Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 120 Great men don't distinguish between right and wrong.
Back at the Dragon God Temple, Liu Changsheng glanced at the pile of paper documents on the table, pondered for a moment, and then handed them one by one to the lively candle flames to play with.

A candle flame carrying a piece of paper wandered halfway around the hearth before the paper vanished without a trace.

After Liu Changsheng picked up the last piece of paper and looked at the report on the appearance of the divine dragon in Tianzhu Mountain, he finally handed the paper to an impatient candle flame.

People find many things mysterious, or think that many people are incredibly intelligent and decisive.

Actually, it's unnecessary. It's just that the perspectives are different, and the information received is different. Just like Liu Changsheng, with a single command, he gained an understanding of Yun Ce's life, coupled with Liu Changsheng's profound knowledge of the world and his deep understanding of Shehuo.

Yun Ce had virtually no secrets from him.

Although Liu Changsheng's understanding of Yun Ce was entirely based on inference and speculation, without any evidence, for someone like Liu Changsheng, what evidence did he need? What he said, what he understood, and what he deduced were irrefutable proof.

The dragon did not appear in Chang'an to be worshipped by the people, but went to the remote Chuyun Prefecture. This was hard for outsiders to understand, but for Liu Changsheng, who had read the history of the entire continent to the point of being extremely familiar with it and who was meticulous about every detail, this was not difficult to understand.

After all, it had happened once before, more than 1,200 years ago. On that occasion, a divine dragon descended upon Haikun Prefecture, and immediately, waves hundreds of meters high appeared there, sweeping across thousands of miles of land.

Later, on the battlefield between the human race and the ghost tribe, an army appeared that claimed to be the remnants of Haikun Prefecture. The leader of this army called himself Huo Qubing!
This time, the dragon appeared in Chuyun Prefecture, and then a savage, initially named Liu Chang'an and later Yun Ce, emerged from the wilderness, appearing before the Han people in a very low-key manner.

In Liu Changsheng's eyes, however, it was as bright as the sun.

The Dragon Ball was lost in Izumo Province, so it must have been taken by Yun Ce.

The Shehuo performance was lost in Chuyun Prefecture, so it must have been taken by Yun Ce.

The first thing was just a suspicion, but the second thing was something Liu Changsheng had personally verified. In this world, no one was more familiar with the ancestral fire and the folk fire than him. As soon as he got close to Yun Ce, he felt the warmth that only the folk fire could give him.

Although he didn't know where Yun Ce had hidden the Shehuo (a traditional folk performance), Liu Changsheng firmly believed that it was on Yun Ce's person.

With the second example as evidence, the first point no longer needs proof. That is, Yun Ce took the Dragon Ball; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to control the Shehuo.

The reason he left the fairyland-like Dragon God Palace was simply to bring back the wandering Shehuo and see if Yun Ce was useful. If he was, he would keep him for the time being and let him develop. If he was not, he would arrange for more beautiful women to him and see if the local women could produce more outstanding offspring after mating with the people from the ancestral land.

In short, this is a rare opportunity, and we dare not waste any of it.

It wasn't until he personally witnessed papermaking and previously unheard-of agricultural techniques at Yunjiazhuangzi that he understood.

Huo Qubing brought a new order to the Han Dynasty: soldiers, war, and new territories.

It now appears that Yun Ce brought new agricultural techniques to the Han Dynasty, new inventions from the ancestral land, or perhaps even more methods of governance from the ancestral land.

These are very important, even more important than the emperor's life.

Therefore, Liu Changsheng gave all the information related to Yun Ce to the Candle Flames to play with.

"Elder, Consort Yu requests an audience."

Liu Changsheng, who was playing with the candle flame, darkened his eyes. He then placed his hand on the little Taoist boy's head. After a moment, he shook his head helplessly and said to the little Taoist boy, "Qingfeng, you have been cultivating for quite some time. It's time for you to go down the mountain."

The young novice raised his tear-streaked face, knelt before the high priest, and said, "I just feel that if I don't do some things, I won't be happy."

Liu Changsheng smiled gently and said, "You are not wrong. The one who is wrong is Consort Yu. She should not have stirred up your longing for your mother. Let Consort Yu in, and then you can go down the mountain."

The young Taoist kowtowed three times in succession, then turned and left the Divine Dragon Palace, seemingly without any attachment to the place.

When Consort Yu entered, the High Priest once again leaned lazily against the fire pit, unwilling to move for a long time, like an old cat that had reached the end of its life.

"I want Xiao Huo Qing to establish his own residence and military headquarters in Chang'an, to recreate the former Huo Prince's Mansion." Consort Yu knelt at Liu Changsheng's feet, using the gentlest voice to express her most unreasonable request.

"You still devoured the essence left behind by Huo Qubing. Don't you know that it was Huo Qubing's way of giving himself a chance to return to the human world?"

Consort Yu knelt down again and whispered, "I want to hurry. If I go any slower, my beauty will be gone."

The high priest smiled, raised his hand, and pointed at Consort Yu with his golden mallet, saying, "Spirit and soul transformed into essence. You think Huo Qing is Huo Qubing? Have you never considered that you conceived him and gave birth to him, making you his mother?"

What does a mother's beauty have to do with her son?

Consort Yu raised her head, her face beaming with a smile: "We are ultimately different." The High Priest watched the Ancestral Fire and the Folk Fire for a while before slowly saying: "Harmony is the most important thing. What we need is to be the same, and to be able to accept what we can accept as heresy."

Huo Qing was born from you, so he is your son. He is Huo Qing, not Huo Qubing, and certainly not the lover you have longed for all these years.

Go ahead. Since you've already chosen to leave, don't come back and cause trouble for others. That will only make people dislike you.

Furthermore, since you possess 70% Guifang blood, you should be a Guifang member. To be welcomed by the people of the Han Dynasty, you should properly conceal your identity instead of constantly using the unique charm of the female Guifang members to seduce others and achieve your goals.

This is disrespectful to yourself, and also disrespectful to all human life.

Consort Yu grabbed the hem of the High Priest's black robe and said, "Since the Grand Elder knows my background, why has he indulged me so much all these years?"

The high priest laughed and said, "As I get older, I want to see some different scenery. I'm very interested to see just how much of a role your charm, which surpasses all the other female demons, can play in the Great Han."

The High Priest smiled gently, but his words were cold and ruthless. Consort Yu knew that the High Priest had said everything he could, and saying anything more might only provoke his displeasure.

He then kowtowed, got up, and left.

After Consort Yu left, the High Priest sighed, hugged the golden mallet, leaned against the fire pit, and drifted off to sleep. Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly opened his eyes and called out loudly, "Is Mingyue here?"

After calling out three times without receiving a response, the High Priest smiled slightly and said softly, "Why do so many people think that the world revolves around you?"

Qingfeng and Mingyue, the two young Taoist boys, were orphans he had adopted. He never expected that they would both be kidnapped by Consort Yu today.

The high priest didn't get angry. After muttering something for a while, he leaned against the fire pit and fell asleep. Whether he was dreaming or not, the corners of his mouth were turned up very high.

"Yes, Eji is the best. Not only should everyone in the whole village revolve around you, but everyone in the whole world should revolve around you."

Yun Ce praised E Ji again and again.

In just over ten days, Eji not only made a lot of money by selling paper with her whole family, but also took the opportunity to buy the mountain behind her house for grazing cattle.

The Yun family estate expanded its territory by ten miles in an instant, and Eji's achievements were outstanding.

Eji not only accepted Yun Ce's shameless praise without question, but also further believed that there was still much room for optimization in the personnel structure of the Yun family manor.

The room for improvement she was referring to wasn't about firing people, but rather that family members could have more responsibilities and do more work. It's just a matter of sleeping more or less. If the quality of the food is improved, these people will still enjoy working.

After hearing Eji's further optimization results, Feng An and Liang Kun were furious. Eji wanted them to not only continue overseeing the construction of more courtyards, but also to consider the development and application of Chicken Shit Mountain, because Yun Ce had said that Chicken Shit Mountain was a treasure trove.

Since it is a treasure, its value should be developed.

"Look, this is what your wife arranged for us: how to turn this mountain of chicken droppings into money."

Yun Ce glanced at the furious Feng An and Liang Kun, then pointed at the paper they had brought and said, "Aren't they refining saltpeter around Chicken Shit Mountain? That stuff is a treasure."

“Cash, your wife wants cash. She thinks there’s a lot of sodium sulfate stored at home that can be converted into cash. She even mocked the two of us, saying that we spent so much manpower to turn a mountain of chicken droppings into a mountain of sodium sulfate.”

Yun Ce smiled and reassured the two head stewards of the household, "Don't make a fuss. Next year, the family will have even more land. Chicken Shit Mountain will disappear soon."

Feng An pondered for a moment and said, "I know the patriarch wants to use the chicken manure to fertilize the fields, but the chicken manure has accumulated over the years, and the bottom layer has turned into stone. How can we use that to fertilize the fields?"

Upon hearing that part of his chicken manure mountain had been turned into phosphate fertilizer, Yun Ce could not hide his joy. He grabbed Feng An's hand and said, "Now find someone to smash the rocks at the foot of the chicken manure mountain. Also, keep watering the mountain so that more mirabilite can be extracted."

Listen to me, you two. Chicken Shit Mountain is truly a treasure mountain. You'll understand that in the future.

Feng An hesitated for a moment and then said to Yun Ce, "The Lantian County government is selling off government slaves. Should we buy some?"

Yun Ce frowned and said, "I don't really like using slaves."

Liang Kun sighed and said, "No matter what, we were able to establish ourselves in Lantian County thanks in large part to Magistrate Lin Weizhou. Now that his family has been raided and sold off, we should at least help him out and prevent his wife, mother, and sisters from being humiliated."

(End of this chapter)