Chapter 165 – Readers
Xu Fengyen had originally planned to separate from Yu Luan Blade and Yu Rider Unretreatable Battalion right at the northern border of Liang and Yu, and then head to the Northern Liang capital where Chu Lushan was located, only that there was an urgent spy report that Yan Wenluan was already on the way and wanted to meet with him to talk about military affairs, so Xu Fengyen picked a compromise geographical location, and asked the commander-in-chief of this infantry who was in control of more than 100,000 border troops of Northern Liang to wait for him in the Rouge County. As soon as Yu Di Long heard that he was going to Rouge County, the previously depressed child all the way finally had a little smile, only to learn that Xu Fen Nian had an appointment with Yan Wen Luan in the county, not that Bishan County where his master had served as a master for a period of time, Yu Di Long fell silent again, with a kind of loss of passing through the door of the house without entering. Xu Fengyen stayed at an elegant mansion carefully arranged by the Whisking Water House in the late night, and the group had only stepped over the threshold when behind them there was a sound of raindrops from a sudden and sharp rain pounding on the roof and courtyard walls.
Xu Fengyen did not sleep, after arriving at the study with a large collection of books, he stood at the window and looked at the rain curtain in the courtyard, probably just as the ancient saying, the night is deep and most remembered young things. For no reason, Xu Fengyen remembered many of his youthful and frivolous actions, such as inscribing the word “fake” on no less than a hundred authentic paintings of famous artists, throwing away a lot of money for the foreigners who passed through the territory of Beiliang, and remembering that a certain Jiangnan scholar, who cursed Beiliang for half of his life as a shortcut to the south of the country for the final officialdom, was not happy that he was so rich after stealing the high position, and his poems were passed on to the world. Poetry of the behavior of the world, but also let a person to send a postal letter, roughly meaning that your old man was praised by the people to praise the feet into the “graceful weather” of the stuff, are not when the real rich, really want to be rich, is not to talk about wine and delicacies, gold, silver, jewels and jades, what the “lazy pillow jade cool”, that is poor to talk about, that is the poor, but also to talk about the “lazy pillow”. Xu Fengnian wrote a sentence on the letter “rain to listen to a thousand bananas, rain to sit and see the lake ten thousand brocade” to end. I heard that the old scholar and celebrity saw the letter and was very angry, and then quickly wrote a letter of impeachment, first of all, that the banana is not hardy, the branches and leaves are cracked by the wind, and it is not easy to see a single plant in the northwestern border, but there are “a thousand voices”, i.e., a thousand trees in Qingliang Mountain, so this person came to the conclusion that “it must be the king of Northern Liang, Xu Snapdragon, who embezzled the military pay and was well-fed. Must be the king of northern Liang Xu Snapdragon embezzlement of military pay, enrichment of private pockets, total disregard for the border events, a liability to the emperor’s grace, should be stripped of the title “. Of course, at that time, this kind of “justified” report in the Liyang court all year round, the late emperor Zhao Dun also did not pay attention to, but also no constraints. Xu Fengyen remembers clearly that after he sent the letter, in the Jiangnan Road literary circles and scholarly circles very much caused a lot of hot discussion, one-sided scolding him scolding Xu Snapdragon scolding Northern Liang. The second sister Xu Weixiong, who just went to Shangyin Academy to study, returned a letter saying that he Xu Fengnian wrote shit, but in the end, she wrote a letter to the famous scholar herself, and then all the famous Jiangnan scholars had their tails between their legs. However, Xu Snapdragon after the fact through what means even to that letter to his hands, in the wutong courtyard with his son when drinking, that call a horse’s ass more than that, said he still with Li Yishan to ask for advice for half a day, only to understand that the “banana a thousand voices” in the end what is the meaning of the drink, after high, upside down that is that a few sentences, said he was really happy nah! The son is better than his old man, reads more, look, will write poetry, later can certainly be a more competent than his Xu Snapdragon also more able to convince the feudal lord.
Even though Xu Fengyen’s memory is far superior to normal people, but because of the diffuse and coping at that time, nowadays he doesn’t quite remember Xu Snapdragon’s words and expressions, but there is one action of Xu Snapdragon, even after so many years, his memory is getting more and more deep and vivid. Before Xu Snapdragon drunkenly left Wutong courtyard with unsteady steps, he collected the letter from Jiangnan Road back to Qingliang Mountain from the wine table and carefully put it into his sleeve. At that time Xu Fengnian was a bit puzzled, you Xu Snapdragon in this life step by step towards the position of the brilliant career, even so much to increase the number of imperial edicts and imperial edicts, but also never haphazardly piled up. A sent to others or cursed things, worth you so seriously?
Xu Fengyen stood at the window overnight, as if only the blink of an eye is already a new morning, last night the rain fell off and on three, at the moment the dawn is also blurred vision. Xu Fengyen looked up, the last of the sudden rain is still breaking, the sky is still a gloomy scene of dark clouds, but as time goes by, there is sunlight through the gap between the dark clouds to project a column of light, sprinkled on the earth. The next courtyard came from the dull sound of impact, is Yu Di Long and temporarily did not follow the great snow dragon rider rushed to the northern line of Liangzhou Lu Yun Chang in the sparring skills, two disciples are not using weapons, close combat, the two sides fists to the flesh, to who can not carry the first three steps back for the loss, not long, the oldest but can only be the youngest brother of the Lu Yun Chang shouted to go to get the frost long knife, probably the youngest is the oldest senior brother of the Yu Di Long no Taking care of, the courtyard returned to silence. Xu Fengyen has some regrets, not his own in the martial arts like the official fan that “not to go”, not to fall into that kind of world no enemy can not be extricated, but if their own realm is still at the peak, at that time in the gourd mouth outside would not have heard that the North Mang emperor teacher has Hong Jingyan, seed Liang and Murong Baoding as a backhand, their hands are tied. But then again, if he, Xu Fengyen, was still the deserved new Martial Emperor, the Taiping Order and Tuoba Qiyun and the others would not have shown up. Xu Fengyen estimated that he is now with people to kill, only on the realm of high and low, he Xu Fengyen is still counted as a thin camel than a horse, only than the Tuoba Bodhisattva, Deng Tai’a, Cao Changqing, Xu Yanbing, Huyan Daguan, Chen Zhi Bao six people, a small loss, but if it is at this time with the people of the life and death, Xu Fengyen will be one of the current reputation of the direct decline of the person in the top three ranks, Gu Jiantang.
Xu Fengyen walked out of the study and stood on the steps. Compared to the Liangdi Jianer body seems very short and thin armor-clad old man, alone stride into the courtyard, Xu Fengyen did not deliberately put out the posture of sweeping the couch to welcome, wait until the body of the iron armor still have traces of rain on the old man walked up the steps, Xu Fengyen and he went to the study, the table is already resting on the pot of hot tea, but there is no teacups, but rather, two large bowls, it is the one-eyed old man of the Yan Wenluan poured a bowl, and drank it all in one go.
Then Yan Wenluan double fists propped up on his knees, looking at the opposite side of the Xu Fengyen, rather like to ask the teacher for offense. Xu Fengnian quietly waiting for the following, this old general, is the largest mountain in the Northern Liang army, the former cavalry commander Zhong Hongwu fell, Yuan Zuozong succeeded to the throne in a short period of time, always firmly hold the power of the Northern Liang infantry Yan Wenluan can be said to be a dominant. But many border soldiers and the people of Beiliang do not know a secret, Beiliang army, more accurately should be the Xu family army, from the beginning of the invisible divided into two factions, a faction of “moderate” strategist Li Yishan as the leader, after the battle of the West Basement wall advocate Xu Snapdragon immediately return to the capital, the other faction of the more radical Zhao Changling as the core, a drum drum! The other faction, centered on the more radical Zhao Changling, took half of the country in a single blow, and strongly advocated cutting off the country in order to rule by river, sharing the world with the Zhao family in Liyang, and then finally fighting a battle similar to the West Basement Wall, thus deciding the ownership of the world. This potential split spread all the way to Xu Snapdragon’s subsequent feudalization, where Xu Fengnian’s uncle Wu Qi was disillusioned and chose to leave the military, as well as Xu Pu, who went incognito in Dunhuang, North Mang, and many others under the two famous generals who were equally disillusioned and left Xu Snapdragon’s side. It can be said that the victory of Li Yishan’s line is only a miserable victory, in the eyes of many old people who still remain in the Beiliang army, it means that Li Yishan single-handedly created Xu Snapdragon’s pattern of “family Beiliang, Zhao world”, which can’t be said to be wrong, but it’s very middle of the road, and what’s more important is that Zhao Changling’s death due to illness led to the loss of this faction’s backbone, plus Zhao Changling single-handedly promoted up many people to Yan Wenluan the spring and autumn generals as the head of the Northern Liang army has always been unwilling to dare to mix and Xu family “family affair”, and decided many years later Chen Zhi Bao seems to be negative general single rider to the Western Sichuan.
Yan Wenluan suddenly sighed, poured himself a bowl of tea, thought about it, and then to Xu Fengnian in front of the bowl also poured on, the old man picked up the big bowl, softly lamented: “so many years, my heart has always been a lump in the head, went to Qingliang Mountain so many times, are deliberately not to listen to the tide of the Pavilion to pay a visit to Mr. Li. Great General advised me once back then, but also gave me a lame excuse to put it off, and after that, Great General didn’t mention this.”
Xu Fenian did not pound glue and say something cloudy, but opened the door and said, “My master never regretted his decision back then during his lifetime, he always believed that if he fought for the world, Xu Snapdragon and the Xu family’s iron cavalry did not have this great power, and those who wanted to become a subordinate to the dragon were delusional. It is not that Xu Fengnian disrespects Mr. Zhao, nor is it that I am standing around talking without a waistache or getting a bargain, within the Listening Tide Pavilion, Master and Sacrificer Wang, as well as my second sister, the three of them on the situation at the time, have had one after another repeated deductions, and the conclusion is all the same.”
Yan Wenluan complex, sipped tea, shook the big white bowl, self-deprecating smile, “At that time, the king in the hereditary replacement of the critical moment, I Yan Wenluan also guessed who to take to open the sword to stand up to the authority, think about it, there is one of the most likely and one of the most unlikely, the former is to let me the eyesore old man, obediently discharged his armor back to the field at ease in his old age. The most unlikely is to take down Great General Huaihua, because Zhong Hongwu, regardless of his good or bad character, in the eyes of the capital has always been an important role used by the Great General to restrain Chen Zhi Bao and me.”
Xu Fengyen calmly said, “If it is still the light of the peaceful times, I will definitely choose Zhong Hongwu, and even go so far as to let him choose a confidant to be the Beiliang Capital Protector after he withdraws from the border army, and I will also try to make you, Yan Wenluan, lose your temper at a late stage, and slowly cut off your wings, get rid of Mr. Zhao’s flowing legacy, and let Chen Zhi Bao completely turn into a solitary person whose ‘power can be had, but not great’. , not big’ loner, Chen Zhi Bao’s brand in the Northern Liang Army will also naturally fade away gradually.”
Yan Wenluan laughed coldly, “Your Highness is worthy of being Mr. Li’s favored disciple, he is indeed good at scheming, and is most adept at the Jedi scheme.”
Xu Fengnian was not amused, raised his hand and laughed softly, “Cold words hurt, but it’s good that there is still hot tea to warm your heart, drink tea, drink tea.”
The old general of Beiliang who was known for his strong temperament surprisingly did not lift the table to tear his face on the spot, but drank a mouthful of hot tea with a stern face.
The atmosphere in the room was stiff.
Xu Fengnian was the first to break the silence, but it was a “digression”, “I heard that Nalan Yuci released words to join hands with Xie Feiyu to review the new martial arts reviews, rouge reviews, and generals’ reviews.”
Yan Wenluan did not have the good sense to say, “That crap, are all readers who have nothing to do when they are full.”
Xu Fengnian drank his tea, put down the tea bowl, looked grave, and said in a deep voice, “Then I will tell the old general today about a serious thing that several readers have done together. Well, it was four of them.”
Yan Wenluan frowned.
Xu Fengnian said four names.
They were Huang Longshi.
Listening Tide Pavilion Li Yishan.
Southern Border Nalan Righteousness.
Liyang Imperial Master Yuan Benxi.
Yan Wenluan subconsciously sat up straight.