Shen Yu couldn't believe Hongrui's words. "Is there really a big demon who can foresee what will happen in the future? I think it's all just groundless. ”

Hongrui smiled and said nothing, as if she had seen through everything, and her face was neither happy nor sad. This made Shen Yu start to think for himself. However, the group followed Uncle Hu to continue walking at the statue of Empress Wang Wucao, and as they got closer and closer, everyone could also find that under the subtlety of the close distance, the statue of the Empress was riddled with holes under the erosion of time. It looks moving from afar, but it is full of vicissitudes up close. Even the white jade stele that looks smooth from a distance is full of vicissitudes up close. And throwing away the devastation under the dazzling smoothness, there is also a feeling of feeding back to the truth. At the same time, looking at the empress sculpture, and the wordless monument became taller and taller.

At this time, Fourth Uncle Hu walked to the sculpture of Empress Wu Cao and stopped, and the group looked more and more small under the sculpture.

"Fourth Uncle, will the group of people from the Yaochi Holy Land really come here?" asked Hu Xiaoer.

Fourth Uncle Hu nodded. "Yes, because the Holy Land of Yaochi is full of women, so I have great respect for this Empress Wucao, and it is rumored that when the Empress was called the emperor, the Holy Lord of Yaochi appeared in the Great Zhou Palace. Send the holy medicine to prolong the empress's life for ten years, and in return. The empress also sent 3,000 virgins up the mountain to pay tribute to a large number of rare medicinal materials in the palace, and the hundred-year-old and thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum is a lot. Therefore, during the reign of the empress, she still had very close contacts with the Yaochi Holy Land. ”

Everyone listened to it with relish, after all, this secret, but few people knew about it.

"Then why does this sculpture look east? Hu Xiaoer asked again. After all, he rarely goes into the inner city to play, and now there are few pedestrians in the inner city square. Maybe it's because the inner city is full of rich merchants, first, there are few people, and secondly, it may be because the inner city is not big compared to the entire Yecheng, so the inner city is like a back garden. Probably because everyone in the inner city is tired of seeing it, so few people will come here.

As for Fourth Uncle Hu's question, he also gave an exact explanation for Hu Xiaoer's question. "Maybe it's because the sun rises in the east. Of course, this is a bit inspirational, in fact, the main reason is that the land of the Great Zhou Empire at that time, most of them were in the northwest of Nanzhan Zhou, and the northwest was desolate, mostly deserts, and there was very little greening of water sources. The most important thing is that there are abundant resources, which leads to the fact that most of the demons in the land south of the Yangtze River and Jiangdong are extremely well maintained. Water and soil support people. However, our great northwest land is located in the wilderness, and most of them are brave and good at fighting, but the Northern Liang Army from our Great Northwest is ranked first in the entire Nanzhan Continent, especially the Northern Liang Army's horse cutting swords, as well as the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, which is the strongest existence. At that time, due to the lack of resources, Empress Wu Cao had trained the army for five years to expand eastward and southward. It's a pity that most of the years are unfavorable, and the Great Zhou Dynasty has been in drought for three years, but the army has not been moved, but because of the stability maintained in these three years, the Great Zhou Empire has not starved to death in large numbers. But three years later, Empress Wu Cao, because of the affairs of the court, also stopped her plan to move her army eastward. However, in the empress's later years, the idea of the eastward expansion of the Great Zhou Dynasty still existed strongly. However, the time and place are favorable, and they have not taken advantage of it, and it is estimated that it is also fate. In the end, when the empress came to Yecheng, she also told the then Northwest King and Yecheng Mu about it. In the end, he sighed in vain, but he also stopped such a paragraph: "The fate is like this, I want the army to march eastward, and the fertile land in the east is raising people from other countries, but my Great Zhou is suffering from a harsh environment. However, a thousand days of training can't stop that disaster**, and I am unwilling. But when I recently traveled around the country, I also pondered in my heart, if we go east, the people of the whole country can move to the fertile land to survive? After all, there must be living beings to survive in a difficult environment, this is the fate of many living beings, and I am no exception and cannot change it.

Don't look at me as a woman who is the empress is infinitely beautiful, but no one tells the bitterness behind it, in this great Zhou I am the empress, so I have to abandon all personal emotions and assume the responsibility of the emperor, but the emperor's position is only the surface of the scenery, and the bitterness behind it, others don't know and don't want to believe it. It's really not a rich man, a soil emperor in a small tribe far away from the emperor of the mountain, so he really doesn't have to bear anything, eat, drink and have fun, and he is carefree at all. It's just a pity that I'm on the cusp of this. Suffering day and night. It's cold in the heights. ”

After the empress said these words to Yecheng Mu and the king of the northwest, the king of the northwest at that time knelt down and bowed. Gong sent Empress Wu Cao to Luan and sent him out of the city. At that time, Ye Chengmu could be said to be the entire northwest Sanguan land under his jurisdiction, but he respectfully surrendered because of such a passage. It can be seen how much Empress Wu Cao's words shook Ye Chengmu's heart. In fact, most of the Northern Liang Army at that time was stationed near Yecheng, and as Yecheng Mu, he controlled the military power and was powerful. It wasn't like that, but he did it anyway. For what?"

After Uncle Hu said this, he stopped speaking. Instead, he looked up at the sculpture of Empress Wu Cao.

Perhaps Ye Chengmu smelled something dangerous from the empress's words. The superior is cold-hearted and tough-hearted. Although the words are warm, they are ruthless in doing things. Although the empress is saying that she is in a difficult situation on the surface, she is actually beating Ye Chengmu, especially the empress who has been on the throne all the way, her mind is even sharper, and her methods are tougher. So Ye Chengmu was afraid. Even if Empress Wu Cao was really talking about her difficult and helpless situation for a short time, then Ye Chengmu would be restless when she heard it. Therefore, only by showing caution will he feel a sense of security in his heart. Only by sending the empress away comfortably can he live comfortably. Shen Yu frowned and said, "And according to the records I saw, after the empress left, she really didn't bother with Yecheng Mu, and Yecheng was stable for a long time. ”

Everyone was silent when they heard this, but Ye Xuan got a glimpse of the cautious shadow of the king of the northwest in history from Shen Yu's words, people are often really involuntary in high places, and their face is really worthless, or the more powerful they are, the more people they have, the more responsibilities they have, because many people have to rely on them to eat. Therefore, the more powerful people don't want to have any so-called face, as long as they can get tangible benefits. Just as there is only one emperor, it seems that the emperor will have great freedom, but the emperor has to face the pressure of the entire bureaucracy from the bottom up.

(End of chapter)