After the cold spring season, the body, which was suffering from faint pain, finally stopped protesting.

The rainy and hot summer in Lin'an is the best time that Li Pin usually spends. His old injuries when he was guarding the city in Taiyuan no longer occur. He meets guests during the day and teaches and studies. He also gets a lot of convenience because of this weather. In the yard of Mingtang, he often discusses with a group of students and friends until late at night, and even goes all night long. This time in Lin'an may be the most down-to-earth life he has lived.

In the literary and even political arena of the Wu Dynasty, Li Pin is now a complex and strange existence.

When Li Pin was young, he was a famous talent. With Jiangning's romantic and prosperous life, the number one talent among the people here was also considered an outstanding young talent in the capital.

Of course, the statements mentioned by the people at the bottom are still among these people. For the true rulers and trendsetters of this era, poetry and prose are just starting names. Although Li Pin was famous for his talent, he had a bad career in his initial period and took the wrong path. Soon after, this title was just a saying.

His entry into politics stems from Qin Siyuan's favor, but during that period, it was not said that he had entered the core circle of the Qin faction. Later, he and Qin Shaohe were guarding Taiyuan, and Qin Shaohe died, and he returned seriously injured. After Qin Siyuan left, Ning Yi killed the lord and Li Pin was in an awkward position. Although killing the lord was a rebellious, everyone had some sympathy for Qin Siyuan's death. But when it comes to Taiyuan... the people who chose to be silent or bystanders at that time could more or less affirm Qin Shaohe's ruthlessness.

Li Pin was deeply trapped in Taiyuan and was covered in injuries. During the initial chaotic period, he had to protect himself, but the court became cold in his attitude towards him.

Jingping was ashamed that millions of people were displaced. Li Pin was originally a civil servant, but he secretly took on a task to kill Ning Yi. What the superiors thought was to impose him to death with a "waste utilization" attitude.

Li Pin finally broke up with Ning Yi. In the chaos in the Central Plains, he was a scholar, and followed the refugees to the south and experienced searching mountains and prosecution. At this time, Zhou Yong took office, and Zhou Pei and Junwu had power. It was time to reuse him, but Li Pin gave up the idea of ​​continuing to enter the court to become an official. He founded Mingtang Academy, opened a book printing workshop, distributed "newspapers" every day, published some printed story book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book book time sitting with everyone, explaining the Four Books and Five Classics, but not getting involved in the officialdom

Everyone then "understands" that this is about to be proud of.

In many past history, scholars have great talents and are unwilling to be small officials in trivial affairs, so they first raise their reputation. In the future, they can become the prime minister and become the prime minister. Li Pin's entry into the officialdom originated from Qin Siyuan, but his fame comes from his breakup with Ning Yi. However, due to Ning Yi's attitude that day and the books he handed to Li Pin, this reputation has become real. At this time, Nanwu was able to have such a "broken enemy" of Ning Yi. It is not a bad thing. In public and private, Zhou Pei and Junwu also recognized him relatively, and also contributed to the fire behind it and helped him to make the momentum.

Of course, as for Li Pin’s real thoughts and intentions, not much is willing to read, and less can be understood.

In this way, Mingtang yard, located in a remote place in the northwest of Lin'an, has become the core of the Wu Dynasty's literary world in recent years. The literati and students coming and going to come to the school, either contribute their wisdom or argue with them, hoping to become famous in one fell swoop, and they have other intentions. They occasionally come here: This is a brave and witty man who wants to go to the northwest to eliminate demons. Seeing that the country is in danger, he stood up and joined the army. These scholars have a wealthy family. They bring martial followers and brave servants to start cleaning up the root of the Wu Dynasty's disaster and make things right. So before leaving, they came here and asked Li Pin about the great enemy. This is to know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.

These people began to grow at the beginning of this year.

Li Pin would also treat these people as politely as possible, and then... and tell them some of his thoughts...

"... Located in the southwest, Ning Yi's current forces are mainly divided into three groups... The core is Hedeng and Blay counties, and Qin Shaoqian stationed troops in Tubo, which is the core of the elite black flag; the third is Miaojiang Lanhuandong, the Miao people nearby were originally a Badao series, Tiannan Badao Village, and another part of the remaining after the Fang La Uprising. Since Fang Baihua and others died, this Badao Village has been gathering the Fang La bandits and later gathering a force..."

"Shameless! Before Ning Yi did a great rebellion, he even claimed that he had made great contributions to Ping Fang La! Now it seems that he is really shameless!"

The sunlight fell through the leaves, and the young man with a good face sitting in the yard was named Qin Zheng, who was a child of the Qin family in Fuzhou. The Qin family is a local family and a scholarly family. Qin Zheng was not the eldest son at home. He has achieved great success since he was a child. This time, he also went to the southwest to kill the thieves and came to Li Pin for inquiries.

"Yes." Li Pin took a sip of tea and nodded, "Ning Yi is a man with deep scheming and many things have been his many years of arrangements. To talk about the Black Flag power, these three places are not the main ones. Putting aside the elite troops in these three places, what really makes the Black Flag win in battle is its pervasive intelligence system over the years. These systems initially allowed him to take advantage of the battle with the Green Forest people, just like when he was in Bianliang in the early years..."

"Shameless!"

Li Pin talked about the various things that Ning Yi had fought against the people of Green Forest in the early years. Qin Zheng couldn't help but curse after hearing the formation. Li Pin nodded and continued.

"Over the years, there have been many people in the Green Forest who wanted to kill Ning Yi. Even in the two years when Ning Yi disappeared, there were many righteous men like Qin Xiandi who went to the northwest one after another, including literary or military affairs. However, at the beginning, everyone was indifferent to the lack of communication, and they had similar experiences to the Green Forest people. Before he arrived, many of them had internal conflicts, or had just arrived at the place, and they found that the other party had prepared and their party had been targeted. During this period, some people returned in disgrace, some were discouraged, and some... died because of this, it was hard to describe it..."

"Shameless! The devil deserves to be killed!"

"Yes." Li Pin nodded, "However, the people who read books are not like reckless men after all. After a few years, everyone learned from their mistakes. Some of them found a way to fight against them. During this period, Long Qifei from the Long Family in Hangzhou, Li Xiannong, and others in Lingnan, also truly threatened the survival of the Black Flag. Like Long Qifei, he had personally entered He Deng, argued with the Black Flag members, and scolded everyone for their mistakes. He was very eloquent, and the Black Flag members were quite embarrassed. Later, he lobbled all over the country and joined forces with officers and soldiers in several states to destroy the Black Flag. At that time, the Black Flag was extremely powerful, but the Black Flag interfered and entered the city to persuade the war, but ultimately failed."

"As for Li Xiannong, his starting point was the southwest Ni tribe. The place where the Nani tribes of Xiaoliangshan lived, where the Ni tribes are fierce and extremely barbaric. They lived on the border between our Wu Dynasty and Dali for many years, and it was difficult for outsiders to control it. But in general, most Ni tribes still tended to our Wu Dynasty. Li Xiannong lobbied from various tribes of the Ni tribe, and ordered these people to attack and land. He also wanted to assassinate Ning Yi's wife and concubine in private, so that he could show his trump card. Later, several Ni tribe tribes in Xiaoliangshan fought against each other, and the clan that took the lead was almost completely destroyed. This matter was said to be an internal strife, but in fact it was a black flag. The person in charge of this matter was the minion named Tang Minjie under Ning Yi, who was cruel and ruthless and acted extremely vicious. If Qin Xiandi went to the southwest, he would have to be careful of this person."

"Hmph, I deserve to be killed!" Qin Zheng hummed again.

"The black flag is very powerful in Xiaoliang Mountain, and 200,000 people gather, and it is not the bravery of ordinary men. After the internal strife of the Ni tribe, Li Xiannong was chased by Tang Minjie, which is said to have almost caused trouble to his family, but finally everyone helped him and nothing happened. If Qin Xiandi went there, he might as well contact Li Xiannong, Long Qifei and others, and there are many experiences and ideas to refer to."

"With these righteous men, how can Qin not go to see you?" Qin Zheng nodded, and after a moment, he said, "In fact, if Mr. Li doesn't go out here, he will know such a big thing. Why don't he go to the southwest and participate in the grand event? The devil's rebellion is the cause of the chaos in the Wu Dynasty. If Mr. Li can go to the southwest, besides this devil, he will definitely be famous all over the world. In my opinion, with Mr. Li's reputation, if he can go, the righteous men in the southwest must follow the leader of the gentlemen..."

After he finished speaking, before Li Pin could answer, he said, "I know that Mr. Wang had an experience of assassinating the devil in the northwest. Could it be that he was discouraged? I wish I could say frankly, what would be discouraged if I failed in such a major event for the country and the people? I should go back and forth, and then again and again until I succeed... Oh, Mr. Meng Lang, please forgive me."

After hearing that he said this quickly, Li Pin smiled and bowed slightly: "I thanked Qin Xiandi for his guidance. The matter in the northwest is indeed a traitor for me. But after that incident, I have repeatedly thought about whether we can defeat the Jurchens by killing Ning Yi? Where is the difference between us and the Black Flag Army? The black flag has developed to this day, and it has only 200,000 or 300,000 people, but it has become truly famous all over the world. Why is my Wu Dynasty rich in all directions but the Jurchens beat him to retreat in a panic..."

"Oh, Mr. Li." Qin Zheng interrupted his speech, "My Wu Dynasty was only weak for the time being, and the country was in trouble, and a hero was born. Qin had confidence. Today, he was excited and learned from the pain. Wu Dynasty was united and could defeat the Jurchens and recover the Central Plains in the future. But everything was right. The decay of my Wu Dynasty began from the devil killing the king and wanted to boost Wu Dynasty. If such a demon was not dead, my Wu Dynasty was always like a thorn in his throat and could not say to rise up. Therefore, I believe that before defeating the Jurchens, I must first capture Ning Yi, kill the sacrifice flag, and report to the heavens. Only in this way can the heaven protect my Wu Dynasty again!"

Li Pin was silent for a moment, and could only smile and nodded: "My brother is a good person, I should think deeply. However, there are some things that I think can be done now... Although Ning Yi is cunning and cunning, he knows very well in the hearts and nature of the people. He uses many methods to educate his subordinates, and even to the soldiers below, there are many meetings and courses, instilling in them... the idea of ​​fighting for themselves, and only by stimulating morale can he achieve outstanding results. However, these statements are actually problematic. Even if they stimulate the blood in the hearts of people, it will be difficult to govern the country in the future. The idea of ​​making people independent is definitely not something that can be done. Even if they seem to be shouted fanatical and beaten hard, they will inevitably collapse one day in the future..."

"That devil goes against the world's general trend and will never last long!" Qin Zheng said.

"But, this method and method of educating the world is not necessarily undesirable." Li Pin said, "My Confucian way is hoped that one day everyone will understand reason and become a gentleman. A sage has taught some people in a subtle way, but it is difficult to understand it in a subtle way. If you always seek the beauty of this subtle way, then there will always be many people who will find it difficult to reach the great way. In the northwest, I have seen soldiers in the Black Flag Army, and later displaced with many refugees. I have also truly seen these people, foolish men, foolish women, farmers, lower-class men, and dull people who can't even say a word when I see people. I wonder in my heart, can there be a way to make these people understand some truth?"

"Ning Yi, at least one is correct: the method of investigating things can make the world's materials full and abundant. If you carefully study the rules, papermaking and printing methods, there is great potential. Then, the first thing is to enable people in the world to read and read..."

"This matter is of course very good, but I don't think it was the devil's inventor."

"...If you can read and read, the paper will be abundant. Next, there is another question. The sages have a subtle meaning. Ordinary people can only read and cannot understand the meaning. In the mean, can there be a more convenient way to make people understand the truth? This is also a method used in the Black Flag Army. Ning Yi called it "vernacular Chinese" and expressed the language written on the paper as well as the words we said. In this way, everyone should be able to understand it easily... I printed those stories in Mingtang Bookstore, which are exactly the same as the tone of storytelling. In the future, I will use the annotation of classics and detailed the truth."

"How can this be done!" Qin Zheng widened his eyes, "The story of the story, but... but the game work, the words of the saints, and the meaning of the words, are... but there must be no deviation! Detailed explanation, the explanation is like speaking... No, no, no!"

"Why not?"

After all, Qin Zheng had some skills and had a moment of disorder in his mind: "For example, for example, if we speak, today, here, we can say this matter, and these things can be determined. At this time, we quote the words of the saint, and the words of the saint correspond to the specific meaning we said. However, the words of the saint are general and are everywhere. You have explained it in detail today. If ordinary people look at it, they cannot distinguish it. They think that the subtle words and great meanings are only used here, and the great meaning will be reduced. How can you do such things!"

"What Qin Xiandi said is very true, but I think it is not impossible to start like this..."

"No, of course not..."

"When I want to come, I can first use the story to understand its meaning as much as possible, and make more metaphors and statements... Qin Xiandi, this matter is finally something that needs to be done, and it is imminent, and it has to be done..."

Qin Zheng just shook his head. At this time, teaching and learning are mostly about reading and memorizing. Students have questions. There are not many teachers who can directly explain the words of the saints in words. It is only because the principles described in the Four Books and other works are often quite large. After understanding the basic meaning, they must understand the thinking logic and make it truly understand by children or young people. Often they cannot do it. Many times, children can recite and cooperate with their life perception to understand it. There are many teachers who can memorize it, and there is no teacher who directly says, "This is the meaning, you memorize it for me."

Qin Zheng received such education since he was a child, and he was in awe when he taught his children at home. He was not eloquent, and at this time he only felt that Li Pin was arbitrary and unreasonable. He originally thought that Li Pin lived here to nourish his hopes, but unexpectedly, when he heard the other party say such words today, his thoughts suddenly became confused. I don’t know how to look at the "Great Confucian" in front of him.

Li Pin said everything he thought in his heart for a moment. He once saw the enlightenment of the Black Flag Army. The way he said "everyone has a responsibility", shouted slogans, and inspired passion was mainly used as a tool for fighting, which was far from the real everyone's responsibility, but it was a beginning. After breaking up with Ning Yi, he thought hard and finally found that the true Confucian way was to require that everyone be realistic and pragmatic, and there was nothing else other than that. Everything else was false.

So he learned Ning Yi's study of things in order to make everyone in the world able to read. After reading, how can people truly understand the truth? Then simplify the narrative, use the truth to use the story, and metaphors to truly integrate it into people's hearts. Ning Yi's technique is just inciting, and he wants to talk about the real way, just to talk about everyone's understanding, even if it is not possible for the time being, as long as you can move forward, you will move forward.

These things can be solved step by step. The popularization of books and simplification of narratives will naturally lead to more vivid expressions and better stories. As long as the principle of conveying the truth and constantly breaking through, one day, the Confucian way will be realized.

During these days, Li Pin has been told that many discussions on Mingtang have been published in vernacular language. In addition to vernacular language, there will be a written text for Confucian scholars to read. Everyone saw that vernacular language was like the spoken language of ordinary people, and only thought that Li Pin learned the method of pragmatic incitement from Ning Yi, seeking fame and gaining honour among ordinary people. Sometimes they even sneered secretly. This was really an empty mind for fame. But they didn't know that this version was Li Pin's real avenue.

Li Pin said these things and said something about what he had known and seen over the years. Qin Zheng felt depressed and became unhappy when he heard it. After a while, he got up and said goodbye. After all, his reputation was not very good. At this time, his thoughts were contrary to Li Pin. He was not good at criticizing too much. He was afraid that he would not be able to speak up. He could not argue with the other party. He only said before leaving: "Mr. Li can defeat Ning Yi in this way?" Li Pin just was silent and shook his head.

"Can you defeat the Jurchens?"

"It takes years of hard work...but it is a hundred years, a thousand years of great power..."

Li Pin's statement sounds like a quibbling.

Qin Zheng was disdainful and left Mingtang, and spitted on the street: "What Li Dexin, seeking fame, I think he was obviously afraid of Demon Na Ning in the northwest, and he made some excuses, what avenue, I'm... a gentle scum! A real scum!"

He said this to his followers, and after he finished speaking, "Hmph, look at how he is doing this black flag, I think he... Could it be that the counter-essay sent by Demon Na Ning? No wonder the Black Flag Army has been so well-informed over the years. No, when I go to the southwest, I can no longer act as I thought before, and I also have to remind the righteous men in the southwest that there may be frauds..."

He walked forward with such a mumble, and a figure beside him was about to come. Qin Zheng didn't react. He touched the man and took a few steps back and almost fell into the stinky ditch on the side of the road. He held his body and looked up. There was a group of more than ten men in the martial arts world, wearing short beatings and hats, which was not easy to mess with. He hit him and looked at him: "What are you looking at? You are looking for a fight?" As he said, he walked straight forward.

In the collision just now, Qin Zheng knew that the other party was very skilled in martial arts. Although he was young, vigorous and energetic, the Green Forest fought fiercely to kill Ning Yi. He wanted to kill Ning Yi and Chengming, but he was not interested in being killed with a reckless man on the street. After hesitating for a moment, he became timid.

He knew that he and his accompanying men might not be able to beat these people, but he was not worried about killing Demon Ning. First, that was necessary. Second, if you really wanted to kill people, the main focus was not martial arts but strategy. He cursed the green forest several times in his heart, no wonder he was slaughtered by the inner demons. He went back to the inn to prepare for the departure.

Here, Li Pin sent Qin Zheng away and began to return to the study to write a story about the Analects of Confucius. Over the years, there have been many scholars who came to Mingtang, and he said many times. Some of these scholars were confused and left in anger, and some were angry and broke up with him on the spot. It is common for people living in the glory of Confucianism to see the horror of what Ning Yi did, nor could they feel the despair in Li Pin's heart. The high-ranking knowledge cannot enter everyone's heart. When Ning Yi mastered the methods of communicating with ordinary people, if these knowledge cannot be gone, it will be really smashed.

The purpose of Cangjie's creation of characters, language and writing is to convey human experience. Therefore, all the details that hinder their transmission are defects, and all the innovations that are conducive to transmission are progress.

Li Dexin knew that he had already embarked on the road of deviance, and he could only convince himself like this every day.

I may not be able to beat Ning Liheng, but only this deviant road...maybe it is right.

I just convinced myself once in my heart, and the servant came to report that the leader of the Iron Sky Eagle and Iron Gang was here.

Since the beginning of several cooperations in the northwest, the friendship between Li Pin and Tie Tianying has never stopped.

In the northwest, Li Pin broke up with Ning Yi in Xiaocanghe, and Tie Tianying felt despair in Ning Yi's methods. He no longer wanted to go against the Black Flag Army, but he felt a little compassion in Li Pin's cry of "It should give the world a way to survive". After leaving the northwest, the two parted ways, Tie Tianying left the Ministry of Justice. By the time Li Pin gained his foothold in Lin'an and Tie Tianying appeared in front of Li Pin again, he had become the leader of the Caohe Gang in the Green Forest.

In short, he led a group of refugees along the Grand Canal to work in the underworld, helping the northern refugees to go south, and on the other hand, he found out the news from the north and passed it to the south.

At this time, the Central Plains was already a territory of the Great Qi. Warlords prevented the refugees from moving south and blocking the North and South dialects. However, all places are still composed of Han people at the time. There are two ways to go with light and darkness in the places where there are people. Tie Tianying was the chief culprit in Bianliang and has been in operation for many years. At this time, it is still not difficult to get a team and penetrate north and south.

He was an official in the Ministry of Justice for many years, and he was used to all kinds of ugly things. He was actually tired of the Wu Dynasty officialdom. The world was in chaos. After leaving the Six Gates, he was unwilling to be controlled by the court again, but he finally respected Li Pin.

After Zhou Pei and Junwu took power, they restarted the Secret Investigation Department, and Cheng Zhouhai, Wenrenbuer and others were responsible for spying on various information in the north. The Caohe Gang behind Li Pin became an equally well-informed source of information due to the Tie Tianying's presence.

Although Li Pin has always had a shadow of despair in his heart in the struggle between knowledge and great ways over the years, in addition to knowledge, the name he had fought against Ning Yi may not only bring only Qingming. At this time, those who stood behind Li Pin were actually supported by several big families. Zuo Duanyou, the last great scholar who established the Secret Detective Department, had had many contacts with Li Pin before his death, and he stood up to stand up for Li Pin. Although the old man had already begun to understand Ning Yi during his lifetime, he also turned his fame into nutrients and passed it on to his younger generations who deserved support. If it weren't for these backgrounds, even if Li Pin's deeds breaking with Ning Yi were so legendary, he would have been swallowed up by the entire Confucian community at this time.

Of course, these forces have little meaning before the Black Flag Army's absolute power.

"The person who comes and talks with you is not a good person!" Tie Tianying had already strode in in the yard. "As soon as he goes out here, he will whine at you and say bad things on the street! I can't stand it, and I've taught him a lesson!"

"If there are common things, why should the leader of the Iron Gang make a fuss?" Li Pin greeted him with a smile.

"What are you doing?"

"I went to the southwest to kill the Demon Ning. There have been many such righteous men recently." Li Pin smiled, "Thank you for your hard work, what is the situation in the Central Plains?"

"I don't even have a cup of tea, so I just asked what I want to do, Li Dexin, do you treat your friends like this?"

"It's my fault, it's my fault. The leader of the Iron Gang sat down and drank tea." Li Pin followed the good deeds and apologized repeatedly.

Tie Tianying sat down and took the tea, and his expression gradually became serious: "The hungry ghost is so messing around."

After saying this, he took a sip of tea: "Gongzhou, Huazhou, Caozhou and other places are in trouble. Before this has happened in spring, Wang Shitong ordered the hungry ghosts to launch an attack. Wherever he went, the towns were burned, the fertile fields were destroyed, and the nearby grain was eaten up. The surviving people had to be involved in the hungry ghost team. A large number of hungry people and refugees scattered, which once affected Bianliang... But Liu Yu did not have any remaining grain to provide disaster relief, and these people then became hungry ghosts."

Li Pin opened his mouth: "Where is the army of Daqi? Is there any slaughter of hungry people?"

Tie Tianying shook his head and said in a low voice: "It's not the case anymore. The soldiers were sent out in Gongzhou and other places. Wang Shitong sent hungry people to fight. They were all hungry, had no objects, and had few weapons... Last year in Jiangbei, the hungry ghost army was disbanded by Tian Hu's army. They were still dragged their families and were about to collapse. But this year... facing the Daqi army rushing over, Dexin, you know what... they are not afraid of death."

Tie Tianying paused: "Damn, there is nothing... I am not afraid of death."

"So..." Li Pin felt a little dry, and something was already beginning to think of in front of him.

"So, five thousand men and horses were killed at 50,000 people, and then... were eaten..."

Li Pin followed this refugee. Most of the time, these people were silent and weak, and did not dare to resist when they were slaughtered. They fell down and died like that. But he also understood that at some special times, these people would also have some situations, be dominated by despair and hunger, lose their minds, and do anything crazy.

"Last year in Jiangbei, Wang Shitong wanted to go south. At that time, everyone beat him, and he just wanted to escape. Now he may have found that there is no place to escape. I see the arrangement of the hungry ghost during this period, and he wants to... spread it out first." Tie Tianying raised his hands and made a complicated and indescribable gesture, "This matter has just begun."

"Put it...how to spread it..."

"Turn everyone into hungry ghosts." Tie Tianying raised his teacup and took a big sip, making a gurgling sound, and then repeated, "It's just started... I'm sad this year."
To be continued...