Shang Zhu put the chaotic pointer back in place and held his breath, he planned to start from the beginning and seriously deduce it again.

After turning the hand on the inner disk several times, it is constantly shaking irregularly, which is not different from the results of the previous calculations. He took a deep breath, stepped back from the stage, slowly walked up to the Spirit King, and bowed:

"My king, my minister's ability is limited, and he can only deduce that the calamity is about to come from the north. ”

The Spirit King frowned suddenly, and his face immediately became displeased.

Just five days ago, officials from the Heavenly Observatory observed the celestial phenomena late at night and found that several stars in the northern sky had deviated from their original routes, drawing extremely irregular trajectories in the sky. The official recorded the chaos and reported it to the Spirit King the next morning, believing that a great disaster had occurred in the north.

At the time of the war, disasters continued, and the people of Xuanyuan suffered a lot, the Spirit King attached great importance to this, and instructed Guantianjian to continue to follow up, and if there was any abnormality, he must immediately notify Jiande Palace.

The next day after the report, Jiande Palace really received a courier from the north, leaving the country, the forest country and other small countries almost at the same time the snow disaster, asking the central government to send troops to the rescue, not only that, these small countries actually took the opportunity to apply to the capital to apply for Jinbei to rescue the affected people.

The treasury has long been squandered by previous kings for civil engineering projects and the construction of extravagant palaces. In addition, in recent years, natural and man-made disasters have continued, the people have been displaced, no one is engaged in farming, and many vassal states have cut off their tributary duties, and the central finance department has allocated more funds for disaster relief, resulting in a situation where it is now beyond its means, and even the central government is barely enough to operate, how can there be money and materials allocated to the north.

The Spirit King locked himself up in the Yuhe Hall for a whole night.

At this moment, the mood of the officials of the Heavenly Observatory was not much better than that of His Majesty the King, who was anxious in the Jiande Palace.

More and more stars broke through their original trajectory in the northern sky, running chaotically in the night sky, and a few of them almost collided together. At the same time, among the eight stars of the Suzaku Constellation, a flame rose into the sky, and the dazzling light burned the entire southern night sky.

Several officials in charge of observing the stars became more and more frightened, this was a chaotic situation that the Xuanyuan Kingdom had never seen for thousands of years, and thinking of the unprecedented attention of the Spirit King, they did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly rushed out a note explaining the situation, which was carried by Dong Shuzhang, the Taishi Lord, and rushed into the Jiande Palace overnight to report to the Spirit King.

Dong Shuzhang has walked through Jiande Palace countless times before, and every time he enters the palace in the past, he will be amazed that this magnificent palace has risen more than the last time. The high pedestal, the long and wide front desk, the white jade railing, the winding corridor, and the two giant stone dragon sculptures dozens of feet high on the square, the majestic palace with sections and scales, and the stubborn guards all show the majestic momentum of Xuanyuan as the most powerful country in Kyushu. But this time, Dong Shuzhang felt that the Xuande Palace was too big for the first time, so big that it seemed that no matter how he walked, he couldn't reach the end.

Although the temple man leading the way in front of him walked faster than ever, Lord Taishi still felt that it was too slow, and politely asked him to hurry up from time to time.

As soon as Dong Shuzhang arrived at the Gongshou Palace, he was stopped in front of the temple by Qinghong, a temple man who served the living life of the Spirit King, and was not told until dawn that the Spirit King was waiting for him in the Degu Palace.

Lord Taishi stood in front of the hall for a night, the black official uniform, the crown has been covered with a lot of snow, when he was about to take the first step, his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted, fortunately, the young subordinate next to him reached out in time to help him, and helped him all the way to the Degu Palace.

When Qinghong took over the song, he saw that Dong Shuzhang's eyes were red, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was pale, and there were faint snowflakes hanging on his shoulders. Taishi is only forty years old this year, and he is the most energetic period in his life, but because he is worried about the chaos of the starry sky above Kyushu in recent days, he has added a lot of gray hair.

Qinghong smiled at Dong Shuzhang and whispered, "Lord Taishi has worked hard. But I sneered in my heart: hehe, it's really perseverance. He put away his smile, turned around, raised the note to his head, and respectfully handed it to the Spirit King.

The Spirit King, who had been reviewing the music for a night, was also tired at this time, rubbed his temples, opened the music, read it very carefully, and asked in a hoarse voice, "What is Dong Qing's explanation for this chaos?"

"Your Majesty, the news of the snow disaster sent the day before yesterday confirms that the chaos observed by our Heavenly Observatory is correct, but just last night, the latest observation results indicate that there will be a greater disaster in the north. ”

"What disaster?"

"There is nothing the Heavenly Prison can do, it can only see these, and the rest needs to be divided. ”

The Spirit King seemed to have expected it, put down the song, and asked lightly, "What about the south, what is that sky-high fire?"

"This ...... This ......" Dong Shuzhang hesitated a few times, but still didn't say anything.

"Say it. ”

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the chaos that has appeared in the Vermilion Bird Star is not within the territory of our Xuanyuan Kingdom. ”

"Great Xia Kingdom?"

Dong Shuzhang shook his head.

"Nanzhou?"

"Not sure, the stars in the south are numerous and mixed, and the stars move more chaotically than in the north, and they are difficult to fathom. Wei Chen is worried that the chaos in the north and south directions will affect the east and west, and then disturb the stars on the entire Shanhai Continent, and then our Xuanyuan Kingdom will inevitably be implicated and involved. ”

How could he not be implicated, the Spirit King felt extremely indignant. This has just asked Xiang Guo to help pacify several small countries in the south that want to rebel, and the price paid by Xuanyuan State can be described as miserable, and the neighboring Xiang Country Britain was thus included in Xiang Guo's territory. Every time he thought of this, the Spirit King felt that his heart was dripping blood.

And the Tang State and the Gu Shooting State in the east have been creating some small frictions on the border these days, and they seem to be ready to move. Fortunately, the western border is Jianmu Lake, which is white and full of water, and there is a natural separation from other countries, otherwise it is really dangerous, but it seems that the news that the mermaids have begun to attack the villages near the lake.

Now there is another natural disaster in the north......

It really doesn't make sense.

Thinking that Xuanyuan Kingdom was now in a situation of internal and external difficulties, and the whole country was in turmoil, but no one could share his worries, the Spirit King felt angry, and couldn't help but slap the imperial desk fiercely.

Dong Shuzhang in the hall lowered his head, not daring to look at the Spirit King.

After a long while, the Spirit King slowly calmed down, and when he saw Dong Shuzhang's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, he asked, "What else does Dong Qing have to say?"

"The minister is not worried about natural disasters, but man-made disasters. ”

"Make it clear. ”

"From the observation of celestial phenomena, the snow disaster this time is probably not a natural disaster. ”

"That's a man-made disaster. The Spirit King suddenly sneered, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, "The widow wants to hear it, who can have the ability to make a heavy snow that covers several small countries?"

"This and this ....." Dong Shuzhang was speechless for a moment, he really hadn't thought about it, but he still insisted on telling what he saw, "....... It's just our astrological extrapolation, Your Majesty. ”

"Dong Qing, don't talk nonsense. The Spirit King waved his hand and motioned for Dong Shuzhang to stop talking. Originally, in the past few days, major and bad things have happened one after another, which has made the Spirit King tired of coping, and he doesn't want to hear anyone talk nonsense to disturb his thoughts.

Dong Shuzhang didn't want to give up, so he took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter is related to the national fortune of Xuanyuan Country for ten thousand years, and it should not be taken lightly. If this snow disaster is really man-made, it proves that several small princes and states in the north must have ulterior motives, perhaps they are taking the opportunity of applying for disaster relief to sneak up on us, so we must preemptively strike ......."

"Okay, Dong Qing hasn't slept all night, he must be very tired. Come and send Dong Qing back to his house to rest. King Ling didn't want to discuss this matter anymore, so he asked the two guards to send Dong Shuzhang out of the palace.

Lord Taishi let out a long sigh before leaving, and left Jiande Palace gloomily.

The Lingwang naturally understood the truth that if you want to go outside, you must first settle the inside, but how can the Xuanyuan Kingdom have any ability to keep the inside? The officials of the imperial court are corrupt and unscrupulous, and the soldiers of the army are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the real elite is only 100,000, and they can only defend Gyeonggi. Every time there is a problem in a vassal state, it is to pull other countries to send troops to quell the chaos, and the humiliation suffered in this process is really indescribable.

He sat on the dragon chair and pondered for a long time, and finally chose to follow Dong Shuzhang's advice and went to Yingtianjian to ask Taibu Shang to help calculate what happened in the north.

After leaving the dragon chair, the Spirit King suddenly turned around and said to Qinghong: "The next time Taishi asks to see him, he must tell Gu Yu as soon as possible." ”

"No, Your Majesty. Qinghong lowered his head and replied.

After arriving at Ying Tianjian, the Spirit King, who came with great expectations, never thought that Shang Zhu would give such an answer, he forcibly held back the anger in his heart, and asked coldly:

"Taishi said that the disasters in the north are not natural disasters, what about the results of your calculations?"

"Your Majesty, I have also heard of a snowstorm in several small principalities in the north. However, it was early winter, and according to the previous weather, it was impossible to fall heavy snow. ”

"That makes sense. The Spirit King's face calmed slightly, and he motioned for Shang Zhu to continue.

"Your Majesty still remembers, there was a fire in the Landing Mountain Range at the beginning of spring, and it took a full month to be extinguished, and all the trees in the entire Mountain Range were burned down, and many of the Orion families on the mountain and the people at the foot of the mountain were killed in the fire, so His Majesty also ordered the people near the Landing Mountain Range to be moved to the city to live. ”

Lone remembers this incident well. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. After that, it rained heavily for a month in a row, and after the fire, it was soaked in rainwater, coupled with the previous hundreds of years of mining and smelting, the belly of the mountain had already been hollowed out. ”

"What does this have to do with the snow disaster?"

"Your Majesty, in the past, the Sitlian winds that blew from the north were blocked by the falling mountains, but this year there is no block from this tall mountain range, the north wind is whistling, the temperature plummets, and the snow falls non-stop, and this is how the snow disaster happens. ”

The Spirit King leaned on the black sandalwood chair, his right hand pressed the armrest, and his face was cloudy:

"Isn't this a natural disaster?"

Shang Zhu lowered his head, thought about it, and finally stepped forward: "It's not a natural disaster." ”

"Why. ”

Shang Zhu was silent.

"If you have anything to say, here are all the king's henchmen. The Spirit King understood Shang Zhu's concerns and looked around.

Accompanied by Prince Ji Zheng, Situ Changjin, and Qinghong, who followed him all year round.

Shang Zhu remained silent.

"What else worries you?" the Spirit King stared at Shang Zhu, his voice becoming much lower.

The pressure of the Son of Heaven not to be angry and arrogant made Shang Zhu unbearable, and he bowed to the Spirit King: "The minister heard the news that the fire at the beginning of the year was not spontaneous combustion in the extreme environment or man-made arson, but ......"

"And what?"

"It's manipulation from non-humans. ”