Chapter 143: Wolf Smoke Rises in the Northwest, Everyone in the Capital Gains Peace

Heaven and earth a spring, but when the North Mang army three lines of pressure, Liyang court has not been informed of this matter, North Liang will not pass this military intelligence to the capital.

I think even if the capital heard, will only be relieved only, barbarians kill barbarians, dog eat dog, not about them a copper thing, the most good fight to defeat, such as a good thing, to the Liyang dynasty “happy”.

The straight official road outside the south gate of the capital, stood four guys without the road guide household ultimatum.

A couple with a child, the child riding on the neck of the man with the sword, obviously a family of three, and then they are slightly more than a white man, heroic. This give people a vague feeling of white people, if you say looks, not outstanding, neither rouge comment on the kind of woman’s country, nor the man’s handsome extraordinary. Nearby pedestrians on the road subconsciously do not dare to go to measure this person, only a glimpse, but turned his head to think, it seems that should not have left any impression, but no longer have the courage to look at a glance. As for that inconspicuous family of three, naturally was automatically ignored.

The man holding his child’s legs with both hands looked at the head of Tai’an City with some emotion, “I’m afraid this is the only city under the sky that makes it difficult for me, I’d like to go in, but I’m afraid of getting into trouble. The three of us don’t have a proper Liyang identity, we can’t really break in, to say that sneak in at night, it’s also not good, at that time there was a Xie in the city, fighting is not my opponent, but to find me is also very simple. I want to take my daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law to go in to have fun, but not to run in to kill the four directions to shake the wind, this kind of thing, let me be twenty years younger is more or less.”

The man in white sneered, “Didn’t Hong Zuixiang do it?”

The man helplessly said, “Aren’t you comparing me to Lu Zu?”

The man in white said in a flat tone, “In terms of those involved identities, you would lose? Even if you only talk about the martial arts talent in this life, you wouldn’t lose. As a result, you were reduced to a situation that is even inferior to Topaz Bodhisattva.”

The man face with you have nothing to say fart posture, his daughter-in-law hurriedly rounded off the scene and laughed: “My man was born lazy, in fact, is not quite good, do not have to somehow fight with who what, but also clean.”

The man nodded and agreed: “That’s it.”

The child rested his chin on his father’s head and nodded along with his father, although he didn’t understand what he was saying, he still coaxed, “That’s it!”

The man in white looked at Tai’an City from afar.

Over the past eight hundred years, from Great Qin to Liyang, in addition to this world’s number one majestic city in front of her, she had traveled to almost all of the capitals and state capitals.

The child suddenly said: ”Father, mother didn’t say before, there is a guy who likes to wear green clothes often into the city, why do you have a headache? Father, it’s fine if you can’t beat my future master, but can you at least fight for the second or third best in the world?”

The man rubbed his chin and said in a serious manner, “That’s also right.”

The woman gave him a hard pinch at his waist.

The man was about to speak when he realized that the guy who had traveled all the way with him had actually turned around and walked away directly. He was indeed very lazy as his daughter-in-law said, too lazy to use his brain to think about the reason, just inevitably some bellyaching, you big devil Luoyang those identities are not messed up? Qualified to say I?

The white man is Luo Yang, he is the one who ran from North Mang to Liyang and then found his daughter-in-law, and then because his daughter-in-law said that the swordsman is the most dashing, he casually found a sword and pretended to be a swordsman, gave birth to a baby daughter, and finally met with the Luo Yang Tuoba Bodhisattva Du Hui Mountain foothills, if it is in the North Mang, his fame will be heavenly, North Mang there are five big clans, his clan is among them, and he is the only one of the members of the clan.

The only one in the world.

One person, one clan.

Of course he knows that his martial arts talent is very good, but he has never pursued what to prove the ascension of what the world’s first, it is like his daughter-in-law looks not so seductive, but he was hit at first sight, there are always some things in the world, there is no reason.

His only pursuit is unrestrained, when he was young is his own freedom, met his daughter-in-law has a child, is the freedom of the family of three. As for what exactly was freedom, he was again too lazy to think deeply about it.

He looked at the majestic city, can clearly feel that the qi, think away from the new emperor of Yang ascended to the throne, because Han Sheng Xuan died, Liu Artemisia dead, surnamed Xie also gone, afraid to wear a dragon robe to sit in the dragon chair within a few days to give people to take off the head, so again to set up a pandemonium of the heavy organs. This also makes sense, with the Liyang Dynasty has been flourishing national strength of the bottom, always not to a single shot of the top of the martial arts completely helpless.

His daughter suddenly whispered, “Father, I want to eat leek cakes.”

The man froze for a moment, smilingly turning his head to look at his daughter-in-law, who was not as big as her, and the woman stomped on the back of his foot, “Deadly! What are you practicing martial arts for that your daughter can’t eat a cake?”

She quickly added, “It’s not like we’re not paying!”

The man, who had been given an imperial decree, nodded his head and smiled, “Alright!”

He released a hand to hold his daughter-in-law and softly said, “Daughter, hold on tight.”

In an instant.

All the First Grade experts in Tai’an City, both on the surface and under the counter, felt a majestic and extreme aura!

The Northern School’s Fu Long Qi Practitioners were even more panicked like a bunch of headless flies.

The man raised a smiling face.

What was freedom?

At least at this time, he knew the answer.

Freedom. That is, if his daughter says she wants to eat a cake, even if the entire Tai’an City wants to stop it, it can’t stop him Huyan Daguan.

The road exploded with a flash of bright streamers, like a long rainbow falling into Tai’an City.

Tai’an City does have late autumn cabbage spring leeks, these two, regardless of the dignitaries or peddlers, every family can afford to eat, also love to eat, the people of the capital like to use leeks to “bite the spring” is more ironic seasonal but, eat a mouthful of spicy and fresh taste of green leeks, simply can be a winter of pent up in the five viscera and six bowels of the turbid gas are given to the expelled! The stomach. In the capital Zhaojiajun this place to cover the widest area of an official yamen house, many officials burp with a leek flavor, not to mention that a few don’t know which adults under the butt out of the boredom of the fart, really let a big frown after a quick and heartfelt smile.

Zhao family urn this side has always been noble and supreme Hanlin Yuan, but also the original door can be sparrows now slightly lively in the two provinces under the two Yamen, but the most boisterous naturally still Shangshu Province six official Yamen, and the Ministry of War is always the six brothers in the most outside the first Yamen weather pivot, even if the storage of Yin Maochun instead of Zhao right age of the Ministry of Ministers can not be reversed after the pattern. Unlike the other five ministries of the chief officials of the wind and water rotation, may not be a few years to change the city head of the flag, the Ministry of War since the first year of the Yong Hui, until the second year of the Xiang Fu, twenty years, only three people have sat in the chair of the chief officials, the great pillar of the state of Gu Jiantang, the king of Shu Chen Zhibao, and now the Tangxi sword immortal Lu Baijie, and the latter two together less than two years of the time of the reign. To know that the Ministry of Rites, the Minister of the White Guo is on the spot in the hall, the White Shangshu gas laughed immediately kicked another Shangshu adults Lu Baijie a foot, rumor has it that later the White Guo flat transfer to the Ministry of the Ministry of the Household Shangshu, the day with the new top in the morning meeting, Shangshu adults flirt with the sentence, “Luckily, the official did not go to the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice inauguration, otherwise you will be waiting for the boy to obediently in the Department of the Army to sit in a dozen or two decades! The cold bench of it.

Today’s busy exceptionally Ministry of War came a somewhat sudden guest, the Ministry of War everyone, whether walking outside the room or inside the room in the seat in the reading, after seeing him either stop to salute, or solemnly rise, a look of excitement, than a separate audience with the Son of Heaven is not too far away. Very simple, because this person is Gu Jiantang! The youngest of the four great generals of the Spring and Autumn period, the owner of the former Ministry of War Gu Lodge! As a general, while fellow Spring and Autumn general Xu Snap had died of old age, Gu Jiantang could not even be called old. As an official, and Gu Lu confrontation more than ten years of Zhang Lu has long been collapsed, Zhang Julu is dead beyond the miserable, and he Gu Jiantang is still the only super first grade of the Liyang court of the Great Pillar State, holding the northern border of three hundred thousand troops and horses power! Gu Jiantang alone walked into the old Zhang Lu that big room, without him saying anything, that a large group of six in the Ministry of the extraordinarily high officials rose to salute, will coincidentally quickly sit down to continue to do things, this is the Gu Jiantang to leave the Ministry of the military that can only be understood that the cold and hard temperament, you can be arrogant and domineering in the world, but must do things must not be dragged through the mud.

Different from the other five ministers and ministers have their own room, the Ministry of War, the three main deputy officials are in the same room office, the minister’s desk in the house on the left, the left and right ministers and two desks in the most right. Now the two ministers of the Ministry of War, Phyllis General Lu Shengxiang as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition is not in the capital, the new minister of the General Longchamp Xu Gong is in accordance with the new rites of Li Yang to the two Liao border patrols, leaving only the Minister Lu Baijie is still in the room, he did not intentionally take the frame after seeing Gu Jiantang, but with the same officials to stand and put aside the pen and rise to greet the old Minister, and even wait for the rest of the people to sit back after he still stood. This is not only because Lu Baijie chest embroidered second-grade lion official patch, compared to Gu Jiantang’s first-grade unicorn to be slightly inferior, but also because Lu Baijie to the Ministry of War senior Gu Jiantang have no need to hide the respect.

Lu Baijie walked around the table to Gu Jiantang’s side and smiled, “Great General, sit down and have a cup of tea?”

Gu Jiantang nodded, and Lu Baijie took the lead to walk towards the two neighboring empty tables on the right side of the room, and soon the top scorer who had written the Drunken Eight Immortals and had been “threatened” by Shangshu Bai Guo himself brought tea, giving it to Gu Jiantang, who was “far away”, and then to Gu Jiantang, who was “near”, and then to Gu Jiantang, who was “near”, and then to Gu Jiantang, who was “near”. “After Gu Jiantang received the tea, he slowly asked, “Are you the Gao Tingshu who doesn’t go to the Ministry of Ceremonies?”

Not daring to make any snake-like moves and only wanting to leave in a hurry, the young master of the Department of Martial Selection and Clearance, his body couldn’t help but tense up, and said in a trembling voice, “It is precisely the next official.”

There was no smile on Gu Jiantang’s face as he asked another rather pointed question to this newcomer to the Ministry of War: “Why don’t you serve tea to Lord Shangshu first?”

Gao Tingshu was speechless.

Lu Baijie laughed, “Great General, Great General, you’re obviously stealing joy in your stomach, so don’t sell yourself short. Gao master but risked sitting on the bench of the great risk to our Ministry of War, how is also regarded as a great general your half of the family, did not you so scared of the younger generation.”

Being Lu Baijie so “mess”, Gu Jiantang also no longer intentionally tense face, show face and smile: “On the basis of your kid first hand tea, even if the Ministry of mandarins in the future to pressure you, I’m here first to ask for a personal favor with the White Shangshu, to ensure that in the future will not delay your promotion is. However, your kid more learning point, see how others Bai Shangshu is an official, both to his own loss of face to find a step down, but also let you read him to help you solve the great grace.”

Lu Baijie face full of helplessness: “Hey hey hey, great general you’re not generous ah, rubbing tea drink is just, but also tear down my stage. In the future, I will lose all my prestige in this room.”

Lu Baijie turned his head and glared at Gao Tingshu, feigning anger: “Bastard, don’t get lost! Aren’t you afraid that this official will give you small shoes? Do you want to annoy the six ministers before you give up? Even if you have a great general to protect you, at most you will be allowed to run to the border to drink the wind and eat the sand!”

Gao Tingshu hurriedly wiped the sweat on his forehead, giggled and turned to trot away.

Those actually secretly erect ears of the Ministry of War officials suddenly burst into laughter, the atmosphere of the great laughter, naturally, everyone is incomparably envious of Gao Tingshu this little guy’s luck, all of a sudden in the successive two Minister of War heart to leave a part of the not bad impression.

Gu Jiantang drank all the tea in one gulp, and after putting down the teacup, he lamented, “Lu Shangshu is not easy.”

Lowering his head and taking a sip of the slightly bitter tea, Lu Baijie nodded his head with a slightly astringent smile and said, “It is quite difficult.”

Gu Jiantang was silent for a long time, and after getting up, he said, “I’m leaving the capital to return to Liaosi, so I won’t bother you anymore.”

Lu Baijie followed and calmly said, “See the Great General off.”

After the two of them walked out of the house, Lu Baijie hesitated for a moment, but still asked in a low voice, “Is the Great General really leaving?”

Gu Jiantang gave a hmmm, just like this Minister of War beside him neither was as idle and relaxed as he was in the house, his face was a bit grave, “If I could decide to stay before arriving at the capital, there would still be hope, now even if I insist on staying, do you think it’s possible?”

Lu Baijie was speechless.

General Gu Jiantang’s words are actually not deep, when the late emperor was alive, Gu Jiantang had returned to the capital with his companion, and still failed to persuade the late emperor to let him, the general leader of the northern military and government of the Great Pillar State instead of Lu Shengxiang to preside over the Southern Expedition, now the new emperor ascended the throne, how could Gu Jiantang hold the new master hostage on the basis of the old achievements at this sensitive juncture? In fact, Gu Jiantang and Lu Baijie obviously agree with the situation of someone’s prediction, Guangling Road to pacify the rebellion, it is appropriate to fast rather than slow, the court sent Lu Shengxiang partner Yang Shen Xing Yan Zhenchun together with the southern expedition, supplemented by a number of feudal lords to pacify, in terms of military strength is actually enough, the wonderful hand can not be counted, but certainly is not a faint move, but in addition to a very small number of people have forgotten a thing that is the battlefield, the deployment of generals and the deployment of the army to the battlefield, than each step! Up and down can let everyone sit behind closed doors and deliberate the officialdom more straightforward, Lu Shengxiang empty extremely outstanding “will soldier” talent, but then the dark current of the dynasty, simply do not give the military minister “will will” the opportunity, but no Opportunity, but dragged to the point that even the soldiers are difficult to the extreme, so the court hard to the situation of the big good chess face down into a rotten quagmire like a stinking chess, if by Gu Jiantang town, even if there are those who do not know the sky is high and thick of the fop from the mess, Yang Shenxeng is still absolutely not dare to venture into the work, but also not to woe Yan Zhenchun the whole 30,000 cavalry army all folded there, not to let Zhao Ying Zhao Xun two feudal lords with the Sent to death almost a defeat.

Gu Jiantang quietly slowed his pace, said: “Lu Shengxiang got Hussar General, no accident to vacate the position in the Ministry of the Army that I sat just now, when it will be my subordinate LiaoXi general Tang TieFang into the capital to take over, is not good news, not bad news, take the opportunity to say hello to you first, just. Tang Tieshuang is different from Lu Shengxiang and Xu Gong, when the official when not good, but leading soldiers to fight is very good, he entered the Ministry of War, Lu Shangshu you try to let him take a few young people together to throw to the Guangling Road …… by the time it is perhaps the south of the capital is right.”

Gu Jiantang said blandly: “The reason why I said this, not out of selfishness to let Tang Tieshuang do officials do flat and smooth, but I hope that the Ministry of War in the hands of Lu Shangshu you, can retain a few more days of sand flavor is a few days. Later in the Ministry of War sitting, I’m afraid that not many know what horse manure is a flavor, not a few thighs will be full of riding a horse to get out of the calluses.”

Lu Baijie sighed and said, “This matter should not be difficult.”

Gu Jiantang suddenly looked back at the former Gu Lodge, and in the dusk, there was still some afterglow of the spring sunlight falling on the roof.

Gu Jiantang then smiled at Lu Baijie and said, “There is no need to send me off again, I’m going to a place I didn’t have the chance to go before.”

Lu Baijie stopped to watch the great general go.

He knew where Gu Jiantang was going.

Once upon a time, Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu was first the location of the ministry of mandarins, after all, no matter how arrogant the ministry of war Gu Jiantang held for many years, the ministry of mandarins office is always the first place of the foreign court in the name of Liyang, and then Zhao right Ling and his seat division parted ways, the ministry of mandarins changed the place, at that time, as the only one left in order to the identity of a favorite disciple stood firmly behind the chief minister of the king Xionggui, he led the household department did not have to momentum of a head to move into the Zhang Lu, but at that time the ministry of mandarins, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Household, Ministry of Rites and Ministry of Justice will let a minister in Zhang Lu honestly sitting, so that the civil leader to the fastest speed of its intentions or will reach the five joints of the Ministry. Now that Zhao Yuling had been promoted to the Zhongshu Province and Yin Maochun had joined the Ministry of Revenue, the latter had unexpectedly chosen to sit in that room.

Of course, the world will no longer have what Zhang Lu said, compared to the often recounted Gu Lu, this place do not even dare to mention it again.

It was as if it had never appeared in the Liyang court.

Gu Jiantang walked to that place and looked there.

At night, compared to Gu Lodge, there was not even the last trace of afterglow there.

On this return to the capital, that night, His Majesty the Emperor, who was not yet known as the late Emperor, stood in the imperial prison, and it was he, Gu Jiantang, who had gone to see that man for the last time, relaying the last words.

That person was separated from him, the great general, by an iron fence, but he did not say even half a word about his dying words, but only waved his hand at him, Gu Jiantang.

Gu Jiantang retrieved his thoughts, not going to look at those officials who had hurried out of the house to run down the steps to greet him after hearing the news, nor did he take a glance at Yin Maochun, the minister of the Reserve Minister, who had stayed at the door.

Gu Jiantang turned straight around and left with a big stride.

The capital noiselessly more than one person, according to the reasoning, not to mention the world’s first place more than one person, is more than a thousand people also with a drop in the bucket, but this has to be guilty of the body of the guest who can not be underestimated.

King Zhao Xun of Jing’an, the youngest Zhao clan king of Liyang Dynasty.

From the decree to summon Zhao Xun to Zhao Xun into the capital, the Department of Rites from beginning to end have not been able to plug in the hand, are the Zongrenfu hand in hand. There is no impermeable wall in the capital, the small news has begun to spread rapidly in the high-level officialdom, but basically no one can know Zhao Xun’s trip to Tai’an City is a blessing or a curse. Rocking the battle outside of the Yu Pass, the same is the clan king of Huainan King Zhao Ying in three battles after three victories surprisingly died, said stifled seems to be a little bit inappropriate, but to say that the valor that is not right ah, brave is brave, but also too scheming some, abandon three passes do not want to go to the plains to play with the cavalry duel with the people, how come to the words of the wise? As for Zhao Xun this guy, it is more praise than blame, after all, the king of Jing’an is running to rescue the king of Huainan to go, and almost to be chased by the West Chu rebels ride to death, the two difference in the relationship between the two generations of the feudal king shallow, visible Zhao Xun loyalty to the court is undoubtedly, with his father, the old King of King of King of King of Jing’an Zhao Heng, that’s the difference between the sky and the sky. Only now his majesty has succeeded to the throne, the king’s heart is hard to guess ah.

Zhao Xun temporarily live in that county king street in a mansion, and he has no half of the inheritance relationship, in more than a hundred years ago used to be a powerful minister’s private residence in the Liyang dynasty, illegal violation of the system to the infinite, covers a very wide area, the house has more than four hundred, which has more than the foundation of the temple and pavilion is higher than the door outside the street for several feet, and later in about forty years ago by the Liyang emperor to give the loyal Yi Wang, but unfortunately, only hereditary title of the king of the succession for a generation on the loss of the crime, in the last forty years, several times in the last forty years, the emperor of the county of the county of the county of the king of the county of the county of the county of the king. In the last forty years, several times turn, the owner are not live long, one of the most famous is of course the old master of Xichu Sun Xi Ji.

Zhao Xun, although nominally went to the capital to ask for the sin of the vassal king, earlier that the wording on the imperial decree is quite severe, if not all the trend is in that blind Mr. Lu’s anticipation, Zhao Xun really may be scared to death, when the gift of Lu Deng is very simple, “both go to the and peace.”

Zhao Xun at the moment is also really both go and rest in peace, these days is often alone in the residence in the leisurely walk, enjoy the House of the bright corridor through the ridge, the ancient trees and articulated water around the mountain. Zhao Xun at this time stood in a lake pavilion, face with a smile, previously arrived in the capital escorted him into the right zongzheng here, he called a nose is not a nose face is not a face, look at him Zhao Xun with a roadside wild dog like, this is not yesterday, perhaps heard what the news, anxious to repair the relationship to come, a wrinkled old face smiles bloom, Zhao Xun of course, will not be in the open face, and even send the right zongzheng a piece of the house, the right zongzheng is not a piece of the house. Even sent the right zongzheng a piece of mercury percussion jade trigger finger has long been ready, the old man saw on the eyes bright, obviously Mr. Lu carefully prepared such a small object, just in the soft spot. In fact, in addition to the jade trigger finger, land also let him carry a side of ink color tortoise back ink stone, said if the left zongzheng step forward responsible for the reception, you need to send out this thing.

Zhao Xun heartfelt emotion: “Lu Fanya you are really clever calculation ah. This king is still the son of his highness, always think li yishan nalan right ci these so-called top strategist, but is the trend of heroes, once put aside in the peace and prosperity will also die out of the crowd, until you meet, only to know that no matter where they are in the chaos of the world rule, there will certainly be a place for you.”

Zhao Xun previously thought with six thousand cavalry’s total annihilation to complete the “retreat for progress” layout, the price is too heavy, but when Zhao Xun came to Tai’an City standing in the mansion, he began to understand Mr. Lu is right.

Zhao Xun suddenly saw two figures appeared in the lakeshore, and then walked towards the lake pavilion, no one to lead the way, Zhao Xun frowned, some instinctive vigilance.

When those two people gradually approached, Zhao Xun froze for a moment, and after recognizing one of them, he wondered, “Brother Song?”

Song family phoenix Song Ke Li.

Last time in the capital, Zhao Xun and Song Ke Li played some point to point dealings.

Song Ke Li bowed and said, “My humble servant pays his respects to King Jing An.”

Zhao Xun hurriedly smiled and said, “Brother Song does not need to be polite.”

Song Ke Li demeanor idle, there is a kind of bone emanating from the not proud and not impatient, without the slightest family decline of their own dusty disillusionment, coupled with his and the sideburns pale Confucian joint visits, so that Zhao Xun heart is very doubtful.

Song Ke Li said softly: “This is Mr. Yuan, and West Chu Sun Xiji and others are only considered Mr. Yuan’s guests.”

Zhao Xun is not stupid, and he figured it out at once.

Surname Yuan. The real owner of this mansion.

It is the one who made his father Zhao Heng hate the first strategist of Liyang, half inch tongue Yuan Benxi!

Zhao Xun bowed to the end, “Late generation Zhao Xun pays his respects to Mr. Yuan!”

Yuan Benxi did not speak, just waved his hand.

Song Ke Li laughed, “My humble servant is here to tell His Majesty that he will soon be able to leave the capital and return to Qingzhou.”

Without waiting for Zhao Xun to taste it, the “soon” in Song Ke Li’s mouth really came true soon.

A bright red python robe of the Secretary of the pen eunuch holding the imperial decree towards the three of them, step very fast but does not give a person the feeling of chaos and haste.

The old eunuch holding the imperial decree after seeing Yuan Benxi, also is first slightly nodded to salute before the King of Jing’an Zhao Xun declared the decree.

Zhao Xun naturally need to kneel down, Song Ke Li also step back and kneel to listen.

Only Yuan Benxi face to the lake, ignored.

The eunuch in the world eunuchs sit in the first three chairs of the big eunuch, this simply did not show half a bit different color.

Received the imperial decree, Zhao Xun had to quickly leave the capital, plus he didn’t have Lu Dang’s bag of tricks, really don’t know how to talk to that Liyang emperor teacher, for fear of making a mistake, take the opportunity to say goodbye and leave the Lake Pavilion.

Waiting for Zhao Xun and the big eunuch to leave one after another, Yuan Benxi asked, “What do you guess this Si Lisi Supervisor Pen-carrying Eunuch will be asked when he returns to the palace?”

Song Ke Li shook his head to indicate that he did not know.

Yuan Benxi laughed, “The emperor will not be concerned about how King Jing’an is doing, but will ask Yuan Benxi if he was respectful when he saw the imperial decree.”

Song Ke Li cried and laughed.

Yuan Benxi calmly said, “Earlier, I had advised the late emperor that if King Jing’an Zhao Xun had the intention to hide his strength in the battle of Jing’an, he would issue a decree for him to enter the capital and remove his title and relegate him to the status of a commoner. If he still fails despite his best efforts, he will be allowed to keep his royal title, but he must live in Tai’an City for one or two years. The first emperor on this matter on the heart, but today’s son of heaven is not not on the heart, but for the son of heaven, a prestige mediocre vassal king, Zhao Xun’s stay or go is nothing, he wants to use this to imitate the first emperor against Zhang Julu’s wrist, and constantly under the test should be hand, step by step, point by point nibbling ……”

Song Ke Li whispered, “It is too hasty.”

Yuan Benxi did not comment, slightly strained to open the box, continued: “Zhao Xun is very smart, not how smart he himself, in fact, than his father Zhao Heng inferior to many, but this person knows how to the people behind the words to obey. I want him to stay in the city of Tai’an can only be tied hands on the world changes do wall watch, because as the world of the waist of the brawn of the Xiangfan is too important, can not appear half a point of loss, that blind heart live young man, itself is a huge variable. I originally wanted to completely disrupt the forces of Qingzhou, so that one of Xu Gong or Tang Tieshuang could take charge of Xiangfan. Now it seems that maybe, maybe one day, Qingzhou will become a place where soldiers will fight, Liyang, Northern Mang, Northern Liang, Western Chu, Western Shu, and Southern Border.”

Song Ke Li wanted to speak.

“Strategist Strategist, Scheming Scholar, the identity has been set dead, just ‘Scholar’, and then it depends on how to give advice to the person who is assisting, but before that, it is necessary to find the right person.”

Yuan Benxi narrowed his eyes, his voice low, “Li Yishan looking for Xu Snapdragon, is right, Zhao Changling is just wrong. For me to seek out the late emperor, is right. Xun Ping, on the other hand, is wrong. Nalan Yuci looking for Yan Zhi Wang Zhao Bing, is right. Lu Yan looking for Zhao Heng Zhao Xun father and son, is wrong.”

Song Ke Li asked curiously, “Then Song Dong Ming, Xu Bei Hao and Chen Xiliang finding Xu Feng Nian, is right or wrong?”

Yuan Benxi smiled, “I don’t know.”

Song Ke Li asked seriously, “There are also things that you don’t dare to be sure of, sir?”

Yuan Benxi asked rhetorically, “Couldn’t there be?”

Song Ke Li laughed, “It can.”

Yuan Benxi laughed it off and then said, “I once asked two monks the same question, killing a thousand people to live ten thousand, is it something to do, or something not to do? When I asked about killing ten people to live ten thousand, Tai Yang nodded his head and said that something could be done. But when I kept asking about killing one person to live ten thousand, Li Dangxin still refused to nod.”

After Yuan Benxi finished speaking, he paused for a long time, reached out and pressed his hand on the pavilion pillar, and said, “I will next have you bring a holy decree and a secret decree to Jizhou; the former is for you to put down roots in Jinan, and the latter is for you to send to that mad dog Yuan Tingshan, so that he can boldly let go of his hand and open the gateway of Jibei.”

Song Ke Li was first puzzled, but soon became violently pale.

Yuan Benxi said blandly, “Just let Northern Liang be in chaos some more. Those who seek life will live, and those who wish for death will die, each in their own way. Northern Liang iron horsemen? Then let the entire Central Plains wait and see.”

As in the past, the city of Tai’an ushered in the first month of the most opportune time to come back to the “literary splendor”.

For a while, name spikes and certificates were flying all over the place.

Cultivation began in Dafeng, Xing in the West Chu, the prevalence of Liyang, in the West Chu when the Cultivation subjects are extremely complicated, in Liyang after the reformation of the system began to be the most heavy Scholarship Section, in the hands of someone in the Scholarship Section and gradually focus on the trial of policy questions, and at first also made a noise, “the first minister of adults coldly fall learning only favor the work or not” of the hubbub. Scholarship and the number of more and more people, from a few three or four people in Dafeng to more than two or three dozen people in Xichu, and then more than a hundred people in the late Yonghui, until the first year of the xiangfu year can be said to be the unprecedented two hundred people. Because of the imperial examinations, resulting in a lot of Beijing to catch the examination of the foreign students continue to influx and stay in the city of Tai’an, so there is a “through the list” “provincial scrolls” two interesting things, invariably also makes the literary world of the officialdom of the two places continue to be closer to the relationship. From the Yang Jinshi Section are held in the first month of February to release the list, jumped through the Dragon Gate of the phoenix feather not to say, the list of soldiers do not naively think that the list on the end of the matter, and more likely to hit the road back to their homes, after all, a huge amount of money to go to the capital is not most of the soldiers can afford, so they had to stay in the capital, there are relations with friends and relatives to look for the townspeople, it does not matter that they will have to borrow to live in the temples and Taoist monasteries during this period, in addition to continuing to During this period, in addition to continue to study hard, but also have to learn to ask someone to their favorite articles to the officialdom bigwigs or literary celebrities “over an eye” to taste a bit, or directly delivered to the imperial examination officials outside the Ministry of Rites Yamen officials, similar to the “prime minister’s concierge seven officials”! The saying of “the king of hell is good to see, the little ghost is difficult to deal with” is thus born.

And xiangfu two years at the moment the most difficult to turn like a gyroscope “seven products” concierge, some unusual, after Tan Tan Weng presided over a number of imperial examinations, and now is a “heavenly official adults” Yin Maochun door naturally crowded, it is not surprising, out of the father and son of two husband and son of the It is not strange that the Song family is crowded, but what is unusual is that this year, the residence that receives the most famous thorns is not the residence of Qi Yanglong, the Chinese Minister, nor is it the residence of Yao Baifeng, the great master of science, nor is it Yan Jiexi’s house, who has the dual status of being an imperial relative and a university scholar in the Imperial Household Cabinet, but it is the residences of two young officials, the one of which is the new Minister of Rites, Jin Lanting, who is expected to be the next master of the seat of the rumors of the Jin Sanshirang, and the one of which is the new Right Priest of the State Crown Prison, who is the next master of the seat of the State Crown Prison. one was Sun Yin, the right priest of the new State Scholarship Academy.

It is rumored that the two concierges have received dozens of large baskets full of name spikes!

And these two Liyang most popular officials also showed a very different posture, Jin Lanting even if the official duties of the heavy, but also make every effort to take the time to meet with all the students, even if the row in the back of the head can not be squeezed into the House of the Minister did not get to see the face of Lord Jin will certainly be careful to “warm the scroll” that is, to return to the person, and never scribbled to cope with, so much so that he is almost daily To overnight, in addition to the face of the enthusiasm to meet the scholar is to pick the lamp to review the articles and poems, some of the best poems will even be JinSanLang initiative in the capital of the eight jun pass browse, can be said to spare no effort to help those scholar to extend the reputation of the eye, so no one is not grateful to him. But Sun Yin Sun priest compared to, it seems extra unsympathetic, door certificate received, but in the first ten days of the first month did not meet with anyone, get confirmed “warm scroll” but also casually replied to seven or eight, just this guy in the State Scholarship Lecture in the martial arts is really too shocking, do not forget, the famous battle of tongues of the imperial court, it is! This person won!

Therefore, even if the capital recognized impetuous person in a letter of reply, with a thick pen to write “bullshit” four big words, the guy who got the reply is still like a treasure, cheeky for their own fanfare, was the whole city of Tai’an quoted as a laughing stock.

In just a few years, from the Huangmenlang residence, into the priest’s residence, and then into the minister’s residence, then the Shangshu residence is still far away from the title?

Jin Lanting in the capital send off the remaining seven of the eight Jun, walk alone in the corridor, he knows the study desk has piled up a mountain of door, more know as long as the imperial examinations did not officially open, that hill will only pile up higher and higher, the Ministry of Manners is indeed the six ministries of the most water, but to do the minister, that is the water Yamen out of the water, but it is that water is more hidden than gold and silver just. Jin Lanting stopped by a corridor pillar, raised his head and closed his eyes, full of intoxication, and took a deep breath.

“Tai’an City, ah Tai’an City, how can you let me, Jin Sanlang, not spring into action?”

After a long time had passed, Jin Lanting opened his eyes, his eyes blazing, and said in a voice that only he could hear, “Lord Chief Minister, I will do better than you!”

Sun Yin is now living in that small mansion is rented, the first lease when he is still just a small official under the door province, the rent or Sun Yin and that rich Jia wear out their lips and persuade only to reduce to ten taels per month, pay in three months. When Sun Yin’s reputation rose, the rich man ran to the door and said he wanted to give the house to the right priest, Sun Yin did not agree, but only changed the payment from three months to one year. Today, Sun Yin had to go out, and when he saw through the gap in the gate that the scattered dozens of people were still waiting for rabbits, Sun Yin turned to the back door to leave. As a result, he was still blocked by a shabbily dressed young scholar. Sun Yin was stopped in his tracks, and the scholar introduced himself in a thick old Western Shu accent, then bent down and handed out a stack of things with both hands, which could be a number of poetic manuscripts or a long fugue.

Sun Yin asked with a bland look, “Have you shown it to Squire Jin?”

The reader reddened and hemmed and hawed. Obviously to the Squire’s House has thrown the volume, but also more than likely by Jin Sanlang warm volume, also surely Jin Lanting only gave bland and tasteless polite response, which is to come to the higher threshold of Sun Yin side of the luck. Sun Yin felt and pulled out a handful of fractional silver, open palm, asked: “I have not looked at this ten years to see who, what you have in your hands will be ten percent I even lazily scolded, the capital of the high officials love feathers, encountered you this kind of person, at most pinch the nose to give some money to send off. So do you want me to give you silver, so that you can hurry to pay back the rent on credit, and then eat a few full meals, or do you want me to look at your things?”

That Xishu Road rush exam candidate with a plain appearance and unimpressive temperament, shook his head and said, “I don’t want money, as long as Lord Sacrificer takes a serious look at my poetry manuscript.”

Sun Yin retrieved the silver, took over the stack of poetry manuscripts that look at the correct handwriting, left hand two fingers pinch a corner, the right hand carelessly turned over seven or eight pages, soon made a gesture to hand over to the hands full of frostbite of the downtrodden candidate, but in the latter’s hands immediately borrowed the manuscripts of the poem, Sun Yin took the lead to let go, the manuscripts of the poem fluttered all over the ground, Sun Yin looked at the face of the stunned readers, and for some reason, and then pulled out a small piece of silver, and threw it to the ground! When he brushed past the Western Sichuan scholar, he sneered, “I won’t pick up that grain of silver, because it’s really not worth mentioning to me. Your poetry manuscript, it should be the same for you, because it is too worthless.”

With that, Sun Yin walked away.

After walking out a long way, Sun Yin turned his head to look at the man.

The thinly clothed scholar was squatting on the ground, picking up the manuscript of a poem page by page.

Sun Yin also saw the man lift his arm and wipe his face.

Sun Yin sighed and slowly walked towards a mansion that was not too close in distance.

When he arrived, the concierge, who was originally recognized as extremely difficult to serve in the capital, did not stop him, and even showed a very sincere smile, which was obviously more than just because Sun Yin was the second-in-command of the State Scholarship Council.

Do not need to lead the way, in the study to find on the peanuts on the wine Tantan Weng, Sun Yin also do not say anything, is to drink to themselves.

Huan Wen laughed: “The acacia flower is yellow, the scholar is busy. Spring green, it is you busy. Just get used to it, when you reach my age, you can also not be busy.”

Drinking several large bowls of wine Sun Yin suddenly lifted a pair of chopsticks, gently tapping the rim of the wine bowl, softly said: “Beijing snowy night freezing broken fingers, the broken temple beggar snoring like thunder, the high walls of the vermilion door is warmer than the spring, the purple clothes and white moustache of the old nobleman, close a glance to beg for …….”

Listening to Sun Yin long and drastically read, Huan Wen listened to half a day, a bowl of wine to the mouth froze, finally could not help but laugh and scolded: “What a mess of stuff!”

Sun Yin stopped and shut up.

Huan Wen drank a mouthful of wine and said softly, “But the meaning is still so little.”

Sun Yin calmly said, “I borrowed it with a grain of broken silver. It was a loan that I could not afford.”

Tantan Weng was so old and what kind of Taoist, he only took another leisurely sip of wine and let out a series of slurping sounds, not knowing if the wine was too pungent or what.

Sun Yin asked, “No more wine?”

Huan Wen said: “young people drink, should not be used to get drunk to pour out sorrow, a small age know a fart of sadness, only seventy years old, tired of living, only used to destroy people’s hearts and livers.”

Sun Yin glared: “Don’t drag sour, speak human words!”

Huan Wen put the empty wine bowl on the table, also glared: “I mean you kid do not understand? No wine for you to rub!”

Sun Yin leaned disheveledly against the back of his chair.

Huan Wen said angrily, “If it wasn’t for the fact that you know how to take advantage of an official hat to wear, and put your first monthly salary in your pocket, and hurriedly change it to a yearly payment with that merchant, or else you wouldn’t even be able to enter my door, not to mention drinking those bowls of wine!”

As soon as Huan Wen talked about this, he got really angry and pointed his finger at the youngest right priest in the history of the State Scholarship Academy, “You’re out of your mind! To the North Mang Liyang as the attack and defense sides, talk about martial arts? Speak your big head ghost!”

Huan Wen grabbed the wine bowl on the table and smashed it over, regardless of Sun Yin’s blood flow from his forehead, and said sternly: “Well, good a national crisis, martial arts does not spare the body, the text does not spare the name! A good one inch of the mountains and rivers an inch of blood! The North Mang is knocking on the border and heading straight for Tai’an City! You’re the only one in the world who understands the art of war and the current situation!”

Sun Yin simply closed his eyes and did not return the favor.

The more Sun Yin looks like he’s not dying, the more Huan Wen gets angry and slaps the table heavily, “Do you think that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was sitting on the futon at that time was a fool? Zhongshu Ling Qi Yanglong is a fool?!”

Huan Wen almost directly cursed, “You think I, Huan Wen, am a fool? Fuck you!”

Sun Yin said nonchalantly, “I’m sorry, my mother died long ago.”

“Fuck you!”

“Dead too.”

“I don’t care if your ancestors are dead or not!”

Sun Yin completely stopped talking.

Huan Wen slowed down, looked miserable, hands trembling, softly said, “Bieye’er never showed favoritism in his life, he only made an exception once in his life for you son of a bitch ah.”

Sun Yin looked wooden, “In the State Scholarship, so many readers who are full of wisdom, all think that the three hundred thousand iron horsemen of Beiliang should die to death, and even think that even the millions of people in Beiliang died.”

“When Yan Zhenchun died, they were indifferent, and when Zhang Julu died, they were greatly pleased.”

“These people feel that if they were Yan Zhenchun, they could have easily broken Xie Xibei Cavalry in a big way, and these people feel that if they were Zhang Julu, they could have long ago unified the world through the country and the world.”

“These people, they are all readers.”

Sun Yin lowered his head, covered his face with both hands, and choked, “When I was young, it was hard for me to go to private school, and the gentleman was a Spring and Autumn relic who had somehow stayed in Beiliang in the Hongjia northward run, and I remember that the gentleman liked to take us to half-read and half-sing that Song of Everlasting Hatred. Before I left Lingzhou, I met with Mr. Lingzhou for the last time, and Mr. Lingzhou said that he did not expect that the sound of books he heard in Beiliang was the same as the sound of books he heard in his hometown. So Mr. said it wouldn’t hurt to be buried in Beiliang after his death.”

“The Tai’an City of these readers is so peaceful.”

“I don’t want to see such peace, I, Sun Yin, want to go back to my hometown and would rather see the wolves and smoke there.”

Huan Wen said to himself, “Sun Yin, if you want to go back to Northern Liang, I won’t stop you. But I want you to know that the Tai’an City of those readers you see is not the real Tai’an City, nor is it everyone’s Tai’an City.”

“This city, there has been my benefactor, there has been Zhang Julu, there has been Xun Ping, there has been Yan Zhenchun, there has been me, the still living Huan Wen, and there are many others that you don’t know.”

“Xu Snapdragon, Li Dangxin, Cao Changqing, Yang Taiyou, all were once in this place, were so spirited, and each of them could ask for what they wanted.”

“If you go back to Northern Liang, you may become an official, you may be a strategist, you may die on the battlefield with a clear conscience. But if you don’t give up today, one day, sometime in the future, you’ll have the chance to say to another young man, ‘Tai’an City, there’s me, Sun Yin. This world, has me Sun Yin!'”

In a secluded courtyard in a narrow alleyway, a woman sat quietly on the threshold of the inner courtyard, the wood door of the outer courtyard was open, and she looked out the door.

It was as if she was waiting for someone to come home.

She occasionally heard the lilting yells of those selling iced sugar gourds coming from the distance, but perhaps the alley was just too small to see the figures of those vendors carrying sugar gourds passing through the doorway.

She reached out and placed her hand on her abdomen and softly said, “Border, the child and I are fine.”

But we all miss you.