(5,000 words chapter)

Judging from the year name of the Great Zhou, it should be the fourth spring of Shending.

But in fact, according to the name of Yanling, it should be the spring of the sixteenth year of Zhenghe, this spring and the previous spring do not look any different, the only difference is this spring, Yanling for the first time thought of punishing a small country, and therefore sent more than a dozen monks, the final result turned out to be a big defeat, the dozen monks were also killed by the Luosang River, so there was a rare violent quarrel in the court of Luoyang City, and the final result was that the Criminal Department sent three worshippers to arrest the two culprits who caused the death of these dozen monks, but those three worshippers were sent out to Luoyang City more than ten days ago, I returned to Luoyang City today, and the three of them went together, and when they came back, they didn't bring anything back.

This matter was suppressed by the Criminal Department, and he did not say it in public in front of the civil and military officials in the early court, but after the early dynasty dispersed, he handed an excerpt to the Yanling Emperor.

And as the man who is one of the three major dynasties in this mountain and river, after reading this fold, just wrote a few words with a red pen, then put down the pen, and went to the star picking tower built by Yanling alone with countless manpower and financial resources, this building is more than 100 zhang high, climb to its highest point, it is like being in the clouds, if the courage is insufficient, it will probably be scared to walk the road, when this building was built, the Yanling court and the opposition are a little puzzled, the emperors of Yanling have shown people with a generous and benevolent image, and have never done anything to work the people and hurt the money, even if they occasionally want to build something, they are recruited from other small countries in the territory, and the people of Yanling have never suffered from laborBut in order to build this star-picking tower, the first emperor mobilized as many as 800,000 people, which took three years to build, as for how many people died of exhaustion, it does not exist in the annals of history, but the officials of the Ministry of Industry only have a general understanding. It's just that the world doesn't know the function of this building, but Emperor Yanling knows it clearly, the role of this building is not used to worship the sky as rumored by the outside world, and the Star Picking Tower is actually a cage.

Emperor Yanling, who was wearing a black real dragon suit, climbed the stairs step by step, and when he walked to the high platform, he stood in the distance, his eyes were on the clouds in the distance, and his expression was flat.

In fact, when the Yanling Academy recruited students in Luoyang City, the Yanling Emperor, who was the prince at the time, made the Yanling Emperor a little surprised by the four words of talent to make the Yanling School Palace a little surprised now, if it wasn't for the first emperor to stop it, now Yanling should still have an emperor, it shouldn't be him, so there have been rumors in Luoyang City over the years, saying that even if His Majesty the emperor is not the emperor, after entering the school palace, he should be a rare monk in the mountains and rivers, and he will definitely be able to go further on that cultivation road。

In fact, no matter how you look at it, in addition to the talent in cultivation, this Yanling Emperor is also outstanding in other aspects, otherwise how dare the first emperor have to leave the prince in the face of the danger of the wrath of the school palace, you must know that there are as many as six princes under the knees of this first emperor.

After the accession to the throne of the Yanling Emperor, the year name is Zhenghe, these sixteen years have not been out of Luoyang City, Yanling territory is smooth, not only the people love, even the school palace is extremely appreciative of the emperor's governance of Yanling, and in the past sixteen years, there has never been a court minister because of the monarch's anger and sin.

The virtuous ability of the Yanling monarch has already spread all over the mountains and rivers.

If it weren't for the fact that the Zhou State was too eager to expand its territory, the emperor would not have cared if he wanted to.

After half a pillar of incense, the three worshippers of the Criminal Department have already come to the high platform of the Star Picking Tower, the three of them looked at the Yanling Emperor who was standing with his hands in his hands, and after bowing and saluting, one of them opened his mouth to report: "Your Majesty, all the details have been submitted to the Criminal Department, presumably Your Majesty has already seen it, this time the arrest failed, it is really not human to contend with, the two of them don't seem to care at all, and they have crushed at least twenty pieces along the way." ”

When he said these words, the face of the worshipper was full of bitterness.

How can this figure who can crush twenty pieces at a moment's length, how is it an ordinary monk?

The Emperor Yanling didn't turn his head, but smiled calmly: "The excerpt says that it is a girl who likes to wear green shirts and a young man with a firewood knife on his back, and a pair of young girls will kill more than a dozen of my monks in the Luosang River, then at least there must be a green silk realm, such a young green silk realm, I sent people to arrest them, in fact, it was an extremely stupid decision at the beginning, and now I haven't caught it, but I don't feel surprised, if I fail, I fail, I don't care." It's just that I just got another battle report a few days ago, guess what?"

The three worshippers were silent, and although His Majesty the Emperor was laughing, everyone knew that this matter was not so simple.

Emperor Yanling turned around, looked at the three criminal department worshippers and said with a smile: "After the Luosang River, Chen Guo's soldiers are still going south, but these hundreds of thousands of soldiers, when they arrived hundreds of miles away from Shaoliang City, they were actually run all over the mountains by a young man with less than 100,000 iron horses like pigs, and they were already defeated in less than a day, even if they were more than 100,000 pigs for those Zhou people to catch, they must have been caught for more than one day." ”

"I have lived in Luoyang City for a long time, but I am not deaf and blind, although I greatly appreciate the words issued by the monarch of the Zhou State a few years ago, but I can't sit back and watch it continue to grow, now Yanling has been damaged once, those nobles in Luoyang City are thinking about seeing me ugly for the second time, I won't make a move, Luo Li, you immediately go to Chen Guo, convey my will, and say that after the destruction of the Zhou matter, Chen Guo himself will bear it, Yanling provides weapons, grain and grass, but does not send a soldier, I Yanling is a good son, I should not die in those places. Tell Chen Guojun that I will give him a year. A year later, if the Zhou State was still there, I would have destroyed the Chen State and the Zhou State. ”

One of the three worshippers took the order, leaving only the other two upstairs.

After the person completely disappeared into the Star Picking Tower, Emperor Yanling stared at the remaining two, and said gently: "Luo Li has already hooked up with Xuegong, I don't want to see him again, you two will remove him for me, it is best in the territory of Chen, if it is not in the territory of Chen, then it doesn't matter if it is in Yanling, I know that behind Yanling is the Xue Palace, but Yanling is Yanling, and the Xue Palace is the Xue Palace, although there is a connection, I don't want to feel that I am a marionette, and there are people watching every move." You don't need to worry about the wrath of the Academy, even if the matter is revealed, the Academy Palace will not take action, because this is my attitude, and the gentlemen and masters in the Academy will understand. ”

Emperor Yanling said that the clouds are light and the wind is light, but in fact it is not like that, Yanling School Palace as the first school palace under Confucianism in the mountains and rivers, not to mention the number of monks, just the mountain of Confucianism behind him, it is enough to make people awe-inspired, among the three religions, although Taoism is superior in the number of saints, but Confucianism also has four saints, each of whom is able to move mountains and seas, and can easily destroy a secular dynasty, with the risk of annoying his subordinate school palace to kill, in fact, no one has the bottom of their hearts.

It's just that His Majesty the Emperor standing upstairs naturally thinks about things more long-term than those downstairs, this Emperor Majesty has been on the throne for sixteen years, and has not done anything that affects Yanling Guozuo, and the relationship with the Xue Palace is also very good, so these two criminal ministers really don't dare to doubt anything.

Although the two of them were suspicious, they were in Luoyang City, and as the worship of the Criminal Department, they should act according to orders, so they didn't say anything, and after nodding their heads and receiving orders, they went downstairs by themselves.

After the two left, standing on the star-picking tower, Emperor Yanling laughed at himself: "I don't know, even if so, it's just a marionette?"

All the people upstairs had gone downstairs except him, and it was supposed that no one could hear what he said, but soon a flat voice sounded.

"You are trapped in Luoyang City, I am trapped in this building, although the size is different, but in fact, the essence is the same, but I am better than you, I don't have to be that puppet. ”

Turning his head at the sound of the voice, Emperor Yanling saw a middle-aged man who was not wearing a gray cloth shirt and didn't know where he came from.

The man was thin and had a flat expression, with an ordinary iron sword pinned to his waist on one side and a yellowed book on the other.

Men give people a very twisted feeling, occasionally the elegance of some scholars, and occasionally the edge of a swordsman.

Looking at the yellowed book that the man saw, Emperor Yanling quipped: "Mr. Changgu, I don't know how many times I have read this book, what is the reason for not putting it on my waist?"

The middle-aged man replied calmly: "If you can't get out of this building, you naturally can't read new books, and when you're bored, you can only flip through them a few times, that's it." ”

Emperor Yanling sighed softly: "Mr. Changgu, I can't come out of Luoyang City for the people of Yanling, but Mr. is so talented, where is there a reason to be trapped in this building, what Mr. did back then is really a little puzzling, you know, according to Mr. Cai, now the mountains and rivers know his name, and being trapped here is really too much to bury Mr." ”

The middle-aged man looked at the clouds in the distance and said calmly: "Li Changgu is just painting the ground as a prison. ”

There is no helplessness in these four words, but there is a taste of nostalgia.

Emperor Yanling looked at the middle-aged man named Li Changgu in front of him with a complicated expression, his expression was complicated, and he remembered the secrets that had been passed down among the royal family. The rest of the children will be carried back to the Yanling School Palace in Jingkou Mountain after being selected by the master of the school palace, but Li Changgu did not choose to do this, but walked out of Luoyang City alone, walked thousands of miles, came to Jingkou Mountain, and then endured the pain step by step to climb the gate of the school palace in Jingkou Mountain, although this is not an earth-shattering event, but it is enough to make people feel admirable that Li Changgu was only eight years old at that time, a child, traveled thousands of miles, and then withstood the test of the school palace and climbed the Jingkou Mountain, it was not easy at all, but he walked into the school palace like that, and many people in the school palace added him with their own eyes at that timeAfter Li Changgu climbed the mountain, he walked far faster than his peers from the beginning of the cultivation road, and walked through the introspection realm in less than ten years, and then passed the Qingsi Taiqing realm in a few years, and the year of establishment was already only one step away from stepping into the Taiqing realm into the morning and twilight, you must know that the Taoist seed who has attracted worldwide attention is now almost to the year of the crown, and it is also the Taiqing realm, Li Changgu is even worse than her, but it is not much worse, Li Changgu's talent and perseverance have made many masters in the school palace have their own eyes on him, and later there is a master who wants to marry his beloved daughter to Li Changgu, This was a wonderful thing, but it was categorically rejected by this promising young man, and the reason given was that it was because he had a favorite woman in Luoyang City long ago. The master was swept away by him, although he was extremely angry, but it was not good to have a seizure, and then ten years later, I don't know why, Li Changgu turned to practice swords as if he had lost his mind, saying that he wanted to learn from those swordsmen to cut the world's injustices with a sword, this move naturally angered many people in the school palace, but at that time, Li Changgu's cultivation was already in the twilight realm, and he learned the sword, which led to a sharp rise in cultivation, and most of the masters of the school palace were not opponents, so Li Changgu went down the mountain with a sword and returned to Luoyang City, but no one could stop him, and in the end, an old master who had been in retreat for a long time in the school palace personally captured this young man back to the school palace, and the school palace did not set up a prison, and no one wants to face this first-day genius in the school palace in recent years, so after some deliberation, it was decided that Yanling would build a star-picking tower to imprison such rebellious children, and Li Changgu was the first person to be imprisoned here.

And the only one.

And from beginning to end, except for the crazy scholar who wrote an excellent poem for him, no one in the school palace spoke up for Li Changgu.

And after that, the scholar was also semi-expelled from the school palace, and he traveled through the mountains and rivers all these years and disappeared.

Thinking about it, since Li Changgu entered the building, the king of Yanling has changed for two generations, and the time has been more than 70 years, and this star-picking building has been banned by the school palace, and the cultivation cannot be called, let alone the improvement of the breaking realm, so this swordsman in the twilight realm has not improved in this building for more than 70 years, and is still spinning in place.

If it weren't for this, it is estimated that this extremely talented Li Changgu would almost be able to compete with the head of the school palace by now.

Emperor Yanling when he was still a prince climbed this more than a hundred zhang high star picking tower, I saw this Mr. Changgu who sat on the top platform overlooking the entire Luoyang City all day long, at that time Mr. Changgu's temperament was not as cold as it is now, or willing to chat with him about something, he has occasionally climbed the tower over the years, occasionally asking about the strategy of governing the country, but not every time you can meet this Mr. Changgu who does not know whether he is a scholar or a swordsman.

But Emperor Yanling still admired him from the bottom of his heart.

Looking at Li Changgu, Emperor Yanling suddenly spoke: "Mr. Changgu, the woman you took care of before passed away in late spring seven years ago. ”

Li Changgu's face was as usual, "I know, I also know that she married a good family, that person was very good to her, and then gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the family was happy, even in the late spring seven years ago, I was in front of her bed, but she couldn't see me, and she didn't have me in her eyes." ”

Li Changgu laughed at himself: "There are too many prohibitions here, and the only way to go downstairs is to go out of the body fugue, and there is only one stick of incense at a time, and the price is too great, I have been out of the body seven times, and it takes too much effort to cultivate, and now the realm has fallen into the morning and twilight, but the ending is really not good for me, but it is her, not bad." ”

Emperor Yanling smiled bitterly: "These things are unpredictable, Mr. Changgu must have been prepared, but Mr. Changgu is trapped in this building, and it has something to do with her." ”

Li Changgu shook his head and smiled: "I'm trapped here, but it has nothing to do with her. ”

Li Changgu didn't finish speaking, just pressed the hilt of the sword on his waist, and suddenly smiled: "One day, I will break through this place with a sword." When I went down the mountain in the school palace, I met a swordsman predecessor with a high realm, and when I saw his temperament, where was the group of pedantic scholars in the school palace comparable. Before picking up the sword, I didn't know what those swordsmen in the mountains and rivers were for, but after picking up the sword, it suddenly became clear that although the way of the sword was rugged, it was the most straightforward to express the chest. ”

Emperor Yanling said sincerely: "Then I will wait for the day when Mr. Changgu will cut this building with a sword." ”

Li Changgu's expression returned to calm, "After she died, I will no longer be out of my body, and my realm will no longer fall, but there are many prohibitions here, and it is not easy to break them." ”

Emperor Yanling smiled and said nothing.

Li Changgu suddenly remembered something, looked at Emperor Yanling, and said calmly: "The donkey I rode out of the school palace before must be no longer alive, and the poems I wrote should still be in Luoyang City, if it is convenient for you to send it upstairs, this person is old, so he wants to see what he used to do." ”

Emperor Yanling looked at Li Changgu's middle-aged man-like appearance, thinking that although you are already a hundred years old, how can you say that you are old, even if you fall from this twilight realm, there are at least more than five hundred spring and autumn seasons to live.

It's just that the fox is suspicious, and he quickly agreed, "Mr. Changgu's poem manuscript, after I go downstairs, I will let people find it, and send it to the Star Picking Tower as soon as possible." ”

Li Changgu nodded, "That's very good." ”

Emperor Yanling looked at Li Changgu and asked, "I have also read a lot of poems from Mr. before, but I don't know which one Mr. is most satisfied with?"

Li Changgu was silent for a long time before he smiled: "We are all satisfied, after the poem manuscript is written, we all feel that each has its own merits, and I dare not make more trade-offs." ”

Emperor Yanling laughed.

After chatting for a long time, even Emperor Yanling was not allowed to leave here, so he got up to say goodbye, Li Changgu nodded and watched him leave.

When I went downstairs, I remembered a small story I had heard in Luoyang City when I was young, which was that there was a chivalrous warrior in the mountains and rivers who saw that there was an evil dragon in the world, so he killed the yellow dragon with a sword. After Huanglong was beheaded, the four seas have been leveled since then, and there is plenty of food and clothing. But when the chivalrous man was sleeping one day, he dreamed of the Divine Monarch, and the Divine Monarch asked him, "You have beheaded the Yellow Dragon, who will repair the White Jade Tower for the Emperor of Heaven?" The chivalrous man laughed: "Then go to the Nine Heavens and smash the White Jade Tower." The priest was furious: "What a person who doesn't know the sky and the earth!" In the face of the priest's anger, the chivalrous man did not care, so suddenly the night sky was blue, and when the light flew, the hero entered the nine heavens with a sword!

But the chivalrous warrior in this story entered the nine heavens and entered the nine heavens, and there has been no news so far, but after so many years, the white jade building should be broken, and you should also come back, right?

After Emperor Yanling went downstairs, he stood downstairs, looked up at the sky, and muttered in a low voice: "Mr. Changgu, I don't know where the white jade building is going, but I really want to see one day you break through this building with a sword and go down in style, not only for you, but also for me?"

And on the high platform of the Star Picking Tower, Li Changgu sat cross-legged, he took off the iron sword at his waist and placed it horizontally on his lap, his spine was very straight, his eyes looked at the sea of clouds in front of him, and his expression was flat.

As for the yellowed book, it was an old book, but it was only some of his many previous poems, and now he opened it to his side, and there were only a few lines of poetry written on that page, which was extremely frightening.

The manuscript of the poem reads, "I will cut off the dragon's feet and chew the dragon's flesh, so that it will not be able to return to the morning and night." Naturally, the old do not die, and the young do not cry. ”