Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 14 Prelude to War
After carefully keeping the recipe of Lengxiang Pills, Miss Ji felt that this noble young man with red lips, white teeth and a very polite manner had a lot in common with her.

Nowadays, it is very difficult to be a literary young woman. There are simply too few like-minded people. You have to think about things alone and lack resonance.

She thought for a moment and said, "I'm going back to the north. If the Lengxiang Pills are successfully prepared, I'll give some back to you. How about that?"

Is that thing edible? It's covered in frost, snow, and rain, and it has to be buried underground for a year. Deng Chanyu isn't afraid of the poison, but she thinks it doesn't taste good.

But it's not convenient to refuse someone's kindness.

It is impossible to add WeChat, you can only leave an address.

"My mother is from Sanshanguan. You can send the girl to the Huang Family Chamber of Commerce in Sanshanguan when the time comes."

She felt ashamed to say "My father is a general", so she concealed her background a little.

Miss Ji said "OK" and left her an address, which was a farm outside Jizhou City.

In the future, both parties can communicate through letters on any polite matters.

"Elegant. Let me think about it. Oh, I got it!" Deng Chanyu slapped her thigh. She actually thought of something elegant. Isn't it just about playing with art? Who's afraid of who?

"Have you ever heard of a dish called 'Twenty-Four Bridges on a Moonlit Night'?"

Miss Ji blinked her eyes and said, "This is the first time I've heard of this."

"Here's how: Take a whole cured ham, pork or lamb leg will do. Dig twenty-four holes in it, then fill the holes with balls of soft tofu. From the side, they should form twenty-four arches. Steam them for two hours, then discard the ham and eat the twenty-four pieces of tofu, imbued with the aroma and essence of the ham."

Deng Chanyu secretly wiped her sweat. In her opinion, this dish was a typical example of taking off pants to fart. If she had the time, why not just eat ham directly? Why did she have to eat tofu with the aroma of ham?

"Sir, are you hinting that I'm weak and need to eat more meat, right?" The beautiful girl covered her mouth and chuckled.

Deng Chanyu smiled brightly: "The girl found out. She is really smart."

This girl is extremely weak. If I punch her, she will cry for a long time, right?

Twenty-Four Bridges on a Moonlit Night does have the meaning of letting the other person eat more meat, even if you just smell the scent and have a little taste of the meat.

She became more relaxed and started chatting casually, asking, "Young lady, with your current health, wouldn't it be good for you to rest in the south? It must be tiring to travel north now."

Miss Ji shook her head slightly and looked outside the boat: "A great chaos is about to break out in Nandu. It is better to endure a little hardship than to suffer the pain of war."

"." Deng Chanyu was speechless. It turned out that the root of everything was with me. Then it was okay.

The woman was very smart and Deng Chanyu was not stupid either. The two of them had a pleasant chat. The key was that the other party was good-looking. If it was a seventy-year-old woman, she would not bother to find topics to talk about.

After meeting the beautiful and sweet-talking Miss Ji, Deng Chanyu's strange luck with finding money vanished, as if all her luck had been drained away. They left Nandu City through the Water Gate. Miss Ji took another route north, while Deng Chanyu joined Aunt Huang and the others and returned to Sanshan Pass.

The Southern Capital's "hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix" was like a depth charge, shaking the world both within and without. Seeing the emergence of a new fortune in the south, Du Yuanxian, a veteran minister of the Shang Dynasty and Grand Tutor of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, immediately wrote a memorial and met with the emperor that night.

Outside the city of Chaoge, Kong Xuan, who was originally planning to enter the officialdom and then give Xiqi a good slap in the face, stopped at the city gate and turned to look to the south.

You can say that he is ignorant of destiny or that he is a middle school student, but he is extremely dissatisfied with the so-called "Fengming Qishan".

When the Queen Mother of the West learned that "the mysterious bird of destiny descended and gave birth to the Shang Dynasty", she chose to endure it. You humans are the strongest, and no matter what you say, I will say "yes, yes, yes".

Kong Xuan wasn't prepared to tolerate it. "My mother's been dead for years, and you're still going to Xiqi to cry? Do you have any shame?" The more he promoted "Phoenix Singing Qishan," the more he would defend the Shang Dynasty and slap Xiqi in the face.

Before stepping into Chaoge City, this strange phenomenon appeared in the south. It was obviously a revelation. He was no longer in a hurry. He turned around and went back home. He wanted to wait and see.

King Zhou was still patient at this time and waited for several days. Soon, the 800-mile express from Sanshan Pass in the south was delivered to Chaoge City.

"Deng Jiugong urgently reports that a strange phenomenon has occurred in the southern capital. My dear ministers, how should this matter be handled?"

King Zhou absolutely refused to acknowledge any auspicious signs. In his words, the birds paying homage to the phoenix and the phoenix singing on Mount Qishan were all strange phenomena, a bit bizarre, nothing more.

Prime Minister Shang Rong was the first to speak: "Your Majesty may issue an order to summon Marquis Nanbo to the court and question him in person."

Fei Zhong, the Imperial Counselor who had received a large amount of gold, silver, and jewelry from the Deng family, said, "Nanbo Hou E Chongyu is a mean man. Mean men fear power over virtue. What the Prime Minister said applies only to gentlemen. I believe we should send a large army, plow through the country, and annihilate the Southern Capital in one fell swoop, thus demonstrating the might of the Shang Dynasty."

"How can this be!" Shang Rong shouted angrily. "Just because of a minor anomaly, tens of millions of people are put in danger? Doctor Fei, you must understand that the people south of the Yangtze River are also the people of the Great Shang."

King Zhou was still quite intelligent during this period. He wanted to eliminate the four major princes and centralize power, but he also knew that he couldn't be impatient.

"The Prime Minister is absolutely right. I will issue an imperial decree to summon the Marquis of Nanbo to the court."

Nanbo Hou E Chongyu didn’t dare to come!
Ji Chang was eighty-five years old, old enough to be buried up to his neck in the dirt. He usually behaved harmlessly and submissively to the extreme. Such a person had to leave a will to his family and arrange his funeral before entering the court. Would the forty-year-old E Chongyu dare to go to Chaoge?
His son E Shun was not as filial as he thought. Instead, he offered a thoughtful suggestion: "Father, you can't go!"

E Chongyu was one of the four great princes after all. At this time, more than ten days had passed since the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix. His son E Shun's thoughts were still simply at the stage of "can't go", while his father had already begun to think about the follow-up matters.

He looked at his doctors and generals.

E Jisheng, the younger brother of Nanbo Hou E Chongyu, who was in charge of diplomatic affairs with the various princes and the southern barbarians, said, "The southern princes and the barbarians will follow my lead."

General Tong Sheng said, "My Lord, you can send troops to block the waterways and hold the strategic locations. The south has the great river as a natural barrier and the boats as horses. Even if the northerners have millions of people, what is there to fear?"

His younger brother, Tong Fan, also a general of the Southern Kingdom, said, "Your Excellency, grant me three thousand elite soldiers to guard Tiger Head Mountain, and the Southern Capital will be safe."

After synthesizing opinions from several parties, Nanbohou wrote a humble memorial to Chaoge, implying that many barbarians in the south had recently colluded secretly and were planning to rebel. As a loyal minister of the Shang Dynasty, Nanbohou would lead 200 princes to quell the rebellion, and then obey the imperial edict to march north after the rebellion was quelled.

(End of this chapter)