Southern Ye Dynasty, Liangzhou City.

Liangzhou, the border state and county of the Nanye Dynasty, was very close to the Nansheng Dynasty and was considered a border. Generally speaking, it is rare for mortals to come here, because of the proximity to the border, there are frequent wars, and if you are not careful, your life will be lost.

But at this time, the three elders of Lingxiao Pavilion were waiting here for a long time with their disciples in front of the Liangzhou City Gate. A gust of wind blew, and several hay balls rolled past their eyes and rolled towards the wind-blown avenue in the distance.

"When exactly are they coming?" a disciple muttered quietly behind the elder. "We've been standing here for three hours, why hasn't anyone come yet?"

Another disciple also said, "Who knows? We are going to greet the delegation from the Nansheng Dynasty, and since they have come to visit our court, they will inevitably have to put up a show." Let's wait here a little longer, it's already light, and if they make things difficult for us later, it will be difficult. ”

"Yes, although our dynasty became independent from the Nansheng Dynasty, they have never given up their ambition to re-annex us, and often waged wars of unification in their mouths. Especially in the past few years, the border wars have been raging and the people have been displaced, and the once prosperous Liangzhou City is now about to become a ghost town. Another disciple sighed.

This is the case with the dynastic hegemony of mortals, and the division of borders is even weaker and more shelved, and strong is since ancient times. What's more, the Nanye Dynasty was originally a small kingdom in the Nansheng Dynasty, but it was independent, and the scale of development was almost the same as that of the Nansheng Dynasty. In the face of such a big piece of fat meat in the emerging dynasty, and in the name of righteousness, if the Nansheng Dynasty does not swallow this, it is simply sorry for the ancestors and ancestors!

Therefore, the national policy of the Nansheng Dynasty was to recover the old land and exhaust most of the national strength, wanting to bring the Nanye Dynasty back to its own dynasty.

"Shut up, the envoy of the Nansheng Dynasty is coming, where did you get so many words? Could it be that you want to serve the rules of the Lingxiao Pavilion?" Elder Shangguan said unhappily. Originally, as an elder of Ling Xiao Pavilion, he was in a high position, so he rarely came into contact with these things anymore. Unexpectedly, this time, the envoys of the Nansheng Dynasty deliberately falsely reported the arrival time, causing them to wait for several hours in vain, and the mood of the Shangguan elders is really conceivable.

Seeing this, Elder Zhao on the side opened his mouth to persuade: "Elder Shangguan is angry, these juniors have not been out of the sect a few times, they have never seen the world, and they are not sensible. Elder Shangguan has a large number of them, don't worry about them, the envoys of the Nansheng Dynasty are coming, but don't lose the face of our Lingxiao Pavilion because of these ignorant disciples. ”

Before Elder Zhao finished speaking, there was a sound of camel bells on the avenue, and the laughter of the group.

"It's all quiet, they're coming. ”

After a gust of wind and sand, their true faces were revealed, and Elder Zhao guessed that it was the envoys of the Nansheng Dynasty.

A middle-aged official headed by a middle-aged official, with a serious face, rode on a yellow sand camel, wearing a black crown, a black bottom, a red-colored outerwear, a crimson underwear, a large gray belt, and black shoes. He was the head of this mission, the highest-ranking official in the Nansheng Dynasty - Yi Boji.

Behind him, there were also three court officials who were roughly similar to official robes, they were riding tall horses, all of them were court officials of the Nansheng Dynasty, and the people who protected them this time were several elite monks of the Nansheng Dynasty, each of whom had at least meridian stage cultivation, and they were all the best in each family. Behind them, there were several carriages driven by servants, loaded with the treasures provided to the king of Nanye on this mission.

Although the two countries are hostile, there should still be etiquette, after all, the Nansheng Dynasty has always regarded itself as the above country and the suzerain, so naturally it cannot be too stingy.

Soon, a series of polite behaviors ended Speaking of which, although Liangzhou City is the capital of Liangzhou, it belongs to the border after all, and spirit beasts are rampant, and few people are willing to live here, let alone those dignitaries. Therefore, there was no need for the envoy and the elders of the Ling Xiao Pavilion to perform these meaningless rituals, they could be simplified, and they quickly entered the city.

"They are the envoys of the Nansheng Dynasty, right? They are really arrogant, they don't even look at us, and they can't wait to turn their nostrils to the sky. Elite disciple Wang Ye sneered.

Wang Ye's words resonated with Li Zhan, who was also an elite disciple. "Who says it's not, don't talk about us, the one named Yi Boji completely regards the Liangzhou Prefecture Mu Weikang who greeted them with us as a subordinate. Then our Liangzhou governor, the biggest official in a state, how can he not be better than him Honglu, who is in charge of the envoy? He really thinks of himself as some kind of big official, really, what kind of big-tailed wolf. ”

"There is no way to do this, our previous war with the Nansheng Dynasty ended in failure. The country is strong and the people are strong, and the country is weak and the people are weak. People are naturally very arrogant and arrogant in order to maintain the current peaceful situation, and our dynasty has swallowed its anger and paid a lot. Let the legations be arrogant, although we are monks, we are also part of the dynasty, and we should serve the dynasty. "As one of the few true disciples in the sect, Zhou Han naturally has a farther vision than the two elite disciples.

Soon, the mission entered the inner city of Liangzhou City, which was rarely inhabited due to the harsh surrounding environment. However, when you get to the inner city, there is more crowding. Countless streets, lined with houses, interconnected and accessible in all directions. The streets are paved with gray-blue cavitated stones with tiny gaps to prevent yellow sand from obscuring the streets. Next to the street, there are also a lot of evergreen trees and some sand fruit shrubs, which are more suitable for the yellow sand climate of Liangzhou, and can also improve the environment of the inner city.

"Look at this costume, they are not the people of our Nanye Dynasty, but they are a bit like ..... The people of the Nansheng Dynasty?"

"Nansheng Dynasty? That Nansheng Dynasty, who attacked us every day? Sure enough, I don't think they are good people, they are really people from the Nansheng Dynasty. ”

"If it weren't for them, the old man, I wouldn't have sent a white-haired person to a black-haired person........."

Pedestrians on the street, seeing the arrival of the mission, showed fear, resentment, and disgust. Because, although the Nanye Dynasty and the Nansheng Dynasty have the same roots, they have also been separated for more than 200 years, and their clothing, appearance, customs and accents have changed greatly. Therefore, these people of Liangzhou can still easily recognize that the mission is not from the Nanye Dynasty.

"Sure enough, it's a group of Diao people, who are deeply under the brutal rule of the king of the Southern Ye Dynasty, and they don't know it, but they are hostile to us who saved them from fire and water, it's really damned. An envoy of the Nansheng Dynasty rolled his eyes and cursed in his heart.

As the leader of the mission, Eberji didn't have much hatred, he rationally observed the reactions of the people around him, and ordered the servants behind him to record it.

In fact, it is no wonder that the people of the Southern Ye Dynasty are like this. The generals of the Nansheng Dynasty who were responsible for fighting against the Nanye Dynasty were the die-hard descendants of the small kingdom that was the lord of the Nanye Dynasty. There are no other hobbies, that is, he likes to crusade against the Nanye Dynasty, it is said that his family's ancestral land seems to be in Liangzhou, and the frequency of his wars does not delay him from going to the ancestral grave on the Qingming Festival every year. Moreover, this general prefers to fight over the population, and every time he has the opportunity, he will forcibly move the people of the Nanye Dynasty to the territory of the Nansheng Dynasty, and save them in the name of the United States.

Although, in theory, there seems to be nothing wrong with the general's words. After all, the Nansheng Dynasty is the origin of most of the families of the Nanye Dynasty, returning to the ancestral land. But the problem is that the most common people in the Nanye Dynasty still committed crimes by their ancestors and were imprisoned. Later, they moved to the west, reclaimed wasteland, and cultivated food.

This made the people of the Nanye Dynasty very uncomfortable, and after the hard work of their ancestors, their lives have improved a lot, and they are not inferior to the life in the Nansheng Dynasty. But now, the Nansheng Dynasty, which had allowed their ancestors to reclaim wasteland, wanted to let them abandon their current life and forcibly move back. Who can stand this?

In the process of this back and forth struggle, the people of the two dynasties, who were originally of the same origin, gradually became strangers and even mortal enemies.

"Lord Yiboji, here, this is the Liangzhou Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, it may be a little shabby, please forgive me. Soon, the governor of Liangzhou came to his governor's mansion with a delegation, intending to recuperate for a few days. After that, the route of the mission will pass through Lingxiao Pavilion and go directly to the royal capital of Yecheng, where the Southern Ye Dynasty is located.

"The Governor is too modest. Yi Boji glanced at the Liangzhou Prefecture Governor's Mansion and nodded expressionlessly.

But the envoy next to him couldn't hold it back, and he said mockingly: "This is Lord Weikang's mansion, well, it's pretty good, but it's a little too shoddy." It's similar to the house of the people in my house, oh, Lord Weikang, I'm not saying that your mansion is bad. After all, this is the highest level that your Southern Ye Dynasty can achieve, right?"

"Hahaha, Brother Xiao Rang, this is your mistake, how can you say that this mansion is the highest level of the Nanye Dynasty? Our Nansheng Dynasty is the Father Dynasty, and the Nanye Dynasty is the Son Dynasty, don't you also deny the level of our Nansheng Dynasty when you say this?" Another envoy of the Nansheng Dynasty said with a smile.

"Yin and Yang are weird, it's really a dog's mouth that can't spit out ivory, and the two monks of the Ning Morning Period, aren't they just relying on their own courtiers of the Nansheng Dynasty, and they dare to bark in front of us. The words of the envoy of the Nansheng Dynasty obviously angered Elder Shangguan, and he was filled with righteous indignation, but was stopped by Elder Huang beside him.

Elder Huang secretly said, "Bear with the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky. At this time, the king of our Nanye Dynasty signed a peace agreement with the Nansheng Dynasty not long ago, and paid a lot of price, in order to return the people to peace and recuperate. If you make a move, won't you escalate this matter into a grudge between the two dynasties? We are monks, and with Lingshan to rely on, the Nansheng Dynasty will not be able to enter for a while. But what about the people of our Southern Ye Dynasty? They have nowhere to hide. Especially the people of Liangzhou, they have no choice but to be on the border, and once a war breaks out, they will bear the brunt of the impact, and their families will be ruined. Can you really bear to see this?"

Hearing this, Elder Shangguan gritted his teeth, and his clenched fists finally loosened. "Let you go for the time being, you will have to pay this account sooner or later. ”