In mid-June after the year-end change, the north was still in a time when the sun was more than rain. The inside and outside Juyang City of Shanggu County became well-connected for more than ten years. The merchants traveled the most frequently in this season. The caravans traveled from south to north and were unobstructed. The chariots carrying goods were never empty. They either cows and sheep fur or southern rice sold to the north. At the same time, they also circulated the experiences and news from various states. The adjacent roads were farmers busy in the fields. In another two or three months, they would be able to harvest. Apart from the handover, the rest could be exchanged for some money in the city and raise the wife and children in the family to be fatter.

When the farmer put down the farm tools and straightened his waist to let the cool breeze blow across his neck, he smiled and looked at the neighbors walking on the road. The other party held a pair of children and rushed to the city with a sun in the morning. The child ran happily and was greeted by the caravan. All this was not just the farmer, but the peace and warmth that everyone living on this land could feel.

The caravans that unloaded goods outside the city said hello to the owner one after another and walked into the city gate. The bustling long streets had the momentum of a big city. The vendors on the street opened steamers, opened the doors under the eaves to do business shops, and the wine shops who greeted passers-by were all filled with the atmosphere of life in this sky.

The most common thing about the wine shop, the Chinese literati, the gentry talked about was the news that the King of Jin ascended the throne and became emperor. Nowadays, Juyang City, Shanggu County, is faintly called the Land of Longxing, and it also curbs the commerce of the grassland, the Central Plains, and the Liaodong. More and more people moved here to settle down. Even some wealthy families who originally looked down on the poor northern areas also set up houses here, and occasionally came to live for a while, which was considered leisurely.

After all, the war has stopped now, and the You, Ji and Central Plains are already connected, and the government has made significant improvements in its efforts to control local bandits. There are gradually more people coming from south to north.

Among them, some poor children came to the north to seek official positions after they had achieved success in their studies. In fact, the original admission system in the north did not follow Xu Du's style after Gongsun Zhi ascended the throne. They still acted on their own and sent their children to the grassroots level at the Western Regions, Liaodong, and scattered Xianbei tribes to teach Chinese language. After a successful investigation, they entered the official ranks and became an official. If they wanted to be promoted, they had to show better political achievements to have the opportunity to serve as county magistrates, county magistrates and other positions.

After Gongsun Zhi became emperor and went south, Gongsun Zheng had gone from studying government affairs to personally reviewing and handling political affairs in the north. From being busy and hesitant at the beginning, to Wang Lie, Bing Yuan, Li Ru and others, hesitated from the side, gradually adapting. After two months, his originally round face had become thinner, but he was also determined, and he had a little bit of slut in his chin, making him look much more calm.

"I don't know what the war is going on in Jiangdong."

The chariot drove out of the government office and handled government affairs until midnight. After sleeping for a while, it was only three o'clock when Dongfang Yu took a car back home with Dongfang Yu. Gongsun Zheng looked at the pedestrians coming and going outside the curtain and said with a smile: "Speaking of this, more and more people have visited me recently. I don't know where to find these relationships, and I want to get a job."

"If there are more people like this, you will be the prince in the future."

Dongfang Yu laughed and poured him a bowl of clear water. His gloomy eyes flashed across the corner of the curtain, looked at the wine shop that had passed by, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "......not only come to make connections, but also seem to want to make a name for himself."

"Um?"

"There is a person sitting there every time in that restaurant." Dongfang Yu picked up the clear water and took a sip. "I just changed my outfit every day and calculated it carefully. It has been more than ten days. I have been watching us every day without any storm and rain. It seems that the picture is quite big."

"Then use what my father taught me, sell a flaw and lead the snake out of the hole. I also want to know what is the purpose of a dangerous assassination alone." After saying this, Gongsun Zheng called out: "President Zhu."

When the knight riding a black war horse, wearing a leather armor and a blue shirt, and carrying a big gun approached, Dongfang Yu whispered to him about what he found. The former's eyes became sharp, nodded indecisively, and laughed softly: "Think he is Commander Han." Then, he did not look at the restaurant behind him. Before he turned around the street corner in front, he hurriedly left from the other side as if he had something important.

The same moment.

The wine shop was located near the street, and a figure put down the wine cup. Seeing that most of the guards in the past team left for another direction, they frowned for a moment, but still paid for the wine money, and took the iron spear leaning against the side and walked out. However, the moment they turned the corner of the street, their vision spread forward. The team that had originally left was lined up in the middle of the street, and more than ten guards lined up with guns.

"Sure enough, I dare to follow you." Dongfang Yuqing got out of the car and chased him.

The man stood there with a spear and was stunned for a moment, and quickly turned around to leave. The morning light shone through the branches and shone on the ground. A feather arrow was nailed to his moving feet in the distance. More than thirty people who left turned back and blocked the retreat. Then he heard Zhu Gongdao's voice: "Take him down-"

On the long street, blades were pulled out of their sheaths.

"Mr. Commander, wait." At this time, Gongsun Zheng walked out of the carriage, jumped out of the carriage and walked to the front of the guards, and bowed to the other party: "This hero, I have something unknown, why did he come to assassinate me?"

The man glanced at the man in blue-shirted clothes with a gun on the back. Just from the other party's movements and postures, Wu Yi was afraid that he was already above him. He stopped moving where he saw that he got off the car, and Gongsun Zheng was quite polite, and he bowed: "Heaven and earth are not fair, so naturally there are people who are doing the chivalrous and righteous."

"How did you find me?" As soon as he finished speaking, he asked again.

Seeing that the siege was already in place, Dongfang Yu was not worried that the other party could break through the siege of these White Wolf God Sect soldiers. While inserting the sword back into the sheath, he returned to Gongsun Zheng to stand behind him, "You have just started the army, and you can't even be a ranger. You don't know how to hide your body or not. How can you hide it? What's more, the one behind you was a famous ranger in the Green Forest in the North back then. I wish you justice. Tell me, who was assigned by you?"

"I don't know what Green Forest is, nor is it a Ranger." The man took a deep breath, only looking at Gongsun Zheng in front of the crowd, "It's not that fame and fortune come here to assassinate, but just for my father and mother..."

He was a little excited when he said this, and his feet couldn't help but take a step, which made the guards around him raise their swords together, and the atmosphere became solemn. After Gongsun Zheng raised his hand and told them not to be nervous, he asked the other party: "What does this hero mean is Zheng's father killing your parents?"

"Hahahaha, who else isn't him?" The man thrust his spear and pressed out his voice with gritted teeth: "My father was Guo Yun, the prefect of Yanmen County. And your father was just a horse thief! He sneaked into the city with his people, attacked the mansion at night, and killed my father. My mother was so tired that she took me to hide in the remote countryside of Youzhou to survive-"

In everyone's sight, Gongsun Zheng was silent for a while, and suddenly bowed to the excited man. Then even the person around him was stunned for a moment. He shouted: "Fake false!"

"It's not true. It's true that Zheng apologized to you and your mother on behalf of his father." Gongsun Zheng's face was solemn, and his tone was sincere and without sarcastic. "I have heard about my father's affairs back then, but I only apologized to you and your mother for his father."

"You mean, my father is dead?!"

Gongsun Zheng shook his head, "Premier Guo governed one side and cleared out bandits is his duty. My father was also one of the largest horse thieves on the grassland back then. It was normal for him to be suppressed. But the official wanted to kill the thief, and the thief would have to struggle to survive. If it were a hero, would you sit still and wait for death?"

"But I will leave."

"... But if you know that you are plotting, how can you convince the public if you don't take revenge? Moreover, your father is incompatible with the situation and different positions. If you are killed, you will lose like playing chess, but if you lose here, you will lose your life."

Without waiting for the other party to refute, Gongsun Zheng's voice continued.

"Imagine that if my father failed to take revenge and was killed by your father that day, wouldn't you think such a thief would be dead? That's the fate that comes to fight."

"But my father is an official and a prefect!" the man yelled out.

Gongsun Zheng waved his wide sleeves and his voice raised: "Whoever stipulates that he can only kill thieves, the thief can only be killed-"

The voice resounded throughout the street, and pedestrians blocked on both sides. Many vehicles stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks to look here. I don’t know what happened. The officers who maintained public order came over and were thrown away a token by a guard. They were so scared that they quickly helped stop the passing pedestrians.

The street was quiet for a moment, and Gongsun Zheng's tone was slightly relaxed: "So, I only apologize to your mother and the suffering you have suffered over the years." Then, he waved: "I know that the hero is not willing to listen to these words. Since you are here, that's fine..."

As he said that, Gongsun Zheng brushed his robe, untied the sword around his waist, and handed it to Dongfang Yu, who was full of confusion, and then strode to the other party three steps to stop, taking a deep breath, "I'm standing here, unarmed, come and kill me."

"Nothing!"

"return--"

Zhu Gongdao and Dongfang Yu's voices sounded almost at the same time. Even the assassin opposite was a little surprised, "You... do you really think I dare not do it!" The next second, he raised his gun and was about to stab him.

However, Gongsun Zheng remained motionless, and opened his eyes and looked at the tip of the gun that almost reached the tip of his nose.

"Are you really not afraid of death?!" The gun finally stopped, and the man held the gun handle for a moment and didn't know whether he should stab it.

"Not afraid!"

Gongsun Zheng reached out and pushed away the sharp spearhead and whispered: "Because, I am dead, thousands of people will be buried with me. The world is now going to be unified. When you come, you also saw how vibrant the land without war was. But if I die, what would happen to the world? Will my father raise the butcher knife again? Will the princes who just surrendered again if the state of Jin lost their heirs be ready to move? The war recurs, will their lives be counted on my father's head or the hero's head!"

The assassin's lips stuttered slightly, hesitantly took a step back, and suddenly screamed "Ah--".

"......... At that time, the hero will not only kill me, Gongsun Zheng, but the people who have passed away from the war in the whole world. So how are you different from the thief? In the end, you have become such a person, full of blood, not only the blood of your enemies, but countless innocent people." Gongsun Zheng looked at the other party's wandering face and pressed step by step: "You come and kill me now, and to destroy yourself with your own hands, what is the difference between your mother's grievances over the years?!"

With a clang.

The iron spear fell to the ground and rolled. The assassin's eyes turned dark and he knelt down with a bang. He was not Gongsun Zheng in front of him, but some other things that he placed his psychological support. Then, his broad shoulders trembled slightly, and his sob sound was choked and sobbing.

Gongsun Zheng reached out and pressed his hand on his shoulder and squatted down opposite the other party, "In this life, people have to go through many lives to leave by their side, and then they will become stronger and brave. This is what my father told me. He often plans to die outside in battle. He also hopes that my mother and I will not be sad in the future. Your parents don't want the hero to regard his life as worthless."

"I don't know what the chaotic times were like back then, I only heard from people outside. But if we are stable today, the people will no longer suffer from famine and war. Those who died of relatives in the war will continue to live, such as you and me."

The crying voice gradually disappeared, and only a hoarse voice opened: "Young Master said... Guo Huai understood."

"Just understand. Come on, get up."

In a shocked gaze, an assassination disappeared. Gongsun Zheng helped the man named Guo Huai up and took the dust off the other party. The smile on his face was gentle.

"The ancestors have opened up the best land and rivers for our Chinese people, with fertile farmland, dense forests and hills, and give us a place to rest and recuperate. Now the world is so peaceful. Let the people take a breath and don't continue to fight."

Gongsun Zheng held his hand and took Guo Huai to the carriage: "Let's go, my father killed your father back then and let you suffer. Today I will replace you with a brother. Whether it is suffering or wealth or glory, I am sharing it with my brother--"

Let's get into the car together, with a solemn expression, and arched heavily in front of everyone: "——Look at the peace and prosperity together!"

The voice passed through the ears of everyone and rushed through the long street. Under the white clouds, there was a bustling street market. Pedestrians were bustling with laughter and abuse. The thieves were caught and beaten and delivered to the government. There were a lot of wine shops, and guests listened to the vocal music, watched the dance, and gave extra rewards from time to time. Farmers walked through shops with children who had never seen the world, choosing practical and satisfactory things; caravans outside the city were red in their faces for a little money; caravans loaded with goods had already gone to the road south, walking through the stretching mountains, hoping that they would be able to sell for a better price.

Among the colorful thousands of lives, some people leave in this gradually stable world, and new lives are coming, continuing countless stories...

A brand new tombstone was added under the mulberry tree that was once like an umbrella. The black man with a leopard head and a ring-eyed eyelid brought a child named Liu Chan to clean the fallen leaves in this morning. The warm sunlight shone down. A green figure rode a horse in the afterglow. He raised his head and looked at it, and tears unconsciously spilled out of his eyes: "...... Second brother."

The summer breeze strodes the lush trees, and the leaves fell down and fell on the shoulders of the two bowed to each other.

The long river water was facing east. After the war, the young couple galloped on the shore. Soon after, they stopped, walked on the grass, and looked at the reeds swaying in the morning light. Lu Lingqi leaned gently on her husband's shoulder and whispered: "I want a child."

Lu Xun, who had already had short beards, hugged her, looked at the rising sunlight and nodded, and kissed the woman lightly on the forehead: "I have been waiting for this sentence for a long time for my husband."

There was still a faint fragrance on the black hair while talking.

In the turning mansion in Langyuan, Sun Ce sat under a tree in the courtyard, looking at his son who was squatting and slacking off his gun, throwing a fine stone out of his hand and throwing it over. The boy quickly straightened his body and continued to remain motionless, but his body couldn't help trembling, which caused Qiao Ying, who was not far away to hold breakfast, to complain, but then he fell into her husband's chest.

The corridor stretched out, and Zhou Yu led his wife under the eaves, looked at the scene over there, and chuckled.

In the city caused by the war, Gongsun Zhi walked on the city wall with Jiangdong civil and military officials, looking at the damaged places, the houses were being repaired by the hard-working people, and a smile appeared on his wrinkled face.

"After the chaos, we should be in great governance. Not only the people in Jiangdong suffered this problem, but from north to south, there has been no place that can make people feel at ease over the years. I have a deep understanding... I can't fight anymore." He turned around and looked at the bowing civil and military people over there. The wind blew over the city, his robes flew up, and his majestic voice echoed in this brilliant sunshine.

"Restoring...rest and resting is my burden and my duty. You all want to encourage me together!"

The big and small civil and military men, extending straight, bowed together, and the voice echoed under the sky, "Long live your Majesty-"

Spread out and spread out.

The densely packed troops under the city walls, countless swords and weapons were raised, and roaring in the summer sky.

"Long live your Majesty—"

"Long live your Majesty—"

The sky is like a catkin, flowing.
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