Yan Fu, the imperial capital rests in peace.

Nanyang Palace is thirty miles east of the city of rest, built on the mountain. The mountain walls on three sides are strange and rocky, as if the whole palace is embedded in the mountain wall, and the palace has a green tile roof. The white walls and reddish-brown copper pillars are built, this palace was originally built for the members of the imperial family to escape the summer, the roof sticks out far from the cornices, the whole palace looks more like a wooden pavilion, each pillar is carved with churning reliefs, the chrysanthemums blooming on the column head to dispel all the evil spirits that come to the palace, some important events are held in this palace, the inner hall has a large banquet hall, and the main hall is the emperor's inner palace. In addition, there are crescent moon pavilions, sea viewing pavilions, frost pavilions, emperor spirit halls, imperial library and so on in the palace, and the surrounding pine and cypress are lush.

There is a clear spring in the northeast corner, dotted with it. The whole palace is open, the forest is luxuriant, the vast grassland scenery mountain here is undulating, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and many buildings and palaces and temples are dotted in the meantime. The whole palace has a lot of water in the southeast, the middle gate is three zhang wide, and the red gold chrysanthemum is engraved on the pillar stone, which represents the Yanfu people's pursuit of beauty, and the yearning for harmony, and the admiration of nature. This gate is only accessible to members of the royal family. If the minister of civil and military affairs walks on the left side, the clan clan walks on the right, and the outermost two doors are for the guards, inner attendants, and palace maids to walk.

The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near and near, followed by the sound of heavy footsteps, the middle-aged man gently pulled the reins of the horse and stopped at the palace gate, the warrior in bamboo armor stood silently in front of the man with an iron spear, but the young man was unmoved, his face was light and light when he turned over and dismounted, and the man's left eye had a very heavy white feather, and in the face of these famous Yanfu warrior men still stood with their hands bowed, with a faint smile on the corner of their mouth.

Behind him stood a man dressed in black, and the aura released from the man in black was even more disturbing in comparison.

"Is it Mr. Ninghua, I have been waiting here for a long time on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor. The inner supervisor bowed.

"Do you know my name?" the man looked at him in surprise, and the inner supervisor replied politely: "Who in these Northern Regions countries does not know the name of Mr. Ninghua of Tangtai?

"Strategist?" the man smiled, his smile was cold and warm, and he couldn't help but feel frightened, and his long narrow eyes made his gaze look as sharp as a poisonous snake, so he was nicknamed a snake-eyed.

From the outsider's point of view, it is not so much that he is the number one strategist in the western realm, but that he is the number one poisoner in the world.

He was strong in martial arts, served by the side of the Empress of Shuyue for many years, and commanded the army on the banks of the Honglan River to defeat the Houchu army several times the number of the Shuyue army, rescued his own army, and became the national hero of Shuyue. When engaging the army, make good use of the "Surprise Tactics" and the "Utter Fear Tactics!"

He believed that fear was the sharpest sword on the battlefield.

What really frightened the people of Later Chu was the Battle of Sunset Gorge twenty years ago

Before the start of the war, nearly 8,000 Later Chu soldiers were captured, and finally when the two armies fought and the Sunset Gorge, I was surprised to see that more than 8,000 soldiers who had been captured before the war were stripped naked and interspersed alive on wooden stakes that were two miles long and surrounded the canyon.

The sticks they pierced from the mouth or buttocks were everywhere, and the night owls and vultures continued to peck at these dead corpses, so that the surrounding area was filled with a strong rancid smell, and finally the Hou Chu army in front of the battle, witnessing this gruesome scene, all of them were heartbroken, without the will to fight, and finally were slaughtered by the Shuyue spearmen, all of them died in the Sunset Gorge, and after this battle, they officially became famous all over the world.

For the Hou Chu soldiers who were captured after the war, he ordered them to cut off their hair as the sincerity of the defeat, and the Hou Chu soldiers refused to die, and the twenty-five-year-old Tai Ninghua said coldly: "Since you don't want to cut your hair, then cut off your other things as sincerity." ”

So these soldiers were cut off limbs, thrown into the mountains and forests, and finally eaten by wild dogs and died.

The most famous thing for Shantai Ninghua is his thousand-mile desperate plan, which placed nearly 50,000 displaced people between Shuyue and Hou Chu, and the barren continent formed by these 50,000 displaced people has become a barrier to hinder the Hou Chu army, which is full of all kinds of giant murderers, and there is no lack of all kinds of powerful swordsmen, and the barren island has become a three-regardless zone during the fifteen years of his reign, theft, rape, and massacre, and it is really a purgatory on earth!

"Who is this?" The inner supervisor looked at the two people behind Tantai Ninghua in surprise, and Tantai Ninghua chuckled: "These two are the guests I brought to His Majesty the Emperor, what's the matter? I don't bring weapons to interview His Majesty the Emperor empty-handed, is it possible that I still doubt our sincerity and want to search our bodies or something?"

"No, no, no, please come with me, Mr. Shotai. The inner supervisor said with a smile on his face, he didn't dare to provoke this snake that eats people and doesn't spit out bones.

The four of them walked up to the stone bridge together, this footbridge is nearly a mile long, how luxurious the white jade railing is, like a jade belt floating, like a neon lying wave. The relief of the white railing on the colorful clouds chasing the moon, the bridge and the water junction of the cloud-like lake stone stacking, the surrounding plants are full of rich osmanthus, so that people can see the floating clouds falling into the water at any time, the pink flower bright moon, when the wind comes, the water surface is like a ripple fine, rippling everywhere and open, the platform Ninghua stopped a step, looked at the water surface and said softly: "The bright moon night of the twenty-four bridge, where does the jade teach the......"

"Someone like Mr. Tantai also has such an elegant poetry?" said the person behind him.

"It's just remembering something from the past. Tantai Ninghua said softly.

The water surface of the water is full of green, leading to the green trees on both sides of the main hall, the grass and trees are verdant, a straight corridor leads straight to the main hall after walking through the stone bridge, the chrysanthemums carved by jade on both sides, white, gentian and horses stand on both sides to take care of each other, the water flow under the feet is entwined, the scenery is picturesque and not like the world.

A cloud floating watch several feet high stands in front of the main hall, and the two sides of the Huabiao are carved with the battle traces of Yan Mingjun Chai Beishuo's life, such as what "a handful."

The story of "Arc Knife Cutting Thousand Horses" and "A Flame Burning the Greedy Minister" has been spread in people's mouths so far, and the platform looked at the lifelike relief with great fascination, and the great reverence for the deceased Ming Jun rose in his heart.

When did he become so ruthless? Shantai Ninghua suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he often boated on the Moon Dance Lake with his father, he held his sister's shoulder and asked her to put the paper boat in the water, and then the army of Houchu attacked, and his father rushed to the battlefield with all the adult men who were divided into the Lantai family without saying a word, and finally none of them returned, and later in order to express his sorrows, he often made a river lantern with a paper boat, which was full of his father's name, and silently said in his heart that one day all the Houchu people would be wiped out!

"Chai Beishuo is a peerless emperor, a rare king in five hundred years, but he was angry to death because of the false accusations of his descendants and villains, which is a pity. He pointed to the Huabiao and said to the man behind him, "It's a pity, but mortals will eventually die, and only gods and Buddhas can live forever." The man in black had an aggressive look in his eyes, as if he wanted to see something from the Huabiao.

"I don't know that guy. At this time, there was still a long way to go, and he chatted with the man in black sentence by sentence.

"You have convinced me, but the next emperor is not as good a man as you think, aren't you a warlock, and if you want to prove anything to him, why don't you tell me what the meaning of the gods is?"

"Gods and Buddhas are everywhere, and it's better to say such disrespectful words when no one is around. ”

God is God, man is man, and eternal life is just the daydream of those who are greedy for life and afraid of death. Tantai Ninghua suddenly raised his finger to the sky, and deliberately lowered his voice: "There are gods in the world, but people don't see gods, in this case, why do we pray to the gods and Buddhas, just like those lambs before being slaughtered by the butcher, do you think if the sheep prays to the butcher, the butcher will let it go? Since it won't, then why should we pray to the gods and Buddhas?"

"Mr. Tantai's metaphor is very clear, gods and people, people and sheep, but if this is our understanding of gods and Buddhas, it is inevitably too simple and superficial. The man laughed in a low voice, "But Mr. Tantai also despises the existence of gods and Buddhas, I don't dare to say what the gods and Buddhas look like, after all, I haven't seen them, but the gods we worship are definitely not mud dolls that thousands of people kneel down in the temple, and what the gods and Buddhas really want is not those rancid cakes and fruits, but war, supreme war!"

"This god is damned. ”

"True gods, who dwell in the heavens above the clouds, are spirits who tell lies and tricks in the ears of kings, let them go to war, and then watch indifferently as millions of people die, and they do not care if heaven and earth are destroyed, and kingdoms are ruined. ”

The momentum of Tantai Ninghua retreated slightly with the explanation of the man in black, and he walked forward, still with a smile on his face: "I don't understand what you said, my father died when I was very young, and the whole family is left with me, the only egg, and since then, I have been."

Everything I did was just to make Hou Chu's blood debt repaid, which is the only reason why I have persevered to this day. If I don't get rid of it, I won't be able to see my ancestors and ancestors after I die, can gods and Buddhas really help us?" he stared into his eyes and said coldly.

"Faith, this is the only thing they test us, only Mr. Tantai is willing to trust me, I will definitely do everything I can to help Mr. get rid of Hou Chu!" He looked at Shangtai Ninghua, and the two confronted each other for a while, and finally Tantai Ninghua looked away

Yutai was slightly stunned for a moment, looked at him with interest and nodded: "Okay, you have confidence in yourself, I naturally have confidence in you, I can see that you are not deceiving me, I hope you will also bring this confidence to the emperor of Yan Fu." "

Hearing this, the man in black nodded solemnly, and at the same time, the young man behind him clenched the hilt of the sword at his waist and looked at them coldly without speaking.

The four of them climbed the stone bridge and were led into the palace by the inner supervisor, this exquisite building is located on a huge rockery, simple but not lacking in luxury, the whole pavilion looks like it is made of wood, there is not a single tile or iron, a plain white curtain hangs to the entrance, no wind automatic.

Tangtai Ninghua heard a slight sound of falling children, and the faint smell of ambergris faintly came out, and he saw through the white curtain that the two people were sitting opposite each other in the veil, one of them was sitting with long clothes and wide sleeves and a high crown, and the inner supervisor gently kowtowed two heads outside the door: "Your Majesty the Emperor, Mr. Shantai Ninghua asks to see!"

"Here, Lu Mu, please come in and sit down. A mellow voice came out of the curtain, and then a plain white and dustless jade hand stretched out from the curtain, and Yutai Ninghua was stunned for a moment, it was the most beautiful hand he had ever seen in his life, slender and medium, long and short, one more point is fat, and one point less is thin, this hand is indispensable, it is rare to have two, it seems that it is only suitable for stroking in men's ears, and it is a blasphemy for other purposes.

Since the hand is like this, the person is also amazing, the woman opened the curtain and stood in front of the three people, when she was exposed to the sun, the breathing of the three stopped together, the world seemed to be sucked into her body, people could not find any fault, she was wearing a white palace dress, bright eyes with solemn antiquity, solemn and elegant, the two dimples on the face with a girlish delicateness, the country and the city.

Chai deer peony, born to sink fish, deserves to fall geese.

Now the queen of Yan Fu is a world-famous talented woman. Once taught in the Qingzhu Academy, he is a well-deserved master of the Ten Sections, and his vision and strategy are far beyond others.

When she was thirteen years old, she was on the list of beauties in the world, and she dominated the list for fifteen consecutive years.

"Come with me, three. The woman smiled softly, and two dimples floated up her cheeks.

They finally met the emperor of Yan Fu, in comparison, the appearance of His Majesty the Emperor can be described as ordinary, I have to say that the women of Yan Fu were born with the potential to be the queen concubine, but the man is compared to the sky

Neither the height nor the appearance of the next countries looked unusual, Yan Yu Wang Chai Longxiang removed the chess pieces in his hand, and smiled gently: "Everyone, please sit down, Lu Yan will serve tea to your lords." ”

The queen nodded coquettishly, the same is true of the Yan Fu woman, whether you are a peasant woman in the countryside or a concubine queen, no one will refuse or refute the words of their own men, even red-faced things rarely happen, and at the same time, in the eyes of those Yan Fu men, women are always just props for inheritance. Many men have the view that women are unclean, and their status is much lower than that of women in other countries.

"You may be seated. The Emperor waved his robe, and the pieces on the board were placed in the box, and the Emperor sat barefoot on the couch, playing against the Empress while he waited for them to come.

Tantai Ninghua noticed the emperor's godless eyes, and his gaze gradually became surprised, the emperor seemed to notice his gaze, and was not annoyed: "Let Mr. see and smile, my eyes were born unable to see light, they are useless, so my sense of hearing, touch and even smell is much sharper than ordinary people, so when I was young and reading the scriptures, I didn't feel any obstacles, but I was able to focus on research more than ordinary people." ”

"Blind?" "Blind?" Yutai Ninghua looked at the other party's clear and dustless eyes in disbelief, it was difficult for a child who grew up in the palace to have such a clear gaze, until now he vaguely felt that the emperor's eyes were really empty, as if he was focusing his gaze on the distance that they could not see, this time it was confirmed that His Majesty the Emperor was really a blind man, even so, there was an irresistible majesty in the man's calm, neither of them spoke, and the young man holding the sword did not sit down, but stood silently.

As a minister of Shuyue and not a foreign envoy, it is really not a wise thing to go to other countries to meet their emperor. ”

Tantai Ninghua also smiled slightly: "I am here to save my Shuyue, and you Yan Fu." ”

"My Yan Fu is now in a peaceful state, how can I save it?"

(End of chapter)