Inside the Imperial Palace of the Southern Zhou Empire.

"Aoyu, grass people, meet His Majesty the Emperor, long live long live long live!"

After running around for a few days and nights, Yunzhonghe finally met Emperor Wanyun. Not to be exact, because there is still a layer of screens.

So he still hasn't seen what this Emperor Wanyun looks like.

"Speak!" Emperor Wanyun said straightforwardly, straight to the point, without half a word of nonsense.

The crane in the cloud said: "The grass people have three strategies. ”

Emperor Wan Yun did not respond.

Yun Zhonghe said: "Make a decision to stop the assembly of the army, even if you really want to gather the army to the south, keep a low profile, don't make a big show, I can't wait for the whole world to know that the army is going south to quell the rebellion, and to kill the southern barbarian people cleanly." Leave the counterinsurgency to the imperial army in the south, and focus on pacification, supplemented by suppression. ”

The emperor sneered and sneered at the crane in the clouds.

Yun Zhonghe said: "The middle policy is that His Majesty sent the minister to the south to pass the decree, this rebellion only punished the evil Li culture, and the local garrison will definitely not be investigated." As long as anyone kills Li Wenhua, he will be crowned a marquis immediately, even if it is a native of the Southern Barbarians, as long as he kills Li Wenhua, he will be a marquis. ”

The Emperor still sneered.

Yun Zhonghe said: "The best strategy is to release my father Ao Xin and send him into the south alone to quell the rebellion. ”

Finally, Emperor Wanyun couldn't help it, and said in a cold voice: "This is your Qi Ce, which can quell the rebellion in the south without spending a single soldier?"

The crane in the clouds said: "Yes, Your Majesty. ”

Emperor Wanyun said: "Come on, drive him out." ”

The emperor was really disappointed, he still had great hopes for Ao Yu, after all, this is the person who wrote "The Legend of the East Chamber", and his performance in Jiangzhou is also quite extraordinary.

So after receiving the recital of Zhou Lian, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, he still had a glimmer of hope to meet Ao Yu.

As a result, the other party's strategy is simply smelly, and it can't be described as mediocre, it can only be said that it stinks.

If it weren't for Ao Yu writing "The Story of the East Chamber", Emperor Wanyun directly ordered the killing.

Of course, now he will keep Ao Yu alive for a few days, and wait until the forbidden army is assembled to swear to the ceremony, and then kill Ao Xin's whole family with the sacrificial flag.

A few eunuchs stepped forward and were about to throw the crane out of the clouds.

The crane in the clouds shouted: "Your Majesty, in fact, even if you sit idly by, this rebellion will be quelled. This rebellion seems to be vigorous, but in fact it is completely rootless fire, and you should be careful of the mastermind behind this rebellion. If you make such a big fanfare, it will only exacerbate the situation and fall for the enemy's strategy. ”

Emperor Wanyun raised his hand.

As soon as the hands of the eunuchs were released, the crane in the cloud fell to the ground again.

Yun Zhonghe said: "Your Majesty, there are only two reasons why Li Wenhua was able to occupy Nanzhou City. ”

"The first reason is that the governor of the Great Southern Province is defenseless against him and completely treats him as his own. Because he is an imperial nobleman with strong roots, he is the most unlikely person to rebel. Li Wenhua, the thief, took the opportunity to attack and arrested all the ministers. ”

"The second reason is to take advantage of the fear of the southern garrison, and this year, we have also tightened the guard against the native garrison, first disarming all of them, and then placing them under residential surveillance. This gave rise to rumors, and they believed that His Majesty the Emperor was ready to slaughter them all in order to prevent the native garrison from rebelling. The fall of my father Ao Xin is a signal, because this garrison was established by my father, so they think that after the fall of my father Ao Xin, they will kill all the garrisons he has built. ”

"Otherwise, how can Li Wenhua be able to mobilize the native garrison?"

"Your Majesty, the will to rebel in this native garrison is not strong now, they are just out of fear, they just want to get the approval of the empire, they want to get a positive answer from His Majesty the Emperor, we will not kill them all, we will continue to reuse them. ”

So the slogan put forward by Li Wenhua was to force the imperial court to release my father Ao Xin. ”

Or to put it more bluntly, this native garrison had no intention of rebelling at all. ”

The emperor said word by word: "If it is not my race, its heart will be different!"

"Your Majesty, this sentence could not be more true. Yun Zhonghe said: "But there is a brand new word here for the grass people, and that is the leading party." ”

"The so-called leading party is the spiritual Great Zhou people. There is such a group of people in the Southern Barbarian Realm, they were originally natives, but they were promoted to lackeys by our Great Zhou Empire to manage the remaining natives. They lived a life of prosperity and wealth, and they were completely distinguished from most of the natives, and felt that they were superior. ”

"So in the territory of Nanban, the first-class Great Zhou people, the second-class leading party, and the third-class natives. ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, we must not underestimate the determination of a group of lackeys to maintain their class status. ”

"In order to make themselves noble, this group of natives will desperately maintain this class relationship, and no one can break it. Because they have become the lackeys of the Great Zhou, they can give them a strong sense of superiority in front of the vast majority of the natives. ”

"What do most people rely on to survive, is a sense of superiority, I always have to be better than a group of people, and then I stare at this group of people who are not as good as me and live happily. ”

"But now, our Da Zhou is going to deprive these lackeys of the party who lead the way, of course they are afraid. Because in this way, they will lose their sense of superiority in front of the vast number of natives. Not only that, but we also have to cut off their dog food, so they will follow Li Wenhua to make trouble, and in essence, they just want to take back their share of dog food. ”

"Your Majesty, our ancestors have always had a saying, if they are not of our race, their hearts will be different. But can the natives of the Southern Barbarian Realm be called a people? Not at all, they are not even civilized, and their thinking is ignorant and unknown. Because there has never been a unified kingdom in the Southern Barbarian Realm, and there is no brilliant leader, they have no so-called sense of identity and no sense of honor. ”

"They are not like the Great Liang Kingdom, although these natives of the Southern Barbarian Realm are fierce and fierce, and even not afraid of death, but in essence they are just countless duckweeds. ”

"The Great Liang Kingdom is completely different, they are real aliens, and they are keen on plundering, essentially treating us Chinese people as pigs and sheep, and when we are weak, they will come to loot, this is the enemy that we need to completely destroy. ”

"No matter how strong the natives are, they don't live by plundering, they don't know how to farm, but they can hunt and gather, and they are willing to work after all. ”

"And these natives are not much different from us in appearance, just a little shorter and darker, and in just a few generations, they will be exactly like us. ”

"So they are not aliens, but only the goal of our conquest, the goal of annexation, the goal of assimilation. ”

"The most important thing is that when these natives face our Great Zhou, they are inferior after all, and even admired. ”

"I've read the information of the Southern Barbarian Realm, and to be honest, the living conditions of these natives are very bad, and they are very bad by our Great Zhou immigrants, and I don't know how many people are slaves. But even so, many natives still feel that life is better than before, because they see a higher level of civilized life and instinctively admire us. ”

"So will these natives in the Southern Barbarian Realm rebel? The key depends on whether they are attracted by the centripetal force of other civilizations. However, in this land, our Great Zhou is the only centripetal force of civilization. ”

And in this rebellion, it was not the most oppressed low-level natives who rebelled, but the lackeys in the middle level. ”

"And this group of leading parties, this group of lackeys, is the most ferocious group of people who oppress the low-level natives. This also doomed them to not be able to get the support of the low-level natives in a short period of time, so this rebellion was a rootless fire. ”

"Your Majesty, we must not deprive others of their right to be lackeys, or they will have nothing. And the lackey, who has nothing, will bite its owner. ”

"That's why I also say that this rebellion seems to be vigorous, but it's not really worth worrying about. What we should be worried about is the mastermind behind this rebellion, the Zhenhai Palace, the Shi family. ”

"The Shi family is unruly, and they always want to unify the entire Nanban and establish another empire. ”

"If we suppress those native garrisons with great fanfare, we will fall into the hands of the Shi family. Moreover, those native garrisons did not really have the will to rebel originally, but if our army went south, then in order to survive, they would have to rebel, and at that time there would really be no turning back. ”

"At that time, our Great Zhou Empire will really be dragged into the abyss of the Southern Barbarian War again. The Shi family can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and the left and right will meet. When we were defeated, the Shi family poured out of the nest and began to reoccupy the Southern Barbarian Realm. ”

At this moment, another person's voice sounded in the study.

"Dragged into the quagmire and abyss of the Southern Barbarian War? Are you underestimating our imperial army too much, or are you looking too highly up on your father Ao Xin. When your father Ao Xin conquered the Southern Barbarians, he didn't take much effort to defeat most of the Southern Barbarian Realm, could it be that without your father, our imperial army would not be able to defeat these Southern Barbarians?"

Who is this young voice?

Yun Zhonghe said: "I say something that you may not like to hear, but now that the imperial army is attacking the Nanban, it is even more difficult to fight than before." Because of the previous Nanban, countless tribes, a small country of a hundred miles, like a plate of scattered sand. But now the Southern Barbarians have been gathered together by us, especially these garrisons, who have been trained and armed by the regular army, and have been gathered together. This group of people is very useful as lackeys, but if you want to kill them all, they are fierce, and it is really difficult to fight. ”

In the face of the rebellion in the south, we set such a high tone and gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to quell the rebellion. So what should we do if the Zhenhai Wangfu says that he is willing to help His Majesty put down the rebellion? Even if he has already sent a large army north to occupy our provinces in Nanban in the name of helping us quell the rebellion? At that time, it will be easy for God to send God. ”

"So this so-called rebellion in the south is completely a conspiracy of the Zhenhai Palace, and at best it is just a salary meeting of the native garrison, they are just being used by some conspirators. If you set the tone so high, you will only force these native garrisons to a dead end, to the road of real rebellion, and you are in the hands of the Shi family. ”

"So you ask me if I have any strange strategy, my strategy is very simple, that is, to send a minister to enter the Nanban as quickly as possible, to convey your will to those native garrisons, not to hold them accountable, and to maintain the previous garrison formation, maintain the previous status and military salary, as long as Li Wenhua is killed, if it is a native of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, he will be made an earl, if it is a native then he will be made a marquis, and I guarantee that this rebellion can be quelled. ”

"Of course, the best person to send to the south is my father, Ao Xin, because the garrison was established by my father, and they trust my father. ”

At this time, the young man in the study said coldly: "Ao Yu, you are really calculating, so not only is your father alive, but also like a dragon entering the sea, the future southern border will not belong to my Great Zhou, but to your Ao family!"

Yun Zhonghe said: "My mother and I, as well as my sister, can stay in the capital as hostages. ”

The young man in the study sneered: "For some people, for the sake of Wang Tu's hegemony, what is the value of a mere family?"

Yun Zhonghe said: "Not everyone is ambitious, for the sake of power, even relatives can be dispensed with. Don't take what you see and think the same thing for others. ”

Yun Zhonghe's words are very polite, and you directly said that you are ambitious and willing to sacrifice everyone, including your relatives, for the sake of power. But my father, Ao Xin, was not such a person.

But the young man was not angry, at least not on the surface, but smiled: "At that time, Ao Xin will be in the south, and he will have an army of hundreds of thousands of natives, forming a separatist situation, who dares to kill you in the capital, and who dares to touch you?"

That's what Pearl Heart said.

is like the prince of Zhenhai, no one dares to mess with him in the capital. It doesn't matter if you provoke the prince, but if you provoke the prince of Zhenhai, the emperor's attitude is basically one-sided, and he completely favors the prince of Zhenhai, just to show his favor to the Zhenhai Palace.

Yun Zhonghe trembled and said: "Your Majesty, if you don't worry about my father Ao Xin, then you can send another prince to announce the decree, but you must go alone, not with the army." At this time, the so-called rebellious native garrison can only be appeased, not suppressed. If you resolutely suppress it, it will only strengthen their will to rebel!"

At this point, the emperor finally spoke.

"Ao Yu, your so-called appeasement, in the final analysis, is that you want me to compromise with these natives?" Emperor Wanyun said coldly: "I am not so weak, you have disappointed me!"

"Come on, throw this person out and put him in the Black Ice Terrace Prison!"

With Emperor Wanyun's order, several eunuchs stepped forward and directly dragged Yun Zhonghe out and threw him into the prison of the Black Ice Terrace.

At this point, the exhortation of the crane in the clouds was a failure.

He still underestimated the conceit and self-esteem of this emperor.

Moreover, the entire southward strategy was set by Emperor Tianyan, and Emperor Wanyun was not deeply involved.

Therefore, in the eyes of this Emperor Wanyun, he was full of disgust for the natives of the Southern Barbarians, and he wanted to kill them all.

And he felt that the imperial army was able to sweep away the Southern Barbarians back then, and now most of the entire Southern Barbarian Realm is in the hands of the Empire, and only a small number of states and counties are in the hands of the rebels.

Of course, Emperor Wanyun's reaction is also normal, as a strong emperor, how can he be willing to compromise with the natives?

And the proposal of the crane in the clouds seems to be indeed ill-intentioned.

In the eyes of normal people, what is it to let Hou Aoxin go to the south to quell the rebellion, not to let the tiger return to the mountain?

You said that Ao Xin was loyal to the Great Zhou Empire, but as an emperor, the most distrustful thing was the hearts of the people.

So the crane in the cloud was sent to the Black Ice Terrace Prison, and it was dark.

The entire empire is still gathering a large army, and the forbidden army is still gathering in the capital again.

The public opinion of the entire empire is still shouting and shouting.

Everything is contrary to the route of the crane in the clouds.

And there is an even more dangerous signal, this time the commander who led the army south to quell the rebellion was the highest voice of Yongcheng Marquis Fu Yantu.

This person used to be the deputy governor of the Southern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, that is, the deputy of Ao Xin, the Marquis of Nulang.

He can be regarded as a famous general, but he is also Ao Xin's sworn enemy.

The reason is that when he was fighting in the Southern Barbarians, this Marquis of Yongcheng was a slaughtering faction, and every time he captured a walled city, he must be killed on a large scale, and even slaughtered the city.

And Ao Xin is a governance faction, and when he fights, he is extremely fierce and ruthless. However, after the defeat, it was governed by relatively mild means. Beat you to the test first, and then give you two turnips to make you obedient.

Because in Ao Xin's view, these natives are all the future people of the Great Zhou, and if you push it up for two thousand years, the territory of the current Great Zhou Empire is also a barbarian land, and there are natives everywhere.

Some tribes cannot be assimilated, but some can be assimilated. In Ao Xin's view, these natives have confused beliefs, are ignorant of the unknown, and their minds are blank, and they are the best ethnic group to assimilate, and their fierceness and ferocity are completely forced by the living environment.

Therefore, after Fu Yantu, the Marquis of Yongcheng, slaughtered the city, Ao Xin was furious and whipped him fifty in public.

Yongcheng Hou Fu Yantu felt that he had lost face, and he also had an identity, his sister was the concubine of the crown prince at that time.

So the two of them brought the lawsuit to Emperor Tianyan.

Zhengnan Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the two people are incompatible, and it is completely me and not him.

In the end, Emperor Tianyan chose Ao Xin, transferred Fu Yantu out of the Zhengnan Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and sent him to the Western Territory to fight against the Xiliang Kingdom and become the Governor of Zhenxi.

Ao Xin is a hussar general, and Fu Yantu is a general of the town army, two levels behind.

Of course, this Fu Yantu has another identity, that is, the uncle of the second prince.

If the emperor let this Fu Yantu go south as the commander to quell the rebellion, then the intention would be obvious, the complete slaughter faction would wantonly slaughter the natives in the south.

And if this Fu Yantu takes the position and becomes the commander of the army to conquer the south, then Ao Xin's whole family will definitely die.

And it is not surprising that this General Fu Yantu is the military giant that Lin Xiang's faction wants to promote to the top. Maybe he wants to use the war of going south to quell the rebellion to create a god.

Let this Marquis Fu Yantu replace Ao Xin as the first marshal of the military in the shortest possible time and become the new banner of the nobles.

But as everyone knows, this new banner of honor has already come together with the civilian clique.

Time passed day by day.

There were more and more forbidden troops gathered around the capital, more and more.

The atmosphere of the war is getting stronger and stronger, and Ao Xin's family is getting closer and closer to the guillotine.

Inside the Black Ice Terrace Prison, Yun Zhonghe continued to rack his brains. Although persuasion of the emperor failed, he was unwilling to give up.

If he gave up like this, his whole family would die, and he was killed at the oath-taking ceremony, and even if he died, he would be stinking for 10,000 years.

The emperor can't go this way, so he can only take another way.

Emperor Taishang, Emperor Tianyan.

At present, the only one who can change the situation and change the emperor's will is the emperor.

And the Emperor Taishang lived in the Shangqing Palace, and when he didn't see anyone, he completely closed the palace gate, and he couldn't even deliver any news.

Yun Zhonghe was locked up in the Black Ice Terrace Prison at this time, and it was even more impossible to see the Emperor.

At present, there are only two people in the entire Southern Zhou Empire who have seen Emperor Taishang.

One is, of course, the current Emperor Wanyun, and the other is the mysterious Princess Xiangxiang.

Emperor Taishang's favorite is this Princess Xiangxiang, and Her Royal Highness stays in the Shangqing Palace to accompany her grandfather most of the time.

Occasionally, this Princess Xiangxiang would come out of the Shangqing Palace and go to the palace to see her father, Emperor Wanyun.

The so-called Princess Xiangxiang is a bridge between the two emperors, and it is also the small padded jacket of the two generations of emperors.

So the only one who can turn the situation around now is the mysterious Princess Xiangxiang.

But the key is, how can Yun Zhonghe, who stays in the Black Ice Terrace Prison, contact this noble and mysterious Princess Xiangxiang?

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In the palace of the Great Win Empire, the Great Win Emperor held a secret meeting.

There were only two people attending the meeting, Gongsun Yang, the Grand Governor of Heilongtai in the Empire, and the Governor of the Southwest of Heilongtai.

The Great Win Empire has received information, Ao Xin is about to go to the guillotine, and Ao Yu is imprisoned in the Black Ice Prison.

There was a rebellion in Nanzhou of the Great Zhou Empire, and it was intensifying, and the Southern Zhou Empire was gathering a large army and preparing to go south to quell the rebellion, and the commander of the rebellion was likely to be Fu Yantu, Marquis of Ningcheng.

There is only one topic, do you want to save Ao Yu?

Now the situation has entered a very strange and complicated situation.

Rescuing Ao Yu is likely to go against the interests of the Great Win Empire.

The Southern Zhou Empire gathered a large army, and even established the Governor's Mansion to conquer the Southern Metropolis again, allowing Fu Yantu to lead the army south to quell the rebellion and exterminate the Southern Barbarian rebels, which was very beneficial to the Great Win Empire.

Because in this way, the Southern Zhou Empire is likely to fall into the quagmire of war in the Southern Barbarians, and the southernmost Zhenhai King is likely to take advantage of the opportunity.

By that time, Nan Zhou was in a state of panic and fell into the most dangerous situation.

At that time, the army of the Great Win Empire will go south and attack the Southern Zhou Empire will be able to get twice the result with half the effort.

even fought with the Southern Barbarian rebels, the rebels of the Shi family, and attacked the north and south, completely destroying the biggest opponent, the Southern Zhou Empire.

So now letting Ao Xin and Ao Yu die and sacrificing the crane in the clouds is beneficial to the big win empire.

Of course, in that case, Yun Zhonghe's undercover plan became a joke, and it ended directly ahead of schedule, so that he was beheaded by the Southern Zhou Emperor, as if this undercover plan never existed.

Feng Xing said hoarsely: "I ...... We can end this undercover plan ahead of schedule and send the Black Dragon Terrace master to infiltrate the Southern Zhou Dì Dū to rescue the crane in the clouds and bring it back to the Great Win Empire. ”

Gongsun Yang glared at Feng Xingxing, feeling that this proposal was childish and ridiculous.

The crane in the clouds is very important, but is it comparable to the four princes to win the game? Now the winning is still in the hands of the Southern Zhou Empire, and the big winning empire has not lost the interests of the empire to rescue the winning bird, let alone the crane in the clouds?

What is the point of sacrificing a small undercover agent for the sake of the empire?

Feng Xingxuan trembled: "But...... At that time, Yun Zhonghe could not go undercover in the Southern Zhou Empire, but for the sake of the empire's interests, he went undercover in the Southern Zhou Dynasty without hesitation. Are we going to sacrifice him in vain? Wouldn't that be contrary to our purpose?"

The emperor and Gongsun Yang still did not speak.

Feng Xingxuan knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Dashuai, this matter can be handed over to our Southwest Mansion for execution." ”

Gongsun Yang said: "Absurd, doesn't your southwest province belong to Heilongtai? Doesn't it belong to the empire? In the face of the interests of the empire, anyone can be sacrificed, including you and me, and of course the crane in the clouds." ”

Emperor Da Ying was playing with a jade stone in his hand, as if he was very obsessed with the pattern on it, as if he had not heard the words of Feng Xingxing at all.

He even brought the jade in front of his eyes and shone it on the lamp.

After watching for a long time, the emperor got up and left.

"Save. The emperor said lightly.

Suddenly, Feng Xingxuan kowtowed and said: "Obey the order, Your Majesty, the minister will immediately carry out the rescue plan." ”

"No, it's not the salvation you said. The emperor said: "The rescue you are talking about is nothing more than sacrificing countless Black Dragon Terrace masters to rob the prison, saving Yun Zhonghe from the Black Ice Terrace Prison in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, or robbing him halfway." ”

Feng Xing was stunned and said, "Then what does Your Majesty mean?"

The emperor said: "A higher level of salvation not only has to save Yun Zhonghe's life, but it is best to save Ao Xin as well, and let Yun Zhonghe continue this undercover plan." ”

Sun Yang, the leader of the Black Dragon Terrace, said: "Your Majesty, the price paid in this way is amazing. We need to pay astronomical sums of material and strength, to carry out strategic blackmail, our other undercover agents, and to launch suicide attacks. And saving Ao Xin is likely to hurt the interests of our big win empire, and let the Southern Zhou Empire fall into the quagmire of war in the Southern Barbarians, which is the most in our interests, and we will not hesitate to sacrifice the crane in the clouds for this. ”

Emperor Da Ying said lightly: "The interests in my eyes are slightly different from the interests in your eyes, so let's do it! Start the plan to rescue the crane in the clouds, and pay whatever price you should pay." ”

"Yes!"

Gongsun Yang kowtowed, and the other courtiers were already extremely frightened when they heard the emperor say such words, but Gongsun Yang was very calm, because the trust between him and the emperor was almost unshakable.

After saying that, the big win emperor left without saying anything.

No one could guess the mind of the Great Win Emperor, but at least at this moment, he was really radiant and charming.

With the will of the Great Win Emperor.

Just two days later, a powerful secret fleet headed south from the waters of the Great Win Empire.

At the same time, in the southwestern provinces of the Great Win Empire, more than 200,000 troops began to gather, and even began to march secretly into the borderland, which should be called the two provinces of eastern Qin and western Qin at this time.

Meanwhile!

In the capital of the Southern Zhou Empire, an undercover agent of a certain high-level Black Dragon Terrace of the Great Win Empire received an order.

Let him perform an action.

And this action is undoubtedly to detonate another nuclear bomb at the core of the Southern Zhou Empire's imperial court!

This nuclear bomb will shake the entire Southern Zhou court to pieces.

The crane in the clouds in the Black Ice Terrace Prison over there is also starting his own bizarre road to save himself, saving Ao Xin's way, and planning a strategy to hook up with Princess Xiangxiang.

He was completely ignorant of what the Big Win Empire was doing, and he didn't even dare to hope for anything. Because he himself knows that sacrificing the crane in the clouds and sacrificing Ao Xin is beneficial to the big win empire.

He won't blame him, for the sake of the empire, Da Ying didn't even rescue the four princes, let alone an undercover agent in the clouds?

Sacrificing a crane in the clouds is completely like killing a cockroach, and the big win empire can be treated as if nothing happened.

But he had no idea that the Big Win Empire had already started a rescue plan for him, and had already invested astronomical strategic resources.

Soon, he will be able to receive the rescue signal from the Big Win Empire.

In the center of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, a nuclear bomb will be detonated soon.

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