Between the mountains and the sea. I can faintly hear the sound of noise at night.

Dozens of thatched houses can be seen in the mountains, and they don't look much different from ordinary villages. Just if you look closely, you will notice that these houses are scattered.

Few people in the world know that this is where the Taichen Palace, which is known as the world's most talented people, is located.

From the Warring States period to the present day, this deep academy, which only occasionally shows its grandeur in times of peace and prosperity, has lasted longer than any other dynasty.

In the small villages, I don't know how many talents have been cultivated who can turn the clouds and rain and make the world surge.

Most of the houses were already dark, with only a few dim oil lamps lit.

In the village that is secretly arranged in the shape of a gossip, there is a grass hut near the position of the yin-yang diagram in the middle, and three figures can be faintly seen in the papier-mâché window.

One of them is the youngest Hou Ye Wuting Hou Zhao Li of Canglan, who is known as the best of a hundred schools and is better than the blue, and there is a slender figure, dressed gorgeously, and a proud momentum comes out of the gestures.

At this moment, the two of them were looking at the young man who was kneeling on the ground and spitting blood in front of them with a worried face.

The person sitting on his knees looked to be in his twenties, with a jade tree in the wind and a dignified appearance.

If there is a list of handsome guys on the rivers and lakes, this son can be on the list without accident, and it must be an extremely high position.

I saw him cover his mouth and cough lightly, and a few wisps of blood flowed out from between his fingers.

Seeing this, Zhao Li hurriedly stepped forward and asked with a worried face, "How is the senior brother?"

After seeing the latter gently wave his hand to indicate that he was fine, he sat cross-legged and put a strand of white thread in his hand into the sandalwood box on the bookcase in front of him, and within a moment green smoke rose from the box.

This sandalwood blends with the fragrance of the woman, which can make people intoxicated.

Childe took out a night of reading from the messy bamboo slips in the bookcase by means of an oil lamp, and Zhao Li, who was standing on the side, stood on the young man's side with a respectful face.

And the woman didn't say much, just found a cushion to sit opposite the young man, and looked at the young man in front of her with a playful expression.

After a while, the young man finished reading the whole book, put it back on the table, nodded slightly to Zhao Li beside him, and then got up and bowed to the woman. Said: "The emperor visited me late at night, I was fascinated by the sea of books and did not go out to greet me, and I hope the emperor will forgive me." ”

After hearing this, the woman was not taken aback by the fact that her identity was seen through, but shook her head as a matter of course, signaling that there was no need to be polite, and then glanced at Zhao Li beside her, without saying much.

Zhao Li glanced at the emperor's gaze and immediately understood, turned his head to look at the young man and asked in a low voice, "What did Senior Brother do just now?"

The young man chuckled and replied, "What you have asked for this time." ”

After hearing this, Zhao Li's eyes tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "What can that senior brother calculate?"

The young man didn't answer, he beat his leg that should be a little sore, stretched out his finger and pointed to Pu Zao on the ground, and motioned for Zhao Li to sit down.

After seeing Zhao Li sitting down, he said to himself: "It has been a hundred years since the founding of the country, and after several monarchs, there has never been a rebellion, but now it has appeared in the Yuanwu period of this peaceful and prosperous era, what do you think of this matter?"

Liu An groaned for a while, glanced at the emperor and queen beside him, and replied after seeing that he nodded: "After a long time, there will always be people who want to take the throne, after all, in the eyes of some people, their talents should not be confined to the status quo." ”

Brother Gongzi raised his eyes slightly and sneered, "Then according to your meaning, do you think that the reason why that person is treason is because he is dissatisfied with his position?"

Zhao Li knew that he had lost his language, so he hurriedly shook his head and said, "Senior brother, I didn't mean that. We all know who he is. How could that man be a traitor in his life? I think he must have listened to the demagoguery of some demon and made a big mistake after a moment of confusion. ”

The young man looked at the emperor and queen again, his eyes did not shake, and asked, "Do you think my junior brother has the same opinion on this matter of the emperor and queen?"

The emperor just gave up his hand and said politely, "This palace is deep in the inner courtyard and is not good at political affairs, so I dare not speak at this time." ”

"Hmm. ”

The young man glanced at the emperor and queen deeply, and then chuckled lightly, obviously not really planning to ask something from her mouth, and nodded lightly, "The emperor and queen are the people of the harem, and we don't understand the government." I also hope that the emperor will never get involved in the government. ”

Then after hearing this, Zhao Li, who was beside him, got up a little angrily and said, "Senior brother, this is a bad word. Although the emperor is a member of the harem, his father is the courtier, and his identity can be regarded as a person in the court. It is also a matter of course for the emperor and queen to intervene in court politics. ”

The young man glanced at Zhao Li, shook his head mercilessly, and directly denied Zhao Li's thoughts, "Senior brother, this difference is that once you enter the harem, you will be the emperor's family, so how can you talk about the family." The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, which is a tacit matter in all dynasties, and the queen can only lead the harem and must not interfere in the affairs of the DPRK and China. Senior brother, it seems that over the years, in the big dyeing workshop of the imperial capital, you have been more or less infected with this secular power struggle. The young man's eyes looked straight at Zhao Li, as if he was a little regretful, he wanted to say a few more words, but when the words came to his mouth, he only turned into a light sigh.

"That's it, I will talk about this matter, but you need to remember that you are a genius, and the master has high hopes for you. I hope you will not live up to Master's high hopes. We scholars should uphold justice and not be blinded by rights. Embark on a path from which there is no turning back. ”

Zhao Li looked at the emperor and queen on the side, a different color flashed, and he hurriedly bowed down and lowered his head

Zhao Li remembered his brother's teachings. ”

The young man stared at Zhao Li for a while, then took his eyes off his face and turned his head to look at the emperor and queen on the side, and said: "This time the emperor and queen should not only come to ask about it, but also to indicate the intention of coming after the stupid invitation." ”

The emperor smiled, with a little charm and a little charm in the delicate, at first glance it sounded like the yellow warbler out of the valley, like the empty valley orchid, the kite cries and the phoenix sings, crisp and bright but tactful and soft; When I heard it again, it was like the gurgling water, the wind blowing the willows, low back soft and charming and affectionate; Listen carefully again, only to feel that the sky is wide and the clouds are comfortable, the sea is calm and the waves are calm, which makes people open-minded and can't stop, "It seems that nothing can be hidden from the eyes of the son, I came here this time just to ask Mr. to go out of the mountain and help my emperor achieve the ambition and hegemony." The second thing I want to know is how that happened. ”

The young man glanced at the emperor deeply, and then politely refused: "The emperor is so loving, I have received it in my heart, but I am a rough man in the countryside, and it is not worth it to let the emperor deign to come, and I promised the first master not to participate in the affairs of the court, and to the emperor and queen Haihan." ”

The emperor covered his mouth and chuckled, "Mr. is really good at laughing, if Mr. is a rough person, then there are still people in the world who are not rough, this time my emperor knows the agreement between you and your master, and will not let you enter the office, just be a guest." ”

The young man had a little headache, and said helplessly: "I have countless capable people, why should I stick to one?"

The emperor and queen glanced at the young man playfully, and said with a smile: "Even though I am capable of countless people, how many of these young talents can be compared with the gentleman who is known as the Qilin talent?"

The young man hurriedly waved his hand and chuckled, "The Qilin talent doesn't dare to be a talent, he just read a few more poems and prose, and saved a few catties of ink in his belly." How can it be worthy of the deignation of the emperor and queen. ”

The emperor and queen hid her face and smiled: "Sir, I laughed, the world knows that among the young talents in our north, only you can be called a man who can be called a man of both civil and martial arts." ”

The young man chuckled lightly and sat back on the bed, picked up the book that he had already finished, and turned a few more pages, "How can I accompany Shuangjue, the emperor loves me too much, I am only a scholar, how can the things on the battlefield be compared to those veterans who are immersed in the battle! How can I compare with this junior brother next to me!"

As he spoke, he looked at Zhao Li, "At the beginning, my junior brother made a lot of achievements in quelling the rebellion of the two sides, but speaking of which, this southern rebellion is menacing, junior brother, do you have a way to swallow the more than 50,000 soldiers and horses from the south?"

The oil lamp flickered, and his face was in a trance. Although he asked Zhao Li, he was like an outsider, happy to watch the excitement.

Zhao Li frowned slightly, obviously this matter was very tricky for him, "It seems that this is quickly back in the army and deployed in advance." Liu An is not absolutely sure of this matter. ”

"What?"

The young man smiled lightly: "Senior brother can't do a strategy thousands of miles away?"

Such arrogant people as young people even admit that they are helpless, "I thought it would be a skirmish of a few thousand people, but I didn't expect the south to have such courage." He sent tens of thousands of people to fight north. ”

The young man looked out the window at the night, "The time, the place, the people." These are the three most crucial points in a war, and it is impossible to say which is higher or lower, but in order to win a simple victory, it is even more important to compare the time and place with the right people. If they want to attack, there are two clear paths, if it were you, what would you choose? ”

Zhao Li's expression moved slightly, and his face was embarrassed, "Senior brother, there are two roads, one water and one land, if I am the main general, I will definitely take the water road, the world knows that I am an unparalleled iron horse in the north of the Canglan Empire, but this water war is still a bit lacking! After all, there are very few water war generals we can handle!"

Looking at Zhao Li, who had a sad face, the young man did not answer, but chuckled to himself, "Since the land is unfavorable, people are not in harmony." I've asked the ruler who is the best at observing the heavens in the school palace to calculate, and within half a decade, there will be a torrential downpour. When the time comes, the water level will rise, the banks of the river will burst, and the main areas of the disaster will be in the south, who can blame you?"

Zhao Li hung his head and was silent. But I was also terrified to hear it. This is a chess game of the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the three counties, and no matter whether the battle between the north and the south is won or lost, this flood alone will keep the south busy for a while.

When the emperor heard this, she also bowed her head. A pair of wonderful eyes flashed with hesitation and struggle.

Although listening to the young people, the loss of the vicissitudes will not be too great. But this is, after all, more than 100,000 lives.

She has not learned any art of war, and it is difficult to be like Qing Qing and Zhao Li, who can decide between words that tens of thousands of people live and die without changing their faces.

No.

It's not just these hundreds of thousands.

If the timing is accurate, the 50,000 southern rebels will also be killed in this "accident".

However, the emperor thought about it and still didn't speak.

Looking at the young man in front of him, the emperor and queen were afraid of a person for the first time, and this young man deserved to be a Qilin genius. The plan can be described as ruthless. If you don't make a move, it's just that, and if you make a move, there will be hundreds of thousands of people. And then secretly thinking about something in my heart!

Seeing that the two people in front of him were silent, the corners of the young man's mouth only curled slightly and then stopped talking. Then he wrote a few lines on the table, put them in a bag and handed them to the emperor, and whispered in his ear: "What the emperor wants to know is in fact." ”

The emperor looked at the bag in his hand, and then looked at the young man in front of him, a hint of color flashed in his eyes, and then he got up and thanked him and was about to leave, and Zhao Li saw the emperor leave, so he didn't stay long, and hurriedly followed after a few words of greeting with the young man.

After the two walked out of the door, the young man walked to the door and quietly looked at the two who left, and sighed slightly, he could see that his junior brother had fallen in love with the emperor, but how many of them were really affectionate and righteous in this emperor's house! This is destined to be an unrequited love without results...

After standing at the door for a long time, the young man returned and picked up the book again, in fact, he was already familiar with the content of this book, but there was a sentence in the book: "There is a road in the book mountain, and the first thing to do is respect, and the eight treasures of the bitter sea are endless." ”

He looked embarrassed every time, and every time that person came, he had to ask, there is a fast in the house, who would have thought that the person who killed decisively on weekdays was such a shameless master, and who would have thought that the unicorn genius admired by the world would one day be forced to study and cook.

remembered that the guy actually took the rack around his neck in order to eat the food he cooked, and threatened himself, if he didn't cook for him, he would die in front of the young man, and make him feel guilty for the rest of his life. The young man asked himself if he was familiar with the subset of scriptures and history since he was a child, and his cultivation was okay, but every time he saw that scoundrel's face, he wanted to scold.

But ask yourself what the young man admires most in his heart is only this scoundrel who eats and drinks with him, and often changes the scriptures in his room into recipes, and asks for death at every turn.

Thinking of the scoundrel, the young man couldn't help but smile bitterly, it was really memorable, but then he touched the object in his arms, and said softly, "However, it's good to be alive!" ......