The Nine Provinces Alliance State is one of Zhu Tianye's huge countries, and it is better to classify it as a ruling empire than an alliance state, that is, a group that elects a prince to command and maintain the entire alliance by several states and counties.

This system is not like the ancient feudal system, there is a hidden danger of rebellion, the alliance departments must know the importance of the collective interests of the alliance state, if the country is harmed by themselves, the rest of the chief will be killed, the alliance state under the support of the main parliament is strong, can not be decomposed.

Princes have the right to suppress a state and a county, not anyone's blood relatives and cronies, and those who have the ability to do it. In the entire Xingyu Prefecture, Hou Fengwang participated in the administration of Banzhou, and led 50,000 black armor troops to garrison Yeyang City, spying on the war in front of the Cambrian Pass.

The Cambrian Pass guards Gao Zhuxu, who has a long reputation in the Nine Provinces Alliance, and the army is subordinate to Hou Feng Wang Shen Zhengfeng, but has military and political power independent of the princely system, and can command any affairs of the Cambrian Pass without passing anyone's orders. During his tenure for more than ten years, the Southern Rejection of the Qin Dynasty invaded hundreds of times, and he won surprisingly victories in many key battles, and was known for his long-term victory.

When Gao Zhuxu stood here, the people in the street couldn't help but be solemn, in the Cambrian Pass Gao Zhuxu's name is noble and noble, because it is he who protects the country's borders hundreds of thousands of people to survive, it is not an exaggeration to say, Gao Zhuxu is the god of the people of Cambrian Pass, no one can slander, no one can slander.

In the capital of the Qin Dynasty, because His Majesty the Emperor accepted the suggestion of the eldest prince Qiuling, he sent three soldiers and horses to send an encirclement and suppression to Wohua Mountain, the largest bandit in the country, which led to endless arguments among officials of various factions.

Some officials thought that Wohua Mountain was far away from the capital, and that the practice of avoiding the near and far away would make the bandit forces in the nearby counties more rampant; although some supported the timely encirclement and suppression of Wohua Mountain, they vehemently opposed the use of troops with Pang Lu as the main general, on the grounds that Pang Lu was nearly 60 years old and feared that he would lose his troops; and some people believed that the princes should be sent to personally lead the troops in order to gain experience.

The courtiers argued endlessly, but the emperor was also an indecisive person, and his favorite concubine Dan Mi hooked his heart with a charming look, so he broke off the minister's discussion irritably.

The Qin Dynasty is now stormy, bandits are everywhere, Jiaozhi City is located in the continuous place of ten thousand mountains, although the nest of the Qin Dynasty's big mountain bandits lying in Huashan is in the lips and teeth, but it does not affect the stability and peace of this city at all.

It was a very popular name, and although there may be many names for this disease, the only thing people fear is this simple two words, epidemic.

A few years ago, in the northern mountains and forests, the spread of a wide range of epidemics caused countless deaths and injuries to the people, ordinary people even only need to have the slightest physical contact with the sick, will not accidentally contract this incurable disease, if the corpses of countless sick people were burned in those years, I am afraid that the epidemic will sweep the entire Qin Dynasty. But Rao is like this, the number of people who died that year is still an incalculable number, and the Qin Dynasty covered it up, and all those who knew about it were also silent.

They are afraid, they are also afraid, what will happen if the epidemic falls on their heads, whether they will be isolated in a dark room and never be lawless, or they will be directly arrested by officers and soldiers and stabbed to death on the spot, and then the body will be thrown into the pit for cremation, this terrible outcome is unbearable for the people and even the officials. No one is not afraid of the plague, but the shadow of the plague is like a shadow as high as a thousand feet, as if looking for an opportunity to devour people.

The northern mountains and forests are only a general regional name, but in fact, from the north of the Jiaozhi Plain to the east, including the broken wall of Wohua Mountain as the dividing line, to the other side of the wide and tall Jinhui City of the Great Wall of the Barbarian Great Wall, the mountains and forests in the middle of more than 800 miles belong to this area, which is distributed with hundreds of villages, and is not divided into any county towns, the reason is that the Qin Dynasty believes that the northern mountains and forests are cursed by the gods, and can only be used as a strategic position, but can not be divided into county seats; 。

In the midst of this lifestyle, the inhabitants of the northern mountains and forests lived a life of indifference, but the same source of the epidemic in the northern mountains and forests of the Cloud Falcon Mountain slowly spread to the surrounding areas because no one was willing to control it. This cycle is extremely slow, but once someone triggers that lightning point, the epidemic will spread to all cities and even the entire Qin Dynasty at an unpredictable rate.

The source of the epidemic in the northern mountains and forests, many forces have always been afraid of tigers and leopards, and the invisible means of killing people are more ferocious than knives, guns, tigers and leopards. Plagues often come without warning, but when they are found, they are all full of pus and festering, as if they had been cursed.

In the outbreak of the epidemic many years ago, with the northern mountains and forests as the center, radiating to all directions, the vast area was innumerable, and the Nine Provinces Alliance avoided fighting for several years in order to avoid being contaminated with this epidemic, and it seemed that the entire Qin Dynasty was going to fall into this invisible panic.

After the strict measures of all parties, the epidemic finally disappeared after more than a year of flooding, after rough statistics, only the Qin Dynasty died more than 30,000 people and soldiers, not including the secretly landfilled, burned sick people, Daming Cave and Wohua Mountain buried in the disaster, there are also I don't know how many, you can imagine how terrible this epidemic is.

A few years later, in the northern mountains and forests, the epidemic swept again, at first only Meng Lang was surrounded by 5,000 soldiers and horses, and then a fire that stretched for 800 miles extinguished any possibility of the spread of the disease, and Meng Lang was the only one who survived the fire.

But the epidemic is far from over, I don't know why, the epidemic in the northern mountains and forests suddenly began to spread, the villages in the mountains and forests bear the brunt, in just a few dozen days, the refugees in the northern mountains and forests began to spread around, carrying all kinds of hidden dangers, into the territory of various forces.

This time the spread of the epidemic did not achieve the original effect, many people recognized this disease, and in time to isolate those who were sick, although there were traces of refugees in the area of Wohua Mountain, in the direction of Jinhui City, and in the area of Jiaozhi City, but the fire of the epidemic was extinguished before it burned. Only Sihai City, which had lost its city lord, was successively ruled by the Daming Grottoes and the barbarians, and both forces turned a deaf ear to the epidemic, causing the epidemic in Sihai City to spread.

After learning that there was a problem in the northern mountains and forests, Liang Jin sent a dark vulture to investigate early in the morning, and after many famous sweat wiping parties, he finally got many clues. The source of the epidemic is deep in the area of the Cloud Falcon Mountain, if there is no one to pull it, how can it go to the village in the middle of the mountain forest? If it is not for natural reasons, it is man-made.

According to the local people who survived, in the first few days of the epidemic, someone had entered the area of Cloud Falcon Mountain, and the local villagers had kindly warned him, but he did not look back, but walked in under the eyes of the villager. But the man came out of the cloud falcon mountain again that night, and the locals did not dare to contact him, and he consciously did not say anything, and just a few days later, there was news of the spread of the epidemic. ”

"But strangely, the disease was not spread by the man, and the villagers said that the first news came to the village to the east, a place called Liuqiaogou. Most of the people living in the northern mountains and forests are greedy for the old land, and a large part of the old people there are survivors of the last epidemic, so naturally they know the horror of the epidemic, so the mountain village urgently made the decision to close the village. I thought that by isolating the villagers from contact with outsiders, I could avoid contracting the epidemic, but who knew that the epidemic still came to the village inexplicably. ”

"At first, it was just a child, and then it was a situation in many households, and it became uncontrollable all of a sudden. Those who were sick were driven away by the local villagers, and those who were not sick left to avoid being infected, and these people became refugees and traveled from place to place. In that village, on the sixth day of the plague, someone saw the man who had entered the depths of the Cloud Falcon Mountain, but he did not have anything unusual. ”

After the vulture finished reporting, he disappeared, and Liang Jin sat in front of the desk and pondered.

"Who the hell is that person?"

Sihai City was previously attacked by the epidemic, but with the help of Liangjin and others in Wohua Mountain, the epidemic was gradually and effectively controlled, and the epidemic was finally declared completely over not long ago. This epidemic, which once spread to many cities of the Qin Dynasty and made all the forces and people helpless, regained its whirlwind after a few years, but it did not achieve the same results as before, and even fell silent before it could ripple in many places, and no one ever participated in tracing the origin of this second epidemic.

Mu Ya smiled indifferently: "You should have guessed something a long time ago, right? There are a large number of sources of epidemic diseases hidden in the depths of the Cloud Falcon Mountain, not many people know about this matter, and not many can lure that thing out, and everything comes and goes in time as if someone calculated it, which has to be amazing." ”

Liu Yuxin looked at Mu Ya, his eyes were deep, and he said in a low voice: "I suspect that it is the poisonous dragon son of Daming Cave......"

Mu Ya smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Are you testing me? I can tell you very responsibly that the source of the epidemic was created by me, and I let the epidemic spread again in the northern mountains and forests and spread in all directions, I said this, you should understand, right?"

Liu Yuxin's body was shocked, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he was silent for a long time before he said: "Mr. Mu Ya, although I understand that Mr. has a great plan in everything, but the death of the people caused by the spread of the epidemic is incalculable. ”

Mu Ya said: "It's hard for you to talk to me like this, I might as well open the skylight and say something, all my layouts are for Wohua Mountain, at that time, Pang Lu was powerful, and Daming Cave was eyeing Nanban, if you want to let these forces damage themselves, it is not possible not to use special means." Only by moving out of the epidemic that people once feared like tigers would Daming Grottoes be willing to leave Sihai City, leaving a chance for Liangjin and others, and the barbarians would give up attacking Wohua Mountain and turn their attention to the Qin Dynasty. ”

Liu Yuxin didn't seem to understand, and thought for a moment and said: "Now that Liang Jin and the others have occupied Jiaozhi City, they have begun to help Sihai City get rid of the threat of epidemics, so they have secretly accumulated a lot of good reputation in Wohua Mountain, is this also Mr.'s layout?"

Mu Ya said: "Although the concept of Wohua Mountain is extremely correct, it lacks time to accumulate believers, just like founding a religion, good doctrines are correct, but if no one preaches them, then it will have no effect." I had seen the symptoms of Wohua Mountain earlier, but because the pattern was too small, if Jiaozhi City and Sihai City could be used as the cornerstone, and the major affairs of these two cities would be handed over to Liang Jin and the others, they would definitely be able to gain great prestige. Liang Jin and the others have always wanted to do something big, so I expanded this pattern, which can be regarded as a small favor for them and Wohuashan. ”

The war promoted by the Seven Princes Qiu Yuan and the "Hidden Eagle" strategist Gao Xinlin is in full swing, according to Gao Xinying, even if the Four Princes Qiu has no last resort, but can still use the existing forces to interfere in the direction of the war, only by controlling the root of the war in his hands, the prince has the opportunity to gain an advantage in the chess game.

Tenglongling, one of the important barriers separating the Tianxin Empire from the Qin Dynasty, the Tianxin Empire is not like the Nine Provinces Alliance State, often trading goods with the Qin Dynasty, and the implementation of this country based on commerce is very mysterious, the comprehensive military strength is not very strong, but it has intersected with many countries of Zhu Tianye, and has never clashed with any country, and it is really a country that has never been at war.

The national war set off because of the resources and environment, this is not uncommon in history, but the Tianxin Empire is very special, it is said that it is a commercial country, in fact, this was an out-and-out hegemonic country in the original time, just like the Liyang Dynasty and the Jiufu Alliance a hundred years ago, no one dared to provoke such a behemoth, but after the emperor of the Tianxin Empire reformed, there was no war at all. ”

Jiang Ming said: "Is it just because of reform? This is powerful, and it is quite a good way to give up direct territorial and resource interests and attack major countries from the potential mode of war such as commerce." ”

Dan Gong shook his head and said with a smile: "You are really joking, the concept of commercial warfare is very rare, but it does not conform to the existing administrative rules of the Tianxin Empire, their way of operating the country depends on the operation of the country, the emperor of the Qin Dynasty is dictatorial, the consensus of the Nine Provinces Alliance State is divided, and the Tianxin Empire is a more unique co-rule of the three emperors, so the Tianxin Empire is also called the capital of the Three Emperors." ”

"The Three Emperors Rule Together, the Capital of the Three Emperors?"

Jiang Ming, who has no interest in national politics, doesn't know anything about these things, and can only understand some general ones, but Lin Han is quite fascinated by what he hears, after all, this is the prince of the Qin Dynasty, although he has only assisted the regent for a few years, but he has a lot of knowledge and experience in this area, which is naturally worth learning from.

It is rumored that the White Brahma Mountain Range was the border of Zhu Tianye at the beginning, but because of the invasion of the Desolate Clan, a large number of living beings in Zhu Tianye died, and there were disasters for the creatures in the Yuan Ye Realm on their battlefield at all times, so several shocking people in the Three Walls Land used their last strength to shatter the defense of the Desolate Clan, and used their magical powers to extend the area, so they emerged in the White Brahma Mountain Range to the northeast for hundreds of thousands of miles.

Creating the land out of thin air is a special means, and the vast area northeast of the White Brahma Mountain Range is all transformed by the bodies of those few supernatural powers, but their cultivation is so high that I am afraid that the strongest people in the three walls and nine fields are not as good as the one now. Inheritance is always a process of loss and forgetting, in this process, a lot of things are hidden, a lot of knowledge is lost, because living beings are a tendency to gradually decline.

The White Brahma Mountain Range has been mysterious since ancient times, not only because of its dangerous location and few people visit, but also because the aura in this mountain range is far more prosperous than other places, there were once strong people who called the three successive mountain ranges in Zhu Tianye peerless divine mountains, no one has ever been able to see these three mountain ranges clearly, even if they are strong in the sky.

These three mountain ranges are, the Kan Luo Ling Mountains, the Whale Fall Mountains, and the White Brahma Mountains.

The realm of heaven and earth has been able to use the power of heaven and earth for their own use, going up to the sky and the sea, going deep into the barren, thousands of miles in an instant, turning over the river and the sea at every turn, there is almost nothing that can cover their vision, but for these three mountain ranges, all the heavenly powerhouses are as secretive as deep.

All three mountains are so vast that all one can see is the gateway to the mountains, and the real heart is something that no one can go into.

The white ruins in the White Brahma Mountains actually appeared hundreds of years ago, but it was only about a hundred years ago that I was recognized and discovered by the strong, and it was determined that there were many treasures in them, and after a long period of observation, I finally figured out the law of the appearance of the ruins.

Because the strong man named Bai once fell here, this white ruins have an illusion of a fairyland on earth, Bai was originally a formation cultivator, and he has a very in-depth study of the formation, so his hometown has been sealed by him with a powerful formation, and the ruins will also follow the formation once in a while.

After the prying eyes of countless strong people, the exact time of the appearance of the white ruins has been obtained, every time it is opened, twenty-four phantom lanterns will appear in front of the gate of the ruins, and the time for each lantern to disappear is about one day, so it indicates that the white ruins will exist for twenty-four days.

Most of the white ruins are some buildings protected by the formation, and because the previous city was controlled by the white people, there are many treasures scattered in the ruins, which has also become the reason why countless people want to enter the ruins, and some people even say that they can get the essence of practicing the formation.

But because in a hundred years, there have been countless status powerhouses have entered, and all that remains is just some things they don't look down on, and then no status powerhouses have ever come, so every time the ruins are opened, there are some eight-stage and nine-stage warriors who go, but because of their own strength, many people will return empty-handed, and they won't even see anything, so they will be lost in the White Brahma Mountain Range.

If you can reach the status realm, you can absorb the energy of heaven and earth to a certain extent, and you can resist the snow storm on the periphery of the White Brahma Mountain Range, and even find the things left by the white people in it, but for the human warriors, they do not have this ability, if they encounter a natural threat, they can only rely on luck to travel through it, which is extremely dangerous.