Prison Dragon

Chapter 174

It was an emotion that seemed to be hatred, but was more complicated, deeper, and more tangled than hatred.

Yang You looked at him quietly, raised his head and exposed his fragile neck, silently expressing his determination.

Ao Chen looked at him deeply, his pupils trembled slightly, and finally held Yang You's head in his arms.

"Come with me, I will take you to find the way to become an immortal."

Yang You rubbed his face on the hollow of his shoulder, raised his hand and hugged him back forcefully, this hug was almost suffocating, "I can't go."

Ao Chen wiped off the blood and tears on his face with his thumb, nose to nose, "I want to destroy Qi."

Yang You stroked the smooth curve of his chin, showing a gentle smile, "I won't leave."

Ao Chen frowned and looked at him angrily.

Yang You took a deep breath, held his face with both hands, kissed from the tip of his nose to his lips, and finally licked the wound on his neck lightly.

That is the reverse scale of the dragon.

Ao Chen resisted the urge to attack, and grabbed his shoulders with both hands.

"I'm sorry." Yang You smiled and raised his head, "You can go now."

I'm so afraid I'll regret it.

Ao Chen stood up, looked at him one last time, turned around and took a step.

"You are free," Yang You cried and laughed, "You are free..."

Ao Chen stopped and nodded, the strong wind blew open the doors and windows of the main hall, and Ao Chen's figure gradually disappeared in the white mist.

Yang You panicked suddenly, he stood up and ran towards Ao Chen, but he didn't see the wine jar under his feet, he tripped and fell to the ground, the wine spilled out an intoxicating aroma.

Thick clouds were blown up by the wind, and heavy rain poured down.

Ruifang rushed in and helped Yang You up, "What's wrong, Your Majesty?"

"It's nothing." Yang You walked forward in a trance, looking up to the sky and laughing, "I did a good thing."

"Hahahaha..." He staggered, walked a few steps and then fell to the ground, curled up and cried bitterly.

The cry echoed the thunderstorm, lonely and bleak in the cold wind.

"Your Majesty, do you want to go to see the well today?" Rui Fang helped Yang You take off the court clothes, and rubbed Yang You's stiff shoulders behind the desk.

Yang You twisted his neck, "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"When you are free, you look for wells everywhere, and you stay by the well even if you don't sleep in the middle of the night." Ruifang murmured while folding clothes, "The palace is only so big, and the stones by the well have been polished by you. "

Yang You smiled and coughed twice, and Ruifang accused him again, "Your Majesty told me to pay attention to your body. Last night, you squatted in the wind for most of the night, and now you have caught a cold. Do you feel better?"

"I don't know what's wrong. I used to get blood all over my body in the Xuanzheng Palace. Now I go to find a well every day, so I can't sleep well."

It snowed heavily for a day, and the rustling sound of snow falling on the ground came from outside the window. Yang You held the stove and opened the window to watch the blood quietly. When winter came, he planted two plants in front of the window with his own hands. plum bossom.

This is the plum tree he saw when he went to the Imperial Garden once. The branches of the two plum blossoms were thin, because they were planted so close together that the branches were entangled. For some reason, the gardener never pruned them. They grow wildly.

The appearance is not good, Yang You still remembers what the gardener said, but he still moved the flowers to the window.

Ling Han's plum blossoms had snow-white petals, Yang You thought they were red at first, and sighed regretfully.

"Is there no well I haven't seen?" he asked.

Ruifang nodded, "The wells in the palace have been killed more or less. I heard that there will be ghosts coming out of them at night. It's an unlucky thing. Let's see what it does."

"What the hell, water ghost?" Yang You suddenly became interested in these deep palace anecdotes.

"There are concubines who threw themselves into wells, children who were drowned, and eunuchs who committed suicide for various reasons." Ruifang counted them one by one with fingers.

"Really?" Yang You chuckled, "I haven't seen it before."

I have clearly seen the Dragon God.

But that was a long time ago, so long that Yang You began to wonder if they had ever happened, whether he had really waited the long night by the well, and then waited for a dragon god named Ao Chen to come and kneel with him long talk.

It has only been two or three months since Ao Chen left, but it seems like many years have passed for him.

There is almost nothing to miss, Ao Chen is like light smoke, coming and going without a trace, without a trace.

It's not that he has no illusions, the two can meet again, but now he also knows that it's just an illusion, no matter who is in Ao Chen's situation, he will not easily choose to come back.

He had already thought of the current situation from the very beginning, and he was still unwilling to do this struggle.

"Then forget it, we won't go." Yang You said.

On the day Ao Chen left, there was a sudden rainstorm in Lidu. The rainstorm lasted for three days and three nights and flooded many nearby places. Even if Yang You acted in time, it did not cause too much damage.

Lu Shanjian said that heaven and man are connected, and the sky is like this, which indicates the changing situation in the world.

What it will look like, none of them know, the only certainty is that it will get worse.

The state of Qi was at the end of its strength, and it was only possible to survive today by relying on Ao Chen's dragon energy. Now that Ao Chen is gone, it is only maintained by manpower, and it is not known whether it can save the crisis.

Shang Luo used to say that Da Qi was exhausted by several generations of emperors of his ancestors.

Yang You ascended the throne, not long after the good times, it was all used to clean up the mess.

The pinnacle of power is not the unique scenery of the mountains, but the shocking ruins of prosperity.

There were constant disputes in the imperial court, and there was no shortage of contention where there were people. In order to prevent the situation of tearing up the government, he had to compromise and let several major prime ministers recruit his subordinates.

As soon as winter comes, the war between Turkic and Qi is rekindled. This time, even God is interfering with it. The weather outside the Great Wall is bad, and the grasslands are withered. , which brought a lot of pressure to Yang Yuchun's defense.

Yang You urgently conscripted [-] soldiers from Yizhou to the north, ordered Liu Heng's troops stationed in Longxi to be merged into Yang Yuchun's command, and sent troops to conquer Xixia.

The army needs money, people, and food, so they have to collect from the people, but this year's harvest is not very good, and the north has almost no crops due to the locust plague, and it has been messed up by a civil uprising. Every time Yang You collects taxes The corvee thought and thought, every step was very difficult.

He just roughly rectified the government affairs so that the court can handle affairs in a normal state. According to Yang Yuchun, there are still many problems in the army.

Eat nothing, kill civilians to take credit for the enemy's soldiers, default on military pay, and condone soldiers to plunder...

He felt more and more powerless and beyond his reach.

Liaodong was the first to suffer. The guards of Liaodong embezzled the military pay, causing a mutiny in the troops. The army killed the guards and the local governor, occupied the state capital and raised the banner.

Wang Zhong, Minister of the Ministry of War, was one of the few generals in Yang Tingchao. Yang Youlian issued an imperial decree to appoint Wang Zhong to take over as the observation envoy of Liaodong. He can act cheaply, and must not expand the mutiny.

Wang Zhong quickly beheaded the leader of the rebel army, appeased the rest of the troops, and allowed Qi to survive this crisis safely. Yang You took advantage of the situation and asked him to accept the defense of Liaodong to prevent the Turks from attacking this side.

Then there are all kinds of things, big and small. There will be an earthquake here, and there will be heavy snowfall there again. In short, it has not stopped for a moment since October.Yang You felt like a person in a fire scene, trying to put out the fire with the only water in his hand, but one place was extinguished, another one popped up, as long as he didn't pay attention, the whole palace might be ignited.

Originally, the new law was promoted smoothly and entered a difficult period. Coupled with the resistance of the aristocratic family, Lu Shanjian's expression also began to become a little tired.

He wanted to complain to Yang You more than once, this is the fate of letting Ao Chen go, but he let go of them all, he knows that in today's world, there is no one who can compare with Nan Huajun back then, or even Yang Hu, It can use manpower to change the direction of luck between heaven and earth.

On the surface, the situation in Yang Youchao is much better than that of the previous generations of emperors. At least he, the leading emperor, does things very safely, but only Yang You and Lu Shanjian know that the current state of Qi is a tree rotten from the root. The brilliance of the big tree makes people ignore its decaying interior, thinking that such a stable life can last for a long time.

But they don't know that the gorgeous appearance may be punctured at any time.

Flourish, but crumbling.

The situation outside the Great Wall was somewhat beyond Yang You's imagination. Maybe it was because there was no food, maybe the Turks simply wanted to invade the territory, or there were other unknown factors.

Although there is a Great Wall on the border, it will not cover all areas. Similarly, the troops are mainly placed on the pass that needs to be defended. The Turkic is determined to go to the south to grab it. The Turkic leader Ashinamodo led One hundred thousand troops mixed with many tribes, ran for more than half a month, bypassed the defense line of Yang Yuchun and Wang Zhong, and reached Shuozhou, an important town in the north.

Shuozhou is just to the north of Lidu, and the guards of Shuozhou are the local nobles recommended by Shangluo.

Ashinamodo was seduced while presenting soldiers, and the governor Lu Fang was going to learn the method in the military book, let people in and cut off the back road, and planned to use the tall city walls of Shuozhou City to besiege Ashinamodo to death, pretending to surrender to Kaimeng to lure the enemy into deep .

All parts of the Central Plains rarely had the opportunity to fight the northern tribes, and they all miscalculated the fighting power of the Turks.Before the battle report of the Turkic soldiers approaching the city was sent to the capital, news of the fall of Shuozhou followed.

Yang You got these two pieces of news almost at the same time, and was almost so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.

When Wang Zhong received the tip, he ordered his troops to chase south and wanted to attack the Turks from behind.Yang Yuchun also personally brought soldiers and horses to rush to help the capital.

The defender of the Central Plains underestimated the fighting power of the Turks, and the Turks also underestimated the ability of the emperor Yang You.

In the eyes of the Turkic people, Yang You is just a little boy who knows how to play tricks. Although the Central Plains people are very good at playing tricks, it is the fierce generals like the Fourth Prince Yang Shi who are really worthy of respect.