"Knock, knock......" The slow and heavy drum beat sounded outside the Lingzhou Mansion.

A row of brightly clad soldiers puffed out their cheeks and sounded their horns vigorously to the east. The red sun was rising over the green-yellow grasslands outside the city, as if it were rising at the sound of a trumpet, and the wind was galloping through the air. The sun is rising, everything is called energetic, as if praising a new beginning!

People dressed in various clothes lined up in two rows and walked inside, including civil officials wearing round-necked robes and black gauze hats, military generals wearing military uniforms and armor, and people of various ethnic groups with strange hair and clothes. It's like a hodgepodge of civilizations, and they can accept each other, and they get used to it after seeing too much.

The people followed the course of the people who entered in front of them, consciously unloaded their weapons first, stood there with their arms outstretched, waited for the eunuch to search up and down, and then turned and crossed the threshold.

In the lobby of the government office, the "chattering" speech was noisy, and many people couldn't understand what they said. On the front wall hangs a plaque with four large Chinese characters written on it: Mirror hangs high. The two public seats below sit there flatly, empty.

…… On the main street of the city, a mighty team of men and horses was coming, and many cavalry were guarding a cart decorated with yellow silk.

Li Yueji was in this four-seater car, and Guo Shao was sitting opposite her. Li Yueji didn't say a word along the way, and she snubbed Guo Shao. She still wore clothes brought from home, a dress with tight lapels that were as colorful as the sun, a fur hat on her head, a rounded roof, and very few jewelry on her hair ornaments, but gold and silver ornaments on her ears, neck, arms, etc.

The skirt that is tighter and narrower than Hanfu can make Li Yueji's bumpy figure more prominent. Guo Shao's gaze inadvertently swept over her hips and legs where she was sitting. Li Yueji saw it in her eyes, pursed her lips, and looked at him with round eyes.

Guo Shao sighed quietly, and said earnestly: "Concubine Li Xian should not be too willful. ”

"What is willfulness?" Li Yueji finally spoke.

Guo Shaodao: "What you just did when you arrived in Lingzhou, the death of two people is small, and it almost provoked a war and caused tens of millions of people to die, this is willfulness." ”

Li Yueji pursed her lips and was speechless. Her expression was a little gloomy, she really regretted it, she didn't expect the consequences to be so serious!

But she still refused to admit defeat and said: "You just want to use a big hat to press me." ”

Guo Shao pondered for a moment, and then said: "When there are no outsiders, have I ever had a problem with you?" But in front of the world, all our words and deeds are state acts, and we must not let ourselves be, just as a joke. ”

At this time, the carriage stopped, and a person outside said: "Your Majesty, we have arrived at the place, please move Your Majesty and Concubine Li Xian." ”

Guo Shao got out of the carriage first, and then turned back and stretched out his hand to Li Yueji, Li Yueji remembered what she had just said, and reluctantly put her hand in his palm and helped her walk down from the carriage...... Guo Shao's hands are really rough, but they are very steady and powerful.

She thought of Brother Yu who was killed by Guo Shao himself, and Uncle Wuzang, who died in a foreign land, and felt an inexplicable sadness and entanglement in her heart...... Uncle Wuzang watched her grow up, and Brother Yu is also familiar with her family. But what Guo Shao said is not unreasonable, it is just a play with no choice; She couldn't hurt the Wuzang clan and embarrassed Xiazhou's father......

The two walked into the lobby surrounded by eunuch attendants, and the people behind them immediately stopped. Guo Shao walked in front, Li Yueji was behind, she and Guo Shao kept an appropriate distance, and walked slowly to the front amid the sound of drums.

The leaders of the tribes on both sides bent down and gathered their eyes. Li Yueji was a little nervous...... She is also a person of noble birth in Xiazhou, but as the daughter of the king of Xiping, she is a junior, and she cannot justifiably accept people's etiquette in public; The identity is the emperor's wife, so it's different. At this time, Li Yueji was inevitably a little restrained.

The two of them boarded the public seat one after the other, Guo Shao held Li Yueji's arm and asked her to sit down, looking pampered and caring, Li Yueji didn't dare to resist, let him go.

At this time, a group of people below knelt on the ground and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live...... and some other people also bowed and wished Guo Shao a long life, and the lobby was very loud for a while.

"Everyone's flat." Guo Shaodao.

The people thanked and got up from the ground.

At this time, the eunuch stepped forward and sang some clichés. Guo Shao turned his head and whispered to Li Yueji with a smile: "You come here with your ear, as if we are talking lovingly." ”

Li Yueji frowned and turned her head sideways.

"Laugh." Guo Shao, "We are honorable emperors and princesses, but now we can treat ourselves as a play, and the happier you laugh, the better." ”

Li Yueji had no choice but to laugh, and then she was very funny somewhere, and she really laughed out loud, her face was hot, and she covered her mouth with her hand.

In the eyes of others, the emperor and concubine above are whispering regardless of the occasion, and Concubine Li Xian's smile is very vivid.

After Li Yueji finished laughing, her expression darkened again, and she whispered: "It turns out that the person in a high position is acting. ”

Guo Shao said: "Who in the world doesn't act? ”

At this time, the eunuch's long nonsense was finally finished, and even Guo Shao didn't understand all the meaning, and those tribal leaders probably didn't know what it meant, but they felt that it was very powerful.

Wei Renpu came out of the queue and said loudly: "Bring it up!" ”

After a while, a party member came in first, and the two people behind him were holding a man with a big tie and a cloth ball in his mouth. The party member in front of him put his hand on his chest and bowed to it.

Everyone watched sideways.

Wei Renpu asked, "Leader of the Yeci Clan, what you sent is the culprit of looting the tribute?" ”

The party said, "Yes." ”

Wei Renpu's gaze moved to the face of the tied man, and he said with an angry expression: "Are you guilty?!" ”

The man's mouth was gagged, and he hummed a meaningless sound.

…… Guo Shao also felt that this meeting was a little less serious, so he blocked people's mouths and asked him what was the use? However, it is indeed the leader of the Yeci clan who sent the criminals, so the posture of the party item Yeci is enough.

Wei Renpu couldn't help but speak, turned to Guo Shao and said, "Your Majesty, this person is bold and reckless, and the death penalty cannot be escaped, and the minister requests that he be executed immediately!" ”

Guo Shao said: "I was invited by Deputy Envoy Wei." ”

Wei Renpu shouted: "Come on, pull it down and cut it!" ”

The tied party member was dragged out before he could speak, and there was a shouting outside...... Guo Shao didn't understand, it should be something like "wronged", or scolding the emperor? Anyway, they're all going to die, and there's no point in shouting anything.

Then there were screams, and the process of execution was not solved with a knife, as if it was cut for a long time and could not die. The screams were one after another, screaming like killing pigs, and it sounded very terrible, and the expressions of the people in the lobby changed.

After a long time, several soldiers came up with wooden plates with bloodstained bowls on them! There was wine in it, and it was also dripping with blood, and the bowls were distributed one by one.

Guo Shao also took a bowl with blood on the edges. He stood up, looked around, and said, "Today, I will sacrifice the blood of bandits who are doing nonsense!" I made a bloody alliance with the leaders of all tribes, and since then, all ethnic groups have turned hostility into jade silk, ensuring the smooth flow of trade routes, communicating and negotiating in a timely manner to resolve disputes, not attacking each other, and living in harmony. If you violate the rules, you will end up with such a person in the blood wine! ”

Everyone picked up the wine bowl and chimed in: "Don't attack each other, live in harmony!" ”

The ministries had already negotiated with the ministers accompanying the western tour for many days, and there was nothing wrong at this time, just to go through the motions.

"!"

When Guo Shao brought the wine bowl to his face, he saw the blood stains on the side of the bowl and the blood stains in the wine, and smelled a fishy smell, his stomach rolled for a while, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva silently.

He thought of a phrase in his heart, "laughing and talking about thirsty for Hun blood"! At that moment, he put the bowl to his mouth, drank it all, and then laughed "haha" and smashed the bowl on the ground.

The people below also followed Guo Shao's example, and after a while, the sound of "dang bang" in the lobby was endless.

It was at this moment that Guo Shao noticed that Li Yueji was looking at him with complicated eyes...... He came back to his senses, and his performance just now was indeed a bit bloodthirsty and murderous.

But in fact, Guo Shao drank the bloody and dirty stuff and was faintly nauseating. But at this time, he couldn't explain it clearly to Li Yueji.

There was a burst of laughter in the lobby, and after the order and etiquette, the barbaric atmosphere still lingered.

Guo Shao sat down. After a while, the sound of the orchestra sounded, and a group of orchids from the Western Regions who did not look East Asian poured into the lobby, their brisk steps and deliberately seductive glances at the men around them.

The atmosphere changed, everyone relaxed and rejoiced, and sure enough, no matter what tribe the men were, everyone had at least one common language: women.

"Whoa......" The orchid beauties shook their glittering handbells and footbells, and they covered their hands in front of their eyes, and moved away with the singing, revealing charming and smiling eyes, looking at the men.

The singing is also very lingering and beautiful, so that the civil and military who are used to listening to the Central Plains tunes are also refreshing and vibrant.

"Haha......" The men of all the departments were so happy that they couldn't keep their mouths together.

Guo Shao also smiled and looked down.

His smile was not because of these orchid beauties, nor because of the wonderful singing and dancing, but he was indeed happy, happy for this success. But if someone dares to stare at him, they may be able to detect that there is something chilling in his smile, ambition, desire...... Govern the country with benevolence, but which great civilization is established and which great feat is not built on top of thousands of dry bones!

The completion of a goal and the smooth preparation are not the end, but a new beginning.

With a smile on his face, Guo Shao turned his head to look at the sun outside the window, the east is where the sun rises, and it is also the direction of his hometown Youzhou.