Rebel

There was a lot of turmoil at Tian's house, but Gu Ao stayed in Chengyuan Palace to read books quietly in the past few days.The collection of books in the Chengyuan Palace is vast, and Gu Ao was immersed in it for a while, forgetting about foreign affairs together.

As far as the eye can see, there are bamboo slips full of cases. They are the county annals and county annals of various counties and counties when refugees from all over the world first started 200 years ago. They record the process of a once powerful dynasty being eroded step by step.Some of them have been transcribed and updated several times, but in the end the first description remains unchanged.

The word 'Chengyuan', inherits the past and ushers in the future, and pursues the future with caution. The inner hall has always been the first place to dig couplets and accept books in the academies of all dynasties. Jane, but after all, through the gaps in the vast volumes, I can get a glimpse of the ever-changing world of gold and iron horses.

At this time, Gu Ao kept thinking about the question that Teacher Shan Yunzi asked him:

"What does Haiqing Heyan's world look like in your heart?"

"As stated in the article, what was the world like at that time?"

"If you were born at that time, how would you enter the world and achieve your aspirations?"

Gu Ao has been reading it for several days, and he has organized his train of thought clearly in his mind:

"In my heart, Haiqing Heyan's world is simple. It is nothing more than Li Shu living and working in peace and contentment, the emperor rules under his bow, and the ministers are upright and upright."

"The world at that time can also be seen from the text. The lifeline of the country has long been decayed. If you look at it by longevity, you are already old and dying. The imperial decree does not go out of the capital, and the supervisors and censors everywhere are in vain. It has become a common practice, and the corvees are heavy, and the people are in dire straits."

"The first two questions asked by the teacher are very clear in my heart. Either I have kept them in my mind long ago, or I have recorded them clearly in this bamboo slip. Among the three questions, the difficulty lies in the third question."

——"If I was born at that time, how can I save the country from disaster and bring the world together?"

Gu Ao has been contemplating for several days, not thinking about food and drink, reading scriptures and reviewing papers, but he still can't get the solution:

"If I were a high official in the local area, I would be unable to do much in the local area. At that time, the refugees had risen, and most of the land was in the hands of the rich clan. If I wanted to accommodate the refugees, I would rely on the rich clan, which was even stronger. In the end, it was not Taking advantage of the turmoil in the world to compete for artifacts? But wars are raging, and more refugees emerge. If I were really on the political side, I would have no use for me except to make friends with the rich. I want to reward farming and weaving, but the land is under the household of the rich. Recommendations have been manipulated by him for years, what can I do? I can only watch it rot and rot.”

"Besides, even if I worked hard at that time to become a local high official, based on my background, I'm still not a clay figure in the hands of the big clan? If I have failed them in the slightest, they can join me in the army immediately."

"If I were an official in the middle of the capital, I would be unable to do anything. The most important positions are the meat of the big family. Even if I am lucky enough to reach a high position, if there is a slight loss to the big family, the lighter ones will be demoted and return home. In severe cases, the head falls, but it will only gain a good reputation in the history books in the future, but it cannot save the country from disasters in this world and bring the world together."

"If I were the head of a great clan, and I belonged to a family, I would have something to do, and that would be to re-plow and weave in my own land, to accumulate food widely, to practice trilogy diligently, to exterminate the bandits and make them serfs, and to turn them all into serfs." Become a minister under my rule. However, it is true in the history books. In the troubled times, various families gathered landless farmers and trained private soldiers. Therefore, in the past 200 years, dynasties have risen and disappeared suddenly, and the lives of the people have been wiped out... From this point of view, Even if I was born in an aristocratic family, did what I should do, exercised the right to do what I should do, the final result is nothing more than the current result. A better one may be famous in the world, or be a great person, and then What can we do? How can we save the country from disasters and unite the world? It’s just the prosperity of a family..."

"And even if you are in the high position of the emperor, judging from the situation 200 years ago, it is still difficult to do it. The aristocratic family annexed a lot of land, but the taxpayer's household often deceived the court. , the imperial court had to mobilize common peasants to go northward, with more defeats and fewer victories, and natural disasters, the inner court was corrupt, and finally the world was hungry, and bandits were everywhere, but the family led troops to serve the king, but the family that made the most contributions to the king later became the new emperor ...

"Let's take a step back, even if the son of heaven is a talented man with a discerning eye, and wins with a great general guarding the border, the court will only drag on for decades... What's the use? To this troubled world?"

"From this point of view, if you are born in this world, you can't be an official, you can't join the army, you can't even plan to become an emperor..."

Gu Ao looked at it for a few days, but he couldn't find the method of "entering the world and striving for ambition" that Shan Yunzi asked him before.For the first time, Gu Ao felt helpless and sad: "Could it be that the benevolent people at that time really could only be slaughtered?"

Continue to read along the brief, search the door, and Gu Ao found that there are indeed people who are trying their best to turn the tide. There was an emperor who was born in a family. The set photo was moved to the frontier of the garrison against the Rong people, and the Beijun Mansion was established. As a result, in less than 40 years, his grandson was taken over by the general of the Beijun Mansion.

There is also the world-renowned Taiwei. Although he suppressed the bandit rebellion and later led his army to return triumphantly, he brought all the gains from the suppression of the bandit back to the county. There are a lot of big families, and the world that was regulated by the Taiwei was also overthrown by one of them 30 years after his death...

Not only that, but in this chaotic world, the Central Plains Dynasty was repeatedly destroyed by the Rong people, and there was even a great shame that three emperors were taken captive in a row, and no one succeeded in the end, so the capital was moved south several times to avoid the north. The edge of the military sword.

On the contrary, the current king of Qin, regardless of the ancient etiquette, established the Rong daughter as the queen and his son as the prince, which cut off the invasion of the Rong people from the north.

It can be said that the prince has yellow eyes and brown hair, and his mother died early, so he was not happy. Bogey, there are as many people who want to waste it.

Gu Ao has been looking at these county annals for the past few days. What he has learned and thought in the past, and what he has heard from his father, Gu Ben, are almost connected in his mind like strings of beads, but the more they are connected, Gu Ao But I feel more and more incomprehensible because it is like a big weaving net, strangling all beautiful ideals and hopes of helping and saving the world in each piece of Shilu written in blood.

Only then did Gu Ao realize that what Shan Yunzi told him to see was nothing else but the beginning of the 200 years of troubled times from the past until today.

In the past 200 years, no one has ended this chaotic world... Everything that happened in it is like a snake biting its own tail, forming a dead knot, going round and round again and again.

Every aristocratic family that strives to reach the top has worked hard, with the confidence to turn the tide from the fallen, but fall into the abyss of overreaching.

Looking back on the past now, which one didn't die in the second and third generations?

Even though they were wise, brave, handsome and outstanding, none of them succeeded in establishing a new and stable empire.But it's more like giving an old person who is already sick with a disease, constantly infusing youth's blood. Although it can return to the light for a while, it still irreversibly rots from the branches...

The most obvious thing is the aristocratic family... Since the separation of the world and the public 200 years ago, the aristocratic family has gone from bad to worse.Once upon a time, the aristocratic family also assumed the responsibility of gathering refugees, and the righteousness of serving the king in a stable and troubled world. Now, after a hundred years of washing, the unworthy are playing with things and losing their ambitions, and the ambitious are secretly stealing artifacts. Even the original love for the people and loyalty to the king have been lost.And there are also those who are afraid of being tabooed by the new emperor, so they are wild, uninhibited and pretentious, idle and extravagant, and there are countless people...

now……

Who can break through and then stand up?

How can the world be reborn from Nirvana?

Gu Ao stared at the book like he was insane, and he couldn't help but put on a wry smile, yes, why does Shanyun Academy study the method of success or failure?

Isn't it just to solve this troubled situation?

Don't you just want to break the law of this chaotic world and return to the clarity of the world?

When thinking of this, Gu Ao was slightly taken aback...

He seemed to understand why Teacher Shan Yunzi wanted him to start here...

Shanyun College is the place to study how to end this war and start a prosperous age.

No wonder there are so many generals from Shanyun Academy...

No wonder the King of Qin conquered the world after he consulted Master Shan Yunzi...

It turns out that every head of the hospital is the one who studies the success or failure of the rise and fall...

Gu Ao's heart trembled, he finally understood what Shan Yunzi's three questions were asking him:

—Where did this troubled world start?

——How to end this troubled world?

This is not an exam question, but an outline of what I will learn in the future!

Thinking of this, Gu Ao couldn't help thinking further down: In this case, why did Teacher Shan Yunzi ask me to observe the world as a refugee?

Are refugees the key to this world?

Refugees can turn into bandits in an instant, and in case of thunder, they can form millions into an army, like locusts crossing the border;

If it encounters nectar, it will be broken into parts and become a slave of the family.

This is also why the Taiwei is famous and famous in the alchemy book - because he wiped out the bandits that ravaged the seven counties. Since then, Shanyun Academy has been built from a high position, and new tiles have been added, and the art of war against refugees and bandits has been brilliant since then. .

Since then, the rogue bandits have come together, and all the counties have suppressed themselves, and they have been quickly suppressed and cleared up. Since then, there have been no bandits such as the "Da Ming Wang" that have disturbed the world.

This is where the merit of the Taiwei lies.

It's just that the methods he used were too aggressive, and now the landless people still can't get enough to eat.

Those who are hungry will always put themselves to death and come back to life, just around the corner.

That's why Liao Quji said that he wanted to learn how to suppress bandits...Because in the deep mountains of Jiangqu County, there were also bandits of refugees.

But the bandit is not about suppressing, if it is about suppressing, that Taiwei has already set the world right, so there will be no wars in the future!

The key to this troubled world... Where is it?

Gu Ao got up and went out of the hall, looked up, and saw that the moon was already on the branch, like a barb.

The night was as cool as water, Gu Ao hurried to Shan Yunzi's bamboo house along the path.The mountain was foggy, dew soaked the rocks, and the shoes felt slippery, but Gu Ao didn't care, he still quickened his pace and walked all the way.

Stopping in front of Shan Yunzi's bamboo house, Gu Ao panted slightly, calmed down, and finally kowtowed in front of the door and said: "Teacher, I'm bothering you late at night. The student just wants to know. You asked me, how should I solve it? The students are stupid, they think day and night, they really don't know how to...please teach me!"

As he spoke, Gu Ao lifted up his robe and knelt down.

After a while, a little boy opened the curtain, Shan Yunzi walked out of the bamboo house wearing a white robe and leaning on a cane. He looked at Gu Ao without saying a word, until Gu Ao kowtowed again and asked: "I beg the teacher to teach me!"

Only then did Shan Yunzi sigh quietly: "Get up."

"Yes."

Gu Ao stood according to his words.

The moonlight sprinkled the clear light, like frost on the ground, and only the cicadas were left for a while.

Gu Ao looked at Shan Yunzi eagerly, but saw Shan Yunzi smiled slightly: "You don't know, but the teacher doesn't know either... If you know..." Shan Yunzi paused, and his voice was even older and sad: "King Qin The world has already been set..."

"..." Gu Ao's eyes widened for a moment, and he looked at Shan Yunzi in disbelief.I saw the old man's face under the moonlight, deeply wrinkled by the pale moonlight, and the elegant white beard that was originally like a fairy, but now hanging down his cheeks, it even more set off the vicissitudes of life...

Gu Ao trembled his lips: "How come... Teacher... a man of great virtue..."

Shan Yunzi looked at Gu Ao, and said leisurely: "I'm telling you today, you came here not to learn how to be successful, but to learn how not to be those losers!

There are so many scrolls in Shanyun Academy, and every line in the scrolls is written with the blood of predecessors... how many people with lofty ideals have followed one after another, and they are endless..."

"..." As soon as the breeze passed in the middle of the night, Gu Ao's back could not help but feel a little cool.That's right...Every word I saw in the Chengyuan Palace just now, which one is not buried with the bones of the predecessors?

Shan Yunzi looked at Gu Ao and asked: "The old man only asks you now... Are you willing to be the next one? Do you want to try it too?"

Gu Ao slightly opened his lips and said, "...I am willing."

Hearing this, Shan Yunzi closed his eyes, and opened them again after a long while, only to see him wave his sleeves, then turn around and enter the house: "...Okay, come to Chengyuan Hall to listen to my lecture at Chenshi tomorrow."

"Yes."

Hearing Gu Ao's response, and hearing the sound of footsteps, he retreated a few steps respectfully, then turned away, Shan Yunzi looked sideways at Gu Ao leaving his back, and stood leaning on his stick in the dark night.

Everyone said that since King Qin ruled the world, they have been disheartened. They all thought it was caused by King Qin's soldiers besieging Shanyun Academy. There is no one who can right the world!

His own teacher, who was also the former head of the school, once said to him:

"At the meeting of wind and clouds, a hundred years have passed, and the opportunity is about to come. In your tenure, it is time for you to be unable to stabilize the hero of the world!"

For so many years, he has been sleepy at night, just because of this sentence, to be able to use his own wisdom to calm the chaos in the world, save the country and the people, and only now has he painstakingly dealt with the aristocratic family...

Now Shanyun Academy has been eaten away by the Liao family for a long time. I am afraid that after a hundred years, it will become the private property of the county guard, but I still haven't fulfilled the teacher's entrustment!

Back then, I taught so earnestly that the King of Qin was a jackal of tigers and wolves, but now he is also constrained by the aristocratic family everywhere!

Is "I want to plant a big wooden pillar to grow the sky" an empty talk of the heads of Shanyun Academy in the past? !

Shan Yunzi is getting old, and he is getting more and more worried...

until……

Until he saw this child from the Gu family...

The appearance of Gu Ao gave Shan Yunzi a glimmer of hope... How could he not be as youthful as he used to be?He once also stepped into Shanyun Academy with a book bag on his back, full of feelings of carrying a pot to help the world...

It's a pity that the time flies, and the time has almost sealed up the oath that was originally buried in the bottom of my heart; but now, under the light of the early summer moon, it seems to shine with a dazzling brilliance...

Gu Ao's back disappeared into the lush forest at the end of the path, Shan Yunzi leaned on his crutches and slowly turned back to the bamboo house.