A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

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Hearing this answer, Zhang Yugong asked doubtfully, "Don't worry about the royal family?"

Gu Qing sneered and said: "You don't have much time with me, most of the time you are by Yang Sheng's side, there are some things you don't understand, do you think the royal family is really afraid of the power of the Green Gang? In fact, what the royal family is most afraid of is I'm just Gu Qing."

"I understand." Zhang Yugong said with a frown.

"Capture the thief first and capture the king. This is a very simple truth." Gu Qing looked at the wild flowers blooming on the roadside and said, "As long as I, Gu Qing, don't have a knife in my hand, the royal family will give me absolute wealth. Wealth and honor will be given to me by the royal family, but once I hold a knife in my hand, my path will come to an end, either the world will be in chaos, or the royal family and I will fight to the death, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers."

Hearing this, Zhang Yugong's eyes were downcast.

"Don't think about whether it's worth it or not." Gu Qing said to Zhang Yugong, "I never thought of being an emperor, nor did I think of being a person who would rule the world. I'm just a layman. It’s just that, living an unbearable life, let that kid Gu Xiao do whatever he wants, as for the people under our original command, just be careful not to let those backbones come in.”

"Yes." Zhang Yugong said.

"The Green Gang is a beast I raised. Many of the people who were dismissed at the beginning have ambitions, and their hearts are the same. No one wants to be driven by others for the rest of their lives." Gu Qing whispered to Zhang Yugong: "Look for someone Also look for people who are far away from the core of the Green Gang, and those people should not have too much contact with Gu Xiao, that kid is still young."

"I see."

While Zhang Yugong was talking to Gu Qing, Gu Xiao had already found Yang Sheng.

"Uncle Yang, what about farming?" Gu Xiao looked at Yang Sheng who was working in the field.

Yang Sheng waved his hoe and said, "If you don't farm during this time, you won't have anything to eat next year."

"It's okay, our family has enough to eat." Gu Xiao said standing on the edge of the field.

Yang Sheng knew that Gu Xiao would not be idle when he was looking for him, but he just came to talk to him, so he sat down on the edge of the field with a hoe and said, "Tell me, what do you want me for?"

"It's like this." Gu Xiao whispered, "My little nephew, if I want to start my own business, I need manpower to do business, right?"

"That's right." Yang Sheng nodded.

"Uncle Zhang used to have a group of people under his command, right?" Gu Xiao then asked.

"Yes." Yang Sheng still nodded.

"What did those people do before?"

Hearing Gu Xiao's question, Yang Sheng looked at Gu Xiao in surprise. He knew exactly what those people under Zhang Yugong were doing. At the beginning, Gu Qing built a large group of forces in order to fight against the imperial power. This force is so large that it can compete with the imperial power, and all the troubles in Chang'an are in the eyes. Some of this force is dedicated to inquiring about news, and some of them can go south and north along with them.

The entire Green Gang is divided into open lines and dark lines, and the forces in Zhang Yugong's hands are part of the dark lines.

It is also the darkest side of the Qing Gang. Those people sometimes follow Gu Qing to fight.

The first thousand and forty-two live out their own appearance

Especially the group of people in Zhang Yugong's hands, it can be said that they were established in the bloody wind, everyone smelled of blood, and those people were more terrifying than half of the ordinary soldiers. People are trained to carry a murderous aura all over their bodies. These murderous auras are all practiced on the battlefield, and they are also the sharpest side of the Qing Gang.

After Li Shimin abdicated, Gu Qing cut his own wings and retreated this power.

Looking at Gu Xiao's eyes, Yang Sheng stroked the stubble on his chin and said, "Those people are all doing dirty work, why do you ask this?"

"Dirty work?" Gu Xiao looked at Yang Sheng and said, "What kind of dirty work?"

"You don't need to ask any more questions. Anyway, those guys kill people without blinking an eye. You'd better stay away from them." Yang Sheng said in a low voice.

Gu Xiao nodded, feeling a little bit certain about his thoughts.

"There are some people and things, you don't need to know now, I will tell you what I did with your father back then." Yang Sheng said with a smile: "You are the eldest son who wants to inherit Gu Qing's family business, your father came here The ten years in Chang'an have stirred up the world, and you have been with your father for so many years, but you, Uncle Yang, don't even know what your father is sticking to, what he wants to achieve."

"But what I know is that there are some roads that some people may not be able to finish in this life, and people in future generations need to continue walking." Yang Sheng patted Gu Xiao on the shoulder, "You have to continue walking the road left by your father, always Until you can't walk on this road, it's like a kind of inheritance, of course, you won't be the only one who will go down the road of your father."

Gu Xiao listened very carefully.

Yang Sheng said again: "Since your father built this academy, your master's teacher Fang Xuanling said that how many Gu Qings will appear in the Tang Dynasty in the future. You will not be alone on this road, there will be many, many People are with you, your father came to Chang'an for more than ten years, built an academy, and built a factory. Although I don't know what your father will bring to the world, I just know that the days of Qianshou in the world are changing day by day. That's all right."

"Old Master Kong Yingda said these things to me before." Gu Xiao said ignorantly.

"You don't want to get too close to those people in Zhang Yugong's hands. Some things can only be told to you when you grow up." Yang Sheng said to Gu Xiao: "If you still have any guesses about your father, you can Go ask an old man in the village, Fang Xuanling, he is your father's teacher."

"I see."

Yang Sheng watched Gu Xiao leave, lowered his head and continued to work in the field, waved his hoe a few times and then looked at Gu's family, heaved a long sigh and continued to work in the field.

Gu Xiaoyou walked in the village and came all the way to Fang Xuanling's house. He had seen this old man several times since he was a child, but he knew that his father respected him very much, but he had never had any contact with this old man.

Fang Xuanling, who was sitting at home reading a book, also noticed Gu Xiao standing outside his door, put down his book and said, "Boy, come in, aren't you tired standing outside?"

"Oh." Gu Xiao walked into Fang Xuanling's home, sat obediently on the side and said, "Are you my father's teacher?"

Fang Xuanling nodded, "Although this old man is your father's teacher, I haven't taught your father anything."

"Boy, I have a problem." Gu Xiao whispered.

"You ask." Fang Xuanling said while drinking tea

Gu Xiao looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "I am the eldest son of the Gu family. I want to inherit the family business left by my father, but what is it that I really want to inherit? Teacher Kong Yingda said that what I really want to inherit is my father." The concept established, Uncle Yang Sheng said that what I want to inherit is that my father wants to walk the road."

Fang Xuanling smiled and said to Gu Xiao: "It's just some cause and effect left by your father, why should you care so much?"

"I care!" Gu Xiao said stubbornly, "I care about what kind of person I will become in the future."

Fang Xuanling said again: "I never said what kind of person you will become, but what kind of person you want to be. Why impose all this on yourself, you are only a ten-year-old child."

"You all look down on me and don't want to tell me." Gu Xiao said stubbornly.

"Some things are not told to you to protect you." Fang Xuanling looked at Gu Xiao and said, "You are not your father, you have never seen the darkness your father has seen, you have not seen the mountain of corpses your father has experienced The sea of ​​corpses, in several wars with the outside world, when your father went to war several times, the blood flowed outside the pass became a river, and the corpses were everywhere. The smell of blood still lingers under the Yanmen Pass, and now under the Potala Palace in Tubo, buried Countless bones, if you have the same experience as your father, you will know what your father's real goal is."

Fang Xuanling went on to say: "These military achievements are outstanding military achievements to outsiders, but only your father knows, the feeling of killing people like hemp, the feeling of standing under the bloody wind, if there are some things that everyone will I don't want to explain it to you, they all just want to protect you, in a peaceful and prosperous world, you don't have to go through those terrible scenes anymore."

"What was the situation back then?" Gu Xiao asked.

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "At that time, many people did not have enough to eat or wear clothes, and many died of starvation. Your father was just a boy when he came to Chang'an, but at that time he Then they went to war. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was not so powerful. It was surrounded by powerful enemies. The Turks wanted to go south, and the Tubo was ambitious. That's when your father picked up the knife."

"Sometimes I think about whether he is fighting against this world, sometimes I think about whether he has compromised now, and if I think about it carefully, maybe he has never stopped fighting." Fang Xuanling said to Gu Xiao: "You are now You are still young, your father will tell you when you grow up."

At dusk, Gu Xiao left Fang Xuanling's house, went home to have dinner, came to the laboratory again, opened the secret room and walked into this secret room, standing here alone and watching everything here, this is the most special thing about the Gu family One location, Gu Xiao looked at everything here, holding a mobile phone that could no longer be turned on, and a rusty pistol.

Gu Qing also came to the secret room, looked at his son's lonely expression and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Father, have you killed many people before?" Gu Xiao raised his head and asked Gu Qing.

Sitting next to Gu Xiao, Gu Qing said: "I have killed so many people that I can't even count them. It's not easy to live, and it's even more difficult to live out what you want in this era."

Chapter 43 Father and Son Conversation

Gu Xiao raised his head and said, "Then what kind of person does father want to be?"

Gu Qing looked at his son and said: "I want to be a free person. Of course, it is a very stupid thing to talk about freedom in this era. Many times when I look at this village, I have a strange feeling, like A fragile utopia that could easily be shattered."