Seeing the expression on Iwasaki Hideyoshi's face, Hanzo didn't care and just asked.
"Do you know the source of these books?"
These are all Chinese wonders recorded in ancient books, but they have been lost long ago, and there is no conclusion on whether they are just fabricated myths and legends.
Although Iwasaki Hideyoshi had heard of it, he didn't know the detailed source, and he suddenly showed a hint of embarrassment.
Iwasaki Hanzo didn't take it seriously either, and explained slowly in an old and vicissitudes of voice.
"In the ancient Chinese period, Fu Xi relied on the "He Tu" to develop the Book of Changes, and Dayu relied on the "Luo Shu" to govern the Kyushu.
In the Western Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Ziya, the founding father of the country, obtained the strange book "Tai Gong Yin Fu", which was said to record the method of military formation, and Jiang Ziya used it to help the Zhou Dynasty destroy Zhou.
Later, because of his merits, he was granted the title of King Wu of Zhou and became the earliest king of Qi. His "Tai Gong Yin Fu" became the secret treasure of the Qi royal family and was passed down by successive Qi kings.
During the Warring States Period, "Tai Gong Yin Fu" fell into the hands of a generation of strange man Wang Xu (xu). Because he lived in seclusion in Guigu, he called himself Mr. Guigu and created the Guiguzi lineage!
Legend has it that Guiguzi not only had the Six Taoist Strategies and Three Strategies, but was also good at vertical and horizontal skills. He was even proficient in divination and prophecy.
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Zhang Liang was in exile in Xiapi. The Taoist god Huang Shigong tested Zhang Liang three times and taught him "Tai Gong's Art of War".
Then he assisted Liu Bang in strategizing and winning a decisive victory thousands of miles away, creating the foundation of the Han Dynasty!
After Zhang Liang's death, "Tai Gong's Art of War" was lost. It was not until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty that the Taoist wizard Nan Hua Lao Xian granted Zhang Jiao three volumes of "Tai Ping Yao Shu".
According to speculation, this horn may be a descendant of Zhang Liang.
With the help of this book, in just over 10 years, the Taiping Dao led by Zhang Jiao had a million-strong Yellow Turban Army, triggering the Yellow Turban Rebellion and kicking off the Three Kingdoms era.
It can be said that this book "The Art of Peace"...is the source of the chaos of the Three Kingdoms!
After the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Jiao died, and the two volumes of "The Essential Art of Taiping" buried with him were said to have been obtained by Zhuge Kongming.
Therefore, Zhuge Kongming not only knew astronomy and geography, he was also proficient in Qimen Dunjia, divination by gods, "Red Cliff Borrowing the East Wind" and other Taoist techniques.
Before leaving Longzhong, he knew that the world was divided into three parts, and finally assisted the hero Liu Bei to create the foundation of the Shu Han Dynasty.
Hua Tuo, on the other hand, obtained the human volume of "Taiping Yaoshu" and created the "Qing Sang Sutra", and his medical skills can lead to the gods..."
Hearing this, Iwasaki Hideyoshi was stunned.
Have you even compiled the "Chronicles of Strange Books"?
And... divination and fortune telling, military strategy, astronomy and geography, Qimen Dunjia, magical medical skills...
Why does it sound more and more mysterious?
A mere book, but you said it was an omnipotent book?
"However, even if the book you mentioned, grandpa, records various astronomy, geography, and military strategies, the knowledge will become outdated!
A strange book written thousands of years ago may have been a treasure to the ancients at that time, but to us it is just a cultural relic recording outdated knowledge, right?"
"Do you think the content recorded in it is just some knowledge?"
"Isn't it?" Iwasaki Hideyoshi was puzzled.
"Hua Tuo scraped Guan Yu's bones to treat poison, and even wanted to open Cao Cao's skull to treat brain tumors.
As an ancient man more than 2,000 years ago, he knew surgery, disinfection techniques, pioneered anesthetics, and understood the nervous and vascular systems...
Any of his medical attainments are more than 1,000 years earlier than Western medicine!
What kind of ancient people could write such knowledge?
Gui Guzi was proficient in hundreds of schools of thought. Although he lived in seclusion all year round, he taught Su Qin, who was born in the six kingdoms, Lu Buwei, who was a "wonderful person," Sun Bin, who was a god in military use, and Shang Yang, who was a reformer.
There were also disciples such as Zhang Yi, Pang Juan, Li Si, Bai Qi, Li Mu, Wang Jian, Xu Fu and so on.
These people were like Guiguzi's chess pieces, influencing the entire Warring States Period.
It even had a profound impact on the entire history of China.
What kind of knowledge do you think can enable a person to control the situation in the world without leaving home?"
"this……"
Iwasaki Hideyoshi was speechless.
"Is this all because of this book? So what exactly is recorded in this book?"
Iwasaki Hanzo looked at the other person, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and he only softly uttered two words...
"future!"
"What?" Iwasaki Hideyoshi was stunned.
"It's the future! If the great monk Jianzhen didn't lie, then this... is a book that can predict the future..."
"What?!"
Iwasaki Hideyoshi looked at his grandfather with dumbfounded eyes.
What is recorded in the book is... the future?
His expression became extremely strange.
It's like someone telling you, hey! That octopus can predict the World Cup, and it's like a perfect shot!
If it weren't for the powerful head of the Iwasaki family in front of him, he felt that he would definitely invite doctors from two mental hospitals to come and check him out.
Could it be that he is old and mentally disturbed?
Seeing his grandson's expression, he knew that he definitely didn't believe him, but Hanzo just smiled.
"This is unbelievable. I was just like you when I heard this from your great-grandfather.
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However, the great monk Jianzhen firmly believes in this!"
"Why?"
"Because in Luoyang, Xue Huaiyi personally predicted the outcome of his life...
He lost his sight, traveled eastward six times, and died in a foreign land..."
When Iwasaki Hanzo said this, he looked complicated.
"Jianzhen only told his most trusted disciple Si Tuo about this matter before he died, and Si Tuo told his descendants, the ancestors of the Iwasaki family.
As a result, the secret of this strange book became the family’s biggest secret and has been passed down..."
Iwasaki Hideyoshi was a little confused at this time.
Jianzhen is an eminent monk, so he should not make up such incredible lies about this matter to deceive his most trusted disciples.
But...how could such an incredible thing exist in the world?
He just felt that the information he had just received was strongly impacting his outlook on life.
However, he soon realized a problem.
"But if there really is such a heaven-defying thing, wouldn't the person who gets it be invincible?
But Zhang Jiao’s Yellow Turban Uprising clearly failed!”
"Well! As you said, it must have some limitations!
Maybe it’s because I can’t see the future that’s too far away, or maybe I can only see random futures.
Therefore, those who get it may have extraordinary vision and knowledge, but they cannot do whatever they want.
Judging from some clues, this book seems to vary from person to person.
Everyone who gets it gets different information from it.
If you want to control the world situation, it may present military strategies; if you want to save the people, it may present medical techniques and prescriptions.
However, manpower is sometimes poor. In that era of natural and man-made disasters, when people were like ants, personal power was ultimately limited.
The future is also subject to change at any time.
Being able to predict the future does not mean that you can rewrite the future according to your own ideas!
Moreover, this book...should have a huge side effect!"
"Side effects?" Iwasaki Hideyoshi looked at Hanzo in confusion.
"Well! As the saying goes, if you reveal the secrets of heaven, you will be punished by heaven!
At least Zhang Jiao and Zhuge Kongming did not die of old age...
As for what the side effects are... the answer may lie on the Buddha's head..."
Iwasaki Hanzo pointed to the authentic authentic signature on the table.
"Buddha's head... By the way, grandpa, are you saying that this book later found its way into Xue Huaiyi's hands?"
Only then did Iwasaki Hideyoshi react.
If this book really exists, what does it have to do with the Buddha head?
"That's right! After Xue Huaiyi got this book, he predicted that Wu Zetian would be like an emperor with his incredible fortune-telling skills!
Under his guidance, the empress escaped many murders and finally became a nun in Ganye Temple, where she met Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, who changed her destiny.
In the end, with extraordinary political wisdom and skill, an almost impossible miracle was created!
After ascending the throne, because Xue Huaiyi was fond of Buddhism, the empress promoted Buddhism and built Mingtang.
Because he almost obeyed his advice, the world mistakenly thought that Xue Huaiyi was the face of the empress..."
Iwasaki Hideyoshi's face was stunned, but when he heard this, he discovered another problem.
"However, according to Chinese historical records, after Xue Huaiyi gained favor, he became domineering and arrogant.
Because the burning of the Mingtang finally aroused Wu Zetian's disgust, and was finally sentenced to death?
If he could predict the future, how could he not know that the empress wanted to kill him?"
Iwasaki Hanzo shook his head.
"No, Xue Huaiyi was not killed by the empress, but burned himself to death!"
"What?"
"In fact, the fire in Mingtang was caused by Xue Huaiyi setting fire and burning himself to death after he went crazy!
As for the statement of granting death, it is just a means for the empress to conceal the truth."
"Crazy?" Iwasaki Hideyoshi was stunned.
"Not bad! This is the side effect I was talking about..." Iwasaki Hanzo sighed.
"According to Monk Jianzhen, although Xue Huaiyi became a monk halfway, he devoted himself to studying Buddhism.
However, the later he went on, the more moody he became.
Sometimes he recites Buddhist sutras and is charitable like a Buddha; sometimes he is angry and murders people, just like a demon.
In the eyes of outsiders, that is arrogant and domineering, arrogant and arrogant...
In the end, Xue Huaiyi couldn't control himself more and more.
So after driving his only disciple Jianzhen out of the Mingtang, he went crazy and burned the Mingtang to the ground, and himself was also buried in the sea of flames.
Jianzhen only remembers that during the final fire, Xue Huaiyi looked up to the sky and laughed wildly while muttering one sentence..."
"What words?"
Iwasaki Hanzo looked at the Buddha-headed face in the portrait that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and was both righteous and evil, and said slowly...
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"A flower blooms with two faces, and life is between Buddhas and demons..."
Become a Buddha with just one thought, become a demon with just one thought..."
Meng Lang closed the book in his hand with a complicated expression.
He did not expect that Xue Huaiyi would be the owner of this book thousands of years ago.
After knowing his ending, Meng Lang felt complicated.
On the one hand, the existence of "predecessors" was finally confirmed, and he could finally cross the river by feeling the stones.
But on the other hand, this "stone" feels so prickly...
Reading too many books will change a person's mind. This is basic common sense.
But reading too many books can make people schizophrenic, which is definitely prohibitive!
He has only been studying for a few months, and the effect may not be obvious yet, but Xue Huaiyi can be seen at a glance as a person who has been "reading" all year round.
Obviously, by not closing this Pandora's box, Shengsheng became schizophrenic...
Buried in a sea of fire... I'm afraid the other party still had some sense left and chose to end his own life.
From this point of view, he still has deep respect for this "senior" whom he has never met.
Otherwise, if the owner of an autobiography loses control of his thoughts and becomes obsessed with it, the country will be ruined, the family will be destroyed, and the blood will flow.
Maybe there will be another Yellow Turban Rebellion...
"Alas! The worst has happened..."
Meng Lang couldn't help but sigh.
The previous guess was finally verified by cruel reality...
Now he finally understood why several brothers had always avoided talking about this Buddha head.
It's not that they missed it, or that they forgot, but that they discovered that the truth extremely affects internal unity...
[Life is a busy life, but it is short and long. However, there are countless ups and downs, and gains and losses are difficult to measure.
For me, living longer is victory, but for you, that may not be the case...]
[Actually, living too long may not be a good thing for me...]
The brothers in the previous episodes have actually been hinting at themselves crazily. Keyword: "Live long!"
Only then did Meng Lang realize the complicated emotions the person involved must be feeling when he said these words.
Xue Huaiyi’s experience clearly illustrates that “brothers” are one’s “burden.”
And the "longevity brother" is his "heavy burden"!
The longer the brother lives, the greater the influence on Meng Lang's spirit and even personality.
Although it is unreasonable to think this way, various natural and man-made disasters made it impossible for Meng Lang to live to the end of his life every time.
Maybe it would be a good thing for him?
Then his best choice is to either resist the temptation, stop reading and let fate dictate, or... persuade his brothers to die early and be born early...
But the problem is, schizophrenia is death, and the destruction of human beings is also death...
It seemed like there was only the second way for him to go.
But this idea...can those brothers who are charging into battle agree?
Oh! I have worked hard all my life to get into this, and then you want me to get my lunch early instead of my pension?
Who would be happy to leave it alone?
Meng Lang believed that his spiritual state was not to the point where he would immediately prepare for his funeral as soon as he found out that he had no "book"...
Again, a zero-sum game most tests internal unity, and resource allocation is most likely to provoke internal conflicts.
If this is not handled well, internal unity will completely collapse.
At that time, countless brothers who want to "scream" will rise up collectively.
You do whatever it takes, I kill people like crazy, and when a few dark personalities return, they conflict with the upright and kind-hearted Meng Xiaolang Benlang...
It's not schizophrenia, I'm afraid it will become schizophrenia!
Originally, everyone might be able to stay harmonious for another three to five years, but if I give you a break...
Then I will really have no choice but to "break young"...