On the night of the first month of the first month, Luliang was covered with snow.

The snow has not yet melted in winter, and the bright moonlight does not bring the slightest warmth, and the night breeze blows, making people feel cold.

In the shelter of the mountain, three horses stood together, nibbling on the dead grass on the ground to replenish their strength after continuous travel. The prince of Northern Qi, dressed in bright silver armor, was still lying on horseback, ready to evacuate at any time.

The man and woman in white leaned against a large pine tree, still wrestling with the names of the horses. You and I are not very satisfied, and even the names in 'Black Whirlwind' and 'Vitiligo' have popped up, which can be described as boring.

Ning Qingye rested for a while, and the fatigue of running around was also relieved, looking at Xu Buling's frowning appearance and thinking about his name, for some reason, he hooked the corners of his mouth, probably thinking that each other was a little naïve.

Ning Qing's night was relatively cold, and he rarely smiled, but his smile was amazing. After Xu Buling noticed it, he turned his head and said suspiciously:

"Laughing at what? Think vitiligo doesn't sound good? ”

Ning Qingye put away his smile again, leaned under the big tree, and looked at the silent mountains: "No...... I just think that we are the same as the rangers in the rivers and lakes, we got the horse sword, and when we were hiding from the pursuit, we hid in the mountains and secretly had fun, which was very interesting. ”

Saying this, Xu Buling really felt a little feeling: "It's quite similar, it's almost the same." ”

Ning Qingye leaned the snow-white sword on his shoulder, hugged his arm and thought: "It's a pity that this is not a river and lake. Northern Qi is coming, and I don't know how many people will die. In the past, the Iron Eagle hunted deer, and the corpses killed by the court were all over the place, and the two countries fought a war, and I am afraid that more people died. ”

Ning Qingye was born in Shudi cottage, although he was displaced in his childhood, but the world is still peaceful, and he has seen the encirclement and suppression of the government, and the scene of thousands of people at most, hundreds of thousands of people fighting, may have only heard it in the mouth of the storyteller since he was born, and most of them have been beautified, and he must have no concept of the war between the two countries.

Xu Buling was born in Jiangmen, and he also has a lot of memories in his previous life, and he knows much more about the troubled times:

"When fighting on the stage, the generals are fighting alone, winning more with less, and capturing the king with a single horse, but in fact, the war is much more tragic than people imagine. To put it simply, it is to fill with human lives, when the former dynasty was stable in Daqi, from southern Xinjiang to Mobei, there were about 9 million households and more than 70 million people. Do you guess how many people were left after more than ten years of chaotic wars, when Dayue founded the country? ”

Ning Qingye naturally didn't know, and turned his head: "How much?" ”

Xu Buling spread his hands slightly: "Two million households, more than 12 million people, more than seventy percent died. ”

Ning Qingye frowned, a little incomprehensible for this kind of astronomical figure: "There are so many? ”

Xu Buling nodded: "The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles." There are more than 100 people, and the thought breaks people's intestines. These are clear records in the history books, and you will know it when you look through it when you arrive in Suzhou. At that time, Da Yue couldn't pursue the Jiang royal family who fled to Mobei, because there was no one to fight again, and it took two generations for Emperor Xiaozong and the first emperor to restore the population to about fifty percent of the peak of the Great Qi Dynasty, and it has not fully recovered until now. ”

Ning Qingye's eyes showed a look of horror: "Seven out of ten? I've heard that there weren't so many soldiers and horses back then......"

Xu Buling sighed: "The people who die the most in the war are always the people, and most of them are not killed on the battlefield, but all kinds of disasters brought about by the war.

At the beginning of the war, the various forces will be slightly restrained, but the army is seriously reduced, and it is inevitable that the strong men will be replenished, the population of cultivation will be sharply reduced, and in order to replenish grain and grass, they will begin to grab grain, in addition to famine, there is also the plague brought about by the war, and so on.

After being completely deplunged into the troubled times, how to treat the people depends on the conscience of the soldiers, and there is no one to care about the possibility of human nature, and there is no one to care about adultery and plunder, slaughtering villages and towns, and using women and children as military food. This situation lasted for more than ten years, and it was lucky that seventy percent of them died, if it weren't for the birth of my grandfather Xu Lie, who pushed the warlords of all sides in a wave, it would be possible to have no one in a hundred. Otherwise, why would the people call fighting a war a 'war plague'? ”

Ning Qingye frowned: "Then why do you want to fight?" Is it meaningful that everyone is dead? ”

Xu Buling spread his hands: "It's just a redistribution of power, this can't be avoided, and when the contradictions accumulate to a certain extent, there will inevitably be turmoil."

It's like my Su Wang Xu family, who has already made great achievements and has no reward for the master, and still holds the power of the army. The Xu family did not object, and the imperial court would also take precautions; The imperial court has no intention of cutting the domain, and my Xu family will also be worried.

Then there are only two ways left, one is to continue to be suspicious of each other, and sooner or later there will be a day when the soldiers will meet each other. The second is that my Xu family gave up military power to reassure the imperial court. What do you think the Xu family should choose? ”

Ning Qingye blinked: "Giving up the right to fight, isn't it the same as saying that both of you suspect that the other party wants to kill you, so you give the sword to someone else, and say, 'I don't have a sword, you can kill me at any time, I can't kill you, now you can rest assured, don't kill me, right?' ’”

Xu Buling was very satisfied with this analogy, nodded and said, "Yes, isn't this a brain case with water, so it is impossible to hand over the military power." If you don't hand it over, the court will be more suspicious, and the more suspicious the court is, the more scared my Xu family will be, the tighter they will grasp it, and the deeper the contradictions will be, and then a little spark will come over and it will blow up. ”

Ning Qingye nodded lightly: "That...... It seems like there's no way around it...... But so many people died in the war, so you can only just watch? ”

"The general trend is inevitable, and war is inevitable, but how many people die depends on how to fight. As long as the fight is fast enough, the population loss will naturally be reduced a lot, and I am afraid that the separatist war of several forces, fighting back and forth, no matter how many people die, there will not be enough people to die. ”

Ning Qingye seemed to understand: "This time when the Northern Qi enters the customs, if it can reach Chang'an at one time, will the battle be over?" ”

"How is it possible, Dayue's national strength is at its peak, and the Northern Qi Dynasty occupies a large area north of the Yellow River at most, and it is impossible to restore the country if it can pull out the Liaoxi Protectorate, and it is impossible to enter Guanzhong Road. If you want to end this war, either the eastern feudal king successfully usurped the throne, rectify the inside, and gather the strength of the whole country to bulldoze the Northern Qi in waves; Either the Northern Qi gradually encroached on Dayue's territory and slowly squeezed Dayue to death with time; If Song Ji wants to turn the tables, he can only level the kings first and then destroy the Northern Qi, which is almost impossible. This time the Northern Qi entered the customs, which was a dead end for the eastern kings to Song Jibu, and the eastern kings had the greatest chance of winning. ”

Ning Qingye is like listening to the heavens about these national affairs, but Xu Buling talks about state affairs, not the teahouse's nonsense, as the prince of the vassal king, there is a spirit of 'waking up to the power of the world' in his words.

For women, this kind of temperament is very lethal, even if they don't understand, they will still feel very attractive when they see the people in power casually commenting on the heroism of the heroes in the world, this is nature, from the sense of obedience and dependence on the strong in the bones of animals, ancient and modern, even Ning Qingye, who has an arrogant personality, is no exception.

Ning Qingye saw that Xu Buling's head was the way, and it was not easy to show a look of incomprehension. After thinking about it seriously, he nodded slightly:

"So what are you going to do?"

"I ......"

Xu Buling's expression of worrying about the country and the people was closed, and he spread his hands: "I will definitely go back and get married, Xiliang is standing behind the emperor, and he can only hit me if he loses the middle way, you can't expect me to jump out now and be a savior, right?" ”

“……”

Dare to talk for a long time, it's all nonsense that doesn't concern you?

I thought you were analyzing so much that you were going to turn the tide......

Ning Qingye's eyes were weird, but if he thought about it carefully, King Su was in the west, and he really couldn't run away, so he didn't say much, just sighed softly, and it was tasteless.

The night is getting deeper, and the cold air in the mountains and forests under the cold moon is getting heavier and heavier.

Xu Buling chatted for a while about the world's major events, and also found it a little cold, and when he saw Ning Qingye holding his arms, he said:

"Are you cold?"

Ning Qing was wearing thin clothes at night, although his martial arts were not very afraid of the cold, but he could warm up and would not be hard to boil his brain, so he nodded and looked at the wind chasing horse next to him.

Xu Buling smiled, untied the white robe on her body, and draped it over her shoulders.

Ning Qingye's body stiffened violently, and he quickly turned around:

"What do you do?"

Xu Buling said softly: "Aren't you cold? Wear it, I can carry it. ”

Ning Qingye's eyes were strange, and he raised his slender jade finger and pointed at the horses:

"There's a blanket on horseback, and you're addicted to undressing?"

“……”

Xu Buling's smiling expression stiffened slightly, he held back for a long time, he didn't say anything, and said secretly: Why is this girl so ......, got up and took a spare blanket from the wind chasing horse, draped it on her body, and leaned against the trunk of the tree to brew words.

The two of them fell silent, Ning Qingye frowned, looked at the thin robe on his body, and then looked at the thick blanket on Xu Buling's body, his face became more and more strange.

What is this?

Give me a thin robe, and a thick blanket to keep me warm and windproof?

Have you hooked up with girls like this?

Ning Qingye tightened the thin robe on his body, it was as cold as if he was not draped, he was silent, but he still didn't hold back, and turned his head:

"Xu Buling, you ...... What exactly do you mean? ”

There was a little annoyance in his tone, after all, even if he didn't mention the duty of men to take care of their female dependents, even if they got along with each other, there was no reason to give thin robes to teammates and wrap themselves in thick blankets, didn't this bully honest people?

Xu Buling also sensed that something was wrong, thought about it, and unfolded the wide blanket:

"Why don't you put them together?"

Ning Qingye frowned and swept his eyes, snorted softly, sat closer, draped half of the blanket over himself, and the two of them leaned together.

Although the shoulders were against the shoulders, I ran away with them, and there was nothing unusual at this time.

Xu Buling wrapped himself in a blanket, hesitated, and said: "I forgot to bring a blanket, so I took off my clothes for you, I cared about you, not to take advantage of you." ”

"You're not at ease."

Ning Qingye was not easy to fool, snorted lightly, turned his head, leaned against each other, and his long hair turned with his head, swiping on Xu Buling's cheeks, with a trace of fragrance.

It's also arrogant......

Xu Buling shook his head and smiled, anyway, he was bored in the dead of night, so he opened his mouth and said with concern:

"Early in the night, you sleep for a while, I'll stare?"

"I'm not sleepy, you fight for a long time, go to sleep first."

"Do you want to sleep together?

"I ...... I'm a disciple ......"

"Hahaha......"

"You're laughing again!?"

……

The three horses looked at the men and women leaning together, and felt like they were looking at a neuropathy, and let out a few snorts.

Just when Xu Buling was about to continue to flirt with a few words, the prince of Northern Qi on horseback suddenly let out a muffled snort of "uh......", and his body moved a few times.

Ning Qingyezheng's face was red, his eyes were full of shame and anger, and when he heard the sound, he suddenly regained his composure, and separated himself from Xu Buling a little, with a slight dissatisfaction in his eyes, as if he had been swept away......