Chapter 382: Northern Liang’s Sadness

Guangling King’s House Spring Snow House changed its owner, in fact, half of Liyang’s rivers and mountains, all changed their owners in that night.

Nalan Yu Ci who planned all this, sitting on the top of the riverside mountain on the mouth of the rouge well, a hand spread with a dozen colorful Guangling Road specialties rainbow stone, one by one twisted up, and then one after another thrown into the well.

Nalan Yuci standing beside the Tongxi Sword Immortal Lu Baijie who has been reduced to the status of a prisoner, unlike the Jingliu Wang Xionggui who has been imprisoned, Lu Baijie, as the Guangling Road Festival Minister, as long as he doesn’t go out of the royal residence without authorization, there is no constraints.

Lu Baijie asked, “What is Mr. Nalan looking for me for?”

Nalan Righteousness bent his head down to look at the dark well, and smiled softly, “Although the Royal House of Yanzhi has some spies who have been rooted in Tai’an City for many years, and some of them are not low in official status, they are not as good as Mr. Tangxi who has been in the central government for a long time, and I would like to know that those people who are qualified to take part in the ‘Small Pilgrimage’ of the Temple of Raising the Divine in Tai’an City are the ones who have the qualifications to take part in the ‘Small Pilgrimage’ of the Temple of Raising the Divine. I just want to know that in Tai’an City, among those important ministers of Liyang who are qualified to participate in the ‘Small Pilgrimage Meeting’ of the Raising God Palace, how many of them are loyal ministers, and how many of them will waver in times of crisis, and how many of them are centrifugal with the young emperor, if Mr. Tang Xi is willing to speak out bluntly, then we will be able to look at the food and serve it with a dish, and in the future, there will be fewer ghosts and wild spirits in Tai’an City as well.”

Even though he was speaking heartbreakingly ruthless words, this Spring and Autumn Schemer’s voice was soothing and measured, with a shallow smile, really a flamboyant character that was hard to hate.

Lu Baijie shook his head and said, “Mr. Nalan is thinking too much.”

Nalan Righteousness had a face that knew it was so, waved his sleeves and got up dashingly, smiled and said, “Let’s go, take you to a room, it’s a set of study room that I spent a full three thousand stones of rice to put together for Mr. Tangxi.”

Lu Baijie was confused, giving a gift to send a study? And what about those three thousand stones of rice? Not to mention the land in the city of Tai’an, even his hometown Jiangnan Road, only three thousand stones of rice converted into silver, and can purchase a few pieces of good study room supplies?

Nalan Yuanci said with confidence: “Mr. Tangxi might as well wait and see, never to disappointment!”

Lu Baijie followed Nalan Yuci to a quiet courtyard in the royal residence, through the corridors and buildings, Nalan Yuci pushed open the door of the room, stretching out a palm, signaling Lu Baijie to enter the house first.

First into the eyes is a yellow pear wood half table, because it is a short table style, naturally, is not placed in the bookcase of the precious elegant play, but the waist made banana leaf edge, undulating as water waves, flow elegant, side folding branch flowers and birds, have big Feng color porcelain interest, tooth below the carving of dragons horn teeth, look back on, great grace, up and down the quality of the traditional text, contrasting, distinctive flavor. Farther desk is a long table with chi dragon pattern, the four treasures on the table, are any one of the Jiangnan Road side of the scholarly family can not wait to offer up the heirloom of the treasure.

Nalan right Ci walked to the table, two fingers flicked a ancient show lovely purple sand pot lid, high lift, the pot body is not falling, smiling: “It is the old East Vietnam has been lost that section of the sky and the earth together spring pot, so that this pot popular north and south of the Yangtze River at that time, the tea has been backed up, into the appreciation of the family to play the absolute best, and now it is even more difficult to find thousands of dollars, can not be helped, the majority of the East Vietnam literati Prefer to die when buried with a common spring pot, after the Hongjia North Benli destroyed too much, rare objects, of course, the price is high and difficult to find. Mr. Tangxi is the sage of the tea ceremony, and I think he knows better than I do about the uncommonness of this pot.”

Lu Baijie merely glanced at the teapot and looked around, his face heavy as he asked, “This room, all the objects, only used three thousand stones of rice on it?!”

Nalan right Ci haha laughed: “rest assured, by no means is the war in Guangling Road is like a war that led to the high gate of the seat of the collection of cheap sales, to put it bluntly, Guangling Road since the destruction of the Chu twenty years ago, the officialdom are all some suddenly rich and noble ambition villain, there are not a few valuable family name. Otherwise, it’s some wallflower with a clear conscience, this time the spring snow building change the owner, most of them also see the wind very quickly, not so much that they need to take out these good things in exchange for gold, silver and rice.”

Nalan Righteousness suddenly squatted down and burrowed into that chi dragon-printed desk, then poked his head out and beckoned towards Lu Baijie.

Lu Baijie to this scourge of auspicious symbols confused, hesitate for a moment, or follow the gourd into the bottom of the desk, Nalan Yuoci in the bottom of the table with a finger rubbing, laughed: “Daylight, not good to light candles, but to the eyesight of the Tangxi sword immortal, should still be able to rely on the handwriting to see that the origin of this thing. This is it!”

Lu Baijie followed Nalan right Ci’s finger looked up, only to see there seems to be someone with a dagger carved out six words, crooked, in addition to a little childish, never a little bit of style, but Lu Baijie shocked on the spot, six words means that the three people, are famous without a name, Feng Nian, Lip Tiger, Dragon Elephant!

Must know that married to Jiangnan Xu Lihu is Lu Baijie’s nephew-in-law, Lu Baijie in the Lu family is also the most distressed by the woman’s family elders, so Lu Baijie confirmed that there is no mistake, this is Xu Lihu’s handwriting undoubtedly! In addition, Lu Baijie know in Qingliang Mountain, Xu Liphu and Xu Weixiong from childhood relationship is flat, so the Xu family children four people, only missing Xu Weixiong’s name, but also the world can not be forged strong evidence! Lu Baijie can even imagine many years ago, the girl in red sitting on the ground, with a knife carving the playful look.

Lu Baijie was silent for a long time, even after leaving the bottom of the table with Nalan Yuci, he was still unwilling to speak.

Nalan Yuci face pick up leakage of joyful look, “I guess ah, even the owner of the table do not know that year his sister once in the bottom of the table engraving, otherwise certainly not willing to sell.”

Lu Baijie thought of the early years of that face to face to ask himself whether he could sell him a few pounds and a couple of young men of benevolence and morality, complex mood, smile bitter: “Why is he Xu family? Didn’t Mr. Nalan say before that after Zhao Xun left Qingzhou, he simply lost control of Jing’an Road, so how can he stop the grain from entering Liang? And you also have no intention to touch Jing’an Road for the time being, I first thought that you are worried about too much dispersal of troops, the battle line stretches too long, in order to prevent being Wu Chongxuan army swept south in one blow. Now it seems to be your Nalan Yuanci’s intention? Deliberately letting the Northern Liang and the imperial court have a nasty affair over this, fearing that once the Northern Liang border army unexpectedly wins the second Liang-Mang battle, the Xu family’s iron cavalry will still have the spare capacity to rush to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion?”

Nalan Yuci leaning against the window, jade tree, playful flavor: “Otherwise you think an old Ministry of Ministry of Wen Taiyi, can so smoothly return to Qingzhou to do the Secretary General? Court officials are not allowed to serve as parents of their hometowns, but it is one of the laws of Liyang!”

Nalan Yuci smiled more intensely and tsked, “Wen Taiyi’s seniority in the capital is even older, and his official connections in Tai’an City are even more solid, but he should also go elsewhere to break the mold and be promoted to a civil official leader. I in order to let this guy as Jing’an Road Secretary, but in the city of Tai’an spent a lot of favors, but do not think of ah, Liyang court gave me a big surprise, so that the son of Ma Fulu to go to the Jing’an Road in charge of the military power, so that in the matter of grain into the cool, civil and military, two of the two big officials join hands to give those country of the assholes in secret backing, which was able to withstand the Qiyanglong and Huan Wen’s pressure, or else change into the other. Otherwise, it’s really hard to say, after all, the two provincial chief officials started the fire, that’s not vegetarian, the remaining two million stones of grain and grass may really be sent to the Northern Liangling State.”

Lu Baijie pressed one palm on the desktop, the desk creaked, visible is bearing Tongxi Jianxian’s majestic pressure.

The extremely good mood of Nalan Right Ci laughed to himself: “Under the sky as long as the war, will need food and grass, Beiliang border army is not that divine soldiers and generals, of course, is no exception, even if that young assassin Xu Beihao is extremely rich in prescience to do back to buy rice assassin, but only by the reputation as the south of the river outside of the plug in the power of Lingshou, obviously still is not enough to make the second LiangMang war will usher in the north Liang border army Without any worries, what about Xu Beihao, the Northern Liang Transit Envoy?”

Nalan Yuci asked himself, “A skillful woman can’t cook without rice, even the uneducated people understand this, not to mention the fact that he is the number one civilian official in Northern Liang that the Zhao Chamber of Liyang would like to draw in! So Xu Beihao went to Qingliang Mountain and told the feudal lord Xu, your family silver is quite a lot, but it is still not enough, you sell your belongings, I will help you toss this thing, you Xu Fengyen see no one’s heart is not bothered to be a shirking cupboard, it just so happens that Liangzhou Pass to build that laborious city of refusing to the north, excluding the military households, the people of the other households need to pay for the work, from here, and the border army to fight the food and grass, with the come to us to buy Lingshou! You Xu family family of people to earn, and their price, do not charge them silver, as long as the grain. As long as they have the ability to through their own personal relationships or various channels, from the hands of those Guangling River along the size of the shipping officials to gouge out grain and grass, do not care what way to deliver to the Northern Liang, the sale is counted!”

Nalan Right Ci reached out and pointed to a folding fan in Lu Baijie’s hand, “The old Western Sichuan fan-making expert Ma Xiaojun’s work in his later years, there are only two of them left in this world, one is in the Emperor’s study, probably in the summer heat, but also just to look at it, and can’t afford to waste it to go to ‘have a fresh breeze to come’, but also The remaining one is in your Mr. Tangxi’s hand. Do you know how many stones of rice were used to buy this fan? Six hundred. Sounds small, right? Even with the cost of the buyer’s connections, it’s still a big profit, right? But we really don’t blame that Beiliang King for not knowing the price of rice and firewood, he, in his stomach, the calculation of the account is not quite the same as ours. It’s a pity that you, Mr. Tangxi, understand that algorithm, and even Qi Yanglong and Huan Wen, the two pillars of the country, understand it, but it’s just as useless!”

Nalan right Ci came to the yellow pear wugang half table near, suddenly tiptoe, so hurt elegantly sit on the table, and standing Lu Baijie face to face, stretch out his hands, “Mr. Tangxi is not the kind of only buried in the books of the old-fashioned Confucian, in the capital Ministry of War has done Shangshu Lord, although not the Ministry of the Household a hand, but naturally, I know clearly the people of the Central Plains and the border army of the young men of the year rations, although the local customs and customs of the young and strong, the people of the Central Plains and the border army of the people of the Central Plains, the people of the Central Plains and the border army of the Central Plains. A year of rations, although the terroir is different from rich and poor, a slight deviation, but roughly equivalent. Mr. Tongxi is Jiangnan Road, know the rich world you there, food custom luxury, broad portal as much as four meals or even five meals, ordinary people are also able to maintain three meals a day, ‘two Shao three burn to full pots, fresh fish is the most expensive yellow flowers’, this proverb, but said even far away in the southern border of me are envious ah. ”

Nalan right Ci gently shake a palm, “on the contrary, the poor North Liang, even if it is the people of Lingzhou, by and large, it is also two meals a day, summer and fall two days of vegetarian one day small meat, spring and winter is three days of vegetarian one day meat, the need to do the heavy work of the young and strong can drink a spoonful of wine per person, the green anteater wine, is notoriously inexpensive. In this way, Beiliang young strong one year probably consume eleven stone rice, women and children rations halved, if a family to five people count, because the family often must have a strong man for the Guanwai Border Army, so only according to the only remaining strong man in the Guanliang a household, a year will need sixteen or seventeen stone of rice, Xu Beihao two years before the Lingzhou grain initiative, roughly able to ensure that in three years, the people of the Guanwai food not affected by the war, and even In times of crisis, it can also provide emergency support to the Beiliang border army of half a million stones. But this would already be the limit of Beiliang, the second battle of Liangmang is imminent, if we fight for a year, with the border army’s young and strong one person eleven stone grain a year to calculate, by next fall, that would be the need for three million and one hundred thousand stone of grain and grass!”

Nalan Yuci gently slap the palm of his hand, laughed: “But the court now only sent to eight hundred thousand stone grain and grass, the remaining promised two million two hundred thousand stone, in my place to serve as the original day into the bucket of gold fat fat grain officials, can not turn the corner to it, and then again, from frugality to luxury easy, from extravagance to frugality is difficult, for no reason each year, to be less than three million stone of grain and grass dividends, cut off the way of wealth as murderer! This is like killing someone’s parents. Not to mention that it is for those Northern Liang barbarians, if it is for the two Liao Liao border troops under the control of the Great Pillar State Gu Jiantang, then it is just a matter of pinching our noses and accepting our fate, it is not good to take our lives for money and our future, but aren’t the Northern Liang barbarians fighting with the Northern Mang barbarians? We are dragging it out, he Xu family iron horsemen are difficult to protect themselves, but also can free hand, with us these far away from the shipping officials to fight that?”

The book case under Lu Baijie’s palm, the four legs of the table shattered with a bang!

The whole desktop fell straight to the ground, and those once priceless and now lowly and incomparable literati’s elegant playthings, scattered and rolled down like birds and beasts scattered.

Nalan right Ci turn a blind eye to ignore, continue to laugh: “Of course, the dog will also jump over the wall, Beiliang side is not just rely on the cheap sale of belongings in exchange for food and grass, the young man surnamed Xu is not to get a crowd of fish and dragon gang, let them along the Guangling River all the way down the road with countless antique treasures in all parts of the opening of stores, of course, these jianghu people fist is quite hard, it is said that the transporter Xu Beiwei, the king of the river, the king of the river. It is said that Xu Beihao, the transit ambassador, has already let out the word, dare to delay the fish and dragon gang to do the legitimate business of the Liyang government, he will let the Northern Liang iron horsemen personally go to knock on the door to reason. As a matter of fact, to the previous 10,000 big snow dragon cavalry scared out of their wits the government offices on both sides of the river and the local garrison, but also really to this hand shocked, so, at this time it is necessary for me Nalan Yuci to stir up the water again.”

Nalan Yu Ci stretched out a finger, pointing at his own nose, smiling broadly.

Lu Baijie clenched his fists and stared at this figure who was the only remaining figure among those Spring and Autumn strategists.

Zhao Changling, Huang Longshi, Yuan Benxi, and Li Yishan, had all died successively.

It seemed as if only this Nalan Righteousness had survived to the end, and seemed to have had the last laugh as well.

Lu Baijie asked, “You, Nalan Yuoci, wanted nothing more than to help Zhao Bing usurp the throne and ascend to the throne, why is this so?!”

Nalan Yuoci collected his laughter and propped his hands on the delicately muscled yellow pear desktop, “The amount of thought I’ve utilized on the Northern Liang side has been no less than that of Tai’an City.”

Lu Baijie, who has always been gentle and elegant, asked in an unprecedentedly angry voice, “Are you really not afraid of Liyang and Beiliang sniping at each other, and the only one who will benefit is North Mang? Nalan Yu Ci, what exactly do you want to do?!”

Nalan Yuci was totally indifferent to the killing intent emanating from Lu Baijie, lazily said, “Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who don’t know me say that I don’t want anything.”

Then Nalan Yuoci turned his head to the door side of the room and laughed: “You all back off, Mr. Tangxi is just joking.”

Lu Baijie laughed back in anger, “I’m joking with you Nalan Yueci?!”

Nalan Youzi asked back, “Or else you could really kill me?”

This Tongxi Sword Immortal was suddenly disheartened.

Lu Baijie had never been so disheartened.

Whether it was for the sake of a woman in a family with many outstanding heroes, or being relegated from Tai’an City by Emperor Liyang, or being a prisoner at Spring Snow House, the indifferent Lu Baijie had never felt so helpless.

Nalan right Ci jumped down from the table, softly sneered: “The whole Central Plains will be as helpless as you, you Lu Baijie is just the first person to experience it.”

Lu Baijie silently squatted down, turned up that desktop, looking at the woman’s early carved handwriting, dazed.

After Nalan Yuci finished his last sentence, he slowly walked out of the room, not forgetting to gently close the door for Mr. Tangxi.

The words were “I would like to see, that young man surnamed Xu, how to help you Central Plains to defend the northwest country gate!”

Nalan Yuanci walked out of the house, left the courtyard, climbed up to the top floor of Chunxue Building, and came to the corridor to stand on the fence, looking at the Guangling River in the distance.

He muttered, “Drunkenly holding a cup of wine, one can swallow the fresh breeze of Jiangnan, Wu and Yue! Whisk armor and call, can suck the northwest Qinlong’s strong air!”

Only now, I live in Jiangnan, say such grandiose words you, but has long been dead in the northwest.

Nalan right Ci raised his head and asked softly, “Li Yishan, if you are still alive, will advise that student of yours, this northwest country door, don’t guard it?”

Right at this moment, a voice rang out behind Nalan Yuyi Ci, “Li Yishan would never utter these words.”

Nalan Yuci did not turn his head, quickly regained his normal color, and asked with a smile, “How come the King of Shu also has the leisure to climb high and see far and wide?”

The uninvited guest who was none other than Chen Zhi Bao blandly said, “Wu Chong Xuan is nothing, thrown into the Northern Liang Border Army, can’t even be the vice commander of the infantry, is he worth my solemn attention?”

Nalan Righteousness finally turned around, leaned against the fence, smiled and said, “You can’t say this in front of Zhao Bing, it’s also too much of a slap in the face, Wu Chongxuan back in the day with me, Nalan Righteousness, that was the left arm of the Yan Zhi Wang back in the day.”

Chen Zhi Bao sneered, “So your southern border soldiers and horses are only worthy of infighting in the Central Plains.”

Nalan Yueci sighed, “Chen Zhi Bao ah Chen Zhi Bao, this temper of yours that is only willing to speak the honest truth really needs to change.”

By implication, Nalan Yu Ci obviously did not deny Chen Zhi Bao, acquiescing to this former Northern Liang Capital Protector’s contempt for the Southern Border’s elite army.

Nalan Yueci smiled and asked, “Leaving Northern Liang, you don’t regret it?”

Chen Zhi Bao tugged at the corner of his mouth, not even having the desire to open his mouth to speak.

Nalan Yuanci turned around again and looked towards the Guangling River that rolled into the sea current, saying, “Iron cavalry rejecting the north is like a halberd crossing the river, who said this?”

Chen Zhi Bao remained silent.

Nalan Yuanci was lying on the railing, his chin gently resting on the back of his hands stacked on top of each other, “Bei Liang Bei Liang, harmonic sadness, unlucky. I also don’t know how that guy didn’t advise Xu Snapdragon to change it in the first place.”

Chen Zhi Bao finally opened his mouth with a cold smile, “Sadness?”

He walked to the side of Nalan Yuci and laughed, “I have 300,000 Northern Liang iron cavalry! Life can be sad, but death is magnificent! It’s not something that your gentle land of the Central Plains can understand!”

Nalan Yuanci softly said, “You said ‘I, Northern Liang’?”

Suddenly realized, Nalan Yuci let out a sigh, and said to himself, “One day is the Beiliang Border Army, and all my life is a Beiliang soldier. I see, what you did has nothing to do with the new Liang King Xu Fengnian, or even with the old Liang King Xu Snap.”

Nalan Righteousness turned to support his chin with one hand, tapping the railing with one hand as he continued to look into the distance, “Chen Zhi Bao, don’t worry, I will help you to make this Central Plains understand as well, and of course, this is supposed to be the prerequisite for us to be able to stand and talk here.”

Chen Zhi Bao asked, “Aren’t you afraid that Zhao Bing and Zhao Casting’s father and son will kill you? Especially that Zhao Casting?”

Nalan Yuanci told a not-so-funny joke, “I, ah, am scared to death.”

Chen Zhi Bao turned away and said in a deep voice, “I, Chen Zhi Bao, don’t ask about the process, I only look at the result, if you can’t do it by then, don’t say Zhao Bing Zhao Chu, I will kill you first.”

Back to the white soldier saint of Nalan Yuci tone of ancient well, said: “We two will be with this world, together to wait and see.”

Accompany me Nalan Yuci to see that heavenly joke, not very funny joke.