There is a stargazing tower in Yingdu, which was built 180 years ago, designed by the ancestors of the Jing family, and lasted ten years.

The reason why it was built for so long is not that the project is too large and complicated, because the original construction was to celebrate the 70th birthday of the original Empress Dowager and the current Chu State official called the Empress Dowager Ciming, and the construction period is expected to be two years.

A month before the completion of the project, the Empress Dowager Ciming passed away, and this stargazing tower was considered to be Burui, stargazing, peeping into the sky with human eyes, and was considered to have committed the taboo of God.

After eight years of suspension, the new emperor ascended the throne and ordered the resumption of work and the star building, which was finally completed.

Nowadays, the stargazing tower is one of the landmark buildings in Yingdu, because of its towering and majestic, when the early Jingshi was designed, he actually took the original city wall as the site, combined the lower end of the building and the city wall into one, combined with the image of the dragon vein of Yingdu, and believed that the location of the stargazing tower is where the dragon vein and dragon eye are located.

Gazing at the stars with the dragon's eye, implying the descendants of the Xiong royal family of later generations, also refers to the emperors of later generations, the eyes are like torches, the hole is like a candle, and under the stars, they are all in their eyes.

This building naturally has a very high artistic value, but at the same time, its existence is also equivalent to digging a knife on the old city wall system of Yingdu.

It's nothing, though.

The Jingcheng that Uncle Zheng conquered at the beginning was actually almost like this, and Yingdu was just an enlarged version.

During the peaceful period, it was naturally a temple of art and romance, but once it encountered a soldier from a foreign enemy, it would be too flashy.

It's a pity that although Uncle Zheng has robbed the princess in Chu, he has never been to Yingdu.

will inevitably sigh with emotion:

"Spectacle misleads the country."

Therefore, it is no wonder that the Yan people are called Yan barbarians by the two kingdoms of Qianchu, because the Yan people really can't appreciate this kind of romance.

During the reign of the first emperor of the Yan Kingdom, he favored the scholars;

After Ji Runhao succeeded to the throne, he vigorously cleaned up, and the places of various sects such as Buddhist halls and Taoist temples were seized and converted into the offices of various yamen of the imperial court, and the prince's mansion was also rebuilt on the original site of the former Taoist temple.

The sand and dust from the desert, the leap of the horse's hooves in the land of Sanjin, and the cold and dense battlements on the three sides of the dry land, there are not so many quiet years and not so many winds and snows, and it is naturally difficult to nourish the literary and artistic feelings belonging to the Yan people.

The most typical example is that among the sons of Emperor Yan, the only one who "died" now is the third prince, who was the seed of the "cultural context" of Dayan in his early years.

whereas

The first to be abandoned,

is often considered the least important.

………

At this point,

On the stargazing floor, there were two people standing.

One person, surnamed Jing, named Wenxuan.

One person, surnamed Zhao, named Yuelin.

Stargazing Tower, as the name suggests,

can look up and do nothing to look at the sky,

Only the nobility;

Qianshou is facing the loess with his back to the sky, where does the leisurely come from.

In this building, non-dignitaries are not allowed to go to the upper floors.

Jing Mingxuan and Zhao Yuelin, looking at their surnames, are destined to be noble, and Jing Renli's side children have to go to the army to survive, these two are the core children of the family, and they are already officials in the court.

In Zhao Yuelin's hand, he was also holding a book, and the cover on it was "Zheng Zi's Art of War".

Jing Mingxuan said with a smile; "Know yourself and know your enemy?"

Zhao Yue Lin said; "Unexpectedly, you've read this book too."

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles; - "Zheng Zi, Seeking Attack"

The Jing clan is a civilian, noble, and although the fief is large, he does not have private soldiers.

"I watched it, at the beginning, I was a little disdainful of that Yan Guo Pingye Uncle calling himself Zheng Zi, but after reading it, I really benefited a lot."

"Grandpa said that anyone who feels that he has benefited a lot after reading this book is someone who doesn't know how to fight."

Zhao Yuelin's grandfather, Zhao Wentong, is now leading the troops outside with the head of the Dugu family, and Zhao Wentong is also playing against Uncle Zheng, who is the author of "Zheng Zi's Art of War".

It's just that the front and rear are subject to the spread of information, and it is impossible to be so accessible.

In addition, Uncle Zheng's "frog jump" seriously disturbed a large area on the periphery of Gyeonggi, and even more so that the military intelligence messenger could not transmit it in such an orderly manner as before.

In other words, it is to increase the cost of receiving external information, originally, ordinary nobles can also get the news, this time, it may be difficult for even the big nobles to know in time, the real highest information guarantor, that is, the regent who returned to Beijing not long ago, because he is the first person in the name of Great Chu.

"It doesn't matter if you know the soldiers or not, if Da Chu really needs my Jing clan disciples to lead the troops into battle, then Da Chu is really hopeless."

"Hahahaha."

Zhao Yuelin smiled heartily.

Jing Mingxuan was not angry, but said: "The book of war, in fact, is the least category among many books, but compared with the stars of the past and present, it is actually too much.

However, how many real generals can return to the field if they can become famous?

Generals died in a hundred battles, and it is rare to have the leisure to write books.

In the past, I had read some of them, but how to say it, it was written by a literati like me who did not know the military, and there was nothing to chew, but this one;

Reading is like looking at people, looking at books, and then looking at people, that one, still alive, still fighting, it is said that ........."

"Zheng Zi's Art of War" is very popular among the four major countries, because Uncle Zheng, who is still active in the military circles, is equivalent to endorsing his books.

When more and more people begin to pay attention to him, take him seriously, and even want to study him, they will inevitably avoid this "Zheng Zi's Art of War".

"I understand." Zhao Yuelin nodded, "Your Majesty, you have already returned, and that one will be cleaned up immediately if you think about it." ”

"Otherwise, Qu's Qingluan army was defeated. I'm also surprised, so is Qu Peiluo really fighting with that Pingye uncle?

Why did he do anything to make a wedding dress for that Hirano apprentice? ”

How can the relationship between the nobles be harmonious, there will always be contradictions, at least, they don't look down on each other.

If they are really harmonious, then Emperor Chu will also find a way to let them bite each other.

"Is the Jing clan going to change his career to be a witch?" Zhao Yuelin teased, "Have you started to study numerology?" ”

"It's just a small talk, the war in the north is tight, and the clan is already fighting."

"Zhang Luo abandoned literature and martial arts?"

"Zhang Luo asked a few children in the family who were officials in the court to seek an opportunity to go to Wenhu County."

Wenhu County, located in Chunan.

Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet,

The nobles had sensed that the battle situation on the front line was already erosive, so they began to prepare for their own back.

Chudi has dense rivers and many water systems, especially in the south, so if you go south, it is most convenient and fast to choose to take a boat.

Zhao Yuelin sighed, in fact, it was not only the Jing family who was making this kind of preparation?

In fact, the old man of his family went out on the front foot, and the back foot, and the family was actually arranging to buy a new house in the south.

When a family has developed to a certain extent, the continuation of the family has become its instinct.

The family, on the whole, is actually "alive", and it is the instinct of every "living creature" to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Zhao Yuelin stretched out his hand and gently patted the railing in front of him,

Road:

"Do you really want to be dressed in a good way?"

"I don't know, in the end, it still depends on you whether you can stop the Yan people."

"Yanren, I can't get by." Zhao Yuelin said.

"That Hirano-ku, but he's already here." A smile appeared at the corner of Jing Mingxuan's mouth, "Since that Pingye Uncle can come, that Yan Guo Nanhou, why can't he come?"

To put it mildly, since ancient times, there has been no such thing as holding a handle in a real way;

Even if a Yan cavalry appeared in front of us immediately, I wouldn't feel ......... at all Forehead ............"

The corners of Jing Mingxuan's mouth that had just pulled out froze.

The stargazing tower is very high, and it is daytime, and the weather is very good, so the stars are invisible, but it is extremely convenient to climb high and look far away.

therefore

When darkness appears at the end of the day,

Jing Mingxuan's whole person was there.

The biggest problem of literati is that they talk and laugh before the event, but stay like a chicken afterwards.

Zhao Yuelin took a deep breath,

Road;

"So, you Jing really started to study numerology?"

Still with such a word?

Jing Mingxuan's body leaned on the railing, and pointed ahead, he who was familiar with "Zheng Zi's Art of War", still couldn't hide his panic at this time:

"Black, black armor, yes...... Is it Yan Jun? ”

"Yes."

"Multi-...... How many people? ”

Zhao Yuelin replied: "Looking at it now, there are no less than 30,000, this is just the beginning, and it is obvious that there will be more in the back, and it will be doubled, and even, and it will be doubled." ”

"Even if it is doubled and doubled, it will only be 100,000 if it reaches the sky, right?"

Jing Mingxuan began to think about it.

Zhao Yuelin is the core disciple of the Zhao family, and now he is an official in the military department, and when he heard this, he immediately shook his head and said:

"That's not how it is calculated."

Fighting a war is never measured by the number of heads on both sides.

"The imperial forbidden army in the capital, can you stop it? Defend the capital, no problem, right? Jing Mingxuan asked.

In the capital of Great Chu Ying, there has always been a large number of elite imperial forbidden troops, although half of it was allocated to Nian Yao to take to Zhennanguan to facilitate the command of the private soldiers of all the nobles below, but in the capital, there is still a family background.

What's more, in the past six months, Prince Ding has trained a group of new troops in Yingdu.

As a literati, Jing Mingxuan was able to be at this time, although he seemed to be flustered, he was still clearly organized, and it was not easy to be shocked into hysteria by this sudden scene.

It's just that

Zhao Yuelin looked deeper in the end,

To put it bluntly:

"The walls of Yingdu are really not suitable for guarding."

People with a little military common sense, when they see such a capital, they will not associate it with "easy to defend and difficult to attack".

"Why?" Jing Mingxuan immediately asked.

It is impossible for him not to be anxious about this issue that affects his family's current net worth.

Zhao Yuelin pointed to his feet,

The place where the two of them had gossiped before was actually a major loophole in Yingdu's defense...... And it's still one of them.

This stargazing tower, there has been a water dragon team stationed on weekdays, strictly prevent fire, when outsiders attack the city, a fire, this wall can directly burn a big hole, plus the fire baking, the city walls on both sides will also suffer great damage.

Jing Mingxuan pursed his lips,

Road:

"So, you have to defend yourself from the enemy?"

At this point,

Teams of forbidden army armor soldiers have already rushed to the city wall, and among the large camps on the periphery, soldiers and horses have also begun to exhaust, ready to line up outside.

This is a picture that can give the Chu people inner calm, the Yan army came suddenly, but at least now their own soldiers dare to take the initiative to line up outside the city.

But in Zhao Yuelin's eyes, this scene seemed very funny.

When the foreign enemy kills under the capital, his side can only choose to make a desperate bet, which is obviously a kind of sadness.

But

There is another thing, this matter, which is more serious and urgent than sorrow.

"Brother Jing, what we need to be concerned about right now is not just this, but ........."

"And what?"

"But why, why haven't you and I received the news that Yan Jun has entered the Kou here? There are so many Yan troops, he didn't fly over, even if the Yan cavalry can travel day and night, and people don't stop, but why is there no warning along the road?

Don't say that the capital is here,

In other cities in the land of Gyeonggi, why didn't the beacon fire ignite when the Yan people passed by?

No matter how fast the swallow horse's hooves are,

They can easily surpass the people who see the Yan people and flee,

But it can't be faster than 800 miles! ”

Eight hundred miles of urgency, the selection of the best horses, at the expense of the service life of horses, the pursuit of the fastest speed to transmit important military information.

Because of the small number of people and the small scale, they often form a team of three horses.

And since the Yan army is dispatched by a large army, no matter how fast it is, it can't be faster than eight hundred miles to rush the message.

Moreover, each family has business in the periphery, and even some have a subdivision, or they are officials outside, and they can send their cronies to inform the capital of the situation as quickly as possible. Some people in some families also specially raise the masters who are the best at body shape exercises, which are specially used for the transmission of this kind of life and death news.

Although the big nobles have their own fiefs, the core children of the big nobles are actually officials in Yingdu, and the real circle of power is still in the capital.

but

No

None of them.

Jing's didn't receive it, and it can be said that it was an accident;

Zhao didn't receive it either?

The Jing clan didn't receive it, okay, then the other nobles didn't receive the news of the early warning?

Zhao Yuelin smashed his fist on the layer of stone tablets behind him,

On the stele is the handwriting of a sage of Chu, but at this time, he can't care about the destruction or destruction.

In normal times, when Jing Mingxuan saw such a violent thing, he would inevitably be so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe, and he would even come up and fight with Zhao Yuelin regardless of his own powerlessness.

But now, he has no time to take care of his ancestors, because he may be about to become an ancestor.

Zhao Yuelin's eyes began to redden:

"The people in the market, the common people in Qiantou, they can't hear the wind, it's normal; In our house, we can't hear the wind, Cheng!

phoenix nest inner guard,

Have you become deaf or blind?

His Yan army has already hit outside our capital, and everyone is only then aware of it, don't you think this is too ridiculous?

In front of the invasion of foreign enemies to the temple of Shejizong,

We have to see with our own eyes to know,

It's called,

What's the matter,

What the hell is this called!

The great joke of the world,

It's really a joke in the world! ”

Jing Mingxuan's face turned pale, this kind of paleness was more desperate than when he saw the Yan army suddenly appearing outside the city before.

"Brother Yuelin, what do you mean, what do you mean ........."

"There are people who cut off our eyes and ears." Zhao Yuelin said again, "This point, Yan Ren, can't do it." ”

The swallow people can't do it,

Who can do it?

Only......

Jing Mingxuan's gaze immediately shifted to the city, the land of towering golden tiles.

"How is that possible......... How can it be............ How could it be ............"

Only the Son of Heaven,

Only that person,

Only the phoenix nest guard under his command,

In order to completely cover the eyes of the great nobles in Beijing.

Quietly,

Isolate inside and out.

And this is generally the method used by ministers to the emperor, so that the prince is trapped in a "cage" and becomes a furnishing that is only used when he knows how to sacrifice.

The so-called dedication to Jun Yaoshun by the civil officials of the Qianguo State is, to put it bluntly, actually mean this.

But this time,

In Da Chu,

But it was the "emperor" who, in this way, deceived his courtiers.

"Your Majesty...... Why did the king do this? ”

Jing Mingxuan's whole person was already stunned, a thing called belief was rapidly collapsing, destroying his perception of the world.

Zhao Yue Lin laughed angrily,

Road;

"You ask me, how do I know? Go and knock on the palace, go and ask the king, you go and ask. ”

Zhao Yuelin suddenly gasped,

As if something suddenly came to mind,

Panting and laughing and crying:

"If the king is still there."

………

"Sister, where are we going, I made an appointment with the two boys from the Ding family and the Liu family to go out for autumn together."

"Mother, where are we going? Are you going to find Daddy? I miss Daddy. ”

"Stupid sister, Daddy is in the north, and we are in the south."

"Shut up the old lady!"

Mrs. Nian, who had always been pleasant, swept down with an extremely solemn gaze at this time, and with her previous reprimand, all of a sudden the two children in the carriage were silenced.

Mrs. Nian stretched out her hand and lifted the curtain of the carriage, and outside, there were a group of forbidden army guards, escorting their family to the south.

She didn't dare to ask where she was going to the south,

Before her husband set out on the expedition, he only said that if someone came to the palace one day and called them out of Beijing, she would have to take her family out of Beijing immediately.

She believed in her husband,

From the beginning he was a servant girl of the palace, he was just a slave,

He secretly drank the leftover wine of the "prince's" hospitality, drunkenly plucked up the courage to grab her hand, and said that he would not only be a slave in the future, let her follow him, and ask her to be ordered from the day of the day.

She had always believed the man, every word he said.

And in another place,

beautiful landscape,

On either side of a stone table,

A man in a purple python robe and a craggy old man were playing chess.

From the location of this hillside, looking down, you can see a forest of armor soldiers and military tents, stretching endlessly.

Meng Shou's son fell,

Said slowly:

"Is it worth it, Your Majesty?"

The Regent replied:

"In terms of thousands of years, there is nothing worth saying that it is not worth it."

Meng Shou asked again:

"Your Majesty, do you regret it?"

The regent has a son,

said indifferently;

"Falling son...... No regrets. ”