Chapter 121: Sitting in a well and watching the sky
Known as the small temple in the southeast of Liyang Chunxue building built on the lion cliff, Chunxue building where the thin green manor, formerly the summer resort of the Chu dynasty, was destroyed by the fire of the Spring and Autumn War, after more than 20 years of Guangzhou Ling King Zhao Yi spared no effort to expand greatly, collected countless flowers and stones “in the boudoir”, which there is a piece of water divisions by the Guangzhou Ling and the feudal king Hussar jointly carried to the mountain village. Hussars of the Clan King jointly carried to the villa of the Spring God Lake boulder, shaped like a pearl, is deservedly the world’s stone, but also with the feng shui of the pressure of the victory of the treasures. Thin Green Villa south of the Guangling River, the Lion Cliff area originally often have Jiangnan scholar to climb up to win the gift, become Zhao Yi, the emperor’s younger brother of the feudal lord forbidden domain, it is only Guangling Road is eligible to enter the Spring Snow Building political discussion that a small group of powerful people unique benefits, the Lion Cliff, also known as the gathering of treasures Hill, the Dafeng dynasty at the end of the year there was a monk in the lion in the statement, attracting heavenly flowers such as the rain of the magnificent phenomenon of the fallen flowers into the ground into a stone, color! Splendid, a hundred miles in circumference, countless. Since the end of Dafeng to the first year of the Yong Hui, every war, these stones into the owner of the situation will continue to be travelers, tourists, quarrying people pick up ten not save one, into the ordinary people’s homes, Zhao Yi after sealing the king of the feudal, or take by force, or high price to buy, around the Spring God Lake boulders randomly sprinkled away, gradually spread out the Lion Cliff.
Spring snow building on the cliff, downstairs there is a well.
Jiangnan first light snow arrived, but then suddenly dissipated, only the war in Guangling Road is really letting people worry, for the snow or not, the size of the snowfall, are not painful. Winter snow melt, midday, the lion cliff on the beautiful scenery, a bloated fat man sitting alone under the building on the mouth of the well, this small well traditionally no water, I do not know why and dug, since ancient times is a mystery. The fat man wearing a ring of gold embroidered bright yellow python robe, the feudal kings of Liyang, only this fat pig has this honor, even if the year’s achievements can not be sealed by the king of the northern Liang Xu primrose, but also a blue satin python robe only, Yan Royal Decree King Zhao Bing, whether it is a dragon or python, compared to this one, are inferior to a chip, as for the more substantial on the feudal place, perennial miasma rampant in the south of the frontier, naturally, is unable to and the world’s taxes half out of the Comparison of this Guangling, away from the Yang dynasty and the field for this vassal king in the most unmerited acceptance of the suspicion of the King of Guangling, has always been a tide of bad reviews, the number of officials directly and indirectly died in the hands of the King of Guangling, but also let a person staggering.
Now finally suffered retribution was racked on the fire baked fat man, does not seem to be outside the imagination of that kind of panic, but quietly sitting on the well, there is nothing hostile, no disheveled look.
Whenever Zhao Yi sat on the well and dazed, even the direct heart of Spring Snow House did not dare to disturb.
In the distance, His Royal Highness Prince Zhao Phyo stood respectfully, and Song Kasa, the main general of the Western Front who had just returned from the front line, stood side by side with him.
Outside the cliff, Guangling River is densely populated with navy ships. Although it is claimed that half of Guangling’s navy has been taken away by Western Chu, it is only a numerical loss, and most of the huge ships are firmly in the hands of Guangling’s army.
Zhao Fei and Song Kasa relationship is irreversible, for many years has been called brother and brother, the world knows that in the territory of the Guangling Road, only to become Song Kasa’s woman, in order to truly escape the clutches of His Highness the son of the world, otherwise any you have a father who is an assassin, can not be claimed to have a talisman to protect their lives. At this time, Zhao Pei lowered his voice and grunted: “When it was said that the Western Chu Taifu fled here, unwilling to accept the surrender of the Xu family iron horsemen, holding that the dead princess resolutely jumped off the cliff to die, bullshit! Xu crippled is clearly swinging the court together, should give Xu Snap a more disgusting posthumous!”
Song Rasa smiled without concurring, turned his head and glanced at the river rolling east.
After the death of Chu, there is no Spring and Autumn, after the High Cliff, there is no Central Plains.
When the Chu was destroyed, there were still two countries in the South Tang and West Shu who resisted, but there was already such a saying in the literary world.
Zhao Phyo yawned, traveling in the world. Suddenly bumped on the arm by Song Kasa, Zhao Phyo realized that his father was waving at them, Zhao Phyo rushed forward and walked to the well with Song Kasa.
Zhao Yi looked at Song Kasa and asked with a smile, “That Kou Jianghuai really resigned from the government and lived in seclusion?”
Song Kasa nodded and said, “At first, I also thought that it was Cao Changqing’s blindfold, but now it seems that Kou Jianghuai’s sudden resignation should not be far from the truth.”
Zhao Yi gave the general a look of encouragement, Song Kasa brewed up the wording for a while, before continuing: “The western front is already in pieces, Kou Jianghuai if he continues to expand the battle, if you want to block this son’s pace, the king’s tens of thousands of hussars must not be lost in half, in order to block Kou Jianghuai’s advancement. Not to mention that Kou Jianghuai’s departure is rumored to be a political disagreement with Cao Changqing, or someone in the Western Chu court did not want him to sit on the throne, so they tripped him, anyway, it is certainly a good thing for the king. There will be no major movement on the western front until spring. One drum and then another, Cao Changqing’s promise to Kou Jianghuai to leave was quite unreasonable. Perhaps historians will evaluate this matter later and see it as an important turning point.”
The unusually large-sized Zhao Yi gave a hmmm, bending down with some difficulty to pick up a stone, holding it in his hand and feeling the coolness as he asked, “Let’s not talk about the future, let’s just talk about the present. Song Kasa, do you think that Cao Changqing will personally lead the army next, or will Xie Xijian fill the vacancy of Kou Jianghuai? No matter who presides over the Western Front, it doesn’t seem like good news.”
Songasa said without hesitation, “It is more likely that Xie Xijian will lead the army, and Cao Changqing will most likely remain in the background to strategize.”
Zhao Yi laughed to himself, “That’s right, Cao Changqing doesn’t care about this king and Lu Shengxiang, he only has Gu Jiantang in his eyes. As long as Gu Jiantang doesn’t move south from the two Liao border, Cao Changqing won’t show up to take charge.”
Song Kasa nodded, “Seemingly conceited, how is it not a long term consideration, Cao Changqing is too sharp, he can only give Xie Xijian and Kou Jianghuai, the two young men, enough opportunity to grow up by not interfering with the specific troop scheduling in the slightest.”
Zhao Yi suddenly laughed, “There are no heroes in time to make a vertical son famous.”
Zhao Fei was a bit confused, he knew that the so-called “vertical sons” were Xie Xijian and Kou Jianghuai, but he didn’t understand who his father’s so-called heroes were.
Zhao Yi said with emotion: “Back then, Xu Cripple’s light kick was the sinking of the Divine Land.”
Zhao Yi face showed heavy ridicule, “this time the clan king Jingdan, the thunder is too loud, not to say what the rain is small, that simply is not. In addition to that son of Zhao Bing’s old piker’s evil intentions, the rest are a bunch of drunken bags. If Xu Cripple hadn’t died, he would have pulled out 50,000 elite cavalry from Northern Liang, and Cao Changqing and his Western Chu wouldn’t have had to jump around at all. As for Zhao Bing, if he is really willing to put in the effort and join hands with this king, he can also solve this trouble, but Zhao Bing, this guy, his heart is almost as deep as that Zhao Heng, who was flirted with by Xu Snapdragon as a ‘woman’, but Zhao Heng’s skill of pretending to be stupid and pretending to be confused is not as good as Zhao Heng’s. Cao Changqing and that little girl, they are not the same as Zhao Heng. Cao Changqing and that little girl has not yet unveiled the flag, deliberately three consecutive six hundred mile expedited ZhangZhang to the city of Tai’an, said what the southern border turmoil, which not long ago also on a guilty plea folding? Said the sixteen southern barbarians collusion with the remaining Western Chu, resulting in his personal front line of three consecutive defeats, dead tens of thousands of men and women. Tens of thousands? Fuck you! Hundreds of people right, your son was just a teenage boy could go to the hinterland of the southern border to cut off the heads of people to build the capital of the view, you Zhao Bing went, but suffered a defeat, and a eat is three games? Claimed to be able to ‘snap his fingers to break the city, waving his sleeve to destroy the country’ of Nalan right Ci what to do? A big man, it can’t be to you Zhao Bing tossed to get pregnant and give birth to a baby to go, right?”
Zhao Yi sighed, “Among all the feudal kings, the old Jing’an King Zhao Heng, who is in a state of collapse, has the greatest grievances and the greatest limitations, the Huainan King Zhao Ying has the highest talent and the smallest ability, and the Jiaodong King Zhao Suo has the softest temperament, and is the most climate-neutral from the beginning to the end. As for this king, he has the smallest vision, he can’t fight for the title of the world’s first iron horseman, he is content to fight for the world’s first sailor, he has the smallest ambition, he has never coveted that chair, that’s the way it has been since he was a child, he even went to the crippled man Xu in order to make sure that my brother could sit on it and he almost knelt down in front of him. So over the years, outsiders have said that this king has a fierce reputation, and Xu Snap, the king of Northern Liang, is the one who is powerful. To say who this king detests the most, in fact, it is still Zhao Bing, seeing the wind, crossing the river and breaking down the bridge, honey-mouthed sword, all are a good hand, it’s just a pity that ah, the royal brother has been wholeheartedly guarding against the north-west, no matter how much this king’s own brother, who shares the same father and mother, persuades him, he has always refused to make any moves towards the southern border.”
Zhao Yi smiled miserably, looked up at his son Zhao Phyo, and said self-deprecatingly, “That year when Xu Fengyen came to Guangling River, you made a deadly enemy with him, this king intentionally showed weakness to Xu Snapdragon, cut off a piece of meat from you and sent it to Beiliang, and then at a time like this, he sent a secret folding letter to his royal brother. Not to say anything bad about Xu Snapdragon in Beiliang, but to say that Zhao Bing this fang must not be allowed to accumulate power, and the result, the royal brother is still not on the heart. If chopping off a few pounds of meat from this king can be exchanged for the return of imperial brother’s heart, this king will really go for it.”
“Since imperial brother is unwilling to be the villain, then this king will come, so in the past half a year, this king has had people secretly assassinate that Yan Zhi Wang Shi Zi Zi four times, and all of them have returned without success.”
Song Kasa was silent.
Zhao Fei who heard about this for the first time had his mouth wide open, his face shocked.
Zhao Yi threw out the stone that was warmed by his palm, “Later on, Chen Zhi Bao entered the capital as the Secretary of the Ministry of Military Affairs, this king knew that this person would definitely grant a vassalship, so he once again submitted a secret pass, proposing to his royal brother that Chen Zhi Bao grant a vassalship between the Guangling Dao and the Southern Border Dao, and if Chen Zhi Bao disliked the vassalage as being too small, this king could even give up one more state. How it turned out, you two know now.”
Zhao Yi laughed loudly, “Phyo son, my father is just trying to make you hereditary, are already not expecting his grandson to be a prince, and in the future, he will definitely go to Tai’an City to be a hedonistic county king’s life. But that Zhao Bing when father to be much more domineering.”
Then Zhao Yi exhaled deeply and waved his hand somewhat tiredly, Zhao Phyo who wanted to speak and Songasa who had been silent retreated together.
Zhao Yi continued to sit on the mouth of the well, looking at the sky.
Like a fool who sits on a well and watches the sky.