An unprovoked autumn rain wetted both sides of the Yellow River, and the dead leaves in the late autumn swirled in the wind and fell in the rain, making people feel bleak and cold.

In such a cold season, there are still people climbing up the stone steps in the mountain behind Crouching Tiger City, as if they want to reach the top of the mountain in the rain.

Hearing that the king of Pingxi was going to climb the mountain in the rain, the Crouching Tiger Protection Department sent people up the mountain in advance early in the morning to control the easy hiding places on both sides of the road, and even the masters of the shadow team who were good at sniping occupied all the sniper points in the mountain to prevent any mistakes.

Now the issue of Zhao Xing's personal safety, he himself has already said that it will not be counted, but it must be discussed by the guard group, the shadow headquarters and the security department before it can be decided. Although no one in the world said that Zhao Xing might be the emperor, everyone in Crouching Tiger felt that it was a matter of time. If even King Pingxi, a great sage and sage who has not seen the ancients before, cannot win the world, who else in the world has this qualification?

Protecting the safety of King Pingxi is to protect the well-being of the whole world, even if it is ten thousand times the effort and hardship in this matter, Zhao Xing's civil and military subordinates feel that it is worth it and should be.

Because of this, Zhao Xing has left Crouching Tiger City less and less in recent years, not because he doesn't want to walk around and take a look with his own eyes, but because he is frightened back by a set of cumbersome travel protection plans. Think about it, Zhao Xing, who has always liked to be unrestrained, now every step he takes, there are bright and secret guards to follow, and even when he is tired of walking and wants to "shhhh

Although it was late autumn and there was a drizzle in the sky, Zhao Xing, who had been stuck in Crouching Tiger City for a long time, still decided to climb the mountain to breathe, and by the way, sort out the next many things.

Zhao Xing happily climbed the stairs in front, followed by Li Jinsi, Pang Tong, Li Ru, Lu Meng and others, some of them had a flat face, some of them looked worried, and they didn't know what they were thinking. Chen Qi is old, so he didn't follow Zhao Xing to join this time, he was playing chess with Wang Yun in the mansion.

Everyone rushed to an octagonal pavilion on the top of the mountain, shook off the raindrops on their heads and eyebrows, and then the guards who followed them brought up a stove with bamboo charcoal burning inside, as well as a few jars of Changhe Daqu that had not yet been opened, and a few plates of cooked beef and appetizers.

A few people sat around the stove, first opened a jar of wine, put it on the stove, and then began to talk about some anecdotes that have happened in various places since this autumn, which is also very soothing and comfortable.

When the sand urn of hot wine came out with white gas, Zhao Xing asked the big wine cup in front of everyone to be filled with colorless and transparent long river songs, and then raised his glass and said: "Come, come, come! Today is the hard work of you to accompany me to climb the mountain in the rain, and I will warm up my body with this cup first!"

The few people accompanying him knew that Zhao Xing must have something to say, but since he didn't take the initiative to mention it, everyone wouldn't talk too much, and they all picked up the wine cup and drank it freely.

This Xu's winery for the Pingxi Wangfu special Changhe Daqu is not everyone has a taste of the taste, I heard that it is made of several kinds of grains, without any water mixed with the puree wine, in the market at all.

When the wine was hot, Zhao Xing asked Lu Meng with a smile: "Ziming has lived in the water town of Jiangnan for a long time, which is like spring all year round, has he ever adapted to the autumn and winter weather in the north?"

Lu Meng put down the chopsticks in his hand, raised his glass to the king of Pingxi, and then drank the liquor in the dry cup with a smile, and said: "The south is good in the south, and the north is wonderful in the north." If you hadn't come to Crouching Tiger City, how could you have drunk the special offerings made by Xu's Winery for the King of Pingxi!"

When they heard this, they burst into laughter.

Pang Tong, who is also from the south, sighed and said: "Huaxia Shenzhou is vast and boundless, the customs of the north and the south are huge, and each place has its extraordinary. ”

Zhao Xing followed Pang Tong's words and said: "It's really vast and boundless! Now the territory we actually control is only three or four percent of the land of Shenzhou, but there are already tens of millions of hard-working people, thousands of miles of splendid rivers and mountains, when the world is unified, I still don't know what a magnificent scene it will be?"

Li Jinsi often goes in and out of Zhao Xing's study, and is very familiar with the huge "Kanyu Wanguo Quantu" in Zhao Xing's study, and he knows that the "great unification of the world" in Zhao Xing's mouth not only refers to the land of China, but also includes several overseas continents, so he said: "I'm afraid that at that time, it will be difficult to reach the easternmost Donglai County in Shenzhou to the westernmost Great Qin State." ”

Li Ru heard the meaning of Li Jinsi's words, and said with a twist of his chin: "In order to control the land of China, the Han royal family has spent a lot of effort on the government institutions and state and county settings, and now it seems that there are still many problems and hidden dangers. ”

Li Ru said that this question, several people in the audience have thought about it to some extent, but everyone feels that it is an almost unsolvable question, because there are no precedents for reference before, and even Zhao Xing has not found an accurate answer. Zhao Xing remembered that although Genghis Khan swept across Eurasia, there was only one country on the planet where his descendants existed, and it was recognized by the Huaxia Kingdom under the persecution of the bandits of Changmao and Mi.

If Zhao Xing tossed for a long time, in the end, he could only keep the territory left by his ancestors, he might as well wash and sleep early, go back to Crouching Tiger City and continue to bury his head in the creation of people with his daughters-in-law in his arms, and save himself from overlooking the mountains in this late autumn day.

Seeing that everyone put down the wine cup and chopsticks, thinking about the future with a serious face, Zhao Xing took out a stack of papers full of words from his arms, and then asked Li Jinsi to distribute them to everyone.

These papers embody many of Zhao Xing's thoughts on national development and political innovation over the past year or so, and many of his views have broken through the inherent mindset and borrowed from the political systems of later countries, which will surely surprise people who see them.

After getting the paper, the people in the pavilion looked at it carefully and carefully, for fear of missing a single word on it. They were either puzzled by Zhao Xing's outspoken questioning of the supremacy of imperial power, or yearning for the ideal country described by Zhao Xing, or secretly applauding Zhao Xing's sharp criticism of the policy of fooling the people, or secretly surprised that Zhao Xing did not intend to be emperor but was interested in becoming the pope......

All of a sudden, the mountain breeze outside the pavilion was mixed with raindrops, and only the wine urn on the charcoal stove was steaming white.