When the time is near, the moonlight shines through the stratus clouds, sprinkling a piece of green light on the three pairs of drum stones in front of the Yiwang Mansion.

The place where the stone drum stands is the main gate of the magnificent palace, and a wide plaque is hung on it, "Fanping Wangcheng", the surrounding is silent, and the lights in the courtyard are also very scarce.

Inside and outside the high wall, there were several teams of soldiers from Luoyang Zhong who patrolled with swords, and these elite soldiers did not dare to slack off.

The captain who led the team looked around keenly, carefully performing his errand.

For many years before, the night patrol of the palace was just a routine, walking around. At most, a few pedestrians and drunks who had strayed into the restricted area were arrested, but the sudden attack of the King of Yongning changed everything.

As soon as a group of patrols passed, three black shadows swept over the archway at the entrance of the street, leaped in the air like a high-thrown projectile and flew several feet high, and disappeared after riding the night wind into the arch of the main entrance.

In the royal city, in the Pavilion of Nourishing Hearts.

Zhu Zhanlong couldn't sleep late at night, dressed in regular clothes, sitting in front of the bookcase and reviewing a file.

There were three other people in the room, Wang Fu'er and the great eunuch Wang He accompanied King Yi to the left and right, and there was a man in Tsing Yi sitting on the brocade pier opposite.

The man took a sip of the teacup slowly, not panicking because it was King Yi sitting in front of him. Very calm.

Zhu Zhanlong had a headache, he was looking at the bottom file of the Henan army that came from the investigation, the autumn drills of more than a dozen guards around it, and the deployment of tens of thousands of troops.

From the above, it is obvious that after Ma Wenming's death, without the commander of this general, his morale and training are not as good as before.

This made King Yi a little worried. I was secretly glad that there was one less rebellious guy. After Liu Li was promoted, the generals at all levels were replaced, and King Yi's control over the Luoyang army was greatly strengthened.

The dossier also mentions that the army lacked winter clothing and food, and that most of the horses were allocated to the Datong border because of the invasion of the Warats. The ordnance was also damaged due to the fact that there was no war for many years, and it was not properly maintained.

Under the instruction of the imperial court, the military department deliberately owed the military salaries of the Henan army. Fortunately, it can barely maintain the garrison military affairs, but if it is a long-distance march or even the cost of war, it will definitely not be enough.

The bad situation made Junlong can't help but touch his forehead with his hands, and solving these problems is very simple, summed up in one word: "money!" ”

The three guards directly under him were full, and the remaining guards were not as long as Ma Wenming's hand when Ma Wenming was alive.

If you want to lead the army to do something, such as crusading against the "White Lotus Rebellion" or something, where to spend this military salary, it is difficult!

The prince sighed and complained: "Yang Daming, such a poor soldier! ”

The man in Tsing Yi smiled indifferently and said to the prince: "Chitose, I heard that the border army can import grain there.

Merchants sent grain to the army in exchange for salt and brought it to the Lianghuai salt field to receive salt and barter, so as to solve the shortage of military food.

The prince said with a sad face: "Then the king can find a way to get some salt and use it to barter grain with merchants." ”

was reminded by the people in Tsing Yi that part of the military food problem was solved, and King Yi's sadness gradually improved.

The people in Tsing Yi said worriedly: "To raise food and salary, we must do it as soon as possible, if we wait for the forbidden army of the third battalion of the Beijing Division to recover from the defeat of civil engineering, and then want to capture the capital in one fell swoop, it will be difficult." ”

Zhu Zhanlong nodded when he heard this, and said calmly: "Fortunately, the money of the imperial court is thrown away in the border army to prevent the invasion of Wara. Jingshi's armament should be even worse than Luoyang......"

The prince sighed: "This king is trapped in Guanluo, and he can't accept the world's heroes." First, there is a shortage of talents! The second is a shortage of money! Commanding troops to fight can only rely on Gaohou, and generals are hard to find. ”

Wang He had been listening, and when he saw the opportunity, he raised his sleeves and saluted, and said to King Yi: "Meng Yishan is worthy of a great responsibility and can be used." ”

"Haha, if he is promoted again, it will be a general of Wulu from the fifth grade......" The prince's eagle eyes flashed, noncommittal

Wang He replied lightly: "Then you have to do it well." ”

There is also a limit to the amount of good things he can say to Lao Meng, and then he will stop talking.

Zhu Zhanlong nodded, turned to the Tsing Yi people and said: "There are not many horses in the army, and there is a great shortage of baggage for transporting baggage, if you want to attack the Beijing Division, you must have at least 2,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and this war horse must be prepared at least a few thousand for the big battle......

"Dare to ask sir, how happened to the horse outside the Saiwai?" King Yi asked with concern.

The man in Tsing Yi replied: "Two months ago, I arrived in Warat, and when I saw that the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was now shedding his flowers, he proposed that the prince wanted to fight with them, and he agreed, but there was one condition......

"Great!"

King Yi asked excitedly, "How much gold and silver does he want?" ”

"Don't want silver taels, but exchange pig iron with the prince."

Tsing Yi said: "Because of the difficulty of civil engineering, the imperial court closed the border pass and did not exchange markets with Warat. They are sorely lacking in salt iron. Salt is still smuggled in, and it is difficult for iron to even plough farm tools to get out of the customs. Tokhtar wanted to cooperate with the prince, bypassing the imperial court to trade with them, exchanging iron for horses, and taking what he needed. ”

After hearing this, King Yi fell into deep thought, this matter was a bit troublesome, it was not a simple matter of mutual market, it involved the supply of iron tools to the Mongols, and he could not make up his mind for a while.

Wang Fu'er was silent beside him all the time, and said, "The prince can't! The Warat people changed to iron and must be used to smelt swords, a pound of pig iron can be cast into dozens of iron arrowheads, plus they come and go like the wind of riding and shooting, then the victims will be my Central Plains people. ”

Zhu Zhanlong looked at Wang Jiaoxi helplessly, and said: "Buddha, this is also a helpless thing, when this king sits in the world, the big trouble for his henchmen is Wara." It's just that if you want to expand your strength now, you have to rely on them. Even if it is to seek skin with the tiger, it has to be for! ”

"Don't worry about the prince, the golden family after Temujin is from the orthodox Mongolian Khan, but now the Taishi is also arrogant, and he has coveted the position of Totok, I think this iron tool might as well be transported to the past, the two tigers kill each other, and it will benefit me and the Ming."

The prince clapped his hands and said, "Mr. Lu understands that iron tools are easy to say, and this king has an iron mine, and he can exchange iron tools and Warat people for horses." ”

The man in Tsing Yi turned out to be Lu Yunpeng, who Meng Yishan bothered to be wary of and disappeared several times, known as the contemporary master of picking Huayue. He lost to Xie Jin in the school competition because of his uncertainty, and then disappeared, not wanting to become a guest of Zhu Zhanlong, the king of Yi.

Wang Fu'er saw that the prince had made up his mind, so he stopped talking, stood quietly on one side, and silently looked out the window.

The atmosphere in the room was a little dull for a while, and the prince lightly picked up the white porcelain tea cup on the bookcase, opened the lid and took a sip, with a trace of sadness hidden between his eyebrows.

King Yi said worriedly: "I'm thinking about it here, but it's just to survive, my emperor's nephew wants to deal with my uncle, flesh and blood, how can I kill each other!" ”

Lu Yunpeng wanted to laugh in his heart, your Zhu family is the most popular emperor uncle to rebel, from Chengzu Zhu Di to the Han King Gao Xu twenty years ago. That is not a traitor who plots for the throne.

He was about to be polite and say a few nonsense words about his determination to follow the prince's achievements, when suddenly his spiritual consciousness moved, and almost at the same time, Wang Fu'er in the room and Wang He, who had been half-closed in his eyes, stood up with a sigh.

"Huh!" A sword-shaped cold light broke through the window and penetrated the room, as fast as thunder, and the momentum was terrifying!

It was Wang Yi who was sitting on the chair, and the cold light was just about to cross the bookcase, when the nearest Wang Fu'er roared lightly, punched out, and hit it in the air, bang! The sharpness of the blade and the force of the fall sharply divided a case made of rosewood into two, and the incision fell neatly to the ground.

With a long roar, a white soft rope was shot into the broken window paper hole, and the rope body was as straight as a gun, stabbing Wang Fu'er who had not yet recovered after receiving the sword blocker!

Lu Yunpeng's face was angry, he grabbed the string of soft ropes from the side with five fingers, he made a hasty move, the edge of his palm just cut into the rope body, and immediately found that there was a huge and incomparable real power on it, and his body shook, like being electrocuted, and half of his arm hurt!

The master of the land bureau was also arrogant, holding the white soft rope with his five fingers, and the dantian competed with the enemy outside the window to pass on the strength and compete with the internal force.

The stone brick floor in the Heart Cultivation Pavilion was trampled by Lu Yunpeng inch by inch, and the cracks cracked in all directions like a net, and the twine on his feet also snapped and burst because the strength was too strong!

After exhausting the martial arts method he knew, using both strength and yin power, he couldn't resist the strength of the thousand jun passed on the soft rope, Lu Yunpeng's face changed several times, and he snorted, his right hand was first loose and then tightened, bursting out with an inch of strength, wanting to repel the enemy outside the window in one fell swoop.

This violent force was applied, and the straight soft rope was shaken, and the rope body drew an arc in the air, trembling twice and then straightening up, although Lu Yunpeng's internal force was strong, he did not have a deep understanding of the nature of this soft rope. If you want to do it like the other party, you can't do it, and if you attack less than half of your internal strength, you will be dissipated into seven, seven, eight, eight.

Soft cord "Boom! With a shake, a domineering force like a whip suddenly attacked, so that he could no longer hold the rope in his hand, and flew up along this force, seeing that he was about to hit a row of landscape screens behind him, Lu Yunpeng's body fell suddenly, and before the body crashed down, he sank down, and used a thousand catties to fall straight to the ground, touch!

In a moment, he lost the opposite side.

"The gun picks Hua Yue really well, what a handsome kung fu."

The owner of the soft rope quickly retracted the strange soft blade.

Wang He, Lu Yunpeng, Wang Zongxi. The martial arts of these three can be said to be the best in the world, but at this time, they are all shocked, and the uninvited guests outside are really terrifying.

Lu Yunpeng was defeated by the enemy but did not work in an instant, Wang Jiaoxi and Wang He did not make a move, the two of them respected their identities, disdained to bully more and less, and were afraid of provoking Lu Yunpeng's unhappiness if they intervened, and they didn't want him to immediately distinguish between him and the person who came.

Although the strongest kung fu of "Gun Picking Huayue" is not in his hands, with his innate true yuan, it is unimaginable that he will succumb to the inferior internal force in the competition.

Lu Yunpeng's face turned blue, he bowed his hand solemnly, and asked, "Is it the master in person?" Lu Mou admits a lot of advice, please don't hesitate to see it. While speaking fiercely, he exchanged glances with the other two people in the room, and when necessary, it was impossible to say that the three of them joined forces, and they also wanted to stay in the future!

King Yi was escorted behind Wang Fu'er, he stared out the window with some curiosity, the prince did not know martial arts, but his bearing and identity made him show extra calm, and let Lu Yunpeng deal with the coming.

The people outside were silent for a while, and their voices sounded again: "The old monk sent a message to King Yi, Chitose, don't start a war because of selfish desires." Although the country is good, the person is not more than a hundred years! After all, it is a loess. He can't bear to let the people be displaced for this dreamy empty flower, and it is difficult for fathers, sons, wives and children to see each other again! Please also think twice. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Zhanlong took two steps forward and said calmly: "After the defeat of Tumu, the state affairs became worse, and the imperial court blindly gave in to Wara, and as a single royal family, I couldn't bear to see the world that Emperor Taizu took from the hands of the Mongols changed hands. I want to reorganize the rivers and mountains. ”

The man outside sighed, obviously very surprised, and suddenly lost his voice.

Lu Yunpeng was very relieved, just by playing tricks, he could say that Zhu Zhan had become a Buddha standing upright? Pipe dream.

At this time, another voice sounded outside, and the voice was a little old: "This person is obsessed, and I will kill him with a sword." ”

There was a bang, and the two windows of the Heart Cultivation Pavilion were shattered, and two figures rushed in one after the other, first a tall old monk with a ruddy face, holding a pair of strange-shaped short swords in both hands. At the same time as this person entered the room, he launched an offensive, and the sword turned into a violent wind and slashed towards Lu Yunpeng's shoulders, and he shot ruthlessly, and he was about to abolish his two arms when he came up.

is going to cut off the master of the prince's side first, and then attack King Yi.

The Lord of the Land Bureau shouted angrily and let out a palm! Straight to the old monk's chest acupoint. He didn't hide from the enemy sword he swung, and took the risk to attack. It seems to be reckless, but it is actually clever, and the upper masters are fighting, in addition to their own strength, it depends on the courage of fighting.

This kind of evil trick of burning jade and stones, if someone on both sides takes the lead in dodging and retreating, it is easy to be chased by the opponent and lose the opportunity.

At this moment, the figure behind also threw out a white zipline, slamming Lu Yunpeng's palm with a whistling sound.

Lu Yunpeng suffered a small loss, and hurriedly withdrew his hand and retreated. The soft rope danced in the air for half a circle, "Whew! He shook out two more hurried blows to Wang He next to him.

Eunuch Wang's palms stretched, and two feminine fingers were pointed out from his fingertips, easily defeating the forced suo jin. Then point it into a knife! waved the loose hand on the Xuanyang Sutra at the comer, "Peel the hexagram." ”

This trick is taken from Zhou Yi's principle. In the hexagram, the stripping hexagram represents the transformation of softness into rigidity, and the cathode and yang.

Wang He's hand knife silently slashed through several feet of space, whining and whistling, enveloping half of the man's body under the blow.

The distance was too close, the man didn't have time to swing the soft rope, hurriedly turned around and staggered to escape the attack of the palm knife, and before he could stand firmly, the eunuch Wang was unrelenting, and waved his forearm and two sharp palm knives were quickly slashed.

The man let out a low shout, his body slid to the right, and he turned around and rushed his shoulders forward, aiming at the weak point of the back of Wang He's palm!

This one used the hand of the shoulder leaning inside, the iron shoulder work.

The collision was still a fragile metacarpal bone, trying to contusion Wang He's palm. Disheveled! Shoulder-to-shoulder, the man's ferocious shoulder bump touched the back of Wang He's hand, feeling like hitting a ball of cotton, soft and weak.

Wang He turned the back of his hand to remove the force of the opponent's strong shoulder impact, and the soft palm gathered into steel in an instant, and he used the acupoint kung fu to grab the opponent's left arm and shoulder well. The man took a step back, flicked his right hand in front of him, and easily dissolved Eunuch Wang's trick.

The two sides fought these tricks, and no one could help but win the opponent, and they couldn't help but feel a little sorry for each other. They took a step back and looked at their opponents.

The person holding the rope was wearing a brown monk's robe, a green jade-colored robe, phoenix eyes and white eyebrows, several wrinkles stretched out from the corners of his eyes, his expression was stretched and peaceful, and he was wearing a high-ranking monk, holding a white rope more than six feet long in his hand.

Wang He shouted lightly: "Shocking Dragon Suo, Shaolin Snow Nunnery!" ”

The Zen master bowed, and Wang He and the other three hurriedly bowed their hands to show respect.

Bodhidharma Lower Courtyard Snow Nunnery Monk, the three major masters of Shaolin, has a reputation that has been passed down for a long time, and the real person in person really deserves his reputation.

Xue An was also very surprised, and found that the three people on the opposite side were actually martial arts masters, and the momentum of Ren was not weaker than the sword-wielding old monk beside him.

That's King Kong Zhibei, the first Zhiwu junior disciple of the scriptures, and his martial arts are enough to rank among the top ten among the Shaolin monks.

From this, it is concluded that the strength of the three people is quite terrifying. However, except for Lu Yunpeng, the other two are unknown in the martial arts, and I don't know when such masters appeared. ”

Both sides were afraid and did not dare to act rashly, and turned into a confrontation.

At this moment, the battle situation of Tianjiupai has also been promoted to a new stage.

"Twenty boxes of silver, plus five thousand Ming treasure banknotes, a total of fifteen thousand."

Liu Li pointed to the pile of boxes piled up in the flower hall and said to Meng Yishan.

The scar on Lao Meng's face moved, and he said in his heart, "Where did this Lao Liu get the silver?" It's so magnificent. ”

Qian Lun behind him stared thoughtfully at those silver taels, his face was a little pale, and he looked at Meng Yishan again, wanting to say something, but he felt that people were soft-spoken, and there was no room for him to interject in front of several adults, so he had to be silent.

Liu Li confidently discussed with Lao Meng again, "Brother, how about giving me the dealer?" ”

Meng Yishan coveted Liu Zongbing's gambling funds, and slapped the table: "There is a lot of silver, Brother Liu, don't fight for the village, if you want to fight, just have a good time!" You throw fifteen thousand, I throw fifteen thousand, let's see if we win or lose! ”

Liu Li's face turned a little blue, but he had to be moved by Meng Yishan's crazy proposal.

But he was also very frightened in his heart, but in his hands, there were eleven guards, and if the military salary for the winter was lost all at once...... Lao Liu didn't feel sweat on his forehead when he thought of this.

Liu Liqiang calmly asked Meng Yishan: "Where is your gambling money?" It's not okay to owe money on empty credit. ”

On the table, Lao Meng's gambling money was only a few thousand taels left.

Meng Yishan laughed, turned his head and instructed Qian Lun, "Old Qian, you later took my name post to visit the owners of major merchants, big salt offenders. As long as you do business, the goose will pluck its feathers! Tell them to get together and lend Lao Tzu 10,000 taels. ”

Qian Lun's expression was a little stunned, he was almost stupid by Lord Meng, and he was speechless, and Meng Yishan explained with a big grin...... I told them that the inspection department was going to renovate the warehouse, and the loan money would not only be returned next year, but the official would also take care of it. ”

The eyes of the money account room lit up, and he felt that this method was feasible, at least there was no risk.

He also thought about it, and at the same time as contacting this loan, how much benefit could he get from it? Lao Meng eats meat, and he has to drink soup with him.

Meng Yishan said to Liu Li with a smile: "It is estimated that it will take a few days to get the money together, Brother Liu can trust me, I will write a deposit, if you lose, within three days, the silver will definitely be delivered to you!" ”

Liu Li had nothing to say, so he had to nod in agreement. He didn't have the courage to refuse, because Lao Meng's proposal was too tempting.

Lao Liu watched Meng Yishan quickly write the 10,000 taels of deposit, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Gao Changtai had a gambling addiction and proposed to Zhao Tianze: "Why don't we also get involved, use their gambling game to bet, and choose one side to bet on whether he wins or loses." As he spoke, he was about to launch all the gambling money in front of him

Zhao Tianze changed color for this, and said in his heart, "You are all crazy." ”

The feudal platform shook his head busily and said: "Hou Ye Temple is exhaustive, this official must lose or win, it is better to see Meng Inspector and Liu Zongbing bet." ”

Zhao Tianze said as he wiped the sweat from his head.

Over there, Lao Meng wrote the note, threw it on the table, and said, "Hurry up!" Let's have two cards per person, and we will see the winners and losers when we open the cards. ”

This kind of gambling method is called a roll or two of his eyes, without any tricks, and it is very good for his spleen and stomach.

Liu Li gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Shuffle. ”

Thirty-two pai gow were re-stacked into a row, and Gao Hou Ye personally shot it, and he quickly divided two stacks from it according to the requirements of the two. After exchanging positions a few times, Liu Li and Meng Yishan grabbed two cards and took the cards into their hands.

When he drew the cards, Liu Li frowned, and Lao Meng was also tense all over, indescribably nervous.

Lao Meng looked at the two cards that were buckled again, and said, "Damn! Open! ”

"Bump!" Two cards turned over and smashed to the table, it is six two miscellaneous eight with four miscellaneous five, the rule is that the two cards add up only to take the remainder of the back, eight plus fifty-three, cut ten is a pair of three points, small outrageous.

Meng Yishan's palms were raised high, and he couldn't wait to grab these two stinky cards and eat them, so as to destroy the corpses.

The odds of winning are too small.

Liu Li laughed and thought, "It's really God's favor, it's destined to turn over and make a fortune tonight!" Excitedly, he stretched out his hand and turned over the first card, which was the silver bottle nine.

Nine points, the points are good, and if you come to Zhang casually, you can almost win Meng Yishan. He grabbed the last card with a trembling palm...... Twelve, day card! Big excessive.

But the day card plus the silver bottle nine, according to the rules of pai gow, this number will explode, can only be counted a little.

It can really be described as happy and sad, Liu Zongbing's eyes widened, his mood instantly fell to the bottom, he stood up and pointed at Meng Yishan for a long time speechless, and his head buzzed! The whole person was soft, and he fell on the table, he lost half of the Thai military expenses of the Luoyang army for the winter, and he couldn't wait to die on the spot!