Chapter 252
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"Forget it. ใFengyun Reading Network. A deep voice sounded, and Zhao Song waved his hand helplessly, "Ajiang, let's go." โ
Ah Jiang was stunned for a moment, Xiaoba stepped forward and knocked on his forehead, and said softly: "Why don't you go quickly?" Are you waiting for your master to repent and drive me away? โ
Ah Jiang suddenly smiled, waved the whip and whipped the horse, the carriage moved forward slowly, the morning sun was golden, and the morning sun was like a huge disc, hanging high in the sky.
Out of Zhenhuang City, leaving the Great Xia Kingdom, since then, he is no longer the prince of Great Xia, she is no longer a smash hit prostitute in the capital, dust to dust, dust to earth, thank God, at the moment before the storm, but also give them a chance to start over and life.
In a dense poplar forest, a woman in a navy blue cloak rode out, and He Xiao stood not far from her. Several dart teams passed by, raising a large cloud of dust on the post road, but she still looked quietly at the carriage in the distance as if she hadn't seen it, and was silent for a long time.
Goodbye, her friend.
Goodbye, her sister.
Goodbye, the two most sorry people in her life.
The sun was rising, and the north wind was still raging. Chu Qiao's gaze retracted from a distance and raised his head silently.
This is Great Xia, it is the taste of Great Xia, it is the wind of Great Xia, it is the past of Great Xia and the old people of Great Xia, the people who have left have left, but those who remain have to continue to face the next life. Whether it is a predicament or adversity, whether it is ups and downs or twists and turns, each of them has their own responsibilities to shoulder, and there are also people they need to wait for and protect.
She turned and faced the imposing thick walls in the distance, where there were countless pavilions, water pavilions, countless palaces, countless powers and ambitions, and countless conspiracies and traps.
Once upon a time, she was so disgusted with everything here, but now, she willingly walked into this great cage, just as her sister volunteered to be enslaved, and this is the path they have chosen for themselves. It was a battlefield that belonged to her, but she was not alone, because in the middle of that cage, there was a man waiting for her.
Even if nothing happens in the world, there is no life or death.
"Drive!" Chu Qiao snorted coldly, rode his horse and galloped, the cold wind blew through his ears, and all turned into clouds of smoke from the past and passed away quietly.
In the blink of an eye, it has come to the end of the year, although this year is really not a happy year, but the surface of the real Huang City is still a splendid and peaceful atmosphere. There was still half a month before the Spring Feast, and the Imperial City Curfew was lifted, and under the authorization of the Council of Elders, the merchants were exempted from taxes during the New Year, encouraged merchants to trade, and prospered the economy of the imperial capital.
In this way, within three days, Zhenhuang City returned to its former glory. With the deliberate connivance of the government, this year's New Year is particularly luxurious, and wealthy families from all over the country have entered Beijing one after another. No matter how chaotic the situation outside is and how imminent the war at the border is, the people of the imperial capital are still immersed in the majestic dream of the Celestial Empire.
The cold wind passed through the city, bringing up a drunken and dreamy wind, and swept away to the north.
However, the war between the northwest border pass and Yanbei became more and more tense. Zhuge Yue slept later and later, almost sleepless all night, and the candle tears in the study rolled down one by one, piling up layers of red wave-like ripples on the candlestick, reflecting his increasingly ugly face and still upright back, and his figure was like a strong javelin.
Three days ago, Chu Qiao finally saw Zhao Che again.
It was snowing heavily, and the snow piled up more than two feet for four days, barely reaching his thighs during the move. Chu Qiao's health has been poor all these years, and he can't stand the cold, so he is lazy, unwilling to go out, and sleepy in his room all day long.
That evening, Zhuge Yue's laughter came from afar. She leaned back on the soft couch and frowned slightly, but as soon as she opened her eyes, she felt a chill rush over her. She shivered slightly, pulled the soft quilt on her body, and straightened up slightly. Then I saw Zhuge Yue open the curtain with a smile and said to her, "Xing'er, see who is coming?" With that, he led the people behind him into the bedroom.
Zhao Che walked in against the light, dressed in a black robe, without any embroidery or patterns on his body, low-key and silent. He is still the same, he seems to be taller and thinner, and his face has not changed much, but his eyes are no longer as unruly as they were back then, they have become deep and cold, like a cold lake and a deep lake, even if he is smiling, there are three points of alienation and defense in that smile. He greeted her very peacefully, still the same as before, bowed slightly, and then smiled lightly: "Finally, we met again." โ
The food in the kitchen was put on the table like water, and Zhao Che brought the Qianghu wine from the north, which was very spicy, and as soon as it was opened, a strong aroma of wine came to the nostrils.
He and Zhuge Yue talked and laughed and drank, talked about the war and situation in the past few days, and occasionally gags, said a few jokes, and despised each other.
Zhuge Yue has few friends, and the people who can talk to him like this in this world may have no one else except for the person in front of him.
Chu Qiao sat quietly on the side, drinking to the heart's content, listening to them talk about the past, when they were young, they looked down on each other in the Shangwu Hall, and when they grew up, they also thought highly of themselves, until the war broke out, the government and the opposition were corrupted, the wolf smoke was ups and downs everywhere, and the imperial power was drifting, and they gradually came together.
is the same as a noble birth, a transcendent identity, and has the ambition to swallow the sun, and has the talent of warp and weft; is the same unruly, young and proud, but not tolerated by the family and the country, and not accepted by the world; is also arrogant, extreme, willful and stubborn, deviant in the eyes of the clan, and regarded as an outlier; It is the same as being born in the splendor, scattered in the splendor, getting up in the mud, and walking back to the center of power step by step. It's just that although the heart is as hard as iron, it is difficult to hide the enthusiasm after all, and the friendship of men is so needless to say in many cases.
Chu Qiao sat quietly on the side, rarely seeing Zhuge Yue so radiant, and never seeing Zhao Che so free and uninhibited.
In a trance, she seemed to see two poplar trees that had weathered the wind and rain, shoulder to shoulder, slowly growing into towering ancient trees.
Another shadow in my mind came out unconsciously, those dark youth, those ups and downs of dangerous days. When Zhao Che and Zhuge Yue were floating side by side in this sea of people in this world, she also fought all the way with a person, but in the end, they failed to return to the same place.
Zhuge Yue was drunk that night, and his alcohol consumption has not been very good, but he has always been self-disciplined and measured, but today in the face of reunited friends, he was a little free and easy.
Chu Qiao knew that he was just too tired.
These days, there are large snowstorms in the northwest region, grain harvests in the southwest, one-third of the empire's territory is in mourning, and the grain, grass and clothing distributed by the imperial capital are being stripped of by local officials and clans, and cannot reach the hands of the people for a long time. Zhao Yang was the real power holder in the western part of the empire, but he connived at his subordinates' blatant greed for ink and indulged in goodwill to the clans in order to win the support of the upper echelons. Within half a month, more than 200,000 people in the West had died, and millions of people had begun to flee the famine for thousands of miles, heading south, east, and even some to the northwest. In front of the passes of Yanming Pass, Tanghu Pass, and Yao Pass, a large number of hungry refugees gathered, and hundreds of people froze to death every day, but the imperial capital would rather spend a lot of money to repair palace buildings and prepare for the Spring Banquet on a large scale, rather than send troops and food to give the people a way to live.
Zhuge Yue's edicts have been written more than ten times, but except for a few powerless officials, no one in the Manchu Dynasty is willing to support him. His recitals were ignored, his letters were held high, the court and the opposition were amidst the voices of deference and pleasure, and the elders of the Council of Presbytery were like a swarm of decaying moths, whose eyes could only see a palm-sized area, allowing the local officials to sing praises but turning a blind eye to the actual disaster.
He said that the local disaster was serious, and more than 200,000 people in the West had died. But they said that the Great Xia was peaceful and the people lived peacefully, but he was talking nonsense.
He said that hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the famine had gathered in Yanming, Tanghu, and Yaoguan, and that if they were not channeled, the people would change and cause a catastrophe. However, they said that the three passes were solid, and the fields outside the gates were fertile and open, and the residents did not close their doors at night and did not leave any roads, and they could not even find a thief or bandit.
He said that at present, the elders will deceive themselves, the government and the opposition will have no way, and the local officials will be greedy for ink, and if they are not punished, great chaos will arise. However, they accused him of supporting the army and respecting himself, creating chaos in the government and the opposition, and wanting to arbitrarily govern the government.
The war of words in the court is like a pot of boiling porridge, but the people are dying anytime and anywhere. They took out the merit umbrella and the book of 10,000 words offered by the local people, praising the emperor's benevolence and fraternity, the court's peace and righteousness, and the longevity of the Great Xia blessings, and then blamed him for slandering the court for no reason without evidence.
Evidence? She heard him angrily scolding several generals in his study, and her face turned blue with anger, and her eyes looked like a pool of rolling waves.
They turned a blind eye to the black oppressive refugees outside the three passes, they turned a blind eye to the countless messy corpses on the land of the West, and they turned a deaf ear to the heart-wrenching cries of the earth, and now, they are holding a group of local rice worms to deceive themselves, and then sarcastically ask him for evidence?
Before falling asleep that night, he was silent for a long time, and then he said in her ear that he wished he could cut all those moths with a single sword.
He said it so low and depressed that Chu Qiao's back crept up a layer of frost. She reached out and wrapped her hand around his waist, touching his arm lightly, only to feel his muscles tense, his fists clenched, and his skin was cold, as if it was covered with solid ice.
But Chu Qiao knew that he could only talk about it after all. Even though he was in power for a while, even if he was in high status, even if he held military power, even though he was a stranger to his family. But there are some things, some people, some responsibilities, but he can't ignore them.
Emperor Xia was lifeless a while ago, but these days he is gradually getting better, his mind is already sober, and he can occasionally go to the court to govern.
For this emperor, who has reigned for many years and has been hidden but not revealed, no one dares to give the slightest underestimate. For many years, he seems to have been like this, looking like he has no intention of politics anytime and anywhere, but as long as someone dares to cross the thunder pool by half a step, he will definitely be devastated. Fourteen years ago, the Lion King of Yanbei was beheaded, which is a bloody example.
However, everyone is thinking like this, the emperor is old after all, he is not an immortal, and he will not die forever. Now that Zhao Che and Zhao Yang are competing for the throne, whoever can please the emperor more and who does what the emperor wants will have a greater chance of winning. And now, the emperor is obviously more happy with that Wanmin umbrella, who can go out of his way to bring out the disaster in the southwest to spoil the emperor's mood? Even Zhao Che has to take into account his reputation in the eyes of Western clans.
At that time, Zhao Che was not in Zhenhuang, Zhuge Yue supported it alone, and forcibly picked up silver and grain and grass from the hands of the household department, the grain department and the merchants of the major ethnic groups, and continuously transported them to the outside of the Sanguan Pass, but after all, it was a drop in the bucket.
Once, the Yaoguan soldiers made a small mistake in the distribution of food, because the food was already scarce, and rice porridge was very scarce, and a soldier said something serious in the face of the people's complaints, which actually caused a small riot among the local refugees. The soldiers and civilians fought together, more than 30 soldiers died, more than 50 civilians died, and nearly 100 were injured.
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