Just after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the capital of the Jin Kingdom welcomed its first guest of the year.

This mission, because it was not as formal as between countries, Wu Heng's trip was very low-key and did not make too much noise in advance.

This trip he came with the order of the prince of Weiguo, the lord of Qilian City, Duanmu Shuofeng, not to get the instructions of His Majesty the Emperor of Weiguo, such an act, in fact, is very suspected of committing the following crimes, it is really too excessive, people who want to make a fuss about this, it is not difficult, but the situation is urgent, Duanmu Shuofeng really can't wait for the instructions and then wait for the will of the capital, and the brothers over there in the capital know that it is impossible to keep to themselves, turn a blind eye, and let people find a reason to delay him for a few days, or directly replace the personnel of the envoy, and do not let Wu Heng join the mission, which is unacceptable to him。

So almost just after Chinese New Year's Eve, he hurriedly let Wu Heng set off from Qilian City.

Although Duanmu Shuofeng was extremely arrogant, he didn't care about the capital, his father's opinion of him, and he didn't even care how many people would chew their tongues behind his back because of this matter, but Wu Heng took the initiative to lower the specifications of his travel, and didn't want to cause him more trouble, so he only brought a few accompanying attendants to ensure safety, and then went to the Jin Kingdom alone.

Wei and Jin, living next to each other, were already allies hundreds of years ago, the border between the two countries is almost a state of mutual defense, and the border generals will even take the initiative to drink and talk in each other's tents, even if it is after the incident of "falling into the well" back then, in fact, it has not affected the relationship between the two countries too much, starting from Qilian City to the capital of the Jin Kingdom, all the way to the capital of the Jin State, it really doesn't take a few days.

The capital of the Jin Kingdom covers an area very broad, not half a point worse than the current Liangguo capital, after all, the Jin Kingdom of the year, but there are nearly five states, the limelight is unique for a while, even if it is down-and-out to the present, but the heritage and savings of the year are still there, not to mention the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, the children of the Shangguan family have always liked to pay attention to pomp and circumstance, good face, this is the capital of a country's face, it was naturally built very grandiose and luxurious, which can be called the most in the south.

At the gate of the capital, there were not many Jin officials who got the news and came to greet them, because the first step of worship and the mission were almost front and back, so the Jin side did not have much time to prepare for any welcome ceremony, plus they were not sent in the name of defending the country, so the standard of reception was naturally not too high, and if the subordinates of the prince of the neighboring country were also received with a large standard, it was their own face that fell, so there were only a few officials from Honglu Temple who came today.

Wu Heng adhered to the rules of the envoy, and seeing that he was still three miles away from the capital, he had already asked the attendant to stop the horse and get out of the car, and then walked slowly along the horse road.

Under the sun, at the gate of the city, until it was close to noon, the officials of the Jin Kingdom, who were waiting a little impatiently, saw the patriotic envoys coming from afar.

Wu Heng and Lu Yi are out of the same door, and there is not much difference in dress, they are all dressed as scribes, with big sleeves fluttering and chic, although they have very different temperaments, but they have poetry and books in their stomachs, just looking at their appearance, they have a kind of celebrity style, which is a feeling of falling in love with people, as soon as this kind of person appears, others naturally know that it should be an envoy.

Envoys go to other countries to carry out diplomacy, then everything he does outside, and even his appearance, represents the face of a country, from ancient times to the present, most of them are tall, handsome, and eloquent, even if they are not envoys, they should be the dragon and phoenix among people, they have almost never had a short stature, ugly face of the envoy to go out, that is also their own face, as for the speech is stumbling, not even the qualification to accompany the tour.

Several officials of the Honglu Temple of the Jin Kingdom glanced at each other, and finally chose to take the initiative to greet them.

Although it was not a formal diplomacy between the two countries, it was also a person under the prince of the country, and they had heard of his name, and when they remembered Dazai's instructions before leaving, they still felt that they could not slack off.

After the two sides finally met, Wu Heng took the initiative to come forward to salute.

With your left hand on top and your palm down, push your hands forward, bow slightly, and then drop your hands naturally, and then stand again.

A set of Confucian rituals, completed meticulously, so that people can't find any fault, and the three people on the opposite side can only hurry to return the salute.

Wu Heng was smiling, looking indifferent, wearing a set of neat and elegant scribe clothes, with a good figure and a high-spirited temperament, which can be described as a generation of celebrities.

"In Xia Wu Heng, on the order of my prince to defend the country, I came to pay a visit. ”

The officials headed by the Jin State also hurriedly said: "In Xia Guofang, on the order of Dazai, I have come to greet you, envoy, please get into the carriage with me and others, Dazai has been waiting in the city for a long time." ”

Hearing this, Wu Heng nodded lightly, didn't say much, and directly followed the other party into the carriage and sat down to the side peacefully.

As the coachman lifted the reins and shouted softly, the wheels of the carriage rolled slowly, and the people in the carriage slowly drove towards the city.

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The location that Chen Jing chose to welcome the envoys was nothing special, it was a mansion in the capital that Honglu Temple used for foreign envoys to live in.

In addition to the whole mansion is clean and elegant, there are no other advantages, the only thing worth saying is that the Jin Kingdom is close to the sea, the air and soil are slightly damp, so the buildings in the city are built from the ground, with a distance of about three fingers, and the wood under it is also brushed with a layer of moisture-proof paint, which looks quite interesting.

I couldn't walk far from the door, there was an open hall, and the main seat was deliberately vacant, and on the first position at the bottom left of the main seat, it was Chen Jing who was drinking alone with his head down.

Because on Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhu Fengxian's father, when Chao Tai Changqing committed suicide in the ancestral hall, Zhu Fengxian, who had just taken up the post of Grand Situ, was overly sad, affected the injuries on his body, and fainted directly, and he had just woken up in the past two days, and was still at home to guard filial piety, so he did not come to accompany him.

The lights of thousands of homes, the reunion, suddenly happened this kind of tragedy, no matter who listens to it, they will sigh.

Chen Jing's face was very flat, holding the wine glass, taking a sip, a small sip, there was nothing to see from his face, but he was pointed out by Qianfu, his only friend, his father still died because of himself, who can understand the sorrow in his heart?

But there are some things, if you don't do it, if he doesn't do it, then no one will ever do it, than to sit back and watch the Jin Kingdom lose in this wrestling in the south, and then regret it when the family and country are broken and the mountains and rivers are scattered, it will be too late, so he dares to be the first in the world.

But even if the Jin Kingdom was lucky enough to survive in the end, how many more years could it last without him Chen Jing?

As long as it is not changed from the root, some things that have passed away are destined to rekindle with the wind, and then push the Jin Kingdom into the abyss of destruction step by step, and there is no way to extricate themselves, this is an inevitable historical result, and no one can stop it.

Throughout the history of the human race in the Western Continent, from ancient times to the present, there has never been an eternal and immortal empire, there was none, there is none, and there will never be in the future, because in essence, every generation, every country composed of human races, is the same, as long as the new system is not established, it will inevitably enter the next cycle of life and death.

He can kill the king and seize power in order to save the Jin Kingdom, and move forward alone with infamy, but only this matter, even he Chen Jing can't do anything, he doesn't have the ability, and he doesn't have the courage to conceive an immortal country and build a new world, because when he really embarks on this road, it will not be the way it is now, so many people are enemies of him, when the time comes, he will be the public enemy of the whole world and all the scholars, and he will never succeed, so even if he has understood the essence of the reincarnation of the human race, he still can't change it, and can only pin his hopes on future generations。

But even so, everything he Chen Jing has paid now is far beyond most people's imagination.

He knows that in order to prevent the next Chen Jing from appearing, after his death, he is destined to have no good reputation, and he is destined to be a usurper thief in the history books of later generations, reckless of human morality, ruthless, murdering kings and indiscriminate power, and a bastard with cholera and chaos, he will be despised by the people of the world and spurned by future generations.

From now on, there will be no Chen Jing, no more Chen family, and even all the efforts he is making now will eventually turn into nothingness and become useless, in fact, this is the most desperate.

No matter how hard he tries, he can only slow down the process, not stop it, but he has already paid too much.

It's not even clear whether he can have a good result, if he can survive the wrestling of the countries in the south, he will probably be torn apart by the new monarch and the ministers.

Then the Chen family was raided and exterminated.

This is the fate of the only minister.

Chen Jing gently put down the wine glass in his hand, looked at the blue and clear sky in the distance, and sighed in his heart.

It's so pitiful, why bother?

Just as he was thinking, there was a sudden sound of footsteps at the door, pulling him back from his thoughts.

Wu Heng, who had fluttering sleeves, held a feather fan in his hand, and walked in side by side with several officials from Honglu Temple next to him.

When Chen Jing saw him, there was a moment of hesitation in his eyes, and finally chose to stand up and wait quietly for someone to come, instead of sitting rudely and arrogantly in his original position.

After taking off his shoes at the door, Wu Heng walked over with white socks on his face.

The two sides finally met, but first silently greeted one by one, and then returned the salute.

Wu Heng saw the true face of this Dazai for the first time, in fact, he was quite surprised, because he didn't expect that the person who dared to abuse power and kill the king, dictate the rules, and do things without leakage would be such a young man.

It's a pity that such a good skin and such a good talent are doing such a lifeless thing.

"In Xia Wu Heng, I came on the orders of my Prince Weiguo, and I have seen Chen Dazai!"

Chen Jing stood up straight, and said in a non-salty tone: "I saw Prince Duanmu in my early years, and I was full of energy and impressive. ”

Duanmu Shuofeng was similar to a peer who had been urging him all the time, and it was this person who first had the idea of launching a coup d'état to change the Jin Kingdom.

Obviously he is just the prince of Weiguo, who went on an envoy with the regiment and was in the capital of the Jin Kingdom, and the Jin State was originally the suzerainty of the Wei Kingdom, but this person's attitude can be described as arrogant and domineering, and he doesn't put the Jin Kingdom in his eyes at all, in his eyes, whether it is looking at Cai Jing, the old fox in the officialdom, or looking at his father, the pillar of the Jin Kingdom, the Great Sima who turned the tide, and even the other princes of the Jin Kingdom, and even His Majesty the Emperor, they all have a disdainful and arrogant expression, and it seems that no one in the Jin Kingdom can enter his eyes。

Of course, Wu Heng would not know this old thing, but after all, he was very good at figuring out people's hearts, just as soon as he heard it, he knew that this person seemed to have some prejudices against Duanmu Shuofeng, and immediately said: "When the prince was young, it was like a big sun hanging in the sky, and it was indeed brilliant and unforgettable." ”

When the other Jin officials around heard this, the corners of their mouths pulled slightly, and they said in their hearts, "You have also praised your own master too highly.

The big day hangs in the sky, and you can say it!

Chen Jing didn't want to dwell on such a boring issue, so he immediately stretched out his hand and invited: "Envoy of the guard, please sit down first." ”

Wu Heng hurriedly bowed and saluted, and said in a flat tone: "Follow Dazai's order!"

Everyone sat on the left and right, and on the left were all officials from the Jin State, headed by Chen Jing, and on the right were headed by Wu Heng, all of whom were from the Wei Guo, but there were also some people from the Wei Guo Embassy who had been recruited a long time ago, but they were deliberately arranged to sit down by the Jin people.

Wu Heng just glanced at the seating order, and understood the other party's sinister intentions, sneered, glanced at the seat, and pretended to be curious and asked: "Wu has just arrived, he is not very familiar with your country, and he is not clear about the existing matter, I want to ask you, Chen Dazai has a lot of power, and his official position is the first of the hundred officials, so he can only sit down with him, Wu is really curious, is there anyone in this Jin Kingdom who will be higher than Chen Dazai? Please don't misunderstand, Wu is really just curious, and I hope you will give me advice." ”

This kind of heart-wrenching words knowingly made the faces of the Jin officials on the opposite side change slightly, they glanced at each other with their heads down, and then looked at Chen Jing, who was the first on the left, and didn't know how to refute.

In this regard, Chen Jing didn't even raise his eyelids, but responded lightly: "Jing has the mercy of the first emperor, and he has been given the position of Dazai, assisting His Majesty in governing the country, this seat is naturally Your Majesty, but Your Excellency has not been sent by the order of Emperor Wei, and if your name is not right, it is not good, and it is naturally inconvenient for the emperor to come, but even if Your Majesty does not come, I, Chen Jing, as a courtier, should not sit on the throne." ”