Realm of Power

"Great victory in Yanzhou!"

When the two dusty Long family riders rushed into Guangling City like a straight line, soon, the news of the Long family's great victory in Yanzhou swept through the whole city of Guangling like a hurricane, and various cheers came from the streets and alleys. The sound caused a middle-aged man with a bamboo hat on his head who was just walking into the Guangling City Gate to pause for a moment.

"Master, when you hear this sound, it sounds like Long Yang won a great victory in Yanzhou?"

The middle-aged man raised his head slightly in astonishment, with an expression of disbelief on his face, a pair of deep and unpredictable eyes, and even bigger hands and feet, giving people a cold and brutal impression. He was in his forties, tall and thin. The hands and feet looked longer, and the bamboo hat covered most of his face. His eyes fell on the jubilant streets of the city, and an inexplicable emotion flashed through him.

"Song Ku, do you believe this?" "In the battle of Yanzhou, the Yelu family invested nearly 200,000 troops, while the Long family only had 50,000 troops. With four times the strength, Longyang could support Yanzhou and not fall behind. Very good, how can there be such a great victory! Even if it is a great victory, do you still have 10,000 of the 50,000 elites of the Long family? Is the slightest chance of losing 50,000 elites to death really worthy of being described as a great victory? "

Behind the captain of his own bodyguard, Song Que, the leader of the Song clan, had a faint smile on his face. He was wearing a light scribe's gown and a bookish air. Who would have thought that this old, weak-mannered and sour man would be in charge of the three countries in southern Central and Bibia. Sixteen mountain people, the leader of the Song Dynasty with tens of millions of people

Everyone is a discerning person. The great victory of Yanzhou is just to support Yanzhou from falling. However, being able to support Yanzhou for half a month under the siege of four times the grassland army is unprecedented. Here comes someone! Before the war, no one knew why Long Yang wanted to defend Yanzhou, but now everything is frighteningly clear. Long Yang, the number one general in Central Asia, is indeed a decisive military general, knowing full well that he will risk his death. With the ingenuity of the younger generation, how could the Zhongbia court take action against Southwest without taking the initiative to trap the main force of the Long family?

A year ago, the northern nomadic cavalry suddenly went south and broke through the imperial capital. The cruelty of the grassland people shrouded the entire Central Asian community like boundless darkness. The army was defeated, the city fell, and the people were displaced. Those who fled south were like locusts. As many as I don't know how long it has been since I heard the word "good news". It is these two words that many Central and African people have been waiting for.

China and Biya can lose, but China and Biya cannot keep losing like this. If we lose the north, the imperial capital, and the central part, what is left? Are we even throwing away the last part of the South? God, open your eyes and look at the world in front of you. A group of grassland barbarians have tortured China and Bia into this state. How can everyone survive?

Now that the Long family has won a great victory in Yanzhou, they have supported Yanzhou with their own strength. They have even broken into the central part of Zhongbia with a single army to check the momentum of the grassland people from going south. They have broken through six cities in a row and rescued the Zhongbia people who were ruled by the grassland people. Nearly one million. It can be imagined that the impact on China and Bia, which has been longed for, is huge. Just think about how these news with incomparable impact will flow through the Central and South Asian region like a rolling wave. Just think about the wave that these news will set off in the Central and South Asian region. With the calmness of the Lord of the Song Dynasty, he also feels I feel a little solemn. In contrast, look at the actions of the Central Court.

The central region suffered successive defeats and cut off cities to seek peace. During the Long family's war in Yanzhou, they even attempted to get involved in the southwest and stab the Long family in the back. Originally, some people might have used the southwest Long family's disobedience to the court's orders as an excuse. What's going on now? explain? In addition to being despicable and shameless, it makes all Central and Bian people feel even more chilling! The emperor is incompetent and has lost his city and territory. The courtiers only know how to fight for power and fight against each other for the slightest benefit. No one cares about the screams and screams of the occupied areas. The military generals are all thinking about what little military power they have in their hands and changing the law. How many soldiers who make money from various channels really dare to go head-to-head with the prairie army? It is this kind of court that has lost the imperial capital and the central part of the country! Now it seems that if the grassland people on the other side of the river just make a gesture, they will immediately abandon Xinjing and Linhang and run further away! What are you doing in such a court?

Avoiding the crowd of cheering people on the street, Song Que turned into an alley under the guidance of a guide. The alley was not bright, but it was very clean. When Song Que walked in, several people immediately stood at the entrance of the alley again. The location where we chatted just blocked the eyes of passers-by trying to peek into the alley.

"You stay here!"

Song Que waved his hand solemnly, asking several guards to stop. Then he reached out very cautiously and patted the dust on his scholar's uniform before calmly walking to the other end of the alley, where there would be a person who was interested in Song. For the Long family, the meeting is no less important than Yanzhou for the Long family.

As an imperial emperor, no matter how much the Song family tried to entrust him, he was not so entrusted that he thought he could be fooled by an insignificant family member. Everything was done to show the Long family in the southwest. The southwest and the south were entangled with each other. In ten years, no one on either side was closely guarded. If he wanted to truly avoid the eyes of the Long family, Song Que's only way was to travel in a simple vehicle and enter the southwest with only four of his closest bodyguards.

In four days, it is the fifty-fifth birthday of Song Que, the leader of the Song clan. It is also a major event for Song Que to succeed as the head of the family for thirty years.

The marriage between the Song clan and the Southwest Long Family will be announced in a shocking way on that day. The alliance between the Southwest and the South will undoubtedly be a huge stone thrown into Jinghu Lake, which will have a huge impact on the entire Central Asian structure. Everyone in the Song clan is thinking about it. This matter was so busy that Song Que, the head of the Song clan, even announced a ten-day seclusion to offer incense to express his gratitude to the southern mountain people for their absolute support to the Song clan over the past thirty years.

At such a moment, who would have thought that Song Que, the leader of the Song clan, would appear in Guangling, the headquarters of the Long family hundreds of miles away, and even meet the emperor in an unknown alley. The Long family's victory in Yanzhou, although it had an impact power, but for the Southern Song people, cooperation with the empire was obviously more important

Especially when the Emperor of the Empire met for the first time, he didn't even blink his eyes, and gave the Dragon-class battleship blueprints of the Falcon Empire's most powerful battleship to the Song clan, which made Song Que, who was known for his conservativeness, no longer able to sit back and watch.

This is an era of rapid changes and an era of rising heroes. The century-old rule of the Zhongbia Empire has begun to show stability. The policy of controlling the southern mountains has also gradually changed from being gentle at the beginning to suppressing it with strong force. The Luzhou Army, the Fengwu Army, and the Southwest Longjia Xi Army, with a combined force of more than 300,000, were on top of the Song clan.

Originally, Song Que thought that this life would be just like the previous generations of the Song clan chiefs, and it would be great if he could win a living area for the mountain people in the south. However, he did not expect that the nomadic people from the northern grasslands would suddenly move south and defeat the Imperial Capital in Central Asia. Not only did it engulf nearly a million elite troops from the front and rear of the Zhongbia Empire; The Imperial Plains, which the country had devoted hundreds of years of effort to, were also occupied. The Zhongbia Empire was tired of dealing with the northern grassland peoples, and almost all its troops were drained. Its control over the southern mountains was weakened a lot, and the Luzhou Army, Feng The Wu army suffered heavy losses in Yanzhou and Shangjing, which created an uncontrollable gap in the shackles on the southern mountains.

Even a traditional conservative like Song Que felt the chaos of this era at this moment.

A time of great chaos has always been a precursor to a reshuffle. Now that the Long family has taken the initiative to marry, the last bit of suppression has been eliminated. If Song Que still doesn't know what it means to attack vigorously, he can take the opportunity to expand the living space of the southern mountain people. , then it is not Song Que. You must know that when the Zhongbia Empire was first established, the emperor of the Zhongbia Empire had an agreement with the Song clan chief. The north of Huangzhou was Zhongbia, and the south of Huangzhou was the mountain people.

But look at it now. With the large-scale immigration of Zhongbia court again and again, the Zhongbia people continue to reclaim land, squeeze the mountain people, and attack the mountain villages many times, causing heavy casualties to the mountain people. Not to mention Huangzhou. The border is over, and places like the ten Huangzhous have long since disappeared. Most of these immigrants from the Central and Asian Empire have more advanced production tools, and the number of them is astonishing. A group of them will arrive almost every few years. Like locusts, these self-righteous Central Asians, regardless of whether they own the land or not, just draw a line and occupy it. Although the mountain people are tough, their number is too small. In addition, these migrants have Chinese With the assistance of the local army stationed by Biya, it took only sixty or seventy years for the outer areas of the southern mountains to be almost completely occupied. The mountain people were good at hunting, so how could they be the opponents of the Central Biya people in reclamation!

If it weren't for the steep mountains and there would be little value in reclaiming the land, I'm afraid at least half of it would have been occupied by immigrants from Central Asia. Expanding the land northward would be impossible unless all the Central Asians who cleared the land were killed. , in that case, I am afraid that the Luzhou and Fengwu armies will suppress them unceremoniously. Come up, that's why the Song people are interested in Xiangnan. Three-quarters of the southern coast is under the control of the Song people. The Aden merchants who came from the southern sea area did not make a lot of money that time. As long as they can make With a large ship like the Aden, fishermen who are familiar with the water will never be a problem along the coast.

The drawings of Dragon-class battleships are indeed good things, although no one in the Song clan can understand them, let alone what the densely packed, criss-crossing line data on this drawing represents.

But the old man invited from Aden looked at it with strange eyes. If everyone hadn't seen a wrinkled drawing in front of the old man, they would have thought it was a stunning naked woman in front of the old man. They are all over sixty years old, and even their noses bleed when they look at them. What the hell is going on!

"This blueprint is absolutely true, but without the help of the empire, it would never be possible to create it!"

The old man, whose eyes were redder than that of a rabbit, studied the blueprints for two days and two nights. In the end, he could only hammer the table with his hand in sorrow. The old man's words also made Song Que's last hesitation come to an end. Why did the emperor give away the blueprints so generously? The reason has shown the sincerity of cooperation between the two parties. The empire can help the Song people build powerful sea ships. The empire wants the southern waterway. This condition is not too much. The emperor of the empire is still waiting for a reply in Guangling, southwest China. This time, Song Que came in person!

"Clan Chief Song, we finally meet!"

The fat man rarely wore Zhongbia-style samurai arrow sleeves. He stood on the top of the last slope at the alley. From above, he could see the entire street scene of Guangling City. He heard that Song Que was the leader of the Song clan and a Zhongbia. He is recognized as the number one expert in the South, so he dressed up a bit. Unexpectedly, he was a little surprised when he saw the real person. He was about forty years old, wearing a blue scholar's uniform. He didn't show signs of aging at all. He was graceful and majestic, and looked like everyone. He turned out to be a scribe

The fat man thinks that his vision is not bad. Song Que's steps are steady but not strong. At most, he is just stronger. Although the Song family is one of the four top first-class clans in Central and South Asia, they are real. Mountain people in the south, I heard that even the leader of the Song clan needs to hunt with a bow every year and catch a certain number of prey to support their ancestors.

Who said Song Que is the best master in the south? If you stand up, I will never kill him!

"Your Majesty the Emperor!" Song Que slightly saluted. When he met the young but astonishingly sharp eyes, the body of the leader of the Song clan visibly trembled slightly, and his fingers clenched unconsciously. Although the Song clan was the king of the south, he faced the The emperor who ruled two-thirds of the Western Continent still had some shortcomings, and the other party's youth and calmness made Song Que even more jealous. Yes, jealous, why is this guy so young! Is it really the reincarnation of a thousand-year-old evildoer!

"I heard that the Song clan has decided to marry the Long family. I don't know if it's true!" The fat man withdrew his sharp gaze and asked calmly.

"It's true. My son Song Fei has reached the age of marriage. Ever since he last saw Long Yue, the daughter of Long Po of the Long family, he has been neglecting food and food. He claimed that if he couldn't marry Long Yue, he would go on a hunger strike and die. In such a situation, As a prodigal son, I, as a father, had no choice, so I simply asked for a marriage from the Long family. I didn’t expect His Majesty to be so well-informed!”

When it came to marriage, Song Que's face showed a trace of self-mockery unconsciously. In fact, the meaning behind the truth was very clear. His son would die if he didn't marry a girl from the Long family. The marriage between the Long family and the Song family in the southwest was very important. This matter It is best for the empire not to interfere. Because the Song clan has always been isolated from the core of Zhongbia, even the first-class clan has never married with other clans in Zhongbia for more than a hundred years. Likewise, there is no gate. No. , is willing to marry with the Song clan, known as the barbarians of the south, so this marriage between the Long family and the Song clan is even more sensational. The Southwest Long family is also a real second-class clan, and it is definitely first-class among the imperial martial arts. First, now there is a great victory in Yanzhou. Its reputation is so high that no one can match it. Once the news of the marriage between the Long family and the Song family spreads, I don’t know how many people will bite their tongues in horror to see who dares. They say the Song people are barbarians!

"Congratulations to Patriarch Song!" Fatty cupped his hands, "I just don't know when the marriage will be held?"

"It should be after the head of the Long family returns to Guangling!" Song Que secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the emperor had no intention of interfering. The marriage between the Song family and Southwest China may not be a good thing for the empire. Such is the contest between national interests

"Head of the Long family? Did the patriarch say Long Yang? Or Long Po!" The fat man's eyes flashed, and he looked at Song Que who was looking at him with a half-smile.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?" Song Que blinked. Even the head of the Song clan was a little confused at this moment. The head of the Long family is naturally Long Yangla, but how could the emperor say it casually?

Could it be that...Song Que's face suddenly changed color, and a possibility that he had never thought of flashed through his mind, making him feel a wave of cold air rushing from the bones of his tailbone to his forehead. From what the emperor said, it seemed that Long Yang would not be able to come back. Already? No way, isn't it a great victory for Yanzhou? Yanzhou has already won, why won't Long Yang come!

"Hey, I just got the news. As soon as Yelu's army evacuated, Beiwangting's 50,000 light cavalry force entered Yanzhou behind them!"

The fat man let out a long sigh and looked towards the street. Is it really okay to talk about such an inappropriate issue under such a sunny scenery? After all, this is still Guanglingchuan, the headquarters of the Long family. Outside the window, the streets and alleys of Guangling are spread out in layers. The streets are full of people cheering. It is completely different from the scene where there were almost no people seen some time ago. It’s just that in this deafening scene Amid the cheers, one could only see countless long white cloth strips fluttering in the wind outside the windows of every house. They were Guangling people's soul-calling flags for the tens of thousands of heroes who died on the Yanzhou battlefield by the Long family's Western Army. , heavy snow covers Guangling! (To be continued.)