Chapter 41: Brother I
Jiesheng suddenly claimed that he had found another senior brother today, and everyone present was surprised and confused at first, but Mink and Tie Lei quickly understood what Jiesheng meant, and they asked in unison with joy on their faces, "Where is he?" ”
Jiesheng said in a regretful tone: "Jiesheng reasoned from the story told by my master, I always thought that if this senior brother was safe and sound, he should become a successful businessman in Xizhou later, but I didn't expect him to become an official in politics a few years after leaving my master, and I didn't expect that he had been living in the ancient city in recent years!" ”
Kapok Zi seemed to understand something when he heard this, because he had been following him today, and hurriedly asked, "The person the military advisor said is the envoy of the Southland Kingdom?" ”
Jiesheng said with a shocked face: "How does the prince know? ”
Kapok smiled: "Hi! I heard him call himself a poor person and I felt that I had heard of this name before, and I finally remembered that you were making such a fuss, that year I heard your master talk about this person in a country inn in Tianling Country, he was originally a looker, and later learned swordsmanship from the mage. Come to think of it, he should be so old now. ”
Jiesheng said with joy on his face: "Exactly, the poor senior brother is my master's open disciple, every time Jiesheng comes to Xizhou, the master tells to find this senior brother, my two elder brothers and Tie Lei brother also used all the connections in the chamber of commerce to search for Xizhou, but there has been no result." We thought that the poor elder brother had disappeared from the world. ”
Tie Leile laughed and said, "It turns out that the person we are looking for is far away in the sky and close in front of us!" It's no wonder, because I can enter and exit almost all the places, except for the ancient city palace and the diplomatic hotel, but this old man has been hiding in these two places and operating secretly. ”
The crowd laughed happily.
Kapok Zi said with a smile: "Military Master, I want to confuse it with your title of Senior Brother Haidong, we had better call you, Senior Brother of the Poor, Senior Brother Senior Brother." What's more, he is indeed a little old. ”
The crowd laughed again.
Jiesheng said with a smile: "The words of the prince are orders, okay, in the future, we will call Senior Brother Xia Poor as Senior Brother, and Senior Brother Haidong will remain the same." ”
Ming and Ke both nodded in agreement.
Jiesheng's expression became serious, and he said to Kapok Zi and Yagu: "Lord, general, Jiesheng has been thinking about the question of where to set up the base camp after the expeditionary force comes to Xizhou, and now that we have found Senior Brother, it is possible for us to set up the base camp in the New South City of the Nandi Kingdom." Although the Nandi Kingdom is located in the south-central part of Xizhou, the New Nandi City is in the northern part of the Nandi Kingdom, only 400 miles away from this ancient city. Therefore, the location of this city is also close to the center of the Xizhou continent, and it would be the best plan if the base camp was located in the new southern city. ”
After leaving the palace, the envoys of the three southern countries hurried back to the diplomatic hotel and immediately ordered their subordinates to quickly pack up and evacuate, for them, the ancient city and the king of the ancient land are no longer important, and the civil war of the four countries cannot be fought again, otherwise, the Xizhou people will all be wiped out by the alien people of the sea. The most important thing at the moment is to hurry back to their respective capitals, report today's events to the king, and urge the king to immediately withdraw his troops from the front line and prepare to resist the alien invasion.
The men and carriages of the three envoys soon gathered outside the gate of the diplomatic hotel, and the envoys of the Linhai Kingdom and the Qizhou Empire, as well as the hotel staff, saw them off.
The convoy was about to part ways shortly after leaving the southern gate of the ancient city.
On the occasion of their parting, the two envoys of Shen Haiguo and Ming Haiguo told their colleagues in Nandi: "Brother Xia, please send an express messenger to inform our two countries of the will of the king of Nandi in time, so that we can cooperate with the action." ”
"Brother Xia, if you get any major news after you return to Xinnan City, you must send someone to convey it to the brothers, and there will be heavy thanks in the future!"
The poor one by one agreed, and the three of them waved goodbye.
There were only three carriages in the poor convoy, and there were only ten coachmen and bodyguards in total, but all three carriages were planted with the flags of diplomatic envoys, and the flags at the castle checkpoints along the way had to be unconditionally released.
The three carriages were running on the road at top speed, and he sat in the middle carriage and carefully recalled a series of adventures since this morning: first, the changes in the ancient city palace were confusing, then the information that the people under the sea were going to invade the Xizhou continent was disturbing, and finally he was pleasantly surprised to meet his little junior brother Jiesheng.
After parting with his master, Master Dementia, in the ancient city, he returned to his hometown in Nandi to serve his sick mother for two years, during which he practiced martial arts and continued to study. In the year of his mother's death, the current king of Nandi succeeded to the throne and recruited talents, and he was hired by the king of Nandi with his ability to write and martial arts and eloquence.
For more than 30 years, he started as a local petty official in the southern region, because of his political achievements and officialdom popularity, his official career was relatively smooth, and after several promotions, he finally entered the ranks of the king of the southern land.
In the last ten years, the national strength of the ancient land has become stronger and stronger and become the overlord of Xizhou, the king of the south has strengthened the diplomatic activities of the ancient country, and the important minister with a loyal and eloquent temperament has been selected by the king of the south as a special envoy to the ancient city, so in the past ten years, most of the time in the poor has lived in the ancient city to engage in diplomatic affairs.
He thought that the master had either gone back to the countryside of Qizhou to retire or stayed in the ancient city, so every time he came to the ancient city on official business, he always went to the streets and alleys to look for the trace of the master, and the most widely circulated news he heard later was: the dementia master had passed away.
With the passage of time, not only did the people of Xizhou forget about the demented mage, but also the merchants who came to Xizhou from Qizhou all said in unison that the demented mage had returned to heaven, and the poor gradually gave up the idea of finding the master.
After combing through the events of the day in his heart, Xia Poor focused on a mission given to him by the junior brother Jiesheng, asking him to persuade the king of Nandi to accept the suggestion that the base camp of the Prairie Expeditionary Force be located in New Nancheng.
New Nancheng is the capital of Nandi and the largest city in the country, and the second largest city in Nandi is called Nancheng. The capital of the Southland Kingdom was originally in the South. However, since hearing the legend of the undersea people more than 20 years ago, the current king of the south considered that the south city was only less than fifty miles from the coast, and if the sea people landed, there would be no room for maneuver in the south city, so he decided to move the capital to the north and build the current new south city on the basis of a small castle in the north.
The new southern city is only 400 miles away from the ancient city, and the roads are mostly flat avenues. As the Ancient Land King's ambition to dominate Xizhou swelled day by day, and the Seabed People remained silent, the King of the Southern Land regretted his decision to move the capital in the first place.
However, as the most powerful kingdom of the three southern kingdoms, the king of Nandi could not move the capital back to Nancheng, which would make the people of the world laugh at him for being afraid of the king of the ancient land.
If the undersea people really invade the Xizhou continent, the Nandi Kingdom will not be spared, and the new southern city will undoubtedly be one of the castles that the invaders want to occupy the most, and having the garrison of the Prairie Expeditionary Force is undoubtedly a good thing that cannot be desired. But until the fact of the submarine invasion actually happened, it was indeed a risky move to allow a foreign army stronger than its own military to enter the capital.
What if you lure a robber into the house? Although the king of the Southland would not doubt his loyalty, he knew that the king of the Southland was an extremely cautious king and would never take any risks when it came to the safety of his throne.
Xia Poor's impression of Kapok can almost be described by the word perfect, he not only has the burly figure that Xia Poor has dreamed of all his life, but also has a dignified appearance and demeanor that shows the demeanor of a king. The young prince's envoy crossed the ocean to Xizhou with only a boat and chariot, and went straight to the palace of the ancient city, which made the invincible king of the ancient land bow down, which shows that his courage and power are unparalleled.
When Xia Poor learned from Jiesheng that Kapok Zi was one of the legendary princes of the prairie who ascended to heaven and earth, and that this prince of Jiuxian City had been friends with his master Dementia for a long time, Xia Poor immediately felt that the distance between himself and this great prince had suddenly narrowed.
Master's friend and junior brother are the military advisors of the expeditionary force, and he believes that the Prairie Expeditionary Force will definitely not have the ambition to occupy the southland country when it enters New Nancheng.
If the seamen invade the Xizhou Continent, even if the other cities in the Xizhou fall, as long as the Prairie Expeditionary Force guards it, the New Southern City and even the Nandi Kingdom will be impregnable.
But how can you convince the king of the Southland of what he is sure of?
The sun finally broke through the layers of dark clouds and revealed its true face in the eastern sky, and the sun-lit earth revealed the harvest and peace scene of everything ripening in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The convoy sped through the vast fields of south-central Xizhou, and the fruit-rich farmland and scattered rural villages on both sides of the road formed a flowing picture. However, at this time, he had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery passing in front of him, so he sat in the carriage and meditated with his eyes closed.
The convoy stopped at a small town to rest, replenished food and water, and continued on its way, and when the sun was setting near the western horizon, the poor men and horses finally entered the north gate of the new southern city.
In the past, Xia Poor would never dare to go to the palace to disturb the king at this hour, but today's matter is urgent, and the prince's envoy will monitor the ceasefire on the northern border at this time tomorrow, and if the king of the south does not make a decision tonight, I am afraid it will be too late.
If the army of the Southland did not receive the ceasefire order in time and remained in the territory of the ancient land, it would have to fight with the prince's envoy, and then the situation would be terrible, and the poor would be condemned to death.
As soon as the king of Nandi had just stood up after dealing with the country's affairs for the day, he was about to go back to the inner palace to enjoy a delicious dinner, but the captain of the palace guard hurriedly ran in and reported: "Your Majesty, the foreign minister is poor and asks to see you!" ”
The King of Nandi was a little surprised, "Why did he run back at such a time?" ”
"Your Majesty, he said that he just came back from the ancient city, and he has urgent matters and must see Your Majesty now!"
When the King of Nandi heard this, his heart immediately became nervous, "Let him come in!"
As soon as the king of Nandi returned to the throne and sat down, Xia Qi had already strode into the king's office, he bowed to the king in front of him, who was more than ten years younger than himself, and said in a steady tone: "Your Majesty, the people under the sea have occupied Xitian Island, and they will attack the Xizhou continent at any time!" ”
The tone of the poor voice was not high, but it sounded like a thunderclap suddenly sounded on a sunny day to the king of the south.
He stood up and looked directly into Xia Poor's two bright little eyes and asked, "Brother Xia Poor, where did you get the information?" Is it accurate? ”
The king referred to his older ministers as brothers, which made the old courtiers even more loyal to the king.
"Your Majesty, the information is true! This matter is related to the survival of the people of the land of Xizhou, including my Nandi Kingdom, Your Majesty has long intended for the princess to succeed to the throne in the future, and Wechen thinks it is necessary for the princess to come here to listen to Wechen's report with His Majesty. Because there is a major matter that His Majesty needs to make a decision immediately after listening to the report. The tone of the poor was very resolute.
Without a moment's hesitation, the King of Nandi shouted loudly, "Someone! ”
The captain of the guard entered.
The king ordered: "Go to the inner court and invite the princess here to discuss state affairs!" ”