Chapter 41 The Beginning of the Breaking of the North-South Confluence
Su is gone, life is still going on, and the big event in the human world is still moving forward in an orderly manner.
In fact, it is precisely because Su left that that great event has the possibility of success and can be continued.
On the seventeenth day after Xu Yourong arrived in Kyoto with the Holy Maiden Peak lineage, the representatives of the southern families represented by the head of the Akiyama family also entered the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Immortal Sect was closed for three years, and many mountain sects that were nominally subordinate to the sect sent powerful representatives.
In the period that followed, more and more representatives of the southern forces sat on the negotiating table.
The confluence of the north and the south is no longer just a noun stored in the classics and imagination, but is getting closer and closer to the real faster and faster.
For the Nanren, the biggest problem they face now is that with the departure of Su Li and the Holy Maiden, they now do not have a powerhouse in the Divine Realm, whether it is at the negotiation table or in other places such as the wine table, they will always seem to be a little lacking in confidence.
Unexpectedly, neither the Great Zhou court nor the state religion took advantage of this change in strength to make any unreasonable demands, on the contrary, they showed extremely rare generosity and open-mindedness, and made a series of guarantees for the future interests of the southerners.
Only the truly sensible will be able to see what lies behind or before this negotiation.
It was a confrontation between Su Li and the Holy Empress of Tianhai and the Pope.
With unimaginable wisdom and courage, he gave up his right to take revenge on those pursuits on the way back to the south, and left with the holy woman, directly causing the south to lose all its confidence, so that this negotiation would never have a chance to fall into the quagmire that had been repeated countless times.
Then the Holy Queen and the Pope should give him a sufficient reward in return, and give him unusually generous conditions in the south.
In the details of the negotiations, these reciprocal or generous treatments are that after the North-South merge, the South will retain as much independence as possible.
This independence has surpassed the best imagination of the southern powers in advance.
There is no need to change the county, there is no need to re-divide the prefecture and the county, the local officials can be elected by themselves, and there is no need to be approved by the Kyoto Ministry of Officials, and they only need to enter Beijing once every three years to be tested. Taxation was also extremely favorable, and in the transfer of money from the treasury, it was even more favorable to a relatively poor county in the south.
In addition, the south also gained a lot of benefits, especially the Great Imperial Examination and the Imperial Examination, and from now on there was no need for Kyoto to divide the share, but like the rest of the prefectures, the quota could be determined according to the number of registered people, according to the table of the South in recent years, which would be a great advantage in the Great Imperial Examination.
Of course, the southerners could not only get benefits without any pay, the negotiations are far from over, and there are already some matters that have been confirmed, that is, the army and foreign affairs, which will be managed by Kyoto in the future, and the biggest change will occur in the northern snowy frontier, which stretches for thousands of miles. The family will also send strong people to join the northern military fortress to fight against the army of the demon clan, but they are all guest kings, and they don't listen to the announcement, and now these strong people will directly join the army, coupled with changes in logistics support and other aspects, I believe that the strength of the human army will be greatly improved in a short period of time, and this is the most important or even the only purpose of the confluence of the north and south.
At the same time that the negotiations on the convergence of the north and the south are gradually moving towards success, the strong men and armies of the human world have also strengthened their vigilance against the north, and the grain and grass from the south have been transported to eleven important border passes in an endless stream, always ready to give a heavy blow to the southbound demon iron horse, because it is obvious that the demon race cannot watch the success of the north and south of the human world, and will definitely do something, especially the extremely sinister military advisor in the black robe, maybe he has already begun to carry out his conspiracy.
The situation in the north is a little tense, and there is also some tension on both sides of the negotiating table in Kyoto, but the tension is different. Xu Yourong plays a very important role in the confluence of the north and the south, and it can even be said that she is the most important representative at the spiritual level, because she is a Zhou person and a saint of the south. Naturally, her schedule also became busy, constantly summoning representatives of various forces in the south, and communicating with the Great Zhou court at the same time, fortunately, she lived in the palace, and it was very convenient to meet with the Holy Queen.
Chen Changsheng hadn't seen her for more than ten days, and he was a little worried, but he knew that she was doing something extremely important, of course he wouldn't have any complaints, as a person who cherished time the most, he didn't waste his days on missing and waiting, and kept polishing his spirit with the cold of deep winter, feeling the five stone beads, silently reciting two knife tricks, occasionally giving classes to the freshmen of the National Education College, and more often than not, he was still studying, and of course he didn't forget some other important things.
On an ordinary winter day in the wind and snow, he purchased a large number of food and gadgets in the market, held a yellow paper umbrella, avoided the countless eyeliners around the Anglican Academy, walked under the nose of the palace guards to the tree outside the palace wall, and then took advantage of the wind and snow to jump into the well of the North New Bridge.
The most oil-absorbing raw edge paper is spread on the ground the size of half a house, and countless kinds of hot food are neatly placed on it, steaming the same hot steam and different fragrances, there are steamed deer tails, roast goose and roast duck, and more than a dozen strings of zongzi, but this time there is no steamed bear paws...... Because of Xuanyuan's broken relationship, no one in the National Education Academy eats that now.
Chen Changsheng took out a clean handkerchief from his sleeve with two fingers, carefully wiped the oil and water on his hands, looked up at the black dragon and said, "Tang Tang turned Chenghu Building into the canteen of the National Education College...... I forgot to tell you...... But apart from the blue lobster, I bought everything else outside, and it felt better. โ
In the middle of the food on the ground, there is a hill of blue lobsters.
Chen Changsheng kept laughing when he said these words, his smile was very clean, and there was a joy from the heart.
He was really satisfied to be able to get so many good things to eat for the black dragon.
The black dragon's body slowly fell, and a cold meaning that was indescribable in words instantly lowered the steam emitted by those foods.
Chen Changsheng hurriedly drew his sword and slashed, a sword intent faintly tinged with fire broke through the air, and the food suddenly became hot and was not frozen into ice.
He used the Burning Sky Sword.
A few nights ago, he felt the sword intent in the letter for a long time, and then he saw the battle between Su Li's Burning Sky Sword and the Holy Queen's Wufeng Hairpin, which was somewhat enhanced.
Now, although his sword path is not yet at the peak, in his current realm, it can already be called a peerless harmony.
It's just that...... Using the Burning Sky Sword, which is extremely difficult to fully comprehend, to heat food feels a little inappropriate no matter how you look at it.
Black Dragon didn't think so, she thought it was very appropriate.
She was very satisfied with the food that Chen Changsheng had painstakingly prepared all over the ground and the blue lobster like a hill, and she was even more satisfied with Chen Changsheng's practice of warming the food with the Burning Sky Sword, because it showed that in his eyes, it was much more important for her to eat fresh and hot good food than to maintain the dignity of the so-called sword.
She decided to forgive him for not coming here to see her for almost a month.
A majestic and far-reaching, simple but incomparably complex dragon roar resounded in the dark and cold underground.
Chen Changsheng was slightly stunned, not understanding why the black dragon was not in a hurry to eat, but he wanted to take the dragon language course first. The next moment, he suddenly remembered that he had sent food to the black dragon so many times, but he didn't seem to see her eat in front of him......
"Ah......h
"Uh......"
"Woo ......"
"Woo......"
"Appeal ......"
From time to time, the low and majestic dragon moan of the black dragon sounded underground, and Chen Changsheng's clumsy and serious learning voice.
Chen Changsheng studied very attentively, until his voice was hoarse, his knowledge of the sea was empty, and his body was extremely weak, but he did not forget that every once in a while, he slashed a sword to his side, helping those roast goose and roast duck to maintain their original aroma under the most suitable heat.
The black dragon's whiskers also occasionally floated up, sprinkled with patches of snow and frost, and landed on the hill made of blue lobsters, and the picture was very beautiful.
I don't know how long it took, today's dragon language course finally ended, the black dragon spat lightly at his face, a frost suddenly appeared on his face, he stretched out his hand to rub those frosts away, only to feel a burst of coldness, refreshed, all the fatigue disappeared immediately.
"I'll go over there and have a look. โ
Chen Changsheng did not forget the most important thing, swept back, and saw the two iron chains. The other end of the chain was on the stone wall, held in the hands of the two legendary gods. Compared to the black dragon's huge body, these two iron chains are like two strands of hair, but they can lock the black dragon here.
It is believed that in the past hundreds of years, the black dragon has tried countless methods to break these two chains, but without success.
In the past six months since returning to Kyoto from Zhou Yuan, Chen Changsheng has also thought of many methods, but they have all failed.
The formation laid out by Wang Zhice on the stone wall was too complicated and complicated, like a sea of stars.
The two gods, Amamiya and Qin Chong, attached a wisp of divine consciousness to the stone wall, which was too powerful and violent, like thunder and lightning.
The last time the wildflowers bloomed, it had been nearly a thousand years since now, but those legends were still legends, even if they had turned into a wisp of heroic soul, and they were not the realm he could fight against now, or even the realm he could touch nowโthe name of that realm was sacred.
Chen Changsheng sat at the bottom of the stone wall, quietly reading the book in his hand under the gaze of these legends.
The book he was reading at this time was a bit old, and it was called "The Atlas Test of the Shooting Sun Real Array".
No one knows Wang Zhice's specific teacher, the ordinary teacher in the Tiandao Academy, in middle age, suddenly shined in Kyoto, Sonic Shock Continent, no one knows who his teacher is, he turned through hundreds of books in the library of the National Education Academy, and found an ordinary Taoist priest surnamed Wu in Wang Zhice's hometown.
Wang Zhice's hometown is Sheyang.
That Taoist priest surnamed Wu is Sheyang Zhenren.
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(8 p.m. in the next chapter)