40. Yanjing Affair(1/2)
Bai Lu only lived one day, and the world changed a lot.
Let’s not talk about the thirteen stone pillars that rise around the territory of the Central Plains for now. Let’s talk about the shore of the East China Sea. A hurricane tide hit last night, and natural disasters are coming. By dawn, dozens of big cities have been flooded from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the coast of Fujian.
The prosperous places such as Ningbo and Quanzhou were severely affected. At dawn, although the tide receded, this was not a natural celestial phenomenon, and therefore it was not just a coastal disaster.
The water level of Taihu Lake soared, flooding the fields and even approaching Suzhou City. Even Dongting Lake and Xiang River, which are far away in Xiaoxiang, showed signs of flooding.
In addition to floods everywhere, there are also earthquakes.
As for the Taihang Mountains in the Central Plains, it was torn apart once nearly thirty years ago.
The changes even greater this night. The sinkhole that had drawn out the southern and northern foothills was torn apart again in an earthquake overnight, leaving the Taihang Mountains completely no longer connected.
It was like a sword splitting the mountain range, creating a wide canyon that could reach the grassland from Shanxi directly.
The mountains in the Middle Earth have similar changes. The most exaggerated one is Kunlun in the extreme west. When Zhang Moye and the witch returned to the fairy pool, they heard from the old man Canglan that there were several mountains on the plateau that were shattered.
The earth veins filled with spiritual energy riots occurred, creating a floating island like Penglai, which was suspended a hundred feet high, and there were star ring-like gravel set off.
It looks like a natural place of immortals, but it is just the change of the spiritual energy of the heavy spiritual veins in the world at the beginning. In other words, this is just the beginning.
As time goes by, the changes brought about by this revival of spiritual energy are destined to increase.
As Shen Qiu and Chun Yangzi and Huang Wupan expected, when the spiritual energy finally recovered to the concentration of a thousand years ago, the whole world would change drastically.
But this process will last for a long time, and even over a hundred years, at least in the next year, the situation will not change to that level.
Everyone took a treasure boat to reach their departure place, which is Chongming Island. Some of the tourists gathered here dispersed, but there were still people waiting here.
Most of them were the people in the martial arts world who rebeled from the Penglai camp on the day of Bailu. Although the Wangchuan Sect and a group of major sects promised to protect their safety, they did not see the warriors returning with their own eyes, and these people were still worried.
After all, unlike other tourists who watch the fun, they are putting their lives on.
Seeing that the Dabao Ship was docking, the martial arts masters led by Chunyangzi got off the boat one after another, and they were all embarrassed, but there were not many dead people, which made the warriors guarding Chongming Island cheer.
Jianghu won, Penglai lost.
Their fortunes were saved.
On the way back, everyone had a unified attitude and claimed to the outside world that Penglai was defeated and that the ancestor had been sealed. He could go to the Immortal Mountain to eliminate demons a year later.
I won't say much about the remaining details, so as not to cause unnecessary panic and worry.
This battle is just the beginning, and there are many things to rely on the warriors to do, such as the Japanese ghosts who have not yet heard of the news.
But what is certain is that it will not be too long before the day the ghosts outside the territory attacked Middle Earth, and perhaps it will be within one or two months.
Amid the cheers, everyone landed on the dock and wanted to go to Songjiang Prefecture City from here, where a grand welcoming banquet was already prepared. In the next few days, the warriors who should have returned alive will rest and celebrate.
But they were relaxed, but the people of Wangchuan Sect could not relax.
As soon as everyone got ashore, the Mo family treasure ship turned the bow and headed to the outside sea, carrying a group of Qilu warriors and masters to Yanjing, while the mountain ghost drove his eagle first.
Zhang Lan walked with Bai Ling'er in the wind, took Xiao Tie, A Qing and others to Yanjing by land. Lin Huiyin gave Chen Qiu a few words, and watched him fly to the sky with a striking geese.
"Master is such a busy man."
Lu Yuniang held Lin Huiyin and said with great emotion:
"I just had a life-and-death battle over there. I haven't stopped breathing yet and I want to help the world unify. I'm so worried."
"He's that."
The heroine Huiyin withdrew her gaze and whispered:
"If you think more and do more, if you don't let him participate, he will feel uneasy. With Zhang Chu's current force, it is not his past, and he is indeed a little unsuppressed.
Forget it, I won’t talk about him anymore.
You have worked hard for this trip to Penglai, so you can go to Yanyulou with me to have a good rest.
The matter between your second brother and my brother Dongfang has to be carefully planned."
"I'm so worried."
Lu Yuniang complained, holding Lin Huiyin's slender waist with both hands, urging the flowing wind, and then walked forward and flew up with Lin Huiyin and headed towards Suzhou City.
On the other side, two hundred miles outside Yanjing City, Baoding Military City and near Baiyangdian, the vanguard army of Dachu were stationed here. They should have been faster, but they were tripped by the sudden incident last night.
The largest lake in Hebei also soared during the earth vein riot last night, and the water level of the forward's way to Yanjing City was cut off.
This incident caught people off guard. If the bird had not sensed the changes in the earth veins in advance and caused the camp to retreat several miles, it would have been a loss of the pioneer last night.
"The water level is falling, but it will take at least more than half a month to wait until the road ahead returns to its original state."
In the new camp, Li Weiguo was explaining the situation to Qingqing, and the princess was also very confused. The incident happened suddenly, and the army was not prepared at all, and it was too late to temporarily recruit civilian ships.
Qingqing also understands the principle that soldiers are more important than speed.
She looked at the map in front of her, and Li Weiguo, who was commanding the striker, continued:
"The Qilu border army marched smoothly. At their speed, we can reach Langfang at most the next day, but we didn't have time to meet with them. We have to take a detour at this time and have to postpone it for another three or four days.
But the news that we had a forward to taking Yanjing was known by the Northern Army. I don’t know what changes will happen in the past three or four days.”
"The biggest variable is Zhang Chu."
Qingqing withdrew her gaze from the map and said:
"That person has become a list of heaven. If he was driven back to Yanjing to set up defense, even if he was the only one, the city would not be broken. And the change in this last night must be due to Penglai's actions.
But the failure to capture spiritual energy from the evil formation means that the senior brother and the others may have defeated the Penglai thieves, and Zhang Chu must have returned to Yanjing at this time.
But there is no need to worry too much."
The princess breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Weiguo:
"If Zhang Chu can come, senior brother and others can come too. All the experts on the Tianlist are liberated. Even if we look at the martial arts situation, our advantage is still with us.
General Li, now we will look for his way, and we will continue to march towards Yanjing!
By the way, I will give the military rations I brought to the people who have suffered disasters nearby."
Qingqing rubbed her forehead and said:
"I went to see it in the morning. The floods hit and the people worked for half a year, but it was already in vain. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival and winter was about to begin. I am afraid that their days will be difficult."
"How much can military rations be distributed? Not enough."
Li Weiguo shook his head and said to Qingqing:
"The princess wants to rule the world and think about these issues, and the eyes will be longer. She will not give Baoding Prefecture City a command, and the Baoding Prefecture orders to open the cabin and release grain, and repair the city at the same time, so as not to have nothing to do and cause trouble out of thin air."
"General Li's statement makes sense."
Qingqing immediately realized her mistake. She nodded, picked up a brush, quickly wrote the seal order, and handed it over to the martial arts guards outside the tent, asking him to take him to Baoding.
She is no longer the little girl in the world before. She now owns two-thirds of the territory of the world. Although it is a time of chaos, she still has to decide on various matters and allocate various resources.
"If it weren't for the help of the Mo family, I'd be annoyed all these days."
Watching Li Weiguo leave the camp, Qingqing sat on the chair, looking tired, and said to Fei Nu who was helping with government affairs around her:
"Talents, now I urgently need talents, all kinds of talents, so that I can allocate more and more affairs."
She looked at the letters on the table in front of her and the war reports sent from the south. She had already occupied most of Qingqing's daily time when dealing with these documents.
"I heard that there was a Langya Academy in the Great Chu period, which specially cultivated various talents who were practical for the court."
The bird raised its head and said to Qingqing:
"It's only more than twenty years since the Langya Academy was scattered. The students of that year are now in their prime. Why didn't my sister issue an order to recruit them from all over the country to serve as officials?"
"It's been gone long ago."
Qingqing picked up a small mirror and looked at her thick dark circles. She said:
"Some people also apply for the conquest, but our Great Chu sieges were too fast, especially in the south. The Southern Dynasties were too corrupt, and people would take care of every vacant land.
No matter how many people there are, it is not enough.
I need a prime minister, urgently.”
The princess stood up, moved her body, and said to the bird:
"A powerful, proficient in government affairs and able to share my worries, the imperial court of Dachu must also be rebuilt. If this continues, I will be exhausted to death."
"Where is the master?"
Feiniao thought about it and said to Qingqing:
"The master is very smart and intelligent. You saw that he had prepared all this for your sister before you set off. Just start it and you can sweep the world, which shows that Master also has the ability to govern the country.
It’s better for you to ask your master for your help, maybe he will help you solve your problems.”
"Senior brother."
Qingqing curled her lips and said:
"It's impossible, he won't do this trouble, but when you say that, I remembered another person."
Qingqing rolled her eyes, sat down again, wrote a letter, and asked the messenger to send it to Chang'an.
The next morning, as soon as the vanguard of the Great Chu left near Baoding, the people of the Wangchuan Sect came to meet, and the fastest one was the mountain ghost.
To be continued...