The main entrance of Dayan Palace.

Two figures passed through the doorway and appeared in the inner city square.

In the middle of the extremely wide square, there is a stone tablet with four big characters on the mountains and rivers of Yongzhen.

Looking further behind the stele, on a three-story staircase platform, the former Kuntai Hall has long disappeared and has been replaced by a statue that people look up to.

From the bottom up, the statue seems to be in the sky above its head, and it is unparalleled.

However, if you look closely, you can see that the statue still retains the original appearance of the stone from the chest down, and there are no traces of carving, so it is obvious that the statue is not finished.

Chen Songfeng raised his head and said softly: "Let you come to Shangdu, there is also the meaning of Yuantai, if this statue wants to be completed, you still need to take action in person." ”

"Me?!"

Ning Baifeng was extremely surprised when he heard this.

It's okay to let him use a sword and write, but it's a bit difficult for a strong man to let him carve.

Chen Songfeng said: "For the specific situation, you need to ask Yuantai, and some of the things involved in this are all handled by him." ”

With that, he walked towards the palace.

Ning Baifeng looked at the statue, his eyes fell on the mountain and river monument again, and his brows were tightly locked.

He couldn't figure out what Yuantai wanted to do.

Seeing that Chen Songfeng was about to bypass a palace wall, he sighed lightly and stepped to follow.

......

In the imperial study of the Dayan Palace.

Several Huang Zi ministers sat on a few small ponies, around the two charcoal basins in the middle, roasting the fire and discussing things.

The new emperor of Dayan, Ji Wu, sat in the first place, listening to their discussions, most of the time he did not speak, and occasionally interjected a sentence or two.

But every time he speaks, what he says is bound to make those people ponder for a moment and consider the problem.

Obviously, Ji Wu's opinion is unique.

Since Ji Wu ascended the throne, this kind of fireside night talk has become the norm.

Some general trends in the politics of the Great Yan Dynasty were all set in the sound of discussion sitting together, and then promulgated at the next Great Dynasty Meeting.

Therefore, such a small court meeting made countless courtiers in Dayan yearn for.

Just because all the courtiers who can enter the imperial study and participate in the small court meeting are regarded as the center of the imperial power.

Just as one of the men wearing purple official robes reported that the Wei royal family had all been properly arranged to the post house behind Honglu Temple.

There was a knock on the door outside the study.

Everyone was alarmed.

Since the beginning of the small pilgrimage, no one has dared to disturb without permission. Even though there was good news from the frontier of the empire, the eunuchs who sent the news also stood outside the imperial study and waited for several hours, until the small court meeting dispersed, and then dared to come in to send the news.

Today's small court meeting has just begun, and someone dares to knock on the door outside the imperial study.

The eunuchs and guards who are waiting outside, don't want their lives anymore?

Ji Wu glanced up at the old eunuch waiting on the periphery and didn't say anything.

However, at this glance, the old eunuch who had served the emperor for decades instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

He immediately bent down and took a few steps back, then opened the door with a small quick step. It's hard to imagine that there is no sound in such a small and extremely fast step.

When the old eunuch opened the door and was about to whisper a few words, he had just opened his mouth, and before the words could be spoken, a cold wind came to his face and filled his mouth.

However, the mouth that should have been closed after the air irrigation opened wider and wider.

It's just that the sudden arrival of the two people outside the door is too surprising, especially the unforgettable young man in white.

Before the door was closed, the cold wind outside blew into the house, bypassed the screen, and rolled up to the few people sitting in front of the brazier, and there were two very old ministers, who couldn't help but tremble.

Ji Wu frowned, "What's the matter!"

The sound was not loud, but anyone could hear the smell of displeasure.

The old eunuch immediately woke up and turned around, not caring about what he had kept for decades

Court etiquette, trembling in his voice, shouted through the screen, "Your Majesty...... Master Chen is here, and... And also... Holy Master!"

Hearing this shout, there was silence in the imperial study for a moment, and Ji Wu, who had always been moody, stood up and walked quickly to the door.

Bypassing the screen, two figures stood outside the door draped in light snow over their shoulders.

Ji Wu immediately stepped forward, "Holy Master, Courtyard Master Chen." It's cold outside, so come in quickly. ”

The tone of his speech is not so much like an emperor, but like an ordinary young man who has a distinguished guest at home.

Chen Songfeng smiled and glanced at the young man in white beside him.

Ning Baifeng understood that this meant to make him advanced.

At this time, Ning Baifeng did not refuse, immediately walked into the house, smiled and nodded towards Ji Wu, and then entered the house with him.

The old eunuch immediately closed the door, and then took small steps to the side to fetch two small horses and placed them beside Ji Wu's seat.

After sitting down again, the ** people gathered around the brazier all looked at the faces of these two who appeared at the small court meeting for the first time.

However, although they were not familiar with these two people, they knew each other.

Especially the young man in white, it is difficult to know him, after all, when entering and leaving the palace, he needs to pass by the statue of this person.

Ning Baifeng glanced at these people and was surprised to find that there were two people he actually knew.

One of them is Yangshuo, the Qintian Prison Supervisor, and the other has been photographed twice just today, and this is the third time.

This person is the commander of the Southern Army, Xue Zhi.

Seeing the two of them looking at each other, Ji Wu immediately opened his mouth to introduce, "Xue Aiqing, I will speak to you, this is ......"

"Your Majesty. I think we've seen it already!"

Xue Zhi didn't wait for His Majesty the Emperor to finish speaking, he opened his mouth to interrupt, and then looked at Ning Baifeng and said, "Yes, Your Excellency the Holy Master." ”

Ji Wu didn't get angry because of this, but looked at the two of them with some astonishment. Xue Zhi has always led troops outside and rarely returns to Beijing, how did the two of them meet?

Ning Baifeng smiled slightly bitterly and said, "General Xue, it's a coincidence, we met again." ”

The conversation between the two surprised everyone present.

They have all been up and down for many years, and they can judge many things by relying on the tone of others' voices.

Obviously, Xue Zhi's encounter with the Holy Master was not pleasant.

Ji Wu frowned slightly.

Xue Zhi ignored these and said, "It's a coincidence, I don't know if the Holy Master and Xue have met several times, do you have any teachings?"

Ning Baifeng shook his head slightly, "I don't dare to see the sect, I just met with your outpost by chance, and I learned that General Xue's squad returned to the dynasty, so I was just curious about General Xue." ”

On Xue Zhi's square face, his thick brows moved, and he asked, "What are you curious about?" ”

Ning Baifeng said calmly: "I'm just curious about whether General Xue is a martial artist or a soldier monk." ”

Xue Zhi looked at this young man in white quietly, and had to admit that this person was very young.

However, it is such a young person who actually provokes the fortunes of a country, which is really a little unbelievable to him.

Although he led the army to fight outside, before returning to the dynasty, he still went to Jianwentang and knew some things that happened in the Shangdu City.

Especially the earth-shattering suppression of the stone tablet, and the people in this matter, the thing that surprised him the most was the young man in white.

first provoked the luck of Yan Guo with one shoulder, and then Yuntai won the leader of the sword, and then appointed him as the first disciple of the Sword Sect at the founding ceremony.

This series of achievements made even him, a soldier who only worked in the military, extremely surprised.

Xue Zhi thought to himself, no wonder the other party was unharmed by that glance in the cedar forest outside the city. Thinking of this, a thought suddenly rose in his heart to try it out.

"The sword is slender in fighting, and the soldier monk is good at being beaten, if he is free, I don't know if Xue can compare with the holy master. ”

Xue looked straight into his eyes and said what was in his heart

Idea.

Ning Baifeng was slightly stunned, then shook his head and said, "I think it's better to forget it, the fight hurts and anger." ”

Xue Zhi's fighting spirit is together, and he will not give up easily.

As a general, when commanding soldiers and horses, he needs absolute calm, but in this kind of fighting, he has always been more and more courageous.

Because he has always believed that when we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!

Xue Zhi said: "Xue is forty out of seventy this year, Jiazi has practiced, and he has reached the realm of the golden body of the soldier, which is comparable to the Yuanying realm of a qi practitioner, and it should be similar to the scholar next to you." Telling you this, I just want to say that Xue will not take advantage of you, and he will fight against you with pressure. ”

I can't see that this man, who is only forty on the surface, is already an old man, but his tone of voice is sonorous and powerful, and he can't see the decline at all.

It is true that practitioners cannot be counted by common sense.

Ning Baifeng frowned slightly.

He didn't really want to deal with this person unless he had to.

Even though he is curious about the soldier monk, it doesn't mean that he wants to fight with him, he is not a sword idiot or a martial madman.

However, before he could speak, someone had already spoken out to stop him.

"Xue Aiqing, why is this!"

It was Emperor Ji Wu who said this, and he could ignore the quarrel between the pillars of the country, but if he did it, it wouldn't work.

What's more, if a cultivator fights, it will be more destructive than the confrontation between the two armies.

When the time comes, it will not be as simple as hurting and being angry.

Xue Zhi turned his head to look at Ji Wu, bowed his head slightly, and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister is not rash, but because he heard too many remarks on the way back to the court, one of them is that the old minister led the army to attack the Wei State for half a year, and was said by countless people to be so fast with the help of the holy master's luck." ”

Hearing this, everyone present glanced at the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

The biggest source of this remark is this person.

However, the middle-aged Confucian man looked calm, as if he had nothing to do with the matter, and sat silently with his eyes and nose.

Ning Baifeng remembered the remarks he heard outside the city during the day, and then looked at Chen Songfeng's current attitude, and scolded secretly in his heart, it is indeed not authentic for a scholar to be shameless.

Xue Zhi also glanced at Chen Songfeng, and continued: "The soldiers of the Great Yan are attacking the city and destroying the country outside, shedding blood and fighting for their lives, their merits cannot be deprived of them because of a sentence of illusory luck, the old minister can not care about these false names, but he must maintain the reputation of the sergeant of the army!"

In the quiet of the imperial study, the voice was deafening.

Even an old minister, who was old and frail, lacking in energy, and a little drowsy, raised his head and looked at the person who spoke in a daze.

Ji Wu also had a headache now.

Regardless of whether Xue Zhi said it in his heart or not, at least this reason is very tenable, and from the position of the emperor, he has no reason to refute it.

But if you don't refute it, if you really let the two fight, the final loss is still the Dayan Dynasty.

"It's going to have to be a fight, can't it be something else?"

At this time, Wenren Yangshuo, who was sitting on the other side, spit out such a sentence to break the dullness in the imperial study.

Everyone looked at him, and Ji Wu even had a sense of brightness.

Xue Zhi sneered: "In addition to fighting, is it possible that you still want us to fight to recite poems?"

Hearing this, Yangshuo was instantly speechless.

Ning Baifeng sighed, no matter how much he didn't want to do it, this fight was probably unavoidable.

He looked at Xue Zhi and said, "Since that's the case, then ask General Xue for advice." ”

Xue Zhi said briskly: "Very good! You can set the time and place, and you can send someone to inform Xue when the time comes." ”

This is not that Xue Zhi is arrogant, but that he has this confidence, even in the battle of the same realm after the pressure of the realm, he is also confident that the opponent will not be able to draw a sword.

"The location is on the wall of the East Gate, and the time is counted in five days, what does General Xue think?"

It was not Ning Baifeng who gave the answer, but Chen Songfeng, who had been sitting next to him silently.