"Is Lushan...really the end of his life span?" Even though he had seen Lin Lushan's crumbling longevity fire like a candle in the wind, Wu Jie still had some luck. He was asked to come to Xiao Buyi's house in the middle of the night, interrupting his friend's practice, trying to find out some valuable information, and looking for a glimmer of hope that didn't exist at all.
"Fellow Daoist Wu, you are already a figure who travels in and out of Qingming in the clouds and mist. Your discernment is as bright as a torch, and your fortune-telling methods are not inferior to mine. You must have seen the situation." Xiao Buyi frowned slightly and advised, "For those of us who pursue immortality, our relatives and friends in this world are just passers-by in life, and we must say goodbye soon... Maybe it was just a retreat, and we didn't make any significant progress when we came out, but the youth of the past His hair is already full of gray... There is nothing we can do about this kind of thing."
Wu Jie was silent for a long time, and finally sighed deeply.
This cannot be done and everyone knows it.
"Actually, I think Prime Minister Lin doesn't mind." Xiao Buyi added, "He is a legend in his life. He became famous at a young age, holds a first-class official position, and has a high and powerful position. He reported to the country, helped the people, and did countless things. He has achieved countless achievements, and countless officials and scholars from the seven countries of Kyushu have praised him, praising him as the white jade pillar holding the sky and the purple golden beam that supports the sea... What is there to be dissatisfied with as a man?"
Wu Jie couldn't help but sigh deeply again.
"Fellow Taoist, you only know one, but not the other!"
Since it was something that was to be made public anyway, he had no intention of keeping it secret. He detailed Lin Lushan's understanding of culture, his attitude towards culture, and the set of cultural theories that he was currently writing and preparing to vigorously promote. He explained to Xiao Buyi.
As expected, Xiao Buyi's eyes grew wider and wider, and his mouth slowly opened. In the end, he was completely stunned and couldn't even speak for a while.
"Prime Minister Lin... actually... actually..." He said "actually" several times, but still couldn't think of the right words. In the end, he could only praise, "He is indeed the right person! He is indeed a man of great talent and talent. character!"
"Do you think his idea is right?"
Xiao Buyi thought about it for a moment and nodded: "Although it is a little extreme, his idea is correct. If culture wants to develop, it must have a broader world, and it will always be limited to the circle of literati, just like inside a flower pot. A small tree, no matter how delicate it is, will never grow big. Only when it is transplanted into the mountains, forests and fields can it grow into a luxuriant tree with luxuriant branches and leaves, and even grow into a towering ancient tree - and maybe even grow into Senior Brother Su."
Wu Jie was stunned for a moment, then remembered that Su Lin's true form was a thousand-year-old tree, and couldn't help laughing: "It is indeed possible!"
After laughing, the topic returned to culture.
At Wu Jie's suggestion, Xiao Buyi took a fortune seriously. The result of the fortune telling was not unexpected. The future cultural trend of Kyushu was indeed very prosperous.
For culture to prosper, there are no more than two possibilities. One possibility is that a large number of outstanding talents appear in a short period of time, leading high-end trends; the other possibility is that a large number of people devote themselves to culture and promote basic development. .
The former possibility is not non-existent, but it is not very likely - neither Wu Jie nor Xiao Buyi found any signs of talented people emerging in the world. So, of course, it is the latter possibility.
"It seems... Lushan has really done something extraordinary!" Wu Jie smiled, happy for the success his sworn brother was about to achieve.
"But the resistance to this matter will be great, so you have to be mentally prepared." Xiao Buyi said seriously, "By doing this, he is tearing down the entire literary world, and he will definitely be attacked by literary people all over the world. If
If he is still alive, as a dignified prime minister of a country, many people would not dare to speak out even if they have resentment in their hearts. But... after he dies, he will only be infamyed!"
Wu Jie smiled disdainfully, a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.
A flood of infamy? He wanted to see if the heads of those clamoring people were as strong as the fairy mountains in the East China Sea!
Wu Jie is a reasonable person, but he only reasons with people who are willing to reason. For those who pretend to be crazy, pretend to be stupid, mess around, are unreasonable, and confuse right and wrong...his choice is direct
Hit it with a fireball and shut up those bastards with practical actions!
As the saying goes, you have a silver tongue, and I have a sharp knife. In the late Ming Dynasty, those so-called Qingliu who always talked about the truth were "persuaded" by the Qing people to shave their heads and become obedient people. On the contrary, they were not
The people at the bottom who are good at talking have used practical actions to resist tyranny, sweating and bleeding, and have persisted for decades.
There are many differences between the Kyushu world and the Earth, but people think that there is not much difference. In the past, even weird hairstyles like money rat tail braids could be promoted through violence. It was just to defend Lin Lushan's reputation and achievements. It should be no problem.
of.
Well, he doesn't care if there are problems! Anyway, he can live for at least a few hundred more years, and there is plenty of time to slowly compete with those old people. As an immortal cultivator, he also has enough patience to persevere for decades and hundreds of years...
...But he dared to bet with his head that those conservative guys would never be so stubborn and persistent from generation to generation.
Even the country will perish, so what does a mere literary world mean?
Xiao Buyi has been in the world for many years and has a lot of experience in the world. As a fortune teller, he is already very good at observing faces. He saw the murderous intention and determination contained in Wu Jie's sneer at a glance, and couldn't help but shake his head secretly.
"Fellow Daoist Wu, please don't be extreme!"
"Don't worry, I won't go too far."
Seeing that Wu Jie's attitude was so resolute, Xiao Buyi couldn't persuade him again, so he could only sigh lightly and drop the topic.
"By the way, I paid a visit to Senior Jian a while ago."
"Old Jian?" Wu Jie was stunned, "Who is that?"
"Oh... you don't know this yet. The swordsman 'Ji' who was originally called the Half-Soul Taoist changed his title about twenty years ago and called himself 'Sword Old Man'." Xiao Buyi explained, "I think this
The title is much nicer and more appropriate than his previous title."
"I see... Then when you visited him, what did the old man say?"
"He said that he recently realized the secrets of heaven in silence and found that the national destiny of the Chu Kingdom was about to be exhausted."
Wu Jie was shocked and couldn't help but speak a little louder: "Really?"
He stared at Xiao Buyi closely, feeling a little worried in his heart.
As a Chu native, he still cares about his motherland. Although it is an eternal truth that people have life and death, and countries rise and fall. However, just as a loved one has to find ways to treat his illness, the motherland has to find ways to save it when it encounters trouble - this
It's not something to be pretentious or unable to let go, it's just human nature.
Xiao Buyi sighed, looking a little regretful.
"Senior Brother Su and I have both taken advantage of the fact that the national destiny of the Chu Kingdom is indeed declining..."
"I have known this for a long time, but decline and depletion are two different things! Since ancient times, many countries have experienced decline but have been able to revive. Even if they cannot revive, they may not have exhausted their national destiny!" Wu Jieren
kept saying, "For example, the North
The great Qi of the Fang Dynasty occupied the entire eastern part of the country. Later, there were many foolish kings and the people were in dire straits. Only then did Xiong Da, the founder of the Great Chu State, raise his flag to rebel and split the earth to form a country... But the Great Qi State still preserved half of its territory and has maintained it until now.
It’s not dead yet!”
"That's what I said, but we don't see any hope that Chu's national destiny can be maintained." Now that Xiao Buyi had made his words clear, he simply confessed directly, "In fact, Chu's national destiny has been in doubt before.
It declined once, but that time it was supported by Lin Lushan's cultural destiny... The cultural destiny was connected with the destiny, which in turn continued the national destiny, allowing the country that was about to be destroyed to escape the disaster."
"In this case, shouldn't there be an era of ZTE?"
"Do you think that the Great Chu Kingdom has experienced a renaissance in the past few decades?" Xiao Buyi asked, "In terms of domestic affairs, with Zhaoyang County as the core, all regions have maintained basic stability. Even in the face of severe drought, it has not caused serious damage.
disaster; in diplomacy, the big man who was eyeing him had not found an opportunity to attack before, and finally
Recently, they have been too busy fighting the drought to make trouble; in terms of military affairs, Dongshan County has withstood several provocations from Qi State - especially in the last battle, Qi State's 6,000 elite soldiers were wiped out, and their morale was high.
Frustration, at least one generation will not dare to talk about war again... If this is not considered a renaissance, your demands are too high!"
Wu Jie was stunned for a while and recalled carefully, only to realize that what Xiao Buyi said made sense.
Although political corruption is rampant, due to the efforts of a group of officials headed by Lin Lushan to rectify the situation, the entire country has not completely slipped into the abyss of corruption; and the achievements in people's livelihood, diplomacy and military are obvious to all... In the past few decades,
, it seems that the Great Chu State can really be considered a ZTE.
"The ZTE of one generation...is too short-lived!"
"The so-called prosperous times are often just one generation." Xiao Buyi sighed, "Wu Daoyou, don't you feel it when you are in it? Look at the history books. How many of the prosperous times in the past can last for several generations?"
"This year has been the thirty-second year of the Great Chu Kingdom's providence. From the Xiong Hao Rebellion to the present, there have been thirty-two years of peace. It has not been easy!"
Wu Jie was silent for a moment, sighed, and nodded heavily.
"Forget it, let's not mention this! You are visiting Mr. Ji this time. How is his condition?"
Xiao Buyi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "What else can he do? His situation is like that anyway. His lifespan has long been exhausted. It is only because he has the luck of humanity that he can live until now. But his soul is gradually drying up.
Even if the body is frozen with ten thousand years of mysterious ice and constantly moistened with spiritual veins, it is still just hanging on."
"When I went to visit him, there were many cracks in his body sealed in the ice, and the sounds coming out were intermittent. He probably couldn't hold on any longer."
"It's all bad news!" Wu Jie couldn't help but feel a little irritated. He clenched and unclenched his fists, repeating the cycle. This action calmed his mood, but he still couldn't dispel the depression in his heart. "What other bad news is there?"
Do you? If so, just say it together!"
"His Majesty, God Blessed Emperor Xiong Er, is probably about to die." Xiao Buyi hesitated and whispered, "I have looked at the faces of several of his sons, and none of them has a long life. And the one who is responsible for teaching them
Ning Feng also thinks that all of them are very mediocre. Let alone pioneering and progressing or prospering the country, I am afraid that even just maintaining the current national power is beyond their capabilities."
"No way! How can a group of children be able to teach a decent person!" Wu Jie couldn't help but want to scold God, "Don't he have six sons? Among the six sons, one
None of them are ready?"
"One is so irritable that he seems to be sick, one is born with insufficient intelligence, one is completely obsessed with reading Buddhist scriptures, one is an undisciplined literary madman and pervert, one is obsessed with seeking immortality, and the other has a coldness oozing from his bones
Come on... which one of these six do you think can entrust the country to him?"
Wu Jie gritted his teeth for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly.
"So, I can only choose the last one?"
"Probably... the cold guy may be a tyrant, but compared to the others, at least this one is a little bit more like a human king." Xiao Buyi said and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "If you tell me, you might be tempted.
What a surprise, this kid is only thirteen years old this year, but he already has a child!"
"Ah?!" Wu Jie was really shocked, "Thirteen years old?! Then didn't he just turn twelve—"
"That's right, this guy seems to be extremely talented and matured very early in that area." Xiao Buyi couldn't help but show a weird smile, "So His Majesty the Emperor hesitated again and again, and finally made him the prince. The reason is -
Even if he is unreliable, at least he can have children, and if he has a few more children, he might be able to be reliable."
"This is completely giving up on our sons and placing our hopes on our grandchildren..." Wu Jie shook his head, not optimistic about the idea of writing "far-sighted" and reading it as "unrealistic".
"I think this method is okay. After all, his sons are indeed unreliable. So it is a helpless choice to place hope on the generation of grandchildren."
Wu Jiegang wanted to nod, but then thought of another thing and asked: "Your Majesty's eldest son is almost thirty years old this year. How is his son?"
"He didn't give birth to a son at all, but gave birth to eleven daughters." Xiao Buyi said expressionlessly, "Your Majesty invited monks who are good at medicine to examine him and confirm that he was born with deficiencies. Indeed, he can only give birth to daughters, not sons."
"What about His Majesty's second son?"
"I gave birth to two sons, but the eldest son had an extremely violent personality. He killed many people in the street. Finally, he kicked an iron plate and was stabbed to death. The second son had a pitifully cowardly personality. He would shrink back when he spoke a little louder.
There is no way to become an emperor."
"What about the other princes' heirs?"
"The third child is like a monk - you know, he has no children at all; the fourth child likes men, and although he also has concubines, he is rarely favored and has only given birth to one daughter so far; the fifth child is only fifteen years old this year, he is not like
The sixth child is so talented, but he still doesn’t have any children.”
"This is so weird!" Wu Jie was going crazy. "Is it really because the country's fortunes are declining?"
"It was originally..."
Wu Jie couldn't help but think about it for a long time, and then he calmed down. He decided not to think about the nonsense of the royal family anymore - it was going to rain, and the mother was going to get married, so let it go!
"By the way, you have been monitoring the drought situation over the years, right? How is it? Is there any sign of improvement?" He found a more meaningful topic to try to make his mood better.
This topic is really good, much better than the damn news about the royal family.
Xiao Buyi was well prepared for this and said confidently: "I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
"Let's hear the bad news first. I've heard enough bad news today. After hearing this, I'll switch to the good news. Finally, there will be a good ending." Wu Jie said angrily, "But when did you learn to be so bad?"
It’s a habit! There’s good news and bad news, why not ‘one very good news and one not-so-good news’?”
"That's a good statement! I'll say it like this next time." Xiao Buyi smiled and took out a jade slip and handed it to Wu Jie, "You can read it yourself. The information is quite detailed and difficult to describe in just one sentence."
Wu Jie penetrated his spiritual consciousness into the jade slips, and what he saw was a large amount of observation data, as well as the analysis, organization, and final calculation of these data.
The drought will probably continue for about thirty years, and within the next ten years or so, a very large-scale drought will break out, which may even cut off the flow of several large rivers in Kyushu. This news is really bad!
Wu Jie read the information over and over several times and calculated it silently in his mind, but the results he obtained were indeed similar. Some of the inconsistencies in details may be due to his own calculation skills not being good enough.
"What a bad news!" He sighed and put the jade slip aside, "What about the good news?"
"The good news is just one sentence." Xiao Buyi said, "According to astrological calculations, there will be a comet passing through the sky at the end of next year. If it can be intercepted, it will bring a large-scale rainfall to the world.
."
"What kind of good news is this! We have to knock down a star to get rain... How can we knock down that damn comet?" Wu Jie couldn't help complaining, "Blow down a star, but it won't rain..."
It’s unacceptable!”
"No matter how difficult it is, there are people in history who have done it." Xiao Buyi looked at Wu Jie with a smile, "Isn't this kind of thing what you Qingyangguan and other sects should take responsibility for? I believe you can definitely do it.
!”
Wu Jie rolled his eyes, he didn't have such strong confidence!
Xiao Buyi has always seemed to have an inexplicable fondness and admiration for famous sects, to the point where he overestimates their strength - not to mention other things, knocking down a star from the sky and giving it to the world
A heavy rain... This kind of thing is impossible no matter how you look at it!
"It's not completely impossible. It was indeed done back then." Du Xin suddenly said, "There was also a severe drought during the reign of His Majesty the Holy Emperor, and similar things were done at that time."
"That's the Holy Emperor Li Xin!"
"He can do it, and of course future generations can do it too." Du Xin said calmly, "I believe in your abilities."
Wu Jie thought for a moment, blew out two puffs of white air from his nose, and nodded heavily.
Regardless of whether you can do it or not, this opportunity is really not to be missed!