The chaos on the long street had subsided, and the swarming soldiers and officials had taken complete control of the scene, and the Assassins who had survived had been assigned at least two or three guards on average, and they were bound round and round by various restraint weapons, unable to toss any wind and waves.

But Cang Yuan did not have the slightest joy of victory, he was covered in blood, and he roared wildly with his sword, like a mad beast.

"Don't you want to kill me? I'm right here! Come on! Kill me! What kind of ability is a hidden arrow to hurt someone!"

"Get out of here! don't hide if it's a man!"

"Come and kill me!"

He roared over and over again, his voice growing hoarse, but he didn't get any response.

The soldiers and officers were silent, as were the crowd of onlookers.

Pan Long watched coldly, and saw the most obvious malice in the eyes of many people.

In the end, Cangyuan gave up.

He threw the precious sword to the ground and sat in a pool of blood without any grace, his expression terrible.

Pan Long sighed, walked over to him, and gently slapped his palm on the shoulder. The power of the pinnacle swam around, shaking away the blood stains on his body and clothes, and falling to the side.

So Cangyuan returned to the way it was before the battle. Delicate, clean, handsome with a somewhat feminine taste.

He raised his head, showed a tired wry smile, and asked the officials to arrange another carriage to take them to the airport in Southern Xia City.

Sitting in the carriage, Pan Long looked at his dejected appearance, as if he had lost a battle, and didn't know what to say.

He felt that he should be comforted, but after thinking about it, as a thief, seeing that the reformers and conservatives in the Great Xia court were fighting each other, and even the situation was getting worse and worse, it was too late to be happy, why should he be comforted?

Isn't that causing trouble for yourself?

So he shut his mouth and didn't say anything.

The carriage was quiet, as quiet as a mourning hall.

Cangyuan was like a statue, sitting there motionless, his hands clenched tightly, probably because he was too hard, his knuckles were a little white, and some green tendons were even faintly seen on the back of his hands.

He took deep breaths again and again, and finally slowly calmed down completely.

Then, suddenly, he said, "Do you think I'm ridiculous?"

"Why do you say that?"

"Since I was a child, I have felt that something is wrong with the Great Xia Dynasty. Cang Yuan said in a very low and slow tone, with a sense of remarkable memory, "When I was twelve, I felt that I should try to find out what the problem was. It took me ten years, until I was twenty-two years old, to determine that there was something wrong with the laws of the imperial court and that they needed to be adjusted. ”

"Then I spent more than three years traveling all over the world and preliminarily summarized some problems. After discussions with Ronan, we wrote to the imperial court, got approval, and traveled the world again – this time for more than six years. In the end, we came up with a plan for changing the law, and after many discussions and debates, we finally put this plan into practice. ”

He looked up at the roof of the carriage and sighed softly.

"Ten years of thinking, ten years of investigation, and my understanding of various issues in the Great Xia Dynasty, there is no second person in the world who can match me!"

Pan Long nodded, he didn't doubt this at all.

"Before the change, everyone said that I was the first talent in the Great Xia military, although I had never participated in the imperial examination because I was a child, but everyone said that if I participated in the imperial examination, I would at least be able to win a champion. Some people even say that I am the only person in the world who has the possibility of breaking Zhang Hong's (Zhang Guozhong) record and getting the top prize in all eight subjects - after all, he doesn't know martial arts, and I cultivated to the innate realm at the age of fourteen. ”

Pan Long smiled and nodded, he had also heard of Cangyuan's name as a talented man.

"But after I pushed for the change, in just a few months, people's evaluation of me changed. Cangyuan lowered his head, "They no longer praised my talent, on the contrary, began to criticize me constantly. ”

"Those who have a good relationship say that my ideas are too extreme, that my mind is confused by prejudice, that I need to listen to a wide range of opinions, and that I can't be self-serving. Those who have a bad relationship in the first place, simply say that I am a traitor and demon who uses my beauty to deceive the king, and declare that they will kill me—I have experienced more than one assassination like this. ”

"Why didn't they go and assassinate Di Luonan?" Pan Long asked.

"Because Brother Lonan can kill their whole family. Cang Yuan smiled bitterly, "And I can't." ”

"With your power and influence, it shouldn't be difficult to at least make an example or something, right?"

Cangyuan shook his head: "Holding Taishan to surpass the North Sea, the speaker 'I can't' - it is honest and can't; ”

Of course, Pan Long understands the meaning of this passage - there are some things that he can't do, but he doesn't want to do.

"I've also heard a saying called 'Ci Bu Commanding Soldiers'. Pan Long said.

"Brother Luo Nan is responsible for this kind of thing, and I am a civilian official. Cangyuan said.

Pan Long couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the face that was a little gloomy even though he was tormented by distress and depression, but was still too beautiful.

Cangyuan's martial arts are extremely high, and he has already reached the innate extreme, and he is only one step away from returning to the basics.

But if he is always forced to breathe by this heavy pressure, then let alone returning to the basics, whether he will die of grief or not is a question mark......

"You can't go on like this. He said.

Cangyuan nodded: "I know, but I have no choice." ”

He sighed again, but his eyes gradually became firm: "Knowing that I sin against me, it is only spring and autumn." In short, I want to try my best to do what I can, and what is the final result...... It's up to God. ”

"If God wants me to live forever, then I am very happy, and God wants me to leave me stinking for 10,000 years, and I have no choice. He smiled, "Anyway, what I'm going to do won't change!"

He raised his head and looked at Pan Long: "Great Xia must change the law, I believe you can also see this." I don't know if you approve of our plan, but I'm sure you approve of at least some of it—otherwise you wouldn't have come to visit me, let alone live in my house. With your identity and skills, there are many people in this Nanxia City who are willing to invite you to live, and even those big inns would rather not charge accommodation fees and are willing to invite you to stay. ”

Pan Long smiled: "Your plan to change the law does have many things that are eye-catching, and even amazing. ”

"But there are also a lot of questions, right?"

"It's just a flaw. Pan Long said, "There is nothing in the world that is okay." In short, do it first, find problems in the process of doing, and then improve, and then continue to do, continue to find problems, and continue to improve...... Keep improving, you can keep improving. There is no good thing in the world that can be achieved overnight, and good things are always grinding. ”

"Your statement is very similar to that of my father. Cang Yuan smiled, "I didn't expect that although you are younger than me, your vision is similar to that old man in his seventies." ”

Pan Long smiled again.

In terms of age, he is actually older than "the old man in his seventies". It's just that the life in the second half of his life in his previous life is really dull and boring, smoothing out ambition and grinding hot-blooded men into mediocre old men.

(Seeing his appearance reminds me of myself when I was young, shouting "Our goal is the sea of stars...... But who would have thought that when the road to the sea of stars really appeared in front of us, we would become a dispensable foil for the whole society. Not even a screw...... ）

Thinking of this, he sighed in his heart.

(It's all gone, it's all gone...... At least in this life, I will not live up to the time again, and I will not let myself be a dispensable person again!)

The two men in the carriage stopped talking, and their eyes were firm.

The small episode did not affect the itinerary, and after walking for a while, the carriage came to a heavily guarded camp outside the city of Nanxia.

Above the camp, flat-bottomed ships were slowly rising into the air, flying in the direction of Shendu.

Shendu City is high in the sky, and most of the people who go up and down rely on this kind of spaceship called "Heavenly Boat". It is said that their style was set during the Emperor's Jiazi era, and it has not changed to this day.

Although today's heavenly boats were built later, the process of getting on and off the Shendu by boat is not much different from that of thousands of years ago.

Come to the camp called "Airport", where you can board a heavenly boat and fly to the airport in Shendu – or vice versa.

The whole process reminded Pan Long of the long-distance bus in his previous life.

Huge passenger ships regularly depart from various cities to other cities. If you want to travel long distances, you can either get a good pilot's license and buy your own personal spaceship, or you can take a public transport spaceship.

For example, if a person wants to go from S City in East Asia on the earth to "Laurel City" on the lunar surface, he needs to register on his personal terminal first, and then the Skynet system will arrange a trip for him, and he only needs to go to the airport to take a boat according to the itinerary.

If you want to enjoy the travel process, you will often choose a public class. This is a great way to chat with your traveling companions and enjoy the transfer.

And if you just want to get to your destination simply and quickly, you can go to the personal cabin, lie in the personal cabin, play a game for dozens of hours, and be woken up by the built-in alarm clock. Transfer or something, all to the automatic management system.

Pan Long is naturally the latter type of person.

But he felt that it was estimated that Zhao Sheng and Wen Chao were the former kind of people - it could be seen from the Tianzhou they designed.

(No!, when the two men crossed over, it seemed to be pre-Federal.) At that time, there was no such thing as a heavenly boat...... ）

Pan Long looked at the heavenly boats moored next to the high platforms from a distance, and couldn't help but think about it.

Cang Yuan thought that he had seen this kind of thing for the first time, and was a little shocked, and explained with a smile: "This is the Heavenly Boat, which is rumored to have been invented by Wenxiang, and is specially used to transport people and goods between the Shendu and the ground - by the way, look at this Heavenly Boat, do you think there is something wrong with it?"

Pan Long looked at those Tianzhou carefully, and didn't think there was anything wrong with them.

"Do you think that there is a big hole in the front half of the hull of those Tianzhou ships, which is not safe at all?" Cang Yuan said with a smile, "In fact, after it lifts off, because of the protective array, those 'holes' are the strongest place. If you're interested, you can try to walk around those empty places and enjoy the feeling of 'stepping on the void'. ”

Pan Long smiled and nodded, but rolled his eyes in his heart.

(Isn't it a force field shield, I even rode a 'hollow boat' with a full shield structure back then, but that's actually it.) ）

(and...... What kind of nerves do you have to talk about this with someone who can fly against the wind and travel thousands of miles a day? What is so rare about standing out of thin air?)

Cang Yuan also realized this immediately, and smiled awkwardly: "Ah, I forgot, Pan Zhenren, you could have stepped on the void...... I'm telling you this, but I'm a bit of a classmate. ”

"No, I've never been on a bottomless boat. Wait a minute, get on the boat, be sure to see and see. ”

As he spoke, the carriage slowly drove in front of a small celestial boat. This heavenly boat is slightly smaller than other heavenly boats, and in addition to the various emblems and characters of the Great Xia court, there are three big characters of "Yushitai".

"This is the heavenly boat for our own use. Cangyuan explained, "Although our grandmother Yushitai doesn't love our uncle or uncle, everyone doesn't like us. But in the imperial court, we are also an independent department, so we have our own Tianzhou. ”

"Only independent departments have their own Tianzhou?"

"Yes, most of the officials take the public boat. There are even people who will squeeze the civilian Tianzhou - after all, being in a hurry is the most important thing, and the official affairs of the imperial court cannot be delayed, and other things can be improvised. ”

"In contrast, those of us who have our own Tianzhou are much more comfortable. You don't need to squeeze with others, as long as you get to the airport in time - Yushitai is a Qingshui Yamen, and the benefits you can enjoy are probably like that. Forget it, something is better than nothing. Are you right?"

Pan Long nodded.

Cang Yuan smiled and said, "That being said, but ...... Well...... I know that this boat is a little smaller, and it may not be as comfortable to sit on as those large boats. But we didn't have many people in the Imperial Observatory...... Even if there is a meeting at the end of the year, everyone gathers on the ship, and a boat can be full. To tell you the truth, I've been to the Imperial Observatory for a while, and I really haven't heard of this Heavenly Boat ever being full...... Who told the royal historians to save face, and they couldn't do anything to rub the sky boat with the whole family!"

Pan Long was amused by him, dare to love this god in addition to rubbing food and cars, there is also a boat rubbing the sky?

I got on the boat and entered the living room, and soon a servant brought fruits and vegetables.

Pan Long picked up a fruit, and the servant came over and informed the heavenly boat that it was about to set sail.

Sure enough, a few seconds later, Tianzhou shook slightly, and through the window, he could see the scenery outside slowly descending, but Tianzhou had already risen into the air and flew towards the divine capital.