Sha Po Lang

In the early summer of the eighth year of Long'an, the countries in the Western Regions couldn't resist, they gathered the remnants of the army, opened the gates of the country, and jointly surrendered to the suzerain country.

At the entrance of the ancient Silk Road, the countries of the Western Regions sat down with Daliang representatives for the second time and were forced to negotiate a peace.

The opponent's defeated opponent, Gu Yun didn't bother to show up, so he only sent Shen Yi to act as his agent.

Shen Yi came here with Daliang's strict requirements - first, he had to knock a large sum of gold and silver, and secondly, he wanted to build Daliang garrisons in various countries in the Western Regions to monitor the subordinate countries. Prepare a fire machine steel armor, including the light fur, and destroy all of them. Finally, Daliang requested that the subordinate country should pay more than [-]% of the purple gold that is issued every year to Daliang.

Shen Yi felt a toothache after reading this clause, it was almost a bone-shattering pain, and the representatives of all countries immediately cried for their father and mother.

The first negotiation broke down, and the next day, Gu Yun brought [-] heavy armors to attack the remnant barracks in the Western Regions that had already surrendered at night. The bombing made the heavens and the earth red, and he artificially completed the main content of the second article of the contract for them, and openly declared that, It doesn't matter if you don't agree to the other two, he immediately led people to massacre the city.

The massacre of the city hurts peace, generally only the northern barbarians do this, and there is very little such a culture in the Daliang Army, but the people in the Western Regions are worried that Gu Yun will be jealous of the bombing, and suspect that he can do anything. Even though he was tough, when Gu Yun ordered the city gate to be blasted open, the representatives of the coalition forces at the negotiating table finally gave up.

After several rounds of bargaining to no avail, three days later, the "Loulan New Treaty" was signed. Under the deterrence of Gu Yun's heavy troops, the countries first cleared up their domestic war preparations as quickly as possible, and then they complained endlessly to piece together a year-long excavation before they had time to use it. Ziliujin.

At the end of May, Gu Yun and Shen Yi secretly escorted Zi Liujin back to Beijing from the Western Regions.

A heavy rain washed the streets and alleys of the capital, and the finely chopped Sophora japonica flowers fell all over the long street.

There was a lot of noise about the reform of the bureaucracy, and the chaos that everyone had imagined would miraculously not appear.

First of all, the aristocratic families are not stupid, even if they are dissatisfied with King Yan's way of digging money out of their pockets, but they also understand in their hearts that compared with themselves, those poor Hanlin who came from the imperial examination and couldn't collect a few taels of silver It's the ones who hate this policy the most, and there's no point in letting them do this for others, so at the beginning, this group of people hid and prepared to watch a joke.

Unexpectedly, this matter was really evil, except for a few stubborn old acid scholars who stood up and said a few nonsense such as "decent" or "decent", there was not even a splash in the court.

Chang Geng first wrote a letter to win the emperor, and presented his longer-term vision for the beacon ticket to Li Feng. He wrote clearly the ins and outs, skillfully concealed and skillfully exaggerated, and finally drew a big cake for the emperor—— In time, the beacon tickets will be promoted from top to bottom, and all the private gold and silver in the world can be collected into the national treasury. The full-screen bills can be bought and sold by the people, and the amount of bills is determined by the court. Money is available.

Li Feng previously felt that some of Yan Wang's ideas were too deviant and out of order, but only now did he realize that this person was not out of order, but simply wanted to trample the word "decent" under his feet.

In the past, there was the first emperor who collected the soldiers of the world to cast gold, and today there is a Prince Yan who collects the wealth of the world.

But this idea is too tempting. After Li Feng understood the concept of "replacing gold and silver trading with a few pieces of paper", on the one hand, he felt vaguely uneasy, and on the other hand, he really couldn't resist this temptation. Withholding it for three days, after repeated scrutiny, he finally ate the cake without hesitation, and ordered Chang Geng to take care of it, but he repeatedly warned that the methods should not be too drastic, especially for those rising stars from poor families in the court, they should "take it slowly" .

What Emperor Li Feng didn't know was that as early as when King Yan wrote a letter requesting to change the administration of officials, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River brought 13 wealthy businessmen from all over the country to Beijing and invited him once guest.

The small restaurant was originally dilapidated and little-known, but it was covered by the light of Qiyuan Tower a few years ago like fireflies under the moon, and it was impossible to find those with bad eyesight, but this time it was very lucky to survive from the devastated capital city. At the beginning of the year, it took a rest and officially opened the door to welcome guests. Two floors were added to the original two-story building. The broken bricks and tiles were tidied up very cleanly. The sadness of the fall of half of the stock is very appropriate-few people know that this half-dead restaurant is Du Wanquan's property.

The first negotiation between the two parties was very difficult. Scholars thought they were noble, and they had been in the officialdom for many years. They really didn't want to deal with these people who were full of money. Most of them came to deal with them.

Who knows that Du Wanquan is not an easy person after getting in touch with him.

Du Wanquan once went boating to the West in person, and saw the real world. His way of speaking and his chest were completely different from those of ordinary businessmen. From the mediation, many people's minds were floating soon.

And just when the laws and regulations of the reform of official administration were silently infiltrating everywhere, Du Wanquan and others opened the largest private room in Wangnan Building, and hosted a second banquet for eight important court officials headed by Jiang Chong.

All of them were helpless in the court, became officials through imperial examinations, and started from scratch.

This time, the secret talk lasted for more than four hours, and when the moon was on the branch, the first Jiang Chong finally toasted.

Jiang Chong stood up solemnly, looked around, and found that many people drank too much while changing cups.

"Today is full of wine and food, and everyone is tired. I won't spoil the scenery, but I will take a drink. Everyone has drank the remaining wine and dispersed." Jiang Chong said, "As long as we continue to fight this battle, the beacon ticket It is imperative to implement it, and all the princes are dedicated to the country..."

When Jiang Chong said this, he stopped without going to the village or back to the shop, and with a smile, he drank the wine in the glass without saying a word.

If you are dedicated to the country, please also consider your own way out.

For many years, a wealthy businessman who has been completely ignorant of the current situation and government affairs, and desperately hopes to have his own spokesperson, meets with a group of powerless and unprofessional civil servants, and formally forms an alliance.

After Du Wanquan sent away a room of civil servants and businessmen one by one, he returned to Wangnan Building alone, and went to the room next to the private room just now. On the table, there are two taels of yellow rice wine, a bowl of clear porridge and a plate of side dishes. After drinking half a bowl of porridge, there is only three points left in the wine.

Du Wanquan lost his exquisite appearance just now, he respectfully stepped forward and said: "Yan Wangye."

Chang Geng nodded politely: "Du Gong."

Du Wanquan glanced at the porridge and side dishes on the table, and hurriedly said: "My lord is so frugal on a daily basis, I really appreciate it, but this Wangnan Building is our own property, why don't we call it something smooth? Xia, I asked them to prepare some pure and healthy food..."

"Don't be too busy, I'll just take it easy," Chang Geng waved his hand, and said, "Today's matter is entirely up to Duke Du, I will work on you."

Du Wanquan hurriedly said that he didn't dare, seeing him getting up to leave, he hospitablely lifted up the umbrella on one side: "The car is ready in the backyard, please come here, my lord."

If it is said that when Monk Minglan summoned the Linyuan wooden plaque at the beginning, the person who was most reluctant was undoubtedly Du Wanquan—he did rely on the folk power of Linyuan Pavilion to make his fortune in his early years, but to earn this fortune It is impossible for Du Wanquan to admit how much help Linyuan Pavilion has in this. At this time, he would devote all his life's efforts to it for a person he has never met before, and he would not personally agree.

But after more than half a year in contact with King Yan, it is Du Wanquan who is most willing to saddle King Yan now.

Du Caishen has been traveling all over the world for many years, and his knowledge and experience are all higher than ordinary people. He vaguely feels that Chang Geng is indeed in danger of saving the country, but more is laying the groundwork. Emperor Wu prospered, Emperor Yuanhe turned from prosperity to decline, and Emperor Long'an came to a dead end—now it is indeed an era that is about to enter a new turning point.

But he boarded the big ship with only a wooden board.

Just as Chang Geng walked to the door, he suddenly touched his waist inadvertently, and his footsteps stopped.

Du Wanquan saw it with his sharp eyes, and hurriedly asked, "What is the prince looking for?"

"It's nothing." Chang Geng paused, seemingly absent-mindedly said, "The incense is used up."

These days he has taken care of everything, Anshen powder is consumed too fast, and he didn't care about it for a while, Chang Geng sighed, and smiled at Du Wanquan: "It's not a problem, Du Gong stays, don't need to send it - tell Feng Hangong, he will never forget it There will be a day when it will come true.”

He's not very good at drinking - as a prince, no matter what the occasion is, there will never be those two hundred and five people who dare to drink him. Although Chang Geng has never been completely drunk because of his natural restraint, but with his two or three drinks, it will start. From the ability to infer from headaches, alcohol consumption may indeed be unacceptable.

Chang Geng basically didn't drink at all, but this day he was too tired to listen to the corner for more than four hours, so he gave him two taels of rice wine to stimulate him slightly.Unexpectedly, this little bit of drunkenness not only does not help sleep, but also makes it difficult for him to fall asleep when he returns home at night.

Chang Geng tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, until it was almost four o'clock before he became dazed for a while.Half asleep and half awake, he seemed to hear someone enter the door. He turned over and woke up, raised his hand and unscrewed the small gas lamp hanging by the bed. As a result, he didn't know whether it was rainy and humid in the capital, or the house was empty for several days. The gas lamp flickered once and then went out.

The visitor sat on the couch beside him familiarly, and said with a smile, "What are you doing on my bed?"

Chang Geng was taken aback, his eyes were already used to the darkness, he saw that it was Gu Yun who had returned by a little light, and hurriedly asked: "Didn't it mean that we will arrive in the capital in two days, why is it so fast?"

Gu Yun stretched casually, and leaned to the side: "I miss you, I ran back early by myself."

The last time we parted was at the New Year's Eve, and in a blink of an eye, winter turned to spring, and now it's summer, and I haven't seen anyone for half a year, although Gu Yun's battle reports often include "private goods", and he sends letters every once in a while, but how can it be compared? Is the real person in front of you?

Chang Geng thought that he was thinking too badly, so he immediately rushed to hug him.

However, Gu Yun leaned back, flitting away from his hand, his body was like a piece of paper, and landed in front of the window, the rain outside had stopped, the moonlight quietly entered the room from the puddle, Gu Yun stood with the backlight , Chang Geng saw the light fur armor on his body that had never been removed for thousands of years.

"Why are you so aggressive as soon as we meet?" Gu Yun said, "I just came to see you."

Chang Geng couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the first half of the sentence, he thought that the villain would sue first, and he didn't know who was more aggressive.After listening to the second half of the sentence, his smile suddenly subsided, and he vaguely felt something was wrong: "Zixi, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Yun didn't say anything, just looked at him.

The two sat and stood for a while, relatively silent for a while, as if they were saying goodbye.

Chang Geng's heart beat wildly for no reason, it was so shocking that he could hardly hold anything else in his chest, and he couldn't even breathe.He couldn't bear it anymore, got up and walked towards Gu Yun, from the bedside to the small window, it was only four or five steps away, but he seemed to be unable to reach the end no matter what.

As he moved forward, Gu Yun had to step back.

Chang Geng recklessly turned around and grabbed the gas lamp pinned to the bedside, frantically twisting the mechanism on it, the gas lamp made a few bangs, then suddenly turned on, the room was blazing, Chang Geng ignored the glare of the light, and anxiously turned to Gu Yun, but saw that the face of the person standing by the window was as white as paper, with ashes that did not look like a living person, and two lines of blood dripped down the corners of his mouth and eyes with cinnabar moles.

The gas light went off again with a snap.

Gu Yun sighed softly: "I can't see the light, what are you doing with it... Chang Geng, I'm leaving now."

What does "can't see the light" mean?Chang Geng almost went crazy on the spot, desperately pounced on it, desperately stretched out his hand to grab it, but only caught a handful of icy-bite Xuan Jia.

Chang Geng hissed, "Stop, where are you going! Gu Zixi!"

"Go where you need to go." Gu Yun's voice carried a bit of coldness, "Now that you are full of wings, you have taken the Linyuan Pavilion, taken over the Li family's country, and held all the events in the world. What kind of means? Li Feng Wouldn't it just die at your hands? It's useless for me to stay for a long time, so I came here to say goodbye."

Chang Geng anxiously said: "No, wait, I didn't..."

He instinctively wanted to refute that he didn't, but he couldn't get the words out of his mouth, and felt confused for a while, feeling that what Gu Yun said seemed to be done by himself.

Gu Yun said coldly: "I was entrusted by the late emperor to bring you back from Yanhui Town and take care of you until you are an adult. Good man Yue, how did you do it?"

In the early summer night, Chang Geng suddenly felt an unprecedented coldness.

"I took care of you to grow up according to the emperor's will, but I didn't expect to raise a wolf from Zhongshan." Gu Yun sighed slightly, "It's been 200 years since the founding of the Taizu, and I thought it would last forever. Who would have thought that the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom would be destroyed by my generation..."

Chang Geng wanted to grab him fiercely, or cry out loudly, but as if he was frozen in place, he could only watch Gu Yun turn around lightly, and said: "Gu Mou Jiuquan I'm going to apologize, and I don't need to see you again."

Then he passed through the wall and disappeared out of thin air. The open window was empty, and Chang Geng was instantly burned. He woke up with a loud cry, his heart was beating like thunder, and he took three full breaths. He let out a breath of stagnation in his chest, and realized after a while that it was just a vivid nightmare.

I don't know if it's because of the drinking or what, but his head throbs and hurts, his limbs are sore, and he's more tired after sleeping all night than if he didn't sleep at all.

After quietly calming down for a moment, Chang Geng was about to get up to drink some water, and then close his eyes to rest his mind for a while, but just as he propped himself up, he suddenly saw a black shadow on the wooden chair by the window. , so much so that Chang Geng was shocked by the noise of his own heartbeat just now, but he didn't notice it for a while.

He instinctively shouted: "Who?"

The man smiled softly, "What are you doing on my bed?"

There was no greater shock than this. Chang Geng had never woken up from a nightmare. At that time, his elbow went limp and he fell back on the bed. Gu Yun's broken bed was hard everywhere from the bed board to the pillow. The collision was no small matter, the thoughtful and calm Prince Yan was almost knocked unconscious by a pillow.

Gu Yun was startled, and rushed to the bed to help him up.

He left Shen Yi and a group of soldiers behind, and rushed back two days early. He planned to rest overnight to scare Chang Geng tomorrow morning, but when he entered the door, he found that the bed was occupied by someone.He knew from Miss Chen that Chang Geng didn't sleep well, it was difficult to fall asleep, and he was easily disturbed when he fell asleep, so he didn't want to wake him up.

"Where did you hit? Oh, let me see," Gu Yun said inexplicably, "Although your behavior is very bad, but I didn't say anything. Why do you look like you saw a ghost... Say, back What good did I do?"

Chang Geng tremblingly grasped his wrist, this time he grasped the warm body temperature, which just made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Gu Yun found that Chang Geng's mood was a little unstable, so he wanted to say a few gossips to calm him down, so he said, "Why didn't you ask me why I came back two days earlier?"

Chang Geng's face changed immediately.

Gu Yun continued with a crow's mouth: "I miss you, I'll hurry up by myself..."

Chang Geng shouted sharply: "Don't say it!"

His voice was so fierce, Gu Yun paused, and then asked cautiously: "Chang Geng, what's wrong?"

While talking, he touched the gas lamp by the bed.

But with just such a light twist, the gas lamp jumped twice in a mess, and then "snapped" and fell silent, unexpectedly broken.

In an instant, reality and nightmare overlapped by an unbelievable coincidence, Chang Geng let out a hoarse and low voice, and the vague soreness in his limbs poured into his heart like a tide, turning into a thousand kinds of horrific horrors. The phantom opened its bloody mouth wide and swallowed him whole in one gulp.