Compared with the past years, the scenery of the capital is no different, the city is full of Mongolian nobles, colorful and wealthy businessmen, lively and flashy.

However, if you peel back this layer of skin and look at it, you will find that there has been a change after all. Those Mongolian nobles who are not worried about their livelihood and play horses and parade through the streets have a faint trace of worry between their eyebrows. Although the attitude of the Han people, who have always been submissive and trembling, has not changed much, there is a trace of imperceptible banter in the eyes of the Mongols. The tone in which people talk about the same topic also changes differently.

In the past, when talking about the situation in the world, between the teahouses and restaurants, it has always been the Mongolian nobles who are pointing out the country, and their tones are passionate. For them, the rebels who swept the world were all scabies, and they were not a problem. Their ancestors scolded Fang Xuan, stepped on all directions, and destroyed countless countries, how could they care about the battles made by those muddy legs. These thieves may be arrogant for a while, but sooner or later they will be killed!

However, from the spring of that year, things changed.

Miao Jun, who was regarded by the Mongols as a vicious dog in the family, suddenly turned his head and bit the original owner fiercely, which greatly hurt the self-esteem of the Mongols. For a time, both the court and the people poured out many voices that wanted to teach the Miao people a lesson and let them exterminate their species.

However, just when the shock caused by this news had not yet subsided, another bombshell news shook the hearts of the Mongols again. Jiqing fell, and it fell into the hands of the Zhao and Song royal families!

When they first got the news, the Mongolian nobles only scoffed. Unimpressed. In recent years, there have been rebellious armies, not to mention the descendants of Zhao and Song, and even the descendants of Han Zu and Tang Zong have been exterminated. The red scarf thief Liu Futong even took the lead in raising the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, and now he is not being chased and beaten by the King of Ruyang, and the destruction is just around the corner!

However, the development of events soon exceeded their expectations, and the capture of Jiqing, a descendant of Zhao and Song, seemed to be different from what they were known before, and the war situation in the south. It seems to have suddenly become severe. Ordinary Mongols did not have the opportunity to know too much about military secrets. However, through the urgent messengers and nobles who were constantly coming and going in the city, they could still clearly feel that Dayuan really seemed to be in an existential crisis that they could not deal with! Moreover, they were even more worried. It was the beginning of the founding of the Great Yuan. Every year in April. His Majesty the Emperor of the past dynasties would lead hundreds of civil and military officials to move to Shangdu to escape the summer, but this year there has been no sound, and the emperor has been staying in the Dadu Palace!

This kind of little bit of change is involved. The situation in most of the capital is extremely tense and dignified. For the Mongols, it was not that their ancestors destroyed countless countries and laid down a huge territory, but that they went south to destroy the Great Song Dynasty and completely took Shenzhou Middle Earth, a land coveted by countless foreigners for thousands of years, as their own and passed it down for a long time. This is a feat that no one has been able to do, even the once invincible Jin people can only show off their power north of the Yellow River, while they Mongols have trampled every piece of fertile land here under their feet and become the real masters here!

As far as the Mongols are concerned, the reason why the Semu are ranked as the second class and the Han are the lowest is not because the Semu are more trustworthy than the Han Chinese, but because only the wanton bullying of the Han people, a people who used to be high above, can satisfy their poor and desperate need to show off.

However, the good times did not last long, and such wonderful days seemed to be coming to an end, how could they not feel sad!

With such a realization, the Mongols looked at the Han people who did not dare to resist in the past, and saw that although their attitudes had not changed significantly, there seemed to be a sneer that made their hearts palpitate behind this deferential attitude. Only now did the Mongols suddenly discover that although they have been riding on the heads of the Han people and bullying them for more than a hundred years, the fear that has penetrated into their bones has never faded!

Unlike the Mongols, who were in a state of panic and suspicion, the Han Chinese were in a much lighter mood. Although the current living conditions have not changed much, they finally see the dawn of hope that they have been waiting for for many years! They know the news of the war in Jiangnan more clearly and thoroughly than many Mongolian nobles. Because some people continue to pass news into the capital through different channels, every move of the captive army, any slight defeat of the Tartar court can spread among them in the first place.

However, what they talked about the most was the family genealogy and various extraordinary deeds of His Royal Highness the King of Chu. Most of these people living at the bottom are illiterate, but many of them can memorize the genealogy of His Royal Highness the King of Chu backwards. This Royal Highness is the Great Song Dynasty royal family that has really been inherited from Emperor Taizu, and has gathered more than a million brave heavenly soldiers under his command before the age of the weak crown. God bless the Great Song Dynasty, it is said that this Royal Highness was adopted by the gods since he was a child to teach skills in preparation for the expulsion of the Tartars and the restoration of the Great Song Dynasty. It is said that when His Royal Highness the King of Chu attacked Jiqing, there were heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals who had soaring clouds and fog and thundered down and directly blasted open the gate of Jiqing!

All kinds of rumors are incomparably false, and His Royal Highness the King of Chu has been rendered into a god-like figure. However, people are happy to preach like this, and every day they are tired of running around for a living, and they have to endure fatigue to go to those hidden corners to listen to people talk about how many Tartars His Royal Highness the King of Chu has killed and how many cities he has attacked. Every time I hear it, my heart is swaying, and my fatigue is gone, and I can't wait to immediately put it in front of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and kill the Tartars with one heart. Even if he returned home and fell asleep, he still couldn't help but laugh heartily, because he saw His Royal Highness the King of Chu wearing golden armor and leading the heavenly soldiers to break through the capital!

Zhang Wuji squatted in a dilapidated Yousheng City God's Temple, watching an old man foaming at the mouth and telling about the great achievements of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and in the week below, many ragged people gathered together and listened with relish. The old man's words were bizarre, and in Zhang Wuji's ears, there was no truth at all, but people believed it, and even some people added some more exaggerated conjectures or rumors from time to time.

Nowadays, every corner of the capital city is full of such remarks, and similar scenes are being staged everywhere. After listening to it a lot, Zhang Wuji even began to wonder whether the Demon Lord Zhao Wuxian he had seen with his own eyes was real, or whether the wise and martial His Royal Highness the King of Chu was true? Or maybe these two things were originally figured out, but because of the deep-rooted prejudice in his heart, the Demon Lord he saw was only one-sided, not all.

Suffering can make people grow, and in the past six months of running in vain, Zhang Wuji's state of mind has unconsciously undergone profound changes. Although he has had a bad fate since he was a child and has been tormented by cold and poison for many years, there are few problems that he needs to face and solve alone. Now that he has gone north to rescue his uncles and uncles, he needs to face many problems alone, and he gradually realizes the naivety and ridiculousness of his past thoughts.

If he had heard these words in the past, he would have scoffed at them and regarded them as ironclad evidence of the Demon Lord's insidious cunning and deceiving the people. But now he realized how difficult it is to rekindle the flame of hope in people who have been suffering for a long time and who have been desperate in their hearts. Zhang Wuji still remembers that when he first came to Dadu, he saw that in this prosperous city, the Han people lived very bitterly, living like the walking dead, except for the numbness of the miserable life, there was no brilliance in his eyes. However, only half a year has passed, and there are many looks in people's eyes, even if life has not changed dramatically, but the long-lost laughter has been heard in their ears!

It turns out that many things can not be accomplished with just a heart or an upright heart. After working hard for half a year, but there was no eyebrows at all, even the master Zhang Sanfeng was helpless, which made Zhang Wuji understand that there may not necessarily be a cause and effect in the world, and most of them are in vain.

The rescue was difficult, and after several twists and turns, Zhang Wuji realized more and more how difficult it was to do everything as smoothly as the Demon King. Now he can't do everything he can to rescue his fellow doorman, but he has nowhere to start. is called Mowgli, but in fact, there are many taboos in his heart, but there is nothing he can do about it.

Zhang Wuji even imagined that if the Demon Lord and he were to change places and face this kind of predicament, what would he do? However, this was just useless nonsense after all, how could the Demon Lord be willing to take a great risk to come north to help his past enemies?

After waiting in the City God Temple for nearly an hour, the friend from the rivers and lakes who had agreed with Zhang Wuji was late. Two months ago, he infiltrated the home of a Mongolian nobleman as a servant to find out the whereabouts of the current six major faction detainees, which is one of the most reliable sources they can now have.

The man leaned over to Zhang Wuji's side, whispered about what had been discovered in the last few days, and provided several locations where the six major factions might be detained. Zhang Wuji carefully wrote it down, and left it to go back to tell Master Tai before arranging for someone to investigate.

After agreeing with the man on the time and place of the next meeting, Zhang Wuji took his hat and walked out of the City God Temple, only to find that there was goose feathers and heavy snow floating in the sky, and his vision was plain white.

Because the Tartars intensified the search of people in the rivers and lakes, Zhang Wuji did not dare to stay outside for more, and bowed his head and walked to the place where they temporarily lived in the south of the city.

As soon as he walked into the door of the Taoist temple where they lived, Zhang Wuji suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind him, and turned his head to look around, but saw a group of seven or eight people walking briskly in the white snow. His mind tensed suddenly, and his fingers gradually leaned against the hilt of the sword hidden under the hem of his clothes, and at the same time he said in a loud voice: "We have no empty rooms here, you can go to the side to avoid the snow." ”

Zhang Wuji's face sank, and he was about to shout a warning to the door, when he suddenly saw a person dressed in a dark color who came to take off the cloak on his head, revealing a handsome and extraordinary face, and laughed loudly at Zhang Wuji: "Zhang Shaoxia, let's not come for less than a year, so you don't recognize me?" (to be continued......)