The sky is like a dome, covering the four wildernesses.

Tonight the stars dimmed, and in the northwest corner, there was a bright star, which suddenly brightened, and then fell.

At a certain hour, Xie Shence suddenly woke up, burst into tears, and couldn't help it.

Xie Shence, who was pounding in his heart, couldn't sleep anymore, he didn't know what was going on, and the sudden loss in his heart made him vigilant.

I couldn't sleep, so I got up, thanked Shence and walked to the open space like the bottom of the well, and looked up at the sky.

You can only see a slapp-sized piece of the sky, but you can't see the stars. Xie Shence was lying on the ground, and suddenly he was startled, and the palm-sized sky seemed to be split in half by a bright light.

Hey, there's a shooting star tonight.

Murong Duan appeared behind Xie Shence with a jar of wine in his hand.

"I don't drink again until I go out." Xie Shence spoke.

For some reason, Xie Shence's voice was very hoarse at this time, as if he had cried out in his heart.

Murong was clear, he knew what the reason for Xie Shence's refusal was, but nothing had happened, so she wouldn't explain anything, so she lifted her mask and poured herself a drink.

No, there is no cup, she drinks directly from the altar, although it does not leak a drop, but her bearing is definitely not inferior to the man.

"Aren't you afraid that if you drink too much, I'll kill you?"

Murong Duan stopped and wiped his mouth, this action was undoubtedly very tempting.

It's just that Xie Shence saw it the night he was drunk, so there was no reaction. I still couldn't see her face - the mask was lifted, but there was still a veil inside.

"You can kill me like a piece of waste?"

Thank God for being angry.

"Heh, Emperor Jin's lackey, angry? You're angry, call it twice, hahahaha......"

Murong Duan laughed, the flowers trembled, and the wine jar was thrown on the ground by her at will, and the wine spilled out, with a faint fragrance. Xie Shence suddenly got up, full of anger.

"Come on, come on, Emperor Jin's little dog, if you are angry, I will accompany you to fight for three hundred rounds."

Murong Duan smiled again, and then the next moment, she found that Xie Shence on the other side had restrained his anger and looked at her with a strange expression.

After 300 rounds of the battle, the rhetoric on the battlefield will inevitably lead to reverie in such a lonely environment.

Xie Shence always thought that something had happened between them, so Murong Duan's very arrogant words sounded very ambiguous to him.

So Xie Shence was not angry, he opened his hands and said, "Come on, if I don't resist, I will be bitten by a dog."

Murong Duan was furious. This is the second time Xie Shence has said that "it should be bitten by a dog", which made her feel a great humiliation.

was bitten by a dog, shouldn't it be the words of a woman with three chastity and nine spirits? When did you become so shameless as a man? Besides, I don't have anything good with you at all!

In that case, you should be beaten if you say this. Even if you look like a general, you can't.

Murong Duan is a person who disdains to explain, and he is a person who thinks of doing what he says, so it is natural that he was inexplicably sad before, and then he was jealous and angry, and now the brazen Xie someone was beaten by the cruel and bloody Yaksha fish farmer.

Xie Shence didn't suffer it, this kind of care of beating people without slapping them in the face but only hitting the sensitive points of the whole body made him feel insulted. However, being forcibly pushed by a woman with hatred is a great shame in itself, not to mention that she can't beat this woman alive?

Made, Lao Tzu can't beat you. Otherwise, you will be overdue...... Xie Shence, who was knocked to the ground, thought so in his heart.

Murong Duan took a deep breath, as if he was feeling comfortable.

Call...... Finish the day.

"Do you know why I always like to beat you up?"

Murong Duan said lightly to Xie Shence, who was almost spitting fire in his eyes.

Xie Shence didn't like Murong Duan's high-minded elder tone very much, just as he extremely disliked those defenders who always liked to stand on the moral high ground and point fingers.

So Xie Shence said: "Because you are a pervert!" ”

"Since you are a Nakshatra who has killed countless people, you should not show mercy to my men. Since you are the eldest princess of the Yan Kingdom, I am the little marquis of the Jin Kingdom, and I have long had the consciousness of death if I fell into your hands, but why didn't you kill me? On the one hand, you behave like a friend to me, no, you are more friends than a friend, and on the other hand, you beat and scold whenever you want, like a slave, what do you think you are? You're a madman! ”

"What do you think of me again? I am not your slave, I am your enemy! You killed my housekeeper grandfather, you killed the soldier I can't name, you let me fall into this, let the northwest be in chaos, you are my enemy! Then," Xie Shence said, "I'm going to kill you." I am your enemy. ”

The more Xie Shence spoke, the more excited he became, and he had a faint tendency to go berserk.

However, Murong Duan thanked Shence for his excitement and didn't realize it.

"Let it out, let it out, let it out, some emotions, the deeper it is hidden, the more it is suppressed, the more it affects your judgment, and once it erupts, the more violent it is, and the consequences will be bad. You speak out now, vent it, it's fine"

Xie Shence walked towards Murong Duan step by step, and his voice became louder and louder.

"You madman! Why don't you kill me now that you've already captured me?! Why don't you kill me! You're going to bring me to such a hellish place! You killed me! ”

"Do you like money? Are you poor and crazy? You're glad to look at this golden tree and honeysuckle pearl chalcedony, aren't you? If you like money, you can come alone, why do you want to take me with you? I know I'm good-looking, but you're the eldest princess of Yan Kingdom, a fish farmer in the fish pond, what kind of man haven't you seen? As for humiliating me like this? ”

Murong Duan's brows tightened suddenly, and he said in his heart, How did I know that I brought you in at that time? At the same time, she felt that the direction in which Xie Shence spoke seemed to be a little different from what he thought.

"You still lack men? Aren't you the first three thousand? Isn't it true that every man who goes to your bed will be turned into a corpse the next day? Don't you like to collect human skins from boys? You're not having a personal relationship with Emperor Yan and your nephew."

"Smack!"

The crisp sound resounded through the valley.

Five fingerprints instantly appeared on Xie Shence's face.

"Crazy, you dare to hit me?!"

Xie Shence was angry.

However, the next moment, Xie Shence, who was recalled by Murong Duan's narrowed eyes, found that he was wrong.

Murong Duan didn't dare to hit him?

Jokes, whether it's good or not just now.

Murong Duan dares to fight, and from the current point of view, he dares to fight as he wants anytime, anywhere.

So the storm that had just stopped for half a moment was pouring again.

When Xie Shence was lying on the grass with a blue nose and swollen face, Murong Duan was also a little panting.

Hitting someone is also not an easy thing to do, especially when it comes to hitting someone for such a reason.

However, Murong Duan must admit that the rumors of the first three thousand are not necessarily groundless, nor are they really substantiated. In the whole Yanjing, there are as many people who love her and like her as there are people who hate her and are afraid, especially some self-proclaimed Yan Zhao crazy students, even if they were almost killed by her subordinates, they will not hold grudges afterwards, but they are becoming more and more unrestrained and infatuated.

According to this calculation, how can three thousand be enough?

As for the man who likes to kill the man after the night, how can she have a man who has the night to kill? She didn't have the slightest interest in collecting boys' skins.

However, Xie Shence said the last sentence, Emperor Yan Murong Kui and the eldest prince Murong Cheng may not have any ulterior hidden thoughts about her, she understands this. Her nephew, in particular, had had an inexplicable feeling for her since he had been pulled out of some dark, damp corner one year.

It's just three thousand weak water, and the scoop that belongs to her Murong Duan has already been drunk.

Now Xie Shence's "favor" is largely due to Xie Shence's beautiful skin.

Seeing things and thinking about people, and seeing people is the same. Since Murong Duan saw the portrait of the person with familiar eyebrows and eyes for the first time, he couldn't suppress his thoughts about the past, and he couldn't suppress his attention. So much so that I made some plans specifically for him to see how far he could grow.

Of course, there is an emotional factor, but how could Murong Duan be a person who is completely swayed by emotions?

So he unintentionally planted willows back then, and now he is lush and forested.

- It's just that it's still far from what she expected.

The general is a person who will not compromise, and you, you actually gave in so simply, there was no counter, and you are still driving for Emperor Jin

So Murong Duan was very unwilling.

She's going to try again.

"Thank you, have you ever wondered why it was you who was beaten today, not me?"

Xie Shence did not answer, in his opinion, this is not a question that needs to be answered at all.

I can't beat you, it's normal to be beaten by you. Even if I fight, I am unwilling, but this attitude and emotion that can show my strength and indomitability will not change the outcome. If I can beat you, then you will be the one who will be beaten. No, there will be no such thing as being beaten, I would have killed you a long time ago.

Murong Duan seemed to know what Xie Shence was thinking, and said: "Personal bravery, in the battle array, there is really nothing to be afraid of, even if there are ten enemies, how can there be a hundred enemies?" As for the 10,000 enemies, it's just a fabrication of a small talk. The master of the master, relying on nothing more than the mind. ”

"You're my prisoner today, not because you're not strong enough, not even because you're not smart enough, it's just because you're in the wrong position."

"How many mediocre people, just because they are in the right position, can easily grab the power and wealth that others cannot reach. Some people, even if they are talented, will inevitably die young. Thank you, the one who knows the times is Junjie, you didn't see the situation clearly, or you saw it clearly, but you didn't respond, so you have the appearance you have today. ”

Xie Shence smiled: "Are you convincing me to take refuge in Yan Kingdom?" ”

Murong Duan shook his head: "Yan Kingdom, it's not for you, and you are not suitable for Yan Kingdom." I'm not asking you to take refuge in anyone, I just think that you should have your own plans. You can't live a lifetime under the hands of some people, relying on others, and life and death are not up to you. ”

"With such a shoddy means of discord, do you think I will follow your way?"

Xie Shence sneered: "We are fighting among ourselves, and we will only let others profit, and you say this because you have an appointment with the Tuoba Department." Once the situation in the northwest is reversed, it will not only be our northwest, but also the entire Guanwai Province, and even Shanxi Province. At that time, I will face not only the Tuoba Department in the northwest, but also the Yuwen Ministry, the Qin people, and your Yan people. As for the abdomen and back, it is difficult to ensure that Jin Du also has actions against me. ”

"In this way, I think that the people who will benefit the most are not the Tuoba Department, the Yuwen Department, or even the Qin people, but you Yan people!"

"Am I right, Your Highness the Eldest Princess?"

Xie Shence mocked slightly, and Murong Duan showed appreciation.

"Yes, the Xianbei tribes and the Qin people all directly border your northwest, but my Yan country, thousands of miles away, is not the same. The harder you fight, the happier we will be, and the greater the benefits will be. Of course, this is also a great advantage for the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, who is bent on weakening the power of the clan gate. ”

Thank God for being silent. Of course, he knew that what Murong Duan said was true, once he rose up to resist and completely tore his face with Emperor Jin, then the situation would inevitably develop like this dialogue tonight.

Murong Duan's honesty made Xie Shence seem to understand something. And this hint of enlightenment that he couldn't grasp in time seems to be exactly what he has always wanted to do but failed to do.

Emperor Jin wants to weaken the influence of the clan and break the monopoly of the gate valve, according to what he said in his previous life, it is called imperial power and relative power, central and local, and measures to strengthen centralized power, no one can understand what Emperor Jin wants to do more intuitively and clearly than Xie Shence.

The supreme leader of the Great Jin Kingdom, which relied on the clan lords to maintain its rule, in turn wanted to dismantle the cornerstone of his rule, and it has to be said that this kind of courage and determination surpassed everyone in the world. In terms of this determination and means, both Emperor Qin and Emperor Yan of the Song Dynasty are inferior to the Jin Emperor by more than one step.

Seeing that Xie Shence was silent, Murong Duan smiled and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor is really a strange person, how can you say it?" Well, it's like a person, standing at the top of the ladder, but thinking about removing all the steps of the ladder, but he still doesn't fall down, hahahaha, you Jin people have a bun joke how to say"

"I ate seven buns, and I felt that the first six were eaten for nothing." Xie Shence said angrily.

Murong Duan laughed and said, "Yes! That's the reason, he, Tian Qi, is like this now, he feels that his Jin country's achievements today are completely the seventh steamed bun - the power of his Tian family alone, he completely ignored, or deliberately ignored the first six steamed buns - the efforts of the Jin family, thinking that from now on, as long as he keeps eating the seventh steamed bun, he will be satisfied. Do you think this is because he Tian Qi is too stupid, or are you poor buns for the first six buns? ”

Xie Shence said indifferently: "There's nothing pitiful, Murong Duan, don't laugh at Tian Qi, isn't Murong Kui the same?" Or in this matter, Emperor Qin and Lord Song also have the same idea, but now he is the only one Tian Qi who dares to do it. ”

Murong Duan narrowed his eyes and looked at Xie Shence.

"Oh? Listening to your tone, could it be that you expected it a long time ago? Hehe, I used to think you were short-sighted, but I wronged you a little. Am I out of sight? ”

Xie Shence sneered: "I can let Her Royal Highness the eldest princess look away, this is an honor that can't be asked for, I thank you for looking away." ”

"Emperor Jin wants to cut power and centralize power, it's not that no one in my Great Jin can't see it, and it's not that no one can't recognize its shortcomings, and I haven't thought about being a leader. It's just that all along, the gate valve group, the power of the clan is too strong, and it affects the whole body, no one dares to try, and those who dare to try a little are already dead. This point, not only my Great Jin, even the Great Chu Dynasty more than two hundred years ago, there have been people who have tried, but no one has succeeded. ”

Xie Shence sat up and said, "Didn't that famous general of the Great Chu Dynasty be collectively killed by the Shi clan because he opposed the Shi clan?" He has been dead for hundreds of years, some people say it is because he opposes the construction of the Imperial Pavilion, some people say it is because of his high merits, some people say it is because of Qin Huizhi's greed and jealousy, and some people say that the bullshit god believes that the eldest princess will not be treated like those laymen, Zhang Kouzhi's death, how can it be so simple? ”

Murong Duan smiled: "Zhang Kouzhi, that's a very amazing person. It is true that his death is not as simple as it seems. The weak emperor does not have so much courage, and it is extremely difficult for Qin Huizhi, who has power to the sky, to move him. As for opposing the Imperial Pavilion, this kind of covert move is not enough to be a sufficient reason to recall the death of the gold medal in a row. In fact, it was just some of Zhang Kouzhi's practices that violated the collective interests of the world, and he died at the hands of tens of millions of people. ”

When Murong Duan talked about Zhang Kouzhi, he seemed to see through the sky at the mouth of the well, the general who was as rich as jade, facing the entire Yan Kingdom alone, and finally fell. However, she should have been sad and discolored, and she didn't even tremble in her voice, nor did she change her mood at all.

Xie Shence couldn't hear anything, Murong Duan continued: "You said that there is no one in the Jin Kingdom who can't see it, I believe, and I believe that there must be your grandfather among those people. Your grandfather is the one who sees through it, and you are the one who breaks the game. ”

"No one dares to touch those inextricably linked nobles easily, you are different. You have received the most upper-level and systematic education in the Jin Kingdom, and you know the nobles of the Jin Kingdom well, but you are not in this system, at least in terms of official promotion, you are taking a different path. The stones of other mountains, you come to break the game, it is just the best. ”

"And in fact, you did, and you did it well, and for now, you even deserve to be very successful. Personally, I think that Tian Qi, the villain who dreamed of killing you, can still occasionally find out and thank you for his conscience. ”

Xie Shence laughed at himself: "That's right, without me, he Tian Qi may not be able to take that step until he dies." ”

"Otherwise, how can you say that he Tian Qi is the hero and the hero? The opportunity was only in that moment, if he had missed his thinking by half a point back then, he would definitely not have the situation he has today. ”

Xie Shence looked at Murong Duan and said, "If he wants to be wrong, then I will have no power to fight back." ”

There is no one else here, so Xie Shence did not hide it, and the two of them knew what it was worth fighting back. Emperor Jin wants to kill him, he doesn't want to die, he doesn't want to die from the beginning, then resistance is inevitable.

It's just that Murong Duan understands, but he doesn't necessarily feel that Xie Shence resisted, especially if he succeeded in resisting.

Murong Duan didn't taunt Xie Shence, not because she felt that Xie Shence was worthy of sympathy, but because there was a problem that she hadn't figured out yet.

"There is a question that I have thought about for a long time and has no answer"

"What you're asking is, why would I do him this favor?" It seemed that Xie Shence, who had been waiting for Murong Duan's question for a long time, smiled.

Who's helping? Emperor Jin. What's busy? With the lecture on martial arts and martial arts, break the monopoly of the privileges of the world.

Murong Duan, who didn't feel that he had been taken back by Xie Shence, would not care about the gains and losses of such words, but he was full of energy and wanted to know what was going on.

"Whew"

Xie Shence, who took a deep breath, thought for a moment, and then began to speak.

"My family is a scholar."

"Actually, since the time of the Great Chu Dynasty, my Xie family has been a scholar."

"So the people in my family, whether it's my grandfather or my father, are all authentic readers. Even the most arrogant uncles and eldest brothers, in essence, can be classified as scholars. Big Brother is crazy and has no one in sight, but they all have their own bottom line and do not do anything worthy of the people's livelihood. ”

"Our Xie family has been enjoying honors since they became dragons two hundred years ago, and today, they are already the world's first-class gate valve family, and their dignity is extraordinary. In the eyes of others, my Xie family is a prestigious family, and it is a nobleman who enjoys hereditary titles, and the court is also a hundred responses, when grandpa is alive, if he wants, he can even cover the sky with one hand and cover the sky with one hand. ”

"But have you ever thought about where is the foundation of my Xie family?"

Xie Shence looked at Murong Duan and asked such a sentence. He can know that with Murong Duan's understanding of him and the effort he has put into him, he must have done a full investigation of the Xie family, although it will not involve the core, what should be known, will definitely be known.

Murong Duan frowned, it was obvious that even though she had a more detailed understanding of the Xie family, she didn't take this aspect into consideration. Moreover, the question itself, few people will think about.

Xie Shence smiled, and without waiting for Murong Duan to answer, he said, "You must think that the foundation of my Xie family is countless good land manors and countless vassal clans, right?" ”

Murong Duan asked rhetorically, "Isn't it?" ”

"It's not!"

Xie Shence said: "That's where your general gate valve foundation is, and my Xie family is different." ”

"The foundation of my Xie family has never been those vassals of the fields, never the money of the manor, and even the unchanging and staunch allies of the court for decades. The foundation of my Xie family is to be a scholar. ”

"Reader?" Murong Duan asked.

"Yes, Reader." Xie Shence showed an expression that you really didn't know, and said: "My Xie family is a scholar, so the foundation of my Xie family is naturally a scholar." ”

"This is a question that is ignored by almost everyone, so in your understanding, my Xie family is actually the same as the Wang family and the Sima family. But it's different. ”

"That's why I was able to help Emperor Jin break the gate valve. This is also the reason why when I do this, my grandfather will agree, and the Xie family will agree. ”

Murong Duan was thoughtful.

Even if the martial arts are in power, this world, in the end, it is necessary to be governed by scholars, and it naturally makes sense to fight the world immediately, but it is not impossible to rule the world immediately, but the Xiongnu Xianbei, the result is needless to say. In fact, Murong Duan didn't understand why her Murong clan broke away from the system of the Xianbei tribe, built a country and built a city, and then promoted civil officials to govern the country, isn't this the reason? Although it is said that the Yan Kingdom has been in the past two hundred years, it has not been able to achieve much in this regard.

The world needs scholars to govern, so where do scholars come from?

The answer to this question couldn't be simpler. Nature comes from books. Could it be that the children of a big family can be called a scholar if they are literate?

Of course, it cannot be denied that these people may not be proficient in knowledge, and their knowledge may not be extensive, but compared with the huge family sample, a very small number of elite education, only need to cultivate one or two heirs to support a family, and it is obviously gradually unable to meet the needs.

So there is a need for more readers.

So the school flourished, so the sound of reading became more and more, and the sound of reading became louder and louder.

Until one day, the sound of reading resounded in every corner of the world.

Murong Duan suddenly remembered that she seemed to have told Xie Shence before that neither she nor he could see that day, or that there was no such day in this world at all.

For the first time, Murong Duan felt ashamed of what he had said, regretted it, and at the same time looked forward to it.

Then it occurred to her that story.

When Xie Yi attacked the Song Dynasty, the soldiers pointed out, invincible, almost the entire Jiangnan County was sunk, and the slightest resistance was a reckless slaughter regardless of Yin De, but in a study school in Suzhou City, the horse's hooves were stopped, and the almost crazy Jin army was stopped.

for he heard the sound of reading. The elderly scholar shuddered and held a branch to Xie Yi, crying in fear, but with a voice from his chest, he yelled at the more than ten Mengtong in the study school to read, and yelled at Xie Yi to kill people and step on me first.

Then Xie Yi set up his handsome flag here until he conquered the entire city of Suzhou.

When he left, he threw a bag of silver at the school (of course, he robbed it), and said, "Although I have broken through ten hundred zhang cities, I will continue to read a word."

Murong Duan doesn't know whether this story is true or not, Xie Shence knows, and he knows it very clearly. The bag of silver was found from the Southern Song Dynasty Zhuangyuan Thorn Mansion, which fled with more than ten concubines when the city was attacked, and the bag of silver was the official robe of the Champion Thorn Shi - this was of course what Xie Yi said when he drank wine and bragged to him and the Xie Shenwei brothers.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say before that Xie Yi is also a scholar in the end, at least there is a bottom line of a scholar.

Xie Shence said: "Therefore, our family is all readers, so we naturally think about them. There will be more and more readers in the world, and more readers will come out, and it is impossible for one or two gate valves to absorb them. What should they do if they want to come out? ”

"Then break the gate valve of the monopoly of privilege. Without the shackles that restrict the rise of readers, then the fish leaps into the dragon gate, and thousands of sails compete, does everyone have the opportunity to cultivate Qi Zhiping and dominate the coquettish, who knows? ”

"After all, there are talented people in the country."

After Xie Shence finished speaking, he looked at the palm-sized sky, and missed some people very much, especially a man who had killed countless people, but said that he had broken through the city of Baizhang and kept reading it.

Murong Duan looked at Xie Shence and looked up at the sky with his knees hugged, and suddenly felt that this man who was younger than himself was very lonely and pitiful.