After crossing the Great Wall, Yuanhang and the others walked forward for another half an hour, and a river that was not too wide blocked the way.

"This is the Hanjiang River, this river is the boundary between us and the Qi Kingdom, and after the Hanjiang River is our boundary." Cai Guling pointed to the other side and smiled.

"Doesn't this river freeze in winter?"

"It's just a thin layer, and it can't withstand people." Cai Guling replied.

"Oh." Yuanhang looked at the river and answered.

After waiting for a while, Damu Yinyue sailed over with three small boats, picked up Yuanhang and the others, and rowed to the opposite side.

Yuanhang stood on the boat and looked back, he had already left the Central Plains, the sun was slowly setting, and it was half obscured by the green mountains in the distance.

In this situation, I can't help but miss Wanyue and others. The poem was flourishing, and he read it along the way: "The wild look at Qingcheng Mountain is getting farther away, and the light crossing of the cold river is far away." Even though it is a good scenery all the way, it is not the March Bridge in Jiangzhou. As soon as this body goes, farewell to the spring breeze. ”

After reading it, I realized that I could also export it. If you know this, why keep copying the works of the ancients.

After crossing the cold river, Shadowless was waiting for them on the other side. Everyone abandoned the boat and horses, followed Cai Guling, and ran forward.

The farther north you go, the colder it gets. After a few days of walking, Yuanhang had put everything he could on his body, and he still felt cold and shivered.

After walking outside the Saiwai for seven or eight days, Cai Guling told Yuanhang that tomorrow he would arrive at Hada City, the main city of the Nubei people.

"Brother Cai, you are too far away, you have been running for so many days, and you can't see a single city, and you can't even see people." Yuanhang complained, he hadn't slept well for so many days, he had only eaten meat once in one place, and the rest was filled with dry food, but he lost his own temple.

"Lord Ye, this is the case outside the Saiwai, and further north of Hada City is the grassland, where it is even more endless. When you arrive in Hada City, you will naturally have good wine and meat to entertain you. Cai Guling smiled, pointed to a low house, and said, "I have to be wronged tonight, so I can only rest here." ”

Yuanhang and the others crowded into the narrow room, wrapped their clothes tightly, fantasized about tomorrow's good wine and meat, and fell asleep drooling.

The next day they got up and continued on their way, and there was hope ahead of them, and the people sped up their pace, and their mounts galloped across the wilderness.

After two hours of walking, a black spot appeared in the distance, and when it was closer, a group of angry cavalry rushed over with a loud shout, and soon surrounded Yuanhang and the others.

"Alilu, my good brother." Cai Guling called out loudly to the front. A stout man, with half of his arms exposed, looked at him with a smile on the horse.

"Cai Guling, my good brother, you're back." The man, who was called Ali Lu, leaned back, lifted his leg from the horse's head, jumped down and hugged Cai Guling.

"You're back, how are you?"

"It's very good, the fat cattle and sheep have been roasted, just waiting for the good brothers to come back and stuff them into their stomachs together." Ali Lu said happily, and listened to the voyage swallowing a few times.

"This is my friend in the Central Plains, go back and prepare, and slaughter a few sheep first." Cai Guling turned around and pointed to Yuanhang and the others, and Ali Lu smiled and bent down to salute.

The angry cavalry circled around Yuanhang and the others a few times, shouting and shouting, and then ran back the way they came, led by Ali Lu.

Damu Haoxing said with a smile: "This is our etiquette of humility, and it is to welcome friends to our outside the Saiwai. ”

"Oh, that guy is in good health, not afraid of the cold." Yuanhang nodded, looked at the cavalry in the distance, and tightened his clothes.

After a few more walks, a stone city came into view, surrounded by wilderness for several miles, so that this small city looked unusually majestic.

A mile outside the city, there were more than a dozen horses standing there quietly, and there was a single one in front of them, watching Yuanhang and the others approach little by little.

"Lord Ye, that's the leader of our Guardian Alliance, the leader, who has come to greet us." Cai Guling and the others ran out first, and dismounted in front of the centaur to salute. The man nodded on his horse, did not dismount, and looked at Yuanhang and the others.

Coming closer, Yuanhang saw the man's face, but he felt familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

"It's you!" Dao Zi behind him suddenly shouted, and as soon as Dao Zi shouted, Yuanhang suddenly remembered that this person was the person who had assassinated him.

This man is the heavens. Since the assassination of Yuantu failed and was defeated by Dao Zi, he knew that the Central Plains was big, there were many talents, and his ability was far from enough. After leaving, he went back directly to the outside of the Saiwai, threw himself under the hands of King Qian, and made great contributions to the King of Qian's sweeping of various tribes, and is now named the head of the Guardian Alliance.

Cang Xiangtian also recognized Dao Zi, and immediately recognized Yuanhang, turned over and dismounted, and saluted Yuanhang with a fist.

Yuanhang hurriedly dismounted, and said with a smile: "It turns out that you are a nubei person, and it is rare to have this good martial arts." ”

"My name is Cang Xiangtian, why did the adults come to Saiwai?"

"My purple brother's hands are very itchy, and there is no opponent in the Central Plains, and I am looking for you all the way." Yuanhang pointed back at the purple knife and made a joke.

Dao Zi dismounted and came over to salute, Cang Xiangtian admired Dao Zi martial arts, and the two of them each stepped forward and hugged each other.

"Alliance Leader, Lord Ye is here to ask to see King Qian." Cai Guling stepped forward and whispered to Cang Xiangtian.

"Oh." Cang Xiangtian thought for a moment and said with a smile: "My lord has worked hard all the way, go to the city to rest first, and I will report to King Qian later." ”

"Okay, okay, let's have some meat first." Yuanhang replied with a smile.

"Meat is indispensable, but I'm afraid that adults won't be able to walk if they eat it."

"Haha......" Everyone laughed, and walked all the way behind Yuanhang and Cang Xiangtian towards Hada City.

Cang Xiangtian learned of the intention of the voyage, and after arranging it for them, he went to see the king of Qian. Yuanhang and the others, accompanied by Cai Guling and them, sat around the house and ate mutton in large pieces. As Cang Xiangtian said, the people who supported it couldn't walk, so they had to sit on the kang with their stomachs covered.

After the meal, Cang Xiangtian turned back and talked to Yuanhang alone.

"My lord, I have told King Qian that he will receive you in the palace early tomorrow morning." Cang Xiangtian tore off a large piece of mutton and handed it to Yuanhang.

The voyage waved his hand again and again, and his stomach was already bulging uncomfortably. After thinking for a while, he said, "Can you please ask Brother Cang to arrange it, I want to meet King Ci in private first." ”

"This ......" Cang Xiangtian hesitated for a moment and asked, "What does Lord Ye want?" ”

Yuanhang reluctantly leaned over and whispered: "Some words can only be said to King Qian, I am worried that there will be many people in the palace tomorrow, and it will inevitably be spread." ”

Cang Xiangtian nodded and said, "In this case, I will go and tell King Qian, and I don't know if I can meet him." ”

Yuanhang nodded and instructed: "You tell King Qian, if you want to dominate the outside of the Saiwai, you will see me." ”

After Cang Xiangtian came out, he went to the palace again. The royal palace in Hada City really makes people laugh, and it is not as big as the garrison mansion of the voyage.

It is said to be a royal palace, but it is a larger hall, where the king of the king handles official business. The house in the back is his dormitory, and there is not even a garden, which looks very shabby.

A sturdy middle-aged man is wiping a saber with a saber. Cang Xiangtian came in to salute, stepped forward and said, "King Qian, someone from the Liang Kingdom wants to see you." ”

"Didn't you say you'd see him tomorrow?" King Qian paused, lowered his head and continued to wipe the blade.

"King Qian, he said that he can help you dominate the outside world."

"Haha, dominate the outside of the Saiwai? Did he settle down with just one sentence? The King laughed, put the saber back in the rack and turned around.

King Qian is about fifty years old, tall and large. Xu is the reason for many years of fighting, and his face is covered with vicissitudes. The two thick eyebrows slanted into the sideburns, and the eyes looked at the sky with interest.

Cang Xiangtian bowed to the sky and replied: "King Qian, this person is young, and he can be a high-ranking official in the Liang Kingdom, so he must have something unique about him. And if you treat each other with courtesy, you can also show that I am angry and humble and lenient to others, which is the state of the country of courtesy. ”

King Qian nodded, and said lightly: "Xiang Tian once said that he had let you go before, and now he is trying his best to speak for him, I think it is to repay him for not killing him when he was in the Central Plains." ”

Cang Xiangtian was neither humble nor arrogant, and replied: "The country is big, and the self is small." Self-interest is not for the country, I will not do it. Benefiting the country and self-interest, why not do it? ”

"Haha...... Xiang Tian's martial arts are superb, but he never thought that he still refused to lose people. Go, bring him. King Qian looked at his first fierce general, smiled and nodded.

Yuanhang followed Cang Xiangtian, entered the palace, and saw the angry and humble king, which was far from what he had imagined.

"King Qian, I am Ye Yuanhang, the envoy of Liang State, and I have come to meet King Qian on the order of my country's holy lord, which means that the two countries will unite and live together in the world."

The king smiled and watched the voyage.

"Nubei is in the north, the Liang country lives in the south, and most of the world in the Central Plains is owned by the Qi country, why do you live in the world together?" After a long while, the king suddenly spoke and asked Xiang Yuanhang.

"The alliance between the two countries can destroy Qi and perish, and only then can the two countries live together in the world. Otherwise, anger and humility will perish. Yuanhang put his hands behind his back and replied loudly.

"Presumptuous." King Rhi slapped the table vigorously and glared angrily.

"The king is angry." Cang Xiangtian hurriedly stepped forward to intercede for Yuanhang and said, "Liang Envoy's words are unintentional, please forgive King Qian." ”

Yuanhang saluted Cang Xiangtianyi and said: "Thank you Brother Cang for your words, it's not that I'm unintentional, but that King Qian is rude first, so I said this." ”

"When was I rude?" King Rhi asked.

Yuanhang turned around, faced the king of Qian, and said: "I am the envoy of the Liang State, this body is here on behalf of the king of the Liang State, angry and humble the small country, but I don't know how to be polite, so that I stand under the hall, is this contempt for my Liang State?" ”

After hearing this, King Qian felt that what Yuanhang said made sense, and stretched out his hand to ask Yuanhang to sit down and speak.

"Liang envoy, Fang is the king of this is not thoughtful, don't blame it." King Qian is a man of temperament, and apologizes to Yuanhang.

Yuanhang also eats soft and not hard, when King Qian said this, he also felt that Fang Cai's words were too heavy, and hurriedly said: "King Qian, I am serious about my words." ”

King Qian laughed and asked in a cool voice: "What Liang Envoy said can help me dominate Saibei, and now that the outside of Saibei are under my control, I don't know how Liang Envoy will help me?" ”

Yuanhang shook his head with a smile and said: "King Qian's words are not true, the cold river is already north, and there is still a territory in the hands of the Qi people. Since the north of the Saibei is bounded by the Hanjiang River, how can it be said that the king of the Qiang has ruled the outside of the Saiwai. ”

King Qian's face tightened, and the three cities in the northwest were always a pain in his heart. There is a bridge outside Chenzhou to cross the Hanjiang River, and several times to attack, Qi can quickly send troops to support, and it has not yet returned to Nubei's hands.

"There is only one bridge over the cold river, which is heavily guarded by the Qi army. Our army did not have warships and could not cross the cold river. And Liang is far away in the south of the Central Plains, far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, how can he help me? The king asked to sail away.

Yuanhang nodded and replied: "Although the Liang State cannot send troops to help, it can attack the Qi State in the south, so that the Qi State can be contained and it will not dare to attack Nubei in a big way." Moreover, I have a way to make the king cross the cold river. ”

"How?" King Qian was overjoyed, stood up and asked.

"This ...... Forgive me for taking the liberty of saying it, I can only say it if the two countries are in an alliance. Yuanhang's words came to his lips and left half a sentence, hanging the appetite of the king of the calf.

King Qian was overjoyed, sat down stupidly, and asked, "Then what do you mean when you say live in the world together?" ”

"My emperor has a will, form an alliance and send troops together, after the destruction of Qi, the Central Plains will be owned by the Liang State, and all the outside will be owned by the King of Qian, with the Hanjiang River as the boundary, and they will never invade each other." Yuanhang replied loudly.

"Haha." King Qian laughed, shook his head lightly, and said: "The Central Plains is vast, there are only three cities outside the Saiwai, and the two countries jointly send troops to attack Qi, but it is so divided, does Liang Envoy think it is appropriate?" ”

"I think it's reasonable." Yuanhang nodded with a smile and said: "The country of anger is sparsely populated, and the reason why the country of Qi is tolerant of anger is nothing more than that there are Liang in the south and merchants in the west. Now that the Shang State is gone, only Liang can compete with it. If Qi attacks Liang, he must first sweep away the anger and humility, and ask the king of Qian, can he stop the army of Qi? ”

"I have also thought about it, after the death of Shang, the Qi State will not stop there, and the ambition to dominate the world has gradually been revealed." King Qian got up, paced to the door, looked out of the house, and said, "Even if I am not defeated by the Qi army, I will be angry and humble, and I will be shrouded in horse leather and fight to the end." ”

Yuanhang also got up to follow, and said behind King Qian: "There is no need for bloody battles, as long as King Qian guards the cold river." It's just that I don't know, if the three cities in the north of the cold river are in your hands, how long can Nubei be defended? ”

The king turned sideways to look at the voyage and said, "If it is in my hand, it is enough to hold it." There is only one bridge that can be passed by the soldiers from Chenzhou, which can be said to be a matter of ten thousand people. ”

Yuanhang nodded and said: "That's fine, Nubei will drag the Qi army, and my country will attack in a big way." If the Qi army retreats, the king will chase after him, and if he attacks twice, the Qi country will be exhausted. ”

"But the premise is that I take these three cities, and now that the Qi army is heavily defended, how can I take them?" King Xuan spread his hands and said helplessly.

"I have a plan to take these three cities, I only need to promise to form an alliance with me and my country, and even Liang to fight against Qi." Yuanhang seemed to have a plan in his chest, and said firmly.

As if he didn't believe it, he looked at the voyage suspiciously, and saw that he was full of confidence, not like empty words, so he said, "Okay, if I can take these three cities, I will form an alliance with the Liang State." ”

Yuanhang smiled, he already had a plan to seize the city in his heart, as long as King Qian was willing to agree to form an alliance, he would complete his mission and could return to Liang State.

"King Qian, when I came, I saw the Qi army tracking down Cai Guling and the others, and I seemed to know that they had entered the Qi country. I took the liberty of asking, but someone under the tent of King Qian leaked the news? "Yuanhang decided to help the King find out the thief, so that he could gain his trust and ensure that the news of the alliance would not spread.

King Qian opened his mouth in surprise, looked at the voyage, and then turned his head to look at the sky.

Cang bowed to the sky and said, "King Qian, the various departments also have said it...... It is said that the head of the Sile Alliance, Wang Chang, has a bad heart, but it is just a public opinion, but there is no evidence. ”

King Qian's face flushed angrily, and he rebuked Cang Xiangtian: "Why didn't you say it earlier." ”

Cang Xiangtian replied: "The subordinates have been paying attention, but they haven't found it yet, so they don't dare to report rashly." ”

Yuanhang interjected: "King Qian, tomorrow in the palace, you only need to treat me as the envoy of the Qi country, and I can determine who has bad intentions." ”

King Rhi looked back at the voyage and nodded slightly.