Chapter 657: Hearing the Tao before hearing the Tao
Chapter 657: Hear the Tao before hearing the "Tao"
After the princes of the world united to protest against the imperial court, the emperor remained unmoved. His Blue Bird Envoy and a group of emperor's envoys patrolled the world as before, but relatively speaking, the methods were softer, only recording, and not causing disputes.
In this way, the princes of the world thought that the pressure on the Emperor Mu had worked, which greatly boosted the morale of the princes in the singing room. As a result, the voices of protest from princes from all sides became louder and louder, even many silent princes.
Sometimes he also jumped out to wave flags and cry out for the injustice of the two princes who were previously executed and exiled by the emperor.
For a time, the whole summer was turbulent, the atmosphere was quite tense, the smell of gunpowder smoke was in the air, and invisible battles were going on in waves. This scene was even worse than when they resisted the invasion of Xirong not long ago.
I have to say, this is quite ironic.
Petitions and protest memorials flew from all directions to Yunshi, the imperial capital, like snowflakes, and were submitted to the desk of the emperor, Di Mu!
However, it is a pity that the second round of memorials could not enter the sight of Emperor Mu and the ministers who presided over the [First Acre Tax], nor could they be seen by the above.
The reason is very simple. At this time, Emperor Mu, Lao Situ, Situ Xixinghou, and Emperor Ziqi all left the imperial capital Yunshi at this time and went to Xi Kingdom in the Southern Wilderness for a private visit incognito.
Emperor Mu and the old Situ were both gods with great supernatural powers. They took Situ Xinghou and Emperor Qi to ride on the clouds and traveled to Mu Cangwu in the North Sea. After a whole morning, the group still arrived at the place thousands of miles away.
The territory of the Xi Kingdom.
Xidu, the capital of Xi Kingdom, is located further south, but Di Mu and his party stopped as soon as they arrived at Mo County and descended to the ground.
Si Tu Xinghou: "Your Majesty, this is Mo County of the Xi Kingdom. Mo County was the original fiefdom of the Mo Kingdom. After it was annexed by the Xi Kingdom last year, it was turned into a county."
Everyone was a little surprised when they heard this. The emperor's land was thousands of miles away and was divided into four counties. There were four counties in the county, and there were several counties and towns under the county seat. The territory of the Mo Kingdom should not be Mo County? (Historically, in ancient times, counties were better than counties.
Da, after the Qin Dynasty, counties were larger than counties, and it is still used today.)
Emperor Ziqi: "Lord Si Tu, the Mo Kingdom was once an uncle's country. Why did Marquis Xiyun call it Mo County? You can't be mistaken!"
Marquis Xixing shook his head: "I don't know why Marquis Xiyun turned the counties upside down."
"Oh, maybe Yao Yun didn't pay attention when he was reading, and he made a mistake in his reading, thinking that a county is bigger than a county!" Emperor Qiming defended Yao Yun on the surface, but in fact he was insinuating that Yao Yun was ignorant and incompetent, and he couldn't even compare a county to a county.
figure out.
At the end of the emperor's reign, Lao Situ was slightly curious, but he didn't take it to heart. Regardless of whether a county is larger than a county or a county is larger than a county, the princes of one side have the right to govern themselves.
Everyone did not continue this meaningless topic. They all wore linen casual clothes and looked for people.
Emperor Ziqi asked for trouble and followed him.
No one knows why Xiguo's counties are larger than counties. In fact, the people of Xiguo don't know either. Only Yao Yun knows the meaning behind the larger counties than counties. This is Yao Yun's tribute to the man who swept Liuhe, unified the world, and wanted to conquer the world.
A great era for counties!
Di Mu and his party had just come down from the mountain and came to the main road. They were immediately attracted by the official road of Xi State and stopped one after another. It was about two feet wide, flat and long, and could accommodate carriages running parallel to the official road of Xi State!
In the Xi Kingdom, the people of the Xi Kingdom were already used to seeing this scene, but these four important figures from the imperial capital were all surprised when they saw this official road of the Xi Kingdom.
"Your Majesty, look, this road is really smooth. I'm afraid it's even worse than the bluestone avenue in the downtown streets of God's City. I never expected to see such a good road in the barren mountains and barren land!"
Old Situ seemed to have seen some miracle, he praised it and sighed with emotion.
Emperor Mu carefully looked at the yellow stone road under his feet, with surprise in his eyes.
Emperor Ziqi also had a look of surprise on his face. He did not use his vitality, but used some strength to stamp his feet and found that the ground did not move at all.
"This road is quite solid. Yao Yun is really generous. He built such a good road in the wilderness. Isn't it a waste!"
Si Tu Xinghou had been to Xi Kingdom several times and was very familiar with the affairs of Xi Kingdom. When he heard the words of Emperor Zi Qi, he immediately said:
"This is nothing in Xi Kingdom. This kind of two-foot-wide road that can accommodate horse-drawn carriages can be seen everywhere, especially in the mainland of Xi Kingdom. Every city is connected by roads and criss-crosses, not to mention on the ground, even on the mountains.
Repair it. In addition, this two-foot-wide road is the most common road. It is said that Xi State leads to Mo County, and Shanyuan County has two galloping roads, which can accommodate nine horses running parallel. It is really impressive!"
Emperor Mu, Old Situ, and Emperor Qi all looked sideways, with astonishment on their faces.
Old Situ exclaimed, his face full of anger: "How much manpower and material resources will be spent on such a good, flat and solid road, and such heavy corvee work? Aren't the people of Xi Kingdom living in dire straits?"
"Sir, don't be angry!" Si Tu Xinghou immediately stood up and explained: "This road was built within a year of the merger of Mo County into the Xi Kingdom, which shows that the Xi Kingdom must have other means and there is no need to impose corvee."
"That's...indeed." Old Situ nodded, pondered for a while, and then said: "What Marquis Xixing said is true. I used my magical power to explore it at will. This road stretches for dozens of miles and connects the two cities. It is a huge project.
, the people of the two cities would not be able to build such a spacious, strong, and smooth road in ten or eight years, let alone one year."
"It's better to be famous than to see it. Xiguo is indeed extraordinary. Today I have opened my eyes. I really don't know how Xiguo was built. That doll of Marquis Xiyun is really good!"
When Lao Situ learned that he had misunderstood Marquis Xiyun at first, his face turned red, and then he lamented that the descendants of the former saint king were better than their predecessors, and the young phoenix was as clear as the old phoenix!
When Emperor Ziqi heard that Old Situ was full of praise for Yao Yun and called him affectionate, he immediately felt a little disgusted. The old master had always valued him before, but now he suddenly changed when he saw Marquis Xiyun.
"This road was built using the secret technique of runes. The runes of Xi Kingdom are indeed interesting!"
After Emperor Mu watched the road for a while, he quickly saw some clues. If he took action, he would just make a stroke.
In an instant, I saw a similar Yellowstone Avenue slowly appearing in the mountains and fields in a few breaths. First it was only a few feet, and then it was dozens of feet...
"Your Majesty (father) has such magical powers!" Everyone looked surprised and praised him repeatedly.
The emperor, Emperor Mu, shook his head, flipped it over and turned it back into mud.
He just relied on his supernatural power and had great supernatural powers in his hands. It would be useless for ordinary people to learn it. It was essentially different from the Huangshi Avenue that was widely built in the Xi Kingdom.
"Let's go, there is smoke ahead, there should be someone home."