In 527 of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the Tianyuan Dynasty collapsed, and the four kingdoms of Dongdao, Southern Xinjiang, Western Zhou, and Beifeng were established to check and balance each other.

Five hundred years later

In the first year of 1128, Li Meng, the son of the prince of the former dynasty of the Southern Xinjiang State, led his troops to attack the palace and bloody the Gao royal family.

In the first year of 1173, less than two years after the emperor of the Southern Xinjiang Kingdom passed to the fourth emperor Li Xingcheng, Li Xingcheng died of illness, and only Li Xingcheng and Li Chenghou, the son of Empress Xiao, were left in the Li dynasty.

Li Chenghou was only three years old, and he couldn't bear the burden of the country, the empress dowager Zhou Zhi, the mother of Li Xingcheng, and the former emperor Li Hongzhi's virtuous concubine called the emperor in the chaos, and quickly stabilized the situation of the southern Xinjiang country by thunderous means, and since then the southern Xinjiang country has opened a new chapter of prosperity

In 1178, natural disasters occurred in the border of the Western Zhou Dynasty, a neighboring country of the Southern Xinjiang State, and the people on the border of the Western Zhou Dynasty frequently plundered the property of the people on the border of the Southern Xinjiang State in order to survive, and the emperor of the Southern Xinjiang State Zhou Zhi sent a large army to press into the border of the Western Zhou State to demonstrate

After more than ten years of civil war, the situation in the Western Zhou Kingdom had long been overwhelmed, and the new emperor was weak, so he sent envoys to the prime minister Situ Mo to send the sixth prince Su Yun as a proton and a large number of gold and silver treasures to the southern Xinjiang country to sue for peace

The Western Zhou delegation traveled thousands of miles and finally arrived at Liningcheng, the capital of southern Xinjiang, on September 12, 1178

The beautiful and glorious Lining City built by the water is full of jubilation today, the drums shook the ground, and the horns were in the sky, and the people spontaneously flocked to both sides of the street to watch this grand ceremony and talked about it

"It's been a long time since the prince was used as a proton!"

"Yes! My old man is over 70 years old this year, and I only heard that when the four countries were first established, countries would send princes to other countries as protons to restrain each other."

"Now that the situation of the confrontation between the four countries has changed, there will be no war in the near future!"

"What are you afraid of! The Western Zhou Kingdom has already succumbed to our country, and the host country has come out of hiding, and there is only one Northern Feudal State left......"

"It's coming~It's coming~"

"Look at it~"

In the palace, Emperor Zhou Zhi and a group of ministers were frequently looking at the city wall outside the gate, anxiously waiting for the arrival of the envoys of the Western Zhou Kingdom

During the reign of the Gao family in the previous dynasty, the national strength of the southern Xinjiang country was insufficient, and the Western Zhou army frequently sent troops to harass the border of the southern Xinjiang country, and the Gao family only swallowed his anger, if it was not for the minister's stop, the Gao family would have sent the land and treasures to the Western Zhou country

"Newspaper~"

"Situ Mo, the prime minister of the Western Zhou Kingdom, asked to see him outside the palace"

Shen Zhitang, the prime minister of the Southern Xinjiang Kingdom, and Zhou Zhi glanced at each other, and then asked, "The Western Zhou State mission only reported to the Prime Minister Situ Mo?" Su Yun, the prince of Western Saturday, didn't come."

The eunuch saluted Shen Zhitang and replied: "Prime Minister Bing, it is true that only the Prime Minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Situ Mo, is the only one who asks to see him."

Hearing this, everyone in the court looked suspicious, and they all looked at Zhou Zhi who was standing in a high position

Zhou Zhi ordered the maid to tidy up her appearance: "Situ Mo, the prime minister of Xuanxi Zhou, met me"

Zhou Zhi said to Shen Zhitang with a smile: "I heard that Situ Mo, the prime minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty, once assisted the emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty to ascend the throne with the power of one person, but now he persuaded the Western Zhou Emperor Su Lie to make this decision......"

Shen Zhitang also responded with a smile: "Whether it's a blessing or a curse, you'll know in a while."

Situ Mo bowed and saluted: "Situ Mo, the prime minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty, see the emperor of the Southern Xinjiang Kingdom."

Zhou Zhi smiled: "Free courtesy, give a seat"

Situ Mo got up and waved his hand, opened the package handed to him by his entourage and said: "Su Yun, the sixth prince of our country, ten days ago, when passing through Xilin City in the southern Xinjiang country, he was stopped and killed by gangsters and robbers, and now he has been missing for ten days, and all the treasures he carries with him are also missing, leaving only this strange treasure on Weichen's body, the Blood Bodhisattva."

The courtiers looked at each other and exchanged their heads, and no one noticed the life-carved blood jade seated Buddha in this package

The military general Zhou Congjian rushed out from the side and said angrily: "I think you Western Zhou Kingdom just want to regret it, if you want to fight, why do you go around such a big circle?" ”

Several officials immediately chimed in: "That's it...... Backsliding"

"Presumably, the Western Zhou Kingdom wants to make peace is false!"

"I don't give gifts, and I want to delay time, the prime minister of the Western Zhou Kingdom is really a good strategy!"

……

Situ Mo's expression on his face did not change, and he still explained to Zhou Zhi respectfully: "Ten days ago, Weichen noticed that something was wrong, so he asked the six princes to take the blood bodhisattva to take the path to leave Ningcheng, but the six princes used incense to charm Weichen that night and set off overnight...... When Wechen arrived, he saw corpses everywhere, the six princes and his entourage were nowhere to be found, Wechen didn't dare to make a noise, and he endured for ten days before he had to ask for help from the southern Xinjiang country today."

Zhou Zhiduan sat on the dragon chair, in the past five years of her reign, her suspicion has become more and more serious, the prince of a country has been killed and is nowhere to be found, when the prime minister of the dynasty actually endured it for ten days, there must be something strange about this matter

Shen Zhitang saluted Situ Mo and asked, "Does the Emperor of the Western Zhou know about this?"

Situ Mo saluted back to Shen Zhitang: "The Western Zhou Dynasty is unstable, for the safety of the six princes, I am afraid that this matter will have to trouble the emperor of the Southern Frontier Kingdom!" ”

The courtiers were already furious, only Zhou Zhi was thinking about something: "This matter! Our Southern Xinjiang Congress found out the truth, let the army be stationed in Xilin City, and set up a porridge stall outside the city to give porridge to the people on the border of the Western Zhou Dynasty...... It's all gone! Shen Zhitang and the Prime Minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty stayed"

At the junction of the four countries, in the middle of the mountain city under the jurisdiction of no one, the fish and dragons are mixed, and all those who have committed crimes in the four countries but do not commit crimes to death will be sent here, surrounded by mountains here, surrounded by miasma all the year round, it seems to be a barbaric and no-man's land, but in fact it is not

Outside Zhongluan City, in the courtyard of a academy under the mountains, a white-haired old man stood in the wind, waiting for someone

"Sir~" The voice came with the wind, but there was no figure of him

"Situ Mo has entered the palace?" The old man's voice was strong and powerful, which was very different from his appearance

"Yes! This matter has been completed, if nothing else, Shen Zhitang will appear in Xilin City on the border of Southern Xinjiang within ten days."

"What about Xizhou?"

"Someone has been arranged, Prime Minister Situ Mo is not here, Su Lie is not a problem"

"Good! All right! Hahahaha~"

After the old man left, a teenage girl crawled out of the shrubs in the courtyard of the academy, lifted her skirt and ran to the back kitchen, picked up a scoop of water and drank it

Out of the kitchen came a woman in her forties, with a thin face, wiped the water stains from the girl's mouth with the inner sleeve of her clothes and said, "Girl, drink slowly"

The girl looked delicate, and a pair of white and tender hands took the woman's hand and said coquettishly: "Aunt Lin~ Can I hug you?" ”

Aunt Lin's withered hand was stunned: "The girl is leaving?"

The girl was obviously stunned and asked, "Aunt Lin~ How do you know how to be clever?"

Aunt Lin brushed away the sweat-soaked hair on the girl's forehead: "The girl was born noble, and sooner or later she will go back"

"Aunt Lin~ Won't you go with me?"

"The girl just needs to remember well, the surname Zhou was also surnamed Li, and she was also very bitter in her life"

"Aunt Lin, what does this mean?"

"That girl is Li Zhilian?"

The girl was at a loss, could it be that Aunt Lin saw something abnormal? But it was normal for her soul to wear this girl's body seven years ago, and the first thing she saw was this Aunt Lin: "Yes and no"

After Aunt Lin made a big salute to Li Zhilian: "The old slave can only reply: the same!" ”