Chapter 233 – Drones are (I)

Autumn ten days all over the yellow.

Xiangfu two years into the fall, a shocking news quickly spread throughout the north and south of the river, it is rumored that the western Chu Jiang Si will soon take the throne of the emperor, which means that this once exiled for many years of princesses, will become the North Mang Murong empress after the second woman emperor, but also in the history of the Central Plains dynasty’s first female emperor.

In line with this, all the generals and key personnel of Western Chu who are leading the army outside, excluding Xu Yunxia who is guarding the northern pass of Jiangbei, and Pei Sui who is responsible for the confrontation with Wu Chongxuan’s army in the southern border, together with Cao Changqing and Xie Xijian, almost all the civil and military personnel of Western Chu converge in the capital one after another.

In comparison, the Liyang court decreed that Wu Chongxuan be appointed as the general of conquering the south, and at the same time promoted Song Kasa, General of Hengjiang, to be the general of Zhennan, and one of the deputy ministers of the Guangling Road, and ordered to return to the Guangling Road to assist Zhao Yi, the king of Guangling, to lead the army, it will seem much more pale in comparison, and Song Kasa quietly accompanied by the two young officials who temporarily topped the Ministry of Public Works as the Guanzheng Lang, in the situation of the changing winds and clouds, it is increasingly inconspicuous. And in just two years will have served as the Ministry of Rites Ministry of Households two ministers of the Yuan Guo, this is now laughingly known as the old Zhang Lu favorite disciple of the fire fighting book, neither like colleagues Han Lin as the young emperor’s high hopes of the young emperor to be sent out to serve as a local official, but also did not as Tai’an City officials expected that as Wang Xiong Gui was relegated to the war in the Guangling Road, did not serve as a deputy minister, but to the minister of the decree of such a Instead of serving as the vice minister, he took the transitional identity of the minister of imperial decree, and after meeting Lu Shengxiang, Song Kasa and his party split into two, Yuan Guo went to see Wu Chongxuan, and Song Kasa led the two officials of the Ministry of Public Works from the seventh grade, and familiarly went to Zhao Yi’s residence of the feudal king.

As Yuan Guo, the ambassador of the Son of Heaven, is approaching, the atmosphere of the western front of Guangling seems to be a bit unusual, according to the reasoning that Wu Chongxuan, as the object of the Royal Decree, the most important thing to do is to raise a large number of people, not to mention several generals of the Southern Border, together with the ten miles out of the city to welcome them, the least of all should be to let the people start to prepare for the Yuan Guo to receive the wind and the dust, not to mention the chance of the Yuan Guo in the Temple of the East to rise again to return to the central government, even if it is to Yuan Guo in the city of Taian, the reputation of the official circles accumulated over the years, the Yuan Guo in the city of Taian. Even with Yuan Guo’s reputation in Tai’an City for many years, Wu Chongxuan, who is about to formally enter the officialdom of Liyang, can not be slowed down, but in the end, it is still King Jing’an Zhao Xun with the Qingzhou navy general Wei Dong to meet Yuan Guo. Wu Chongxuan only attended the dinner held on a sailor ship, Tang He and Li Chunyu two direct line generals did not show up, followed by a strange young man surnamed Jiang. Before the banquet began, Yuan Guo expressionlessly declared the decree, wearing an anachronistic iron armor of the veteran general Wu Chongxuan, also expressionless to listen to the decree to receive the decree, in a large group of civil and military officials to take off the official uniforms and robes, Wu Chongxuan kneeling and get up when full of armor clanking sound, especially piercing ears. This makes the dinner party, full of table delicacies sea food wine and food are tasted like chewing wax, bland to the extreme, no celebration to speak of.

In the night, away from the yellow dragon boat some distance on the river, a tonight responsible for the river patrol Qingzhou warship stationary, from this side of the view, can only be seen on the boat lights and colors and blurred figures, a young man dressed in civilian clothes quietly lying on the railing, the corner of the mouth cold smile.

The young man stood on the left hand side of Wang Xianzhi’s second disciple Gong half Que, third disciple Lin Crow, and a tall woman with a backdrop hat. The right hand side of the four people are in their prime, without exception are full of killing breath, it is clearly the South Border Road infantry general Zhang Dingyuan, Gu Ying, the original state general Ye Xiufeng, Crane state general Liang Yue! Can Yan Chih Wang Zhao Bing to take the hand of the direct line generals, at this time have arrived.

Among them, Wang Tongshan was once the Yan Ci Wang’s well-deserved number one general, just a few years ago into the northern border of the southern border, this time Wu Chongxuan was the court “recruited”, originally used to check and balance Wu Chongxuan’s Wang Tongshan even some signs of stupidity.

Zhao Cui didn’t look up and smiled, “Sister Lin, that guy is the Jiang Axe Ding of your Wudi City, right?”

Fist Dao Grandmaster Lin Crow’s face was complicated as she nodded.

Zhao Casting rubbed his chin, “I just wonder how this guy was able to help Wu Chongxuan hook up with Tai’an City, this matchmaker is not something that just any ordinary person can be.”

Lin Crow wanted to speak.

Zhao Casting turned his head to look at the woman martial arts patriarch who had been assessed by Rouge Review, and playfully said, “Sister Lin, don’t worry, Wu Chongxuan, even if he doesn’t have Jiang Axe Ding’s matchmaking, he’ll be just as likely to be with Tai’an City, but it’s just a difference between sooner and later. If you don’t look at the face of the Buddha, I’m sure I won’t go to fight with Jiang. Haha, really, this time our old General Wu really happy not up, say good marquis worship, conquer the South General is on, but no marquis, not to mention sealed as the first dynasty of xiangfu years of the king of a different name, which is with us in the southern border when the number one generals what are the two kinds of? One hundred thousand southern frontier northern elite army, just tossed to one of the four conquests of the general, loss of blood. His Majesty the Emperor’s hand out this time really isn’t that generous.”

That tall woman with a mysterious identity coldly said, “It’s not that the court can’t afford to give Wu Chongxuan a marquis, the reason for the loss of faith is simply that the battle in Guangling Road didn’t go well, and if we start to give big military generals right now, when the dust settles, what should be rewarded? I believe that that Lord Yuan who came from the capital to meet with Wu Chongxuan privately afterward will pick his words apart.”

Zhao Casting gave a hmmm, “The reasoning is that if you don’t know how expensive it is when you’re not in charge. Perhaps if I were sitting in the dragon chair, I would act the same way, first abducting you Wu Chongxuan onto the pirate ship before anything else.”

Zhang Dingyuan gently reminded, “Your Highness, Your Highness, Tang He and Li Chunyu came over on a small boat.”

Zhao Casting joked, “Luckily Wang Tongshan isn’t around for the time being, or else I’m afraid we’d be directly picking the boat with a halberd.”

Gu Ying, who is as handsome as a woman, said sorrowfully, “Not to mention that madman Wang Tongshan, how dare Tang He and Li Chunyu come to meet His Highness? Think we really don’t dare to kill these two white-eyed wolves?”

Zhao Casting shook his head and said, “I really don’t dare, now I am a serious court official, not to mention that if we really kill someone, we are just letting the one from West Shu reap the benefits, the business of the pro’s pain and the enemy’s pleasure, I am not happy to do it.”

A leaf canoe did not get too close to this expertly gathered warship, after stopping, Tang He and Li Chunyu both made a deep bow, and the canoe turned around and left.

Liang Yue, the fierce general of the Southern Border, let out a heavy cold snort as his five fingers gripped and broke the railing of the boat.

Zhao Casting said blandly, “A woman is a big bird, so let them go.”

The atmosphere was heavy and only the sound of the river was heard.

Water flows to a lower place, people go to a higher place, Zhao Casting suddenly turned his head and asked, “Miss Zhang, that Yuan Guo is your father’s protégé, if you want to meet him, I can help arrange it.”

The tall woman indifferently said, “No need.”

Zhao Casting subconsciously reached out and touched the worn out money bag on his waist, smiled and lamented, “Even if you have a sword, you can’t kill all the negative dogs.”

Subsequently without a word, Zhao Casting stared blankly to the northwest, exuding a worried look. Although the southern border has its own extremely excellent spy system, but for so many years has never reached out to the northern Liang side, and northern Liang Fu Shui Fang also tacitly do not go to the southern border to insert pieces, this respect, not only is the northern Liang 300,000 iron cavalry and the southern border has 200,000 strong army, not only Xu Snapdragon and Zhao Bing, two major power of the feudal king of the mutual scorn, but also more of a kind of sympathy between the heroes, that kind of feeling, it is like looking at the whole world! Heroes and heroes, equalizing the only person. And to Zhao cast this generation, he this Yan Zhi Wang Prince and the new Liang Wang Xu Fengnian, and is not an ordinary friendship?

Before letting the Dragon Palace Lin red ape mixed into the muddy waters of that attack Hui Mountain purple, why not tell Xu Fengyen big deal you simply give up the meaning of Northern Liang, there is still the southern border of this retreat for you to stay.

Zhao cast to the spy, the furthest from the Huainan Road side of the fragmentary news, now Cai Nan and Han Lin respectively as the Festival Minister and the Secretary, seems to deliberately intercept all the channels of transmission of military information in Northern Liang, the size of the post road has been blocked tightly, the Liyang court newspaper on the situation of the Northern Liang is not mentioned, so Zhao cast only know that Wang Sui twenty days ago, first led the eastern front of the horsemen swept north of Jibei, and then went to the Hezhou, pointing to the east of the Northern Liang Youzhou He Helan Mountain area east of Youzhou in Northern Liang. It seems that both the battles in Liuzhou and Liangzhou are unfavorable to Beiliang, and in the projections of Zhang Dingyuan Gu Ying Ye Xufeng and others around him, Beiliang’s chances of winning are extremely small, unless they win on all three fronts, whether it’s the loss of the mobile cavalry army of the Dragon Elephant Army of Liuzhou, which led to the opening of the western gate of Liangzhou, or whether it’s by Yang Yuanzan’s army that broke through the Hulukou Xiaguang City, and joined with Wang Sui’s cavalry army in the territory of Youzhou, the Beiliang border troops who are stuck in the land of one of the states of Liangzhou can only die, die of battle Or wait for death. As for the loss of Liangzhou’s center line, it’s even more so that everything is off the table.

Zhao Casting murmured softly, “It’s good to lose, when the time comes, you and I, brothers, will fight side by side.”

Zhao Casting stood up straight and stretched out one palm, clenching his fist tightly.

Different from the western line of Guangling that banquet building ship’s raw atmosphere, in the Guangling King’s residence, Zhao Yi Zhao Phyo father and son personally for the former years of beloved subordinate Song Kasa big feast, has been closed to thank the guests of the Guangling Road Secretary Wang Xionggui also unprecedented appearance, when Song Kasa said about the youngest son of Lord Wang Wang Yuanyuan among the Ministry of Rites of the capital as a ceremonial clearing the Department of the Langzhang, specially so to Lord Wang congratulations, the original hard to hide the depression of the Wang Xionggui He immediately smiled. On top of the banquet, the two young officials who were temporarily in the Ministry of Public Works to observe the government, after Song Rasa personally blocked the wine for one of the young man surnamed Lu, and then was ignored by all the people with a clear mind. That thieving eyes of the royal guest secretary ZhangZhuPo, and brocade clothing return home of SongKasa in the past and not deal with, one is GuangLingDao ChunXueLou chief strategist, one is by zhao yi regarded as blessing of the gentleman, but tonight, ZhangZhuPo looking for all the reasons to the deputy minister of the lord of the seven or eight cups of wine, drink to the two mouse whiskers are sticky, the world’s son zhaoBiao eyes this gloomy, zhao yi always face a smile.

The night after the banquet, two officials of the Ministry of Public Works under the banner of inspection of the Guangling River canal, in the King’s Palace courtyard to meet and drink, in which the man surnamed Lu turned out to be a blind man.

Drunk at the banquet Sun surname youth at this moment where there is half a point of drunkenness, lazily leaning against a large material made of rosewood elegant tai shi chair, to help face blind young man poured a cup of wine, laughed: “Song Kasa did not have a good heart, intentionally blocking the wine for you, obviously is to give Zhao Yi a wake-up call, tell the royal family of Guangling, you this Ministry of Public Works small official, in fact, more than I Sun Yin identity special.”

Into the capital and out of the capital of the blind Lu Yan is sitting upright, far less than Sun Yin this famous Beijing berserker so imposing, softly said: “Zhennan general after all is the old man of the spring snow building, drops of water still have to spring to return, this initiative is not excessive, why not have Song Kasa to treat with courtesy in the front, Zhang Zhupo want to smooth to find Mr. Sun to talk about the matter, is not easy. ”

Sun Yin let out a laugh: “He Zhao Yi this bleak light, in addition to broken cans can also do what? Turn a blind eye, by that Zhang Zhupo good tree nesting in the tree, at least can give the son Zhao Phyo save a bit of love, so that the court has Song Kasa has Lu Shengxiang these two military generals, but also Zhang Zhupo as a civil servant, Zhao Bing can later be a stable to do a enjoyment of the king, or wait until the world is peaceful, the military generals power is weak, there is no Zhang Zhupo in the officialdom to protect, the Guangling Road casually come to an assassin will be able to easily play dead Zhao Pei.”

Lu Daan smiled, “The general trend is like this, but in history books, are there still fewer tragic incidents caused by the anger of emperors and generals?”

Sun Yin skimmed his mouth, his face disdainful.

Lu Yan sighed, “Zhao Yi’s stream, no matter how his reputation is, and no matter how bad he is compared to the other few feudal kings, but in the end, he can afford for us, the descendants who have risen up on the momentum, to honor a few points.”

Sun Yin frowned, but still gradually collected a few moments of his maniacal demeanor and joked, “Lord Lu, you are not a few years older than me, but you are old-fashioned.”

Lu Yan was silent.

Sun Yin lowered his voice, “I am very curious, how did you convince his majesty, even able to make up his mind to whisk Lu Baijie from the Ministry of Military Affairs to Guangling Road as the governor, for this reason you have completely pissed off the entire Jiangnan Road scholarly group, you have to know that Yu Jiankang’s few old men are hoping that Tangxi Jianxian can temporarily stay away from right and wrong, and preferred to be hidden by the imperial court in the two Liao Liao’s, like Xu Gong, and delayed in their career for two or three years. Delayed two or three years, or better than now to do the head out. That’s why many people say that you have climbed up to the Liaodong Peng family in the north in Tai’an City, and that’s why you are going to give the four valves of the Jiangnan Road this trip ……”

Lu Daan lifted his head, his eyes closed tightly as he “looked” at Sun Yin.

Sun Yin snapped and laughed, apparently also some embarrassed, in front of the smart people in the land boasts of playing mind games really does not mean anything.

Sun Yin has a loss of chutzpah, but Lu Yan opened the door: “Qiyang Long and Tantan Weng do not want to Lu Baijie to Guangling Road, on the one hand, is to cherish his talent, on the other hand, can not resort to the mouth, after all, Lu’s family and the Xu family of Beiliang is a relative by marriage, if the history as a reference, the so-called the world to return to the heart, in the final analysis, is only the return to the heart of the scholars, the heart of the people, but also to gain the recognition of the scholars. Qingzhou Lu’s family into the northern Liang, has been a foregone conclusion, and then successive scholar to Liang and Wudang Buddhist Taoist debates, at this time, in reason, Lu Baijie should not come to the Jiangnan Road adjacent to the Guangling Road. However, once a person has far-flung concerns, he or she will most likely have near-flung concerns. Lord Sun asked me how I convinced His Majesty, it’s very simple, it’s just one sentence, when the matter of the moment is done, there is no need to worry about the near worries, and there is no need to worry about the far worries.”

Sun Yin bared his teeth for a moment, “Those words, they are a bit overbearing.”

Lu Dang tilted his head back and drank all the wine in his cup, smiling to himself, “Of course, before leaving the capital, I had a long talk with the king overnight, and for this one sentence, I said a thousand more.”

Lu Daan put down the wine cup, “Compared to the battle in the sand, everyone goes to their death. I, Lu Daan, am merely moving my lips, a hundred times useless.”

Sun Yin shook his head and laughed, “A hundred useless is a scholar? ZhangZhuPo, SongGasa, ZhaoYi ZhaoBiao father and son, LuBaiJie, YuanGuo, your old master ZhaoXun, WuShongXuan, LuShengXiang, plus the whole GuangLingDao …… such a big chessboard, you and I two small Ministry of works, but can be here to spread out, how can it be useless?”

Lu said he looked down at the desktop, as when he sat in Yongzi Lane, with a chessboard in front of him.

Lu said to himself, “There are winners and losers in chess, and there are profits and losses in gambling. But this kind of pointing for the emperor for the world, you and I fingertips are blood ah.”