In Yanjing in September, there is a sense of autumn in the heat.

The wind from the north blows through the streets and alleys of Yanjing, rolling up dust and making this dry place blow wind and sand, but the residents of the city have become accustomed to it.

Speaking of this Yanjing, it is cold in winter and hot in summer, and from time to time there will be wind and sand blowing, and heavy rain falling, so that the entire city road is a piece of mud, and there are curtains on the doors and windows of every house.

Even when you eat saliva, you have to find some sweet water nests.

However, there are many high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and the 369 and so on on the street may have a brand of royal relatives on their bodies.

Prices are expensive.

Especially in recent years, the Northern Dynasties have fought wars repeatedly, at first only imposed heavy taxes on commerce, and gradually, more tax laws fell on the ordinary people.

The area of the Northern Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty is comparable, and the Northern Dynasty is slightly larger, but the population is far less than that of the prosperous Southern Dynasty.

If there is to be a war, there must be people.

So over the years, every family has men who have been taken to serve as soldiers.

Otherwise, how could they withstand the endless conquest of the Northern Dynasties for more than 20 years just by relying on the scarce number of people in the land of Liaodong?

In short, it is really not easy to live here.

But there is still a steady stream of people from all over the north who gather in this city, which is always overcast in the sky, enduring all kinds of discomforts, and also want to take root here.

Why?

This is the capital of the country.

Yanjing, the ancient city of majestic, has been the center of power of Great Chu in the past three hundred years, is the best place in the world, that year was very prosperous, just Yanjing City, there are nearly one million people.

This kind of majestic city, such as today, is only comparable to Lin'an Mansion in the Southern Dynasty.

And the Great Chu State was destroyed, the Northern Dynasty entered the customs from Liaodong, occupied Yanjing, and was also stained with the blessing of the Great Chu, when the former Chu Shaodi moved to the south of the Yangtze River, he left in a hurry, and almost all the wealth accumulated in three hundred years was left to the Northern Dynasty male lord Yelu Chong.

It's a pity that more than 20 years of chaotic warfare have made these Northern Dynasties who don't know how to settle accounts also wipe out the legacy of Great Chu, which is about to be defeated.

Happy to raise the army, to break the Southern Dynasty as soon as possible, so that the world is unified.

In addition to their own ambitions, there are also very practical reasons.

If in the next five or six years, it cannot determine the world, it will rely on the northern dynasty's rampant conquest, and there will be no need for the southern dynasty to counterattack, and its own internal system will collapse within ten years.

Take a very simple example, the Northern Dynasties imposed heavy taxes on commercial and civil affairs, and Rao was the case, and the annual income of the Northern Dynasties was not even one-third of that of the Southern Dynasties.

If you can fight again, so what?

Liaodong heroes, can win the world immediately, and can rule the world immediately?

In short, the two dynasties of the north and south had their own difficulties.

Let's go back to this Yanjing City.

This place is an important place like the heart of the Northern Dynasty, naturally protected by heavy soldiers, these days, the front line is smooth, and there are soldiers coming and going on the streets from time to time, so that the atmosphere in this city has become a little relaxed from depressing and heavy.

But there is still a sense of suppressing the world, and the spirit of brilliance gathers everywhere, especially around the palace in the city, which is even more majestic.

This palace, before the Great Chu Dynasty, was already very majestic.

In the three hundred years of Great Chu, it has been repaired diligently, and there are many new buildings, just this palace, all the size of a city.

The place where the lord of the country is located, it is natural to highlight the atmosphere of the Son of Heaven, and there are thousands of people in the entire palace, but they are all serving the lord of the Northern Dynasty, at least nominally.

"But in my eyes, this city is like a cage, every day when I get up, I see the wall blocked, and I feel depressed, and I just want to go out and go around."

In the palace, in the Palace of Heart Cultivation, Yelu Jienan, the lord of the Northern Dynasty, was talking to his sister.

There was no one else in the palace, and they were all driven out by the lord of the country, and those who served him were never of the same mind as him.

Although he was not wearing court clothes, these teenage children still had all kinds of decorations on their bodies, all of which were treasures of the world, but they were hung on their clothes and were restrained when they walked.

For this small lord, even if these things are priceless, in his eyes, they are like shackles, and they are not free.

"My sister has been here less these days."

He sat cross-legged on a chair topped with brocade, and while taking up the melons and fruits on the plate, he said to Yeluwan, who was sitting on the side and looking at him with a smile:

"I'm afraid that my sister will be separated from my younger brother as she grows up?"

"What are you talking about?"

The eldest princess shook her head, the delicate golden steps on her head swayed, she curled up a strand of black hair beside her shoulder, and said to her younger brother, who was serious in front of her own people, but very jumpy in front of her:

"I just... It's just a little busy, isn't this just taking time to see you today? ”

"And, half a month?"

The melons and fruits in the hands of the little lord were thrown on the table, he looked at his sister, a teenager, and at this moment he was also serious, learning the etiquette of the lord of the country since he was a child, which made him serious and awe-inspiring.

He looked at his sister, who had her head bowed, and whispered:

"Are all the things you want ready for you?"

"Hmm."

Yeluwan's pretty white face tried to show a smile, but the sadness in her eyes couldn't be concealed.

The atmosphere in the room has become a little stagnant.

It's like there's invisible pressure that presses on every part of the house, and it's really overwhelming.

"The national teacher invited the most famous shaman in Liaodong, calculated the auspicious day, and found the old man in the palace of Dachu, and prepared everything for me with the gift of the eldest princess.

Half a month later, it's time to leave. ”

Yeluwan let go of the black hair wrapped around her fingers, she breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at her younger brother with a sad face, silent, so she cheered up and walked to the little lord.

As he did when he was a child, he held his younger brother in his arms.

She said softly:

"I am the princess of the Northern Dynasty, and since I was a child, I have known that in my life, I will always make some contributions to the country. This time, he married Mongolia and married for the country and the dynasty, in exchange for the assistance of the Mongolian tribes, which can be regarded as fulfilling his duty.

Now that our dynasty has invaded the Central Plains, according to the words of the national teacher, it will be the world, that is, in the next ten years.

My brother will be the lord of the world from now on. ”

Yelu Jienan hugged his sister, didn't talk, and there was no expression on his face, it seemed that the lord of the world, what the king of Shenzhou, was meaningless to him.

"In the future, my sister is no longer by your side, you have to be more cautious in your work and daily life. Don't rely on your temperament to collide with the national teacher and the important ministers of the DPRK again. ”

Yeluwan whispered:

"They have laid down the whole world for you, and whatever you want to do, you have to wait until the world is unified."

"I don't want it."

Yelujie buried his head in his sister's arms, and he said angrily:

"What kind of family and country in the world, when the son of heaven, I don't want it.

When my father started the army, I was not yet born, but when I was a child, I also heard my brother say that our Yelu family and a few princes' families wanted to compete for the world at all, and everyone just wanted to be in a corner of Liaodong.

was coerced by his witch sect, and he didn't make any preparations, so he rushed into the Central Plains.

At that time, my father didn't even think that everything was going so well, and he was forced by happiness to have to take the heroes of Liaodong to fight in the battle array. ”

Yeluwan's face changed slightly, wanting to stop her brother from talking.

But her outstretched hand was held by her brother.

The little lord raised his head, his eyes were already hazy with tears, he looked at his dearest sister, and said:

"I didn't do anything to prepare!

Sister, even if you get married, you have to ask the people in the Great Chu Palace to handle it, and above the court, the so-called important ministers, which is not the soft bones left by the destruction of the Great Chu State, they will do whatever they are happy to say.

In the past, there was a clan uncle to protect him, but now that the clan uncle died in Qilu, my Yelu clan will no longer have a pillar, let him be happy to knead and pinch flat.

The military power is now in his hands.

As soon as he made a move, he laid down the Central Plains and occupied Huainan, and in the future, in the northern court, there was only a national teacher, and there was no national master. ”

Yelu Jienan wiped his eyes, although he was young, he knew everything.

He said to his sister:

"He killed his eldest brother, but he left you and me, and he wanted to use your sister to exchange Mongolia for help, and he left me just to appease people's hearts. Sister, what are you talking about, the world is the king, and the king is in China.

I'm afraid that the day the Southern Dynasty will be destroyed, it will be the day when I go down to Huangquan to see my father's eldest brother.

Sister, this kind of world is what he wants happily, but not for me! ”

Jeruwan bit her lip.

She wanted to persuade her brother to endure again, but now she couldn't say anything.

"I'm happy to be mixed with those demon cult demons and control the government, sister, I can see it clearly!"

Yelujie stood up, grabbed the dagger at his waist, gritted his teeth, and said to Yeluwan:

"In those days of happy retreat, the demon sect demon who acted perversely in Yanjing, and the witch sect sent all his father's concubines to him in order to win over the evil spirit.

But you and I can only let these evil deeds go unto it, and we must not interfere with it.

In this world, how can the lord of the country not even protect his father's widow?

They were defiled by the evil spirit, and they committed suicide three of them that night, thinking that they would be happy to get out of the customs, but they could always scold one or two for the sake of his friendship with his father for many years, and turn one or two.

But what did he do?

He didn't do anything!

Just because the demon sect could help him take the Central Plains, he let it go.

If it weren't for my sister, you would go to Mongolia to make peace, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to protect you. Fortunately, fortunately, the evil old demon died in Luoyang, which really made me breathe.

This God, there is still justice after all! ”

The little lord seemed to lose his temper and said a lot in the room.

During this time, the pain that was pressed in my heart was said in one go.

Jeruwan did not dissuade him again.

She just looked at her younger brother distressed, since the death of Yelu Sect, the general of the Yelu family, the only remaining support has collapsed, and now it is really regarded as a mascot, trapped in the imperial city by the witch sect.

Fortunately, I was able to walk around the mansion, and in order to make myself willing to kiss, I was happy to relax my grip on myself.

It's just that I suffered my own brother.

When you are a teenager, you should be free, but you are like being under house arrest.

Every time he eats delicacies from the mountains and seas, he wears silk and satin, and he has the most noble name in the world, but what can he do?

If there is suffering in the heart, then heaven and earth are cages.

"That's it, I talked too much today, which made my sister smile."

After the pillar incense, Yelu Jienan wiped his red eyes, he brought a smile, walked to his sister's side, picked up a handkerchief, and helped his sister wipe away the tears on his cheeks.

He whispered:

"My sister is going to Mongolia, the mountains are far away, and the next time I see you, I don't know when. I am in this imperial city, although I am bound, but I have no worries about my life.

Sister, don't worry about me, you must take care of yourself.

I heard that those Mongols were very savage, sister... I will pray to my father in the Imperial City and ask him to take refuge in your soul. ”

The little lord took something from his finger and put it in his sister's hand.

It was a jade wrench.

There is a big word "hatred" on it.

He smiled and said:

"Sister, do you remember this?

In those days, at the foot of Tianmu Mountain, those two thieves of the Southern Dynasty almost killed the two of us. I heard Ade say that in this battle of Luoyang, the reason why I was happy to not be able to capture the city was because these two people were defending Luoyang.

Now, they are also the heroes of the martial arts of the Southern Dynasty.

It's a headache for the happy. ”

"Ugh."

Yeluwan knew that her brother was making her happy, but she really couldn't be happy.

She put the wrench aside, reached out and touched her brother's head, and she admonished:

"I know that you are depressed in your heart, but you still have to live well, my Yelu people come from the white mountains and black waters, the bitter cold realm, and the body of our family is the blood of heroes who will never admit defeat.

It's a tough time.

But brother, life is more important than anything else, as long as you live, there is still hope.

My sister is going to Mongolia, if you can persuade the Mongol Great Khan, with the help of Mongolia, you can also serve as your support in the court, if everything goes well, he is happy to seek the world, and he will not dare to harm you. ”

"Hmm."

Yelu Jienan nodded vigorously.

The two sisters and brothers said a few more words, and seeing that it was getting late, the little lord sent the eldest princess out of the side hall, and saw her sit in a sedan chair under the escort of a group of masters of the witchcraft and go outside the imperial city.

"Uh..."

After his sister left, Yelu Jienan breathed a sigh of relief.

He was standing in the middle of the room, and a little eunuch came to greet him secretly, and Yelu Jienan looked left and right, and said to the little eunuch:

"Ade, can things be arranged?"

"Returning to the lord of the country, I am ready, and I will follow the path of the Yanjing beggar gang."

The little eunuch's body trembled, obviously terrified.

He has grown up with Yelu Jienan since he was a child, and he is a real close person, in this imperial city, among thousands of people, Yelu Jienan can believe that he is the only one.

The little eunuch grabbed the dust and looked up at the little lord.

Yelu Jienan played with the dagger in his hand, and his immature face was full of a chilling calm.

And in those eyes, there was also a fierce light like a young wolf.

"My life, it doesn't matter, just stay in this Yanjing and fight happily with him to the end! That thief has already taken my eldest brother's life, and now he wants to take my sister again...

He didn't think about it! ”

"Bang"

The dagger was slammed into the edge of the table, three points into the wood, and the tail was still swaying, Yelu Jienan used too much force, his fingers were shattered, and the little eunuch exclaimed in surprise, and was about to step forward to bandage the wound.

But he was stopped by the small lord waving his hand.

He put his broken finger into his mouth and sucked, feeling the smell of blood.

He said:

"Entering the Central Plains and setting the world is really like a dream.

A dream of my father, a dream of joy, the dream of countless people in the Northern Dynasties, but it is not my dream.

Hehe, but a dream is a dream after all, and it will always wake up. I really want to see it, and when I wake up from a dream, I am happy with the despair on that old face. ”

The little lord let go of his fingers, he felt the slight pain on his fingers, breathed a sigh of relief, and put on a solemn expression that the lord of the country should have.

He has to prepare to do the work of being a mascot, and go to meet the ministers.

When he walked out of the Heart Cultivation Hall and looked at the rickety dragon chariot in front of him, the young man's heart was already as cold as iron.

"Compared to my sister's life, I never thought about it, and it never belonged to my world...

Bah!

Worthless! ”

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