On this day in the late autumn of the second year of Xiangfu, it is destined to evolve countless myths and myths. The sun and the moon rise over Qintianjian, the Sanskrit sounds curl, and the rainbow hangs in the sky several times, and the immortals hang in the sky. And the camp of the South Gyeonggi Army is also horrifying. The two land gods are like ten thousand enemies, and they are as fast as a dragon entering the sea. During the fight between the two sides, the entire camp was torn to pieces. , especially the direct descendants of General Wu Chongxuan, Minister of the Ministry of War, suffered the heaviest, with over a thousand casualties. The so-called acclimatization by ordinary people is nothing more than physical discomfort. It is rare for elites like Wu Shangshu to lose arms, legs, and even their lives. The key point is that almost no one recognized the true identities of those two figures, which made the Gyeonggi Southern Army feel useless the most.
When the chief culprit, Xu Fengnian, stepped down from the Sheji Altar, the soldiers of the Li family, led by Li Shouguo and Li Changliang and his son, swore to guard the gate, assuming that they would step over the corpses of more than a thousand people if they wanted to go out. In fact, more than half of the heavy cavalry army on the street outside the gate had quietly withdrawn from the street after Anton General Ma Zhongxian delivered a secret decree almost crazily and quickly. The cavalry army, which had been seriously injured before entering the Liangliao battlefield, did not immediately leave the city to go to the station. At that time, Ma Zhongxian left his father's sickbed in the mansion of General Zhengbei University in a hurry. He didn't even have time to put on the official robes of military officials, let alone put on the iron armor. The heart is bleeding.
Especially Ma Zhongxian, who is very familiar with the officialdom in the capital, knows that when the bad news spreads from the mansion to the temples and the market, soon the Tai'an City government and people will say that his father will not die sooner or later, and it is precisely when the King of Beiliang made a big fuss with the Ministry of Rites and the Qin Dynasty. When he swallowed his last breath during the Tianjian, he was frightened out of his wits, and was frightened to death by that young man surnamed Xu!
Ma Zhongxian, who looked nondescript in a large piece of iron armor, clenched his fists tightly, his eyes were red, he wished he could turn the horse's head and give the order to chop that Xu into a pulp!
An old man in civilian clothes passed through the "weak" infantry phalanx of the Li family's soldiers. Li Shouguo wanted to remind him, but the old man smiled and waved his hand, and walked straight to the king of Beiliang who stopped at the edge of the altar of society. The old man didn't stop In front of the young man, the two stand side by side, but one faces north and the other faces south.
Xu Fengnian said indifferently: "At first, I thought it was Tan Tanweng who came here to be a lobbyist, but I didn't expect that it was Mr. Zhongshu Ling who came here to sing a good face."
Qi Yanglong, the chief official of Zhongshu Province, looked up at the high altar, and said with a smile: "It's a pity that Qin Tianjian has been destroyed like this."
Xu Fengnian said: "Over 100,000 people died outside the pass in Beiliang. Isn't it a pity for everyone to die facing the north?"
Qi Yanglong nodded, and said in a deep voice: "In my opinion, it's a pity. The Qin Tianjian was destroyed. As a scholar who likes to study history, I feel it is a pity. Tens of thousands of soldiers died in Beiliang. As Li Yangzi People, I think it's a pity, and it's still respectable. It's just that I went to the capital to ask the court for a robe to put on, so I have to come here to chat with the prince."
Xu Fengnian held the knife in his left hand because the shoulder was pierced by the long rope, and his arm drooped. Blood continued to flow out of the sleeve and dripped on the ground along his fingers. Because of the turbulent aura in his body, that face was instantly pale and bloodless, and instantly turned purple and golden. As for the split between the brows, the blood slid down the bridge of the nose, which is even more impressive for the handsomeness of this young vassal king. There was a bit of hostility on his face.
The young man who caused the entire capital to tremble twice with one person said with a blank expression: "Three thousand people, for each death, one thousand shi will be deducted from my Beiliang grain and grass transportation. Zhao Zhuan said it himself. Then I Now you might as well tell Mr. Zhongshu Ling directly, three million stones of water transport, if you dare to lose one stone of me, 30,000 Beiliang iron cavalry will go south to Guangling! Anyway, it is only natural for the king of the vassal to be quiet, and your court does not care about the people of Beiliang. Life and death, I, Xu Fengnian, am very talkative, and I don't mind letting Li Yang understand what 'loyalty' is!"
After Qi Yanglong heard these sharp words, he didn't pretend to be angry, and said with a smile on his face: "King of Beiliang, to be honest, I, Qi Yanglong, no matter where my ancestral home is, I always regard myself as the leader of Guangling Road. Yinxue Palace has become a home, Yang Shenxing and Yan Zhenchun have already tossed and tossed on my land, Song Li that bastard and Kou Jianghuai have tossed and tossed again, and then Wu Chongxuan and Lu Shengxiang, the so-called famous generals, will have their turn Going to make troubles, if they say they can make a quick decision, it doesn't matter who wins or loses, as long as the winner is determined, it will be a good thing for the people of Guangling Road. It's okay to fight the old soldiers, if you fight all the soldiers, wouldn't you just use the lives of ordinary people to fill the hole? Is this the reason, King of Beiliang?"
Xu Fengnian remained silent.
Qi Yanglong doesn't look like an important minister of the central government, but rather a bad old man full of complaints. After finally catching a young man who can confide his heart, he can't shut up the chatterbox at all, "Cao Changqing has a knot in his heart, and he can't make it up to himself. Even Yan Shenggong can't persuade that threshold. Of course, I don't want to waste my saliva. As for those who help the imperial court lead troops to fight, my Zhongshu Ling can't even say it. Well, it doesn’t matter whether you are appointed as a marquis or a general, each depends on his ability and his destiny, that’s all their reasoning. I, Qi Yanglong, can’t just go to them and chatter about asking them to put down their butcher knives just because I say that I feel pity for the common people in the world. Empty talk, big talk, ten thousand steps back, after convincing Lu Shengxiang and Wu Chongxuan, there will definitely be Ma Shengxiang and Song Chongxuan, after all, I will not be able to stop the general trend of the world after all."
Qi Yanglong suddenly turned his head and stared closely at the blood-stained young man, "But I think it will work to tell you. There is no way, you are Xu Xiao's son, Xu Xiao has always been very reasonable, Otherwise, in order to let the little girl Weixiong enter the school, you can give my family gold and silver to build a lake embankment that is more than ten miles long? Before I entered Beijing, I had to walk on it every morning and evening, rain or shine! Do you know if Xu Xiao told you that when he was leading soldiers and horses to the rivers and lakes, he passed the Shangyin Academy from Longhu Mountain, and had a private visit in a micro-service, blocking me, an old guy, in the room, and took off the Handled cold knife... Well, if you read it correctly, it is probably the one you are hanging now. I slapped it hard on my desk and asked me if I got the name 'Xu Fengnian'. Of course I gave a thumbs up and said yes, it is true. It’s pretty good. Then your father immediately became amiable, saying that I, Qi Yanglong, is indeed a scholar with great knowledge, and turned to your mother and asked your mother to give me the four words “full belly Taolue”. I am very happy, Of course, it's not this low-level flattery, but your father didn't even kill me with a knife in the end."
Xu Fengnian raised his right hand and wiped his face.
Qi Yanglong continued to look at the Sheji Altar with far-reaching implications, "You would never have imagined how much money Beiliang sent to that lake embankment, and no matter how long an embankment is, the manpower and material resources of the lush Shangyin Academy would be exhausted." How much money do you need there? But how much did your father send in secret, you know, it’s a total of three million taels of silver! So Shangyin Academy not only has an extra lake bank with willows and willows, but also In the past five years, I have secretly added a library that ranks first in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are no less than 200 sets of Fengban books. In addition to the money that can pile up into mountains, there is actually a light secret letter that was handed over to me In fact, those words are really the ugliest I have ever seen, but for more than ten years, when I have nothing to do, I often take them out and look through them. The letter said that his eldest son must be a good material for reading. Those who come to study in the Yin School, maybe they will get a number one scholar for his old Xu family in the future, that would be really glorious. If the son of a vassal king is not allowed to be an official, then it would be a good display to get the number one scholar... After reading the secret letter, I really want to write back and ask him, you are a warrior who killed countless seeds of reading, and you want to let your son become a scholar when you are full? Your Xu family is an extremely talented official in your generation, Dazhu Guohe The hereditary candidates are all held in their hands, really lacking a champion title? I want to ask him, what is three million taels of silver? So many people in the Eight Kingdoms have died, and how many scholars have died? This little silver can make up for the broken mountains and rivers in the Central Plains Lu Chen?! You are dignified, you don’t want your son to be a vassal king, what’s the matter?!”
"I read that letter later. As time went by, the letter paper became more and more wrinkled, but my heart became more and more flat."
"During this period, I heard that after the death of the old emperor, you kid dared to sing and dance in Qingliang Mountain to raise peace. The whole city could see fireworks all over the mountain, and you could hear the mountains full of music. Later, you were thrown out of the gate of the palace. Three years of traveling. At that time, I knew that Beiliang would not be peaceful. I once hoped that you could squeeze out Chen Zhibao and at the same time succeed in hereditary succession as Queen of Beiliang, but you are willing to be the Prince of Taiping and let Li If a certain general from Yang enters Beiliang, then Beiliang is Liyang’s Beiliang, and the people of Beiliang are Liyang’s people, half of the country’s taxation goes to Liangliao, half of the country’s water transport goes to Beiliang, and the world is settled!”
When Xu Fengnian heard this, he twitched his lips.
The old man laughed at himself, "Of course this is the wishful thinking of the pedantic scholar."
The old man finally turned around, and together with Xu Fengnian, they faced the dense array of soldiers from the Li family, and asked with a smile: "How do these Liyang elites compare with your Beiliang frontier cavalry?"
Xu Fengnian asked back: "I really want to know the answer?"
The old man waited quietly.
Xu Fengnian gave the answer, "Ten people are against ten people, the outcome is five or five, one hundred people are against one hundred people, I Beiliang is sure to win, one thousand people are against one thousand people, you are defeated, ten thousand people are against ten thousand people, so there is no need to fight?"
The old man smiled and said, "Really?"
Xu Fengnian laughed and said, "I just read more than Xu Xiao and have a good temper."
The old man nodded and said: "Yes, yes, so today I went to the Ministry of Rites to teach the two ministers a lesson, and then came here alone, without even giving the Queen Mother any face, and started killing inside and outside the Qin Tian Prison. They all slaughtered the big gang, the prince has a really good temper."
Xu Fengnian said unhappily: "I just made friends, and started relying on the old to sell the old again. Do you really think I don't have any strength left to go back to Xiamawei?"
The old man laughed loudly, "Okay, it's almost enough to move out of Xu Xiao and get close to the prince. If I talk more, I won't be able to hold back my old face. You Xu Fengnian can fight, and Beiliang cavalry can fight even better, so I won't hide it." Zang Yeye is making a fool of himself and revealing his old background to you. Whether it is the threat of one thousand shi for one death, or the boldness of three million shi for water transport, it is all just the whim of the young emperor. I, Zhong Shuling, dare not take it seriously. I also hope that the prince will not take it seriously, but I can guarantee that from the end of autumn this year to the end of next summer, Liyang, especially Tai'an City, even if the belt is tightened, it will send a million stone water transport to Beiliang. More than half a million stones, after this, there are only four words, do your best!"
Xu Fengnian frowned.
The old man said with emotion: "Let's accept it when you see it. There are steps on both sides. In the temple, from officials the size of sesame mung beans, to Huang Zigongqing, to those wearing python robes or even dragon robes, there has never been a happy person. "
Before Xu Fengnian could speak, the old man sighed and said: "I don't know if it's an illusion, although there are more and more young faces in the court, I am in it, but there is always a feeling of old age, maybe... maybe in white monk Li After Beware's almanac was rejected, Zhang Julu must have felt the same sadness as me."
The old man turned his head and looked at the seriously injured young man, "In Bi Yan'er's collection of poems that may never be circulated, he said that there are two joys in life and one hate. , It’s a joy! On the battlefield, it’s a joy to hold a knife even when you’re dead! Every time I read in books that historians like to mention “the bones are piled up” and “the lives are in charcoal”, it’s a shame!”
The old man smiled, "It's a pity that this blue eye died early, I don't know how many times he looked at the map of the Liyang Dynasty, there is a place where the names of hundreds of thousands of dead people are engraved one by one. On the stone tablet. The history that generations of scholars have read, is no longer just the names of winners and losers.”
"Earlier, there was a guy who said he had seen you, and he showed off in front of me. In fact, if I hadn't been a king this time, I wouldn't have come here to be angry. See what's so good about you, Xu Fengnian? I'm a bad old man, and I'm not Those young ladies who yearn for young heroes."
"Hey, when I was young, I might have been more handsome than you."
Xu Fengnian said: "Then it's settled."
The old man took an inch and asked: "Then when will the prince leave Beijing?"
Xu Fengnian walked forward, "The day after tomorrow."
The old man looked at the back and asked with a smile: "I can't do it today, can I do it tomorrow? There's nothing to see in Tai'an City."
Xu Fengnian stopped in his tracks, turned his head and smiled and said, "Tomorrow? All right, Mr. Zhongshu Ling wants to see the stele? Then the king will take you with him."
The old man smiled stiffly, "The day after tomorrow will be the day after tomorrow! When the time comes early in the morning, I will go to Xiamawei Post House and knock on the door myself!"
Xu Fengnian ignored the rogue old man and walked towards the gate of Qin Tianjian.
The old man behind him raised his hands and waved them to the sides. The soldiers of the Li family quickly spread out to the left and right, leaving a wide path.
Suddenly, the old man quickly followed Xu Fengnian with a few strides, grabbed Xu Fengnian's right hand, and refused to let go.
Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at the old man whose expression suddenly became solemn.
The old man lowered his voice and said: "Xu Fengnian, we must make this world less dead!"
Xu Fengnian wanted to turn around and leave.
The old man didn't know where the strength came from, and he clenched Xu Fengnian's hand tightly, blushing.
Xu Fengnian could have broken free with a little waving of his sleeves, but for some reason, Xu Fengnian sighed softly, nodded, and said helplessly: "Need to say?"
The old man let go of his hand angrily.
After walking a few steps, Xu Fengnian heard the old man whisper: "If you don't do this, you won't show my attitude of saving the common people, Qi Yanglong."
The corner of Xu Fengnian's mouth twitched, he raised his right arm, stretched out his thumb, and then pointed down.
Looking at the young man's back.
The old man said again: "Well, it has a bit of demeanor when I was young."
Probably because he felt that he was far away, and the young vassal king couldn't hear his muttering, so when the Beiliang king suddenly turned his head, the old man turned around with lightning speed, put his hands behind his back, and walked quickly Going to the Sheji Altar, it seems that I am eager to go there to enjoy the scenery.
One old and one young walk with their backs facing each other.
The old man restrained his expression, and said in his heart: "Bi Yaner, if you were alive, would you grit your teeth and not ban a stone of water transportation, or would you go against all opinions and open all water transportation? No matter what, I am not as good as you."
The old man stood on the top of the altar, saw the dazzling loose soil, and slowly squatted down.
Xu Xiao, Zhang Julu.
The two of you fought for half your life, and after you died, you went underground, so you will actually drink together, right
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At the gate of Qin Tianjian, there was a girl named Hehe, who was biting a scallion pancake with one hand, and rubbed the mink hat with the other.
Xu Fengnian walked over and bent over to help her hold the sable hat.
Then, dressed in a big red dress, he came flying like a butterfly, and came to Xu Fengnian, spinning ethereally.
Xu Fengnian waited for her to stop, nodded and smiled softly: "It's still pretty."
Xu Fengnian took one person with each hand, "Go back to the post house first, and go home together the day after tomorrow."
Xu Yanbing did not know when he had returned to the carriage at the gate of Qin Tianjian, and he had already put away the instant gun.
Xu Fengnian wiped the blood that had just oozed from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and said with a smile, "It's back so soon? This gun is so fast."
Xu Yanbing, who was confused for a while, hummed, waited until the young vassal king sat in the carriage, and the carriage drove a long distance, Xu Yanbing, who finally came to his senses, laughed and scolded: "Damn, you don't take any curses with you!" Dirty word!"
After laughing, Xu Yanbing looked into the distance, a little lost in thought.
For some reason, neither the girl in the ermine hat nor the woman in the red robe in the veil hat got into the carriage.
Inside the compartment.
The blood-soaked young man took off his cold knife, picked up the vassal king's python robe with both hands, and buried his head in it.
Shoulders trembled.
No expression.
Don't listen to the cry.