Compared with the imperial palace in Tai'an City, which looked like a nine-fold sky tower, the palace city in Beimang was really like a child's play house, and couldn't stand the distractions of the fast-footed eunuch. Every time the great eunuch Sun Dingsheng stood at a slightly higher position overlooking the palace, he would feel a little regretful. His status was roughly the same as that of Han Diao Temple, but the royal court of Beimang was not happy with eunuchs, and there were only more than 3,000 people in the palace, which was not as good as that of the Southern court. There were so many visits, which made Sun Dingsheng very annoyed. The empress changed her itinerary and canceled her inspection tour to the Southern Dynasties. After seeing the old Confucian with the shoulder bag and the man with the sword on his back, after guessing their identities, he couldn't help gasping, and then felt that a great honor had come, his smile became more respectful and sincere, and he didn't dare to say a word, and led the two away silently into the palace. It never occurred to me that the honored guest took the initiative to speak warmly, "Mr. Sun, are you in good health?"
Sun Dingsheng was flattered. He only met the old man once more than ten years ago. At that time, he was just a newcomer to the eunuch and cardinal. Besides, the eunuchs in Beimang had no authority at all. How could they dare to expect to be remembered by this old man? Kong, not to mention the last name. Sun Dingsheng, who had been walking cautiously ahead, but could only take half a step away, quickly bent over and said with a soft smile: "If we return to the Taiping Order, our family is fine, and our lives belong to His Majesty, so don't dare to get sick indiscriminately." Go. Whether Taiping Ling looks good, this is Bei Mang's luck."
The old Confucian scholar laughed and said, "Director Sun, I would like to lend you a good word."
Sun Dingsheng bent his waist and led the way, and said with a smile, "How dare you."
The old Confucian scholar stopped at the point, no longer greeted politely, put his hands in his cuffs, squinted at the somewhat unfamiliar Miyagi, walked up the stairs, passed the Zhumen, and went down the stairs, which was the Yushi Square outside the main hall. , such as the ups and downs of life are similar. The old Confucian scholar looked back at the younger generation who was five paces away, and said with some guilt: "It made you unable to compete with Deng Tai'a."
The middle-aged swordsman shook his head, hesitated, and said, "Sir, I have nine questions. I only have one question. Ask."
"Ask about the way of the sword?"
"Ask."
"One word less, the difference is thousands of miles. Well said, Mrs. Deng underestimated you."
The middle-aged man with a sword has long been famous in the royal court of Beimang, and his sword spirit is close. This name is really worthy of the name. Li Mibi is such a powerful minister who is highly valued by the empress. In the past ten years, he has been attacked and assassinated many times by the master of the Sword Mansion. Some dignitaries in the imperial account joked that Zhu Xi has been able to improve in recent years, thanks to Jian Qijin's ability to find loopholes. Jian Qijin is a very boring man, his appearance is boring, his personality is boring, his ordinary name has long been replaced by his name, he has no interest except practicing swords, he is not close to women, not close to power, not close to quick tongue, Only close to Jianqi. However, Li Mibi spoke very highly of this life-and-death enemy who would not change his ways even His Majesty the Empress was furious. He said that the sword energy close to the sword was only six or seven points revealed, because he only allowed himself to retreat in defeat, and had no intention of killing. Lost interest. When Li Chungang was young, he once said that Beimang had no sword. After Deng Tai'a achieved the realm of sword fairy, he also said that Beimang did not have a sword. Beimang originally thought that the master of the Sword Mansion would intercept the Peach Blossom Sword God, not to mention defeating Deng Tai'a. He retracted that sentence, but Jian Qijin was very disappointing, and he never showed up. It seems that in the eyes of this person, escorting the old Confucian scholar to the north to enter the palace is more important than anything else.
Sun Dingsheng quickened his pace slightly.
There are nine mutton jade steps in front of the main hall of the Northern Mang King's Court, and a woman with a stern face stands high on the steps.
She was dressed in bright yellow, with a dragon robe on her body.
The old Confucian scholar laughed and said, "It's almost here."
Immediately to face the saint, face to face with the most prestigious woman in the world, the old man turned his head and asked in a leisurely manner: "Huang Qing, after today, if you go to the Liyang Dynasty, you can't know everything about Li Chungang and Deng Xiaoping in Beimang." Tai Ah, Li Yang doesn't know that Huang Qing also has a sword."
Jian Qijin nodded, almost stopped along with the eunuch Sun Dingsheng, no longer moving forward.
The old man continued to move forward, without bowing down to His Majesty the Emperor, and the empress, who was known for her great talent and boldness, did not ask her fault, but she did not walk down the steps, nor did she take a single step.
The old Confucian scholar looked up at her.
The empress's face was old, and her eyes could be seen that she was a beautiful woman when she was young. She stood alone on the steps with no one to help her, and looked coldly at the peace order who left Beimang in anger. After a long silence, she finally smiled and said, "Everything has been done in the palace according to your request, let's start?"
The old Confucian scholar was also polite, walked up the first step, took off the bookcase, and waved his hand.
Nearly 200 court ladies and eunuchs holding satin picturesque scrolls filed in one by one, put satin paintings on the left and right sides of the square with their knees bent, bowed their heads and walked backwards, and each drew a long scroll. Without exception, they all met back to back in the center of the square. .
The Empress suddenly narrowed her eyes and looked towards the square.
A hundred satin into a giant painting.
It is the territory of the two dynasties of Beimang and Liyang, and it is detailed enough to include every military town, every big river and every male vein.
The world is at my feet.
So the empress subconsciously took the first step and walked up to the eighth step, standing tall and seeing far away, but her ambition since the first day she entered the palace was more than just looking at it
The two dynasties were beautiful.
magnificent.
The geographical outline of the Beimang Dynasty is written in white characters on a black background, and the territory of the Liyang Dynasty is written in black characters on a white background.
A chessboard and a game of chess.
Black and white confrontation.
The Empress smiled and said: "Taiping Ling has always been good at playing chess, but today he wants to give me a game of deduction? Do you want me to walk on this mountain with you?"
The old Confucian scholar did not answer, and waited until the meticulous and sweaty female officials and eunuchs quietly withdrew from the square, opened the bookcase, picked up a bamboo pole and a few pieces of black charcoal, sat down on his buttocks, raised his head and said: "Your Majesty does not need to go down the steps for the time being. Let me first talk about the right time, place and people. Tomorrow, I will elaborate on the geography, people, and military customs that I have seen in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Central Plains. On the third day, I will talk about the border between the two dynasties. , How to win the hearts of the scholars and the people. On the fifth day, we will talk about how to destroy the Northern Liang, occupy the Western Shu and swallow the Nanzhao.
Rao the Empress, who has gone through ups and downs, was stunned for a moment when she heard such heroic words that could be said to swallow the world like a tiger.
She walked down a step, and also imitated Taiping and asked the old Confucian scholar to sit on the ground.
The old man first put down the charcoal that will be used later to paint the finishing touch, put his hands on the bamboo poles that used to be used for mountain climbing and wading. It must be divided, which won my heart. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Liyang Dynasty destroyed the eight kingdoms and conquered our dynasty in the north with the victories. It seemed unstoppable. Although Bei Mang said that he was waiting for work with leisure, but when His Majesty was enthroned in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the court situation was unstable, so he did not hesitate to risk his life and won a very difficult victory. In fact, the weather was still on Liyang's side at that time, but The geographical situation of Beimang is very different from that of the Central Plains, which made the 400,000 armored soldiers dissatisfied. In addition, the first emperor of Liyang had been afraid of Xu Xiao from Beiliang for a long time. Govern the north and south of the river, and things can be done at this time. After all, Beimang respects martial arts and does not respect literature. If Beiliang occupies a rich and fertile Heliang Corridor that can stand on its own, and then take all the northern land into its pocket, this kind of confrontation between the north and the south Therefore, the first emperor of Liyang issued a secret decree to force Xu Xiao to retreat under such a favorable situation and sign a contract with Beimang. This is the first truth I want to say to Your Majesty: after all, the right place is not as good as the weather, and the harmony of people is not as good as the place.”
"The strength of a country is not in natural dangers, but in people's hearts. People's hearts are not so simple. The people have followed the trend since ancient times, and they should not be blind when they attach importance to it. The scholars of the Spring and Autumn Period are attached to Beimang. .”
"The old minister has traveled in various countries in the Central Plains, and he has memorized 2,643 people of various colors. Each one has its own roughness. Please ask your Majesty to find a female official to record it."
"One farmer can cultivate 30 mu of land, two or three shi of rice is harvested per mu, and the two shi is the middle, and one shi per mu is returned to the owner's family. For a family of five, one liter of solar eclipse can eat eighteen shi in a year. There are about twelve stones left. In addition, clothes, marriages, sacrifices, birth, old age, sickness and death, etc. all need expenses. In case of drought, flood and locust disaster, it will be hard to meet. What the old minister said is the situation of the imperial granaries in the Suhangjiahu River Basin and Xishu. In other places, there are often families It is not uncommon to have a large number of people who do not have children and have no roots. The so-called Haiyan Qingping of the Liyang Dynasty is quite watery."
"In the Liyang Dynasty, officials were not feudal, but officials had signs of feudalism. Officials were not allowed to be local people, but officials were different. They were local officials for generations. In less than a hundred years, local snakes would be everywhere. Zhang Julu was in a hurry, and many hasty policies , because we have to be in a hurry."
"I choose three types of sea merchants, salt merchants, and tea merchants to talk about Liyang's finances and taxes for His Majesty."
"In the Liyang Dynasty, Xinshe was an official and living man. He said that the military and state leaders were entrusted with the monthly entrustment, which became the record of current affairs. It was divided into emperors, concubines, five types of rites, public service, Taoism, Ruiyi, and barbarians, etc. 20 One kind. Let me tell you one by one, Your Majesty can know the autumn with one leaf, and the sun with twenty-one leaves."
"Longhu Mountain is safe and never thinks of danger. Your Majesty should take this opportunity to order the national teacher to start compiling ten thousand volumes of "Taoism", so that Tao Dezong can become the leader of Taoism in the world."
"The dispute between the red and yellow religions in the Western Regions, Your Majesty must not just watch the show. I can destroy the great Buddha of the Zen Buddhism, but I want to erect a small Buddha of the Esoteric Buddhism."
The affairs of the world are in every detail, Taiping makes old Confucian scholars talk about it, and in the daytime, the empress sits on the steps on the first day, and walks down the steps on the second day, walking and stopping behind the old man, stepping on the beautiful scenery. above. The night is also non-stop, the lanterns are hung high, the lights are as bright as day, no one is allowed to set foot in the square, and Her Majesty the Empress personally holds the lamp to illuminate the elderly. Another day, the two of them squatted or sat on the satin picture casually after eating and eating. The empress even hung up a cloth bag filled with warm water and food. Ask her for it. Tai Ping Ling, who had to draw circles on the ground every time he crossed a border, had used up countless pieces of charcoal, his hands and fingers were pitch-black, and every time he washed his hands in a hurry, the basin ran out of ink.
The empress wore a dragon robe with wide sleeves and long sleeves. Later, she simply tied it with silk thread so that it was easy to walk, and she didn't care about the slightest etiquette.
On the fifth page, when talking at night while holding candles, the empress still did not feel tired at all, and she was full of energy.
Seven days full of knowledge.
The old man walked out of the largest map in the world and stood at the bottom of the steps. The empress held his hand, and with her back to the slightly wrinkled Jiangshan Jinxiu, they walked up the steps together and said calmly: "May you be the emperor's teacher."