Chapter 65: Point out the witty words like the sea into the great scholar
“It’s you, the ignorant and ignorant idiots again!”

Jia Cong glanced coldly at the people around him.

In the Jiangnan area, Confucianism flourished, and it was not just talk.

There are three great scholars who came this time alone!
There are also two Xuanmen spirit-refining statues and two martial arts innate statues.

It seems that the number of people is not much more than before outside Shenjing City.

But this combat power is far from what it was last time.

Especially the great scholar in front of him.

This gave Jia Cong a sense of great threat.

There must be means beyond the third realm.

“Jia Cong, you dare to commit murder in front of me.”

“Unjust is doomed to destruction!”

“Are you not afraid that we will kill you here today?”

Zuo Hongyi was born into a Jiangnan aristocratic family.

He was very smart since childhood. He could recognize a thousand words at the age of three and won the top three honors in the imperial examination at the age of fifteen.

He was the top scholar during the reign of Emperor Taizong, served as an official for ten years, and then resigned and retired to teach at the Bailu Academy.

He became a great scholar forty years ago.

He once killed a great monster from thirty miles away with just the words “Spring and Autumn Justice”.

Now he is the dean of Bailu Academy.

His status is second only to that of the mountain chief.

Even among the great scholars, he is considered one of the stronger ones.

At this moment, his hair and beard were flying, his majestic energy was rising into the sky, and the wind and clouds were surging.

“I am leaving the capital on the orders of the Emperor to inspect Jiangnan!”

“You attacked and killed the imperial envoy in public. Are you from the Jiangnan White Deer Academy planning to rebel?”

“Keng!”

As he spoke, Jia Cong took out a gold medal with his left hand and drew the sword from his waist with his right hand.

The sword pointed directly at Zuo Hongyi.

“Qianyuan Sword!”

A cry of surprise.

I hadn’t noticed just now, but at this moment Jia Cong drew the sword from his waist.

Someone immediately recognized the identity of this sword.

In the past, Emperor Kaiyuan also visited the south of the Yangtze River several times and summoned great scholars from the south of the Yangtze River to accompany him to show his closeness.

This Qianyuan Sword.

It was the personal sword of Emperor Kaiyuan, but unexpectedly, it was carried by Jia Cong.

The meaning behind this…

This is not counting.

The token in Jia Cong’s left hand.

The entire body is made of the finest red gold, shining brightly and dazzlingly.

The front of the token is carved with a lifelike five-clawed golden dragon, with a winding body and bared fangs and claws.

The dragon eye is inlaid with two huge sapphires, deep and mysterious, as if it contains endless power and wisdom.

In the center of the golden dragon, four large characters “As if I were here in person” are written in a flamboyant style, with the font being vigorous and powerful, and the strokes being strong.

“Imperial token!”

Zuo Hongyi squeezed out these four words from between his teeth.

“Are you just going to look at the token like this?”

Jia Cong said coldly.

“Greetings to the Holy One!”

No one expected that Jia Cong could obtain tokens from both Emperor Shunde and Emperor Kaiyuan at the same time.

It would be fine if Jia Cong sneaked in secretly.

At this moment, hundreds of cavalrymen were marching with great fanfare, and countless people in the entire Yangzhou city saw the imperial envoy entering the city.

Even if you want to hide it.

I can’t hide it anymore.

The few of them had no choice but to fall in front of Jia Cong.

Bow to the token.

“Zheng!”

At this moment, thousands of sword energies were released at the same time.

It swept across like a storm, killing the seven people.

“Yu!”

In a hurry, the two Xuanmen gods rushed to take action.

Each of them offered up a magic mirror.

One yin and one yang, evolving the Tai Chi diagram.

Only then was the sword energy blocked.

“Jia Cong, you dare to shoot someone from behind!”

Zuo Hongyi was so angry that his lungs exploded.

“You are lucky!”

“The Salt Administration Office is an important place for the imperial court!”

“How dare you spy on me from behind? You don’t know whether you are dead or alive!”

“If I see you again next time, I will kill you without mercy!”

“roll!”

The word “roll” contains magical power.

It was like a bolt from the blue.

Spread throughout the city of Yangzhou.

“Good, good, good!”

“I will remember today’s humiliation!”

Zuo Hongyi’s face flushed red, and at this moment he wished he could cut Jia Cong into pieces and kill him.

But looking at the gold medal and the Qianyuan Sword, he forced himself to suppress his anger.

With a wave of his sleeves, he turned around and flew away.

“Jiangnan rats are nothing more than this!”

Listening to Jia Cong’s ridicule behind him.

Zuo Hongyi could no longer suppress his anger.

A mouthful of blood spurted out.

“Zuo Gong, calm down!”

“Let’s get out of here first!”

Seeing this, several people around hurriedly helped Zuo Hongyi up and left quickly.

……

“Dismount and rest.”

“Ma Ruyue, pick a few people to follow me into the mansion!”

After the few people left, Jia Cong restrained his expression.

Get off the mount.

When Lin Ruhai was the Imperial Censor of Salt, he did not acquire any property in Yangzhou City.

He lived directly in the backyard of the Salt Administration Office.

After hearing the people outside leave, the gate of the government office opened.

“I am Lin Enxiang, the housekeeper of the mansion.”

“May I ask if the old relatives and distinguished guests from Rongguo Mansion have arrived?”

An old man with a tired face came out with two servants.

It was the housekeeper of the Lin Mansion.

“Grandpa Lin!”

Entering the first level of Qi Refining in Xuanmen, with the support of Jia Cong’s divine power.

Lin Daiyu disguised herself a little and put on a black cloak.

At this time, he was hiding in the team of personal guards.

Seeing the housekeeper who I have known since childhood, he came out.

“Yes, miss?”

Including Lin Ruhai.

Lin Enxiang is loyal and has served the Lin family’s three generations.

“Just come back, just come back!”

“This old slave greets the young lady!”

“This is my cousin Cong, who escorted me all the way back!”

“It turned out to be Marquis Zi Yi in person. I was disrespectful just now!”

When Steward Lin heard this, he hurriedly bowed again respectfully.

At the age of nine, he refined his spirit and was granted a title of nobility for saving the emperor!
Jia Cong’s name has spread throughout Daqian.

“No need to be so polite, Steward Lin, please take me in to meet Uncle Lin first.”

“Also, how is Uncle Lin’s health now?”

Jia Cong waved his hand and took a few guards with him.

The group walked into the Salt Administration Office and went straight to the back office.

“My Lord, my master has been feeling ill for a month.”

“At first he was just listless, but after ten days, he was bedridden.”

“The master noticed something was wrong, so he sent someone to ask Rongguo Mansion to escort the young lady back to see her for the last time.”

“He has been in a coma for three days now.”

Butler Lin looked sad.

Led everyone to Lin Ruhai’s room.

The originally quiet and peaceful place filled with the fragrance of books has been filled with the bitter smell of medicinal herbs.

“I am incompetent. I originally planned to find a few Confucian scholars who also studied medicine to come and see me, but even though I offered a price of 10,000 taels of silver, no one was willing to come.”

“I can only try to find a few doctors with better medical skills.”

“Uncle Lin’s strength is only half a step away from being a great scholar, and he was tricked.”

“It’s normal that ordinary medicines don’t work.”

Jia Cong looked towards the bed.

The high-spirited and selected scholar in my childhood memory has now become skinny and bony.

His eye sockets were sunken and his face was pale.

He has just turned thirty and his hair has already turned gray.

Even his breathing was extremely weak.

“father!”

When Lin Daiyu saw this scene, she burst into worry along the way.

He threw himself on the bed and burst into tears.

“Brother Cong, can you help me save my father?”

After a moment, I suddenly remembered something.

He turned his head and said with a sad look.

“Don’t worry, Sister Lin. I’ll do my best.”

Jia Cong walked forward and sat on the stool beside the bed.

He placed his hand on Lin Ruhai’s wrist and probed into it with divine power.

“The poison of dried blood, the poison of pulling the machine!”

“The poison of the absolute soul, three kinds of poisons entangle the tarsal bones.”

“There is also the 10,000-year-old ginseng grass to keep me alive.”

“What a vicious method.”

The benefits of persistent learning are reflected at this moment.

The divine power can only detect Lin Ruhai’s symptoms.

But being able to accurately name the poison also depends on Jia Cong’s extensive reading.

“Ma Ruyue!”

“My subordinate is here!”

After completing the investigation, Jia Cong raised his hand with a cold look.

“The poison that Uncle Lin was poisoned with must have been administered by someone close to him.”

“Immediately close the Salt Administration Office and prohibit anyone from entering or leaving!”

“Interrogate him strictly!”

“I obey my orders!”

Ma Ruyue took the order and left.

“Brother Cong, can Daddy’s illness be cured?”

Daiyu’s face was full of expectation and pleading.

“It’s a bit troublesome, but there’s still time.”

Jia Cong said this and pointed with his hand.

A steady stream of divine power was infused into Lin Ruhai’s body.

Clearing out the toxins.

Originally, the three toxins were entangled and influenced each other.

It had long been like a cancer attached to Lin Ruhai’s body.

Especially the poison of absolute soul destruction, which is a deadly poison specifically targeting the great spirit of Confucianism and Taoism.

Rely on the great energy and be nourished by it.

Every time a bit of vitality was restored in Lin Ruhai’s body, the poison grew stronger.

Let alone ordinary medicine and medical skills at this time.

Even if a great scholar who has mastered medicine came, he would not be able to cure it.

Only for divine power.

No matter what kind of poison it is, it only needs to be counteracted. This is the great power of the rules granted by heaven and earth.

After thirty infusions of divine power.

Only then did Jia Cong stop, and the poison in Lin Ruhai’s body had been eliminated.

“Okay, Uncle Lin is fine now.”

“I’m just weak. Find a ginseng root and use it. You’ll wake up in a while.”

……

at dusk
Lin Daiyu and Jia Cong were still guarding the room.

More than two hours after taking ginseng.

Lin Ruhai’s fingers trembled twice and he slowly opened his eyes.

The voice is weak.

“Is Daiyu back?”

“father!”

“you’re awake!”

Daiyu looked excited.

“Great!”

“The poison in my body…”

Lin Ruhai was only half a step away from becoming a great scholar.

The first moment I woke up, I noticed the changes in my body.

Although still extremely weak, the toxins have been cleared.

The great energy also began to recover slowly.

“Dad, it was Brother Cong who escorted me all the way back from Shenjing City and cured your illness.”

“Brother Cong?”

Lin Ruhai looked behind Daiyu.

“Has it grown this big?”

“When Min’er and I first got married, you were still a child, and Min’er loved to hold you whenever she had nothing to do.”

“Uncle Lin, who plotted against you?”

Scenes of childhood memories emerged in Jia Cong’s mind.

Who says gods must be ruthless?

“Who else could…”

“The eight major salt merchants, the gentry of Jiangnan…”

“The Lin family has been a marquis for four generations, and they were also a member of the Jiangnan gentry back then.”

“When I first arrived in Jiangnan, I rejected countless people’s requests and gifts, and only in the first year did I manage to collect 8 million taels of salt tax.”

“I don’t know how many people I have offended in the past few years.”

“They originally wanted to be patient and send me away. When the next Salt Inspector arrives, everything will remain the same as before.”

“Who knew that last year His Majesty intended to let me serve for another term.”

“Min Er was also…”

……

“The eight major salt merchants, the gentry of Jiangnan…”

“If I don’t kill 3,000 people on this trip to make amends to Aunt Min, I won’t feel at ease!”

Jia Cong said coldly.

“Brother Cong, I know you have a good heart.”

“I will avenge Min Er. As long as I am still alive, I will help them fight to the end.”

Lin Ruhai comforted weakly.

“I don’t want you to be affected mentally in order to seek revenge.”

“But everything in the world is easily broken if it is too hard, but it is invincible if it is soft.”

“Before I fell ill, I heard about what you did in Shenjing City.”

“Heaven values ​​life…”

“Killing blindly is not the right way.”

……

“Too rigid will easily break, simply because it is not rigid enough!”

“The way of heaven values ​​life because it is not easy to be born.”

“Uncle Lin was called up by Donghua when he was young and full of vigor and vitality, and his name was known all over the world.”

“Now that I am thirty years old, I am still stuck ahead of the great scholar.”

“Why have you lost your edge and become like an old man?”

Jia Cong had a calm expression, sharp ears and eyes, and a photographic memory.

This is just one of the insignificant abilities of the gods.

Two months of hard study is equivalent to more than ten years of study for an ordinary scholar.

He can quote various Confucian allusions with ease.

“I’ve lost my edge…”

Lin Ruhai trembled slightly, and an inexplicable feeling seemed to begin to brew in his heart.

“The origin of good and evil is nothing but human words.”

“The nature of man is evil, and those who are good are false.”

“The Master said: ‘If you repay evil with kindness, how can you repay kindness?’

“If someone offends me today, kill me.”

“If we don’t retaliate ruthlessly, what will happen if everyone follows suit in the future?”

……

“The nature of man is evil, and those who are good are false.”

“The nature of man is evil, and those who are good are false.”

When Lin Ruhai heard Jia Cong’s words, it was like the sound of a huge bell or a thunderclap.

Although his body was still weak, his spirit began to improve at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“That’s it, that’s it!”

“I was the top scorer in high school at the age of 18, and entered the second realm.”

“Now, after so many years, I am only half a step away from becoming a great scholar.”

“But in the past two years, his literary talent has been tarnished… his cultivation has not improved but deteriorated.”

“Brother Cong, you are right!”

“The nature of man is evil, and those who are good are false.”

“The origin of good and evil is nothing but human words.”

“Hahaha, human nature is evil, and those who are good are fake!”

“Today I have an epiphany, and now I know my true self!”

Lin Ruhai murmured.

Suddenly burst into laughter.

The key to martial arts body training is tempering!
The key to Xuanmen Qi training is accumulation!
But Confucian and Taoist practice is different.

The key is enlightenment!

Looking at the history books, there are many examples of saints and wise men who accumulated a lot of experience and then suddenly realized the truth and became great scholars overnight.

At this moment, by chance.

Lin Ruhai had his cognitive barriers broken down by Jia Cong, and found the Confucianism that suited him.

Direct enlightenment.

The noble literary spirit grows within.

It gushes out like a surging river, surging and moving forward.

Even the thin and weak body is directly nourished.

He regained his former high-spirited scholar appearance.

The threshold of the second realm was directly melted away.

Above the literary courage, the literary mind is condensed and shines like crystal.

……

Yangzhou City

Zuixianglou

Yangzhou skinny horses are famous all over the world.

The colorful lanterns hanging at the door swayed gently in the evening breeze.

A series of exquisite and unique buildings.

The carved and painted beams and vermilion pillars sparkle with the luster of time under the sunlight.

The interior of the building is decorated in an extremely elegant and luxurious manner.

Soft silk hung from the beams, embroidered with exquisite patterns of flowers, birds, fish and insects.

The floor is covered with luxurious carpets from foreign lands, and walking on them makes no sound at all.

There were several rosewood tables and chairs in the hall, and their smooth polished surfaces faintly reflected the candlelight in the room.

The sounds of the zither and the harp are endless.

In the private room on the top floor.

“This time, I invited the great scholar to bring out his treasures, but unfortunately, that young Jia Cong did not fall for it.”

“Humph, sooner or later I will chop him into pieces to avenge myself today.”

“Let’s see how long the imperial envoy can protect him.”

Zuo Hongyi, a great scholar from Bailu Academy, looked angry.

The third realm of Confucian practice is to concentrate the literary mind and be called a great Confucian scholar.

After becoming a great scholar, the next step is to gather the literary spirit.

Like the martial arts masters and the mysterious Yin gods, it is the fourth realm.

Respectfully called Hongru.

Even if it is just a literary treasure left behind by a great scholar after his death, its power is not something that an ordinary third-level realm can withstand.

“Mr. Zuo is well-known in Jiangnan, and he is a great scholar of the time. He is the dean of Bailu Academy. How can a boy like Jia Cong compare with him?”

“Calm down. Sooner or later, we will have to settle accounts with him.”

In the elegant room.

In addition to the seven third-level masters that Zuo Hongyi brought during the day.

The heads of the eight major salt merchants were also present.

The person who spoke was the head of the salt merchant Wang family, with a fawning look on his face.

The salt merchants have a huge network of interests in Jiangnan, but it is nothing compared to the behemoth that is Bailu Academy.

That’s not good enough.

Every year, the eight major salt merchants would pool together one million taels of silver and send it to the Bailu Academy.

To show filial piety.

As for the other officials in Yangzhou City, each one is counted as one.

He is not even qualified to sit at the table.

“Patriarch Wang is right.”

“It’s a good opportunity for us to watch a good show.”

“Lin Ruhai is only hanging on by a ten-thousand-year-old ginseng beard. He will definitely not survive past midnight today.”

“Let that little Jia Cong see Lin Ruhai die with his own eyes.”

“It’s a pleasure, too.”

The head of the Qian family, who is also a salt merchant, added.

“There’s a new courtesan in Zui Xiang Lou, and she has admired Zuo Gong for a long time.”

“It just so happened that the gentleman was reciting poems with him while waiting for the news of Lin Ruhai’s death.”

“Maybe we can even see Jia Cong jumping around in a rage.”

“Master Qian is thoughtful.”

Zuo Hongyi’s expression relaxed after hearing this.

The abbot of Bailu Academy was a great scholar at the time. He was not obsessed with power but only loved beauty.

It is no longer a secret among the upper class in Jiangnan.

But at this moment, something unexpected happened in Yangzhou City.

The mighty literary energy rises into the sky, like the upside-down Milky Way, magnificent and incomparable.

Wherever it goes, the wind and clouds change color and the heaven and earth tremble.

The majestic energy is like the galloping of thousands of troops or the exploding thunder, deafening and terrifying.

In the void, it seemed as if someone was reciting the scriptures of sages.

“The nature of man is evil, and those who are good are false.”

“The nature of modern people is to be greedy for gain.”

“If we follow this, then fighting and quarreling will arise and giving way will die; if we are born with a hatred for evil, then we follow this, then cruelty and robbery will arise and loyalty and trustworthiness will die; if we are born with the desires of the ears and eyes and a love of music and beauty, then we follow this, then promiscuity will arise and propriety, righteousness, culture and reason will die.”

“Then follow human nature and human feelings…”

The horrifying vision immediately attracted everyone’s attention.

“This is……”

“Some people have broken through the realm of great scholars and forged a literary mind.”

A great scholar who came with Zuo Hongyi stood up suddenly, walked to the window, and looked in the direction where the majestic energy was surging outside the window.

“Is there any Confucian scholar in Yangzhou who is only half a step away from the third realm?”

“This……”

The owners of the eight major salt merchants looked at each other and suddenly had a bad feeling in their hearts.

“Yes, yes…”

“who is it?”

“Lin Ruhai, the Imperial Censor of Lianghuai Salt Inspection…”

“This direction is also towards the Salt Administration Office.”

As soon as the words fell, the entire private room fell into deathly silence.

A big chapter of 5,000 words is sent to you, and the update of 10,000 words has been completed today.

The next chapter will still be in the early morning.

I am rolling on the ground begging for monthly tickets, everyone…

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