The author of the book "The Book of the Dead"

Chapter 24: Huainan Taoism, the Former Land of Emperor Wu of Han (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

In the courtyard of the fortress, the sound of shouting and yelling was endless.

Shi Quanzi taught everyone the Five Animal Exercises and the Daoyin method.

Xiao Ming is a big man eight feet tall. He fled here with his family from Lanling. After joining Liuzhuang, his family was settled and divided into lands. He also had the opportunity to learn martial arts, and he practiced it most diligently.

Next are the brothers Tan Shao and Tan Daoji.

The remaining people always couldn't keep up with the progress, and Xu Xianzhi gave up early and went to study "Shihuozhi" aside.

In the pavilion in the bamboo forest, Liang Yue was holding a book and studying it carefully.

This is a book on metaphysics that Xu Xianzhi brought from home. It does not contain any techniques, but only stories. There are four big characters written on it: Stories of Emperor Wu of Han.

This book was completed in the Eastern Han Dynasty and tells stories about gods and strange things during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han.

"He went up to Huainan State and dug the Kun Pond, piling up the soil to form a mountain, more than thirty feet high. He also built the Bailiang Terrace, twenty feet high, all with fragrant cedars, the fragrance could be smelled for dozens of miles. He used it to offer sacrifices to Taiyi..."

Huainan Taoism was quite famous during the Han Wu era. The Huainan Kingdom was the area around Yuzhang today, which is similar to what Shiquanzi said, except that there is no specific location described by Shiquanzi.

Liang Yue watched with great interest.

Since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, aristocratic families have held high positions, and Emperor Wu of Han seemed to have become a negative example, a typical example of wasting people's money and resources and warmongering. If civil officials said that the emperor was like Liu Che, most of them meant that he was incompetent and cruel.

Of course, Liang Yue does not quite agree with this view. The people's livelihood during Emperor Wu of Han was relatively poor, but we cannot simply deny everything.

"Could it be that Emperor Wu of Han knew the secret of the disappearance of the ancient spiritual energy? The reason he started the war was probably because he was looking for an opportunity to practice."

Emperor Wu of Han controlled all the world's resources and must have known that spiritual energy was extinct. Perhaps there really were some good things in Yuzhang County.

In civil affairs, there are the four methods of bird escape; in martial arts, there is the eternal flame of the lamp.

It never hurts to have more magic spells. The collection of books in this aristocratic family is becoming less and less valuable.

Putting down the book, Liang Yue practiced the Eight Animals Divine Art.

He has his own true Qi to protect his meridians; a mere alien internal force cannot hurt him.

In a few more years, you will be able to achieve top-level success, and the amount of immortality energy will probably be even greater.

The next day.

Liang Yue prepared the carriage and put on soft armor. Under the cover of the crane cloak, the armor did not look bloated. He took Shen Ya and Shi Quanzi with him and set off for Yuzhang.

First stop - Pengze.

"Go!"

Liang Yue released the divine crow.

The divine crow was circling in the sky.

Traveling day and night, Liang Yue often encountered refugees or robbers on the way, and he solved them easily.

Corruption among officials can be seen everywhere, and the trend of idle talk is prevalent. Those who do nothing in their administration are respected, but those who are diligent in governing are mostly looked down upon.

This is the trend in official circles.

"Damn it." Liang Yue said. He knew not to occupy the position of affairs officer. The position of county chief was originally an assistant official appointed by the county governor, but these people occupied the position of affairs officer but did not do their job.

The monopoly of the aristocracy was so terrible.

It is useless to kill all of this group of people. Even if they are killed, a new group of nobles will still be needed to come to power. Small farmers will have no access to knowledge at all.

In this era, there were more land than people, due to the lack of iron tools and oxen, immature farming techniques, head taxes, etc. The collectivized manor economy was more powerful than the small peasant economy, and the nobles played a role in regulation and organization.

Even if mergers are suppressed, small farmers who are unable to cultivate the land independently will still choose to rely on the collective. This is not a problem that can be solved by blindly applying formulas. Productivity must be fundamentally improved.

This is also why the top nobles often have more than 10,000 soldiers. To a certain extent, they really represent the "will of the people."

The gentry were not those who depended on the imperial power, but local lords.

If you think in this way, you can understand why the gentry is difficult to deal with.

This will take several generations of effort to resolve.

Liang Yue might be able to kill a few people with magic, but he could not fundamentally change the pattern of the entire era.

An old man and a young man chatted along the way, talking about everything from the country to the common people.

Shi Quanzi understood a lot.

"One word from you is worth ten years of reading. I have finally understood that without fundamental changes, the Northern Expedition will not succeed."

The divine crow circled the carriage to investigate.

The Danding Sect's power in Kuaiji County has been basically wiped out. It is like a turtle hiding its head, fearing that it will be caught and slaughtered one by one by Liang Yue and Shi Quanzi. However, this does not mean that it has no power outside.

The divine crow could check from a distance so that he could respond in advance.

On their way south, Liu Chong, Xie Xuan and others happened to meet someone delivering a letter at the post station. "Yuzhang? Great, we'll stop by." Liu Chong reported to Xie Xuan, "General, my third brother is good at making elixirs, maybe he can cure your illness."

"Hehe, you are just playing tricks and bullying the ignorant common people." Xie Xuan's name is Xuan, but he doesn't like to talk about metaphysics. Now that it has come to this, he might as well go back and see his family while he is still conscious.

"How can we know if we don't try? We should try our best."

"...Who said this?"

"It's the Third Brother."

"..."

Xie Xuan agreed.

The emperor drove to Yuzhang.

……

Three days passed, through wind and rain.

At night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and magpies fly south.

It is a great time of the year when all sounds come together and the weather is clear and crisp.

The carriage stopped to rest, and a divine crow brought a pheasant.

Light a bonfire, set up an iron pot, add spices, salt, wild wolfberry, and processed chicken, boil the soup, and the aroma is fragrant.

Whoosh!
While waiting, Liang Yue took a step forward.

Bird steps! Dragon swims!
Whoosh!
It soared five meters straight, and with a few light taps, it appeared dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye, just like the myth of shrinking the distance into an inch.

The immortal qi replaced the internal strength, and the martial arts were stimulated to the extreme.

Under the vast bright moon, a few afterimages flickered.

The strong wind passed by my ears, and the scenery on both sides quickly receded.

The robes fluttered and the crane cloak flowed elegantly.

Liang Yue closed his eyes, feeling the hard-earned tranquility of the mountains.

Life is only a few decades long. Ten years are spent as a child, ten years are spent as an old and weak person. We rest at night and work during the day. In between, we also suffer from illness and chores. The total number of days we enjoy life does not exceed a thousand.

If there is a war, people will be in danger of losing their lives and will be displaced.

The fact that he obtained the method of longevity and long life was a rare blessing for other people in the world.

"This method of corpse transformation is actually quite good."

The method of corpse transformation into immortality is relatively simple. If one uses other methods, one must constantly breathe in and out and regulate the breathing day and night, and run around looking for medicine all day, for fear that one's lifespan will be exhausted and not be able to increase one's lifespan.

This method is originally a low-level magic from ancient times. After all, it requires a long time to practice. Those of the same generation who have practiced Qigong for ten years have already gone down the mountain to exorcise demons, while the corpse-reincarnating immortals are still struggling to survive.

Now it has become a miraculous achievement to survive and avoid disasters.

"You can't rush the cultivation of immortality. If you treat it like work, how can you be free and easy?"

Avoid the chaos of ancient and modern times, and stay away from the disasters and blessings of life and death.

The Emperor of Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Taizu of Song, looking at the long river of history, watching the waves wash away all the heroes.

At the top of the tree, the Taoist was as light as a feather.

The bright moon was white as jade, and the silver light was like jade chips, falling on the Taoist's shoulders, while the divine crows circled in the sky.

……

The next day.

The two came to a place recorded in ancient history.

Before my eyes stood a small mountain village at the foot of the mountain, with curling smoke indicating that there were still people living there.

"This..." Liang Yue was a little surprised.

Shi Quanzi couldn't have thought of it either. After all, he had only heard of it and had never visited it.

Before coming, Liang Yue made sufficient mental preparations. This place might be heavily guarded, or it might be dangerous and rugged, or even the headquarters of the Taiping Tianshi Dao.

As recorded in the vernacular novel, to fight for the ancient relics, one must first go through a bloody storm.

I never thought it was an unknown small mountain village.

The ancient site of Huainan Taoism, where Emperor Wu of Han offered sacrifices to Taiyi, has become mediocre under the erosion of time.

(End of this chapter)