Chapter 156: The Early Winter Thunder Shock Goes Down the Mountain
In the cold and quiet palace, after the autumn rain, the autumn wind brushes the autumn leaves, this dynasty’s newest imperial consort Yan Dongwu sits under the sycamore tree, giving that mother-in-law of the world to say some anecdotes of the marketplace alleys and lanes, no taboos, mother-in-law-daughter-in-law relationship of harmony, far beyond the palace outside the imagination. The northern Liang just by Xu Weixiong pressed a head of the great talent woman laughed and said to the red leaves of the poem, the gentle and courteous elegant Prince immediately picked up a piece of just drift down less than sweeping away the sycamore leaves, a serious stood up and bowed and said: “also ask the lady to make a poem on behalf of the pen a poem, I’ll give the lady grinding.”
Sitting on the side of the Empress Zhao Zhi Feng Guan Xiapi, although the appearance is flat, but extremely dignified and elegant, deeply respected by the emperor, so many years has been respect for each other as a guest, diligence, Zhao’s son of God occasionally interest, but also hand-drawn eyebrows, as for Zhao Zhi’s governance of the harem of the wrists of the just and soft, can really let all the favored ladies feel creepy, not long ago there was a lady to the Cold Palace in the Palace of the Changchun every day, the Queen’s son, the Queen’s son, the Queen’s son, the Queen’s son, the Queen’s son, the Queen’s son and the Queen’s son. To tears, secretly spent three hundred taels of gold to buy a rhetoric extremely lingering sentimental poetry, in the end, even the Queen personally sent to His Majesty, the results speak for themselves, honestly in the Changchun Palace to stay in the people old and yellow it.
Zhao Zhi looked at the small fight between the royal concubine, the corner of the mouth slightly curved up, glared at this is regarded as all the royal son of the most no ancestor sharp son, not angry since the authority, just the tone of words gently leaked the sky, “not a positive line, than their daughter-in-law poor talent a big cut, do not know to forge ahead.”
In the capital has a reputation for elegance of the prince face helplessly said: “women without talent is virtue, mother, you should teach Dongwu only right ah, she this full of talent, when a State Crown Prison priest or Huangmen are more than enough.”
Yan Dongwu also glared at this mouthy husband like Zhao Zhi and pinched him under the table.
Zhao Zhi reached out and slapped his son’s forehead, “Are you pointing a finger at me? Or are you cursing me and Dong Wu together?”
When the prince smiled, his handsome face would overflow with a warmth that would make people heartfelt, very warm and mellow and intoxicating, such a refined man, coming from an imperial family, was really able to make the capital city’s great ladies madly rushing to him, when he married Yan Dongwu, a woman from Beiliang, and on the other hand, this woman was also the daughter of a civil official from Beiliang, which was really unbelievable to the whole capital city. But the fact proves that the two are perfect for each other, Yan Dongwu appeared in the palace banquet several times, can not pick a fault, so that many of the power of the capital for a long time the old fox are doubly gratified. The prince held Yan Dong Wu’s cool little hand, facing the empress Zhao Zhi, laughed: “all scolded, two na, are extremely talented, but also I do to the mother of the shame of the wimp, in the world’s most beloved two women, impartial, in the mother here, more love mother some, back home, more love some of the mother.”
Zhao Zhi snickered, “If this is heard by Fengya, let’s see how you end up!”
The prince sighed with a sour heart, “This dead girl, it’s really a white heartache for twenty years, in these years looking for imperial brother much more often than me.”
Zhao Zhi’s face was calm as he said, “In the future, when she marries someone and suffers some aggravation and bitterness, she will know who really cares for her.”
The prince shook his head and said, “I can’t let her suffer, how heartbreaking.”
Zhao Zhi laughed again, “Your daughter-in-law is still here, talking is also not over thinking. There is no pain sister pain for life, say rely on your heart pain is useless.”
Yan Dong Wu softly said, “Princess Sui Zhu’s nature is really good.”
Zhao Zhi nodded.
The prince reached out to hold a piece of yellowish fallen leaf and lamented, “The sky is cool and good in the fall yo.”
The overcast sky unexpectedly rolled with thunder without warning.
The prince frowned and said, “It sounds like winter thunder.”
Zhao Zhi, who likes a clean field of vision, gently brushes away a sycamore leaf that has just left the branch on the desktop, and raises his head and squints to look to the west.
The Emperor listened to the thunder and laughed as he quietly threw away the autumn leaves in his hands.
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After the destruction of the two countries of spring and autumn Gu Jiantang in Xu Snapdragon sealed the king of a different name, with the title of a general in charge of the Ministry of War, it is higher than the remaining five ministers of the rank, become the nominal head of the military generals of the Liyang dynasty, excluding the six feudal lords, the court, but also on the chief minister Zhang Julu and the legacy of the party’s leader Sun Xizi and his ranks, last year rushed to the northern frontier of the empire to lead the whole of the border matters, it is seldom to participate in the meeting of the court, but none of them dares to The Ministry of War is still the “general camp” of Gu’s party, which is still watertight, and no water enters. As a first-class border minister, but also the leader of the Gu Party, in addition to the previous night in the palace on duty, Gu Jiantang almost never had any private dealings with Zhang Julu, this time back to the capital, an unprecedented visit to the residence of the First Minister, open and clear, do not mind whether His Majesty the Emperor is jealous of the civil and military with the same gas and the same voice, or that side of the capital will be colluding with the officials, this kind of successive generations of ministers of the officialdom are afraid of such as a tiger’s taboo, in the side of the Gu Jiantang are into the In the Gu Jiantang side have become a painless trifle, the general traveled in civilian clothes, but also brought a bad son or son-in-law of the new guerrilla lieutenant Yuan Tingshan, in the same street on the Liyang most of the important ministers behind the doorway of the residence, there are several pairs of eyes staring at the door, and so long as the Gu Shangshu stride out of the Bieyi child Zhang’s mansion after the door of the first minister, are quickly reported to the family waiting for news of the old man.
No more, no less, exactly half an hour. Not enough to drink two pots of tea for a short period of time! Can talk about what great military and state affairs?
Into the residence has been blindly wandering Yuan Tingshan followed the general into the carriage, did not find any clues from the face of the world’s number one swordsman, the expression of light as white bread, so that hate to have a thunder and fire fight Yuan Tingshan very regrettable.
Yuan Tingshan was an impatient person who couldn’t sit still for half a moment, and the silence of the carriages made him spend his days and years, and only when he drove out of the street where a great Bodhisattva of the dynasty sat within any gate on either side, he couldn’t help but open his mouth and ask, “Great General, what’s going on here?”
Gu Jiantang ignored it.
Yuan Tingshan usually in front of anyone is the old son of the world’s first shrewish habits, in front of the Great General Gu slightly better, do not dare to make a fuss, after all, his heart is still sincerely admire in front of this to have military service to have military service to have force and powerlessness of the prospective father-in-law Lord, originally he was most worshiped by that different surnames called the king of the people slaughter Xu Snapdragon, and later on in the Jiangnan Road attacked and killed the widow Xu Zhihu, to the young immortal who can be sword chopping the qi luck of the heavy casual casual casualty, think that He felt that he could not have good karma with Xu Snapdragon in his life, so he turned to pester Gu Jiantang. At that moment, Yuan Tingshan could only mutter, “If you don’t say it, don’t say it, I’m still too lazy to guess.”
Gu Jiantang said flatly, “You don’t need to worry about the northern jianghu, I’ll let you go to Jizhou.”
Yuan Tingshan frowned tightly, “Jizhou? The lair of the Han family, full of loyalists? I’ve heard that it was given to Chief Minister Zhang for the purpose of establishing prestige, ah, you didn’t make much of an effort at that time, did you, Great General?”
Gu Jiantang squinted at Yuan Tingshan, who shrunk his neck and whispered, “Anyway, none of the officials are not ruthless, how many people have I killed, compared to you guys, it’s nothing!”
Gu Jiantang’s tone did not rise or fall, “When you get to Jizhou, you don’t need to report the killings to me. I’ll help you intercept the impeachment on the court’s side when you get there.”
Yuan Tingshan was surprised, “Really?”
Gu Jiantang closed his eyes.
Yuan Tingshan hemmed and hawed, “One day when there’s a big battle to be fought, don’t let me get promoted to a big post, or else I’ll make Beiliang suffer! Lao Zi has a deadly grudge against His Highness the World Scholar surnamed Xu.”
Gu Jiantang closed his eyes and sneered, “Just by you?”
Yuan Tingshan leaned against the wall of the car with his hands on the back of his head, his eyes grim as he said, “There will always be that day. Let’s see whose sword is more capable of killing people!”
Gu Jiantang said slowly, “There won’t necessarily be a chance.”
Yuan Tingshan was shocked, “Great General, what do you mean by that?”
Gu Jiantang smiled a leathery smile that sent a chill down the scalp of the sky-unafraid Yuan Mad Dog.
“Sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, but this time the ones who are sitting on the mountain are coming down.”
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Jiange as the dynasty’s control of the western throat, stationed a considerable number of hundred battles elite soldiers, foot and horseback, eight thousand foot soldiers are mostly in the Spring and Autumn wars in the lineage of the mountain forces, to the great general Gu Jiantang’s old troops are mostly, Yan Zhi Wang is less.
And eight thousand cavalry and roughly is the complex situation of the three parties, which three thousand riders belong to no father and no mother to raise the lonely, the leader of the goat Wang Zhi is a spring and autumn after the military success on the real up to the general, often nothing to take two or three hundred elite cavalry deep into the western hinterland to start the hunt, the hands of the blood thick black, in the same colleague is very unpopular, is leading the three thousand riders strangled a plateau bandits. In addition, the general of three thousand riders is not clearly belong to the Ministry of War of the Gu party, but has been considered a more orthodox Ministry of War of the Beijing officials, relying on the capital to climb up, belong to the distinctive history of the Jiange foreign faction, the remaining two thousand riders are native Jianmen Pass forces, riding He Yan has been doing wall grass, has been mixed with a relatively stifling, fewer men and women under his command, coupled with the stall on the head of such a spineless, two thousand Although the cavalry is not bad, but has not been able to get any oil and water, the strange thing is that all the forces of the Jiange intertwined, digging each other’s corners, these two thousand people are shaky, riding the wall is not across the wall.
Jiange to control eight thousand foot soldiers of the Gu party general Ruan Dacheng as the nominal commander-in-chief, today he watched two thousand ride without authorization to pull out of the camp out of the pass to the west, he in the barracks has He Yan that son of a bitch of the ancestors eighteen generations have given cursed once, is ready to let the staff of the heart of the scribe pen to write an impeachment, to the Ministry of War to accuse He Yan out of the pass for no reason. But Ruan Dacheng while dictating while letting the staff touch up writing to almost the end, stopped, He Yan this guy is the most treacherous and slippery, how suddenly ate the wrong medicine? Just now when he personally went to intercept, the two thousand horsemen even simply rushed straight out of the city, all have the barricade on the road to kill the barbaric situation, let Ruan Dacheng almost thought it was a mutiny, only to avoid its front, then just glad to seize the handle, this moment to think about, Ruan Dacheng quiet, the calculator is playing a little more sunk, from the book case to pick up the medallion, take fire folders slowly burned off, to the dismayed scribe, said: “Change a secret letter, you find trustworthy postman, five hundred miles expedited to the capital, hand over to Shangshu.”
At this time a dusty white beardless man broke into the tent, Ruan Dacheng first annoyed at the incompetence of the personal guards, after seeing the appearance, quickly changed to surprise and apprehension, was about to curry favor with a few words, that is clearly a eunuch palace eunuch stomped his feet fiercely, pointing at Ruan Dacheng’s nose is a scolding: “useless thing, why not stop He Yan’s two thousand horsemen! ”
Ruan Dacheng was dumbfounded and was thinking of remedial remedies.
The big eunuch who had served the Empress attentively in the palace for many years then waved his sleeve fiercely and left, leaving behind a sentence that made Ruan Dacheng’s legs go limp, “Ruan Dacheng, you’re just waiting to get the hell out of the Sword Pavilion! Rubbish!”
Inexplicably Ruan Dacheng stayed in place for a long time before coming back to his senses, there was no third person in the tent, this powerful general still only dared to slander in his stomach, “Dog day, you eunuch have eggs?!”
Outside the Jianmen Pass, two thousand riders ran like a torrent.
In the distant front, there was a man with a cloak covered with a bright red python that was only blown by the strong wind because he was galloping his horse furiously, with a head full of silver threads.
He had a silver head, and his demeanor was overpowering.
He had stopped Cao Changqing at the Liyang Imperial Palace three times.
Once the great official son was only a hundred paces away from His Majesty the Emperor.
Still all of them were stopped hard by this head of the world’s eunuchs.
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Previously, the White Fox Child Face of the Beiliang King’s Mansion went downstairs out of the pavilion, even alarming the Beiliang King.
Xu Snapdragon smiled and asked, “This is out of the cabinet?”
White Fox Child Face calmly said, “Getting some air. Going to go back.”
Xu Snapdragon naturally inserted his hands into his sleeves and asked, “Doesn’t count, does it?”
White Fox Child Face nodded, “Naturally.”
On this day, the Nangong Servant, who was known as the world’s greatest beauty, left Liangzhou without knowing where she was.
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Almost at the same time, in the vast western region, a horse rode leisurely and slowly.
The man in white was carrying a deep purple spear.
The head of the gun was not inlaid for the time being, making the gun more like a stick.
The name of the gun was Plum Wine.