Zhao Ge

Chapter 221: acquaintances

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Mengguan, lost.

Yanmen County, lost.

The long-standing stalemate was finally broken, and the second pillar of heaven was raised in Yanmen County. The territory in the northeastern part of the Southern Chen Dynasty had been controlled by Xianmen until now, but the Heavenly Pillar was raised in Yanmen County. After that, the tide of battle began to change.

Just like what happened in the Qi and Qin Dynasty, the flames of Liaoyuan ignited with an unstoppable trend in the Xianmen occupied area in the northwest of the Southern Chen Dynasty.

Yanmen County.

It is the throat of Bingzhou in the Southern Chen Dynasty, and the necessary place for the Southern Chen Dynasty to enter from the northwest to the east and south, and it is equivalent to a national gate. When it was controlled by Xianmen, Xianmen could take Yanmen County as the middle point, enter the Central Plains area of the Southern Chen Dynasty forward, and connect Xianmen backward.

It is an extremely important hub for Xianmen and Dynasty in the eastern region.

More importantly, this hub is the place that must be passed on the shortest road from Jiuxuanmen to Taishangzong and Zhenzong who lived in the northeast of the land of the Twelve Dynasties.

After the fall of Yanmen County, the Nanchen Dynasty prefectures in the east and south of Yanmen County began to return to the control of the dynasty at a rapid speed. The wings of the Immortal Sect in the southeast region were cut off, and the connection between the Nine Xuan Sect and the Taishang Sect was cut off at the middle. Since then, the stalemate for a long time has been broken.

Before the full-scale war broke out, the Qi and Qin dynasties took the lead in igniting the sparks on the southeast coast of the mainland. In the early years of the war, the Jin and Tang dynasties played the role of confronting Jiuxuanmen head-on. The Southern Chen dynasty has been in a tepid state, almost The prefectures and counties that occupy more than two-thirds of the country are controlled by Xianmen.

Now it is the turn of the Southern Chen Dynasty to start the counterattack and frenzy of the stalemate.

The fire that first started in the southeast, burned westward to the Jin and Tang Dynasties, and finally spread to the Qi and Qin Dynasty in the east.

The fragile balance maintained during the stalemate was quickly broken, and new battles began quickly.

With Yanmen County as the center, the Southern Chen Dynasty quickly took back the prefectures to the east and south of Yanmen, and then the battle line quickly advanced to the northwest, and steadily advanced towards the core of the Immortal Gate, where the main sect of Jiuxuanmen was located.

After the Tianzhu in Yanmen County was raised, the strength of the black armored cavalry of the Southern Chen Dynasty increased significantly again. When they galloped across the vast plain, they were like a rolling, unstoppable torrent of steel , is invincible wherever it passes. And what accompanied them was the thick clouds that shrouded the sky.

The mist bird of prey that disappeared on the land of the Twelve Dynasties for nearly an era reappeared on the land.

The ancient legend has become a reality, these rulers in the clouds, these creatures who ate the god birds in the chaotic era returned after silence, they spread pale bone wings in the air, scythe-like wings The bones spread like a fan, narrow and sharp.

Fog birds of prey came along with thick clouds and mist, and the place where they appeared was covered with heavy clouds. Lightning and thunder thundered in the clouds and mist. They hovered in the sky and cast huge shadows on the ground.

Since the war, Bai Manqing, Shen Changge and Chen Yanyu have continuously uprooted the power of local prominent families while attacking Xianmen. Prior to this, these prominent families either used the influence of Xianmen to recruit disciples to occupy a large area of land, raise knights, and kill innocent sons; , with the strength of the immortal cultivators in the family, he has great prestige in the local area.

Before that, six percent of the good land in the world belonged to the Zongmen, three percent belonged to the famous family, and the remaining one percent belonged to the good people.

Chen Yanyu, the emperor of Nanchen, personally burned the contract signed between Gaozu and Jiuxuanmen, announcing that from then on, the dynasty would no longer offer Entian to Xianmen.

Ancient deeds are voided, and the land is being rezoned.

Taking advantage of this time of conquest of Xianmen, the young emperor re-washed the ownership of the fields in the world, and at the same time that the prominent families were purged, the power of the humble clan represented by the three young emperors re-established the division of the fields. At that time, under the scorching sun, civil servants with no cultivation base measured and recorded the land, and re-divided the land according to the household registration.

Among the poor young people who stepped onto the political stage for the first time during this great purge, many of them were literati who had read poetry and books, and a large part of them were great Confucians who had gradually grown up in the poetry meeting held by Bai Manqing back then. He sang of the dynasty's victory, calling the birds of prey hovering in the sky omens.

That was God's will, they fought for the land and for the people.

Mist birds of prey hover in the air, hunting airships that travel through the clouds and mists. They fly extremely fast, and they can even use the clouds and mists to hide themselves. They are the most outstanding hunters and lurkers. The connection between Qingming Pagodas in the area near the Southern Chen Dynasty was cut off due to the appearance of fog birds of prey.

For the first time since the war, there was a scramble for the sky's genus.

Mist birds fight in the air on flying boats, and at the same time, on the battlefield, they swoop down from tens of thousands of feet in the air, and they set off pieces of invisible wind blades from the sky. The first time fog birds of prey appeared on the battlefield on a large scale was in the battle of Mengguan. In that battle, Li Xin, one of the three outstanding disciples of Jiuxuanmen, died in battle. Jun Wanbai and Chu Zhiyuan led the remnants The disciples retreated to Jiuxuanmen amidst the singing of calling back souls.

Of the two, the flying boat and the mist-prey, the mist-prey is the natural cloud and mist lord, this kind of cloud monster laughs hoarsely in the lightning and storm, announcing its return with blood.

In order to resist the fog bird of prey, Xianmen had to make urgent adjustments and sent elders to guard the important city gates within the range of the fog bird of prey. Array.

The Dynasty and the Xianmen fiercely competed for the control of each city in the bloody war. At this time, the Jintang Dynasty, which acted as the main force in the early stage of the war, stopped fighting a little bit. Compared with the other two dynasties, it entered the During a rest period, Nan Chen and Qi Qin joined forces to act as the main force.

At this time, on the battlefield, a silver-haired woman was born.

The dynasty called her the "Emperor".

The emperor sits on the throne of bones suspended in the sky, and the revived mist of prey obeys her orders. She looked down on the fairy gate indifferently from high in the sky, just like the fairy gate once looked down on mortals indifferently.

There are different opinions about the origin of the emperor, and most people think that she is like those who went to the battlefield wearing a mask. And it is worth mentioning that this empress seems to have some feud with the leader of Xianmen, the head of Bailishu who shocked the world with two arrows.

In Mengguan, she specially released Jun Wanbai and others in order to declare war on the head of Baili.

And among those wearing masks, the emperor's prestige seemed to be equally high.

Chen Yanyu, the emperor of the Southern Chen Dynasty, this young emperor appeared on the battlefield in person with extraordinary courage and courage.

The storm brewing after a long period of partition between the North and the South has finally begun, and the flames of war have set up the grandest stage of this era.

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Bingzhou, Yanmen County.

"Yanmen County is worthy of being the most important place in the country."

Bai Manqing stood on the tower of Yanmen County with his hands behind his back, looking at the mountains outside the county. He was dressed like an ordinary scholar. From the looks alone, no one would believe that this gentle and handsome young man was the first to enter the city. The emperor of Qi and Qin who set off the flames of war in the land of the Twelve Dynasties.

He looks like an ordinary scholar, and he always has a gentle smile on his face, which is very easy to give people a good impression.

No one thought that as the emperor of the Qi and Qin Dynasty, Bai Manqing, as if he didn't care about his throne and safety at all, secretly came to Nanchen Yanmen County, which can be called the front line of the battlefield, with only a few guards. .

Chen Yanyu couldn't think of it either.

He is also considered a young emperor, Bai Manqing is younger than him, but as early as when the three dynasties were secretly planning, Chen Yanyu was often surprised by Bai Manqing's various unexpected arrangements. It's just that he didn't expect that the other party would come to Nanchen alone.

"Aren't you afraid that you will die here, or that someone will take your throne?"

Chen Yanyu said, clasping her hands in her sleeves.

"There's nothing good about the throne." Bai Manqing held a jar of wine in his hand, but he didn't intend to invite Chen Yanyu to drink with him, "It doesn't matter whether the emperor's surname is Bai or whatever, anyway, that position As long as there are people sitting on it, Qi Qin can still go around without me now."

During this war, the Qi Qin Dynasty took advantage of the chance that the prominent families in the court were wiped out by a large number of large groups to carry out drastic reforms. The imperial examination system, which had limited effect because the prominent families relied on the power of the fairy gate to intervene, was completed again.

—Before that, although the imperial examination system existed in the Qi and Qin dynasties, the selected scholars were still excluded by many prominent families, and there were very few real power holders.

Chen Yanyu is no stranger to this.

The situation before the Southern Chen Dynasty was almost like this. In order to appoint Lou Shidao to a powerful place, he had to work hard, rack his brains, and even had to pretend to be crazy and fool the famous family.

After carrying out a series of reforms, the three cabinets and six ministries of the Qi Qin Dynasty check and balance each other, and the government system that operates according to laws and regulations has been issued on a scale. As Bai Manqing said, in fact, with him or without him, the Qi and Qin dynasties were no different, and the country's political affairs could still be handled as usual.

"You talk about me, but what about yourself?" Bai Manqing leaned against the city wall and looked at Chen Yanyu with a smile, "As Nanchen's emperor's personal conquest, isn't it much safer than me? Don't you worry about losing your throne if you die? "

Chen Yanyu was taken aback by his rhetorical question, then smiled and shook her head.

"Okay, Bai's son is famous all over the world, I don't want to argue with you. You are right." Chen Yanyu looked at the rolling mountains, "The throne is indeed the most boring thing in the world. In fact, I used to I want to be a watchman, walking slowly through the streets at night."

He was sent out of the palace when he was young, and he once fled with the hungry people. Once, an old watchman took him in, and he followed the old watchman to walk in the streets and alleys of the small town for the first time. The old watchman told him the history of each street. At that time, he suddenly felt that the city came alive, and those streets and alleys were the pulse of the city.

Later the old watchman fell ill and died.

He was also found by the Master.

"Watchman?"

Bai Manqing thought about it, and felt that it would be more chic to be a poet traveling the world.

"It sounds okay, though."

A Lingxiao bird flew down from the sky and landed on Chen Yanyu's shoulder. Chen Yanyu untied the secret letter on the Lingxiao bird: "Jintang is ready."

"How's Tuqi and Huji going?" Bai Manqing asked. Although he only brought a few people, his news seemed to be very well informed.

"Also prepared for a while."

Chen Yanyu said that the secret letter was destroyed, he turned his head and looked down the city tower, the carriage on Loushidao stopped under the city, and a familiar friend came out of the carriage and raised his head to give him a slight signal.

Chen Yanyu bid farewell to Bai Manqing and left the city.

Bai Manqing leaned on the tower, shaking the wine in his hand slightly, watching Chen Yanyu walk up to Lou Shidao, Lou Shidao had a serious and disapproving look on his face, the two of them didn't know what to say, and in the end they didn't ride in the car, side by side We walked along the empty street together.

Bai Manqing quietly looked at the figures of the two walking side by side, feeling as if he saw the epitome of an era.

One is that after becoming the emperor, he still does not forget the promise he made when he was young, and the other is that he really fulfilled the promise he made when he was young, and guarded the important place of the country for the other. When they get along in private, they are still like the teenagers who were scolded by the master and punished to stand together in the school.

Looking at their figures, I feel that this world is not so cruel. Although it is an era of blood and fire, there are still some things that make people smile.

"A childhood friend, a friend with great trust, is actually quite enviable."

Bai Manqing looked at Chen Yanyu and Lou Shidao walking away side by side, and whispered to himself.

Although it is difficult to walk on the road full of thorns, it is not too painful. What is painful is the kind of loneliness that is unknown when walking alone.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, there is still one person in this world who can understand his thoughts.

If they met in a different situation, at a different time, and with a different identity, they might be able to become close friends.

However, there is nothing now. To say they are friends is not considered, it is just an acquaintance; to say they are enemies, it is a bit light, after all they are joining forces to play a game of chess. Friends are not counted, enemies are too light.

That could barely be called an acquaintance.

Thinking about it, Bai Manqing smiled slightly. He raised his head, took a sip of wine, and then raised his head in the direction of Jiuxuanmen, respecting him from afar.

—You must be successful, the game of the world will eventually fall on your shoulders.

This wine is for you.

The wine jar was empty, so he threw away the jar and walked down the city, where Bei Hao was waiting for him.

The author has something to say: I originally thought that the third volume would be the end, but it turned out to be the fourth volume, but it is slowly approaching the end, just like a little angel said, the ending of the characters is already faintly clear .

Chaoge Chaoge, a long song of changing eras.