Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 408 Dark under the lamp

After Mao Xiang and Guo Ying left, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and paced back and forth in the hall alone. After a long time, he returned to the back hall to rest upset, but after lying down, he tossed and turned and stayed up all night.

In Yangzhou, Chen Su and Ma Siliu led tens of thousands of troops to search for a day and a night but could not find any trace of Zhang Sanfeng and Li Wei in the mountains, so they had no choice but to return to the city.

In the original Guo Ying's house, Chen Su, Ma Siliu, Xie Feihu and other Li Wei's cronies gathered together.

Chen Su said worriedly: "Guo Ying has escaped. The imperial court must have known about the situation in Yangzhou. I am afraid that troops will be sent to attack soon. I think we should follow the Lord's order and retreat overseas immediately!"

Ma Siliu shook his head decisively: "No, the teacher hasn't been found yet, how can we evacuate alone?"

"But if we don't leave, we will be surrounded and annihilated in Yangzhou. It doesn't matter if we die, the key is that all your hard work will be in vain!" Chen Su said solemnly.

Ma Siliu was silent, and after a moment he said: "Okay, you can go, I will stay and continue to look for the teacher! Anyway, this is how I hid it before."

Chen Su frowned immediately. He was the oldest here, but he did not have the right to make decisions. There was nothing Ma Siliu could do if he didn't listen. He could only look at Xie Feihu standing aside.

Xie Feihu frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Yangzhou City is high and deep, I think it won't be a problem for us to hold on for a while. There is no need to rush to retreat just yet. I will immediately send a message to Lu Tang and the others and ask them to send a ship to meet them. In the end, it’s not too late for us to take a boat out to sea.”

Ma Siliu nodded in agreement: "Yes, I think so too."

Chen Su frowned, a little dissatisfied with the two of them.

"Let's do this. I'll arrange for people to send Her Royal Highness and the others away first to prevent the war from affecting them." Chen Su said.

Xie Feihu and Ma Siliu quite agreed with this point. Although the imperial army did not dare to do anything to the princess, if the princess and the child fell into the hands of the imperial court, then they would be too passive.

The three reached an agreement and began to take action. While sending spies to pay attention to the movements around Yangzhou, they also prepared ships to send Anqing and his children out to sea.

But when they told An Qing about their decision, An Qing refused to leave. Xie Feihu and Ma Siliu took turns trying to persuade him, but they couldn't be swayed.

"I'm not leaving. I'm going to the capital to find my father and ask him to help us find Li Wei."

An Qing sat at the top and said stubbornly.

She knew that her father had conflicts with her husband, but she still believed that her father would spare Li Wei for her. On the other hand, she also hoped that Li Wei could put aside Xiaoqing's matter and reconcile with her father. After all, they were a family. people.

Xie Feihu and Xie Feihu looked at each other. They both knew that the matter was not as simple as An Qing thought, but they didn't know how to explain it to him.

After hesitating for a moment, Xie Feihu looked at the children next to him who were being looked after by Xiaohong and Xiaoyue, and said with a thought: "Master, even if you don't think about yourself, you still have to think about you and the teacher's children. You don't want them to spend their whole lives." Are they all locked up in the mansion like they have been for the past six months?"

An Qing's face suddenly became a little embarrassed.

During the six months of confinement, although she herself felt fine, the two children were not. They were just like her when she was a child, thinking about leaving the palace every day, especially the playful little Keqin.

While she was hesitating, Chen Su suddenly came in a hurry.

"Your Highness Princess!" Chen Su bowed to each Anqing first, and then said to everyone with a joyful face: "We don't have to leave for the time being. I just received the news that Yizhen Guards and Zhenhai Guards have been mobilized, but they have not Come to attack us, but follow our previous route to find the father-in-law."

Xie Feihu and Ma Siliu both looked surprised when they heard this, but An Qing said in surprise: "I said that my father will definitely help us find Li Wei, so you can rest assured now!"

"Your Highness the Princess is right." Chen Su said with a smile.

But after he finished speaking, he secretly gave Xie Feihu and the others a wink.

It was a good thing that the imperial army did not attack them, but if the other party found Li Wei first, it would be very disadvantageous for them. They must take action and continue to search for Li Wei's whereabouts.

Xie Feihu and Xie Feihu called each other, but they stopped trying to persuade him and resigned together.

After the three people left, they immediately began to make arrangements to continue searching for Li Wei. They were now clearly hostile parties to the court, and they had to be wary of each other while searching, so they had to act cautiously.

……

On a steep cliff, Li Wei sat in front of a bonfire, holding a piece of dry biscuit in his hand and chewing it with a look of disgust.

In the dark night, Zhang Sanfeng stood on the edge of the cliff, looking up at the stars, looking like a master from this world.

After chewing for a while, it was really hard to swallow. Li Wei put the dry biscuits aside and complained loudly to Zhang Sanfeng:

"I said, couldn't you just steal a chicken? Making these dry biscuits all day long would be too unpalatable!"

Zhang Sanfeng didn't look back and said calmly: "Xiaoling Mausoleum is heavily guarded. It's good to get these. Don't be picky."

After he kidnapped Li Wei, he fled all the way to Zhongshan Mountain east of the capital, and climbed to the top of the mountain. Zhu Yuanzhang's Xiaoling Mausoleum is at the foot of the mountain. Empress Ma was buried in it a few years ago. It will probably not be long before , Zhu Yuanzhang will also enter here.

It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know that his descendants would leave him here alone and all go to Peking.

Ever since Li Wei was robbed, Zhu Yuanzhang had sent an army to search with all his strength in the past few days. Chen Su and the others were not idle either, but they never thought that Zhang Sanfeng had tricked them under the hand lamp and came directly to Zhu Yuanzhang's eyelids next to the capital. Underneath.

"You are so powerful in martial arts, how can you not do such a small thing?" Li Wei didn't believe it.

Zhang Sanfeng snorted lightly and ignored him.

There is indeed good wine and meat in Xiaoling, but they are high-end sacrifices. He can steal them, but if there are not enough of these sacrifices, people will definitely be discovered. In order to avoid trouble, he will naturally not take these. thing.

Seeing that he was silent, Li Wei clapped his hands and stood up and walked to him, imitating him and looking up at the stars: "What are you looking at?"

"It depends on the number of days." Zhang Sanfeng said calmly.

"Tch! Superstitious!" Li Wei said disdainfully, "Let me give you some popular science. In fact, the stars you see now are all stars like the sun, and most of them are larger than the sun. It is several times larger. Their movement is caused by the interaction of various forces in the universe. Coupled with the rotation of the earth where we are, it forms the changes in the stars. This change follows the laws of nature and follows the laws of nature. It doesn’t matter what the number of days is.”

"Oh, is it so?"

Zhang Sanfeng withdrew his gaze and looked at Li Wei. Li Wei's words made him feel quite novel.

Li Wei also withdrew his gaze and snorted softly: "If you have nothing else to do, study more about the nature of changes in things. Don't just rely on your imagination, it's useless!"

"Haha." Zhang Sanfeng smiled and continued to look up at the stars without arguing.

Li Wei suddenly felt bored. He curled his lips and returned to the campfire. He picked up the dry biscuits and continued to eat them. He couldn't help it, he was hungry!

Zhang Sanfeng looked at it for a while, and suddenly sighed: "The weather has changed!"

Li Wei, who was gnawing on dry biscuits, couldn't help but rolled his eyes and muttered "psycho".

After Zhang Sanfeng sighed, he also came to the bonfire and took a piece of dry biscuit to eat. He had not really cultivated immortality, and he would be hungry even if he didn't eat.

Li Wei looked up at him, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but ask directly: "Hey, what on earth did you want to do by catching me here?"

In the past two days, Zhang Sanfeng had fled here with him. He didn't say anything else, and just kept guarding him like this. He neither let him go nor made any demands. It seemed that he was definitely not one of Li Shanchang's people, nor did he really want to take him in. Being an apprentice made him a little confused. Why did this old man kidnap him here for no reason?
Zhang Sanfeng said while eating: "Because you are a variable."

Li Wei was stunned and asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"

Zhang Sanfeng swallowed the cake in his mouth, picked up the water bag and took a sip, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and then said: "Since you appeared in the Ming Dynasty, the sky has changed a lot. In fact, I shouldn't interfere in mortal affairs. But your actions made the days change more and more, and I had to try to stop it." Li Wei looked dull, with countless alpacas running past in his mind.

What a stupid reason, it turns out that he was arrested for no apparent reason because of this guy's superstition.

"No, you can tell the number of days just by looking at the stars? Then tell me, what would the number of days be like without me?" Li Wei questioned.

Zhang Sanfeng chuckled and said: "The Emperor Star comes from the north. Without you, Zhu Di, King of Yan in Peiping, would be the successor."

Li Wei was shocked and looked at him in surprise.

This old guy actually knew that Zhu Di would seize the throne!

Zhang Sanfeng looked at him with a smile, and then continued to eat the pie.

Li Wei paused for a moment before he came to his senses. He swallowed and still didn't believe it: "Are you confused? Zhu Di is not the only vassal king in the north. How did you know it was him?"

"Haha." Zhang Sanfeng smiled but said nothing.

He is indeed deluded, but he is not blind. He was the one who talked to Yao Guangxiao in Tianning Temple. The so-called number of days is also caused by human factors. The general trend of the world cannot be guessed just by looking at the stars.

Li Wei looked at him suspiciously, feeling doubtful.

As a science student, he didn't believe in these mysteries, but having said that, time travel had already happened to him, and there seemed to be nothing strange about other unexplainable mysteries.

But these are not the most important things now. The most important thing is to find a way to convince this old guy to let him go quickly and not to delay his important events.

"You said I was a variable. What did I do that affected the number of days?" Li Wei asked.

"That's a lot. For example, after you appeared, His Majesty suddenly ordered a search for strange people and strange things. Even the old Taoist I was forced to wander around and dare not return to the mountain gate. Do you think this affects the number of days?" Zhang Sanfeng smiled.

"Uh, what does this have to do with me? You have to go to Zhu Yuanzhang about this!" Li Wei said speechlessly.

Is this old guy seeking personal revenge?

He really didn't know about this, but it did have something to do with him. If his arrival hadn't made Zhu Yuanzhang worried that there were other time travellers, he wouldn't have been so aggressive in searching for strange people.

Zhang Sanfeng did not delve into this matter, but continued: "And those strange objects you made have brought greater changes, especially the ones you made that can turn on their own when burning a fire, and the guns and firearms …”

Zhang Sanfeng counted in detail the various technological creations he had made since arriving in the Ming Dynasty, and was filled with admiration.

Seeing this, Li Wei couldn't help but be a little shocked. Some of the things Zhang Sanfeng said were well known to the public, and some were known to very few people. However, he, an old man who traveled far and wide to seek immortality and practice Taoism, actually knew them all!
"These are not nothing. The concepts you promoted in Yangzhou this time are even more amazing for the old Taoist." Zhang Sanfeng was amazed and said, "Actually, I am very curious, where did you learn these things? This apparently self-contained knowledge cannot be created by one person!”

Li Wei looked at him blankly, astonished in his heart.

This old guy is really powerful, even smarter than Zhu Yuanzhang in some aspects. It is extraordinary that he can infer so many things just from the things he did!
Taking a deep breath to calm down, Li Wei chuckled and said jokingly: "Ha, to be honest, I am actually a person who traveled through time and space from the future world."

This old man gave him so many surprises, so he had to shock this old man.

Sure enough, Zhang Sanfeng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but he soon returned to normal and nodded lightly: "That's it."

"Uh..." This time it was his turn to be surprised again, "Do you believe this?"

"Haha, I've lived for more than a hundred years, and I've seen a lot of anecdotes. What's the point of traveling through time and space?" Zhang Sanfeng said calmly.

Li Wei was speechless for a moment, and he didn't know whether this guy really believed it or not.

"Actually, it doesn't matter where you come from. What's important is that you shouldn't do these things." Zhang Sanfeng said.

Li Wei was surprised: "Why? Is what I did bad?"

Whether active or passive, what he did brought great benefits to the Ming Dynasty court and the people. If we say the only disadvantage, it was that his great achievements shocked the emperor and shook the imperial power.

"What's the benefit of pulling seedlings to encourage them to grow?" Zhang Sanfeng asked rhetorically.

Li Wei glanced at him and sneered: "Haha, it's so rare. You haven't heard of the Big Explosion of Technology, have you?"

Although he has done a lot, compared to the era of rapid technological development in later generations and strong support from various countries, he is still far behind.

Especially during World War I and World War II, even if he traveled through time and brought a lot of knowledge, there was no guarantee that the future development speed would be faster than that of that era. After all, he was only one person, and it was the joint efforts of countless scientists from various disciplines.

Of course, if students like him grow up, it may be possible to achieve big-explosion progress in science and technology in a few decades, but the prerequisite is that the country has support. If the court is still dominated by Confucianism, no matter how talented it is, it will be in vain. .

The reason why China has not made much progress for thousands of years is because it worships stereotypes and ancestral systems and rejects innovative thinking.

Zhang Sanfeng laughed and shook his head, then thought for a moment and said, "Do you know why the current dynasty comes around every two to three hundred years?"

Li Wei rolled his eyes at him and said confidently: "Of course, although the reasons for the rise and fall of dynasties are complicated, they can be boiled down to two points. They are nothing more than insufficient productivity and uneven distribution. The factors that lead to insufficient productivity include weather, geographical restrictions, and tools. Technological level, etc., uneven distribution is caused by corruption, collusion between officials and businessmen, and unreasonable trading rules. In short, it ultimately causes most people to be dissatisfied with the existing distribution method, thus causing violent conflicts..."

Li Wei talked eloquently and in more detail than what Ye Qingyun and the others talked about during the imperial examination.

"Of course, in addition to these, there is another more important reason, which is centralization. The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. The emperor has supreme power, which naturally also bears almost unlimited responsibilities. Regardless of natural disasters or man-made disasters, the emperor will eventually be blamed On the head, it is said that only by accepting the filth of the country can one become the master of the world, but in fact the truth should be the other way around. "

The reason why dynasties rise and fall in reincarnation is because the emperor cannot bear this kind of sin and is unwilling to give up the throne. If it is like the United States, if it does not do well, it will change the president. Then the people will have nowhere to vent their anger. They will hide behind the president. Various financial groups can make a fortune without taking any responsibility.

Zhang Sanfeng frowned while listening to his complicated theories and various terms he had never heard of before. It took him a long time to roughly understand what he was talking about.

But after understanding it, he still shook his head: "No!"

Li Wei glanced at him in surprise and smiled contemptuously: "Okay, then why do you think it is?"

He would like to hear what new tricks this old Taoist priest can come up with.

Zhang Sanfeng spoke for a moment and then said softly: "What you are talking about is just the way of humanity, but there is still the way of heaven besides humans. There are cliffs in the sky and there are cliffs on the earth, and everything has an end. No matter what method you use to create your life, it will eventually end." It is grabbing the benefits of heaven and earth. If you grab too much too quickly, it will damage the foundation of heaven and earth and cause the backlash of heaven and earth!"

After a pause, he raised the dry biscuits in his hand and continued: "Just like this dry biscuit, if I take two pieces today and two tomorrow, they may not care, but if I take too much, they will find out and send troops Come and hunt."

Li Wei looked at him and moved the corners of his mouth slightly, but did not deny his statements.

This is similar to the theory that technology is harmful. There are indeed some environmental problems that cannot be solved in future generations. People did not stop to think of solutions, but continued to engage in technology and economy regardless of it.

But there is nothing we can do about it, after all, who doesn’t want to live a better life.

Zhang Sanfeng stared at him, hoping that he would understand his good intentions.

Li Wei was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "So you can't steal the chicken tomorrow, right?"

Zhang Sanfeng was stunned for a moment, then waved his sleeves angrily: "No!"

(End of this chapter)