The letter delivery in Dayue Kingdom can generally be divided into two parts: Guanyi and Minyi. Compared with the two, Minyi wins the price because the price is lower, while the official office wins the safer and faster. Moreover, if the official office passes the official office, everything is free.

However, in terms of the speed of delivering letters, the official post office is far inferior to that of the military post office after all, because the military situation is like fire, it is more urgent than ordinary official duties, especially the major military affairs related to the border, which cannot be slacked off at all, so there is a saying of 600-limit rush and 800-limit rush. The latter has another better statement in the court and the country, that is, the meteor fast horse.

The cavalry used by the Meteor Fast Horse is the most powerful scout in the army, and the horses they ride are even more powerful horses in the army, which is the legendary thousand-mile horse. However, they are rushing along the road, and they are always allowed to sprint at the fastest speed. In this way, the horse will be exhausted after running for a long time. At that time, they will change horses and not replace people at the next station, and continue to sprint at full speed until the military information is delivered to the relevant people.

Such a meteor fast horse can often break through the limits of the horse, and even run thousands of miles a day and night. However, the price is quite high. More than ten good horses in the army will be killed along the way. Even if the Dayue family has a great career, this kind of consumption will be quite painful. So if it weren't for the big event, almost no one would use the meteor fast horse.

Today, in this peaceful season, which has just entered the twelfth lunar month, a meteor horse rushed straight to the capital, and even the imperial road rushed past. This point alone can make people who understand the business feel great pressure. Obviously, this is a major change in the border area, and the capital is about to be shocked.

So, shortly after Li Ling returned home, various arguments and speculations spread everywhere in the capital, which was really panic, but there was no conclusion. Li Ling was also worried about this, but the order he conveyed at home was not to discuss the matter nonsense, let alone let anyone in the family go outside to gossip. As for himself, he stayed at home and waited for the news to come.

As a court official who has been dismissed, Li Ling's news is much more informative than ordinary Beijing officials. After only one night, when the next day approaches noon, some conclusive news comes one after another.

Yesterday afternoon, after the meteor quickly rushed into the capital, he went straight to the Privy Council. Then the Privy Councilor Guo Ang brought several officials into the palace quickly. In a short while, the emperor called several prime ministers, six ministers, transshipment envoys, and even the prince into the palace, just to discuss a major event at the moment:

As Li Ling and the others guessed yesterday, there was a major change in the northern border. The Guirong people invaded the border of Dayue, broke more than ten cities, and the soldiers and civilians suffered heavy casualties. Now most of the troops have retreated to Huazhou and Xiangzhou, and the situation is as dangerous as it is.

Even though Li Ling was prepared, he was still frightened after learning the news and could not calm down for a long time.

What does this mean? This means that the border defense of Dayue has been opened, and the entire Central Plains has been exposed to the Guirong people's butcher knife and iron hooves! This means that after a hundred years of suppressing foreign enemies in the north, Dayue finally took a turning point, from active to passive!

Li Ling knew very well how much shock this would cause to the entire Dayue government and opposition. To put it in a small way, it would cause devastating damage to this peaceful and prosperous era. To put it in a big way, this would be a devastating blow to the entire country and nation.

Since he was reborn in this era, Li Ling can clearly feel the confidence and confidence of the officials and people today. Even if there was a defeat five years ago, everyone's enthusiasm did not weaken at all. This can be seen in the debate between the government and the public. At that time, what everyone discussed most was who was responsible and how to make up for the mistakes. As for whether the Central Plains would fall into crisis because of this defeat, it was something that everyone didn't even bother to think about.

You should know that since the founding of the Kingdom of Dayue, the northern tribes have defeated the northern tribes, allowing all the foreign forces that have established regimes to return to the tribal era. How powerful and domineering it was? If they hadn't retreated again and again and returned to the grassland, Dayue would have no need for the grassland, and they could have even completely annihilated them at the beginning.

Even though the tribes merged into Guirong later, even if the military preparations were loose and could no longer crush their opponents at will, the northern border was still as stable as Mount Tai. Guirong people said they were foreign enemies, but in everyone's eyes, they were just scabies, without any threat.

The monarch and ministers of Dayue think so, and the people think so. Even those who serve in the army never regard Gui Rongzhen from the north as a powerful opponent. The most troublesome thing for the soldiers to guard the frontier is not the foreign enemies that may come at any time, but the bad weather and poor life...

But this time, with a huge change, everyone's source of confidence was destroyed, and naturally aroused a huge uproar in the capital: It turns out that we are not safe, but my northern border defense line has long become a decoration-like existence?

Once such thoughts spread among the people, the consequences will inevitably be extremely terrible. After hearing about it, Li Ling felt deeply worried. Although the court had sent a large number of people to proclaim and refute the rumors, the effect was still limited. Even though he caught a lot of nonsense guys later, rumors that should have continued to emerge.

As a result, officials from all the yamen in the court felt more and more headaches. The major changes in the northern border had made them exhausted, and they had to dispatch troops and generals, and arranged the transportation of military rations and supplies. Now they had to suppress the people. They were so busy that they didn't even dare to die.

In the next few days, even officials like Xu Cang who edited books in the Hanlin Academy were urgently transferred to soothe the people and were busy all the time. Only Li Ling, who was without a job, could have a leisurely view.

Then on the evening of the eighth day of the lunar month, as the servant reported, Li Ling saw Xu Cang, who looked tired in the living room outside his house. His voice was hoarse: "Wen Zhong, although I know many things you know more clearly than I do, I still want to remind you that you should not let the people below go out and talk nonsense, otherwise you might be taken in by the people of the Imperial City Department to treat the ghost Rong spy."

"Is it so serious?" Li Ling was also surprised. Has even the Imperial City Department taken action this time?

Xu Cang nodded: "I wonder if someone is making trouble behind my back. Now all kinds of rumors are rampant inside and outside the capital. Some people even call Guirong people a monster and monster. They all have magic tricks, so they can capture more than a dozen border towns in Dayue in just a short time, and they will soon kill to the capital..."

Li Ling's face became extremely serious when he heard this absurd statement. Although this statement is so unreasonable, it is the easiest to be believed by people. It is said that it is to spread rumors and break the rumors. If someone really wants to arouse the fear of the people in the capital, the harm is not inferior to that of the Guirong people in the distance.

"Has the court found the source and stepped up its refutation of the rumors?"

"Luoyang Prefecture and the Imperial City Department both sent people to find it, but the clues are still vague. I only know that this statement began to spread shortly after the Meteor Quick Horse entered the city."

"Well? At that time, even the imperial officials didn't know what was going on in the northern border. They had already spread rumors about the Guirong people about this point?" Li Ling's eyes suddenly flashed, and he faintly noticed something.

Xu Cang didn't really think about this. He reacted so much, "You mean... is the spy of Guirong who is messing with my capital?"

"No, the Guirong people don't have such skills and minds, and their people, regardless of their accent, are very different from those of the people of Yue, and it is difficult to spread rumors. What I think of is another force that has long wanted to disrupt the world, Luotian Sect!" Li Ling grabbed the point at once, "From this method of using external changes to bewitch people's hearts, it is very similar to the Jiangnan Rebellion, and it is completely the work of Luotian Sect!"

After a pause, Li Ling's expression became even more sank: "Have you heard that the cities in the northern border were easily attacked and destroyed because they were inwardly responding, which caught the soldiers guarding the city off guard... And the Guirong people could never do this. Only the Luotian Sect, who had been dormant for many years, could have this foundation."

As he said that, Li Ling was also frightened. He had felt a little strange before. After the failure of Jiangnan, the Luotian Sect quickly stopped, as if he had been seriously injured and could no longer cause trouble. But now it seems that this is not the case at all, and he still underestimated them.

It turns out that compared with Jiangnan and southwest, their layout in the northern border is deeper and more terrifying. Moreover, they actually colluded with the Guirong people and cooperated with the inside and outside. Moreover, not only in the northern border, they even set their minds to the capital. Although they did not really take advantage of the chaos as they did before, the rumors during this period were enough to cause chaos in the capital, and they would inevitably slow down the overall progress of the court in supporting the north, thus gaining more time for the Guirong people.

Although Xu Cang did not think so much like him, his emotions became more and more nervous: "If this matter is true, it will be really difficult. Even if we catch more people, they will continue to spread rumors."

"Yes, so it will not be of much use to rely on officials like you to keep coming to the door to preach. We must find another way." Li Ling pondered. Although he is not in office now and although the court is very unfair to him in the previous affairs, he still has to do his best in the face of such a big event.

"You have a way?" Xu Cang immediately saw some clues and asked with anticipation.
Chapter completed!