After wearing lotus essence

"This Golden Light City is really the same as the one in the legend." Rong Mu sighed.

Shang Cizhou put on the veiled hat for him, "There's still a little sun, let's cover it up."

Rong Mu sighed: "Lianyu is taking care of Bi Jiangxue at the back, I don't know how she will be exposed to the sun."

Shang Cizhou asked: "What is he afraid of in the sun? It's not that the one with rough skin and thick flesh can't see the sun."

Rong Mu: "..." Poor boy, let him swim in the Hankou River for a while.

"The king of Nandai must have heard the news when he came on this trip. If he knew that you came in person, would he also come out of the king's capital?"

Shang Cizhou led him past a group of servants who were kneeling to greet him, and then entered the cool room and said: "Gu has already spread the news of bringing Bi Jiangxue, if he really cares, he will definitely come in person. "

Rong Mu was a little worried: "Neither of you two is a fuel-efficient lamp."

Shang Cizhou laughed: "Why is Gu so inefficient? In the past, when there were no pavilions to press Gu, he would have already been beaten to death. This time Gu made a special trip to ask Li Lun to put it away. Don't make trouble, the Nandai king is so angry that he tripped up the lonely envoy."

Rong Mu: "Why, now you know you are afraid of him?"

Shang Cizhou's eyes were deep: "Gu is not afraid of him, he is just thinking about a very wonderful thing, if he insists on saying he is afraid, Gu is only afraid of you."

Rong Mu: "...?" What are you barking at?

Rong Mu: "It's been a long journey, so let's wash up and sleep early tonight. I'll go see Lianyu later."

Shang Cizhou nodded: "Okay, Gu also wants to talk to Li Lun."

The two looked at each other.

Rong Mu: "I mean, let's not sleep together."

Shang Cizhou: "I don't think it's a big deal to sleep together."

"..."

"..."

Rong Mu rolled up his sleeves: "No, can the stinky problem of being unable to sleep without me be cured?"

Shang Cizhou seriously said: "It can't be cured, and I don't want to cure it. Ting Zhi is fragrant, and Gu loves to hear it very much. If you don't sleep with Ting Zhi, what does the emperor mean by being in front of you? Why don't you go and find a monk in the sky."

Rong Mu: "... Thank you so much, Min Kong."

When Shang Cizhou saw the deal, he accepted it: "Then I will go out first."

Rong Mu wished he could put his hands on this clingy ghost's ass and tell him to go out, he said silently three times that this is the emperor before he forcibly endured it.

After leaving the mansion, Shang Cizhou really turned into Li Lun's meeting room.

The generals, big and small, roared loudly just now, but they all froze when they saw the emperor.

A deputy general stood up and said in shame: "The last general is incompetent, and this battle has even alarmed you to come here in person."

Shang Cizhou Shi Shiran sat at the head, with a topographic map of Jinguang City in front of him.

"It's nothing, Gu is just a whim, where is Li Lun?"

As soon as the words fell, a person from outside pushed the door in. It was Li Lun who had been late.

"Forgive me, Your Majesty, and I just stopped by the city wall and made another round."

Shang Cizhou nodded, "How about over there?"

Li Lun: "It's strangely quiet. That Yuan Chuo is still on the city wall today, but it's gone now."

Shang Cizhou's eyes walked around the topographic map of Jinguang City, and he raised his eyes for a while and said, "Did you find out anything important in the past few days?"

Li Lun's face moved: "Return to Your Majesty, no, the original dog's mouth is so tight, I think it's just for a flower, how could this Southern King want to go to war? Brain disease."

Shang Cizhou pondered: "You are right, so I am thinking alone, whether the flowers of the Southern Dynasty are more important, or the 'people of the Southern Dynasty'..."

If Rong Mu hadn't said that they looked similar, he wouldn't have thought of it. The attitude of the Nandai princess at the dinner party was also very subtle.

Li Lun: "...What does Your Majesty mean?"

Shang Cizhou put up a pretense and stopped talking: "A total of 30 troops are stationed in Jinguang City alone, and the 10 people brought over will make a total of 40 soldiers and horses. These 40 soldiers and horses cannot be spent in Jinguang City all the time. Otherwise, it’s just eating food and not working. This confrontation with Nandai this time, after the Nandai king comes out in person, the matter must be resolved quickly—this time the battle is not the point, it’s just to figure out one thing, if anyone Gu's good things were disturbed in it, and Gu wants someone to have a bad memory, you know?"

Li Lun bowed his head: "Yes."

All the generals also bowed their heads and cupped their fists.

Shang Cizhou's expression changed and he said: "How about Xiyue?"

Li Lun raised his head: "Return to Your Majesty, there is no movement in Xiyue for the time being, but I am worried that this is just the other party secretly dormant."

Shang Cizhou sneered.

Jin Guangcheng is close to Nandai, so it is naturally far away from Xiyue. Xiyue must have felt relieved when he walked far away. Be a demon, besides, at this time Ernu should have discovered that the lotus is fake.

Shang Cizhou tapped his fingers: "I sent a message before asking you to find seaside fishermen who are familiar with the terrain. How many have you found?"

Li Lun thought it was true, and he replied respectfully: "I found six or seven veterans, but the wind and rain on the water fluctuate, and no one can guarantee that the ship can always find the right direction. They also said that it is not impossible to go astray when encountering fog."

Shang Cizhou frowned slightly: "If you look for it again, you must be proficient in water skills. If necessary, you must dive into the sea to find hidden reefs."

He said in a cool tone: "If Ernu dares to spoil Gu's good deeds behind his back, Gu will break Xiyue's spine this time."

Violence flashed in Li Lun's eyes: "Your Majesty is wise."

He pointed to the topographic map and said, "Your Majesty, regarding the Nandai side, Yuncheng, the king's capital of the Nandai, is only two days away from the border city, and the Nandai border city is very close to Jinguang City. Shang suffered a great loss here, the border city is higher and Jinguang City is lower, which is extremely conducive to the attack of the southern archers."

Shang Cizhou said quietly: "The sharp shooters of the Southern Dynasty have decreased a lot compared to ten years ago."

Li Lun snorted in confusion.

Shang Ciri said: "The Southern Dynasty is humid, and the common people often suffer from a kind of hematemesis. This disease can only be cured by using lotus seeds and secret recipes as medicine. If the lotus is not alive, the Nandai Kingdom will not be much better, if it is true that there are plenty of lotus and lotus seeds, how can you cling to this point?"

Li Lun was shocked and said, "Your Majesty is saying...the lotus flowers in the Southern Dynasties have not grown very well over the years?"

Shang Cizhou nodded: "Yes, this matter is a bit strange, and I have been investigated secretly."

Li Lun murmured: "In ten years, the vast majority of conscription is from ordinary people's homes. If more people in the southern generation suffer from hematemesis, then these ten years are enough to reduce a large round of population. The remaining How many young and middle-aged men can be trained to be sharpshooters in the army?"

Shang Cizhou looked at him: "Gu just thought of this. The whole country of Nandai seems to have something to do with lotus, especially the royal family has valued this flower for generations. What role does it play in it... Nandai Guo has never had such a large-scale hematemesis in the three hundred years since the founding of the country. Why did a large number of people die in the past ten years? In the past few years, who has been giving birth to lotus flowers, specifically for the Nandai to prevent such tragedies from happening?"

Li Lun often felt that the Son of Heaven was powerful, some people were born to fight in the midst of maneuvers, even if he was as keen as him, he could only see the soles of His Majesty's feet after half his life.

One step counts as ten steps, the frightening talent of the emperor.

Li Lun took a deep breath and said, "It seems that there is someone who has been protecting this country secretly. Without this person, Nandai would have already destroyed the country due to the sharp drop in population."

Shang Cizhou lowered his eyes and glanced at the land of Nandai Kingdom. This country is located in the south of Dashang. The land is divided into 48 cities. The capital of the king, Yuncheng, is the largest, firmly occupying the edge of a huge lake.

"These things are secrets that the great business historians haven't figured out for hundreds of years. I don't expect to dig out all the secrets of the Nandai Kingdom at once. This time I only focus on one thing, that is, whether the Nandai King did it for his own sake. Bi Jiangxue went to war...on the day he arrived, Gu would personally carry Bi Jiangxue up the city wall, and told him to take a good look at how his former love flower was in the great merchant's place."

Li Lun also shook his head when the lieutenant general smiled subtly.

Even though His Majesty has an extremely high IQ, he is still a young man in his early twenties after all, and he seems a little angry this time, which shows that this incident made him extremely confused and depressed.

After finishing talking, Shang Cizhou left Li Lun to give many instructions in secret, and then walked back to the residence through the night.

Just separated by a river, the customs and customs on the two sides are quite different. The buildings of Dashang are more grand and stable, not as exquisite and gorgeous as in the Southern Dynasty. They are really as beautiful as a flower.

Shang Cizhou was thinking about something, walked through a corner of the corridor, and saw a lamp burning in the main house, and a shadow was playing with the lamp with a stick.

All the complicated calculations in his mind seemed to go away, leaving only a softness that made Shang Cizhou strange and comfortable.

Whether it was ten years ago or ten years later, Rong Mu has this habit, he likes to wait for him in the dark, and then play with the flames.

No one would treat him like this on a special trip. When he was alone and helpless like a wolf cub, he looked at him with such gentle eyes, as if being watched by those smart eyes, all the sorrow and despair in this world could be far away.

How can there be such a person?Shang Cizhou thought that he seemed to be born to save the suffering. If someone like Rong Mu grew up in the Southern Dynasties, he must be sought after by all people... No one doesn't like him.

nobody.

He stood in front of Rong Mu's door, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, the gloom and calculation in his eyes had all disappeared, replaced by a kind of gentleness that would not disturb the prey.

Shang Cizhou raised his hand and knocked a few times: "Ting Zhi, open the door, Gu is back."

After knocking a few more times, the lights in the house suddenly went out, and Shang Cizhou heard someone crawling into bed, and through a wooden door, he could imagine the messy posture of the other party.

Like a child caught in a bag.

"Ting Zhi, open the door."

After a few breaths, a muffled voice came from the bed: "You, you go to sleep next door when you come back!"

Shang Cizhou's tone was puzzled: "Tingzhi?"

Rong Mu kicked the quilt: "Oh, I let you go! Go away, don't cling to me! The weather is getting hotter and hotter, sleeping with you is like hugging a big stove!"

Shang Cizhou: "..."

He turned around, went to the next door to grab a headrest, and came out, "Okay, then I won't go in, I'll just sleep on the stone bench in the courtyard, when it's cold, I'll find Ting Zhi to sleep."

After Shang Cizhou finished speaking, he turned around and really left.

He moved five steps, and when he was counting to the sixth, the door behind him was pulled open.

Turning around, a soft object was thrown over, Shang Cizhou caught it with one hand and found that it was another pillow.

Rong Mu stood at the door with his hips akimbo: "Don't be miserable, don't be miserable!"

Shang Cizhou's expression was innocent: "Gu is telling the truth."

Rong Mu: "If you are cold, this big businessman will be cold too!"

The emperor lowered his eyes and looked at the pillows held by his left and right hands: "Then..."

Rong Mu pinched the bridge of his nose, "You can see through that I don't want people to suffer."

Shang Cizhou's eyes light up slightly, which is an exclusive expression that only appears when he sees someone he likes.

He watched the young man kick half of the door open: "What are you still doing? Your Majesty the Emperor, come in and press the quilt for me, a slave of the southern generation!"

The corner of Shang Cizhou's mouth twitched for a moment: "Here we come."