The winter rain was falling, and waves of rain and mist appeared in Yuque City. It was changing in a thousand ways, turning Yuque Mountain into a gray and solemn color, making the entire Yuque City vaguely blurred, looming in the smoke, like a fairyland.
Under the sound of raindrops piercing the stone, everything in the city seemed so quiet.
In five years, Yuque City expanded a lot and became the largest city in Xuanyan Continent.
In the inner city from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, there are no thatched houses or shacks anymore. The buildings are all two- to three-story blue brick and plain tile buildings built against the mountain.
Amidst the gurgling streams, green trees, and overhanging eaves are looming in the mist, just like a beautiful building.
All the roads around the mountain have also been transformed into avenues paved with large bluestone slabs, several feet wide, and can run eight horses side by side without feeling crowded.
In the outer city that extends from the foot of the mountain to all sides, there are also many tall houses. Deep house courtyards made of huge stones and spectacular four-fold horse-head walls can be seen everywhere, standing on both sides of the crisscrossing streets.
Five miles away from the foot of the mountain, a huge octagonal city wall, tens of feet wide, made of compacted granite, rises from the ground like a giant dragon prostrate on the ground, stretching for hundreds of miles. It surrounds the entire Yuque City.
On each side, there is an arched city gate full of brass door nails, and there are urns outside the gate; there are many stone towers dozens of feet high on the walls.
Coupled with the magic formations set up by the ancient gods in the Jade Palace, the current Jade City is indestructible.
At the bottom of the Tiankeng, in the calm and majestic Jade Palace, the sculptures of ancient gods on the cornices and tiles are flying together in the Tianyang Palace. The changes are not small.
In the middle of the hall, a new square table with a diameter of two feet and a total of thirty-two legs supporting the heavy top was installed; it occupied one-third of the space in the hall.
A huge sand table connected by mountains and rivers rises from the table, vividly presenting the landforms of the ten continents of the underworld.
Surrounding the table are sixteen nanmu chairs. The two on the north are decorated with complicated carving patterns such as clouds and dragons, and are painted with gold. On the left and right armrests, there are carved thrones with the statue of Nuwa Fuxi holding her head high. On the opposite side, the two on the south are
The chair is shaped like a chair with a rolling cloud pattern on the back, a cloud-headed Ganoderma lucidum pattern carved inside, a central circular frame inlaid with marble, and a symmetrical cloud-headed Ganoderma lucidum at the bottom of the round frame.
There are six four-head official hat chairs with protruding heads and armrests on the east and west sides.
The people sitting at this table at this moment are all important ministers around Xiao Shizhu; on the left and right are Lu Wu, Chunyun, Lin Cong, Yingzhao who came from Shuoyue Island, and Chang Ya who came back from the southern border.
, Gonggong, Qinyuan and Huhui.
As for those sitting in the south, it is Wu Qiu Shou and the national master Ying Ying.
This is the Inner Court Cabinet Department established by Xiao Shizhu five years ago. It is mainly responsible for handling all military operations in the court and the selection of talented people.
This will prevent the officials in the court from blindly interfering and making judgments about the court's external use of troops. This will allow all military operations in Jiuyou Kingdom to be implemented without any hindrance.
Since then, every winter, cabinet ministers scattered around the country will gather here to hold a conference.
The generals and ministers were sitting around the table drinking tea, sometimes whispering about something; only Yingying was very unsociable, she just lowered her head to sip tea and silently waited for Xiao Shizhu's arrival.
After a long time, Xiao Shizhu and Ghost Mother walked in with Qing Lan and Chen Ruo.
The ministers got up one after another, and when they were about to salute, they saw Xiao Shizhu waved their hands, and laughed: "OK, those etiquette will be exempted.".
After he and the ghost mother were in the throne in the north, he looked around the ghosts for a moment, and looked at the left and right empty chairs. He said: "Today we are going to join a member, the new Yuyu Cityfu Yin.".
The ghosts who have been quietly have a commotion, and they whispered quietly who is the city of the city?
Xiao Shizhu gently stroked it twice, saying: "The newcomer's palace Yin Jiang Ziwen, the Qin Guangwang, who was once the Emperor of the Capital.". After the words, all the ghosts were shocked, and Jiang Ziwen entered from outside the palace.
"Sit, don't have to be more gift." Xiao Shizhu invited him to seat without waiting for him to salute.
At the same time, Qing Lan and Chen Ruo walked out of the temple, closed the hall door, and together with Hou's Fan Jinhong and the guards of the Forbidden Army outside the temple, stayed outside the temple.
When Jiang Ziwen was sitting, he saw Lin Cong opposite, and he was shocked; suspiciously emerged at the bottom of his eyes.
At the same time, Yingzhao Station stared up at him, glaring at him, "Brother, this ghost is the loyal walking dog of the Emperor of the Du Du Du, how can he make him have such a solemn meeting in our country?".
As soon as this statement came out, it was immediately approved by the ghosts, including the co -workers Lu Wu and Qin Yuan, and the co -workers, which were shouted for a while; Jiang Ziwen's face sank.
"Stop." When Jiang Ziwen was about to argue for himself, Xiao Shizhu rebuked, and the ghosts closed his mouth.
"You know, who has been dedicated to fake intelligence in the past five years, blindfolding the emperor, and exchanged for us for military expenses, ghost slaves?" Xiao Shizhu looked at them, and his eyes finally fell into Ying Ying who suddenly shook his head.
On the face, one of the followers refers to Jiang Ziwen, and said sharply: "It was this King Qin Guang.".
"Ying Zha, do you believe it, do you still believe your elder brother?" After the ghost mother took the words, after asking the British recruitment, she said, "You can arrange him to be Yin Yin, the city of Yuyu, and enter the dynasty.
The Pavilion participated in major domestic decisions because Jiang Ziwen was credible. ".
The Yingzhao no longer said much, nodded, "Nuo" sounded.
"Well, I won't mention the past." Xiao Shizhu smiled and saw Jiang Ziwen look at Lin Cong with doubtful eyes, and explained: "Lin Cong, I arranged the secret of the Mo's family, which is also your former subordinate.
".
"After being known by Mo Zhai, he escaped back, and now the Lord arrested the secret work of our country. Now all the information of Du Ziren in the south comes from him." Xiao Shizhu watched a lie and confused.
Ti Mo Zhai's death.
I thought it was Jiang Ziwen, who was mixed with the Mo family in the Jiuyou Junior High School, and then put away the suspicion. He had a gift to Lin Conghan with a smile. Lin Cong was the same.
"This time the summoning group was the first to discuss the solution to the hidden dangers of the south." Xiao Shizhu got up with a slender bamboo stick, and after the head fingers of Du Ziren's site on the sand table, he excitedly said: "We are going to war, the purpose is this southern in the south.
Emperor Emperor! ".
"Big king." He fell to the ground after his words, and Wuqiu Shou had got up and worshiped: "Five years ago, my country and Du Ziren signed a ten -year peace treaty. Although there are often small frictions on the border between the two countries in recent years The treaty, the invasion is very inappropriate! ".
"I don't want to be like this either. In the past five years, our country has been able to develop by relying on the absence of large-scale wars; but now it can't be done without tearing it up." Xiao Shizhu took out a note from his sleeve and handed it to the ghost to circulate.
He continued: "According to the secret report from Fengdu, if we don't take action within half a year, Emperor Fengdu will send troops to conquer our country on the charge of collaborating with the rebels."
After the ghosts circulated it one by one, except for Yingying, who always had a cold expression, everyone was shocked.
In the past five years, Xiao Shizhu has been disobeying Beiyin Chaoyang, while signing a peace treaty with Du Ziren and recharging his energy. At the same time, he has been complaining to Emperor Fengdu, sometimes saying that he has no money, and sometimes saying that he has no weapons and ghosts to form an offensive army.
In addition, Jiang Ziwen cooperated with his deception, not only was the tribute paid by Jiuyou Kingdom to the imperial court halved, but Emperor Fengdu also had to allocate some money to him from time to time.
Xiao Shizhu hesitated even after taking the money, and occasionally sent small groups of troops to raid Du Ziren's border fortress, just for show.
Instead, they took the opportunity to let Chang Ya and Chun Han send troops to destroy the Diao Minguo and Jiao Hui Guo who were good at archery. Not only did they pacify the hidden dangers in the southwest, but they also made the long bows, short bows, and fast bows that the Diao people and Jiao Hui were proud of.
The technique has flowed into the various armies of the Jiuyou Nation, improving the combat effectiveness of the Jiuyou Nation's army.
Originally, Emperor Fengdu didn't completely believe him. He secretly recruited soldiers five years ago, specifically recruiting human souls who were about to be reincarnated into pigs and dogs to form a new army in order to deal with Xiao Shizhu. In addition, Xiao Shizhu had been duplicitous in the past five years.
This completely angered Emperor Fengdu.
But Xiao Shizhu did not resist after all. The suspicious Emperor Fengdu still had a glimmer of hope, hoping that he would not move because he was afraid of losing too much in fighting Du Ziren.
Therefore, it was planned that if Xiao Shizhu did not take action within half a year, Emperor Fengdu would send troops to destroy him.
I just never thought that when Wu Qiu Shou went to Fengdu for the first time, he secretly turned a ghost around Emperor Fengdu into an insider of Jiuyou Kingdom. Most of the secrets of Emperor Fengdu in recent years have not escaped Xiao Shizhu's eyes
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"As far as I know, whether we fight Du Ziren or not, Emperor Fengdu will send troops to destroy our country soon and return Xuanyan Continent to the imperial court." Xiao Shizhu pondered for a moment, stared at the landscape on the sand table, and smiled slightly
Frowning: "Instead of sitting back and waiting for death, it is better to take the initiative and solve the hidden dangers in the south before Emperor Fengdu's plan; lest Fengdu's army attacks, Du Ziren breaks the contract, and our country is in danger of being attacked from two sides."
As soon as the word "jing" came out of his mouth, he raised his lips and smiled; at the same time, a black shadow flickered in the darkness on the beam of the hall, carrying an icy cold light and striking towards the top of his head.
"So, this matter should be taken up sooner rather than later." Xiao Shizhu said, in the astonishment of other ghosts except Yingying Ghost Mother, he calmly raised his hand and raised his index and middle fingers, and accurately clamped the black shadow that was rapidly following
The coming cold light.
A crisp sound of "Dang!" came from his fingertips. At the same time, the black shadow was startled, paused in mid-air, turned sideways, and landed firmly on the edge of the sand table.
He held a broken sword with a smooth fracture in his hand, and the missing sword tip was sandwiched between Xiao Shizhu's two fingers.
"Xiao Fuling!" The ghost mother stood up abruptly, raised her eyebrows and shouted sternly: "You are making nonsense again!" (To be continued)