Zhuang Yong asked, is it sad?

But how should this be answered?

The first emperor Li Chengyuan is also a person with great ambitions, in the years under his rule, the development of Daning is not slow, if nothing else, he should still be sitting on the dragon chair now, but then there is no such a prosperous era now, it is indeed sad for Li Chengyuan personally, but for Daning, it is definitely a blessing for His Majesty Li Chengtang to sit on the throne today.

Shen Leng had vaguely heard some things about the former emperor Li Chengyuan, but who dared to say this kind of thing casually?

"The first emperor died, Mu Zhaotong and Queen Su conspired, planning to support Li Xiaoran, the son of the king of Lixin, but before this, the old dean sent a letter to Dongjiang, if there is only the old dean's signature on the letter, Pei Tingshan will come, but he will be worried, for the general, then his knife will swing, not sharp, but Pei Tingshan came with a momentum like a rainbow, because there is a person's name on the letter, so Pei Tingshan dared to go to Chang'an with only 9,000 swords."

Shen Leng asked, "General Tangtai?" ”

"yes."

Zhuang Yong smiled: "The letter was signed by two people, one was the old dean and the other was the general of Shantai. ”

There was some distress in his smile, and he was a little distressed when he looked at Shen Leng, because when he said this, it was about Shen Leng.

"Something happened that night, the night before His Majesty entered Beijing."

Zhuang Yong said: "I told you just now that the queen is a scheming and unwilling person, she is already very dissatisfied with marrying her into the palace of Liuwang, and suddenly she gets the news that she may become the queen, what will she think?" ”

Zhuang Yong continued: "It just so happened that on that day, Concubine Zhen gave birth, and the queen sent someone to steal the child and give it to Mr. Shen. ”

Shen Leng's heart was shocked.

Although he had thought about it countless times and probably guessed something, when Zhuang Yong's words came out, his heart still shook, how could he be as calm as water, it was about his life experience.

"Don't say it."

Shen Leng suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhuang Yong: "I know what you mean, but don't say anything later." ”

Zhuang Yong was stunned.

"Okay, then let's not talk about it."

Zhuang Yong took a sip of the teacup: "So you have to listen to my advice, don't mention my affairs to Your Majesty after you go back, I don't just think about yourself, but also for me, you should be for me." ”

In fact, where is it for himself, Shen Leng is not stupid, he has already understood what Zhuang Yong's purpose is in telling this story, the beginning of this story is about how His Majesty's father is partial, how he is afraid that His Majesty will fight for the throne so he suppresses, and then talks about Shen Leng's life experience, the meaning of these words is nothing more than to tell Shen Leng that if you fight for something, you will lose more.

Zhuang Yong used such a story to tell Shen Leng that your position is very sensitive and special, more sensitive and special than anyone else, you can't do what Your Majesty wants to give you, but if you go and ask for something yourself, Your Majesty may feel that you have changed in your heart now, of course Shen Leng understands, he doesn't want Zhuang Yong to continue to talk about it precisely because he understands everything.

There is another reason, in fact, Shen Leng also understands, if His Majesty knows that Zhuang Yong personally led the army to wander outside for nearly a year in order to see Shen Leng, then what does Your Majesty think?

Your Majesty already feels that there are too many people around Shen Leng, and once something happens, Shen Leng will have a huge impact, and let Your Majesty know about this matter, how can Your Majesty not think about it?

"You'll go back tomorrow."

Zhuang Yong looked at Shen Leng and said: "Go back to Chang'an as soon as possible, and leave Chang'an after talking to Your Majesty about the Great War in Western Xinjiang, the place in Chang'an City is no longer the same as before." ”

Shen Leng snorted.

Yes, it's different from the original, it turns out that when the crown prince Li Changze was in Chang'an, in fact, no matter what happened, His Majesty was on Shen Leng's side, and if the second prince became the crown prince after returning to Chang'an, then His Majesty was on the side of the second prince.

"I know."

Shen sneered: "We eat shabu-shabu at night. ”

Zhuang Yong also laughed: "Okay, just eat shabu-shabu." ”

He asked Shen Leng: "Did you go back to Chang'an directly from here?" If you take the waterway, you will go to Hujian Road, and then take the Grand Canal to Chang'an, which is faster than you will return to Chang'an from this to the west. ”

"Go back to the West first."

Shen Leng looked out the window: "There is still something to be done." ”

Three months later, Western Xinjiang, Houque State.

There is a Tianmen Mountain in the Houque State, there is a Tianmen Taoist Temple on Tianmen Mountain, here was the place where the Taoist ancestors traveled to the place, they stayed here for several years, and they also received a lot of disciples in lectures and preaching, and then the Taoist ancestors continued to travel west without a trace, and the Tianmen Taoist Temple was handed down, and later the people of the Tianmen Taoist Temple thought that the Taoists other than them were pseudo-Daoists, and the Taoist laws outside of their Tianmen Taoist Temple were pseudo-laws.

The people of Tianmen Taoist Temple are all ancient Qiang people, they don't know that the reason why Daozu stayed here to lecture for a few years is precisely because their ancient Qiang people are too angry and murderous, and Daozu hopes to make the ancient Qiang people become gentle through their own efforts, pass on the Taoist scriptures, treat people with gentleness, and survive with good thoughts, but Daozu should not have thought that when manpower is finally exhausted, his efforts are meaningless.

After the army of the Western Expedition of Daning broke through the Houque State, the soldiers surrounded Tianmen Mountain, the warlike ancient Qiang people did not think that the Ning people could do anything on their territory, the army of the Houque State had conquered them more than once, which time was not a feather return, the terrain here is steep and the climate is cold, and they are the most powerful cavalry as long as they are on horseback, but this time they were wrong.

In the next battle of Tianmen Mountain, the Daning soldiers broke the ancient Qiang cavalry, and then attacked the ancient Qiang garrison and killed a corpse all over the field.

The Qiang people in this vein and the Qiang people in the northwest of Daning are not the same race, nor are they the same race, but they are all called Qiang people, in fact, even the people of the Qiang people in the northwest do not recognize the people of Tianmen Mountain as them of the same ancestry.

Tianmen Mountain Taoist Temple was surrounded by soldiers, from this day on, the people in Tianmen Mountain Taoist Temple were panicked, they didn't know which day the Ning army soldiers would use feather arrows to give them a few salvos, and they didn't know if they would die under the dense iron javelins, but the Ning people had never entered the Taoist Temple and no one even said a word, but the people in the Taoist Temple couldn't rush out.

After being besieged for two months, several masters of Tianmen Temple, who finally couldn't hold their breath, broke through with their disciples overnight, rushed out and were shot dead by random arrows, and at dawn, the master heard a knock on the door outside, and ordered to open the mountain gate, and then found that there were neat Daning soldiers standing outside, and there were more than a dozen corpses on the ground in front of the soldiers, and dozens of living people who were tied up, and the corpses and living people were sent back, and then Ning Jun left without saying a word.

From this day on, the contemplator knew who these Ning soldiers were waiting for.

This kind of feeling of waiting for someone to come is even worse, whether it is killed or caught, it is not a good thing to send it back.

Since then, no one has come to disturb the Tianmen Taoist Temple, and there has not even been a knock on the door.

It's this kind of torment that makes people more and more unbearable, and it can drive people crazy in a few days, and

This is more than eight months, more than eight months, four or five people have gone crazy, three of them committed suicide, two are really crazy, shouting in the courtyard all day long what ghosts and ghosts, stabbed to death by the master in anger, the whole Taoist temple is filled with a strange atmosphere, so that people can't breathe.

Half a year, torment, torture, and mental oppression can make them collapse at any time.

Bang, bang.

There was a knock on the wooden door, and all the people in the courtyard were stunned, and then someone couldn't help but shout: "Someone is coming!" It's finally here! ”

Two Taoists from the Heavenly Gate Temple ran over and opened the door, anyway, even if they didn't open the door, they couldn't stop anyone, and there was a handsome-looking young man standing outside the door, wearing a black sè gown with his cuffs pulled up, standing there casually, but there was a little expectation in his eyes.

"Who are you?"

Someone asked.

The young man in black smiled: "I am Shen Leng, a nominal disciple of Fengningguan in Chang'an. ”

He stepped into the door, and two people followed him in, one was a young Taoist who looked loyal, and the other was a small Taoist wearing a black sè Taoist robe, the black sè Taoist robe symbolized his identity, that was the real Taoist of Daning, the national teacher of Daning.

Shen Leng stepped into the door, all the people in the Tianmen Taoist Temple rushed out, and after a while, hundreds of people gathered in the courtyard, and after a while, they separated on both sides, and the master of the Tianmen Mountain Taoist Temple strode to Shen Leng not far in front of him, and he looked Shen Leng up and down: "Shen Leng? Is that Shen Leng, the general of the Ning Army? ”

Shen Leng didn't answer.

"You're going to use the general's knife to make a break?"

"It's not."

Shen Leng replied this time.

He looked back at Xiao Zhang Zhenren: "Borrow a sword." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren took a step forward and handed the Dao sword in his hand to Shen Leng, who looked at the sword carefully: "They don't deserve to die under this sword." ”

He pulled out the long sword, and returned the sword to Xiao Zhang Zhenren, leaving only a scabbard in his hand.

The master of the Tianmen Mountain Taoist Temple looked at Shen Leng and couldn't help but sneer: "I've always heard that you are arrogant, and I finally understand how arrogant you are, you could have ordered the army to come in and shoot us all to death with an arrow array, but you didn't do this and thought that you could kill all of us with a scabbard?" ”

Shen Leng nodded and replied seriously: "Yes." ”

But he didn't make a move, but walked to the side: "You pick a side, Feng Ningguan's hatred is half of you and half of me." ”

Erben Daoren, who was standing not far from him, stretched out his hand and pointed to the left: "Then I want that side." ”

Shen Leng looked to the left: "There are a lot of people over there." ”

Erben raised his chin slightly: "Just pick the one with a lot of people." ”

"Close the door."

Shen Leng gave an order, and the soldiers outside the door immediately closed the courtyard door.

Shen Leng looked at Xiao Zhang Zhenren: "You can also go out and wait." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren shook his head: "I have to be here." ”

Shen Leng snorted, his wrist flicked, and the scabbard turned around in his hand: "What is the sword technique?" ”

The second Taoist replied: "The sword technique is a killing technique. ”

Shen Leng stepped forward: "They seem to be rings one by one. ”

No one understood it.

Erben Daoren's answer is not incorrect, but if Shen Leng asked Tea Master this sentence, Tea Master's answer must not be the answer given by Erben, and Tea Master will reply: "Sword Technique?" It's just a thorn. ”

In the eyes of the tea master, the sword skill is just a thorn.

Thorns are enough.