"Look at the scenery in this valley, it's not bad."
After leaving Wuxia Pass for twenty or thirty miles, Wang Dalu led Ran Guang and others to the Hidden Valley where they had been.
After walking through the jungle for an hour, a few people saw a valley that looked like a paradise. They all felt that this place was otherworldly and far away from disputes.
Those remaining residents in the valley were now settled in Nanshan City by Wang Dalu. The seventy or eighty households of valley residents in front of me should have moved here one after another in the past seven or eight years.
Dogs bark and roosters crow, the forest stream is clear, and the large gurgling waterwheel is still turning, watering the wheat fields.
Seeing Wang Dalu and others meet each other, and knowing that this place is remote and difficult for ordinary people to reach, the villagers held iron tools in their hands and were nervously on guard from a distance.
When Wang Dalu and others approached, one of the strong villagers tiptoed forward and asked politely.
"I wonder if some of these nobles are here to watch or have something to do?"
The villagers did not look like honest and simple farmers who had never seen the world. Looking at the clothes of Wang Dalu and his party, and seeing the seven or eight strong soldiers behind him, all wearing the high-grade official boots of the Luyang Hou Dynasty, he knew how many people were in front of him.
Nine times out of ten, he came from a nobleman named Lu Yanghou whom he could not afford to offend.
Wang Dalu glanced at the shivering Gu Min who was holding a blunt weapon a few feet in front of him, and said with a smile.
"Don't worry, everyone, we are here just to see the scenery in the valley, and we will leave later."
After hearing this, the valley residents put down their weapons with some relief, but they did not relax their vigilance. They all still stared at Wang Dalu and his party.
The man just now followed Wang Dalu and others walking in the valley, and answered Wang Dalu's questions.
This valley was also discovered when they first came to this mountain forest to hunt for treasure.
All the agricultural facilities in the valley are there, probably left behind by some of the valley residents who left before.
At first, they only planned to stay here for a while to see if there were any treasures left in the valley.
As time went by, the treasure was not found, but a few treasure hunters were tired of the vendettas in the world and planned to immigrate here.
Only then did the dozen or so households come into being.
Several people went to the abandoned cave where Du Mang once lived. Soldiers from the Lu Yang Hou Dynasty are still stationed there to this day.
When Lu Guang appeared here, the soldiers thought that this noble young man was here to condole with them, which made them all smile and hold their heads high.
Standing here, looking at the cave completely buried by huge rocks, there is a buzzing sound coming from the coiled dragon stick in Wang Dalu's dragon mark space, as if he is feeling nostalgic for his former hometown.
"Let's go to Jingbian City."
In Jingbian City, which is sixty or seventy miles away from Wang Dalu and the others, many soldiers are stationed in the streets and alleys to prevent evil people from sneaking up on Wang Dalu and thus diverting the relationship between Wang Dalu and Li Ziguang's court and causing it to break up in advance.
Since Hua Guozhang came back from Viscount Wei Zhiming's Mansion, he claimed that he was not sick, and all matters were left to the three assistant generals in the mansion.
Wei Zhiming handed over the task of garrisoning Jingbian City to Shuyuan General Minghua, and sent Weiyuan General Gongzi Ming to lead troops to station outside the Dingyuan Army's camp.
In this way, Wang Dalu and his party passed by Jingbian City without any friction with the people of Li Ziguang's court, and they got along well.
In Guangyuan City, the main city of Li Ziguang Hou Dynasty.
Li Ziguang, wearing a python robe and a crown and a dragon pendant, sat in the court hall.
At the place closest to his head, Li Mu, Xiong Bo, Li Long and a monk with a bitter face were sitting beside him.
When going to court, the four important ministers just stood up and bowed in salute, while the ministers below all bowed down and shouted several times before Li Hou got up.
This is the ninth year of Li Ziguang's reign, and there is still less than half a year left before the deadline for him to meet with Wang Gang and other rebel officials.
During this period, the number of court meetings in the imperial court became more and more frequent. There were only one or two court meetings every seven days, but now they were held five or six times.
The matters discussed at the court meeting were also related to Nanshan City, which was unstoppable in the near future.
Up to now, Li Ziguang has been sending spies to the foot of Nanshan Mountain to find out the whereabouts of those Nanshan ministers who have not shown up for a long time.
Although the situation on Nanshan Mountain is unknown, Li Ziguang knows that there must be some ulterior secret on Nanshan Mountain, and that secret will be revealed when Wang Dalu ascends the throne.
When Wang Dalu ascended the throne, I believe that most of the forces in the Eastern Wasteland have heard about it and are considering whether to send people to watch the ceremony.
Li Ziguang had already decided to go to Nanshan City to watch the ceremony in person with the Hongxing Grand Duke and other allies to see what Nanshan had been doing in the past ten years.
Just listen to the words of a famous minister above the court.
"Reporting to Marquis Li, the son of Wang Dalu and Marquis Luyang passed through Jingbian City five days ago and should still be on his way back to Nanshan City at this moment."
This minister was the envoy Li Ziguang sent to Jingbian City.
Li Ziguang nodded and said.
"Yeah, I got it."
He then said to the chamberlain standing next to him.
"Drawing a decree, General Hua Guozhang of Dingyuan in Jingbian City can be conferred a baron status for his hard work and merit."
Having said this, Li Ziguang stopped speaking, as if he was thinking about something.
Seeing this, all the ministers in the palace stood quietly, not wanting to disturb their master's thoughts.
This plum is in the critical position. Although he is young, he has good skills.
In recent years, through the relationship with the Hongxing Duke, he married the Fengze Duke, who was four or five imperial powers away, and took the only daughter of the Fengze Duke.
Grand Duke Fengze also knew that his virtuous son-in-law, Li Ziguang, was not popular enough when he first took charge of the court, so he sent Wei Guangming, a close veteran with the second-level cultivation of a mayfly, to accompany his beloved daughter to serve in the court of Li Ziguang.
This dowry is not small.
Li Mu finally broke through to the second level of Mayfly the year before last, second only to Wei Guangming, a senior monk.
Count Li Long, known as the peak war god of Ningxu, also successfully entered the realm of Mayfly and became a veritable count.
Over the years, Song Zhi kept writing to him, wanting to invite him to Nanshan City to work together on great causes, but Li Long always used excuses to shirk him.
However, in recent times, there have been frequent letters between Li Long and Song Zhi, and the letters stated that they were even more interested in surrendering.
The number of great monks currently owned by Nanshan City has exceeded the number of top great monks owned by any of the ten Grand Dukes in the Eastern Wasteland.
All the ministers in the palace knew that the first force that Wang Dalu wanted to eradicate after he ascended the throne was their Li Ziguang Hou Dynasty.
Although the imperial court had already colluded with Grand Duke Hongxing and was married to Duke Fengze, everyone was not optimistic that the imperial court would be able to break through to the fourth level of the Mayfly Heaven before Duke Hongxing could break through.
With the help of Chao and Fengze Dukes, they defended Nanshan City from attacking.
The dozen or so ministers who had always remained neutral, led by Li Long, have been transferred to their original posts by Li Ziguang one by one in recent years, and replaced by Ren Shou, a close confidant.
Recently, people have come to Li Long one after another. They know that there is an old relationship between Li Long and Song Zhi, and they want to get in touch with Nanshan City through Li Long and seek refuge in Nanshan City.
Just as Li Long was watching the ministers in the palace entranced, Li Ziguang suddenly mentioned him and said.
"Earl Li Long."
Li Long stood up and cupped his hands.
"I'm here."
"Since the lord of Nanshan City, Wang Dalu, has turned around, Nanshan City will inevitably make a series of big moves in the near future. I want you to lead some ministers from the court to guard the southern border of the court to guard against other forces taking the opportunity to capture our territory. I wonder if you are willing to go
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Li Long smiled bitterly in his heart, knowing that Li Ziguang was deliberately moving him away from Nanshan City to prevent himself from treason.
Li Long responded.
"I accept my order."
Next, Li Ziguang casually mentioned that nine ministers in the palace would accompany Li Long there in person.
These people were all the original neutralists headed by Li Long. They were selected to be sent to southern Xinjiang together with Li Long, which shows that Li Ziguang had clear intentions.
After the court came down, most of the ministers deliberately avoided Li Long and more than a dozen ministers, fearing that Li Hou would find out about it and agree that they would be in trouble.
However, Count Xiong Bo stopped Li Long from behind.
Li Long looked at the old earl in front of him and asked.
"I wonder what happened to Earl Bear?"
Xiong Bo's eyes seemed wide open, looking at Li Longdao.
"Earl Li knows that Marquis Li has deep intentions. Don't let down Marquis Li's high hopes for you."
After saying that, Xiong Bo strode away, followed by twenty or thirty ministers who carefully accompanied him.
Li Long watched Xiong Bo leave, then looked back at the majestic palace behind him, and finally muttered something.
"It's been a hundred years, it's time to say leave."