Power and Empire: Three Thousand and Twenty-Four Dream Paintings (19)

Yelü Qiyeguang woke up from a deep nightmare. When he opened his eyes, there was darkness around him and nothing could be seen. Underneath his body was a hard wooden board covered with a layer of soft things, from which it was fragrant. Judging by the smell, it should be the layer of straw. I could feel the surrounding world shaking gently and rhythmically. Yelu Qiyeguang felt a headache like cracking, his lips were dry and thirsty, and he unconsciously shouted "Water." The shaking stopped suddenly, and he squeaked slightly. , A light suddenly appeared in front of him.

A woman's voice in the light said, "It seems to be awake, but fortunately it didn't hurt the internal organs, or is it dangerous?" I couldn't see who it was, and he handed over a glass of water. Yelu Qiyeguang grabbed the water and drank it in one gulp, and the cool liquid entered the dry throat, and there was an indescribable relief. Just after drinking, without waiting for her to ask, the woman handed over another glass of water and drank it again, feeling the whole body relaxed a lot.

"Am I dead?" As soon as Yelu Qiyeguang asked, she felt that she was too stupid. How could the dead be thirsty? Only then did she remember her situation, remembering what she heard before she passed out. The voice suddenly woke up, that is to say, now that he has been arrested? She subconsciously touched her backhand behind her, and the touch of the cold pattern of dragon and moon with a knife came from her fingers, and she secretly stretched her hands and feet, but did not find the tied chains and ropes. Didn't she get caught? Yelu Qiyeguang struggled to see the surrounding scene clearly,

In the swaying carriage, there is a woman in a long skirt sitting opposite, this woman is talking, she looks very ordinary, but looks very clean

"This is the southwest of Yanzhou." The woman has been waiting patiently by her side. After Yelu Qiyeguang drank the water, she said again, "If Your Highness wants to return to Daizhou, it's impossible. Because the Yelu Army has completely blocked the front line of Daizhou, anyone who attempts to cross Daizhou from Yanzhou will be detained."

"Do you know me?" Yelu Qiye had a pretty face with a cold face,

"Forget it, we are not malicious." The woman smiled at the corner of her mouth, took out a picture from her body and placed it in front of Yelu Qiyeguang. Yelu Qiyeguang's eyes straightened up. Although the light in the carriage was very dark, it was enough. The person who sees clearly in the picture is himself,

"Who are you?" Yelu Qiyeguang's muscles tightened, and he subconsciously grasped the hilt of the knife behind him. These people have been monitoring themselves all the time. Why don't they know?

"It doesn’t matter who we are. What’s important is that we are the only one who can save His Royal Highness!" The woman calmly rolled up the picture and put it away, her eyes bright and scared,

The cold wind is carrying a large number of snowflakes and coming with the wind. Among the white vast land, three wide roads running side by side to the east are like three horizontal lines turning the whole land into three upper, middle and lower parts. It is the main commercial road that the empire is building across the entire wilderness area. For road construction needs, all ministries are stationed according to the camps on the road. There are more than 600,000 people in the northwest grassland who work for the empire this winter. The development of the empire in the wilderness provided sufficient labor. Temporary camps for the steppe people were on both sides of the main road, densely covered with tents of the steppe people,

The morning smoke is rising from the direction of these tents. There are circles of livestock, cattle and sheep, and children laughing and playing between the tents. It is difficult to cover up a quiet scene in the heavy snow, and it is already difficult for people to For half a month, the sight of hundreds of thousands of people from the northwestern steppes throwing themselves into the empire with their faces full of famine corresponds to the fact that as the business roads they cultivated extended, the tribes also moved with them

Azurik, the leader of the Arun tribe, is one of them. He is leading the tribe’s leaders to monitor the road construction people, and he hears the sound of intensive horseshoes coming out from a distance.

"That's it?" Looking in the direction of the sound of horseshoes, Azurik's pupils shrank suddenly, and he quickly rolled off the horse and knelt on the ground. The leaders behind him were also Everyone's complexion changed drastically, like Azurik, kneeling on the ground, and all the tribesmen of the Arun tribe, all looking at the front nervously.

I saw the black armored warriors in front of the mountains and plains floating on the snowy ground with the flag high. The dense war horses were like a thick black line, murderously soaring, and cast a strong black gloom on the earth, as if a handful had already The huge sharp scimitar raised can drown everything in front of you at all times. After ten minutes, the rumbling of horseshoes ceased, and all the black-armored imperial cavalry stopped. A black-haired man in front of the queue The young man rode out his horse, projected his sharp eyes like a knife, and asked, "This is the tribe, who is the leader"

"This is the leader of Arun's Ministry. My leader is Azurik, Your Majesty the Emperor"

Azulik's body trembled, he immediately took off the fur felt hat on his head respectfully, and knelt on one knee on the snowy ground. Taking off the hat is the most noble etiquette on the northern grassland, and like Azurik's The chiefs of the tribe can only give such a gift when they see King Khan. For the current Arun tribe, it is no longer possible to return to the northern grasslands. The youth in front of them is their king, and the other leaders may not know the Falcon Empire. The emperor, but when he saw Azurik’s hat and heard Azurik calling this black-haired young man his majesty, no matter how stupid he was, he knew the identity of the black-haired young man in front of him

"It's the Falcon Emperor!"

"My God, I didn't expect to have a chance to meet the Falcon Emperor!" The chiefs were full of fear and curiosity and looked at the youth ahead, holding sticky caps in their hands, and shouting in unison, "Well, see you Your Majesty the Emperor"

"Do you know me?" The fat man looked surprised and waved his hand, and said, "Since you are already subjects of the empire, then you don't need to be restrained. Get up." He looked from these Alan leaders. Sweeping his face, the eye contact suddenly seemed like ice and snow in the sun. The heads were so scared that they quickly retracted their gazes and lowered their heads. I don’t know why, everyone felt a strange feeling in their hearts, so fierce. The eyes that see everything are black like the stars in the sky flashing, it seems that the opposite emperor is not a human, but a divine residence overlooking all living beings. Just a single glance seems to be able to see all the secrets of other people's hearts clearly. In this case, even if there was some disrespect before, I dare not show the slightest expression at this moment

"We did not expect your Majesty to pass by here, so there is no preparation"

Azulik stood up, his voice trembled, and his expression was nervous and whitish, and said respectfully. Although he is nearly sixty years old, he has a generous forehead and has always treated people generously. He is already considered to be on the prairie where the living environment is harsh. Longevity, so there is a certain prestige among the leaders. The situation of the Falcon Empire Emperor personally will be a little panic. The other leaders are even more unbearable. The bodies kneeling there are shaking slightly and their faces are pale. They are from the steppes. Believe in the eternal life, but also the witness and performer of the superiority and inferiority on the grassland. For the strong, he has always admired and convinced, and the emperor of the Falcon Empire in front of him is undoubtedly the top strong in this era. , The imperial emperor’s words are enough to determine all their destiny, and the falcon emperor is a real war god, a powerful killer, just these two points are enough to make them more than wind and snow. Be cold and trembling,

"You don’t need to be so nervous, I just passed by, but it disturbed the camp, but I remember that the section of the Arun department should be twenty miles ahead? Why is it still here?" The fat man looked around, sharp and sharp. It's pressing. He knows that smiling is not a good expression for the prairie people. The prairie people prefer cold expressions, because the prairie people always use brutal killing as a sign to judge the eligibility of a monarch. It is too kind, but it will make The prairie people formed a weak and deceptive appearance, just like the Dongting Rebellion. If the empire treated Dongting harshly, Dongting would not have a rebellious heart.

"The section of road we are responsible for is indeed twenty miles ahead, but it was delayed because of the wind and snow in the last two days..." Asurik hesitated, he was hesitant to speak. Look, there seems to be something unspeakable

"Is there something wrong? Just to tell the truth, the speed of road construction during this period is indeed a bit abnormal!" The fat man looked at Asurik with his bright eyes. He didn't know during the recent period. Is it because of weather problems or environmental problems, the road construction that had been progressing so quickly became slow.

Azulik’s face changed. He didn’t expect that the imperial emperor had just judged the problem from his words. He gritted his teeth and could only bite the bullet and replied, "Your Majesty, I heard that the empire will be After finishing the road, we will drive us away. I don’t know if it’s true.” As soon as Azurik finished saying this, the expressions of the other heads changed, and the expressions of anxiety appeared directly on their faces

"I don't know how such a rumor came out, but I can guarantee that this will never happen!" The fat man put the faces of all the tribe leaders under his eyes, and said with a heavy snort, he did it. For a long time, it turned out that someone was secretly messing up,

These are hundreds of thousands of prairie people with sturdy temperament that can be used to graze and fight. If they can be settled, it is equivalent to placing one in the wilderness, a critical area in the northwest of Central and Bahia. An excellent area for recruiting soldiers and horses, coupled with the prairie people's excellent environmental adaptability, hard-bearing and cold-resistant, sturdy and brave personality, the wilderness winter is cold, but compared to the harsher prairie winter, it is already very good, no A big storm that can swallow all living creatures within dozens of miles, and there are no wolves that are hungry looking for food in winter. Except for the colder weather, the steppe people have almost no environmental threats. They are only for the hundreds of thousands of steppe people. Even Yeluguda gave up this fat meat, how could it be done just to build a few commercial roads,

However, I have to admit that the person who released this rumor has caught the weakness of the prairie people. It is the season of ice and snow. The northwestern region has been occupied by the Long family, and the northern prairie king court would not accept them. If it is true Driven out of the wilderness by the empire to fend for itself, it is absolutely a disaster for the entire tribe,

"What your majesty said is true?'

Hearing the falcon emperor’s personal promise, everyone in the Arun family had a pale face just now. Although it was the empire that forced down one hundred thousand grassland tribes in the wilderness, it was the Yelu family who abandoned everyone. On the contrary, the empire did not specifically kill and torture these 100,000 grasslands, and it also allowed its tribes to enter the empire for refuge. Many captured tribe leaders were grateful. The empire was even within the city. As long as the road was completed, they would be removed. The captives are put back. From this point of view, the ministries have a more sense of identity with the empire.

After discovering that the empire could provide them with enough supplies and food for the winter, the steppe tribes have always been actively completing the tasks assigned by the empire, especially the steppe tribes themselves have enough horses and oxcarts for transportation. The progress of road construction has been greatly accelerated, so that the empire expected to take more than two months to complete the three main commercial roads, but the construction was completed in just one month. It should be one. Exciting things, but these prairie tribes are not happy,

The empire gave them materials and food in order to help them build roads, but now that the road is almost completed, it is hard to say whether the empire will continue to provide materials and food

I don’t know when, a rumor suddenly spread among the various tribes, saying that once the road is completed, the empire will ask the grassland tribes to leave the wilderness and go to other places to fend for themselves. This has caused panic among many tribes and even some repairs. The prairie people on the road are passively slowing down,

"I guarantee this in the name of the emperor." The fat man grinned slightly~IndoMTL.com~ Although the voice was deep, it was clear and clear. All the people on the grassland who heard the emperor's voice couldn't help their faces. Excited tears

"The empire will not drive you away, but will give you more generous treatment. You are the empire, and you will have the treatment that the empire should have. The wilderness will be your new home, and the empire will give you enough protection! "

"Long live, long live the empire, long live the falcon"

The prairie people couldn’t help cheering, and more people ran to the tribe’s camp, shouting words that they would not be expelled. Since the rumor spread, they are building roads on the one hand, but I also know that once the road is built, it is when the tribe is driven away, so this kind of contradictory feeling really makes everyone live in a kind of depression every day. Now that he has received the promise of the imperial emperor, a big rock in his heart is suddenly lost. The words of others may not be credible, but the words of the Emperor of the Falcon Empire are fine!

Leaving Allen’s camp, the fat man stopped his horse and waved his hand to a guard captain behind him. “Order the border to increase the investigation and find out who is spreading the rumors! I have a hunch, Hundreds of thousands of people from the northwestern steppes were building roads in the imperial wilderness, and the long road went straight to the northwest. It is absolutely impossible to say that the dragon family who has just established a foothold in the northwest does not move. It must be the same as the southwest dragon. Family matters! "(To be continued.)