Chapter 1 Anecdotes from Enjing

For the Liufeng family, seventy-eighty-three years was an eventful and catastrophic year. In the late autumn of this year, after eight years of illness in the seventh generation of the Liufeng family, Liufeng Xishan, he finally failed to survive the ninth year, and he died.

It should be said that Liufeng Xishan is worthy of his heir. At the time of his death, he left his successor with an army of one million, an ample treasury, and a well-functioning political apparatus, and as long as the heir's intelligence was above average, the country would not be too bad.

Sadly, none of his three sons were among them. The eldest son, Liufeng Sen, is said to be able to play chess with gorillas on a par with each other. And his two younger brothers are not much better, Liu Fengqing can write his name correctly five times out of ten, and Liu Fengming doesn't need to wear a saliva mask at the age of twenty-five.

It's a nightmare that upends all theories in genetics, and scholars can't explain that such a wise father has three stupid sons, which is as incredible as a mother mouse giving birth to kittens.

In desperation, scholars can only hint: "On a stormy evening, the Lady of the Stormy Mountains came home an hour later than usual - and this happened three times!"

This insoluble mystery is really the misfortune of the Liufeng family and the great luck of the Zichuan family. In order to choose an heir among the three brothers, Liufeng Xishan racked his brains, but these three living treasures are really "not the stupidest, only more stupid", and it was not until shortly before his death that he finally figured it out: "Since the three are generally stupid, in fact, everyone is the same." ”

He called his three sons: "Sons, you are all equally excellent, dad, for the sake of the long-term future of the Liufeng family, I have decided to use a simple and fair method to decide!"

What is this simple and fair approach?

That's the draw.

In the temple hall of the Liufeng family, all the important ministers of the family gathered, and Liufeng Xishan wrote three signatures on the spot, and then looked at his three sons coldly: "Come on, in front of the ancestors of my Liufeng family, see who the providence belongs to!"

It turns out that God loves fools, especially the kind of fools who are so stupid. A minute later, Liufeng Sen was elated, the two younger brothers wept and mourned, and the important ministers congratulated in unison: "Congratulations to His Highness Sen!" Everyone threw down the dying Liufeng Xishan and hugged up to the new master.

Liufeng Xishan was lonely in a wheelchair, indifferently looking at the elated victors and frustrated losers, he had seen through the warmth and coldness of the world, after the crown prince was born, his last role in the world had come to an end, the Liufeng family had a new master, and it was meaningless for the courtiers to serve an old master who had half a foot in the coffin.

He was thinking about it, and a gentle hand gently put it on his shoulder: "Daddy, I'll send you back to rest." ”

He turned his head, and in front of him was the only woman in the audience, the pretty woman in military uniform. Among the flattering politicians and high-ranking officials, she is as arrogant as a snow lotus in the desert.

Looking at her, Liufeng Xishan was heartbroken, God gave her a talent that surpassed all men, why not give her a male body?

The two looked at each other silently, father and daughter, past and present celebrities, one was not much, and the other was in his prime, with an infinitely broad future.

"Shuang'er, I've wronged you!"

"Daddy, you're overthinking, that's good. ”

"Limited to the ancestral family law, I can't make you the head of the family, but ...... in the future" Liufeng Xishan's unfocused pupils stared blankly at the lucky lucky man with a red face who was surrounded by the crowd, and whispered: "After I go, you abolished him and became the head of the family yourself." ”

After being shaken, she also whispered: "This kind of thing is absolutely impossible." ”

"Yes, you should. Liufeng Xishan muttered, "I didn't expect that Ah Heng left earlier than me." In the future, the Liufeng family will depend on you...... Please, Frost......"

The old man's head slowly drooped, drooling from the corners of his mouth, and he fell asleep.

Staring at her father's gray hair, her weathered eyes overflowed with tears, as if she was afraid of waking up the sleeping old man, her voice was as soft as a sigh: "Daddy, please rest assured." ”

A week later, Rogue Nishiyama died.

The appearance of the new family is really not flattering, he is stout, hunchbacked, with long hands and feet, thick and hard hair, unsightly protruding forehead and jaw, small eyes flickering suspiciously in the deep sunken eye sockets, and covered with thick black hair.

At first glance, people often think of an intelligent primate, and even the favorite food of the Flowing Wind Forest - when they hear this, no one does not scream - bananas!

He is also like an orangutan, greedy, selfish, suspicious, irritable—all the virtues of man that he has forgotten in his mother's womb. Without his father's calculating wisdom and charisma enough to attract his subordinates, he could only solve the problem in the simplest way, killing all those who might threaten his position!

On the day he ascended the throne, he could not wait to gather troops loyal to him into the city and besiege the mansions of his two younger brothers.

Throughout the ages, there have been countless such court incidents, and the victors have always had the privilege of not being condemned.

But as it turned out, Liufengsen was not that material at all. It only takes a glass of poisoned wine and an assassin to kill the two younger brothers, but in order to show the prestige of the new monarch and doubt the loyalty of his subordinate generals, Liu Fengsen deliberately borrowed a full 100,000 barbarians from the local Tu tribe from the distant northwest wasteland.

Without waiting for the army to arrive, every ant in the Yuanjing City was running to tell each other, Liu Fengqing and Liu Fengming felt that they had not yet learned the skills of King Zuo Jiaming to be able to resist the army all the way, they hurriedly waved goodbye from afar, and then ran away.

The harsh environment in the northwest has cultivated the tenacious vitality of the Tu people, and also created their unspeakably bad living habits, which are not shameless and not afraid of life and death, which is the best description of the Tu people, who are fundamentally incompatible with the civilized world.

For example, in the minds of the Turkish people, they have no concept of latrines and toilets at all, because in the vast and boundless desert of their hometown, where can they not solve their physiological problems anywhere? And for this special thatched latrine, the Turkish soldiers felt that it was really incredible: "The people in the city are really troublesome, such a big city, can't it still hold a few bubbles of? Why go out of their way to run so far?"

So, they brought the "good" living habits of their hometown to Yuanjing.

Since then, the citizens of Yuanjing have been blessed, they go out every day to be "surprised" to see another lump or a few pieces of at the door, less than a week, the bustling Yuanjing stinks, there is no place on the street, and these yellow and white things are increasing at a rate of 100,000 lumps per rì 100,000.

The citizens were terrified to find that if the development continued at this rate, in less than half a month, the entire Yuanjing City would be overwhelmed by a huge pile of earthy yellow sè, cháo, wet and sticky xìng substances, in short,.

The Turkish troops entering the city aroused strong resentment from the citizens of Yuanjing, but compared to their other actions, casual defecation was really just a trivial matter. Usually, I have only seen Huangsha Gobi camels and cacti, and the first time I saw the young and graceful beauties in the city, the eyes of the Turkish soldiers were about to erupt with fire: "This woman insists on getting it!"

The desert tribe has always admired force and warriors, and when they got married, the groom tied the crying bride to the camel with a rope to "snatch" home.

In front of everyone's eyes, the Turkish barbarians molested and abducted women in the streets, and for a time, everyone in the far capital city was in danger -- of course, ugly women did not have to worry, but it was they who shouted the most: "Yo, it's terrible, it's terrible! People don't dare to go out! What can we do?" That posture seems to be for fear that the people of the world will not know that "people" are qualified to be robbed.

Others had to comfort her: "The barbarian soldiers are just barbaric, their eyes are not blind, you are very safe......"

Hearing that the barbarian soldiers were doing something wrong, the garrison troops and jǐng cha in the far capital hurriedly came to dissuade them, and persuaded each other with good words, but unexpectedly, the warriors felt that their sacred marriage had been violated, and their eyes widened: "Do you think our Turkish warriors are easy to bully?"

As soon as the chief gave the order, thousands of barbarian soldiers rolled up their sleeves and beat the garrison and Jǐng Cha to the head and broke the blood, and smashed the garrison camp in the city. Seeing that the barbarians were outnumbered, the garrison officers and soldiers reported the matter to the Yuanjing Garrison Headquarters, and asked to send troops to suppress the stupid movements of the barbarian soldiers and arrest the perpetrators, but Liu Fengsen needed the help of the barbarians to deal with the two younger brothers at this time, and instructed: "They are all fraternal troops, and friendship is the most important thing, and the overall situation is the most important!"

At this beginning, the barbarians became more and more unscrupulous, they did not look like an army at all, but a super-large bandit regiment assembled, and the military discipline of the troops was so bad that desertion, robbery, forcible jiān, killing civilians, and looting shops were commonplace.

Despite the language barrier, this does not prevent the barbarian soldiers from working in full swing, and the knife is the best translation!

The jǐng inspection bureau was burned, the garrison camp was smashed, there was no law, no dignity, no one dared to stop it, no one dared to resist, and the order was gone, and in those dark rìzi, the ghosts in the far capital city cried and howled like hell on earth.

Normally, the barbarian soldiers only need to kick open the door, their eyes glare, and the interesting owner of the house naturally bows his head and smiles and presents all the possessions of the family - even if it is dangerous to even squint at this group of fierce gods, the slightest disobedience, this group of barbarian soldiers will immediately hang the whole family on the eaves and hang them!

A week later, the chaos reached its zenith, and even the palace became the object of plundering by the barbarians, and the main hall of the palace was plundered, and when the palace guards arrived, the barbarians carried the gold carpet and carved jade vase.

Looking at the throne with two legs cut off (the barbarians suspected that the legs were made of gold), Liu Fengsen's expression was indescribable.

Every day as soon as the sun set, those Turkish barbarians set up a fire in the center of the street--to-tear down the doors, sorghum and furniture of the houses everywhere to burn the fire-roast sweet potatoes and stolen pigs, ducks, and sheep, drink the local wine, and gnaw and touch the snatched women, the women's mournful cries for help and the men's desolate laughter drifting along the evening breeze.

It must not be said that the barbarians are as savage as the wild beasts, and they claim that their national culture has a long history, especially in song and dance. When the brutes are half-drunk, the show begins.

A large group of people around the fire wow-la-wah dancing and singing, the simple grass skirt on the body is waving in the wind, the simple face of the barbarian is full of joy, in the cheerful dance, the singer uses the native folk song to express the love for a better life, the lyrics are said to be both far-reaching and meaningful, but also full of feelings, the lyrics are roughly translated as follows: "We are pests, we are pests......"

While they were singing, the five million citizens of Yuanjing were silent, and their eyes were on fire. Flowing Wind Sen had recruited these barbarians, but he didn't know how to send them away.

He ordered the Turkish troops to withdraw from the city, but none of the chiefs would obey -- who would want to go back to the barren northwestern wasteland and suffer rather than to work hard in a bustling big city! The chief replied in a rough voice: "Lord Sen, the children have not had enough!"

"Give us three more days, and we'll quit after three days!"

"According to the customs of our Tu people, guests must be guests for a week when they come to the host's house!"

"We Tu people are ethnic minorities, and ethnic minorities have our national rules! According to our rules, it takes at least one month to be a guest!"

"According to the rules of our Tu tribe, you must stay at the host's house for at least two months as a guest!"

Finally, he said angrily: "Didn't you, the host, invite us over? The host's expulsion of the guests from the house is a great insult to our native customs! Our brave Turkish warriors will never accept such an insult!"

Liu Fengsen didn't dare to say any more, and hurriedly took the guards to slip away: God knows if the Tu people have the custom of killing people if they are insulted. He regretted that he had provoked such a gang of scoundrels, and if this trend continued, he would not have to wait for the Zichuan family to call, and the famous cultural city of Yuanjing would be destroyed at the hands of this group of barbarians.

The end of the story was extremely dramatic. Two weeks later, Marshal Liufengshuang, who was guarding the eastern front, returned to Yuanjing with his troops.

Hearing the news that Liufeng Shuang was coming back, the brave Tu warriors suddenly forgot their long-standing customs and glorious national traditions, and ran away with smoke and even lost their shoes, and withdrew a jīng light overnight.

The whole incident debuted in a drama and ended in a farce, which incidentally completely exposed the incompetence of the new monarch. Prone to the use of force but unable to control it, this kind of rude xìng style is a virtue for a mountain king who robs his house and robs his house, but for a country with a history of 300 years and has formed a complete concept of moral inheritance and institutional etiquette, Liu Fengsen is an out-and-out faint monarch.

But it doesn't end there. For this stupid Yuanjing incident, Liufengshuang scolded Liufengsen fiercely, scolding so bitterly that even a pig would be ashamed to hang himself when he heard it.

But Liu Fengsen didn't even have this sense of shame, and after listening to Liu Fengshuang's scolding, he not only had the cheekiness to linger, but also offered to borrow the army of Liufeng Shuang! Liu Fengshuang asked: "The barbarian soldiers have been driven back, what do you want the troops to do, big brother?"

Liu Fengsen said as a matter of course: "Of course it's to kill those two rebels!"

Liu Fengshuang looked at his eldest brother dumbfounded, and couldn't believe that someone was so shameless and stupid as to do this: this guy didn't learn a milligram of the lesson from the disaster that just ended!

She was silent for a long time, and finally said coldly, "The Crusaders haven't learned to fight civil war!" She got up, kicked over her chair, turned and strode out of the palace.

Liu Fengsen sat in place, cold sweat streaming down his forehead: at that moment just now, he really thought that Liu Fengshuang was going to kill him.

After the quarrel, Liufengsen was determined to relieve Liufengshuang of his military power, the threat of hundreds of thousands of powerful eastern armies was too great, Liufengshuang was stubborn and uncontrollable, with her, no matter which monarch would be restless.

"Marshal Liufeng Shuang, in the name of the head of the Liufeng family, I have decided to remove your military power!" - even if he gave Liufeng Sen two more dares, he would not dare to have such a dignified showdown with Liufeng Shuang.

He politely found Liufeng Shuang, his face was full of smirks, and he praised her great achievements, and said: "Good sister, you have fought for my Liufeng family for many years, it is too hard, I can't be indifferent as a big brother, I have decided to give you a month's vacation, you can go and relax!

"Don't worry at all!" Liu Fengsen assured with a smile on his face, he was sweating with worry: the Yuanjing City was full of weathered troops, and the Yuanjing City was also her army, so she could depose herself lightly and coax the tiger to pull out her teeth!

Liufeng Shuang's face was expressionless, staring at him deeply, and bowed slightly: "Obey, family master." ”

She took out the military power order and put it on the table, and asked calmly, "Do you have any other orders, the head of the house?"

Even Liu Fengsen couldn't imagine that things would go so smoothly, he was dumbfounded and speechless for a long time.

Liu Fengshuang bowed lightly: "If there is nothing to do, I need to prepare my vacation luggage, and I will retire for the time being." ”

"You...... Where are you going?"

"If you allow it, I plan to go to the Lin family to recuperate for a while, Heqiu is a very good resort city, and the scenery is very beautiful. Liu Fengshuang lowered his eyes and said softly: "As you said, the head of the family, I am also tired. Since your father has entrusted you with the great cause, you will have to work harder, and forgive your sister for not being able to help. Big brother, please!"

Looking at her sister's selfless clear eyes, even with the shamelessness of the flowing wind, she can't help but feel ashamed.

For a long time, Liufeng Shuang has been regarded as the patron saint and mainstay of the Liufeng family, and the news of her exile has caused a great sensation, and there are many discussions among the people, and along with the news of Liufeng Shuang's loss of power, there is another shocking gossip: "Liufeng Sen is not in the right position!"

Rumors were scattered in the streets and alleys like dandelion seeds, and the idlers spoke vividly, foaming at the mouth, as if everything had been seen by his own eyes: "Before Lord Xishan died, only Liu Fengsen was present in the house, and all the guards and ministers were driven out. The adult was still in the morning, but as a result, Liufeng Sen's front foot went in and the back foot came out in less than five minutes, and Lord Xishan immediately ran out of gas!"

It is said that there was a "person" outside at that time—the true identity of this "person" was constantly changing, sometimes it was a young guard of so-and-so, sometimes it was an old palace maid, and suddenly he turned into a highly respected minister--no matter who it was, he heard the sound of vicious curses, fights, heavy gasps, muffled cries for help when the victim's mouth was covered, and there was a sound of pleading, and there was a sound of grunting, and finally, there was no sound at all. The former head of the family choked his breath.

No one could see the body of Lord Liufeng Xishan with their own eyes, the imperial doctor who performed the autopsy had a car accident inexplicably, and the guards who blocked the scene were all transferred to the northwest battlefield, and they mysteriously disappeared on the road, and even the biggest basis for Liufeng Sen's succession to the throne was the suicide note that was said to be written by Liufeng Xishan himself, and it had not been tested at all! The speaker stretched out a finger meaningfully: "You say, isn't the matter still obvious?"

The rumors are getting more and more popular, and Liu Feng Sen is angry to track down the rumor-bearer, but rumors are like the wind, they seem to be everywhere, and when they reach out and grab it, there is nothing, and Liu Fengsen's anger can't find a target to vent.

In desperation, he launched a propaganda campaign, which was countered by rumors, and the newspaper reported every day with a large headline: "Beloved His Highness Liufeng Sen visited the orphanage in person!"

"His Royal Highness Liufeng Sen has donated generously to out-of-school children!"

"Unemployed do not lose their will!--His Highness Liufeng Sen shook hands with the unemployed workers cordially and encouraged them to cheer up the gods!"

"An enthusiastic person who loves public welfare, His Royal Highness Liufeng Sen personally cleans the public toilets for everyone!"

"Show your skills in times of crisis - His Royal Highness Liufeng Sen personally catches thieves for everyone in the city!"

"Batman's identity is revealed-His Royal Highness Liufeng Sen humbly declared: Upholding justice and helping the weak is my dream since childhood!"

A large number of reports eagerly show that our good monarch Liu Fengsen is a benevolent and righteous man who is full of love and public morality, who is full of justice and ideals, who is anxious for justice and righteousness, who is not afraid of evil, and who cares for the people - the implication is obvious: How could such a loving and kind young man commit the crime of killing his father?

But alas, the overwhelming publicity did not achieve the desired effect. In stark contrast to the eagerness for rumors, the public appears indifferent to the self-aggrandizement of the Flowing Wind Forest.

In front of a large poster reading "Liu Fengsen shakes hands with unemployed workers", a child asks, "Mom, what is this?"

The mother said lightly: "The keeper and the gorilla take a group photo." ”

Seeing that all the tricks were exhausted, Liu Fengsen's approval rating plummeted, and rumors were still rampant, and in the end, the newspaper had to publish the rumor: "His Royal Highness Liu Fengsen's succession to the throne is completely legal and reasonable, and he has never tampered with the suicide note and murdered his father and younger brother!" -- so angry that Liu Fengsen scolded the propaganda minister for being sent by the enemy.

And while Liufeng Sen was in a hurry, his enemies did not rest.

Liu Feng Qing and Liu Feng Ming, this pair of brothers who were incompatible in the past have now joined forces, and they openly declare that what the rumors say is completely true, and they have witnessed the evil act of Liu Fengsen plotting against his father, so they are brutally persecuted and hunted down!

"Shouldn't this qiē unusual incident arouse our suspicions?" the two young masters of the Flowing Wind questioned in the tone of philosophers, calling on all the warriors loyal to the Flowing Wind family to stand up and fight the deranged usurpers and paternal sinners in the most resolute struggle, so that the Flowing Wind regime could return to the hands of true patriots.

With the rapid spread of the statement, Liu Fengqing and Liu Fengming also gathered troops loyal to them, and the rebel troops with a total strength of up to 500,000 looked at Yuanjing.

There was a strict split within the ruling class in Yuanjing, and the panic and confusion spread rapidly to the local provinces and the army like a plague, the army was disheartened, the people were at a loss, the rebels were approaching Yuanjing step by step, and the Liufeng family had never had a head of the family in such a bad atmosphere in three hundred years, and some people predicted with great confidence: "The rìzi who welcomed the ninth generation of the head of the family to power is not far away." ”

The important ministers are centrifuged, the people's hearts are not attached, rebellions are everywhere, the smoke in the country is continuous, and the wind is in a hurry.

In order to keep power, he made a stupid decision that seemed inconceivable to others: he declared himself a vassal to the feud Zichuan family, cut land, and paid tribute, on the condition that in exchange for the support of the Zichuan family for him, he suppressed the rebellion in the country - surrendering to the Zichuan family could still save his life and throne, if he let Liufeng Qing and Liufeng Ming win the world, they had to kill themselves!

But during the negotiations, Di Lin, the chief representative of the Zichuan family, put forward a condition: "Your Highness Liufeng, in order to prove your sincerity, you had better show some proof - we are not rare in gold and silver treasures, but we are very dissatisfied with someone, she has killed tens of thousands of soldiers of the Zichuan family in the past ten years, and her hands are full of blood." With her, peace between the two countries is impossible. Your Highness, do you understand what I mean?"

Hearing this condition, Liu Fengsen was so shocked that he couldn't speak: "Then what's the matter, she is my sister after all!"

He pleaded: "Everything else is fine, but this really can't work!Lord Dilin, at most I will cede two more provinces to the Zichuan family!"

"Your precious family affection to Your Highness the Convective Wind is very touched. I guess Your Highness's two dear brothers are not far from Yuanjing, ladies and gentlemen, let's go, don't hinder His Highness Liufeng from reuniting with his brothers and sisters. ”

Di Lin got up to go out, and the rest of the negotiators followed suit, big drops of sweat appeared on Liu Fengsen's forehead, and at the last moment, he shouted: "Lord Di Lin, please stay!"

"I ...... I promise you!"

From this moment on, the Liufeng family, which had dominated the western part of the continent for three hundred years, began to decline rapidly and alarmingly.

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