Volume 1 The Ups and Downs of This Life Chapter 23 The Clouds and Smoke of the Past
After walking for half a month like this, Zhou Shuning's entry was a little unexpected by Li Xuandu, not only giving birth to a breath of true qi in his body, but also crossing the snow-capped mountains from the sea of qi, opening Zhongdantian, and climbing to the twenty-fourth floor, he almost hit the Fengchi acupoint and opened the mystery.
Just when the little girl officially set foot in the Imperial Qi Realm, the two finally walked out of Huainan Mansion and entered the territory of Fengyin Mansion.
Along the way, Li Xuandu not only taught Zhou Shuning the method of getting started to the Xuannu Sect, but also deliberately told her about the current trend of the world, so that she could understand what kind of world the world is now.
Since the 20th year of the Great Wei Mingyong, the Golden Horde located in the vast steppe in the north has repeatedly invaded the border from the northwest line, and in the 22nd year of the Ming Dynasty, the Golden Horde army came to the west of the capital, and the Ming Yong Emperor issued an order, and Qi Ying, the governor of Qinzhong, came forward to enter into an alliance with the Ili Khan of the Golden Horde Korea. The Great Wei court compensated the Golden Horde army with 200,000 taels of gold, 13,300,000 taels of silver, 1,000,000 stones of grain, 300,000 catties of tea, and 300,000 horses of silk.
In the tenth year of the Great Wei Wude, the Golden Horde army went south again and captured Xijing. Emperor Wude was furious, fell ill, could not be a director, the government was handed over to the empress Xie and the cabinet chief assistant Zhang Suqing jointly acted, under the leadership of Zhang Suqing, the Great Wei court refused to negotiate peace, mobilized Shuzhou, Zhongzhou, Jinzhou, Yanzhou and other places, Qin Xiang, the governor of the left capital, personally led the army, in Qinzhou and the Golden Horde army to start a big battle, forcing the Golden Horde army to retreat to Liangzhou.
The following year, the Golden Horde army withdrew due to lack of food and grass, and just when Qin Xiang was planning to recover Qinzhou, Liangzhou and other places, Emperor Wude, who was seriously ill, died in the Yanbo Hall of Xiyuan, and Qin Xiang had to return to Beijing.
In the same year, a famine broke out in Qinzhou and Liangzhou, hundreds of thousands of homeless people were homeless, and the ten sects of the evil way took the opportunity to rise up, instantly swept the land of the two states, occupied Xijing, and elected Taiyun as the co-master, known as the king of the west.
At this time, because of the new emperor's accession to the throne, the situation in the imperial court was turbulent and unclear, and there was no time to take care of Qin and Liang.
In the second year of Tianbao, Empress Dowager Xie launched the Imperial Capital Rebellion and killed the four ministers of Gu Ming headed by Zhang Suqing.
After Zhang Suqing was killed, Qin Xiang, who was reused by Zhang Suqing, was also implicated and was dismissed and imprisoned. ”
Sure enough, after Qin Xiang was imprisoned, the imperial court no longer had any generals to fight, and several times he wanted to recover the northwest, but he was defeated by Taiyun, and the army lost countless generals, and the treasury became more and more empty, and it was difficult to support the war.
In the third year of Tianbao, Taiyun led the army to attack Shuzhou, broke the official army of the Great Wei, and in just one year, pacified the sixteen barbarians in southern Xinjiang, and established the Great Zhou Dynasty in Shuzhou, Qinzhou, Liangzhou and other three states, and Taiyun was respected as the "Holy Monarch".
Now it is the sixth year of Tianbao, in the past three years, the situation in the northwest is completely erosive, irretrievable, and the clouds of the Golden Horde are better than the Golden Horde, so that the Golden Horde army changed its route, no longer sent troops from the northwest, but the front line of the Liaodong border of Chen Bing, although there was no large-scale war, but also repeatedly the Liaozhou border, burning, killing and looting. Today's Great Wei court, there are internal worries, external troubles, from prosperity to decline has become a foregone conclusion, to put it more seriously, now there is gradually a chaotic atmosphere.
Li Xuandu vaguely remembered that when he met Zhang Suqing, the first assistant of the current dynasty once said, "The trouble in the heart of the Great Wei Dynasty is not outside, but in the imperial court, in this imperial capital." ”
Now it seems that this statement was not wrong.
When Zhang Suqing was there, he activated Qin Xiang to repel the Golden Horde army. At the same time, the government was reformed, corruption was eliminated, and young and strong officials were reused, so that the government gradually became a little prosperous.
After the Empress Dowager Xie killed Zhang Suqing, the court was certainly held by her, and no one could shake the authority of the Empress Dowager, but in addition, had she ever pacified the northwest?
However, a huge West Garden has been renovated and renovated!
It really responds to the proverb that has been circulating in the rivers and lakes for a long time: "If the Great Wei dies, it will die from Wude, and it will die from Tianbao." ”
Approaching the city gate of Fengyin Mansion City, Li Xuandu took Zhou Shuning from his horse, led the horse with one hand, and led the little girl with the other hand to the city gate. Because the world is not as peaceful as it is now, so the access control checkpoints in various places are very strict, and there must be a road guide issued by the yamen in various places to enter the city, Li Xuandu took out a fake road guide from his arms, and the name and surname written are not Li Xuandu, nor Li Zifu, but Li Baiyue. Of course, the little girl can't be called Zhou Shuning, she was given the pseudonym of "Li Ni" by Li Xuandu, and in front of outsiders, the two are half-brothers and sisters.
After the guards of the city gate checked the road guide, they only interrogated them a little, glanced at the two of them again, and saw that they were not carrying weapons, so they let them into the city.
After entering the city, Li Xuandu subconsciously glanced at the three words "Li Baiyue" on the road in his hand, and laughed at himself.
In the first battle of the imperial capital back then, he did not choose to fight to the death, but escaped from the imperial capital alone after the general trend had gone, is it a little too ruthless and unrighteous? But then again, even if the death battle is in the end, it is just an extra life, and it will not help.
As long as he is alive, there is hope that he will once again set foot in the realm of returning to the truth, even the transcendent realm of heaven and man and the realm of immortality that is only in legend.
As long as you live, you will have to kill it one day.
At this moment, Li Xuandu's whole person was awe-inspiring.
Zhou Shuning was just a child after all, although she didn't cry to death because of her father's death, but at this time, she felt the cold killing intent on Li Xuandu's body, she was still startled, and subconsciously let go of Li Xuandu's palm.
Li Xuandu was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Zhou Shuning with a face full of fear, and when he saw the little girl's clear eyes that were not cloudy at all, all the killing intent suddenly disappeared.
People's hearts are changeable, especially after adulthood, the mind is as complex as dirty water, far less pure than when I was a child, so it is the most rare to say that the pure heart is the most rare.
Li Xuandu is not the first day to walk the rivers and lakes, he has been crawling and rolling in the quagmire of the rivers and lakes for many years, and he is destined to be a person covered in mud. The front foot is called a brother and a brother, and your wife is raised by me, and the back foot betrays a friend and forcibly occupies the property of a brother's wife and daughter, how can there be a few such people?
But whenever he sees these simple-hearted children, he can feel that this world is not only dirty and muddy, but also clear and sweet.
Therefore, after Li Xuandu restrained his murderous aura, he said something that made the little girl unclear, "The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city is deep in spring and grass." In fact, whether it is a national hatred, a family hatred, or even the salvation of the world, it is good to carry it on the shoulders of us men, so how can you children be involved? There is no such reason. ”
He squatted down and looked at Zhou Shuning, and said softly: "People like me, to put it nicely, are a person with a story, carrying the blood feud of relatives and friends, holding a murderous sword in his hand, what swords and swords, what corpses and mountains of blood, they have all experienced, it's not a big deal." It can be seen that after getting used to the dead, I see the clear eyes of you children, but I feel that this is the unbearable weight of the world. ”