Chapter 238: Keeping silent (I)

It is said that there is no impermeable wall in the world, although the wall of Tai’an city is high, the wind is also big, and the ears of the God of Newspaper are countless, so the gossip can always be spread to all corners at an alarming speed, when the new King of Liang stayed at the Mawei post house not long after, the clash between the Northern Liang Cavalry and the western army of the capital city became very public. As a result, the original court, headed by the Minister of Rites, personally welcomed the feudal king into the city, but also let people chew out some unusual meaning, most of the people in the praise of His Majesty’s magnanimity at the same time, spared no effort to scold the young feudal king’s arrogance, that the court should be this Northwest barbarians hung out to dry outside of the city, when he came to his senses, and know to submit to His Majesty to ask for forgiveness, and only then allowed him to enter the city.

Compared to the people who don’t know the depth of the water, the civil and military officials in Tai’an City, especially those who are qualified to participate in the morning court, which is equal to the officialdom in Liyang, should be the group of people who have the most courage to dictate to the military and government of Beiliang, but this time, they were unprecedentedly silenced, and there was less of a barking dog barking, for instance, the Imperial Historial Office, which is not a high ranking but has a noble status, was silent. But the identity of the noble Imperial Historical Office and the six departments, after privately communicating with each other, all have to impeach the young king of the idea of impeachment, the reason is very simple, with the carriage into the city of Tai’an, in addition to the Northern Liang light cavalry and Zhao Gui, Yuchi Changgong two generals of the face to the surface, and that Northern Liang broke the Northern Mang’s shocking news is also piggybacked on the Beijing city. In this sensitive time impeachment of the new dynasty of the first border success of the martial arts, any you find out a thousand reasons, but also useless.

On the other hand, half of the country’s taxes to build the two Liao Liao border army, twenty years to kill the enemy how many? How many enemies have they killed in the past twenty years? According to the military law of Liyang, the beheading of eighty North Mang heads can make a low-level soldier jumped to the border army captain, it is said that this time not only killed countless enemies in Beiliang, even the North Mang general Yang Yuanzan’s head off, if the reward, this must be how big the military achievements? Since that little barbarian Xu has already become a vassal king, then the Liyang readers’ dream of being a vassal and paying respect to a prime minister is meaningless, can’t it be that the previous emperor only took off the old Liang King’s title of Great Pillar State, and in the blink of an eye, this is going to be taken back from the hands of the current son of heaven?

At the same time, the lower rank of the Beijing officials also began to naturally slander the North Mang barbarians of the unbearable, previously the eastern front of the army was also aggressive all the way to the Hulukou Xiaguang City, how come on the proximity of the proximity of the, will be so useless? Tai’an city by the way even the great general Gu Jiantang also gave a complaint on, the North Liang 300,000 border troops can drive the North Mang millions of troops back home, the two Liao border troops are also quite a lot, not to mention what the thunder is small, you two Liao is the whole twenty years even a decent ringing of the thunder are not ah!

Xu Fengyen only took Xu Yan Bing stayed in the lower Mawei post house, eight hundred white horse from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites placed near the post house of the proper accommodation, Xu Fengyen got off the car and found that the post minister many officials different from the last time to the capital, are some more young faces, see dressed in a black and gold python robes in the North Liao Wang, the eyes of the eyes are through a heavy fear.

Xu Fengyen looked up at the dragon claw acacia outside the post house, things are different.

Lower Mawei post house has always been unique to the Northern Liang Road post house, is also one of the few to be built in the capital of the post house, due to the old Liang King Xu Snap in the king after the vassal rarely enter the capital to face the saint, these years has always been a picture of a dismal scenario, the military and household officials of the two ministries of the countless times to abolish the Lower Mawei, so much so that to the two ministries of the two late officials into the Ministry of the military Ministry of the Ministry of the Household in the last few years, the old tune of this matter has become the agreed-upon rule, quite like A letter of allegation. Who dares not take this matter to submit the zhangzhang folding, no less than the former colleagues a good meal ostracized pinch, but the late emperor and the current son of God is to stay in the subtle attitude of not sending, so that there is the official field of the old man joked, one day if the next Mawei post house really to demolition, it would be uninteresting.

Xu Fengyen is very familiar with this post house, with the Hong surname post minister named a room in the backyard, wait until the trembling post minister bowed and slowly left, Xu Fengyen moved two rattan chairs to the eaves, and Xu Yanbing one lying and one sitting. This trip in Qingliang Mountain seems to belong to Xu Fengyen’s impromptu rush to the capital, is not without objections, except that now Xu Fengyen’s control of the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry and the entire officialdom of the Northern Liang Road can be said to have reached its zenith, in addition to Xu Beihao’s anger at the meeting in Lingshou, but also Song Dongming let the whisking of the water room spies to send a letter of secrecy, implicitly, roughly disapprove of Xu Fengyen’s involvement in the risk, it is expected to say that this is also out of the Yan Wenluan Inside a group of veteran generals, only Bai Yu through the Wutong courtyard belatedly sent a letter, the words are in favor of the opinion.

Xu Yan Bing said softly: “The second county princess said let Huyan Daguan also follow into the capital, the king should agree. A hundred foot insect dies but never falls down, not to mention that Liyang Zhao room is far from being in a thinning situation, even if there is no Han Sheng Xuan Liu Artemis Qi Jiajie which are a few top experts, Qin Tian Supervisory Practitioner after two twists and turns there is not much left, but in the end, it is still the first city in the world that should not be underestimated.”

Xu Fenian laughed: “I didn’t ask Huyan Daguan to come out, and the Zhao family’s Heavenly Prince didn’t let Gu Jiantang enter the capital at a rapid pace, so let’s call it even.”

Xu Yan Bing lamented, “If the imperial decree had arrived a bit later, our Beiliang would have parted ways with the Zhao family.”

Xu Fengyen shook his head, “We won’t be able to fight, Zhao Zhuan’s intention was to let the western army of Gyeonggi test my bottom line, if we are good at talking, then he will have the courage to ask for more. If I’m not wrong, the emperor must have authorized the eunuch who went to issue the decree, must step on the point to show up, so no matter what will not start the war in the capital city, really want to fight, seven thousand elites to eight hundred riders to beat the shit out of, the emperor and the court’s face where to put it? Moreover, even if the western army wins by chance, the mess will be just as bad.”

Hearing Xu Fengyen’s intentionally aggravated tone when he said the word “elite”, Xu Yanbing smiled heartily, “The local garrison of Beiliang, not to mention Liangzhou and Youzhou, maybe Lingshou is tougher than them.”

Xu Fengnian did not have the slightest ridicule, “In fact, the spring and autumn base of the Liyang army and soldiers is still there, but unfortunately, Chengping twenty years, the annual martial arts ultimately can not be compared to the real killing of the border army, there is no sharpness, after all, a knife, opened and did not open the blade, a world of difference. But if you give them a few years of time to sharpen the fire, may not be worse. Let’s say, assuming that my Beiliang want to establish a state, hold up is also a small Beimang, doomed to consume but steamed up the national strength of the gradual growth of the Liyang, and if the Beiliang desperate, in the Beimang do not take advantage of the fire to intervene in the Central Plains under the premise of a thousand miles of the momentum of the attack on the city of Tai’an, I believe that to take down the two Huaihuai …….”

Speaking here, Xu Fengyen smiled, “One month, at most one month, the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry will be able to leave the entire northern line of Liyang, including Jizhou, chicken and dogs, and the battle losses will definitely not exceed 20,000, and they will be directly under the city of Tai’an.”

Xu Fengnian put his hands under his head and looked at the sky of the capital, “But to break through the capital, it’s too difficult, the capital area, except for the southern part which is favorable for the cavalry to gallop, all other places are not. At that time, not to mention Gu Jiantang’s two Liao border troops, and Jiaodong King Zhao Suo and Jing’an King Zhao Xun, perhaps even the southern border army to take advantage of the situation to the north, only the former are thinking of setting up a hard work of the king, the latter well, the mind on more, fishing for the benefit of the king. Don’t forget that there is an ambitious Chen Zhi Bao, as for Lu Shengxiang Tang Tieshuang stream, are not mediocre. A Guangling Road battle can let Xie Xijian Kou Jianghuai quickly among the ranks of famous generals, a battle fought for a long time, away from the sun can easily emerge a few what Wang Xijian Ma Jianghuai. If it is said that the alliance between Northern Liang and Western Chu has a better chance of winning, on the other hand, can’t the dogged Liyang go and borrow troops from Northern Mang?”

Xu Fenian softly said, “Even if all the Northern Liang iron riders are willing to follow me, Xu Fenian, as a rebel, how many people will die in battle in a foreign land at that time? How many people will have to die in the whole world? If this allows the Northern Mang iron hooves to take the opportunity to pour into the Central Plains, not to mention any ancient sins, let’s just say that Xu Primrose …… will sleep uneasily.”

Xu Yan Bing heartily said, “Being an official is harder than practicing martial arts, practicing martial arts, one tendon may not not be able to become a master, when the official if you are dead set in your mind, there is no future, when the official is already like this, not to mention when the vassal king when the emperor.”

Xu Fengyen laughed: “How difficult to follow the heart, may as well retreat to the second best, seek a heart without shame.”

There were no words for a while.

Xu Yanbing suddenly asked, “What next?”

Xu Fengyen softly said, “Waiting for the capital to become established, the fire is enough, I will go to participate in a court meeting again. After that, whether it is Huan Wen or Qi Yanglong who meets me, whether it is to show love and reason, or to entice and coerce, I am actually curious.”

A door two Shangshu of Jiangnan Lu family, the old Ministry of Rites Secretary Lu Dao Lin and the last Ministry of War Secretary Lu Baijie have now left the capital successively, one to the home, a flat transfer to Guangling, currently seems to be compared to a door two husband’s son of the Song family, the situation to be much better. Only under the undercurrent, as long as the person does not die, has not yet received the casket of the finalization of the posthumous title, who do not know the final end is good or bad.

Ministry of War Kong Zhenrong, Hanlin Academy Yan Chi set.

Chen Wang, Sun Yin, Lu Dang.

Yan Jiexi, a university scholar, and Jin Lanting, a minister in the Ministry of Rites.

There are also two sets of powerful sons and daughters of the capital led by Yin Changgeng and Wang Yuanyan respectively.

It seemed like Xu Fenian had more acquaintances than expected.

Xu Yan Bing had a worried look on his face, “But what if the court is dead set against the transportation of water?”

The next answer from Xu Fenian shocked even Xu Yanbing.

“There is no war in Liangmang for a short period of time, you, Liyang, have the world’s most powerful Northern Liang Iron Cavalry not using it, and watching Western Chu winning successive battles, is too much of a shame, isn’t it? I Xu Fengnian is still happy to help the court to solve the problem, in the final analysis, the meaning is that the court is petty, do not give grain and grass to the Northern Liang, it does not matter ah, we are still willing to go out to the army in Northern Liang! Not only to send troops, but also let the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry rush to Guangling Road!”

Xu Yan Bing rubbed his chin, “If I were to sit in the dragon chair, I would have a headache.”

Xu Fengyen sat up, narrowed his eyes and laughed, “Not only a headache, to be away from the Yang crotch all hurt!”

Right at this moment, Xu Yan Bing glanced over the courtyard wall, the corner of his mouth spread a cold smile.

Xu Fengyen sighed: “Reminds me of Qi Jiajie who escaped the summer town, the appearance of the stance is carved out of a mold, hating to be closer to the sword than the sword qi close to Huang Qing.”

The postman surnamed Hong walked into the small courtyard with a crying face and carefully said, “Your Majesty, there is a visitor outside the post house.”

Xu Fengnian nodded and said, “Got it, go back and tell him, just tell him I told him to get lost.”

The stage minister’s face visibly twitched, but he still respectfully withdrew from the courtyard.

It wasn’t long before someone said aloud in a voice that could be heard clearly even from two streets away, “I am Qi Jiajie’s first disciple, Li Haoran! I have the honor of inviting the King of Northern Liang to fight to the death!”

Xu Fengnian was a bit in tears.

Xu Yan Bing did the same, tutting, “This guy has a brain in his head? And a battle to the death?”

Coincidentally, immediately following the invitation to battle from the famous sword hero of the capital, Li Haoran, another loud voice gasped and shouted in a fiery manner, “Damn it! I don’t care whose disciple you are, I’m the one who first came to this Lower Mawei Stage House, if not for the fact that I went to the outhouse in an internal emergency, where would you have gotten your turn! If you want to fight with the King of Beiliang, I’ll be the first to do it! King Beiliang, don’t listen to this guy beside me! I’ll go first! I’m Wu Lai Fu, a good man from Jinzhou, and I’d like to spar with you today! I have the courage to do so!”

Soon after, the heroic man from the stagecoach who almost gave Li Haoran a cut off added, “Your Highness, we are actually from the same hometown!”

Xu Fengnian, who was sitting on the rattan chair, held his forehead.

Xu Yan Bing asked, “Or else I’ll dismiss them casually?”

Xu Fengyen got up and smiled and joked, “It’s fine, I’ll go meet the old folks.”

Just until Xu Fengyen walked out of the post house, he ended up only seeing a cold and quiet street, only a young swordsman with a jade-like appearance standing, as well as countless heads poking out of the windows of the taverns and teahouses on both sides of the street.

Xu Fengnian was a bit puzzled, and turned his head to ask the post master, “The one from Liaodong Jinzhou?”

The post minister’s face was odd, and he whispered, “Your Majesty, I don’t know why, that person has not yet seen your Majesty’s figure, he yelled ‘there is a murderous aura’, and then …… then he ran away in a puff of smoke. ”

Xu Fengnian was speechless.

This buddy is a talent ah.

Very much the style of someone back in the day.

To that guy gags to get all the momentum Li Haoran originally gloomy face, but when he saw wearing a python robe of the king of Beilang appeared, for no reason a burst of ups and downs of the heart, actually instantly sword heart dusty, no longer the previous appearance of the bright and clear.

What is even more devastating is that the surname Wu Liaodong son of a bitch to go and return, all the way to Li Haoran jogging to the side of the waist sat on a rusty black sheath iron sword, grinning naive smile: “Beiliang King, the old rules, or I come first. This is not just a little thing, went to the next street, today I Wu Lai Fu also dare not too much to bother the king, as long as the king can receive my knife, just a knife! I will leave without saying a word, how about it?”

Xu Fengnian smiled playfully and nodded, “Good.”

The countless hilarious spectators behind the windows on both sides of the street only saw that guy step out with one foot and shouted angrily.

After violently drawing his sword, but not charging forward.

Then.

There is no then.

Li Haoran took a deep breath and looked up to the sky.

The street was filled with dead silence.

After a long wait, only to see this swordsman put away his sword into the sheath, stood still and cupped his fists and said: ”Beiliang King is a good stance, surprisingly, he has reached the subtle realm of having a sword in his heart without a sword in his hand! This time, you and I are at the top of our game, and I have lost! The green mountains will not change and the green water will flow forever, see you again!”

This warrior turned around in a dashing manner, shook his head, and left with a big stride.

Showing his “master’s demeanor”.

“Son of a bitch, I’ve been waiting for you for half a day, you should at least come to a knife ah!”

“Son of a bitch thing, but also the peak of the move, the peak of your grandfather!”

“Your name is Wu Lai Fu, right, I remember you! I’ll find someone to beat you to death!”

The street immediately abuse countless, some extremely angry spectators not only to the window threw out of the tea cups and wine bowls, short-tempered, directly smashed the chair on the street.

What’s more, a few sets of people really can’t stand it anymore, have rushed to the street, to pick up that guy.

Unfortunately, that guy quickly disappeared, the crowd had to lament, not to say how this person’s martial arts, running that is called a fast ah.

It was not easy to restore the water-stopping state of mind of the green-shirted swordsman Li Haoran said in a deep voice: “King of Northern Liang, is it possible to fight?”

The crowd thought to themselves that a good show had finally come.

Li Haoran as Mr. Qi’s first disciple, in the capital is also a number of first-class swordsman, even if you can’t beat that young feudal king in the jianghu reputation, but fight thirty to forty strokes is not a problem, right? Then they spent a lot of money to fight for the feng shui treasure land, also counted back to the capital.

Xu Fengyen ignored Li Haoran and looked towards the end of the street.

High and low, old and young, three figures, standing side by side, soundless.

Further behind the three, there was a man with a child in green sitting on his neck.

There was even a young Taoist man appearing from around the corner, wearing a mahogany sword on his waist, his Taoist robes fluttering as he walked, a man of the gods.

Xu Yan Bing came to Xu Fenian’s side at some point.

Xu Fengyen ignored these characters who were treating guests for Tai’an City, instead he looked up at the roof of a restaurant building and stifled a laugh.

There was an eccentric little girl with a cheap sable hat on her head, sitting there and nibbling a large cake to herself.

She was languid.

Xu Fengnian’s mood was instantly good.

He smiled brightly.

There was no shortage of bold and wonderful girls from unorthodox families among the watchers on both sides of the street who had paid a lot of money for their seats, and when they saw this scene with their own eyes, they were instantly smitten.

The little girl on the roof heckled.