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Chapter 316 The Useless Traveler Wants to Go Home (14)

The civil and military officials and the Zhao Song royal family have compromised more than once, so now they are actually just like what is described in Theory of the Six Kingdoms: cede five cities today, ten cities tomorrow, and then get to sleep peacefully for one night and continue to compromise.

There was no way. Previously, when facing Empress Dowager Liu E, who only controlled the imperial guards, they were powerless.

What’s more, there is the current empress Liu E.

They could only comfort themselves that Liu E was not an immortal old monster and that she would die one day. Once Liu E died, things would naturally be put right!

The same logic applies to changing the surname from Zhao to Liu.

In the Li Tang royal family, didn't many people with the surname Li change their surname to Wu? Even Emperor Ruizong Li Dan changed it. The daughter of Emperor Gaozu of Tang Li Yuan, Princess Qianjin, who was of the same generation as Li Shimin, even changed her surname after recognizing Wu Zetian as her mother.

What someone has done, if they continue to do it.

At least it doesn't seem so embarrassing!
Therefore, not long after Liu E issued the three imperial edicts, members of the Zhao Song royal family began to change their names and surnames. Only a small number of people whose titles were not high to begin with, or those who had no titles at all, stated decisively that they would never change their surnames.

But they didn't have much influence.

No one cares whether it is changed or not!

Therefore, the final result was that most of the Zhao Song royal family members of Taizong's lineage changed their surname to Liu, while most of those of Taizu's lineage did not change it, because the throne of Taizu's lineage was usurped by Taizong's lineage, and they had no titles in the first place.

And in the past they have always been feared and suppressed.

Now they feel that this is better, as it can better demonstrate that their Taizu lineage is tough and unyielding, and even makes them more confident in mocking Taizong's lineage.

Of course, all this does not mean that Liu E's usurpation of the throne was very smooth, so smooth that there were basically no twists and turns. In fact, on the third day after she ascended the throne, some people had already started a rebellion, and this was because the speed of information circulation was not that fast nowadays.

However, because the Zhao Song royal family was basically confined to Bian Jing, they had no way to support a new emperor.

They could only raise an army in the name of supporting the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Moreover, compared with these rebels, the threat posed by the Liao and Western Xia dynasties, which were ready to make moves nearby, was undoubtedly a greater threat.

Although Western Xia had not yet been established at this time, Li Yuanhao's rebellious intentions were already known to everyone. Now that such a big thing had happened in the Song Dynasty, even though his preparations for formally establishing a country were not particularly sufficient, he began to stir.

After all, such a great opportunity is rare.

In short, Liu E soon became overwhelmed.

But fortunately, the Song Dynasty, oh no, now it should be called the Han Dynasty, its national strength is still there. In addition, the civil and military officials are also clear about what are internal and external troubles. No matter how Liu E is a woman, she is at least not a foreigner.

It would be more appropriate to be consistent in our approach to the outside world.

Therefore, they did not continue to fight among themselves at this critical moment, but quickly joined forces to quell the civil unrest, increase border defense forces, and dispatched officials to the Liao Kingdom for diplomatic negotiations, trying to avoid the Liao Kingdom sending troops to cause trouble.

At this moment, whether it was Xixia, which had not yet been established, or Dali, Liu E and the ministers actually did not take it seriously. They were mainly worried about the Liao Dynasty, which was the biggest hidden danger in their minds, a threat that was equal to them, and even much stronger than them in terms of combat power.

So as long as we can stabilize the Liao Kingdom.

The other small countries are nothing more than minor issues.

But it must be said that the timing Liu E chose was actually quite appropriate. The year before last, Emperor Shengzong of Liao had just passed away. Although Yelu Zongzhen ascended the throne smoothly, most of the power was in the hands of his mother, Concubine Yuan Xiao Noujin. It can be said that his mother was basically the Empress Dowager Liu E of Liao. If we don't count her usurping the throne, she did even more than Liu E, making her father and brother all kings.

So Liu E officially usurped the throne and became emperor.

The most feared thing in Liao is that their queen mother will imitate the queen mother Liu E of the Song Dynasty and do the same thing. Therefore, although the border troops of Liao are somewhat restless and even want to attack the Han Dynasty, the royal court and even the officials of Liao are temporarily unable to take care of it, and the internal atmosphere even seems a little tense.

The main manifestation is that all the civil and military officials in the court as well as the royal family of Liao are now particularly wary of the empress dowager who is in power.

Empress Dowager Xiao Noujin was ready to make a move.

There is also the idea of ​​imitating and learning from Liu E.

And action has already begun.

The power of the Xiao family of the Liao Dynasty was truly terrifying. Starting from the third emperor, Emperor Shizong of Liao, until the demise of the Liao Dynasty, the biological mothers of all the emperors had the surname Xiao.

The mother of Liao Shizong was Empress Rouzhen Xiao, the mother of Liao Muzong was Empress Jing'an Xiao, the mother of Liao Jingzong was Empress Huaijie Xiao, and the mother of Liao Shengzong was Empress Dowager Xiao Chuo, who served as regent for 27 years. The next one is Yelu Zongzhen's mother, who also has the surname Xiao. Although they are not of the same lineage, they are indeed different branches of the entire Xiao family, and are considered the largest royal relatives of the Liao Dynasty, second only to the Yelu clan.

In this situation, if the Queen Mother of Liao really had an idea, the power she could mobilize would actually be far greater than that of Liu E, but this is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

The advantage is that if the current Queen Mother of Liao can persuade the entire Xiao family to help her, she will definitely be able to successfully usurp the throne more easily. The disadvantage is that such a large family has many factions and branches, and they are not in harmony with each other, let alone jointly recognize or even work together to help a family woman usurp the throne.

It’s not like all the men in their family are dead.

If I really want to usurp the throne, it would be great if I could do it myself!

Practically speaking, what the Queen Mother of Liao faced at this time was actually a disadvantage, the latter. It was precisely because of this that the Liao Kingdom was able to maintain superficial peace while undercurrents were surging in private.

And there is no time to invade the Han Dynasty for the time being.

In the end, the Han envoys simply added an additional 100,000 taels of silver to temporarily appease the Liao Kingdom.

We began to make every effort to quell the civil unrest and guard against scoundrels.

Of course, this is only the case on the surface. Privately, they have secretly sent people and spies who have been planted in the Liao Kingdom for a long time. They are trying to sow discord and find ways to make the Queen Mother of Liao and her son and ministers fight against each other.

No matter which side succeeds, the most important thing is not to let them succeed peacefully and smoothly. They must fight, the fiercer the better, and it would be best if both sides suffer losses.

The Thirty-Six Stratagems were long since left over by the Han people.

So how could they not know the situation of Liao? Even if they did not increase the annual tribute, Liao would not dare to mobilize troops easily at this time. Therefore, they sent people to negotiate, and even preferred to suffer some losses. The main purpose of increasing the annual tribute was actually to make Liao feel that the Han Dynasty was already unable to take care of itself.

Then wouldn't they be able to fight among themselves without worry?
If the internal situation of the Han Dynasty was really too stable, the Liao Kingdom might not dare to engage in internal strife and internal consumption.

Of course, these were just tacit plans.

Whether it will be successful depends on the subsequent execution.

……

Half a month later, in Xuannv Sect, the Grand Elder's Hall.

The resigned law enforcement elder Zhang Qiang, along with the four elders who were persuaded by her, seven second-generation disciples, and twenty third-generation disciples, were currently in the Elders' Hall, listening to Bai Sheng teaching them the latest skills.

“After all, the Westerners are not of my kind, so I will not teach you a perfect, flawless technique. But don’t worry, at least it will not be a problem for you.

This is a new technique I created.

It's called "The Bible of Light", and what you actually practice is the power of the sun. However, the power of the sun is too violent after all, and you are all women, your nature is yin, and forced practice will damage the balance of yin and yang in your body.

So just take the light power from the sun.

The sun looks simple, but the energy contained in it is actually very complex. The most obvious parts are light and heat. The main focus of the power of light is light, and the light of the sun does not contain heat. Therefore, it will not harm your body.

Next I will explain this secret to you in detail. Now listen to me and try to memorize it. "

"The combination of light and heat is called Yang. The Yang pole is the sun. Taking the light and giving up the heat is called brightness. Everything the sun and the moon shine on is light, but the intensity varies. There are dim and red lights, but you must know that the root of light is the seven-color rainbow beast. The fusion of the seven colors is white, and white light is the brightest. Therefore, the core of brightness is white light."

"..."

This world is somewhat mysterious, but not that mysterious, so the practice still has to conform to some basic laws. No matter what practice you practice, the most important thing is to first understand the attributes and properties of what you practice. When learning the Xuannv Sutra, the first thing to learn is the essence of Taiyin.

The same is true for studying "The Bible of Light". After explaining the essence, the content of the exercises and the methods of cultivation are introduced. The whole process took Bai Sheng a day and a night.

It is more time-consuming and laborious than any other method.

Because this technique is somewhat special, it cultivates a rare light power, and is fundamentally different from the so-called Great Light Fist of Buddhism. Although the name of the Great Light Fist contains the word "light", it is actually a yang-attributed technique.

It is not much different from other Yang-attributed exercises, and is essentially between Shaoyang and Taiyang, close to pure Yang.

But it is also mixed with a hint of Buddha nature.

Therefore, it is different from the pure Yang of Taoism.

This is changed to light!

But the so-called light in the technique created by Bai Sheng this time is more similar to light magic, but she mixed light magic with martial arts, practicing light magic in the form of practicing martial arts. What she absorbed was not the light element, but a kind of force created by combining sunlight with non-attribute internal force.

A special new energy that is very similar to the element of light.

It’s okay to call it the inner force of light.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important point is that this kind of bright inner force can carry a part of the power of faith. That is to say, practicing this technique to a certain level can slightly utilize the power of faith.

The combination of these factors directly led to the fact that this method was fundamentally different from the current internal skills, and the later practice and application would be much more complicated than the current internal skills. It contained both the principles of magic practice and the content of Taoism and Shintoism.

For Zhang Qiang and others, it is almost like starting from scratch and learning a new knowledge from scratch.

So, in this one day and one night, Bai Sheng only finished explaining everything he wanted to say, which did not mean that they had learned it. Then, Bai Sheng had to spend another half a month to sort out the knowledge points for them, explain the difficult points, and even teach them step by step, so that they could barely learn the knowledge in front of using the power of faith.

Later, because they themselves had never come into contact with the power of faith, they had no understanding of the power of faith.

So I really couldn’t get started for a while!

“Forget it. The part that involves the power of faith is already considered a divine art, and you haven’t come into contact with it before. It would be a bit difficult for you to learn and understand it now. Let’s just leave it this way for now.

The previous part of the content is enough for you to break through the innate realm and even cultivate to the innate perfection realm.

The following section deals with faith.

When you have cultivated to the innate perfection realm and there is no further progress to make, come back again. By then you should have a deeper understanding of this practice.

If you listen to my explanation again, you will understand it better. "

Bai Sheng, who was not going to waste any more time on this, decisively chose to give up teaching them the rest of the content. Anyway, the first part was enough for them to practice for a long time. However, after thinking about it carefully, Bai Sheng finally gave another special reminder:

“Oh, by the way, I have something to remind you.

When you practice "The Bible of Light" to the innate perfection realm, you should be able to sense the power of faith in the dark, but remember, remember, never absorb the power of faith rashly. The power of faith is similar to incense. Incense is poisonous, and the power of faith is also poisonous.

If you can't bear it, you will die.

Even the soul will be polluted.

The part that you haven't learned is mainly about how to utilize the power of faith, not how to absorb the power of faith. The power of faith can only be utilized, not absorbed.

Remember, I will not harm you."

Even in a world that specializes in cultivating the power of faith, one must at least reach the perfection of the holy realm before attempting to absorb the power of faith, ignite the divine fire, and thus go one step further. The perfection of the holy realm is actually basically comparable to the perfection of transcending the tribulation.

The innate perfection is at most comparable to the foundation-building stage.

Unless one has special items such as divine power or the ordination from heaven as a medium, directly absorbing the power of faith at such a low level is simply courting death.

Although Bai Sheng's skills did not mention how to absorb the power of faith, she was really afraid that someone would be brave enough to give it a try. It would be fine if they died directly, but what if they didn't die by accident and turned into an evil god who lost his mind.

That would be a real sin.

After thinking about it, Bai Sheng still felt uneasy. She didn't dare to bet that all these disciples would be obedient. What if one of them rebelled? So in the end, she was still worried and secretly left a mark on everyone. If anyone secretly absorbed the power of faith, she would be able to sense it immediately, so that she could respond in time.

Then, Bai Sheng began to give some other instructions, mainly explaining some hidden dangers of the Bible of Light.

For example, some of the healing secrets in it can only be used on others and must never be used on yourself, because those secrets will deplete the essence of the sick and the injured.

It is equivalent to stimulating the life potential of patients and the injured.

May they recover quickly or overcome the disease.

For example, the blessing technique is actually equivalent to the Buddhist technique of salvation, which can make people feel very comfortable and happy all over the body and increase their inner piety.

Just pay attention to the frequency when performing it.

If you use too much force, or perform it too many times in a short period of time, you may gain some crazy and devout believers, but their souls will also be damaged.

All aspects of rational thinking will be affected.

In short, many of the secret techniques in the Bible of Light can only barely be harmless to practitioners, but as for other people, it all depends on personal opinion.

However, this method has an immediate effect, but the hidden dangers are relatively concealed, at least in the short term. If something happens later, or someone dies in an accident, it may not be associated with the secret arts related to them. It is definitely suitable for preaching and gaining faith.

And this is also Bai Sheng’s original intention in creating the martial arts technique!

As for these hidden dangers, they were not created intentionally by Bai Sheng. The light attribute is not as good as the wood attribute, life attribute, and creation attribute in terms of healing injuries. It is normal for forced healing to have hidden dangers.

In addition, the light attribute is not very suitable for salvation. Although the light attribute is much softer than the sun, it can directly save the soul.

It's normal to hurt the soul.

Buddhism is much more sophisticated in this regard. Although they use Buddha's light to save people, their Buddha's light is mainly of the soul attribute, and the light attribute in the Buddha's light is just a cover to make the salvation appear more sacred.

It's just that Bai Sheng instinctively felt that the light attribute might be more suitable for preaching in the West, so he came up with such a method. As for the hidden dangers, it is too troublesome to solve them, and the difficulty of practicing will also increase to a higher level.

Anyway, it is used on foreigners.

So be it……