Chapter 21: Makeover
Chu Mo sat in the center of the county hall and outside the gate, several golden birds landed on the drum at the door, chirping.
As soon as Wang Su died, there were no more cronies he could trust in Hangzhou, and Ouyang Mo's identity was like a face, which was firmly on his face. The original owner of his identity was the youngest son of Ouyang Zhenhua, a Korean business bank, who was a weak scholar and had little interest in the family business, and it was a good material to paint and write poems. The character is also relatively withdrawn, and the poems he wrote have a certain reputation in the Han country, and are favored by the Xilu Academy of the Qin State. And Ouyang Zhenhua wanted him to inherit the family business, but Ouyang Mo refused, fell out with his father and ran away from home to go to Qin to study, but was captured in the war on the way and sent to the Chu State at that time.
Later, the national teacher of Chu cut off Ouyang Mo's face, and after refining it, it was disguised on Chu Mo's face, and the two looked similar and were not easy to notice. The national teacher gave Chu Mo a new identity and sent him to the Tianshu Pavilion of the Yan State, where the more mature forces of the Chu State were already lurking, as a source of intelligence for the Chu State, and as a reserve force in times of emergency.
Since the death of Chu, many Chu people in Tianshu Pavilion have been sent to various places as chess pieces by the national teacher, most of them are jade and stone, there is no follow-up, Chu Mo is the prince of Chu State, and the forces left in Tianshu Pavilion after the death of Chu have spent all their energy on protecting Chu Mo.
Since getting this new identity, Chu Mo has rarely returned to the Ouyang family, and most of the time he has only exchanged letters with Ouyang Zhenhua, and the people in his family seem to be indifferent to him, only knowing that he has been a worthless county magistrate in a neighboring country. In addition, Chu Mo has nothing to do with this strange Ouyang family.
Chu Mo's biggest upline in the Tianshu Pavilion is the national teacher, and all his actions are arranged by the national teacher. The connection between the two of them is to draw unique symbols on parchment with refined paint, equivalent to code words, and then hand them over to the post station. The letter from the national teacher will indicate the place where the letter will be sent next. The two of them sent a letter at the end of each month, and most of the letters from the national teacher were instructions to Chu Mo's next actions and precautions, and Chu Mo reported the situation here, and the national teacher made a decision.
After the death of Chu, the remnants of Chu who were rounded up by the people of the world were the king of Chu and his national teacher, as well as his two sons. Chu Mo didn't know the whereabouts of the king of Chu, but he learned from the letter of the national teacher that his father was all right. He is the only one in the world who knows the whereabouts of the national teacher, but he also knows nothing about the national teacher's plan.
The national teacher only told him in the letter that Da Chu was not dead, but only lost the city and land.
One day, Chu Mo will recapture those places that belong to Great Chu back in his hands, and those who have stepped into the land of Great Chu will have to use the heads of the people on the item to pay tribute to the souls of Chu generals.
As for his younger brother, Chu Mo only had a complicated feeling.
Because of a woman, Han Luyao, the girl who was only six years old and was brought into the palace by the national teacher and brought to the two brothers.
At that time, Han Luyao had just finished bathing and changing, his dirty face was washed white and clean, coated with some light rouge, a wide bathrobe was draped over his skinny body, and a pair of timid eyes stared at him nervously.
Today, more than ten years later, Chu Mo can still recall the scene of the first meeting with her, just like yesterday.
And the day Chu Mo separated from her was also deeply reflected in his mind and within reach.
It was he who put on Ouyang Mo's face and woke up from the anesthesia of acupuncture, and the red blood on his face was flowing down messily. He turned his head, showed a stiff smile at Han Luyao, and asked, "Is it good-looking?"
Han Luyao already knew that he was about to leave for Yan Kingdom, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
In the end, he learned the news that Chu Liusheng and his own brother were ambushed, and Han Luyao died at the hands of the people of the Great Moon Kingdom in order to protect him.
The national teacher was strict about this, and did not reveal half a word to Han Luyao and Chu Liusheng, but only told Chu Mo that they were dead, and there was no need to mention it.
For more than a year, Chu Mo didn't ask again.
In a flash, it's almost the end of the month.
He looked at Hurun, who was sleeping on the side, this master book is a cronie of Lord Zhizhou, who has followed Zhizhou to the north and south for many years, and can take care of all the big and small things in the state, although his personality is a little small-bellied and short-tempered, but he has not embarrassed him much in the years when Chu Mo was the county commander.
Chu Mo took out a piece of parchment paper from the case, used the ink refined in advance, dipped it in a pen, and began to write horizontally on the paper. The place where the paper was crossed was gone.
Yan Wuchang was menacing with Skynet, which should have been within Chu Mo's expectations. After Chu died for more than a year, although he settled down in Hangzhou, he was always waiting for the enemy to pursue and kill, and the greatest threat to him was the assassin of Yan State.
After the Chu State swept through the Central Plains, it crossed the Yan River and raised troops to the south, and the mighty Chu army began to invade the Yan State. The huge territory of Yan is surrounded by the surging Yan River all the year round, and the access to transportation is inconvenient, so the economic and military strength of Yan is different from that of other countries, but the Yan people are self-sufficient, live and work in peace and contentment, and have a national complex, strong combat effectiveness, in the face of the invasion of the Chu army, the whole country resisted, indomitable, and gave the newcomer Chu army a head-on blow, coupled with the hot and humid terrain of the Yan country, the jungle was dense, and the miasma of mosquitoes and insects, countless Chu troops were trapped and died on the land of the Yan country. This gave Li Qiuhan, the general of the Chu army at that time, a full dismount, and the Chu army advanced and retreated three times on the Yan River, but it couldn't enter the territory of Yan State. Li Qiuhan was furious, mobilized all the Chu troops stationed in other places, and used force to coerce Wu to open the river to Yan for the Chu army, on a full moon night, the dense Chu army was distributed on several rivers in Wu, and in one fell swoop broke the Yan garrison army along the river, and then hundreds of thousands of Chu troops crossed the Yan River with the main force, like no man's land. There are poems in Xilu Academy: Ten thousand boats stir the Yanjiang River, a thousand blades are colder than the moonlight, the general is angry and the bones are dry, and the black soil is all over the Yan ten miles of bends. The history books refer to this largest cross-river operation in history as the Battle of Yanjiang.
The Chu army was disgraced in the previous battle, Li Qiuhan was menacing, changed the previous tactics, burned in the forest, and slaughtered when entering the village, and basically did not leave the refugees alive along the road. The land on which the Yan people depended for their livelihood was spread by raging fires, and black smoke covered the sky. The Yan people living in the tribe have worshiped the mountain as a god since ancient times, but they thought that the gods had descended and the end of the world, and they lost the courage to resist. The Chu army swept through one-third of the land of Yan in just ten days, hundreds of thousands of Yan people were burned to death, buried alive, and lost their heads, and countless bones were buried on the scorched ground behind the Chu army.
The fire attack of the Chu army made the Yan army, which relied on the dense terrain of the jungle, have no natural barrier, and relying on their iron weapons cannot compete with the Chu army with copper helmets and sharp blades, so they have to retreat again and again. At that time, King Yan was Yan Wuchang's biological father, and Prince Yan was also the Prince of Yan at that time. The Chu army attacked the capital of Yan, and the king of Yan vowed not to retreat, so that his younger brother Prince Yan fled Yan Wuchang and a group of family members backwards, leaving the capital alone. A few days later, King Yan was killed in battle, and the prince ascended the throne and continued to lead the army to resist.
And at that time, Yan Wuchang also changed from the prince to the prince.
As a result, Yan Wuchang, whether it is a family hatred or a national hatred, has a deep hostility towards the Chu State. After he formed Skynet, there were no less than hundreds of Chu people who died under the round-up of Skynet, and most of them were high-ranking officials and famous generals, and no one was an exception.
Chu Mo had been waiting for this day for a long time. He wrote down Yan Wuchang's affairs on parchment, folded several layers, put them in his arms, and prepared to send them to the post station in person at dusk.