For the next four or five days, Li Yuzhen was very calm.

So calm that you can't detect her abnormality.

The Emperor and Empress were also unaware of their daughter's anomaly. Xiao Yan's reply was attached to the military letter of the Metropolitan Governor of Hexi Province and presented directly to His Majesty, and the emperor now does not approve the chapter, and this entrained private letter only passed Li Yuzhen's eyes for the first time, and then quietly turned into a smear of powder in the incense burner in the study of Guangtian Palace.

Li Yuzhen handled government affairs as usual every day, fixed the province for the emperor and queen in the morning and dusk, took two hours to practice martial arts, and one hour to study, with a calm and decisive expression, and looked the same as usual, without any abnormality.

However, the maid beside the prince knew that under that calm face, the sorrow was like an abyssal dark tide, and it was only by great willpower that she did not show it; Only when he was in the Guangtian Temple, the whole body exuded an endless chill, just like the glaciers of the Extreme North Sea, which made people cold to the bones, and the blood had to coagulate.

The maids didn't know what exactly happened, but they only knew that that day His Royal Highness returned to the Guangtian Hall from the Zichen Palace, waved them out, and stayed in the study alone, and didn't come out until the evening.

The sword flashed with lightning, and even Cheng Guan Xia's mind was blank in an instant, his whole body was frozen and he couldn't breathe, and an endless chill came out from the bottom of his heart and bones...... Your Highness! The words have become two paragraphs, and the second half of the "festival exercise" fell in an uproar, but before it landed on the blue gold brick ground, it was twisted into pieces, and countless debris flew one after another. His Highness stood there with his sword in hand, cold to the extreme. It also makes people feel that they are sad to the extreme.

Lian Cheng and Guan Xia only felt hollow in their hearts, as if the fragments were broken, and their hearts were inexplicably astringent, they only felt, they only felt, they wanted to cry.

That night, His Highness sat on the cornices for the night.

The next night, His Highness practiced his sword all night.

The night before yesterday, His Royal Highness took up the pen and wrote "Xiao Yuezhi", and the thick pen and ink shot out through the paper like a sharp sword, and then the paper was shattered into crumbs. His Highness stood there with a pen in his hand as if he were holding the hilt of a sword, and did not move for a long time. Lian Cheng silently cleaned up, only to feel an indescribable pain in his heart, as if he was pierced by a sharp sword, severe pain and hollowness.

Last night, His Highness stood in front of the window and looked at the moon, and looked at the crescent moon for a long, long time, so long that it seemed to become a stone statue. When Guan Xia changed the incense, she saw the motionless back, and suddenly she had an indescribable feeling, sadness drowned her like a river, and tears rolled down for no reason.

She thought: Your Highness must be in pain.

But His Highness will not cry no matter how painful it is.

Her sorrow was like a river, whimpering only in her heart.

They didn't know what happened to His Highness and Xiao Seventeen, they only knew that His Highness was in such pain, just like the extreme northern abyss and the sea of ice, unfathomable, with an undercurrent rolling, under that calm ice, roaring and rolling, and at some point, the ice would collapse.

Li Yuzhen's heart has cracked.

The pain is like a broken heart, it's just a painful feeling, and the heart can't really be broken.

But her sword cracked.

It's not too much of a sword.

But...... Her Primal Sword.

After the sword cultivator enters the Dao, the sword species will be produced in the dantian, that is, the Yuan Life Sword of the sword cultivator, which is the core of their sword intent and the condensation of their Dao thoughts. The stronger the Genmei Sword, the stronger the kendo. On the contrary, if the Yuan Ming Sword is destroyed, the foundation of sword cultivation will also be destroyed.

The sword is the sword of the primordial sword, and the death of the person is not the death of the person, but the destruction of the Tao.

At this time, the Yuan Ming Sword suspended in Li Yuzhen's dantian already had a three-inch-long crack.

The crack was very thin, like spider silk, but it was a crack in the heart of the Dao.

The sword of the Yuan Ming is still there, but the Tao is not destroyed; But if the Dao Heart is not repaired, her sword path will stop.

In the long run, there is a danger that cultivation will regress.

Li Yuzhen remained calm, allowing the raging river to roar, rush, and chill beneath the calm surface.

A reef in the dark, battered by the rapids......

***

On the sixth day of the fifth month, the Privy Council reconvened the Privy Military Council.

This time, in addition to more than a dozen Privy Council scholars, there were also prime ministers from the Political Affairs Hall who attended the meeting.

Because this time is to discuss the Tang Dynasty's declaration of war on Yan Zhou: whether to declare war, when to declare war, and the content of the declaration of war are all things that need to be carefully considered.

Among the prime ministers, Shang Shuling is no longer Wei Chongrun - the prime minister submitted his resignation two years ago, saying that he wanted to concentrate on writing "The Wealth of Nations", the emperor read the manuscript of the first dozen chapters, and lamented that if this book is completed, it will be a masterpiece of Ji Ranxue, expressing regret for the resignation of the prime minister, but also respecting his choice to concentrate on repairing the book, and approved his resignation with very generous treatment. The successor Shangshu Ling is Yao Lancheng, the left servant of Shangshu and the secretary of the ministry, like Wei Chongrun, who was born in a poor family. Because of Yao Lancheng's reputation accumulated in the past 20 years and his scholarly official family background, although Shilin was deeply surprised by Wei Chongrun's sudden resignation, he also accepted the resignation of the prime minister and Yao Lancheng's appointment, and also highly praised Wei Chongrun's resignation. Of course, the truth about the prime minister's resignation is also deeply concealed by these accolades. All of you here today are the Apocalypse Sect. Even if he was pulled onto the boat halfway, he could only sit on this boat and move forward firmly.

The war with Yan Zhou is in the Apocalypse Plan.

Either go forward together or be crushed, there is no second way.

The Yuwen clan has decayed, so it will be crushed by the wheels of advancement. Of course, this is also the interest appeal of Oghuz, Yan Zhou is on the road of Oghuz's expansion, if you want to move forward, you must swallow Yan Zhou, there is no possibility of cooperation. Between Oghuz and Yan Zhou, Datang decisively chose the more wolfish Oghus.

Seven days ago, that is, on April 28, the army of Oghuz and the army of Yan and Zhou fought in the Jishi desert of Keren River, and both sides invested a total of 120,000 troops, and the Yan and Zhou army were defeated, with more than 70,000 people killed, and less than 10,000 cavalry broke through and fled. The occupation of the Karen River by the Oghuz army meant that Yan Zhou lost half of the territory north of the Karen River, and the remaining resistance army would definitely be divided and destroyed by the Oghuz army.

"Yan Zhou has lost control of the northern territory, and after the Oghuz army is repaired, it will definitely go south. Now, the time has come for our Datang to send troops. Yan Zhou must be eliminated before Euroton reacts! ”

Sixty-nine-year-old Privy Council scholar Xu Zhitong had a white beard, but his voice was strong and powerful, and his eyes looked at Li Yuzhen behind the gold-inlaid jade case, and arched his hand: "Your Highness, declare war!" ”

This old general was born in the Tang Dynasty martial arts family Weinan Xu, in addition to the ancestor of the British Duke Xu Ji is a well-known founding hero, more than 260 years Xu has also produced a lot of generals, six people have entered the Privy Council, Xu Zhitong himself served as the Anxi Metropolitan Protector, Zuo Shence Army General, against Euroton, Dashi, Yan Zhou these three countries have won battles, said that the voice of the declaration of war is full of anger, quite confident.

"Your Highness, declare war!"

The twelve Privy Council Scholars joined hands in unison, their voices high and powerful.

The prime ministers' eyes flashed.

Li Yuzhen's face was calm, and his voice was always thin and cold, "What about your public opinion?" ”

The most important thing in declaring war is that the division is famous, and the "name" of declaring war on Yan Zhou is very particular.

Zhongshu Ling Pei Chang said: "The point is to declare a casus belli. ”

"That's the mission of the political affairs hall."

Li Yuzhen's face was always calm, but the prime ministers had an inexplicable cold feeling, as if everything would be wiped out in front of this lord.

"Since it's a war on earth, it's time to let the people know about it." She said in an indifferent voice.

The prime ministers were silent.

This must be grasped to a good degree, and it is not okay to say too much, and it is not okay not to say it at all.

Pei Chang pondered for a while, and then surrendered.

Li Yuzhen followed up and said: "The household department is ready to issue war bonds on the day of the declaration of war. ”

The issuance of war bonds is the practice of the Tang Dynasty declaring war.

Shang Shuling and Shang Shu's left servant in charge of the household department responded at the same time, "No." ”

……

When the cabinet came out, the prime ministers walked in a pile, and the Privy Council scholars walked in a pile.

Xu Zhitong and Luo Jincheng, the prince of Xiangyang County, walked together and walked out of the inner court palace gate, Xu Zhitong asked him: "You have been holding your eyebrows, what are your concerns?" ”

Luo Jincheng had a deep personal friendship with him, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, it seems that something is wrong. ”

"Wrong?"

Luo Jincheng is a mid-stage grandmaster of the Cave True Realm, and his cultivation is the True Dao, and his inspiration is particularly keen, so he hesitated slightly, and said: "Your Highness's momentum is particularly sharp today, I sit below, if there is a pain in my skin." ”

Xu Zhitong was just a cultivator of the Fusion Realm, and sighed, "Could it be that His Highness's martial arts have entered the realm again?" ”

Luo Jincheng wanted to shake his head and stopped, and said, "Maybe, there is another comprehension in the way of the sword." ”

He didn't tell the truth.

The prince's condition is more like a sword accident.

It's very subtle, if it weren't for his true cultivation, he wouldn't have that kind of skin-to-skin feeling.

With the realm of the Great Perfection of His Royal Highness the Prince's Cave True Realm, he shouldn't be unable to restrain his sword intent.

Luo Jincheng silently suppressed his doubts.