Not long after the apocalyptic star appeared, the peasants who sold vegetables and firewood in the city had already appeared outside the city 'gate' with their burdens or carts, waiting for the opening of the city 'gate' after dawn, looking forward to selling the fruits of their labor at a good price.

As soon as the time came, the big 'gate' was pushed by dozens of soldiers, and it slowly opened with a loud sound, and the peasants in front of the queue hurriedly picked up their burdens in order to grab a better position.

Some peasants who were still napping in the back were awakened by the sound of the city 'gate' opening, and they also hurriedly pushed or picked up in the laughter of the people next to them and hurried towards the city.

In the morning light, there are already a large number of people on the street to start a day's life, although last night was very noisy, but their lives still have to live according to the original rhythm.

It's just that the people all over the city are still immersed in the shock of last night, and from time to time you can hear someone talking about last night's episode. I saw it on the spot last night and talked loudly about the plot of the Romance of the Gods, and there was no sense of showing off in my words, but the people who didn't go to watch last night scratched their heads and scratched their ears.

Suddenly, some people found that more than a dozen storytellers suddenly appeared in several places in the city, and what they were telling was the story in the Romance of the Gods.

No need to ask, these storytellers must have been arranged by Wang Ze, with yesterday's blockbuster for publicity, coupled with the level of these storytellers who are comparable to the famous radio names of later generations, the mythical story of the Romance of the Gods is extremely attractive, and it has attracted a large number of people to listen to it, and the wide Vermilion Bird Avenue has rarely formed a congestion.

Those who saw the shadow puppet show outside the Imperial City last night wanted to hear it again, and those who missed last night's show wanted to hear what the story told by the storyteller was all about.

Since Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos', the people of Jiankang City have not encountered such a big bustle for many years, and they are like festivals, but the scholars and many monks involved in this matter are full of sadness.

The road leading to the Great Jingai Temple next to Zhongshan Mountain has become deserted and deserted, except for the birds chirping on the big trees on the side of the road, there is no longer half a figure, and the big "gate" of the vermilion "color" temple is also tightly closed, showing a depression "color".

The little novices in the temple held their breath and silenced one by one, and they were tiptoeing when they walked, for fear that if they did something wrong and said the wrong thing, they would provoke the punishment of the great monk of the temple, and the abbot, the court supervisor and the hall master, hall master and other high-level temple officials were all presiding over the room of the senior monk Huixuan.

Hui Hui was the host of the Great Jingai Temple before, and he would have been the highest-level monk in Jiankang City in history, but this time he was almost angry to death, and he didn't know if he could do that again.

Since he passed out last night after being swoed by a head of sewage splashed by Wang Ze, Hui Xuan has not woken up until now, his face has turned from the ruddy of the past and become pale and weak, and the burly monk in the past looks much thinner.

If it weren't for the fact that Hui Xuan's 'chest' could still see the ups and downs of his breath, and the monks also knew a lot about the art of disambiguation, it seemed that he was afraid that Hui Xuan had passed away.

Looking at Hui Hui with a pale face, Hui Qi, the abbot in charge of the teaching affairs of the Great Jing Ai Temple, left two novices to take care of Hui Hui, and then waved his hand and walked out of Hui Hui's room with the monks such as the hall master and the court supervisor.

Hui Qi took the hall masters to the Heavenly King Palace, looking at the hall masters with straight faces, there were worries and fears in their expressions, it seemed that the incident last night had too much impact on them.

The head of the halls, the hall master of the Heavenly King Palace, folded his hands and stepped forward and lowered his eyebrows: "Abbot, now that the reputation of my Futu Sect's 'Gate' has been ruined, please ask the abbot to show me how to act in the future!" ”

Hui Qi does not look kind like Hui Xuan, he is already relatively thin and now he is not smiling, so his face is a little 'gloomy'.

Hui Qi glanced at the Lord of the Heavenly King Hall and did not answer, but turned his head and asked the head of the temple's warrior monks, the Master of the Luohan Hall, "Do you have any news from the family masters?" ”

The master of the Luohan Hall leaned forward and folded his hands respectfully and said, "Back to the abbot, until now, the disciples have not received any letter from the family masters, and the monks sent by the disciples to contact the family masters with the surnames have not been able to see any of them!" ”

"Humph!" Hui Qi snorted coldly, "These scholars have a very high opinion of themselves on weekdays, and they are always indecisive when they encounter major events, although they were aimed at Wang Ze before, but the siege of the imperial city has already done everything, and they still want to turn back?" Where is it so easy! ”

Seeing that all the senior monks in the main hall lowered their eyebrows and said angrily, Hui Qi said angrily in a low voice: "Although Chen Baxian is respectful to us on the surface, he actually has a lot of constraints on my Futu Sect' 'gate'. He didn't want to continue to repair the hundreds of remaining monasteries in Jiankang City, not to mention, he even repeatedly raised the status of the Taoist 'door', if it weren't for the fact that we had always 'befriended' with the scholars of all surnames, I was afraid that Chen Baxian would also learn the Buddha's methods! ”

Buddha is the Northern Wei Dynasty Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao's "milk" name, when he first ascended the throne once believed in the Futu Sect, but later because he saw many monks' "lewdness" and "disorder" behavior, so he hated the Futu Sect, and successively issued several edicts to destroy the Buddha's hand almost made the Northern Dynasty Futu Sect cut off. All the monks in the hall are well-educated people, of course, they know this allusion.

Without waiting for the monks to answer, Hui Qi continued to say coldly: "But we don't have to be afraid, the 'door' of the Futu Sect in the world has always been the same thing, and besides, the 'door' of my sect has more than one million monks and believers in the Southern Dynasty, Chen Baxian has to respect us no matter how dissatisfied he is, but what is Wang Ze?" ”

At this time, one of them answered: "Abbot, now that thief must be very proud of his victory, it is better for me to arrange manpower ······" It turned out to be the master of the Luohan Hall, and I saw him make a downward movement with a hand knife with his hand.

Hui Qi stopped the words of the Luohan Hall Master: "This matter is not urgent, and let that little thief be proud for a few more days, I have already contacted the cronies sent by the Great Zhou Yuwen clan last night." In the future, the one who will dominate the world will inevitably be the Great Zhou Yuwen clan, and now watching the Dao 'Gate' hug Chen Baxian's big 'legs' make them proud for a few days, but this great religious tradition ultimately depends on who has the last laugh! ”

The Lord of the Heavenly King Hall was puzzled and said: "Abbot, although the Yuwen clan said that a few years ago it plotted to seize most of the Yiliang Erzhou and Jingxiang land, but now there are only millions of people in the country, why is the abbot so optimistic about the Yuwen clan?" ”

Hui Qisheng sneered: "Since ancient times, the world has been unified with the north and the south, this is the general trend of the world. In this way, only the Northern Dynasties, Zhou and Qi can dominate the world, although there are many powerful people who rely on various countries to besiege the Northern Qi and take advantage of the 'chaos', but it is just a small boil of cattle flies, and it cannot become a big thing.

Now the Northern Qi Dynasty has fallen into the siege of various countries, and the national strength has been greatly reduced, but the Xianbei magnates and Han officials in the Northern Qi Dynasty have turned a blind eye to this, and they are still in disputes.

On the other hand, in the past few decades of the Great Zhou, from the Yuwen Black Otter (Yuwentai) to the current Yuwen Hu are all heroic for a while, and the Xishi clan has strong support, and the national strength of the Bashu in the east and south is thriving, and there is a tendency to build a high-rise in the upper reaches of the former Qin Bureau, so I conclude that the one who will dominate the world in the future must be the Yuwen clan! ”

Hearing what Hui Qi said, the hall masters in the hall thought it was true, and at the same time, they also felt admiration for the far-reaching vision of their abbot.

"The abbot is not good!" A fat middle-aged monk broke into the main hall, it turned out to be the master of the precept hall who was responsible for maintaining order in the temple, and as soon as he entered the 'door', he shouted: "A large number of officers and soldiers have crossed the river by boat from Guazhou on the other side, and now I am afraid that they have begun to enter the city!" ”

Hui Qihuo stood up suddenly: "What? The officers and troops in Jiangbei have already crossed the river? So fast! ”

When Hui Qi received the letter, all the scholars with surnames who participated in the 'yin' conspiracy against Wang Ze in Jiankang City were now a little panicked.

Although the power of the scholars of the Southern Dynasties has always been relatively large, but that is only in terms of soft power such as prestige, the territory controlled by Chen Baxian before was only thousands of miles around Jiankang, and there are many things that are required to the heads of the scholars with surnames, so the scholars can be said to pinch Chen Baxian as much as they want.

But now that Chen Baxian has completely mastered the land of Huainan, the strength has expanded dramatically, and then through the rewards and punishments of military achievements, the children of the scholar clan who originally mastered the heavy army have now greatly reduced the proportion of the military strength they have mastered.

These scholars didn't expect that there would be such a big movement this time, what the scholars with the surnames discussed with Hui Hui and others before was to set off a huge momentum to 'force' Wang Ze to escape quietly, and then they used this to make a big deal to ruin the reputation of Wang Ze and Wang Yong, and of course they could also suppress the prestige of the Nanchen royal family by the way.

However, the Futu Sect's 'gate' acted without authorization, and the act of wanting to kill Wang Ze made the surnamed scholars a little dissatisfied, although if Wang Ze was killed by the 'chaotic' people, causing Nan Chen and Wang Yong to turn against each other, Chen Baxian, who helped to reduce the lottery, would definitely rely more on these scholars, but no one could guarantee that Chen Baxian would not go crazy?

Since the failure of last night's operation, there are several monasteries in Jiankang City who wanted to use their monks to attack the imperial city and kill Wang Ze, but early this morning, a large number of Chen troops boarded boats from Guazhou to cross the river, and a large number of people began to pour into Jiankang City at the first moment.

Chen Qian, the king of Linchuan who got the news in the city, immediately took Han Zigao to greet him, and Wang Ze and Feng Fu also held back in the palace for two or three days, so the two followed together to see the excitement.

As soon as he saw Wang Ze, the main general who led the team, he found that it was Wu Qiong, an old acquaintance from the original mission to Qizhou, who led the team.

It turned out that not long after Hui Hui and others besieged the city the day before yesterday, Chen Qian secretly sent his henchmen to quickly cross the river to Shou 'Chun', Chen Ba was reporting first, and after the messenger crossed the river, he knew that Chen Baxian was already on his way back to Jiankang.

So Xin used the warrant issued by Chen Qian to find a stagecoach from the post station and galloped north, and at this time Chen Baxian had already traveled to Guangling to stay temporarily.

Chen Baxian was also worried about the safety in Jiankang City, so he immediately ordered Wu Qiong, who served as the captain of his own guard, to lead more than 10,000 troops stationed in Guangling to rush to Jiankang, and after arriving in Jiankang, he acted on Chen Qian's orders.

After receiving Chen Baxian's warrant, Chen Qian was stunned when she saw the handwriting on it, and then she was pleasantly surprised, and immediately issued her own order, the first thing the army did when it entered the city was to disarm the thousands of men and horses stationed in the outer city, and then all the officers above the rank of the general were guarded.

These generals are either children of the scholar clan or have been bought by the scholar clan, and they have long felt uncomfortable using it, so this time they just took the opportunity to clean it up together.

After cleaning up the soldiers and horses in the outer city, Wu Qiong had time to catch up with Wang Ze, and Wu Qiong looked at Wang Ze as if he saw the God of Wealth, so he just took a shrine to worship Wang Ze.

But it is indeed not bad, when Wu Qiong went to Qizhou last year, Wang Ze was the master and sold 4,000 good horses to Nan Chen, these war horses were directly transported by Wu Qiong to the front line of the Northern Expedition, which directly made Chen Baxian's Chinese cavalry rapidly expand by one and a half times, and played a considerable role in many large-scale battles of Chen Baxian's Northern Expedition.

It can be said that if Nan Chen did not get these 4,000 war horses, although it is possible to restore some states and counties in Huainan, it will definitely not exceed half of the area of Huainan, let alone recover the entire Huainan land.

There is another advantage of occupying Huainan, here in the hundreds of years of confrontation between the North and the South, it is also a rare horse breeding land in the Southern Dynasty, plus the previous large-scale war 'chaos', the entire Huainan land is less than two million people, it can be said that the land is vast and sparsely populated, and it is more suitable for raising horses.

From the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Song, Qi, and Liang dynasties recruited northerners as infantry and cavalry from here.

Due to the fact that there were many people in Lianghuai who were good at riding and 'shooting', by the later stage of the Northern Expedition, the cavalry of the Chinese army under the command of Chen Baxian had rapidly expanded from seven or eight thousand to nearly 20,000.

"Brother Wu, I heard that Your Majesty has returned to the south, I don't know how the battle situation is between the Governor of Hou'an and General Chen Lingxi in the north?" Because Wang Ze was far away from the Central Plains, he didn't know much about the war that happened there, so he had to ask when he had the opportunity.

Wu Qiong looked at the tools that were still placed in the corners of the city wall in the imperial city with some curiosity, and a large group of Taoist priests over there were all studying those tools in a circle.

Hearing Wang Ze's question, Wu Qiong's eyes flickered: "Ah, hehe, Your Majesty has to return as soon as possible because Jiankang is busy with affairs here!" The Governor of Hou Andu in the north has already taken the Eastern Chu Prefecture together with General Cheng Lingxi, and is currently attacking Pi County! ”

Hearing that Wu Qiong seemed to have something inconvenient to say, Wang Ze stopped continuing to 'force' the question, and saw that Wu Qiong had always been interested in those appliances, so he introduced him: "Those are all used for screen animation." ”

Saying that, Wang Ze took a cone-shaped glass vessel and said to Wu Qiong: "Brother Wu, look, this glass is coated with a smooth layer of mercury, and I will light this gas lamp here and use this mercury glass cup to gather a strong light." ”

The Dao 'Gate' masters over there studied for a morning and didn't know how Wang Ze did it, but this time they saw Wang Ze introducing Wu Qiong, and immediately surrounded them one by one.

As soon as Wu Qiong saw that the Taoist priests who came over turned out to be the heads of various 'gates' of the Southern Dynasty, and one of them was his father's friend Dai Mengzhi, he immediately stammered and saluted: "Dai Zhangjiao, little nephew Wu Qiong has saluted you!" ”

Dai Mengzhi turned his head and glanced at Wu Qiong and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a kid from Wu Mingche's family, but now he is so tall and has become a captain, not bad!" ”

"Xiahou, I want to ask you what this thing that can make a loud noise is made of?" Wang Ze turned his head and saw that it was Nantian Master Dao Sect Leader Wang Yanqing, who was pointing to a huge sound box beside him.

Wang Ze smiled: "This is made by my East China Sea craftsmen using the principle of resonance, there are a lot of copper plate mechanism techniques in it, and there is still a sound membrane missing at that time, but fortunately, King Linchuan provided a python skin of a giant python, so this thing was done." ”

Wang Ze was quite overwhelmed by the great interest of the masters, so he had to invite the craftsmen who made these utensils and let them explain the various principles in detail.

Watching the big names listen to their own teachings to solve their 'confusion', let the craftsmen who have not been very confident raise their eyebrows one by one, and at the same time admire their own Xiao Langjun's skills, but who made Xiao Langjun a disciple of the gods!

After a night of silence, Wang Ze finally had a good night's sleep, although he had been making trouble for more than two days, although he was more excited, but after all, he was "very" exhausted.

I wanted to have a good in-depth discussion with you today, but as a result, Wang Ze just decided to get up, and then go to have a hearty Southern Dynasty breakfast with his younger brother Feng Fu, when Han Zigao rushed in.

Because everyone has long been acquaintances, as soon as they saw Wang Ze and Feng servant Han Zigao, they pulled the two and rushed out, Wang Ze looked at the fading Fengsheng and said hurriedly: "I haven't eaten breakfast yet!" ”

Han Zigao urged: "It's still early, we'll eat later, let's hurry up to the Xuanyang 'gate', Your Majesty is almost here!" ”

What? Chen Baxian has already come to the outside of Jiankang City! Only then did Wang Ze react, and he was finally going to meet this eloquent emperor!