Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 689 The calm before the storm

After Lan Jiuyang, the leader of the Twelve Lanterns, found his lost seventh brother Hua Wudie.

It is learned that the master of Phoenix Drift is Fenghuangming, the great father of the Helan Dynasty.

Please bring Hua Wudie with you to visit Fenghuangming in the Miejing, hoping to get his support and help the Helan Dynasty to restore its country.

The moment Fenghuang Ming saw Hua Wudie, he rejected Twelve Landeng's request.

The reason is that if you leave the bitter world, you will only be able to hide yourself. The Helan Dynasty has been destroyed for a long time. If Fenghuangming had been there at the beginning, he might have thought about restoring the country. But the Holy Lion Dynasty has been destroyed, and the newly-emerged Yuyu Dynasty is growing stronger and stronger, and the people are loyal to it.

Even the Helan survivors who suffered from the tyranny of the Yuchi clan during the Holy Lion Dynasty, now have enough food and clothing, and can recite poems in spring and play the zither in summer under the rule of the Yuyu Dynasty.

Even during the Helan Dynasty, people's lives were not necessarily better than they are now.

Fenghuangming hopes Hua Wudie can answer a question for him: How did the Twelve Lanterns restore their country with thousands of troops, powerful ships and powerful guns?
Hua Wudie's answer was that Jinlan Qiye wanted to do what Zhuan Zhu and Nie Zheng did in ancient times, and go straight to Huanglong to take down the head of Yuliang Emperor.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Yu Yu Dynasty was leaderless, he gathered the remaining Helan people and rebuilt the Helan Dynasty in his homeland.

After hearing this answer, Fenghuangming became even more unwilling to help the Twelve Lanterns restore their country.

Restoring the country has been the common wish of the seven sworn brothers since they became sworn brothers.

Seeing that Fenghuang Ming was unwilling to take action, Hua Wudie asked Fenghuang Ming if he was afraid of death?
Fenghuangming saw that he could not dissuade Hua Wudie from the thought of restoring her country, so he bluntly said that if Hua Wudie could answer one of his questions and if the answer could satisfy him, he would be willing to help Jinlan Qiye.

Hua Wudie naturally agreed.

The question for Fenghuangming is how Hua Wudie or Lan Jiuyang plan to govern the country after the restoration.

Hua Wudie’s answer was that how could we talk about the future when the restoration of the country had not yet been successful.

Such an answer obviously did not satisfy Fenghuangming.

Because in Fenghuangming's eyes, Jinlan Qiye is not even a little bit inferior to Yulianghuang.

Before destroying the Holy Lion Dynasty, Emperor Yuliang had already prepared for the pastoral governance of the Holy Lion and Helan survivors.

And the facts have proved that under the governance of Emperor Yuliang, the people live better than before.

After the restoration of the country, how can the Twelve Lanterns ensure that the people will live better than under the imperial dynasty?
Faced with the facts, Hua Wudie still argued that with her brother Lan Jiuyang's temperament and strategy, his ability to govern the country must be better than that of Emperor Yuliang.

Fenghuangming wanted to give Hua Wudie some advice, so she told the story of her encounter with Helan Wuque, the founder of the Helan Dynasty.

In the past, Fenghuangming met Helan Wuque. The two had a good chat, and Fenghuangming gave Helan Wuque four words, "afraid of death".

Everyone in the world hates himself for being greedy for life and afraid of death, but those in power must keep these four words in mind. Because these four words mean that he is greedy for the lives of all people and afraid of the death of one child.

Governing a country is the most important thing for a ruler. He should be greedy for the survival of the people and fearful of their fate.

Although Emperor Yuliang destroyed countless countries, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment under his rule.

Helan Wuque also understood this truth. After he started his army, he used both kindness and force to create the first prosperous era in the Western Regions, the Helan Dynasty. He later worshipped Fenghuangming as his father-in-law.

Emperor Yuliang also understood this principle and treated the people under his rule equally. He did not treat them unfairly because they were the remnants of others. This is why the people were loyal to him.

The fact that the Twelve Orchid Lanterns have survived to this day is not because Emperor Yuliang was unaware.

Instead, he took into account the remaining hopes of the Helan clan among the remaining people and hoped to deal with it by other means.

But as time goes by, the Helan survivors begin to no longer miss their homeland, and the frequent actions of the Twelve Lanterns will eventually force Emperor Yuliang to take the final measure.

This time, the base of the Twelve Orchid Lanterns was destroyed, and three of the seven leaves of the Golden Lantern were lost. This was a warning from Emperor Yuliang.

If the Twelve Lanterns continue to gamble with their own lives and the lives of the Helan survivors, they will eventually be abandoned by the Helan survivors and end up being wiped out.

From Helan Yousi's usurpation of the throne, the Lion Kingdom destroyed the Helan Dynasty and established the Holy Lion Dynasty. Then the Yuliang Emperor rose to power, unified the Western Wulin, and destroyed the Holy Lion Dynasty.

These two changes of dynasties made Fenghuangming understand that the rise and fall of dynasties is an eternal truth. The best outcome is to take the people's heart as one's own heart. Changing someone may not necessarily do a better job for Yuliang Emperor.

Since then, Fenghuangming has been seeking detachment and not caring about worldly affairs. It is impossible for him to help the Twelve Lanterns to restore their country.

Hua Wudie returned disappointed with Fenghuangming's answer.

At the same time, Qu Huaishang also brought the Yu Yu Dynasty's call for surrender.

Qu Huaishang described Lan Jiuyang's power and said frankly that with the current strength of the Twelve Lan Lanterns, the Yu Yu Dynasty could be destroyed in a snap.

It was only because of the dynasty's reputation among the Helan survivors that they hesitated to take action.

If they surrendered this time, the Yuyu Dynasty only needed to publicize the matter and guide the Helan survivors. The Twelve Lanterns would lose their last hope among the survivors.

By then, Emperor Yuliang will have nothing to worry about and can just send out his army to destroy Lan Deng directly.

Qu Huaishang's words were exactly the same as the words of Fenghuangming that Hua Wudie brought back, which made Lan Jiuyang ponder whether to accept the surrender of the Yu Yu Dynasty.

Qu Huaishang then put forward two conditions given by the Yu Yu Dynasty. The first was to pardon the crimes of the Twelve Lan Dengs.

Second, the Yu Yu Dynasty would set aside a special administrative region on the homeland of the Helan Dynasty and hand it over to the Twelve Lan Dengs for governance.

The Twelve Lanterns can elect one person from within the group as the leader of this area, and the Helan survivors can freely choose whether to go there.

The Yu Yu Dynasty will not interfere in the governance of the administrative region, and only needs to fulfill the corresponding obligations.

After hearing this condition, Lan Jiuyang decided to accept the surrender of the Yuyu Dynasty, but put forward a condition, which was to return the national treasure of the Helan Dynasty, the "authority", to the Twelve Lan Dengs.

The three weapons, namely, the sword of power and Hua Wudie, the sword of Phoenix Piao, and the sword of Shunni Tongliu, were cast by the famous Western craftsman Qi Diao Buxiu at the request of Fenghuang Ming as the "Three Immortals", which were used as the national treasures of the Helan Dynasty.

After the Lion Kingdom destroyed the Helan Dynasty, the Wufei Sword was snatched away by the dynasty's loyal ministers and generals and used as Hua Wudie's sword.

Shunni Tongliu was taken away by Fenghuangming and passed to the Phoenix Piao.

Only power fell into the hands of Yuchi Jiaoxiong, the lord of the Lion Country, as his sword. After the fall of the Holy Lion Dynasty, it came into the hands of Emperor Yuliang.

Emperor Yuliang was famous for his spearmanship, and since Quan Yu was the emperor's sword, he naturally could not give it to his generals for use.

Therefore, it was sealed by Emperor Yuliang in the treasury of the Yuyu Dynasty.

It is reasonable for Lan Jiuyang to ask for the sword as a family heirloom.

Qu Huaishang conveyed Lan Jiuyang's conditions to Emperor Yuliang.

Emperor Yuliang agreed immediately and asked someone to fetch the authority. He gave it to Qu Huaishang on the spot and asked him to give it to Lan Jiuyang.

After Lan Jiuyang got the power, in order to show his sincerity, he went alone with Qu Huaishang to meet Emperor Yuliang.

The two sides began to finalize the relevant details, including the division of the special administrative region, the arrangement of powers within the region, and the obligations to be assumed afterwards.

The area given by the Yu Yu Dynasty is a fertile land, including rivers and plains, which is enough for the special zone to be self-sufficient.

Lan Jiuyang proposed a request, that is, he hoped to include Sanhuan Valley into the special zone. The reason is that although this place is not easy to live in, it is rich in giant trees.

You can prepare housing supplies for the Helan survivors who migrated here.

Emperor Yuliang ruled the vast and rich Western Wulin and Western Regions, so he naturally did not care about this tiny piece of land. He included the Three Ring Valley into the special zone.

The last thing was settled, and Lan Jiuyang officially represented the Twelve Lan Lanterns and formally surrendered to the Yu Yu Dynasty.

Emperor Yuliang announced the matter to the imperial court in the form of an imperial decree.

Because Qu Huaishang facilitated this matter and fulfilled the conditions, Emperor Yuliang was very satisfied and personally made the decision to transfer Xirang to Qu Huaishang.

(End of this chapter)