Chapter 238

Not long after the Jiangchu Dynasty unified the Central Plains, the whole world was in disarray, but the rare years of peace injected new vitality into the rivers and lakes.

The country is unfortunate, the poet is fortunate, the country is fortunate, and the rivers and lakes are fortunate.

Finally, twenty years after the Jiangchu Dynasty unified the Central Plains, the entire rivers and lakes ushered in a great era that is rare in ancient times!

Although there have always been rumors among the people, it is basically difficult to find martial arts above the third rank in the Jianghu. But at that time, although the third grade was rare in the Jianghu, there would always be such a master sitting in the sect in those famous sects!

As for the even rarer second-rank great masters, they are relatively rare in Jianghu. Apart from He Yifan, the head teacher of Wudang Mountain, the ancestral home of Taoism, only Long Yingqin, the lord of the Dragon King Hall in Southern Xinjiang up.

It is precisely because of national power that Jiang Chu was unparalleled in the world at that time. In terms of the cultivation base of Jianghu martial arts, Jiang Chu, who has two second-rank great masters, is also a warrior in the grassland kingdoms around Jiang Chu. That's why the Qiang barbarians who have been on the border between Jiang and Chu for decades dare not act rashly.

The scene of peace in the world, from this point of view, has a lot of credit for these Jianghu people, so after the unification of Jiangchu, there are also many preferential treatment for the Jianghu people under its rule, not like the previous dynasty. Crying, beating and killing, even the Immortal He in Wudang Mountain was canonized as a national teacher by the emperor at that time.

But time flies, even the second-rank masters cannot avoid birth, old age, sickness and death. After the two martial arts masters passed away one after another, even after a hundred years of prosperity in the Jianghu Dynasty, the number of third-rank masters is not small, but But it is always difficult to find a person who can truly resist the tripod!

Although the national power of the imperial court is still at its peak, the Qiang people who have lost the supreme deterrence of force, as well as the tribes on the northern prairie, inevitably slowly became active.

They didn't dare to directly declare war on the Jiangchu Dynasty, but it happened that they occasionally came to the border to fight the autumn wind.

For example, in Saibei, where Zhao Wu was guarded, there were not a few people who were looted by the Qiang people every year. The Qiang tribe was located in an extremely cold place in the north. They are all good at horseback riding and archery. It can be said that they are law-abiding people off the horse, but after they are on the horse, they are the most brave cavalrymen!

What's even worse is that sixty years ago in the Northern Qiang, there was a grandmaster who broke through to the realm of the second-rank grandmaster, and this second-rank grandmaster happened to be the Generalissimo of the Northern Qiang!

This made the Northern Qiang, which was already strong and powerful, become more unscrupulous. Under the instruction of the Northern Qiang Emperor, it was gradually no longer satisfied with plundering some ordinary property from the border of Jiangchu every year, but began to gradually eat away at it even more. From the territory of the Jiangchu Dynasty.

When the Jiangchu court reacted, the Northern Qiang joined several other nomadic tribes on the Jiangchu border and began to invade the Jiangchu Dynasty.

And just when this unprecedented war was about to reach its most critical moment, a Confucian scholar appeared.

This Confucian scholar has five swords on his body, and no one can stop him wherever he passes.

When he appeared in front of the Generalissimo of the Northern Qiang Army, he alone broke through 3,600 armors! A hole suddenly appeared around him. Seeing this, the soldiers of the Jiangchu Dynasty were greatly shocked. As far as the top fighters are concerned, the Northern Qiang Allied Forces are far less numerous than Jiangchu's martial arts masters. These martial arts masters are just afraid of the Generalissimo of Northern Qiang.

But now the Generalissimo was held back by Confucian scholars who came from nowhere, Jiang Chu's soldiers naturally worked hard and finally defeated the enemy army!

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After this battle, the Jiangchu Dynasty once again demonstrated its powerful military power to the surrounding kingdoms and tribes, that is, those who offend Jiangchu will be punished no matter how far away they are!

And the Marshal of the Northern Qiang, who was in his prime of life, even wrote a letter to Xiang Tianyu, the Minister of Military Aircraft of Jiangchu, after obtaining the approval of the Northern Qiang Emperor after the war, claiming that he would no longer easily provoke the two dynasties within fifty years. war!

The Emperor Jiangchu at that time knew in his heart that the reason why this war, which was later called the Hongxing War (the then Emperor Jiangchu's year name Hongxing) was carried out so smoothly, was that the Confucian scholar who broke the 3600 armor Absolutely the greatest credit! Otherwise, even if Jiang Chu could win against the coalition forces of Northern Qiang and Southern Man, he would have to pay a very heavy price, and such a result was naturally unwilling or unacceptable to Jiang Chu's court.

Later, Emperor Hongxing Zhao Wu sent people to find the original Confucian scholar in a temple, and wanted to confer on him as the current dynasty's protector of the country.

But that Confucian scholar escaped into the Buddhist sect, and he was not willing to commit any crimes at all.

In desperation, Zhao Wu had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and agreed with the ordained Confucian scholars that if the Northern Qiang invaded again fifty years later, but Jiang Chu did not have a new second-rank grand master to come forward, the Confucian scholars would fight for Jiang again. Chu shot once!

Thirty years later, a Confucian student who had also achieved great success in Buddhist practice picked up a baby before turning into Taoism.

The Confucian scholar who felt compassion for a while couldn't bear the baby's suffering, so he took the baby with him as a disciple, and at the same time passed on all his Buddhist cultivation bases to the baby.

But as the baby grows up, although the baby is not taboo about food because he lives with Confucian scholars who have now turned to the Taoist school again, and even likes meat quite a bit, but he is biased against blood. Not even an ant dared to do any harm.

The old Taoist knew that in the eyes of his disciple, since the livestock had become dead, the so-called skin and flesh were nothing more than empty shells, so he was not taboo at all. But if he was asked to really kill, his apprentice would never be able to do such a thing.

Seeing that more than half of the fifty-year period has passed, but at the level of the old Taoist, in his eyes, the so-called Jiangchu Dynasty, whether it is the Northern Qiang and the Southern Barbarians, are all equal creatures in this world. How can he be willing to do harm? And the things of living things?

Even when he prevented the great war between Jiangchu and Northern Qiang decades ago, even though he broke through thousands of armors at once, under his deliberate control, he never really killed a single soldier.

The old Taoist who couldn't laugh or cry had no choice but to take his apprentice all over the world, hoping to meet a few more good seedlings to be his disciples, so as not to delay the original fifty-year agreement.

Tsing Yi and Chang Shan are the apprentices that Lao Dao has recently accepted. Based on their roots, he granted them Taoist profound arts and Confucian swordsmanship respectively.

But although Tsing Yi has a good sense of understanding, she is too persistent for a human being, which is why the old Taoist asked her to sharpen the iron rod. As for Chang Shan, he was originally a child brought out by a veteran from a casino. Over the past five years, Chang Shan has not only failed to quit his gambling addiction by following him, but has become even more obsessed.

For these three apprentices of his own, the old Taoist also sees them clearly. Since their nature is like this, he will not force them.

It's just that in this way, he has to fulfill a promise made a long time ago...

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Looking at the resolute Zhao Zilong in front of him, Taoist Kong Zhun seemed to have returned to decades ago, slowly shook his head, and finally said: "Zhao Zilong, if you enter my sect, you will have to go down the mountain in three years. In Jiang Chu's army, I don't know if you are willing or not?"

Hearing that Zhao Zilong was overjoyed, he had promised Zhao Wu that he would go to the frontier battlefield to assist him in the future, now Taoist Kong Zhun's words hit his heart, how could he refuse?

"Disciple is willing to go down the mountain in three years." Zhao Zilong responded hurriedly.

As expected, as expected, Taoist Kong Zhun couldn't help sighing.

"Xuan Kong, take your little junior brother to familiarize yourself with the environment first, and then take him to the top of the mountain to find me after three days." After instructing his senior apprentice a few words, Taoist Kong Zhun's figure gradually disappeared from the crowd. in front of you.

The five masters and apprentices have practiced for three years, but they don't know what kind of story will happen.