fifth form

Chapter 1652 Eighty Percent Similar
After practicing the art of fortune-telling, Zhang Xuezhou felt that his luck was pretty good.

Even if he went to the northern border alone, he had the great scholar Gongsun Hong by his side.

Gongsun Hong's character is not as stable as Dong Zhongshu's, but Zhang Xuezhou feels that he is 80% similar to himself.

It is very difficult to have a character so noble that others can hardly find fault with it. There are many people like Zhang Xuezhou and Gongsun Hong in this world.

They have some small thoughts about their own interests, and their values ​​will follow the interests they identify with.

However, Zhang Xuezhou and others rarely have the intention to harm others. Even if they want to gain benefits, they will obtain them through relatively legitimate means.

Judging others by his own experience, Zhang Xuezhou was happy to travel with Gongsun Hong.

He needs to carry out official tasks and travel everywhere on an official mount so as to meet the review and inspection requirements when handing over tasks.

This was the institutional process of the Han Dynasty. Zhang Xuezhou saw nothing wrong with it. He also knew that this was to prevent officials from forming cliques and factions, so this kind of review system existed.

Of course, every policy has its own countermeasures, and the system is not perfect. Even a decent person like Dong Zhongshu had to change his name and go to the northern border.

"Mr. Gongsun, how is your practice of the telepathy going?"

It takes quite a long time to ride a horse from Jiangxia to the northern border. Zhang Xuezhou and others took nearly two months by horse carriage. If the wheels were damaged or the road was blocked, the delay would be even longer.

The journey by horseback takes about ten days, and seven or eight days if you travel day and night.

But Zhang Xuezhou could bear it, but his mount couldn't.

For Zhang Xuezhou, this period of time when he is awake will basically be spent on the journey.

But the time was not too difficult, as he had a 'classmate' named Gongsun Hong along the way, and they could have some discussions on cultivation.

Gongsun Hong's advantage is that he discussed with Dong Zhongshu for more than ten days, while Zhang Xuezhou's advantage is that he returned to the real world and carried out various tests of the spiritual practice of the connection between heaven and man.

"Let alone the connection between heaven and man, even the chapter on the righteousness makes me feel very embarrassed." Gongsun Hong said loudly: "I just used you to induce the righteousness once in the water palace, and I never succeeded since then. How do you usually practice it?"

"I recited it. I recited it every day. I recited it during the day, at night, at three o'clock in the morning, and at five o'clock in the morning. Finally, I succeeded!"

"Young people are amazing. Diligence is indeed the best teacher!"

Dong Zhongshu gave a formulaic explanation and demonstrated it through his own performance. Whether the learner can understand it is up to him or her.

It just so happened that Gongsun Hong's biggest headache was his understanding. Most of his abilities in life came from diligent hard training and coincidences.

He is a cultivator who is one in a million in the realm of supernatural powers, but Gongsun Hong believes that he does not belong to the talented cultivators of the same level, and he is helpless about the practice that requires talent.

It's just that Gongsun Hong needs to practice the Celestial Sense, which is a technique that he can clearly sense and has great effects. It has no threshold to limit the level of cultivation, but it has irreplaceable abilities when needed.

Once used at the right time, this can bring unparalleled rewards.

With just a try, a bicycle can be turned into a motorcycle. The return rate is so huge, how could Gongsun Hong refuse?

Moreover, there are not many opportunities left for cultivators of his age, and the only opportunity Gongsun Hong recognizes at the moment is this Chapter on the Correspondence between Heaven and Man.

He agreed with Zhang Xuezhou repeatedly, then laughed and recited the "Haoran Zhengqi" chapter loudly on horseback.

Lang Lang's loud recitation also accompanied Gongsun Hong's extremely boring practice.

Although there was no talented cultivator like Dong Zhongshu to refer to, Gongsun Hong recognized the learning experience of his classmates like Zhang Xuezhou, and diligent study was extremely suitable for Gongsun Hong.

As long as diligence can lead to success, Gongsun Hong will not lack diligence.

"The higher the level of cultivation, the more spiritual power is needed to induce the righteous energy!"

Zhang Xuezhou was able to practice the Haoran Zhengqi chapter not because he was naturally gifted, and Ren Wuyang was not so talented that he could not compare to anyone after completing it in one go, but rather, they both had a foundation in this area.

As long as the foundation is sufficient, success is just a matter of time.

If you don't have a solid foundation, you can only try your luck and get a feel for it.

It’s okay to remember that feeling, and you can concentrate and try to perceive and adjust it, and eventually achieve the effect of induction.

If you don't remember the feeling, it means you succeeded once by chance, and it will be extremely difficult to repeat it.

To be honest, Zhang Xuezhou really hopes that Gongsun Hong can succeed.

Zhang Xuezhou hardly felt any benefit from weak cultivators like Ren Wuyang and Song Sijia's induction of the Heavenly Sense, but Zhang Xuezhou gained a lot from great cultivators like Gongsun Hong's induction of the Heavenly Sense.

As long as Gongsun Hong repeated his guidance of righteousness many times, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he would benefit a lot.

Of course, Zhang Xuezhou could find Dong Zhongshu, but Dong Zhongshu’s magical powers were extremely abundant, and it would be quite difficult to ask Dong Zhongshu to guide his righteous energy.

It would have been fine if he asked Dong Zhongshu to demonstrate once, but asking him to demonstrate over and over again would undoubtedly be a bad request.

But Gongsun Hong is currently in the learning stage, so it would be normal for him to demonstrate it ten or twenty times, let alone once.

"Dongfang Shuo, how long did you recite it day and night?"

After a whole day of running around, it was almost nightfall when Gongsun Hong finally stopped reciting with his almost hoarse voice.

"For a long time, that was an experience I could not bear to look back on. It almost made me give up cultivating my righteousness!"

Zhang Xuezhou thought about his chanting experience over the past two days and decided not to use this time to attack Gongsun Hong.

From the time they met until now, Gongsun Hong has been studying for more than half a month, and has only triggered his righteous energy once so far. The difficulty of learning is almost comparable to that of Ren Yisheng.

Ren Yisheng's mental strength is extremely high, and his realm is at the True Spirit Realm. Zhang Xuezhou guessed that the reason why Ren Yisheng failed in his practice was most likely related to his body.

As for Gongsun Hong, it was purely because his cultivation was too high, and it was difficult to attract the righteous energy easily without enough spiritual power. He knew the relevant details at this time, and communicated with Gongsun Hong at a leisurely pace.

“I don’t know if those who are gifted can achieve enlightenment quickly through practicing righteousness,” Gongsun Hong said with regret, “People like us can only practice hard every day!”

"A sword is sharpened by grinding. Without the grinding of thousands of times, how can the blade be sharp?" Zhang Xuezhou said with a smile: "We are not those born with divine weapons, so the only thing left is grinding."

"A sword is sharpened by grinding!"

Gongsun Hong thought about it several times, and he couldn't help but extremely agree with Dong Zhongshu's evaluation of Zhang Xuezhou.

Except for the fact that he had never joined a Confucian school, Zhang Xuezhou could already be considered a great Confucian scholar.

A great Confucian scholar not only needs to understand Confucianism, but also needs to have Confucian knowledge, the skills of Confucian practice, and even have a certain reputation and be closely tied to Confucian monks. Only when these many conditions are met can one be called a great Confucian scholar.

Zhang Xuezhou undoubtedly meets most of these requirements.

As long as Zhang Xuezhou was willing to be listed as a Confucian, Gongsun Hong felt that Dong Zhongshu would most likely push him to become a great Confucian scholar.

In the past, Gongsun Hong would cast a neutral vote on such matters, but the more he interacted with Zhang Xuezhou, the more he felt that Zhang Xuezhou had a similar temper to him, and that the two even had many similarities.

While resting and searching for food, Gongsun Hong also put aside the pressure of practicing and talked a lot with Zhang Xuezhou.

"Did our Han Dynasty's army really collapse at the first blow when confronting the evil country?"

Gongsun Hong's story about raising pigs at sea and feeding them all kinds of seafood to fatten them up was nothing interesting, but when it came to things outside the Great Wall, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but become more interested.

"Our Han Dynasty is strong in its schools of thought," Gongsun Hong said, "I wonder if you have ever heard of a folk saying?"

"What's that?"

"Kick the old master to death with random punches!"

Although Gongsun Hong ran back shortly after leaving the country, he was not without seeing the army of the evil country.

The fighting method of the Xiongguo Legion advocates group battle and hunting cooperation, while in the Han Dynasty, each legion has its own characteristics, just like different types of ferocious beasts.

Each beast has its own powerful strength, but it is extremely difficult to coordinate them. Forcibly combining them will lead to chaos.

But a single beast cannot fight against a vicious country.

If the army drawn from the Han Dynasty fought against the army of the evil country, Gongsun Hong would definitely lose miserably.

"Only by working together and uniting as one can we exert our strength," Gongsun Hong said, "Unfortunately, this is the most difficult thing for our Han Dynasty to achieve."

"I remember Master Dong also mentioned that only after great unification can the people be united as one?"

"He is an idealist. It is actually very difficult to achieve this," Gongsun Hong said, "You are rich and I am poor. Why should a poor person like me risk my life to fight for the rich? Not to mention those poor people, look at those princes and schools..."

Gongsun Hong's words sounded very angry, but he was actually very rational.

He just stated a social phenomenon.

No matter how much Emperor Jing and Emperor Xin did, these people were fighting for the consolidation of their own ruling positions and only for their own interests.

As long as we see through this essence, it is not difficult to understand why many schools of thought have different intentions.

Changing this situation is not something that can be done simply by saying a few words.

Dong Zhongshu's idealism is very good. The last person who did this was the Qin Emperor.

The approach adopted by the Qin Emperor was to eliminate dissidents and seek world unity. Those who were disobedient were killed, and the only ones left were obedient.

However, before the Qin Emperor could accomplish this task, he died first.

Dong Zhongshu did not have the status of the Qin Emperor, nor did he have the strength of the Qin Emperor. Gongsun Hong felt that what the Qin Emperor could not accomplish, Dong Zhongshu could not accomplish either. This "great unification" was destined to be an ideal product, something that could only be seen but not touched.

"If we don't resort to killing, what do you think needs to be done to bring about change?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.

"Unless Your Majesty is willing to share the world with the people!"

"Share the world?"

"Only when everyone benefits will everyone support him, but there is also a problem with this kind of thing?"

"What trouble?"

"Human desires are limitless. If people at the bottom can get benefits, people at the top will definitely get more benefits, and thus they will have the ability to overthrow Your Majesty!"

"so what?"

"So the court needs to constantly promote new people and kill the old ones. Only in this way can the cycle function normally!"

Gongsun Hong whispered his suggestions on "great unification" and also proposed a more practical plan.

This solution is cold-blooded, but also practical.

Although it was just the two of them discussing it at the moment, if Gongsun Hong could come to power in the court one day, the other party would certainly act according to their ideas.

Zhang Xuezhou smiled awkwardly, feeling that he needed to be careful about the limits of his relationship with Gongsun Hong, and that he also needed to be careful in his actions in the future.

There is more than one Gongsun Hong in the world, and there are more people who have this idea.

The person who spoke at this time was Gongsun Hong, but there were definitely more than one executor.