Power and Empire Chapter 2359: Thunder thunder in the silent place (13)
The atmosphere in the Li Family Mansion was extremely heavy. All the servants were gathered into the inner courtyard. At the gate of the outer courtyard, there was no one empty except for an old man sitting on a brown-red armchair. The old man watched The drizzle flies evilly, leaves and flowers all over the ground. The once prominent Li family is just like the Jiangnan rain in front of me. It’s blown and there is no trace.
"Mrs. Li, you old thing, get out of the way!" An old woman with a cold head and a crown appeared at the corner of the corridor, staggering to the door, the old woman's face is graceful and noble, The face is almost like Li Yuehua, and several Li's maids stood far away in fright, not daring to move forward.
Sit firmly on a purple-red grandmaster's chair, the old prime minister Li Tai, who sits with his back against the door, can only smile wryly. Others in the clan come, and they can stare back with a single look, but the hair of the bed has been wind and rain for decades. "Wife" It’s useless to bulge her eyes. Li Yuehua is about to leave. Mrs. Li already knew in advance. The court was turbulent. The Li family had suppressed the court for decades, and finally showed sharp teeth to the Li family. Those civil servants who had not dared to take a breath when they saw their own atmosphere at the first time suffocated their energy and poured dirty water on Li's house. They all agreed that the defeat of Surabaya was due to the collusion between the Li clan and cheated the court of 500,000 yuan in military expenses Various rumors have been spread throughout the whole city of Hanglin. The Li sect had to greet the guests behind closed doors and put on a posture of respectful introspection. Although Li Yuehua still has the status of a special envoy of the empire, how could that arrogance come? And received such insults,
"What are you doing! The person outside is no longer Li's family, and you can't open the door to her" Li Tai's face was cold, and the corners of her mouth snorted heavily
"She’s my daughter, even if it’s not the Li family! You old thing, someone pointed at the Li family’s nose and cursed at the court. You can just hide and be a tortoise. Now the daughter is coming to say goodbye. Stand up, you’re afraid of others saying, I’m not afraid. You keep the door open.” The old woman walked towards the door, and she had to lift the door bar on the door. After fumbling for more than ten seconds, she couldn’t lift it at all. The door bar was like It's the same as the fusion with the door, take a closer look. It really blends together,
"Mrs. Li!" The old woman glared and turned angrily to look at Mrs. Li
"No more effort! The door bar was nailed to death by me!"
Mrs. Li glanced at her old wife and sighed helplessly. This wife is not easy to deal with. The real Jiangmen tiger girl was a stubborn temper when she married her. She had a heavy hand and a fierce strength for the door. When she was sixteen, she hunted and killed a mountain bear alone. I made my bed with mountain bear skin, but I was scared to death. After he became the owner of the family, the back hall became the hunting ground for this woman. Who would dare to refuse. I'll give you a beating first, if not, how can I sit firmly in the first place of the Li Clan girl, make mistakes, and make all of them shake like a sieve. If I didn't say it, I'm afraid it would be possible to find a sharp axe to break the door.
Mrs. Lee's voice paused, her face extremely calm. Ning Sheng said, "If Yuehua is a man, if you want to keep her in Zhongbia, I won't say a word, but she is a woman, and staying in Zhongbia will only harm her. This time the emperor seems to be letting her go. After the Li clan, it is only for most families. In fact, the palace is already being arranged in the dark, and the emperor has to reconcile the moon to the concubine!"
"Nayuehua concubine?"
The old woman stunned for a moment, looked at Mrs. Li in a stunned look, with a hint of sarcasm at the corner of her mouth, and said nonchalantly, "This is not what you want? If it wasn't for the Zhang clan to make trouble in it last time, Yuehua is now Long ago you are a noble concubine! If you can enter the palace as a concubine this time, will your Li family be prosperous for decades?"
"This is not what it used to be. Last time I entered the palace, my Li family is just as the sky is in the sky, and my phoenix must be the phoenix!" Mrs. Li looked at the rain falling like white silk threads in the sky, and said coldly, "But this Once in the palace, it’s not like a phoenix mingling for nine nights. I’m afraid it’s a phoenix that’s not as good as a chicken. His name is noble concubine, but it’s actually a hostage."
"In that case, other families..." the old woman asked hesitantly
"Marriage of a concubine is a good thing for many third- and fourth-rank families, but it is a good thing to raise their ranks. The wealthy families of the family have died in the Imperial Capital, so it is natural to need a new family of wealthy families to go on top!" Rarely, the corner of Li Tai's mouth was revealed. With a touch of deep meaning, he glanced at the sky calmly, and said, "The grace of the emperor, I don’t know how many people are looking forward to it. As long as news comes from the palace, these little families will naturally move. If you want to enter the palace, there will be a palace. If you want to let the emperor see you as soon as you enter the palace, you have to give money up and down. As long as the emperor likes it, an edict will immediately increase your rank, which is more effective than any merit. Those are already second-rank. The family, who wants their daughter not to enter the palace and avoid the selection of the concubine, also has to pay for the management. The sum of these money is not a small number!"
" For the emperor, choosing a concubine was just one or two hundred more women in the palace. Whatever matter, they are all beautiful women. Whether they like it or not, it’s not bad to look pleasing to the eye. The problem is that the families behind these women are It’s a wealthy person. How many families have accumulated wealth for many years and rolled into the palace like running water. The money spent in secret battles in the palace is no less than a war."
"The ultimate loser is naturally the target of the emperor's knife. Invisibly, he also spread the financial difficulties of the empire on the heads of every family!"
" The wealth of the empire is almost exhausted, and the wealth brought from the Imperial Capital is so much. The palace was repaired on a large scale, nearly 200,000 soldiers were recruited, equipment, and large sums of money. The deployment of the Luzhou army is already the emperor’s own. The private library, the Luzhou army suffered a fiasco in Yanzhou, and more than 20,000 dead and injured people need to be comforted and compensated. This is a lot of money. "Li Tai's voice stopped and continued." I wanted to wait for the quarterly taxation of the Imperial Plains to be relieved, but the grassland People go south to the Imperial Plains, and the tax revenue may be confiscated. The emperor’s idea is to find a solution from the wealthy family. The best way is naturally to marry a concubine."
"Marrying a concubine is so rich!"
The old woman’s face was shocked. Although she didn’t know how marrying a concubine had anything to do with imperial taxation, she still knew her old man. This time she suddenly announced her farewell to the prime minister, and she completely ignored the crowds of the court. It’s not like The old man's style, unless there is a real danger, the old man will not give in, decades of wind and rain. Li Taineng covered the sky with one hand in the court, and never lacked opponents to challenge. That one was not the one who was eventually played by Li Tai! The old woman looked dull,
" This kind of thing. The emperor hadn't done it before. Last time, if it wasn't for the Zhang Clan who had spent a lot of money to fill the financial hole, how could my Fenghuanger be squeezed out! Also if the Zhang Clan had missed the giant For the rich, how could the emperor give a death order to the Zhang clan to go to Beijing, leaving only a group of orphans and widows. For the dead Zhang family men, in order not to be affected by the fiasco of the emperor, all they got were some titles. Most of the money naturally fell into the emperor’s pocket." Tai Tai smiled bitterly at the corner of her mouth, and her beard trembled slightly. The fingers with the wrong green veins suddenly squeezed tightly together, and the sound of a carriage moving outside the door came gradually away. Go, Li tried too hard to listen, but in the end it became silent,
"You lie to me! Get out. I want to open the door!"
The old woman seemed to perceive something, she was furious, and she knew she had been fooled by Mrs. Li. For decades of husband and wife, who still doesn't know who, Mrs. Li rarely tells her. The filthy and strange things in the courtroom, the surging wind and waves, have always said that there is a man from the Li family to carry it. But today, few have said so much. This old thing is dragging time!
"Go. My phoenix is gone! If you want the Li family's bloodline to die out, go after it!"
Mrs. Li stood up from the chair, took out an axe from the back of the chair, bent down and placed it by the door, and walked into the inner hall without knowing his head. "Since the emperor has decided to marry a concubine, naturally I will not let the Li family go, Yuehua is gone, there are other Li family women, such as Li Long’s daughter Li Qing Yanyan, sixteen years old, beautiful and beautiful, known as the Li family’s Tianxiang, Li Long was chosen as the future of the Li family Patriarch, it’s not necessarily what it is said outside. The Li family wants to throw away the literary and martial arts, but if the Li family wants to survive, they must put themselves in a position where the emperor feels absolutely at ease!"
Wuling Po
The morning sun rises, and the morning light shines from the edge of the yellow earth, gradually illuminating the earth, rivers, mountains, plains, and forests in front, like being washed by a layer of gold again, and the mountains in front of you are picturesque, middle Biya General Yang Zi rode on the horse, watching the land in front of him. A series of black lines were driving in the direction of Wulingpo. The queues rolled in like a black swept across the earth, covered by the smoke raised by horseshoes. In front of the sky, that is the cavalry of the steppe army, countless cavalry is like a huge fan facing the extension of the uplift of the Wulingpo mountain, the beginning of the team stopped,
The morning breeze blew, the scales of the steppemen rustled like ears, the steppemen’s cavalry lined up in a long line, shining with metallic luster under the golden light of the sun, and the dense cavalry formations, It is still emerging from a distance, and it looks like a wall that suddenly appeared in the hilly area from a distance. After the cavalry arrived, infantry began to appear. These infantry have been armored and have all kinds of weapons in their hands, but They were all heavy weapons, two-handed axes, maces, and long-handled spears. Yang Zi's eyebrows were tightly twisted together. How could he not see that these were all weapons of China and Bahrain, and most of the people in the steppes were. Scimitar, occasionally equipped with a stabbing gun, there is no such systematic stepping weapon at all.
"When will the reinforcements of the Imperial Capital arrive?" Yang Zi waved his horse whip heavily and asked the adjutant behind him angrily.
" The messenger has been dispatched and should be available before noon! "The adjutant replied with a respectful look." According to the scout's report, the Prairie Army crossed Surabaya and did not rush forward, but was on the beach of Surabaya. After staying for five days, during this period, the main force of the Prairie Army arrived in Surabaya and waited for the reinforcements to pass through Surabaya. Then the Prairie Army slowly moved in. 10,000, increased to the current total force of 110,000"
"One hundred thousand people!"
Yang Zi's face changed, and the hand holding the whip tightened unconsciously. It would be fine if the carbine team was still there. Yang Zi now regrets having lost Surabaya too hastily, if Surabaya is still there. In their own hands, the prairie people would never gather so many troops so easily, and overwhelm them in front of them in one breath. In just a few days, the number of prairie troops has doubled, with a cavalry group of 100,000. , If you force an attack, even in a terrain like Wulingpo, you will feel the pressure!
"My lord, the Wuling Slope is dangerous, and the grassland people shouldn’t attack it!" The adjutant didn’t know what to do. Although the Wuling Slope was a sloping land, it was actually called the edge of the mountain range. Wuling here meets the falling cliff mountain range that passes by, forming such a gradually uplifting slope. The only road that can be crossed from the **** has been blocked by the Central Bian Army.
Supported by the huge slope, the Zhongbian army stuck in the road built layer upon layer of roadblocks. They also used mountain stones to build a three-meter-high stone wall on the top of the slope, facing the lower one. The plains looked eagerly, the spears were like forests, the battle flags were like blood, and from time to time you could see huge sling bows pushed to the front of the camp. The typical terrain where one man was in charge of the war was not open. The problem is that the disparity in military strength is a bit big, thirty thousand. For one hundred thousand, the opponent is a grassland army that can dismount and fight on foot. If it is really fierce, Wulingpo may not be able to break through. Now I can only pray that the reinforcements from the emperor will arrive in time.
In the distance, a group of prairie cavalry jumped up on a slope, Yeluguda pointed to the area that looked like a huge sloping surface uplift, and the path that appeared so small, and said excitedly, "Father, in front of you. It is Wulingpo! 80,000 Qingqi, 30,000 foot soldiers, as long as they can break through the roadblocks stacked by the Biyas, they can launch a full-scale attack!"
"Qiyeguang, are you sure?" Yelu Hongtai glanced at the Wulingpo where the Zhongbia army is full of flags in the distance, and turned to look at the Yelu Qiyeguang behind him. The more than ten imperial Thunder Gods are being pushed by the prairie people. Up on this slope, there are more than a dozen Chinese and Bianyan soldiers who look terrified are also pushed up by the grassland army knife.
" Forgive me, I have said everything, we really didn't hide it!"
A Chinese soldier knelt on the ground crying, and the other Chinese soldiers leaned together in terror. Looking at the scimitars around, their faces turned pale. They were all taken captive inexplicably. Yes, they were all soldiers responsible for operating the Empire of Thor. They were trained by the Empire for a few days. They only shot one shot, and then accompanied Thor to the front line. They only knew the most basic operations and had no experience. They lost Thor. Later, Yang Zi was filled with logistics soldiers, but the infiltrated Ye Tan ancient discs were easily taken out. Because time was too tight, it took several days to catch these soldiers. The movement of the Central and Bianbian Army made the Prairie Army. I can’t wait any longer
Yelü Hongtai decided that Thor’s test shot was placed on the battlefield in Wulingpo. In addition to the dozen Chinese soldiers, there are more than 30 grassland soldiers watching the operations of the Chinese people attentively. ~IndoMTL.com~ These are the people from Night Tan ancient discs. They are used to learn how to operate Thor. Most of them understand the Chinese and Bahasa language and have some experience in ordnance manufacturing.
Yelu Qiyeguang gestured behind him, and a grassland sergeant pointed to a thunder **** that had been placed, and said in a proficient Chinese and Biya language, "A group of three, whoever can launch, can live. "This is the first time the Imperial Thor has fired in the battlefield of China and Biyah. When the trembling soldiers of China and Biyah stuffed Thor ammunition into Thor's barrel with rough hands, they roughly estimated the distance, and the soldiers behind them will Thor's muzzle was raised toward the sky, and the front was the direction where the flag of China and Biyah was flying. The steppe people only asked them to shoot out, and they didn't ask for anything else. Just shoot! The Chinese soldiers lit the gunpowder fuse with a torch, and there was a sound like a snake spewing a letter.
Yelu Hongtai stood 30 meters away from the Thunder God, watching the line of fire ignited by the gunpowder, the red dazzling, the hand clenched into a fist unconsciously, the power of the imperial Thunder God, he was only Yelu Qiyeguang said Yes, is it really that powerful?
The huge roar of "Rumble" caused Yelu Hongtai's body to tremble slightly, and the horse whip in his hand fell to the ground at once. The surrounding grassland people were so scared that a lot of people fell from the horse, and only a fire was seen from Thor's The muzzle gushed out, the pungent scent of sulfur, an arc of light traces across the void, Thor's base wheels moved back heavily on the soil platform, pushing out a huge trace, "Rumble" seems to be a response At the same place, the red light ball was rolled up, and the object flew up. Under the stunned eyes of everyone, the flag of Zhongbia flew into the sky. (To be continued) []