Chapter 20 Lifetime regrets ()

It has been almost ten days since the Zhongyuan Festival. Since Chen Deshang came to find Xu Changqing once on the night of the Zhongyuan Festival, he took his family to Shanghai on the third day. The reason why Chen Deshang came so late to disturb Xu Changqing was mainly because of the letter he asked Jin Yunpeng to the north. The letter put forward some conditions, one of which was that after the Chen family helped Yuan Shikai regain power, he was not allowed to extend his power to Jiangnan. He felt that he had proposed this letter a bit too much, and believed that Yuan Shikai might not agree, which would lead to the opportunity to reconcile in vain. He was in a difficult mood, so he came to Xu Changqing to ask for his opinions and seek peace of mind.

However, in Xu Changqing's opinion, Chen Deshang's condition was not too much. Even if it was too excessive, Yuan Shikai would agree at this moment. He was now seen by the old lady in the Forbidden City and really needed external assistance to help him. Otherwise, he would not have sent Duan Qirui to find the Chen family, and asked Duan Qirui to send Jin Yunpeng to Guangzhou to seek funding for several powerful merchants. However, Cixi broke out from the battle of life and death, and she remembered Yuan Shikai's small moves. When Duan Qirui left Tianjin, she replaced Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who had a good relationship with the Chen family, and replaced Zhang Renjun as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Zhang Renjun was a Jinshi, and was very capable. He was called a thousand-mile horse. He was a complete royalist. After he became the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he began to suppress the revolutionary party and used this as an excuse to set up various obstacles for Jin Yunpeng, which made those merchants who once expressed their willingness to support Yuan Shikai temporarily change their minds, causing Jin Yunpeng to return in vain. In addition, he also sent the masters assigned by Cixi to him to set up an ambush and assassinate Jin Yunpeng, causing Jin Yunpeng to flee from Guangdong and Guangxi to seek refuge. However, he did not expect that the misfortune was the basis of good fortune. When he arrived at Chen Jiachong, he made him do something that Duan Qirui had not done in person and formed an alliance with the Chen family.

The Meng family has been abandoned by Yuan Shikai, and Cixi's strict defense has made Yuan Shikai not have any masters around him who can watch him, nor do they know that he is a dormant dragon at this moment. Although there are some twists and turns, there will be a possibility of a comeback. Because Yuan Shikai cannot see his future clearly, the Chen family is like a life-saving straw to him. No matter what, he will seize it tightly and he will agree to any conditions, but it is not certain whether he will abide by it afterwards. In fact, Chen Deshang never thought that Yuan Shikai would obediently abide by the conditions in his trust. The reason why he put forward these conditions was just a disguised humiliation of Yuan Shikai. With the strength of the Chen family, even if Yuan Shikai grasped the power of the north, he would never be able to expand his power to the south, and not to mention that there is a revolutionary army in the south that the Chen family was preparing to secretly support him.

After receiving Xu Changqing's advice, Chen Deshang, who was content with peace of mind, led Chen Tao and others and several important concubines to leave Chen Jiachong and headed north along the Yangtze River to Shanghai. One was to do a good job in Chen Tao's marriage, the other was to inspect the industries in the east, and at the same time talked to some Americans about acquiring American industrial factories in Shanghai.

Among the few children of the Chen family, the eldest son Chen Jingguo is responsible for managing the Chen family's overseas industries in Europe in the UK. He has done so well. He married a countess of the French royal family as his wife and entered the upper-class circle in Europe. It is not necessary to say that the second son Chen Fan joined the Revolutionary Army with his passion and became the backbone force. However, his fortune is not good and he was trapped in Guangzhou and failed to do great things. The third son Chen Zhenshan became a tycoon in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and was an alien of the Chen family. The fourth son Chen Zhangping was running in Shanghai and Hong Kong, responsible for all the Chen family's business names and heirs of the future Chen family's Chinese industry. The eldest daughter Chen Huilan is now studying in Japan and studying Western medicine. He has met many enlightened patriots, including Ms. Qiu Jin, a female hero in Jianhu that Chen Deshang and Xu Changqing admire very much.

At the beginning of this year, Ms. Qiu Jin returned to China as the supervisor of Datong Academy. Chen Deshang made a special trip to congratulate him. Xu Changqing even left Chen Jiachong with Chen Deshang to attend the opening ceremony. At that time, Xu Changqing had a long talk with Ms. Qiu Jin about the future trend of the country. He found that Ms. Qiu Jin's view on the current situation was very consistent with the Chinese fortune he observed. There was no trace of Taoism and law. Just based on this, Xu Changqing said goodbye to her with the etiquette of his disciples when he left.

At that time, Xu Changqing found that she was suffering from blood. Unfortunately, because she was concerned about the disasters in the world, her spiritual sense was dusty, and all the methods of fortune-telling lost their original function and failed to calculate her fortune. It was not until the news of Ms. Qiu Jin's arrest reached Chen Jiachong a month ago that Xu Changqing was shocked to realize the seriousness of the matter. Unfortunately, before he and Chen Deshang could rescue her, Ms. Qiu Jin was harmed by the Qing court in Shaoxing. This matter became Xu Changqing's lifelong regret, so that he often sighed that there was another heroine far better than men in China. Perhaps it was precisely because of Qiu Jin's death that Chen Deshang completely lost trust in the Qing court and turned to fully support the revolutionary party.

As for his youngest son, Chen Deshang had no intention of letting him waste his time around him, and was preparing to buy several factories in North America and hand them over to Chen Tao for management. As early as after the failure of the reform, Chen Deshang learned from Xu Changqing that the catastrophe of heaven and earth was approaching, he had planned to open all the industries so as not to be concentrated in a basket. At that time, in addition to expanding European industries, he also invested in dozens of businesses in the United States. After so many years, some investments lost, while some investments made money. This time, Chen Deshang also felt that a big war in China was about to break out, so he followed Xu Changqing's advice and after Chen Tao got married, he asked the couple to go to the United States to take over the industry there to avoid the war.

On the night of the Zhongyuan Festival, after Chen Deshang left, Xu Changqing did not refine the spiritual treasures as planned. For those families, writing articles depends on their mood, while for practitioners, refining a spiritual treasure depends on their mood. Due to Chen Deshang's disturbance, Xu Changqing lost the mood to refine the spiritual treasures. After putting all the refining materials into the sleeves, he began to study the Meng family's search and acupoint-finding technique that he had just obtained today.

Nine-class idle people of all ages have collected a lot of numerology books. Every few generations, a successor who is proficient in numerology will classify these classic books and create a method of deduction of fate that suits his own sect. The first generation of Yizhuang owner accidentally obtained a book of the dragon-seeking and acupoint-pointing technique. He sorted out the dragon-seeking technique in the dragon-seeking technique through the residual version and similar geography Feng Shui classics, and found a hidden dragon cave for the ancestors of the Chen family according to this set of methods. If the owner of Yizhuang could learn the other half of the acupoint-pointing technique of the dragon-seeking technique at that time, then he could point the hidden dragon into a rising dragon, so that the Chen family's fortune could reach the limit of the nine-five, replace the Qing Dynasty, and be in the world. Unfortunately, this hidden dragon cave failed to exert all its power in the end. The owner of Yizhuang could only let the Chen family dig an artificial river flow through the Chen family, forming a long-term flow of water, so that the Chen family could be rich and prosperous for a long time.

It was precisely because the Qianlong Cave was not enlightened that the first generation of Yi Manor owners felt deeply regretful, and before leaving, they also wrote the complete dragon-seeking and acupoint-finding technique that was used to obtain the full version of the dragon-seeking and acupoint-finding technique before leaving. Hu Yueniang was accurate in the persistence of the Yi Manor owners of all dynasties to the dragon-seeking technique that made the relationship between her and Xu Changqing slightly ease. In terms of mastering human nature, Xu Changqing is indeed slightly inferior to Hu Yueniang.

The entire dragon-seeking and acupoint-finding technique is not very long. Except for the first half of the dragon-seeking technique that is only used as a reference, the second half with a picture book is only twenty-eight pages, and Xu Changqing completely recorded it in just one night. The content of the second half of the acupoint-finding technique includes eight acupoint-finding techniques, including dragon, dragon, python, turtle, tiger, southdou, northdou, and three kills. The Yinzhai, which is pointed out by each acupoint-finding technique, plays a different role. In addition, there are three acupoint-breaking techniques and a meridian-observing and qi exploration technique.

For Xu Changqing, obtaining the dragon-seeking and acupoint-finding technique was just to fulfill his last wish. The technique of observing and exploring the qi in the dragon-seeking and acupoint-finding technique that really interested him. The only great method used by the Nine-Rule Idle Man lineage to observe the fortune of heaven and earth is Zhou Tian Lingzhan Dafa. Although this method can accurately grasp the trend of the fortune of heaven and earth, the amount of true golden elixir was consumed, no less than an opponent with a match, and he fought desperately. However, for the Fengshui family of geography, even if there is no support from Taoism, the fortune of heaven and earth can be clearly grasped with the naked eye of the mortal body and a compass. This is the geoscience technique that Xu Changqing has been coveting for a long time.

Xu Changqing drew all night and remembered all the dragon-seeking techniques, and then drew for ten days to test the effect of the meridian-viewing and Qi-Exploration Technique. He also used the Zhoutian Spirit Sign Up Method to confirm whether the results of the meridian-viewing and Qi-Exploration Technique were consistent. The final result made Xu Changqing very satisfied. Although the precise effect of the Zhoutian Spirit Sign Up Method alone could not be achieved, if his own magical purpose was added, his grasp of the direction of Qi-Exploration Technique would definitely not be inferior to the Zhoutian Spirit Sign Up Method. Moreover, the loss of the Jindan True Energy required was only a drop in the bucket compared to the Zhoutian Spirit Sign Up Method.

In order to verify the meridian observation and qi exploration technique these days, Xu Changqing has traveled almost all the mountains around Chen Jiachong. Because of the repeated opening of the divine eyes, the true essence was greatly lost. Fortunately, because of the great merit of the Golden Elixir, the Golden Elixir method has made a breakthrough, which has enabled him to support it. However, what makes him happy is that because the divine objects are frequently opened, he has gradually adapted to the discomfort when opening the divine eyes. With time, after practicing enough true essence, he believes that the divine eyes will open and close easily like ordinary eyes.

The Guandi statue that practiced the Shi Family God's Killing had been sent to Yizhuang three days ago. Because he had been working hard to integrate the Meng family's dragon-seeking and acupoint-finding technique into his own method during this period, he had no time to start practicing the Shi Family God's Killing. This Guandi statue was worthy of being worshipped by the Qing Gang for two hundred years. Almost many of the Qing Gang disciples in all dynasties were desperate people. The fierce aura in his heart was even better than those soldiers who came out of the killing field. This fierce aura from thousands of outlaws also merged into the Guandi statue when worshiping Guandi. When Xu Changqing took over the Guandi statue, he immediately felt extremely painful as if he was cut by a knife, and the statue of open heaven's eyes was surrounded by a layer of blood-red evil spirits. This evil spirit was so thick that it was about to turn into substantial plasma. This Guandi, who was originally righteous, seemed to have become extremely fierce.

Xu Changqing placed the Guandi statue under the Dao map on the side room, and was suppressed by the Dao force in the Dao map to prevent any abnormal movement. After two days of Chen Shishi, the moment when Yin and Yang are in harmony, he can start practicing the first rank of the Shi Family Divine Killing. For Chen Zhenshan, this registered disciple, Xu Changqing was not prepared to let him do things in vain. He picked out the best ten sword and weapon talismans from his Taoist talismans and let the Xinglong people take them back to him. When needed, just burn the talisman paper to ashes and swallow it, within twelve hours. Except for weak doors such as eyes, lower yin and ears, other parts of the body will be invulnerable to swords and guns, and even pistols cannot cause damage.

This is a kind of Taoist talisman that Xu Changqing himself found. The root is the Vajra Talisman of the White Lotus Sect, which is the Vajra Talisman of the White Lotus Sect. According to legend, this divine talisman was created by Tang Sai'er, the Viagra of the White Lotus Sect in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Xu Changqing used the Vajra Talisman to delete some flashy Buddhist golden light curse and added a little spiritual gathering mantra of the Taoist sect, which can only last for less than one hour, and turned it into a sword and weapon talisman that can last for twelve hours. Chen Zhenshan took more than ten pieces when he went to Shanghai, and the Chen family's guardian masters and some Chen family children who were assigned dangerous tasks also liked this kind of talisman very much. He would bring a few every time he traveled, and this kind of sword and weapon talisman became the best sold among the thousands of magic talismans in Xu Changqing's hands.

Unlike other owners of the charity house, Xu Changqing has never used a penny of the Chen family since he took over as the charity house. All his expenses were earned by himself. This is also the only thing Chen Deshang was dissatisfied with Xu Changqing, which made Chen Deshang feel a little distant from the owner of the charity house. Xu Changqing's main source of silver is, in addition to the rewards for helping those corpse-drivers in Xiangxi and other Taoist sects to solve their problems every year, ten life batches during the Spring Festival are also one of his main sources of silver. Many merchants with good relationships with Chen Deshang spend a lot of money to ask Xu Changqing to approve their lives. Each life batch is almost enough for Xu Changqing to spend a year.
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