Chapter 47 Talisman

Together with the talisman, Zhao Yu did not delve into it deliberately in the illusion of Tian Yanjing. But in the illusion, Zhao Yu almost reached the top of the avenue. Under the high roof, he also understood the way of talismans in the illusion.

In today's real world, everything in the illusion is mostly false and less real. But Zhao Yu combined the real principles and gradually compared and refined them, and he had already gained something.

Talismans were used in the mother furnace for steelmaking in the past.

Talisman is a means of borrowing foreign objects to draw the power of heaven and earth for one's own use. The foundation of heaven and earth lies in the five elements. Therefore, the Tao of Talisman refined by Zhao Yu is the Tao of Talisman based on the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

These five yuan talismans are extraordinary and are the basis of the talisman. Any subsequent changes will not depart from this framework. At least in Zhao Yu's current understanding, this is the case.

He picked up a piece of jade, concentrated his mind and energy, and integrated his spiritual consciousness into the heaven and earth, sensing the inspiration of heaven and earth, and pulling the energy of heaven and earth. I saw his fingers shaking, a little magic power flickering, and in the blink of an eye, a crooked but extremely mysterious rune appeared on the jade stone.

No matter who this rune is, even a newborn baby can understand its meaning - earth.

This is the Earth Element Talisman, one of the Five Elements Element Talisman.

As soon as the runes were completed, a faint yellow glow appeared around them, and like a long whale sucking water, it was submerged into the jade tablet.

Zhao Yu's mind and hands did not move, his spiritual consciousness was spread within a radius of tens of feet, sensing the changes in Yuan Qi and the jade tablet bit by bit.

Suddenly, snap!

Zhao Yu's palm trembled, and a clear crack appeared on the jade token in his hand.

Wisps of yellow Qi escaped from the cracks, boiling and settling on Zhao Yu's fingertips. Then the jade tablet turned into powder, while Zhao Yu's fingers turned earthy yellow.

Shaking his head, his magic power shook, and the yellow energy on his fingertips dispersed. Zhao Yu sighed: "It's not easy."

Even for Zhao Yu, it is not easy to make a Yuan Talisman.

The possibility of failure is high.

What Zhao Yu wants to arrange is the Four Symbols and Five Elements Formation. The other courtyard is a five-element array, and the three hills are arranged with the four alternating passes as the eyes of the array, and a set of four-elements array is arranged. It is said that it is more appropriate to set up a three-talent formation, but the three-talent formation is more difficult.

The three talents are heaven, earth, people, and the sun, moon, and stars. The three talents of heaven, earth, and people are related to luck, while the three talents of sun, moon, and stars are related to inducing star power. Now Zhao Yu is still unable to cope.

It’s not that the three talents are more powerful than the four images and five elements, but the secrets involved are different. Zhao Yu hasn't delved so far yet.

Ma Ma Hu Hu first set up a four-image array and used it temporarily.

The Five Elements Formation requires a set of 45 basic talismans, and the Four Elephant Formation requires 36 talismans, for a total of 81 basic talismans. Moreover, the base talismans of the Four Symbol Formation are more complicated.

Zhao Yu didn't even know if one month would be enough to make the eighty-one formation basic talismans.

After all, the success rate of making talismans is far from 100%.

In addition to the formations in other courtyards, talismans are also used to control the river.

Floods in large rivers are caused by mud and sand. The accumulation of sediment causes the soil Qi to block the water Qi, thus causing flooding. Zhao Yu planned to make the Earth Gathering Talisman, a variation of the Earth Element Talisman, and bury it along the river. Use the Earth Gathering Talisman to form an Earth Gathering Formation to draw the Earth Qi away from the river, thus solving the problem of water Qi blocking.

Of course, this is also a way to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause, and is essentially not much different from building embankments along the river. To fundamentally solve the river flooding problem, we must start from the upstream.

Zhao Yu doesn't consider it for the time being.

Therefore, there are many talismans that Zhao Yu wants to make.

So in the earth courtyard, there is occasionally fire light, occasionally water light, and occasionally green light, and the five elements and colors complement each other.

In the wooden courtyard, Zhang Lingzheng and Cai Yan were talking in a low voice.

"The lingering sound lingered for three days without stopping. Sister Zhaoji's music is truly superb."

Zhang Ling's eyes flashed with excitement: "Can you teach me?"

Cai Yan smiled sweetly: "Okay."

For Cai Yan, the only pleasure nowadays, apart from reading, is playing the piano.

If I don't play a few pieces of music every day, I always feel like something is missing.

Xiaochun, Xiaoqiu, Xiaoya and Xiaoyu, the four girls were standing by, resting their chins on their hands, listening with great enjoyment.

Zhang Ling may also be an extremely simple person, or she has never been exposed to anything other than Taiping Dao since she became sensible. Although this has cultivated her extremely indifferent state of mind, in fact, this state of mind is very fragile because she has never experienced the training of the world of mortals.

After lunch, she chatted with Cai Yan, and then listened to Cai Yan playing the piano in the wooden courtyard. She felt something about it and thought it seemed interesting.

For women, perhaps no matter ancient or modern times, men will always be mentioned when talking in private.

So we talked about Zhao Yu.

The two expressed their feelings, one said that he was captured by Zhao Yu, and the other said that he was forcibly taken out of Chang'an City by Zhao Yu. For a while, you complained and I complained, but in fact, only they themselves know best what is going on. .

As for Lao Zhang, Wang Po, and Uncle Cai, they are also very free. Wang Po is fine, she has nothing to do and is a female celebrity. It’s hard to talk about Uncle Cai and Lao Zhang. Although Uncle Cai is also a servant, he is an old servant who has been with Uncle Cai for decades, and his cultural quality is not low. As for Lao Zhang, he is a pure ordinary citizen who cannot read a single Chinese character.

However, this courtyard was cold and there were no more people to talk to, so Uncle Cai asked Lao Zhang to play chess. Lao Zhang didn't know how to play chess, so Uncle Cai taught him, and he was enjoying himself.

Wang Po’s son, daughter-in-law, and grandson are a separate entity. The vegetable plot in the other courtyard is the main business of Mrs. Wang’s son’s family. There won't be anything to do.

Guan Hai and more than 20 people were taken away by Guan Hai in the afternoon to find fruit trees for Zhao Yu. The rest, led by Guan Ming, patrolled back and forth around the courtyard without being lazy. In the next month, Cao Mengde took the time to come twice.

But each time I only ate one meal and left. Zhao Yu didn't have time to entertain him.

Over the past month, Cao Mengde has gradually taken complete control of Yanzhou. Many government decrees have been promulgated, and farming, commerce, public security, etc. are all in order.

With a talented person like Xun Yu in charge of governance, a mere Yanzhou could be easily captured.

However, because of Cao Mengde's governance philosophy, he gradually began to have nasty conflicts with the powerful family in various aspects. Cao Mengde first wanted to conduct a census of the population and land. This first point was met with resistance overtly and covertly. Fortunately, Xun Yu had good methods and finally carried out the plan.

On the other hand, it is business affairs, specifically taxation. To sort out Yanzhou, population, land, and taxation are fundamental. But these three points are all in the interests of the powerful family. The population is okay, it’s not unusual for refugees to be everywhere now. Mainly land and the taxes related to it are contrary to the wishes of the family members.

Which of the aristocratic families does not have vast tracts of fertile land? Does anyone have any money-making business? Since the rise of the clans, the Han family has gradually lost control of the local area. Various taxes, which the clans and clans have concealed, have not paid, and all taxes have been borne by the common people. This is especially true for business affairs.

In addition, in terms of public security, many powerful people have been arrested for breaking the law.

This also made the clan complain quite a bit.

They have become accustomed to only enjoying rights and not taking on obligations. Of course it is not that simple for Cao Mengde to break ground at his age.

Throughout the original history of the late Han Dynasty, Cao Mengde was the only one who was betrayed by his subordinates and almost lost his foundation. Here's why. Cao Mengde has great ambitions and knows where the world's major troubles lie. If he wants to fundamentally solve this problem, he must naturally touch the pain points of the wealthy class.

As for Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, they relied on aristocratic families and had huge power, but in fact, they never worked on the roots. Even Liu Bei relied on his family members after entering Shu and did not dare to take action.

Cao Mengde dared to take action, so he was betrayed.

It's sad to say. After Cao Mengde suffered this big loss, he probably got scared and no longer dared to go overboard. Later, a nine-level Zhongzheng system was even introduced to compromise with the clan.

After all, the family is powerful, but even if it has the intention, it is powerless.

But now, Zhao Yu supports him. A set meal was also prepared for the powerful family, and Cao Mengde was gearing up for a big fight.

In the middle of this month, Cao Mengde came over twice, more or less, to discuss this issue with Zhao Yu. It mainly depends on the degree of control. The degree to which you should use to stimulate the family members must be just right. They rebelled only when they were expected to rebel.

Take the initiative into your own hands.

The biggest trump card against aristocratic families is to break the monopoly on knowledge. Therefore, in addition to the above, Cao Mengde came here twice to ask how the compilation of enlightenment books was going. Zhao Yu was so troubled that he had to give him movable type printing first.

As for enlightenment books, aren’t they simple?

The Three-Character Classic, the Thousand-Character Essay, and the Disciple Rules are the best enlightenment books. Just change it a little and copy it.

Of course, these are not the only enlightenment books that Zhao Yu wants to prepare. He also plans to compile two books on basic arithmetic and basic physics. For the time being, he is busy making talismans, and will do this again when the talisman is finished.

A month later, when Cao Mengde came for the third time, Zhao Yu took out all these, and Cao Mengde was amazed and applauded.

By this time, the other courtyard's formation had been completed.

Eighty-one talismans entered the formation holes that had been reserved early, and Zhao Yu used his magic power to form the formation. Under the influence of the formation's activation of the five elements of Yuan Qi, the entire courtyard gradually underwent wonderful changes. It is obviously the end of winter, but the temperature is gradually warming up, just like the transition between spring and summer.

The fruit trees that Guan Hai and others had just planted began to appear green. Flower buds popped up one after another, and they bloomed around the time of the new year. On the three mountains, the bustling woods are beginning to return to spring.

At the same time, the dense mist shrouded these three mountains, giving people a feeling of being in a fairyland.

After the Lantern Festival in 193, one hundred young people in their twenties who were from civilian backgrounds selected by Cao Mengde were sent here personally. Then Cao Mengde took away hundreds of earth-gathering talismans and a drawing prepared by Zhao Yu for him. The drawing is a topographic map of the banks of a large river in Yanzhou, and it indicates the location where the Earth Gathering Talisman was buried. This matter must be handled by Cao Mengde's cronies and cannot be left to others.

Once these hundreds of earth-gathering talismans are buried, and the talismans react with each other, a group of earth-gathering formations will be constructed along the river. From now on, Yanzhou will no longer be affected by floods.

The magical effect of the Earth Gathering Talisman is extraordinary. Gathering soil gathers soil, absorbing the soil energy in the sediment flowing down the river, forming an undercurrent along the river. This undercurrent will attract the sediment, bring the sediment to the river bank, and gradually accumulate it. If it lasts long enough, it can even form a mountain range along the river bank!