Li Xiuyuan left Qiu Mansion with Qiurong and Xiao Xie, and returned to Yangzhou with his car.
During the period when he became the governor of Yangzhou, the overall national power of the Song Dynasty declined, and the people were still in decline. It seems that Zhao Jing's coming to power did not change anything, but Yangzhou under his rule became increasingly prosperous and peaceful, so that in the past
In the following years, more and more people came to Yangzhou to seek life.
In the next few months, Li Xiuyuan paid attention to the movements in the imperial court.
After Zhao Jing secured the throne, he also showed some of the emperor's methods. The civil and military officials were replaced in just one year, and the civil and military officials who were replaced did not retire and return home.
Yes, it just disappeared inexplicably.
The traces left by National Master Cihang are gradually disappearing.
After all, without this great demon in charge, the monsters under his command would not be able to succeed, let alone Li Xiuyuan's great path.
On a certain day, a murder also occurred in the capital.
Du Ze, the Minister of Criminal Affairs who resigned from office, was stabbed in his mansion.
The murderer is Du Ze's son, Du Wen.
According to people nearby, Du Wen stabbed Du Ze to death with a mahogany sword and shouted something like "avenge his father."
Cui Wei from Liumen was in charge of the case and sent people to arrest Du Wen, but he escaped. Since then, Du Wen has never appeared in the capital again, as if he has disappeared.
Only a year later, when a scholar in the capital who knew Du Ze was serving as an official, he met a Taoist who looked exactly like Du Wen on the road.
Hanging a cloth bag, saying that there is a demon in a certain place, and he is going to a certain place to kill the demon.
, there was no news from Du Wen again.
In the north, rumors about the soul-binding beast with an ox-headed horse face gradually began to spread among the people.
In the south, some people also began to spread the story of black and white.
However, during this year, Li Xiuyuan, in addition to official duties, spent time traveling with his wife and concubines, sometimes fishing on the banks of the East China Sea, sometimes climbing strange peaks and dangerous mountains, and sometimes swimming in large lakes and rivers.
Due to the close relationship between them, the wives and concubines around him gradually became pregnant, and even Du Chunhua beside him became pregnant.
His father, Li Dafu, was very happy. After one of Li Xiuyuan's concubines had a child, he held a banquet.
So much so that there are constant banquets in Guobei County, and the people in the town can tell how many heirs the Li family has from the number of times the Li family serves wine.
Since then, the bad luck of several generations of the Li family has ended, and it is inevitable that the family will spread out.
Within two years, Li Xiuyuan's children were born one after another. Among them, the son born to Third Sister Hu was the most handsome. He had the handsomeness of a fox and would definitely be a handsome man when he grew up. Qing'e gave birth to a woman, although
She is still a baby, but she can see that she will definitely be born in the future.
Chunhua was a bit special. She was pregnant again just after someone else gave birth to their first child.
No wonder Third Sister Hu said she looked like a child-bearer.
A calm and peaceful life always passes quickly.
Ten years have passed by in a flash.
Li Xiuyuan's children are all ** years old and are studying in elementary school. His father Li Dafu has also realized his wish and has a large family. However, he does not look old at all when he is over sixty years old. Perhaps it is because he has eaten Polygonum multiflorum essence.
, I still have a lot of fun playing with my grandchildren every day.
During these ten years, several wars occurred in the northern part of the Song Dynasty.
However, it was because of Han Shizhong that the border defenses of the Song Dynasty were kept intact, but the world became more and more difficult. Only Yangzhou still maintained its prosperity like the prosperous times, and more and more people came here to flee.
At the same time, Wang Ping, who was in charge of the book of life and death in the underworld, became increasingly effective in managing ghosts and gods, and his responsibilities became heavier and heavier. One day, he suggested to Li Xiuyuan that he should recruit another person to take charge of affairs, one to take care of reincarnation, and one to take charge of punishment.
Li Xiuyuan thought it was reasonable, so he asked Wang Ping to choose a virtuous and capable ghost among the dead ghosts to share the burden with him.
Yan Kuan was in charge of the Six Gates in the capital during his lifetime. Because of his uprightness, Master Yan was chosen to handle Yan Jin.
Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment when he heard Yan Kuan's name, and then he very much agreed that Master Yan was in charge of punishment in the underworld. After all, he took care of the six gates very well during his lifetime, and he had the ability and virtue to handle matters in the underworld.
since then.
The names of Yan and Wang gradually spread among ghosts and gods.
Twenty years later.
The shortcomings of the Song Dynasty's declining national power finally broke out.
This year, the northern barbarians went south, crossed the border, fought all the way, and actually broke through the capital. The emperor was taken prisoner, and many civil and military officials died for the country, including Zhang Bangchang's name.
I heard that Taoist Guo Zhen in the imperial palace of the capital cast spells and formed a formation in front of the imperial city in order to protect the capital. He wanted to use the power of Taoism to repel the barbarians. However, he was forced by the evil spirit of the army and vomited blood and died on the city wall. Yaksha General Xu Bao and
Xia Houwu died in the battle in the capital. In the same year, Yan Chixia heard the news and drank too much on one day.
He was so drunk that he passed away in Lanruo Temple the next day, leaving his Taoist tradition to be passed down to a disciple named Ye Zhiqiu.
After the capital was captured, Han Shizhong led his troops to rescue them.
But the 20,000 elite cavalry under his command are no longer the 20,000 elite cavalry that Li Xiuyuan formed back then.
Twenty years can make the war horses die of old age and the warriors grow old. Even if new recruits are recruited later, how can they compare with the brave warriors of the past?
Han Shizhong did not rescue Zhao Jing, but only rescued the prince and some civil servants. However, he suffered heavy losses and had to abandon the capital and go south to seek help.
The barbarians from the north were in hot pursuit.
It was not until they reached the bank of the Yangtze River that they stopped the troops.
Li Xiuyuan, who had not shown his face in twenty years, stood up.
He raised his arms and called for soldiers from all over the country to gather. In an instant, the banks of the Yangtze River were filled with flags like clouds and swords and guns like forests.
Li Xiuyuan was still wearing black armor as always, riding a snow-white dragon colt, holding a newly made tiger's mouth gold-swallowing gun, with a Tai'a sword hanging from his waist, wearing a golden cloak, standing upright with a gun, and leading the army to press.
Time has left no trace on his face, only adding a bit of majesty and maturity.
"Han Shizhong, you are old."
Before the three armies, Li Xiuyuan looked at Han Shizhong who fled in a hurry and said with emotion.
Han Shizhong, whose temples have turned white and his face is full of wrinkles, is now in his fifties. He bowed his head and knelt down in shame: "I let the young master down."
"No, you didn't disappoint me. It was God's will. I wanted to protect the country for twenty years. Now that the twenty-year period has expired, the fate of the country in the Song Dynasty has been ruined, and the previous agreement has been reconciled." Li Xiuyuan said: "The change of dynasty is not far away.
Yes, but not today.”
After saying that, he glanced at the son of Zhao Jing from Han Shizhong's time, who is now the prince.
The prince was too frightened to raise his head when he saw Li Xiuyuan. He had heard his father mention it when he was young. No one in the court should take it to heart, but Li Xiuyuan, the governor of Yangzhou, must be afraid.
At that time, he asked Zhao Jing: Why did my father, a mere provincial governor, deserve to be so feared by the imperial court?
Zhao Jing said seriously: "Because Li Xiuyuan has the ability to take over the Song Dynasty. As long as he is alive, the court will always avoid him and rely on him."
At this moment, the prince understood what his father Zhao Jing said back then.
When the barbarian commanders who went south saw these 100,000 elite soldiers, they stood still and stationed on the bank of the Yangtze River, facing each other across the river.
The barbarians felt that Li Xiuyuan's 100,000-strong army was nothing more than that. The capital of the Song Dynasty had been breached, so what brave army could there be? So they clamored to build a pontoon bridge and cross the river to capture Li Xiuyuan alive.
But on the third day of the confrontation between the two armies.
A troop of 10,000 cavalry crossed the Yangtze River and fought out from the flanks, while 100,000 elite soldiers crossed by boat.
The barbarians were defeated, and their commander was so heartbroken that he was killed by Wu Xiang. He fled on horseback, shouting to the sky on the way: "Why did the Song Dynasty lose the capital with such elites?"
From then on, the barbarians retreated to the north and stopped going south.
As a result, Li Xiuyuan's reputation was restored and resounded throughout the Song Dynasty.
The following year, in a certain county in the south, a scholar named Zhang Bairen rode a donkey and hung a sword, and walked into Yangzhou to see Li Xiuyuan and seek knowledge on how to govern the country and quell the chaos.
Li Xiuyuan taught him for three years.
Three years later, Zhang Bairen left Yangzhou. No one knows where he went, except that Zhang Bairen did not serve as an official.
The Song Dynasty was still the Song Dynasty, but half of it had been lost. The prince ascended the throne in Jinling City and established a new Song Dynasty.
Because of that battle, Han Shizhong retreated behind the scenes and only defended the city and the territory. He lost his enterprising spirit and sharpness. The man who led the army in foreign battles was a rising star named Yue Fei.
Li Xiuyuan ignored this.
Thirty years later.
During this period, many people died. The concubine Xiao Xie around her had expired and was sent to the underworld by Li Xiuyuan himself. Xiao Xie was not sad when she left because she had to wait for her husband to reunite in the underworld.
Forty years later, Li Xiuyuan turned sixty.
He retired and returned home.
Although he still looks young, only in his early twenties, he knows that if he continues to serve as governor, people will only be surprised. After all, his appearance has not changed for forty years. This is a very incredible thing. After all, among ghosts and gods,
Things have decreased a lot in forty years, the people, officials
Members are becoming more and more unfamiliar with things involving ghosts and gods.
Li Xiuyuan didn't want to be regarded as a monster, so he retired and returned to his hometown.
Fifty years later.
More relatives have passed away. My parents, Li Dafu and Mr. Li, died without illness and lived to be over eighty years old.
But he did not reincarnate. According to Li Zhong, Li Dafu stayed in the underworld, saying that he would wait for his son to be reincarnated here. Therefore, he asked Li Zhong to find some female ghosts to serve him.
It looks like he wants to be a master in the underworld.
Sixty years later, all the wives and concubines around Li Xiuyuan have left. Fu Qingfeng, Qingmei, Xiaodie, Du Chunhua
But they are also unwilling to reincarnate.
Taking advantage of Li Xiuyuan's status as his wife and concubine, he gained special privileges, so there was an extra Li residence in the ghost city of the underworld.
Seventy years later.
Li Xiuyuan's appearance still remains unchanged, but according to Wang Ping, his lifespan has not yet reached, and it is not time to die yet.
He felt that his behavior would scare future generations, so after arranging family affairs in his early years, he left the Li Mansion and moved to Lanruo Temple.
If you keep company with ghosts and gods, at least you won't cause trouble to future generations.