A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 66 Bai Ru, the dangerous ranger
Three hundred and two years of the Bai Kingdom

At this time, the disciples of Confucius have taken root in all countries in the world. They call themselves Confucian and say that they are Confucian when meeting people. Lu and Bai are the places with the most Confucian people, but Confucian people in Lu place focus on hard work, while Confucian people in Bai place focus on talking. .

In the Bai Kingdom, there were too many Confucians, and many Confucians would ridicule those who were not Confucian, which led some other schools to unite against Confucianism. Therefore, passionate debates were staged every day in Taiyuan's speculative field.

"Hmph! You Confucians talk nonsense all day long, but you plant a grain of rice and weave a foot of cloth. You keep saying this is wrong and that is wrong. Are you the one who is right?"

A student who was leaning toward agriculture said angrily to the Confucian scholar who ridiculed him for dealing with the land every day but did not know the righteousness of saving the people.

The Confucian student said slowly: "Even if you grow endless rice and weave endless cloth, the world will still be in such chaos. What's the use?"

The agricultural student originally had insufficient debating skills. When asked by the Confucian student, he was speechless. He was just incompetent and furious, because he couldn't beat him. The Confucian student practiced archery every day, and his strength and skills were very high, but he spent all his time. When I am cultivating food, I don’t have time to practice martial arts.

At this time, there were students from other directions who helped, but they were rejected by the defense. As time went by, more and more people gathered, but the number of Confucian students was greater than that of other schools combined. Who said that today Duke Bai, the Young Master and Gongsun are all Confucian disciples!
When everyone was about to escalate to a duel with force, a man dressed as a ranger scolded everyone: "What are you doing? This is a powerful place in the academy. Do you want to use the sword? Come and compete with me if you want to use the sword?"

Everyone stopped talking. Who is tired of living, competing with the ranger who only focuses on martial arts training!

"Since you don't want to compete, then let me go. If you don't study hard for a day, you will show off your words every day. And you Confucian disciples, you look down on this and look down on that every day. I haven't seen you make the world peaceful. ?”

A Confucian disciple was about to refute, but was stopped by others and said: "Don't go, this is the young master's younger brother. Not only is he highly skilled in martial arts, but he has never heard of anyone taking advantage of him. Even the young master has Can't beat him?
I guess we can only win if Master Duanmu comes! And this person doesn’t like my Confucian disciple very much, so ignore him. He is a knight-errant and will come down sooner or later. When he comes down, won’t this school belong to us? "

Others thought it made sense after hearing it. When Bai Jiu saw that these Confucian disciples didn't reply, he stopped talking. Then he looked at the disciples of other schools and said, "Aren't you leaving yet? Are you waiting for me to see you off?"

As soon as everyone heard this, they all called their friends and left. After a while, the speculation field became empty, but Bai Jiu knew that when he left, the place would become the same fierce battlefield as before. After all, this is where I stand out.

Arriving at the young master's residence, Bai Jiu saw Master Bai who was compiling remarks for Confucius. This was decided by the Confucian disciples when they were guarding Confucius's tomb. Everyone recorded what Confucius said and finally compiled it into a book of Confucius' remarks.

"Brother!"

Master Bai's thoughts were withdrawn from recalling the conversation with his master. When he saw it was Bai Jiu, he wiped away his non-existent tears and said, "Brother, I'm back!"

When Bai Jiu saw him, he said, "Are you thinking about Confucius again?"

Master Bai said: "Yes! Every time I think of Master, I just feel that the height of admiration is higher, the strength of drill is stronger, looking at the front, and suddenly behind, Master is always good at tempting people. I use his writing to make an appointment. I use courtesy and I can't stop it. After I have exhausted my talents, if I have established an outstanding person, even if I want to follow it, there is no end."

Bai Jiu said: "Confucius is indeed a rare sage in the world, comparable to the virtue of Zhou Gong!"

Master Bai sighed and said, "No more talking. By the way, what do you want from me?"

Bai Jiu said, "I'm here to say goodbye. I'm going down the mountain again."

Master Bai asked doubtfully: "Why are you leaving so soon after only three months since you came back? Do you have any objections from my brothers and sisters?"

"It feels so uncomfortable not to leave! Seeing the tribesmen and people in the mountains whitewashing peace every day, completely ignoring the people below the mountains, alas!"

"My father and I both know what you said, but there is nothing we can do to change it. We have to do our best. Fortunately, there is no problem with everyone's moral character."

"This is their only advantage, but I think there are still some children who are practical people. The family should pay more attention to them and don't let them be led astray by your Confucian disciples."

"What's wrong with the Confucian disciples?"

"Brother, it's been a long time since I visited. Although there are many Confucian disciples now, the quality is really worrying compared to your generation. They only talk about it day by day but don't put it into practice. I'm very worried!"

After Master Bai heard about it, he was also very angry: "How can these brothers and sisters teach so much that they can teach this?"

Bai Jiu comforted him: "Although I don't have much talent, I think my character is pretty decent!"

After hearing this, Master Bai said helplessly: "Let's do this. After a while, I will call a gathering of the Confucian disciples of Bai Kingdom to correct some of their thoughts. I hope it will be useful." Then he said to Bai Jiu: "You have to go out when you go down the mountain this time. How long?" Bai Jiu said: "I don't know, maybe five or six years, maybe one or two years. By the way, Yuzhu and her son asked their brother to take care of them."

Master Bai said: "This is natural. You must be careful when you go out. If you have any difficulties, contact the local shadow guards in time. This is a token to mobilize the local shadow guards once. You should keep it safe."

Bai Jiu took it and saluted Master Bai solemnly, and Master Bai returned the salute.

Soon Bai Jiu went down the mountain, just for the ambition of his ancestors and his own ambition. This is what the Bai family has been doing for hundreds of years.

The Confucian Conference of the Bai Kingdom was held at the Bai Academy
Presided over by Master Bai, accompanied by the disciples of Confucius who stayed in Bai Kingdom, and the disciples accepted by these disciples, there were hundreds of people gathered together.

Master Bai began to speak: "The reason for convening this meeting is because I think some people have deviated from Master's ambitions!"

Some brothers who were of the same generation as Master Bai said: "We are all disciples of Master, and we have never done anything inconsistent with Master's regulations. How can we go against Master's aspirations?"

Most people agreed. Master Bai said, "Master's ambition is for the world to be unified, but is the world now unified?"

Everyone was silent, and then someone said: "We also want the world to be unified, but even Master has not realized this ideal. Can we realize it?"

"Yes! Yes!" "It's better to teach more disciples and pass on Master's ambition." "Yes, very, very well."

Master Bai looked at the group of fellow disciples who had lost their motivation after Master's death, and felt very sad, and said: "Master said that everyone has his own ambitions. I completely agree with this sentence. When you stayed, Master did not object. What, who am I to say anything?

Among you are my elders, my peers and juniors, and even my disciples. There is nothing we can’t talk about between us. I know that you all like to read behind closed doors, but it can’t just be reading. Bai Guo also needs you. Thank you for your help. I hope you can promote the civilization of our country and stop engaging in meaningless debates in the field of speculation all day long.

My Confucianism has become a famous school in the world, and there is no country without my Confucian disciples, so I ask you to do what you can, and don't criticize the disciples of other schools excessively. This is not in line with the Master's thoughts of moderation! "

After hearing this, everyone agreed and said they wanted to find a place to teach and educate people. Master Bai was very pleased to see this, as long as he was not just a talker.

After Bai Jiu came down from the mountain, he continued to practice his righteous deeds of hoeing the strong and supporting the weak. In some places, the people, even slaves, were very enthusiastic when they saw the rangers in white clothes, hats on their heads, swords hanging on their backs and bows on their backs. I brought out the best food from my own home.

When the nobles in question saw the ranger, it was as if they were seeing ghosts and gods seeking their lives. When ordinary people, rural people, and even slaves saw the ranger, it was as if they were seeing a life-saving god.

It is also because there are many rangers all over the world that it is very rare for nobles to oppress the common people. However, some nobles hate these nosy rangers very much, and even join forces with the common people who love money and cherish life to set traps to lure the rangers, causing many rangers to do it. He died, and when Bai Guo wanted to take revenge, he was rejected by the local lord.

The Bai family is using ranger methods to retaliate against some people, but there are still more incidents of killing rangers, which cannot be controlled at all. There are too many selfish people, and most of the common people are ignorant. A little profit is enough. Betrayed his savior. Bai had no choice but to let these rangers act in secret.

In these years of life as a ranger, Bai Jiu has seen a lot. A kind-hearted family was brutally destroyed by the nobles because the nobles took a fancy to their family's fertile land. Some people he saved gave everything they had to repay him, but they were killed by evil nobles because they didn't want to betray themselves.

Although he avenged him, he still couldn't dispel the depression in his heart. He just wanted to kill all the evil nobles in the world. On this day, he was drinking in Shangqiu, the capital of Song Dynasty, wearing ordinary clothes. Because of the counterattack of evil forces, current rangers do not dare to wear ranger uniforms outside of the White Kingdom except when performing missions.

Suddenly he saw an evil nobleman robbing a countryman's daughter. Bai Jiu clenched his fists. When the incident was over, Bai Jiu walked to his father-in-law who was lying on the ground crying and said softly: "Do you need help?"

The old man looked at Bai Jiu, who was wearing cheap clothes, and continued to cry: "What can you help me with? My daughter was robbed by a nobleman, and this nobleman is a public servant!"

Bai Jiu opened a corner of the luggage he was carrying and showed it to his father-in-law. He only saw a set of white clothes and a token inside, with the four characters "Bai's Ranger" written on it.

The old man exclaimed: "Are you a ranger?" Bai Jiu asked him to keep his voice down and signaled to go home.

When they arrived at my father-in-law's home, he explained the matter clearly to Bai Jiu. It turned out that a dandy official noble had taken a liking to my father-in-law's young and beautiful daughter and wanted to buy it for her. However, the father-in-law did not agree, so what happened today happened.

After hearing this, Bai Jiu said: "I already understand. In this case, I will rescue your daughter tonight, but you must not be able to stay in Shangqiu any longer. You wait for me under a locust tree outside the north gate of Shangqiu in the afternoon. I will take you there." After my daughter is rescued, I will come there to find you, and then I will escort you to other cities, so that you can live in peace."

The father-in-law agreed, so Bai Jiu prepared to visit the evil noble's house. But not long after Bai Jiu left, my father-in-law also went out.

(End of this chapter)