King Wen imprisoned Youli and wrote the Book of Changes. This is a story that Li Pingan is familiar with.
But as far as Li Ping'an originally knew, there were different versions of King Wen's imprisonment.
In the story of Fengshen Yanyi, King Wen imprisoned Ji Chang in Youli City because Emperor Xin wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of Sifang Bo and other ministers interceded.
There are also two versions in the history books. One is that Ji Chang said a few bad things about Emperor Xin in private, and was reported by a villain, and was imprisoned. The other is that Ji Chang suffered a military defeat and failed to fight the merchant army, so he was arrested.
captivity.
Now that Li Pingan is here...
He really didn't know what was going on.
Counting the years, it's not the right time. How old is Ji Chang now?
Without Tiandao's script, everything is really in chaos.
The only thing that remains unchanged is the conflict here.
Recently, Li Ping'an has been paying attention to Di Xin's side besides his enlightenment. He only paid attention to how Di Xin planned the layout and made reforms, but did not pay close attention to the details of everything Di Xin did.
So, he frowned and asked, "Second brother, have you heard about the reason?"
"Well," Ji Fa sighed, "I just know that the king suddenly condemned our father for treason."
Li Ping'an wondered: "My father has always been cautious, so how could he rebel? Even if he wanted to rebel, how could he be discovered?"
"Ah?" Ji Fa glared, "Father, he really wants to..."
"I'm just kidding."
Li Pingan blinked and said seriously:
"Don't be anxious at the moment, there's no point in being anxious, everything is business as usual in Chaoge City.
"Secretly inform several uncles and ask them to be ready to accept the retreating subjects here. If the king wants to touch my father, he will most likely beat us.
"Now we must find out what happened in Chaoge City so that we can use more strength."
Ji Fa said: "Okay, I'll go back and wait for news. There are a lot of us over there!"
"Except for a few uncles, no one else needs to be notified, and mother and others don't need to know."
"good!"
Ji Fa turned around and ran away, and soon the sound of strange beasts galloping could be heard outside the courtyard.
Li Ping'an stood there thinking for a while, and then couldn't help but make some calculations with his fingers.
This calculation doesn't matter, he is really in a bit of a dilemma.
Ji Chang naturally did not participate in the rebellion;
But Ji Chang has been cautious for decades, but recently he did something unwise——
Ji Chang and Wei Ziqi met privately and attended a banquet.
This was not a big deal, but something went wrong during this meeting. Wei Ziqi got drunk and started uttering arrogant words about how miserable Zi Shou was.
The matter was reported to Emperor Xin, who was immediately furious.
Emperor Xin punished Wei Ziqi into the royal prison and killed several of Wei Ziqi's staff with a stick;
Among the more than ten officials at that banquet, six were tortured and six were burned. Only Ji Chang was only imprisoned now. Emperor Xin seemed to have not thought about whether to deal harshly with this uncle.
Di Xin was also afraid.
Now the Shang Kingdom is in the early stage of the reform, and the situation in the court is already unstable. The old officials in the court have gathered together because Emperor Xin strengthened the imperial power, and secretly competed with Emperor Xin.
If Emperor Xin killed Ji Chang at this time, it would be easy for the Zhou Kingdom to completely rebel.
Emperor Xin vaguely knew how strong Zhou's hidden strength was; if Zhou was so easy to solve, Ji Li's generation and Shang would have taken action directly.
In this way, Ji Chang's future is uncertain now, but fortunately he has not yet experienced the severe ancestral punishment of the Shang Dynasty.
Li Ping'an thought for a moment and originally decided not to pay too much attention to this matter. He just did what Ji Dan should do. As for the follow-up development, the initiative lies in Di Xin's hands, but then he thought about it...
In fact, he is already helping Zhou Guo.
The original Ji Dan didn't have the plug-in to "open the whole map at any time" like him.
Nanzhou has a vast territory and rich resources. Even if there is a strange beast, the trust eagle, it would still take a lot of time to transmit information, let alone easily find out what is going on in Chaoge City.
"This is really a bit confusing."
"Then should I help Ji Chang get through this disaster? This matter is quite difficult to decide."
Li Pingan frowned and thought.
…
Li Dazhi has been particularly busy in recent years.
Li Ping'an went to enlightenment, and the Heavenly Court was left to Li Dazhi, Dongwang, and Yaochi.
Yaochi mainly focuses on punishing people, perfecting heavenly rules, strengthening heavenly rules, restraining gods, and preventing immortals from oppressing living beings.
King Dong is responsible for the assessment of immortal gods for promotion and retirement, which also involves the gods stationed in the three thousand worlds, so the workload is very huge.
As for Li Dazhi, it was even more tiring.
Li Dazhi is the Immortal Chief of the Finance Department of Heaven, and every major expenditure must be approved by him.
In recent years, he has been burdened with the important task of rectifying Lingshan. Lingshan has raised a big karma monster, which is a mess.
Moreover, if Li Ping'an doesn't show up directly, will Tianting's various plans still be promoted? If there is a lack of funds, product acceptance, and overall idea design, who should we turn to? Each department can only turn to Li Dazhi.
Therefore, Li Dazhi was so busy that he almost started cultivating the Dharma of external incarnation.
What's more, Li Dazhi usually wants to squeeze out some time to go to Chentangguan to see little 'Nezha', and wait to see if there are any fairy tales from his hometown that he can watch live...
On this day, Li Dazhi finished handling official duties in the Fairy Hall of the Ministry of Finance, yawned and began to doze off.
He had just finished checking the accounts on hand, and he was really a little distracted.
The immortal officials did not dare to disturb him, so they bowed their hands to Li Dazhi and quietly retreated.
As soon as they left, Li Ping'an's shadow appeared on one side.
Seeing his father sleeping with his cheek propped up, Li Ping'an didn't want to be disturbed. He sat aside and picked up an account and looked at it carefully.
There is also great truth hidden in these numbers.
One is one, and two is two. Mathematics does not lie. It is also the basic rule of order.
Li Pingan is not prepared to understand this avenue, mainly because it is too difficult, and when opening up a new world, it is enough to determine some basic parameters, and this avenue is not used.
His shadow sat cross-legged on the side, immersed in the Tao, and two hours passed by in a flash.
Li Dazhi, who had lay down to fall asleep at some point, stretched and slowly sat up. His slightly fat face looked a little dazed, and he stared blankly at the sky outside the hall.
"dad?"
"Good guy!"
Li Dazhi suddenly woke up, glared and cursed:
"Why are you always so mysterious?"
"Have it?"
Li Ping'an narrowed his eyes and smiled:
"It's not like I've been busy enlightening myself recently and wanted to come over and see you."
"Um?"
Li Dazhi put his hands in his sleeves and said with a smile:
"Something's wrong. There's a problem. You came to see your old father when you had nothing to do? Impossible! Absolutely impossible! You must have gone to Yaochi when you had nothing to do. Don't think I didn't see it."
Li Ping'an said helplessly: "I have a family, so I can't help it. Please be considerate."
"Tell me, what else are you undecided about?"
"There really is one."
"Look!"
Li Dazhi clapped the palms of his hands and sighed:
"I knew it. You just don't go to the Three Treasures Palace for any reason, but it's okay. The children will fly out when they grow up... Oh, what's going on?"
"It's Ji Chang's problem."
Li Ping'an chanted a few words and briefly told Ji Chang that he was drinking with Wei Ziqi, but Wei Ziqi made a mistake while drunk and was overheard by Emperor Xin. Ji Chang was imprisoned and his life was in danger.
Li Dazhi asked: "Isn't it enough that you can directly affect Di Xin's thoughts with just a flick of your finger for such a trivial matter? Why bother seeking the far side at the expense of the near?"
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"This is not enlightenment."
Li Pingan said seriously:
"I regard the entire Nanzhou as my place of enlightenment, and I am comprehending many avenues such as the avenue of all living beings and the path of the God of Power.
"If I wanted to help Ji Chang, I could solve it in a few moments, but now, I just want to do something that Ji Dan should do and can do.
"This matter is a bit difficult for me. Should I intervene or not intervene? To what extent should I intervene? If I don't intervene, I would just watch the show and it would be difficult to be touched or gain insights. A little intervention can easily change the pattern of Nanzhou.
It goes against my true intentions.”
"Ah this..."
Li Dazhi pondered for a moment and said with a smile:
"He's really good at making things difficult for your old father, let me think about it.
"Speaking of which, why are you trying so hard to understand? Why don't you just follow your second father?"
Li Ping'an's forehead is covered with black lines.
No, what the hell is the second dad?
Did his father recognize his other self?
Li Dazhi muttered in a low voice: "I think you are just worrying blindly. That guy has arranged everything, so you can just keep your wife and children warm on the kang, so why bother?"
Li Ping'an sighed: "It's not that I don't want to bother, but there are some problems with his new world plan."
"What's the problem?"
"Theoretically, a sustainable world does not exist. The star sea world must break the dimensions."
Li Pingan was helpless:
"He seems to have arranged everything, but what is the result of his arrangement? Has he considered the survival of all living beings?
"In the past hundreds of reincarnations of heaven and earth, he was both the creator and the destroyer. There is no way to judge whether he is right or not. I can only say that his motives are not pure.
"But this time, do we want to try to make some changes? Do we want to prove that our own three views have not been affected by him and go out of our own way?"
Li Dazhi picked his nose and said, "I feel like you are just making things more difficult for yourself. It's completely unnecessary."
"It's necessary," Li Ping'an looked forward and murmured, "It's very necessary."
Li Dazhi sighed.
He said: "I didn't listen to many things arranged by your grandfather, but when I think about it later, I actually regret it."
"These things are fundamentally different."
Li Pingan said:
"We are involved in the life and death of countless creatures.
“This is too heavy to accept.
"One life, in exchange for so many lives. If this life is sacrificed, it feels quite worth it, but if countless living beings are sacrificed, this is really hard to accept.
"Why am I not willing to help Ji Chang directly? It's actually very simple. Ji Chang is the same kind of person as Di Xin at heart. There are more than a dozen skeletons in his secret room. It's because he is trying the process of human sacrifice.
"I can only let myself play the role of Ji Dan, and cannot let Li Ping'an help Ji Chang.
"If Ji Chang dies now, I would be quite happy to let Ji Fa or Ji Kao become the new co-leaders of the world. They are quite good."
Li Dazhi said: "In a sense, it was Ji Chang who took the lead and prevented Ji Fa and Ji Kao from taking this path. Everyone has the limitations of their cognition."
"Fine."
Li Pingan clicked his tongue:
"Coming back to this question, should I help Ji Chang now, or should I watch him continue to sink?"
"Watch and don't take action. This is the least costly option for you."
Li Dazhi said with a smile:
"You are not Ji Dan, and Ji Chang is not just Ji Dan's son.
"I now understand what you are struggling with. To put it simply, you are actually not sure whether to grant the Kingdom of Zhou the Mandate of Heaven or not.
"You actually don't care about Ji Chang's life or death, son.
"What you care about is whether this revolution in Nanzhou has destiny and whether it exists. Because as long as you participate in it and take a little action, it actually means the return of destiny."
Li Pingan nodded slowly, thoughtfully.
Li Dazhi continued:
"But Ping An, aren't you also promoting the birth of Zhou Li? Isn't this destiny?
"So, there is nothing absolute about this matter, and there is nothing worth it or not. It all depends on how you view destiny.
"If it extends outward, it means restraint and freedom.
"Is it necessarily right not to impose restraints on living beings? Think about our hometown, which is a completely godless world. What is the situation like? There is turmoil everywhere, and there is only one corner of peace. Even in the history of our hometown,
It is also a constant alternation of peace and turmoil.
"This is the prehistoric world, a created mythical world. The only advantage of the mythical world is that when you stand on the top of the gods and dominate the heavens, you can create an ideal world.
"You have been pushed away by the other me, so you haven't had time to think about this problem. In fact, you should think about it clearly now.
"Don't look at the new world you will open up in the future. That will happen twenty thousand years later. - The end of this world, according to the information that guy left me, will be twenty-three thousand years later.
, the road of time came to an abrupt end, and it must have been at that time that you started to open up a new world.
"What you need to think about now is what kind of prehistoric world you want to create in these 23,000 years.
"What you want to understand is not the great path of all living beings, and the meaning of your stay in Nanzhou is not to implement any Zhou rituals, but to... create a world that you think is right, and then help this world survive the end.
"This is not our hometown, and the development of the thoughts of the creatures here is also different from that of the godless world. You should not try to pretend to be your hometown.
"What's under your feet is the road.
"What you see when you look up is the sky."
Li Pingan lowered his head and thought.
He originally wanted to chat with his father casually, but he found a topic when he had no topic.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be quite rewarding.
"Dad, I probably understand."
"Hey," Li Dazhi squinted and smiled, "Then let me ask, what are you going to do next?"
Li Ping'an smiled and said: "To save Ji Chang's life, at least I can't let him die now. First, turn Nanzhou into what I imagined, and then transform the three thousand worlds... The road to order lies with me."
"That's right! You are talking about materialism in the mythical world for nothing! Go! I'll sleep a little longer."
Li Dazhi waved his hand.
Li Pingan disagreed with this statement.
His ideal world must be...
The world is unified!
However, individual cultivation aptitudes and understandings of cultivation are different. This universal unity seems to have no theoretical basis in itself.
Li Ping'an's shadow flashed and appeared directly in Chaoge City.
The location of Ji Chang's prison is also very interesting. It is near the "human animal market". A high earth wall separates a courtyard with dozens of wooden cages inside.
It seems that if people are pulled out from here, they can be sent directly to the slaughterhouse.
Ji Chang was very haggard at the moment. He was dressed in fine clothes and had gray hair. He was sitting slumped in a wooden cage, staring blankly ahead and not saying a word for a long time.
Near the cage, several guards were waiting with water and food.
It is obvious that Ji Chang is being cared for here and will not die due to being trapped.
Li Pingan's shadow flashed and he arrived at the side hall of the palace. He looked at Di Xin who was meditating among the beauties and raised his hand to point out.