Chapter 50: Demons
After about a quarter of an hour, arrived at a broad courtyard, there are three entrances before and after, the east side of the courtyard of the white wall of Uwa is a half-moon-shaped lotus lake, the lotus flowers in the lake only show sharp corners, a cluster of delicate, the lotus leaves in the water of the Chengbi Lake are in the field, it makes people reverie the beautiful scenery of "the lotus is fragrant and gorgeous, the red posture reflects the green ping" in June and July.
The inscription above the courtyard gate is the three words of the pen power Qingjun: Leshuiju.
Xiao Yan thought that there should be a Leshan residence, built against the hillside.
After sending Xiao Cong and his wife to the hospital, the three members of the Wei family said goodbye and left, and met again after Xiao Cong and others bathed and changed their clothes.
The General's Mansion has arranged for several rough servants and maids to be in the outer courtyard to listen to orders, as for the inner courtyard servants and maids, the master's house is generally not placed, because your guests will use their own servants and maids.
Xiao Cong and Shen Qingyi's servants and maidservants immediately took over the inner and outer courtyards respectively, a group of people placed luggage, and a group of people arranged the house according to the master's habits, incense, sencha, fragrant soup and bathing, etc., all of them were well-trained and well-organized.
Xiao Cong and the three of them bathed and changed their clothes.
An hour later, Mrs. Wei brought the lady of the house to visit Mrs. Shizi. Shen Qingyi took the maidservant to meet the guests in the inner courtyard hall, and did not mention it. Wei Yingzhou also came over, had already taken off his armor and changed into a stone blue round-necked narrow-sleeved robe, and asked Xiao Cong to talk to the front mansion on behalf of his father.
Xiao Cong didn't bring guards, and Xiao Yan didn't need other guards.
Wei Yun was still wearing a white Confucian shirt and greeted him in front of the courtyard of the Three Provinces where he lived.
After the ceremony, they entered the hall and sat down with the chairmen of each sub-committee.
Xiao Yan was still wearing a mask, but he was rude in front of the Wei father and son, who were also from the same family with the surname A.
Xiao Cong arched his hand and explained: "Seventeen Lang has sores on his face that have not healed, and his face is indecent, I hope to forgive me." β
Xiao Yan got up and saluted the Wei father and son.
Wei Yun smiled, "It's okay." β
Wei Yingzhou only glanced at Xiao Yan, still looking like a cold stone.
The maidservant served the tea soup, and Wei Yun chatted with Xiao Cong.
Xiao Yan and Wei Yingzhou sat opposite each other, both sitting upright, and neither of them had any intention of talking. Wei Yingzhou was used to cold noodles, and Xiao Yan was not interested in talking to such a person, so he sat quietly.
After chatting for three teas, Wei Yun looked solemn and said, "Son, the county lord of Qingchuan is here." β
Xiao Cong was taken aback, "Lord Qingchuan? β
How could she be in Wishit?
Li Yuzhen, the lord of Qingchuan, is the eldest daughter of the prince.
If it is only this identity, it is just a county lord of the empire, or a future princess, but the other identity of the county lord of Qingchuan is the Tiance secretary of Tiance Academy.
Tiance Academy is the Tiance Mansion established by Emperor Taizong.
When Emperor Taizong was still the crown prince, Emperor Gaozu allowed him to establish the Tiance Mansion, as the military palace of the East Palace, which was above the military officials' offices. After the Tang Empire unified the north, it went south to destroy the Liang Dynasty to unify the Central Plains, defeated the Xianbei Turkic invasion, pacified the northern frontier of the Western Regions, and made great contributions to the Tiance Mansion - two-thirds of the twenty-four heroes of Taizong Lingyan Pavilion were from the Tiance Mansion.
After Taizong ascended the throne as emperor, he abolished the position of the military government of Tiance Mansion and renamed it Tiance Wuyuan, as the palace of the empire, specializing in cultivating the children of the clan and the generals who were loyal to the imperial family. After Emperor Gaozong became a pro-emperor, he renamed the Tiance Martial Academy as the Tiance Academy, and set up a literary academy in addition to martial arts, specifically cultivating talents for the royal family. It can be said that the Li family in Longxi can still be as stable as a rock-solid ruling empire under the strong power of the family surnamed Jia, which is inseparable from the Tiance Academy cultivating Wenwu talents loyal to the royal family from generation to generation, and the children of the royal family have outstanding talents from generation to generation.
Emperor Gaozong issued an edict stipulating that the children of the royal family can enter Tiance Academy after the age of six and become Tiance preparatory students, and the admission assessment will be carried out after three years. Three years later, the promotion assessment was carried out, and those who passed guΓ² were promoted to "Tiance Pushi", and those who did not pass guΓ² were eliminated from the academy, and basically brushed down half. At the age of fifteen, the assessment of "Tiance Liangshi" was carried out, and those who did not pass the guΓ² were eliminated. Those who can be promoted to become "Tiance Liangshi" can be called the best among the young people of the royal family.
On top of the good scholars, there are also six levels: strategists, auxiliary scholars, bishi, secretary, teacher, and national scholars, and the latter three are the core of the academy. Taking the secretary as an example, Wu Qingshi entered the official, and the rank was awarded from the Huaihua general on the third grade, and the Wen Qingshi entered the official, and the rank was awarded from the golden purple Guanglu doctor of the third grade. The county lord of Qingchuan is the youngest secretary in the history of Tiance Academy, and he is both civil and military, and he is the leader of the younger generation of the royal family.
In the eyes of various families, this county lord is definitely a heavyweight.
The Lanling Xiao Clan's Wind Pavilion listed her as an intelligence object of the same level as the crown prince and the king of Qi.
According to the information handed over by the Anbei Branch of the Wind Pavilion, this county lord should be practicing in the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, how did he end up in Weizhou?
Is it a private visit or a bright visit?
If it was a private visit, it was a private friendship between the county lord and Wei Yun, and Xiao Cong couldn't control it, but the previous information of the Wind Pavilion did not show that the county lord had any dealings with Wei Yun.
If it is clear......
Xiao Cong raised his eyebrows and said, "The Governor's Mansion has not received an order from the county lord to come to the Hexi Army to practice. β
According to the system of Tiance Academy, after the martial arts students are promoted to strategists, they must practice in the armies in various places, and the military department issues a practice order signed by the emperor. If it is practiced in the Hexi Army, the Ministry of War should issue an order to the Hexi Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the Metropolitan Governor's Office will arrange the procedures - why did the Qingchuan County Lord go to the Weisheng Army privately?
Wei Yun said with a solemn face: "The county lord was previously practicing in the loyal army of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and two days ago he led the Youyi battalion to inspect the Yanming River and was attacked, because the location of the attack was close to the Weizhou Hengma Sentinel, the county lord sent a guard to ask for help from the Hengma Sentinel, and happened to meet Ji Heng's Youyi Camp halfway, and when he rushed over, the enemy master was dead, and the county lord was also seriously injured. - Temporarily recuperate in the house. β
Xiao Yan's eyes lit up, and what he thought in his heart was: The county lord of Qingchuan has been assassinated again?!
She heard the fourth brother say that those children in the royal family who are worth paying attention to, among which the county lord of Qingchuan ranks first, it is said that since the first time he went to the army at the age of fourteen, he has been constantly assassinated, and there is a "first assassination" among her several "firsts", and it makes people feel abnormal if they don't encounter an assassination in any year. And this county lord has become stronger and stronger each time in the successive assassinations, which is simply a typical example of getting stronger and stronger, and it is said that he broke through and entered the middle stage of the Ascending Realm when he was assassinated at the mouth of the Datong River in the Andong Prefecture six months ago.
In the middle of the Ascending Realm!
Xiao Yan's fingers couldn't help touching the knife and glanced at Wei Yingzhou opposite.
Wei Yingzhou miraculously understood her glance and glanced back at Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan actually understood the meaning of his glance: very strong!
Wei Yingzhou's cold and hard face had no expression, but his mind was a little fluctuating, remembering the first time he saw the county lord of Qingchuan at that time, he was obviously seriously injured, but the posture that came from his eyes made people feel as indestructible as a mountain.
Wei Yingzhou's heart was surging with war intent, and there was a complicated feeling that he couldn't tell.
Xiao Cong's face became solemn, the location of the assassination of the county lord of Qingchuan was too inappropriate.
Zhenzhou, where the Zhongrui Army is stationed, is adjacent to Weizhou, and the upper reaches of the Yanming River are in Weizhou.
He asked in a deep voice, "Can the identity of the ambusher be found?" β
Wei Yun's eyes were gloomy, and he said: "The thieves have all died in battle, none of them are alive, and the five hundred horsemen are all black-haired and humble, it is difficult to say that they are from the Tang Dynasty, or from outside the Tang Dynasty." β
There are many black-haired Xianbei in Datang.
The Northern Central Plains was ruled by the Northern Wei Dynasty established by the Xianbei Tuoba Department for more than 140 years, and later split into the Eastern Wei and Western Wei, and was replaced by the two Xianbei regimes of the Yuwen Northern Zhou and the Gao Northern Qi, each of which stood for thirty or forty years, after two hundred years of Xian
Inferior rule, there are many black hair in the northern Central Plains. After that, the Tang Dynasty replaced the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and then moved east to destroy the Northern Qi Dynasty, driving most of the Xianbei nobles of the two countries to the north of the Great Wall, but there were also many Xianbei tribes who chose to belong to the Tang Dynasty, such as the Dugu clan and the Murong clan. There are more common Xianbei people, scattered in the northern states.
After Yuwen Northern Zhou and Gao's Northern Qi fled to Beisai, they united with the Shihu in the north and the Huangfa Xianbei in the northeast respectively to establish the Yan Zhou State and the Oghuz Khanate. ββFrom a geographical point of view, the Xianbei cavalry that attacked the county lord of Qingchuan this time most likely came from Yanzhou, which is across the river from Zhenzhou.
The Oghuz Khanate is east of the Yan and Zhou kingdoms, and does not border the Zhenzhou of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, if there are 500 cavalry to avoid the many passes of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate and sneak into the northwestern Zhenzhou, it really makes people wonder how leaky the Anbei Governor's pass is leaking! - This is extremely unlikely.
If the ambushers were the cavalry of the Yan Zhou Kingdom, then how did these people sneak south of the Yanming River and not be discovered by the border posts? - And this is not a few people! It's five hundred! A full five hundred cavalry!
Either it is turned over from Hengma Mountain, or it is swam from the river of Yanming River.
Either way, the border posts in Anbei and Hexi Weizhou are responsible.
No wonder Wei Yun's face was solemn.
It's not just a matter of responsibility, but even worse about the possible loopholes in the border guards.
Of course, there is also a possibility that these Xianbei cavalry came from the territory of Datang.
That's even worse.
Who is the Messenger of the Lord?
King Qi?
Or is it something else?
Maybe the Lanling Xiao clan is suspicious.
Of course, Xiao Cong was sure that this was not done by his father, even if his father was jealous of the county lord of Qingchuan, he would not use the method of assassination.
This is the tacit understanding between the family, the family and the royal family, whoever starts the assassination, it is endless, who can be sure that their elite children will not die under the assassination of the other party? Any family that initiates an assassination in vain is tantamount to dragging the family on the road of "suicide", because all families will not tolerate such an unruly mad family.
Xiao Cong believed that neither the emperor nor the county lord would think that this attack had anything to do with the Xiao family, but this feeling of being detained was terrible - those attackers chose to do it in this area, which can't help but make people think about it.
Wei Yun said: "This attack on the other party has obviously been prepared for a long time, and the crossbow arrows and knives are quenched with the poison that seals the throat with blood, and they will die in an instant after breaking the skin." "Of course, this kind of poison is not easy to obtain, not to mention such a large amount of use, it must definitely be prepared for a few years," The county lord's five hundred Youyi battalions were almost all killed in battle, and the guards also died twenty-two, and the four masters of the Ascending Extreme Realm besieging the county lord were killed. When Ji Heng arrived with his battalion, only the county lord and four guards were still alive. Others, all dead. β
Xiao Cong and Wei Yun glanced at each other, and both of them understood the meaning in each other's eyes, guessing whether it was the Qingchuan County Lord who killed the four Ascending Extreme Realm, or the hidden guard behind her who made a move.
They would rather believe the second guess, because the first guess is too unpleasant, which means that Qingchuan County is mainly hiding its cultivation, not only in the middle of the Ascending Extreme Realm, or its strength is too amazing, and one in the same rank is invincible to four!
If such a supreme genius in martial arts appeared in the imperial family, there would still be pressure on other families.
Think about Li Shenfeng during the period of Emperor Gaozongwu, cough cough, it really makes all the families bleed. One of the important reasons why the powerful Taiyuan Wang clan of the monstrous first family was able to be cleansed by Gaozong's iron blood was that the master of the Zhen clan was beheaded by Li Jiansu with a sword, and with only one sword, he killed the Great Perfection of the Cave True Realm who had stepped into the innate realm with half a foot! Li Jiansu was only thirty years old that year.
Who knows if Li Yuzhen, the county lord of Qingchuan, will be the second eldest princess of Chu State, Li Jiansu?
Xiao Cong felt a slight regret in his heart, why did this county lord's cousin get stronger and stronger?
There was a look of concern on his face, and he asked, "How is the county lord's injury?" β
Wei Yun said: "The county lord is extremely injured, and I am afraid that he will not be able to leave Weizhou in the near future." The day before yesterday, an urgent military report was sent to the Guogong to inform him of the incident. β
The county lord of Qingchuan is recuperating here, and the Weisheng army and Hexi Dao have to take care of the safety of the county lord, of course Wei Yun has to inform Xiao Yu and ask for help, it is best to send a few masters of the Ascending Extreme Realm to come over to guard.
Xiao Cong's face showed a sad expression, the master of the Ascending Extreme Realm is not a cabbage, he can pick ten or eight of them at will, and one of them can be worshiped in the Ascending Extreme Realm in the family surnamed C. Of course, the background of the great family is much deeper, but the background of the Xiao family cannot be exposed to the royal family, and such a guard has to send a few people, presumably the father has his own considerations, and he does not need to bother.
Xiao Cong's face was only slightly sad, and he lowered his posture and said, revealing a concerned expression: "The county lord is here to recuperate, and Cong is going to visit now." β
According to the blood relationship, he and this county lord are cousins, so they should visit him.
"That's what the prince said." Wei Yun got up with a smile, stretched out his hand and said, "Shizi, please." β
The two got up and walked out of the hall, followed by Xiao Yan and Wei Yingzhou.
Xiao Yan still had the aftermath in her heart, she had imagined how strong the Qingchuan County Lord was before, but she didn't expect it to be so strong!
How old is she?
The fourth brother said eighteen last time, and in the past six months, at most nineteen.
Nineteen-year-old mid-Ascend Realm?! Or is it the middle of the Ascending Realm with one kill and four?!
Xiao Yan grimaced and looked at the sky silently.
Evil spirits!
The author has something to say: Remarks:
The official uniforms of officials in the Tang Dynasty were embroidered from Wu Zetian, and then they were abolished. I think it's good to have embroidery on the official uniform.,All of them have retained this.,But the embroidered pattern is my own innovation.γ
In other words, I have always felt that the flying fish suit of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei is very good-looking, beautiful and handsome~~
But the flying fish suit is not a woven fish. The so-called flying fish pattern is made in the shape of a python and the fins and tail of the fish, not the real flying fish shape. The flying fish pattern comes from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Overseas Western Longitude": "The Arowana Mausoleum lives in the north of it, and the shape is like a raccoon dog (or the Arowana is like a corner of a raccoon dog, and the raccoon dog is a carp). "Because it can fly, it is a flying fish, with a head like a dragon and a corner of the fish's body. (In other words, Mao remarks the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, will Xiao Yan be dressed like this in the future?)
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