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Tian Hou didn't hesitate. For him, there was no room for hesitation. He asked, "What should I do to become Laojun's disciple?"

"There is Laojun Mountain in the Jianghuai River, and there is the dojo where Laojun came into the world. According to the rules, the beginner disciples naturally have to accept the initiation ceremony at the Laojun dojo." General Jin said: "It's just that the situation is special, so here is the initiation ceremony for you. , when the time comes, I will naturally take you to Laojun Mountain to perform the exact blood sacrifice!"

"Laojun Mountain? Blood Sacrifice?" Tian Hou was stunned. He had never heard of Laojun Mountain in Jianghuai Road, but this Great Qin has a vast territory and thousands of mountains and rivers. Maybe this Laojun Mountain was not famous before, which does not mean that there is no such thing. Mountain.

But listening to General Jin's words, Tian Hou couldn't help thinking, is it possible that Tiangong is in Laojun Mountain, and Laojun Mountain is the heart of Tianmen Dao?General Jin mentioned the blood sacrifice, but he didn't know what was going on.

I saw General Jin take out a scroll from his arms, slowly opened it, held it with both hands, took two steps back, and laid it across his chest. Tian Hou saw through the light that on the scroll was a gossip .

However, this gossip map is a little different from ordinary gossip maps. The lines seem to be drawn with a vermilion brush. , there are as many as dozens of patterns, these patterns are small and simple, and the pattern itself is nothing special, but the small icons of this secret pattern are all over the corners of the scroll, which makes people feel a little strange.

"The gossip comes from the "Book of Changes". Fuxi's gossip is predicted by the I Ching. There are only gossips. Later Zhou Wenwang's gossip was deduced and created 64 hexagrams...!" General Jin looked solemnly, "64 disciples correspond to 64 hexagrams. The hexagrams belong to metal, the hexagrams Li belong to fire, the hexagrams Zhen and Xun belong to wood, the hexagrams Kan and water belong to water, the hexagrams Gen and Kun belong to earth. Among the six realms of Tianmen, Dao ranks first, and the 64 disciples are all distributed among the six realms. Each way has disciples belonging to the Five Elements. The Sun General and the Moon General are the only two out of the 64 disciples who are not included in the Five Elements. , so the real core of Tianmen Dao is the Six Paths and Five Gates."

"Six ways and five schools?" Tian Hou heard a little vaguely, but he could vaguely understand it.

General Jin explained: "This general belongs to Jin Xing, so the disciples of Qian Gua and Dui Gua are all subordinates of this general. There are eight disciples in each line, but General Sun and Moon are excluded, so both Qian Gua and Kun Gua are subordinates. There are only seven people. The seven people in the Qian Gua will be the head of the Qian Gua, so the name of the Gua in Taoism is called Qian Weitian, and there are eight people in the Dui Gua, and 15 people in the Two Gua, so the disciples of Laojun who will be in command , actually 14 people!"

Tian Hou understood, "Although there are hundreds of thousands of disciples in Tianmen Dao, there are only 64 real Laojun disciples, and they are respectively led by the Five Elements Generals!"

General Jin nodded, "Except for the Sun and Moon generals, the remaining 64 people, each of Laojun's disciples, has a hexagram name in the Taoist sect. As I said, before King Wen, there was Fuxi's gossip, and Fuxi's gossip refers to These are the eight states of the world. Dryness is the sky, exchange is the marsh, separation is the fire, earthquake is the thunder, sunda is the wind, ridge is the water, gen is the mountain, and kun is the sky. The 64 hexagrams are fickle, blending and combining. There are a total of 64 hexagram names." After a pause, he said: "Now perform the initiation ceremony, after the ceremony is completed, you can get the hexagram name bestowed by the general, and officially become a disciple of my Taoist sect!" Said in a deep voice: "Once you enter Daomen, don’t kneel down yet!”

Tian Hou didn't hesitate, his heart was clear like a mirror, not to mention that he had no other way, even if there was another way, since General Jin had even told himself the secret of the core of Tianmen Dao, then he had no choice but to enter the Daomen. way.

Tian Hou knelt at the feet of General Jin. General Jin looked very satisfied. He stared at Tian Hou and chanted a very strange spell. At least in Tian Hou's eyes, it was a spell, just like a Taoist chanting scriptures. He really couldn't understand it. For any sentence, the King of Han just stood aside quietly at this time, without saying a word. After a long time, General Jin stopped the somewhat tiresome incantation, and ordered in a commanding tone: "Cut you open!" Your chest, offer your blood to General Ben!"

Tian Hou was stunned, and the King of Han finally explained lightly from the side: "Cut a hole, the entrance ceremony, you need to offer blood to the general of your sect!"

Tian Hou tore open his skirt, the King of Han had already thrown a dagger beside Tian Hou, Tian Hou picked it up, without hesitation, cut a not deep and not shallow gash in his chest, blood flowed out immediately.

General Jin cursed again, then slowly rolled up the scroll of gossip, put it in his arms, walked up to Tian Hou, stretched out a hand, Tian Hou saw, in the palm of General Jin, was a golden pill.

"This is the golden elixir of longevity. If you swallow the golden egg, you will be Laojun's disciple from now on." General Jin said slowly.

Tian Hou was stunned for a moment, but he didn't reach out to take it immediately, and General Jin didn't take it back either.

Of course Tian Hou knew that the so-called Longevity Golden Elixir had a beautiful name, but it was by no means a good thing. Maybe after taking this golden pill, he would be completely under the control of General Jin.

Blood sacrifice, golden elixir, just these two links in this ceremony, Tian Hou felt that this day's sect is not a good thing.

After hesitating for a short moment, Tian Hou, who had no choice, finally stretched out his hand and picked up the Golden Elixir of Longevity from the palm of General Jin. Although he knew that taking the Golden Elixir might always be under the control of Tianmen Dao, but compared Thinking about his gloomy future after dissatisfied with the golden core, perhaps obeying the Tao of Tianmen will allow him to get more in the future.

He put the golden pill into his mouth and swallowed it. General Jin stretched out a hand, pressed it on the top of Tianhou's head, and said slowly: "From now on, you are Laojun's disciple, and you belong to Jinmen Dui Gua. , your hexagram name in Daomen is Lei Ze Guimei!"

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Fuhai Road, Zhangzhou City, the city gates are closed, dust and smoke are everywhere.

Fuhai Road is located in the east of the empire, bordering Liaodong in the north and Hebei in the west. There used to be many merchants who went to Nanyang to do business, so the people of Fukukaidao naturally have a condescending feeling in their hearts.

People in Gyeonggi regard people in other parts of the empire as country bumpkins, and feel that Gyeonggi is the center of the empire. The talents here really belong to a well-informed group, and they are not comparable to those rural bumpkins.

But in the eyes of the Fuhai people, even the people in the capital look down on them.

Because many ports on Fuhai Road used to be the main entrance for trade with Nanyang. Not only merchants went overseas, but also Nanyang merchants came to the Central Plains. The place where they landed was in Fuhai.

Fukai Road was not only an important source of sea salt for the empire, but also an important transfer point for foreign goods.

For a long time, the trade in the Central Plains has been mainly in the west and south. The west is mainly the countries of the Western Regions, and the Northwest is the transfer point. The merchants in the south of the Yangtze River fought against each other, but after the rise of Xiliang, the commercial roads to the west were cut off, so the trade on the western front became a thing of the past.

In addition to the west, another source of trade in the Central Plains is trade with Southeast Asia.

The trade with Nanyang originated in the period of the Great Wu Empire.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms struggled for hegemony, and finally Soochow Wu ruled the world and established the Great Wu Empire. Wu's navy played a huge role in the road to founding the country. In the later stage of the hegemony, the navy formed a powerful force. The power of stocks has been accompanied by the rise and fall of the entire Great Wu Empire.

In the middle period of the Great Wu Empire, it was the time when the empire was most prosperous. The empire had huge navy armies in the East China Sea and South China Sea. Therefore, it is suggested that the court reduce the navy to relieve the pressure on the treasury.

As for the naval forces, of course they are strongly opposed to this, but in the absence of war, maintaining a large naval force for a long time has indeed brought a lot of pressure to the empire. The sea bandits harassed the sea as an excuse, and the proposal to abolish the navy was repeatedly postponed, and the navy did indeed take military action to destroy the sea bandits.

However, the Emperor Wu obviously felt that it was imperative to reduce the navy. If there were no strong reasons, the reduction of the navy would be imperative. At this time, the South China Sea Navy has been lost at sea in order to chase pirates. The road, accidentally entered the territories of the countries in the South China Sea, and the countries in the South China Sea were also unbearable to be invaded by pirates. With the help of the locals, the South China Sea Navy carefully designed and wiped out several groups of pirates who had harassed the South China Sea for many years. When he arrived in Wu State, he brought back a large number of Nanyang specialty products.

It was also because of this accident that the Great Wu Empire discovered the existence of the Nanyang countries, and this became the life-saving straw for the Wu State Navy. Since then, the navy has continued to be retained, but it is not used for war, but as an official businessman. , to carry out trade with Nanyang, so the southern route trade in the Central Plains actually started from the Navy. There is trade with Nanyang, and the focus of trade is Fukai Road.

During the Dahua period, trade with both the western and southern routes was very prosperous. Even after the rise of Xiliang and the blocking of commercial routes on the western route, the trade between the Hua Dynasty and Nanyang has been in full swing until the Hua Dynasty Civil strife, the world fell apart, and the warlords fought for hegemony, so the trade with Nanyang was interrupted for a while. It was not until the establishment of the Great Qin Empire that the Nanyang sea route was reopened, but it was still far from the grand scene of the previous dynasty.

Because of the trade between sea salt and Nanyang, Fuhai Road became one of the extremely rich areas of the empire. The chaos of Tianmen Road, the blockade of the Jianghuai and Donghai roads made it difficult to supply sea salt to the Guanzhong area, so Fuhai Road became a salt supply to the Central Plains. The only area in the area is the Qingtianwang Rebellion in Hebei Province, and the sea salt road in Fuhai was cut off. Although the South China Sea Navy did not let the warships fall into the hands of the rebels and burned them by themselves, they were still snatched by the Qingtian Rebels. The number was not large, but they were still cruising in the sea, posing a great threat to the sea salt road. .

Fuhai Road governs three prefectures. Zhangzhou is located in the west of Fuhai and borders Hebei Road. When Han Santong and Qingtianwang faced off in Hebei Road, Fuhai Road had already deployed defenses in Zhangzhou.

Han Santong was defeated in a row, and the whole of Hebei had fallen into the hands of King Qingtian. Han Santong had no choice but to retreat to Fuhai with his remnants, and temporarily entered Zhangzhou City.

Han Santong originally wanted to use the defense of Zhangzhou City to block Qingtian King's offensive first, and then wait for the reinforcements from the imperial court to counterattack the Qingtian Rebel Army, but now on the Zhangzhou Plain, Qingtian King's troops are almost everywhere. The city has already fallen into the hands of King Qingtian, and Zhangzhou City is already the last fortress in Zhangzhou.

Before the Qingtian Rebel Army entered Fuhai, Fuhai built a strong defensive position with Zhangzhou as the center. Although Zhangzhou City is located in the plain, it is backed by a mountain that is rare in the plain. Although Mount Ami is not high, it is also Be it a rear barrier, the entire city of Zhangzhou is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

This is the last bone in Zhangzhou. In the eyes of the Qingtian Rebel Army, as long as this bone is gnawed off, the morale of the entire Fuhai Road will collapse. It will not be long before the Qingtian Army will sweep the entire Fuhai Road.

The Qingtian Army has assembled a heavy army, obviously intending to take Zhangzhou City at all costs. It seems to be intentional. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it suddenly appeared on the Zhangzhou Plain and launched a fierce attack on Zhangzhou City. Han Santong had been prepared for a long time, but he was really going to be caught off guard.

Although he was the general of the defeated army, Han Santong obviously wanted to regain his dignity in Zhangzhou, and personally commanded from the top of the city. For three consecutive days, the Qingtian Army fought desperately, and the Zhangzhou defenders also swore to defend.

Under the sunshine, the banner is clear and the armor is shining, but everyone's heart is shrouded in dark clouds.

On the top of the city tower, the soldiers of the Qin army stared at the Qingtian rebels densely packed like ants below the city with stern expressions, but they couldn't help but feel a little hairy.

There are many soldiers in Qingtian, and most of them are untrained civilians. As soon as Qingtian King unfurled his banner, a large group of mud legs followed behind to wave the flag and rebel.

These Qingtian soldiers didn't even have uniform weapons and uniforms, and many of them even had tattered clothes. At first glance, they looked like a mob, but under the leadership of King Qingtian, this mob leveled the entire Hebei Road, and left the left guard General Han Santong retreated steadily, and finally retreated to Zhangzhou, Fuhai Road.

The Qingtian Army attacked Zhangzhou City for three full days. During these three days, the Qingtian Army suffered countless casualties, but they continued to attack like moths flying into the flames.

The moat had long been filled with corpses, and the pile was very high. The corpses could not be cleaned up. The Qingtian army stepped on the corpses, rode ladders, or climbed with self-made ropes. They were shot down by random arrows from the city, and soon joined the ranks of those bones.

The water in the moat was already full of blood. Under the sunlight, it was blood red. There were piles of corpses, broken limbs, and a disgusting smell of blood.

Fortunately, the weather was not too hot, the corpses were not easy to rot, and it was not easy to produce diseases and plagues. However, the emotions of terror began to spread in the hearts of the guards and soldiers like the plague.

The defenders in the city, together with the thousands of soldiers and horses brought by Han Santong's retreat, numbered more than 2 people, but there were extremely heavy casualties every day. In his eyes, the number of the Qingtian army is increasing day by day, if one thousand is killed today, two thousand will come to reinforce them tomorrow.

They no longer had confidence in repelling these gangsters, and they knew that Zhangzhou City would be breached sooner or later if the fighting continued like this, but there seemed to be no sign of reinforcements from the imperial court.

A new round of attack has started again, and no one knows whether they can survive after waiting for a round of attack.

In the eyes of the Qingtian soldiers who were besieging the city, the bloody red color was also reflected in their eyes.

The soldiers on the top of the city watched the rebels rushing towards the city like wild beasts, and their arrows were a little weak, but listening to the roar of those bandits, they were roaring, roaring, after the city was broken, they would slaughter Zhangzhou City from top to bottom , The chickens and dogs did not stay, and the officers and soldiers could only resist desperately. From time to time, one black shadow after another appeared in the sky. They were the rebels who came here from other places for reinforcements. , but just want to take a stimulant, just like Zhangzhou city has peerless treasures and peerless beauties, gathering like flies.