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Fair fighting is meaningless to an official, even the most contemptible thing for a mature official.

Because their bounden duty is to unite the vast majority of people and suppress a small number of people who have different opinions.

Therefore, using more to fight less and suppressing others' disadvantages with their advantages is what they are best at.

Doing so is far more efficient than attacking the enemy by themselves, and the probability of victory is also much higher.

Yunchu's current martial arts is very high, and there are countless brave fighters in Chang'an. Even so, Yunchu is still unwilling to enter a huge cage to fight with an irrelevant person.

To Yunchu, a duel with a man named Bagman was a trivial matter, not even worth mentioning.

However, what happened in the Dawan Governor's Mansion made Yunchu vigilant.

If Liu Changqing and the others really killed a few kings who were unwilling to donate good horses to the Tang Dynasty, judging from what the old monkeys are doing now, those countries will immediately fall apart, and the result after the collapse is that they were finally defeated by Anxi. The flames of war suppressed by the Protectorate will once again burn fiercely.

Yunchu believed that what the old monkey had to do at this moment was to take advantage of the raging wars in the Western Regions and make a fortune from it.

Judging from the old monkey's usual practice of taking advantage of the situation, some people in the area of ​​Dawan Dudu's Mansion should have reached a certain consensus this time.

Unfortunately, the old monkey was unwilling to tell him.

Don’t tell me if you don’t tell. Anyway, the people of Tang Dynasty have not regarded the Western Regions as their homeland so far. In the eyes of most people of Tang Dynasty, the land inside Yumen Pass is their homeland. As for the land outside Yumen Pass, it is just the hunting of Datang people. field.

Pei Xingjian has come to look for Yunchu twice, each time Yunchu avoided Pei Xingjian with the excuse of not being there.

Everyone knew that Pei Xingjian wanted to use the matter at hand to send himself to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Jingxuan also had the same idea.

The reason why Pei Xingjian came to him was that he hoped that Yunchu would be able to do well what the emperor asked him to do under his leadership, abolish the nomination rights of nobles, establish a county school to improve the knowledge of the poor, and finally let them become capable. A learned man who competed with the noble children.

This is obviously to turn the two counties of Wannian Chang'an into his experimental base for Pei Xingjian.

Yunchu was unwilling to be Pei Xingjian's ladder.

But if Pei Xingjian came again, Yun Chu would have to meet once if he didn't want to. In Datang, if he refused three times to see someone, it would basically be considered a cut off from this person, and there would be no need for any interaction in the future.

Yun Chu didn't want to be used by Pei Xingjian, but he also didn't want to part ways with Pei Xingjian from now on.

Chang'an County, Wannian County continues to dry the ground, disinfect, and remove insects. These are three very common tasks.

But these three ordinary tasks have formed a wonderful scene in Qujiang - a hundred birds chasing the phoenix.

Wannian County and Chang'an County are full of bugs, and naturally there are also many birds. In order to disinfect the land, the people cut off the weeds and dried them in the sun and burned them on the spot. A type of dewormer.

Another result of the large-scale burning of fields was that a large number of birds gathered in Qujiang where no one dared to set fire to the ground.

From the early morning of June [-]th, a hundred male pheasants with long tails jumped into the Guangming Palace in Qujiang, and they passed through the Guangming Palace with its windows wide open in groups.

After passing through the Guangming Palace, he flew away not far away, and perched on the tall trees in the Qujiang Palace Garden.

Just when the palace people were about to drive these pheasants away, Wu Mei stopped them and said in front of the court wife who came to congratulate her on the birth of the dragon son that these birds were her guests.

There was also a feast for the birds, and when those pheasants were vying for the seed feast given by Wu Mei, a large flock of turtledoves flew in from outside the palace wall and joined them. The ranks of the pecking seed feast came.

Then came a large group of red-billed crows. The crows came, and the pigeons that originally liked to fly around the Big Wild Goose Pagoda also came.

As the number of birds increased, large flocks of raptors also appeared in the sky. With the increase of raptors, more birds began to come to Qujiang Palace, the only place covered by trees.

Because he always used a slingshot to shoot birds, and also took Naha with him, Yu Xiurong, who Li Si came to congratulate the queen, could more or less recognize quite a few birds.

When she saw white spoonbills, cygnets, whooper swans, and mandarin ducks flying into Qujiang Palace one after another, she was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear. For the first time, she looked at Wu who was standing calmly at the gate of the palace with Li Dan in her arms. Mei admired it.

Seeing that there were more guests coming, Wu Mei added a few tables of seed banquets, not only that, but also ordered the warriors of Qujiang Palace not to hurt her guests, and sent people to bring a lot of rice, and sprinkled them randomly in Qujiang Palace ...

At this time, the vicinity of Qujiang Palace has completely become a paradise for birds. Golden eagles, white-shouldered eagles, magpie harriers, white-tailed harriers, yellow-clawed falcons, red-footed falcons, gray-backed falcons, and kestrels are flying in the blue sky. Birds of prey such as swallow falcons, they fly down from high altitudes from time to time, and after catching their prey, they flap their wings and fly high again.

Under these birds of prey, owls, thrushes, starlings, cardinals, starlings, sparrows and other small birds flew in panic. For a while, the song of birds in Qujiang Palace suppressed the music played by the musicians.

Wu Mei handed Li Dan to the palace servants, and walked up to the cool pavilion of Qujiang Palace step by step with her skirt.

Under the pressure of the birds of prey in the sky, some panicked birds ran to Wu Mei's side, chirping non-stop.

Wu Mei looked up at the birds of prey that were hunting starlings and sparrows, and pointed at the sky and said, "Don't be rude!"

I don't know if Wu Mei's words played a role, the starlings and sparrows, which were flying around in a panic, actually formed a huge group in mid-air.

They flew in mid-air densely, and as birds continued to join the team, great changes took place in the flock of birds in the sky.

They are constantly flying up and down in the air, changing formations. Even if some raptors get into this large group, they are dizzy by various birds and have to escape from the bird flock area.

A few, dozens, or hundreds of birds are nothing. When more than [-] birds gather in a team, their mentality in the air will change a lot. Sometimes they are like dark clouds, sometimes like giant elephants, and sometimes they are like clouds. It will transform into a dragon shape and a phoenix shape. It can be said that as long as you are willing to stretch it, the patterns formed by the birds at this time can be said to be anything.

Among the wives of officials, the most indispensable thing is perfunctory trends, flirtatious, far-fetched people.

I don't know whose wife was the first to bow to the ground, shouting, "A hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix, a hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix, this is an auspicious omen, the queen is the reincarnation of the real phoenix, these birds are here to worship the queen This is a real phoenix

Immediately, amidst the noise caused by birds, the wives bowed down one after another. Some women even cried and shouted, wanting to get close to Wu Mei, and some white-haired old women even wanted to touch Wu Mei's butt Dresses, so that they have a little bit of phoenix nobility.

Yu Xiurong saw that the women on the left and right knelt down, so he had no choice but to sit on the ground. He wanted Naha to follow Li Si's example, but found that the two children, Naha and Li Si, were standing there with their mouths wide open. Staring at the spectacle in front of her in a daze, as for bowing down to Wu Mei, since Naha didn't kneel down to Li Si, she wouldn't either.

Fortunately, there are too many wives who came to congratulate Wu Mei on the birth of the prince. In addition, the Qujiang Palace is originally composed of exquisite pavilions, pavilions, pavilions and water pavilions. Who kneels and who doesn't kneel.

At this time, Li Zhi hurried over after hearing that there was an accident in Qujiang Palace, and looked at the birds all over the sky with a gloomy face.

Glancing at Zuo Chun, the governor of Baiqi Division, Zuo Chunxin understood, turned and left. After a while, a group of soldiers appeared in Qujiang Palace. With a piercing scream, the feather arrow flew to the highest point and exploded with a bang. Hundreds of thunder rockets exploded in mid-air, and immediately a hundred balls of black smoke appeared in the blue sky.

The raptors who first felt the threat flew away, and the little birds changing various shapes in the sky also flew away after there was no threat.

And the huge explosion in mid-air also scared the birds in Qujiang Palace to run away.

Wu Mei, who was originally standing on a high place, looked at the birds with joy, but when she first saw those thunder rockets flying high into the sky, her complexion became gloomy.

Countless birds flew out of the palace wall of Qujiang Palace, and gradually, except for the bird feces left on the ground, even the first pheasants were gone.

Li Zhi didn't explain anything to Wu Mei. After seeing the flock of birds disperse, he went straight away, leaving those wives who were still kneeling on the ground wondering what to do for a while.

Wu Mei said in a low voice, "Stay flat."

Only then did the crowd slowly get up, their hearts pounding. They saw the discord between the emperor and empress with their own eyes, and they didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

After Yu Xiurong left Qujiang Palace with Naha and Li Si, Yu Xiurong stared blankly at the gold hairpin in his hand, his mind was still full of birds coming to congratulate Wu Mei.

"It's nothing!" Naha's voice awakened Yu Xiurong.

"My brother and I have seen larger flocks of birds in Tianshan Mountain. My brother said that it was small birds gathering together to defend against big birds."

Yu Xiurong hurriedly looked around, and found that only his own carriage was slowly walking towards the city, and the rest of the carriages had long since disappeared. It seemed that they were going to report what they had seen and heard in Qujiang Palace as soon as possible. , Tell your husband.

Obviously, the meaning here is very deep, not only the reality of a hundred birds facing the phoenix, but also the bright moment when the emperor drove away the empress.

Seeing that Yu Xiurong was still confused, Naha said to her, "If you go back and ask my brother, you will know. He knows everything. Even if he doesn't know, Master Xuanzang must know."

Yu Xiurong looked at Naha and said, "Such a scene can't be man-made, can it?"