In the north of the mountain, a scholar walked alone in the middle, the whistling spring breeze surged, and the scholar's chanting voice faintly came: "The mountains and rivers are broken, and the beacon fire looks at Xijing in March." The smoke and dust were scattered all over the field, and Hu Ma galloped into the north courtyard. A lonely city hangs a leaf, and the ironclad Jin Ge white-haired soldiers. The clouds hang in the sky, and the loyal soul is buried in the sweat. ”

This poem was written by a scholar. It is said that at the peak of the Central Plains Dynasty hundreds of years ago, the territory under its jurisdiction could reach the territory of today's Golden Horde, and the farthest Western Regions Protectorate was less than 100 miles away from the Golden Horde's court today. It's just that with the civil strife of the dynasty, a large number of border troops were transferred to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion, and the Western Regions, grasslands and other places were invaded and occupied by the Golden Horde.

As everyone knows, at that time, the Western Regions Protector still led tens of thousands of soldiers to stick to the city, and in the following decades, he repelled the attacks of the Golden Horde Iron Cavalry again and again. There were no reinforcements, and even the Central Plains Imperial Court did not know how to change the era name, and still used the old era name to mint money. When the city was broken, all the soldiers in the city were gray-haired, and they were all old men, and they all died of martyrdom.

"A lonely city for thousands of miles, full of white-haired soldiers. The scholar stopped above the former site of the Eternal Life Palace and sighed: "Respectable, pitiful, pathetic, lamentable." ”

Today's general trend of the world, than back then, Emperor Taizu of the Great Wei Dynasty founded the country, only expelled the Golden Horde from the Central Plains, when Emperor Wude was prosperous, but only recovered Liangzhou and Qinzhou, from the recovery of the entire territory of the Western Regions, I don't know how much worse, and even today's Liaodong border, but also from time to time by the Golden Horde cavalry invasion, so that the imperial court has to put the most elite iron cavalry of the entire empire here, so that the outside is heavy and the inside is light, and the Qingyang Sect has the space to fight in various places. If there is no threat from the Golden Horde, if you let the Liaodong Iron Cavalry go south, you can wipe out the Qingyang Sect rebels everywhere in an instant, and even attack the three northwestern states in one go.

Speaking of Liaodong Iron Cavalry, a considerable part of the men and horses were the old troops when Qin Xiang recovered Qinzhou and Liangzhou, so Zhao Zheng vigorously invited Qin Xiang to Liaodong. Zhao Zheng had a great plan, and some people speculated that he wanted to take the initiative to start a war with the Golden Horde and completely defeat the Golden Horde. "As long as this battle is won and the Golden Horde is broken and does not dare to provoke rashly, he can free up his hands to lead the army south, and when the time comes, whether it is on the side of the Qing monarch or the world, there is a lot to be done.

Of course, in order to prevent the situation that the governor of Liaodong is dominant, the imperial court still specially installed a governor of Youyan, but the biggest difference between the governor of Liaodong and the northwest is that the three states of Liaodong can be self-sufficient, unlike the northwest is a desert Gobi, especially after leaving Liangzhou, it is rarely populated, and the army must be supplied with food, as long as the grain and grass are cut off, it is equivalent to choking the throat of the army. Today's Liaodong, after several years of operation by Zhao Zheng, has reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of wasteland, in this case, it is difficult for the imperial court to control Liaodong. If Zhao Zheng is determined to go south, only one governor of Youyan will not be able to stop him for long. In addition, the strong Liaodong led by the Qin family and Butianzong had a close relationship with Zhao Zheng, which made Zhao Zheng in fact able to listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement, just like the king of a vassal land.

The king of Jin once proposed to let Zhao Zheng enter Beijing, add the title of Taitai, and reset the post of governor of Dadu, which had been abolished for many years, and Zhao Zheng served as the governor of Dadu, commanding the Dadu Governor's Mansion and supervising the Chinese and foreign military. The Metropolitan Governor is a positive product, located above the Zuo Governor, and is ranked alongside the first assistant of the cabinet. At the same time, Zhao Zheng was also allowed to serve as the secretary of the military department, and he could also participate in cabinet affairs. However, he was rejected by Zhao Zheng.

Later, the king of Jin proposed that Zhao Zheng enter Beijing, still add the title of Taibao, and then add the title of Liao Guogong, and Zhao Zheng served as the first assistant of the cabinet, and was also in charge of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War, and led the post of governor of Liaodong from afar.

The chips offered by King Jin are not small, and the difference is that the surname is king. However, Zhao Zheng saw it very clearly, whether it was the governor of the capital, or the head of the cabinet, even if it was a foreign surname and a king, it was all virtual in today's situation, and the real thing was the military power in his hands. It is better to hold military power in your hands than to hold a bunch of empty names.

The reason why the imperial party was able to compete with the latter party and not fall down was that Zhao Zheng played a great role, which can be described as the needle of the sea. Even because of Zhao Zheng, when the envoys of the overseas Posa Prefecture and Fenglu Prefecture paid tribute, they ranked the emperor before the Queen Mother.

Thinking of this, the scholar remembered another interesting fact, in addition to the Golden Horde, an old neighbor in the north, the overseas Posa Prefecture and Fenglu Prefecture are also closely related to the general trend of the Central Plains, but these two states are far less powerful than the Golden Horde, and more often, the two states are just vassals of the Central Plains court. And because of the discord between the two states, there is a famous saying in Bosa Prefecture: "The parents of the Celestial Empire, I and Fenglan Prefecture are both foreign countries, such as sons." In other words, if his parents are to his son, then my country's filial son is also a thief. ”

The scholar walked aimlessly in the wasteland, which used to be a village, but now there was no trace of it, and the tomb at his feet was completely destroyed in a confrontation between good and evil, but he didn't care much about it.

Some people's horizons are too narrow, the pattern is too small, and they are always staring at their own one-third of an acre, and they can't see the huge world. Whether it is this Palace of Eternal Life, or even the entire Beibi Mountain, it is still useful for those who are rolling in the mud of the rivers and lakes, and they can get some so-called adventures from it, but for people of his realm, it is all meaningless, and there are only two things he wants, the same is ambition, and the same is immortality.

In fact, seriously speaking, what ancient and modern emperors ask for is nothing more than these two things.

After the scholar stood here for a while, a curling white smoke rose, and when the white smoke cleared, an old man appeared, with white hair scattered and half of his face turned into white bones.

Rao is such a rebellious person as the old man of Tibet, and he lowered his posture in the face of this scholar, and said softly: "Earth Master." ”

The masters of the world often have a variety of faces, and the old man in Tibet has two images: a tall white-haired old man and a short hunchbacked old man, and the scholar in front of him is one of the many faces of the earth master Xu Wugui, who is often used to walk the world, not the real appearance.

The scholar retracted his thoughts, smiled, and said, "Sect Master Tibet, how is your body recuperating recently?"

The old man said: "There is a labor master who is concerned, everything is fine, but the two incarnations outside the body have been damaged, and if you want to refine it again, it will take a lot more work." ”

The scholar said: "Your method of 'three refining incarnations' is in the same vein as the 'three corpse primordial gods' that I cultivated, I know it, but in fact, it takes a lot of time, the key is the lack of a suitable body, and the immortal palace was destroyed, and most of the corpses raised in it were also destroyed. ”

The old man looked at the scholar deeply: "The earth master is Mingjian." ”

The scholar smiled lightly: "I have two good bodies in the Yin Yang Sect, which are the Dharma bodies left by the Buddhist monks after their deaths, I wonder if the Tibetan sect master is interested?"

The old man frowned and did not give an immediate reply.

Because he knew very well that this Earth Qi Sect Master never made a loss-making business, and everyone in the world knew that the Yin Yang Sect had single-handedly supported the Soap Pavilion Sect, but he didn't know what price the Soap Pavilion Sect had paid for it.

Kunlun is the ancestor of all mountains, and the three major dragon veins in the world all originated from Kunlun. According to the trend of mountains and rivers and the general trend of the hidden dragon vein, from west to east, the meandering terrain of the dragon vein is regarded as the feng shui vein, which is divided into three potentials, called the three dragons, namely: the south of the river is the south dragon, the middle dragon between the big river and the long river, and the north of the long river is the north dragon.

The mountain of Beilong is majestic and majestic, out of Kunlun Mountain to the east, Nanshan and Zhongyue stretch vertically and horizontally, and the mountains embrace each other, forming a series of good places to enter the dragon and Fulong. The west water of the mountain side flows into the Longmen West River, and the east water of the mountain side flows into Youzhou and flows east to the sea. The north mountain is the remnant vein of the south mountain, so the feng shui is excellent, attracting the emperors and generals of the past dynasties to build a mausoleum here.

Each dragon vein, from west to east, from Kunlun to the East China Sea, according to the size of the distance, is divided into Yuanzu Mountain, Laozu Mountain, and Shaozu Mountain, in order from old to young. According to the reason, Beibi Mountain is located in the remaining veins of Nanshan Mountain, and it is not an old ancestral mountain, but a young ancestral mountain. However, because of the evolution of the dragon vein, the closer it is to Kunlun in the west, the more the dynasty born in the west cannot be born in response to the times. In order to plan luck for the Northwest Great Zhou, the earth master Xu Wugui used unpredictable magic to steal beams and change pillars, and transferred the anger of Beibi Mountain to an old ancestral mountain in Qinzhou, so that Beibi Mountain changed from Shaozu Mountain to Lao Zu Mountain.

Beibi Mountain is where the mountain gate of the Soap Pavilion Sect is located, this move is very harmful, how can the old man not know, but there is nothing to do, I can't take care of the future, I can only look at the present.

After a long time, the old Tibetan man slowly spoke: "I don't know what the earth master commands?"

The scholar also did not reply immediately, but asked, "What do you think of the 'Holy Monarch'?"