The eastern district of Jinling City in Xinzhou is a gathering place for high-ranking officials and nobles in Xinzhou. Because the largest palace of the Dayu royal family is located here, because a large number of members of the royal family are naturally gathered here.

In addition, the various ministries and yamen of the capital are also gathered here, so there are also a large number of officials who also buy family businesses in the east of Jinling City.

Since there are a large number of royal family members and officials, Dongcheng is naturally indispensable to wealthy businessmen from all over the world. After all, since ancient times, power and money have not been separated.

These wealthy businessmen were inextricably linked to the royals and officials. Because the whole Dongcheng will be very lively at night, especially those taverns, song shops, green mansions, brothels, and even more warblers, songs, swallows, dances, and songs.

Spending a lot of money here to fight for the head, and the matter of drinking millions of drunken Qinglou can't be put on the table at all. Because in the Dongcheng District of Jinling City, where a million people are worth millions, they are basically equivalent to the poor, and they will be classified into the category of mud legs.

I didn't even dare to go out, I didn't dare to ride a horse and sit in a sedan chair, and I had to bow my head and bend down when I saw anyone. At the same time, although Jinling City will open a curfew after the dusk drum, in Dongcheng District, you can sing every night.

In this part of Dongcheng District, no one dares to take care of the curfew. After all, officials who may not be able to issue curfew orders will run into their superiors in the process of implementing them.

However, although Dongcheng District is so lively at night, there are two areas that are exceptionally quiet at night.

Even people with big backgrounds will be honest here with their tails between them. Of course, it's not that there are no drunken gentlemen who rely on the power of their own families to play drunkards and shout here.

But the end result is either that their legs are broken, they are barbaric, or they are already lying in coffins and rotting to rotten bones.

And these two places are Jinling Palace and Qiyi Pavilion. According to the regulations of the Dayu Dynasty, the building is divided into palaces, halls, halls, buildings, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, residences, halls, pavilions and so on.

The cabinet is not a very large building, and it is not a very high-standard building. However, the area of this phase of the pavilion is far larger than that of ordinary halls.

It is not so much a pavilion as a very large complex. The nine-storey attic in the middle of these complexes is called the Pavilion of Periods.

Because this phase of the pavilion complex is built according to the mountain of Jinling Mountain, so this ninety percent high period of the pavilion is the highest building in the entire Jinling City.

It is even much higher than the Xuanshu Hall in the Jinling Palace. According to the decree of the Dayu Dynasty, this should be an overstepping of the system, and the person who built this phase of the Yi Pavilion should be beheaded.

After all, transgression is second only to rebellion in the severity of Dayu's laws. However, it has been hundreds of years since the construction of this phase of the pavilion, and the people who built the pavilion were not only not punished, but even this period of the pavilion has been standing in this Jinling city for hundreds of years.

In addition, during the past 100 years, the Pavilion has undergone many repairs, and the buildings around the Pavilion have also undergone many expansions.

But all this is without any dissatisfaction from the Dayu court and the Dayu royal family. Because this phase of the Yi Pavilion has another more well-known name: Dayu Imperial Zongzheng Temple.

And the person who established this period pavilion was the first emperor of the Nanyu Dynasty. At the beginning, in order to stabilize the situation of the Dayu Dynasty and ease the relationship with the Beiyu Imperial Family, he established this Expectation Pavilion.

At the same time, he also moved the original Mu Zongzheng Temple to the Qi Yi Pavilion. Later, he invited all the middle-aged and respected people of the vassal kings of Nanyu and Beiyu to the Qiyi Pavilion, and let them be responsible for managing the royal family surnamed Mu.

In order to show the royal family's attention and trust in these old vassal kings, the emperor at that time even built this period pavilion one meter higher than the Xuanmu Hall of the palace.

At the same time, the newly established pavilion was named the Pavilion of Periods. And the original meaning of this period is the old man who is over 100 years old, and the name is used in the hope that these old vassal kings who guard Zongzheng Temple can live a long life.

It can be said that the emperor at that time had great respect for the old vassal kings of Soshoji Temple. At this time, in a room on the sixth floor of the Yi Pavilion, several gray-haired old men were sitting around a table.

At this time, an old man on the main seat was closing his eyes, as if he was closing his eyes. An old man to his left was angrily slamming a piece of paper full of words on the table.

"What does Saint-Heng really mean? The grassland army led the team to the south by boat in Bianzhou, but he was still cowering in the imperial capital, and he also got the troops from all over the country near the imperial capital! ”

"Mu Zhantu, you still have to have some courtesy when you speak!" Another thin old man across from him suddenly said gloomily.

"Etiquette? Hmph, although he Shengheng is the emperor of Dayu, he is our junior among the Mu clan after all. The old man known as Mu Zhantu said disapprovingly.

The old man on the opposite side was speechless by Mu Zhantu.

"Hmph, the saints all say that the king is the minister, the father is the son, although Shengheng is our junior, but he is now the emperor of Dayu, and he is our monarch, even if we don't have to bow to him three times and bow nine times, but at least respect is still there, after all, there are no rules, there is no circle." The thin old man on the other side also said with some annoyance.

"Yes! What you said is really good, now we are just reproaching Shengheng in private, you are so protective, I think that at the beginning, your vein rose up to drive your clan brothers off the throne, and even chased and intercepted the royal family at that time, if it wasn't for Zongzheng Temple to stop it back then, I'm afraid it wouldn't be me sitting opposite you today! Mu Changtu said with a playful face.

"Mu Zhantu, you 、、、、、、" The old man who was scarred and called Mudhua had an angry look on his face, he slapped the table and stood up angrily.

But Mu Zhantu opposite him was still joking, he rolled his eyes like a scoundrel and waited for Mu Dehua to continue.

"That's it! Shut up! What we are discussing today is not the North-South dispute, but the situation today. The old man sitting on the throne finally opened his eyes, and there were a pair of eyes that seemed to droop slightly.

As soon as the old man spoke, whether it was Mu Zhantu or Mu Dehua, they all sat up straight obediently, and then stopped speaking.

"Xia Yan Temple is now the grassland tribe soldiers invade my Dayu Dynasty in three ways, and now the two roads are besieging the imperial capital, and the other way is going south, I look at its marching route, I'm afraid it's not good!" An old man beside Mu Zhantu said slowly.

"I don't want to admit it, but I also think that this steppe army seems to be coming for us old men." An old man beside Mud's incarnation also frowned and said.

"What do you mean by that?" Mu Dehua looked at Mu Dezhang beside him with a puzzled expression and said.

You must know that he Mu Dehua and Mu Dezhang are both in the same vein as Emperor Shengheng, but they are in the same vein as Nanyu. They are in the same lineage as Nanyu, and since they have started from their German generation, the next three generations are: De, Wei, Qing, and Tian.

And the Beiyu lineage opposite him is divided into four generations: Zhan, Wing, Wind, and Yang. However, although Emperor Shengheng and Nanyu are in the same vein, the characters of the Dayu royal family have always been arranged according to the cycle of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth.

This means that the national fortunes of the Dayu Dynasty are like their characters, and the five elements are born together, endlessly.

"Mu Dehua didn't say anything just now, why are you so nervous? Could it be that you know something? The man across from Mu Dezhang looked at Mu Dehua with a mocking expression.

"Mu Zhanping, you don't want to spew blood, I, Mu Dehua, am now one of the elders of Zongzheng Temple, and everything I do now is for the sake of my Mu family." Mu Dehua now lost the momentum of accusing Mu Zhantu just now, and jumped up like a cat that had been stepped on by his tail.

"It's okay if you can recognize your identity, and you don't have to be foolish, besides, you are not only the third uncle of Shengheng now." Mu Zhanping continued to stimulate.

"Okay, let's not say a word, now the first thing we need to do now is to figure out what the goal of the steppe tribe is this time? If their target is really us, then how do we deal with it? Mu Xiayan, who was sitting on the main seat, knocked on the table and said.

"Xia Yan Sizheng, judging from the information we have received so far, the goal of the grassland tribe's southward movement this time is most likely us!" Mu Zhantu, who was sitting next to him, said solemnly at this time.

As a direct descendant of Beiyu, Mu Zhantu did not inherit their ancestors' talent in political struggle, but he showed unusual talent in war.

As the old king of Huainan, he once kissed his own Huainan army to gallop across the frontier in the north. At that time, due to the political period of Emperor Shengcheng's reign, due to the chaos of the bureaucracy at that time, the eunuchs in the court were in power, and Emperor Shengcheng had extremely suppressed these vassal kings.

As the most feared vassal king of Emperor Shengcheng, Mu Zhantu was finally cut off from logistics under the absolute advantage, and finally the army was defeated.

In that battle, more than half of the Huainan army under his command were directly killed and wounded, and even the black-faced army under his command were killed in a direct battle, and even he himself almost died under the scimitar of the grassland tribe.

Later, he was lucky enough to break through the siege under the escort of his subordinates and escaped back after killing a bloody road. However, this also directly led to a significant reduction in the strength of Huainan Kingdom.

Although Mu Zhantu knew that Emperor Shengcheng was deliberately borrowing the sword of the grassland tribe to kill himself, Mu Zhantu still willingly went to fight to the death against the grass carp tribe.

Because he knew that only if they Huainan Kingdom were tragic enough in that battle, and their Huainan Kingdom could gain the respect of the people of the world.

At the same time, only when their Huainan army suffered great losses in that battle could Emperor Shengcheng extinguish the idea of extinguishing the Huainan Kingdom.

Of course, these things didn't come up with by Mu Zhantu himself. As for the one who came up with these things for him, it was a young Taoist boy.

At that time, when Mu Zhantu was heading to Biansai, he met a young Taoist boy in a Taoist robe halfway through. This Dao Tong stopped his way at that time and said that one day he was going to talk to the king of Huainan.

At that time, the soldiers thought that this Taoist boy was just a naughty child, and they must have taken his words seriously, but when this young Taoist boy suddenly rose from the back of his head, all the Huainan troops present were shocked, and then they knelt down and bowed to the ground.

But the young Taoist boy didn't care about everyone's kneeling at all, he just said something to Mu Zhantu after seeing Mu Zhantu and then drifted away.

At that time, Mu Zhantu didn't quite understand the meaning of the fairy tale of the boy at the first time. Because at that time, Daotong only said two lines of poetry to him: Gain and lose two ways are two instruments, and laugh at the world and sit on the idle mountain.

Later, when he was cut off from supplies on the battlefield and chased by the steppe tribe for hundreds of miles, he suddenly understood the meaning of these two sentences.

Later, although he had not been on the battlefield since that battle, he always insisted on understanding the wars between the Dayu Dynasty and the grassland tribes every year.

However, most of the time, when he saw the war between the Dayu Dynasty and the grassland tribes, he would be angry, and the only thing that satisfied him was the years of Emperor Shengwu's reign.

It can be said that the years of Emperor Shengwu's reign directly pressed the grassland tribes to the ground and rubbed them. In fact, Emperor Shengwu himself admired Mu Zhantu himself very much, and his strategic plan to deal with the grassland tribes during his reign was basically borrowed from Mu Zhantu's plan back then.

However, it is a pity that God is jealous of talents, and Emperor Shengwu died young. Although Mu Zhantu knew that there were some unknown secrets behind this matter, of course, these secrets were not secrets here in Zongzheng Temple.

Although he felt sorry for Emperor Shengheng more than once, he couldn't do anything about it, because Shengheng's reality was too ostentatious at the beginning, which eventually led to his death.

"Mu Zhantu, are you a little alarmist?" Mudhua across from him once again looked disdainful.

"Am I alarmist? Those guys from this steppe tribe are about to hit our doorstep, and you still call me alarmist! Mu Zhantu said coldly with an angry face.

The momentum of his whole body was like a volcano about to erupt, and Mudder was overwhelmed.

"If we want to say anything else, we don't believe in the exhibition map, but we have the absolute right to say in the aspect of the grassland tribe." Mu Xiayan, who was sitting on the main seat, patted Mu Zhantu's wrist and motioned for him to sit down, and then slowly spoke.

What he said again made Mulder fall silent.

"Since Brother Zhantu has judged that the grassland tribe this time is to be unfavorable to us old guys, then we should prepare in advance." Mu Zhanping, who was beside Mu Zhantu, also spoke slowly.

Everyone else in the room nodded in agreement.

"In that case, I would like to ask Brother Zhantu how we should guard against these wolf cubs of the grassland tribe?" As soon as Mu Zhanping's words came out, everyone saw that their eyes were focused on Mu Zhantu's body.

Because all the Zongzheng Temple elders present except for Mu Zhantu were other laymen who did not understand the military formation, all their hopes were transferred to Mu Zhantu.

"This time, we have found out clearly, the grassland tribe has a total of 20,000 people in the south this time, they hijacked a large number of ships from Bianzhou, and then went all the way south from Bianshui, and then entered the Huai River, and finally went down the Huai River, and finally reached our new state." Mu Zhantu expressed his judgment on the southward movement of the grassland tribe this time.

"If that's the case, then the steppe tribe is really looking for their own death this time? As a steppe tribesman, it's okay for them to gallop across the grassland, but if you want to talk about water warfare, they are afraid that they have picked the wrong opponent! Mu Dezhang couldn't help but smile after looking at the map on the table.

Although he did not gallop through the territory like Mu Zhantu, as the former King of Tan, their Tan country can be said to have a developed water system.

In the territory of Tanguo, there are four major water systems: Yishui, Shushui, water transportation and waterfront, and there are thousands of large and small rivers.

Therefore, the naval army in their Tan country is several powerful. Now that we have known that the grassland tribe is going south from Huaishui by boat, as long as the naval armies of the surrounding countries of Huaishui are gathered, they will win the battle.

At that time, more than 20,000 grassland tribe soldiers could only sink into the Huai water to feed the fish.

"It would be nice if things were so simple, now most of the soldiers of our southern countries have been transferred by Shengheng to garrison near the imperial capital, and the remaining soldiers have to always be on guard against those rebellious grass bandits, it is said that many small countries in the south have been occupied by the grass army." Mu Zhantu said with a worried face.

"Brother Zhantu means that these damn mud legs might cooperate with those barbarians of the grassland tribe to flank us back and forth?" Mu Zhanping said with a frown.

"I'm not sure, but it's not impossible, after all, the recent disaster this year has caused starvation throughout the south, and these mud-legged people are just climbing to the top and shouting, and many hungry people should be like rain." As one of the elders of Zongzheng Temple, Mu Zhantu also knows something about the grass army in the south.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Dayu court and other vassal kings, these mud-legged people were just untouchables and a disease of boils, but Mu Zhantu thought that these so-called grass armies had lost their strength from the category of hungry people and bandits.

They are still a real army.

"But despite this, but now that the south has been dry for several years, the amount of water in this Huaishui is not abundant, and it is not so easy for the grassland tribes to pass through the Huaishui quickly, after all, the fleet of 20,000 people is not a small number." Mu Dezhang also thought that this time the grass army was not to worry.

"As long as we intercept them properly, they brutes won't be able to make any waves." Mu Dezhang added.

"Mu Zhantu, I want you Huainan Kingdom is in the middle of Huaishui, and this is also the only way for the grassland tribes to go south, so it will take more strength to intercept your Huainan Kingdom here." Mudhua, who had never had a chance to speak just now, immediately rushed to speak.

In Mu Dehua's view, this time he can take advantage of the opportunity of the grassland tribe to go south along the Huaishui River, let the Huainan Kingdom bleed, and weaken the strength of the Huainan Kingdom.

This can not only calm down the bird anger he received from Mu Zhantu, but also help the royal family to fight the power of the countries.

At this time, Mu Dehua was even secretly speculating whether the army of this steppe tribe was really coming from the hands of Emperor Shengheng.

Although in the eyes of others, Emperor Shengheng is just a mediocre king, and he is not a shrewd person. But as Emperor Shengheng's own uncle, Mu Dehua knew that his nephew, who was not much older than himself, was definitely not as simple as he seemed on the outside.

However, if this matter is really planned by Emperor Shengheng behind the scenes, then I am afraid that there will be other unexpected situations next.