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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Yuan Night, and the Lantern Festival, is rumored to have been set up by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to celebrate the rebellion of Zhulu in Kanping.

Later, with the rise of Hexi, the New Heavenly Master Dao became the largest religious force in the north.

In order to facilitate religious celebrations, Zhangjiao Cheng Gongxing listed the Lantern Festival as one of the important festivals of the New Heavenly Master.

According to the canon, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the last day of the Yuan Shi Tianzun's stay in the world after the creation of the chaotic opening of the heavens.

After the Lantern Festival, Yuan Shi Tianzun will return to the universe and live in the Yuqing sky from now on.

In order to send off the Great Heavenly Venerable, people and believers from all over the world will express or send good wishes by releasing the lightboat.

On this day, Wei Shuo will take his family to participate in the celebrations organized by the government and rejoice with the people.

The main project and construction of Chang'an New City have been basically completed, and the completion can be announced in half a month at most.

The scale of Chang'an New City is huge, and the Weishui water passes through the city, and the buildings and pavilions on both sides of the bank stand tall, and the banks are shaded by willows.

It is precisely for this reason that the government specially placed the Lantern Festival celebration site on the main street of the new city.

At the end of the day, the carriage of King Yong appeared in the streets, heralding the culmination of the festivities.

The people began to sing and dance to praise the boundless kindness of King Yong.

The singing and dancing celebrations continue until sunset, and there are large lantern riddles and lightboat events in the evening.

After such a busy day, everyone is both excited and tired.

Wei Shuo was considerate of his subordinates and deliberately took a three-day holiday to relieve the fatigue of the past few days.

It was not until the second half of the first month that the festive atmosphere gradually moved away from Hexi, and all work began to get on track.

It's just that to everyone's expectations, Long An has a tricky matter waiting for them to deal with as soon as he comes up in the second year.

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In the side hall, the lights were bright, and Wei Shuo sat at the table to read the statistical report on last year's grain production that had just been delivered.

Although Wei Shuo did not guarantee that there would be no flaws or errors in the figures, they were basically representative of the grain production under Hexi's rule last year.

Excluding Guanzhong, Longyou and Liangzhou were affected by natural disasters the year before last, and this year's harvest was average, with a slight decrease compared with previous years.

However, Shuofang, Bingzhou and other places have all obtained a great harvest of grain, Shuofang needless to say, has always been a grain production center in Hexi, but Bingzhou is somewhat unexpected.

Before the recovery and annexation of the state, due to the ravages of Hulu and the exhaustion of Jindi, Wei Shuo thought that it would be difficult to recover in three or five years.

Unexpectedly, under the stimulation of the uniform field system and large farms, ordinary people and wealthy families have burst out with great enthusiasm for production.

So much so that this year's grain production in Bingzhou has surpassed Longyou and Liangzhou, becoming a large granary second only to Shuofang.

Of course, this is because Guanzhong and Shu have just been recovered and have not yet been developed.

But in any case, this has made Hexi see the development potential of the state, and it is expected to become the next financial powerhouse in Hexi.

After a long time, Wei Shuo put down the report and rubbed his sore neck.

At this time, Wei Daofu came in and reported: "King, Liu Shumi has urgent matters to see. ”

"Come in, please."

Suddenly, Liu Muzhi walked into the side hall like a gust of wind, bowed and saluted: "Weichen see His Royal Highness!" ”

"Sit down and talk!"

Wei Shuo saw that Liu Muzhi's expression was a little anxious, and he couldn't help but beat the drum secretly, he didn't know what happened, and he made Liu Muzhi anxious like this.

Sure enough, without waiting for Wei Shuo to ask, Liu Muzhi hurriedly said: "Your Highness, just now Yu Bin, the nephew of Nanyang Taishou Yu, came to find Weichen and planned to ask Hexi for help!" ”

"Help?" Wei Shuo playfully said, "Can't they hold on?" ”

"That's right!"

"Now the situation in Jingxiang is very critical! Of course, if it weren't for the danger, Yu Bin wouldn't have come to ask for help. ”

"Humph! I really don't shed tears when I don't see the coffin. Wei Shuo said disdainfully.

Hearing this, Liu Muzhi smiled bitterly, he understood King Yong's gloating mood at the moment.

Thinking that at the beginning, Huan Wei was seriously ill, and Yu Qian raided Xiangyang under the banner of the New Year, which immediately boosted the morale of Han Haoqiang.

They jointly recommended Yu Qian as the leader of the alliance, issued a document to the outside world, and crusaded against Huan Xuan in the name of the Qing monarch.

Maybe it was too easy to sneak attack Xiangyang, which made Yu Qian and others full of confidence, and they actually put themselves on an equal footing with Hexi.

Faced with Han Haoqiang's unrealistic demands, Wei Shuo could only temporarily cut off contact with him.

And now the situation is critical, forcing Han Haoqiang to bow to Hexi.

"Did Huan Xuan send troops?"

Liu Muzhi nodded and said, "When Huan Xuan learned that Xiangyang was missing, he immediately realized that Huan Wei's serious illness had affected Jingxiang's stability. ”

"He immediately appointed Huan Shikang as the new Jingzhou assassin to replace Huan Wei to stabilize Jingxiang."

"As soon as Huan Shikang took office, with the assistance of the general Feng Gai, he thwarted Yu Qian's attempt to go south to Jiangling."

"And Yu Qian's army was defeated in successive battles when it went south, and now he has led more than 10,000 remnants of the army to retreat to Xiangyang."

"I heard that the people in the counties of Hanbei are panicking, the situation is very critical, and everyone is worried about Huan Xuanqiu's accounting."

"It is estimated that they must have no way to do it, so they have to send someone to Hexi for help."

"What is the movement of the Jingzhou army? Huan Shi Kang once sent a large army north to Xiangyang? ”

"After Huan Shikang stabilized Jiangling, he immediately sent the general Feng Gai to lead an army of 20,000 troops to the north."

Speaking of this, Liu Muzhi sighed again: "Although the minister didn't see Yu Qian with his own eyes, but through Yu Bin, Wei Chen can now feel the other party's panic. ”

"Daohe, do you think Yu Qian can hold Xiangyang?"

"With Feng Cai personally on the horse, and 20,000 Jingzhou troops to help, Yu Qian can't hold Xiangyang."

"If it hadn't been for the sneak attack, Feng should have been caught off guard, and Yu Qian wouldn't have been able to take Xiangyang at all."

Wei Shuo pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Where is Yu Bin now?" ”

"He's waiting outside the temple."

"Let him in, and ask him if you have something to say."

Liu Muzhi immediately got up and went out to call someone, and after a while, Yu Bin was led in.

Yu Bin saw King Yong himself for the first time, and when he saw King Yong, who was about the same age as himself, he couldn't help but be in a trance.

Since Yu Qian attacked Xiangyang, Han Haoqiang cut off contact with Hexi.

If it weren't for the recent defeat of Yu Qian's army in Jiangling, and Xiangyang was in danger, Han Haoqiang would definitely not have sent him to ask for help.

Seeing Yu Bin coming in and staring at him all the time, Wei Shuo frowned and coughed lightly.

Yu Bin was taken aback, his whole body was excited, and he hurriedly knelt down to salute and ask for guilt.

"Minister Yubin see His Royal Highness King Yong, if there is any offense, please also ask His Royal Highness Haihan."

"Yu is exempt from joining the army, please take a seat!"

At this time, Yu Bin was already anxious, and he didn't care about greeting Wei Shuo, so he said directly: "Your Highness, Xiangyang is in danger at the moment, and it is about to fall into the hands of the traitor Huan Xuan, so I implore Your Highness to send troops to rescue." ”

Wei Shuo was unmoved by Yu Bin's plea, and his tone of speech was very cold, and its content made Yu Bin even more desperate.

"I think Yu should know very well that there is a very personal relationship between Gu and Nanjun Gong, and he will not conflict with him unless he has to."

"A few days ago, a letter came from the Duke of Nanjun, asking Hexi to cooperate with the imperial court to exterminate the Xiangyang rebel party."

"If it weren't for the end of the Hexi War, the army would be fully turned into rectification, and the army would have been sent south to destroy Er."

"I don't know why you came to Hexi for help? Aren't you afraid that someone will sell you to Huan Xuan? ”

Yu Bin sighed and said: "Your Highness is prestigious, benevolent, righteous and kind, ask Your Highness for help, we can save at least one life." ”

"But Huan Xuan is different, this time Han Xuan Haoqiang offended Huan Xuan very much, he will definitely not let us go, he will kill him quickly."

Wei Shuo pondered for a while and asked, "The Central Plains vassal is the same as Er, why don't you ask them for help?" ”

"Well, how not? But...... But Xin Gongjing, Xiahou Zongzhi and others were afraid of Huan Xuan and did not dare to send troops south. ”

At this time, Yu Bin saw that King Yong fell silent again, and couldn't help but feel terrified, for fear that Hexi would refuse.

At present, the person who commanded the troops to attack Xiangyang in the north was Feng Gai, the general of Jingzhou.

When he was attacked by Yu Qian, Feng Gai fled from Xiangyang in embarrassment, which made him feel deeply ashamed, and he also hated the northern Han domains.

This time, he swept away his past pride, fought with extra care, and vowed to catch Yu Qian and others to take revenge.

If King Yong refused to accept the northern Han domains, then they had only one way to die.

Thinking of this, Yu Qian knelt down with a thud and begged bitterly.

"As long as His Highness is willing to come to the rescue, I am willing to obey any orders of His Highness."

Seeing that Han Haohao had been forced to a dead end, Wei Shuo breathed a sigh of relief.

He paced back and forth in the hall with his hands in his hands for a few steps, and suddenly turned around and stared at Yu Bin seriously.

"Gu Hope Yu joins the army to understand one thing, if you want Hexi to risk offending Nanjun Gong and save your lives, you must pay a big enough price."