts.
Yang Guang's status as emperor is indeed good.
With food, clothing, housing and transportation all in place, he didn't need to worry about anything.
Even the medicinal materials needed for cultivation are all available, so you can ask for them at will.
In the past ten years, Wang Ming also read all the Taoist canons collected in the palace, making his background even more profound.
With these years of practice, Wang Ming's cultivation has become stronger and stronger.
The ability of [Eight Wastelands and Liuhe Sovereign Skills] to assist in cultivation allowed Wang Ming to truly enter the realm of a great master.
[Beiming Divine Skill] also allowed Wang Ming to practice to a higher level. (Isn’t that true? Don’t delve into it as a magic change!)
There are five levels of this skill.
The first state is to accumulate water into a sea and cultivate more Beiming Qi.
In the second realm, the sea water rushes, and Duan Yu stops in the second step. Duan Yu's Beiming Sea is the Dead Sea, because it only accumulates water and the water flow does not move.
That is to say, it is not agile and cannot perform fine control.
In the third realm, the Qi is condensed into Kun, forming the body-protecting Qi. This body-protecting energy is of no use to Wang Ming. It is not as powerful as the body-protecting method of [Vajra Indestructible Magic].
The fourth state is to transform into a roc and fly. The true energy flows and can fly directly in the air.
The fifth realm, where Kunpeng spreads its wings, is the realm where this skill will shine its true light.
After years of hard training, countless medicinal materials were consumed.
Wang Ming finally entered the fourth realm. Flying in the air was real, but there was nothing magical about it.
If you want to say that flying in the air has any effect.
Then Wang Ming will tell you, special skills for lazy people.
The flying speed is really slow, it is probably faster than normal people running! This speed is really useless in battle.
The air control is real. It can make people hang up to ten meters in the air. The higher the height, the more infuriating energy is consumed.
Why is it said to be a must-have for lazy people?
[Bahuang Liuhe Sovereign Skill] The true energy is restored extremely quickly.
[Bei Ming Shen Gong] The amount of true energy is even greater. When it is only five or six meters above the ground, the consumption and recovery of true energy are equal, which means that the true energy is useless.
Normally you don’t need to walk, just levitate.
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Yang You rushed into the imperial study room in a panic and interrupted Wang Ming who was still practicing.
Wang Ming said unhappily: "Why are you so flustered?"
Yang You glanced at Grandpa Huang, who had a bad look on his face, and immediately calmed down and said seriously: "Something bad has happened. A large army is pressing down on the border and is going to attack our Luoyang City."
Wang Ming's eyes narrowed and he asked in a deep voice: "Is it Li Shimin's Tang Army or Koo Zhong's Young Marshal's Army?"
Yang You said with a slightly trembling tone: "It's not Kou Zhong, and it's not Li Shimin."
Wang Ming was speechless and angry: "It's not one of them, so there is nothing to panic about. The other rebel kings are just a bunch of scum. You can take care of it yourself, so why bother me."
Yang You suddenly said with a gloomy face: "It's not one of them who came here, but Kou Zhong and Li Shimin came together."
"Cough! Cough! Cough..." Wang Ming choked on the sip of tea he just drank.
Wang Ming coughed for a while and asked: "Didn't the news say some time ago that they are still hostile?"
Yang You shook his head. He also said in confusion: "My grandson doesn't know either. Their armies did not merge and they attacked from the north and south separately."
Wang Ming was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself: "It's strange, what are they doing?"
According to Wang Ming's speculation, Li Shimin should first deal with Kou Zhong and his eldest brother before coming to bite the hard nut of Luoyang.
Because Luoyang is not weak.
Li Shimin and Kou Zhong now each own half of the country, and their strength is about the same.
No matter it is Li Shimin or Kou Zhong, it is not a wise choice for anyone to attack Luoyang.
Once they fight Luoyang, even if they win, they will never get any advantage.
Typically, one thousand enemies are killed, and oneself suffers eight hundred losses.
When your vitality is severely damaged, another person will inevitably take advantage of you.
So Wang Ming speculated that they would not hit him first.
Moreover, according to intelligence, Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng could no longer hold themselves back and were about to take action against Li Shimin.
Then Buddhism should be unable to sit still...
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In fact, this was the butterfly effect that was triggered after Wang Ming came over.
Kou Zhong and Li Tang each occupy half of the country, and their strength is not much different. They all have a consensus.
Luoyang is crucial.
Now it can be said that whoever wins Luoyang wins the world.
But Luoyang is definitely not easy to attack.
The development of Luoyang in recent years is very impressive.
Now Luoyang's population, financial resources, and military are not weak.
It's just that Luoyang never expanded outwards, and Yang Guang hid in the harem for many years.
This caused all forces to subconsciously ignore the threat of Luoyang.
Kou Zhong and Li Shimin would not ignore Luoyang.
then,
Kou Zhong took the initiative to contact Li Shimin.
It is proposed to remove the third party force in Luoyang together first, and then decide the outcome.
Although Luoyang only has 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers and horses, it is far inferior to them.
But if Li Shimin and Kou Zhong had a decisive battle, both sides would inevitably suffer losses.
When the time comes, Yang Guang, who has been watching from the sidelines, will definitely take advantage of him.
This is naturally unacceptable to them.
In Kou Zhong's heart, there are only two people worthy of sitting on the throne. The first is himself, and the second is Li Shimin.
In his opinion, even if he loses, it won't be a bad thing if the world is taken over by Li Shimin.
Anyway, the world must not be handed over to the foolish king Yang Guang again.
Luoyang's economy has been very prosperous in recent years, but Luoyang's reputation is actually not good.
Not just bad.
But it's very bad.
Because Wang Ming destroyed the interests of too many people and broke too many things.
With the spread of knowledge, everyone can read.
Distribute land to the people, but the people only have the right to use the land to prevent annexation.
This is all digging into the roots of the aristocratic family!
Moreover, these lands were also recovered from the aristocratic families.
Let Luoyang be shuffled, except for the aristocratic families such as the Dugu Clan that have been following it.
How can other aristocratic families not be frightened when they see it?
Many people in the world who want to join us are too scared to come.
then,
These aristocratic families are constantly ruining Luoyang's reputation.
With the spread of knowledge in Luoyang, those Confucianists should be happy.
But Confucianism occupies a small part of the knowledge popularized in Luoyang.
Professor Luoyang’s stuff is very complicated.
Farmers, Mohists, strategists, miscellaneous families, doctors, Legalists, Taoists...
The knowledge is there.
Luoyang is no longer carrying out the policy: depose hundreds of schools of thought and only respect Confucianism.
How can Confucian scholars outside Luoyang tolerate this?
Naturally, I have to keep saying that the evil spirits in Luoyang City are crooked.
Luoyang, who was thrown into the devil's path, should have been liked by the devil.
The predecessor of the Demon Sect was actually an organization formed by hundreds of schools of thought who banded together after being suppressed.
But after countless years of hiding in Tibet, they have lost their original intention.
At first, they were misunderstood and slandered as demons. They got used to being called demons, and they themselves thought they were demons.
The original true meaning of inheritance has long been lost and gone.
Nowadays, they can no longer be regarded as a saint inheritance sect, they are just a group of people in the world.
They are also the most unruly people in the world.
Many of the people from the Demon Sect who came to Luoyang were caught committing crimes.
People who were reformed through labor have extremely profound memories, but those who were used as experimental subjects have nothing to say.
then,
The Demon Sect also does not have good intentions towards Luoyang.
Buddhism and Taoism also don't want to see Luoyang.
The one who lived in the temple in Luoyang was called poor!
The monk fields were taken away, and the lives of the monks were simply miserable.
The only people who don't speak ill of Luoyang are the businessmen.
The status of businessmen in Luoyang is quite good.
Not the lowest level of society.
But businessmen are very profitable.
Knowing that Luoyang has no future, it is impossible to invest one's family wealth in Luoyang.
Therefore, Luoyang has a very bad reputation outside.
Ordinary people outside think that the people of Luoyang are living in miserable misery and their lives are in dire straits.
They kept spreading rumors about Luoyang and Yang Guang. Now many people fell down and felt that the road was uneven. When they got up, they cursed: "Damn you, it's all his fault!"
It's not that there are no smart people who know the real situation in Luoyang, but their position does not allow them to support Luoyang.
Li Tang also reached a consensus that this tripartite force must be removed.
Even if Li Yuan and the others lost to Kou Zhong, they were not very afraid.
As long as you surrender, you will still get preferential treatment.
But Yang Guang obviously can't do it here.
Although Yang Guang and Li Yuan are relatives, what people hate most is often not their enemies.
But a traitor.
They are undoubtedly traitors.
If it falls into Yang Guang's hands, it will definitely lead to death.
then,
Thousands of troops and horses came to Luoyang City.
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Luoyang City.
This city that has been at peace for ten years,
This city that has been peaceful for ten years,
This city that has been prosperous for ten years,
This paradise-like city ushered in war today.
The war has not come for so long that many people in this city have almost forgotten the shadow of war.
They had almost forgotten that there was still a war-torn world outside.
They were not panicked or afraid of the sudden war.
Most of the young adults in this city have experienced war.
They all survived from that cruel era when people ate people without spitting out their bones.
Ten years of living in Luoyang, a prosperous, peaceful, orderly and hopeful city, did not turn them into flowers in a greenhouse.
They are not afraid of fighting,
They are not afraid,
They are not afraid,
They won't back down.
Because the city of Luoyang is at their feet.
They have a home in Luoyang City, and there are people they care about at home.
Luoyang has their hopes.
They were more active than Wang Ming in defending Luoyang City.
The aristocratic families and emperors of this era liked the policy of obscuring the people.
If you don't let the people know more, they'd better be fools.
This is the only way to control and control.
Wang Ming, on the other hand, popularized knowledge in the city, allowing these people to know more.
And the various policies implemented by Wang Ming in this city completely changed their outlook on life.
Those who graduated from Luoyang City Middle School are no worse than the children of aristocratic families.
Therefore, many forces have also poached these people to work for them.
But usually it will come back within a few months at most.
It's not that these people are loyal to Wang Ming, the emperor, but they are not used to it.
for example:
The ritual of kneeling and worshiping has been completely abolished in Luoyang. Now, in their minds, except for kneeling to parents, master and emperor, it is an insult.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing to go to other forces and kneel down in all kinds of ways!
kneel! kneel! kneel! kneel! kneel……
Then there’s the law. Luoyang’s laws are still very strict.
When they were in Luoyang, these people felt that the law restricted them. After they left, they realized that the law protected them.
They went out to join other aristocratic families, or the warlords rebelled against the king.
Every day was spent in fear.
When he was in Luoyang, even if he scolded his grandson Yang You in person, he would most likely be sent to a labor camp.
If you work outside, if you say something unpleasant, you may be beaten, or in the worst case, your head will be chopped off.
These people who go out are doing things under others, and their greatest feeling is not that they are working for others.
But being a slave.
They will always be hard workers, doing dirty work and running errands.
It’s hard to get a higher official position, it’s hard!
Many positions belong to children of aristocratic families, and they have no hope of getting involved.
There are still many, many things that I am not used to.
After they go out, they have the illusion that they are aliens in the crowd.
There is a sense of endless loneliness in which everyone is drunk and I am alone.
There is no sense of belonging outside and no hope for the future.
money! They found that it was harder to make money outside than in Luoyang. The involution in the workplace is serious, too serious. Everyone thinks they are a dog, how can they get over it?
Beauty! They were very excited at first, but then it became more and more boring. They didn't have the same three views at all. Basically, it's just half a sentence without speculation, which makes it uncomfortable to listen to.
right! Nepotism is too serious, and it is not a matter of relying on one’s ability to get to the top. Luoyang City is not all fair, but it will be relatively fair, and ordinary people will have a way to rise.
at last,
Everyone returned to this city.
Here they can find similar people, find the way to ascend, and find the reason to fight for it for the rest of their lives and never regret it.
These people in Luoyang City received education and their thoughts improved.
The more they know and see, the more deeply they fall in love with Luoyang City.
How could they be willing to live in Luoyang City with their chests held high and their heads held high, and if they were asked to go out and grovel like dogs?
They will not be uncomfortable with being ignorant and disrespectful dogs all the time.
If you ask a person to kneel down and lick someone's shoes like a dog, they will feel disgusted.
die!
die!
Death is no longer the most terrifying thing for them.
What they fear most is living without dignity and thought.
They are afraid to see hope.
They all know...
If Luoyang is defeated, they will return to that world.
Back to that…
The grandfather of a noble family is an official, the son is an official, and the grandson is definitely still an official.
Let’s go to a world where common people’s grandfathers are servants, their sons are servants, and their grandchildren will still be servants.
The person with the least fighting spirit in Luoyang City may be Wang Ming.
