Guangliang would never forget the scene at Lingyin Temple that day, when he saw hundreds of giant steel machines fall from the sky and bombard the temple.
He witnessed firsthand how the abbot of Lingyin Temple was reduced to ashes before he could even finish uttering a single arrogant sentence.
It was only because he reacted quickly and immediately led the remaining monks to surrender that the monks from Lingyin Temple would have had the chance to appear in the water dungeon.
Seeing Guangliang trembling, Li Chang'an asked, "Master, there's no need to panic. I am well-versed in the language of physics and can be considered a physicist."
"If you tell me what you know, I will definitely give you a way out."
"Thank you, Your Highness, thank you, Your Highness."
Guangliang has always been a wise man who knows when to yield; for him, nothing is more important than surviving, not the dignity of a grandmaster.
He always felt that, apart from birth and death, nothing else in a person's life could be considered a major event.
After a moment of preparation, just as he was about to speak, his stomach growled first.
The prisoners who were captured and imprisoned in the water dungeon were fed leftovers, which were basically leftovers from disaster victims and used to feed livestock. Only when the livestock could no longer eat them were the prisoners given the leftovers.
At first, these martial arts practitioners refused to eat these things, feeling that the imperial court was being too cruel.
After being hungry for a while, they started to wolf down their food, and sometimes they could even get a little meat, exclaiming how delicious it was.
Seeing his disheveled appearance, Li Chang'an waved to Chen Da: "Prepare a robe for Master Guangliang, and have the kitchen prepare some food. I'm also a bit hungry."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
After a while, several side dishes were served.
"Your Highness, braised carp with noodles, made in Kaifeng style, please try it."
Li Chang'an looked at the dishes and shook his head: "In a year of great disaster, this is going too far."
"There are still so many disaster victims outside who haven't had enough to eat. It's not appropriate for you to prepare such good food for them."
Liu Yishou stood to the side, rubbing the hem of his clothes with his hand, looking somewhat excited.
This was the first time he had been so close to Li Chang'an, and he felt that this was something he could brag about for the rest of his life.
“Your Highness, this is perfect. These are some disaster victims. Seeing that Your Highness goes fishing, I thought you must love eating fish, so I specially went to the river to catch some for you yesterday.”
"I felt that we shouldn't waste the people's good intentions, so I took the liberty of making some special dishes to nourish Your Highness."
Chen Da also chimed in, advising, "Your Highness, the people are not starving."
“We’ve distributed all the stored grain from the Buddhist community and those prestigious families to the disaster victims. It’s enough to feed them for several years, so how could they possibly go hungry?”
"Standing in the entire Jiangnan region, the only ones who are hungry are these people from the martial arts world."
Upon hearing this, Li Chang'an nodded in satisfaction: "Since it is the people's good intention, then I cannot waste it."
Guangliang was wolfing down two steamed buns across from him, not daring to touch the dishes on the table.
He was already very satisfied with being able to eat two clean steamed buns; as for the dishes on the table, he didn't even dare to think about them.
Do you hate me?
Looking at his ravenous eating, Li Chang'an asked, "Before I came to Jiangnan, you lived the life of the elite. Now that you're in such a sorry state, you probably wish you could tear me to pieces."
Guangliang was so frightened by these words that he dropped his steamed bun on the ground.
"This humble monk dares not. The fact that this humble monk is alive is already an act of mercy from Your Highness."
"Alright, get up."
Li Chang'an waved his hand and said, "Whether you hate me or not, I don't care."
"Now all the scholars and martial arts practitioners in Jiangnan are cursing me as a butcher, a ruthless killer."
"The more they insult me, the happier I am."
"Because they are the enemy, the fact that the enemy is cursing me proves that I did the right thing, otherwise they wouldn't be cursing me."
Li Chang'an went on and on about his plan to control Jiangnan, which required killing a great many people.
Often, with a single stroke of his pen, he could save thousands of lives. After keeping these things bottled up inside for so long, he needed to vent.
Otherwise, he might very well have done what he did in the island nation: wipe out everyone in Jiangnan and start all over again.
After venting, Li Chang'an felt much better: "Alright, I've said so much nonsense, now it's your turn to speak."
"What do you know about the methods of achieving immortality?"
Guangliang swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth and said, "Our Lingyin Temple can be said to be the first to cooperate with the Yin Yang School."
"At that time, the Ming Dynasty had not yet been established. The biggest power in Jiangnan was Chen Youliang. My uncle Daoji, along with the Yin-Yang School and the Mohist School, assisted him."
"Later, Chen Youliang was killed by the Buddhists, and only then did the Shaolin Temple begin its so-called Buddhist Kingdom plan."
"After Chen Youliang died, Uncle Daoji also returned to Lingyin Temple, but he became somewhat mad and spoke in a way that no one could understand. The abbot was afraid that something might happen to him, so he locked him up in the back mountain."
“I was young then, and I accidentally wandered into the back mountain, where I ran into Uncle Daoji and was confronting a man in black.”
"I was quite far away, but I only heard the man in black asking my uncle where the method of immortality was."
“I didn’t hear very clearly what my uncle said, but I heard him mention a name called Miao Qing repeatedly.”
"Miao Qing?"
Li Chang'an turned his head and asked, "Have you heard of this name before?"
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