The host is red and black, and the system can only chirp

With the compensation paid and the cooperation reached, Sect Leader Xi's time suddenly became worthless.

She accompanied Song Que as he strolled around Yunnei County.

This time, Sect Leader Xi was no longer stingy. She answered all the questions that the Song clan leader had.

Who can resist a big dog owner?

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"What can Sect Master Xi gain?"

Song Que's eyes lit up. "Whether it's the troops and weapons assigned to Li Jing and Yuchi Jingde, or the internal affairs that Gao Hongde is in charge of... everything involving fields, livestock, farm tools, and the trade routes that have been opened... everything, it seems that the Xi clan leader is planning for his followers and the people on the border."

Is the excitement a bit too much?

If you knew that the salt and iron that are about to be developed, and sugar in the future... will all be turned into benefits for the military and civilians, would Comrade Tiandao be happy?

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Xi Mingming laughed. As for what she could get, would inner peace count?

To put it nicely, life for common people is difficult; to put it bluntly, they are worse than pigs and dogs.

She is also an ordinary person.

In this world, from the emperor to the rebel armies in various places... anyone with a little power has no respect for life.

——She can’t stand it!

She, Xi Mingming, can't stand it!

Is this reason convincing enough?

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No one can understand.

The seventeen-year-old Li Shimin has not yet realized this priceless truth.

In the end, Xi Mingming just curled his lips and said sarcastically: "I wish I had thousands of mansions to shelter all the poor people in the world."

Even someone as concerned about the country and the people as Du Fu could only think of the poor scholars.

The common people have never been taken seriously by the rulers, so... no matter whether it is the Sui Dynasty in history books or not, it is still a terrible era.

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Xi Mingming took Song Que and climbed up the southern branch of the Yinshan Mountains in Yunnei County. The two of them circulated their internal energy and flew to the top in one breath.

Climbing high and looking far, your mind seems to become broader.

Song Que took the initiative to mention: "Master Xi doesn't seem to care why Song is here."

"I only know that the Lingnan Song clan has become a strategic partner of the three counties in the northern border."

"It's a pity that I can't help asking." Song Que sighed, "I was asked by an old friend to know whether Sect Master Xi returned from the Western Regions to unify the Demon Sect?"

Xi Mingming: ...It’s hard to describe.

"What happens after the test?" Xi Mingming asked, "If I want to unify the Demon Sect, who can stop me?"

If "Heavenly Sword" Song Que is really as terrifying as Li Shimin and Li Jing described, and if Xi Sect Master is better than Song Que, who in the world can stop him?

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Unify the Demon Sect? Xi Mingming had never thought about it.

There are sporadic records about the Demonic Sect in the books that Xi Ying brought to the Western Regions.

Since Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty "abolished all schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", the various schools of thought in the pre-Qin period gradually declined.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a genius named Cang Yu who was not accepted by the orthodoxy, so he searched through all the classics in the world, eliminated the dross and retained the essence of the strange skills and secrets among them, and took those that suited his own way, and processed them into a ten-volume "Heavenly Demon Strategy", which was the beginning of the Saint Sect.

After the Saint Sect split, the ten volumes of "The Heavenly Demon Strategy" were scattered among the two factions and six paths.

"The Heavenly Demon Strategy" is culminated with "The Heavenly Demon Art" and "The Great Method of Cultivating Demons in the Heart of Taoism", and is the highest mental method of the Saint Sect.

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Books were very valuable in this era, and annotated classics were even more valuable. There were very few people who could read, and even fewer who had the ability to separate the dross from the essence. Most people regarded the words of the saints as their guiding principles.

Why can aristocratic families be passed down for thousands of years? They monopolize knowledge and have the right to interpret classics.

Unfortunately, nothing works for Xi Mingming.

Who among the children who have graduated from nine years of compulsory education doesn’t have a bit of a quibble nature?

Children who have received compulsory education may not understand other ancient Chinese texts, but they can definitely talk about the sentence "If you believe everything in books, it is better to have no books" from Mencius.

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There is a but in everything.

It was clear that Sect Leader Xi had no intention of unifying the Demon Sect, but what he said almost choked Song Que to death.

The north wind was chilly on the mountaintop. After a long silence, the Song clan leader asked, "How much do you know about the Central Plains Demon Sect, Sect Master Xi?"

Sect Leader Xi was very single: "I can't tell the difference at all."

Song Que: ...The Song clan sent out two thousand bows and thirty thousand arrows, isn't that worth an answer?

"The other two sects of the Demon Sect are the Five Paths. The Yin Gui Sect is well-organized and has many experts. The evil king Shi Zhixuan is in charge of both the Hua Jian Sect and the Butian Sect. Although his self-created [Immortal Seal Method] is not mainstream, he is a sinister person. Where does Sect Master Xi plan to start?"

Sect Leader Xi was even more straightforward: "What use is there for me to come to a group of criminals?"

Song Que: ...I have never been so speechless in my life. Why didn’t you say earlier that you didn’t covet the Demon Sect’s hegemony?

I wanted to turn around and leave.

Song Que was tired, but that was all. He grew up in a small town in the Western Regions and was more straightforward.

"What does Sect Master Xi think of Cihang Jingzhai?"

The Xi clan leader, who was taught common sense by Li Shimin and Li Jing, was speechless: "...I have no opinion."

Even if he grew up in the Western Regions, is disgusted by the actions of the Demon Sect, and is unfamiliar with the Central Plains martial arts, will it still be difficult to break free from the shackles of the struggle between good and evil?

Song Que's heart sank, "The Sect Master disapproves of what Cihang Jingzhai did?"

Xi Mingming was not interested: "I am not interested in judging how a nunnery operates."

The familiar heart attack came again.

Unable to win the fight, Song Que tried hard to persuade the master of Cihang Jingzhai - how he had the ability to judge people at such a young age, and how he looked at the unknown leader of the Song family differently in his youth, and how the two of them traveled together and talked about the current situation of the world, the governance and chaos, the rise and fall of ancient and modern times.

Xi Mingming: "In my eyes, if a woman only learns to achieve her goals through men... then all her opinions and ideas are worthless."

If I guessed correctly, this Song clan leader had a wife and a son. To travel thousands of miles to give someone his life because of a word from his first love was a mental state that Xi Mingming could not understand.

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What a bullshit, men conquer the world, women conquer men. Whoever said this must have a hole in his brain.

Does choosing a powerful man mean that you have equal power?

What nonsense are you talking about.

That's just a man's charity!

Fan Qinghui supported Yang Jian, so why didn't she have any real power?

On the contrary, Empress Dugu, who had the support of the Dugu family, was able to influence the emperor's will, for example, deposing Crown Prince Yang Yong and enthroning Yang Guang instead.

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Xi Mingming's face was calm, and his words were as harsh as ever: "There are always some people whose strength cannot support their ambitions, and whose fate cannot resist the general trend... and they start to talk about women."

"In ancient times, Bao Si took the blame for her king. In my opinion, there will be no shortage of similar stories in the future."

Was Song Que really persuaded by Fan Qinghui to give up the world? What nonsense is this? Song Lu talked about the 10,000 men resisting the 100,000 Sui army. Where was the battlefield?

Can Song Que really leave Lingnan? It's just a fig leaf.

Xi Mingming scratched his head, but perhaps our Fanzhaizhu was flattered too much, as if she really believed from the bottom of her heart that she had the ability to influence the world's situation, and was keen to shamelessly intervene in everything.

I'm sorry, don't blame Xi Mingming for not giving you face.

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As for the leader of the Song family, Xi Mingming guessed that he had lived in Lingnan for many years and had brainwashed himself too much... He seemed to care a lot about Xi Mingming's recognition of Master Fanzhai's extraordinaryness.

After listening to Master Fanzhai's many deeds, Xi Mingming suddenly asked, "Do the counties in Lingnan still respect Madam Xian?"

Lady Xian grew old, her son Feng Pu died young, and her grandson Feng Ang was still young, only then was the Song clan able to rise in Lingnan.

Song Que choked for a moment, then sighed, "Of course."

The entire Song clan must respect Lady Xian.

Many ideas of the Song clan, such as uniting the heroes of the southern Liao, and measures such as "building cities, opening schools, and gaining respect from both Chinese and foreigners, which was called great change", were all inherited from Lady Xian.

Lingnan submitted to the Sui court and gained the support of the chieftains of Lingnan, and also benefited from Lady Xian's idea of ​​"maintaining the unity of the Central Plains" from beginning to end.

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In this way, Xi Mingming is even more difficult to understand.

Having seen a true hero like Madam Xian, how was Song Que easily conquered by Fan Qinghui?

Regardless of whether Fan Qinghui is a fig leaf or not, Song Que's nostalgia is real, otherwise he would not have become the first person to test the great master Xi Mingming.

What you can't get will always make you restless?

Xi Mingming asked Song Que: "Since this Fanzhai Master has great vision and foresight, cares about the world, has outstanding martial arts skills, and has many talented people under her... After experiencing the turbulent times in the north and south, why didn't she become a local lord? Not to mention like Madam Xian who subdued the Yue people and protected the people?"