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Chapter 582: Unbelievable Confidence

Gangbuk-do

Firefox City is famous, but it's nothing more than a ruin.

When the Central Plains was still under the rule of the Great Zheng State, Firefox City was once a majestic city second only to Chang'an. Of course, Chang'an City at that time was far from being compared with now. Firefox City is a pure military city of Zheng State, in order to show the strength of Zheng State's army, the founding emperor of Zheng Dynasty aimed to build Firefox City in Jiangbei Province, which can accommodate 300,000 soldiers.

At that time, the purpose of building this city was to deter the Chen Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River. When Emperor Zheng was fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains, Chen Guo in Jiangnan also coveted the Central Plains, and sent troops to the north several times, once occupying the entire Jiangbei Province, which was only a thousand miles away from Chang'an City. Later, after Emperor Zheng defeated the enemy and ascended the throne, he personally led the army of Chen back to Jiangnan.

Then he ordered the construction of Firefox City and stationed troops there. First, it was to show his force, and second, to convince the people, and third, why didn't Emperor Zheng want to raise troops to the south to unify both sides of the river? Later, Zheng Guo's army marched south many times, and the starting point was here. It's just that although Chen Guo later produced several dim-witted emperors one after another, there was no shortage of famous generals. Chen's southern expeditions ended in failure, but Firefox City has always been a military powerhouse.

Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, raised troops, and the first major battle was to conquer Firefox City.

At that time, the invincible Great Sui army encountered the most stubborn resistance in Firefox City, and although it was later victorious, the loss of troops made Yang Jian's heart ache.

The Sui army stormed, and before breaking the city, the Zheng army burned the big city, and the fire was missing for half a month, leaving a ruin.

Later, the ruins of Firefox City became a place where literati and artists had to come and see, and it is not known how many poems were left here.

At the beginning of Yang Jian's founding of the country, he wanted to restore Firefox City, but because the national strength to expand Chang'an City was not enough to support it, and the opposition of the courtiers would not be enough.

At this time, although the world was in chaos, Gangbuk-do, which is close to Gyeonggi Province, was not involved in the war for the time being. It's just that there are obviously not as many people who come to Firefox City to visit, and the official roads are deserted.

A team of more than 200 people galloped north along the official road with the carriage. The team from North Shaanxi Province did not choose the nearest road, but went around half a circle to the south and then turned towards Chang'an. After returning from a long journey, the more than 200 knights who had cultivated well looked dusty, and everyone's faces were a little haggard.

Su Buxing, who was in the car, opened the curtain from time to time to look into the car, the emperor's body has been getting weaker and weaker recently, and he has not been able to eat for two days, and it seems that it is a little difficult to even insist on returning to Chang'an City. The once ambitious emperor was now as thin as a dry skeleton curled up in the carriage, not opening his eyes or speaking all day.

What Su Buxing was most afraid of was that the next time he opened the curtain and looked inside, the emperor was out of breath.

In fact, until now, even Su Buxing didn't know why the emperor was still alive, this supreme who was obviously lifeless had survived for two years longer than predicted by the old dean of the Martial Arts Academy. If this is not a miracle, then Su Buxing doesn't know what it is called a miracle.

Perhaps even the emperor himself thought it was a miracle.

It is unimaginable that what supports His Majesty the Emperor is that he refuses to die.

"Where?"

There was a faint sound of inquiry from the carriage, the first time in three days that the emperor had spoken.

"Back to Your Majesty, there is Firefox City in front, if nothing else, you will be able to return to the capital in half a month. Your Majesty is hungry, why don't you stop and cook you a bowl of rice porridge? ”

"Firefox City ......"

The emperor who was huddled in the carriage pulled the velvet blanket covering his body with some difficulty, and opened his eyes slightly to a slit: "I remember, when I was still a prince, the emperor asked all the princes to come to Firefox City to have a look and pay tribute to the soldiers who died in battle when they broke through this city...... I also burned the paper money with my own hands......"

Su Buxing's heart moved, he didn't expect the emperor to be interested in saying this.

"Not only my brothers, but the emperors of the Great Sui Dynasty will let their sons come to Firefox City to take a look and see this ruin, which is the place where 70,000 Great Sui warriors were once buried. It was the most difficult battle that Emperor Taizu had fought since he raised his army, and even when he conquered Chang'an City later, he only lost 30,000 fine armor. ”

The emperor gasped for a while, and showed a smile to Su Bu fearlessly: "When I stop in Firefox City, I want to take another look." ”

Su was not afraid of joy and hurriedly agreed. The emperor's spirit today is obviously better than before, he has long wanted to stop and boil a bowl of porridge for the emperor to drink, and the emperor has been almost exhausted if he has not eaten water and rice in the past two days. But he was happy, and suddenly thought of something that made his heart tighten again, and subconsciously looked at the emperor, and the corners of Su Buxing's mouth trembled.

"Don't be afraid"

The emperor smiled very hard: "I am not returning to the light...... A while ago, I didn't like to talk, because I wanted to save my strength, and I was afraid that I would die if I couldn't hold on to Chang'an City, wouldn't it be a pity? Now it's close to Chang'an, and I've long wanted to see this Firefox City. ”

Su Buxing was relieved and gave an order to the guard knight. Thirty or forty of the cavalry were divided and hastened forward, and they went to prepare first.

The carriage slowly stopped outside the ruins of Firefox City, Su Buxing jumped out of the carriage to open the curtain, and then climbed up again, climbed out of the emperor on his back, and carefully got out of the carriage, he dragged the emperor tightly with both hands, lest the emperor no longer have the strength to fall off his back. One of the accompanying guards hurriedly pulled the blanket out of the carriage and wrapped it around the emperor.

Su Buxing walked forward with the emperor on his back, and the emperor leaned on him and looked up at the ruins, I don't know why he suddenly said something that Su Buxing couldn't understand, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he wanted to say it to someone.

"Ruins...... In fact, what I am most afraid of is seeing the ruins......"

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In front of the ruins

The guards set up the chaise longue, and then helped the emperor to get down from Su Buxing's back and sit on the chair. The emperor tilted his head to look at the ruins that seemed to be in sight, and there was some sadness in his eyes that made his heart tense. After Su Buxing put the emperor away, he hurriedly turned around to get the rice, he didn't want the guards to interfere in the porridge, he knew that the emperor couldn't even chew even a slightly harder grain of rice now.

But the emperor still has the dignity of the emperor, and Su Buxing doesn't want the guards to know this.

Zhang Zhenren of Wudang Mountain walked over slowly, squatted down to check the emperor's pulse. The emperor shook his head slightly: "No need, I know that I can hold on until I go back." If I don't do anything for the prince anymore, I won't be able to die. ”

Zhang Zhenren was stunned, and then stood on the emperor's side and didn't know what to say.

"Real ...... If I hand over the rivers and lakes of the Great Sui to you, can you take those hot-blooded sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes to help the prince stabilize the Great Sui country? ”

The Emperor muttered, "It's like...... At the beginning, the old dean assisted Emperor Taizu like that, just like my seventh brother assisted me...... I asked you at the beginning, and you said that what you wanted was to steal a few more years from God to live, and if you participated in the temple, I was afraid that you would die several years earlier. I didn't blame you at the time, because I still had Xiao Yijiu in my hand. Although I could see that Xiao Yijiu was too thoughtful at that time, he was indeed better than you in the matter of cooperating with the imperial court. ”

"Your Majesty is talking about ......"

Zhang Zhenren said in a low voice: "Xiao Yijiu knows how to cooperate with the imperial court to stabilize the Central Plains martial arts, and he also knows better than me how to make the people believe in the Taoist sect, so that he will not believe in any other sect." He can do a peach blossom thing on Qingle Mountain, and I don't have this mind. When His Majesty chose Xiao Yijiu, I knew that this was the most correct choice. ”

"But he let me down."

The Emperor sighed: "Zhenren, you won't let me down, will you?" ”

Zhang Zhenren opened his mouth and didn't say anything in the end.

The emperor was obviously a little disappointed that he didn't wait for the answer he wanted, so the sadness in his eyes became more and more intense. After a long while, he turned his head to look at Zhang Zhenren and said, "If only I could practice, if I can live forever, I can make the Great Sui even stronger." It's really not that I'm greedy for life and afraid of death, I just don't worry about the prince yet. I firmly believe that I have done better than all previous emperors, as long as I am given time...... I can make the Great Sui a giant ship that will never sink. ”

"Convinced"

Zhang Zhenren.

Hearing this word, the emperor's face changed, and then a flash of joy flashed in his eyes: "I ...... I want to thank you. ”

"The minister just thinks that the Great Sui can't fall."

"yes...... How could the Great Sui fall? ”

The emperor smiled: "That's why I have to rush back, and I will go back and explain some things to the prince." I want to tell him not to leave Chang'an City no matter what happens, no matter how many men and horses there are under the command of a thief, Chang'an City is not something that anyone can break through if they want to. The reason why Emperor Taizu wanted to expand Chang'an City was that he knew that as long as Chang'an was there, it would be impossible for the Great Sui to fall......"

"What if it's Luo Yao? He himself may be able to enter Chang'an, but his soldiers and horses can't. Not to mention...... He didn't dare to enter Chang'an. ”

"Yes"

Zhang Zhenren nodded: "As long as the old dean is still in Chang'an City, Luo Yao will not dare to enter easily." ”

"That's not all."

The emperor suddenly smiled, with some incomprehensible pride: "When I return to Chang'an City, I will tell you a big secret." This secret could only be told to the heirs by the emperors of the Great Sui Dynasty before they died, so I did not tell the prince in advance even if I was seriously ill. Because this secret is too big, I am afraid that the prince will not be able to keep it. Once this secret is known to others, then the secret that my Yang family has worked hard to arrange for so many years, the secret that the old dean has spent half of his cultivation to protect will have no effect. ”

"Minister...... It's better not to know. ”

Zhang Zhenren bowed his head.

"No"

The emperor said: "The old dean is too old after all, if he hadn't spent half of his cultivation to do that, he might have been able to protect my Yang family for a hundred more years, but now, he is almost at the time when he runs out of oil and the lamp is dry." In case the old dean is gone, you can only help the prince to keep this secret. ”

Zhang Zhenren didn't speak, but his heart became heavier and heavier. I don't know what's wrong, he didn't have any curiosity about the secret that the emperor was going to say. Yes, it's just a strong sadness.

"Once this secret has to be revealed, I'm afraid it will frighten everyone."

The Emperor smiled, then shifted with difficulty.

"The Yang family's determination to protect this empire is not something that anyone can speculate and understand. For the sake of the Great Sui, the hard work of the Yang family is far from being seen by outsiders. When the Baili Chang'an City was built, the courtiers and the people were all against it, but my Yang family just wanted to do it, because once Chang'an was built, when the Yang family encountered a crisis in the world, Chang'an would become the strongest fortress, and no one could break it. ”

The Emperor seemed a little confused, and he had already said this back and forth several times.

He looked at the ruins, raised his finger with difficulty, and said: "I will never let people see it, the prince will never let people see it, the Yang family will never let people see it, Chang'an City has become like this!" ”

Zhang Zhenren was a little surprised at this time, how could the emperor still have such self-confidence until now? Is it because of the great secret that the emperor just said? But what kind of secret can make the Yang family do their best to protect it, and let Wan Xingchen spend half of his cultivation to create?

Is this the emperor's self-confidence?