Chapter Eight: Lotus Heart
Changsun smiled and chi smiled: "Your sister-in-law and I are not convenient to go back to Jiangnan again, and we are not used to the climate in the north, so we thought of Sichuan. When we passed by here, we thought the scenery was good, so we found a place and settled down by the water."
Chang Sihao glanced at the river outside the window and nodded: "It's very quiet here," Shui Yanxiang brought a tray, put the wine pot, a plate of fennel beans and a plate of cold-squashed shredded rice on the table, and smiled: "You drink it first, stew the meat in the pot, and it'll be fine for a while," Li Shuangji was overjoyed: "It'll be stewed so soon," Shui Yanxiang was stunned, then understood, covered her mouth and laughed, and turned to her husband, "I'll put him," Changsun Xiaochi nodded, Shui Yanxiang smiled: "Every few days from now on, he will still deliver wine as usual, but one of the barrels is vain," Changsun Xiaochi smiled: "You are very careful and ask him to buy one and get one free," Shui Yanxiang said: "Life is not easy, you men are generous, we are women, so we have to be careful," Shui Yanxiang turned around and left.
Changsun Xiaochi was slightly surprised when he heard this, as if he was not sure what he said, and said, "My brother laughed, "Why do women's family always feel a little stingy," Changsun Xiaochi suddenly remembered the reason and said, "300,000 taels of silver are given for free. If it were me, I would be afraid that it would hurt every day." Changsun Xiaochi laughed loudly, and Changsun Xiaochi said, "You can tell the current situation, brother,"
Changsun Xiaochi's smile quickly faded away, stretched out his palm and said, "Don't tell me about the affairs of the world," and said, "As soon as he picked up the pot and poured wine for him.
Chang Sihao didn't expect that the door was blocked as soon as he said something, and he unwilling to press his body forward: "Chen Lu is dead,"
Changsun Xiaochi's eyes were slightly stiff, and a little wine overflowed.
After a while, he recovered, put down the wine pot, and slowly said: "Boshan has been baptized by countless battles in the process of expanding and growing Juhao Pavilion. He is the best young generation who grew up side by side with me. His planning is well-behaved, his execution is effective, and his sincerity is the one who can see the whole pavilion. Although he is not the most effective in Juhao Pavilion, he is the one who is the most attentive," he sighed softly, pinched up his cup, and sprinkled the wine on the floor.
Chang Sihao was depressed and said, "I have a responsibility for his death." He immediately told Zhu Qing and Jiang Wan how to sneak into the East Factory, how to use the word "test" to win over himself at the banquet, how to defeat Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, how did Chen Lu lead the four emperors Juhao to rescue the two, and finally die under Qin Juexiang's sword, etc., and tell me the details.
Finally, he said: "The emperor also has the intention to strive for governance. As long as the nine sides are stable and there is no dispute in the country, the Ming Dynasty will have hope. The battle of the East Factory has fully revealed the problems of Juhao Pavilion and cannot be concealed. Now You Shengxian, two old swordsmen, Yan Lingyun, have returned to the world. Once the Gutian army leads the Uprising Flag and mutiny, the situation will be difficult to control. Brother, you can't ignore this matter."
Looking at his worried look, Changsun Xiaochi smiled instead, filled the empty cup and said, "Why, you also want to place the hope of the Ming Dynasty, like Hai Rui, on whose "shocking room"?"
Chang Sihao shook his head: "He is not alone in the world, nor is he able to manage it alone. But as long as the domestic situation is stable, we can free up our hands to defeat Xu Jie first and then implement the new policy."
Changsun Xiaochi said, "Is the new policy the prescription for the ruler of Zheng's country?" Chang Sihao said, "That's right," Changsun Xiaochi said, "Brother, brother may not speak very nicely. How much do you know about national affairs? Zheng's ideas seem to be different from reforms and are relatively gentle, but in the face of interests, no one can be gentle. How can those conservative forces let you put the land and dismiss their tenants, and how can the officials you bought with money be willing to throw away due to poor assessment? As for the six ministries, cabinet and other senior officials, It is just because there is nothing to do, and they are free to discuss each other. Once the main business comes, they will not do it, and they will not do it well. Therefore, they will "push, drag, pull" and suppress big things, ignore small things, not big or small, and make things ambiguous. If you want to clean the officialdom, you will not be able to do things in a gentle way. Once you change it to a fierce one, it will cause a comprehensive commotion and rebound. If you hit one, they will rescue each other; if you hit one, they will be held in a dead group. As the saying goes, the law will not blame the crowd. If you really have chaos, there is no way for the gods, let alone what you want is not chaos,"
Chang Sihao was stunned when he heard this and said, "That's what Jiang Wan has to do,"
Changsun Xiaochi said, "I thought this path was right, but later I figured it out, and realized that it was not the case. No matter how the regime is rebuilt, the people who are in charge of the regime are replaced by the court and officials, but they cannot change human nature. Human hearts are the most unstable things, especially when they are bonded to power, conscience will become ambition, and simplicity will become greedy. Therefore, the world of violent reconstruction is still just a change of soup and no medicine."
Chang Sihao lost his mind for a moment and murmured: "Then...what should I do,"
Changsun Xiaochi smiled and said, "You come and ask me, but I don't have an answer. Since there is no answer, why not 'let it go'? The world is too big and there are too many people. We are not gods and should not have the mentality of saving the world. As long as you take good care of your life, you will have an explanation for this life."
Chang Sihao lost his mind for a while, shook his head suddenly and said, "No, what you said is all predictions. If you don't do it in practice, how can you know the final result? Alliance Leader Zheng must have thought of these, but he still spared no effort to do it because... because..." His eyes kept turning, eagerly looking for good words.
Changsun Xiaochi said, "Because things are done by humans,"
"No," said Chang Sihao: "It's up to man. If you don't do it, you don't know whether it's right or wrong, and you never know what the result is."
Changsun Xiaochi remained silent.
Chang Sihao took out the thin book "Xiaoyaoyou" from his arms, and pressed it on the table and pushed it over. Changsun Xiaochi looked at the page of the back with a small poem written on it. It was a handwriting without liver. When he read the two sentences "Why do you need a backpack or tent? If you want it, go far away", he was stunned. Chang Sihao said, "Brother, look at the meaning of the poem, you must have guessed that she had left Xiyuan three months ago. Now she has probably become a wandering old man. She lives and walks between the vast world. She has not raised you and me. Yes, but I believe you and I can feel the love she has for her son. If you can knock on the ground in front of her, and call her mother, it means you are also a kind and righteous person, flesh and blood. Zheng said, 'If you live in this world where I gave birth to me and raised me, you must give this world some reward.' Heaven and earth are my parents, and the world is our home. We are indeed not gods, but gods just watch and don't take care of the sufferings of the world. Then such gods are not worth seeing,"
Changsun Xiaochi's eyes were low, and the light in the room dimmed, making his face darker.
"Once upon a time, my thoughts and you were similar, but...ah..." He exclaimed this deeply, looked at the clouds rolling out the window, and murmured, "The rain is brewing again," after looking for a while, his mind turned around and said, "In fact, the general trend of the world is like this weather. Wind, rain, thunder and lightning are common. The heavens are not used by people, but there are always people who want to ask for wind and pray for rain. People always try to change something, but at most they just change things and change their personalities. The great master has no relatives, so how can parents come from? The world is the same, why do people have their own way of life? History is moving forward, why do you and I have to be poor and scheming? This is a waste of time."
Chang Sihao frowned and waved his hands: "You are too knowledgeable. I can't understand anything you say. I know that I was thirsty and hungry before, and I was happy to have food to eat. I also know that there are still many people in the world who have no fishing to fight and no land to plant. I want them to have fishing to fight, have land to grow, and have food to eat. This is not an exaggeration, but the problem now is that Juhao Pavilion is going to start a business in Jiangnan. If you fight your own people, you will not talk about the serious internal friction, but it will also attract Tibet, the barbarians, Tatars, and Oirat to attack together. That is not a joke."
Changsun Xiaochi asked, "How did you know that Juhao Pavilion is going to be uprising?" Chang Sihao said, "Is that a word? You old swordsman, Yan's old swordsman returned to the world and brought people to Jinjing... Hey," he suddenly realized something was wrong and asked, "What do you mean?" Changsun Xiaochi said in a hurry: "You think so because you don't know about You old swordsman. On the contrary, with him coming out, the situation may be stabilized," Chang Sihao wondered: "Why is that?"
Shui Yanxiang brought the dishes, and Changsun Xiaochi helped put the plate on the table and said, "Xiaoxiang, come together, too." He reached out and remembered that there were only two rattan chairs in the room. He sat with Chang Sihao, and there was no place for her. Shui Yanxiang smiled and said, "You guys, I'll put the wine next to you," and lifted up the pot and said, "Uncle, please." Seeing that Chang Sihao didn't thank him, he still looked at Changsun Xiaochi waiting for the following text. She smiled slightly, put down the pot, deliberately made a dignified look, and stood behind her husband.
Changsun Xiaochi said: "You have heard of the old swordsman You went to Mount Lushan with the 22-way heroes,"
Chang Sihao nodded: "I heard that it was because the person on the hill told me that I changed my way to Sichuan. He said that the old swordsman You was still very young at that time. Because he admired the fairy Yanyun, Wang Meni, he joined the battle to destroy the White Lotus Sect. As a result, Fairy Yanyun fell in love with Tang Jiangfei, and he retired to Dongting sadly."
Changsun Xiaochi smiled and said, "Master is a joke, but it's not a small one."
"Just," Chang Sihao repeated these two words, feeling something was not good. Changsun Xiaochi said: "Old You did have feelings for Fairy Yanyun back then, but it was not for her to go to Lushan, but because Old You himself is a member of the White Lotus Sect," Chang Sihao Daqi: "What, he is a member of the White Lotus Sect, so why did he join forces with outsiders to kill his own people?"
Changsun Xiaochi said, "It's a long way to say this,"
The White Lotus Sect was established in the Eastern Jin Dynasty by Huiyuan, the founder of Pure Land Sect, in Donglin Temple, Lushan, Jiangxi Province. From the beginning, he was committed to popularizing the believers of the Qing Dynasty, so that they could become monks without cutting their hair. Because of their concise teachings, they said that "reciting Buddha's name can become Buddhas." It was easy to start, and it developed faster and faster, and the scale became larger and larger. By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, some people in the religion secretly contacted heroes and contributed a lot to the cause of anti-Yuan, and gradually became armed. However, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best to crack down on various sects in order to achieve stability, which greatly damaged the White Lotus Sect and also sowed the seeds of hatred. Over the past 100 or 200 years, they had formed a major force against the Ming Dynasty among the people.
After hearing what he said, Chang Sihao immediately became enlightened and asked: "Is it because he doesn't want to rebel against the white lotus?"
"Yes," Changsun Xiaochi said: "There has always been no shortage of wise men and scholars in the White Lotus Sect. It can even be said that many of them were elites from all walks of life at that time. You Lao was young and invited by his friends to join. Because his martial arts talents were extraordinary, his position in the sect also increased. However, he gradually found that the direction of the top leaders in the sect was extremely biased, far from what the teachings claimed, so many frictions arose, and later turned into an irreversible incident. At this time, he was already unable to retreat. In the end, the White Lotus Sect Xiaoming King ordered him to be eliminated as a disciple. You Lao was alone. He was worried that the White Lotus Sect's uprising would cause trouble to the world and reincarnate the sword and weapons. Therefore, he united the Nine Gate Thirteen Sects and led twenty-two heroes to Mount Lu, and returned to take down the White Lotus Sect's main altar."
Chang Sihao nodded: "So that's it," he thought to himself: "Is it true that the person on Xiaoshan emphasized the role of Fairy Yun alone, whether he didn't know the inside story or did it deliberately?"
Changsun Xiaochi said, "After the death of the White Lotus Sect, the leader of the Three Holy Mothers, and the Fourteen Swordsmen, there was a big stall left without management, so Mr. You and the remaining three White Lotus Swordsmen took over," Chang Sihao interrupted, "Didn't you say that the Fourteen Swordsmen were all dead," Changsun Xiaochi smiled, "There are eighteen White Lotus Swordsmen, which are designed by the eighteen Gaoxian when the founding of the sect. The status in the sect is only below the Three Holy Mothers, and Mr. You is one of them. The other three swordsmen are the Xiliang Great Sword Yan Lingyun, the Gun Saint Ji Xiangrong and Li Molei, one of the three monsters in Yunnan. The three of them are the same mind as Mr. You, so they are all in the same camp." Chang Sihao thought, "It turns out that Yan Lingyun is also a member of the White Lotus Sect. He says he believes in Buddhism, but I won't believe it if I kill him."
Changsun Xiaochi continued: "At that time, Mr. You had already developed the idea of leaving the world, and taking over the White Lotus Sect was a helpless move. After a chaotic situation, he handed over all the affairs in his hands to Ji Xiangrong, and pushed the dream world himself and retired to Dongting. Under the leadership of the three seniors Ji, Yan and Li, the disciples of the White Lotus Sect abide by the rules and obeyed the national laws and had been stable and sound. However, they did not move, and some people could not help but stare in this eye."
Chang Sihao thought that the White Lotus Sect would no longer be rebellious, so it was naturally a dispute over interests in the world, and asked: "It's Juhao Pavilion,"
Chapter completed!