Can you live forever

Chapter 10 The Four Realms of Martial Arts

Guixi is not a big city, and labor is much cheaper.

The wages of these wharf workers are only 3 to 4 yuan a day. The current price of rice is [-] stone and [-] yuan, and about [-] to [-] yuan can buy a catty of rice.

If taxes and corvee are not counted, life may be passable, but these two things are bound to be indispensable.

The taxes stipulated by the imperial court are different from those actually collected...

Zhang Zhixiang couldn't change anything, so he could only spend one tael of silver, and found a soup and cake shop at the pier, and asked the shop to give each worker a bowl of offal soup and two pieces of cooking cakes after work was suspended.

Before leaving, Zhang Fushi gave 50 taels of silver, and he was quite well off.

After finishing all this and returning to the ship, the steward of the merchant ship praised with a smile: "Master Xiaodao is kind-hearted, thank you to the handymen at Zheng's wharf."

He is observing himself?

When Zhang Zhixiang was doubtful, the steward had already told the staff that the workers who moved the goods today should give each person an extra ten cents as a reward, which made Zhang Zhixiang quite complicated.

Especially when the workers heard the news, they were very happy to shout and thank him.

"Are you making a name for me?"

Although Zhang Zhixiang has no social experience, he has a clear mind and sees the key point. It's just that when he asks such a straightforward question, ordinary people will inevitably feel embarrassed.

Zheng Rongsheng stroked his beard and smiled, "It's just the difference of half an hour earlier."

"What's more, our Guiyuan Commercial Firm has also gained a good reputation. Where there are workers in the future, those workers will be more serious. This is also beneficial. Speaking of which, we have gained the honor of the leader of the trail. Please don't mind the leader of the trail."

Zhang Zhixiang nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing that he was not in high spirits, Zheng Rongsheng didn't mind, as long as the etiquette is up to it.

His ulterior motives were not in drinking, seeing Zhang Yonghuan coming out of the guest room upon hearing the noise, Zheng Rongsheng went up to greet him, he intended to make friends with this generation of disciple of Tianshi Mansion.

Next is the communication between adults.

Zhang Zhixiang stood on the deck and watched the merchant ship heave anchor and start to move. The pier was getting farther and farther away. Mountains and cities passed by on both sides. He didn't know what mood he was in.

In short, as soon as I went down the mountain, I kind of wanted to go back...

"Do you know why the teacher doesn't teach the way to the little master?" Zhang Yonghuan had stood beside Zhang Zhixiang at some point, and he said looking at the last twilight of the setting sun.

"Brother said I was still young." Zhang Zhixiang said.

Zhang Yonghuan nodded and said: "On the surface it is true, but in fact it is because cultivating the Tao itself is the unity of man and nature. If you don't go into the world to experience life, how can you talk about the unity of man and nature?"

"Cultivating the Tao is not about reading the Taoism books and practicing the exercises, then you can cultivate."

"Since Patriarch Wang Chongyang founded Quanzhen Taoism."

"Jindan Dao pays attention to the integration of the three teachings. Now Mr. Wang Yangming founded the Xinxue, and also pays attention to the integration of the three teachings. Therefore, the concept of practice is also different now. It is no longer the best solution to practice outside the world."

"Patriarch Sanfeng advocated: refine yourself in the world, and accumulate lead in the market."

"That's exactly the reason."

"Traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books is the only way to practice."

"The road from Longhu Mountain to Kyoto is the beginning of my little master's cultivation path."

Zhang Zhixiang nodded as if realizing something.

Zhang Yonghuan is more like a teacher than a Taoist priest. He rubbed Zhang Zhixiang's hair and said, "How about this? The boat ride along the way is boring. How about I teach my little uncle how to practice martial arts?"

"Practice martial arts?"

"Yes, practicing martial arts is more difficult than cultivating Taoism, but you don't have to think so much. Is my uncle willing to learn?"

"Is there no conflict?"

"Patriarch Sanfeng often calls himself a warrior, I don't think there is any conflict."

"Okay then, I'll learn."

Zhang Zhixiang wanted to learn, so Zhang Yonghuan began to teach. I saw this middle-aged man standing there, who was a bit meek like a scholar and a literati, gave people a feeling of Yuan Ting and Yue Zhi. Hit the elbow with a step, and fall with one step, as if the whole deck was shaken, and with one elbow, if there is a stele in front of you, it may be crushed...

"This is Bajiquan, also called Baziquan, which was handed down from Wudang Mountain."

"It is rumored that Shaolin and Wudang had an academic exchange and jointly created this boxing method. Although it belongs to internal boxing, it is fierce and domineering, but it has gathered the essence of Shaolin's external kung fu."

"In fact, there is no distinction between superior and inferior martial arts, whether it is powerful or not depends on the user."

"For example, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin used a set of long punches to beat all invincible opponents in the world, so the essence of martial arts lies in power, not skill."

"You can know this by looking at the four realms of martial arts."

"The four states are: familiarity with hands, no work, obedience to ears, and obedience to the heart."

"Ouyang Xiu in the Song Dynasty had an article "The Oil Seller", in which there was "There is no other, but you are familiar with it". His skill of draining oil is comparable to Chen Kangsu's shooting skill, surpassing the skills of the world. Familiar with the word '."

"The way of martial arts should start from here."

"There is a saying in the "Tao Te Ching": The great sound has no sound, the elephant has no form, and the way is hidden and nameless. Therefore, the epee has no edge, and the skill does not work. Every move does not need deliberate rhetoric. It is not limited to ingenuity, and it is completely natural."

"It's not working if you return to the basics after you are familiar with it."

"Confucius said: At sixty, the ear is compliant, and at seventy, follow the heart's desire without overstepping the rules."

"The Southern and Northern Dynasties Huang Kan's "Lun Yi Shu" quoted Li Chongyun: "Those who are obedient to the ears will know the virtues of the former kings if they listen to the words of the ancestors. "

"Hearing the ear is knowing, and the heart and the ear follow each other. It is said that the ear is compliant. Those who are compliant with the ear are those who know and can do it. It is also the unity of knowledge and action that Wang Yangming said."

"The state of ear compliance lies in the unity of knowledge and action, the body can keep up with what one thinks, and it also lies in the fact that from this stage on, the perception of the warrior can hear the voice of heaven and earth, and he has the ability of mind and eyes."

"The so-called sincerity."

"It means 'do whatever you want without breaking the rules'. The world has its rules, and being able to do what you want within the rules of the world is the greatest freedom."

"Warrior does not have supernatural powers, nor can he fly into the sky and escape from the ground."

"However, just because he can't, he is omnipotent. From the perspective of a martial artist, no spells can directly affect his body. But he himself is a small world, and he can control his body as he likes, and even become immortal."

"It means: all dharmas are not tolerated, and all evils are eliminated. Within an inch, I am invincible."

The four realms of martial arts are very powerful, but Zhang Zhixiang was dumbfounded, and asked: "Fourth uncle, since ten thousand dharmas are no longer acceptable, how can we cultivate immortals?"

Zhang Zhixiang has a high seniority, but he talks about things in his own way.

The older ones are called uncles, and those of the same age are called brothers and sisters. Probably, you call me uncle, and I call you uncle... Zhang Yonghuan is the fourth eldest in the Yongzi generation, so he is called fourth uncle.

"Does little uncle know Ying Ning?"

"Yin Ning?"

"Zhuangzi said: Those who kill will not die, and those who live will not live. As things, they will be everything, and everything will be welcomed; nothing will be destroyed, and nothing will be accomplished. It is called Yin Ning. Those who are in peace are those who are in trouble, and those who are in trouble. "

"Kill without thought."

"I don't use all kinds of methods, but all methods come by themselves."

"Why can't I cultivate immortals?"

Zhang Zhixiang is aware of Jingning. Zhuangzi said that there are three realms in practice, namely: fasting in the heart, sitting and forgetting, and Jingning.

Since the state of mind of martial arts is related to Ying Ning, then Patriarch Zhang Sanfeng calls himself a martial artist, does that mean that Patriarch Sanfeng has already touched the realm of Ying Ning?

Zhang Yonghuan seemed to know what Zhang Zhixiang was thinking, and said with a smile: "That's right, Patriarch Sanfeng has already half-stepped down."

Already half-stepping?What does this mean?
Didn't it ever arrive?

It means... Zhang Sanfeng is still alive?Jiajing five years, isn't that 279 years old?

Zhang Zhixiang felt his throat a little dry: "Patriarch Sanfeng...is he still alive?"

Zhang Yonghuan nodded: "Well, but the [-]-year-old limit is very close. The head teacher said that there is a great heat before the great cold. If Patriarch Sanfeng can cultivate into a true immortal, he may break through the limit and live forever."

Three hundred years old?
In the 42nd year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing granted Zhang Sanfeng the title of True Lord of Qingxu Yuanmiao.gift, posthumous.It seems that the ancestor of Sanfeng did not become a true immortal in history...

(End of this chapter)