Chapter 19 - The Ming Clan's Heavenly Desolation
As the sun set after the sunset after the sunset of the mountains in Youyouxi, the moonlight that was as clean and flawless as white jade descended on the Demon Spirit Continent again, but this night was already destined to not be an ordinary and simple and quiet night. The night was not as quiet as usual, and the insects and birds that inhabited the mountains and trees chirped and drifted in the night sky to create their own unpleasant music. In addition, the full moon tonight is as white as the morning glow, which makes people feel deeply unusual. Many people are full of worries and can't sleep today, taking advantage of the fact that the weather is milder now, and it is not as cold as winter. As a result, many people couldn't sleep with their worries, so they moved to the rattan chairs in their homes and came out to look at the bright starlight in the sky and the moonlight as white as a white jade plate. They never thought that tonight would not only be an abnormal night with a bright sky and moonlight, but also a night that was destined to be extraordinary.
A city looming in the darkness of night. The city doesn't have a huge footprint. From the outside, the city was not as dull and silent as it seemed from the outside, but on the contrary, there was no light on the towers, not even the torches that had been lit and the guards who were patrolling the supper were nowhere to be seen. The only thing that can be vaguely glimpsed is the vermilion plaque under this tower, and this plaque can still be vaguely seen as long as people with a heart get closer. This plaque clearly carries two red red red characters - "Ruocheng".
This city, hidden in the shallow darkness, is Ruocheng, a city in the south of Qi, which is not only the location of Chen Jie, the governor of the south of Qi, but also the control point of various states and counties in the south of Qi. This Ruocheng City, after experiencing the Holy War in Donglinguan three years ago and the rapid development in the past few years, has now had a trend of great development. With the inevitable development of this trend, Wakajo is now both economic, political, and military. In the country of Qi, the whole country is in a leading position. This is partly because of the reforms and adaptations of many policies of Qi in the past three years, such as Chen Jie, the governor of Ruocheng, and Li Dan, the prime minister of Qi. All parts of Qi have embarked on the road of rapid development, of course, among them, all parts of Qi country take this southern city Ruocheng as the most. Due to the previous Governor Chen Jie at the time of the Holy War in the East of Linguan, he mobilized all the 50,000 troops under his command back to Ruocheng as an army that fed the war with war. This unit usually assists the people in cultivating the fields, producing and smelting, and even a large number of soldiers help the women who live in their homes to weave gauze. These soldiers were also very kind, and under Chen Jie's orders, they bought the harvested grain and grass, leather products, tea, textile fabrics, and even the war horses sold with money. It was for this reason that the grain reserves originally undertaken by Wakajo were not enough to supply the 50,000 troops. These 50,000 troops have also maintained their strong combat effectiveness during these three quiet years through their own half-cultivation and half-harvest and harvesting of military rations.
And Ruocheng, too, has gone through three years of development and recuperation, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. The people living in Ruocheng were full of praise for these improved policies and arrangements newly promulgated by the Qi State, and now there is no war, and the people have higher material and spiritual pursuits when their families become wealthy. Now, the people of Ruocheng wear high-end silk silkworm cloth produced in Jincheng on the road. They are dyed with precious flowers that have been cultivated in the southern town of Anju. Many people have made extensive changes and renovations to their homes, replacing them with precious furniture made of Nanmu with better materials.
Not only that, the current Ruocheng has been approved by Li Dan, the prime minister who is now in power of Qi State, under Chen Jie's application half a year ago, and Ruocheng has officially acquired the seven county towns of Jiangcheng's forces, including the nine county towns under the jurisdiction of Jincheng. Now Ruocheng already has sixty-one county seats, which has basically replaced Jincheng's former status in the Qi State and has become the first city in the south of the Qi State.
The people living in Ruocheng have been bathed in the spring breeze in recent years, as if they have entered the footsteps of a new era. These people are deeply grateful to their Ruocheng Governor, Chen Jie, the Governor of Southern Soldiers and Horses, and after the people made a fortune, they did not forget to bring one or two carefully selected gifts to thank Chen Jie, the governor who led them on the right path, of course, Chen Jie naturally would not accept the kindness of these people, he would thank these people with a smile, and then politely declined the deep love of these people.
Of course, the people's gratitude to Chen Jie is naturally more than that, even though they know that Chen Jie will not accept their heart, but these people who have already made a fortune are already happy to do it, until now at this time, many people will be grateful to bring the gifts they have selected to meet the governor Chen Jie in Ruocheng. Chen Jie always responded very politely to these enthusiastic people, and refused their gifts and kindness one by one.
Let the people of Ruocheng and even the entire Qi country become rich and live and work in peace and contentment. This is also the scene that Chen Jie and Li Dan expect to see, and Chen Jie does not have too many expectations and desires. He once said that he was only working hard for the prosperity of the Qi country, but in fact, he didn't pay too much.
The people are in a simple mood, loyal and honest. Although Chen Jie was a very polite statement, he did not accept the gifts sent by these people. It's just that these people who gave gifts to the door have only recently discovered that something is wrong, originally when they gave gifts to the door, their approachable governor Chen Jie would send them away very politely one by one. And now, Chen Jie has not appeared in Ruocheng for a long time, and people with a heart have calculated the time that Chen Jie did not appear, and it has been more than a month.
However, these people regard Chen Jie as their benefactor, and they don't care about Chen Jie's recent strange behavior. On the contrary, a trace of worry rose in the hearts of these people, for fear that something would be wrong with Chen. Of course, even if these people were worried, they would not chase into Chen Jie's mansion to find out. If life in the city is still normal like this.
Tonight, a night that seemed to be abnormal but very silent, the white moon like a roulette wheel hanging high in the sky was shrouded in the cold night in the silent passage of time, and gradually glowed with a rich beam of light like blood. Today, people of the older generation have heard their grandparents say that every few decades, nearly a hundred years, there will be a pure white moon of silence. Then, this moonlight will change into a blood-red light pure moon, once this bright and unusual moon appears, it means that something extraordinary is about to happen on the Demon Spirit Continent. And such a scene that appeared in front of people's eyes was called the miracle of "Wonton Red Moon" by the older generation.
It is rumored that more than 300 years ago, there was still a place in the Nine Domains on the Demon Spirit Continent, and in the last ten years of the unification of the Demon Spirit Continent by the Ghost Dynasty more than 300 years ago, the God Emperor favored his concubine Phantom Moon and ignored the government. At that time, the royal city of the Nine Domains was located in the central Shenshi area of the Nine Domains, and the powerful God Emperor of the year took the eight states stationed in the river and the river embankment as the most prosperous palace in the Nine Domains. This year, with the completion of the palace, this kind of strange thing about the Wonton Red Moon happened in the Nine Domains for three consecutive years. And with the simultaneous occurrence of these three years, there was a great drought in the Nine Regions and a flood in the following year, the people were displaced, and the army and civilians were separated. And the Emperor didn't pay any attention to such a drastic hidden danger that happened again and again. is still my own way, pampering the concubine Phantom Moon and ignoring the government, leading to foreign invasions, the fall of the Hidden Dynasty, the ups and downs of the Nine Domains, and the turmoil of the Demon Spirit for more than 20 years, until the Emperor of the Feudal State of Qi finally divided and ruled and signed an armistice agreement, the top of the Demon Spirit Continent was considered stable.
Even though the Nine Domains have disappeared from the Demon Spirit Continent for more than three hundred years, the legend of this story has still been passed down with the times, and reasonable people know that this is because the Emperor of God favors his concubine and ignores the government, never appeases the people and appeases the army, and only knows that Yingyu Shengge's indulgence is extremely luxurious. Moreover, the strange things that happened in the last few years of the reign of the Hidden Dynasty in the Nine Domains for three consecutive years have also become strong evidence for the story of the "Wonton Red Moon" that these people of the older generation are now talking about.
It's just that what the elders of the older generation said was not recognized by their own children and grandchildren, who were deeply influenced by their private school education, and understood that what the older generation said was not necessarily true. Besides, these young people are mavericks, like to do things according to their own preferences, and are not bound by these worldly constraints. Of course, these elders of the older generation see this gradually changing moonlight today, and they are still there to tell this ancient legend to their children and grandchildren. But they were not listened to by these young children and grandchildren, who were more concerned about whether there would be a strange scene on this night.
In Ruocheng, Chen Jie's governor's mansion shone brightest as the red moon gradually rose into the sky. The originally closed red nanmu gate of Chen Jie's governor's mansion suddenly opened quietly. From inside, a figure of an old man in a white plain robe walked out of the door, silently staring at the red moon gradually rising in the distance. Following the footsteps of the old man, from the rear of Chen Jie's mansion, more than a hundred black-clothed figures holding short blades continued to follow, and these more than 100 black-clothed people were all following a black-clothed leader with a red ribbon on his head. The more than 100 men in black quickened their pace and followed in front of the old man in front of them. They only heard the old man in the white robe in front of them sigh softly, and then his face showed a slightly hideous and even terrifying look, and the old man said slowly, as if talking to himself: " Wonton Red Moon, there must be rumors scattered in all directions, tonight is our best chance to take the ruling power of Ruocheng first, through Chen Jie's troop transfer charm, control the 50,000 elite troops stationed outside Ruocheng, and then control the entire southern city of Qi State, and finally march into Xuancheng to end the rule of Qi State, I believe that our Ming people have endured humiliation and burden, and almost all of them have been wiped out in these years, but our Ming people will be revived!"