Heaven's Formula

Chu Pu briefly recounted what he had heard.

After listening, Gong Shufeng showed a surprised expression, and then there was a trace of sadness in his eyes, "Grandma, did she... commit suicide..."

"The death of the public loser can be said to be the direct cause of the turmoil of the public loser. And you are inseparable from her death..." Chu Pu sighed softly, "Although we can't find out why she did this , but your betrayal is a fact, and it is also a fact that the public loser has suffered a lot. Have you ever regretted everything you have done now?"

Gong Shufeng was silent for a while, and then said, "No, if you give me another choice, I will still do it."

"you--"

"It really is a traitor!"

The guard of Yuheng envoy couldn't help scolding.

Even Chu Pu was quite surprised, she wanted to use this matter to make Gong Shufeng feel guilty, so as to help herself plead with Xia Fan, but the other party showed no intention of repentance.Judging from Gong Shufeng's attitude, he really doesn't look like a heartless person, which makes Chu Pu very puzzled.She raised her hand to let her subordinates restrain their emotions, "Why?"

"...do you really want to know?"

"I have a lot of time."

"Then please go to a place with me." Gong Shufeng thought for a while and said.

A group of people waited for a while on the side of the road until a huge locomotive drove up.

"What is this..." Envoy Yu Heng's eyes widened.

"Public transportation, generally called a bus by the locals." He took the lead to board the vehicle, "The place to go is a bit far away, so I have to rely on it to get there."

No, of course she knew that it was a creation of an institution, but it seems that this thing is not for the exclusive use of the Foreign Ministry, but everyone can take it.Because she saw with her own eyes that there were other people sitting in the car, judging by their attire, these passengers were ordinary people!

Wait... public transport?

Literally understood, this car is really for the public.

Obviously, Qiguo and Qixing Privy Council are still in a state of war. Instead of taking the precious magic weapon resources to the front line, instead of traveling in a horse-drawn carriage at the rear?This is too extravagant!

"Let's just sit in the back." Gong Shufeng led Envoy Yuheng to the back of the vehicle, and sat down in an empty seat.Envoy Yuheng roughly counted, there are about forty seats in a car, and less than half of the passengers.

Considering that the other party did not contact in advance, another astonishing guess came to her mind.

This car is running on a fixed route no matter whether there is anyone in it or not!

Even when empty!

If she guessed right, this is not even considered a luxury, it is simply a waste of money!

Magical artifacts and organs are not stable things. Even if there are many people who are sensitive, the creation of organs will still be worn out.Any qualified ruler should not spend limited resources on meaningless things.

Chu Pu endured it for a long time before suppressing the doubt.

The waste of the enemy is a good thing... She silently recited this sentence three times in her heart, telling herself not to say too much.

"Do you think this car is really redundant?" Gong Shufeng asked suddenly.

Envoy Yuheng suddenly felt that he was choking on his saliva—the doubt that he had finally suppressed suddenly snapped back at this moment, "Ahem...is there any? This...is actually okay. I can understand...when a When a new king takes power, he will always find some way to show his greatness."

For example, building towers, building statues and the like.

The locomotive may also be counted in it.

"This is the project of Abbot Xia, and has nothing to do with His Majesty." Gong Shufeng spread his hands, "In fact, there are quite a few people who oppose him... because the price is too cheap. Ordinary people only spend about the same as breakfast gruel, You can take this car, but to build such a locomotive, you need the price of a house."

"Isn't that a loss-making business?" Chu Pu frowned.

"Indeed." Gong Shufeng said without hesitation, "As far as I know, this item did not bring any income to the Bureau, but instead made a lot of losses. If it wasn't for Lord Xia's request, it would definitely not be implemented."

"Why would he do this?"

Because he is deeply trusted by the king, can he be confident?

"Because it's convenient for civilians."

"……what?"

"Because it is convenient for civilians." Gong Shufeng repeated.

"That's it?" Chu Pu doubted his ears for a moment.

"Yes, that's it." Gong Shufeng smiled, "or in other words, all the incredible-sounding policies promoted by that lord have this purpose."

Chapter 887 Sleeping Here

"I... can't understand..." Chu Pu couldn't help shaking his head.

Gong Shufeng wasn't explaining either, but she seemed to read a sense of reason from the other party's gaze.

——It’s a matter of course that I can’t understand myself.

"You think it's ridiculous because you've never looked outside."

Xia Fan's words suddenly startled her - before Chu Pu thought it was just a taunt from the winner, but now that she thought about it, she only felt goose bumps on her back.

What if what the other party said is true?

Not taunting, not showing off, but simply pointing out a fact.

Yu Hengshi involuntarily averted his eyes and looked out of the car window.As the saying goes, enemies know each other best, but she found that she didn't know Qi Guo well.She only knew that after Ning Wanjun raised the anti-flag in Jinxia City, he quickly expanded his influence to the whole country, and took the initiative to launch an attack on the Seven Stars; , also innovated many new alchemy techniques; and the Mohists provided a large number of magic weapons and mechanical weapons for the rebels, which made the Seven Star Army repeatedly defeated.Other than that...she didn't know anything about Qi Guo.

For example, the snow scene in front of you.

Since the battle, Xu Guo has already entered a state of saving food and clothing, putting all available resources into the war machine.But in Qiguo Shangyuan City, it seems that this is just an ordinary winter. The pedestrians on the street are dressed thickly and full, with rosy faces.Many shops on the street are still open, and all kinds of colorful goods are full of goods, adding a bright color to the white world.

The fog from the chimneys at the top has never stopped, and the green smoke from hundreds of chimneys has formed a hazy cloud of fog above the city, which means that the people of Shangyuan still have enough charcoal fires to keep warm, and the cold winter is very difficult for them. It's not a deadly threat.

Yongdingcheng has also had such a scene before.

But that is only during the good years.

One year after the war, the several cities she visited had all changed in the same way, both the street scene and the atmosphere revealed a sense of bleakness.Comparing the two, Shangyuan City seemed extremely strange.

Envoy Yuheng even doubted whether the local people knew that his king was leading an army to besiege the only remaining territory of the Privy Council, forcing Qixing to be out of breath.

The car drove for about two quarters of an hour, and the scene outside the window changed again and again, sometimes it was a row of buildings, sometimes it was a bungalow, but no matter what it was, the scale was not small.Chu Pu calculated in his mind, they walked almost ten miles without saying anything, and should have left Shangyuan City long ago, but the house was still stretching at the end of the field of vision, as if there was no boundary.

If you walk on two feet, I'm afraid it will take a long time to walk...

Is that why Xia Fan arranged for such a locomotive?

Chu Pu's heart suddenly moved. It is impossible for ordinary civilians to afford horses. If they want to travel far, they usually go with a caravan.But the schedule and arrangement of the caravan is completely uncertain, so their area of ​​activity is also extremely limited.For an exaggerated area like Shangyuan City, if there is no more convenient means of transportation, people from the east of the city will not even frequent the west of the city, which also means that the shops in the west will lose half of their livelihood.

Of course, there are also work, making friends, and entertainment... These activities will become more frequent because of locomotives.

She seemed to have captured a hint of Xia Fan's thoughts... It's just that the answer was not clear enough for her to describe it.

Apart from being convenient for the local residents, she faintly felt that there was some kind of deeper meaning in it.

About two quarters of an hour later, Gong Shufeng finally stood up and said, "We are here, please follow me."

Only then did Chu Pu realize that Shangyuan City does not have city walls in every direction—the location they are now is clearly in the suburbs. Except for the roads that are still flat, the houses have disappeared and replaced by pieces of buildings. Snow-covered farmland.

After getting off the locomotive, she was surprised to find that there were still people busy in the farmland.

In the snowy winter?

Even winter wheat is too early for planting.

"What are they doing?" With the lessons learned from the past, Master Yuheng simply no longer concealed his curiosity.

"Grow vegetables." Gong Shufeng also answered very simply.

"Won't the seeds be frozen in winter?" asked one of the men.

"There are plants in this world that are afraid of freezing, and naturally there are also plants that are not afraid of freezing. In addition to selecting suitable seeds, the Ministry of Agriculture has also thought of many ways to avoid the effects of low temperature." Gong Shufeng replied while leading the road in front, "I'm not too cold. I understand the tricks here, but the Ministry of Agriculture is also one of the departments Mr. Xia is most concerned about, and it is rumored that their goal is to allow food to be grown anywhere."

Desert too?Even in the sea?

Chu Pu felt a little numb to this kind of irrelevant talk.

However, the public transportation wind did not bring them into the farmland to visit, but turned into a forest path - the ground here was also paved with bricks and stones, and there was not much snow, which seemed to have been deliberately cleared.Envoy Yuheng didn't go far, and an extremely open flat land appeared in front of her.

There are thousands of stone steles erected on the flat ground, which look like a shrub forest cut from rocks from a distance.

This is the cemetery, Chu Pu realized.

"Don't worry, there is no body buried inside. Qiguo implements strict cremation measures to eliminate the risk of evil spirits." Gong Shufeng said proactively, "Master Xia has done no less than Qixing in eliminating evil spirits. This place is not so much for To bury is rather to commemorate."

"Who do you commemorate?"

"To commemorate those who died against the brutal rule of the Seven Star Privy Council."

Yuheng paused slightly, "...you mean... the Tianqi Army?"

"No, they are just ordinary civilians."

"How is it possible!?" A guard blurted out.

This is also the question in the minds of everyone in the mission - erecting a monument has always been a very serious matter, and Shangyuan is the capital of Qiguo, so erecting a monument for civilians next to the capital is not only shocking, but also sensational.What's more, where do the common people have the courage to resist the Privy Council, even if there are... there will not be so many people.

At least in Xu country, it is absolutely impossible.

Gong Shufeng came to a stone tablet and stopped. There was a cluster of emerald green needles on the side of the tablet. Compared with flowers, this kind of evergreen leaves can maintain eye-catching color for a long time even if they leave the mother branch.

There is a row of beautiful handwriting engraved on the stone tablet.

——"Gongsun Fang, the unyielding protester, is buried here forever."

Seeing this name, the days in Huangting Mountain suddenly appeared in Gong Shufeng's mind.

And that woman who has a pair of upturned red phoenix eyes, bright and incomparable.

It was also from that moment on that his fate took a completely different path.

Chapter 888 The Heir of Will

"You may think this sounds unbelievable, but it is not a lie, because I am the one who experienced it first-hand—" Gong Shufeng took a deep breath, and slowly said that experience, "The order of Yongding City has not been replicated in other places Now, these privy offices that temporarily take over the ruling power are not much better than the old government offices, even more chaotic and brutal. Because for those people, Qiguo is a completely foreign country, and it is used to satisfy themselves. great opportunity to desire without fear of any regulation or impeachment."

Chu Pu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but the words got stuck in his throat.

Looting and selling refugees as commodities?

Hunting and killing ordinary people in the countryside who don't want to be slaves?

How could the alchemist of the Privy Council do such a thing?

No... She does know that there is an atmosphere in the Privy Council that only those who are sensitive can be called the same kind.If you go back upwards, you can trace it all the way back to the Yong Dynasty. Although the Seven Stars have tried hard to eliminate this split, even the Seven Stars have not been able to achieve complete unity within the Seven Stars.

After all, after awakening the ability to sense qi, it is equivalent to having power that ordinary people can't imagine. How can there be real equality between alchemists and ordinary people?

This also made Chu Pu unable to say any rebuttal words.

Because she has never thought about this issue before, alchemy is everything, and other things are not important.But thinking about it now, without the constraints of the Yongding Privy Council, it might not be surprising what these alchemists would do.

"Then all the people here...are Liuzhou rebels?"

"grown ups!"

"They're just—"

Chu Pu raised his hand to signal the guard to be quiet, and looked directly at him.

Gong Shufeng knelt down and smoothed the snow under the stele, "No, they come from all over the world. And it is my younger brother Gong Shujin who inherited Miss Gongsun's will and led them to stand up against oppression."

In the end, the troops in Liuzhou did not escape the siege of the Privy Council.

Until now, he still clearly remembered the scene when Gong Shujin, who was covered in wounds, came to Shenzhou with the leader of the rebel army who was lifeless.This "army" with only a few hundred people left soon appeared on the front page of the Shenjin Weekly, and caused an earthquake-like response in Jinxia.

It can be said that this incident reversed the high-level decision-making.

It was also from this moment that Jinxia City began to switch from defense to offense, not only providing food and weapons to the rebels, but also sending front troops to assist them in their actions.

Gong Shujin accepted His Majesty's commendation, but declined to become a general of the Jinxia Army. In his words, he has no talent for commanding battles. Apart from holding meetings and a little tricks, he is more suitable to stay in the countryside and serve those who suffer Justice for the atrocious.

Before His Majesty unified the Qi Kingdom, Gong Shujin had been active in the states, but after the Qi Kingdom was unified, he went directly to other kingdoms.

It can be said that he became the guide of His Majesty's marching plan.

"You said earlier that you didn't understand why Mr. Gong Shuwang would do that. I think I might know the answer." Gong Shufeng stared at the stone tablet and said.

"What is it?" Chu Pu couldn't help asking.

"I once received a cane, which was something she never left. I didn't know why Mr. Wang sent me the cane from thousands of miles without any letter. Now I understand... ...She wants to pin the family's hopes on me and Gongshu Jin."

"Will the public loser choose the traitor as the successor?" the guard questioned.

"Don't you guys understand?" Gong Shufeng turned his head, "In grandma's eyes, the Privy Council has already shown signs of defeat a few years ago, and it is impossible to win the Jinxia City in the war!"

"You guy-"

He stood up and his voice became louder and louder, "Isn't it? Facts have proved that grandma's vision is correct. Master Chu, you also have such a hunch, right! The Seven Star Privy Council keeps saying that it will unify the six kingdoms and create a new world led by alchemists. era, but in the end, today’s six kingdoms are still six kingdoms. Apart from the resources that can barely be allocated uniformly, where else is the shadow of a kingdom? You will really treat the people of Qiguo as people of Xuguo, and the alchemists of Qiguo Do you want to get along with him as someone who is born in Yongding Mansion?"