Taihe City, the capital of the Western Chu Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, by all means?!"

A white-haired purple-clothed immortal crane old man heard the decision of the Emperor of Xichu, and his voice trembled and dissuaded.

The Emperor of Western Chu just looked at the dozens of civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and said loudly: "Since we can't fight outside the country, then we will reject the enemy on the border of the dynasty." In this way, in the end, the people of the dynasty will have fewer deaths. ”

"Moreover, my Western Chu Dynasty has come to this point, when have the sons of heaven of the dynasty been afraid of strong enemies? Usually bending over is just a technique to protect ourselves, but if we want to cut off our heads, we must resist! This time, I have made up my mind, and I must drive forward to encourage the courage of our Western Chu Dynasty. ”

The Chinese martial arts officials of the hall looked at the young Tianzi sitting on it, and many people couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration, such a young Tianzi had such a great courage.

But we all know that this is also a helpless move, the Western Chu Dynasty is strong, if you really want to do something to the Middle Earth Divine Prefecture, their Western Chu Dynasty is just not far from the Middle Earth Divine Prefecture, so they belong to the strikers of the horse before the stroke, and when the time comes, it will not be finished at all for a year and a half, after the dynasty has discussed. It is conservatively estimated that the war will be fought for decades, and by then, their Western Chu Dynasty will already be devastated, the people will not be able to make a living, and even at that time there will be no Western Chu.

Now the fight to the death is a means of cutting off the minions, so that the Eastern Pole Empire thinks that after the "tiger" that they can use is suppressed, they have no combat effectiveness, so that their Western Chu Dynasty does not have to participate in that war, at least it can keep the people stable for decades.

Downwards and backwards.

In a seemingly ordinary mansion in a corner of Taihe City, more than a dozen people gathered. Among them, there are slightly younger men, middle-aged men, and old men, but without exception, they are all able to speak in the capital of Western Chu, and they are all able to enter the palace.

"Wang Shilang, has the route been planned?" asked a middle-aged man to an old man.

"Li Shilang, everything is ready, the Imperial Secret Envoy is already waiting for our arrival in Jizhou City. The old man stroked his beard and smiled.

"We went to the Empire, can we be officials of the same rank?" asked a slightly younger man with a frown.

The old man Wang Shilang smiled disdainfully when he heard this, but said: "Yes, the secret envoy of the empire has already promised me this, if you go over there, you can choose an official position of the same rank at will, and they will add a hundred more official titles this time to accept the 'defective' ministers of the major dynasties who are disobedient." ”

"Hmph! What a defection! If it weren't for this mediocre emperor who had to fight to the death, would I have left Xichu later? I really wouldn't be willing to die like this before I realized my ambitions!" a young man who looked at the youngest of the dozen or so snorted coldly.

"Huh...... Are the families behind you ready to leave? Be quiet, if you are discovered, you will take the blame for yourself, and don't involve others, otherwise even if you survive, you will be killed behind the secret envoy of the empire. The old man said with a smile at first, and at the end, his tone was stern.

Everyone nodded when they heard this.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is not advisable to take a long-term view of this matter, lest there be too many dreams at night. Just tonight, we will leave Taihe City! Captain Qian, you will solve the problem of access to the city gate. Liu Shilang, you are from the Ministry of War, and the matter of three hundred first-class war horses will be handed over to you, and only in this way can you still run away when Your Majesty finds out and sends chasing soldiers. Mr. Nangong, on the way we left, you wrote a few articles and poems to express that we were also forced to be helpless, and it was the dim emperor who insisted on us to die. Poetry or something, if you can do more, you can do more. The old man looked at the crowd and stroked his beard and said.

"Understood. A man who looked like a scholar in a Confucian shirt nodded.

After some discussion, everyone left.

"He is a king, he really thinks he is the leader, and before he arrives in the Eastern Pole Empire, he has begun to give orders, and he has really climbed to the top of the branches!" the youngest young man said coldly after walking out of the mansion with a middle-aged man.

"Huh...... When I got over there, I really thought I didn't know, those new official positions were all nominal and powerless official positions, and he Wang Shilang refused to tell the truth, this account will be calculated later. The middle-aged man sneered.

"I really think I'm so good. In the mansion, the old man who was drinking tea looked at the backs of everyone leaving, his eyes were playful, and the corners of his mouth were upturned, "It's just to take advantage of you, when I get there, I see if there will be disdain in your eyes when I speak again." ”

In the imperial study of the Western Chu Dynasty, the emperor of Western Chu was standing with his hands in his hands, stunned by a precious Danqing handwriting hanging on the wall.

At this time, a man in black appeared silently in the imperial study, covered in black clothes, and only the seven orifices were exposed.

"Your Majesty...... Among the six departments, the left waiter of the military department, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, the right waiter of the Ministry of Works, and the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials are preparing to defect, as well as a captain surnamed Qian in the east of Taihe City, the champion of the imperial examination high school in the year before last, several doctors of Jin Ziguanglu, several Taichangqing and a Huangmen waiter, and a Guozi sacrificial wine. These are also defectors. Will it be solved directly?" asked the man in black, hunched over and hoarse.

"Defection...... I had expected this...... After all, not everyone is not afraid of death. Let them go! They can be regarded as people who have made a lot of contributions to our dynasty, and in this way, they can still leave some thoughts for our Western Chu Dynasty. You don't have to meddle in this matter. The emperor didn't look back, and said a little weakly.

"Your Majesty...... For such treacherous courtiers, they should ......"

"Presumptuous! I said it, don't meddle!" the Son of Heaven of the Western Chu Dynasty turned around and scolded angrily.

"Yes!" The man in black glanced at the haggard appearance of the usually resolute and resolute young man at this time, sighed in his heart, and nodded in response.

"Let's go down...... You don't have to secretly monitor Taihe City these days, have fun for a few days, and go to the front line with me in a few days. The Son of Heaven of the Western Chu Dynasty looked at the man in black who was one of the two great city defenders who worked hard for their royal family in front of him, and his tone calmed down.

"Yes. The minions retired. The man in black disappeared silently.

Xichu Tianzi turned around and continued to look at the painting made by the Danqing Sage, but his eyes were misty.

He thought of her, a dusty woman in the land of fireworks.

The first time I met her was when he visited Taihe City privately.

He only glanced at it, and felt that he had completely fallen into it in this life, and the so-called three thousand beauties in the harem suddenly felt that they were all rouge and vulgar powder, and the petite woman in front of him was a lotus-like holy woman who came out of the mud and was not stained.

At that time, the petite woman was buying sachets, and then he looked at the woman silently, his eyes were in a trance, and he couldn't help himself. Later, he followed her alone to a place in Taihe City that was not the most prosperous place for fireworks, and when he saw the woman enter a certain attic, he did not have any mustard in his heart, but was even more distressed.

He didn't think about it, so he followed him directly, as the monarch of a country, he shouldn't have appeared in this kind of place, otherwise the whining words of those imperial historians would definitely fly all over the imperial study, but he was not afraid.

The woman's eyes and gaze were deeply engraved in his heart. In the past, he, the emperor of a country, didn't believe in love, let alone the so-called love at first sight of those literati and writers, but at that time, he suddenly believed it, and he believed it as faith.

When he entered, he spent a hundred taels of silver, and soon came to the woman. The woman was a geisha who played the pipa and played the erhu. It is also slightly famous in Taihe City.

"Childe, what do you want to hear?" the woman asked with a smile.

He was stunned, and then quickly reacted and said, "You can do anything, just play the girl's favorite." ”

Holding the pipa in his arms and half-covering his face, the sound of nature surrounds people's ears.

He felt that if he listened to those palace music "national players" playing the pipa again, he would feel extremely boring.

"The girl who plays the pipa should be the first person today. He couldn't help but say.

Childe laughed. I don't play very well. I heard that there is a 'Linglong Building' in the center of Taihe City, and the women in it are proficient in all kinds of musical instruments, and their masters, but the old musicians who have retired from the palace! When I can listen to the pipa and erhu sounds of those 'national players', I will definitely die of happiness. The woman's smile was like a flower.

"I don't know what the girl's name is?"

"Su Xiaoxiao. ”

Since then, he has often secretly come here to listen to Su Xiaoxiao playing the pipa and erhu in the name of Weifu private interviews, and he has not said his identity, because he feels that only in this way will he not disturb this lotus-like holy woman.

"Tiny. I'm sorry...... I'm afraid I'll never see you again...... But for your sake, I have no fear. I really like you...... Do you know ......" In the imperial study, the Son of Heaven of the Western Chu Dynasty came back to his senses and muttered in a low voice with tears in his eyes.

At this time, somewhere in the Western Chu Dynasty, the land of fireworks.

There was a petite woman wiping the lute, and then applying yellow to the mirror.

Women are the ones who please themselves.

It's just that he hasn't been here for a month.

I heard that the Eastern Pole Empire is going to attack their Western Chu Dynasty. Is he because of this?

In fact, she had long known that he was the son of heaven of the Western Chu Dynasty, but she had never broken the truth, and she still treated him as usual, not wanting to disturb his state of mind. Since he didn't want to break it, she wouldn't break it.

They have a big man here who often comes to this fireworks land, and that big man is the biggest guest in their fireworks land, and more than a dozen pavilions want to compete for it, and even secretly do whatever it takes. The big man often brings a lot of his peers to play together. I heard that the big man was the son of the official book. They came to this second-rate fireworks place to avoid encountering elders in that first-class fireworks land.

But that time, the top sons and brothers in Taihe City, who looked unruly every day, knelt down in front of the man who often listened to her play the pipa and play the erhu, and then the man was a little surprised, but he reacted quickly, let those panicked sons and brothers calm down, and then explained a few words, and those sons and brothers left flattered. He pretended to be looking for her as if nothing had happened.

She happened to see that scene at the time, so she knew his identity.

But even so, what does it matter?

He likes her, she knows it. She liked him, but he didn't.

She smiled, then picked up the lute and lowered her eyebrows to continue playing.