The strong man took Tianci to an inn, and the two entered the store and sat down, ordered some wine and food, and chatted while eating.

Tianci didn't drink, he asked for a cup of tea to drink with the strong man, and after pushing the cup and changing the lamp, the strong man was a little drunk, and he chatted for a while, and he didn't say anything.

It turns out that this man's surname is Zhao, a single name is a short word, Jing is a personal guard of the king of Zhenxi, and he came to Tongyuan City to spy on the military situation, so he often mixes in various places, makes a wide range of friends, and the people of the third-rate nine religions in the city have acquaintances.

Tianci only said that he was poor when he was a child, and sent him to the Taoist temple as an apprentice, and he did not return from home for many years, and this time he went back to his hometown to visit his parents.

"Since the king of Zhenxi raised troops against the imperial court, he has not actually sent troops to the east, but has only stubbornly held on to the Western Regions, wanting to form a horn with the rebels in the north, and stalemate with the imperial court. ”

Zhao Jian said to Tianci: "But in the past two years, the imperial court has won great victories in the north, and the king of Zhenbei, Yuwen Haotian, has been defeated and fled to the north, and the pacification of the north has become an overall situation. ”

Tianci said: "Listening to you say this, then this king of Zhenxi is really stupid, he has already raised things, but he does not send troops, and sits and watches the court break down, and finally it is difficult to escape the fate of being exterminated." ”

"The king of Zhenxi wants to help the court and abolish the concubine, which is different from the northern thieves, so he doesn't want to be in trouble with it. ”

"Then why does the king of Zhenbei want to oppose the imperial court?" asked Tianci.

Zhao Jian raised his head and drank a glass of wine and said, "This matter is a long story, and listen to me tell you slowly." ”

It is said that since the first emperor Wuyu Wang founded the Dafeng Empire, the world is under great governance, the country is peaceful and peaceful, before the death of King Wuyu, because the crown prince Wu Shizheng born to the first queen Qin is still young, it is said that the eldest son Wu Shizhong born to Huang Fei is here, and it is announced that the new emperor must return the throne to the crown prince Wu Shizheng after ten years on the throne. Ten years later, however, the emperor did not follow the will of the previous emperor and passed the throne to his son Wu Beikun. As soon as this move came out, the world was difficult to peace, the elder brother of King Wu Yu, the king of Zhenxi, Wu Yuguo, took the lead in rebellion, one is to abolish the concubine and establish Wu Shi as the emperor, and the other is to support the imperial court and eradicate the party forces of the Empress Dowager Huang.

"It is rumored that the Yuwen family, the largest family in the Dafeng Empire, has been coveting the throne for many years by relying on the momentum of the founding hero Yuwenbo. In order to obtain the throne, he married his daughter Yu Wenming Zhu to Wu Shizheng, but after learning that Wu Shizheng failed to inherit the throne, he assassinated Emperor Wu Shizhong, and at the same time sent Zhenbei Wang Yuwen Haotian to collude with the soldiers and rebel against the imperial court. Zhao Jian took advantage of the wine to gush endlessly.

The succeeding emperor Wu Beikun immediately sent troops to suppress the rebellion, killed the Yuwen family, and chased and killed the head of the rebel party, Yuwen Haotian, to the north. The poor Yuwen family was tragically wiped out, and more than 500 people were implicated in the death. At that time, even the mention of the word 'Yuwen' made people shudder and be silent. ”

"There is another thing, which is even more appalling!" Zhao Jian continued mysteriously: "That Yu Wenming Zhu, who was originally the crown princess, was pregnant with the dragon seed at that time and was about to give birth. This woman who was on the verge of giving birth competed with her bare hands to kill three of the five masters who came to arrest her, and even killed and injured dozens of officers and soldiers of the imperial court. Before she was finally killed, she actually ate the dragon seed she had just given birth to alive and swallowed it in her stomach to vent her anger. ”

"There are such things. Tianci was also terrified when he heard it, and he got goosebumps.

"Are this Yuwen Wenzhu and Yuwen Haotian brother and sister? What happened to Yuwen Haotian?"

"Exactly, Haotian, the son of Yuwen's family, was named the king of Zhenbei, stationed in northern Xinjiang with heavy troops, and the capital was in Gulu Pass. After the failure of the rebellion, Yuwen Haotian fled back to Gulu Pass City alone, relying on the high danger of Gulu Pass City, raising the anti-flag and fighting against the imperial court. For more than ten years, the imperial court has been sending a large army to encircle and suppress, but it has failed to overcome and suppress the enemy for many years. The two sides fought back and forth in the northern territory for nearly 100 rounds, and each other could not win. ”

This is also the reason why the imperial court has not been able to take time out to quell the rebellion in the Western Regions. The king of Zhenxi has been fighting against the imperial court for so long with his meager strength, and the competition has not hurt his vitality. Zhao Jian raised another glass of wine and drank it all.

"The mistake of the king of Zhenxi is here, not taking advantage of the situation, taking advantage of the emptiness of the court to attack it, wanting to sit and watch the battle between the snipe and the mussel, and get the benefit of the fisherman. As everyone knows, this is exactly the imperial court's plan to delay the army, after the northern border is completely pacified, the strength of the rebel party will be suppressed, and the force of the whole country will be raised. Hearing this, Tianci shook his head and sighed.

"Brother said this very much, but the king of Zhenxi was obsessed, and just wanted to take the opportunity to confront the court, in order to ask the court for more fiefdom territory, and then he could accept the court's recruitment, a corner of peace, and enjoy peace. This time, when I heard that the Northern Rebellion was about to be peaceful and the imperial court was going to raise heavy troops to the west, I panicked and didn't know what to do. Zhao Jian said and stood up from his seat and paced back and forth.

"In the affairs of the world, you and I should worry less about dim sum. Brother stay with me at this inn tonight. Tomorrow, I will take these silver taels to buy some gifts, and I will go home to save my relatives. As he spoke, he untied his burden and took out all the silver taels he had won in the gambling house and handed them over to God.

Tianci hurriedly excused himself: "Brother Zhao's love, junior brother's heart, this silver is also what you lost before, and all that energy was given to me, I just wanted to use the hand of Brother Tai to punish those who were traitors." ”

"Well, this silver is half per person, as I said before, if my brother has anything to say, he will look down on my brother. Then he cut the silver into two piles, one of which was nearly five or six taels, and wrapped one of them and handed it over to God, but it was not good to shirk it, so he had to accept it.

After dinner, the two saw that it was not early, so they entered the room together, Zhao Jian asked the boss to add beds and quilts and other supplies, and the two slept in separate beds.

The two were lying on the bed, and they also talked happily. Tianci thought that he could meet such a person who knew the world's major events for the first time in Tongyuan City, and he had a similar temperament and speculative words, which was also rare, and he was very happy in his heart. The two talked until midnight and after three watches, and then fell asleep one after another.

Early the next morning, Tianci went to the street to buy a lot of toys and hired a carriage to come back. After packing up in the inn room, he stepped forward to say goodbye to Zhao Jian.

"When my brother comes back from visiting his parents, he will pass through this place, and he will definitely come to find his brother when the time comes, so I will wait here. ”

"Okay, when I come back from the countryside, I will definitely come back to visit my brother. With that, he said goodbye, went downstairs to the carriage, and set off in the direction of his hometown.