"You won't be out of money again, will you?" Looking at the two people wandering the streets of Shouchun, Gongsun Linglong seemed to be aware of it and looked at Jin Yao and Bingbai Shensha.
"Swordsman Godslayer, when have you ever brought money with you when you go out?" Bingbai Godslayer answered matter-of-factly.
When they go out, these divine swordsmen always follow the top brass or the rich men of the Mo family. Their duty is to protect them. When do they have to pay for themselves?
"When did I get rich?" Jin Yao spread his hands.
"Forget it, I'll do it!" Gongsun Linglong was helpless, as expected.
"Shopkeeper, two rooms!" After walking into the largest wine shop in Shouchun, Gongsun Linglong directly asked the shopkeeper to open two rooms.
"Three people, two rooms? Me and you, himself?" Jin Yao was stunned and looked at Gongsun Linglong.
"???" Bingbai Shensha also looked at Gongsun Linglong with confusion. Are famous people so open-minded?
Gongsun Linglong looked at the two of them with a black line, "You live in the same room, I am alone!"
"Scared me!" Jin Yao said, patting his chest carefully.
"..." Bingbai Shensha and Gongsun Linglong were speechless.
"Two rooms, this person doesn't count!" Gongsun Linglong turned to the shopkeeper and added the explanation.
"No, it's just a joke!" Jin Yao was immediately frightened. A penny would stump a heroic man.
"You're so thick-skinned!" Bingbai Shensha was speechless.
In the end, Jin Yao and Bingbai Shensha squeezed into a room.
"Why don't you go to the other side? Gongsun Gongsun will definitely not refuse!" Bingbai Shensha said playfully.
"We are being targeted by the Grandmaster!" Jin Yao put away his playful temper.
From the moment they walked into Shouchun, he felt someone was watching him. When he tried to find out the source of the gaze, it disappeared again, so he deliberately wandered around the streets of Shouchun, and then the feeling came and went.
Therefore, he concluded that they were being targeted by master-level experts.
"This is not normal. There are many people who want to kill you!" Bingbai Shen's killing was not unexpected.
After he succeeded to the throne as Emperor Zhou, no prince in the world wanted to kill him. Now they would have a problem if they sneaked into someone else's royal city without being targeted.
"But my death in Shouchun is not a good thing for Chu State!" Jin Yao said.
Even if the emperor of Zhou was in name only, as long as he died in Shouchun, the princes would have reason to take action against Chu.
Therefore, Chu State not only did not dare to attack him, but also wanted to protect his safety.
"Perhaps someone wants to kill you and blame Chu State?" Bingbai Shensha analyzed.
"There aren't that many grandmasters, so how can he be sure whether it's me or Mu Yanshen?" Jin Yao became even more confused.
When he came out, even the Mo family, except for Bingbai Shensha and Six-fingered Black Man, didn't know whether it was the Mu Yan body or the real body.
"There are so many martial arts in the world, and there are many that can identify your true and false identities!" Gongsun Linglong pushed the door open and said as he walked.
Jin Yao nodded, it was true, the martial arts in the Central Plains were too complicated, and it was reasonable to have such weird skills.
"Tomorrow morning, go directly to the Chu Palace!" Gongsun Linglong said.
Just in case, Shouchun showed his face so that Chu could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.
Jin Yao nodded, and then discussed with Gongsun Linglong how to persuade the King of Chu to provide relief.
"I don't think that by doing this, the princes will do their best to relieve the disaster. Emperor Zhou is no longer the co-lord of the world!" Gongsun Linglong said seriously, so she was more curious about why Jin Yao did this. Jin Yao and the Mo family should not
So stupid to believe that the princes will still listen to the emperor's orders.
"I know!" Jin Yao nodded. He didn't know that since King Zhou Ping failed to attack Zheng, the authority of the emperor no longer existed.
"Then you still do this!" Gongsun Linglong was even more confused.
"Don't do good deeds because they are small, and don't do them because they are small. There are some things that you need to do even if you know it is useless, right? What if you succeed?" Jin Yao smiled with relief, "What if some country listens?
What about? Even if they don’t listen, I brought the matter to light for the sake of
In order to prevent Emperor Zhou from regaining his prestige, they can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, can they?"
Gongsun Linglong was silent. This is the Mo family. Even if they know that they will die and it is useless, they will still do it with a glimmer of hope. Even if there is a glimmer of possibility and they can save one more person, they will not hesitate and sacrifice their own lives.
"I will accompany you to see the King of Chu!" Gongsun Linglong knew that she could not persuade him not to go, so she could only choose to follow.
Early the next morning, outside the Chu Palace, three figures came from the mist.
"In front of the Palace of the King of Chu, idlers stop!" The palace guard guarding the gate stopped a group of people, and then the palace guard hurried to the King of Chu's palace to inform the King of Chu.
"Go and report to the King of Chu, the Emperor of Zhou is coming to see you!" Bingbai Shensha stepped forward and handed over the emperor's famous assassin.
"Emperor, what kind of emperor! Is there still an emperor in this world?" The palace guard had already been informed that Jin Yao was not allowed to see the King of Chu, so he said sarcastically.
The Bingbai God Killer's fingers trembled slightly, and he was about to take action, but Jin Yao stepped forward and suppressed his shoulders.
"There's no need to talk nonsense with a guard." Jin Yao looked at the corner of the palace gate wall, where several sharpshooters were already aiming at them.
Maybe they didn't dare to kill themselves, but they dared to kill all the people accompanying him except him.
"Trouble with the message!" Jin Yao said calmly.
"Okay!" The gatekeeper nodded, but there was no movement.
The morning bell rang, hundreds of officials went to court, and the palace doors opened wide.
One by one, the officials of the Chu Kingdom walked into the palace wearing neat official uniforms and holding jade plaques. However, they looked at the three people standing in front of the palace gate curiously and started talking among themselves.
"Is that the Mohist debate leader?" Xiang Yan, the mighty and upright general wearing armor and stomach, looked at Jin Yao and the others and asked the soldiers around him.
"His super-long sword is unique in the world!" Banbu, the commander of the Chu Kingdom's Thunder Leopard Regiment, nodded and said.
"He knew clearly that my king could not see him, why did he do this?" Ji Bu, the handsome young commander of the Shadow Tiger Army, asked doubtfully.
"Because he is a Mohist!" Xiang Yan sighed.
He has many interactions with the Mo family and knows their temper very well. He looks silly, but he has to be admired.
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"That person is Chun Shenjun Huang Xie?" Jin Yao looked at the old man in rich clothes who was surrounded by officials and then looked at Gongsun Linglong and asked.
"Apart from Chunshenjun Huang Xie, who else in Chu has such power!" Gongsun Linglong nodded.
Huang Xie naturally saw Jin Yao and his entourage, but pretended to turn a blind eye, and then said sarcastically: "Since when did the Chu Palace have such watchdogs?"
"That's not a dog, he's the Emperor of Zhou!" The accompanying officials knew what Huang Xie meant, and Li Yuan hurriedly agreed.
"Hey, Emperor Zhou, he is the common ruler of the world, why would he come to our country of Chu to guard the gate?" Huang Xie smiled even more wantonly.
"Hahahaha!" The accompanying officials also laughed in agreement.
"You guys!" Gongsun Linglong couldn't help it. She pointed her jade finger at the group of people, but was speechless.
"It's just a villain, why bother?" Jin Yao grabbed her hand and shook his head slightly, turning a blind eye to the ridicule of the Chu officials.
When the sun was high in the sky, the officials went down to court and mocked him again, but King Chu still did not show up.
"Are you going to just stand here and wait?" Gongsun Linglong asked, looking at Jin Yao.
"Yes!" Jin Yao nodded.
"There's no way King Chu will ever see you!" Gongsun Linglong said with some distress.
"You go back first, they did it on purpose!" Jin Yao said.
"I don't!" Gongsun Linglong shook her head and insisted on waiting with him in front of the Chu Palace.
"Wherever you are, I can only be there!" Bingbai Shensha also spoke directly.
Jin Yao nodded with a smile and continued to stand under the scorching sun.
Evening drums sounded, the palace gates were closed, and no one came to drive them away, nor did they show any concern.
"They haven't left yet?" King Chu finished the test
Heartbroken.
"No!" replied the eunuch.
"Oh!" With the word "oh" and no explanation, King Chu had no intention of meeting him at all.
On the second day, there was no morning court, but officials at all levels also had to go to court for business, so they all looked at the three of them curiously.
"They stood there all day and all night?" Xiang Yan asked the palace gate order curiously.
"Yes, I didn't eat or drink. I stood all day and night." Gong Menling replied seriously.
"Alas!" Xiang Yan sighed, shook her head helplessly, and used her inner strength to wrap her voice to send a message to Jin Yao, "It's useless for the debate chief to stand here. My king will not see you."
Jin Yao responded with a smile but did not answer.
"You guys go back first!" Jin Yao looked at Gongsun Linglong who looked a little pale and continued.
Gongsun Linglong shook her head slightly and stood beside him stubbornly.
On the second and third days, no one cared about them.
However, the people in Shouchun also knew of their existence and came to the palace gate curiously to watch.
"How long do you think they can last?" Someone asked.
"Three days at most!" someone answered.
"The majestic Emperor Zhou has actually fallen into such a state!" someone lamented.
"I owe so much money, so what can I do if I am the emperor of Zhou? It is only natural to pay back debts!" Some rich people said that when King Nan of Zhou wrote a bad check to gather troops to attack Qin, he was forced to hide behind the palace, which was also the case in the world.
Everybody knows.
Under the deliberate guidance of the Chu State, many shameful deeds of King Zhou Nan were spread, and it was even more publicized that Jin Yao's trip was to borrow money from the Chu State to repay his debts.
Therefore, the people in Shouchun looked at it with ridicule.
"General, did Mr. Bian really come to Chu to borrow money?" Ji Bu looked at Xiang Yan doubtfully.
Xiang Yan was silent. The news that Jin Yao had come for disaster relief had not yet reached Shouchun from Handan and Linzi. In addition, the King of Chu deliberately concealed it, and not many people really knew about it.
"If you want to expand in Chu State, it's better not to inquire about some things!" Xiang Yan reminded. He was very optimistic about Banbu and Ji Bu, thinking that these two would be famous generals in Chu State after him, and he didn't want them to be affected by this.
And he offended the King of Chu.
Three more days have passed, and the number of onlookers has neither increased nor decreased. The people of Shouchun seem to have become accustomed to such an additional sight, and it has even become a topic of conversation for them after dinner.
"Brother Chen, I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you doing?"
"The locust plague is raging, banditry is rampant on the business roads everywhere, and the people are in dire straits!"
In a teahouse in Shouchun, a wealthy merchant came to Shouchun with his grain team to trade. In the face of this troubled times and disaster, the price of grain remained high. Therefore, many large households with grain also bought grain.
Shouchun comes to sell.
"Yes, the price of food is three liters a day. If this continues, we won't be able to open the pot!" Another person sighed.
"Don't talk about these unhappy things, Brother Chen has come all the way. After dinner today, I will take Brother Chen to see a rare wonder in our country of Chu for a century!" the grain merchant said with a smile.
"A spectacle?" The wealthy businessman surnamed Chen looked at his business partner curiously.
"Well, you know, Emperor Zhou. He came to Chu, and he has been standing in front of the Chu Palace for nearly half a month. What a pity for that delicate and beautiful lady, she actually stood with him for such a long time!" The grain merchant smiled and shook his head.
road.
"Emperor Zhou? But Mr. Jin Yao, the chief debater of the Mohist family?" the grain merchant surnamed Chen asked hurriedly.
"Yes!" The grain merchant nodded.
The grain merchant surnamed Chen's expression changed, he left the banquet and hurried to the Shouchun Palace.
Then I saw the three people standing in front of Shouchun Palace.
"Brother Chen, what is this?" The grain merchant was a little confused and hurriedly chased after him.
"Sanyang Chen family, Chen Lu pays homage to the emperor!" The grain merchant surnamed Chen ignored his partner and rushed to the Chu Palace to salute.
But what he saw were three figures with pale faces, but they still insisted on standing in front of the palace and refused to leave.
"Sanyang Chen family?" Jin Yao looked at the grain merchant named Chen in surprise.
"Emperor
I don’t know Chen, but everyone in Shanyang knows the Emperor. If the Emperor hadn’t driven away the locust swarm in Shanyang that day, Shanyang would not have been spared!" Chen Lu said seriously.
"So that's Shanyang!" Jin Yao nodded. When they encountered the locust plague, they stopped Suzaku and kept driving away the locust plague, causing the locust swarm to move away. However, they did not expect that there would be mountains in front of the locust plague.
Positive.
"Why is the emperor like this?" Chen Lu didn't know why Jin Yao was here, but he also thought that the majestic Emperor Zhou shouldn't be like this.
Jin Yao shook his head with a smile and did not explain.
Chen Lu sighed and stood behind the three of them for half a day. After all, he was exhausted, and then he chose to salute and leave.
"Next, the one who should have a headache is the King of Chu!" Jin looked away at the Chu Palace and whispered to Gongsun Linglong.
"Why?" Gongsun Linglong's voice was also a little hoarse. After days of sleeplessness and no water intake, even experts like them couldn't hold on.
"There are three fastest things in the world, the sword of the Mohist family, the legs of Zhuang Qi and the mouth of the people. Counting the time, I ask the princes to open granaries and release grain for the people of the world. The news of relieving the people should be spread to Shouchun."
Jin Yao said calmly.
"How embarrassed and embarrassed we have been these days, how much infamy King Chu will have in the future!" Jin Yao said with a smile.
Sure enough, King Chu quickly recruited Chunshen Lord Huang Xie into the palace, because the news had slowly spread to Shouchun.
"I didn't expect them to be so staunch, and actually stood outside the palace gate until the news reached Shouchun!" Huang Xie also had to admire him.
His original intention was to let the King of Chu humiliate the other party, making the other party unable to bear it, and then leave in grief and anger. Therefore, he also encouraged the people of Shouchun to watch, but he did not expect that the other party would be so staunch, and even the news reached Shouchun, but he could not stop it.
that situation.
"What should we do now?" King Chu looked at Huang Xie, a little confused.
"Drive the other party away?" King Chu asked tentatively.
"It can't be done!" Huang Xie shook his head, "The opponent is a master of martial arts. We can't drive him away without disturbing the people!"
"Do you want to see each other?" King Chu asked.
Huang Xie looked at King Chu, but said nothing. He knew very well that now it was not whether King Chu wanted to see the other party, but whether the other party wanted to see him.
If the news spreads throughout the streets and alleys of Shouchun and throughout Chu State, then the insult will become the reputation of the other party.
And if the other party leaves at this time, the reputation of the King of Chu will be lost overnight, and the people of Chu will also wonder if their king is ignoring all the people!
"Your Majesty, it's better to meet the other party as soon as possible!" Huang Xie thought for a while and tried to eliminate the impact as much as possible before the incident spread.
"Okay, then let's invite him to the palace for an audience!" King Chu finished the order.
"Your Majesty, you'd better go see him in person. It's impossible for the other party to take the initiative to see you. It's your Majesty who should go see him!" Huang Xie said.
After being humiliated for so long, anyone would be resentful. Therefore, if it were me, I would definitely take the opportunity to ask the King of Chu to come out of the palace to meet him in person.
"This..." King Chu finally lost his dignity.
Sure enough, Jin Yao saw the palace gate order again, and the other party also changed his attitude and invited him to enter the palace flatteringly.
"Let's go!" Jin Yao looked at Bingbai Shensha and Gongsun Linglong, then nodded and strode towards the side arch.
"Your Majesty, please come this way!" The palace gate orderer was really panicked. Jin Yao actually took the small door on the side of the palace gate instead of the main door in the middle.
"The heavenly gate welcomes the emperor, the earth gate welcomes the princes and scholar-bureaucrats, and the small gate welcomes the villain. This is just right!" Jin Yao led the two of them into the Chu Palace through the arch on the side.
The face of the palace gate officer changed greatly. When Yan Zi, the Prime Minister of Qi State, went on an envoy to their Chu State, they had experienced such an experience, and then their Chu State became a laughing stock. However, Yan Zi still walked through the gate. Now, if Jin Yao didn't walk through the gate, wouldn't he be sitting there?
Is it true that the Chu State is a country of dogs and a country of villains?
"If it weren't for the victims, I really wouldn't want to come in. I would definitely wait for him to come see me on his own!" Jin Yao looked at Gongsun Linglong and Bingbai Shensha and explained.
"I know!" Gongsun Linglong nodded.
Huang Xie didn't expect that Jin Yao would really come. His eyes from the high platform were always focused on the young figure.
"Why didn't the emperor inform me in advance when he came?" King Chu took the initiative to walk down the steps and greeted him personally.
"I still can't climb up the high platform of Chu State, so let's talk about it here!" Jin looked away at the high steps, then looked at Gongsun Linglong and Bingbai Shensha, and refused to go up the high steps.
"This..." King Chu was completely stunned. All the civil and military officials were already waiting in front of the main hall. If they didn't go, would they have to go to court in the square?
"Okay!" In the end, King Chu finally agreed, fearing that Jin Yao and his party would suddenly leave.
In the end, all the civil and military officials of Chu State had to withdraw from the main hall and came to the square in front of the main hall to hold a court meeting to welcome the Emperor of Zhou.
"There is no need for false etiquette. I never thought that you would recognize me as the emperor. I only have one thing to do on this trip. The State of Chu will open warehouses to store grain, apply medicine and cloth, and provide relief to the people!" Jin Yao stopped the officials from saluting and said directly.
said.
"Opening warehouses to store grain and applying medicine to clothe the people requires time and accounting. It's impossible to do it regardless of the cost just because of the emperor's words!" Huang Xie said, dragging out every word.
Relief to the victims requires countless amounts of money and food, and they cannot do it for free. Even if they are rescued, they will wait until the disaster subsides and the epidemic ghosts are weak before rescuing them. This is also the consistent practice of all countries.
"I'm asking the King of Chu, you have no right to speak!" Jin Yao didn't even look at Huang Xie, but looked straight at the King of Chu.
"What Ling Yin said is exactly what I mean. Relieving the people and adjusting all parties will take time. If we go to disaster relief aimlessly, it will only make the disaster worse." King Chu finished.
"Does the King of Chu think that being alone is not as good as Mao Sui?" Jin Yao sneered.
When the King of Chu heard Mao Sui's name, he was immediately frightened. He had vividly remembered the scene when Mao Sui forced him to join forces to rescue Zhao. On weekdays, no one was allowed to bring swords to court, let alone get too close to him.
.
But now, because he went to see Jin Yao in person, he was close, and even if the palace order dared to use the sword of the special envoys of various countries, he would not dare to use the sword of the emperor next week.
"The sword of Emperor Zhou has not drunk the blood of princes for hundreds of years. What does King Chu think?" Jin Yao continued to threaten.
"Don't do it! You can't stop it!" Xiang Yan stopped Banbu and Jibu who wanted to rescue him, for fear that their actions would cause Jin Yao to think it was a threat and actually kill the King of Chu.
Huang Xie looked at Xiang Yan and saw Xiang Yan shaking his head. He also knew that no one could stop Jin Yao now, so he spoke again, "Even if the emperor gets my king's promise now, do you really think you can save all the people?"
Jin Yao looked at Huang Xie and knew what Huang Xie meant. Even if they got the promise from King Chu now, King Chu could still use the dragging technique to refuse to carry out the promise.
"That's your business. In your opinion, promises are not important. In the eyes of the Mohists, promises are higher than the sky and heavier than the Five Mountains!" Jin Yao said seriously, still drawing his sword without firing, looking at the King of Chu.
"Open the warehouse and put in the grain!" King Chu said through gritted teeth as he looked at the sword in Jin Yao's hand.
"Okay! I won't disturb you!" Jin Yao nodded, put the half-unsheathed long sword back into its scabbard, turned around, led Gongsun Linglong and Bingbai Shensha and left through the small door of the Chu Palace.
"I want him to die!" King Chu said angrily as he looked at Jin Yao leaving.
Huang Xie and Xiang Yan were silent and did not answer. Jin Yao could die, but he must not die in Chu State, especially now.
"Let's go, eat something and take a rest, we will be in danger next!" Jin Yao whispered after leaving Chu Palace.
The gaze that was watching them had become unscrupulous, and the naked murderous intention was clearly revealed.
"King Chu really wants to kill us?" Gongsun Linglong asked with a frown.
"It may not be the Chu State, it may be someone else who wants to blame the Chu State. After such a commotion, whoever kills us will be blamed on the Chu State!" Jin Yao said.
"Are you sure you can deal with it?" Gongsun Linglong continued to ask.
"I'm not sure. It's not that easy to kill me.
Easy!" Jin Yaodan said with a smile.
"Yeah!" Gongsun Linglong nodded, and then followed Jin Yao and Bingbai Shensha back to the inn.
"You really don't want us to live!" Bingbai Shensha looked at the food and wine brought by the inn, shook his head, and stopped the two of them from eating.
"It's just poisoning, there's really no technical content!" Jin Yao smiled and shook his head. The noble princes of the country wanted to kill him, but they actually resorted to such a despicable method as poisoning.
"Then rest for a while and then leave directly!" Jin Yao smiled and winked at Bingbai Shensha.
Bingbai Shensha understood what he meant and nodded.
"You go to sleep in my room!" Gongsun Linglong looked at Jin Yao and said directly.
"It's inconvenient, we haven't washed in several days!" Jin Yao refused directly.
"Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking!" Gongsun Linglong knew very well that once she left, the two of them would directly leave her and leave Shouchun.
The other party's target is Jin Yao, so it is impossible for him to attack him, and he will not provoke famous people again for nothing.