Author: Things in the world are like tides and people are like water
Chapter 428 Enlightenment
In the dark night, not only others could not sleep, Zhang Mingtu also had no rest.
He could even clearly hear the excited discussions and gasps from the different houses.
The Zhang family is going to be prosperous, this is what everyone in the Zhang family has in mind.
The requests and corresponding rules and regulations that Zhang Mingtu casually made before were even written down as the Zhang family's clan rules.
I can only say that today is different from the past.
Many familiar figures in the past seemed quite reserved when facing Zhang Mingtu.
While discussing many things tonight, Zhang Jili, who used to be very close to the Zhang family, the uncle who once learned that Dang Mingtu had a huge appetite and went to hunt for Zhang Mingtu in the mountains, was still smiling when he entered the Zhang family gate.
, would pat Zhang Mingtu on the shoulder to encourage him.
This time when many things were discussed, they only dared to hide in the corner and did not dare to speak.
Even the patriarch did not dare to get too close to Zhang Mingtu after experiencing today's banquet in the restaurant.
Zhang Mingtu couldn't help but think of Runtu. There seemed to be a thick barrier between him and these tribesmen.
But he had no solution.
"Zhou Shuren really describes the relevant human nature to the extreme."
Zhang Mingtu could only sigh like this.
However, Zhang Mingtu couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of the respect and obedience shown by many members of the family to him during the conversation.
In the land south of the Yangtze River, there are many clan forces. This is the most distressing thing for the court and Ruihai, because sometimes the family rules are even more useful than the national laws. Many people do not dare to violate the rules of the family, but they do not care about the laws of the court.
Don't really care.
Zhang Mingtu had been troubled by this problem before when he faced a small family in Jianyi and the county magistrate. Later, these problems also troubled Ruihai.
The characters in many families are intertwined. We only know that there is a family, but we don’t know that there is a larger family and country.
Zhang Mingtu was quite bored with this in the past, but now when he needs the family's help, he can feel the effect of these special rules and laws in the family.
At least when he rose to prominence and agreed on the laws and rules that needed to be followed in the family, the people in the family would not resist, but would rather recognize and obey him.
"From this perspective, everything has pros and cons. It's hard to say whether it's good or bad."
At the same time, because of their blood connections, the characters in the family are naturally very united and extremely loyal, and will even naturally maintain Zhang Mingtu's identity, status and prestige.
To create a chamber of commerce, if you want to find relevant confidants, looking for them from among the family members will be a huge help to Zhang Mingtu.
"On the side of the Chamber of Commerce, you can directly use the connections related to the eldest prince in the southern area. After all, no matter how powerful the clan power in Jiangnan is, the power to appoint and remove officials still belongs to the imperial court.
"With the eldest prince's token, we can still get on the ship smoothly.
"As for the Northland, you can directly use the third prince's token, whether it is the eldest prince or the third prince, in this regard, they will give me the green light in this regard.
"So a lot of the income from business can be used as my personal property."
The eldest prince doesn't care about a lot of property, the third prince will care about it, but the third prince doesn't care much about ordinary gold and silver property in the world.
After experiencing many things before, Zhang Mingtu really started to think about rebellion from all aspects.
"For the time being, we cannot directly raise the flag of rebellion, but we can accumulate strength on a large scale. Many characters in the Zhang family can become my core backbone. At least they have blood connections and are born to stand in my position."
Zhang Mingtu has a profound understanding of this.
Zhang Mingtu had never wanted to take this path before. After all, if this path failed, it would be doomed and the entire family would be implicated.
"But now that we have reached this point, if we think about these things again, they are completely false. Either we will rise up, or we will be finished with Daxia."
"If you die now, you will die. If you raise the flag, you will die. If you die, your country will die."
"With more than 70% of Hongshang's income, we can further intervene and change many things."
Zhang Mingtu calculated silently.
"Jiangnan West Road was originally decorated with flowers and brocades, and was cooked with fire. Rebellious forces continued to exist in various places. Because they were overwhelmed by the heavy taxes of the imperial court, large-scale rebellions would occur every year as long as there was a slight flood or drought.
“But often these actions are in vain and are quickly broken up. Bandits and bandits gather in various mountains and forests.
"Now that I have improved the improved varieties, it seems that Daxia has been extended for a long time, but in fact it is difficult to recover, except that a large part of the increased production in the residential area where Ruihai is located can be distributed to the local residents.
"No matter how much production is increased in other areas, they will be completely exploited, leaving only the food that can barely sustain their lives. The overall situation will not change."
In the past, Zhang Mingtu felt that this kind of behavior made him quite uncomfortable, even confused, and he had been thinking of ways to solve this problem.
Now, Zhang Mingtu feels lucky that it is precisely because there are such a group of people doing such things that he will be given a great opportunity.
"Since we need to innovate, we should innovate more thoroughly and work harder!"
In the dark night, Zhang Mingtu gritted his teeth.
He originally didn't want to take this path, but everything was leading him to this path, and there was no way to change it.
"Why, it feels like you have a lot of things on your mind?"
Zhang Mingtu was still in the courtyard in the dark night, when suddenly a voice sounded in his ears. The voice was rather old.
Zhang Mingtu looked sideways, but there was no surprise on his face. It was Zhang Fulin, an old man with one arm.
Zhang Mingtu’s original Tiger Demon Bone Refining Boxing came from Zhang Fulin.
Now the old man is in the same state as Zhang Mingtu when he was first seen in the martial arts training ground. He is still smiling at all times and holding a civet cat in his arms.
His whole person was calm and peaceful, just like the old man next door.
"I was thinking about some martial arts training issues."
Zhang Mingtu had a smile on his face.
"oh!"
The old man was very interested and sat down on the stone bench next to him very familiarly: "Tell me and listen."
The old man was very concerned about this outstanding young man in the family.
"In my dream, there was an old man in a Taoist temple on the mountain who taught me martial arts, but I never quite figured it out."
"Oh, someone preached in the dream?"
The old man's eyes lit up again, and he was very curious.
But when Zhang Mingtu looked at the old man's bright eyes, he felt a little sad in his heart.
This old man had helped him many times, of course, many times in the book of life and death. In reality, he did not have much communication with this old man.
But now when I see the old man Zhang Mingtu, I still feel inexplicably sad. The old man will fight to the death for him several times in the future to save him.
"Before, I only thought about the higher world, the higher world, but I didn't even consider the people around me. It was really too ruthless and indifferent."
He was thinking about all kinds of thoughts in his mind, but he didn't show the clear picture on his face. Instead, he dipped his hand into the wine jar with some wine, and then gestured with his hands on the stone table to draw a pattern.
.
"The old man is very strange. When he stands, he looks like a dragon. When he practices boxing, it is also very strange. It seems like a dragon flying in the sky. I want to learn, but I can't learn it. I can only record these traces..."
Zhang Fulin was a little careless at first. After all, the Zhang family had heard about Zhang Mingtu. It was by chance that he became a teacher of an agricultural master in Jiujiang County, and then invented two kinds of them, which suddenly reached the top of the world.
Not only did he become a member of the Jinyiwei Hundreds, but he also became a doctorate in Jiujiang County Agricultural College. Even the Agricultural College in Kyoto awarded Zhang Mingtu the title of honorary doctorate, and his reputation suddenly reached the sky.
Regarding martial arts cultivation, Zhang Mingtu seems to have not changed much, and is still just a person who has entered the realm of true energy.
He has just completed the entry-level marrow cleansing and blood exchange. At Zhang Mingtu's age, he is considered to be extremely talented, but he only has great potential for future development, which still depends on the future.
But when he looked at the pattern Zhang Mingtu drew casually, Zhang Fulin suddenly lost his mind.
The pattern was simple, just some simple strokes, but there was an extraordinary energy and vigor in it. Just by looking at it for a period of time, he could feel the energy and blood surging throughout his body.
There was a tiger demon roaring wantonly and madly in his mind.
"This is……"
He was immediately shocked. This was very similar to the lost Tianlong Lian Shenquan recorded in the records.
Zhang Fulin came immediately, staring intently at Zhang Mingtu in front of him, and even grabbed Zhang Mingtu's hand, wanting to see more.
As a result, Zhang Mingtu reached out and slapped his hand away, and deliberately said in surprise: "Old man, what's wrong with you? You grabbed him so hard this time, my hands are even red from your scratches."
Zhang Fulin was stunned and looked sideways, and found that there was indeed a bright red finger mark on Zhang Mingzhu's hand. He couldn't help but be stunned.
"I lost my temper. Have you told anyone else about this dream?"
"No, I just felt close to you, so I took the initiative to talk to you and wanted to answer my doubts."
There seemed to be thunder in Zhang Fulin's mind.
"Feel close, feel close...tiger demon, dragon..."
He murmured to himself, but did not lower his head to look at the simple and shapeless words on the stone table. The simple strokes suddenly started to move at this time, turning into a steamer soaring above the nine heavens, and then in
Under the old man's absent-minded gaze, it rushed into his eyebrows.
He was stunned for a moment, but his mind was filled with boundless murderous intent. A tiger demon roared ferociously in it. The chains bound the tiger demon one after another were broken. At this time, the chains were broken.
The tiger demon did not roar like it did before, occupying the entire mind. Instead, it looked up with a vigilant face, and the sky kept roaring.
In the direction where the tiger demon was looking, a real dragon soared like an immortal, and at a glance, only the body could be seen.
At this moment, Zhang Fulin felt the urge to burst into tears.
"It's Tianlong practicing Shenquan, and I actually got started just like that."
At this time, the Dragon God and the Tiger Demon roared strangely, and silently broke through the level that had been blocking Zhang Fulin.
The boiling true energy surged through his body, and then turned into soft tissue around his fingers. Drop after drop of strange true energy was generated in his Dantian, and then traveled throughout his body along with the eight extraordinary meridians.
There was a sound of roaring rivers coming out of his body. It was the blood flowing violently. At the same time, while the blood was flowing, there was also a loud thundering sound of tigers and leopards coming out of his body. Listen carefully to the sound of tigers roaring.
, very clear, but mixed with a strange dragon's roar.
Click, click!
The bones moved within his body, each position was re-stretched, and some minor adjustments were made. There was a sound of gold and iron clashing between the Google's movement and collision.
Showing that body of steel and iron, the Tiger Demon's Bone Fist practice is the most advanced body training method, especially for bones.
Zhang Fulin had already mastered the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist to his core, but without the assistance of Tianlong's Divine Fist, he could only constantly suppress the Tiger Demon in his body and cultivate his character so that he would not be controlled by the Tiger Demon and become a killing machine.
In fact, his practice has already reached a high enough level, and the threshold has been broken through by him. Now Tianlong Lian Shen's divine will has taken root in his mind, allowing him to reach the sky in one step.
After a long time, when Zhang Fulin controlled his whole body, his skin seemed to be stretched out, and he seemed ten years younger than before.
He originally looked like he was in his fifties or sixties, but now he looks like he is in his mid-40s. His hair has become black and shiny, and is no longer half-silvered like before.
He looked at Zhang Mingtu with an unprecedented serious expression.
There was also boundless waves in his heart, as the Tiger Demon Bone Refining and the Heavenly Dragon Refining God were actually put together in his hands.
And all this stems from the young man in front of him who is only eighteen years old.
He deeply suspected that the young man in front of him was a peerless expert, but the temptation just now made him understand that Zhang Mingtu should be a person who had just had his marrow cleansed and exchanged blood for the first time.
Zhang Fulin was a little unsure of himself, and at the same time he was a little doubtful about life.
He lowered his head and looked at the traces simply outlined with wine on the table. As the water dried up and spread, the traces were no longer in shape. There was no trace of Tianlong practicing the divine fist at all.
If you look at it again, you won't feel anything special or strange at all.
Zhang Mingtu was already laughing secretly in his heart. Of course he was the one who drew Tianlong's Divine Fist just now. In order for Zhang Fulin to quickly understand and practice it, he even refined some of the opportunities on Xiao Jin's body and mixed it with a drop of Xiao Qing's menstrual blood.
It merged into Zhang Fulin's body just now without Zhang Fulin noticing.
At the same time, he also input some of his own gifts regarding the divine power of Tianlong Lian and the enlightenment method in the mixed trap into Zhang Fulin's mind, so that he could achieve the balance between dragon and tiger in one fell swoop.
Zhang Fulin was completely unaware of all this.
"Will you learn martial arts from me?"
"I've been practicing martial arts all the time!"
"This one I practiced is different."
"Why is it different? Is it like what the old man taught me in my dream?"