The first city of Li Ziguang's dynasty, Guangyuan City.
Somewhere in the city, a group of people dressed in the uniforms of Li Dynasty soldiers were gathering together to eat dog meat and drink mixed wine.
Zhao Erwa, who once guarded the city, has transformed into one of the four defense officers of Guangyuan City, in charge of soldiers No. 200 and 300.
Today, Zhao Erwa has changed his name to Zhao Xin. Only his poor childhood companions would call him Erwazi.
Since Zhao Erwa became the city guard, his poor friends and those who made a living by begging have also become city gate guards. They have enough food and clothing every month, and they can also eat from time to time.
Monthly money for a few meals of wine and meat.
What Zhao Erwa has today is not due to Li Chao's gift, but because Wang Gang privately rewarded him with a desolate pill when he attended the Great Chao meeting.
The importance of this Wild Pill can be imagined. In order to find an excuse to accidentally obtain the Wild Pill, Zhao Erwa planned hard for half a year, and then deliberately made people think that he was just unlucky and got a monk from the parade.
Before leaving, I gave him a wild pill.
Because of this matter, Guangyuan City also caused some fluctuations, and some adults specially sent people to investigate the matter.
Although there was no real evidence, I listened to the people around me saying that it seemed to be true, so I acquiesced.
In this way, Zhao Erwa was valued by the people above because she became a monk in the realm of Yuanyuan.
Only then did he gradually change from a low-level guard to a defense officer.
During this period, many officials saw that Zhao Erwa had a bright future, so they intended to betroth their daughters to Zhao Erwa as wives, but they were all politely declined by Zhao Erwa.
Zhao Erwa always followed his former friends around Guangyuan City every day or drank and had fun somewhere.
Because of this, those officials who had been politely rejected by Zhao Erwa all speculated that Zhao Erwa might be as good as Long Yang.
Today, as soon as Zhao Erwa got off duty, she invited her friends to go to his house for a drink.
This three-entry house in the north of the city was awarded by the imperial court to Zhao Erwa as a defensive officer.
There lived his uncle who had adopted him since he was a child, and a dozen children who were too young to eat official food.
Now they no longer need to be beggars.
After drinking for two rounds, Uncle Gui took Zhao Erwa to discuss some matters in the side room.
"Erwazi, didn't you tell Uncle Gui last time that the son of Mr. Wang Gang of Nanshan City would be enthroned on February 2nd? Uncle Gui knew that you couldn't go to attend, so Uncle Gui wanted to go on your behalf."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Erwa shook her head and disagreed.
"Uncle, Nanshan City is thousands of miles away from here. If something happens to you while you are here, what will happen to us unsupervised children?"
Uncle Gui grabbed Zhao Erwa's arm with calloused hands and said.
"Don't worry, your uncle, I'm still in good health. I'll definitely be able to hold on until you, this kid, can give me a grandson, haha."
"Can..."
Uncle Gui smiled, pointed at the group of carefree young men outside the ajar door, and said to Zhao Erwa.
"Even if Uncle Gui is gone one day, you will still be there. Besides, Uncle Gui has already contacted the people in Nanshan City, Xiao Mingzi, who came here last time. At that time, he will arrange for Uncle Gui to communicate with the caravan of the Continental Chamber of Commerce.
Let’s go to Nanshan City together.”
Zhao Erwa relaxed after hearing that Uncle Gui had already made arrangements.
At this moment, the old housekeeper of the house, Uncle Zhong, came here with one of his men.
Just listen to the guard say.
"Sir, there is an urgent report from Xiong Fengcheng."
In the inner city of Guangyuan City, in the main hall.
Li Ziguang was still sitting high on the throne, and two great monks were sitting in the hall: Li Mu and Wei Guangming.
The two future great monks were left. Li Long was sent to the border by Li Ziguang to garrison, while Count Xiong Bo was in his own closed city.
In addition, His Highness is still standing, as are seventy or eighty ministers of the dynasty, including Zhao Erwa.
After listening to the news about Xiong Fengcheng reported by Zhao Erwa, Li Ziguang summoned the ministers to discuss the matter.
He wanted to take this opportunity to see the reaction of the officials and test a few things.
The Grand Duke of the Hongxing Dynasty, Hong Xing, whom Li Ziguang relies on now, has been in seclusion. During this period, he has asked his uncle Li Mu to send flying letters several times, but in the end, when the ten-year agreement expired, the Hongxing Dynasty himself
People will come.
After his old father-in-law, Grand Duke Fengze, sent the great monk Wei Guangming, he never sent anyone else. In all likelihood, he was also waiting for news from Grand Duke Hongxing.
At present, some of the courtiers of the entire Hou Dynasty have connected with Nanshan City, but Li Ziguang has been waiting and watching.
He wanted to see clearly the loyalty and traitors of the Manchu Dynasty and let some obedient ministers hand over power before truly breaking with Nanshan City.
"You all tell me, what is the purpose of Nanshan City doing this, and how should I, the Hou Dynasty, respond."
The ministers below all remained silent, and all looked at the two senior monks sitting there.
Li Mu saw that none of the ministers spoke, and glanced at Wei Guangming beside him.
Wei Guangming made a gesture of invitation, meaning that Li Mu should speak first.
Li Mu stood up and said slowly.
"In my opinion, there are two purposes for Nanshan City to do this. One is to find an excuse so that the court will not be so embarrassed, and the other is to tell our court that Nanshan City has no intention of being an enemy of our court."
After Li Mu finished speaking, Li Ziguang nodded without making any comment, but glanced at Wei Guangming.
Wei Guangming stood up and said.
"I report to Marquis Li, I believe that before the ten-year agreement is reached, Nanshan City will definitely not be an enemy of our dynasty. However, when the traitor Wang Dalu of Nanshan City ascends the throne and starts the dynasty, he will definitely seize the power of our dynasty with thunderous power.
The battle between our country and Nanshan City is inevitable."
After the two earls of the court spoke, the other ministers began to follow suit.
Some of the ministers also proposed to sign a new peace treaty with Nanshan Chengxu and Shewei, and wait for Nanshan City to fight with the Hongxing Dynasty, so as to reap the benefits of Yu Wen.
The ministers in the imperial court were divided into two groups, one group advocated war with Nanshan City, and the other group advocated peace talks with Nanshan City.
However, what these people are talking about are all things that will happen after the expiration of the ten-year agreement. They all intend to turn a blind eye to what has happened in Xiongfeng City in front of them.
Zhao Erwa stood behind everyone. He held a humble position here and it was not his turn to speak.
I just listened to the quarrels among the ministers in the court and the differences in attitude towards Nanshan City, but I was secretly happy in my heart.
"It seems that things will change in the Li Dynasty soon."
A few days after the court meeting, Zhao Erwa got the news that the ministers who proposed to negotiate peace with Nanshan City in the palace that day were all given excuses by Marquis Li to remove the real power in their hands.
Next, Zhao Erwa took the information and passed the whistle set up by Nanshan City in this city, and passed the news back to Nanshan City.
The enthronement ceremony is approaching in two months. Wang Dalu plans to meditate on Nanshan Mountain and strive to advance to a small realm within two months and reach the realm of Ningxu Erzhang.
The bottle of poisonous saliva of the Thousand-Year Poisonous Spider that I obtained when I participated in the Dao Chi Sect's Group Cultivation Conference before. After being absorbed over this period of time, there are faint signs of a breakthrough.
Even Jiaojiao said that if she practiced hard, she would be able to break through to the realm of Ningxu within two months.
It will also give those visitors a little surprise.