Hsu Fengnian smiled and nodded. The candidate for the first provincial governor of Liuzhou had already been decided a long time ago. The distant horizon was right in front of his eyes, and it was Yang Guangdou, who had returned from the mountains. Hsu Fengnian had originally favored Chen Xiliang, but this poor scholar who seemed to only want to hide behind layers of curtains had stubbornly refused. Hsu Fengnian could not force an ox to drink water. However, to be honest, Chen Xiliang was still suspected of having "high standards but low ability". If it was not for the fact that the great war with Liang Mang was imminent, there would be no harm in letting him stew Liuzhou slowly. However, since the border would be filled with smoke in one or two years, Hsu Fengnian really did not dare to completely entrust Liuzhou to Chen Xiliang. Yang Guangdou, who was in the carriage, was not only proficient in changing situations, but also experienced in dealing with people. When the time came, Hsu Fengnian would give him a camouflage of Xu Xiao's "posthumous edict". The old man's age and experience would be clearly displayed on the table. He would be far more convincing than the "hairless" Chen Xiliang. Haste makes waste. The more Hsu Fengnian valued Chen Xiliang, the more he was afraid of spoiling things with excessive enthusiasm. This young scholar was not only a talent that he had personally abducted from Gangnam-do to Beiliang, but he was also the backbone of the second generation of Beiliang's strategists, whom his master, Li Yishan, thought highly of.
The little girl sat in the corner of the carriage and amused herself. Sometimes she would squeeze out a "charming" smile with her fingertips pressed against her face, and sometimes she would put her hand over her heart and frown slightly. Sometimes she would sit upright with her sleeves tucked in like a well-bred young lady. No matter how thick-skinned Cao Wei was, he was no match for this destructive power that was no less than that of an immortal on earth. He silently left the warm carriage and sat beside Xu Yanbing, sighing and complaining that he should not have left this place. If he had known earlier, he would have stayed at the back of Mount Qing Liang. That way, he could have avoided a few blows. Hsu Fengnian looked at the hehe girl imitating the various postures of the women on the streets and did not comment. His gaze was warm. Even the old man Yang Guangdou could not fathom the interaction between this man and woman. Whether it was His Royal Highness in the past or the King of Beiliang now, no matter what the rumors outside of Mount Qing Liang were, Yang Guangdou knew that as long as someone did not enter his eyes, he was actually very cold and heartless. However, he seemed to dote on the little girl in front of him. After Yang Guangdou met the young female killer, especially after he understood her relationship with Hsu Fengnian, he repeatedly hinted to Hsu Fengnian to get more secrets from her. This was because even if she casually said a few words or a name, it could affect the future of Beiliang. But Yang Guangdou could not do anything about it. Now, Hsu Fengnian had a deep and accumulated power. It was inherited from the General and the Princess, and also from Li Yishan's painstaking cultivation, as well as the accumulation of many travels and dangerous killings. Yang Guangdou constantly warned himself not to treat Hsu Fengnian as the willful and reckless youth of the past. The matter of Zhong Hongwu was clear evidence. The mess that the old King Liang was unwilling to clean up, the new King Liang did not have any scruples about cleaning up. Even the General was not willing to fall out with the Zhao family in Liyang. In the hands of the new King Liang, he had already created a vague impression that Beiliang could be independent and become self-dominating. This was probably the reason why the court was hesitant and finally relaxed a little on the grain. The new King Liang and the new Beiliang had already begun to make the court understand one thing: I will take on the burden that Xu Xiao gave to me, Hsu Fengnian. Beiliang is also willing to guard the door for the court. This is the bottom line. If you continue to nausea and test us again, you must first consider the price you will have to pay.
Beiliang deployed troops on the eastern front and refused to withdraw the imperial edict. The court seemed to fly into a rage out of humiliation and immediately returned the favor. But at the same time, they had no choice but to give him the title of Pillar of State and open up the grain transport as compensation. During this period, if Hsu Fengnian was impulsive and refused the Pillar of State again, the court would probably rather rot in the granaries of Xiangfan than send a grain to Feishou City. They might even use thunderous means to block the courier routes into Liang from the neighboring provinces.
These were all schemes that required both sides to carefully weigh the pros and cons. In the future, there would only be more such back and forth.
The little girl suddenly said, "Over the years, Old Huang has taken me to more than a hundred places. He said that they were all farmland where he had planted crops. Some of them were abandoned, some of them were still lacking, and some of them did not have a good harvest. But in the end, there was still a harvest."
Hsu Fengnian laughed and said, "My master and Chu Lushan both regard Huang Longshi as the greatest and most formidable spy in Spring and Autumn. Whoever can take over his entire spy system will have the upper hand. But we don't know how he manages it. How he chooses the rice seedlings, how he draws water for irrigation, how he pays attention to the growth, how he harvests the autumn rice. No one knows how Huang Longshi does it. "
The little girl said very seriously, "Freeloading, drinking, chatting, cursing, lying, and leaving. Changing to another place and doing it again. "
Yang Guangdou sighed and held his forehead. It was an extremely difficult matter. The biggest secret in Spring and Autumn was so carelessly brushed aside by the little girl's Twelve Words of Mantra.
The little girl tilted her head and asked, "You didn't ask me where those hundred places were, and who were those people?"
Hsu Fengnian shook his head and laughed. "Beiliang can't even take care of itself. It doesn't have the energy nor the ability to fight for supremacy in the world."
The little girl snorted. "Even if you ask me, I can't remember many."
Yang Guangdou felt that it was really torturous to interact with these two. He somewhat understood Cao Wei's gloomy mood.
Hsu Fengnian reached out with both hands and playfully stretched the little girl's slightly round face.
The little girl was not angry and said indistinctly, "I don't understand what you're saying about Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. But Old Huang said that you have a medicinal primer on you."
Hsu Fengnian thought and said, "I know. Huang Longshi should be talking about the bowl of blood that the Dragon Tree monk gave me to drink. But I couldn't feel it in these two years, so I didn't think much of it."
The little girl tried to think and then said, "Four hundred years ago, there was a Gao Shulu, the one you mentioned a while ago. I just remembered. Old Huang mentioned him. He said that this person was half dead and half alive. He was in a certain place in Great Peace City and was a life-saving talisman of the Zhao Family. Originally, he was used to suppress Wang Xianzhi. Tiger Dragon Mountain seems to … ha, I forgot about this matter. "
Hsu Fengnian took back his hand and then bent his finger to tap her forehead. "It's Dragon Tiger Mountain."
The little girl made a sound of acknowledgment.
Hsu Fengnian leaned shoulder to shoulder with her against the wall of the carriage and said softly, "Other people might not understand why Huang Longshi is overturning the rivers and seas, but I can understand a little. Cultivating one's body, managing one's family, governing the country, and ruling the world has always been the goal of the Confucian school. However, Huang Longshi is clearly a level higher because he doesn't have the Emperor in his eyes. He is all alone in the world and doesn't need to cultivate his body and rule the family. He doesn't need to put the Emperor in his eyes and doesn't need to help the Emperor rule the world. That is why he is different from everyone else. He probably just wants a peaceful world that none of us can see or even think about."
The little girl nodded and pointed at her knees. "Yes, that's the general idea. Also, Old Huang said that this thing is not for kneeling. "
Hsu Fengnian sank into deep thought and said to himself, "This old farmer who overturned the entire Spring and Autumn Fields."
The little girl bent her knees and rested her chin on her knees. "Old Huang said that he was also going to die."
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