Gu Qingci

The clouds in the sky rolled over, and no one cared what happened in this border town.

There is a high mountain in the southeast of the town, which is the established dividing point between Jiangnan County and the dense forest in the south.Looking from a distance, you can see clouds and mist on the mountainside. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, the trees on both sides cover the sky and the sun, which is completely inaccessible.

"Foretelling and fortune-telling, it's not too annoying to do this all day long." Mu Diezhi looked at the tortoise shell in Sha Yu's hand with a displeased expression.

"What do you know?" Sha Yu raised his chin and raised his cinnabar pen, "This is called controlling the universe."

"I told you that you do fortune-telling every day. Did you figure out what happened to Nanban?"

"It's figured out—" Sha Yu pulled the syllable, lowered his head and stared at Mu Diezhi mysteriously, and Mu Diezhi's curiosity about being hooked by her became more and more serious.

"The secret must not be revealed!" Sha Yu raised a provocative smile.

"I owe you a beating!" Mu Diezhi punched Sha Yu with a soft needle and screamed.

"Hey, are you still Nanman's national teacher? Daxing has been fighting Nanman for half a year, why don't you help?"

"Help? It's almost okay for me to help Liu Yueying." Sha Yu thought of something, and his expression became a little cold: "I have been waiting for the Daxing army to go to Nandu to clean up Sha Jin's useless thing."

There was a gleam of red light in his eyes, and the humiliation and haze of his childhood had been hidden somewhere in his heart, and was tightly sealed up with his mother's desperate jump off the cliff.The hatred for those ghosts and ghosts of the Southern Man just increased day by day.

"Worry baby..." Sha Yu called softly, but Mu Die couldn't hear clearly: "What?"

"It's nothing, nothing." Sha Yu shook his head, the bright red ribbon on his head swayed, and the red light disappeared again.

"Sha Jin doesn't care about anything now, and even dares to use some sinister and forbidden techniques, and he is not afraid of being cursed back."

"I'm afraid this is because Qian donkeys are poor." Mu Diezhi followed her words when he saw Sha Yu showing such clear hatred for the leader of the Nanman for the first time.

"That's right, he won't be able to resist for a few days. Daxing has been so powerful this year, no matter how weird formations and secret techniques can't stop him, I really look forward to him lying on the ground like a bastard." Sha Yu squeezed his hands The tortoise shell inside, pick up a pen and draw a spell on it.

"The hexagram I calculated recently has nothing to do with Nanman, it's about the celestial phenomenon last time." She glanced at Mu Diezhi, and seemed to be talking to herself: "It's a good thing that the emperor's star power is strong, but the energy is too strong." That's great, what's the problem?"

==

Early summer of the tenth year of Tianjia.

That day is gradually approaching, although I know that history has been changed, but I can't help but feel a little anxious; but fortunately, Liu Yueying's body is getting healthier day by day.

The cold air lingering around her body gradually disappeared, and her palms were always warm; it was no longer difficult to fall asleep at night, and the imperial doctor did not find anything wrong after taking pulse for a long time.

So, I finally feel at ease.Mu Die is worthy of being a genius doctor in the world.

When I poked my finger again and squeezed out two drops of blood to melt into the soup and served it to the emperor, Liu Yueying finally said, "I've been taking this medicine for almost four years, can I stop for a while?"

I think it makes sense, so I nodded: "Okay, if Your Majesty has been refreshing for a long time, then I won't drink it."

She drank all the medicine I brought today, took out the bottom one from the paperwork stacked on the left side of the table, and spread it on the table.

"Although the Nanman used many despicable and weird secret techniques to kill my army, their army's combat strength is really vulnerable; Nangong has sent me a feather report, and they will be able to attack their southern capital in about a month."

"It couldn't be better." I felt joy and excitement from the bottom of my heart.

"Little worry," Liu Yueying called my name, but she kept staring at the document on the table, and said slowly after a moment of silence: "After all, Sha Jin is Sha Yu's half-brother, and Sha Yu grew up in Nanman. , do you know... Sha Yu's attitude? Will she make a move against Daxing?"

She stopped me again.

I have very little contact with Sha Yu, and I don't know her well enough, but I always feel that Sha Yu will definitely not help her brother, I'm afraid it's too late to hate him.

Is this the answer?But I didn't speak.Because I don't understand why Liu Yueying asked me this question.

Sha Yu and I met one of the few times, every time she came to me instead of me to find her, not to mention that I didn't even know how to find her - originally, if I really wanted to see her , you can also ask the master, but now...

If I don't know how to answer, I will be silent and cautious, which is the experience I have summed up.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, and the chirping of cicadas on the treetops outside could be heard very clearly.

She chuckled, still didn't look me in the eye, and said to herself: "I'm confused again, how could you know this kind of thing. The paper about moving the capital to Jincheng has been put on hold for a long time, and now that Nanman is no longer a threat, it should be discussed again. gone."

The topic was naturally moved, and the silence just now broke instantly.Liu Yueying took out a few more documents, and ordered to the regular attendant outside: "Bring the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and ministers of the Ministry of Industry over here."

It is necessary to move the capital to Jincheng at this time.

Jincheng is located in the southwest of Rongcheng, and the Huaijiang River also passes through the city. The land is fertile, and it is adjacent to the restless Jiangnan County.

After the fall of the Northern Qiang, the vast grassland north of the city walls of the four northern counties was divided up by tribes in twos and threes, and each tribe had a Daxing garrison.

However, the south, especially the vast dense forests occupied by the Nanman, which is rich in materials and beautiful scenery, has not been fully developed by the barbarians, which is a pity.

If the capital moved to the south, a large number of people would naturally follow them to the present Nanman territory.After the barbarians surrendered, they were assimilated, and the people of Daxing went there to encourage farming, dig wells to benefit the people, and then go further to cure diseases with good prescriptions, teach people to make wine, and give lectures in Nanan...

This is a major event that will benefit future generations and will last forever. Of course Liu Yueying has this ambition.

I know that she realized this idea in the end, and let Xingren's sweat flow all over the land of Nanman, and finally they could no longer distinguish each other and assimilated like this.

After a while, the ministers from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry rushed to meet the saint.

Master Zhang Yi held the map in his hand and spread it out on another larger table. The Minister of Rites pointed to several important places: "Your Majesty, if we break through the southern capital, the dense forests of the southern barbarians will be completely hidden by my Daxing." Control. From this point of view, Jincheng is located in the very center of the mainland, while the current Rongcheng is to the north, which is not conducive for us to educate the barbarians."

Master Zhang Yi followed his words and continued: "Your Majesty delayed the move of the capital for more than a year, just to give the Ministry of Industry enough time. Today, the Temple of Heaven, the blessed place, and the places required for sacrifices have been completed, and the underground drains under the city have also been built. The floor tiles are made of bluestone seeds."

At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites made eye contact with me, and took out a long scroll from his cuff, bowed down and handed it to Liu Yueying.

"A few days ago, Prime Minister Right and his ministers together with several Qin Tianjian drafted a layout plan of Jincheng, and please look it over at Your Majesty."

Liu Yueying was a little surprised, she didn't seem to expect that I did this with other ministers without telling her.She took the drawing and looked at it carefully, and I explained from the side: "The whole Jincheng is still a square, so-called round sky; Set up a large city gate. In addition to the east, south, and west sides, there are three large city gates on each side, a total of nine gates, mainly Jinguang Gate, Mingde Gate, and Chunming Gate."

"The streets and alleys in the city are completely symmetrical and uniform in shape. Except for the east market and the west market, there are [-] workshops, during which the canals are criss-crossed and green shade covers the city; the sacrificial altar is surrounded by the outskirts of the city, sheltering the Jincheng."

When discussing the layout with the Ministry of Rites at the beginning, there was only a vague outline in my mind, and many specific details of the concept were gradually established in discussions.When I finished explaining the layout in detail, when I looked up, I saw Liu Yueying staring straight at me.

Her eyes were as bright as a pool of clear water, being scalded by the sun - I didn't dodge when I spotted her.

Liu Yueying wasn't worried at all that those two adults would find out what she looked like. I didn't know until many years later.At that time, she was lying in the sea of ​​flowers, and I looked at her unscrupulously, and suddenly said: "Xiao Li, in fact, you have never obeyed the rules of monarchs and ministers."

Because there is a saying that "Looking up at the king means looking up, assassinating the king and killing the king, look up", the courtier Miansheng never looked directly at the emperor, even if he raised his head, his gaze was downward, and he would never look at the face of the emperor.

Only me, her face will be reflected in my pupils every time.

==

The Nanman was defeated and defeated.

Liu Yueying's worry didn't come true, and Sha Yu seemed to have disappeared from the world—a high-profile person like her was a bit too quiet, but it made me uneasy, and faintly felt that something was going to happen.

It took Daxing five full years to pacify the Northern Qiang, but only one year and two months to fight the Southern Man.

Those Nanman wizards set up formations in the outermost swamp, which dragged the army for three months.After Daxing broke into the swamp, the Nanman began to retreat steadily. They used some insidious tricks, which harmed others and benefited themselves, and the final outcome was inevitable.

After the Southern Capital was breached, the leader Sha Jin was captured alive, and all the nobles were taken into prison cars and transported to Rongcheng.

All the restaurants and teahouses in Jiangnan County opened their doors for the residents to celebrate, and they didn’t collect any money for seven days in a row; the smiles on the faces of the people can be seen everywhere in Daxing, and when envoys go to remote mountain villages, they can see farmers carrying hoes Singing "The Qiang son is destroyed, the barbarians are destroyed"; the court has also been very excited these days, and the ministers all seemed to be drunk, and they competed to celebrate in the hall, and wrote one after another.

Even Liu Yueying had let go of her burden, and she was obviously much more relaxed. Occasionally, she was in the mood to joke with Liu Yuehua, and then splash ink in the study.

I was the only one who was worried and always felt that something was wrong.

Damn, what the hell did I forget!I patted my head vigorously, thinking about this incident carefully, the recasting of currency, the opening of the river in the north, the expansion of the canal, the pacification of the northern Qiang, the destruction of the southern barbarians... The wheels of history are running in an orderly manner; Liu Yueying, who had been worried for a long time, also got rid of her sickness body.

It's all, it's all flawless.