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Beidi is an unusual small country. It covers an area from west to east and stretches almost the entire northern border of Dasheng. It is also the location of Dasheng's longest external border defense line.

After rushing to the northern border, Cui Jing led his troops to be stationed on the pass inside the pass east of Yumen Pass and in the Anbei Protectorate area.

If Cui Jing had not been guarding and intimidating the Guannai Road, Beidi would not have chosen to attack the Longyou Road from the west and give up the great opportunity to go straight into the Central Plains.

Cui Jing had repeatedly written letters proposing to rebuild the northern border defenses. As a result, the amount of money consumed was too large, and it took a long time to get approval from the court. Since Cui Jing led 80,000 Xuance troops to the northern border, he has built defense lines and stationed troops for training. , integrating the forces in the north, it can be said that there is no slack in the day.

However, the defense line was too long, and the money and supplies allocated by the court were often delayed. It was impossible to build the entire border defense to an impregnable state and to guard it with elite troops in just a few years.

Cui Jing thought again and again, and in order to defend the northern border as much as possible, he finally chose to prioritize placing heavy troops at the key points of the pass to guard the most important places. If something unexpected happens on the Longyou Road in the west, Beidi will have to pass through the relatively narrow Yumenguan Fortress before entering the pass. This can effectively slow down the impact of Beidi and leave room for the pass to respond.

Cui Jing first built the border defense at Yumen Pass and ordered heavy troops to guard it.

Longyou's troops have also been reorganized and drilled, but Longyou's territory is vast and sparsely populated, and Beidi, who is very familiar with the landforms here, suddenly leads more than ten thousand cavalry to invade the territory, and the oncoming force is fierce. Longyou Yizhou has tried its best to resist and delay. In the end, they still lost to the fierce Beidi cavalry.

The more than ten thousand Beidi cavalry headed straight for Yumen Pass, but were blocked again at the pass.

At this time, they were pursued by Longyou troops behind them, and Cui Jing led troops in front to rush to their aid -

After listening carefully to the current situation of the battle, most of the officials who were urgently recalled breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, the defense arrangement in the northern border is quite appropriate, and there should be no threat of the Beidi cavalry entering the border for the time being.

But after a brief period of peace of mind, more uneasiness emerged in everyone's minds.

This time Beidi only invaded the territory with less than 20,000 cavalry. It was not considered a large-scale troop recruitment. It was more like an advance exploration of the road, or an unauthorized action by a certain tribe in Beidi...

At the moment, it seems that this battle is not something to be afraid of, but I am afraid that this is just a preview before the real hurricane and sandstorm comes...

"What is supposed to come will eventually come." Walking on the palace road leaving the Forbidden Palace again, Master Chu said: "It's time for the hatred of the family and the country to come to an end."

Zhan Mian, who was accompanying him, looked at the teacher after hearing this. He saw that on the teacher's usually thin and serious face, there was a rare cold hatred in his eyes that did not look into anyone or anything.

National hatred is easy to understand, but family feud...

Zhan Mian thought for a moment, but couldn't figure it out immediately, and the teacher's words clearly put this "family feud" before "national hatred".

Zhan Mian was distracted and looked up again, only to see the teacher's thin figure in official robes in front of him. Finally, in an old and hoarse voice, he said categorically: "This time, I, Da Sheng, will never have another princess to marry."

Only then did Zhan Mian suddenly realize, and he felt two emotions in his heart.

When Wei Shuyi left the palace, it was already dark.

The young Lord Zuo Xiang, holding a palace lantern in his hand, walked through the long palace road, his state of mind wavering like the shadow of the lantern.

Most of what was discussed in front of the Holy Spirit today was about the war in Beidi. When it comes to the war in Beidi, one cannot avoid the victory that defeated Beidi more than ten years ago, and there were traces of her presence in many places in that victory.

Not long ago, he once asked his mother: "...After Your Highness married Beidi, did you ever write another letter to your mother?" 】

This question that was easy to answer made my mother silent for a while, and then she said in a very soft and slow voice: "Never, not even a letter." 】

Wei Shuyi closed his eyes lightly, what kind of three years had it been.

In his absence, Wei Shuyi had already crossed the gate of the Forbidden Palace. His official sedan was waiting outside the gate of the heavy palace. Chang Ji, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately came forward and took the palace lantern from his husband's hand.

Before getting on the sedan, Wei Shuyi looked to the south. After a moment, he turned to look to the north.

"Cui Ling'an..." he said to himself: "We need to fight hard."

After saying this, he suddenly chuckled, got into the sedan and left - there was no need for him to talk about it. Cui Ling'an would definitely use his full strength to fight against Beidi.

Although the officials had left, the lights in the Manna Hall were still bright, and the emperor had no plans to go to bed yet.

Not long after, the new head of Si Gongtai led two guards in black into the hall to salute.

Everyone in the hall had already retreated. The Holy Emperor at the head looked at the two men in black and said in a majestic and indifferent voice: "Is it done?"

One of the men in black took a step forward with a long black box in his hands, lowered his head and said, "I'm glad you have lived up to your command!"

The director of Si Gongtai took the long box and went up the imperial steps. He carefully inspected it before opening the box and presenting it to the emperor.

The Holy Emperor looked over and saw a whisk lying quietly inside. It can be seen from the handle of the whisk that it was the one she originally gave to the Sky Mirror.

The emperor frowned slightly and looked at the two men: "Since you have not disgraced your orders, where are your heads?"

Death requires seeing a corpse, not a whisk.

"Back to your majesty... I have already taken off the head of the national master, but..." The man in black in front knelt down with his fists clasped, paused and said, "But it was stolen on the way!"

The Holy Book Emperor narrowed his eyes slightly and his expression turned cold silently.

Invisible pressure came from above, and the man in black kowtowed to the ground instead: "The head of the Imperial Master was taken off by my subordinates myself. I will never dare to try to prevaricate and deceive His Majesty!"

Another man in black also knelt down: "Your Majesty, when the leader took off the head of the national master that day, his subordinates were also present! Two other people also witnessed the incident with their own eyes, and they can all prove this!"

The head of the Sigongtai bowed slightly and nodded to the emperor. He had already verified it, and those people spoke the same words. When asked separately, even when faced with some very small and subtle questions, the answers they gave were the same. No discrepancies. During the process, no one showed any signs of cheating.

The voice of the Holy Emperor said, "If that's the case, who stole the head? Where is the rest of the body?"

"After the incident was completed that day, my subordinates and others buried the body after leaving the head... Later, the head was stolen. My subordinates went to the place where the body was buried to check, and saw that the rest of the body was also missing."

"So my subordinates boldly speculated that perhaps it was the National Master's old friend or someone from the Master's sect who wanted to take his body back for burial."

Finally he said: "Your Majesty, please allow your subordinates to go to Shu to investigate this matter in detail!"

The Heavenly Mirror comes from Shu. Although its sect is not visible to the world, if you look carefully, you can always find something.

For a moment, the Holy Book Emperor slowly waved his hand and made the person retreat.

She was so worried about Beidi and the chaos everywhere that she no longer had enough energy to devote to these secondary matters.

She focused her gaze on the fly whisk for a moment and said: "Let the world know that Master Tianjing attained the Tao and became an immortal. He returned to the void and transformed into a reborn person. I am grateful for his merits and deeds, and am willing to build a Taoist temple for him to cast an immortal body and be visited by the world." worship."

The head of Si Gongtai agreed, holding the fly whisk and retreated.

The night outside the hall was dark, the wind was blowing, and the shadows of the trees were dancing.

Yao Yi returned home from his shift at Dali Temple. As usual, he first asked his personal servant in a low voice: "Do you have a letter from home, my lady?"

The servant shook his head: "Master Lang, there is no..." Yao Yi sighed.

Since last year, he tried to ask his daughter to find out about the "person behind" the girl. Not only did her daughter reject him in a letter, but she rarely even sent letters home after that. She seemed to be avoiding suspicion with him...

"It's really like having a master and forgetting about your biological father." Yao Yi muttered in a low voice.

However, even if his daughter came back without delivering the letter, he had heard about her by chance, and someone in the capital had also spread the rumor that Chang Jie Envoy had an outstanding female historian beside him, who was very important to Chang Jie Envoy...

But who could have imagined that it would be his Yao Yi's daughter?

Previously, when Dayun Temple was offering sacrifices to heaven, the elephant injured someone on the spot, Pei's conspiracy was exposed, and Ran'er disfigured herself... it caused a huge uproar.

Nowadays, everyone in the world thinks that Ran'er has gone into Buddhism and no longer appears in front of people, but they don't know that she has already gone to the Chang family girl who almost died under the idol.

Things are really unpredictable.

Yao Yi sighed in his heart.

But what is more unpredictable than the world is that girl...

Even thinking about it now, he still found it strange that Jiu Niang was weak and her cousin was also very timid. For three generations, the women in this family had not been able to find a decent courage. How could they give birth to such a bold girl? Where is the girl?

Could it be that the elders in front of them didn't have the courage to grow up and save the courage, and in the end it was all born in this girl alone?

Or maybe... I followed that person.

Not to mention, looking around now, if you look around and count the people named Li, there are really not many people who can compare to her in taking the overall situation into consideration... Take this time to resolve the crisis in Jingzhou as an example, it is unnecessary A questionable move to protect the country.

"Sure enough... you enter the game with your own body, and continue the world with daylight." Thousands of miles away, an old man sighed and put down his calculating fingers.

"Are you a Taoist?" The boatman who rowed the oar saw the old man pinching his fingers and chatted with a smile: "I wonder where you studied?"

The old man laughed and said: "Without a teacher, there is no way, just a random practice."

The boatman didn't agree. Although he didn't know anything about family matters, the old man seemed to have some fairy spirit about him at first glance. He thought he just didn't want to reveal too much.

The boat sailed through the thin night and docked at dawn.

The old man went ashore and left, and the boatman watched subconsciously. He saw the old man wearing a gray cloth robe, walking very briskly, and quickly disappeared on the green path.

At dawn, the sky and the earth were a misty blue. The fisherman blinked hard and weighed the dozen or so coins in his hand before confirming that the manned night crossing was not an illusion. However, he still couldn't help but wonder: "It really looks like this." It’s like meeting a god…”

The "immortal" walked until the morning sun rose, broke off a green lotus leaf, drank the cool spring water by the spring, wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, let out a sigh of joy, got up, and walked with his hands behind his back. , drifting away to the south: "It's time to go to Jiangdu for an appointment..."

At this time in Jiangdu, hundreds of flowers are blooming and people are flowing in. It is a noisy early summer scene in the south of the Yangtze River.

The governor's office in Jiangdu has also been quite noisy recently.

The governors of various states have arrived, and they are gathering in the front hall to discuss matters. They urge Wang Changshi: "... May I ask when the envoy Changjie will come back?"

They all knew about Anzhou's affairs, so the urging voices at this moment sounded mostly concerned, not impatient.

Anzhou Cao Hongxuan and Huangzhou Shengbao Ming were defeated and executed, which brought a particularly heavy psychological shadow to the governors of Shuzhou and Guangzhou. If they had not woken up in time, they would have had their graves piled up at this time... No, such a way to die, even the graves nothing.

In addition to the shadow, the governor of Guangzhou still has some unknown passion in his heart - he will soon meet the person who is truly suitable to lead him to rebel. He is so capable that he is quite looking forward to it.

In anticipation, the governor of Guangzhou also asked: "I wonder if Jiedushi has left to return to Jiangdu?"

Just as Wang Changshi was about to speak, everyone suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps approaching outside the hall, mixed with the faint sounds of many salutes.

A clerk rushed over to deliver the message, his face full of joy and he said: "Master Jiedu is back!"

Everyone in the hall perked up after hearing this, quickly adjusted their official robes, turned around and looked outside the hall.

At this time, I saw a young man wearing the same official uniform, striding out of the hall to greet him with a happy face.

Everyone took a closer look and saw that it was Yun Hui, the governor of Hezhou. This boy was young and very scheming!

And with such a flattering move, how could they... how could they fall behind a mere child!

Everyone quickly followed and rushed out of the hall.

This is the front yard of the Governor's Mansion. Chang Sui Ning dismounted his horse outside the mansion and came directly here, so he only delayed the messenger a little.

She walked separately from the army behind her, and her itinerary was not revealed to the outside world. Only Yao Ran, Wang Changshi and others knew that Yao Ran left Jiangdu City in person to greet her yesterday afternoon.

Chang Suining rested outside the city for a whole night. When the sky dawned this morning, he washed and tidied himself up, put on the official robe of the Jiedu envoy brought by Yao Ran, and then set off back to the city.

At this time, everyone saw that the girl who was walking in the crowd was tall, with light steps and a dazzling face. However, the Jiedushi robe, which had never belonged to women, fit her perfectly. She was full of high spirits, and also gave her a layer of supreme light called power.

"I have asked you to wait for a long time." She came closer and bowed slightly, not pretending to be majestic, but with a little smile.

The governors hurriedly raised their hands to salute, their voices rising one after another, but the girl who was walking with her hands behind her back did not stop.

They quickly and respectfully stepped aside and followed her into the hall.

Chang Suining sat down at the top of the hall, his posture casual and calm.

Everyone stood down below. Most of them met Chang Suining for the first time so that they could begin to identify themselves.

"Yunhui, the governor of Hezhou!"

"Ban Run, the governor of Chuzhou!"

“…”

"Shen Wenshuang, the governor of Chuzhou..."

"Liang Tanzhi, the governor of Luzhou!"

And those who returned to Jiangdu with Chang Suining: "Ding Su, the governor of Shenzhou!"

“…”

"—See Jiedushi!"

The governors of all the states reported their names, and all bowed down and saluted the person above them.

Goodnight everybody.