Volume 2: The King's Way Chapter 139: Lu Bu's Golden Finger
The black bird destined by heaven landed and gave birth to the Shang Dynasty!
Xuanniao is the totem of the Shang Dynasty.
Lu Bu was born in Bingzhou, and the northern part of Bingzhou. In the "几"-shaped Yellow River, the top horizontal line is even higher than Jiuyuan, which is the Heshuo area!
In the Spring and Autumn Period, this place had little to do with Chinese civilization...
Not to mention Heshuo, when King Wu of Zhou established the kingdom, even the Central Plains was full of barbarians.
King Wu of Zhou granted fiefdoms to seventy-one states, hundreds of vassal states, and nearly a thousand vassal states...
The so-called Fangguo and Fuguo did not refer to fiefdoms granted by the Western Zhou Dynasty, but were local recognitions given to clans that submitted to the Zhou Dynasty.
Judging from the population at that time, these Fang and Fu states were more like clans than "countries".
This is exactly the effect of the feudal system. Each "country" actively cleared out the barbarians in the surrounding and domestic areas. In the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins were basically the legitimate provinces of the Chinese nation. In the early Warring States Period, the situation became even clearer, and small countries had been incorporated into the big countries.
Moreover, in terms of actual controlled territory, the Seven Kingdoms of the Warring States period were several times larger than all the feudal states of the Zhou Dynasty combined. The area to which Jiuyuan belonged was also included under the wings of Chinese civilization by the State of Zhao at this time...
Not to mention the Shang Dynasty, Hetao and Heshuo were both the territories of the Guifang Kingdom. As for who the Guifang Kingdom belonged to, no one could tell, but they had already been integrated into the country anyway.
Lu Bu's strength should be considered as "God-given". His so-called training is all the body-training methods learned in the army, which are completely common stuff. After awakening the armor by himself, he began to practice the training methods that came with the armor.
Here we have to mention the way warriors practice in the world of Cheng Ji. Obviously, the effect can not be achieved by simple "training", but it is not the complicated practice and meditation in the world of high martial arts either...
In the world of Cheng Ji, to awaken the military talisman, one first needs a certain physique - this requires a broad range of cultivation methods, the more advanced ones include some essentials of breathing training, the more superficial ones are just to strengthen the body... and can also successfully awaken the military talisman.
And after obtaining your own military token, it actually doesn’t matter how you trained to become a general before, because along with the armor, you will also have the armor’s “instruction manual”!
It can also be regarded as a method of cultivation, but... in Bai Tu's opinion, these methods of cultivation are very user-friendly, and there are no complicated settings of meridians and acupoints. Compared with the "gongfa" in various high-level martial arts stories, they are closer to "training guides."
Some are text-based, and some are even “videos” that look just like weird radio gymnastics or yoga fitness videos!
Although different people will receive different "instructions", generally speaking, the level of sophistication has a lot to do with the pattern on the back of the military talisman, and it is usually very suitable for the owner of the armor.
The training of military commanders usually involves sweating in the martial arts arena rather than practicing in seclusion in a secret room...
Bai Tu actually also has this kind of practice method, but the "instruction manual" that comes with his wooden and stone armor, which has no patterns on the back, is naturally not an advanced practice method.
In this case, Lu Bu can pass on the training method that he has fully mastered to Bai Tu.
Even in terms of the method of practice, it is difficult to teach it completely, because only the owner of the armor can see the "instructions", and what he demonstrates is only the part he understands, and... what is suitable for him may not be suitable for others!
It’s just that in the case of Bai Tu and Lu Bu, no matter how discounted Lu Bu’s martial arts are, they are still much stronger than the “instructions” of Bai Tu’s White Rabbit Armor.
Lu Bu vaguely remembered that he had an experience of a black bird entering his dream when he was a child. Later, when he was using the most basic military training method to strengthen his body, he would intentionally or unintentionally imitate the black bird.
Later, when he was a teenager, Lu Bu awakened his military talisman for the first time on his own. The pattern on the back of the talisman was the highest level "Qilin", and the "instruction manual" that came with it was also of an advanced level.
By practicing according to the "instructions" of this level of military talisman, Lu Bu improved rapidly, and...gradually Lu Bu discovered that by imitating the "Xuanniao" that had appeared in his dream, he could not only gradually improve the kind of enlightenment method of physical training in the army, but even the instruction manual of the "Qilin" military talisman could be gradually improved.
After Lu Bu was promoted to the gilded military talisman, the pattern on the back of the talisman directly turned into a "black bird" - it was not among the four proper level patterns of dog, bear, tiger, unicorn...
Lu Bu's series of experiences fully qualifies him for the title of "the protagonist of a cool novel", and his golden finger is the "Xuanniao"!
At the beginning, Lu Bu didn't know that his big black bird was a black bird, let alone its relationship with the Shang Dynasty...
Later, after reading some books, I found out that there is indeed some origin - during the Warring States Period, the king of the Zhao State was surnamed Ying, and this branch of the Zhao family was the descendant of the second son of "Fei Lian", a famous minister of the Shang Dynasty.
Fei Lian's eldest son is E Lai...
In other words, the State of Zhao, which incorporated Jiuyuan into the Chinese civilization, was the descendant of the Shang Dynasty!
As for why Lu Bu, who was born in Jiuyuan, had a black bird appear in his dream, it was not something he could guess the reason - there were so many people from Jiuyuan, and other people did not have this kind of "golden finger".
Lu Bu also suspected that it was because of this relationship that when he demonstrated his transcendent posture to Bai Tu, the "Elai" armor might have sensed the aura of the black bird...
Although in the mainstream historical view, King Zhou of Shang was an unforgivable criminal, and stubborn Shang ministers such as Fei Lian and E Lai were treacherous ministers, but... everyone understands that this is not only due to the factor of success or failure, but also because the orthodox Confucianists over-respected Zhou Gong and Zhou rites, and thus the description of the dispute between Shang and Zhou also contained a lot of "free play".
Even with the current status of Confucianism, many historians still cannot stand Confucius's overly subjective and even conjectural way of writing history books about ancient history...
At least to the Shang Dynasty, E Lai was an absolutely loyal minister. After being touched by Lu Bu's Xuanniao aura, he invisibly "pushed" the other party's transformation!
After Lu Bu felt this change, on the one hand, he felt a little annoyed that he had inadvertently helped Cao Cao's men. On the other hand... he was also excited that there was a new candidate opponent worthy of attention!
More than ten days passed before Bai Tu finally understood what Lu Bu was feeling...
It can also be seen here that Chen Gong's "slow wisdom" is not omnipotent - no matter how long it takes, Chen Gong cannot deduce that Cao Cao will force Zhang Xiu to surrender and then rebel because of his "good wife", so naturally he has no idea what happened in Wancheng afterwards...
