The six-character mantra of the prayer wheel on the top of the mountain has been sung with great momentum, but it is a pity that ordinary people cannot see the greater atmosphere about the flow of luck with the naked eye. In their field of vision, there was an old monk sitting on the roof, and a young man standing with a one-handed dervishes, standing and sitting for half an hour, and more and more visitors from the outside of the city gathered under the restaurant who heard the news, pointing and pointing, and many naughty children had the courage to climb to the roof.

Soon there was a team of elite horsemen in the inner city escorting the big man galloping to the gallop, the cavalry swords and bows hung guns and spears, and the mounts were the kind of purebred Western Regions horses that were far superior to the reckless horses only in terms of impact power, the horse team brutally crashed into the crowded crowd, and many innocent spectators who did not have time to dodge were killed on the spot by the war horses, not without relying on the people from the outer city who saw their friends killed, they were blooded and angry to fight, even if there were front cavalry soldiers to knock them off their horses, they were soon stabbed into the body by the rear cavalry by the huge inertia of the war horse charge, a spear stabbed into the body, and the spear of the iron-headed hardwood pole was between the horseman's hand and the corpse, instantly stretching out a pleasing arc moon bend, The corpse was suddenly knocked out two or three feet away, but the hardwood made of the spear shaft was not the kind of first-class wood that had no price after all, and the hardness and toughness were still not enough to support the impact of this kind of Cheng dù, and it was destroyed, the cavalry seemed to be unsatisfied, and abandoned the spear and changed the knife, bent down slightly, not a downward split, but a seemingly careless horizontal knife, and rode towards a man from the outer city who was running wildly, without force, just relying on the momentum of the war horse, and the tip of the knife easily pulled out a deep cut more than an inch long on the man's neck。

From this detail, it can be seen that these knights of the Western Regions who are raised by the powerful and wealthy in the inner city are all veterans who are very familiar with fighting on the battlefield, and the cavalry battle on the battlefield is never a one-shot deal, and if you want to survive to the end, you must know how to use the least amount of strength to get the maximum killing results. There is no shortage of good horses in the Western Regions, but craftsmen and iron tools are scarce, and the hardwood used to make good spears is difficult to obtain under the strict constraints of the Northern Liangbian Army and the Liyang Imperial Court, which greatly limits the combat power of the cavalry in the Western Regions. As early as 20 years ago, there was a bloody lesson, the city in the late Spring and Autumn Period, once had a number of 5,000 cavalry troops, invincible in the Western Regions, at that time in the city of a certain heroic overlord, there was a heart to annex the three towns of Linyu as a grain and grass support, and then pointed to the cool land, and then occupied the high ground of the world, can covet the Central Plains, but at that time the Xu family of the Northern Liang only sent out 3,000 cavalry, and killed almost the entire army of 5,000 cavalry in the Western Regions, and there were not enough more than 100 cavalry to escape, and the casualties were less than 500, and those fugitives had palpitations and nagging for many years, and they all said that the Xu family cavalry was a real fucking iron horseman, The two thousand horsemen are actually men and horses, not to mention people, even war horses can have face armor, and the iron spears of other cavalry are enough to support many charges, and the so-called iron spears made of their own ash poles are too soft in comparison.

Therefore, in the past 20 years, after the few big surnames in this city who have money and nowhere to spend have cavalry, they only dare to make a small fuss behind closed doors, and they definitely dare not go to trouble the Beiliang border army. It's not a good man who didn't eat the bear's heart and leopard's gall, after the formation of the Beiliang border army and the small cavalry into the land of the wanderers to exercise martial arts in order to advance the white horse crossbowmen, some people took eight hundred fine horsemen to go to the troubled waters of Liuzhou to fish, at the beginning they also relied on the numerical advantage to besiege and kill thirty or forty Beiliang barbarians, but soon suffered a tragic and ruthless revenge, at that time there was no Lingzhou Thorn Commander Hu Kui, and Hutou City Deputy General Liu Jinu, each of them led a thousand light horses, killed into Liuzhou, and after the eight hundred horses in the Western Regions were killed, the heads were hung on the head of the spear one by one, all the way to this city thousands of miles away from Liangzhou, The reason why many people in the city don't know about this tragedy is because the guy who is good at advocating to go to Liuzhou to provoke, more than 40 clansmen and more than 900 followers in the city, all of them joined forces to level the rest of the inner city forces overnight, and then took their heads out of the city for thirty miles to ask the Beiliang border army for guiltIf it weren't for Liu Jinu's sudden entry into the battle formation and interception of Hu Kui, who was on a killing spree, I'm afraid that the forces in the city would be a different pattern now.

Xu Fengnian ignored the spectators on the street, and after carrying the body of the chicken soup monk, he took the dervishes in one hand and flew towards the small rotten in the center of the inner city, and then buried the old monk near the hut at the foot of the mountain, and put the Buddha bowl on the grave.

Xu Feng began to wait for the person who was coming.

Tuoba Bodhisattva.

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In the second year of auspicious fu, on the tail of spring, when the sun was getting warmer and the spring was getting heavier, the capital suddenly held two non-ceremonial ceremonies and temple sacrifices without warning in one day, which made the Ministry of Rites and the celebrant supervisor, the metropolitan governor and the priest who relied on the superintendent and the palace superintendent in charge of the affairs of the Taimiao were in a hurry, and everyone was tired. Anyone who cares found that on the emperor's side, in addition to Qi Yanglong, who had a heavy face, there were also many strange young men wearing Qin Tianjian clothes, and their faces were even more gloomy. After the two heavy ceremonies, near dusk, the emperor still did not let go of the exhausted central ministers, and moved the small court meeting to the military machine hall of the military department of the six departments, and the high-ranking officials of the two provinces under the Zhongshu Gate and all the purple-robed ministers of the six departments did not fall.

When the emperor and the two old men of Qiyang Long Huanwen walked into the hall hand in hand, a huge sand table covering the territory of the lower reaches of the Guangling River was placed on the main table, in addition, there were more than a dozen exquisite molds of warships, and the young emperor who was in a hurry did not wait for everyone to salute, he waved his hand to show that he was exempt from courtesy, and walked straight to those molds, Lu Baijie, the secretary of the military department, gave Gao Tingshu, the director of the Wuxuan Qing Officials Division, a look, and the famous Bangyanlang who became famous after observing the politics of the military department hurriedly secretly moistened his throat, took two steps forward, and introduced the comparison of the strength of the two Guangling naval armies for the emperor, "At this time, there were 80,000 sailors under the command of King Guangling, there were three kinds of large building ships, such as Huanglong, Phoenix Wing and Fuyao, thirty-five, and there were seven kinds of medium warships, including the shipwreck, the sudden and the first boarding, a total of more than 140 ships, and 12 kinds of small ships, red horse boats, scouts, about 400 ships. There are more than 56,000 sailors in the Western Chu Division, and the number of warships is about 700, but there are only 18 large building ships, and there are only more than 70 medium-sized fighting ships such as the Stern and Maotu, and even there are no less than 200 rough and improved fishing boats, and the combat strength of the troops is not superior. Moreover, the 40,000 Qingzhou sailors were also personally led by King Jing'an, and began to go down the river, and the vanguard of the sailors had successfully controlled the area around the pagoda rock where the Guangling River and Bailu Lake intersected, and soon they could cover the Western Chu sailors in front and ......."

Emperor Zhao Zhan was silent, he was not a slack ruler of the Son of Heaven, he was familiar with the Guangling Dao war, and now the only thing that really made him difficult to choose was to let the first and last two sailors "delay the fighters", first help the 100,000 tigers and wolves in southern Xinjiang to cross the Guangling River in the north, or seize the opportunity of the Western Chu Naval Division to take the initiative to fight a decisive battle with the Guangling Naval Division, and let the Qingzhou Naval Division quickly enter the blank area at the western end of Bailu Lake, so as to fight a more stable flanking battle in the east of Bailu Lake, so as not to fall into the situation of being broken by the Western Chu Naval Division. Of course, as long as the soldiers and horses of southern Xinjiang successfully cross the Guangling River, and Song Li, who had just entered Beijing not long ago, had already fought out most of Xie Xichen's troops, then on the land of the Western Chu territory, 100,000 elite soldiers in southern Xinjiang would definitely be able to break through, and there was even hope to encircle the capital of Western Chu in one go. But the battle of Guangling counterinsurgency from the beginning is not a pure victory of the battlefield at all, once the southern Xinjiang 100,000 troops do not lose a single soldier to besiege the capital of Western Chu, then the victory or defeat on the Bailu Lake has become the icing on the cake of the redundant war, if the southern Xinjiang is just in front of the imperial court to snatch the merit of destroying the country, it is just, and the worst result is far beyond the ability of the imperial court to bear, in case the Guangling Naval Division and the Qingzhou Naval Division lost to the Western Chu Naval Division personally under Cao Changqing's personal seat, in case Zhao Bing, who was the same frontier vassal king as Xu Xiao back then, had bad intentions and gave birth to a heart of disobedience under the general trend, then the Southern Expedition commander Lu Shengxiang had only tens of thousands of horses under his handsThe more terrifying situation lies in the fact that Southern Xinjiang and Western Chu are colluded and go north together, so Liyang can only let Gu Jiantang divide the two Liao border armies and quickly go south to protect Tai'an City, Beimang is not fighting smoothly on the two lines of Beiliang and Youliang, and there are nearly 200,000 permanent troops outside the Liangliang and Liangliang defense lines, does he really want him Zhao Zhan to stand on the head of Tai'an City, and see the Northern Mang barbarians and the Southern Xinjiang barbarians at the same time? However, this qiē deduction was based on the premise of the worst of the war situation, so Zhao Zhen felt a little remorse in his heart, and at that time, after listening to the opinions of Qi Yanglong, the commander of the Zhongshu Order, and Lu Baijie, the secretary of the military department, was it wrong to refuse to send troops to Western Shu? After all, there were only 10,000 Shu soldiers, and even if Chen Zhibao personally led the army, how much battle could he take away on the Guangling Road? 10,000 people could besiege the capital of Western Chu? Although he did not agree with the king of Shu to come out of Shu, it was the original intention of this young son of heaven, but when the battle situation was a little muddy, it was inevitable that there would be some well-hidden anger, Zhao Zhen, the smooth emperor, lacked tempering in the matter of decision, after all, he was not as good as the first emperor, and he could not be compared with his grandfather who had personally fought on horseback for most of his life.

At this time, Zhao Zhan naturally felt more and more unsightly to the Tangxi Sword Immortal Lu Baijie who was very unsatisfactory in the arousal, if it weren't for the two squires of the Ministry of War, Xu Gong and Tang Tieshuang, who were both new faces of Tai'an City, and Song Li's qualifications were too shallow, those veterans of the Spring and Autumn Meritorious Service and died in battle, and they really couldn't find a suitable candidate to replace Lu Baijie for the time being, and the emperor would have let Lu Baijie leave the Ministry of War. Yuan Yu was already ready to rush to the domain to serve as the newly appointed deputy envoy of the imperial court, and Lu Baijie should have been in this ranks, but the two chief officials, Qi Yanglong and Tan Tanweng, both revealed inappropriate intentions for this matter, so it was delayed.

Since ascending the throne, Zhao Zhan also had his own calculations, in his opinion, at that time, the first emperor should not have released Chen Zhibao to the mountain according to the meaning of Yuan Benxi and Zhang Julu, he should have nailed him to the seat of the military department Shangshu, the big deal is to give him a military merit of the Guangling final battle, 10,000 steps back and said, the same tens of thousands of troops, the court does not believe that Lu Shengxiang can resist the southern Xinjiang army, I am afraid that no one doubts that Chen Zhibao can easily block it, and it can even be said that as long as Chen Zhibao stays in the capital as the secretary of the military department, the southern Xinjiang will definitely not be able to rebel。 Zhao Zhan didn't understand the original intention of the first emperor to put Chen Zhibao in Xishu, but Zhao Zhan was not blindly admired and trusted by the first emperor of Xu Xiaoyizi, he was born with a deep suspicion of this white-clothed soldier saint, and Zhao Zhang, the new monarch, had to admit that there was an incense love between the first emperor and Chen Zhibao, and the whole world knew that the first emperor had no good impression of the entire Beiliang, but he favored Chen Zhibao, and almost asked the young man to be crowned the king of the different surname before he was crowned, and later let him replace Gu Jiantang as the secretary of the military department, and finally more than ten years late, it was still Chen Zhibao who became the king of Shu, and after Xu Xiao's death, he became the only surviving king with a different surname, and he, Zhao Zhan, does not have these monarchs and ministers, and those who have this kind of relationship with him are just Chen Wang, Tang Tieshuang, and Song Li, who are still some hot from the top civil and military generals.

His Majesty the Emperor was silent for a long time, and then it could only be full of silence.

Gao Tingshu sprinkled thousands of words, speaking dryly, he really emptied the vertical and horizontal strategies in his stomach that had been drafted early, and he didn't dare to talk about any digressions in front of the central minister, and after carefully looking at Lu Baijie, who was the backbone of the military department, he got a positive eye reply, Gao Tingshu shut up and didn't want to add to it. The emperor finally broke the silence, and also encouraged and rewarded this upstart in the military department who had a lot of stories in the capital, which can be said to be Jian in the emperor's heart, and the hall was full of important ministers who looked at this young man with the nickname of "Tai'an Yushu" with a smile, but the eyes of Jin Lanting, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, were vague and complicated. The emperor then left the Zhao family urn, went to the new site of the Hanlin Courtyard where the two yamen were neighbors under the Zhongshu Gate, there was a tea party in the Hanlin Courtyard today, the emperor saw the expected Chen Wang, Sun Yin, Yan Chiji, Fan Changhou, Li Jifu and Song Kaili six people, of course, there are more than these six people in the courtyard, dozens of people in the Hanlin Courtyard and Huangmenlang, but no matter how they gather together, they still can't let the emperor see at a glance. At this time, the rebellious madman Sun Yin was talking about the game with Fan Shiduan Fan Changhou, Chen Wang and Zhuangyuanlang Li Jifu stood side by side on one side, whispering, while Yan Chiji, the uncle of this dynasty, and Song Keli, the young phoenix of the Song family who had made a comeback, stood on the other side together. The emperor walked over to take a look, and saw that Sun Yin and Fan Changhou had a few rare and unique books near the chess jar in their hands, Sun Yin had four books in his hand, and Fan Changhou only had two books in his hand, thinking that it was a lottery for gambling chess. After seeing the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor, not to mention the rest of the Huang Menlang who were sincerely frightened in the courtyard, these six people looked about the same, and there were small differences, Sun Yin did not move at all, only stared at the chess game intently, Fan Changhou did not get up, the new little Huang Menlang who originally raised his arm and twisted his son and groaned, but also slowly put down the chess pieces between his fingers to show respect, Yan Chiji and Song Kaili both gave way out, especially Yan Chiji, who was the most qualified to do the wrong thing, his face turned out to be the most serious and solemn, and his expression was more "hard" than Song Kaili , and Chen Wang stepped forward in small steps, and after taking two steps, he found that Li Jifu did not move, and quietly reached out and pulled the sleeve of the champion, Li Jifu glanced at it with gratitude, and the two came to the emperor, Chen Wang smiled and explained to the Son of Heaven, "I said a few days ago, Brother Yuetian asked Sun Yin's two sons, and then together with them, a total of six people, will take the Gufangzhai books bought by Yulu for three months to bet." ”

Speaking of this, Chen Wang's smile was even thicker, "This idea was proposed by Sun Yin, and it was clearly to trap me, who doesn't know that my Yulu is the most among the six." ”

Then Chen Wang moved slightly, making Li Jifu more eye-catching in front of the emperor, and quipped: "Li Jifu has always sent Yu Lu back to his hometown, and at most he has some odd and bits of silver on hand, so this time the money for buying books is still on credit with me, and when he places a bet, he is the most unhappy, and he has been worried for a long time, for fear that the New Year will not pass easily, and he will owe people a lot of debts." Majesty, Weichen has the courage to have a reluctant request, if Li Jifu and I lose, or will Majesty Xià make up for us? ”

The emperor smiled and said: "What's so difficult about this, but then again, my family business is big, and your father-in-law Chen Shaobao's family business is small? So I helped Li Jifu lose to pay off the debt, okay, help you, don't think about it. ”

Li Jifu was sandwiched between this pair of monarchs and ministers, and suddenly he had mixed feelings, both envious of the emperor's unique trust in Chen Shaobao, otherwise he would not have said directly to his face that the King of Cheshire had amassed a lot of money, but Li Jifu was more grateful to Chen Wang in the bottom of his heart. The emperor asked about the bet, took off a jade pendant on his waist, took out the rare book of Gufangzhai that Li Jifu bet on in Sun Yin's hand, and handed it back to Zhuang Yuanlang, after Li Jifu took the book, his eyes were red for no reason, he held the book in both hands, and hurriedly lowered his head, his eyes were moist. The emperor patted the young courtier who was obviously the best in the imperial examination among the eight horses of Tai'an, but his reputation was at the bottom, and comforted: "Isn't this that you haven't lost yet?"

However, in the end, the victory and defeat inside and outside the chessboard were still lost by Chen Wang, Li Jifu, Yan Chiji and Song Kaili.

Sun Yin, who lost the chess, and Fan Changhou, who won the chess, in addition to taking back their own books, also divided the three books of the first four people and the priceless jade pendant, Sun Yin took the lead in taking two rare books, Fan Changhou had to take a lone book and the jade pendant, seeing this scene, the emperor cried and laughed: "Yuetian bet on himself to win, a good Sun Yin, it turns out that you are betting on yourself to lose chess?"

Sun Yin smiled indifferently: "Playing chess and betting are two different things. ”

After the emperor looked at Fan Chang, the first saint in the chess world of this dynasty, he said helplessly: "Dignified Fan Shiduan, are you also willing to talk to this kind of scoundrel?"

Fan Changhou got up and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, after letting the two sons, in fact, the strength of the two sides is equal, and then it depends on the will of God to win or lose." ”

The emperor joked: "The world says that when you Fan Yuetian is playing chess, it is as if there is heaven and man behind you to help you, so in the future, if you gamble with Sun Yin to play chess, you must bring me with you, and I will use a certain collection of books in the Sixth Pavilion to place a bet." ”

As twilight approached, under the emperor's personal instructions, the eunuchs brought many altars of tribute and wine from the palace, but the emperor called Chen Wang and Sun Yin and his brother-in-law Yan Chiji, and the four of them walked out of the noisy courtyard together.

The emperor turned his head to Sun Yin, who lost the chess but won the lottery, and asked casually: "I only heard that there is a close eye, how did you let the starter?"

Sun Yin replied: "No matter how many eyes I paste, I can't win against Fan Changhou." The disparity between victory and defeat is too great, and there is no gambling head. ”

The emperor nodded and said: "After reaching a certain realm, if you want to go further, it is as difficult as ascending to the sky, it can really be said that the previous life is determined, and it is not human power can increase or decrease." ”

Chen Wang said softly: "This is just like the battle of Guangling Dao, if it weren't for the remnants of Western Chu to drop the second son and third son on the chessboard first, no one would go into battle in person or others would bet." ”

The emperor sighed, and said a little helplessly: "The reason why I pulled you two is because you Chen Wang has always been optimistic about the war in Guangling Dao, and Sun Yin is the opposite, today I want to hear what you have to say, you two talk about it, no matter how shocking the words are, I will calm down and think about it." Those quarrels in the court are inevitably mixed with all kinds of entanglements of kin-related interests, but you are different. ”

Sun Yin glanced at Chen Wang, who gently stretched out his hand and motioned for Sun Yin to speak first.

Sun Yin was also unceremonious, and said with a kind of unyielding spirit: "Your Majesty is worried that after the southern Xinjiang army crossed the river and surrounded the capital of Western Chu, it would form a trend that would not fall, even if it did not rebel, it was enough to sit on the ground and raise the price, and open his mouth with the lion of the imperial court, so as to become the second Beiliang border army, right? His Majesty doesn't want to give up the initiative to others, to the ethereal hearts and providence, doesn't he?"

The emperor hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes!"

Sun Yin smiled, "There are three ways to break the situation, first of all, Your Majesty needs to publicly disagree with the military department's faint and thunderous anger, let the current military department Shangshu Lu Baijie resign from his post and leave Beijing, and serve as the jiedu envoy of southern Xinjiang or Guangling, in short, he must be able to meet Wu Chongxuan, the deputy commander of the 100,000-strong army in southern Xinjiang. Reasonable, I don't need to say anything more about Sun Yin, I want to cultivate with the demeanor of Tangxi Sword Immortal, which is enough to be competent. But the word Li is about to cut the flesh, and the pain is not comparable to a piece of jade pendant on the waist. ”

The emperor frowned and said, "Is it enough?"

Sun Yin had the audacity to scoff.

The emperor said softly: "Promise Wu Chongxuan to enter Beijing in the future to be the secretary of the military department?"

Sun Yin sneered.

The emperor asked, "Could it be that there is one more king with a different surname in my Liyang?"

Sun Yin asked rhetorically: "Why not? How can the king with a different surname in the future be compared with the king of Liang and the king of Shu? How can the imperial court not be able to handle it? Wu Chongxuan is already an advanced age, and the three sons under his knees are doing nothing, how many years can he Wu Chongxuan be the king of the domain?"

The Emperor nodded, but did not speak.

Sun Yin continued: "Secondly, after Lu Baijie stepped down as the secretary of the military department, he allowed the king of Shu to take 10,000 elite soldiers out of the country, and ordered Yao to lead the title of secretary of the military department, and quickly rushed to Guangling Road to quell the rebellion. Chen Zhibao is a person who cannot hold power, and at the same time cannot be in power. If the military power is too heavy, it will be difficult to suppress ambitions, and if there is no military power in hand, it will be resentful and resentful. The best troop strength for Chen Zhibao is 30,000 or 40,000, and it must not exceed 50,000. The imperial court did not allow him to go out of Shu, so he really thought that he Chen Zhibao could only train 10,000 soldiers? ”

The Emperor snorted this time.

Sun Yin took a deep breath, "In the end, it is to let Bei Liang let go of his hands and feet, and fight to the death with Beimang, the imperial court not only wants to let go of Guangling Caoyun, but also to suspend the replacement of the version, and also let Gu Jiantang and Jizhou on the eastern front send troops to exert pressure at the same time, compress all the border fronts of Beimang, and drive the wolf and the tiger! In the end, Liyang will be able to clean up the mess, at that time, Beimang will only have half of the national strength left, and Xichu will be even more dilapidated, and at the end of the strong crossbow, Cao Changqing will just beg for death. ”

The young emperor was silent and looked at Chen Wang, who smiled bitterly and said, "Weichen has nothing to say. ”

Sun Yin waited for the following, didn't wait for the answer he wanted, and said with a smile: "With a good sense of wine, go back to drink, if you are drunk in the Hanlin Academy, you will be bothered by Chen Shaobao to drag it back." ”

The emperor looked at the back of this madman and said softly: "Chen Wang, Chi Ji, I will take you to a place and meet someone." ”

This time, the emperor did not even have a guard behind him, only the master of ceremonies, Song Tanglu, carefully led the way, and came to a secluded courtyard located on the edge of the palace.

After pushing open the courtyard door, in the light, Chen Wang and Yan Chiji saw a pair of strange men and women sitting on two rattan chairs, the man seemed to be blind, and the woman was reading a book to him.

With Chen Wang and Yan Chiji's closeness to today's son, they were still left at the gate of the courtyard with Song Tanglu, and the emperor walked in alone and had a short Q&A with the blind young man.

When the emperor got up and walked back to the courtyard gate, he no longer saw the previous heaviness, and his face was a little more relaxed and relaxed.

Chen Wang said with a smile: "Congratulations to Your Majesty for having one more person who is seeking the country." ”

The emperor smiled and said: "Chen Shaobao is not half a point worse than him, just two kinds of people." Sun Yin is not a born person, but a wild fox Zen who cultivates, and the scholar surnamed Lu in the courtyard is a real outsider, a wild fox spirit. But to truly govern the country and level the world, it still depends on you Chen Wang. ”

In the courtyard, the blind man Lu Xu was lying on a wicker chair.

The woman of Jing'an Palace, whose real name is Liu Lingbao, knelt in front of the emperor for a long time, and her face was even more confused after she got up.

Lu Xu asked softly, "Isn't it strange why I want to put Bei Liang to death." ”

The woman who had been displaced all the way with Mr. Lu smiled with relief: "Mr. has his own reason. ”

Lu Xu "opened his eyes", as if he wanted to see with his own eyes this unfree world.