Chapter 142: The Grandmaster's Disaster, Life Has an End
The fifth year of Kangjing.
The Gu family courtyard was still peaceful and calm.
But the outside world was very different! Three years later, Yuzhou had already fallen completely.
The second prince, the elder brother of the current Emperor Kang Jing, was a loser who had been deprived of his title by Emperor Zong Ming. He led his troops to defend the last city belonging to Dayue in Yuzhou, fought to the death, and died when the city was broken.
This was the second death, besides the border war god Zhang Qihan, that was enough to shock the entire Dayue.
The death knell has sounded!
After the fall of Yuzhou, Yangzhou was naturally the one that suffered.
Yangzhou, which had already been ravaged by the Huang Dynasty, was now plunged into the quagmire of war again, and this time, the enemy was obviously even more ruthless and difficult to defeat.
Huang Tianjun, who had been constantly playing the game of retreat and looting while being chased by the temple troops, did something out of character this time. Not only did he not try to evacuate, but he took the initiative to meet the enemy!
Huang Chao, who had been a scourge to Yangzhou for five years, now became the patron saint of Yangzhou.
Taking with him the large amount of gold, silver and treasures seized from slaughtering the rich, he recruited soldiers and started to fight the Four-Nation Alliance with real weapons without any sign of retreat.
Those who don't know would think that Dayue's surname is Huang! After Yuzhou fell, the Mohists could only retreat again.
Now, the Huang Dynasty and Mo Qiu, the Huang Tian Army and the Mohists have joined forces.
To be precise, it was a joint effort to fight against the Four-Nation Alliance.
One is a rebel leader, the other is an emperor-killing madman, they complement each other.
As early as the year when Mo Qiu murdered the emperor, the Huang Dynasty had sent people to Yangzhou to publicize that they were willing to agree with the Mohist philosophy and invited Mo Qiu to join hands with him to reshape the world. Even before they actually occupied the territory, they dared to say that they would appoint Mo Qiu as the national teacher.
Mo Qiu had only one attitude towards this: Do you think I care about you? Of course, Mo Qiu ignored him and took the Mohists to Yuzhou to kill Liu Xuanqi, the commander of Daqing. Since then, the Mohists have been helping to defend the city in Yuzhou.
However, the martial arts master is not omnipotent, and the Mohist school is not invincible.
After the fall of Yuzhou, Moqiu could only lead the remaining Mohists to Yangzhou and try again to resist the offensive of the four-nation coalition.
Huang Chao, who chose to defend Yangzhou this time, naturally met Mo Qiu.
Mo Qiu did not join the Huang Dynasty's team, but the Mohists did join forces with the Huang Tian army to fight the enemy.
Even with the addition of a master-level figure and the help of Huang Tianjun, the situation in Yangzhou was no better than that in Yuzhou. Or it should be said that the speed of its defeat was even faster.
Because the four countries have increased their troops again!
Yuzhou had wasted nearly five years, which was totally unacceptable to them.
Behind Yuzhou is Yangzhou, behind Yangzhou is Yuzhou, and behind Yuzhou is the imperial capital! After five years, the immortal fate will be eaten up! And Dayue, which was already on the verge of collapse and could not even support itself financially, was faced with the increasingly fierce offensive of the four-nation coalition forces. After all, it was stretched to its limits and unable to turn the tide.
Not to mention that the imperial court of Otsuki did not put all its focus on resisting the coalition forces of the four nations.
The government has indeed realized the seriousness of the matter. It has increased taxes over the past three years and collected silver for criminal discussion twice. Since it is almost unable to hold on, it does not care whether it is appropriate to drain the pond to catch all the fish.
Part of the troops were sent to Yangzhou, but they did not fight with Huang Tian's army. The two sides tacitly used the city as the boundary to block the four-nation coalition forces and maintained a certain degree of tacit understanding with each other.
The other part of the army was fully committed to encircling and suppressing the White Lotus Sect!
If Huang Chao is said to be the leader of the rebellion, the leader of the White Lotus Sect will be the first to disagree!
If the Huang Dynasty was really that powerful, why would the government have surrounded and suppressed the White Lotus Sect first?
The White Lotus Sect, which was causing trouble in the Central Plains, received the most intense targeting from the government.
There is no other reason. The food has been robbed by the White Lotus Sect. The people have no choice but to rebel! If the additional taxes and criminal silver imposed by the temple are to drain the pond to catch fish, then at least there is a process.
The White Lotus Sect was so good that they directly attacked Dayue to death!
No matter how much trouble the Huang Dynasty made in Yangzhou, if one group of rich people was killed, sooner or later there would be another group, and the wealth was only distributed to the hands of ordinary people. If Dayue was still there, he would be able to take it back sooner or later. The impact on the court was not so great as to involve life and death.
But the White Lotus Sect robbed the food in Yuzhou, so you really have no choice! The White Lotus Sect seized food and people by force, and fought back and forth with the government for five years. Finally, they could no longer hold on and had to retreat to a corner of Yuzhou.
Just like the Huang Dynasty was stuck in a state of being unable to advance or retreat and could only move around in Yangzhou, the White Lotus Sect is now facing the same problem.
Under the attack of the Four-Nation Alliance, if he dared to lead the White Lotus Sect to attack the Huang Tian Army from behind, he would really lose the support of the people and would be condemned by everyone in the world.
Besides, Huang Chao and Mo Qiu are not dead. If he dares to do this, he will never sleep well at night in his life.
A martial arts master cannot fight against an army of thousands. If he really wants to do everything he can to kill people and cause trouble, that would be a huge trouble.
According to historical records, there was a period of time known as the "Grandmaster's Disaster", which lasted for more than two hundred years.
The reason was that when two countries were at war, the weaker side sent an envoy to negotiate peace, but it turned out that the envoy was actually a martial arts master who was extremely good at disguise.
In front of all the officials, he directly attacked and killed the powerful and wise emperor.
One stone can cause a thousand ripples.
Which country doesn’t have a few masters?
Since you dare to use such means, don't blame me for endless revenge.
In the beginning, it was just that the two countries sent their masters to assassinate each other, and the masters of the stronger side who could not stand it kept retaliating.
Can you stay in the palace and not go out? Can all officials stay in the palace?
If you can't kill the emperor, kill the prime minister. If you can't kill the prime minister, kill the minister. Kill them one by one, destroy the family and leave no one alive. Whoever dares to do something will be killed. If you have the ability, you will all be guarded by thousands of troops. Otherwise, except for the forces of the same level, who can defend against it?
Until another country that had nothing to do with the matter was watching the two countries fight each other with great interest, and then its emperor was assassinated by the martial arts master.
Which country's martial arts master did this?
have no idea.
Then no one will live! This assassination attempt by the martial arts master eventually set off an endless bloody fight among the seven countries, and it was also the most dangerous time for the emperor's position.
During that crazy period, an ordinary citizen could probably live longer than the emperor.
The martial arts master seems to have some great powers in his own right. Although he cannot fly into the sky, burn the sky and boil the sea like the immortals in the legend, he can still defeat a thousand enemies alone.
The madness of a master, although tricky, is not impossible to deal with.
If all the masters of the seven kingdoms take action, it will truly be a catastrophe for the world.
The world is in chaos. Whoever becomes king will die, whoever becomes emperor will die first. There are no shackles, only madness.
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This chaos lasted for more than two hundred years, and even the master changed three generations before it was finally stopped.
The two countries that initially caused this disaster have long since disappeared over the years, leaving sufficient warnings for future generations.
All the countries established after that have signed a common covenant for the whole world, and anyone who violates it can be killed by everyone.
[The Grandmaster cannot assassinate the Emperor, and those who disobey him will never be able to gain a foothold in the world! ]
Regardless of the reason, in order to prevent the "Grandmaster's Disaster" from happening again, this covenant had already been signed, but it was just to give the Grandmaster face and was not announced to the world.
Those who are able to be promoted to Grandmaster are naturally able to witness such a bloody history.
This is also the reason why Huang Chao thought of recruiting Mo Qiu as soon as he heard that Mo Qiu had killed the emperor.
You slaughtered the emperor in front of all the civil and military officials and the imperial guards when Emperor Zong Ming was offering sacrifices to heaven and earth. No matter what your reasons are, you have done it, and you can't wash it off even if you jump into Jishui!
Although the covenant is useful if you care about it, it is just a piece of waste paper if you don’t.
Simply relying on the covenant to restrict the martial arts master is a bit of a pipe dream.
But in order to prevent the Grandmaster's disaster from happening again, Moqiu absolutely cannot become emperor, no matter whether he wants to or not.
With the previous experience of "Grandmaster's Disaster", any royal family understands the importance of the Grandmaster.
You can do without it, but you can't live without it! If you don't act crazy yourself, someone else might want to be one!
Although others would avenge him later, who wants to die? In that craziest era, there were many Grandmasters who died in battle, and the Grandmasters since then have become much more restrained.
Opening the sealed taboo is definitely not a good choice. The White Lotus Sect Leader himself does not want to try whether he can withstand the joint attack of Mo Qiu and Huang Chao alone.
Therefore, the White Lotus Sect could only remain in a stalemate in Yuzhou, being gradually eroded by the imperial court's troops.
Anyway, as long as the leader of the White Lotus Sect is not dead, the White Lotus heritage will not be lost, and the White Lotus Sect can still be passed on. It’s just a matter of starting over again. The White Lotus Sect has a lot of experience in this.
The court's current thinking must be to first eliminate the White Lotus Sect, completely take back Yuzhou, then defeat the Huang Tian Army in one fell swoop, and finally find a way to negotiate peace with the Four-Nation Alliance.
According to the current situation, the war has entered its most heated and intense stage, and I am afraid that the winner will be decided in a short time.
After five years of continuous fighting at a very high intensity, on two fronts, Dayue had been drained of blood and flesh, and his bone marrow had been exhausted.
No matter who is the winner in the end, that time must be not far away.
In the Gu family courtyard, Gu Dan had just taken out the last book that Master Ji had prepared for him, "The Theory of True Qi".
Among so many classics, only this last one is pure theoretical knowledge.
This book was written by Mr. Ji himself based on the statements of his predecessors and his own experience and thoughts.
After learning all the previous martial arts classics, Master Ji no longer had anything to teach Gu Dan in terms of martial arts, and the martial arts master did not need anyone to teach him step by step.
After learning the "Theory of True Qi", it means that Gu Dan can now fully explore his own path of martial arts - from then on, it is a path that Master Ji has not reached, and that is his own path.
Just as Gu Dan was about to open the "Theory of True Qi" to see what was inside, he heard the courtyard door open.
Lin Xiaoyi walked in, her face not looking very good, she bit her red lips lightly with her pearly teeth, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother Gu, Master Ji called you over, he said he is ready."
Gu's heart sank with worry.
He had known for a long time that Mr. Ji would not be able to live for much longer, but when this day really came, he still felt that it was too fast.
Before he even had time to finish reading the last book of "Theory of True Qi", Master Ji was already prepared to break through to the innate realm.
"I see."
Closing the book in his hand, Gu Dan took a deep breath, stood up from the stone pier and walked towards the palace.
Life will end one day, and time won’t wait for me.
(End of this chapter)