The peaks and ridges are like clusters, and the waves are like angry waves.
Wasion.
Looking out from the city wall of Tianji Palace, there are many mountains in the distance, with loess roads extending and beacon towers built along the mountain peaks. People and carriages are like weaving, coming from the other side of the mountain. It is afternoon, Lou Shuwan
She was so tired that she almost fainted. She held on to the parapet on the palace wall and walked slowly while looking at the scenery.
In the past few days, Lou Shuwan had hardly stopped in her busy schedule, running around to sort out the situation and strengthen defense. She visited and lobbied every important player in the Jin Dynasty's power, or made powerful or powerful statements.
It was the threat of swords and guns, especially in the past few days, when she returned from other places and kept communicating in private. Day and night, she barely slept. Today, she finally finalized the most critical matter in the court.
This matter will determine the fate of everyone. She doesn't know whether this decision is right or wrong. At this moment, the palace is still discussing the urgent follow-up situation. But it is a matter that belongs to women: private conspiracy
, threats, intrigues...this has come to an end.
Looking back, Tianji Palace is majestic and majestic, full of luxury and lust. This is the result of the Tiger King's massive construction projects during his arrogant period. Now the Tiger King has died in an insignificant dark room. It seems to be telling her that every powerful person has
The character is actually just an ordinary person. The heaven and the earth are all working together, and the hero is not free. At this time, the people who control Tianji Palace and control the power may be overturned in the next moment.
When the Jurchens arrived, it was difficult to turn around. The initial battle started in Daming Mansion in the east. Li Xizhi was eliminated at the first opportunity. Then the main force of 300,000 Jurchen East Route Army arrived at Daming Mansion. Daming Mansion was in a bloody mountain of corpses.
The sea had been resisting for more than half a month. At the same time, Zhu Biao led the Black Flag in an attempt to sneak attack the Jurchens' southward crossing of the Yellow River, but failed and fled. To the north of Yanmen Pass, Zong Han's army, which was even more difficult to deal with, slowly pressed forward.
Wang Juyun had already taken a fighting stance. No one could guess what Wang Shangshu, who was originally the Yongle Dynasty, was thinking. However, it was King Jin's turn to make the next decision.
So there were two choices: First, although they cooperated with the Chinese army to kill Tian Hu, and later eliminated a large number of Han officials who were inclined to Jurchen according to the exposed list, the King of Jin and the Kingdom of Jin still had no separation in name.
If Zong Han wants to come over, let him kill him. If he wants to cross the road, let him cross. When the army crosses the Yellow River, the forces of the King of Jin will rise up on the spot and cut off the retreat. It is a relatively easy decision.
Second, do not underestimate the wisdom of Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Xiyin and other Jurchen founders. While you still have the initiative to choose, speak clearly what you need to say, cooperate with the allies that still exist on the north bank of the Yellow River, purify internal thinking, and rely on those under your jurisdiction to
The rugged terrain of the region will make it the most difficult battle. At least, it will create the greatest trouble for the Jurchens.
If you can't resist, then go into the mountains, move deeper into the mountains, or even turn to the northwest. In this way, King Jin may still become the core and leader of the rebels north of the Yellow River because of his current power. If there is
One day, the Wu Dynasty and Black Flag can really defeat the Jurchens, and the line of Jin kings will create a career that will last forever.
She chose the second path. Perhaps it was because she was used to cruelty and no longer had illusions. She did not think that the first path was real. First, people like Zong Han and Xi Yin would not let Jin go.
The king is surviving behind his back. Secondly, even if he is really let go, when the Guangwu Army, the Huaxia Army, Wang Juyun and other forces are wiped out on the north bank of the Yellow River, the energy and spirit within the Jin King will also be wiped out.
The so-called uprising in the future will never happen.
The idea of expressing an opposing attitude before the Jurchens expressed their stance seemed too bold and crazy to many people within the Jinwang system. Therefore, it was really difficult to convince them one by one. But
She still did it.
The afternoon sun was warm, and suddenly she felt like she had turned into a moth. She had been hiding when she could. This time, the light was too bright, and she flew towards the sun.
…
Too many people are going to die...
With this in mind, she slowly walked down the palace city. There was also a figure coming from a distance, but it was Yu Yulin who was supposed to be discussing matters inside. Lou Shuwan stopped and saw him approaching, and there was something in her eyes.
There was a hint of questioning seriousness.
"We have been arguing for a day, and the discussion has been temporarily suspended. King Jin asked everyone to have something to eat and continue later."
"Then what are you here for?"
"The King of Jin asked me to come and see you. You haven't slept in two days. Why don't you go to the palace to rest first?"
"You don't need to worry about me. I've finished my work. How to send troops and how to fight is your men's business. Just go and don't let things change."
"...Okay." Yu Yulin hesitated to speak, but finally nodded and cupped his hands. Lou Shuwan watched him turn around, and then said: "I can't sleep...I can't sleep in the palace. I'll go to your room outside later.
Take a break from your job."
"Yes." Yu Yulin nodded, "Take care of yourself." Then he walked toward the main hall. Lou Shuwan sat on the steps at the foot of the palace wall for a while, and then asked the attendants to pick up a carriage and left Tianji Palace.
Yu Yulin's villa outside was very close to Tianji Palace. In the past, Lou Shuwan would come to the palace and often come here to rest for a while. In the era of the Tiger King, although Lou Shuwan managed various things, as a woman, her identity was actually
It's not official. There are rumors that she is the mistress of the Tiger King. But apart from business, Lou Shuwan lives in
The place is actually quite far away from the palace. After killing Tian Hu, Lou Shuwan became one of the de facto leaders of King Jin’s power. Even if he wanted to live in Tianji Palace, Tian Shi would not have any objection, but Lou Shuwan and those few
She lived with Lou Shuheng, who was almost half crazy. She didn't want Lou Shuheng to get close to the core of Wasion, so she simply moved to the outskirts of the city.
Although it was easy for Lou Shuwan to live in Wei Sheng City at this time and to run ten or eight splendid villas, she was so busy with worldly affairs that she had almost no interest in these. When she entered the city
, occasionally only on Yulin’s side
Luolujia. She is a woman. It was rumored that she was Tian Hu's mistress in the early years. Now, even if she can cover the sky with one hand, Lou Shuwan doesn't mind people misunderstanding that she is Yu Yulin's lover. If someone really misunderstands her like this, it will only save her a lot of trouble.
.
The carriage entered through the back door of this villa, and when it got off, it was discovered that it was quite lively in front. It was probably because Yu Yulin's cousin Yu Bin had invited a group of prominent scholars to gather here. Shu Wan had also attended these gatherings and didn't care.
, waving to the steward not to make any noise, and then went to rest in the small courtyard dedicated to the rear.
She fell asleep not long ago. Although the direction of major events has been decided, what she faces next is more like a road to hell. Death may be right in front of her. Her mind is buzzing and she can see many scenes from the past.
, this scene comes from Ning Yi Yongle entering Hangzhou city, subverting her past.
All life, Ning Yi was deeply involved in it, carving a way out from a prisoner, the scholar refused to tolerate, no matter how small the hope, she would only make the right choice, she always saw him... He walked into the door of Lou's house
, stretched out his hand and fired the crossbow, then crossed the hall and overturned the table with one hand...
Now she is also walking this narrow road. Over the years, sometimes she felt that her heart had died long ago, but at this moment, she thought of that figure, the culprit and the original intention of her many decisions.
This time, she might be going to die. When all of this became extremely real, she suddenly realized that she regretted that... she could never see him again...
Her mind was buzzing and her body was only slightly tired, so she couldn't sleep any longer. She asked someone to wash her face with water, walked in the yard, and then walked out to the next yard. The waitress followed behind,
Everything around her was very quiet. There were not many people in the backyard of the general's villa. She was walking around in a courtyard. In the center of the courtyard was a huge locust tree. Its leaves turned yellow in late autumn, and its lantern-like fruits fell to the ground.
"Miss Lou." Someone called her at the gate of the courtyard, waking her up from being lost under the tree. Lou Shuwan turned around and looked. It was a man in green robes in his early forties, with a dignified and elegant face. It seemed that
A little serious, Lou Shuwan subconsciously handed over her hand: "Master Zeng, I didn't expect to meet you here."
"I didn't expect Miss Lou to be here at this moment." That Master Zeng's name was Zeng Yuhuai, and he was a well-known Confucian under the influence of the King of Jin. Lou Shuwan had some contact with him, but it was not close to him. Zeng Yuhuai was a very serious Confucian.
, give it up at this time
There was no kindness in his eyes when he said hello. Lou Shuwan has a high position and usually has a relatively gentle approach to contacting these scholars. But at this time, he couldn't get out of his slow thinking. What is he doing here and what does he have to do?
...can't think clearly.
"Miss Lou always appears in your residence, which is damaging to your reputation. Zeng thinks you should pay more attention to her."
Zeng Yuhuai raised his hands and said this seriously. Unexpectedly, the other person's words were criticism. Lou Shuwan hesitated slightly, and then smiled: "Master is right, the little girl will pay attention. However, the sage said that a gentleman is magnanimous.
, the matter between me and General Yu is actually... not anyone else’s business."
She was sharp-tongued and spoke smoothly with sarcasm and rebuttal, but Zeng Yuhuai still gave it away: "Rumors hurt people. It's better to be more careful about your reputation."
This person was so annoying. Lou Shuwan still had a smile on her face and was about to speak when she heard the other person continue: "Miss Lou has done her best for the country and the people over the years. She really shouldn't be hurt by rumors."
"Uh..." Lou Shuwan was stunned, "Zeng..."
Zeng Yuhuai's face was still serious, but his eyes were clear, and he was not lying: "Although people who do big things do not stick to trivial matters, there are some things that are not fair in the world. Zeng had misunderstood Miss Lou in his early years, and he has seen what the girl has done in the past few years.
, then I found out that Zeng had a past with the world.
It's so shallow. Over the years, the Jin King's administration has been able to support its development to this day, thanks to the support of the girl. Now Wei Sheng's goods are available in all directions. Over the past few days, people from the east and north have come to the mountains, which just proves that Lou
What the girl has done over the years is truly extraordinary."
Lou Shuwan thought for a while: "Actually... Thousands of sails passed by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of spring trees were in front of the diseased trees. What Master Zeng saw was not a good thing."
"Zeng already knows the news that King Jin is willing to send troops. This is what Zeng wants to thank Miss Lou for." Zeng Yuhuai bowed her hands deeply, "As a woman, protecting the country and the people is a great merit, but today
The overthrow is imminent, and between right and wrong, Miss Lou can run through it and choose the great road. No matter what happens next, the hundreds of millions of Han people under the jurisdiction of the King of Jin owe Miss Lou a thank you."
"Uh..." The other party spoke so seriously that Lou Shuwan had nothing to answer.
The strange scholar continued: "...In fact, in the early years, Zeng gradually noticed that Miss Lou was extraordinary. We met several times but never talked in depth. However, Zeng noticed that Miss Lou seemed to be hurt, so he did not stick to trivial matters.
, even if he did many things, he didn’t want others to know about it. Zeng was deeply involved in it, and gradually fell in love with Miss Lou..."
"..."
"Miss Lou must not know these things, and Zeng also knows that it is a bit presumptuous to speak at this time, but since the afternoon, knowing what Miss Lou has been doing all these days, the excitement in her heart is uncontrollable... Miss Lou, Zeng knows it
... Meng Lang is here, but the Jurchens are coming, Miss Lou... I don’t know if Miss Lou is willing..."
Zeng Yuhuai had a serious face, and he was indeed a well-educated scholar in the past. At this time, he seemed to be calmly stating his feelings. Lou Shuwan had never encountered such a thing. In her early years, she was a free-spirited person and had many relationships with many people in Hangzhou.
Scholars have been together in the past, so they should be calm on weekdays
A self-possessed Confucian scholar, in private, appears to be impatient, frivolous, and loses his stability. When it comes to Tian Hu, Lou Shuwan's status is not low, and if she wants to be seen, she will certainly not be short, but she has lost interest in these things, and she is usually dark.
The same goes for widows, who naturally don't have many romantic opportunities.
The middle-aged Confucian scholar in front of him was different. He praised and confessed seriously, saying that I have a crush on you. All of this was extremely weird, but he was not excited, he just looked solemn. The Jurchens were coming to kill him.
, so this expression of emotion became solemn. At this moment, thirty-six-year-old Lou Shuwan stood under the yellow-leaf tree, with lanterns and flowers everywhere. She folded her hands and bowed slightly.
This was a lady's etiquette that she hadn't used in a long time.
"Master Zeng, I'm sorry...Shu Wan..." She thought for a moment, "I have given my life to the country, and it's hard to be allowed to marry you again..." She said in her heart: What I told is a lie.
Zeng Yuhuai's words stopped: "Well, Zeng is in trouble... Zeng has decided to go to the army tomorrow. I hope it is possible to go north with the army. The Jurchens are coming. In the future... if you are lucky enough to survive...
Miss Lou, I hope to see you again."
Lou Shuwan stood there in silence, looking at the other party, her eyes became clear, but there was nothing more to say. After Zeng Yuhuai finished speaking, he turned around and left. Lou Shuwan stood under the tree, and the setting sun filled the room with extremely magnificent rays of light.
The whole sky. She didn't like Zeng Yu's arms, certainly not love, but at this moment, the buzzing voice stopped in her mind.
She got on the carriage and slowly walked through the market, through the busy city, and back to her home in the suburbs. It was already night, and the evening wind was blowing. It crossed the fields outside and came to the yard here.
Lou Shuwan walked through the courtyard, looking at everything around him, including blue stone slabs, red walls and gray walls.
The tiles, the carvings and paintings on the walls, and the weeds under the corridor. She walked to the garden and stopped. Only a few flowers were still open in late autumn. All kinds of plants were lush and lush, and the garden was taken care of every day. She didn't
If you need these, you wouldn't even look at them in the past, but these things have always existed.
Lou Shuwan sat by the flower bed and watched these quietly. The servants lit lanterns on the eaves of the surrounding Langyuan. The light of the moon shone down, reflecting the pool water in the center of the garden, sparkling in the night wind.
After a while, Lou Shuheng, who looked drunk after drinking, walked past the other side. He walked to the pavilion above the pool and saw Lou Shuwan. He was so frightened that he fell to the ground, cowering.
"There's going to be a war." After a while, Lou Shuheng said this. Lou Shuwan kept looking at him, but didn't react much. Lou Shuheng then said again: "The Jurchens are coming, and there's going to be a war... Crazy
"
"There's a war..."
"There's a war..."
There was silence in the courtyard for a long time. Lou Shuheng fell down and rolled in the pavilion, then sat up against the pillar and murmured. Ever since he came to the territory of the Tiger King, the Central Plains has not been peaceful, but because Lou Shuwan climbed extremely hard
Come on, the only war the two brothers and sisters have ever experienced was actually the uprising of the Yongle Dynasty and the subsequent migration. Lou Shuheng was still afraid of it in his heart.
At some point, Lou Shuwan got up and walked over. She sat down on a seat in the pavilion, very close to Lou Shuheng, and just looked at him. Now they are the only two siblings left in the Lou family. Lou Shuheng
Good for nothing, Lou Shuwan originally expected him to play with women and at least leave some blood to the Lou family, but it turns out that long-term indulgence has made him lose this ability. For a while, this is the only time the two of them have been so calm.
stayed together.
"Brother, how many years has it been?"
"……ah?"
"Do you miss Hangzhou? I have always thought about it, but I can't remember it, until today..." Lou Shuwan spoke in a low voice. Under the moonlight, the corners of her eyes looked a little red, but it might be an illusion under the moonlight.
"..."
"...Yeah, the Jurchens are coming...Something happened, brother, we suddenly felt..." her voice paused, "...our life was really too frivolous..."
"Ah?" Lou Shuheng's voice came from his throat, but he couldn't understand it.
"...You, me, brother, I think of the past...we were all too frivolous...too frivolous." She closed her eyes and cried softly, thinking of all the happy things in the past, and the things they faced hastily.
All that, whether happy or happy, she lingers in all kinds of desires
Well, until she was thirty-six years old, the Confucian scholar bowed to her seriously and said, "I like you if you do something for the country and the people... I have made a decision, and I am going to the north."
...She didn't like him. However, those things that had been ringing in her head stopped...
If I, my brother, could have treated the world more seriously at that time, would all of this have a different ending?
She was sitting in the pavilion, looking at Lou Shuwan in another world. The moonlight was shining down, illuminating the mountains and thousands of miles of rivers, filled with gunpowder smoke.
Time, with unspeakable power, pushed mountains of memories in front of her, crushing her past. However, when she opened her eyes, the road was gone.