A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 285 Different ways do not work together

It’s not that Zongze didn’t know that there might still be spies from Liangshan left in the city, but he had no choice but to shoot when the arrow was on the string.

He had tried his best to deceive the spies, but in the eyes of interested people, such a large-scale troop mobilization could not be concealed at all.

What Zongze considered was that Laizhou was adjacent to Mizhou and Weizhou, and if the reinforcements from Liangshan wanted to come over, they would have to cross Yanzhou and Yizhou.

Distant water cannot quench the near thirst. Even if the Liangshan spies send the news, it will still take several days to reach Liangshan.

It will take a few more days for Liangshan to reorganize the army and send troops.

The army is moving very slowly, so it is already remarkable that reinforcements can arrive within a month.

As long as the Song army advances fast enough, it is possible to capture the two states before the Liangshan reinforcements arrive. By then the situation will be reversed. The enemy attacks and we defend, and the defenders take advantage.

But the problem is that he made the judgment based on the situation of the Song Army, but there is still a big difference between Liangshan and the Song Army.

Song Jun's credit was an eight-hundred-mile horse, which was quite fast, but Liangshan's credit was a carrier pigeon, which was faster.

Liangshan had already received the news on the day Zongze set out.

Li Gui was very surprised after receiving the news. Zongze was also a famous general. How could he do such a stupid thing?

"Is this hooded guy out of his mind?"

"It's time for spring plowing. If you don't prepare for plowing, why are you out here?"

Zhu Wu next to him smiled and said:

"My brother doesn't care about details, so I don't know."

"This winter in Liangshan, we have attracted hundreds of thousands of refugees in Laizhou. I'm afraid there aren't even enough farmers to farm in Laizhou, right?"

Li Gui suddenly realized, and at the same time he felt a little itchy in his heart.

This Zongze is a famous person in history, and his character is trustworthy. He might as well capture him and serve as a deputy to Brother Zhu Wu, so that he won't have to work so hard.

After listening to Li Gui's thoughts, Zhu Wu smiled bitterly and said:

"Brother is joking again!"

"That Zongze is a scholar from the Song Dynasty, a serious Jinshi. He never gave up in the difficult situation there in the past few years. I guess he is not a person who is afraid of death."

"In the past few years, Penglai Prefecture has been much better than before under his governance. I think he is also a capable person."

"If such a good man is willing to go up the mountain, I will be willing to give up my position."

"It's just that our Liangshan has offended all the scholars. I'm afraid he will never go up the mountain."

Li Gui scratched his head and realized the problem.

If a scholar like Song Changping had a flexible bottom line, he would definitely not care about his posthumous reputation. Now that he had become a magistrate under Liangshan, he would not even care whether the direct descendants of Kong Shengren were killed and exterminated.

But for a scholar like Zongze... that's hard to say!

If the Song Dynasty was destroyed at this time, and the events of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms happened again in various places, or if the land was full of fishy smells and beasts cannibalized people, as in the original history, then Li Gui might be able to recruit him.

But thanks to Li Gui, the Song Dynasty is now at its peak, and artillery is powerful in all directions. Even Fang La in the south of the Yangtze River has been beaten back in succession. It is only a matter of time before the rebellion is suppressed.

Today, Zongze is only worried about annihilating Liangshan and completely restoring peace to the Song Dynasty. How could he surrender to him?

It's impossible to even die!

"That's it!"

"Let me try it first. If it doesn't work, I have no choice but to kill him!"

Li Gui estimated that Zongze's army should have almost arrived at the junction of Laizhou and Mizhou, so he descended from Liangshan and quickly arrived at the Jiaolai River on the Hot Wheels.

At this time, Na Zongze's army had arrived and was transporting men and horses to the other side of the river by boat.

Denglai Prefecture is always close to the sea and has never been short of ships. Now on the river, there are dozens of ships of various sizes floating on the water.

Some have been loaded with personnel and supplies and are heading to the other side.

However, most of the boats are still floating on the river, waiting in line to dock to pick up people.

Several ships were moored at the pier on the shore, and a group of people were walking chaotically to the ships through the gangplank. What stood out was a chaotic mess.

The men of each team looked at their own soldiers, shouting and cursing loudly, for fear that they would run into the wrong team and stray into other people's ships. From time to time, they would whip a few fools hard with their whips to make them imitate others.

Those big carts like donkeys and horses had to be pulled in front and whipped in the back to get these beasts to board the boat honestly.

The river is turbulent, the water is rippling, and the noisy voices can be vaguely heard across the wide river.

Li Gui looked from a distance and saw the artillery and other items carried on the vehicle, but he didn't care.

The purpose of his trip was that Zongze, nothing else mattered.

As the commander-in-chief of the first army, the high-flying banner with the word "zong" in the name clearly exposed his position. He was in a blue tent on the other side.

Li Gui jumped up, and the Hot Wheels flew straight across the water.

He wanted to show his holiness in front of others, so he never increased his speed to the extreme. Under the circumstances visible to everyone's naked eyes, he drew a white line-like wave on the Jiaolai River and rushed straight to the other bank.

When the boats on the river saw Li Gui appearing and speeding on the water, they were suddenly surprised and started shouting.

Before they could react, Li Gui had already crossed more than ten kilometers, landed on the shore, jumped again, and landed in front of the blue tent.

Li Gui opened the curtain and stepped into the tent amidst the splashing of sand and gravel and the screams of everyone.

There was a discussion in the tent, and a man in military uniform sat behind the table in the middle. There were more than a dozen generals in two rows in front of the table, all wearing helmets and armor and armed with weapons.

Li Gui discovered at a glance that he recognized the guy in the middle!

"Okay!"

"So you are Zongze!"

It turned out that Zongze was the general who commanded the four armies to attack in turns in Tokyo that day, and brought in artillery to bombard him.

When the generals nearby saw the enemy coming, they were immediately frightened. They moved their bodies to block the enemy, and the attackers rushed forward.

Li Gui didn't even try to hide, he just rushed forward. The weapons of the big men he faced fell off or broke, and the people were knocked away. Blood spurted out in the air, and they were dead before his eyes.

After rushing out of the crowd, he saw Zongze also swinging a knife and slashing at his head.

"Haha... Any scholar who dares to kill someone with a knife can be considered a good man!"

As Li Gui said this, he snatched Zongze's saber with his hand, spun around on the spot, and cut off all the remaining generals around him, leaving no one behind.

The blood splashed out in all directions like a waterfall, dyeing the cyan tent black.

Within this solemn and handsome tent, a smell of blood suddenly filled his nostrils, making Zongze's face turn blue.

He looked at the generals who were still alive on the ground, screaming and rolling, and then looked at Li Gui's familiar face, sighed, closed his eyes and waited for death.

When Li Gui saw it, he glared and shouted:

"Don't put on an expression of generosity and sacrifice!"

"I'm not planning to kill you yet!"

"I will take you to various places in Liangshan at some point. I think it will not be difficult for you to know with your knowledge how strong I, Liangshan, am now."

"If someone wanted to seize this world, he would have already destroyed Zhao Ji and occupied Tokyo Bianliang."

"As long as the local gentry is allowed to remain as before, and we open up new schools to recruit scholars, the world will soon return to normal."

"It's just that a certain family doesn't want everything to happen again, so..."

Zongze suddenly opened his eyes and interrupted Li Gui's tirade with a sneer.

"Stop talking here!"

"If you really care about the world, come to the capital with me to see your Majesty. I will guarantee with my life that the imperial court will recruit you."

"At that time, you only need to lead the army to recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun, pacify Liao and destroy Xia, and the world will naturally be settled!"

Li Gui became angry, pointed at him and shouted:

"That foolish king Zhao Ji has ruined such a huge country to this extent. You actually expect him to continue to be emperor, and the world can be better?"

Zongze raised his eyebrows and said proudly:

“The king and his ministers are in order, this is the foundation of governing the world!”

"Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, the one destined by destiny!"

"Although the officials are now deceived by traitors, they are benevolent and filial by nature. As long as our ministers stir up the turmoil and promote the clean, and encourage the good and correct the mistakes, we will be able to correct the chaos and restore the order of the government."

"If you have a fault, I will admonish you!"

"If everyone in the world is like you, ignorant of the rules and doing whatever you want, the world will just repeat the events of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms."

"No matter how powerful you are, you are only a man. There were many men like you a hundred years ago!"

"Humph!"

"I don't want to waste words with an ignorant fool like you!"

"We, the Song Dynasty, have always shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats. As a minister of the Song Dynasty, I should die to repay the kindness of the emperor!"

"Just do it!" "I will watch from the ground. Let's see how many more years you can continue to be arrogant?"

After hearing this, Li Gui felt his heart boiling with fire.

"If everything depends on you guys in turbans, then the city of Tokyo will be captured by the Jin people sooner or later, and the Central Plains will be no better than the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms!"

"Ha..." Zongze glanced at him with a sneer, closing his eyes and saying nothing, his contempt was palpable.

"Hey..." Li Gui was so angry that he couldn't use future history as evidence.

"Straight bitch!"

"Grandpa shouldn't be fooling around with a turban like you!"

"I originally thought that you would be more knowledgeable than ordinary people because of your reputation in history, but now it seems that you are still a scholar!"

Zongze opened his eyes and glanced at him, then closed his eyes again, raised his chin slightly, and raised his lips, as if to say:

"You must have been right!"

"Come and kill me quickly!"

"Reckless man!"

Li Gui was even more angry. He could have strangled this guy to death, but the depression of losing the argument always lingered in his heart, making him depressed and unhappy.

While he was hesitating, a streak of green luck suddenly appeared on a corpse on the ground and fell into his body.

Ok?

Is there another magic star here?

Li Gui's mind turned and he suddenly laughed. He reached out and took out the eight-foot magatama and eight-foot mirror. He threw the cyan luck he just got inside, added the gold and red luck, synthesized the black luck and put it into the eight-foot mirror. In the mirror, he swayed forward.

As soon as the figure flashed, the newly deceased sick Wei Chisun immediately appeared in the tent.

"what?"

"Am I not dead?"

Sun Li touched his body up and down, trembling and excited.

No one who has experienced being cut in half is willing to die again.

Zongze closed his eyes and waited for death, but suddenly heard a familiar voice. When he opened his eyes, he saw Sun Li in front of him.

Sun Li had been his right-hand man since the uprising in Dengzhou and had helped him a lot, so he was very familiar with him. He could tell at a glance that this was indeed Sun Li.

But wasn't Sun Li cut in half just now?

Zongze subconsciously turned his head to look at the side of the tent, and then trembled. He suddenly found half of another Sun Li's body lying miserably on the ground, his intestines and stomach flowing all over the ground, and the blood underneath him stained a large area of ​​the ground red.

Zongze's eyes were dull, and he slowly turned his head, looking at the living Sun Li, and then at the dead Sun Li, feeling a little stupid.

At this time, Sun Li also noticed that Li Gui was still standing in front of him. He subconsciously took a step back and protected Zong Ze. Without looking back, he shouted hurriedly:

"Master, leave quickly, I'll stop him!"

But after he finished speaking, he didn't feel the movement of Zongze behind him, so he couldn't help but turn his head eagerly to urge him, but when he turned his head, he saw his own body, and he became stunned.

"Ha ha……"

Li Gui looked at the stupid look of the two of them from the side, and the bad breath in his heart finally subsided a little.

"Don't doubt it, that's your body!"

"You were killed by a certain family just now, but then a certain family resurrected you!"

"Your body is shaped by the breath of incense, and it is the same as yourself."

After hearing this, the two of them suddenly became horrified, pointed at Li Gui and asked in shock: "Who are you?"

Li Gui laughed and began to deceive.

"A certain one is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui!"

"That foolish king Zhao Ji dared to falsely claim that Emperor Shenxiao came down to earth. That Emperor Shenxiao was an incarnation of the True King of Exorcists."

"He is an ordinary man, but he dares to overstep his identity and falsely claim to be a god. This angered the Lord of Exorcism in Heaven, so he sent someone down to earth to destroy the Song Dynasty!"

"In ancient times, King Zhou offended Empress Nuwa, which led to the demise of the Shang Dynasty. Now, there is Zhao Ji who arrogantly claims the name of God, which led to the demise of the Song Dynasty!"

"This is just a fate, are you convinced?"

Looking at Zongze who looked ashen, Li Gui felt completely happy.

Aren’t you using Confucianism to reason with me, and what you say is clear and logical?

Well, I won’t reason with you now, I’ll talk to you about religion, gods, and heaven!

Reasons must be logical, but religion does not!

You can't prove what I said is wrong!

Just like I can't prove to you that the Song Dynasty will be destroyed in a few years. Two emperors, queens, countless princes, grandsons, princesses, and countless men and women will be kidnapped and become slaves.

Now it's your turn, Zongze, to find evidence to refute me!

How can you prove that what I told is a lie?

I have resurrected the dead for you, isn’t that true enough?

Zongze was speechless and stood there blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Sun Li looked left and right, wondering whether he should pounce and fight, or turn around and lead Zong Xianggong to escape for his life.

The corpse next to him was staring into the void. From this angle, it seemed as if it was staring at himself, which made him feel extremely terrified.

"Zongze, this is heaven's punishment. Song Guohe should be destroyed by me. This is heaven's destiny. Are you convinced?" Li Gui proudly forced Zongze.

Zongze's face turned pale, and what Li Gui had said kept stirring in his mind. After a long time, he spoke bitterly:

"If an official makes a mistake and one person is to blame, why should the common people in the world suffer this disaster?"

Li Gui continued to lie:

"The true king is kind and can't bear the harm to the people, so he ordered me to rule the world. Regardless of the Liao, Xia and Jin kingdoms, everything belongs to my new dynasty."

"In order to prevent any more ignorant and foolish kings from harming the people in the world, a certain person was ordered to establish the True King Sect in this world. He would put his religious power above the power of the king and supervise the kings and ministers in the court. If anyone crosses the line, he will impose divine punishment!"

"God's grace is like the sea, and God's power is like prison. Regardless of whether you are a king or a minister, they will all turn into powder under God's punishment."

Hearing this, Zongze's heart skipped a beat and he blurted out:

"No!"

"There has never been a precedent for a sect to govern a country in this world. If people in the sect use it for their own selfish purposes, the disaster will only be worse."

Li Gui watched his attitude with cold eyes and continued to test:

"The True Lord Sect does not care about the internal affairs of the imperial court. It will only intervene when the imperial decrees are invalid and the people have no way to seek help."

"Still inappropriate!"

Zongze didn't even hesitate and immediately retorted:

"The imperial court has its own rules for rewards and punishments. If the church intervenes, all ministers will be in danger. Officials will not be able to make a living, and they will definitely be lazy in their duties and scramble to shirk responsibility."

Li Gui asked again:

"The teaching materials for Meng children in Liangshan are now based on the teachings of the Zhenjun Sect and have abandoned the Four Books and Five Classics. What do you think?"

Zongze replied:

"I don't know what the teachings of Zhenjun Sect are, but if you don't study the Four Books and Five Classics, how can you understand the principles of the world, and how can you govern the country and the herdsmen?"

"Is it possible that the teachings also teach people how to govern the country?"

After listening, Li Gui nodded and said in approval:

"Everything you said makes sense."

"Sure enough, Confucian scholars can speak eloquently, so a certain family shouldn't talk nonsense with you!"

After finishing speaking, Li Gui stretched out his hand and took off Zongze's head.

"Straight bitch!"

"Sure enough, they are different and do not work together!"

Through the conversation with Zongze, Li Gui realized one thing, that is, the buttocks of all Confucian scholars are crooked.

They naturally represent the interests of the upper class, and they will never allow there to be another powerful person who controls their life and death destiny above the Confucian scholars.

If he recruits Zongze now, in his future work, Zongze will definitely recruit similar Confucian scholars and form a powerful Confucian scholar group in Liangshan, advancing and retreating together, and using various means to push things towards the results they expect. go ahead.

A superficial Confucian scholar like Song Changping might be able to successfully transform himself into a true tool of the Zhenjun Sect.

But for a person like Zongze who has truly engraved the word "Confucianism" in his soul and practiced it personally, it is simply impossible to successfully transform.

Instead of waiting for major surgery in the future when they get bigger, it would be better not to bring him in in the first place.

We have different positions, so it’s better not to forcefully get together!

"It seems that the talents needed by the new dynasty can only be cultivated slowly at home!"

Li Gui sighed, stretched out his hand to take Sun Li back, and turned back to Liangshan, leaving only this group of leaderless soldiers in a mess on the bank of the Jiao Lai River.

(End of this chapter)