Iron Armored Emperor

Ji Nan City, the place where Chu people dream about.

"Warring States Policy? Chu Policy" once recorded, "The king of Chu traveled in Yunmeng, formed a thousand horses, and covered the sky with banners. The wildfire is like a cloud, and the roar of a tiger is like a thunder." What a majestic and magnificent scene .

Di Qiye heard Jiang Yang talk about Jingchu along the way, and he only felt that he piled up a lot of beautiful words. When he climbed up to Ji Nancheng, he saw that it was indeed prosperous and majestic, shocking people's hearts.

Ji Nancheng faces Yunmeng in the east, and the Zhijiang River surrounds the city. The tall blue-gray towers are floating in the rising sun. The city has wide terraces and high pavilions, and the pavilions are uneven. The purple air comes from the east, surrounded by clouds and mist. , like a star palace.

Standing on the city tower and looking east, the sparkling Yunmengze is vast, with hundreds of boats connected outside the naval camp, and countless giant ships.That is the invincible navy created by Gu Lie.

Outside Jinan City, the common people lined the road to greet each other, shouting for King Chu.

When Di Qiye saw Jinan in person, he knew at a glance that this place was no longer the place where the King of Chu hunted in the Warring States Period, and it was no longer the place where the King of Chu was entrusted, but Ji Nan City, which was deeply imprinted by the King of Chu, Gu Lie.

He was very happy.

When the army returned to the city, it was another great victory in Shuzhou, so it was natural to open an altar to worship the ancestors and comfort the king of Chu's spirit in heaven.

The Chu Palace in the center of Jinan City is beautiful and quiet, needless to say. In particular, on the opposite side, there is a symmetrical long-step high platform, which is made of sycamore wood, soaring into the sky, named Qifeng Terrace.

On the afternoon when we returned to the city, the sun was shining brightly, and the Taoist priest had an auspicious time, so Gu Lie went to the stage to worship his ancestors.

Di Qiye had only read about such ancient rituals in books, and because of the embarrassment of being drunk that day, he had been avoiding Gu Lie, so he didn't know the inside story, and stood on the sidelines among the generals freshly. sides.

After the death of King Gu Linsheng of Chu, Chu Ge mourned a lot.

The auspicious time has come, the sheng and flute are playing, the Tao Xun is playing, the elegiac songs of the Chu people are like night ghosts crying, and the Chu witch with the Nuo face dances with the army drums.

This scene seems to be in the underworld of the underworld, but it happened under the bright and bright sun. It was solemn and strange, and all the people of Chu were in tears. Even Di Qiye, an outsider, was unconsciously shocked and mourned inexplicably.

Suddenly, the music stopped, and there was a heavy drum sound, Wu Chu fell to the ground to worship, Gu Lie walked out of the palace gate, and came to Qifeng Terrace.

He was dressed in thin black sacrificial clothes, taller than usual royal clothes, and his night-like long hair was tied high into a ponytail, which was similar to that worn by the king of Chu when he worshiped his ancestors.But unlike King Chu, his upper garment was taken off and tied around his waist, exposing his upper body.

Chu people on both sides of the road knelt down following his footsteps.

It wasn't until Di Qiye walked up the long steps of Qifeng Terrace and passed in front of Di Qiye that Di Qiye understood why he didn't dress properly.

It was a phoenix dancing lightly in the sea of ​​fire. The red coat of arms was pierced all over Gu Lie's shoulder blades. The color was bright red, as if it would bleed at any time.

It is so red and vivid that it even gives people the illusion that it is not an ordinary tattoo, but seems to have been born with Gu Lie.

The people of Chu stared at their King of Chu reverently, staring at their phoenix killing god, their eyes were burning like fire, engulfing Gu Lie in the sea of ​​flames that the people of Chu burned with pride and blood feud.

Di Qiye watched Gu Lie go up the stairs step by step, and all the Chu people around him looked enthusiastically. Anyone could see how much the King of Chu was loved by Chu people.

But Di Qiye couldn't help feeling that what they were looking at was only the King of Chu, not Gu Lie.

That figure was very lonely.

He watched Gu Lie perform the cumbersome ancient rituals, the sheng xiao tao xun played again, and Gu Lie paid homage to the king of Chu three times.

Watching Lu Yi go up to the stage, enshrine his parents' ashes in the Chu Temple, and fulfill his parents' last wish, this cunning general was so devout that he kowtowed his head in front of the Chu king's tablet.

Lu Yi is a person who is upright when he should be upright, and smooth when he should be tactful.Such a person must not be a person who is really straightforward and unintentional. On the contrary, it is precisely because he is very smart and sensitive to assess the situation that he knows when to speak frankly and when to keep silent.

So Lu Yi is a cunning general.

According to common sense, such a person's recognition of the Chu people may be partly inherited from the blood, and partly just a good speech.

Until I saw Lu Yi kowtow in front of the King of Chu's tablet until his forehead was blood red.

Di Qiye lowered his eyes and thought carefully, as if he had a feeling, but he couldn't fully understand it.

Without waiting for Di Qiye to straighten out his thoughts, he suddenly heard the servants summoning him layer by layer: "Tell Di Qiye."

Why did Chu people summon themselves when they worshiped their ancestors?

He looked left and right, and Jiang Yang was trying to wink at him, so he walked slowly out of the queue according to the etiquette Jiang Yang taught him in Shuzhou, saluted to Gu Lie's direction on the high platform, and walked up the high platform step by step along the right side of the steps.

Gu Lie went up to pay homage to his ancestors, firstly to comfort the King of Chu for defeating Shuzhou, and secondly to seal Lu Yi and Di Qiye as generals.

In his previous life, Gu Lie also acted in the same way. Anyway, Di Qiye had the ability to subdue the hearts of the soldiers, so Gu Lie didn't bother to change it. He followed the gourd's example, but simplified the general ceremony again and again, so as to minimize criticism for Di Qiye.

The generals of the Chu army don't have any fancy titles, Gu Lie doesn't like to play with these, so they are all named as generals.

Who can lead how many soldiers to fight what kind of battle, Gu Lie knows clearly in his heart, and has his own accounts.As for the name, it doesn't matter. Even the five main king divisions of the Chu army are named after the first army and the second army one by one. Outsiders can't tell which navy is which.

Lu Yi brought troops to vote, and he had already changed the army structure to the Chu system, and making him a general was tantamount to filling his title.

Feng Di Qiye is more troublesome. It took Gu Lie a lot of effort to recruit elite soldiers to fill him up with the left and right governors and tiger, leopard and wolf riders. This kid has been avoiding him recently. Gu Lie was kind enough to let Di Qiye's past life The most trusted thorns reunited with him ahead of schedule.

In front of Gu Lie are the two newly recruited generals, looking down at Qifeng Terrace, and below the stage are the courtiers and commoners of the Great Chu, looking back to the east, there are row upon row of warships on Yunmengze.

In two years, he will rule the world and proclaim himself emperor for the founding of Great Chu.

The Taoist chanted the sacrificial oration to the heaven and the earth. Gu Lie listened to the full of sorrow and hatred, and his eyes fell on the head of Di Qiye, who was kneeling on the ground. Too much grief and indignation, but not too much ecstasy.

A group of people were kneeling in the corner on Qifeng Terrace, and they were still relatives of Gu Lie.

From the Warring States Period to the Yan Dynasty, the people of Chu never left Jinan City for a day.Until the king of Chu was exiled by the emperor of the Yan Dynasty in the name of rebellion.

The king of Chu was wronged for no reason, which made people all over the world furious. Some scholars even threw themselves into the pole when they read the crimes of the king of Chu in the local yamen, and died for the king of Chu.

The emperor of the Yan Dynasty was furious, and ordered civil servants to concoct nine crimes overnight, collectively known as "Nine Crimes", and announced it to the world, with the intention of blocking the mouths of the people all over the world.

The emperor of the Yan Dynasty promulgated the "Nine Sins" to despise Gu Linsheng's nine clans. In the end, he was a guilty conscience. He was afraid of the revenge of the evil spirits.

The eminent monk suggested that the emperor of the Yan Dynasty transfer half of the Chu people to the Quartet, and then find another clan with the surname Gu who has nothing to do with Jingchu, and fill it in Jingzhou.

So the Zhongzhou Gu family got lucky. This is an unremarkable Gu family with no talent and no wealth. The most commendable thing about the whole family is that they were married to a sideline of the Liu family among the four famous lords.Unexpectedly, one day, the throne of King Chu would fall from the sky, and the chickens and dogs would ascend to the sky.

When the king of Chu died, the Gu family of Zhongzhou occupied the magpie's nest; Jingzhou was originally the land of Chu, but the people of Chu were displaced in all directions.From then on, the Chu people only sang dirge songs, about the blood feud of the king of Chu, and about Yunmeng's homeland.

A few years later, even though Zhongzhou Gu was still the Lord of Jingchu in name, he was actually controlled by his in-laws, the Liu family.

Until all the heroes rebelled against Yan, Gu Lie led the Chu army to revolt, broke through Jingmen all the way from the Xinjing junction, and led the Chu people back to Yunmengze.

That day when the soldiers of Chu army approached Jinan City, none of them moved, but they saw the gate of the city was wide open.

In front of the gate of Jinan City, there is a memorial tablet for the king of Chu. The Gu family in Zhongzhou knelt down in front of the tablet. Under the leadership of the clan elders, they wept uncontrollably. Gu Lie included Zhongzhou Gu in the Jingchu genealogy.

Gu Lie allowed it, built Qifengtai, opened the family and expanded the spectrum.

It is known in history as "Jinan Renzong".

Therefore, Gu Lie recognized the cheap relatives of the Gu family in Zhongzhou, the wealth and power that the Liu family had worked hard for ten years in Jingzhou, and took all of it into his pocket.

This deal, in the previous life, seemed to be a good deal at the time.

Gu Lie's eyes darkened, and he handed half of the tiger talisman to Di Qiye's hand according to the song, and met Di Qiye's eyes, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and he pursed it back calmly.

As soon as he entered Jinan City, he was promoted from a countryman to a general, and Di Qiye lived in Fengtai to pay homage to the general, and became a big celebrity at the feast of the king's palace of Chu.

Gu Lie drank three bowls of strong wine on the high platform for worshiping the ancestors, and couldn't concentrate on taking care of him, so he went back to the bedroom early after sitting for a while.

Taoist priest Yan Fagu was sitting outside the steps of the sleeping hall, chewing peanuts.

A snow-white dust whisk was thrown on the ground casually. He was wearing a gray Taoist robe that was newly changed today for divination and auspiciousness for the ancestor worship. Feeling that this love will look like a gray mouse is really a gift.

Seeing the lord coming back, the ancient god Yan Fa slapped away his yellow shell and red skin on the ground, picked up the dust whisk, bowed down dignifiedly, and said, "See the lord."