That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 809
Today's court meeting, did not see His Majesty the Emperor.

After the embarrassing civil and military retreat of the Manchu Dynasty, Han Xuan, who was the head of the officials, had to go to the Supervisor of Rites to discuss an explanation for the officials.

Now that Zhang Baisui, the palm seal of the Supervisor of Rituals, is not there, Zhang Bao, the chief Bingbi, came forward to meet him, and said softly to the Prime Minister Han, "Follow me, old man."

The two of them walked through the zigzag corridor of the Supervisor of Rituals and came to a side pavilion in the depths.

After the two sat down, Zhang Bao said, "I already know the reason for Mr. Han Ge's visit, but this fact is not for us slaves to say."

The gray-haired Han Xuan asked slowly: "What is right to say? What is wrong to say?"

Zhang Bao smiled wryly and was speechless.

Han Xuan asked again: "Did Zhang Bingbi dare not say it?"

Zhang Bao nodded slightly.

Han Xuan nodded and sighed softly, "I understand, thank you Zhang Bingbi."

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Xu Beiyou and his group stayed in Huzhou for about half a day, and then continued to leave for Shanzhou.

Yu Kuang dispatched three warships to escort them through this section of the waterway. The journey was calm and calm. Xu Beiyou did not see half of Wei's ships. The two of them rode in the same carriage, Xu Beiyou lifted the curtains of the carriage, and saw that there was a troop of cavalry at the back, Xiao Zhinan, who was sitting beside him, explained softly: "Yu Kuang sent a troop of cavalry to escort us to Shanzhong, Take the post road."

Xu Beiyou put down the curtain of the car, put the sword box horizontally on his knee, and tapped lightly with his fingers.

Xiao Zhinan said slowly: "Back when the Great Grandfather ruled the world, because he dominated the northwest and started from the Northwest, the army he led was also called the Northwest Army. After the Great Grandfather took control of the Central Plains, the Northwest Army was divided into three. In the early years, there were three major camps, but later they were rearranged and arranged separately. Some of them went to the imperial capital with the great grandfather, and became the Chinese army known as the emperor's forbidden army today, and some of them stayed in the northwest, that is, Zhang Wubing's A part of the Zuo Army entered Shu and became the Shu Army. As for the other two Forbidden Army, the Northeast Forbidden Army was built on the basis of the Northeast Mu Clan, and has always been ambiguous with King Mu. Let’s not talk about him for now. The composition of the Jiangnan Army is the most complicated. There is the Qizhou Navy compiled and trained by Yang Bofu back then, and the remnants of the Navy left by Lu Qian. The good and the bad are mixed, and Xiao Jin took away the most elite part of the navy when he went to Wei. Teachers, the ones left behind are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the court has never paid much attention to navy divisions, so they have not recovered their vitality for so many years."

Xu Beiyou asked: "Are you not optimistic about the war in the south of the Yangtze River?"

Xiao Zhinan shook his head softly and said: "Although the water battle cannot be won, the land battle may not be invincible, and it is hard to say now. The key now is when and how Sun Shaotang's Shu army will leave Shu."

Xu Beiyou frowned and said, "The victory of the Dongting Lake battle is still undecided. Whether the Shu army needs to go out of Shu is still a matter of opinion."

Xiao Zhinan still shook his head: "It's fine if we don't fight this battle, but if we fight, we will definitely lose. There can be no chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, so the Shu army must go out of Shu."

Xu Beiyou fell into deep thought.

Xiao Zhinan stopped continuing this topic, and instead said: "Everyone talks about the eighteenth floor of the Earth Immortal, and now you are a great monk on the Seventeenth Floor of the Earth Immortal, so let's talk about the seventeenth floor with me, a late student. The scenery above."

Xu Beiyou recovered from his contemplation, and said: "My current state is a bit strange, like the moon waxes and wanes, and like the tide ebbs and flows, when the tide rises, it reaches the seventeenth floor of the Earth Immortal, and when the tide ebbs, only the Earth Immortal Ten On the fifth floor, as for how to stabilize the realm, I don't have a good solution yet, maybe after I get the last sword Qingshuang among the twelve swords of Jianzong, there will be changes."

"As for the scenery above the seventeenth floor, I'm not bragging for my husband. I've seen the scenery on the eighteenth floor, let alone the mere seventeenth floor."

Xiao Zhinan praised: "Excellent."

At this moment, there was a sudden noise outside the car. Xu Beiyou lifted the curtain of the car again and looked over. It was a mighty "long dragon". Countless refugees were frantically fleeing along the post road, and many of them were rich and powerful. People's carriages, dragging the family and their mouths, are mighty.

Xiao Zhinan also looked along the gap created by Xu Beiyou, and said with emotion: "Xing, the people suffer, death, the people suffer. The most miserable people in the world are the people. At this moment, Huzhou has not become a battlefield, and the people of Huzhou are fleeing one after another. In fact, it is not without reason. Luo Zengxian raised an army of one million in Huzhou. Although it is called an army of one million, in fact, there are only more than ten thousand soldiers who can really fight, and the rest are all hungry people who were trapped in it. The common people, in every battle, drove the hungry people to consume the enemy's arrows and fill the moat with their flesh and blood, causing tens of thousands of casualties. Later, Emperor Taizu marched south to Shuzhou, entered the lake from Shu, set up Jiangling camp here, and was defeated Luo Zengxian, Luo Zengxian actually stuffed several 10 people into Liangxiang City, so that there was no food in the city."

Speaking of this, Xiao Zhinan paused for a moment, as if he was calming down, and then slowly said: "The outskirts of the city have no food in the city, so there have been scenes of human tragedies, people are food, bones are firewood, Luo Zengxian would rather die If he didn’t surrender, he decided to take all the people in the city to be buried for him, and in the end, the two villages almost turned into ghost lands, what a tragedy.”

Xiao Zhinan murmured: "After the city was finally broken, only a hundred thousand of Luo Zengxian's million-strong army remained, and everyone was like a hungry ghost, making these two important military towns a dead city. I have never seen such a tragic scene. However, the Governor and Prime Minister Lan have seen it before, and from what they said, the Abi Hell mentioned by the Buddhists is nothing more than this, and it has become a nightmare town that all the people in Huzhou can't get rid of."

Xu Beiyou put down the curtain of the car, sighed softly, "So that's how it is."

Xiao Zhinan said in a low voice: "That's why my father has always said that if there is no war, don't fight it. You must be cautious when you start a war. Once a war starts, the lives will be ruined and the people will be in danger."

At this moment, the sound of birdsong suddenly came from outside the car, Xiao Zhinan raised the curtain on his side, and a small ostrich pierced into the car in an instant, and stopped on Xiao Zhinan's outstretched finger. He took off a section of the jade slips, took out a secret letter from it, and handed it to Xu Beiyou, then stretched out his hand out of the window, allowing this divine steed to fly high.

Xu Beiyou skimmed through the secret letter, his face suddenly changed, "You guessed it right, Xiao Jin and Mutang had colluded with each other a long time ago, and the Northeast is also reversed, and the two of them played the banner of Jingnan together, wanting to 'Qing Jun side, Jinguo Nan' .”

Xiao Zhinan's face turned pale suddenly, although he expected it, he still smiled miserably.

If it was just Wei and the grasslands, Xiao Zhinan believed that the Daqi court could handle it, but once the Muwang of the Northeast also joined them, and the three vassals rebelled together, then Xiao Zhinan would also start to doubt whether the Daqi court could handle it. Get through this disaster.

Emperor Taizu ascended, and the first emperor died.

When the two emperors were alive, the world was at peace. Wei Wang Xiaojin did not dare to step out of the Wei Kingdom, Zhenbei Wang Linhan could only lead the tribes of the grassland to the hot sea to avoid the cold and spend the winter every year. Dare to have the slightest disobedience.

Now that the two emperors have left one after another, soon there will be the state of Wei advancing to Huzhou, the grassland will go south to knock down the pass, and the Northeast Muwang will come back.

Xiao Zhinan clenched his fists tightly, landed on his knees, and said word by word: "Jing Nan, what kind of difficulty is Jing De? What the hell is Xiao Bai doing?"

(End of this chapter)