On the wooden staircase, Wang Shi and Wang Qimei were angry, and asked loudly:

"You bastard, do you dare to report your name?"

Jiang Chen walked out of the door of the inn, didn't even look back, and happened to think of Wu Da and Wu San who died selling cooking cakes, so he laughed and left a word:

"Famous Wu Er, if you want to find me trouble, you must sweep the couch to greet you!"

said.

Jiang Chen broke into the night alone.

In the inn, many guests looked at each other.

Wang Shi sneered: "Cut, it's just that I don't have the money to move in, and I still have a 'big world and I'm the biggest' tone!" ”

Wang Qi also chimed in:

"In the Yumen Pass City, except for the 12th battalion of Liangzhou, as well as the official mansion, it belongs to this inn, which is the safest, this Hun surnamed Wu, if he leaves here, he will wait to be killed by the water ghost!"

Xiao Er also took a rag and said to many guests with a smile:

"In the upper room on the second floor of this inn, there are two sword rangers and a longitudinal warrior, which is enough to protect everyone's safety, so the room fee is also slightly more expensive."

"The upper room is next to these celebrities, and it only costs fifty taels; The next room is on the first floor, fifteen taels can be. ”

Although everyone was in some pain, they still paid the money and moved into the lower room.

Some people can't help but sigh:

"Fang Cai that Wu Er, he also looks dignified and dignified, if he is harmed by the water ghost, it is really a pity."

But at this time.

With a slight "crunch", the door on the second floor slowly opened, and out came a middle-aged man wearing a leather crown, about fifty years old, with a friendly face and a long beard, who seemed to be a sincere old man, but a pair of eyes were full of cold stars and contained strength.

Xiao Er's eyes lit up, and he introduced to many people:

"This old man is the great Zonghengshi who lives in this store, Li Xianjun."

"He once persuaded the Lao Jiu Gang to shake hands with the Xihu Gang and make peace, he is a great man in the realm of our Yumen Pass!"

When Li Xian heard this, he sneered:

"The Old Nine Gang and the Xihu Gang, what are they, dozens of Xiliang Iron Cavalry led the team to rush, and they collapsed and dissipated from then on."

"In the whole world, only when you enter the Kyushu Army and become a captain and a general can you be called a 'big man'!"

Wang Shi and Wang Qi's eyes were burning, just now they were thinking about defecting to the Qingzhou Army, but in a blink of an eye, they changed their minds again, they climbed the stairs together, walked to the second floor, and said with a sneer:

"Gong Li, my brothers and I have been admiring Zongheng Wutu for many years, can you give us a chance to worship under your door and learn the art of Zongheng?"

Hear this.

Li Xian sneered and said disdainfully:

"A man must have a pair of iron teeth and bronze teeth, be able to speak well, and also have a pair of discerning eyes to see where the heroes are?"

"Just with you two fools, you can't even recognize the real hero in front of you, and you are worthy of being under my Zongheng Shimen?"

Wang Shi and Wang Qi both blushed, and they were so choked that they couldn't speak, and after a long time, they were dissatisfied: "Where did the real hero come from?" ”

Li Xian pointed to his eyes and sneered:

"Just because you're blind doesn't mean I'm blind too, just look closely, and you can easily see that the strong man who just ate with you has a broad chest and a majesty that is invincible; The bones are strong and the muscles are strong, such as shaking the ground and Pixiu coming to the seat. Even if he is not a general, he must be the best among the Qingzhou fighters. ”

"He only needs to blow one breath, and he can blow you two brothers to death!"

Wang Shi and Wang Qi were stunned:

"He, he's, he's a big guy like you? This ......"

The two brothers always said how majestic and domineering the Kyushu Army was, but when they really met, they were like Ye Gong being a good dragon, cold sweat broke out, and they were extremely frightened.

The guests present were all in an uproar, the humil "Wu Er" just now was actually a big man above the rank of sergeant?

But when you think about it, it makes sense:

"Yes."

"Such a dignified and majestic character can only be cultivated by the Kyushu Army, such a majestic hero must be a fighter of the Qingzhou Army!"

"I heard that the Qingzhou army won the battle and has defeated the gateway of the Western Regions, the Loulan Kingdom, from now on, the beauties, spices, and some rare treasures of Loulan can flow freely into Kyushu, which can be regarded as an increase in financial resources for my David Wu Dynasty!"

Li Xian didn't bother to pay attention to these idle merchants, and sighed in his heart.

Although he was a vertical and horizontal man, the David Wu Dynasty swept the world, reaching the East China Sea in the east, wading quicksand in the west, and reaching the north and south households, and he had completely lost the soil of vertical and horizontal.

As for the remote Western Regions and the northern grasslands, only by obtaining the endorsement of the national dynasty can they be qualified to be vertical and horizontal, just like Dingyuan Hou Banchao.

Li Xian sighed in his heart:

"Alas, I don't know if Wang Ganju, the magistrate of Xiaogu County, has the strength to cause trouble in Kyushu and cause the princes to fight?"

"The chaos in the world is the time when my generation of Zonghengshi rises!"

…………

Jade City.

Zuo Prime Minister Sima Zhongda knelt on the ground and respectfully recited the latest military information:

"Your Majesty, eight hundred miles of urgency, Xiaogu County Magistrate Wang Ganju, because of the failure of the guards' military rations, all the grain in the warehouse was polluted by rats, and he didn't want to die, so he brazenly killed the county officials who came to supervise and raised a rebellion!"

"Now, the county town of Dunhuang has been broken, the county guard has been killed, and even the loyal liver and courage of the county guard have been dissected, and they are sold in public!"

In the Weiyang Palace, the old emperor was lying on the bed, and when he heard the word "rebellion", his eyes were angry, but this anger made him feel a sharp pain in his chest, coughed several times in succession, drank a pair of decoctions, and then came to his senses, turned his head and asked the eight-year-old child beside him:

"Fang'er, what do you think about this?"

The crown prince Cao Fang puffed up his chest and said loudly:

"There are thousands of horsemen in Liangzhou, most of them are guarding the border counties of the grassland, and they need to beware of the Hu people going south, it is not appropriate to move, according to the ministers, it is better to let the Qingzhou army assist in defending Liangzhou."

"Erchen heard that in the Qingzhou army, although Zhang Longxiang died, he raised a star, neither surnamed Feng nor Zhang, but Chen Sheng Township, Pingshou County, born in a small family, called Jiang Chen, there is no trouble in the family, if you let this general bring thousands of people and horses, you will be able to exterminate the rebels!"

The old emperor only felt dizzy, and always felt that something was wrong, but what the prince said was undoubtedly a very appropriate strategy.

Moreover, the curse of the Son of Heaven's elixir became more and more violent, and the old emperor didn't have more time to carefully screen it, so he said:

"The prince has made meritorious contributions and has been promoted to the king of Qi."

As soon as the words fell.

A burst of dazzling golden light suddenly burst out of the Taimiao Temple and landed on the crown prince Cao Fang, and in an instant, the body was surrounded by brilliant golden light, like a god descending into the world.

It took a long time for the light to dissipate.

The crown prince Cao Fang only felt that his body was extremely strong, as if he had the strength of a thousand powers, and he was not brave, so he immediately came to his senses, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, and said respectfully:

"Son-in-law, thank your father, Emperor Longen."

The corner of the old emperor's mouth tugged at a smile: "That, the general called Jiang Chen, is it the hundred generals who offered baked cakes a few months ago?" ”

Cao Fang licked her lips and said respectfully:

"Exactly, you also commented that there are sages in the people, and they are talented people."

Hearing this, the old emperor was in a slightly better mood:

"When the counterinsurgency is over, you may use the surname Jiang as a starting point to try your best to suppress the two major families in Qingzhou, but you can't go too far."

"Although there are only seventeen or eighteen generals in the army, the two families have a very deep heritage, accumulated for more than 100 years, or dozens of generals, and it is not certain whether there is a fake death martial marquis, waiting for the time, it is still unknown, you must be careful, within three years, you can't force the two families."

The crown prince Cao Fang nodded and said:

"Erchen understands that within three years, he will never change his father's government!"

Zi said:

"The Father is here, and he looks at his will; The father did not, watch his deeds; Three years have not changed the way of the father, which can be described as filial piety. ”

The superficial meaning of this sentence is:

When my father was alive, I saw his ambitions; After his father's death, judging by his behavior, if he still adheres to his father's principles of doing things within three years of mourning, he can be regarded as a filial son.

And for the imperial inheritance.

The new monarch must fully adhere to the policy of the first emperor, at least three years or more, before he can truly learn the art of the emperor, gain the approval of his courtiers, and enjoy the worship of all the people in the world.

If the new monarch arbitrarily revised the policies of the previous emperor at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, it would inevitably lead to national turmoil and even the risk of national ruin.

Hearing what Cao Fang said, the old emperor felt more and more that he was worthy of Sheji, and chose a very good successor, and said coldly:

"Zhongda, you have always been loyal, and you also have the cultural and martial arts of Liaodong, so you will assist the prince and deal with the affairs of Liangzhou."

Hearing the holy words, Sima Zhongda was like an actor possessed, and immediately threw his five bodies to the ground, crying and flowing:

"Old minister Xie Your Majesty Longen, you will be smeared with liver and brains, and you will not give up!"

The old emperor closed his eyes:

"I'm tired, let's all stand down."

When the crown prince Cao Fang and Prime Minister Zuo Cheng exited the palace according to the courtesy, the old and the young looked at each other, and they all laughed, and everything was silent.

Then, Sima Zhongda bowed his waist and walked out of the gate of the Big Red Palace slowly with an old and frail attitude, walking in secret.

It wasn't until he entered the carriage that he gradually recovered to a healthy posture, and said with a smile indifferently:

"Sure enough, fathers in the world always expect their children to be smart, but - only eight years old, how can they understand military politics?"

"Your Majesty, you're old, confused~" The nearly two-hundred-year-old Prime Minister David Zuo commented on the forty-nine-year-old emperor.

This rather risky test also made Sima Zhongda's mind gradually come alive, and he sneered in a low voice:

"The rest depends on the matter of Yumen Pass, whether it can be successful?"

…………

Yumen Pass.

A large earthy yellow fortress numbered about 20,000 if you included some of the floating population, such as merchants.

"If the matter of the water ghost killing people is not solved, the population of 20,000 will double in one day, and at most fifteen or sixteen days, it will be dead......"

Jiang Chen, who calls himself "Wu Er", walks slowly in the warm breeze of the spring night, observes the whole city with the eye of the sky, and silently waits for the water ghost to appear.

After a cup of tea.

In a dry well somewhere in the west of the city, a long-haired woman gradually crawled out, her black hair covering the spots on her face, corpse spots, dressed in red, and dripping with water under her feet.

Tick... Tick......

And behind her, there are many shadows, and there are dozens of figures, two of which are Wu Da and Wu San, who sell cooking cakes.