That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 34

The door inn was burned down by the fire, and Xu Beiyou and his party continued to walk towards Dunhuang City.

Along the way, Zhiyun was silent for a long time, appearing to be preoccupied. It may be because he had doubts about the world after seeing the face of the chief deacon of Zhenmo Temple, or it may be that Xu Beiyou finally started killing people under the guidance of Gongsun Zhongmou to make her She is not used to it, but no matter what the reason is, she has changed a lot compared to before, and this change may be called maturity.

Xu Beiyou couldn't figure out what the girl was thinking, and he didn't have time to guess. Now he not only wanted to practice the Dragon and Tiger Alchemy modified by Gongsun Zhongmou, so as to gather the Tianlan sword spirit in his body that had not yet been used by himself, but also It is necessary to take into account the most difficult sword thirteen among the first thirteen swords.Just these two things have already exhausted Xu Beiyou, and he really has no time to take care of other things.

As for Gongsun Zhongmou, the titular master of the Sword Sect, while he was teaching his apprentices, he began to prepare to return to his old business, so when the three finally saw Dunhuang City, the capital of Xiliang Prefecture, Gongsun Zhongmou told them that he was going to Seeing an old friend, he gave Xu Beiyou 500 taels of silver and let them enter the city by themselves.

Xu Beiyou knew that this was what his master had been doing for the past few decades, so he didn't ask any more questions. He took the fake guide given by his master, and after giving thirty coins to the gatekeeper, he led Zhiyun smoothly. Entered the city of Dunhuang.

The first thing Xu Beiyou did after he entered the city was to pick an inn, which was located in the northwest corner of Dunhuang City. There were mixed fish and dragons here, and it was barely a good place to live.This time, without Gongsun Zhongmou, he asked for two rooms, one with Zhiyun.

The reason for this is firstly because Gongsun Zhongmou is not around, Xu Beiyou does not want to repeat the previous embarrassment, and secondly because Gongsun Zhongmou will never be short of Xu Beiyou in terms of money. Although both Jianzong and Gongsun's family have been destroyed, but The centipede is dead but not stiff, and Gongsun Zhongmou still has a huge hidden inheritance in his hands, most of which are hidden in some unknown place, and a small part is stored in various banks.And even this small part, to Xu Beiyou, was an astronomical figure that would make one feel awed upon hearing it.

After Xu Beiyou was settled in the inn, he did not continue to practice his own swordsmanship. Instead, he took out a thick thread-bound book from his luggage, and wrote "Xiliang Zhouzhi" in four large characters.

This is the new rule that Gongsun Zhongmou recently set for him. When he is on the road, he should focus on his own swordsmanship, but after he settles down in a certain place, he must change to classics and history books.

This was also one of the contents of the original agreement between Han Xuan and Gongsun Zhongmou. They did not want the only heir to become a sword idiot who only knew how to practice swords, or a rough warrior who could only be a swordsman in the hands of the superior, so Xu Beiyou's The teaching process is divided into three parts, one is strategy, one is swordsmanship, and the other is to follow Gongsun Zhongmou to travel all over the world, seeing the world of mortals and the sinister hearts of men.

If Xu Beiyou is the kind of vulgar person who gets headaches when he reads books, he will underestimate the eyes of Gongsun Zhongmou and Han Xuan. On the contrary, Xu Beiyou is not only not stupid, but also very smart. Xuan has laid the foundation, and now what to do is to learn what needs to be learned with a momentum of devouring.

Xu Beiyou didn't have to take the imperial examination, so he really did not seek deep understanding, did not seek refinement, but sought to gain knowledge.In his rucksack, in addition to the must-read classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, there are also "Nanhua Jing" and "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" of Taoism, "Fajing" and "Han Feizi" of Legalism, " "Wu Bei Collection", "Mu Gong's Art of War", and then there are some "Taiping Huanyu Ji", "Shaking the Dragon", "Black Bag", "Book of Changes", "Shu Jing Zhi Jie", "Di Jian Tu Shuo", etc. Huge books.

Among them, "Shu Jing Zhi Jie" and "Emperor Jian Tu Shuo" are the works of Zhang Jiangling, Wen Zhenggong of the former dynasty. At the end of Zheng Dynasty, only Jiangling will be the prime minister." He changed his posthumous title from Wenzhong to Wenzheng.Moreover, many of Xiao Yu's administrative directions after he ascended the throne and established the dynasty were also deeply influenced by Zhang Jiangling. Therefore, if Xu Beiyou wanted to understand the court, he could not avoid Zhang Jiangling.

Gongsun Zhongmou will also add some books to Xu Beiyou from time to time according to the actual situation, such as "Xiliangzhou Chronicles" that Xu Beiyou is currently reading.

To put it bluntly, "Xiliangzhou Chronicles" is a local chronicle, which is boring, but through it, you can quickly understand Xiliangzhou.

Xu Beiyou compared the "Xiliangzhou Chronicles" in his hand, and combined with what he saw along the way, he already had a general preliminary impression of Xiliangzhou under his feet.

The late emperor Xiao Yu had always been the master of the Northwest before he entered the Central Plains.In the vast territory of the Northwest, Xiliang Prefecture is undoubtedly the top priority. The Hexi Plain and the Xiliang Corridor in its territory are known as the Jiangnan outside the Great Wall, and have the most fertile land in the Northwest. An important place for military strategists, it is also the granary of the entire Northwest.

In the Northwest at that time, apart from Zhongdu, Xiliang Prefecture was still the most important.

After Xiao Yu entered the Central Plains and proclaimed himself emperor, a large number of military generals from Xiliangzhou made contributions to Conglong. Although most of the military generals followed His Majesty to settle in the imperial capital, there were still a small number of military officers who chose Ye Luo to return to their roots. After two generations, the Xiliang prefecture is full of strange scenes of generals. At its peak, it was said that there were eight hundred generals in Xiliang.When Xu Beiyou met the three brothers of the Li family in Danxia Village, they were all from Xiliang Prefecture.

As the capital of Xiliang Prefecture, Dunhuang City is naturally the most important thing. It is called "a city with three hundred generals" by the world. The various forces in it are intricate, and even the Sansi Yamen who governs a state cannot Dare to say whatever you want.

The upsurge in the power of generals and nobles not only affected the real power of the local yamen, but also greatly weakened the power of the Taoist sect here.

This made Xu Beiyou fall into deep thought.His thoughts are different from his master Gongsun Zhongmou's, maybe it's because the onlookers are clear. In his opinion, wanting to rely on the remnants of the former dynasty or the "remnants of the Sword Sect" to deal with the imperial court and the Daoist sect is tantamount to nonsense.

In today's world, only the imperial court can deal with Taoism, and on the contrary, only Taoism can deal with the imperial court.If you want revenge, you must serve one side to attack the other, and you can use your strength to fight.

He didn't think the Master didn't understand this, but was just unwilling or unable to do so for some unspoken reason.

From Maoshi to Xushi, Xu Beiyou finally finished reading the Xiliangzhou Chronicle like swallowing a jujube, rubbed his eyes, got up and went to the next door to ask Zhiyun to have dinner together.

Now his time is really precious, and he has to turn on the lamp to read "Book of Books Zhijie" at night. Originally, Gongsun Zhongmou meant to let him start directly from "Di Jian Tu Shuo", but Xu Beiyou thought "Book of Books Zhijie" It's already his limit, no matter how advanced it is, it's not that he doesn't want to understand it, but he really doesn't understand it.

There are also "Nanhua Jing" and "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing". After practicing the Dragon and Tiger Alchemy Taoism, Xu Beiyou also has a lot of insights into the concept of Taoism. I began to study the "Dao Dian" that many Taoists have read all their lives.

More than half of the ten thousand ways of Taoism come from this general outline of Taoism in the world. As a part of the former Taoism, Jianzong naturally has the "Tao Canon" handed down. As for how much he can comprehend from it, it depends on Xu Beiyou's own understanding.

When Xu Beiyou and Zhiyun were eating in the corner of the inn lobby, Xu Beiyou was vague and suddenly said, "I want to be a person with status, the kind who has both civil and military skills."

Zhiyun asked curiously: "How can you be considered both civil and military?"

Xu Beiyou showed a big smile, and said, "Wu, it's fine if you can be like Master. As for writing, it's fine if you can write a beautiful article like "Biography of the World."

Xu Beiyou put down the chopsticks in his hand, and slowly recited: "When the squadron moves, the north wind rises; when the sword qi rushes, the south fights flat; if the sound is silent, the mountain collapses; if the sound is strong, the situation changes. With this method, how can the enemy be invincible? Seek merit, why not succeed?"

"The words are still in the ears, but loyalty never forgets the heart. What is the care of a six-foot solitary when the soil is not dry?"

"Look at who owns the world in today's domain!"

(End of this chapter)