Train to Another World

It was not yet evening, and Li Zhuoguang and his party settled down in Honglu Temple.

Master Dong's carriage stopped not far from the gate of Honglu Temple. He stepped out of the carriage with difficulty with the help of his servant. He stretched out his hand and the boy took out a medicine box and brought it to Master Dong.

Master Dong pinched out a piece of ginseng and put it under his tongue. After a slight hesitation, he pinched out a few more pieces, put them into his mouth, chewed them up and swallowed them.

"master!"

Master Dong waved his hand: "I know my body myself. Two days earlier or two days later, it doesn't make any difference."

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Master Dong sat in front of the carriage and took a short rest. Perhaps those ginseng tablets had worked, so he straightened his back and walked towards Honglu Temple with the help of many servants.

The officials of Honglu Temple saw Master Dong coming and immediately stepped forward to greet him.

Master Dong didn't say much, he just said: "I want to see those people, please let me know."

Although Grand Master Dong did not specifically say who it was, he already said the word "asking to see you", so there was probably no one else. The officials of Honglu Temple led Master Dong to a side hall to rest, and then quickly went to where Li Zhuoguang and the others were staying.

"Three belts and one."

"I can't afford it."

"Check."

"To the frame!"

When the officials from Honglu Temple came to Li Zhuoguang's room, they saw these heavenly beings playing an alternative leaf trick with exquisite little cards. Seeing someone coming, everyone looked at him.

He bowed and said: "I, Mr. Dong, the Grand Master of the Dashun Dynasty, would like to meet with you."

Li Zhuoguang thought about it, he was the one who took sick leave and didn't come to the previous meeting. So he agreed: "Then bring him over."

"I'll come as soon as I go, you guys play first." He threw away the cards in his hand. Huang Shiren, who was sitting below him, looked at the three bombs in his hands. For the first time, Shusheng felt that his thoughts were not clear.

Soon, a Qingjun old man came to the living room next to Li Zhuoguang's room.

After Grand Master Dong walked through the door, he cupped his hands and said, "My Excellency, Dong Zhen and Dong Wenchang, have met all of you."

Li Zhuoguang felt quite uncomfortable being saluted by this old man who looked to be in his seventies or eighty years old, and quickly asked Grand Master Dong to sit down. Not only did Master Dong not sit down, he bowed his head and said, "I, Dashun, will encounter a great disaster. I hope you will have mercy on me."

Li Zhuoguang stretched out his hand to help him up and said with a smile: "You didn't come to the Imperial Study Room today, so you don't know. We are here to understand your problems."

Master Dong shook his head: "I already know about the strange beasts, and I have another reason for coming here this time."

Li Zhuoguang was stunned for a moment: "Do you have anything else here?"

Taishi Dong explained: "It's not external troubles, but internal strife."

"If I remember correctly, isn't your Dashun in its prime?"

"Alas! Have you ever heard of the turmoil twenty years ago?"

"The tragedy of the former prince's family being exterminated?"

"Uh...yeah."

"I've heard about it, but you came to me today, so you must have something to hide?"

"Exactly."

"Oh, let's hear it." Li Zhuoguang touched around, but couldn't find any tea or snacks, so he remembered that this was the living room.

But suddenly the door opened, and Xiong Facai and others filed in with tea and snacks. It seemed that everyone liked to hear gossip.

Although there were many more listeners, Grand Master Dong was not embarrassed at all and continued to talk: "It should be noted that in the hinterland of the Central Plains, six countries originally coexisted, but the six countries continued to conquer each other and fought against each other. It happened that one year the North was hit by the White Disaster , three major barbarian tribes, tying up all the tribes, went south to plunder.

When someone is killed, when a city is massacred, the money and food taken are divided among the people, and then they go to the next city. That year, not only the northern region was hit by disaster, but the hinterland of the Central Plains was also affected, and many starved to death in the six countries. Facing the barbarians moving south, it was difficult to resist. "

Xiong Facai discovered Hua Dian: "In the past, the six countries were able to resist the barbarians in wars. Now that foreign enemies have invaded, wouldn't it be easier for the six countries to deal with them together?"

Grand Master Dong shook his head: "The six countries have deep grievances, and the barbarians are cunning. While attacking the Northern Three Kingdoms, they bowed to the Southern Three Kingdoms. The Southern Three Kingdoms not only did not stop them, but also helped them. Furthermore, it was too cold in those years, and the Northern Three Kingdoms The local barbarians are inherently cold-resistant, and we and the Central Plains people are far inferior. Later, the Northern Three Kingdoms collapsed thousands of miles away, and the Southern Three Kingdoms followed suit. "

"Wait a minute." Wei Changfeng interrupted Dong Taishi's words. His family is also noble. Although he has never been on the battlefield, he knows some basic common sense: "You said that the barbarian invasion included women and children?"

"Of course."

"It is difficult to prepare food and fodder for the army alone. If even women and children go with the army, who will produce the food?"

"The barbarians make a living by raising animals and hunting, and do not engage in farming. Women and children drive the sheep slowly in the rear, while the barbarians are equipped with one person and two cavalry, attacking and looting like the wind, going back and forth between the front and the rear. What is even more outrageous is Yes, in order to ensure sufficient food, the barbarians’ first choice for food is human flesh. When human flesh is not available, they will eat mutton.”

Crunch! The sound of metal twisting sounded in the room. Everyone looked at the place where the sound came from, only to find that it was William. The metal flask in his hand had been crushed by him, and the wine flowed out of the flask. For a moment, the aroma of wine filled the room.

Although he didn't say anything, everyone knew that there were probably no barbarians in this world.

Li Zhuoguang waved his hand, and Dong Shangshu continued: "When the hinterland of the Central Plains was in ruins, one man stood up and united the people with lofty ideals from the six countries to fight against the barbarians. The White Disaster finally faded away, which was the eighth year of the barbarian invasion. As the weather got warmer, the Allied Forces of the Six Nations defeated the barbarians in one go and drove the remaining barbarians out of the pass.

More importantly, in this battle, they took the lead in capturing the barbarian racecourse and captured a large number of stallions. Until now, the number of horses of the barbarians has not returned to the level of the past. "

Li Zhuoguang nodded: "Let me guess, the person who stepped forward was the founding emperor of Dashun. After he drove the barbarians out of the pass, he was elected as the new emperor by everyone, and he did not bother to return the territory of the six countries. I went back and built Dashun on top of it.”

"Well, the first emperor is popular among the people."

"Tsk, this kind of thing is not what everyone expects. Maybe you have to give in three times."

What is recorded in the history books is indeed "according to public expectations", but Dong Shangshu also knew that such records would use some Spring and Autumn style of writing, so he did not refute it again and again.

"Then, what do these things have to do with the turmoil twenty years ago?"

After Taishi Dong thought for a while, he said: "Despite the disaster of the barbarians, there are still many famous families from the six countries who survived. Some of them are princes and noble families, and some are simply royal families.

The late emperor drove out the barbarians, and all the people in the Central Plains must agree with him. However, the establishment of Dashun is not what everyone wants to see. "

Wei Changfeng shook his head: "Those who conquer the world immediately are the most powerful, and ordinary tricks are not worth mentioning."

Grand Master Dong nodded: "What you said is true, but you must know that the cultivators in this world only need the four characters of wealth, law and land, and this wealth happens to be the first. In the past, during the Six Kingdoms, the best of each major sect , and even the elders or leaders of the sect are mostly from the famous families in the places where they are located. The years of the Six Kingdoms are long, and the days of peace and prosperity are short. There is no big difference between subduing each family and subjugating each faction. "

Li Zhuoguang probably understood: "I guess the first prince must advocate subduing various aristocratic families and sects?"

Grand Master Dong nodded, then shook his head: "Not only that, the late prince had already mastered the method of subduing various aristocratic families and sects before his death."

"Since he is dead, he must have failed. The throne of Dashun can still be passed on smoothly, so there must be a balance, right? Since it has been balanced for so many years, where did the internal troubles come from?"

Master Dong replied honestly: "It's because of you."