Chapter 436 – The Great Confucian Pei Man Xi Lou

Pei Man Xilou made a formal bow and smiled with narrowed eyes, “Which Yamen does Lord Xu serve in?”

Xu New Year responded politely, “Hanlin Academy.”

“The Da Bong court sent a seventh-ranked petty official to receive us?”

Cold laughter came from behind Pei Man Xilou, a teenager with a feminine temperament and vertical pupils in his eyes said in dissatisfaction.

“Who are you.” Xu New Year asked rhetorically.

The airy, feminine, vertical-pupiled teenager’s chin was raised and he was about to speak when he heard Xu New Year say, “Oh, I forgot, you’re not a human being.”

The vertical-pupiled teenager was enraged by his cold and mocking tone, and coldly grunted, “Little master is burdened with the bloodline of ancient gods and demons, how can he be compared to mere mortals like you.”

“Then why don’t you go to heaven? What’s the point of staying in the mortal world.” Xu New Year was surprised.

“You ……..”

The vertical pupil teenager’s face was suffocatingly red, glaring viciously at him, anyone in the north who dared to talk to him like that would be a delicacy in the belly by now.

“Xuan Yin, do not be rude.”

Pei Man Xilou narrowed his eyes and smiled, “Xuan Yin is the bloodline of the great demon Candle Nine, and is accustomed to having no one in his sight, Lord Xu scolded him well, he does lack lessons.”

Being swept by Pei Man Xilou, the vertical pupil teenager was silenced.

“Although this Lord Xu’s official position is not high, he is indeed the noble of the noble, and the Hanlin Academy is only for top-notch readers to enter. It is not comparable to you, a sinful animal.”

Pei Man Xilou offered overflowing words and said, “I am Pei Man Xilou.”

I didn t scold him, if I want to scold him, you have to wait until tomorrow to enter the capital ……… Xu New Year nodded his head.

Huang Xian’er smiled wryly, turning her eyes to look at Xu New Year, the first character of the Pei Man clan of the White Head Department is the same as the Pei surname of the Central Plains people, and the vast majority of the Central Plains people will mistakenly take the Pei Man clan as the Pei clan.

She was looking forward to seeing this young Da Bong official confuse his family name and thus make a fool of himself, so that she could use the opportunity to show her gentle side, along with her seduction, to tease the young official’s heart.

Xu New Year nodded, “Messenger Pei Man, this official will take you to the post station to rest.”

Huang Xian’er was instantly a bit disappointed that this young Da Bong official had a few real talents, which made her subsequent seduction impossible.

Pei Man Xilou, who never thought of making a fool of the Hanlin Academy’s ching-gui by such a small cleverness, mounted his horse and left the dock with the legation party, under the protection of two hundred officers and soldiers of the Dafeng.

After passing through a few small streets and finally arriving at the main street of the city, the scene in front of them left the crowd of Demon Barbarian Envoys dumbfounded.

The street was unimaginably spacious, able to accommodate fifty cavalrymen galloping side by side, with houses lined up on both sides, arranged to the end of the line of sight, and the pagodas of the stores waving hungrily in the wind.

Such a flourishing picture was the first time, in their lives, that they had ever seen it.

Huang Xian’er’s soft eyes were confused for a moment, finally realizing why her ancestors were so eager to go south to the Central Plains, eager to seize this land.

But then, Huang Xian’er realized that something was wrong, because both sides of the main road were filled with human people standing on both sides of the road, carrying baskets with vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and even stones.

Their faces were expressions of anger and their eyes burned with hatred.

“Kill the demon savage!”

Someone roared in anger and threw rotten eggs at the Demon Barbarian Mission, and it was like lighting a fuse of gunpowder, instantly exploding.

“Kill the demon savage.”

“Get out of the capital.”

“……..”

Vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, stones, stinky rice balls, and so on, all smashed into the Demon Barbarian Envoys in a brainwave, and filth flew all over the sky.

Demonic barbarians were impulsive and tyrannical in character, and could not stand provocation the most, immediately showing their teeth and revealing their anger.

“Lord Xu, the people of Dabong are very enthusiastic.”

Pei Man Xilou drummed his qi, deflecting the obscenities smashing in from both sides, and said with a smile.

Xu New Year said indifferently, “Yes, for fear that you won’t have enough to eat.”

Pei Man Xilou choked, and for a moment he didn’t know how to respond.

Demon barbarians looting the border is the norm, for the sake of, is not a mouthful of food.

Huang Xian’er frowned repeatedly, a little annoyed, although she could use her qi to block away the filth thrown by the human people, such treatment was enough to make the mudbloods angry.

At that moment, she heard Pei Man Xilou ask, “These people, they seem to be taking special care of Lord Xu?”

Huang Xian’er then realized that the people around him deliberately avoided the young official when they threw vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, but the accompanying Da Feng soldiers did not receive the same treatment.

With this discovery, Huang Xian’er squinted her eyes and observed for a while, seeing more details.

The people are more than caring, and even still take special care to avoid him very carefully.

The human people seem to love him, lest they smash him ……….

Huang Xian’er examined Xu New Year in surprise, becoming extremely curious about him.

The status of a commoner alone could never make the people of Man treat him so well, he may have another layer of identity? And it is an identity that the people of the human race recognize ……….. Pei Man Xilou narrowed his eyes and guessed in his heart.

Xu New Year gave a heave, “They’re not looking out for me, they’re looking out for the tags hanging on the horses.”

A sign?

Huang Xian’er froze, and it was only then that she and Pei Man Xilou realized that there really was a wooden sign hanging from the horse’s neck, which they hadn’t noticed earlier.

Xu Xinxin attached himself and took the sign off, displaying it to the two men.

The sign reads five words: Brother of Xu Yinluo.

Xu Yinluo’s brother? Huang Xian’er’s voice was soft and moistened, like a petulant, whispering, “What does this mean?”

Pei Man Xilou’s squinted eyes widened slightly, finally coming to a realization, “No wonder, no wonder! It turns out that Lord Xu is the younger brother of Da Feng Yin Gong Xu Qi An.”

There is a secret room in the White Head Department that specializes in storing confidential dossiers, and behind this secret room is the White Head Department’s vast intelligence network, and the leader of this intelligence network is Pei Man Xilou, who is known as a nerd by the barbarians.

He had personally written the legendary silver gong of that great bishop.

Rising to prominence at the end of the year of Kyocha, it has been less than a year since then, leaping from a mediocre Changle County shutterbug to the brightest new star in Dabong.

His talent was terrifying to the extreme, but it was never his battle power that made people most afraid, but rather his reputation that could be described as a call to arms.

After the Chuzhou massacre, his popularity reached its peak, a peak that made people sigh with relief.

How great this reputation was, Pei Man Xilou’s comment at the time was that all the millions of people in the capital city loved it. And now, after witnessing the power of a wooden plaque, he decided to add one more thing when he returned to the barbarians: blessing and family.

Huang Xian’er obviously remembered that legendary silver gong as well, with a surprised look on her face.

In our divine race, only the chief has such prestige ………. Huang Xian’er was getting more and more excited about this trip to the capital.

The Barbarians possessed a divine and demonic bloodline and had always called themselves the Divine Race.

Amidst the welcome of the people of the capital, Xu Xinxin led the demonic barbarian envoy into the post.

After settling the mission, Xu New Year, who had been sent by Emperor Yuan Jing to do the hard work, stayed for half an hour under Pei Man Xilou’s forced retention before hastily excusing himself.

He also did not return to the Yamen to report to work, absent from work for half a day, leisurely go home.

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“Elder brother is already a rare man of honor, I didn’t expect this younger brother, with his sharp teeth and talent, to be good.” Pei Man Xilou sat in the courtyard and drank tea after sending off Xu New Year.

In half an hour, every allusion he said, the other party was able to pick up on it, talking about history and scripture, Na Xu New Year’s marvelous words, when talking about the old grudge between the Great Feng and the Northern Divine Race, he would also spit out fragrance, and his words would be thorny and cynical.

Huang Xian’er sat on a stone bench and deliberately assumed a provocative sitting posture, hooking the surrounding stagehands, sniffing and humming:

“Just an unintelligent, stinking scribe.”

She kept hinting and seducing on the way, who knows that the stinking scholar turned a blind eye, really throwing winks to the blind.

Huang Xian’er ate the dried fruits and dried meat on the stone table and asked, “What are your plans to go to the palace tomorrow to meet the human emperor? If you are unsure of moving back help in the short term, remember to inform me earlier.”

Pei Man Xilou dismissed the stagehands in the courtyard and said with a smile, “How are you going to respond?”

Huang Xian’er yawned, her posture lazy and flirtatious:

“Then I won’t go back to the north, I’ll pick a big official in the capital and become his concubine, isn’t it better than going back to the north to be punished. I’m not afraid of retaliation from the clan, right? The capital is overlooked by the Supervisor, so no one from the Divine Clan dares to come here.”

Pei Man Xilou smiled and said, “In order to get Da Feng to send troops to help my God Race, it is inevitable to cede benefits, and the meaning of our coming here is just the word ‘bargaining’.

“The Divine Race had a request from the Great Feng and lost the first opportunity, in order to make each other equal, we have to strike their sharpness and arrogance first. They respect you three times before they can back down three times at the negotiation table.

“Of course, your Fox Ministry will be needed to contribute beyond the negotiating table. Of the three poisons of alcohol, sex, and money, the word sex is the most important.”

Xuan Yin, a young man with vertical pupils, found a chance to interject and coldly grunted, “The human race is as humble as ants, and during the ancient times, they were the captive livestock and blood food of our divine and demonic ancestors. Even now, at the end of the God-Devil Era, human civilians are still food.”

He knew that the mission had come to Dafeng this time to ask for help, but he still looked down on the individual weak human race.

Pei Man Xilou glanced at him and narrowed his eyes and smiled:

“It’s fine to talk about these things in private; if you dare to speak out of turn, I’ll skin you.”

Xuan Yin bristled, “I know, I didn’t wait for the stagehand to leave before I said anything.”

Pei Man Xilou took out a small box from the tribute he was carrying this time, and he carefully and solemnly opened the box, which contained a book.

These books, all of them, have a common name: The Hokusai Canon

“North Lodge is my study, I have been a good reader since I was a child, I do not seek to understand, only rote memorization, and then with the clan south to plunder the human readers, the first three years, listen to their lectures. The first three years, listen to their lectures. The middle three years, with them on the road. After three years, the northern border can plunder to the readers, no one can reach my learning.

“I was eighteen years old, and I dyed my hair black in order to go south to study. At the age of twenty, I suddenly had the idea of writing a book. I studied in the Central Plains for ten years, compiled what I had learned into a book, and revised it. At that time, I didn’t think of a name for the book.

“It wasn’t until I returned to my tribe, to the Hokusai Bookstore, that it suddenly dawned on me what it should be called. And for the next six years, I worked my butt off, and the Hokusai Canon finally came out.

“This book is voluminous, totaling three hundred and eight volumes, encompassing the history of Shi, agriculture, industry, commerce, astronomy, and geography. Didn’t Da Feng say that my demon barbarians have no history? Actually, there is, because they haven’t seen the Bei Zhai Grand Dictionary yet. If the Da Bong’s historians were to see this book, they would be ecstatic.

“Of course, what I am most proud of in my life is still the book of war. I’ve read almost all of the Da Feng’s military books, and leaving aside the works of the previous generations, the true military book of the current generation is the Six Speech on the Art of War by Zhang Shen, a great scholar of the Cloud Deer Academy. It is not bad, but it focuses too much on the role of practitioners in war.

“Ignoring the importance of ordinary soldiers in war, if the cultivators are taken out and only ordinary soldiers are left, then his Six Spells of the Art of War are bullshit.”

Huang Xian’er was drowsy from listening, and when she heard the Art of War, she finally came to be a little interested and asked:

“What is wrong with focusing on the role of cultivators when the role that mortals can play in battle is inherently small.”

Pei Man Xilou shook his head:

“Do you know why Wei Yuan was able to win the Battle of Shanhaiguan, and how he got his reputation as a generation of military gods? Only Wei Yuan can use ordinary soldiers in a godly way. He is the true leader of the army. If you take out the cultivators and only use ordinary soldiers, give Wei Yuan half a million soldiers and he can sweep the nine states.

“I’ve studied that battle back then, and with over a million troops invested on all sides, the number of ordinary soldiers has accumulated to a rather terrifying level. When this force is perfectly controlled and dispatched, it will be invincible.”

It is very powerful, but I can t understand ……… Huang Xianer said sweetly, “What do you say I go to seduce Wei Yuan, if I can fix him, we will only be considered successful this time.”

“You don’t want to live?” Pei Man Xilou asked rhetorically.

Huang Xian’er giggled, charmingly.

She was of course just saying it off the top of her head, she was an extremely intelligent demoness to be chosen as one of the leaders of the mission.

………..

The next day, the demonic barbarian delegation entered the palace to meet the saint, through the noon gate, across the golden water bridge, in the golden palace to meet the emperor.

Along the way, Huang Xian’er did not have the slightest self-consciousness about meeting the king of a country, smoldering and hooking up with the guards, ministers, and all the men on the way.

Entered the Golden Palace, on both sides of the gun, Yuan Jingdi high in the dragon chair.

Only then did Huang Xian’er slightly put away her charming demeanor, still whispering to pay her respects to the emperor.

And then it was the two demon and barbarian clans that paid tribute to Emperor Yuan Jing, and in addition to the tribute, there were also three thousand beautiful fox women, the top quality cauldron.

When foreigners pay tribute, it is normal to have beauties in the tribute.

When the old eunuch finished his recitation, Emperor Yuan Jing opened his mouth with satisfaction and said:

“I heard that the northern war in full swing, I am also very worried, but the autumn harvest is approaching, the people are busy with the fall harvest, draw out the troops north. I have the Hanlin Academy to compile military books, hope to help you defend against foreign enemies.”

First express the difficulties of the court, the fall harvest will be over, it is not advisable to start the war lightly. Then send the book of war to show that the military path of Da Bong is strong.

“Many thanks, Your Majesty! May the Great Bong and my Divine Race forever tie the same covenant and friendship for a thousand years.” Pei Man Xilou knelt down in respect.

The end of the court meeting, Pei Man Xilou until the departure, but also did not mention half a sentence to ask for help.

It’s rather subdued!

The courtiers were surprised, sneered, and teased.

In their opinion, the demon barbarians are even more vulgar existences than the martial artists, and it is the right way to open the court by impatiently requesting the court to send troops to assist them in the courtroom.

I didn’t expect this Pei Man Xilou to be a calm one, but even so, he had to open his mouth after all, and it didn’t make much sense to show a little bit of city in the courtroom.

Out of the palace, the vertical pupil teenager Xuan Yin could no longer hold back, and hurriedly asked:

“Elder brother Pei Man, didn’t you say that the Da Bong’s art of war was scanty, and didn’t you want to win respect by defeating them in their proudest field, why didn’t you say so just now?”

Huang Xian’er giggled:

“What’s the point of showing off to those people, even if you show off to the sky, they will still turn a blind eye. They will eat you as they should.”

She turned her head to Pei Man Xilou and said, “Who are you going to take first?”

Pei Man Xilou faintly said, “The State Prison!”

………..

Just after the afternoon, there is a news from the State Academy, the leader of the barbarian mission, Pei Man Xilou visited the State Academy, and the Grand Priest competed with the learning, and won.

This man is erudite and refined, I am not as good as ………. This is the comment of the High Priest.

He did not leave this, hallowed in the national academy of lectures, and will be their own book “Beizhai Dazhi” stayed in the national academy of lectures.

How can a barbarian write a book?

The students of the National Academy of Sciences were at first furious, but as the word of mouth of the Beizai Canon festered, the invective gradually subsided, and more was shocked with the learning of a barbarian.

Beizai Dazhi” voluminous, wide, the fine, amazing, not overnight can be compiled out.

A book of this scale was usually compiled only by the imperial court. It was inconceivable that it was compiled by a young barbarian alone.

Based on this book alone, Pei Man Xilou can be ranked among the great scholars of the world.

The most shocking thing was that several of the volumes of the North Zhai Grand Dictionary recorded in detail the history of the two demon and barbarian races, the origin and evolution of the two races, and especially the detailed history of the last eight hundred years of the modern era, which was no worse than the history books written by Dafeng.

Gave the State Council a resounding slap in the face of the Dabong readers.

Pei Man Xi Lou was famous for a while.

“Hard to believe that the crude barbarians have such reading seeds?”

“That Pei Man Xilou is from the White Head Department, which is known for its intelligence, but those like him are very, very few.”

“If I can write this book, I will surely go down in history. This barbarian is too powerful.”

“Shame, shame, shame, when I was his age, I was still studying. And now that I am old, I no longer have the energy to write books.”

“This person is detestable, first he competed with the Grand Priest in a contest of learning, and then he pretended to be generous and left behind the Bei Zhai Da Dian, which is a slap in the face of our Dafeng readers.”

It is because of the other party’s barbarian identity, have this kind of learning, only to highlight the “incompetence” of the Dabong readers, because the vast majority of readers, are not capable of doing such a feat as him.

“To say that there is anyone in the younger generation whose learning can be compared to this person, it is only Princess Huaiqing.”

“Princess Huaiqing has studied at the Imperial College and the Cloud Deer Academy, while this man is of barbarian origin and has no teacher, so it is clear which is higher and which is lower.”

The entry of the demonic barbarian delegation into the capital has attracted much attention, not only from the official circles and the scholarly circles, but also from the commoners in the capital, who are also concerned about this big event.

Their topic was originally whether or not the imperial court should send troops to aid the demon barbarians, and slowly, the news that the northern barbarians had a great scholar spread through the restaurants and greenhouses.

“Nonsense, where did the crude barbarian get the learning to speak of to make the Grand Priest of the State Scholarship Academy bow down to him? Which simpleton fabricated the rumor.”

For such a rumor, but no one who heard it believed it and scoffed.

In the eyes of the people, the State Prison is an official school, a place that produces literary stars.

Readers have a very high status.

But because of this, after the news was confirmed, there was a lot of anger and cursing in the city, and the people of the capital, after tea, no longer discuss whether to go out to the army or not, but jointly attacked the State Council, scolding them for insulting the national body, insulting the Dafeng.

A bunch of corpses and a bunch of straw men.

“Xu Yinluo, a martial artist, can be able to can be the Dafeng Poetry Leader, so you can see how bad the readers of the State Elementary School are, a bunch of wine bags.”

“That sounds like you’re despising Xu Yinluo.”

“That’s not what I meant, I’m pissed off at the waste of state.”

“Strange shame, to lose to the barbarians in learning, strange shame, no one in my Dabong?”

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Stagecoach.

Vertical pupil teenager Xuan Yin returned from outside, carrying a small box of books on his shoulder, deliberately putting it down with force to create a commotion, towards Pei Man Xilou and Huang Xian’er in the courtyard, laughing loudly:

“The State Prison a group of useless scholars, I only said for Pei Man big brother to borrow books, they do not dare to stop. Don’t look at the outside scolding big brother scolded hard, just shows that they are afraid. Afraid of your learning.”

Although he felt that reading was useless, it was too good to be able to kill the sharpness of the murderous clans in the field of reading, it was too much of a pleasure, too much of an eyebrow raising.

“It’s just a book swap, it’s just a book swap ………”

Pei Man Xilou was like a treasure, picking through the books in the box.

“That what’s-his-name High Priestess, is the most learned person, even he is not as good as you, Big Brother, it seems that the human readers are nothing more than that.” Xuan Yin laughed out loud.

Raise an eyebrow!

“The Great Priestess is profoundly learned, but the human race’s literary path is flourishing, so he can’t represent the entire human race. There is a strange woman in the palace whose learning is what is called formidable.”

Pei Man Xilou picked a copy of the four books commentary and read it with great interest.

Three days have passed since the “Discourse on Taoism” at the State Prince’s Palace, and the demons and barbarians in the delegation were both dismayed and pleasantly surprised to find that their leader, Pei Man Xilou, had jumped to become a popular figure.

It became the center of the conversation and gave a huge shock to the human race.

Huang Xian’er pounded the rouge bought from the store and casually asked, “And now that you have enough fame, the next step is negotiation?”

In the past few days, she hadn’t been idle, stuffing a number of Da Bong officials with fox girls of excellent poise.

“Not enough.”

Pei Man Xilou did not raise his head and said while reading the book:

“I heard that the day after tomorrow the Imperial City is going to hold a literary fair, which happens to be related to the war in the north. It’s good to make a name for yourself. Xian’er, send word out that I’m going to ask Yunlu Academy’s great scholar Zhang Shen for advice on the art of war at the literary meeting, and I hope he’ll attend the meeting.”

“The great scholar of the Cloud Deer Academy may not take care of you.” Huang Xian’er spoke in a lazy tone.

“The war letter is down, do not come to be cheap for nothing, is not it better.” Pei Man Xilou laughed, then remembered something and said:

“Right, we can’t go up Qing Yun Mountain, we’ll be suppressed if we do. Go find that Xu New Year, I’ve asked around, he’s a student of the Cloud Deer Academy.”

“Yes!”

The young man with vertical pupils became excited, he could feel that Big Brother Pei Man had become “powerful” in the eyes of these people.

Big Brother Bae Man’s plan is going well.

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A wave has not yet subsided a wave rises again, the scholarly community is still studying, copying the “Beizhai Dazhi”, immersed in the vastness of this masterpiece, cold and was Pei Man Xilou to the great Confucian Zhang Shen to ask for advice on the art of war feat to the shock.

What does this barbarian mean?

After slapping the State Elementary School’s face, you’re going to slap the Yunlu Academy’s face next?

This is now lively, for Pei Man Xilou’s approach, the State Council readers are both annoyed and expectant.

The Cloud Deer Academy was not something to be messed with.

That barbarian asked Zhang Shen, the great scholar of Yunlu Academy, for advice on the art of war without knowing his place in the world, and asked for trouble.

They only hoped that the great Confucian scholar of Yunlu Academy would put aside his pride for the time being, and if he disdained and refused the barbarian’s “teaching”, then he would become a stepping stone for the barbarian’s fame.

The Imperial Household, a small court.

Emperor Yuan Jing sat behind the large case, his face coldly sweeping over the ministers below.

“What do the ministers think of the recent events?”

He refers to Pei Man Xilou of course a series of high-profile practices, to learn the system of the Imperial College, throwing the “Bei Zhai Dazhi” famous Confucianism, as well as the desire to teach the great Confucian Zhang Shen in the literary meeting.

“This person intends to make a name for himself in the capital, nothing more than to build up his reputation so that he can add leverage to the negotiations.”

“Hmph, think that the court will back down just because of this? Delusional.”

“Even if he does win against Zhang Shen, we won’t back down by half.”

Emperor Yuan Jing frowned, the more they said this, it just showed that they were becoming more and more scornful of that Pei Man Xilou, treating him as a big shot, as a great scholar.

Once the mindset is out of whack, it shifts over. When negotiating, it suffers.

Negotiating with a boy of no reputation, for negotiating with a famous scholar, can the mentality be the same?

Chief Minister Wang stepped forward and said in a deep voice, “His momentum needs to be stifled, and it would be best to break down his momentum and destroy the sound he has created.”

Emperor Yuan Jing snorted coldly, “And now there is only Zhang Shen to look forward to.”

Wei Yuan shook his head and lost his smile.

………..

Huaiqingfu.

Wearing a plain palace dress, Huaiqing, holding in her hand a volume of the Bei Zhai Da Dian borrowed from the State Prison, reads tirelessly.

Xu Qi’an and Lin’an were sitting at the same table, one with a furrowed brow and the other with a lightly furrowed willow brow.

Mounting took advantage of Huaiqing’s inattention to peel a grape and stuff it into Xu Qi’an’s mouth, who spat out the seeds and asked, “Is this damn book really that godly?”

Huaiqing nodded slightly, without lifting his head, and said, “If Pei Man Xilou had been born in Dafeng, he would have become a generation of famous scholars, and left a name in history.”

Xu Qi’an took a deep breath, ”If this person can make the Bei Zhai Da Dian, he must be well versed in the art of war. If he dares to challenge Zhang Shen, it means that he is quite certain. Zhang Shen’s Six Remarks on the Art of War is widely circulated, this Pei Man Xilou knows Zhang Shen, but the latter does not know him.”

In all fairness, he did not want to see the barbarians benefit, and it is imperative that the Da Bong send troops, but it can not be so cheap northern demon barbarians.

In the past twenty years, the demon barbarians had frequently plundered the borders, burned and killed preceptors, and even ate people. When he was in Chuzhou, Xu Qi’an saw the fleeing people with his own eyes, displaced and sleeping in the wind.

I have also seen the poor families living in misery because of the successive wars.

Looking at the Dafeng, Chuzhou is one of the poorest states, suffering from the sword all year round, all thanks to the barbarians.

Huaiqing pursed her pink lips, and her tone was rare in its gravity:

“Master Zhang, in his early years, used to go to war and then resigned because his career was not going well. He was quite insightful in the Way of War, but that was decades ago after all. In these decades, he has secluded himself in the academy, and I’m afraid he has long since deserted the Way of War.”

Xu Qi’an’s heart sank.

In fact, if you want to talk about the art of war, the only art of war he knew in his last life was Sun Tzu’s Art of War, and not only did he know it, he had memorized it.

Of course, Xu Qi’an himself wouldn’t memorize such things, which belonged to the extracurricular authors explained by the teacher.

After all these years, it’s long forgotten.

Thanks to the fact that after the God Refining Realm, the Yuan Shen produced a metamorphosis and transcended mortals, he was able to recollect the contents of Sun Tzu’s Art of War.

Moreover, Kyushu possessed transcendent power, and in his opinion, this world’s art of war tended to be more wide open and forceful and brute force. For example, a Fourth Grade expert on the battlefield could lie down horizontally on a cavalry made up of ordinary soldiers.

No need to be too tactical.

On the other hand, Sun Tzu’s Art of War, which was born in the mortal world, favors “micro-management” and pays more attention to details.

“You’ll be joining me at the Houtenkai.” Huaiqing said.

“If Zhang Shen attends, Er Lang will definitely have to attend, and it’s not good for me to disguise myself as him.” Xu Qi’an frowned.

“Then disguise yourself as a sidekick and act as my guard.” Huaiqing’s brain was alive and gave advice.

“Good.”

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PS: Took a nap and finally rushed out this chapter, although the update is so late, the word count is full of sincerity.