Twilight War

03

Huangxuan Jin lowered his head and thought about whether he had ever heard of this person before, so he recklessly favored him for a lifetime and walked down the steps.

There is no point in discussing further.

Huiwei looked at Huangxuanjin and felt that he was a bit unreliable, shouldn't it be the time for him to gather talented people and recruit troops.

It is said in the storytelling that before those heroes of the Holy Lord make their fortunes, they must first make friends with a group of talented people, and then lead this group of talents to conquer the world.

Although he didn't understand what Zhou Chushen said, he could vaguely feel that this person was a character.

But Huangxuanjin just hummed and walked over.

Zhou Chushen watched Huangxuan Jin go down the steps and walked to the door of a guest room on the second floor as if he didn't care about the young man's neglect.

"Mr. Zhou, Miss Fang Lian is unwell today, please go back." Huiwei vaguely heard the maid in front of the guest room say.

The maid probably just found an excuse to refuse.

"What's the difference between exchanging the sovereignty of the Western Regions for a few boxes of Western Land guns and exchanging arms for meat!" The scholar wearing a white jade crown stepped on the low table suddenly, and he threw the book angrily.

"The 36 countries in the Western Regions are only the vassal states of the Kingdom of Donghuang. What's more, since the death of Wusun Kunmo, the entire Western Regions have been in chaos, and even the worship has been suspended for several years! What's the use of it! Now the danger of the country lies in the steam technology. If Dachen doesn’t have this kind of technology, it will fall behind others, and if things go on like this, let alone the Western Regions, I’m afraid even Jiangnan Hetao will be gone!” The Tai student on the opposite side sneered.

"The one who wants to exchange guns from the Western Regions is Li Mosi. He comes from a poor family, but he is quite influential among these imperial students. The one opposite him wearing a white jade crown is Chun Yuji." Da'an said beside Huangxuan Jin.

Huangxuanjin looked up at the carved brackets on the top floor of Wuyinfang, and the scholars in the audience were arguing endlessly.

"How could Vaner teach us steam technology in vain! If we don't study it ourselves, we will never be able to do it!" Li Mosi said.

"But the country is already in dire straits. We are in chaos not only outside, but also inside! What a mess in Huayin! Do we have to figure out how to make guns by ourselves, and then go to Huayin to suppress bandits? I'm afraid it will be by then The people of Huayin are already dead!"

Huang Xuanjin walked down the steps, someone looked back at him.

"Young master, do you have any opinion?" Chunyu Ji stopped debating and bowed to Huangxuan Jin.

Huang Xuanjin turned his head and glanced at Chunyuji.

On the contrary, he is a gentleman Bai Yulang.

He turned his head to look at the woman playing the piano behind the curtain, "Miss plays Guangling San, right? The ancient tune is different from the modern tune, and the strings of the piano must be tuned again."

He walked behind the curtain.

"Don't be rude to Miss Huai Su!" The imperial student beside Huang Xuanjin raised his arm to stop him.

For these chatty literati, Miss Huaisu is their Luoshen.

They still remember that when they finally found a place where they could talk, many people even pawned their clothes to rent it.

At that time, their blue shirts were shabby and they talked about heroism.Miss Huai Su stood behind them at some point, hugged the qin and said: "I don't understand family and state affairs, and I don't know how to talk about metaphysics, but I like to listen to what you talk about. May I play the qin for you. "

At that time, Miss Huai Su had already been a well-known luthier in Chang'an City, and she was a daughter of a thousand pieces of gold.

But in the future, every time they chatted, Huai Su would come with her qin whenever she was free, and find a place where no one cared about playing the qin for them.

"My lord, please advise me." Miss Huai Su knelt on the ground and opened the curtain, presenting the piano to Huangxuan Jin.

"Why on earth did that guy come back?" Belly Snake looked at Huangxuan Jin who was holding the piano and tuning the strings with a look of disdain.

"Young master is indeed right. Young master Jin is a compassionate person." Da'an said with his sleeves in his hands.

"You are still very proud of that guy, aren't you! How can there be compassion in your heart! That is clearly a dirty and obscene lust!" said the belly-cut snake.

"Master Ji has been negotiating with foreign officials from Vana for more than a month now. Lord Ji has been working hard to get the best benefits for Donghuang! Are you going to let Donghuang's efforts for the past few months be in vain?" A Tai student said in the audience.

"I think this agreement, no matter how it is discussed, is a disgrace to Donghuang!" Chunyu Ji said with a flick of his sleeves.

"The shame of Donghuang? Donghuang was already ashamed when the Huangxuan family failed to defend Jinling! If the Huangxuan family had defended Jinling back then, we wouldn't have to talk so humblely with Vaner now!"

The sound of the piano suddenly collapsed.

"Miss plays the qin very well, but Guangling San is a swan song after all, it shouldn't be played so easily." Huang Xuanjin plucked the strings of the qin twice to correct the sound of the qin.

"What, are you saying that we don't deserve to listen to this song?" The imperial student just now directly picked up Huangxuan Jin's sleeve.

Huang Xuanjin raised his eyes and glanced at the man, then slowly raised the flintlock gun in his hand and pressed it against the man's forehead.

"What, are you trying to scare me?"

Huangxuanjin fired a shot at the blue and white porcelain next to it, and the fine celadon shattered in response. Huangxuanjin reached out to grab the ejected brass shell.

The man's legs were trembling. He glanced at the young man who was still calm and fled back in a hurry.

"This is what the Eastern Yellow Kingdom looks like facing Vaner and Arthur today." Huang Xuanjin lowered his head and took out the magazine, and put another bullet in it, "You guys still want to talk to Vaner condition?"

"You have nothing to talk about." He raised his eyes and looked at the students in the audience.

Obviously just now he was still a young master who tuned strings, but at this moment his eyes are like sharp knives.

"Then what do you want to choose, young master? Western Regions or guns." Huai Su asked, looking sideways at Huangxuan Jin.

"Me, I want both." Huang Xuanjin said with eyes narrowed.

"The piano has been tuned, let's try it, girl." He got up and walked through the people who were stunned to the guest room on the second floor.

04

"The one sent by the imperial court to encircle and suppress the Guansuo Society this time is you, the general." Huang Xuanjin drank the tea in front of him, his back like a green bamboo.

"Yes."

Red Fire Ant, Belly Snake, and Huiwei still knelt and sat behind Huangxuan Jin in order of size.

The man opposite Huangxuan Jin was dressed in a martial arts robe, and his body looked like it could only be obtained after many years of martial arts training. He had a half-length beard, which gave him the air of a Confucian general.

"The sage has made an agreement with Vaner to launch a siege in Huayin in seven days. Vaner has also promised to bring [-] Akalei cannons to Donghuang at that time, and provide [-] base shells every year. In addition Besides, there are [-] Empire No. [-] machine guns, and five loads of ammunition every year, besides that, Lord Jihou is still talking about it.” General Tianquan said that he had tea in front of him, but he had never had a sip since he came here. Put it on your lap, like a black panther that can pounce on the enemy at any time.

"Where is Fana's leader this time?" Huangxuan Jin blew on the tea and said.

"Originally it was Lalanf, but now it is Colonel Gaimule. I have never had contact with him before. I heard that Lalanf died in his own mansion in a strange way." General Tianquan said.

"I killed it." Huang Xuanjin said.

"Really?" General Tianquan leaned his upper body forward, which was the biggest movement he had made since coming.

"Of course it is true." Huang Xuanjin put down his tea and looked up at General Tianquan, "General, I know that you came to me because you don't want to slaughter your compatriots anymore, right?"

General Tianquan looked at Huangxuan Jin and said nothing.

"Fengsi Wutong is here, General, I still know some people in Jianghu." Huang Xuanjin looked at General Tianquan.

The belly-cut snake almost couldn't help laughing when he heard the phrase "Phoenix Death Wutong".

They are the bosses, they look beautiful, but they are still doing pimping.

He finally understood that Huangxuanjin told the people in the Jianghu that there were people in his court, and told the people in the court that there were people in the Jianghu.

It's like when he used to lead them to work in Xilu, he told the seller of the silver of the great abyss that he had a gun, and told the seller of arms | fire that he had the silver of the great abyss.

Huangxuanjin is a monster.

Even if you change your skin, it won't change.

"Okay, I'll do it with you." General Tianquan said.

"Think about it, general. If you fail to do this, it will be a crime of treason. The general still has his parents, wife and children at home, and the whole family is pointing at you." Huang Xuanjin said.

"Is this how Young Master Jin recruits people?" General Tianquan suddenly smiled, this was the first time he had any expression on his face today.

"Because the general is different from me, I have no retreat, but the general still has." Huang Xuanjin said.

"The moment I saw the young master, I had no way out."

The bamboo shadow outside the window swayed on the nanmu table.

The man's gaze is like a knife in the wind and sand.

05

Mote Temple.

Huangxuanjin walked on the [-]-meter stone steps with his hands behind his back, where he had agreed to meet the Lord Crane of Yuyuan City.

"Boss, this temple is so dilapidated, look at what the walls look like." Red Fire Ant whispered to Huang Xuanjin.

"That's because the founder of the country once used gold mud to write a hundred-character killing sticker on the wall. Later, the world was greedy for money and peeled off the wall. The abbot said that there is no need to repair it." Huangxuan Jin pointed at the potholed wall. .

"Is one hundred characters so big?" Red Fire Ant asked stupidly.

"Is this your focus?" Huangxuanjin smiled and said helplessly: "The founder of the country only knew a few words in his early years and didn't like to write. Emperor Cangwu gave him a hundred pieces of letter paper, and asked him to He had to write ten letters and post them back when he went out for an expedition. However, Duke Kai felt that writing in those grids was so suffocating that he always procrastinated and refused to write letters. Later, Emperor Cangwu told him—"Maybe it's better to write bigger", So the founder of the country seemed to have found the soul of writing, and with a quick stroke of a pen, he wrote hundreds of sheets. At that time, some people said that exhausted cows and horses are nothing more than a letter from home.”

"It is said that there are still letters written by the founding father in Chang'an's private treasury."

"I thought the founding father was too stupid to use gold mud to write life-killing stickers, just like a rich local rich man." Huang Xuanjin looked at the mottled wall, "Later I understood that the founding father wanted to be stripped of life. Go to that pair of life-killing stickers."

That man swept across the country with 24 cavalry at the end of the 80 kingdoms, and he committed too many murders.

He exchanged killing for the peace of future generations, so thousands of people in future generations stripped away the sin of killing for him.

"That's what he really wanted to say to those bald donkeys."

Now it's autumn, and the slate is slightly cool.

A monk in Wugou clothes folded his hands together and bowed to Huangxuan Jin, "The face of the benefactor looks familiar, like my junior brother."

Huangxuan Jin joined ten in return.

"But he is not here now." The monk said with a smile.

"That's really a pity." Huang Xuanjin said.

"My junior brother was probably sent by a rich family to accumulate blessings. He was picked up when he was 13 years old. I think he is married and has children now, and he has a hundred acres of fertile land."

"Yes, I guess so."

Marry a wife and have children, and have a hundred acres of fertile land.

meditation hall.

As soon as Huang Xuanjin opened the door, he saw dozens of monks holding firecrackers.

"Are you... trying to save me?" Huang Xuanjin asked with twitching corners of his mouth.

"Master Jin, come and see how I am doing!" Jie Niao rushed over with a heavy gun barrel in his arms.

"Zi Chen." Si Tianming looked at the young man at the door and said.

Chang'an, Jing Shi Lou.

Wang Zhiwu took a vermilion pen and sketched on the history book written by Chubilang. His eyes are a little blurry now. If he wants to read the words clearly, he has to hold the book far away. A visitor on fire.

"If you can't see clearly, let those little servants read it to you." The visitor said.

"That won't work, words have a soul." Wang Zhiwu said rather matter-of-factly, "Let them read it to me, then I won't be able to hear books."

"Have you heard, your student is back." The visitor took off his boots and put them by the fire to roast.

"I have many students, I don't know which one His Majesty is talking about." Wang Zhiwu turned his eyes to Emperor Changgeng.

"The one from the Jiangnan Huangxuan family." Emperor Chang Geng said.

"My traitor, didn't he treason and cooperate with the enemy long ago?"

"A few days ago, a group of Tai students were discussing state affairs in Wuyinfang, saying whether the Western Regions should be exchanged for guns. Your student was there and fired a shot." Emperor Changgeng said with his head raised.

"What did he say?" Wang Zhiwu stopped writing.

"He said... he wants both."

"Young people are awesome." Wang Zhiwu snorted softly, "But I don't know if it's because young people are frivolous."

"By the way, you don't care about those students." Wang Zhiwu put down his pen and looked at Emperor Changgeng and asked.

"Let them talk, am I still afraid of a group of students talking?"

Mote Temple.

It was raining at night in the temple, and Huang Xuanjin couldn't sleep at night, so he went to the shadow hall in the back mountain.

The shadow hall was originally a gap in the mountain. Later, the monks carved out the statues of the ancestors of the past in the gap of [-] feet long and [-] feet wide.

He used to come here often to look at the portraits of the patriarchs.

There is skylight and leakage.

When he arrived, his master Yuanjue was holding a candle to relight the candle that had been extinguished by the rain in front of the statue of the patriarch.

Every time a candle was lit, Yuanjue held the candle with his palms folded and bowed to perform Buddhist rituals.

Seeing him coming, Yuanjue lit another candle and handed it to him, then turned around and continued lighting those candles.

Huangxuan Jin lit the extinguished candles in the cave.

The Buddha first turned the wheel of Dharma in Sarnath, proclaiming the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Right Ways.

The Buddha has three dharma seals, all actions are impermanent, all dharmas have no self, and Nirvana is peaceful.

Nagarjuna Devas created Mahayana Buddhism, there is emptiness of conditioned dharma, and emptiness of unconditioned dharma, all dharmas are empty.

The Zen monk Fotucheng extinguished the fire in Youzhou with wine, heard the bell and ordered the dragon to fetch water.

The first patriarch, Huineng, knew the mind and saw the nature, and became a Buddha suddenly.

The second patriarch, Huike, broke his arm to seek the Dharma, but he couldn't get it if he searched for it.

……

What is fire? Passing on the torch is called fire.

A burning candle is a piece of light.

The house is full of candlelight, and the rain outside the cave is quiet.

"Master, what I'm about to do is kill."

The boy suddenly said that he was holding a slightly hot candle and looking at the whole family of ancestors.

He was walking in a mountain gap hundreds of feet long, and the light from above fell on him.

"Buddha cut meat to feed tigers, and blood shines."

Yuanjue said.