Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 9 Gusu Murong
In the eighth year of Xining in the Song Dynasty, "Wang Anshi's Reform" was in full swing with the support of Emperor Zhao Xu.

Two years ago, with the support of Prime Minister Wang Anshi, Wang Shao presided over the "Xihe Frontier Opening", defeated the Qiang and Western Xia armies successively, and established Xizhou, which brought the reform to a climax. However, the energy spent on the frontier opening also became an excuse for the opposition to attack the reform.

This further intensified the contradiction between the reformists and the conservatives. Although the reformists had the upper hand with the support of the Song emperor, the conservatives were also accumulating strength, and the situation in the court became more turbulent.

At this time, in Yanziwu, Suzhou, Jiangnan, a young man was seen concentrating on reading the secret book in his hand.

"The Change of Stars is indeed the Murong family's unique martial art. If Murong Fu had devoted himself to practicing, he would not have ended up like in the original novel."

The young man was none other than Cheng Qian who had traveled to this place. His identity in this world was none other than the current head of the Murong family, Murong Fu.

It has been more than 3 months since I arrived in this world.

It turns out that after Cheng Qian returned to Donghua Mountain, he closed the Purple Mansion and claimed to be in seclusion. In fact, he used the name of seclusion to travel to the world of Tianlongbabu using the Chaos Pearl.

In fact, as early as when Cheng Qian was eight years old, he could have traveled to the Tianlong plane through the Chaos Pearl, but he had not used it yet.

Firstly, it was because he had not practiced Zixia Magic to a deep level and did not have enough experience in martial arts. Secondly, he had no master and did not know the time difference between the two worlds, so he waited until he could retreat to enter this world. After all, in the Pili world, practitioners usually had to retreat for more than ten to several decades before coming out, and practicing the "Six Forbidden Styles" would take even longer.

At the moment of deciding to travel through time, Cheng Qian entered the sea of ​​consciousness and entered this world through the Chaos Pearl. Murong Fu also became obsessed with practicing his family's unique skills and was replaced by Cheng Qian. However, after Cheng Qian replaced Murong Fu, this body had no internal strength at all.

Having said that, Murong Fu is also a tragic guy in the original book. He was brainwashed by his father since he was a child and shouldered the mission of reviving the Yan Kingdom. A group of countries that were founded in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (Former Yan, Later Yan, Southern Yan) that were no more than 60 years old in total. Since he chose to rebel, he didn't know how to do it. He didn't know the principle of "building high walls and storing up food". He just wandered around in the martial arts world, fantasizing that he could complete the cause of restoring the country by becoming the leader of the martial arts world.

In the original book, before he appeared on the stage, he was full of prestige, and performed a scene of "Although I am no longer in the martial arts world, the martial arts world still has my legend". "North Qiao Feng, South Murong" is the highest evaluation of him in the book, and he looks like a leading figure in the martial arts world.

When he first appeared, he pretended to be the Xixia warrior Li Yanzong. He met the "account hacker" Duan Yu and Wang Yuyan who was infected with "Bei Su Qing Feng" in the mill. He fought with Duan Yu in the mill and defeated Duan Yu with eleven moves in a row. Later, he did not kill Duan Yu because Wang Yuyan came to the rescue. Finally, he left the antidote for Bei Su Qing Feng and left the mill, perfectly presenting a live teaching of pretending to be cool and then running away.

But after his official debut, he began his journey of failure and was completely reduced to a background wall of "account hacking players", "max-level bosses" and "expert leveling players".

First, when playing the chess game set up by the "deaf-mute old man" Su Xinghe, he was bewitched by the game, and with the instigation of Ding Chunqiu, he almost drew his sword and committed suicide. He was saved by Duan Yu with the Six Meridians Divine Sword, the supreme magic skill of the Dali Duan family.

Later, when the "36 cave masters and 72 island masters" besieged Lingjiu Palace, he wanted to show his kindness and recapture these people. However, he did not expect Xu Zhu to intervene, causing the plan to fail completely.

During the Battle of Shaoshi Mountain, he was humiliated by Duan Yu and Qiao Feng in turn.

Later, when he went to Xixia to seek marriage, he not only lost his cousin, but also became a supporting role, and was defeated by Xu Zhu, who "strictly abided by the rules."

In the end, he wanted to fight hard and worshipped Duan Yanqing, the leader of the four evil men and the "full of evil", as his adoptive father at Mantuo Villa. In order to get the throne, he would rather kill his retainer Bao Bu Tong to realize his dream.

He was deserted by his friends and relatives, and all his attempts failed, leading to mental disorder. He fell into his own dream of becoming an emperor, with only A-Bi by his side (Sanlian edition). I guess even the author couldn't stand this unfortunate child, so in the new book, Wang Yuyan and A-Bi stayed together to take care of him (new edition).

The few highlights were during the battle against Ding Chunqiu and the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference.

His own martial arts training was also mediocre. He had a treasure mountain of martial arts passed down from his family, but he practiced other people's unique skills. He was known as a master of a hundred schools of thought and was praised by the martial arts world as "returning the favor the way he has been treated." However, he had few achievements in battle and was at a loss when he met a real master. After Cheng Qian finished reading the secret book in his hand, a man with bright eyes entered the house, showing extraordinary internal strength while walking, and said: "I, Deng Baichuan, have come to report to the young master."

The man who came was Deng Baichuan, the owner of Qingyun Manor under Murong Fu. He was sworn brothers with Gong Yeqian, Bao Bu Tong, and Feng Bo'e, the owners of Chixia Manor, and they were all family generals of the Murong family. Among them, Deng Baichuan was the oldest and the most powerful in martial arts. However, because he managed the family business for Murong Fu, he was not well-known and was not as famous as Gong Yeqian, the future "second best palmistry in Jiangnan".

"Oh, you're back. How's your progress?"

Deng Baichuan replied, "My Lord, the things you asked me to do have been done. In recent years, due to the implementation of the new policy by the court, many people in Jiangnan were displaced due to the implementation of the "Qingmiao Law". My Lord asked me to bribe local officials to recruit more than 3000 refugees, and took advantage of the court's reduction of the garrison troops to solve the problem of redundant soldiers to recruit more than 1000 soldiers and their families. Now they have all been settled on overseas islands. In total, more than refugees have been recruited in the past two months. My second brother is now handling the remaining matters and will report to you soon."

"Well, I know that you and Gong Yeqian have always been prudent in doing things, so I shouldn't have asked you. But what we are planning is a big deal, and there can't be any mistakes. Do you understand?"

Deng Baichuan said respectfully: "We also know that this matter is serious and understand the painstaking efforts of the young master, so we dare not disclose this matter to the third and fourth brothers.

Cheng Qian said: "Okay, I know you are always loyal. I lost all my martial arts skills while practicing martial arts. During this period of time when I was recovering from my injuries, my Murong family relied on loyal ministers like you for support."

After hearing this, Deng Baichuan knelt down immediately and said with great fear: "We are willing to go through fire and water for you, Master, and we will never dare to have the slightest intention of disloyalty!"

Murong Fu smiled and said, "Why has it come to this between you and me? Although you are nominally my family general, I was still young when my father passed away, and then my mother passed away. The other two were still young at that time, and only Gongye Qian could barely make it to the stage. Thanks to your protection, my Murong family has been able to stand firm in the world all these years and keep the reputation of my Murong family. In fact, I have always regarded you as my elder, and I should call you Uncle Deng. You have worked hard all these years, and you can just call me by my courtesy name in private (Murong Fu's courtesy name is Yanzong, I think).

Deng Baichuan was deeply moved and said, "Thank you for your understanding, Master. I am willing to die for your great cause, but there is a difference between master and servant, Master, you must not do this."

Cheng Qian said immediately, "Okay, Uncle Deng. You and I don't have to do this. I have important things to do with the future of the Murong family, so please don't refuse. Besides, there is only one life, so why would you want to die? You are all my confidants, and you are irreplaceable in my future. You don't value your own lives. I want you to live and be of use to me."

Seeing that he couldn't defeat Cheng Qian, Deng Baichuan stopped insisting, but secretly swore in his heart that he would help Murong Fu achieve his great cause and die without regrets.

When Cheng Qian saw Deng Baichuan's expression, he knew that the time was right, so he told him the next plan in full.

After Deng Baichuan heard the plan, he couldn't help but admire Murong Fu's thorough and grand plan. He was even more convinced that he was his chosen master.

Cheng Qian then explained that the main purpose of the current plan was to ensure that various places continued to secretly transport refugees and craftsmen to overseas islands within the next two years without attracting the attention of the court, and then let him withdraw.

Looking at Deng Baichuan's retreating figure, he murmured to himself: "Then we just need to wait for Gong Yeqian to return, and then we can implement the next plan."

About Murong Fu's age

Qiao Feng was over 1090 years old when he first appeared, and the time was the fifth year of Yuanyou in the Northern Song Dynasty ( AD), while Murong Fu was described as being or years old in the book, so I still use the age in the book as the basis. Although there are bugs, it is convenient for reverse deduction.

In addition, typing on a mobile phone really hurts.

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