Chapter 437: Calling the Wind and Rain
Meiling guards the Guanxiao Captain's Mansion, it is rare to be clean, the courtyard is clean and thorough, and the room is quiet and appropriate.
Li Xuan has a cup of fragrant tea in front of the table, and he is holding a book of Spring and Autumn in his hand, which seems to be studying carefully, but if you look at his eyes head-on, you can find that in the depths of his eyes, another world is spinning.
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In the Tianyin Sect camp, Ye Wanwan watched Fang Fengjin smile and be surrounded by everyone into the middle tent, bowed his head and saw him, with a trace of doubt in his eyes.
Fang Fengjin is not this kind of character.
Sure enough, as soon as he sat down, Fang Fengjin's expression suddenly turned cold.
Sitting on the high seat, Fang Fengjin looked at everyone murderously: "Everyone, let's talk about it, how they were defeated in the previous battle, today, you can't say one, two, three, everyone, you will inevitably be stabbed in the neck." ”
In a word, the atmosphere in the entire camp tent suddenly became cold and terrifying.
Fang Fengjin swept over everyone, and finally looked at Xu Shan with a sneer: "Xu Shan, you speak first!" ”
Xu Shan stood up with some uneasiness, and arched his hand to defend: "General, it's not that we are incompetent, but the king of Nanchang has the ability to call the wind and rain, how can I win with ordinary people?" ”
"Calling for wind and rain?" Fang Fengjin felt extremely funny for a while, and was about to open his mouth to reprimand, but saw that everyone present silently bowed their heads and frowned: "Tell me more!" ”
"Whoa!" Xu Shan hurriedly explained in detail all the situations he encountered after his arrival.
"In this way, the first few times, the wind burst out, and then the army was defeated." The corners of Fang Fengjin's eyes brought a trace of doubt, and finally directly pointed out Ye Wanwan: "Calling the wind and rain, saint, can you do this?" ”
Ye Wanwan immediately stood up and said solemnly to Fang Yunjin: "General Qiqi Yangwei, his subordinates can't do it." ”
Fang Fengjin was slightly stunned, glanced at Ye Wanwan, and then waved his hand and motioned for her to sit down.
Ye Wanwan's knowledge in the Tianyin Sect was not complete, and she didn't even know the names of many secret methods.
"General Mingwei!" Fang Fengjin looked at Zhang Wanyu.
Zhang Wanyu stood up, picked up a secret book from the side, asked the military general on the side to hand it to Fang Fengjin, and said in a deep voice: "This is the secret book I just received today, the true preacher had fought with the king of Nanchang in Hongzhou, according to them, before that, the king of Nanchang had just begged for rain from Longhu Mountain, and that rain lasted for three days and three nights. ”
Fang Fengjin's hand flipping through the secret book suddenly stopped, he raised his head dumbly, and his eyes swept over the faces of everyone present in an instant, and he could clearly see the stunned on everyone's faces.
The king of Nanchang really has the magic power to call the wind and rain, which is too unbelievable.
However, thinking carefully about what happened these days, it made these people of the Heavenly Yin Sect unable to refute it at once.
Fang Fengjin looked at Ye Wanwan again, and asked in a deep voice, "Holy Maiden, is there a way to stop it?" ”
"Yes!" Ye Wanwan's categorical words made everyone present extremely stunned.
Ye Wanwan looked at Fang Fengjin and said very directly: "According to the law of the Dao Gate, just find his Dao altar and cut off the connection between him and the gods of heaven and earth." ”
The people present did not completely understand this.
After all, the Tianyin Sect is also one of the Dao Sect inheritances, and they also have many things.
"Then leave this matter to the Holy Maiden." Fang Fengjin nodded expressionlessly, he didn't believe much in these things in his heart.
Ye Wanwan nodded calmly, and then sat down again without the slightest objection.
To stop Li Xuan from calling for wind and rain, Ye Wanwan actually agreed.
When everyone present saw this scene, they were a little incredulous for a while, and even Zhang Wanyu couldn't help but look back at Ye Wanwan.
Although the Tianyin Sect has many secret methods, Zhang Wanyu has never heard of the magical power that can call the wind and rain, let alone the way to stop it.
Could it be that there is really anything special about the inheritance of the saints?
Or is it just reassuring?
Fang Yunjin looked at the people in front of him, and said coldly: "Today is a day off, tomorrow, start the siege of the city, take the entire Meiling Pass in one battle, strangle the king of Nanchang, and use his head to teach me to go south out of Muzhou, and sacrifice the flag!" ”
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Li Xuan's eyes opened in an instant, and he was another person who wanted to use his head to sacrifice the flag.
Li Xuan didn't know for a moment whether to feel honored or funny.
But soon, Li Xuan's face became solemn.
came to the city wall, looking at Xu Jian and Yan Tao who had been standing, Li Xuan walked directly in front of the two.
"Lord Wang!" Yan Tao and Xu Jian bowed their hands to Li Xuan at the same time.
Li Xuan nodded slightly, then looked at the farthest point of sight, and then said in a deep voice: "Two, you have to pay attention tonight, the other party may steal the city tonight, please be cautious, this is not an enemy to mess with." ”
"Xia Guan understands!" Xu Jian and Yan Tao were both at the same time.
Li Xuan smiled faintly, then turned around and went down the city gate.
What he said just now was not a lie, even Zhang Wanyu dared to do such a thing as a night attack, why wouldn't Fang Fengjin do it.
Don't look at what he said in front of Zhang Wanyu and Ye Wanwan, but he has enough strength not to arrange these things through these two people themselves.
What's more, even Zhang Wanyu began to suspect that someone under her had a problem, why didn't Fang Fengjin suspect it.
Walking on the road in the city, Li Xuan greeted everyone gently, but all that flashed in his mind was Fang Fengjin's Achilles heel.
Fang Fengjin is the first hall master of the Tianyin Sect, and his loyalty and ability are first-class in the entire Tianyin Sect.
If Wen Fuzhi is not a special identity, I am afraid that he may not be able to reach the top in many aspects.
This is also the reason why Zhang Wanyu and Fang Yunxiu are engaged,
The two major forces within the Tianyin Sect compromised and made peace, but now, Fang Yunxiu is dead.
This is a very delicate relationship in itself, if at this time, Zhang Wanyu has another problem, I am afraid that between Fang Fengjin and Wen Fuzhi, they will have to turn their faces.
If something happens, what kind of thing will happen to a master like Zhang Wanyu at this time.
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The sky was getting dark unconsciously, and the north gate was silent, and it was not yet time to attack the city.
After dinner, Li Xuan rested early.
Even when he arrived, the shouting and killing outside the north gate did not alarm him.
In the early morning, the morning light sprinkled on the earth.
Li Xuan rode a high-headed horse and slowly walked towards the north gate.
Above the city pass, there are many swords and guns, flags are displayed, and blood is permeated.
"Lord Wang!" Yan Tao and Xu Jian saluted solemnly at Li Xuan, and the bloodshot in their eyes was clearly visible.
"Take your people down to rest, and in the afternoon, you bring people up to take shifts." Li Xuan waved his hand directly.
He knew very well about last night's night attack, the Tianyin Sect really sent a lot of good hands to sneak attack, if it weren't for Yan Tao and Xu Jian, these two, a former soldier Cao joined the army, and a current school inspector Cao joined the army, so I don't know if something really happened last night.
"Lord Wang!" Qiu Zhenmu and Zhou Shen stood on the other side, and it was the two of them who commanded the battle today.
Li Xuan nodded slightly, and looked at the city wall, where there were more than thirty corpses, all of which were good at fighting in the Tianyin Sect.
The bodies of these people were scattered, most of them died ten meters from the city wall, and several others had already touched the city wall with one hand.
Li Xuan looked at the location of the corpse on the ground, and his face was solemn.
Just from the location of these corpses, it can be seen that the Tianyin Sect secretly does not know how much preparation it has made for a siege battle.
Murderous hot!
The sound of horses' hooves came from the end of the mountain road in the distance.
Fang Fengjin was riding on a tall horse, wearing golden bright light armor, and more than a dozen horsemen surrounded him, all of them were young and strong in their twenties, each holding a long knife, and their faces were solemn.
Behind them, there were hundreds of armorers with long knives in their left hands and shields in their right hands, and one by one they stepped forward steadily, their shields in their hands posing to plunge into the ground at any moment.
A cavalryman abruptly crossed Fang Fengjin, quickly came to the seventy paces in front of the city pass, and shouted loudly; "General Fang Fengjin, under the command of Wu Yue, please ask the king of Nanchang County to come forward and answer."
Li Xuan pressed the crossbow that had been raised on the side, then raised his head and said indifferently: "Order, Fang Fengjin, the head of the rebel thief, stepped forward to answer." ”
Qiu Zhenmu was the first to react, took a step forward, and shouted: "Fang Fengjin, the rebel thief, stepped forward to listen to the training!" ”
Hearing these words, the faces of the Heavenly Yin Sect disciples below couldn't help but change at the same time.
"Why should the king of Nanchang ask for such a kind of tongue." Fang Fengjin stepped forward slowly, and the faces of the countless Heavenly Yin Sect disciples behind him suddenly became gloomy.
Li Xuan pressed on the wall buttress with one hand, looked directly at Fang Fengjin, and his face was solemn: "This king called you so, what's wrong?" ”
Fang Fengjin looked left and right, spread his hands, and raised his head: "I'm just a group of miserable people, and the helpless actions we do are all struggles between life and death. ”
In a word, the faces of the Tianyin Sect people behind Fang Yunjin suddenly became extremely angry.
"Survive with the sky, and take your life against the emperor." Li Xuan repeated Fang Yunjin's words, raised his head to look at the dense Tianyin Sect behind him, and the corners of his mouth were cold: "It seems that you are blaming Your Majesty for the reason why you can't live, this king really doesn't know how a brainless person can be deceived by such a big lie." ”
"Brainless people." Li Xuan's words made the commotion of the Tianyin Sect below even more uproar.
"Twenty years ago, Chen Shuo really got into trouble, because of a catastrophe, and the government imposed additional taxes, which caused the people to have a hard time, and the people had to survive, this is the truth of what you think, but you don't know at all, you have been deceived a long time ago."
Li Xuan's voice was very cold, and his cold attitude made some wise Heavenly Seal Sect disciples suddenly calm down.
The commotion suddenly subsided, until it gradually calmed down.
Fang Fengjin looked at Li Xuan with a smile: "Does the King of Nanchang have any good reasons to deceive everyone?" ”
"Deception, does this king still need to deceive, Muzhou is now in the hands of you, as long as you go into the domain treasury to find it and take out the records of the year, you will immediately fully understand the truth of the year."
Li Xuan leaned forward slightly, and said in a cold voice: "Before the incident, the taxes collected by the central center from Muzhou every year were constant, and there has always been only a reduction and reduction of heavenly grace, but no tax increase, and what really oppresses you is the local state capital and county government, who privately collect taxes from your hands, and even impose taxes on you that are evaded by the local wealthy families. ”
Speaking of this, Li Xuan snorted coldly: "The total amount of taxes collected by the imperial court every year is constant, but the number of people who pay taxes in Muzhou is less than half, so the remaining half of the people will naturally have to pay twice the original tax, this is the truth of the year." ”
You know, at that time, it was the early years of Gaozong Li Zhi's ascension to the throne, and there were not so many foreign wars.
In particular, Li Zhi has just succeeded to the throne, and Li Zhi has paid special attention to reducing the tax burden on peasants and strengthening agricultural policies such as irrigation projects.
"Is there any difference between the emperor's collection of taxes and the government's collection of taxes, is it possible to say that those people in the government are not chosen by the emperor?" Fang Fengjin glared at Li Xuan coldly, his eyes were full of grief and indignation, and his eyes were full of sneer.
The Tianyin Sect disciples in the back also clenched the knife in their hands for the first time.
However, at this moment, Li Xuan on the city wall was calm and terrifying.
His gaze was fixed on Fang Fengjin, but his words were like swords: "In that case, then why did you choose a state capital assassin who has been treating you harshly as your leader twenty years later, isn't he the culprit who caused your fate to be so miserable?" ”
"How cheap are you to choose a demon who oppresses you again and again, insults you, and even kills you at will to be your leader?"
(End of chapter)