When Cao Cao returned to his army, corpses lay everywhere in Xuzhou.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent people exposed in the wilderness have gathered countless grievances.
This resentment has no place to be released in the void and keeps vibrating.
Among the six realms, the Shura Realm, which is the master of killing, is attracted by this and gradually approaches the human realm. The vicious energy in the Shura Blood River uses the void resentment as a mediator to gradually collapse the barrier between the two realms.
An immortal riding a crane came here from the void, waving his fly whisk, causing most of the hostility in the blood river to dissipate.
However, the barrier between the two realms is still gradually being eroded, which is caused by the resentment of innocent people who died unjustly in the world.
The Immortal sighed, "The troubled times have come, and the murderous way has reappeared. It is difficult for a poor person to stop the invasion of Shura by himself..."
On his way back to his army, Cao Cao was suddenly shocked to hear that Chen Gong, the guard of Dongjun, had joined forces with Zhang Miao, the governor of Chenliu. Zhang Miao's brother Zhang Chao, the lieutenant Xu Si, Wang Kai and others launched a rebellion to welcome Lu Bu as the shepherd of Yanzhou.
Now most of Yanzhou has been returned to Lu Bu, with only Juancheng, Nanfan County, and Dong'a County still under control.
Cao Cao immediately regrouped and sent his troops to attack Lu Bu's army stationed in Puyang. The two armies fought hard to determine the winner and fell into a stalemate.
Fortunately, although Chen Gong and others betrayed Cao Cao out of anger for massacre of the city, most of the Henan nobles still supported Cao Cao out of interest considerations and were unwilling to cooperate with a border warlord like Lu Bu who was not from a noble family.
Therefore, Cao Cao still has a deep foundation and can mobilize most of the resources of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Yangzhou to support this war.
Tao Qian, the shepherd of Xuzhou, was worried and uneasy all day long because of the war with Cao Cao that left Xuzhou in ruins.
After Cao Cao retreated, he led his army back to Xiapi County, only to see corpses floating thousands of miles away, and he even vomited blood on the spot.
At this time, Tian Kai, the governor of Qingzhou, and Liu Bei's army arrived. At this time, Liu Bei's army had fought many times with Yuan Shao under Gongsun Zan's tent, and had made great achievements in battle. When he was in Pingyuan, he also won the hearts of the people. Later, he rescued Kong Rong in Beihai.
Have a certain reputation.
Tao Qian had no generals available, so he gave Liu Bei 4,000 elite Danyang troops as a gift to serve as the governor of Yuzhou and garrisoned troops in Xiaopei, prompting Liu Bei to defect there.
At this time, Xu Yin and Zhuge Liang were living together in a cottage among the peaks of Mount Tai. He deeply felt that during this trip to the north, the intelligence could not arrive at the first time, and ultimately failed to stop Cao Cao's massacre of the city.
Therefore, he lived in seclusion here to train his elite men. These elite men all came from the people Xu Yin had rescued over the past few years. They had been tested many times, and they were all determined to pacify the world and were very loyal.
In addition, I also have the heart to think about which princes should be helped to dominate the world next.
Currently, Kong Ming is also training. In addition to still practicing Confucianism, he also practices the martial arts taught by Xu Yin.
Practicing the martial arts of spirit and spirit will be more consistent with Confucianism and Taoism than the martial arts of this world.
At the same time, Xu Yin used secret methods to manifest many later Confucian classics, in addition to Buddhist and Taoist classics, as well as the ancient Greek philosophical system, which he gave to Kong Ming for study.
When Kong Ming saw such classics for the first time, he thought they were heresies at first. After he really looked into them, he found that the Confucianism of the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties was indeed more advanced than the current Confucianism that originated from Dong Zhongshu's influence on heaven and man.
Although various theories may conflict with each other, you must always choose the one that suits you.
Kong Ming’s Confucianism is external Confucianism and internal method. It is neither Confucius nor Mencius, but follows the family of Xunzi.
Therefore, he pays more attention to the practical application of the world. At present, he has just started to learn about the three schools of thought of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, as well as the ancient Greek philosophical system, but he also knows that if he can truly learn about these ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries, he will surely create the most powerful one in history.
A prosperous era.
Therefore, he seemed to be in a treasure house of knowledge, and he always felt that there was not enough time at all, and he wished he could have twenty-four hours in a day.
For Xu Yin, the leader of the Nine Heavens, Kong Ming felt even more admiration and awe. The awe came from mystery and unknown.
He thought that Xu Yin could easily take out these classics, at least he had read them all and understood them well.
In fact, whenever Kong Ming had questions and asked questions, Xu Yin could always answer with some extraordinary insights, which made people suddenly enlightened. This made Kong Ming think that Xu Yin's knowledge base was endless.
And he himself is an immortal, and he is also proficient in different martial arts. He seems to know everything. Such a person is simply unheard of in the world.
Kong Ming was extremely talented, and with the help of Huang Tian's luck inspired by following Xu Yin to save the people, his progress was extremely fast, whether in martial arts or studying.
In five years, martial arts has broken through from having no foundation to the innate realm, and Confucianism has reached the level of great Confucianism.
The realms of Confucianism and Taoism in this world are based on the realms of being born as a child, advancing to the virtuous, literary, talented, widely learned, erudite, great Confucian, master, and literary sage.
Kong Ming was previously at the level of Maocai. Ordinary Confucian scholars usually reach this level at around the age of twenty. Kong Ming has already reached this level at the age of fourteen, which shows that he has outstanding talent.
Now that he is a great Confucian, once he has climbed to the peak of Confucianism and Taoism, he will have many classics from later generations to help him, and his progress will only be faster, and it is not impossible to even reach the level of a literary sage.
As for Xu Yin, after he rescued the people of Xuzhou, shrines were built for him in various places in Xuzhou. In this way, he continued to use the Taiping Order to emit yellow heavenly luck to help him practice until Xuzhou was completely occupied by Cao Cao.
At that time, all the shrines in various places in Xuzhou had been destroyed by Cao Cao, and the Taiping Order no longer continued to distribute the Yellow Heaven Luck.
But it also made Xu Yin make rapid progress and increase his cultivation level by more than three hundred years.
At this time, relying on his cultivation and the swordsmanship experience exchanged with Wang Yue, he had gradually understood the fifth sword.
Part of the mystery of fusing the power of death and life cycle has enabled the prototype of this sword to be used, but it has not yet been able to achieve its full effect.
However, after understanding this step, as your cultivation level increases, you will be able to fully display it sooner or later.
At this time, Kong Ming had also grown into a handsome young man with a profound knowledge of Eguan. He was full of scholarly energy and wrote about the sky.
On this day, Xu Yin sent someone to summon him to see him.
"Teacher, why are you summoned?"
After four years of getting along with him, although Xu Yin never asked Kong Ming to become his teacher, he already recognized Xu Yin as his teacher in his heart.
Xu Yin was already used to it, and pointed at the letters on the table that were sent back from intelligence organizations all over the world.
This chaotic correspondence comes not only from his Tea and Salt Gang and the Lianghuai Chamber of Commerce, but also from the Fengming Jianzong and Cao Gang founded by Wang Yue.
The letters were a bit messy, but Kong Ming checked them one by one, sorted them out one by one, and finally arranged them neatly according to geography and the interconnectedness between the major warlords.
At this time, if you look at it according to the order he placed it, the pattern of the world will naturally unfold in your mind.
Xu Yin nodded slightly and asked: "Which force do you think is most likely to dominate the world?"
Xu Yin sat cross-legged, Kong Ming sat upright, and said: "Today in the world, in the north of Youzhou, Gongsun Zan still rules the roost, and has repeatedly defeated Yuan Shu of Jizhou, making him a hero of the world.
It's a pity that he first killed Liu Yu, a clan member of the Han Dynasty, and then massacred Youzhou, followed by the Jizhou nobles. Although his power was like a raging fire cooking oil, it was inevitable that he would suffer some casualties.
Once the situation declines in the struggle for hegemony with Yuan Shu, internal and external explosions will occur, and there will be no recovery. Gongsun Zan cannot dominate the world."