PFC Chapter 6897 Heartbroken
Chapter 6897 Heartbroken
Chapter 6897 Heartbroken
The people under Yuan Shu's command were quite reliable, especially after seeing that Liu Zhang didn't care about this incredible team name, this group of people began to train with peace of mind. After all, their biggest worry earlier was that Liu Zhang would rebel against the team name Yuan Shu came up with, and then the Shining Golden Archangel would come to trouble him with a broadsword.
Zhang Ren's current rank in the military is, after all, second only to Liu Bei, Huangfu Song, Guan Yu, Zhou Yu and a few other top leaders. If he came over with a sword to question them, even Zhang Zhong and his group would find it hard to hold back.
Fortunately, no conflict occurred. The brother who was born in Yuzhou was still willing to help Yuan Shu win a victory. After all, the Taiwei would not participate in the competition, and fighting for Yuan Gong could satisfy his loyalty!
As for Liu Zhang, he is almost a bonus.
Although Zhang Song came to Chang'an to report on his work, when he passed by Liu Zhang, he also said that he would give Liu Zhang the entire team and even introduced guys like the Yangzhou Six-Man Group. Unfortunately, he was rejected by Liu Zhang who was concerned about Zhang Ren. For Liu Zhang, it was enough to join Yuan Shu's team, because Yuan Shu's team was his!
But this is only for Liu Zhang. For Liu Zhang's daughter, her father had to take care of General Zhenxi Zhang Ren and had no extra time to deal with these matters.
As a fourteen-year-old princess, even though the Han Dynasty was in its heyday and princesses were rare and well-educated, she was a little naive mentally, but she did understand some politics.
For example, this grand martial arts performance. Although it was said in the morning that it was for the purpose of understanding how much foundation the Han Dynasty had accumulated after ten years of operation, after the veterans from all over the country arrived in Chang'an, everyone vaguely guessed that this time, spending so many resources to organize a small world grand martial arts performance to ensure that all the veterans could give their all was more for the purpose of breaking the cause and effect entanglement of more than twenty years and severing past karma!
After all, the Han Dynasty has never stopped killing people in various places since the late Lingdi period. Take Nanzhi as an example. He started as a horse bandit when he was in his teens. During more than 30 years, he was a Qiang, a Han, a Xianbei, a Southern Xiongnu, and finally returned to his Han nature. During this period, guess how many people Nanzhi killed.
This kind of killing can no longer be simply distinguished by right or wrong, black and white. The killer is killing to survive, and the killed is also killing to survive!
After more than thirty years, people like Zhang Han have let it go and forgotten. They can look at the people and events of the past calmly. Even if the other party appears in front of them, they can deal with it calmly. Some people, like Jiang Tao, seem to have forgotten and can face everything calmly and build their own lives, but when that person appears in front of them, they will involuntarily draw out their swords and chop down!
There are also some like Gao Yi who rely on killing to stop killing, calm their minds, and are no longer entangled with the ordinary Yanzhou veterans of the past, but some things are always remembered in their hearts.
There was a battle in the martial arts performance that Zhao Zhen and Xu Yuan could not avoid, which was the battle between Gao Yi and Zhao Zhen, a battle of life and death, to determine the winner. In Gao Yi's words, he needed to give an explanation to his deceased family members, and Zhao Zhen was speechless.
The problem is that Gao Yi's entire family was killed by the old soldiers of Yanzhou. There were also old soldiers of Yanzhou who were killed by Yuan Shao's cavalry who broke into Yanzhou before and after the battle between Yuan and Liu.
These are all messy accounts that cannot be settled, so Chen Xi burned all the resources and built a small world with a simulation degree of basically 100% for the grand martial arts show. From a certain perspective, it is just like the great calamity of the Conferred Gods, sorting out the cause and effect, cutting off the karma, and the defeated will directly ascend to the throne of god.
In fact, the reason why this small world was built in the Weiyang Palace was because in terms of national destiny and under the attention of the imperial will, when clearing up the cause and effect, the losing party would naturally avoid the opponent, reducing the chances of both parties meeting.
As for right or wrong, black or white, Chen Xi was too lazy to care. Forget it. It was unclear, impossible to sort it out. It was better to use hegemony directly and let the losers automatically retreat from the winners. This was also a solution to the problem. As for sorting out cause and effect, Chen Xi had not considered it from the beginning.
Because it doesn't make sense at all, even if Liu Bei attributed the cause and effect to himself, it would be impossible to straighten it out. This thing is a dead end, it is better to prove it by force.
This was the reason Chen Xi had given privately earlier, but with the end of the 25-year plan, the leaders of the major families had arrived in Chang'an one after another, and this time there was something else going on in the military exercise - the veterans were settling causes and effects, and the families were demonstrating their strength.
For forces above a certain level, this time is a test, and the strength of the forces will even affect the future division of interests.
Sun Shangxiang did not realize this, but Liu Yao had already noticed it. Therefore, in this situation, if her father did not put out a bunch of main forces, then their Yangcheng Hou faction might be looked down upon by other forces in the future. This was why Liu Yao decisively came to take over after hearing that Sun Shangxiang had prepared a team of elites for her. She was still worrying about this before!
"Sister Xiang, are these the people?" Liu Yao looked at the fourteen or fifteen people gathered by Gu Laili and turned his head to look at Sun Shangxiang and asked. With Liu Yao's eyesight, he could not see anything at all.
"Well, yes, each one of them is an elite." After all, Sun Shangxiang had internal energy leaving her body, so she was very sensitive to danger. When this group of people passed through the second door and entered the outer courtyard, Sun Shangxiang felt a little sense of danger. Each one of them was very strong.
As I said, a veteran soldier of the seventh level of smelting can fight against the internal qi out of the body even without cloud energy. Even if he cannot win, he can still run away. And in the presence of cloud energy, a veteran soldier of the seventh level of smelting has a considerable advantage against most of the internal qi out of the body.
Even veterans of the sixth level of smelting, if they encounter the human empire's internal energy leaving their bodies under the clouds, their safety is still guaranteed as long as they are not too unlucky. If they have all kinds of subordinates, a recoil will not be a big problem.
"Gu Laili, please introduce yourself." Sun Shangxiang took a step forward, and instantly burst out with the pressure of internal energy leaving her body, and then restrained herself. Sun Shangxiang felt that she should still maintain respect for such a veteran, at least let the other party know her own strength.
"Internal energy leaves the body?" The old soldier from Beigui who was standing in place had his eyes glowing, and Randall from Nangui was staring at Sun Shangxiang intently. With his clairvoyance, he could naturally see that Sun Shangxiang's internal energy was filled with her will. This was all the result of practice!
"May I ask how old your highness is this year?" Randall knelt on one knee very smoothly. Ever since he met Liu Tong, he also began to recruit members of the guard. And now after meeting Sun Shangxiang, for Randall, he had to recruit them even more. This princess was like a god of war!
Compared to the natural wisdom, this martial god-like princess is more attractive to the top veterans headed by Randall. After all, they do not make a living by intelligence, they rely on force!
The old soldiers from Beigui all looked at Randall, who was kneeling on one knee, with angry eyes. They were shocked by the opponent's smoothness. Before they could say anything, this guy had already knelt on one knee and saluted!
"Nineteen, what's wrong?" Sun Shangxiang is completely different from other women. If she asked other girls this question, they would not get an answer. But Sun Shangxiang didn't care about this. She didn't even care about her maiden name being exposed. Just like Stina, she was also detached!
Not to mention that feudal ethics had not yet been fully developed in the Han Dynasty. Even if it had been fully developed, it would be nonsense to punish strong female figures like Stina and Sun Shangxiang. This is also the reason why Sun Shangxiang has no guards. It's not that Jiangdong can't find two six-fold smelting veterans to serve as guards for Sun Shangxiang, but that Sun Shangxiang doesn't need them at all. In the absence of cloud energy, the six-fold smelting veterans are really no match for Sun Shangxiang!
"Your Highness is truly gifted. I have never heard of a woman who has reached the state of inner energy leaving the body at the age of nineteen. Your Highness has the potential to break through the boundaries." Randall said from the bottom of his heart, "Please accept my loyalty, Your Highness. My name is Randall!"
When Randall said this, the six elite talents forcefully displayed two sets of finishing moves, which were not yet unleashed, but made Sun Shangxiang clearly feel the threat from him.
"Not a bad force, you can join my team." Sun Shangxiang said with satisfaction.
Beigui’s brother was furious. Damn, the fight hasn’t even started yet and Randall has already occupied a position. What’s the point of saying anything?
"Your Highness, please allow me to challenge Randall in a duel." Herbert said that he could not bear it for even a second. A mere rubbish from the Brahmin system had actually taken Princess Le'an's team number before him. Damn, if I don't defeat Randall today, I, Herbert, have lived in vain for forty-six years!
"There's no need to do that. You are all elites above the sixth level of smelting. I have no doubt about your strength. Please join our sister's team." Sun Shangxiang stopped Herbert's behavior. Although the sense of danger she felt from Herbert was less, it might be that Herbert hadn't exerted his strength yet, so it was better not to do anything rash.
They were soon divided into two teams. After all, they were all princesses. Although Princess Le'an had explosive combat power and could be regarded as a future boundary-breaking powerhouse, Princess Xian'an was small and cute, which was a plus.
"It seems like there are three more." Liu Yao tilted his head and looked at Sun Shangxiang and asked. Sun Shangxiang was silent for a while. When Liu Yao said that, Sun Shangxiang had already realized that the atmosphere was wrong.
There is no other way. The two teams of six people only need twelve people, but there are fifteen people now, so three people must be eliminated. The problem is that Brother Beigui has come from a long distance, over mountains and rivers. Who can accept being eliminated?
There is indeed a small gap in strength between the princess team and the newly formed county lord team, but the difference in strength between everyone is not that big. In this case, they will be doomed!
"Xi'an, does your sister Yuandong have a team?" Sun Shangxiang asked without hesitation.
If there are too many people, it will be difficult to get there, which is not good for everyone. In this case, we might as well bring one more person over.
Liu Yuandong is the daughter of Liu Yu. She was previously conferred the title of princess together with Liu Yao. She was not very familiar with Sun Shangxiang, but now she didn't care whether she was familiar with her or not.
"No, Uncle Liu seems to be organizing people, and Sister Yuandong definitely hasn't formed a team." Liu Yao also realized the current situation and gave an answer immediately.
"Gu Laili, go and find three more level six smelters and bring them back. If there's one more or one less, I'll hold you accountable." Sun Shangxiang turned around and called out to Gu Laili.
Gu Laili nodded when he heard it, then turned into light and ran away. It was just three level six smeltings, no problem, there were more at the palace. The difficulty was that he couldn't find more. Forget it, he would just hide in the woods and watch them fight Zena or Andana. After being killed by those two, he would find a strong one and pick up three of them.
"Go, ask your guards to invite the Princess of Tancheng over." Sun Shangxiang called to Liu Yao, and as soon as these words came out, the originally tense atmosphere dissipated a lot.
Liu Yuandong's title is different from that of several other princesses. Her title is actually her Tangmuyi, which is similar to Liu Tong's title of Princess Wannian. It is an orthodox title. When Liu Yao comes of age, his title will also be changed to this type. As for Sun Shangxiang and Cao Wan, they only have titles but no Tangmuyi.
Of course, Sun Ce didn't care about this. If Sun Shangxiang really wanted Tangmuyi, Sun Ce could also give Sun Shangxiang two islands in Southeast Asia to calm her down.
As for the fact that most islands in Southeast Asia lack rivers and cannot survive without fresh water, this was a problem for ancient Southeast Asian people, but not a problem at all for the big guys in the Central Plains. The tropical marine climate and tropical rainforest climate, in essence, do not lack rainfall at all.
Therefore, those Jiangdong veterans who have taken over islands in Southeast Asia have basically built ponds and dams on their own islands. This is itself an important small-scale water storage facility in the hilly and mountainous areas of southern China. Its function is to collect rainfall based on the terrain.
With an annual rainfall of over 2,000 mm in the tropical rainforest and tropical marine climate, there is no problem in supplying ponds and weirs, and even freshwater fish can be raised.
In fact, in the hilly and mountainous areas of southern China, a large number of ponds and weirs can be combined to be used as fish ponds. From a certain perspective, this method of digging pits to store water is completely capable of meeting the demand for fresh water on the islands of Southeast Asia. Of course, if the ponds and weirs are dug in strange places at the beginning and are flooded by sea water, then we can only admit that we are unlucky.
The relationship between Sun Shangxiang and Liu Yuandong was average, but the relationship between Liu Yao and Liu Yuandong was quite good. After all, there were only a few cats and kittens left in the old Liu family, so the interactions between them naturally increased a lot. So when Liu Yao invited Liu Yuandong to come to the residence of Princess Le'an, Liu Yuandong just thought about it for a moment and came with his guards.
When Liu Yuandong arrived with his guards, Gu Laili also arrived at Princess Le'an's mansion with three key elite soldiers from Beigui.
"What's wrong?" Liu Yuandong noticed the guard's strange expression and asked curiously.
"I just met an acquaintance." Kurma looked at Gu Laili's unusual silence. Even if he was beaten to death, he would never have thought that he would meet Gu Laili in Chang'an City. Gu Laili was also silent at this time. Kurma was actually serving as the princess's bodyguard, and he was a servant-style bodyguard.
"Sister, come quickly, we have formed a team for you to participate in the grand martial arts performance." Liu Yao greeted Liu Yuandong in a lively manner.
"Okay, thank you sister." Liu Yuandong gave Kurma a look, and Kurma nodded, indicating that these were all elites and there would be absolutely no problem with them.
"Is this guy the Zoroastrian Dharma King?" Nehemiah asked Gu Laili through voice transmission. He felt that he looked familiar.
"Yes, that guy." Gu Laili said with a dark face, "I am also wondering, how did he become the guard of the Princess of Tancheng?"
"I was wondering why you came to the Han Dynasty. Aren't you the loyal backbone of the Dayuezhi? Why did you come to the Han Dynasty to serve the princess? Have you finally realized your mistakes?" Kurma said to Guleri and Nehemiah.
The other veterans did not know Kurma, but Guleri and Nehemiah had more seniority and were the inheritance carrier and backup respectively. They had seen Kurma in the past, but in their impression, Kurma should still be in the mountain city of Bactra.
"We are still the loyal backbone of the Dayuezhi. As for coming to the Han Dynasty to serve the princess, of course we are needed to participate in the grand martial arts performance. With your eyesight, you should be able to see that so many people are our own people." Gu Laili stared at Kurma and said in a voice transmission. The purpose of saying this was more to dispel Kurma's hostility.
Although the high-level officials of both Kushan and Han Dynasty acquiesced to this matter, if Kurma reported it to the higher-ups, they would have no choice but to accept their bad luck if they were hunted down and hacked.
Just like when Zena was exposed last time and his incarnation was killed by Zhang Xiao, he was not only not punished but also was rewarded with honors; and when Pratt beheaded the incarnation of Bone Riley outside the city gate and was rewarded with a first-level title, the true identities of these people cannot be exposed. If the people do not report it and the officials do not investigate it, then no one will be fine. But if they are reported, then they can only accept their bad luck if they are killed.
"I have no intention of reporting you. To be able to have contact with the honorable princess, your identities must have been verified." Kurma was able to become the Dharma King of Zoroastrianism, which shows that he has some political acumen. This is also the reason why Kurma was able to become Liu Yuandong's bodyguard.
Without some political vision, could Kulma convince a bad guy like Chen Zhong to fulfill his wish?
You have to know that this is the princess of the Liu family, a member of the royal family within the five generations of mourning, which was the highest pursuit for Vasudeva I. As a result, Kurma can now follow her as a attendant.
This is also the reason why, although Chen Zhong did not fulfill Kurma's wish to let him marry a county lady, Kurma no longer pestered Chen Zhong. Kurma was very satisfied to be Liu Yuandong's attendant!
"By the way, what's the situation with this princess?" Gu Laili was sure that Kurma would not cut off their retreat, so he was too lazy to understand the ins and outs of why Kurma came here. After all, it was not that important, so he turned to ask about the identity of the Princess of Tancheng.
“Hehehe, this is the very noble Princess Liu. The father of the Princess of Tancheng once served as the current Zongzheng!” Compared to things like the Governor of Youzhou and the Grand Herald, for Kulma, the most important thing is that Liu Yuandong’s father once served as the Zongzheng. This means proof of bloodline!
"They are so closely related!" Nehemiah decisively defected and prepared to join Liu Yuandong's army. In the eyes of the elder brother Dayuezhi, princesses can also be ranked according to seniority, and the ranking depends on who has the purest bloodline. There is no doubt that the bloodline of the princess of Tancheng is extremely pure.
"Princess Xian'an's grandfather was also a clan leader." Kurma added. He arrived early, and although he was not Princess Tancheng's bodyguard at the beginning, he had access to a lot of intelligence.
"After my real body arrives in two days, I will join both teams at the same time." Nehemiah had no bottom line at all. After all, for the Dayuezhi, this kind of good thing would be gone forever.
"The Princess of Tancheng does not have internal energy leaving her body, nor does she have any spiritual talent. It is almost time for her to get married." Gu Laili was very unhappy when he saw Kurma's arrogant look. While the other party was beaming with joy, he delivered a fatal blow to him!
"Damn!" Kulma felt like he was about to die, but what Gu Laili said was true.
Although Liu Yuandong has not married yet and has not yet decided on a husband, Kulma, as a guard in Liu Yu's mansion, has learned some things from hearsay - Liu Yu plans to let Liu Yuandong remarry Gongsun.
Anyway, from Chen Xi's perspective, Liu Yu had been acting for too long, got so into the role that his consciousness became a little fuzzy, and he really thought of Gongsun Zan as a friend whose behavior was somewhat extreme.
In conjunction with his earlier help in reorganizing the Baima Yicong, when Gongsun Xu went abroad, he found that his son Liu He had followed him, so he gave Gongsun Xu a huge red envelope worth 100 million yuan, which could be used to purchase any materials. After that, he strongly supported Gongsun Xu in building his fiefdom in the northeastern part of the Caspian Sea every year.
Even after noticing that his son Liu He also chose to settle down there, Liu Yu used his connections to transfer as many middle and lower-level bureaucrats as possible to Gongsun Xu and Liu He to ensure that the Great Western Kingdom established by Gongsun Xu could be maintained stably.
In short, Liu Yu worked hard on this matter, and even Gongsun Xu's consciousness was distorted by reality. He thought that his father and Uncle Liu were only fighting for the line, and they were still sworn brothers in private.
Relying on Liu Yu's hard work, and Liu Bei and Chen Xi pretending to know nothing but occasionally eliminating some scrap metal, Gongsun Xu successfully gained a foothold in the eastern part of the Caspian Sea. This place was the Mangystau Province of Kazakhstan in later generations. At that time, it was still an era of abundant water and grass. Of course, in later generations, this place was also an important port city because of its proximity to the Caspian Sea.
By the way, because the world map was too huge, Gongsun Xu, who had only occupied the Mangistau State and had not yet occupied all of it, had already occupied nearly 100,000 square kilometers. Therefore, even though the output was not much, the Great Western Kingdom was still successfully supported by relying on the pastures.
This is also the basis for Gongsun Xu's future revenge. Relying on the scrap metal eliminated by the central government every year, Gongsun Xu has armed a very large military force. However, if he wants to fight against Yuan Tan, he still needs to continue to grow.
This year, Gongsun Xu's wife gave birth to two children, and Gongsun Xu became a little autistic. Liu He, thinking that the Great Western Kingdom had been stable, forcibly pulled Gongsun Xu back and introduced his sister to him.
The relevant content about Liu Yu's acting was written about several thousand chapters ago. If you are interested, you can check it out.
(End of this chapter)