Chapter 139 – The world is in turmoil (above)

Located in the corner of the inner court of the Western Capital, the small secluded building, the corridor kneeled down a large number of people, not far from this building, there are many dead people lying, and the dead are considered by the Northern Mang as the value of qi practitioners.

Clothed in black and white fur old woman standing under the eaves, hands folded sleeves across the chest, raised sleeves just like bat wings.

The old woman who let all the men of North Mang prostrate under her skirt was seldom angry, but today her face was very ugly, first of all, the building is good at divination of the Taoist sect Nanming real people fearfully told her that the chess sword music house of the bronze masters life and death is unknown, the sword qi near the yellowish green undoubtedly dead, and then the important weapon of the country’s hibernation vat by the unknown land gods a palm slap broken, the bred for more than twenty years to spend countless qi luck of the The real dragon broke the cylinder and out, this is just, under the rolling thunder in the sky, the sky dragon that took advantage of the fire has not been able to take advantage of half a point, so she decisively decided to help it a hand, because she has always dared to gamble with God, not on the table then, to gamble on a bet on a big, last time she won, won pots of gold, the entire North Mang Dynasty with her last name, but this time, that the Nan Ming real person told her that she had lost, that outside the building, a hundred or so bodies are proof. A hundred or so corpses are proof of this, in fact, her anger is not that she lost a battle in Bei Liang Liuzhou that has nothing to do with the big picture, not even the death of a true dragon, much less those who have always not asked the ghosts and gods of the qi practitioners.

What really made the aged woman unbearable was just a small thing that she simply could not talk to anyone about: she lost to an unheard of Liaodong mangaka when she was at the most downtrodden and shabby point in her life, and then lost to his son when she was at the peak of her power!

The Order of the Peace stood at the woman’s side, the old man being the only Northern Mang courtier who still dared to stand.

She finally spoke.

“Send a decree to Dong Zhuo, allowing him to mobilize all border troops without authorization, regardless of whether they are great generals or holders of festival orders, all of them will follow his orders. If you disobey, let Dong Zhuo decapitate you first!”

“Send a decree to Topaz Bodhisattva to lead his personal army southward with all speed, and attack Liuzhou directly.”

“Send an order to Li Mibi to begin preparations to carp across the river.”

“Send a decree to Huang Song Pu, ordering him to rise up and lead the army to sit in Xijing.”

One holy decree after another came out of her mouth.

After all, she is a dying woman in her twilight years, it is inevitable that the energy is not good, a time some hard to hide the old fatigue, but she even today do not allow themselves to appear this moment of slackness, from the wide sleeves of the hand violently pulled off the body of the old fox fur, thrown into the snow outside the steps, and then stride away, and then do not look at the old thing that constantly accumulates snow.

Tai’an City is never short of lively, but a lot of lively hard to get together, once encountered can get together a lively, that will be everyone is not willing to lag behind.

Now there are rumors that the new right priest of the State Children’s Elementary School, who succeeded Jin Sanlang, is going to start lecturing on martial arts, so in the end it’s paper or really have a belly full of tactics, it’s a donkey or a mule that pulls it out and walks it, and the vast majority of the people are still running to see the jokes.

The current Minister of Rites of Jin Lanting in the Imperial College in quite a reputation, not only during his term of office for the Imperial College to get a lot of court gifts, but also founded the capital’s most prestigious poetry society, and the seven talented people in the society and called the eight Jun Tai’an, in one fell swoop, the new section of the first three, the first prize winner Li Jifu, the top of the list of Gao Tingshu and top of the list of Wu from the first, which has the reputation of the “Poetry Ghosts Gao Tingshu, known as “Poetry Ghost”, made the popular “Drunken Eight Immortals” at a banquet party, which instantly made the eight people present famous all over the world overnight. In the capital just red eight Junyan although the origin is very different, there is a world of difference, but often poetry and singing, show the scholar and the suave and elegant. The discerning person can see that the eight handsome leader of the JinSanLang although in the center of the court ministers side is not very popular, but he little by little cohesion of the “momentum”, already can not be underestimated.

A called Sun Yin’s door under the province of the pawn to fill the right priest of the noble vacancies, it appears to be particularly abrupt and rude, more strange is that this person did not rumor has what solid backing, so Sun Yin’s rampage, and local officials Xu Gong into the court as the Ministry of War, plus there is a step of Chen Wang ascension to the sky, became the capital at the tail end of the first year of the xiangfu year of the officialdom of the capital, “the three big surprises! “, very eye-catching, and there is Gumou Xu’s identity of Xu Gong, after all, before the bottom of the Longchamp generals, Chen Wang Chen Shaobao has the Prince of the double cushion of preaching and examination of the Department of Langzhong, set off Sun Yin more and more strange and strange.

What’s more, Sun Yin arrogant extreme, openly threatened to say that he is going to talk about the content will be a big show of force, he will be the attacker, the hands of the two forces, the North Mang millions of iron cavalry, and the restoration of the Western Chu in the Guangling Road remnants of the country.

All the people listening to the lecture belong to the defending side camp, there is the court newly appointed Phyllis Yi general of the southern expedition commander Lu Shengxiang led by the army, there is the great pillar Gu Jiantang two Liao Liao defense line, there are all the participation in the Pacification of the clan king forces, and finally of course, there is that by the Central Plains deliberately forgotten for many years of the Northern Liang iron cavalry.

This can be said to be unprecedented verbal exchange of words, just to participate in the audience of the State Elementary School students will go to a vast number of six thousand people, in fact, most people are destined to hear what the new priest, but don’t worry, soon there will be people from the front to pass the message to the rear, layer by layer, such as a wave. Catch the early occupation of the students are seated on the ground, a little later can only stand, and then the back will have to stand on tiptoe to stretch their necks, after that you need to stand on the bench chair. However, the front from the Sun not far from the best position, but there are a lot of simple but thick futon, probably more than thirty, those who have the qualifications to sit on the futon of the guests is really considered to be honored beyond reproach!

The person at the head of the table was the first prime minister of the Liyang court in the past thirty years, Qi Yanglong, the chief official of the Zhongshu Province. On the left hand of the Chinese official is Tantan Weng Huan Wen, who is in charge of the province under the door, and on the right hand is the “disappointed man” who failed to take over the post of Minister of Rites of Bai Guo in the change of power, and continues to be in charge of the State Scholarship Academy of Yao Baifeng, a master of science, as well as Bai Guo, who has been transferred from the Ministry of Rites of the Qing Shui Yamen to the Ministry of Households of the real power. There is also a certain royal relative in the middle of winter, but especially the spring breeze, well, that is, through the light of the good son-in-law, swaggering into the vision of the capital Chai County King.

This long lecture on martial arts from noon until dusk, there is no sign of the end, but no one exit, and even constantly new faces into the sea of people.

During the period there is even the supervision of the world’s Crown Prince hand in hand with the Crown Princess, quietly halfway to join.

Soon there is the old official minister of the ministry of the new central minister Zhao right Ling does not hide the identity of the break through the flow of people, to participate in it, sitting on a temporary new futon.

Compared to Zhao right Ling, by the Hanlin Academy Palace of Ministers promoted to the Ministry of Officials of the Reserve Minister Yin Maochun to be subtle and low-profile many, light car briefly to the Imperial College, and the young to the outrageous under the door of the province of the left scattered ride standing side by side with Chen Wang, neither see anything nor hear anything, but these two can be called the center of the important ministers of the two big people, one of the foreign court of the first official of the second rank, a noble and noble of the third rank, this stop on the station is enough to stand for Two hours. Because they stand in the extremely back position, and no escort escort more not wearing purple official uniforms, coupled with the left and right before and after the State Academy of the ordinary students, no one knows that they are close to the place of the pestle and mortar so two dynastic bigwigs, only to take them as a common Tai’an City Confucian scholar.

The State Prison continued to clamor and bustle, became the focus of the capital up and down the hot topic, the State Prison outside the wine shop tea house is overcrowded, waiting for the end of the debate of the water out of the water.

Constantly there are scholars and scholars running to the street to loudly report the “instant battle situation”.

However, in the almost empty Hanlin Academy, there are two dusty old faces, one is depressed and frustrated for many years of Mr. Yuan, the other so that the officials on duty almost could not help but roll up their eyes in front of them, before the Song family of two husband and wife dominate the literary world, that officials have to people before and after the thumbs up and praise a good Song family phoenix, and now, well, the two husband and wife are dead not to mention that, but also can not talk about what grief and honor, who do not know that the glorious Song family is the most beautiful, the most beautiful, the most beautiful, the most beautiful. Who doesn’t know that the glorious Song family is surely no chance to rise again? A featherless phoenix is not as good as a chicken, who would still be happy to relegate you to a poor place as a small lieutenant of the county of Song Ke Li as a green onion? If such a cold stove can still be burned, I will eat all the ashes!

This from the seventh grade Qingliu official is not too much to take the frame to the face, after all, before going out to visit relatives of Yuan Park Yuan Huangmen still hanging in the Hanlin Academy, head up, no head down, there is no need for a Song Ke Li loss of many years of eight-faced exquisite drip accumulated merit.

Yuan Park, or away from the sun emperor master Yuan Benxi in their own house after taking a seat, half an inch of tongue lisp natural slurred, “do not go to the State Prison to take a look? That’s where your Song family rose to prominence.”

Song Ke Li, who had traveled north and south of the Yangtze River in company with Mr. Yuan, shook his head and calmly said, “Revisiting old places will not help.”

Yuan Benxi was silent for a moment and slowly said, “Chen Wang, Sun Yin, will be your political enemies in the future. Regardless of their achievements and learning, they are not inferior to you. However, these two are the first to change from dark to light, which is your greatest disadvantage and your only advantage.”

Song Ke Li nodded.

In the twilight, not far away from the Hanlin Academy, the Zhao Family Urn Shangshu Provincial Yamen, a tall old man with a purple beard and blue eyes walked alone to the imperial street, standing in the center of this most majestic and wide street under the sky, with his back to the imperial city gate, looking towards the southern sky.

The old man remembered for no reason a chance meeting when he was young, at that time, the man was also very young, at least his leg was not lame.

At that time, he was deliberately pressed by his teacher in the Hanlin Academy, and the best friend of the best friend has already served in the Ministry of War as the Department of the driving master, the rest of the same year of the scholar also each have a bright future. That is a man of letters by the martial pressure to breathe the time, forward ten years, the literati will be like actors, in the court only worthy of military generals as a sounding board, if it is pushed forward a few decades, the dynasty everywhere within the clans and towns, everyone sealed the border and cracked the land, the readers are even difficult to do the sounding board, the horse’s ass didn’t shoot the right, or shoot a flowery but was misunderstood by the martial arts or don’t understand, it may be directly click cut off the head! The dynasty, not to mention the Central Plains of the orthodox Chu, even to the Chu willing to serve as a slave girl of the East Vietnam, also have the right to laugh at the northern neighbor is a group of unenlightened stupid barbarians. And because he was born with a purple beard and blue eyes, even the northern barbarians of Liyang in the eyes of the Central Plains had to sneer at him.

In the late fall season when the days of a scholar were finally a little better, it was a gloomy day when he went to the office of the Ministry of War to find a good friend to open the back door to borrow a public opinion map of the territory of the two Liao Liao, and when he got his wish to get the public opinion map, the result was that the pouring rain came suddenly, and he didn’t dare to let the rain stain the public opinion map and had to take shelter under the eaves of the office entrance, but the killing downpour never stopped, so he could only honestly wait for it. Then he saw a young man arrive with an umbrella, carrying a small wooden box in his hand. To this person, he saw it is not happy, because this person has a strong martial air, see its body attire, probably a court turned a blind eye to the miscellaneous number of lieutenants, the Ministry of War Yamen courtyard deep, there are a number of several into, he guessed that this person is afraid of in the first into the courtyard on the stop, and it is true, the guy was blocked in the first into the courtyard, he didn’t go to the heart of the care, just wait for the rain, occasionally Turned his head and glanced, saw that unimpressive young martial artist standing alone in the rain, just keep drenched in the rain, umbrella at his feet, and the open box, white flowers, should be silver. Just this little bit of silver, in the eyes of the master of the Ministry of the Army can swallow the sky in the appetite of what, colleagues three or four people drink a flower wine thing only.

He vaguely heard the words of the young man who ate the closed door, upside down is a meaning of a few words, “I Xu Snapdragon take the head with the adults to guarantee! Just give me a thousand soldiers and horses for a month, as long as a month, the next time I pay my respects to the adults, I will let people carry ten boxes, ten boxes of gold!”

The rain kept falling, and he heard the young man in that courtyard keep talking loudly and compromising.

From a thousand soldiers and horses it was reduced to eight hundred, then to five hundred. And the boxes were increased from ten to twenty, to thirty.

When the rain finally gradually turn small, perhaps in the inside leisurely drinking tea and laughing about the Ministry of War lords, think almost can go out to return home, one after another there are three or two big people out of the heavy courtyard, laughing and chatting, without looking at the young man brushed shoulders, later there is a job side of the chief minister is finally measured, but not to look at the young man to ask for the soldiers and horses, but look at the eye The silver in the box was moistened by the rain, let out a snort of laughter, seemed to also say a word in a conspiratorial manner, just at that time in the doorway to avoid the crowd of people out of the courtyard he did not hear.

He thought that since the rain hadn’t completely stopped yet, he could simply wait until his good friends in the courtyard finished their business.

He saw an old man dressed in a tiger and leopard patch walking out of the courtyard with his arms folded, accompanied by an officer of the military department attentively holding an umbrella, which was tilted all the way toward the old man.

When the old man passed by the young man, he stopped and kicked the box with his foot. Because the rain was much lighter, he heard the conversation clearly.

“Where are you from?”

“My lord Xu Snap, from Jinzhou, Liaodong!”

“Did you lose the war?”

“Yes! But I will brothers seven hundred people, ate Hong Chengcui two main battalions, one of the battalion or cavalry ……”

“What main force what cavalry, are nonsense well, lost is lost. This official only ask you a sentence, this official as a small gamble once, to give you a little manpower, but you really can earn back this kid?”

“Can!”

“Well, that’s fine, this official will give you a tiger talisman, you can go to the right guard army to transfer three hundred people, as for the box, by the way, how many did you say earlier that you are carrying?”

“Back to my lord, it’s thirty.”

“Thirty?”

“Fifty!”

“Yo, you’re still on board. Alright, this official will give you three hundred, remember to turn around and carry the boxes directly to this official’s residence.”

“Thank you, my lord! The last general will live up to your honor’s kindness!”

“Oh, almost forgot, what’s your name again? This official doesn’t want to want to kill someone when the time comes and not know who to look for.”

“Jinzhou Battalion Xu Snap!”

Finally, that big man from the Ministry of Military Affairs walked out of the gate of the Yamen, followed by that butthurt official who was holding an umbrella for him with one hand, and carrying that box with one sold hand.

He saw that young military general standing in the rain with both fists clenched, his waist always straight, but in his hand was an additional tiger talisman.

The young man put the tiger talisman into his bosom, bent down to pick up the umbrella, and turned toward the gate.

He had already withdrawn his line of sight when the young military general picked up the umbrella, his eyes and nose facing south.

The latter did not rush to hold up the umbrella, but stopped at the eaves of the gate, seemingly seeing him, and took the initiative to open his mouth and ask with a smile, “Still waiting for the rain to stop?”

He froze for a moment and nodded.

Then that guy grinned at him, and threw the umbrella very dryly, not giving him a chance to refuse at all, striding down the steps, stepping in the mud, and fading away.

That day, he, Zhang Julu, memorized that young martial artist’s name.

Xu Snap.

That year, the year name Yong Hui had not yet been used.

The two young people who met by chance, one is not yet the power of the world of the dynasty’s chief minister, one is not yet a great general with unqualified achievements.

Much less were they political opponents who died of old age.

At the end of this Xiangfu Yuan year, only he, Zhang Julu, who is already an old man, is left.

Standing on the imperial road, the old man slowly came back to his senses, smiled, and said to himself: ”I don’t like drinking wine, if I can meet you underground, I have to buy you a drink. But before that, let me hold an umbrella for Bei Liang. Not for you Xu Snapdragon, but only for the people of Northern Liang, and also the people of Liyang.”

At the end of the first year of Xiangfu, Emperor Zhao Dun returned to the capital from his border tour.

The Imperial Historian’s Office and the Six Section Ministers jointly impeached one person.

Zhang Julu, the chief minister of Liyang, was sent to prison by imperial decree, and the court announced the ten greatest sins of the world. The Emperor decreed that nine clans be executed.