- Ah Tong didn't participate in the conversation between Wang Chi and Ruan Luo just now, so he had no way of knowing that the rumored impregnable guard net of the Imperial City in the Hengtai Pavilion neighborhood was likely to have broken a hole today. The person who responded to the assassins and disrupted the normal order of the guards in this pavilion area is probably the big proprietor of Yunxia Qianzhuang who lent them 10,000 taels of gold to play here today.

Perhaps fortunately, he didn't know the inside story of this very likely existence, so he was able to hold on to the last trace of firm belief in his heart.

With his knees slightly arched, he held the wooden plank in front of him, in order to resist the silver hook in the hand of the charming woman at any time and cut it to his heart again.

The charming woman's volley was like a wisp of smoke, as if she couldn't grasp it or control it, but since she could hold the silver hook with a substance, it meant that she was not a ghost.

The beautiful woman who stopped on the big willow tree did not immediately attack Ah Tong again, she just giggled twice in her naturally thin voice, and then swept her gaze over Ruan Luo, who was still frantically picking at the ruins.

A chill suddenly felt in Ah Tong's heart.

With Ruan Luo's state of affection at this time, maybe he is going to fight hard now, and he may not be willing to give up the pile of ruins.

It's a little reluctant to face this charming woman alone, if you pull another person who is out of love and doesn't know martial arts at all, I don't know what the final outcome will be?

But of course, Ah Tong will not give up on his employer. Whether it was out of moral considerations or compelled by today's special circumstances, he would not have fled here at this time to protect himself. If he just leaves like this, he will never be able to pick up the face of the white door in the future.

Although the White Gate is in decline, the training of the disciples has not been relaxed in the slightest, and in order to protect the safety of their employers, the disciples of the White Gate must also learn to understand some basic tenets of the killer trade.

Today he saw the face of this charming woman, and he didn't think that this treacherous female assassin would let him go lightly. The female Assassin was so arrogant that she did assassination, but she did not cover her face like her peers. This may prove that this woman is ruthless, and in addition to the target person, she will never let the assassination scene leave an extra living mouth.

If the body must fail, the mind must not die first;

If life is bound to perish, duty must not die first;

If the mind is in a dilemma, then keep the yuan and take the righteousness;

The righteousness of the white door is as awe-inspiring as the wild!

The White Gate Creed suddenly boiled in his mind, and Ah Tong only felt that he was still in a somewhat chaotic state of mind just now, and at this time he was already calm in a warm ocean.

The most susceptible behavior is the inability to make consistent decisions. But if this thought can be emptied of clutter. The unity of wisdom and heart. As soon as the troublesome things are like clouds dissipating and the moon rises, they become clear and concise.

Ah Tong's eyes were still firmly fixed on the charming woman hanging lightly on the big willow tree, and his steps were moving towards Ruan Luo at an extremely slow speed.

Of course, the beautiful woman hanging from the big willow tree observed this detail, and the unnatural smile on her face gradually subsided. There was a hint of ruthlessness in her eyes, as if she had made some kind of decision, and then the double hook in her hand suddenly fell, and her toes tapped the willow branches, and finally flew over the hook again!

The second time the female assassin leaned over and swung the hook to stab, Ah Tong frowned, ignoring the tip of the silver hook, and only violently swung the wooden board in his hand, sweeping diagonally towards the female assassin's wrist as accurately as possible!

If the female assassin doesn't dodge. Her wrists are likely to be snapped alive, and if the female assassin were to die with Tong, it would be highly likely that a pair of silver hooks in her hands would pierce Tong's chest.

Ah Tong gambled his life on the female assassin's wrists, which seemed to be an absolute gamble.

But Ah Tong won this gamble.

The female assassin was reluctant to give up her wrist, as the tip of the silver hook was about to scratch the inch of her chest, which had already left a bloody streak on her first shot. She suddenly withdrew her hand, lifted her figure, and hung it on a poplar tree about ten steps away from Ah Tong's side.

Ah Tong's body turned, and he put on the defensive posture just now, holding his head slightly high, and never taking his eyes off the female assassin's face.

The female assassin's eyes showed a hint of surprise at this time, which was a rare time in her eyes that was accustomed to showing a flattering expression.

This little squire is actually not afraid of death?

But her hands must be well maintained and used to spend money. In the future, there will be a large amount of silver on these hands, and just thinking about it now makes people feel a little excited.

As soon as the mood improves, the brain is easy to open, and there are more killing moves. The beautiful female assassin's eyes moved, and she swept over again, waving the silver hook in her hand, but it was a false move, and the light figure swept over Atong's head, and climbed to the roof of the tea house that was burning with raging flames, as if going to the back of the tea house.

It's just too strange to be elusive.

But Ah Tong was not ready to chase after him, even if it was ruled out that the female assassin was trying to carry out a trick full of loopholes, Ah Tong did not think that there was anything more important than immediately stopping Ruan Luo's actions to pick up the ruins.

Among the wooden construction waste stained with sparks, or burned into red charcoal, Ruan Luo took a cup of tea in one go.

He had choked on too much soot and began to cough incessantly. The soot blackened his originally white face, and the tears from the corners of his eyes drew two hairs on such a black face. At this time, he was like two people as usual, almost crazy, but his movements did not have a trace of slackness, and he still retained a certain primary color of his character.

His self-indulgent madness lasted too long, and the palms of his hands had been scraped several times by the sharp section of construction waste, and the skin was torn apart in the dregs. The blood that spilled from the wound was mixed with black ash, sticking to the cuffs that were already dirty, and the debris around him was everywhere.

At this time, it was as if he had forgotten what pain was, or he had been numb to the point of pain, so he didn't feel pain.

In this way, with only a pair of meat palms, he forced a gap in the pile of sundries that had been roasted by the fire.

And in this gap, a corner of his clothes was revealed, and Ah Tong only glanced at it, and couldn't help but turn pale. The cloth was the same as what he was wearing, and it was ...... It's actually Ah Ping in it!

At the beginning of this era, there was also a period of chaos, which was cleared by a war that lasted for more than a hundred years, and the land began to be ruled by the Great Empire. Hundreds of years later. It was divided into the Southern Continent Zhou Empire, and the Bitter Cold Northern Wild Goose Kingdom.

From the middle of the Southern Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, the civil system gradually became stronger than the military system, and the drawbacks gradually appeared, but the obvious root of this drawback was mainly because the Southern Zhou monarch was slacked off in state affairs, and the Yan Kingdom in the north did not relax and strengthen itself for a day, and insisted on the strategy of strengthening the country by force from beginning to end.

Boat on the river, if there is adversity, do not want to forge ahead. Even if you can maintain the original foundation. Stand on the sidelines and see the big picture. The boat is actually retreating on its own. In the tone of the small neighboring countries gradually becoming stronger, if the Southern Zhou only thinks about the current situation, there will be a crisis of being surpassed or even covered by other countries.

However, the Zhou Empire operated for more than 300 years. Even if there are no outstanding achievements in the middle and later stages, but they are just standing still, the foundation accumulated by such a big country is thick enough, and it is not easy for foreign neighbors to pry open and annex in one go.

What the people of the whole country did not expect was that the final fall of the Zhou Empire was not destroyed at the hands of the enemy, and the mediocrity of the monarch was only to the extent of weakening the national strength. What really dealt a fatal blow to the empire was the rebellion of the border army.

The territory of the Zhou Empire was divided into three major state regions, and there were three major state armies. The Sichuan Legion in the west is the strongest, because the terrain of Sichuan is complex, and most of the bandits like to settle here. The Sichuan Legion has always been in many battles, the hardest, and the losses are also great. Dongzhou is near the sea and there are few battles, so the Dongzhou Army lacks actual combat training in a safe corner, and its comprehensive ability should be ranked last in the Sanzhou Army.

As for the Zhongzhou Legion...... At that time, the imperial capital was located, and it had not yet moved to Huyang, Dongzhou, and set up the imperial capital in Zhongzhou for more than 300 years. Even now, the new emperor Jinghuyang, who had worked hard for ten years by the Southern Zhao monarch, still could not surpass it.

However, it was precisely because of the relocation of the capital in the last years of the previous dynasty that the stable Golden Triangle pattern was loosened and dispersed.

The imperial capital moved eastward, and the Sichuan Legion, which was the most powerful in the Sanzhou Army, had begun to loosen its grips, not only that, but it was possible to connect the Zhongzhou Legion through Guò, and the news could reach the northern frontier army of the Imperial Capital, because the Imperial Capital moved eastward, the news needed to turn a corner, and the internal transmission system was more condensed.

If the reigning monarch of the Zhou Empire had been more diligent, he might have seriously considered the huge loopholes in military management brought about by the relocation of the capital, but then again, if he had been diligent, he would not have moved the capital.

The existence of loopholes, coupled with the Wang clan of the northern frontier army, plus the Sichuan Legion, had long had a grudge against the immoral rule of the Zhou Empire, and the collapse was imminent.

When the Wang clan crossed the defense line of the Second Army of Zhongzhou with the elite descendants of the army that had been trained in northern Xinjiang and was about to enter the core cities and counties of Zhongzhou, Emperor Zhou Ling, who had just rolled out the guard of honor in the new emperor capital of Dongzhou, had just received the news.

Because of the escort to move the capital to the east, Emperor Zhou Ling took away half of the elite soldiers in the Zhongzhou Legion, if you judge this matter from the perspective of Emperor Ling, there is nothing wrong with it. Half of the Zhongzhou Legion originally belonged to the descendants of the imperial family defending the imperial family, and most of the military generals in various places were held by the royal family, and the ownership was as meticulous as a net.

As an ace division, no matter how greedy the emperor is, the comprehensive combat effectiveness of this legion is not weak. With the armaments and weapons that are far better than those of the Sichuan Legion, and close to the feet of the Son of Heaven, military discipline does not dare to slack off. But...... If it is time to fight hard, among the three major state armies of the Zhou Empire, the Zhongzhou Legion has always been pressed on top of the head by the Sichuan Legion, and it can only be in second place, which is also the reason.

Therefore, half of the soldiers of the Zhongzhou Army have to fight against the descendants of the Northern Frontier Army, although it is dangerous to win steadily, but the expected result is the same for the Northern Frontier Army on the reverse journey, but until ...... The news that the Sichuan Legion suddenly disappeared overnight came to Zhongzhou, and these did not have the opportunity to escort the capital to the east, but stayed in Zhongzhou.

The terrain of Sichuan Prefecture is strange and dangerous, and the state army stationed here has not leaked a single piece of information, and it will directly and automatically disintegrate, which is even more strange than the strangeness of Sichuan Ridge. The most important thing is that the land of Chuanling has become a rebellious border army like no one, and has become a natural fortress for garrisons, even if the bloody battle of Zhongzhou is lost, and the remnants of the soldiers enter Chuanling to hide, they can also save the spark of the border army to regenerate at the right time.

In the midst of this chaos, the Sichuan Army was automatically disintegrated. From the perspective of the overall situation, it is obvious that he has helped the rebellious border army.

But later, the rebellious border army narrowly won, and the Wang family finally won the hegemony, and the vanished Sichuan army never appeared again. If this disappeared legion really intended to help the Wang Clan's border army, why didn't this brave legion return to the military array when the chaos was settled? In other words, thinking about this problem from a cold perspective, if the Wang family wants to do the work of unloading and killing donkeys, the more than 100,000 people of the Sichuan Prefecture Army want to wield a knife to cut. I didn't make any movement at all.

Could it be that this behemoth army that once spread its name of bravery throughout most of the Zhou Empire. It literally just disappeared. Evaporated?

With his own habits of seeing things, it is difficult for Shi Yi to believe this inference, but since even the Soul Piercing II has happened to him, even the world he is in now has changed. Shi Yi felt that he needed to change some of the habits he had developed in his previous life, whether it was his lifestyle or his attitude towards thinking.

The army is composed of the people's livelihood, a behemoth army will be disintegrated and disappear without a trace, I am afraid that there is only one way out of returning to the people, and they will hide without leaving any trace, I am afraid that the troops will be stationed for the people in the land of Sichuan that they have defended and fought for, where there is a familiar atmosphere, and the people there are also familiar with their existence.

Besides. The intentional maintenance of the imperial court is also an important link. If the imperial court really made up its mind to find this legion in the land of Sichuanzhou, it would take several years, and I was afraid that it would not be able to find any clues?

And this problem is now evident. The Wang Imperial Court never seemed to have done this.

This legion, which accounted for one-fifth of the total strength of the regular army of the previous dynasty, did not help the Wang family's rebellious border army with a clear banner, nor did it help the orthodox imperial court at that time when it needed help, was it really just because it was just the right time to return? No, even if the soldiers of this legion were tired of war for a long time, and once they broke out, they would not look so neat.

This kind of extremely strange change must have been achieved by human guidance. It's just that Shi Yi still can't imagine that there may have been a conspiracy more than ten years ago, how convincing the bargaining chips shown to each other by the leaders of the two parties would be to make this conspiracy come to fruition, and the result of the conspiracy has been tempered for more than ten years and has not deteriorated yet.

In addition to a part, it may be due to the fact that the people of this era still have a relatively traditional system of etiquette and religious law in terms of the code of conduct, which restricts the speed of the deterioration of the covenant, or it may also be because the original goal of the covenant is still in the progress stage and has not been fully achieved.

As the saying goes: it is easy to share hardship and hardship, but it is difficult to share wealth and prosperity. Of course, such a major event for the country will not be hastily formulated, so from a certain point of view, the will of the two sides to cooperate will also appear stronger before the major event is accomplished.

If this kind of speculation becomes a reality, Shi Yi really can't help but admire some of the people who launched this strategy.

If this matter collapses, the consequences will be unimaginable.

And in the era when there is no radio and the other party cannot be informed in advance, the person who can take the intentions of both parties so accurately and plan this matter...... It should be said that it is a team of strategists, which is really terrifying.

In ancient times, when there was no high technology as an auxiliary tool, the wise man could be more useful, and the wise man could be regarded as the most cherished resource for those who fought for power.

But when Shi Yi first came to this era, he often felt at a loss, because what he had learned in the more than ten years of education he had undergone in his previous life was very small in this era. This is an era when there is almost no zài industry, and there are many natural resources that he has seen in his previous life, but in this era, I wonder if there is no zài, or a different name, or maybe it has not been developed? In short, in his opinion, the available resources are sorely scarce.

As for the borrowing of historical knowledge, it is basically equivalent to saving zài. In this era, there is no pre-civilization of the Xia, Shang and Zhou, although before the current Zhaoli Dynasty, there is indeed a Zhou, but it is obviously completely unrelated to the Zhou Dynasty that he knew in his previous life.

The only thing that this era has in common with the ancient history he knew in his previous life is the system.

The empire was supposed to be fully feudal, with a few big nobles in charge of the territory, and had hired peasants in the true sense of the word, no different from slaves.

Later, the Zhou Empire, which replaced the Daye Empire, was a bit more civilized, and belonged to a semi-feudal system, and half of the rich and fertile territory was still governed by the aristocracy, employing peasants like slaves. Only in those poor mountains and bad waters, the lonely peasants who have been relieved by the law can pay a certain amount of agricultural taxes to the local officials, and the land can be cultivated more freely.

But in an era when there was almost no zài industry, the natural dilemma of reclaiming wasteland into fields that could be cultivated was unimaginably complex.

If there is no water source, what can be relied on for farming?

In some places, although there is a water source, it is difficult to overcome the problem of hard and clumpy soil. Ordinary iron hoes cannot dig the soil at all in such places, and some sections are forced to dig deeply, and the old tree roots crisscrossed under the soil can make the farmers sweat and cry at the same time.

Not to mention the practice of burning mountains and cultivating them. Wherever lonely farmers are allowed to open up wasteland, most of them are barren mountains that are inaccessible to people, and setting a fire in such a place can easily implicate dozens of miles of mountain ranges. The fire is difficult to extinguish, not only will it attract people from the government, but it will also provoke the strongmen who may be stored in the mountains to go down the mountain and kill.