Meng Qi, who wanted to eat the "fish" at his cost, but was pushed into the tub instead, stretched his limbs and leaned comfortably against the wall of the tub.
These ten days have not been a good one.
Fortunately all is over.
Although the war has not ended and the killings have not stopped, in Meng Qi's eyes, all the problems that may lead to the irreversible situation have been solved.
One of the biggest troubles comes from people's ambitions for the chaos in front of them. This is the case with King Wu, and the same is true of the various forces in Jingzhou.
King Wu's army and horse will meet Cheng Jingchuan head-on, and the Jianghu people gathered by King Wu will directly confront the Jiangnan martial arts forces summoned by Shangfengxingge, plus the news brought back by Huang Biejia, who had been "threatened" by Meng Qi, the rich Jiajiangnan In fact, it is difficult for Qiantang County to obtain specific benefits from Ningdi and Jingzhou, except for the land.
The disease was rampant in Poyang Lake in Ningdi, and there were many rebels and bandits in Jingzhou.
King Wu is a soft-hearted guy, and by the time he has finished hesitating, the fighter opportunity has passed.
Therefore, Cheng Jingchuan must be tough, show his momentum, and win his first victory, so that he can completely hold back the troops and horses in Wu.
Meng Qi took a handful of water and continued to think with his eyes closed. As for Cheng Jingchuan's ambition, it's not a problem in a short time.
Not only Jingzhou, but Ningdi is also in urgent need of recuperation. Cheng Jingchuan wants to support the small county king. Until he resolves the strange voices of the powerful bureaucrats in Ningdi, he cannot completely strengthen his strength. Following Qiu Si's plan before, Cheng Jingchuan could divert conflicts and obliterate opponents through military expeditions. Now it is not that simple.
And without Cheng Jingchuan, the lives of the people of Ningdi will only get worse.
It just depends on how far Qiu Si's apprentice and daughter can play the game of Jiangnan.
In the next three or even ten years, it will be a situation in which they play against each other and even advance together.
Meng Qi is inexplicably more optimistic about the autumn scenery, because it is a road that no one has traveled before, so that the people will not be trapped in one place, and will not die because there is no way to live. As long as they can leave and abandon the land, everything seems to be OK. Change.
"Whoa."
A bucket of warm water was poured down.
Meng Qi was stunned and wiped his face to look.
"What are you thinking? The water is cold, and so is the food." Mo Li looked worried.
Although for martial arts masters, cold food is not a good thing, but in the doctor's opinion, swallowing cold food and dry food is not good for the intestines.
Yes, fighting right after eating is not good for the intestines, lying down after eating is not good for the intestines, eating something wrong is not good...
"If you don't correct it, when you return to Zhushan County, you will be constantly talked about by the teacher."
Mr. Qin is also human, and when people get old, they will always have a problem with nagging.
Meng Qi touched his nose when he heard the words, but he actually hoped Mo Li would come down and wash with him.
But this tub is really too small.
Meng Qi looked down at the barrel regretfully.
What made him regret the most was that he couldn't use the excuse of limited hot water to persuade Mo Li to take off his clothes, because... fish like cold water.
So Meng Qi lazily raised his finger and pointed at himself, and asked unreasonably: "I wonder if the doctor can agree, will it be bad for my health to take a bath and eat?"
Ink carp: "… "
The gerbil won.
Meng Qi was able to soak in the tub, waiting to be fed.
Mo Li looked at the bowl in his hand, wishing it was a bitter medicine.
But looking at the tired look on Meng Qi's brows, forget it, just feed it, at least you can see the look of smugly opening his mouth and waiting for food.
"The vegetables are overcooked and the lotus root is old."
Meng Qi said while eating, and tried his best to let the ink carp have a taste.
Before they knew it, they became two people sharing a bowl of meals.
The city is heavily guarded, and the things that Fengxing Pavilion can deliver are limited, including the old lotus root in the lotus pond in this other courtyard.
Meng Qi felt that what the ink carp chopsticks caught was Huang Lian who could chew without changing his face, but he would never complain about eating.
Meng Qi noticed that Mo Li's chopsticks were getting slower and slower, and when he looked up, he saw that Mo Li seemed to be thinking about something.
"Worried about the situation in Jiangnan?"
King Wu will not be a trouble, only the chaos in Jingzhou needs to be solved.
During these ten days, Mo Li followed Meng Qi around and saw absurd scenes with his own eyes.
It is true that there are no tricky characters like Master Luo and Zheng Tu, just to deal with the rebels who are fleeing and looting, but how to minimize the harm of these locusts to Jingzhou is not as simple as killing people with a sword. Bandits who pretended to be kings from heaven had appeared all over Jingzhou. They took advantage of the chaos, looted and killed, and then cut off their scarves to disguise themselves as ordinary people. The cellars were already full of blood-stained gold and silver.
Whether it is Zheng Tu or Qiu Si, they all firmly believe that the torrent of troubled times is like a rolling wheel, unstoppable.
Whether it is an invincible expert or a wise counselor, none of them can stop the greed of people's hearts. Anyone who tries to block the flood will be smashed to pieces.
"In principle, I actually agree with their idea." Meng Qi propped up his body from the wooden barrel, stepped out so calmly, raised his hand and took off the clothes hanging on the screen, and when he draped it, his inner strength evaporated the water droplets.
He was not in a hurry to tie his belt, put on his shoes slowly, raised his eyebrows at the same time, and did not recall the loss of the Chu Dynasty in the past: "As long as you stand in the whole world and try to change something, you will directly touch this layer. Obstruction, it's just a mantra. But it's not the first time for me anyway, and I'm not alone every time."
"what."
Mo Li couldn't help laughing, he liked to see the fat mouse smug.
"I encountered a bug on the Qi-zhuang Highway, and I wanted to stop the car. I asked the left and right, and the left and right answered the mantis. I knew that I would not retreat.
This is the first record of the mantis arm as a car.
The monarch of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period was willing to respect a little bug and pass it on to the world, so the warriors joined the Qi state one after another.
"Zheng Tu must not have read too many books." Mo Li thought for a while, and then said, "It's better to use 'beating the stone with an egg, and wrapping it around with a finger'."
The meaning is all the same, but at least the allusions don't initially involve praise of bravery.
"This is a battle of words." Meng Qi spread his hands, pretending to be dissatisfied, "What the doctor should say is that if you have the right, you will get more help, but if you lose the right, there will be little help, since I am never alone."
Mo Li shook his head and deliberately confronted each other: "This statement is too bad, a crooked sect can also gather a vote of people, considering that we and Ning Daochang killed a group of villains at the Holy Lotus Altar."
Meng Qi grabbed the bowl and put a chopstick in the mouth of Mo Li, signaling the other party to shut up.
The ink carp did not refuse and ate it.
His lips touched the bamboo chopsticks, and the heat seemed to be able to travel down the wooden chopsticks to Meng Qi's fingertips, and he trembled slightly.
"… "
The ink carp almost didn't bite the lotus root, and raised his eyes in confusion.
This look made Meng Qi turn his eyes away in embarrassment, and he used his internal strength to calm the eight extraordinary meridians, restraining the blood that showed signs of boiling.
Mo Li was angry and funny, took back the bowls and chopsticks and walked out of the inner room.
—Gerbils have to keep pace with each other and cannot be let go.
Meng Qi paced out pretending that nothing happened, when the door was knocked.
"Doctor Mo?"
Autumn scenery is outside.
It seemed that while Meng Qi Mo Li was eating and taking a bath, she had already made the next steps in an orderly manner.
"It seems that the master of the Autumn Pavilion already has a strategy for Wu." Meng Qi said with special meaning.
As soon as Qiu Jing entered the door, she saw Meng Guoshi who "suddenly appeared". She was just stunned, and there were not too many surprises. After all, Meng Qi wanted to sneak into the city and she couldn't control it.
"Sorry, I accidentally thought that Cheng Jingchuan once mentioned that he suspected that the national teacher was a civet cat in the legend of ghosts.
However, to her surprise, Meng Qi Mo Li's expressions instantly became extremely strange.
At first, there was unbelievable consternation, then Meng Qi seemed to be angry, and Mo Li seemed to be holding back his laughter.
Autumn Scene: "… "
what's going on
"Shuzi, nonsense." Meng Qi cursed vaguely.
Of course, he couldn't explain why he was angry, so he could only talk seriously.
"Liu Dan, the general of Qi, was born in pirates, and was assisted by Yunming Academy. He is good at outflanking, expelling, besieging, chasing, and intercepting. After ten days of hard work, he has initially controlled the Jingbei area. Jingnan only needs Jiangxia to send troops to clear it up and attack from both sides. In January You can force back the wandering rebel pawns.”
Qiu Jing was overjoyed when she heard the words. These things were impossible for her to hear from the elders of the Hengshan faction.
Meng Qi picked up the tea cup and said slowly: "It's too early to be happy, the problem lies with the officials in all parts of Jingzhou. Some of them started to chase small rebels, and some of them thought they had a great opportunity and played a role. In the play of 'repelling and recovering' the rebel generals under the king of heaven, the rebel soldiers have been taken in, and they are connecting with the civil and military officials of Jingzhou everywhere, preparing to support the son of King Jing's successor."
Ignoring the king's rebellion is the culprit, and all the blame is directed at the Qi Dynasty, which was in a wrong position and invaded the south of the Yangtze River.
Because King Jing is dead.
After several days of hiding this news, it was finally impossible to hide it, and Jiangnan shook.
King Jing died of despair, and the elites in Jingzhou packed up the carriage and even killed their sweet wife and concubine, and when they were about to flee with private soldiers to prepare for a conflict, the Nanping Prefecture City was not broken in the end, and they stood there in a daze. It is not to open the city gate, nor is it to be opened.
This incident even became a joke and was widely circulated in Jiangxia.
A city that has not been breached, but it is almost destroyed.
As if overnight, Jingzhou became a kingdom in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and each faction seemed to have a mountain top.
This is absolutely not to be let go. Once these forces become a climate, the chaos in Jingzhou will continue, and it will not subside for three or five years.
At the critical moment, the people of Yunming Academy played a role.
Although Fengxing Pavilion has a thousand abilities, and even touches the officialdom, the place where it can mainly play a role is in the small officials and the military attachés. Qiu Si has been in Ningdi for more than ten years before he has managed a huge power, and the Fengxing Pavilion under Qiujing's leadership has a news network and contacts that can be said to be well-connected, but it cannot shake the influence of the civil service system.
- The money is received, nothing is done.
- Let domestic servants make money and deny it afterwards.
In the eyes of merchants and people in the south of the Yangtze River, tax collectors are more reputable than magistrates.
The only people who can influence the civil service system are the scholars.
No matter if it's really lofty or just wanting face, I don't want to be scolded by Jiangnan literary circles.
Of course, I'm used to scolding, and if there are more people being scolded, it won't hurt or itches, but isn't it just the beginning? Yunming Academy came prepared again.
"The opportunity must not be lost. If it is lost or not, it will depend on Qiu Pavilion Master and General Cheng."
"The national teacher means..."
Qiu Jing felt that he had caught something vaguely.
"Joining forces with King Wu, dividing up Jingzhou, redrawing the borders of the territories under the jurisdiction, and retiring the troops."
King Ning of Wu got land and population, and Qi Dynasty got silver, money and rice.
Qiu Jing stood up in shock.
Meng Qi sneered deeply: "After all, Jiangnan Shilin is more willing to accept the orthodoxy of the Chu Dynasty than the Qi Dynasty."
If you want everyone to put down their weapons and sit and talk about things, first of all, there must be enough benefits.
After talking, he turned his head and smashed the ambitious guy who wasn't enough to make it to the table.
"King Wu wanted to expand the land, but he lacked courage. He controlled the most prosperous area of Yangzhou, and the rest belonged to King Ning. "
But a Jingzhou, Wu Wang could not swallow.
Cheng Jingchuan couldn't swallow it either.
If King Xiao Ning could change the place as the prefecture, the collapsed old city walls would not need to be repaired, and the power of the aristocratic clan in Ningdi would be weakened. After the past, they would face the Jingzhou nobility for the new prefecture land.
"Bing and beacon fire, in the end, it's all interests. If you can get a great return with a little effort, are you willing to hit a hard rock or a soft persimmon?"
Meng Qi raised a tea cup to Qiu Jing and said slowly.
The forces all over Jingzhou scattered in a mass of sand are the soft persimmons.
After Meng Qi finished speaking, he gave Mo Li a look at Mo Li next to him, saying that he doesn't need to use "Tao" for more help, it can be beneficial.
Gentlemen are not different, and they are good at things.