Haiyan

The next day, the news of the civil unrest in Chishui exploded in Wangyu—the war was raging, greedy wolves were slaughtered, Guanshan was like iron, and Dajin paved the ground.

When Liang Guoying, the imperial general who was originally expropriating land in Liaocheng, piled up the intercepted battle reports on the Hall of Longevity, the Western Han Dynasty fell the first snow this year. Although the snow was not heavy, it melted on the ground and enveloped the entire capital city.

Chishui's geographical location is extremely special. It has survived for many years in the gap between Donglu and Beilu. The south of Hongchuan and the north of the Western Han border have always been under the jurisdiction of Yebei. Ten years ago, Yebei was destroyed and the entire territory belonged to the Western Han Dynasty.

The old emperor Zhao Che was terminally ill and bedridden. The royal court of the Western Han Dynasty, which had been peaceful for ten years, was finally no longer enjoying peace. In the past few years, the enclosure of the whole country had not caused any great turmoil. Blood flowed like a river.

When the news first came out, no one knew when the chaos on the banks of Chishui started. It seemed that someone was deliberately manipulating it behind the scenes. When Liang Guoying accidentally intercepted it in Liaocheng, the Hongchuan River next to Chishui had already been affected. It spread, the rioters increased from [-] at the beginning to [-], and then it was only when it soared to [-] that Wang Tingnei noticed it, it was too late.

Zhao Yuqiang panicked at first, even though he was supported by a group of clansmen and wealthy families, when facing all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, the young tyrant finally couldn't hold back his superficial posturing, and hurriedly asked Qin Tian to monitor him. Good or bad luck——

The Ziwei star appeared, the Pojun was revealed, the giant gate and the Yaoguang circled around, and the four stars came out at the same time, which was a great ominous.

The Taiwei Mansion, which had been silent for nearly a year, regained power. After the "Five Elders Discussed Politics", they decided to transfer the Central Bureau in Li Zongyao's hands to Chishui for conquest. Zhao Yuqiang approved the official document without saying a word. The restless slaves all over the place are ready to move, as if they were tightly twisted together by the wind blowing from the Northland, they work together and wait for the opportunity to move.

The raven flapped its wings fiercely on the branch, Chang Sheng gently removed the bamboo branch from its claws, the raven uttered softly twice, and flew away again.

Wei Shuyou's dog-gnawing words exploded in front of Chang Sheng's eyes like a thunderbolt, and he quickly burned the letter in his hand. Chang Sheng picked up a pen and wrote it down quickly. After a while, a man in black fell from the sky. Chang Sheng said: "use the fastest The method is handed over to Lao Huang."

The man in black asked, "Would you like to inform the young master of those people the prince buried in the Western Han Palace?"

Chang Sheng nodded: "Now is the best time."

The man in black said: "Young master, please be careful. Our people have been lurking in this king's domain for too long, so we are waiting for you."

Chang Sheng waved his hand, and the man in black stepped back. After a while, Li Su, who hadn't returned all night, suddenly came back, his body was wet and his face was weathered.

The two stared through the door for a long time, and Li Su finally said, "Your chance has come."

Chang Sheng raised his eyebrows, and said in a deep voice, "I don't understand what you're talking about."

Li Su said: "Didn't Wei Shuyou tell you the news just now? You missed an opportunity to enter the palace last night. The last few days are a good time to take advantage of it. Changsheng, look, even God is here help you."

Chang Sheng's face was a bit more gloomy than Li Su's, and he said, "So what are you going to do?"

Li Su chuckled lightly and said, "What can I do?"

Chang Sheng said: "Will you intervene in this matter?"

Li Su lowered his eyes and said calmly: "Do you want me to intervene?"

Chang Sheng frowned, bluntly: "I don't want to!"

Li Su looked at him and said lightly, "Okay."

Chang Sheng was taken aback, but he didn't expect him to be so straightforward, he felt a little weird for a while, and hesitated: "You..."

Li Su stepped in and walked in. The atmosphere between the two of them was very delicate. He gently smoothed the rolled up corner of Chang Sheng's cuff, and said, "I only care about your life and death, and the rest has nothing to do with me." ?”

"So you know exactly what I wanted to do last night." Chang Sheng knew the advisor, and Li Su sent so many people to watch behind him, it was hard to know.

Li Su said: "I thought that no matter how impatient you are, you would not attack Zhao Che so soon. When I saw you back last night, I thought, after all, you have grown up and are different. You know how to think about the consequences." , but after I entered the palace last night, I realized that the reason why you didn't do anything last night was because Liang Guoying came back, and you were not sure."

Chang Sheng said lightly: "Not bad."

Li Su looked at him and suddenly said with a smile: "It's been so many years, but he's grown quite fast. Why is his brain still as stupid as when he was a child?"

Chang Sheng was so angry that he was about to hit him, but Li Su grabbed his hand and said, "How many people Wei Shuyou gave you, if it doesn't work, do you know the consequences?"

Chang Sheng sneered and said, "Why, you want to help me?"

Li Su said solemnly: "Zhao Che is acting like a ghost now, maybe he will lose his temper someday. Why is death not a death? Do you have to risk such a big risk to kill him yourself?"

Chang Sheng shook off the hand that was held by him, and said coldly: "You can help me if you want to, and I don't care if you don't, but if you ask this question again, Li Su, I have nothing to say with you .”

"Okay!" Li Su said, "So when are you going?"

Chang Sheng was stunned, and said, "I don't want you to intervene!"

He quickly walked out from Li Su's side. It was very windy and snowy outside, the ground was slippery, there were few pedestrians on the road, and there were not even a few shops that were open. Chang Sheng rode a horse all the way out of the long street in Kyoto, and the sky was getting dark. He found a shelter from the wind, and after a while, an old man carrying a pole stopped beside him and asked, "Master, do you need a pot of hot wine?"

The hood covered Chang Sheng's body tightly, he bent down and took out two jugs of wine from the bamboo basket, threw a few copper coins to the old man, and said in a deep voice, "Thank you."

Ma'er snorted at the side, Chang Sheng took out the letter raft under the flagon, and Xiao Wu handed over the news - Liang Guoying will lead troops back to Liaocheng in the future, the imperial capital is very loosely fortified, so we can act at this time.

Chang Sheng sneered inwardly, the Western Han Dynasty was at the end of its last days, and with Zhao Yuqiang as a fool, now that Chishui civil chaos has reached the point of dire straits, it's really funny that he dared to enclose land at this time.

Night roads are not easy to walk, especially on snowy roads.

On the vast wilderness, a team of 30 people is galloping on horses. The sound of the wind covers the hooves of the horses, burying all the gloom under an invisible undercurrent. Seeing the leader lifted the hood on his head, before the guard could see clearly, a silver light suddenly appeared, the leader immediately jumped up from the horse's back, and then plunged the dagger into the opponent's chest with a bang.

The other two guards heard the movement, rubbed their sleepy eyes and went to check. The astonishment on their faces hadn't disappeared yet, blood was flying up in the darkness, and they lost their breath and fell to the ground dead.

"Open the city gate!"

The leading man let out a low cry, and the men in black who followed immediately flicked the barbs in their hands. With a few soft swishes, dozens of black shadows climbed up the tower along the ropes on the city wall.

The fire on the beacon tower could not illuminate this dark night, and all the bloody horrors were carried out quietly under the gloom at the moment. After a while, the city gate slowly opened, and the leader put on his hood again, and galloped towards the Xiangmen city.

Li Su transferred a few warrants to Ah Cheng, and ordered: "In recent days, one-third of the patrols in the palace have been allocated to outside the palace. Be cautious in doing this, and try not to let people find out that there is anything too big. In addition, what is the situation of the guards at the Palace of Eternal Life now?"

Ah Cheng said: "Ge Jingjing is still waiting there, and the guards are still the original twenty or so people, nothing has changed."

Li Su said: "Ten people from Liang Xiao's subordinates were dispatched to change the guards. These military children who eat idle food all day, throw a few to the Jingji Hall to tidy up, and then go back after tidying up."

Ah Cheng wondered: "But Second Lord, the guards outside the Hall of Eternal Life were personally ordered by His Highness the Fifth Highness before. If we change people rashly, I'm afraid it will cause dissatisfaction there."

Li Su sneered: "What's the dissatisfaction? The half-dead man inside doesn't know how long he can last. Now that the situation in central Beijing is unstable, how much thought can he have to deal with a dying man? It's just as I said. You don’t need to tell him, if something happens, I’ll take care of it.”

Ah Cheng was still a little worried, and said: "When General Liang came back yesterday, he also mentioned the issue of fortification in the palace. If we do this, will General Liang be suspicious?"

Li Su said: "Didn't he live in his own insecurity all these years? He finally waited until Zhao Che was about to die, and now Zhao Yuqiang came up again, a good blade, which was forcibly used by these gangsters." Rusted, the Chishui Rebellion had just started, Zhao Yuqiang still didn't forget to continue to enclose the land, didn't he listen to the order and return to Liaocheng without saying anything? How obedient he was on the surface, but how disappointed he was secretly. In my opinion, Liang Guoying is no longer the iron and courageous imperial general of the past, and now he is just a butcher knife in the hands of the Western Han clan that can be used for a few days."

Ah Cheng said, "Then what if General Liang doesn't want to?"

Li Su said displeased: "What is he dissatisfied with? Tell him exactly what I said. His brain can't think too much."

When Ah Cheng retreated, Li Su looked at the sky, and it was already very dark.

From the study room, you can directly see the deserted door on the opposite side, Li Su asked: "Haven't you come back yet?"

The old man who was waiting on the side stepped forward and said: "Go back to the second master, he hasn't come back yet."

Li Su frowned tightly, put down the teacup in his hand, got up and rode to Taiwei's mansion.

Chang Sheng rushed back from outside the city as if nothing happened, and Li Su had already left.

The study room in Wutongyuan has always been Li Su's forbidden area. Few people dare to come in and out at will. Chang Sheng shook the residual snow falling from his cloak, and pushed open the door to enter. There was a piece of orchid on the tip of his nose. Magnolia is in full bloom.

He didn't want to come back at first, but the horse under his crotch unknowingly stepped its hooves to the gate of Wutong Garden, and he entered Li Su's study by accident, a strange feeling arose in his heart, and Chang Sheng stretched out his hand to hold the table Looking at the luminous pearl, he couldn't help being dazed.

Li Su's study is well-organized, just like what he often saw when he was a child. He is different from Wei Shuyou. Wei Shuyou is used to being careless and doesn't care about anything. It sounds calm and breezy, but in fact, he is very concerned about everything behind his back.

There was a small vase beside the table, inside the vase was only a picture scroll, the picture scroll seemed to be very old, the silk rope wrapped around it was a little dark yellow, Chang Sheng accidentally took out the picture and carefully When unfolded in detail, the blue sky and white clouds, the flocks of cattle and sheep, and the green grass are vivid and realistic.

Chang Sheng felt that this scene was very familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while. It wasn't until he saw a big gap in the center below that was cut with a knife that Chang Sheng realized instantly that such a scene was the first time in the past. When he was beaten by Li Su, only the person in the painting was detained, and he didn't know what kind of expression he should have.

Chang Sheng watched and couldn't help laughing, at this moment, a low voice suddenly came from outside the door: "What are you doing!"

Chang Sheng turned his head suddenly, but Li Su was standing outside at some point, looking at him covered in snow.

There was a flash of panic in his eyes. Chang Sheng didn't pay attention, so he accidentally knocked the painting to the ground. Li Su seemed extremely angry. Staring at Chang Sheng without blinking, he continued to ask: "What are you doing?"

Knowing who the person in the painting was, Chang Sheng immediately had a strange movement in his heart, trying to keep himself calm, he said: "It's nothing, I'll come to see you, since you've come back, I'm leaving. "

As he spoke, he was about to lift his foot, but Li Su grabbed his wrist, and said coldly, "Why are you coming back so late?"

Chang Sheng was taken aback, turned to look at him, and subconsciously said, "I've been delayed for a while."

Li Su asked: "What's the matter?"

Chang Sheng was displeased: "There are so many pairs of eyes staring at me, what is there that you don't know!"

Li Su smiled and said, "That's right."

Chang Sheng didn't want to pay attention to him, but he was holding him so he couldn't move, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Su continued to ask: "What were you doing just now?"

Chang Sheng said: "I said I just came to see you!"

Li Su raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then what are you doing with my painting?"

Chang Sheng explained: "I just picked it up and didn't see anything."

Li Su said meaningfully, and chuckled: "In that case, if you knocked my painting to the ground, you shouldn't pay for anything, just want to slip?"

Chang Sheng said angrily: "I didn't put the damaged part on the painting!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he regretted it. He clearly told Li Su that he didn't even look at it. On the other hand, he revealed that he knew that there was a place that had been cut off in his painting. His face turned red immediately, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak.

"This ability to fool people is much worse than when I was a child." Li Su joked, and the breath happened to be on the tip of Chang Sheng's ear, scratching his heart.

"Don't you want to know what the cut-off place looks like?" Li Su continued to ask.

Chang Sheng sneered: "Not interested!"

Li Su: "Forget it then. I wanted you to take a look. Since I'm not interested, I won't force you."

Chang Sheng shook off his hand, turned and left without looking back.

The wind and snow are blowing, and this day is not an ordinary day.

On the day when the news of the Chishui civil unrest had just spread to Wangyu, the Border Prime Minister's Gate was immediately occupied by an unknown team. Before the army in the empire set off, another huge riot broke out on the banks of the Hongchuan River. The breath of war has just torn a hole in the north of this century-old empire, and then, starting from Yuezhou, the most economically developed state, an army composed of a large number of slaves began their first counterattack for ten years of oppression .

Among these people, apart from those brought back from Yebei back then, there were also a large number of prisoners of war from Wannan, Mingjiang and other six counties who were wiped out by Zhao Che 20 years ago. Those long-standing hatreds gradually spread from tonight.

The hearts of the people were panicked, several memorials in Yuezhou flew to the imperial capital desperately, the stars and the moon were dark, and all the long-planned seeds began to germinate gradually.

On the Beacon Tower in Xiangmen City, Yin Ping once again looked at the heart of the entire empire through the flying snow.

There, it is about to begin its flashes of swords.