Emperor Taizong's Growth Plan

Chapter 235

At this time, Ge Zhu, who was outside the house, heard the screams of the assassins he recruited, and his heart skipped a beat.

Damn it, the emperor actually arranged for masters to guard him!

Ge Zhu hastily put down the curtain of the carriage, and urged in a hasty voice to his confidant who was carrying the carriage:

"Come on!"

Those assassins were originally recruited by Ge Zhu at will, and they didn't even know his appearance or real identity.After that, he also planned to get rid of these people directly.

So at this time Ge Zhu saw that the situation was not good, so he naturally abandoned these people without hesitation.

But now the dozen or so guards beside the carriage are all expert guards really supported by the firm.After hearing Ge Zhu's words at this time, these people did not hesitate at all, they immediately escorted the carriage and hurried away.

After they walked away, two figures appeared out of an alley, quietly watching these people leave.

Zhang Yue turned his head slightly, looked at the movement in the courtyard where Hai Rui lived not far away, and couldn't help saying:

"It was hit by you again!"

Liu Bowen at the side laughed lightly when he heard the words, and said:
"I also know a little bit about the art of physiognomy. Although these people came as businessmen, they all have evil faces, and they don't seem to be good people. The most important thing is that these people don't even drive the caravan carriage. Too proficient, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look right!"

The two had been near the county seat of Changning County. After seeing these assassins coming as business associates, Liu Bowen immediately sensed that something was wrong and came here.

Seeing Liu Bowen's smug look, Zhang Yue couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth and said:
"But didn't you still miscalculate one thing? His Majesty the Emperor Yun has arranged so many legalist masters beside this Hai Yushi, obviously there is no need for you and me to come and rescue him!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Bowen waved his hands slightly and explained with a smile:
"Entering Changning County is because of the bet between us. I came here just in case..."

At this time, Zhang Yue suddenly moved his ears, interrupted Liu Bowen, and said:
"Let's go first, it seems that someone is coming!"

Liu Bowen nodded immediately when he heard the words, and said:
"Where are you going?"

Zhang Yue looked forward and said:

"People are coming all around, come with me!"

After all, I saw Zhang Yue's foot step, and with a flick of his figure, he disappeared in place and came to the roof beside him.

At this time, Liu Bowen saw Zhang Yue's figure suddenly soaring into the air, and subconsciously imitated Zhang Yue's appearance and stood on tiptoe.

But it is obvious that Liu Bowen doesn't know any light skills, even if he imitates Zhang Yue's appearance, he still stands motionless in place.

"You take...you take me!"

Liu Bowen looked up at Zhang Yue on the roof, and opened his mouth to speak.But as soon as he shouted a few words, he immediately realized that his voice was too loud, and quickly lowered his voice.

Standing on the roof, Zhang Yue looked at Liu Bowen below, a playful smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said softly:

"Hey? Don't you know a little about everything, come up yourself!"

The corner of Liu Bowen's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly:
"My servant, I don't know martial arts... old man, don't play, it's hard to explain why you were caught at this time!"

Zhang Yue saw Liu Bowen, who had always been confident in his chest, showing a helpless look, satisfying the bad taste in his heart.Immediately stroked his beard, chuckled twice, then jumped down, and picked Liu Bowen straight up when he was in a daze.After a few movements, he disappeared into the night.

Not long after the two left, several figures suddenly appeared at the corner of the street.

"There are orders from above. In order not to startle the snake, Ge Zhu can let him go. But those assassins, don't let them go!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, someone heard the order and moved, but after a while, a torch was suddenly lit in the county town that was so quiet just now.The soldiers of the frontier army rushed in and blocked the surrounding area around Hai Rui's mansion.

Beside Hai Rui, there were a group of Legalist disciples as escorts, and the assassins he was facing were these desperadoes who were temporarily recruited with gold and silver.A group of rabble, naturally there is no need to worry too much.

But at this moment, the assassins who came here were killed or wounded.There were only a few surviving personnel, who dared not rush into the courtyard without saying anything, and fled in all directions under the darkness.

It's a pity that at this time there are already frontier soldiers, waiting for these people to throw themselves into the trap.

These assassins didn't even manage to escape very far, they bumped into the frontier soldiers and were captured by Yi Ying.But those who resist will kill without mercy.

The figures behind Liu Bowen and the two walked hurriedly at this time, before they walked to the courtyard, they knocked on the door cautiously, and said loudly:

"Sheng Yang, head of the East Factory, please meet Master Hai!"

Being so loud was obviously to show his identity.

Hearing that someone from outside reported the name of Dongchang, all the Legalist disciples couldn't help but looked at Hai Rui who walked out of the study.

Hai Rui nodded and said:

"Let them in!"

After hearing Hai Rui's promise, everyone opened the courtyard door and let him in.

A group of Dongchang fans walked into the courtyard quickly, holding up the waist badges of Dongchang in their hands to prove their identities.

After seeing that Hai Rui was safe and sound, the leader of the East Factory, named Sheng Yang, breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly saluted with his fists together, saying:
"I've seen Mr. Hai!"

Upon hearing this, Hai Rui nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice:
"Did the man go away?"

Upon hearing this, Sheng Yang hurriedly said:

"Yes, it has been released, and it was deliberately not captured!"

Hai Rui heard this, waved his robe, and said in a deep voice:
"Okay, let's stop today's matter! His Majesty's imperial decree has been issued, tomorrow..."

Having said this, Hai Rui suddenly paused, and looked up at the slightly pale sky.

Ge Zhu believes that the entire Changning County is already in his hands.So when arranging for these assassins to come, they didn't cover up too much.

So Hai Rui had already received the news and made some preparations.

In order to wait for these assassins to come, everyone stayed up all night until now.After a lot of tossing, it was Yin time, and the sky was already turning white.

"After daybreak, we will organize people to go out of the city to rescue the people of the Xia Kingdom outside the city. These rats are greedy and hateful, but if they can save one or two people, they will have made up for it!" Hai Rui immediately changed his words.

Hai Rui has an upright personality, and he hates these greedy villains the most.But he is not as pedantic as recorded in the literati's miscellaneous notes.Under such circumstances, if he tolerated these rats for a while, he could save more people, which was obviously acceptable to him.

When everyone heard Hai Rui's words, they quickly responded in unison:
"Yes!"

Two hours later, the city gate of Changning County, facing the country of Xia, slowly opened.

At this time, the city gate has not been opened for several months.When it was opened today, the rusty door hinges creaked and there was a lot of movement. All the old crows and wild dogs living outside looked up in the direction of the city gate.

More than a thousand soldiers of the frontier army, who were fully armed and covered their mouths and noses, escorted the doctors and slowly walked out of the city gate with dozens of carts of grain, grass and medicinal materials.

However, after several months of effort, the official road at the gate of the city was not maintained, and it was covered with weeds.The wild dogs, accustomed to eating human flesh, were not afraid of people. The dogs surrounded them with salivating mouths and red eyes.

The soldiers mercilessly stabbed to death the wild dogs who dared to surround them, and helped the doctors carefully walk around the corpses that had become bones on the ground. With firm steps, they went straight to the direction of Xia Guo.

In the county seat, Liu Bowen pointed at the convoy at the city gate, with a smile on his lips, coughed lightly, looked at Zhang Yue beside him, and said:
"Mister, it looks like I won again!"

Zhang Yue looked at the convoy leaving the city with a complicated expression and remained silent for a long time.

According to the agreement, from then on, he, Zhang Yue, would go to Zhongqing City with Liu Bowen to serve Xiao Cheng.

Liu Bowen noticed Zhang Yue's expression, and suddenly said;

"Speaking of which, I haven't asked yet. No matter how you look at it, His Majesty the Emperor Yun is a generation of enlightened masters. The old man has been to Zhongqing City before, so he should know about it. But I don't know why, you are so Unwilling to take effect?"

Hearing Liu Bowen's inquiry, Zhang Yue was silent for a moment, then said:

"My disciples of the Zongheng family have always had no definite masters and no definite words. Planning for one side must be because of their own demands, and they are just doing things with the help of their own strength. Only from the performance of Emperor Yun after he ascended the throne, he is indeed a Master Ming, assisting him can achieve great things. But unfortunately, although Yun Kingdom is now very powerful, in terms of background, it is still not as good as Xia Kingdom!"

"Assisting the king of a small country to dominate the world and achieve great achievements, isn't it more of a political strategist?" Liu Bowen couldn't help asking.

Hearing this, Zhang Yue laughed and did not answer immediately. Instead, he stretched his hands back, took off the black and white long swords behind his back, and showed them to Liu Bowen before continuing:
"This black sword is called Lian Heng. This white sword is called He Zong!"

Liu Bowen moved his eyes, looked at Zhang Yue, and said:

"Combining vertical and horizontal, the ideals and propositions of strategists, of course, don't need much, they have been heard in the world for a long time!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yue drew out a long black sword and said:
"Those who are in a row, the strong attack the weak. All kinds of methods are mainly broken. They are good at using various contradictions and interests to create rifts, so as to gain opportunities, because they have more conspiracy and less conspiracy."

Having said that, Zhang Yue picked up another white sword, but did not pull it out, but looked at Liu Bowen, and continued:

"Those who join forces, unite the weak to attack the strong, and use diplomatic means to unite and unite. This is more conspiracy than conspiracy."

Hearing this, Liu Bowen pondered for a moment, then nodded suddenly and said:
"The old man said that he is good at connecting horizontally, but not vertically. So you need to serve the king of a big country, so that you can fully use the methods you have learned?"

Zhang Yue heard the words, nodded, and said with a wry smile:
"The strategists of all ages have two successors who hold two swords. However, because of an old incident in the sect, I am the only one in this generation who inherits what the sect has learned..."

Upon hearing this explanation, Liu Bowen opened his mouth, but did not continue to ask.

Don't look at the two countries of Yun and Xia now, the country of Yun has taken advantage of it.It was because of various reasons that Xia Guo was tied up, so he took the initiative to seek peace.

Don't talk about anything else, just talk about the indemnity that Xiao Cheng asked Xia Guo to ask for this time, that sum of gold and silver is equivalent to three years' taxes of Yun Guo.

If Xiao Cheng hadn't copied most of Yunguo Buddhism's 600-year heritage, if he was asked to take out this money, he wouldn't be able to take it out at all.

For Xia Guo, although the loss is a bit distressing, it cannot be regarded as a traumatic injury.

The overall strength of a country and the gap between its foundations are still to be measured by such things as territory and population.Temporary gains and losses are only temporary, and it is impossible to affect them forever.

Having said that, Liu Bowen couldn't help but paused, his face was a little sad, and he didn't know whether he should continue to persuade.

After all, even if you let Zhang Yue go with a bet, you will only get a person who is unwilling and unable to use what you have learned, which is of little use at all!

And at this moment, suddenly, Liu Bowen felt a sensation in his heart, and looked towards the southeast suddenly, with a look of surprise on his face.

Zhang Yue was taken aback by Liu Bowen's actions, followed his line of sight, but couldn't see anything, so he couldn't help but asked in astonishment:

"You are this?"

Liu Bowen didn't speak immediately, but laughed out loud.

I saw Liu Bowen waved his robe, flipped his palms, and his mind attracted the power of heaven and earth.

The next moment, the white light visible to the naked eye appeared out of thin air.Under Liu Bowen's traction, it turned into a mysterious rune, shining white light, slowly arose, and suddenly rushed into Zhang Yue's sight.

Zhang Yue was taken aback for a moment, and his vision suddenly became a little blurred.

"You are..." Zhang Yue rubbed his eyes subconsciously, looked at Liu Bowen, and froze in place before he could ask.

At this moment, in Zhang Yue's sight, the world has changed drastically.

The five energies of human beings are connected with the power of heaven and earth to condense various visions.

Zhang Yue looked at Liu Bowen with a complex expression on his face:

"Taoism's eye-opening? You even know this kind of Taoist secret technique?"

Hearing this, Liu Bowen blinked subconsciously, smiled lightly and said:

"Just understand a little..."

The corner of Zhang Yue's mouth twitched, feeling bored, but fortunately he didn't look at him.

Looking in the direction Liu Bowen was looking at just now, he saw a golden light shining in the sky in the southeast direction.

Auspicious clouds filled the sky, and golden clouds filled the sky.The aura of dragon and tiger in Sheji gradually rises, and all kinds of strange beasts emerge.

The purple divine bird let out a cry and flapped its wings to fly.

All over the country of Yun, there were still all kinds of brilliance, and suddenly they all flew towards that side as if they were summoned.

The purple divine bird was shocked and scattered away.The purple rays of light gathered all kinds of brilliance from all parts of the cloud country, and gathered them together.

In Zhang Yue's astonished gaze, countless radiances condensed, and immediately turned into a golden dragon, with a swollen figure, extremely huge, covering the entire border of Yunguo.

At the same time, in the world, the emperor of Xia, the king of Li Dynasty, the kings of other countries, and even all the masters in the world who have touched the ninth level all felt something in their hearts at this time. They all looked towards the direction of Yun Guo, and their hearts suddenly stopped. Strange feeling.

At this time, Zhang Yue was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

The southeast direction of Changning County is the direction where Zhongqing City, the capital of Yunguo, is located!

(End of this chapter)