Chapter Eighty-Three: Ruthless Since Ancient Times
Not to mention what the eunuch's plans were, after Jacqueline and her group met Lin Yan and Mekasi, they had a lot of questions to ask, and Micqueline and Lin Yan didn't have a lot of confusion to say to Jacqueline and the others?
But after all, everyone hadn't seen each other for many years, and they all obeyed the etiquette, and they were relatively silent for a while, and the atmosphere fell into a subtle calm.
Or did Barolo, the birdman who didn't know what to do, break the peace, he first walked up to Aite and asked Aite in a low voice, "Is she your sister?"
When Aite heard this, he didn't know what expression to use to answer the birdman, so he actually revealed it for a while.
Seeing that the other party didn't answer him, Barolo quietly came to Colleen's side with some disappointment, and whispered to Megas and asked, "Your daughter?"
Unexpectedly, these words actually fell into Megasi's ears.
"Damn it, do you think I'm that old!How can I have a daughter who is still the body of a little girl at this age!?"
"Damn it, I'm her sister!"
Two beautiful girls who are known for their bad temper jumped at the same time, but then they were attracted to hatred by each other's words, and they no longer aimed at Barolo, but glared at each other angrily, and a spark of fierce collision seemed to ignite between the two.
And Barolo, the culprit who caused a qiē, was frightened by the momentum of the two beautiful girls, and cowardly hid to the side, not daring to speak again, nor daring to move.
On the contrary, Lin Yan on the other side snorted and laughed, and the woman with extraordinary bearing pursed her lips and smiled: "You are still the same, you haven't changed at all." ”
"Senior Sister Lin Yan......" Jacqueli saw that the atmosphere was broken, and hurriedly wanted to ask Lin Yan something, but Lin Yan waved her hand and interrupted her speech.
"I know you have a lot of questions to ask, but talking casually like this will only make things more chaotic, so let's explain them one by one, let me start by talking about my situation. ”
Speaking of this, Lin Yan paused. Looking at everyone with a sincere gaze, he said slowly and solemnly: "I invite everyone here in the hope that you can help me rescue my child, Lin Wuji, and then escape to the Lion Continent and never come back." ”
"Ahh
"Your child!?"
"What!?" Hearing Lin Yan's words, everyone's words were different for the first time, but they were extremely surprised.
Next, Lin Yan carefully told everyone about her experience after separating from everyone.
After the separation, Lin Yan took the jade seal. After returning to the Great Zhou Kingdom by boat, he dedicated this priceless treasure to his father Lin Wenhu, intending to discuss with him how to use the jade seal to quell the war.
However, Lin Wenhu was an orthodox royalist, and he was only loyal to the Later Zhou, one of the divided states established by the descendants of the original Great Zhou Kingdom.
Although Lin Yan was still reluctant to listen to her father's words, after a period of observation, she found that Tang Xiaotao, the lord of the Later Zhou Dynasty, was not only a scholar and a martial artist, but also good at governing the country, and governed the entire Later Zhou Dynasty in an orderly manner, with strong soldiers and horses. It is a generation of masters. It is worth assisting.
The only great power that can confront Hou Zhou is the Tianzhou Kingdom, whose lord is also a descendant of the royal family, and he is no less than Tang Xiaotao's monarch, named Tang Aotian.
Other small nations survive in the delicate balance created by the confrontation between the two great powers. They are trying to maintain the status quo in their favor.
Although those small countries are not very powerful, they are better in numbers, and as long as they help either side, they can keep one side from being wiped out by the other. So that they are profitable.
After understanding the form, Lin Yan finally made up her mind to be loyal to Hou Zhou with her father.
After the Zhou State got the jade seal. He carried out a careful plan, and then launched a conspiracy against Tianzhou.
So, on the birthday of Tang Aotian, the monarch of the Zhou State two months after tomorrow, the envoy of a small country bought by the Later Zhou State not only presented the jade seal to Tang Aotian on a public occasion at the birthday banquet, but also proved the authenticity of the jade seal in front of everyone.
Tang Aotian first got this treasure, out of pride in his bloodline, he didn't think much about it at the time, not only did he appreciate the envoy, but also loved this heirloom treasure, the emperor's certificate.
Fortunately, a strategist immediately reminded Tang Aotian, and he realized that something was wrong.
Once the jade seal appeared, it meant that Tang Aotian was the ruler of the orthodox Great Zhou, and Tang Xiaotao of the Later Zhou was just a puppet emperor. In this way, it is equivalent to declaring that the two sides can only fight to the death, and demanding that all small countries must choose sides.
However, the biggest problem is in the small countries, those small countries are used to the days of self-determination and independence, and now suddenly a big country has confirmed that it is the orthodoxy of the Great Zhou, which is no less than making them bow down to their orders, where are they willing?
Some things are just to be said nicely, but the specific actions depend on the actual interests, for example, the king is the best example.
In this way, it is no less than turning the Tianzhou Kingdom into the target of everyone, in the words of that strategist, "Tianzhou is like a roasted chestnut in the fire"!
What's even more helpless is that once this jade seal proves to be true in public, then Tang Aotian can't regret it afterwards and say that this thing is fake, which is equivalent to announcing to the world that he is actually a pseudo-emperor, which is undoubtedly a fatal damage to Tang Aotian's imperial majesty and national political position, which is absolutely impossible.
Sure enough, not long after, Hou Zhou used Tian Zhou's improper acquisition of the jade seal as an excuse, and let a domestic literary master hold a pen and write a tens of thousands of words of "Zhou Wen for Seeking Heaven", which criticized Tang Aotian's various behaviors and rumors, and then used the Spring and Autumn Period to conclude that Tang Aotian's jade seal was "extremely fake", denying the legitimacy of his acquisition of the jade seal, and then Zhou used this as a reason to crusade against Tang Aotian, a "pseudo and pseudo pseudo-emperor".
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and many small countries no longer watched the fire from across the river, but stood up with Hou Zhou to accuse Tang Aotian together, and said that they would "fight to the death" with Tian Zhou.
Although Tang Aotian is a descendant of the orthodox royal family and holds a real jade seal, there is no doubt that he should be the lord of the world, but in the face of practical interests, which country is willing to bow down and be captured? In their eyes, Tianzhou has become a mortal certainty, no matter how righteous it is morally.
In ancient China, the general policy of a certain emperor to compete for hegemony before becoming the lord of the world was to "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become the king". It is enough to get a glimpse of how unwise and dangerous it is to appear on the political zhì.
At the beginning, many countries watched the fire from across the river, hoping that the two big countries would lose both, but there were still a few small countries that were completely blinded by their interests to join the crusade team of Hou Zhou, in a vain attempt to get a piece of the pie.
And Lin Yan often helped Lin Wenhu with advice at this time, and the plan to send the jade seal was also proposed by her, Lin Wenhu soon found that his daughter was not only thoughtful, but also had good abilities in the art of war and strategy, so he asked her to join his own strategist group.
Lin Yan really lived up to expectations, and offered valuable and effective strategies to Lin Wenhu at critical moments, allowing Lin Wenhu to win many battles with the Tianzhou Kingdom. In Lin Wenhu's words about Tang Xiaotao's evaluation of Lin Yan. My daughter "has no last resort".
Under the concerted efforts of the monarchs and ministers of the Later Zhou Kingdom, the Tianzhou Kingdom finally lost to the Later Zhou in the decisive battlefield, and the Later Zhou Dynasty broke the main force of the Tianzhou with more than 200,000 people, making the Tianzhou unable to return to the sky. At this time, many small countries were shocked to realize that the balance of the world had been completely broken, but they were helpless.
And the Lin family's father and daughter contributed a lot in this war.
However, there was a dramatic episode, and Tang Xiaotao, a generation of heroes, was hit by a stray arrow in a battle he personally went out to fight, and died of serious injuries.
In Tang Xiaotao's last few days, Tang Xiaotao passed several ministers to the sickbed and took care of them on their deathbed. handed over the country to the eldest prince Tang Jie.
In order to keep the country, Tang Xiaotao not only asked Tang Jie to "take care of his father" against Lin Wenhu, who was armed with heavy troops, but also personally set the date, so that the future would not have to be mourned for too long. facilitated the marriage of Lin Yan and Tang Jie.
After Tang Xiaotao's annihilation, Tang Jie became the emperor of the new generation of the Later Zhou Dynasty with the full support of Lin Wenhu, and married Lin Yan half a year later. And Tang Jie relied more and more on Lin Wenhu, not only to increase the official to the top. And he is called "Father".
Lin Wenhu suffers from eye disease because of his age, but he is extremely obsessed with books. Once Tang Jie visited Lin Wenhu and found that Lin Wenhu was reading a book. He didn't let people bother him, and retreated left and right, while Tang Jie stayed quietly by Lin Wenhu's side.
Lin Wenhu was engrossed, reading from noon to late at night, Tang Jie personally held the lamp, but Lin Wenhu never found out that Tang Jie was coming, until he finished reading the book, and when he looked up, he found that the person holding the lamp was today.
Ignoring the backache from reading the book for a long time, the famous general hurriedly wanted to kneel down to confess the crime, but Tang Jie not only stopped Lin Wenhu's behavior on the grounds of "the son is the father and the family is the most reasonable", but also gave Lin Wenhu his colorful golden lamp after going back.
The relationship between the monarch and the minister became a momentary beauty.
Although Tang Jie's talent is not as good as Tang Xiaotao, with the dedicated assistance of Lin Wenhu and Lin Yan, he destroyed the Tianzhou and swept the princes, and finally dominated the world in a short period of time, founded the "Great Zhou", set the capital Zheng Luo, and the jade seal also fell into his hands.
After the world was calmed, all hearts returned to the king, and the pattern was gradually consolidated. During this time, Tang Jie not only honored Lin Wenhu, but also loved Lin Yan and his wife, and gave birth to a son, almost to the point where he was willing to be a winged bird in heaven and a branch on earth.
However, one day, Lin Yan found that something was gradually wrong.
First of all, the old minister who drafted "Cutting Heaven and Zhou Wen" suddenly used his gorgeous rhetoric to accuse Lin Wenhu of "having no emperor in his eyes and harboring ill intentions", but Tang Jie took the old minister as a minister of great merit, and gently exposed the matter in his old confusion.
After knowing this, Lin Yan's heart was shocked, and she vaguely seemed to have guessed something bad, but because of Tang Jie's deep love for husband and wife, she would rather believe Tang Jie's reason.
However, the development of things was in the bad direction predicted by Lin Yan, and the old minister stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and soon many ministers stood up to attack Lin Wenhu.
Tang Jie was very angry at the expressions of those people, and even threw several ministers into prison, but he did not move to kill at all. As a result, the ministers became more unscrupulous, and the attacks on Lin Wenhu became more and more intense.
Under this pressure, Lin Wenhu, who was loyal to Tang Jie, did not listen to his daughter's advice, and actually used "old age and incompetence" as an excuse to act independently.
Although Tang Jie kept it again and again, Lin Wenhu repeatedly asked "to prove his heart and comfort the ancestors", and finally Lin Wenhu had no rights except for a knighthood and a knighthood.
In fact, Lin Wenhu is not too stupid, but because he has no heirs, only one daughter, and now that Lin Yan is married to Tang Jie, he will regard Tang Jie as his son. He didn't want to embarrass Tang Jie, in his opinion, he was an old man, and it was good for Tang Jie to retire, and it was also good for his daughter.
Lin Yan was helpless about this, how could she not know Tang Jie's thoughts? From the incident of that Wenkui old minister to the group attack of the ministers, although Tang Jie treated him harshly on the surface. But in fact, it is conniving.
For example, the excuses of some ministers attacking Lin Wenhu can't stand scrutiny at all, and they are nonsense, and this kind of slander of the top ministers should be punished according to the law, but Tang Jie just let them go to prison, and his attitude is already obvious.
But what can Lin Yan do? It is a famous saying that the cunning rabbit dies a lackey, this is Tang Jie's will, is it in order to let Lin Wenhu retain his power to launch a rebellion, and let this newly stable world fall into war again? Not to mention that Lin Wenhu will not listen, Lin Yan herself does not want to see such a scene.
Maybe it's also a good option to step back and avoid it. That's what Lin Yan thought at first. She hopes that because of the bond between husband and wife, Tang Jie will not be so excessive.
However, since ancient times, it has been the most ruthless emperor's family, even if Lin Wenhu has no officials, the attacks on him from above have not stopped, but have become more and more intense.
But Tang Jie still pretended to be kind while indulging the minister, and at the same time comforted Lin Wenhu in turn.
When Lin Yan saw Tang Jie and his fourth brother Tang Zhi playing chess in the garden one day, she finally sobered up.
Tang Zhi is not bad and has no ambitions. However, he is very infatuated, and he has been thinking about it since he met Lin Yan, and this person is also very talented, when he heard that Lin Yan was going to marry his brother. He knew that he was powerless to resist this fate, so he drank all night to relieve his sorrows, and when he was drunk, he wrote "Moon Fu" that was enough to be passed down through the ages.
This flowery essay praises the moon as a beautiful woman who is as independent as a widow, and concludes with lamenting that the moon can only be left in her own wine glass. In fact, he is thousands of miles away from himself.
As soon as "Moon Fu" came out of Luoyang, many literati were impressed by this article and marveled at it.
This famous gift through the ages naturally also passed to Tang Jie. Tang Jie naturally guessed his younger brother's thoughts, but his father was newly mourned, and his rights were not stable, so he couldn't make brothers kill each other and chill people's hearts, so he could only divide Tang Zhi as the king and send it to a distant place.
Lin Yan suddenly saw Tang Zhi appear in front of her eyes again after a year, and it was brought by Tang Jie, how could she not guess Tang Zhi's thoughts?
That night, after Lin Yan tried her best to keep with Tang Jie, she suddenly asked Tang Jie about it, and asked Tang Jie to let go of her father and daughter.
Tang Jie was still confused at first, but in the end, Lin Yan was anxious and said, "It's not a pity for the concubine to die, why bother so much!?"
As soon as these words came out, Lin Yan realized that he had lost his words, and Tang Jie's face changed at that time, he left in a hurry that night and never came back to find Lin Yan.
The reason why Tang Jie brought Tang Zhi back was because of the deep brotherhood on the surface, but he wanted Tang Zhi and Lin Yan to have something to do, which didn't need any evidence, or even rumors, and then he took the opportunity to execute this younger brother who didn't know what to do, and completely uprooted the Lin family's forces.
It is precisely because Lin Yan sees through this that there is that sentence - death is not important, but in this way, her reputation and innocence will be ruined.
Such a vicious method shows that Tang Jie has made up his mind to force the Lin family to death. And Lin Yan's gaffe made Tang Jie realize that Lin Yan was already alert and accelerated the pace of action.
A few days later, Tang Jie went to visit Lin Wenhu, who was at home, the atmosphere was cold, and he no longer called him "father", he called him by his name, and gave Lin Wenhu an empty box before leaving.
Seeing the empty box, Lin Wenhu burst into tears, and he kowtowed three times in the direction of Tang Xiaotao's mausoleum, and when he got up, his head was covered with blood.
That night, Lin Wenhu, a world-famous man, ended his life as a horse with a foot of white silk.
Smelling the bad news, Lin Yan cried bitterly and confined herself for a day and a night. Lin Yan was already highly qualified, and after experiencing the ups and downs of life, her "miracle" actually awakened!
The Vertical and Horizontal One, Yan Hu, is placed on the rope on Lin Yan's folding fan, and his ability is to pass through the obstacles of space, act according to the will of the master, and even bring the things that the master thinks to her.
Although this miracle has the power of the elusive, the attack power is extremely low, but if used correctly, it is extremely powerful.
Lin Yan knew that she couldn't deal with Tang Jie at this time, otherwise the initially decided world was likely to be in chaos again. With this layer of zenith, all of Lin Yan's plans seemed to be dead, and her only hope now was to take her child away and fly away, not wanting to let him be infected with the desperation of the God King family.
Lin Yan no longer uses Tang as her son's surname, indicating that she really broke with Tang Jie and doesn't want to think about the friendship between husband and wife.
With the miracle, Lin Yan tried to secretly bring Wuji back, but was discovered by the guarding Ouchi master and cut a piece of rope.
Lin Yan was alone at this time, and the only one she could use around her was Li Li, but Lin Yan suspected that Li Li was actually sent by Tang Jie to spy on her. In the loneliness, Lin Yan recalled the short but beautiful time at Nazat Academy with Jacqueline and the others.
Only then did Lin Yan realize that there was no intrigue, but pure friendship was the most beautiful thing in the world.
Suddenly, the Empress of the Great Zhou had a whim, and decided to bring these companions here, hoping that they could help her.
After listening to Lin Yan's self-complaint, Jacqueline knew at this time why it would be so difficult for her to forcibly recall Monroe, she was in the Great Zhou Kingdom at this time, and she was thousands of miles away from her summoned beast?
"Stupid viper, you, you are such a stupid person!" After listening to this, Meijiasi's eyes were already red from crying, and she kicked the stool next to her hard, "If you don't have a good time, run away, what are you doing here!?"
Seeing Mei Jiasi look like this, Lin Yan's eyes were also sour, and the feeling she hadn't felt for a long time seemed to be back.
However, at this time, a voice broke the atmosphere coldly: "You are convenient now, but it seems that your rope can only 'bring' people, and it is impossible to send them away, right? If we help you, it is equivalent to being an enemy of the ruler of this country, have you thought of our way out?"
The person who spoke was Aite, and she didn't seem to have a good impression of Lin Yan, who looked the same as herself, and because of this, she could speak rationally.
"Well, I've thought about that, too. Lin Yanqiang held back her tears, looking like she was still in the spring breeze, "I'm the queen of the Great Zhou Kingdom, I found a strange formation somewhere before, everyone didn't understand what it was, only I could feel the magic fluctuations on it." ”
The magic of the Great Zhou Kingdom pays attention to "qi", but it only pays attention to the general situation and ignores the branches and leaves, while the Lion Continent pays attention to the point and the study of magic is more in-depth.
There is not much difference between these two in learning magic and fighting, and even the "qi" is slightly superior, but for magic-related applications such as magic arrays, the Great Zhou Kingdom is far inferior to the Lion Continent.
Because of this, this magic was only recognized by Lin Yan alone, at that time Lin Yan was still in the army, in order to ensure safety, she personally studied this magic array for a long time, only to know that it was an ancient ultra-distant teleportation array, and the destination was actually the Lion Continent!
It's a pity that this magic array needs a huge amount of magic support, otherwise it can't be activated, so Lin Yan can only sigh at it, sighing that she can't reunite with Jacqueline and the others, but there is finally a glimmer of hope, so Lin Yan asked Lin Wenhu and Tang Jie to protect this formation.
At this time, Lin Yan suddenly opened her mind, huge magic power, isn't Jacqueline's summoned beast in line with this characteristic?! That is to say, she can bring Jacqueline's classmates and friends, and she can also send them back through the magic array.
As for Aite, Birdman or something, Lin Yan was just brought here out of consideration for Jacqueline and others.
Li Li couldn't understand the lingua franca of the Lion Continent, he only saw what the queen and those barbarians were talking about, but he didn't have a clue.
Lin Yan has always looked at Li Li's reaction coldly, it is impossible for her to get rid of this eunuch, otherwise she will be startled, she just needs to drag him to prevent him from doing wrong. (To be continued......)