Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Ice City King
The speed of the popular flying boat is amazing, but it still took a whole night to reach the ice city from Yemao Pass, and when Meng Yang landed outside the ice city, it was already the morning of the second day.
The snow was at least two feet thick underfoot, the cold wind was whining, and large snowflakes were still dripping all over the sky.
Standing on top of the snow without touching the ground, Meng Yang was pleasantly surprised to find that Ice City showed no signs of battle.
Someone on the city wall had already heard from him: "Is it Captain Meng?"
This time, Meng Yang's hanging heart finally lowered.
Since there are members of the Star Luo Clan, I think that I have never been attacked by the Feidu people in Ice City, and it seems that I have a false alarm.
He hurriedly said, "I'm Meng Yang, but am I the brother of the Star Luo Clan?"
Soon after hearing a noise in the city, two heavy gates made of fine iron slowly opened, and several people came out!
Meng Yang hurriedly flew forward, only then did he notice that in addition to Tie Zhanyun and Tie Qin'er, the two brothers and sisters, a captain of Xingluo, and two men and women who were in a faction of immortal wind bones.
Just this faint glance, the horror in Meng Yang's heart was tantamount to a huge wave!
These two men and women who looked to be in their forties made him completely unable to see the depth of cultivation!
Faintly emanating from the two of them, there was a unique dusty charm, and Meng Yang had a sense of dΓ©jΓ vu.
But all the people who gave him this feeling of being out of the dust were all peerless powerhouses, and they were even existences that surpassed the cultivation of the ten generals!
"Brother Meng, you're here!" Tie Qin'er greeted Meng Yang before the imperial brother.
Meng Yang hugged his fists and said: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince and His Royal Highness the Princess, how dare you work to greet you in person, isn't this tormenting me?"
Tie Zhanyun smiled and pulled Meng Yang's arm and said, "Don't be polite here, come, I'll introduce you to two people!"
He pulled Meng Yang to the front of the man and woman.
The man and the woman were extremely handsome, the man was covered with a blue seal robe, and the woman was wearing a purple mink robe, and both of them looked at Meng Yang with smiles, and there seemed to be some strange meaning in their eyes.
But the strange thing is that both have a hat on their heads.
"Brother Meng, these are my two mentors and my little sister, Master Qingsong and Master Ziyan!" Tie Zhanyun introduced the two to Meng Yang.
Meng Yang hurriedly bent down and hugged his fists and said, "Meng Yang has seen two elder masters!"
Unexpectedly, the two masters looked at each other and smiled.
"Meng Yang, yes, hahaha!"
"Isn't it good?
The two of them came to this sentence without a clue, and went into the city laughing.
Meng Yang straightened up with a stunned face, Tie Zhanyun scratched his head and said, "Brother Meng, the character of the two princes is like this, hehe, let's hurry into the city!"
Tie Qin'er originally wanted to go with Meng Yang, but when she saw the imperial brother holding his hand, she had to follow behind a little stupidly.
At this time, the captain of the Star Luo greeted Meng Yang.
Meng Yang said: "Brothers have worked hard. There are some supplies here, you should take them and put them in place, if it is convenient, you might as well distribute the food to the people in the city!
handed over the material storage ring that swept through Jiang Sanshao's warehouse to the captain, and followed the Tie Zhanyun brothers and sisters into the city.
When the city gate was closed, Meng Yang immediately habitually looked around.
The city is big, but it's also fragile.
The city wall is only one meter thick and more than one zhang high, if it is really an enemy attack, I am afraid that I can overturn a wall with three or two strokes of the siege cone, and I can't help but feel a chill.
There are hardly any shops or streets in the ice city, and there are very few people on the road, presumably because the weather is too cold.
There are dilapidated tents everywhere, and they are all over the place.
It turned out that the Har people lived in tents.
This kind of tent is easy to carry, and can effectively withstand the wind, sand and cold, which is far more comfortable than living in a mud-walled house.
Finally walking to the center of the city, Meng Yang saw a scene that shocked him.
There was a huge square, and there were neat rows of people standing in the square, no less than 100,000 people.
Meng Yang asked curiously, "What are these people doing together?"
Tie Zhanyun said helplessly: "This is the place to receive daily necessities, thousands of people have to be arranged to distribute them here every day, and all the daily necessities are kept and distributed in a unified manner!"
Eating a big pot of rice?
Meng Yang was stunned, he didn't expect the people in Ice City to live such a collective life!
"Let's go, take me over and see, what kind of food do you big lord give to the people!" Meng Yang said with a smile.
Tie Qin'er smiled coquettishly: "Brother Meng, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed." Don't you know that the imperial brother and I also have to get food from here, we eat the same as everyone else, and we never engage in specialization!"
When Meng Yang walked to the distribution of supplies in three steps and two steps, nearly 100,000 people suddenly shouted in unison: "See the big lord, see the little lord!"
100,000 people shouting together, even if they hum softly, it is scary enough, let alone shouting like this!
The voice seemed to go straight above the nine heavens covered with wind and snow, and it swirled for a long time, and Tie Zhanyun hurriedly waved his hand to stop.
Only then did Meng Yang see more than a thousand huge wooden barrels three people high placed in front of the crowd, and the group of people were either carrying leather bags or thick bowls to catch a cyan grain of rice released from a leak under the barrel.
"What kind of rice is this?" asked Meng Yang in a low voice.
Tie Qin'er laughed wildly, grabbed the arm of the imperial brother and kept shaking, and said coquettishly: "Imperial brother, our omnipotent Brother Meng finally has something that he doesn't know, who knows that he, a powerful man, would not know such a famous green corn?"
Tie Zhanyun hurriedly said: "Brother Meng, hey, the little sister is young and ignorant, don't be angry with her." Little sister, what are you doing here? Brother Meng is not a jack of all trades, it's normal not to know Qingmaize, you have to make fun of it, in front of so many people, what do you look like?"
Tie Qin'er spat out her fragrant tongue and grimaced.
Meng Yang approached a wooden barrel disappreciably, stretched out his hand to take a handful of green corn, put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it gently, only to feel a fresh fragrance coming to his nose!
I couldn't help but feel a stir in my heart.
Is this green corn a northern specialty?
However, it is said that this ice and snow wasteland is covered with ice and snow all year round, so how does this green corn grow?
Walking back to Tie Zhanyun's side, Meng Yang asked softly: "Your Highness, I see that these people are dressed very thinly, and the weather is so cold, how can they survive? In addition, I would like to ask, is this green corn produced from Yinshan County? Why is it so fragrant?"
Tie Zhanyun shook his head and said with a wry smile: "After everyone's efforts over the years, it is not easy to just achieve that everyone has a tent, a food collar every day, and a ban on it. However, because a large part of the money was spent on the green corn and ginkgo saplings, I am ashamed that this year's clothes have not been settled until now. This kind of green corn can be produced in Yinshan County! This is transported back from Gur City, and it is said to be a special product of the Mengdian Empire. It is both sweet and much cheaper than the price of small yellow rice in our country, so every year we have to order a few batches from Meng Dian to let everyone change their taste!"
Meng Yang asked, "Have you ever tried to grow this kind of green corn in Yinshan County?"
Tie Zhanyun said gloomily: "I don't know how many places I've tried, how many methods I've used! No way, the temperature here is too low, so we can't grow crops at all." If the temperature difference wasn't so drastic, the land of our Silver Mountain County would be fertile!"
Meng Yang knew that improving the soil of Yinshan County was Tie Zhanyun's biggest dream, so he couldn't help but ponder, temperature difference, temperature difference, he kept muttering this word in his heart.
Every time as long as he used the soul refining technique to refine others and lead to his own cultivation, Meng Yang did not dare to immediately enter the sea of flying tongs. Be careful to sail the Ten Thousand Year Ship, he will only dare to enter it after he has blended the two forces very evenly in the sea of blood.
This time was no exception, and he really wanted to beg Dan Shen to help him find a way.
On the way to the Lord's Mansion with the Tie Zhanyun brothers and sisters, Meng Yang had been thinking about the cultivation of green corn.
Only those who learn to use their own brains to find ways to solve problems are the ones who survive the longest.
This is the teaching of an alcoholic maniac.
Meng Yang rarely asked the Dan God for advice now, except as a last resort.
When God closes a door, a new window will be opened.
This is a quote seen in a certain book, and this sentence reminds Meng Yang.
Creation is magical, and there will never be a real place of death.
Even a blood-covered desert of death doesn't there still exist such a life as a sand ba?
The five elements are mutually reinforcing, and the temperature changes of nature and the alternation of seasons are all traceable and have potential laws.
He thought that as long as he found some kind of law or internal connection, it would definitely help improve the soil status of Yinshan County.
The so-called lord's mansion is a huge earthen walled courtyard.
Here live the Tie Zhanyun brothers and sisters, the two royal masters, and all the staff.
Originally, there were more than 1,400 staff members in Ice City, but in order to build Gur City, Tie Zhanyun sent more than 700 people to Gul, and the reform was quite successful.
The fact that the people of Bingcheng can eat green corn is a major breakthrough in the reform of Gur City.
There are still tents in the earthen walled courtyard, no different from the outside.
Monyan noticed that each tent was covered with a thick layer of ice, which made all the tents look sturdy except for the curtains!
Meng Yang followed the two to the tent where the two kings lived, and after entering, he did not see a bed, and only saw two futons spread on the ground.
Meng Yang was immediately convinced that these two were peerless powerhouses with unfathomable cultivation.
Tie Zhanyun found a few futons, and after several people sat down one after another, Meng Yang explained his situation in Yemao Pass in detail.
Master Qingsong sighed after hearing this: "I heard that the Holy Lord has ordered the military power of the eastern and western armies to be handed over to the five princes and His Royal Highness the crown prince respectively, this time, I am afraid that the outcome of this war is unpredictable!"
Yes?
The military power of the two armies was handed over to the command of the two princes, and the emperor was really willing to test his life, in order to test the prince's ability, he could use the lives of millions of people to risk?
For a while, Meng Yang couldn't help but be angry, and he didn't know it!
Tie Zhanyun was shocked and said, "Brother Meng, γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ» are you?"
Meng Yang came to his senses at this time, and said leisurely: "The Holy Lord really played a big game of chess! Everyone in the world is his chess piece, and the trade-offs are all in his thoughts! In this way, my initial guess was not wrong, and the 900,000 people in Bingcheng have really become outcasts in the Shengshang's layout! Heyββββββ
Qing Song and Zi Yan secretly exchanged an appreciative look, but did not speak.
Meng Yang stood up abruptly and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, now it seems that everything is really as I expected at the beginning, there will be a catastrophe coming in Ice City, fortunately we have made some preparations in advance! Otherwise, the consequences are really unimaginable!"
Master Zi Yan said softly at this time: "This Meng Shaoxia, don't you think that the disappearance of the Yemao Pass defenders is a little strange?"
Meng Yang's heart jumped, and he said: "I searched around at that time, and I didn't find any traces of fighting, and even after exploring a range of thousands of miles, I didn't find anything, and 50,000 people seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, which is really strange!"
Qing Song sneered and said, "You can even think that Bingcheng has become an outcast, can't you think that Ye Maoguan is also an outcast?"
Rumble!
This sentence immediately brought Meng Yang's train of thought to life.
Yes, why didn't I find out in the slightest, as long as the defenders of Yemao Pass took the initiative to evacuate, how could they leave any traces?
However, how did so many people evacuate, and how did they escape his induction?
Meng Yang never understood this.
At this time, Master Qingsong said casually: "Do you know that the twelve pass guards of the Zhenxi Army have a warship in their hands? Not to mention 50,000 people, even 500,000 people can fit it! That is something from the Immortal Demon Continent, it is very wonderful, and it is normal for you to be unaware!"
Meng Yang fully understood at this time, Wu Lie and the others actually abandoned the pass and left, which was equivalent to giving up the gate to enter Tianxuan Yinshan County like this, and directly letting the 900,000 people of Bingcheng face Jiang Sanshao's hundreds of thousands of elite cavalry!
The situation seems to be urgent, even if the speed of the march is slower, Jiang Sanshao will only need ten days at most for hundreds of thousands of people to reach the Ice City!
These ten days have become the time for Ice City to make final defensive preparations.
Meng Yang said with a straight face: "Your Highness, have you made defensive arrangements according to my plan these days?"
Tie Zhanyun nodded.
His brows tightened, and he thought of the mysterious oil lamp, and thought of the powerful disciple of the Hidden Sect who came from this trip, and his heart became heavier.
Perhaps, all the hopes are still in time.
Meng Yang suddenly said: "Does Your Highness have a defense map of the Ice City?"
Tie Qin'er jumped up and said, "I'll get it!" and turned around and ran out.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Meng Yang closed his eyes, let go of his divine sense, and took in the surrounding environment of Ice City.
No wonder the ice city was built here, surrounded by icebergs and bottomless ice valleys, and about 300 miles behind the ice city, there was a road that zigzagged out from the edge of the desert of death!
That is the road leading to Mengcheng, right? Could it be that Jiang Sanshao's attack here is just to step into this road?
"Brother Meng, the map is here!" it was Tie Qin'er's voice that made Meng Yang open his eyes.
He directly spread the map on the ground, and a pair of eyes were completely fixed on the map in an instant.
Ever since he closed his eyes until this moment, the gazes of Master Qingsong and Master Zi Yan have never left his face!
There was some kind of glint in their eyes.