It was almost noon, the temperature was getting hotter and hotter, and the people kneeling outside the south of the city were full of people.

The mountains roared and the tsunami-like shouts resounded above and below the city.

"Meet Your Majesty—"

Su Chen stood on the chariot, his eyes swept over the kneeling figure of the black pressure around him, and handed the Xia Wang Sword in his hand to Dian Wei.

"I have returned to the dynasty in triumph, there is no need to be so grand, get up, hurry up and get busy, save the time to be delayed, and be deducted by the shopkeeper!"

The voice of the Son of Heaven was so loud that even those kneeling at the back could hear it clearly, and for some reason, the voice of the Son of Heaven made their hearts surge.

The black figure slowly got up, and Su Chen on this side stepped out of the carriage and walked towards the hundred officials in front, at this time, Zhuge Liang was still in Linjun to do the post-war grain statistics.

At this time, it was Di Renjie who was in charge of the hundred officials, just like when he first came, he was fat, but not bloated, his beard was no longer gray, and he had an iron shovel on his waist, and strode forward towards Su Chen.

"Di Qing, this time has made you tired."

Returning to the dynasty is not a show off, as a son of heaven, the first thing to do is to say a few words of condolences to make the other party feel comfortable.

This is the simplest foundation of the Imperial Way.

"The operation of a country is not something that the old minister can do alone, and it should be the credit of a hundred officials." Di Renjie humbly bowed his hand again, Su Chen was polite to him, and then asked everyone to get up, and when he saw Xun Yu, he just stepped forward and patted the back of the other party's hand gently.

There were no words, but the action of clapping his hands was more intimate than a sentence or two.

Xun Yu just smiled and nodded slightly, turned sideways to make a way, and a small person behind him was looking at his feet, and when he saw his father looking over, he broke free from Fang Xuejun's arms, ran over, hugged Su Chen's legs, and shouted crisply: "Father!" ”

Fang Xuejun stood among the ministers, watching the scene of father and son embracing each other, and smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth.

Su Chen waved his hand at the surrounding civil and military forces: "It's all gone, tomorrow the morning court will begin, I will talk to you again, go down first to prepare wine and meat for the soldiers of the three armies, and ...... Soldiers who died in battle, engrave their names on monuments! ”

"Your Ministers obey!" Di Renjie and Xun Yu took the lead in bowing and bowing, then retreated left and right in turn, and after scattering, they took their respective carriages and drove away from the south side of the city.

Su Chen beckoned, pulled the pot-bellied Fang Xuejun over, and picked up his son Su Chen again, "Take my car back!" ”

"Hmm." I haven't seen her for a few months, Fang Xuejun has thought about a lot of words to talk about in her heart, but Su Chen held her hand, and all her words turned into simple obedience.

On the imperial chariot, Su Chen asked the eunuch to move the chair in the phoenix chariot here, and put it together with the white tiger chair, and after that, the imperial chariot slowly drove away from the place, entered the city gate, and drove into the imperial city.

Returning to the palace after a long absence, Su Chen played a trick with the crown prince Su Chen, told him about the East China Sea, and then took the recent homework in the school.

"Recently, the prince has been pestering Xun Shilang every day." Fang Xuejun came over with the sour soup that lowered the fire, looked at the father and son over there, and also talked about the affairs in the palace, "Your Majesty, the concubine intends to let Xun Shilang be the Taishi of the East Palace, and let Prime Minister Zhuge be the young master, what do you think?" ”

"I think it's good." Su Chen patted his son's head and asked him to go out to play. turned around, took a sip of the sour plum soup on the table, and then got up and sat on the edge of the bed with his wife.

I don't know what I thought, Fang Xuejun's pretty face turned red, and she pushed Su Chen's shoulders with some resistance.

"Your Majesty, the concubine still has a big belly...... It can't be like this...... If you want to...... The concubine can let the senior sister come over...... Or go to Meng Zhaoyi. ”

"What do you think, I want to hear the movement of the child in my belly!" Su Chen flicked his wife's forehead, squatted down, leaned his side face on the woman's bulging lower abdomen, and stroked his hands gently, listening to the distressed sound of 'goo' and 'goo' dong inside.

The couple just sat on the edge of the bed, hugging each other and quietly talking about the private words that belonged to the two of them.

The sunlight shone through the window lattice, and the glowing tranquility drove away the annoying cicadas outside.

……

In the three years leading up to the conquest of the Japanese invaders, the Xia state had been actively recuperating, especially in the northern states and counties, although they were inferior in population to those of the Central Plains and Wuzhou in the south.

But Zhuge Liang, Di Renjie, and Xun Yu are proficient in people's livelihood, work hard, and faintly catch up with the unique Central Plains.

Moreover, Yanjing is the political and military capital of the Xia Kingdom, and the war horses, furs, cattle and sheep bones and other things in the Xirong grassland will be supplied here first.

In addition, Feiyungang also reduces the cost of freight transportation for southern merchants, which cannot be done by other inland states and counties.

In a sense, it has reached a certain degree of saturation, and it has been compared with giant cities such as Luyang and Shengkang.

Although Yanjing in the north and Luyang in the Central Plains are the capitals of the north and south of the Xia Kingdom, there is another folk saying that Yanjing is the real Jingshi.

In fact, this is known from top to bottom. Moreover, in recent years, after the popularization of Chinese literature, the same track of cars and the same text of books, as a person from the north, in a sense, he has an innate sense of superiority.

In their words, the people of the north are supporting His Majesty all the way, from the general all the way to the king of Xia, and then to the Son of Heaven.

Now that they are one country, after getting through the initial discomfort, the people of the six countries under the world have all lived in peace, and they have turned a blind eye to the arrogance and superiority of those people in the north.

This acquiesced attitude allowed the localities of the northern states to faintly overshadow the Central Plains and the South in the past three years.

However, at this point, Zhuge Liang and Wang Lang actually stood on the same front and strongly advocated that the people of all states in Xia Kingdom should be equalized.

Even including the various tribes in Liangzhou that have just changed their names to Qiang, as well as the people of Yuezhou in the south, in the past three years, the two have joined hands for the first time, and through academic exchanges, wild history and strange stories, humanistic features and other ways that can be disseminated, it has had a lot of effects.

Su Chen naturally fully supported it, after all, when he ascended the throne, he said that he would let the people of all countries in the past be the people of China, and there was no distinction between high and low.

It's not just the propaganda in words, but every year in the autumn of the year, the rest of the state will open a little convenient door, so that students who have just come into contact with the five disciplines of China can enter the selection of scholars in Yanjing.

In this regard, Li Ru, the Taishou of Bingzhou, did an excellent job, probably because after putting aside the psychological burden of burning Luoyang back then, he wanted to show his talents here, and wanted more children from poor families and poor people to turn over, and in all counties and counties of Bingzhou, and even went down to the countryside, he recruited people from the people to enroll in school.

Committed to making the land barren and there is not much commercial tax revenue, the merger of states has found another way to rise in the literary world.

In this way, the children of the poor family and the poor families are naturally grateful to the Xia Kingdom, and Li Ru's move can be regarded as binding them firmly in the interests of the Xia Kingdom.

But whenever there is something unfavorable to the Xia Kingdom, these emerging literary stars, almost one-sided verbal criticism, and some people even want to follow suit, Wang Huaiyi, who sent Xin Xiang to be killed, went to the Western Regions, forcing the other king to kill himself, so that the Son of Heaven has a reason to send troops to fight.

In this way, they can leave their name in history, and their families can also borrow their fame in the countryside and get more funding.

For this reason, Su Chen also had a big headache.

Early the next morning, Su Chen got up early to wash, finished dressing under the service of the palace maid, and came to the imperial study with Dian Wei and Xu Chu, who had been waiting for a long time.

As soon as he entered the study, he began to look through the sifted memoranda of the scholars, among whom were scholars who advocated expansion or volunteered to go to the countries of the Western Regions.

"What kind of scholar did Li Ru teach...... More aggressive than even the military. ”

Looking at the content written in the fold, Su Chen felt a big head, no wonder he sent it to his imperial study to wait for approval, and he didn't know how to write it when he wanted to get it in his hand.

After all, these scholars are all thinking about Xia Guo.

"Fortunately, I was at sea during this time, and these twists and turns were sent in June, when the Southern Western Regions had not yet been opened."

Su Chen flipped through a few books at random, then threw these folds back on the table, and after asking the time, he left the study and went to the front palace to start the morning court.

At the same time, the extraterrestrial meteorite returned to Yanjing with the soldiers and horses.

When the news came, the people in the city poured into the streets to watch the soldiers and horses enter the city, and some people from outside the city waited more than 20 miles outside the barracks in the morning, on an official road that must be passed.

The dripping raindrops fell on the heads of the crowd, and Lu Lingqi, who had turned twenty, stood on the chariot, looking over the heads below and looking ahead.

"Mother, why haven't you seen your father yet?"

Next to her, a woman dressed in ordinary clothes who was coming out of the carriage with a paper umbrella stretched it open and covered the top of her daughter's head, and followed for a while.

"I heard that there is an extraterrestrial meteorite, your father's temperament will definitely be thoughtful, and his feet will naturally be slow." Although Yan was speaking slowly, he couldn't help but stretch his slender and white neck.

Lu Lingqi turned her head in annoyance, "Your Majesty won't take me with you this time, a group of people as tall as monkeys, what is there to worry about." ”

"All the nonsense, they all went to fight the Japanese invaders, who will take care of Yanjing?" Yan held the paper umbrella, pinched his daughter's ears with a smile, and pulled a clear color single coat on his body, covering his bulging lower abdomen.

At this moment, someone in front of the crowd shouted: "Ouch, I see!"

Followed by many different voices shouting: "The soldiers and horses are back!" "What's that?" Isn't it an extraterrestrial meteorite? ”“…… It's so big, how did it fall from the sky? "Stupid, it's so heavy, it's going to definitely fall off!"

The commotion between the official roads suddenly arose, and people everywhere pointed to the behemoths coming from afar.

Soon after the cavalry of the advance came, the foot soldiers carried the long soldiers, carrying swords and crossbows in a neat queue.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you can drink a bowl of water!"

In the crowd, a figure carrying clear water quickly rushed past the obstruction of the errand officer, walked to the side of the road, handed the water in the bowl, and then knelt on the side of the road, kowtowed to the marching army, and cried with tears streaming down his face: "Thank you, avenge my little family!" ”

Some of the people around him knew him, and explained to the people around him who were puzzled: "His surname is Yuan, a person from Linjun, he often does business in the north, and his family was killed by the Japanese invaders, and his mother-in-law, along with her five-year-old daughter, and the old lady were killed when the Japanese invaded the village. ”

"Those would-be damned, it's good to be destroyed! Our people have a good life, so we have to run ashore and ruin other people's families! ”

"Those monkeys, huh!"

In the sound of chattering and scolding, there was a sudden boom in the distance, and it was the beating of drums in the army.

On both sides of the crowded official road, the voices of people who had just been noisy stopped at this moment, the gentry sitting on the shoulders and necks of the servants turned their heads to look around, and the people who could not be seen behind hurriedly stood up or kept jumping.

"Mother, look!" Lu Lingqi took her mother's hand and pointed into the distance.

In the midst of the flying raindrops, many people wiped the water stains on their faces, and in a moment they heard the sound of horses' hooves.

At the other end of the line of sight, the cavalry covered in black leather armor came in three columns like long dragons, their heavy hooves trampling on the muddy road, and the swords and soldiers on their waists made the sound of clashing from time to time.

Two longbows of different sizes were crossed behind their backs, and the swords of the rings at their waists swung against the saddle from time to time, and these horsemen looked straight ahead with solemn expressions, and the rain hung on their eyelashes and fell on their eyes, without blinking.

A banner with the word 'and' written on it was held high in the rain, and the sharp-eyed man shouted from afar: "It's Wen Hou's wolf riding on the strings!" ”

"Wen Hou is mighty!" Some people couldn't help but shout.

Under the banner with his eyes focused, Lu Bu straightened his back, wore a red cloak in the wind and rain, held a Fangtian painting halberd, and the flying smoke and red cloud horse under him was draped in a horse harness, just like the master, with his hooves on his toes, which shook Lu Bu's shoulders and a pair of beast head cloaks clanged softly.

In the wind and rain, under the sword eyebrows hanging with rain, his eyes were majestic, his eyes swept around, and at a glance, he saw a carriage behind the crowd, and then turned his head and looked at each other, and his face suddenly turned with joy.

In an instant, his eyes fell on his wife's lower abdomen, and his joy became even stronger.

The marching army continued to move forward, stretching the official road for more than ten miles, waiting for the wolf to ride to the barracks to camp, followed by the white horse Yicong, as well as the Tang Army, Youyan, Bingzhou, Yizhou four soldiers and horses.

And the extraterrestrial meteorite, which was comparable in size to a small courtyard, was finally unloaded from the carriage and landed steadily, five miles southwest of the barracks.

Xiang Yu raised his head and looked at the behemoth covered by the cloth, endured the nausea in his heart, turned his head and ordered the soldiers behind: "This thing is strictly guarded, patrolled five shifts a day, if anyone is unwell, immediately remove and rest." ”

"Yes!"

The soldiers who came over responded neatly and loudly.

Not long after, Xiang Yu led his own soldiers out of the barracks, and the rest of the generals were still rectifying military affairs, so it was inconvenient for him to bother.

"This Lu Bu is running fast." Xiang Yu saw Lu Bu from a distance, who had just come back from leading the troops, and had already run to his wife and daughter at this moment, sitting in the chariot, sticking to his wife's lower abdomen, and smirking.

"Hmph, Xiang is not envious!"

Turning the horse's head, Xiang Yu saw the figure waiting for him, holding a paper umbrella, standing in front of a carriage, the green silk danced, and the clear skirt stroked in the wind.

Looking at Xiang Yu galloping on horseback, Yu Ji showed a smile, like an unfolded picture.

"Haha!"

Xiang Yu rode over and stretched out his hand.

There is a soul in the heart!

The woman also stretched out her hand, and was immediately pulled onto the horse by Xiang Yu, and galloped together in the lead-green rain curtain.

……

Two days later, the Western Regions mission entered Yantang Pass.

(End of chapter)