Mysterious Tribulation

Golden Rock City.

The gates of the city were opened.

Two rows of officials knelt by the side of the road, and the first one held the big seal and walked forward on his knees: The guilty minister Lin Ping, welcome Wang Shi into the city!

Aaron stepped forward, accepted the seal on behalf of King Liang, and then ordered the army to enter the city.

Prime Minister?

Tang Xun reminded that there were often frauds in Xiancheng in ancient times, such as cheating into the city first, and then closing the door to beat the dog.

No, I believe the city officials are very sensible.

Aaron laughed and rode the white tiger in the lead, attracting many eyes.

A large number of people kneeling on the side of the road, no matter how ignorant and ignorant they were, had heard of the reputation of Taoist Rider Tiger and Immortal of Tiger Power. At this time, when they secretly raised their heads, they felt that a god was coming, and they couldn't help becoming more pious.

‘Do you have the energy to count in the account? It's not in vain that I made a calculation specifically for Xiancheng. '

Aaron looked at the top of Jinshi City and saw that the original Dasong flag had fallen and was replaced with a brand new Liangwang flag. He couldn't help but smiled, and said to Tang Xun beside him: Jiangzhou Fucheng is difficult to be the center, but this Jinshi City is not bad. Prince Liang’s palace and government offices have been relocated here...but you don’t have to worry about it, I’ll give you 50,000 people, do you have the confidence to wipe out the south?”

Although he was surrendered this time, Aaron also secretly checked his appearance and found many talents.

For example, Si Yunming, Zheng Fang, etc., but they are better at water warfare, and they are generals in the navy.

What's more, it has just surrendered, so it is not suitable for reuse.

If it is excluded, there is no choice for Aaron's first general to command the army...

Prime Minister, please rest assured that all the southern prefectures must be able to pass the call to decide!

Tang Xun was overjoyed, this is a free military service!

...

Five years in Taiping.

October.

As the weather got colder, a huge convoy slowly drove into Jinshi City, flying the dragon flag impressively.

This is the arrival of Liang Wang!

Chariots and horses are like dragons, surrounded by guards like scales.

Du Longzi rode a little donkey, unsteadily following the team, stroking his beard, feeling very proud.

Fulongting has always been easy to take the old way as the first... A mayfly can only fly five steps, but once it rises on the wind, it can fly thousands of miles... This is the strength of a good wind!

Now that the King of Liang has entered Jinshi, Tang Xun has been pushed all the way, and half of the country has been obtained. Even the dragon spirit of Xuanwu Lake that Chongming Dao has been thinking about is also obtained by us. Happy, happy...

Thinking of the enmity that the orthodoxy was almost destroyed back then, Du Longzi only felt happy.

Suddenly there was thunder in the sky, and there seemed to be a dragon chant, which startled Du Longzi.

He trembled all over, knowing that it was King Liang who entered the golden stone, which caused a change in the heavenly secret, he couldn't help but squinted his eyes secretly, and started to run the Taoism.

The sky and the earth were suddenly dark, and the next moment, he saw a crimson pillar rising into the sky.

A black-backed carp swims in it, and it seems to have grown up a bit.

And in the direction of Ziqing Mountain and Xuanwu Lake... wisps of blue and purple air emanate from the lake, shaped like a dragon turtle, coming towards Jinshi, as if it wants to meet it.

This is Jinshi Wangqi!

There is a saying in the photo book - the king of gold and stone is a sign of the ancestors, the yellow flag and the purple cover, originally from the southeast, and the king is in all nations!

At this moment, when King Liang entered the city, he wanted to obtain this dragon energy, and his true foundation was fully equipped!

Boom!

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

The sky suddenly darkened, the Xuanwu Lake Dragon Qi was swept by something, suddenly lost 99% of the Dragon Qi, leaving only two golden Qi, which fell into the carp.

The black-backed carp grew two golden beards after getting this, and then there was no more...

Won half of the country, but still looks like a carp, which has never existed in the world since ancient times!

Du Longzi complained secretly, but we didn't dare to ask, and we didn't dare to say.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the change in the sky at this time, he looked to the north again, and suddenly felt a burst of heart palpitations, his nose became hot, and blood came out.

Du Longzi wiped it with his sleeve secretly, only to realize that the convoy had already arrived at the Liang Palace, and everything before it seemed to be just his own illusion.

He could only sigh secretly: Flood Dragon, the Golden King of the North, is only one step away from becoming a real dragon. How generous is this heavenly servant!

...

north.

capital.

The city wall of the capital is the largest in the world. There are five arsenals and four granaries. It is said that there are countless grains and weapons piled up in them, and there are 200,000 forbidden troops...

Although most of the elite were not in the south, causing almost every family in the capital to wear mourning, there were still 200,000 professional soldiers, no matter how cowardly they were, they could still defend the city.

And with a household registration of one million, even if five households draw one man, they can produce another 200,000 strong men!

Facing such a big city with high walls, even Jin Wang only said to go to the capital, but did not say that he would break the city!

He originally planned to just show off his power near the capital and loot it wantonly, that would be enough...

But I didn't expect that there seems to be a turning point in the capital?

royal palace.

Sima Zhong, one of the three orders of the first emperor, was wearing a red and white crane robe and a black-winged hat, walking like the wind.

The prime minister stays!

Behind him, a middle-aged civil servant hurriedly chased him out: Prime Minister, mentor...

This is the censor Yuzhan, who knows about military affairs, and is also a Jinshi who was taken by Sima Zhong himself. He has the kindness of a teacher.

Are you puzzled by Chaohui?

Sima Zhong said.

Exactly... Now that the barbarians are raging, we should take the lead in the battle. Why did the teacher take the lead?

Yu Zhan bowed again and said: Hu is cunning by nature and cannot be trusted... He was able to tear up the covenant before...

I've known this for a long time. Sima Zhong waved his hand disapprovingly: But the Hu people are only good at horse fighting in the plains, so they may have broken the number one city in the world? Since they can't break the city, it's scabies. The main battle, let the generals take the lead, is a serious problem! What's more... Li Xiang is the main battle!

Yu Zhan froze in place immediately.

Li Xiang, another Minister of Gu Ming, without this person, the mentor would have already lost power to the government.

The puppet beams in the south are rising, and the Jin people in the north are in chaos. The country is about to perish. Are you still engaging in party disputes?

Yu Zhan's words were stuck in his throat, but he could only hold back, watching his teacher leave, he laughed bitterly in his heart: 'Not only that... even if the barbarians win the world, don't they still want to use our civil servants? This is the main thing, right? '

After being an official for so many years, he has seen through many things and seen them through.

Today is like this, it is still hard to cool down!

However, under this kind of court, the more you do things, the more you do practical things, the more desperate you are...

...

Taiping six years, January.

Golden Rock City.

King Liang took over Jinshi and took all of them from the south. With a new look in the new year, he immediately issued a decree—discontinuing the imperial examinations, promoting the public examinations, setting up government schools and military academies in various places, encouraging private teaching of the way of science, and collecting religious taxes, commercial taxes, and apportionment taxes. Ding into the mu, the government and the gentry pay the grain together, etc...

As soon as this order came out, Jiangnan was full of complaints!

Countless scholars accused Liang Wang and the prime minister of perverting the law!

But Aaron is just barking like a dog!

Regarding the howling of the defeated dog, he didn't even bother to kill them himself, he just waited for the big policy to be implemented, and the magistrate of the county of breaking the family and the governor of the house of killing the family taught them to be human again.

Amid all the turmoil, the New Year still has to pass.

The streets and alleys of Jinshi City are decorated with lights and festoons, and there is some snow on the roadside.

At this time, a carriage wrapped in a thick blanket slowly drove into the city.

Golden Stone City really has a royal air!

The curtain of the carriage opened, revealing a young Taoist priest, Zhang Zifeng, the son of the Jiedu Envoy!

It's not true... this city is full of royal aura because of the presence of King Liang. There are people first, and then there is aura, otherwise everything is empty talk!

In the carriage, there was also an old Confucian sitting with a white beard and hair, but his eyes were warm and soft, like a child.

Mr. Haoran is right.

Zhang Zifeng sighed, and said: The king of Liang parade at Xuanwu Lake in the new year, and reorganized the Songchao Navy. There are five hundred buildings and ships, with masts and masts everywhere, and banners covering the sun... Prime Minister Xu Lingzi wrote a poem on the spot - five hundred There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers on buildings and boats, and there are clouds rising from the sky to parade the martial arts. It is certain that the warships walk horizontally, and there should be military teeth embracing the stone city. The autumn sky is empty on the lake, and the tide is surging at the head of the river. Very royal! And the north, alas...

Thinking of the tragic situation in the northern capital, even Zhang Zifeng couldn't help feeling sad.

Last year, the King of Jin threatened the capital, and the princes of the imperial court negotiated until the end, and they still negotiated a peace!

King Jin asked for five million taels of gold and fifty million taels of silver coins, as well as the cession of land, but the court agreed without hesitation.

King Jin pretended to stop the army, and then took advantage of the covenant between the two kings to hijack the official house and demand double the ransom!

The imperial court couldn't afford the money, so they could only make up for it with women. In the end, even the daughters of officials, even the concubines and princesses of the harem were sent to pay off their debts, regardless of their shame... which caused resentment among the people in the capital.

King Jin took the opportunity to call the official family home, successfully broke into the capital, broke through the imperial city, and captured the official queen, queen mother, many clan kings, as well as court concubines, clan nobles, and ministers about 3,000 people! And return to the north with coercion!

It was cold winter, and the barbarians directly stripped off the official's dragon robe and demoted him to a commoner. Some ministers wrote a letter, and were directly executed by the king of gold, and the corpse was fed to the dogs!

The concubines in the harem, and even the queen and princess, were all reduced to playthings.

Along the way, many ministers, clans, and daughters of the harem died.

Then when they arrived at the capital of King Jin, they ordered a prisoner offering ceremony to be held. The officials and queens were wrapped in handkerchiefs and sheep fur, and their bodies were exposed.

Dasong is now dead!

Such a tragic situation, even if Zhang Zifeng had enmity with the imperial court, he couldn't bear it.

At this time, the north is full of barbarians. Mr. Haoran, who is expected in the sea, goes south angrily. He will definitely assist Liang Wang Mingzhu to drive out the Tartars and bring order out of chaos!

Zhang Zifeng said.

This Mr. Haoran is not ordinary, he was born in the Zhang family in Xuzhou.

And the Zhang family is the leader of the famous religion, who once produced Confucian saints! It has survived for thousands of years and is known as a thousand-year-old family! Peerless!

It can be said that every move of the other party is related to the belonging of the hearts of scholars in the world!

The other party's ability to take the initiative to go south is obviously the severance of Dasong's orthodoxy, and the hearts of scholars in the world belong to Nanliang!

Mr. Haoran didn't have much joy on his face: I've entered the Liang Kingdom, and I've seen it all the way... Liang Wang's government has many prime ministers, and Xu Lingzi is a true Taoist, but he can't rule by doing nothing. Unpredictable... In the final analysis, it is nothing more than suppressing famous teachers, suppressing powerful families, and allowing villains to rise to power! Over time, the country will fail! The old man wants to write a letter, and ask the king of Liang and the prime minister to hold an imperial examination, so as to accept the hearts of scholars , reduce taxes and taxes, do not compete with the people for profit, so... the world will return to the heart, and the people of the world will obey!

...

A thousand-year-old family?

Aaron scratched his head, and casually threw the article in his hand into the stove and burned it: There was a family in the previous dynasty, known as the fourth generation and the third prince, but it turned out to be only a few hundred years...Does Cao Manchu know why?

I do not know……

Cao Man said helplessly.

A husband's tongue survives because of its softness? Doesn't the tooth die because of its strength? Aaron said with a smile: The power of the clan is known as cross-state, and it participates in the general trend of the court and competes for the world. There are also many losses. Ten years of prosperity is the top of the sky... and the Zhang family is famous for teaching, gentlemen and not party, faintly in line with the Confucian spirit, so it has lasted for thousands of years, this is the way to use softness to overcome rigidity!

Cao Man suddenly shivered, feeling the prime minister's murderous intent, and couldn't help but said: Prime Minister...Mr. Haoran has not been an official, but has taught and educated people all his life, written books and passed on books.

You... don't be frightened by the twittering of a group of opposition factions. Are there Confucian disciples among our core and wings? We are not in chaos, the army is not in chaos, and public opinion in the officialdom is nothing but the crowing of crows!

Aaron smiled: But I'm not going to kill this person...

He suddenly said again: This article is superb, and the writing is good, it can be called a generation of famous writers... But look at the last sentence, it's not right, it's floating in the sea-this has a hint of resentment, if the court doesn't follow , I am afraid that he is not going to travel around the world, but is going to vote for Hu! This will also threaten the court and the Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister never accepts threats!

Isn't it possible? A trace of cold sweat appeared on Cao Man's forehead.

Why not? In fact, under the rule of the Hu people, they can still live quite well, even better than before...Gein Hu people don't take the Central Plains seriously at all, they rule according to the grassland customs, divide the tax-entrusted areas, etc... This is a small-scale feudal system, under this system, as long as the landlords feel comfortable with the barbarians and pay enough taxes, they will be the masters of the land, run amok, and even raise private soldiers!

Aaron sneered, and suddenly sighed again: Actually, this person's heart is considered sincere. If we really open the imperial examination, and even announce that all the achievements of the previous dynasty will be recognized, then it will really be the heart of the world. The barbarian is not good, and it will be done in a moment. Annihilation, and then start a new dynasty for three hundred years... Simple and smooth.

Then you have to ask me, why don't you take it? Seeing Cao Man's doubts, Aaron smiled: Is it what I want for a three-hundred-year court? I want to govern the world with scientific principles, and let famous teachers see See they are not the only ones who govern the world!

I have made up my mind to send troops to Xuzhou after the year. This is a real war!

Aaron said: Since the demise of Dasong and the destruction of Tianjie, Xuzhou has been in chaos for a long time. It took no effort to win it, but the subsequent governance will inevitably be resisted by all parties. I am afraid that tax resistance will emerge endlessly!

After all, Xuzhou is the headquarters of the Zhang family, and the idea of ​​famous religion is deeply rooted.

And the Prime Minister also has to admit that I am too scientific, and I still have some shortcomings. If I am instigated by a famous teacher, I will inevitably panic...

So? Cao Man's heart twitched.

This prime minister can't solve the problem, but he can solve the person who raised the problem. That's enough.

Aaron said: After the beginning of spring, the prime minister led an army of 40,000 infantry, and 10,000 sailors went north...I took Tang Xun away, and Zhan Da, Hei Er, and Zhang Tie were promoted to guerrilla generals and stayed in various places.

Cao Man's heart shuddered, knowing that the prime minister's arrangement was like a killing spree!