The Jingshui is clear, the Weishui is clear, the green mountains and clear waters send love to each other. The army is not yet successful, the ambition is difficult to realize, and the emotion is difficult to calm down when I go north alone.
After returning to my hometown, whenever I feel uncertain, I always like to stand at the top of Lingyuan City and look out to the southwest, just like today's night.
Every time I look from a distance, I always feel that there are people in the Weiyang Palace of the Dragon Head in the southwest who are also looking at the northeast, and they are as hesitant as me.
The wind at the top of Lingyuan City carried a coolness. I rubbed my eyes. Compared with the incomparable strategist Lu Xiang, the actions of His Majesty and I back then were a bit like peeing and muddying by the river with my eldest and second brothers when we were children!
However, Prime Minister Lu's general strategy of putting the central government first and then the local government was exactly the same as what I had planned at the time, which really made me feel happy for a while.
Looking at Yi'er walking slowly from a distance, I fell into a trance and fell into deep thought again.
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When I first returned to Lingyuan City, I watched the sky at night and saw comets shining in the sky under the white sky in the west. This meant that there would be a great disaster in the west. The west is where the emperor lives. A kind of fear welled up from the bottom of my heart and instantly filled my mind. Thoughts: Could it be that the noble clans are using troops to make trouble and go further, to harm the emperor?
Therefore, I had a one-night conversation with my father in Qinghe Residence, hoping that my father could consolidate resources, contact some noble families, mediate among them, and help His Majesty tide over the difficulties.
My father rejected my request.
And it was this conversation that left me completely disheartened. In my father's heart, family interests are above all else. I can't persuade him, and he can't change me. It is better for father and son to have the same surname but different opinions. It is better to move out and be out of sight and out of mind.
When I returned to Lingyuan City, I originally wanted my father to support me in upholding justice. However, my father was too obsessed with me and could not conspire with me. In despair, I had the idea of retiring in my heart. In fact, I would choose a city to die in my life. It's not bad at all.
So, holding Yi'er in my arms, I found an unowned land in the north city of Lingyuan City. I ate from the neighbors for a few days and reluctantly opened the Zigui School. From now on, I will play a small chessboard under Yi'er's scholarly tent. The chaos in the world has nothing to do with me and this child.
The few years I spent in the mortal world allowed me to see the cold, heat and spring and autumn of the people in Lingyuan City. They had three meals a day, clothes in all seasons, five acres of fertile land, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, gossiping before tea and after meals, and my wife every day. The children are hot on the bed, and occasionally kill chickens and pigs to call friends. As long as the days are smooth, there is hope for living.
In their eyes, those heavenly officials and powerful families are too far away. They don't care who is the famous person in the dynasty, nor which family is powerful in the Han Dynasty. If someone who stutters is still alive, these people will not feel rebellious. , let alone think about how much of their income will be left after being exploited by the rich, and whether the leftovers are worth the sweat and blood. Maybe they also believe that the right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life, but it seems not now.
In today's world, families are ceding territory to stand on their own, and there is constant turmoil and killing. Only for this reason, there must be teachings about the rule of law, etiquette, and holy soldiers, in order to naturalize human nature, conform to the law, and return to rule. Without control, it is not enough to control human nature; without etiquette, it is not enough to teach people to be good; without holy soldiers, it is not enough to stop killing. Only by clearly distinguishing the right and wrong of human nature can we guide it according to the law, just like Dayu controlled the water, making it flow smoothly.
During the past few years of hiding in the market, I have a deeper understanding that if the numbness in the hearts of the people at the bottom of society cannot be awakened, then even if the family is pacified, there will still be landlords and powerful people springing up like mushrooms after a rain. Therefore, I am more committed to Regarding knowledge, I want to let them know how to think through education and understand what justice in the world is.
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I originally wanted to escape into the mortal world, but in the end I was reluctant to escape from His Majesty's net.
His Majesty still had the same anxious temperament. With the help of Lu Zheng, he had only roughly purified the officialdom of the two capitals. In AD 335, that is, six years ago, he immediately decided to eradicate the local noble families. As the most powerful right-hand man of the Quzhou Jiang family, the Lingyuan Liu family was naturally caught in the trap of His Majesty and Prime Minister Lu. When His Majesty talks about the Liu family in Lingyuan, he naturally cannot avoid a person named Liu Quansheng.
In order for me to come out to help, His Majesty specially sent Saibeili, who also escaped into the rivers and lakes, to deliver the message.
From my point of view, it would be the same no matter who it was, how could the kindness of knowing and encountering be wiped out due to a moment of sluggishness?
After reading the secret letter hidden in the sword, without thinking about it at all, I said to Saibeili who came to deliver the letter, "I tell your Majesty that I am willing to die for you!"
Lingyuan City is the border between Quzhou and Bozhou. The Lingyuan Mountains to the north of Lingyuan City are the last barrier to resist the enemy's invasion of the Central Plains. The geographical location of this city is very outstanding, and as the first step in the eradication of the clan The place where the gun is shot, Lingyuan City, is more important to His Majesty.
Your Majesty and I are no longer the fledgling boys we were before. This time, for the sake of safety, Your Majesty sent me a lot of helpers that year. Also in that year, there was an unfilial person in the world, Liu Quansheng, who wanted to murder his parents and brothers and destroy his family's achievements.
Since you can't fulfill your filial piety, then just be loyal to the end!
hehe! This damn justice!
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Benevolent people have different opinions. I think that if you want to eradicate local noble families as gently as Lu Xiang planned, the difficulty lies in the hearts of the people, the weapons and the network of relationships.
Let’s talk about the Liu family of Lingyuan. I, the Liu family of Lingyuan, started out as writers and have no military power outside the country, so I need to raise private soldiers. My grandfather and I left the court one after another, and there was no one in the capital, so we had to rely on the powerful local snake Jiang family to survive. At the same time, the family had horizontal exchanges with the Xuanhuai Zhao family and Fengyi Huang family, and some small landowners and small wealthy households wanted to gain a foothold and seek development, so they naturally became the guests of the Liu family. . In this way, my Liu family has a backer above, allies in the middle, and support below. The rise of the family is like a smooth sailing process.
In fact, my father did the same thing after he succeeded the head of the family. On the contrary, his father used the connections left by his grandfather to become prosperous in the officialdom. After the second son became the heir, all the grandfather's original power turned against him, so his father let his second son Brother was in charge of family affairs and took this opportunity to submit a certificate of surrender to the Jiang family in Quzhou. Under the protection of the Jiang family, the Liu family was not wiped out like other families who had taken refuge with the second prince. Instead, their upward momentum became stronger. Regarding the Xuanhuai Zhao family and Fengyi Huang family, who were also in Huaxing County, my father met with Zhao Yao and Huang Zhi as spies to demarcate their respective jurisdictions and prevent each other from infringing. On the other hand, my father relied on the strong strength of the Jiang family to win over the clan elders and local tycoons.
After taking multiple measures, the Lingyuan Liu family burst out with vigorous vitality in the hands of their father, who was slightly lacking in civil and military skills. The Liu family soon became the dominant family in Huaxing County. If it hadn't been for my appearance, the Zhao family and the Huang family might have Killed by his father.
Six years ago, after I received His Majesty's edict, I felt sad and silent, just like the moon under the lamp. I thought hard and finally came up with the idea.
The overall strategy of wiping out the Liu family in Lingyuan in five years was written in my heart.
In 335 AD, the intelligence agency composed of Xia Qing and the tiger-killing warriors opened brazenly and bustling in the busy city of Lingyuan. I named this building, looking north. In the same year, Deng Yan took charge of the Huaxing Armed Forces as the chief general. He began to rectify military affairs and eliminate the children of wealthy families, so as to prevent the Liu family from sitting on military power and eradicate excessive disasters.
After laying the groundwork, in 336 AD, I set out to collect evidence that the Liu family had harmed the people. I disguised myself under a pseudonym and began to use the opportunity of collecting information to go to the villages of Huaxing County to divide the relationship between the elders and the Liu family. At the same time, I used Deng Yan's help to secretly fund more than a dozen villages that were important to the Liu family to open schools, promote Han laws, and civilize some village households who were deceived because they did not understand the law. Soon, these villagers secretly cooperated with I communicated my needs and said that I would be fully supportive when I need them.
In 337 A.D., I used both good and evil to persuade Yang Qi, the old man of Lingyuan Escort Bureau, to place a secret agent Yang Guan next to his eldest brother. I also induced Xu Zhuo, the head coach of the Liu family, to kill those young men who survived the catastrophe after their father massacred the village. Send Liu's private soldiers to prepare for the disintegration of the private soldiers in the future.
In 338 AD, I took advantage of various opportunities to start instigating internal affairs. Internally, with the help of Yang Guan, I instigated my eldest brother and second brother to compete for the position of clan leader, intensifying the internal strife within the family. Externally, I cleverly created troubles, inflicting the anger of the people on one side. As the people of Lingyuan become public indignation, the Liu family seems to be calm, but in fact, there is an undercurrent surging.
After the Zhangjia Village was massacred, Saibeili was furious about what the Liu family had done. In anger, he immediately sent the dead man Chen to assassinate his eldest brother. I felt that the time had not come yet, so my attempt to persuade him failed. That night, when Liu's family soldiers surrounded Wangbei Tower, I had no choice but to resort to a trick. I abandoned my car to protect the commander, burned Wangbei Tower, and let the dead man take away Yi'er and the teacher, so that I could mediate with all my strength.
After thinking about it, maybe someone hopes that the fire in Lingyuan will be bigger, it is best to cause dozens of lives, and then arouse public outrage, and take the opportunity to eradicate the Liu family, or perhaps die. Chen comes to my Wangbei Tower. It was really just an honest mistake. In short, because of this matter, Saibeili and I had different political opinions and we parted ways from then on. Although we still have the same purpose, we each do our own thing without interfering with each other.
Old man Cheng is a good man, but also a poor man. They met by chance and offered a helping hand, purely out of love. In fact, I didn't want this old man who had been miserable for half his life to owe me something. Who would have thought that the old man would teach me the Taoist secret of "Purple Energy from the East" and repay my kindness. Gave it to Yi'er.
In fact, if you think about it, Jianghu is really good. If you borrow something from someone, you know how to return it!
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Many times, I feel like I am a chess piece.
I took the urgent position first and abandoned the son in the middle. That day in the Qingyin Pavilion, I ended up slaying the big dragon.
I didn't guess what the second brother was thinking, but no matter what the purpose was, after the second brother released the dragon, I knew that my opportunity had come.
My teacher Dongfang Chunsheng and I sang together and launched an attack without warning in Qingyin Pavilion. We successfully sent my father, eldest brother and the entire clan to hell. A century-old clan was destroyed in my hands in only six years.
hehe! I don’t know if this is what people want or if I am too smart.
