King Yan ascended the throne for a year, and the northern countries raised troops to invade again.

King Yan was furious, and poured the strength of the whole country to conquer it,

In June, he broke the capital of the eight countries, slaughtered the eight royal families, unified the northern border, and changed the name of the country to Hongwu.

In the first year of Hongwu, a big country bullied the king of Yan when he was young and sent a general to lead 100,000 troops in a vain attempt to destroy the Yan country.

King Yan defeated the enemy with 10,000 warriors and won a great victory.

Kill 30,000 enemies, take 60,000 prisoners, and take all the captives.

Since then, the name of Wuyan in the North has shocked all countries, all of them are cruel and unreasonable, but few people dare to speak.

In the third year of Hongwu, King Yan marched westward and wanted to collect the north bank of the Yellow River as Yan soil.

The Hebei countries were horrified, and they joined forces to resist it, but they were still defeated, and they brought the southern powers to help, and they resisted it.

When it was a cold winter, it snowed heavily, the grain and grass were difficult to continue, and there were many people who died of hunger and cold in the Yan army.

At the beginning of the year, King Yan went on another expedition.

......

Yan country, outside the national capital.

The young man who looked like a scholar was leaning on a wooden branch, looking tired, and his clothes were quite neat, but he was stained with a lot of dirt, and it seemed that he had traveled a long way to get here.

The young man walked up to a farmer's house, smelled the smell of rice coming from the house, and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

The young man wandered around the house for a long time, Fang gritted his teeth and walked in, pushed open the wooden door, and saw an old man lighting a fire in front of the stove.

The young man straightened his clothes, took a few steps forward, and said to the old man: "Old man, the boy is cheeky, I don't know if I can escape the bowl of water to drink." ”

The old man turned his head, looked at the stranger who suddenly appeared in his house for a moment, grinned, showed his big yellow teeth, stood up and said, "Young man, you wait for me for a while." ”

After a while, the old man came out of the house with a wooden ladle in his hand.

The young man hurriedly took the wooden scoop and took a few sips, Fang breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't help blushing a little when he saw the person on the side looking at him with a smile on his face.

"Old man, the kid is rude. ”

The old man walked back to the stove and said, "No rudeness, no rudeness!" young man, you also fled from the south, right?"

"Fleeing?"

The young man was obviously stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Boy Changyan, I have traveled through various countries, and I am here today. ”

The old man asked casually, "Travel, it seems that he is the son of a rich and noble family, why is he so miserable?"

"Alas, years of war, the world is difficult, people are displaced, and there is no food to eat. I also had some possessions at the beginning, and I scattered them all along the way, and I didn't want to rely on people to get by. ”

Nagahiko sighed with emotion, put the wooden scoop on the stove, and made another series to the old man.

"Thank you for the generous gift of the elder, and the boy will take his leave. ”

"Hey, boy, wait!"

The old man stretched out his hand to stop Changyan, and then said, "If you don't dislike it, drink a bowl of porridge in my hut!"

Changyan swallowed his saliva again, turned around and bowed: "Elder give, don't dare to resign!"

"You go into the house and sit down, and I'll serve you porridge." ”

After a long time, the old man brought two bowls of porridge and a plate of unnamed wild vegetables from the stove and placed them on the table.

The old man pushed the porridge bowl, which was obviously half a point larger, in front of the young man.

"I'm an old guy, I can't eat much, this bowl is for you, eat!"

After the old man finished speaking, he picked up his porridge bowl and slowly snorted.

Changyan looked at the rice grains floating up and down in the clear soup, sighed leisurely, and asked, "Uncle, this year is smooth and rainy, it should be a bumper harvest year, why did the family come to such a situation?"

"It's not a war yet, and you have to eat food when you are a soldier!"

Changyan nodded, "I have also heard a little about the warlike name of King Yan, and he raises troops every year, and he is brutal ......."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

The old man hurriedly interrupted Nagahiko's words.

"The old man is afraid that the wall has ears and will be heard by the Yan King?"

The old man licked the porridge on the edge of the bowl, put down the porridge bowl and said, "Where did the young man say, we flat-headed people, where did we get into the eyes of the king!"

"Doesn't the old man have a grudge against King Yan?"

The old man looked at him with a cautious face and said, "Young man, it's okay for me to say this, if you dare to say this at the border of our Dayan, you may be beaten to death." ”

Chang Yan's heart became more and more puzzled, and he frowned and asked, "Why is this? If it weren't for King Yan's annual battle, why wouldn't the old man have enough to eat in the year of Dafeng?"

"Young man, you are not from Yan Country, I don't know and I don't blame you, when the old King Yan was here, he didn't fight, but in what year no other country came to fight us, those soldiers and ruffians are not things at all!"

The old man clenched his fists, his eyes reddened, as if he remembered something sad.

Later, the old Yan King died, and the new Yan King was called a powerful one, and the entire north was defeated, and now who dares to bully us Yan people. ”

When Changyan heard this, his heart was in turmoil, and he couldn't believe it: "Just because of this?"

"That's right! The king of our Yan Kingdom has the ability, why don't you fight if you can win, although we are poor and hungry, at least we are hard. ”

As the old man spoke, he couldn't help but puff up his chest.

After listening to the old man's words, Changyan's heart was full of a sense of loss.

For the first time, he discovered that what he was thinking was not what the people of the world thought, at least not what the people of one country and one family thought.

Nagahiko got up and walked out of the hut without saying a word, forgetting to even take the wooden branch he was holding before.

"Hey, young man, your porridge hasn't been finished yet!"

The old man stood at the door and looked at Nagahiko's back and shouted, but there was no response.

"The sages said that a strong army will cause the people's resentment to boil, but why?"

Nagahiko remembered the old man's words before and muttered, "Could it be that the sages are wrong...... It turns out that the sages can also be wrong. ”

"That's it, my trip is for reason, and what I have gained is good. ”

Chang Yan looked up at the capital of Yan Kingdom in front of him, and said with emotion: "Before the age of the weak crown, he is already the hero of the world, I really want to see King Yan and see what kind of person he is!"

Walking into the capital of Yan Kingdom, there is a lot more prosperity in Changyan's eyes, although it is not as good as the south, but it is not much worse.

The faint aroma wafting from the restaurant on the side, Changyan suddenly felt unbearable hunger in his stomach, but he had no long things, and he knew that this restaurant would definitely not give him the same charity as the old man.

He pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered that he had a jade pendant in his arms that his mother gave him when he was a child, so he wanted to use the jade pendant to pay for a meal first, and then redeem it when he came back one day.

Nagahiko reached into his arms, but found that there was nothing in his arms, and the jade pendant had probably been lost for a long time.

"Hey, your stuff is off!" shouted someone behind him.

Changyan only felt that the voice was crisp and crisp, like a wind chime, pleasant to the ear, and couldn't help but look back.

"What a beautiful woman!"

Nagahiko couldn't help but praise.