The withered grass is in the sky, the dead leaves are flying, the biting cold wind blows the dead leaves on the ground, and then falls after a few turns, and then blows up again, throws the old high and sticks to a wall in the loess, after the wind, the leaves fall into the dust again, and then they are blown up and swayed by another gust of wind, fluttering and flying to the side of the swill that has just fallen and falls into it, and after a while, the beach freezes, solidifies, and the leaves are sealed in it, and the leaves do not move at all despite the cold wind.

Palace.

The four corners of the imperial city are guarded by the forbidden army from all walks of life who are frozen with blue noses and swollen faces, and in the imperial city are the straight 'golden guards' who stand straight, and the palace is full of concubines and eunuchs and palace maids who are wrapped like zongzi and run back and forth, shivering.

In front of a large hall, a black-clothed young man in a single shirt stood on the side of the door with an expressionless face, he seemed to be unaware of the cold wind blowing in his face, he didn't feel cold and of course he didn't feel hot, this young man seemed to be an alternative, a cold alternative, a serious alternative, it seemed that all the guards around the entire imperial city were not as serious as him alone, and this demeanor seemed to be like an assassin would break into the palace at any time.

In the main hall, the emperor stood in a daze with the nine-sided war report in his hand, and now the situation of the imperial court is in a worrying situation, and the disaster and famine in Kyushu continue to fail in grain year after year, which has a huge impact on the 'Tianmang' dynasty based on farming, and the failure of the grain harvest has led to a surge in popular uprisings, and the cult has taken the opportunity to release the theory of the end of the world, and the fallacies have confused the public and strengthened their power. The court received a lot of money in the matter of Zhongzhou, but the situation of making ends meet has not changed, and the fine silver of Zhongzhou can only be used for a while, not for a long time.

Since the establishment of the dynasty, the "Tianmang" has been fighting with the wolf rider of the North Disaster for many years, and it has been more than 200 years, among which the loss of non-silver can be counted, the wolf rider has not decayed and the ghost has arrived, and the ghost has defeated the red ghost again, but the red ghost has risen again, and it is easy for the imperial court to produce a Tianzhu general to guard the border pass for decades without defeat, but there is a change of 'fat enemy', the strength of the golden horse has multiplied geometrically, and the general of the court, The elite soldiers are extremely damaged, the imperial court wants to train the army but lacks pay, wants to have silver but needs to recuperate, wants to recuperate but has to retreat from the enemy, wants to retreat from the enemy but has to train the army, for the sake of today's plan either to defeat the foreign invaders in one fell swoop or to be dragged to death in multi-front battles, the former is obviously unrealistic at present, the leader can behead the 'bear blind', the only Fang Bing who has repelled the golden cavalry was forced to resign, and the emperor wanted to promote capable people but suffered from Wu Jingguo controlling most of the court.

The old demon of the 'Inner Governor's Mansion', Qianyu, and Tianjiao are nominally the supervising army, but they actually control the three border defense armies, these people can't lead the troops, but the martial arts are extremely high, Fang Bing's scholarly temperament is extremely strong, the dignified Beichuan Marquis has no choice but to he, and not long after the old demon went, Fang Bing handed over his resignation .......

Fortunately, the 'right island' can still contain the golden horse, otherwise I am afraid that I can't drag it out, the war needs food, the grain needs to be harvested, without the harvest, the court has no money, the people will rebel, the situation will get worse and worse, now the government and the opposition need a good year, take a breath and maybe there will be a turnaround, and everything will not be discussed.

The emperor has been standing motionless for more than an hour, and his motionless posture is different from his heart, his heart is a little chaotic, some worried, some afraid, he has to be chaotic, it is impossible not to be chaotic, it is impossible not to worry and not to be afraid, he is not sure of this game, he is not sure at all, but he can't help but face, he has nowhere to escape, he is the only one in the world who has no way to retreat, retreat is equal to a dead end, he needs to suppress the chaos in his heart, the fear in his heart, he needs to calm down, he needs to calm down, he needs to slowly straighten out everything.

Calm down, since you can't calm down, let's be cold first.

The door of the hall opened, and the emperor stepped out, just as a northwest wind blew over, pouring back what he wanted to say. 'Beijing' is not as good as 'Zhongzhou', the 'capital' in winter can blow candles through the wall when it is the coldest time, and it is very cold today, but it is not the coldest time in 'Beijing'.

The black-clothed young man saw the emperor give way to the side, bowed, the emperor smiled at him, and walked to the railing of the pedestal of the main hall. The black-clothed young man was speechless, following the emperor's footsteps, and stood a step and a half behind him.

"Zefeng. ”

"Your Majesty. The young man in black said.

"Which of us is older?" the Emperor asked with a smile on his face.

"The emperor is one year old. Yang Zefeng said.

The emperor said: "I heard that you are the youngest of the 'Dragon Guards', but you are the number one master of the 'Dragon Guards'. The Emperor seemed to be a little absent-minded, he had already asked about this earlier.

"This No. 1 master is in name only, and it is the adults who deliberately gave it to each other. The emperor asked Yang Zefeng repeatedly, so he had to repeat the answer from the last time.

The emperor smiled: "I didn't expect you to be so popular when you first arrived." ”

Yang Zefeng said: "It's not that the ministers are good, it's that someone is a scoundrel, and Lord Zhuang and Lord Jin don't want to care, so the first false name was given to Weichen." ”

"Rogue? It seems to be the handiwork of the drunken guards again. ”

"Your Majesty. ”

"Hey, the dignified king of a country and the number one master of Ouchi throughout the ages are speaking ill of Lord Ben behind his back, what kind of system is it?"

"Compared with the guards who are not big, small, and have no kings, what else is unseemly?" the emperor said.

Yu Wuchang shook his head and said, "It's not interesting, this answer is not fun." ”

The emperor said: "If the guards are idle and bored, they might as well clean the melon seed skin in this place, the eunuch is also a human being, this job is not easy." ”

"How can there be a melon seed skin?" he took the melon seeds in his hand and denied it.

The emperor didn't pay attention to him, he didn't have the leisure to care about these messy things now, as long as he didn't go against him, let alone eat a melon seed, even if he planted melon seeds in the palace, he could bear it.

Yu Wuchang walked to the bottom of the pedestal of the main hall and jumped onto the pedestal, patted Yang Zefeng's shoulder and said with a malicious face: "Xiao Yang, discuss something with you, okay?"

"Not good. Yang Zefeng directly refused.

"Uh, do it all over again. Then he patted Yang Zefeng's shoulder again and said seriously: "Protect the emperor well, Lord Ben is worried about the country and the people, and I will go out of the palace now to see if there is anyone who is not conducive to the court and the society." ”

Yang Zefeng: ......

"You can make up a decent reason. ”

Yu Wuchang said: "Okay, the governor of the palace will eat hot pot today, I will take the table first, do you want to go with the emperor?"

The emperor said: "No need, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are not as convenient as a bowl of porridge." ”

"I'm just going to let it go. After speaking, the impermanence slipped away like the wind.

The emperor sighed, in the past few months, he has more or less understanding of the people around him, he is impermanent and exaggerated, and he does not pay attention to the rules, but this person is not an unwise person, his behavior is often an exaggeration of an existential phenomenon, as far as his more and more out-of-character performance is concerned, the imperial power is getting weaker and weaker in people's hearts today, I am afraid that it will not take too long to get along with the courtiers with new things, but what this new thing is, he does not know anything, and he can't think about it.

By the government.

In the hall, Wu Jingguo sat in the center with his eyes closed, and behind him stood the Wu brothers, the kind and kind 'four-eared old man' and the 'black ant' with a cold face. There were many people sitting in the left and right rows of the hall, and it seemed that there was something to discuss, and it didn't look like inviting someone to eat hot pot.

Under the hall, the person on the left is a white-haired old man, the old man is wearing a brocade robe trimmed with gold thread, wearing a crystal clear jade ring on his fingers, playing with a goldfish piece carved from white jade in his hand, and stepping on a pair of boots with black jade on his head, this is extremely luxurious, and it costs at least 6,000 taels of silver to make such a set of clothes on the market (what? You say the old man is not wearing pants? How is it possible, the pants are blocked by the robe I didn't see it), obviously the old man's identity is not ordinary. Sitting next to the old man is a very beautiful woman, look at her age is almost in her twenties, the woman is full of jewels, pearls, jade rings, jade bracelets, flower shoes, green rings, a bright red shirt embroidered with clusters of flowers, several peacocks in the flowers overlap, competing to open the screen, its stitching is so good that the flowers and peacocks are embroidered as if they were living creatures, compared to their jewelry to this embroiderer may be more valuable.

Sitting in the third place next to the woman was actually Zhao Yi, the fourth place below Zhao Ji was Granny Rui, the fifth place was Han Hong of 'Qifeng Building', the sixth place was Lu Pingyi, and then there were some fresh faces. Sitting on the right side of the hall are still the officials of the imperial court, Ren Sixian, Jia Chengfang, Luo Pin, Xu Chunzhi, Li Nian, one-armed Jin Mill and others are among them.

Master Li stood on the side in front of Wu Jingguo and did not sit down.

"How are you all ready?" Master Li glanced at the people on the left and right.

Ren Siqian said: "There is no need to worry about the 'military department', more than half of the generals who have been promoted by me are our henchmen, and the commanders of the Thai half of the 'forbidden army' are also our people, and the best-equipped 'firearms battalion' is under my control. ”

Wu Jingguo nodded, and Luo Jian said: "The equipment of the 'Golden Guard' in the 'Forbidden Army' is not as good as the 'Firearms Battalion', but there are many people, the martial arts are the highest, and it is extremely convenient to enter and exit the imperial city, so it is foolproof." ”

Wu Jingguo nodded again, and Master Li's eyes looked at Jin Mill and asked, "Lord Jin is the number one master of the 'Dragon Guard', I don't know what the attitude of the 'Dragon Guard' is?"

Jin Mo said: "Jin is not the commander of the 'Dragon Praetorian Guard', he can only guarantee his own position, as for what others think of Jin, I don't care." ”

"It's good to have the words of Lord Kim. Master Li smiled, looked at Zhao Ji again, and Zhao Ji said: "Zhao is naturally on the side of the governor, Zhuang Laosan and Yu Laosi have also been the governor, presumably they will also stand on the side of the governor, and the rest of the people are not worried." ”

Master Li nodded and said, "That's very good." ”

The old man on the left played with the 'fish' in his hand, and said slowly: "There are all the lords in the imperial court to do it for you, so we don't need to bother, except for the power in the imperial court, the power in the rivers and lakes should not be underestimated, can the governor have proper arrangements?"

Master Li asked rhetorically: "I don't know what the forces in the rivers and lakes that Mr. Ji is referring to?"

The old man said: "I heard that the relationship between the governor and the 'Yang Dao Alliance' is the same as water and fire, and there is also friction with the 'Six Dragons Gang', these two gangs are not easy to mess with, and the foundation of the 'Yang Dao Alliance' is still shallow, if the 'Dragon God' is with us, I am afraid that it will affect the overall plan, and I am not afraid of your jokes, my husband and wife can be said to be unmatched in 'Batsudu'." The dragon god is not something that our husband and wife can deal with, to put it irreverently, my husband and wife are buyers and sellers after all, although the power given by the governor is great, although there are many benefits, my husband and wife are not short of money to spend, but they can't fight with the 'dragon god'. ”

"In the north, the two of them are trading unmatched except for the 'Dragon God', and it is naturally not easy to buy the two with benefits, but I wonder if Mr. Ji and Mrs. Ji have ever thought about the taste of loss?" Master Li said, and the old man and the beautiful woman suddenly changed their faces when they heard Master Li speak like this.

"Old Mr. Ji and Mrs. Han don't have to worry, with the four of them there, the 'Yang Dao Alliance' may not be able to enter the capital, and the 'Dragon God' also has its own people to deal with. Knowing that Master Li's words had a deterrent effect, Wu Jingguo opened his eyes and said lightly.

The beautiful woman next to Mr. Ji said: "The candidate used by the governor to deal with the 'Dragon God' is the 'Immortal Evil Venerable'? If it were him, I am afraid that the governor would be disappointed." Although the words were still hard, the tone was much more low-key.

Wu Jingguo said: "What does Mrs. Han mean?"

The beautiful woman said: "We must have at least two masters of the 'Immortal Evil Venerable' level to fight, if we want to exceed the chance of victory, we must have three masters of the same level, otherwise the 'Dragon God' alone is enough to threaten the governor." ”

"I don't know if impermanence can be counted as one. A lazy voice sounded, the door of the hall opened, and he walked into the hall with his hands in his hands, he did not like to report anywhere, and the vigilance of the government was useless to him.

Seeing him come in, Mrs. Han (Mr. Ji's wife, surnamed Han, Master Li calls her Mrs. Ji, Wu Jingguo is used to calling Mrs. Han) looked condensed, and suddenly her face was full of murder, and she didn't care at all, and said to Mrs. Han: "I haven't seen Mrs. Han for a few years, and she has become beautiful again, hey, Ji Lao is also here, it's rare and rare, why didn't the two daughters come together, I think Ling Qianjin is still the name I gave ......" (that is, when Yu Wuchang named his daughter Ji Han Jiaopo, the two couples reacted and made a feud with Yu Wuchang)

"Fourth, you must not be rude to your teacher. Zhao Yi interrupted angrily.

"Good, good. He paused, glanced around the hall, and sat down.

Old Mr. Ji snorted coldly, and said slowly: "I heard that a few years ago, Lord Xu's corpse was violently corpsed on the street, and his mouth was sewn and his leg was broken, it seems that the rumors in the rivers and lakes cannot be believed." ”

Yu Wuchang nodded and said: "Agreed, I also heard that a few years ago, the little bee ran to 'Bajindu' to commit a crime, broke into Ji's mansion, killed Ji Ranfeng, and kidnapped Han Yingyue, now it seems that the rumors in the rivers and lakes are really not credible." ”

Zhao Ji saw that the two of them were arguing again, and shouted again: "Fourth brother, are you still unreasonable? The trouble that Shizun didn't ask you for last time has already given you enough face, what else are you going to do?"

He said indifferently: "You practice martial arts to reason with others? Everyone is reasonable, what does the imperial court do to raise the army?"

"You ......" Zhao Ji angrily knotted.

"Does Lord Yu have the certainty of dealing with the 'Dragon God'?" asked Wu Jingguo.

"Nope. He shook his head. "We have so many masters as the 'Immortal Evil Venerable', Second Brother Jin, Mrs. Ouyang, Old Ji, Mrs. Ji, and Han Zhishou, when the time comes, everyone will try it, maybe we will win the battle by fighting. ”

The displeasure on Wu Jingguo's face flashed and disappeared, and Master Li saw it in his eyes, and sneered at Yu Wuchang: "It's a good idea to be worthy of Lord Xu." ”

"Thank you for the compliment. "Yu Wuchang accepted it honestly and unceremoniously, his face was solemn, and he said to Wu Jingguo seriously: "The governor has lost the opportunity, and there is only less than eighty percent chance of winning at this moment, if it is delayed any longer, even the first move will be given to others, and I am afraid that the chance of winning will not exceed sixty percent, of course, that being said, as for what the governor and the adults want to do, there is no need to worry about impermanence, impermanence just wants to remind the governor that hesitation is a taboo to do anything, even if it is, it is necessary to be happy, constipation is not good." ”

Wu Jingguo snorted, neither agreed nor opposed, he didn't say anything, and everyone didn't dare to speak randomly, and after a while, Wu Jingguo opened his eyes again. "You have worked hard, there are some drinks and food prepared in the house, please eat first, and this matter will be discussed later. ”

After Wu Jingguo finished speaking, everyone knew his intentions, and he went out of the hall one after another, and in the end, only Master Li and the 'four-eared old man' were left.