At five o'clock in the morning of May 27, a place in Pulan, Dongdan Province, was 200 zhang above the ground.

The airboat soldier Wuzu sat in the small airship cabin, he looked at the clear sky outside through the glass window, and then fiddled a few times on the spirit control copper plate in front of him, and then shouted to a sound transmission stone on the control console in front of him, "Touli, Toushi, this is Lion No. 3, I am about to cross the border of Pulan in a quarter of an hour and enter the boundary of Baozhou, everything is normal and in good condition at the moment." ”

Soon, an answering voice came from the sound transmission stone, "The head lion received, all the airspace ahead is safe, stay vigilant after entering the enemy-occupied area, it is strictly forbidden to go deeper, and withdraw immediately after completing the bomb dropping." ”

"Understood." Wuzu said in a relaxed tone: "They definitely didn't expect us to cut in from this direction, but don't the grassland friends really want to vote with us?" ”

"They have their own discipline, not to mention that the Chita don't want to exacerbate the conflict in the Southern Wilderness at this time, so they won't act with us. Moreover, it is more appropriate for us to come to our own land by ourselves. ”

After hearing this, Wuzu suddenly remembered the Chita officer named Chu Heng who had met him in the joint exercise, and the Xinghuo 9B airship piloted by Chu Heng gave him a deep impression during the exercise.

"If I could pilot that airship from Chu Kai, I wouldn't have to wander around the mountains for so long to avoid the anti-aircraft crossbows of the Western Desert people."

After sighing, Wuzu also retracted his thoughts, and he also knew in his heart that it was one of the most advanced airships in the Alliance Khanate, and it was impossible to sell it to the outside world.

"Got it." After saying this, Wuzu prayed in his heart, and then shouted to the two teammates on either side behind him through the sound transmission stone, "Sons, enter the attack formation!" Give the arrogant Cold Moon Pigs some color! ”

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"My king Chitose!"

Han Qu slowly walked up to the north stand surrounded by the guards, he smiled gently at the people in front of him, nodded and said, "All the ministers are exempt from courtesy." ”

Han Qu walked to his seat, but did not sit down immediately, he turned to the back and said to the other two distinguished guests: "City Lord, Xuyang County Prince, distinguished guests, please take a seat." ”

"Thank you for the festival." Meng Sixian smiled and thanked him, and then sat down with the two Wei officials who had come with him.

"The old man is welcome." The Abyssal City Lord smiled and sat down with the members of the delegation accompanying him, but there was no sign of a lord of a country between his words.

Shi Cheng sat not far away and looked at Han Qu and his guests, his heart was originally wary of Han Qu making a fuss about him, but Han Qu hadn't glanced at him since he walked up to the stands.

What surprised Shi Cheng was that among the guards behind Han Qu, Qu Changqing's face suddenly appeared.

Although he said that he was standing in the guards, Qu Changqing's dress was obviously different from that of the other guards, and Shi Cheng remembered what Zhao Ping had said to him in Wangyun Tower, and he couldn't help but be secretly wary in his heart.

Qu Changqing just glanced at Shi Cheng, and then followed the other guards over in front of Shi Cheng.

Shi Cheng didn't dare to let his guard down, but his gaze still involuntarily moved towards the Yuanliu City Lord.

The tall and thin old man was sitting on his lap, like a strong pine, and the aura around the whole person was still sharp and pressing even after deliberate convergence.

Like a knife, and like a magnet, the old man became the focus of the venue as early as the moment he walked out of the Chengyu, and countless pairs of eyes in the venue were attracted by the first master of the Eastern Continent at this moment, and the literati sighed in their hearts the great achievements of the old man in the rebellion of the Lu tribe to defend a country, and the warriors were like seeing the gods, if they were not in the venue of the conference, many monks might have pounced at this time, and carefully asked the example in their hearts for the answers to the questions in their hearts.

"He deserves to be a real grandmaster." Shi Cheng's mind suddenly went blank, and being so close to a character who seemed to only appear in legends made him feel a little more illusory in his heart.

After a long while, Shi Chengcai took his eyes off the Yuanliu City Lord, and he also wanted to see the other people who had come with Han Qu.

Shi Cheng, the two purple-robed ministers sitting next to Han Qu, didn't know each other, but Shi Cheng could imagine that these two old ministers must be important figures in the capital hall and the Privy Council.

Most of the people behind the Lord of Yuanliu City were young faces, and it seemed that they were mainly military attachés, and the officials of the two countries sitting in the two positions of guest and host gave people a feeling of great disparity.

Shi Cheng's gaze moved to the guests of the Wei Governor's Mansion again.

Two of the three Wei officials had the appearance of the Northern Hanyue people, and the other had the appearance of the Shantu people.

When he saw the three of them behind him, Shi Cheng couldn't help frowning.

Behind the three Wei officials seemed to be a low-ranking clerical officer, but unlike his colleagues, this clerical officer's hair was messy, and he was dyed like a rainbow after rain, and his eyes and lips were covered with heavy eye and lip gloss, like a trick dancer who had just finished his performance in the hook bar.

However, the Cold Moon people present did not react to this strangely dressed Wei official, and everything was as usual.

Among the three Wei officials who led the way, Meng Sixian, the leader, was someone Shi Cheng had seen before, Shi Cheng had listened to the lecture of this famous master of linguistics in a local academy because of a whim when he went to Xiting Prefecture of Wei with the Pharmacist Chamber of Commerce in the past, and he had heard the lecture of this famous master of linguistics in a local academy because of the relationship between friends in the Chamber of Commerce, but there were many people who came to observe at that time, and Meng Sixian must not have remembered Shi Cheng.

"Your Majesty, the distinguished guests have arrived, do you need us to say to the owner of the village and let the meeting begin?" One of the chamberlains asked, bowing down.

Han Qu nodded and said, "Let's start, you go and tell Zhu Mingtao that I am only here today to see the elegance of the young heroes of the two countries, but I am a guest, so that he, the master, does not have to be restrained." ”

"Yes." After the chamberlain retreated, he left in a hurry.

"Brother Si Xian." A Wei official sitting next to Meng Sixian said: "When Fang Cai Zhu Mingtao met Han Jiedu outside the Zhuang Gate, it could be seen that he seemed to be not far from the Grandmaster. ”

"Deming, are you probably sure?" Meng Si was taken aback first.

"Although the younger brother is a civil official, since he was appointed as the chief soldier of the Governor's Mansion, there are not eight hundred, but a thousand, and Zhu Mingtao did not restrain his strength at all when he saw us, so the younger brother can be said to be sure at a glance."

"Completely unrestrained momentum?" Meng Sixian's eyes narrowed.

"That's right, Brother Si Xian, people are clearly going to do Yu Sui [Note 1], it depends on whether Prince Sheng is willing to use it."

"After the leader of the blood crows, how many years has there not been a grandmaster in the Southern Wilderness?" Meng Sixian sighed a little, "If we really have such talent, we will inform Governor Li when we go back, and we must recruit him to Great Wei." ”

The official of Wei State, who has the blood of Shantu people, said with a smile: "One party has a request, one party has intentions, and the branches handed out by Great Wei are not afraid that he will not accept them." It's just that I'm a little worried that Han Jiedu will get in the way. ”

The civil official named Qian Deming put down the teacup he was holding in his left hand and asked suspiciously, "Why did Ba Yushi say this?" ”

"Deming has just come to the Governor's Palace, so he may not know the character of this little king." The governor named Baron said softly, "It's not a peaceful character. ”

Qian Deming's face was still a little puzzled, but Meng Sixian's eyes had sharpened.

Meng Si nodded first, and looked at Shi Cheng, "This kind of self-assertive behavior is actually not the first time in all these years. If it weren't for Governor Li's reading in Cao Shumi's affection...... Hehe. ”

Baron Ying said: "What the two of you said is also true, if you only invite that Shi Cheng to be a puppet, then you won't say anything if you look at his origin in the Pharmacist Chamber of Commerce, but I didn't expect Han Jiedu to want to get him on stage." ”

Qian Deming asked: "The younger brother has supervised martial arts for many years, and he knows that the Dan master is only good at alchemy and medicine, but the martial arts are far from his strengths. ”

Meng Sixian and Baron didn't think so, neither of them wanted to encounter something unpredictable at such a time. However, Meng Sixian has another layer of worry in his heart, Li Xiuhan and Han Qu, the governors of the Southern Wilderness, are actually people with a temperament, and it is now a period of intensification of the conflict between the Western Desert and Dongdan, both of them are trying to make themselves heroes who resist the tyrant and his lackeys, and for this reason, it can be regarded as unscrupulous, Meng Sixian sighed in his heart, faintly worried that such an act would eventually ruin the country's major affairs.

Balon was thinking about another thing in his heart at this time, that is, the statement of the Yuanliu City Lord in public in the past two days had the posture of wanting to compete with Great Wei for his position in the enlightened world, which made him quite annoyed in his heart.

"If it was in the Jingzong period, how could these foreign barbarians dare to move such thoughts, and how could the Western Desert Country Lord dare to make his own decisions on foreign affairs!" Baron was indignant.

The ceremonial music in the venue sounded again, and an empty high platform on the west side of the martial arts arena was already full of people at this time.

Shi Cheng looked at the high platform, and then his eyes widened in surprise.

Standing in the center of the high platform is the owner of Zhujia Mountain Villa who presided over the martial arts viewing conference - Zhu Mingtao, and next to Zhu Mingtao, there are several martial arts masters of the Western Desert Kingdom, but the person who surprised Shi Cheng so much was not him, but a black-robed man on his right.

"Huang Yuan!" Although he had never seen Huang Yuan, this did not prevent Shi from admitting him, the black-robed man on the high platform had a mask on his face, was wearing a black robe, and had a windproof scarf around his neck, which was roughly the same as the description of Huang Yuan's appearance that he had learned from Xu Jincheng.

Zhu Mingtao stood on the high platform, smiled and waved to the east, south and west stands, and then respectfully bowed to the north stands, and after all this was done, he arched his hand again, and said loudly: "Officials, colleagues, distinguished guests, thanks to the love of all parties, the deep grace of the king......"

Every time Zhu Mingtao said a word, a translator beside him would translate a sentence in Yuanliu language. Zhu Mingtao's popularity in the Western Desert Martial Arts seems to be very good, and his eloquence is also very good, when he spoke, there was a burst of warm applause from the audience from time to time, and even Shi Cheng's heart couldn't help but secretly praise Zhu Mingtao's bearing and knowledge. However, despite the constant applause of the people in the venue, most of Shi Cheng's attention was still nailed to Huang Yuan's body, as if to see through the thick mask on his face and see his true face.

Huang Yuan's costume looked very abrupt, and there were not no people in the stands who frowned after seeing Huang Yuan, but as Xu Jincheng said, the people standing with Huang Yuan didn't feel any discomfort, and everyone was very harmonious, and they didn't seem to have any problems with Huang Yuan.

When it was Huang Yuan's turn to speak, Li Zhong, who was sitting next to Shi Cheng, frowned, and seemed to dislike Huang Yuan's dress, "Is this person Huang Yuan?" How could such a strange person be allowed to stand there. ”

"Has Li Weng heard of him?" Shi Cheng took the opportunity to inquire.

"I have heard from the students who came to visit me in Beijing about this man, saying that this man has a strange appearance, but he is good at the art of tongue, and he is very popular with the powerful people in the royal city." Li Zhong shook his head and sighed: "It's not that the old man judges people by his appearance, it's really that there are many people I've seen in my life, and judging by his behavior, I'm afraid it's not a righteous person." ”

"I heard that I was once seriously ill and disfigured, so I had to wear a mask."

"And what's the matter with this strange robe?" Li Zhong asked rhetorically.

Shi Cheng stopped talking, he was also very puzzled in his heart, if Huang Yuan didn't want others to see his face, then he only needed to wear a mask, if there were any marks on his body that were easy to be recognized by others, then it was enough to wear an ordinary robe, why did he have to dress himself up so awkwardly in this scene?

"But people like this, even if they can stand here today, even if they have some tongue ability, they can't get on the really big stage after all, and they can't become a big climate." Shi Cheng said a little deliberately.

Li Zhong shook his head, his face was a little worried, "Not necessarily, I heard that this person and his chamber of commerce have been investing in new industries in the city in recent days, and they have even reached out to several large academies, and the plan is not small." ”

"A new industry?" Shi Cheng's ears pricked up suddenly, he knew that Li Zhong was not a pure businessman like Xu Jincheng, and his ears and eyes must be better informed in some aspects.

"I also listened to what my students said, at present, I only know that there are many small pharmacies and bookstores in the city, but my students think that the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce is the Chamber of Commerce under Huang Yuan, and I am afraid that there are more than these industries in secret."

"[Note 1] Of course, this refers to Mao Sui's self-recommendation, and of course, it is an alternate world, so I still hope to change some idioms and related allusions a little, and I hope you will bear with me."