The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 408 I have a rosy glow, please appreciate it

Although the voice was familiar, Li Gefei heard it more clearly in his dream and was deeply impressed. He even often recalled it as an inexplicable hope.

The reason why I say it is strange is that this sound only exists in dreams. I have never heard any sound when I was awake, so I cannot really hear it.

Li Gefei was agitated and asked in a trembling voice, "Who are you? Could it be that I haven't woken up yet?"

Chen Shen stood in front of the window, cupped his hands and smiled, saying: "Mr. Li, you are so forgetful. I am your mistress, Chen Shen from Xiangzhou. Could it be that Mr. Li's family is so prominent that he is unwilling to acknowledge the old relationship?"

Li Gefei smiled bitterly and said, "Is it really the Chen family's virtuous son-in-law who is here in person?! Alas! Even if you are in a dream, you should at least be more lenient. I was persecuted by the treacherous prime minister and banished to Huangzhou. How can I be so prominent?!"

Chen Shen stared at Li Gefei, and seeing that he spoke sincerely, his doubts were gone, so he asked, "I left you in the capital a few days ago, and everything was fine. Why did you end up like this?"

Li Gefei said subconsciously: "When have I ever parted with you in the capital? Oh... Are you talking about that dream? It is true that we have not been apart for long! My dear son-in-law, everything in a dream is illusory, how can it be confused with reality!"

Chen Shen took a deep breath when he heard this. It was another dream.

Since he returned to the Song Dynasty and walked out from the depths of Meiling Mountain, he first encountered some remnants of the Zhennan Righteous Army and discovered that the timeline of the rebel army had become completely different from what he had experienced since the day he entered the Meiling network to look for the missing woman.

For the rebels, Chen Shen disappeared as soon as he entered the small temple of "Mengzhong Meiling" where the entrance to the webpath was located.

The entire Song Dynasty experienced a timeline in which Chen Shen or Ergou was completely absent, while the timeline in which Chen Shen was involved only existed in the dreams of everyone in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, not everyone had that bizarre dream. Only those whose fate was influenced by Ergou during that period of time had that dream.

However, some people whose fate is completely unaffected by the two different time and space do not have such strange dreams.

Chen Shen inquired and confirmed many times, but his doubts were still in his heart, and he knew that he might have been involved in a terrible conspiracy.

Chen Shen did not have any doubts. His experience that seemed like something in other people's dreams was really just a fantasy.

But another fact proves the opposite.

At that time, he rushed to Lanxi overnight and faked a shipwreck and drowning accident for Su Shi and Zhang Dun.

At that time, Chen Shen made two fake corpses to impersonate the remains of Su Zhang and the other person, but he transferred the real bodies to a secret place for body modification.

After Chen Shen returned, he went to that secret place on purpose and found that Lao Su and Lao Zhang were sleeping well in the incubator and undergoing transformation.

The existence of these two big guys proves that Chen Shen’s earlier experience was a real reality, not an illusory delusion.

However, even if Chen Shen had an idea in his mind, he still needed to find out the root cause of this change. Otherwise, if he allowed the situation to develop, reality would most likely be replaced by illusion.

By that time, the Song Dynasty would really be doomed.

Speaking of which, we have to thank the ancestors of this land for the tradition of recording history, and the demon-suppressing people have continued this tradition.

The description and analysis of various strange events in the Demon-Suppressing Secret Files ensure that the Demon-Suppressing people will not be at a loss when facing various difficult situations.

Situations like the current Song Dynasty, where illusory dreams and reality are intertwined, making it difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, have occurred many times on this land, and each time the impact was not small.

Unreal alternative reality!

The specialty of the Lord of Change.

Some of the more famous examples in history include the King Wu's conquest of King Zhou, the beacon-lighting incident, the First Emperor's burning of books and burying of scholars, Wang Mang's new policies, and the enthronement of Huang Tian.

King Wu's attack on King Zhou:

During the slave era of the Shang Dynasty, the princes were enfeoffed and respected the King of Shang as their common lord. King Di Xin of Shang was wise and brave, and was determined to reform (imposing harsh laws on slave-owning nobles and liberating slaves), and the country's strength grew day by day. Di Xin had the ambition to annihilate the princes and unify the world (a prequel to the First Emperor), and he put it into action.

Emperor Xin had been fighting for 30 years, conquering countless vassal states and offending all the vassal states. He was also too aggressive in military spending, which led to a lack of money and fatigue among the people, and a lot of resentment among the people. At this time, people all over the world suddenly had a strange dream. In the dream, Emperor Xin was addicted to wine and sex, aggressive in military spending, heavy punishments and heavy taxes, and he refused to accept advice and covered up his mistakes. He was a complete tyrant.

When people woke up, they felt very strange for a moment; then rumors spread that Emperor Xin indulged in wine and women in the palace, punished loyal ministers and righteous men with burning, and believed in the words of women.

Eventually people came to believe that Emperor Xin was a tyrant.

From then on, Emperor Xin was deserted by his relatives and friends, and the princes of the world joined forces to fight against him, which was the event of King Wu's conquest of King Zhou.

The event of King Wu's conquest of King Zhou is a typical example of fantasy replacing reality. This event directly led to the army of demons taking advantage of the chaos of space and time where fantasy and reality intertwined, and rushing into the real world from the subspace, triggering a massive chaos between the human coalition and the army of demons.

The beacon-lighting incident was a replica of King Wu's attack on King Zhou, but the intersection of fantasy and reality had not yet been completely completed and was stopped by a great sage of mankind.

However, the fuse of this incident - King You of Zhou also died and his country was destroyed. His son King Ping moved eastward and re-established the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

The burning of books and burying of scholars by Emperor Qin Shihuang can be regarded as a conspiracy that completely led to the failure of mankind, or an open conspiracy.

The reason why Qin conquered the six kingdoms and unified the world was that the people who made the greatest contribution were actually the Confucian scholars.

Of course, this so-called Confucianism is not the Confucianism that has evolved in later generations, but the original Confucianism passed down by Confucius and the disciples of the seventy-two sages.

These Confucian disciples are extraordinary. They can fight lions and tigers with their bodies, charge into the battlefield, keep their minds focused on the Buddha, and are good at suppressing ghosts and gods.

He can lead troops on horseback and govern the people when he dismounts.

With the assistance of this group of Confucian masters, Emperor Qin Shi Huang completed the unification of the world.

Just when the world was about to be settled, a big dream came. Confucianism became an illusion, Confucian scholars turned into legalists, and many heroes fought against each other. The great Qin Dynasty was about to fall apart. However, the ambitious and resourceful Emperor Qin Shi Huang cut the Gordian knot and killed all the Confucian scholars who had gone crazy, as well as the Taoist Guiguzi who created this incident, and burned all the books recording the false dream.

As a result, the unrest was dissipated and the world was settled.

This incident was clearly aimed at the powerful Qin Dynasty's unification of the world, and it seemed to have ended in failure, but in fact it was intended to strike a blow at the Confucian cultural tradition and cut off its roots.

After this chaos, the Confucian tradition suffered a devastating blow. Two major figures, Han Fei, died, and Li Si was heartbroken and became a useless man. The grand occasion of the seventy-two sages competing with each other was never seen again. Only some small branches were passed down to later generations and became more popular.

The so-called minor branches of Confucianism are actually the inheritance of those three thousand disciples of Confucius who did not attain enlightenment. They did not receive the true teachings of Confucianism, so they are not among the seventy-two sage lineages.

The events of burning books and burying scholars to the first emperor's quick and decisive resolution of the dispute can only be regarded as part of the conspiracy.

The following developments are the subsequent conspiracy part of this incident.

After the rise of small branches of Confucianism, they considered themselves to be the orthodox Confucianism, while the true orthodox inheritance of Confucianism - the lineage of Xunzi - was deliberately classified by them as Legalism (the real original Legalism was actually a relic of the slave era and was rejected by the mainstream values ​​of the time, just as later generations rejected the feudal legacy). This was the dispute over the Confucian orthodoxy.

Eventually, Confucianism lost its spirit and could no longer support the human sky on its own.

The so-called Confucian and Legalist scholars of later times could actually be considered the source of Confucius' orthodox lineage. However, such figures were only a flash in the pan and were alone and powerless to change the general trend of Confucianism.

As for Wang Mang's New Deal, it was an attempt at a leap forward in human civilization, but was destroyed by a meteorite falling from the sky.

The Huangtian Dangli incident was the most bizarre success and failure of a grassroots uprising. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Jue of the Taiping Dao launched an uprising with the help of his sectarian beliefs. The whole world followed him and within a few months he succeeded in conquering the world and established his capital in Hebei.

Before Zhang Jue could ascend the throne (according to the Han Emperor's abdication ceremony), an illusion suddenly appeared, the Han Dynasty was revived, and chaos broke out across the country. Soon Zhang Jue was trapped and killed in Guangzong City by the army loyal to the Han Dynasty.

The root cause of the Huang Tiandangli incident was actually the battle between the two evil gods Wanbian and Plague. Needless to say, the result was that the Plague was defeated miserably.

The above events are all recorded in the secret file of the demon-suppressing people, and are the top major evil events that all demon-suppressing people have to deal with.

The scary thing about these kinds of events is that if you ignore them, the world will be destroyed; if you prevent them, the damage will be equally incalculable.

After returning, Chen Shen discovered the abnormality, but he did not realize the nature of this incident at first. It was not until he visited many times to verify it and met Li Gefei in person that he understood what had happened in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, even if we know the truth, it is not easy to resolve the problem.

Chen Shen needs to find the node where the illusion arrives.

This node is not a certain place, but a person, or an anchor tool person marked by the evil god.

This tool person can be one person or a group of people, and even the tool person himself does not know that he is a tool of the evil god.

What Chen Shen has to do is to find these tools and remove the anchors that the evil god has set on them.

The first person Chen Shen suspected was his future father-in-law, Li Gefei.

Some people may ask, why Li Gefei?
The reason lies with Su Shi.

Su Shi was too famous and renowned in the Song Dynasty, and his fate was too closely tied to him. However, because Chen Shen had taken away a special feature of him in advance, even the evil god could not directly turn it into illusion. Therefore, he could only take a roundabout way to save the country - denying his existence from the inheritance of Su Shi's knowledge.

Zuo Zhuan says: "The highest is to establish virtue, the next is to establish merit, and the next is to establish words. Even if they are not abandoned for a long time, this is called immortality.

The nature of Su Shi's existence cannot escape the scope of these three immortalities.

In terms of establishing moral integrity, Su Shi cannot be said to have made achievements; in terms of making contributions, Su Shi was a complete failure in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. Although he had made some achievements at the local level, they were not even a splash in the entire long river of history.

The only aspect of Su Shi's truly far-reaching influence is "establishing words", and this is mainly manifested in two aspects.

The first is his masterpieces of poetry that are unrivaled in the world and will shine through the ages even in the long river of history; the second is Su Shi’s academic thoughts.

This academic thought is not just dead words written in books, but is practiced in the lives of his disciples and their descendants.

Once a poem is written, it is like a chess piece that cannot be regretted. It is not difficult to deal with. Haven't you seen how many famous poems have been lost, and how many good sentences are anonymous works?

If there were some unexpected events, Su Shi's name would be forgotten by people thousands of years later, and "Water Melody: When Will the Bright Moon Appear" and "Nian Nujiao: Remembering the Past at Chibi" might become works of unknown authors.

The premise of all this is that Su Shi’s academic thoughts were cut off and his disciples’ inheritance was cut off.

As for the disciples who inherited Su Shi's thoughts and knowledge, of course, the first six gentlemen and the last four scholars of Su's school must be mentioned.

Among these ten people, either one or all of them could be tools of the evil god.

Everything depends on how much of a blow they can cause to Su Shi's existence after something goes wrong.

Among the Ten Disciples of Su Shi, Li Gefei may not be the most prestigious one, but he is the most important point in the inheritance of Su Shi's disciples because he has a good daughter - Li Qingzhao, the most talented woman in history.

Therefore, Chen Shen's first suspect was his future father-in-law.

He did not directly question the other party, but only asked: "Sir, you have been demoted here, are there any family members accompanying you?"

Li Gefei sighed and said, "I have experienced many ups and downs in my career and have been confined here. How dare I make my children suffer? I have sent my eldest wife (Li Qingzhao) back to her hometown to stay temporarily, waiting for a good son-in-law to marry her. As for my child, he is not yet an adult and is studying at the Wang family school in the capital."

Chen Shen smiled and said, "So that's it!"

Then he got up and left, went to the outer door, knocked on the door and left a message.

A minor official opened the door to welcome him in and led him into the main hall.

Chen Shen met the innkeeper in the main hall and handed over a visiting card.

The inn official asked him who he was.

Chen Shen said, "I am the son-in-law of Lord Li. Since the younger uncle of the Li family is young and cannot serve the elders, I am here to take his place and show my filial piety."

The official at the post station examined Chen Shen's marriage certificate and found nothing unusual, so he agreed.

So Chen Shen took some luggage and came to Li Gefei's residence under the guidance of a clerk.

Chen Shen knocked on the door and entered, bowing deeply in front of Li Gefei and saying, "I, your son-in-law, greet you, father-in-law! You came to the south alone and I am worried about you. If you don't mind my son-in-law being stupid, I am willing to serve you and show my filial piety."

Li Gefei looked at Chen Shen in surprise. He glanced at the clerk who was watching the excitement nearby and said anxiously, "My dear son-in-law, please get up quickly! I have the country to take care of, why do I need you to serve me? Come back... By the way, where are you from?"

Chen Shen smiled and said, "By the Daming Lake, there are reflections in pairs."

Li Gefei twirled his beard and said, "So you are from my hometown in Qizhou. It's really hard for you to travel thousands of miles to come here. But you and Qingzhao'er haven't been officially married yet, so how can you stay here with me? Go now!"

The two of them argued for a while, but Li Gefei was unable to persuade Chen Shen and had no choice but to allow him to stay.

Over the next ten days, Chen Shen stayed by Li Gefei's side, accompanying him morning and night, day and night, and taking care of his food, clothing, soup and fruits, and his daily life, never missing a day.

Chen Shen's performance alone won the respect of everyone in the inn, and they all praised him for his unparalleled filial piety.

Li Gefei's living standard was a world of difference compared to before Chen Shen came.

But although Li Gefei had a smile on his face, his eyes gradually became colder and colder.

On a night of a full moon and bright stars, Li Gefei said to Chen Shen, "Mr. Chen, you can't stay by my side for long if you act like this! I advise you to leave quickly, or you will make mistakes!"

Chen Shen laughed and said, "Sir, how can you say such nonsense? I am sincere, how can I say it is just a show?!"

Li Gefei sneered: "I can tell at a glance that you are not sincere! Tell me, what do you want?"

Chen Shen smiled and said, "My wife who is not married yet has a younger brother named Li Rui. He has been away from home for a long time and his parents miss him very much. I want to take him back!"

Li Gefei also smiled and said, "Li Rui is my son. If he were here, he would serve me. How could he leave? Besides, what can you do to dare to come to my place to ask for help?"

Chen Shen stretched out his five fingers and said, "What a coincidence! My husband, you should know that I have a red glow in my arms, and I want you to appreciate it!"

(End of this chapter)