"How's it going in the north?" Three Thousand Plum Blossoms asked in the first sentence after coming to Three Thousand Academy.

Guan Jue raised his head and said: "The Eastern Wilderness Army has already started to fight back from Beiyun, and with the cooperation of the Far Northern Army and Lao Shanshen, the garrisons of the entire northern provinces have begun to be honest. They are steadily advancing in the direction of the imperial capital, and according to estimates, it should take another month to be able to basically wipe out. ”

"That's good." Sanqian Plum put down a document and said, "This is the antique I found from the royal archives, you can take a look." ”

"Good fellow, what era is this? Or paper archives. The Authority picked up the folder on the table, which was already a little dry and cracked, and glanced at the time on it: "Grass, the imperial calendar is 901 years, isn't that the time when the first millennium is about to be explained?" ”

Sanqian Plum Blossom said: "You don't care when it is, in short, this thing should be useful, you can see it." ”

Guan Jue didn't continue to speak, opened the contents of the folder, and opened the thick pile of information page by page, looking at it seriously. These days, Guan Jue is in charge of presiding over a lot of work, and the few tasks that are the core of the wartime provisional committee are all in charge of everything, and there is no division of labor at all.

But the difference is that among these people, only one person has no cultivation at all, and the continuous work naturally makes him tired. His body was obviously much clearer, the edges and corners of his face were clearer, and there were a lot more bloodshots in his eyes.

Sanqian Meihua also knew that Guan Jue hadn't slept well for a whole month, and his already pale sideburns had now spread upward, almost to his full head, making him look like a fifty-year-old person. But he's only thirty years old......

But what can be done? Now that the empire is in crisis, there are only those who can be trusted in the entire imperial capital and are good at layout, planning and analysis, only the top ones will be able to do so, and the rest will be good to fight.

The rest of the committee began to realize that the empire had indeed taken a detour, and that it lacked the talent to control the field. The rest of the people are either good at war or good at civil affairs, or they are masters of fighting alone, but what about the people who plan the layout?

In the past, they all relied on the imperial court, and the imperial court relied on the absolute strength of the empire, and they had no brains at all. If it weren't for the five-person group supporting the direction of the entire empire behind them, I don't know what the hell they would have become by now.

In the future, we must cultivate this kind of talent with a sense of the overall situation and a keen sense of smell, otherwise the empire will continue to decline in the future, which is simply cutting off its own foundation.

Guan Jue looked at the document in front of him seriously, which recorded an incident that happened in the extreme north in 901 years of the imperial calendar.

It is worth mentioning that at that time, it was not the army/team of the empire that guarded the frontier in the far north, but a certain sect. This sect is also very familiar, and its name is Daxue Mountain. It is where Ni Yu's wife, Xu Huixin's grandfather, found the exercise.

After the Great Snow Mountain left from its original address, it was not actually to escape, but because after the establishment of the Three Thousand Empire, all the sects began to respond to the call of the empire and contribute their own strength to the stability of the human empire, and they were the ones responsible for guarding the extreme north.

But it is precisely because of this that the inheritance of the Great Snow Mountain has completely disappeared in this world, and there is no possibility of returning to the ancestral land. It was only then that Xu Huixin's grandfather got the secret method, and then after the administrator cracked it, An Xiaoyu handed it over to Jump.

The Great Snow Mountains have always been stable in guarding the Far North to prevent those who were exiled to the Far North from escaping from the Far North. Of course, the battle is indispensable. The prisoners who were sent to the far north back then were all madmen who opposed the imperial city and colluded with foreign races, and their combat effectiveness was quite extraordinary.

In addition, the restrictions of the Heavenly Dao on the law were not so deep back then, and many of the top masters and even mixed-race masters who appeared before the founding of the People's Republic of China survived, and their descendants, their disciples, made a miasma in that place in the extreme north.

At that time, the extreme north could be regarded as a truly chaotic prison.

Therefore, Daxue Mountain often fights with these people, and it is really because of this that the combat effectiveness of the disciples of Daxue Mountain is generally much richer than that of the disciples of other sects or forces. After all, these people in the far north are all the most terrible enemies in the human realm.

But it was such a snowy mountain that was completely destroyed almost overnight.

According to the records in the archives, the first person to report the case to the Beiyun garrison was an old man near a small village in the extreme north. The old man was in his seventies, had no children and no daughters, and his wife had died a long time ago, so he could only survive by selling eggs from more than 20 chickens raised in the family.

However, in that kind of price state back then, one pound of eggs could be exchanged for ten pounds of white potato noodles, and the old man should be considered very rich. But that very night, he lost two chickens in the house. That's amazing! These chickens are the lifeblood of the old man! So the old man found the garrison to report the case.

At that time, the two chickens were a small disappearance, the development state of the empire in the first thousand years was simply miserable, the whole country was living a planned economy, and the matter of the two chickens was indeed not small. So the garrison went out and came to the old man's village to investigate.

After some investigation and visit, the police found that the old man's chicken had been lost, and it was indeed stolen. Because they found two strings of barefoot footprints next to the chicken coop, which were obviously man's bare feet, and according to the neighbors, the chickens in the old man's house had been screaming wildly for a while last night, and even interrupted the good things of their little one.

The police asked the old man if there was such a situation.

The old man is very embarrassed, he is old, and his sleep condition has not been very good, so he has to drink a glass of wild mountain fruit wine made by himself every night, the guard has seen the wine, and can almost let go of a cow, obviously the old man also knows how to distill the technology.

After drinking, the old man lay down to sleep as usual, and never woke up at night, plus he had some ears behind, so he slept until dawn, and when he went to touch the eggs in the morning, he found that he had lost two.

Then he went to the police without even thinking about it.

The old man has been alone for so many years, of course he didn't think about finding someone else when something happened, under the country's precise propaganda and education, the first thing he thought of was the garrison, and he had something to find a police officer, which was a thought that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people since childhood.

So the garrison didn't get any relevant clues on the old man's side, but it was basically certain. That night, someone did sneak into the old man's yard, and then touched the two chickens, and then left the yard without alarming the owners of the chickens.

As for where they came in and where they went out, it should be the low wall behind the old man's house. The evidence is that the chicken feces pulled out by the two caught chickens nervously, sparsely extending from the direction of the chicken coop to the low wall, and there are even two drops on the wall.

The old man confessed that he would clean the yard every day, and it should be exercise, so it was absolutely impossible for to be left on the ground. As for the low wall at the back, it was actually built recently, because a few days ago in order to create a civilized village, it was said that the old man's backyard was a security loophole.

As a result, the security vulnerability is plugged, and it is still unsafe.

The members of the garrison kept tracking the traces of chicken poop from the outside of the low wall through a wasteland, and chased it for about a mile ahead of time, but lost their tracks. The reason is probably because the stocks in the stomachs of the two chickens have been pulled out.

You can't pull seventeen or eighteen miles, right?

So the garrison began to visit the villagers in the vicinity, and investigated the traces on the wasteland, but did not find any clear footprints, and no one went to the place where the birds did not poop but the chickens pooped in the middle of the night, so the clue was broken.

The case was temporarily shelved due to lack of clues and the need for further investigation, and after the old man expressed his trust in the police, he did not continue to stalk. At that time, the masses of the people, especially the rural masses, were still of very high quality to be honest, and although they were very sad to lose two chickens, they did not make any unreasonable demands.

After the garrison promised to come back and tell him if they found clues, they left the old man's house, made a file of all the information and investigation results, and then stored them.

Of course, if you just lose two chickens, you won't be able to enter the royal document vault at all. Even when the electronic documents were fully entered back then, they might be regarded as headless public cases, and they were deliberately lost in order to ensure the success of the political performance.

The reason for keeping this file is the follow-up that happened next.

Two days later, someone ran out of breath to the county garrison, sweating profusely and shouting "murder" in the garrison, the person who recorded the file at that time was probably a clerk with a bit of literary ideals, the account was very clear, and the details were very exquisite.

When the man ran to the garrison, he was so tired that he could barely stand up, and he held the front desk with both hands, startling the clerk and policewoman at the front desk, and hurriedly asked him what happened. The man was probably in his twenties, and he was probably the best runner in the village.

He hurriedly told the policewoman that he was going to report the case, a murder case!

As soon as he heard that it was a major criminal case, the local garrison quickly let the criminal investigators take over, and when the detachment leader came to him to ask him what was going on, the young man shouted loudly, "Murder, murder", almost a little incoherent.

Thanks to the rich experience of the local police officers, the informant was quickly comforted.

Yes, that's what it was written in the archives, and that's what the archives of those years were all about, in order to put gold on their faces, it was all "thanks to the rich experience of local officials", "adhering to the ...... of the Empire" or something.

In short, after the young man stabilized, he told them what had happened, saying that there was an old man in their village who had a lot of chickens, and many people liked to go to his house to buy eggs. So after touching the eggs in the morning, the people who want to sell the eggs will come to the door.

Today is no exception, several aunts and aunts came to the old man's door and knocked on the door, wanting to be "the same". As a result, I knocked on the door for a long time, but I didn't wait for the old man to open the door. So there were more and more people in front of the old man's door, and some people began to speculate whether the old man hadn't woken up.

At that time, some people objected, at such an old age, this can't wake up? That's not even dead.

When he said it, the man thought it was a joke, but after saying it, everyone was stunned. You have a point! The old man can't be dead, right? The old man's family is alone, don't let anyone know when he dies, the corpse stinks and can't be buried!

So the two young men of the village volunteered to climb over the wall, intending to see how the old man was doing. Everyone is from the village, and these two young people have also grown up together, so they are naturally very relieved.

But not long after, two young men opened the door of the courtyard from the inside, with pale faces, and told them that the old man was dead, but not from old age, but from being killed. Both of them were frightened, and the young man thought only about calling the police, and immediately ran out of the village and all the way to the county seat.

At that time, there were no telephones in the village, let alone calling the police. He ran all the way, but it took a lot of effort for the boss, because he was afraid and anxious, and he didn't pay attention when he came, until he arrived at the garrison, his legs were weak, and he couldn't get up when he sat down.

After hearing this, the people of the garrison suddenly felt a little familiar, this village, the old man, alone, raising chickens, wouldn't it be such a coincidence?

They immediately realized that this matter might not be so simple, so they quickly dispatched the police, and after taking the young man to the village, and after coming to the old man's house, they finally confirmed that the old man who was killed was indeed the one who lost two chickens a few days last year.

When I arrived at the site, the site was well protected, and no one dared to approach the villagers, so there was no damage. They immediately collected evidence at the scene and analyzed it accordingly.

The old man died a terrible death, really tragically.

He died next to the chicken coop, his neck was broken, and the left back side of his skull was also deflated, and half of the ** was leaked out, both of which were fatal wounds. The remaining wounds, as well as the broken five ribs in the chest, should have been punched by someone, as well as some abrasions on the body.

The cause of the old man's death is supposed to be a punch in the chest, which was not fatal at the time, but when he fell due to force or pain, the left back side of his head hit the stone platform of the chicken coop, not only breaking the skull, but also breaking the neck.

Then the guards counted and found that there were two more chickens missing from the chicken coop, but this time no intruders' footprints were found. After thinking twice, they decided to target the killer this time and the chicken thief last time.

Because after investigation, they found that the old man must drink every day, apparently has not touched it these days. It is likely that the old man has not slept well these days, but plans to catch this chicken thief with his own hands and send him to the garrison.

But he didn't expect the chicken thief to wait, but it ended up killing him.

No signs of a struggle were found at the scene, indicating that the old man had no room to resist at all, and the opponent's strength was very strong and fast. Even the neighbors didn't hear the old man's voice when he died, indicating that the other party was already a habitual offender, experienced in killing, and very clean.

So the garrison began to report the case to the city, and the city bureau reported it to the province, because it was likely that there was a murderous habitual offender here. The police speculated that this person was probably a mortal from out of town, who came here to avoid being pursued, and came here to steal chickens to eat because he was hungry, and this happened.

If things are really as they guessed, it is definitely not something that a county garrison can deal with. What's more, except for a footprint left by the other party when he stole the chicken for the first time, no other clues were found, which shows that he is a master.

It should have been practiced! After nine hundred years of hiding, the cultivators have almost disappeared except for their positions at the border gates, and the vast majority of the guards have not seen or even heard of them. So they defined this person as someone who had practiced martial arts and reported it.

Soon the provincial bureau organized a special task force to investigate the matter. As a result, I came to a terrible conclusion that the person who came to the old man's house to steal chickens and killed the old man after being found was actually a cultivator!

At the level of the province, he was able to know some things about cultivators, so this matter alarmed the center. Yes, at that time, it was still called the central court, the central court under the rule of the three thousand families. After the matter was reported to the imperial court, the imperial court immediately dispatched practitioners to investigate, and because of its proximity to the extreme north, it sent a letter to Daisetsuzan asking for assistance.

But......

Daisetsuzan did not reply.

It was at this time that the Empire discovered the fact that the Great Snow Mountain had been completely destroyed. By the time their people arrived at the Far North border, there was no longer a single living person in the entire Daxue Mountain station, and the corpses that fell to the ground had been dead for at least ten days.

After counting, they found that not all the bodies of the people in the Great Snow Mountain were present, and a large part of them were not at their station. So the empire sent a survey team to the far north while blocking the far north border and investigating the whole thing.

At that time, the strength of the members of the investigation team was very high, two Taishi, and the rest were all powerhouses of the Dao Realm, a total of sixteen people went in, and in the end, only one Taishi ran back, and when he came back, he was already dying, leaving only one message and dying.

He said, "It's a trap! ”

Traps, but what are traps? The empire began to think.

Fortunately, the news of the destruction of the Great Snow Mountain was not widely spread, and the chicken thief also discovered this phenomenon by accident, and then ran out with his three brothers, and then went their separate ways. He couldn't help it, so he stole two chickens, but he got out of control, and when he tried to go the second time, he was discovered.

Next, let's listen to the confession of the chicken thief.