In the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Zhou, in the first month of spring, Jiazi Day.

Thirty miles north of Chengzhou Wangcheng, Mengjin Ferry.

Mengjin has extraordinary significance for the Zhou Dynasty: 600 years ago, King Wen was appointed for nine years, and King Wu of Zhou went east to watch the army and came to Mengjin. He carried the wooden master of King Wen of Zhou in a car, called himself "Prince Fa", and convened 800 princes here to meet, and announced the "Thai Oath" of Zhou Vashang.

The scene at that time was unforgettable, and the white-bearded but undiminished brave master gave orders to the princes and chiefs: "The total Erzhongshu, and Erzhou, the one who comes later will be killed!" "King Wu of Zhou crossed the river from Mengjin, to the middle of the stream, there was a big white fish jumped into the king's boat, King Wu bent down to pick it up and used it to worship the river, after crossing the river, there was a fire meteor falling from the sky! It flew until Wangwu Mountain before falling, the color was black, the true color was red, and its sound was terrifying!

Two years later, King Wu of Zhou came to Mengjin again, and attacked Dayi merchants with 300 chariots, 3,000 tigers, and 45,000 soldiers! It is the year, the year is in the fire, the moon is in the sky, the day is in the wood, the chen is in the beginning of the fight, and the stars are in the sky......

However, now more than 600 years have passed, and the invincible Ji Zhou royal family has long lost the heroic appearance of their ancestors, but looks sick, and they will crumble when a wind and waves blow, which is especially obvious in today's Mengjin Ferry.

The sky is vast, the ice and snow are melting, a spring rain has just passed, and the air is full of warm smell, but the Mengjin ferry, the chill from the heart is straight to the whole body. On the edge of the ferry, Liu Cheng, the son of Liu Gong, the king of Zhou, stood waist-high in the weeds, watching the surging Yellow River rush by, his eyes were frightened and dull.

There was a black curtain on the other side of the river in front of him, and it was Zhao Bing of Heyang. Looking at the array of Zhao Jun on the opposite bank, as well as the Zhao Wenxian fleet with white sails slowly sailing, even if it was several miles away from the riverbank, Liu Cheng felt that he was out of breath, which made him feel cold to the bone, as well as deep despair.

Liu Guo is the Son of Heaven in the country, the first generation of ancestor Liu Kanggong is the youngest son of King Zhou Qing, is the half-brother of King Zhou Kuang and King Zhou Ding, food in Liu Yi, from generation to generation, since Kang Gong, Ding Gong, Xian Gong, Wen Gong IV until now, a hundred years have been the royal secretary. The princes of Liu Guo, who were in charge of hundreds of officials in the court, could command the princes when they went out, and their status was so prominent, and they were the families of the ministers who monopolized the power of the Zhou family after the weakening of the dukes of Zhou, Zhao, and Mao.

However, today, Liu is facing a great crisis!

His family and the Fan family of the Jin State were married, but now that the Fan family has fallen, the three families of the Jin State Zhao, Wei, and Han are divided into the land of the Fan and Zhongxing clans, and the Zhou family saw that the situation was not good, so they began to snub the Liu family. A few years ago, I thought that the Zhao family would no longer pursue this matter, but who expected that Zhao Wuxian, the new secretary of the Jin Kingdom, suddenly remembered what the Liu family had done, and brazenly sent troops to punish the crime!

Counting the Lu State, the Zhao family's size and military strength have surpassed the Qi State, so that Liu Gong is so anxious that he can't stay, and even today's matter can only be done by the prince Liu Chenglai, I just hope that it will not anger the terrible Zhao family and bring unwarranted disasters to the Liu family again.

It's all to blame on Shan!

Thinking of this, Liu Cheng squinted hatefully, his peer Shan Ping was also standing by the river, he was the son of Shan Mugong, the current Shan Gong, although he was also standing on the bank, but he was complacent, and he did not have the slightest sense of humiliation to greet the prince with the secretary of heaven.

Shan Guo, the prince of the son of King Cheng of Zhou, is also the feudal state of Jinnai, and followed him when King Ping moved eastward. However, the status was not obvious, and it was not until nearly a hundred years that it gradually emerged, and by pacifying the prince's rebellion, he became the second only minister to the Liu family, forming a pattern of co-governance of the two secretaries within the royal family.

A few years ago, the Zhou family was involved in the Jin civil war, and after the fall of Fan, Bank of China and Zhi, the Liu family was given a cold reception, and the pro-Zhao Shan family suddenly jumped up and became the hot Qing clan around the Son of Heaven. Especially when Zhao Wuxian's army stopped at Heyang on the north bank of Mengjin and threatened the royal family, King Zhou even agreed to Shan Ping's suggestion and asked them to set up a battle to welcome Zhao Wuxian to the south bank!

In fact, there are not many Zhao soldiers on the other side, only three or five thousand, but this army of a hundred battles is terrifying, and it is not comparable to the soldiers composed of the long-standing generals and sons-in-law of the Zhou family.

"They're coming!" Shan Ping suddenly clenched his fists and looked into the distance. Liu Cheng hurriedly raised his head, followed his gaze, and saw seven or eight white sail wings coming from the opposite shore getting closer and closer. After they docked, the horses carried on the ship jumped down in a group and slowly converged. Although there are only a few hundred horses, they can also step on the momentum of clouds and thunder when they are gathered together! With a burst of thunder, from far to near, it became louder and louder, not only Liu Cheng, but even Shan Ping was a little pale.

This is the Zhao iron rider who moved the Central Plains and trampled on the three thousand miles of mountains and rivers of Zhi, Fan, and Zhongxing?

Riding from the cluster, the tall Xuanyao banner fluttered in the wind, and the Xuanyao holding the sun above wanted to spread its wings and fly high.

It was Zhao Wuxian who came, and the Shangqing of the Jin State with a murderous aura crossed from the other side of the river with three hundred Zhao iron horses, so the danger could not stop his footsteps.

In the past few months, he has killed Zhiyao, expelled Zhibo, and forced the entire Jin state to swear an oath in Houma to recognize his unshakable position. He also took the Marquis of Jin Wu to Tonglu under house arrest, named Jin Qing, and he was really exclusive to Jin Quan! What did he want to do when he came to Chengzhou on a whim this time? Is it to do the affairs of the Jin Kingdom here again? Show the world his ruthlessness and cruelty, ruthlessly destroying everything, and completely pushing the already crumbling state of the Son of Heaven into the abyss?

Liu Cheng bit his lip tightly, his face was pale, the Shan family was pro-Zhao, in this situation, how should the Liu family deal with himself?

Without allowing him to think too much, the Scorching Sun Bird on the Xuanniao banner began to jump, jumping from a distance to a close place to them. And the iron rider was like the wind, and the faint sound of horses' hooves quickly turned into deafening thunder. The earthquake trembled, the sound was like a tide, and hundreds of Zhao iron horsemen rushed to the honor guards of Shan Ping, Liu Cheng and others, surrounded them in the middle, circled around them, and the horses' hooves almost kicked them in the face. For a while, the sound of horses' hooves, the impact of weapons, and the fierce shouts of the soldiers converged into a huge wave, engulfing and sweeping them away, and Shan Ping and Liu Cheng were suddenly at a loss.

In the midst of the stars holding the moon, Zhao Wuxian, who was dressed in black and black armor and red with red armor, appeared in front of Shan and Liu on a horse with a shoulder height of seven and a half feet. He sat high, and looked down on them, like a mountain, weighing heavily on the hearts of the two of them. An indescribable fear enveloped Liu Cheng, making his legs tremble, his teeth chattering, and his gurgling sound could be heard even by the deaf.

The Zhao cavalry let out a sneer, and Zhao Wuxian naturally heard it, glanced at it, and asked: "The secretary of the Jin Kingdom is here, where are the emperors of heaven and Liu Ergong?" ”

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Zhao Wuxian's voice was like thunder, piercing people's eardrums. Liu Cheng was so frightened that the jade gui in his hand almost fell to the ground, and seeing that Shan Ping had already stepped forward to report to his home, he hurriedly stepped forward and responded: "The prince of Liu Gong is here ......."

"I've seen Shan Gong."

Zhao Wuxian nodded at Shan Ping, but for Liu Cheng, he didn't even look at it, kicked the war horse, the tall horse took two steps forward, the horse's head was in front of Liu Cheng, and the fishy foam at the corner of his mouth almost threw Liu Cheng's face, making Liu Cheng involuntarily take a step back, almost falling to the ground, his face pale.

The words behind the shirtless bronze shirt were cold: "Prince Liu? Why didn't Gong Liu come to see me in person, but only sent the prince, is this looking down on my youth? ”

Liu Cheng, as the son of the world, is indeed not as high as the secretary of the Jin Kingdom, so he hurriedly lowered his head and said: "How dare you, my father is sick at home, so let the boy do it for him." ”

He was desolate and desolate in his heart, his own family as the secretary of the Son of Heaven, many times participated in presiding over the alliance, although the royal family is indeed broken, but the Son of Heaven and the prince are equal to the king, and they are also polite when they hire each other, when did they fall into such a depressed situation.

"Really?" Zhao Wuxian looked at Shan Ping inquiringly, although the Shan and Liu families had a court dispute, but after all, they had worked together to fight against the Wang Zi Dynasty, and they just had to bring them down, so as not to frame the other party to death, so he nodded and testified for Liu Gong.

But Zhao Wuxian's face did not improve, and after he got off the horse, a pair of eagle-like eyes looked at Shan Liu and the others several times, without being polite, and asked bluntly: "What about the person I want?" Can you bring him in? ”

Shan Ping hurriedly said flatteringly: "At the request of Shangqing, Chang Hong has been brought." ”

At the end of the sentence, the sound of tinkling came from far and near, and an old man in his sixties, eight feet tall, and a dignified old man came up, and after several days of captivity, his gray hair was a little disheveled, and his hands and feet were shackled and shackled.

Liu Chengjian had served the Liu family for decades, and the master who preached and taught him fell to this end, his nose was sore, and he almost cried, but he still endured it after all.

Liu Guo has been inherited for a hundred years, and now he is the fifth generation, and he can't just die, so even if he sacrifices, he must curry favor with Zhao Qing of the Jin Kingdom, so that the Liu family can survive this drastic catastrophe safely, Liu Cheng can only accept all this silently, lower his sleeves, and dare not look at the teacher's eyes.

Chang Hong glanced at Liu Cheng's low-hanging bun, sighed, and didn't say anything, just staggered to Zhao Wuxian, his eyes didn't dodge and retreat, and looked at him straight like this.

In the face of the great Jin State Shangqing who is afraid of the princes when he is angry, and he lives in peace, there is no fear in the eyes of the old man, only openness and fearlessness!

Although his hands and feet are tied, his freedom is deprived, and even his dignity and life are not guaranteed, he still has a good voice, and the old man's voice is like a bell, and his speech is no less imposing than Zhao Wuxian!

It's quite like the master who gave orders to the eight hundred princes here back then!

"The south of the river is the land of the Son of Heaven, and the princes and doctors who are here are not allowed to hold blades and weapons, but must dismount and unload the car, untie their armor, and bow to the palace of the king! Zhao Wenzi, the former secretary of the Jin Kingdom, and Wei Xianzi are here, so should it be! Can Marshal Zhao be an exception today? ”

(To be continued.) )