Ten days of the beginning of autumn are all over the ground.

After the autumn of the second year of Xiangfu, an astonishing news quickly spread all over the country, it is rumored that Jiang Xi of Western Chu is about to ascend the throne and become the emperor, which means that this princess, who has been in exile for many years, will become the second female emperor after the Empress Murong of Beimang, and the first empress in the history of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Echoing this, the generals and dignitaries of the Western Chu who led the army abroad, except for Xu Yunxia, who guarded the key passes in the north of the Yangtze River, and Pei Sui, who was responsible for the confrontation with Wu Chongxuan's army in southern Xinjiang, together with Cao Changqing and Xie Xichen, almost all the civil and military officials of Western Chu gathered in the capital one after another.

In contrast, the Liyang Imperial Court issued an edict to enshrine Wu Chongxuan as the general of the expedition to the south, and at the same time promoted the Hengjiang general Song Li to the general of Zhennan, concurrently served as one of the deputy envoys of Guangling Province, and was ordered to return to Guangling Province to assist Zhao Yi, the king of Guangling, to lead the army, it would be much more overshadowed. In just two years, he has served as the two Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and Households, this old Zhang Lu's proud protégé who is now laughingly called the fire-fighting Shangshu, neither like his colleague Han Lin was pinned on by the young emperor to serve as a feudal official, nor as expected by the officialdom of Tai'an City, Wang Xionggui was relegated to the war-torn Guangling Dao, did not serve as the deputy envoy, but with such a nondescript transitional identity as the minister of the decree, and Song Li and his party were divided into two ways after seeing Lu Shengxiang, Yuan Yu went to see Wu Chongxuan, and Song Li led the two Ministry of Industry from the seven petty officials, familiar with the way to Zhao Yi's mansion。

As Yuan Yu, the envoy of the Son of Heaven, is getting closer and closer, the atmosphere on the western front of Guangling, which is unfavorable, seems to be a little unusual, it stands to reason that Wu Chongxuan, as the object of the edict, should be the most rejuvenated, not to mention that he should take a few generals from southern Xinjiang out of the city to greet him, and the most unfortunate thing should be to let people start preparing to wash the dust for Yuan Yu, not to mention whether Yuan Yu has the opportunity to return to the center in the temple Dongshan, even with the prestige that Yuan Yu has accumulated in the officialdom of Tai'an City for many years, Wu Chongxuan, who is about to officially set foot in the officialdom of Liyang, cannot be lazy, but in the end, it is still Zhao Xun, the king of Jing'an, who took Wei Dong, the general of the Qingzhou Navy, to greet Yuan Yu。 Wu Chongxuan only attended the dinner held on a ship of the Navy Building, and Tang He and Li Chunyu, the two generals of the lineage, did not show up, and only followed by a strange young man surnamed Jiang. Before the banquet began, Yuan Yu announced the decree with an expressionless face, and Wu Chongxuan, a veteran wearing an anachronistic iron armor, also listened to the decree with an expressionless face, and among a large group of civil and military officials who took off their official uniforms, Wu Chongxuan's kneeling and the clanging sound of the armor leaves when he got up was particularly harsh. This makes the dinner afterwards, full of delicious wine and delicacies from the table mountain and sea, all taste the same as chewing wax, which is extremely bland, and there is no festivity at all.

In the night, some distance from the Huanglonglou ship on the river, a Qingzhou warship in charge of patrolling the river tonight stood still, looking from this side, only the lights and blurred figures on the building ship, a young man in civilian clothes lying quietly on the railing, the corner of his mouth sneered.

On the left hand side of the young man stood Wang Xianzhi's second disciple Gong Banque, the third disciple Lin Ya, and a tall woman with a hat on her head. The four people on the right hand side are all in the prime of life, and without exception they are all full of killing aura, and they are Zhang Dingyuan, Gu Ying, the generals of the Southern Xinjiang Daobu Army, Ye Xiufeng, the general of Yuanzhou, and Liang Yue, the general of Hezhou! It can be said that except for Wang Tongshan, the first fierce general under the command of King Yan and the first person to use a halberd in the world, Zhao Bing's descendant generals have all arrived at this time.

Zhao Zhu didn't look up, and said with a smile: "Sister Lin, that guy is your Jiang Axe Ding of Martial Emperor City, right?"

The Great Grandmaster of Boxing, Lin Ya, had a complicated face and nodded.

Zhao Zhu rubbed his chin, "I wondered, how could this guy help Wu Chongxuan get on the line with Tai'an City, this matchmaker is not something that just an ordinary person can be." ”

The crow wanted to speak and stopped.

Zhao Zhu turned his head to look at the female martial arts master who had been commented on the rouge review, and said with a hippie smile: "Sister Lin, don't worry, even if Wu Chongxuan doesn't have Jiang Axe Ding to match, he will still be eyebrow with Tai'an City, and the difference between morning and evening is just that." If I don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, I will definitely not compete with the surname Jiang. Haha, really speaking, this time our old general Wu is really not happy, said that he was a good marquis and a general, and the general of the southern expedition was made, but he was not a marquis, let alone the first dynasty with a different surname in the Xiangfu period, what is the difference between this and being the number one general in our southern Xinjiang? 100,000 elite troops in the northern part of southern Xinjiang tossed a general who was one of the four expeditions, and lost blood. His Majesty the Emperor made a move this time, and it was really not how generous. ”

The tall woman with a mysterious identity said coldly: "It's not that the imperial court is reluctant to give Wu Chongxuan the title of marquis, the reason why he is untrustworthy is nothing more than that the war in Guangling Road is not going well. ”

Zhao Zhu snorted, "If you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are, this is the truth." Maybe if it were me sitting on the dragon chair, I would do the same, and first kidnap you Wu Chongxuan onto the thief ship and then talk about the rest. ”

Zhang Dingyuan reminded softly: "Your Royal Highness, Tang He and Li Chunyu came by boat. ”

Zhao Zhu joked: "Fortunately, Uncle Wang was busy on the road and was not on our boat, otherwise he would have to pick up the boat with a halberd." ”

Gu Ying, who was as handsome as a woman, said with pity: "Do you still dare to come to meet His Royal Highness the Prince?

Zhao Zhu shook his head and said: "I really don't dare, now I am a serious court official, not to mention that if we really kill someone, it is just a deal for the one in Xishu who sits on the fisherman's profits, and the relatives and enemies are happy, I am not willing to do it." ”

Yiye Xiaozhou didn't get too close to this battleship with many masters, and after stopping, Tang He and Li Chunyu made a deep gesture, and Xiaozhou turned around and left.

Liang Yue, the fierce general of Southern Xinjiang, snorted coldly, and held the railing of the boat with five fingers.

Zhao Zhu said indifferently: "The female big bird is out of the nest, let them go." ”

The atmosphere is solemn, only the sound of the river is heard.

The water flows to the lower places, and the people go to the higher places,

Zhao Zhu suddenly turned his head and asked, "Miss Zhang, that Yuan Yu is your father's protégé, if you want to meet, I can help arrange it." ”

The tall woman said indifferently: "No." ”

Zhao Zhu subconsciously reached out and touched the worn-out money bag on his waist, and said with a smile: "Even if you have a knife, you can't kill the dog." ”

Then Zhao Zhu, who was speechless, looked to the northwest in a daze, revealing a worried look. Although Southern Xinjiang has its own extremely excellent spy system, it has never stretched out its hands and feet to Beiliang for so many years, and Beiliang Fushuifang also tacitly does not go to Southern Xinjiang to install chess pieces, this kind of respect is not only the 300,000 iron cavalry of Beiliang and the 200,000 strong troops in Southern Xinjiang, not only the mutual jealousy of Xu Xiao and Zhao Bing, the two powerful vassal kings, but also a kind of sympathy between heroes, that feeling, it is like seeing all the heroes in the world, the only person on an equal footing. And in Zhao Zhu's generation, how can he, the prince of Yan Wang, and Xu Fengnian, the king of Xinliang, have an ordinary friendship?

Before, let the dragon palace Lin Hongape mix into the muddy water of the purple clothes of Huishan, why didn't you tell Xu Fengnian that it was a big deal for you to simply give up the meaning of Beiliang, and after all, there was a retreat from Southern Xinjiang for you.

The spy reports that Zhao Zhu got in his hand were all fragmentary news obtained from Huainan Province at the farthest, and now Cai Nan and Han Lin served as the envoys of Jiedu and Jinglu respectively, and it seems that they deliberately intercepted all the channels for the transmission of military information in Beiliang, and the big and small post roads have been tightly sealed, and the Liyang Imperial Court Mansion also did not mention anything about the situation in Beiliang, so Zhao Zhu only knew that Wang Sui led the eastern line to plunder Jibei twenty days ago, and then rushed to Hezhou, pointing directly to the Helan Mountains east of Beiliang Youzhou. It seems that the two wars in Liuzhou and Liangzhou are not conducive to Beiliang, in the deduction of Zhang Dingyuan, Gu Ying, Ye Xiufeng and others around him, the chances of winning in Beiliang are extremely small, unless it is a three-line victory, otherwise whether it is the loss of the mobile cavalry army of the Liuzhou Dragon Elephant Army, the opening of the West Gate of Liangzhou, or the destruction of Hulukou Xiaguang City by Yang Yuanzan's army, and the convergence of Wang Sui's cavalry in Youzhou, the Beiliang border army trapped in the land of Liangzhou can only die, die in battle or wait for death. As for the loss of the middle line of Liangzhou, it is even more a qiē Huti.

Zhao Zhu whispered: "It's okay if you lose, when the time comes, you and I will fight side by side." ”

Zhao Zhu stood up straight, stretched out a palm, and clenched his fist tightly.

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Different from the blunt atmosphere of the banquet boat on the west line of Guangling, in the mansion of the king of Guangling, Zhao Yi and Zhao Bi and his son personally held a banquet for Song Li, a confidant of the former year, and Wang Xionggui, who had been closed to the guests, also appeared unprecedentedly. At the banquet, the two young officials who were temporarily watching the government in the Ministry of Industry were ignored by everyone after Song Li personally blocked the wine for one of the young people surnamed Lu. Zhang Zhupo, the thief-eyed guest of the palace, did not deal with Song Li, who returned to his hometown in brocade clothes, one was the chief strategist of Chunxue Building on Guangling Road, and the other was a merry and handsome man who was regarded as a lucky general by Zhao Yi, but tonight, Zhang Zhupo found reasons to punish himself with seven or eight glasses of wine, and drank the two whiskers of the rat are sticky, and Zhao Bi, the prince of the world, has gloomy eyes on this, and Zhao Yi always smiles.

On the night after the banquet ended, two officials of the Ministry of Industry under the banner of inspecting the Guangling River and canals met in the palace courtyard to drink, and the man surnamed Lu turned out to be a blind man.

The young man surnamed Sun, who was drunk at the banquet, was a little drunk at this moment, leaning lazily on a graceful Taishi chair made of red sandalwood, poured a glass of wine for the blind young man opposite, and said with a smile: "Song Li didn't have a good heart, deliberately blocked the wine for you, obviously to remind Zhao Yi of the Prince's Mansion, you, a petty official of the Ministry of Industry, are actually more special than my Sun Yin." ”

Lu Xu, a blind man who entered and left Beijing, was sitting in a precarious position, far less imposing than Sun Yin, a madman who moved Beijing, and said softly: "After all, General Zhennan is the old man of Chunxue Building, and the grace of dripping water still needs to be reciprocated by springs, this move is not too much, why not have Song Li to stay in front of him with courtesy, Zhang Zhupo wants to find Lord Sun to talk about things smoothly, it is not easy." ”

Sun Yin laughed loudly and said: "He Zhao Yi is in such a bleak situation, what else can he do except break the jar and break it?" Open one eye and close one eye, from the good birds of Zhang Zhupo to choose trees to perch, so that he can save some incense for the prince Zhao Bi, in this way, there are two generals in the court, Song Li, Lu Shengxiang, and Zhang Zhupo as a minister, Zhao Bing can be a prince of pleasure in the future, otherwise when the world is too peaceful, the power of the generals is declining, and without Zhang Zhupo to protect him in the officialdom, Guangling Dao can easily play Zhao Bi to death with a random assassination. ”

Lu Xu smiled and said: "The general trend is like this, but is there still less tragic disasters in the history books God King?"

Sun Yin pursed his lips with disdain.

Lu Xu sighed, "Zhao Yi and his ilk, no matter what his reputation is, and no matter how unbearable he is compared to several other vassal kings, but after all, he deserves to be respected by our juniors who have taken advantage of the situation." ”

Sun Yin frowned, but he still gradually reined in a little frenzy, and quipped: "Lord Lu, you are not a few years older than me, but you are old-fashioned." ”

Lu Xu was silent.

Sun Yin lowered his voice, "I'm curious, how did you persuade Your Majesty to make up your mind to bring Lu Baijie from the military department to Guangling Dao as an envoy, for this reason, you have completely annoyed the entire Jiangnan Taoist subgroup, you must know that Yu Jiankang's old immortals, but they all hope that Tangxi Sword Immortal can temporarily stay away from right and wrong, and would rather be hidden by the imperial court in Liangliao like Xu Gong, and delay in his career for two or three years, it is better than being the first bird now." So many people say that you have attached the Liaodong Peng family in the north in Tai'an City, which is why you have to give this stumbling block to the four valves of Jiangnan Province......"

Lu Xu raised his head, his eyes closed, and "looked" at Sun Yin.

Sun Yin laughed, obviously a little embarrassed, it was really not interesting to play scheming in front of Lu Xu, a smart person.

Sun Yin was unkind, but Lu Xu got straight to the point and said: "Qi Yanglong and Tan Tanweng don't want Lu Baijie to come to Guangling Road, on the one hand, they pity their talents, and on the other hand, they can't resort to words, after all, the Lu family is in-law with the Beiliang Xu family, if you take history as a mirror, the so-called world returns to the heart, in the final analysis, it is just the return of the scholars, the desire of the people, and it is nothing more than to obtain the recognition of the readers." Qingzhou Lu clan into Beiliang, is already a lesson from the past, and then there are scholars to Liang and Wudang Buddhism debate grand occasion, at this time, in the sense of reason, Lu Baijie should not come to the Jiangnan Road adjacent to Guangling Road. However, people who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries, and once people have far-sighted concerns, most of them are more near-term worries. Master Sun asked me how I persuaded His Majesty, it was very simple, just one sentence, the current situation is now, there is no need to worry about the near worry, and there is no need to worry about it. ”

Sun Yin grinned for a while, "This is a bit overbearing." ”

Lu Xu raised his head and drank the wine in the cup, laughing at himself, "Of course, before leaving Beijing, I had a long talk with the king for a long time, and I said a thousand words for this sentence. ”

Lu Xu put down his wine glass, "Compared with the battlefield competition, everyone is going to die." I'm just playing with my lips and tongues, it's useless. ”

Sun Yin shook his head and smiled: "It is useless to be a scholar?" Zhang Zhupo, Song Li, Zhao Yi, Zhao Bi and his son, Lu Baijie, Yuan Yu, your old master Zhao Xun, Wu Chongxuan, Lu Shengxiang, plus the entire Guangling Dao...... With such a big chessboard, you and I, two small members of the Ministry of Labor, can be useless here?"

Lu Xu lowered his head and "looked" at the table, just like when he sat in Yongzi Lane, with a chessboard in front of him.

Lu Xu said to himself: "There are wins and losses in chess, and there are profits and losses in chess." But for the emperor and the world, this kind of guidance is bloody. ”

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The last signing session in the snow was held in Guangzhou, and the specific address was the Guangzhou Book Center at No. 123 Tianhe Road.

A lot of words, let's talk about it when we meet......

PS: Do not bring blades and other things......