Taiping Inn

After Li Taiyi killed someone, he put the "Knocking the Sky Gate" back into the sheath and retreated to the side.

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Li Xuandu held the sword again, shot his heavy eyes on everyone, and said, "This conflict between the two families is not today. When the master and his wife were still there, Mrs. Jiang from the saint's mansion had I had a conflict with my master's wife. Mrs. Jiang invited many people to trouble my master. There is no explanation for who is right and who is wrong. "

"After this incident, our Qingwei Sect took the initiative to give in. Except for retaining the ancestral home of Beihai Mansion, the rest of the forces retreated to the East China Sea and gave up the land to them. Finally, we lived a few days of peace."

"But the saint's mansion has to be more and more demanding. I feel that our Li family's ancestral home is also on their territory. As long as we get off the sea, we have to act according to their faces. Therefore, a small slave in the saint's mansion dares to be so arrogant and dares to be so arrogant. So arrogant. Because in their opinion, we are outsiders, and the dragon crossing the river cannot suppress the snake, the dragon must be squinted, and the tiger must be lying."

"As the saying goes, 'Don't hit someone in the face', the saint's mansion is no longer a slap in the face, but a slap in the face, and to ride on our heads, and even to keep us from turning over forever."

"So, the provocation we encounter today is not as simple as a life, but decades of new and old hatreds. Since they have forced them here, we might as well end the new and old hatreds."

The whole hall was quiet, only Li Xuandu's voice resounded in the Beihai Hall, accompanied by the blood on the ground and the headless corpse, with a different kind of solemnity.

Li Xuan paused for a moment and slightly emphasized his tone: "Someone said just now, we are not sure. After all, there is a Confucian sect behind the saint's mansion. Not to mention that there is also a Taoist sect behind us, just say the word "bone spirit". Could it be that If you can't beat it, don't fight back? If you can't beat it, can you let others bully it? Will we let us go if we beg for mercy? If we beat it, we will die, and if we don't beat it, we will die. It's better to die while standing than to die while kneeling , at least die brilliantly. And we are not without a chance of winning. It is better to fight hard than to sit and wait for death. Maybe we won? They are the ones who die."

Qin Su was also able to attend the Beihai Hall and never spoke. At this time, he whispered: "Those who hear the drum but do not want to hit the other side are not husbands!"

Everyone is solemn.

Many young people are already full of passion, and they only think these two sentences sound exciting, especially the sentence "At least you die brilliantly!" and Qin Su's "I am not a husband," which is very important to respect righteousness and move forward. Generous and tragic, heroic and free.

Li Xuandu stood up from the red sandalwood chair with the "Knocking the Sky Gate" and broke through the waves. Wherever he passed, everyone retreated and made way for the way. The rest of the sitting people also stood up and stood respectfully.

Li Xuandu came to the door of Beihai Hall, turned his back to everyone, and slowly said, "But only dominate the world with one person, how can one serve the world? You have heard of today's affairs. Instead of living a life of slackness, I will be ashamed of all the time. ;How can I beat up and fight against the male and female? As the 36th generation leader of the Li family and the leader of the Qingwei Sect, I made this decision. However, I don’t know what happened, it’s like returning after a war and defeated. You all today Here, I can blame me alone and I will bear it with all my strength."

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Dongping Prefecture is located in the southwest of Qizhou, located at the junction of Qizhou, Chuzhou, Zhongzhou and Luzhou.

This place is the holy land of Confucianism. The most holy, sub-saints, and re-saints of Confucianism were all born here. The Grand Canal also passes through this place, so Dongping Prefecture is quite prosperous.

The saint's mansion is naturally located here.

Over the past thousands of years, countless aristocratic families have been destroyed by war. Even if they are prosperous for a while, they will not be able to escape the end of destruction. I don’t know how many surnames come and go, and it can be said that you just finished singing and I will appear. Only two families have continuous inheritance, one in the south and one in the north, known as the only two thousand-year-old families, namely the Dazhen Mansion of Shangqing County, Wuzhou Shangqing Prefecture and the Saint Mansion of Donglu County, Dongping Prefecture of Qizhou.

Coincidentally, these two families happen to be one Confucian, and the specifications of the mansion are almost the same.

As for the Tian family royal family of this dynasty, it has only been more than two hundred years of rise, and it has not been considered a thousand-year inheritance. No wonder it is regarded as "an outbreak of others and a petty family."

A couplet was hung on the main entrance of the Dazhen Mansion of Wuzhou: "The Tao is high and the dragon is hidden, and the virtue is heavy and the ghost is respected. The unparalleled land of the southern country is the first in Wuzhou."

Therefore, the Dazhen Mansion is also known as the first family in Jiangnan, but it is still a little different from the saint's mansion, because the saint's mansion has always been said to be "the best family in the world".

The sage mansion is located in the middle of Donglu County, facing north and south, facing a large pink and white screen wall. On the left and right sides of the door, there is a pair of round carved male and female stone lions more than meter high. The red-edged and black-painted door is inlaid with a silhouette, and the plaque "Shengfu" with blue-bottomed characters hanging high above the middle of the door.

On the bright pillars on both sides of the gate, a couplet hung: "With all the country and the country are peaceful and prosperous, and the family of saints of morality are the same as the heavens." The couplet is so grand that it is self-evident, and what is more clever is that The word "rich" in the first couplet "Adorable and Honorable" is a little less, and the word "zhang" in the second couplet "Essay Morality" is a little more, meaning that the saint's mansion has lost its wealth and honor, and the saint and his theory "virtue flows into the world, The Tao is the ancient and modern times, and the "rituals, music, laws and regulations" of the sage family can coexist with heaven and earth, and the sun and the moon are shining together.

In comparison, the "Tao is high and dragons and tigers are hidden, and virtue is heavy and ghosts are respected" in the saint's mansion is nothing. How can dragon, tiger, ghosts and gods compare with heaven, earth, sun and moon?

After passing through the first narrow courtyard, you will see the second gate in the middle of the Saint's residence, commonly known as the Second Gate. A vertical plaque with the words "Sage's Gate" is hung on the lintel, supported by a valve, and the doorposts are supported by stone drums. There are two side doors on each side of the main gate, and one side room. Usually, people only go through the side doors, and the main gate is not opened to show solemnity.

Entering the Sage's Gate, you will see a small, exquisite, and unique screen door in front of you. It is not connected to the walls on all sides and is independent in the courtyard, similar to the door of the hall. The top of the screen door is covered with gray tiles. The lintel is called "Chongguang Gate" because it is hung with a plaque "Entrusted Chongguang" awarded by Emperor Shizong himself. There are stone drums under the four round columns of the door, supporting the painted roof above, and four inverted wooden carved gold-plated flower buds are decorated in front and behind, so it is also called "Danghua Gate". Chongguang Gate is usually not open. It is opened by salutes during grand ceremonies, when the emperor visits, when the imperial edict is read, and when important ceremonies are held.

Chongguang Gate is also called "Saimen" because it is located in an independent courtyard and separates the front and back yards. Such a Saimen is not qualified to be built by ordinary powerful families. Only the "state monarch" with a title can enjoy this honor, that is, the king of the country, which implies the title of "Su Wang" of the saint.

The east and west halls on both sides of Chongguang Gate are six halls set up by the saint's residence in imitation of the "six ministries" of the court, just like a small court.

After passing Chongguang Gate, there is a platform in the courtyard with sundials and other objects on the platform, and behind it is the spacious main hall, that is, the lobby. The layout is very similar to the government office. In the middle of the lobby hangs a large plaque "Governing the clan surname". At the same time, the court also stipulated that the county magistrate of Donglu County should be recommended by the clan members of Yanshenggong. Therefore, Li Xuandu proposed to Qin Daofang that the county magistrate should go to the county government of the county where the saint's residence is located first. Everyone knows that the county magistrate and the saint's residence are one family. You judge your family members to win, and you are selfless and selfish.

After the lobby, there are the second and third halls, and then the inner house.

After entering the inner house, passing through the front upper room and a low door, you will enter the front hall. There are tall pines in the courtyard, and fish ponds are arranged in the east and west. It is quiet and elegant, and you feel that you are moving with every step.

The front hall is a two-story pavilion with seven rooms. The interior furnishings are very exquisite. There is a copper heater in the middle. In the Duobao Pavilion in the east, there are phoenix crowns, ginseng, corals, ganoderma lucidum, jade carvings, ivory carvings, etc. The inner suite is the residence of Mrs. Jiang.

At this time, there are two people in the hall, one sitting and one standing.

The person sitting is an old woman. There is a banner hanging on the wall behind her. It is the handwriting of Yanshenggong when he was fourteen years old: "The heart of a saint is like a pearl in the abyss, and the heart of an ordinary person is like a gourd in the water."

The person standing is a middle-aged man, who is the current Yanshenggong. Even if he was facing the current emperor or the chief priest of the academy, Yasheng Gong didn't need to be so reserved, but this old woman was an exception, because the old woman was his biological mother, Madam Jiang, and the real person in charge of the Saint's Mansion.

This kind of thing is not surprising. The queen mother is in power everywhere, and the old lady is nothing to be the head of the family.

Madam Jiang's family is not prominent, but her teachers are very prominent. Her two senior brothers are both big figures in the Confucian school. One became the chief priest of the Tianxin Academy, and the other became a hermit. It is because of this relationship that she can continue to expand her network of contacts. After marrying into the Saint's Mansion, she became one of the most important figures in the Confucian school.

When the old Duke of Yansheng died, the new Duke of Yansheng was still a young man and could not take on the responsibility. Facing the aggressive Qingwei Sect and the ambitious Li Daoxu, he was unable to resist. If she had not stood up to stabilize the situation and invited Confucian scholars to come to help with her many years of connections, Qizhou would not be sure what the situation would be like now, and the Saint's Mansion would have to rely on others.

Because of this, Madam Jiang established her absolute position and had the final say in the Saint's Mansion.

Madam Jiang looked at the banner for a long time, half sighing and half sarcastically saying: "A quarrelsome son in the family will not ruin the family. I underestimated Li Daoxu. I thought he would be willful once in his old age, but I didn't expect that he would finally hold back his anger and choose to put the overall situation first and hand over the Li family to Li Xuandu. "

Duke of Yansheng didn't say much, and understood what his mother was talking about.

The disagreement between Li Xuandu and Li Daoxu was not a show for the world to see, but it was true. It was just that Li Daoxu was old and didn't want to argue anymore. In the end, he chose to give in and made Li Xuandu happy. This was the situation they least wanted to see.

Although Li Xuandu and Li Daoxu had different ideas, in terms of spirit, Li Xuandu now was very similar to Li Daoxu when he was young. He was ambitious and had great ambitions and talents, so he had to take the initiative this time.