As time passed by, the two of them began to feel irritable unconsciously. Although they were kings and queens in this world, everyone knew that this was not the real world after all.
"Azu, what is going on?" Pei Mianman finally couldn't help but ran over to ask Zu An, and pulled him out of Xiaotuo's gentle village.
Xiaotuo was so intimidated by her reputation that he dared not say anything.
Zu An was a little embarrassed, and said while putting on his clothes: "I am also confused now. No wonder none of the couples before could pass this test. At that time, I thought they were too stupid, but now it seems that I have underestimated them. Hero of the world."
He recalled that he had previously analyzed that Xiao Tuo was a spy, found the boss behind the scenes, the high priest Lian, and had absolute trust in him who was separated from Pei Mianman. All these made him complacent. Only now did he realize that since there are many amazing and stunning people, People come to the test, and with their intelligence, they might be able to accomplish these things.
"Then what should we do next?" Pei Mianman said anxiously.
Zu An said in a deep voice: "I have been thinking these days. I think there must be something that we have overlooked. Let's carefully observe and think about any details around us to see if we can find a way to break the situation."
This kind of open world gameplay is really annoying. It doesn't even give you a mission goal. You have to guess and explore everything by yourself. The key is that it doesn't give you feedback on whether it is right or not.
Pei Mianman bit his lips, his tone full of worry: "But will our physical bodies outside be in danger? You know it has been a few months since we started this trial, maybe... "
Ordinary people would die long ago if they didn't eat or drink for a few months. Even if a practitioner's health improves a lot, such a long time is still the limit.
Zu An said in a deep voice: "You shouldn't worry about this. If my prediction is correct, the flow rate of time in this trial is different from the flow rate of time outside. We have been here for several months, and there is probably only a moment outside. Otherwise, If this trial can be said to be fatal, then it would be meaningless."
In ancient mythology, one day in heaven is one year on earth, so it is normal for the flow of time in different worlds to be inconsistent.
Pei Mianman finally calmed down: "But it's not an option for us to be trapped like this forever."
Zu An frowned and said: "But I have reviewed everything that happened in the past few days, and I didn't find anything missing..."
Suddenly something moved in his heart, and he looked at Pei Mianman hurriedly: "Tell me again about the war between you and the Qiang. Don't leave out any little thing."
Since this is a trial for both men and women, I guess it won't be so simple on her side.
"Didn't I tell you the specific process before," Pei Mianman muttered, but still said, "Those Qiang people are extremely tough, and they are all heroes and good at fighting, but they are obviously not as advanced as ours. We have Chariots can also be combined
Together with the formation, they mostly fought alone...but even so, their bravery was still quite powerful. In one battle, we were besieged. Fortunately, the nearby tribes came to help and defeated the Qiang Fang. "
"Tribe?" Zu An was worried, "Do you know what tribe they are?"
Pei Mianman frowned: "It seems that they call themselves Zhou people. They have been living in the west and are often oppressed by the Qiang, so they came out to help this time."
"People from Zhou?" Zu An stood up suddenly, "Yes, yes. Historically, Shang was destroyed by Zhou. This trial must be related to Zhou."
Pei Mianman said: "But those Zhou tribes are still very backward, far behind the Shang people."
"It's not comparable now, but what about in a few hundred years?" Zu An's thoughts suddenly changed, "Could it be that the purpose of this secret realm is to prepare for a rainy day and nip the Zhou threat in the bud?"
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. He hurriedly summoned Fu Shuo into the palace and expressed his thoughts.
"What? Your Majesty wants to destroy the Zhou tribe?" Fu Yao was surprised and said hurriedly, "This is absolutely impossible. Not to mention that the Zhou territory is meaningless to us, even this time they helped us deal with the Qiang side. If we attack them instead, it will be a breach of trust. How will other countries in the world view us? By then, everyone will be in danger, and it will be too late to regret."
Even Pei Mianman on the side felt the same way. After all, he was fighting side by side with the Zhou tribe not long ago.
Zu An knew that his analysis made sense, but unfortunately he could not explain the reason to him, so he could only say with a straight face: "I have made up my mind. There is no need to discuss this matter anymore. I will prepare to send troops immediately."
Fu said that when he was about to persuade us again, an urgent news suddenly came: "Your Majesty, the King of Jin has sent an envoy to ask for help. The invasion of Tufang is unstoppable. Please send troops for support."
"Zhenguo, Hijikata?" Zu An was stunned, why two more forces appeared.
Fu Shuo hurriedly explained: "The Kingdom of Jin is a small country to the north of us. It has always been friendly with the great merchants. It calls us a vassal and is our northern barrier. Tufang is a powerful barbarian tribe in the north. It must be this time. Hearing that we were fighting against the Qiang, he wanted to go south and take advantage while we were both losing."
Only then did Zu An remember that he had seen news about Tufang in the official documents he reviewed during this period. Tufang was probably located in what is now Shanxi and Hebei, and was a strong enemy to the north of the Shang Dynasty.
Before, I didn't think it had anything to do with my trial, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
In fact, even now, he felt that it didn't matter much, so he decided to send a few partial troops to support and deal with it. His main focus was on the people in the west.
Fu Yue waited for the ministers to stop him: "It is absolutely impossible. The Zhou people are remote and weak, and they are not even close to our big merchants. There is no point in attacking them. On the contrary, they have lost the hearts of the world. On the contrary, Tufang is extremely powerful, no less than Yu Qiangfang, one
Once they break through the northern defense line and go south, we, the great merchants, may be in danger of destroying our country. "
Zu An was stunned. Is it so serious?
At this time, several waves of envoys came in succession, all of them were special envoys sent by the King of Jin. Each one was more eager than the last, but they knew that the war in the north was already in danger.
Pei Mianman pulled Zu An aside at this time: "Azu, if the Shang Kingdom is destroyed, our trial will probably be over, right?"
"Natural at this time." Zu An also understood what she meant. After all, this trial was established by the merchant. If he caused the Shang Kingdom to be destroyed at the hands of Tu Fang, let alone the Zhou people, everything would definitely be over. It's over.
In desperation, he had to decide to deal with Hijikata's affairs first, and then deal with the Zhou people when he was free.
The ministers were overjoyed and praised his wisdom.
Zu An was too lazy to talk nonsense with them and directly summoned all the ministers to discuss the matter of sending troops. Everything else was easy to discuss. The key was the generals who led the troops.
All the ministers recommended the queen to take action, because she now has the highest prestige in the army, and she proved herself in the battle with the Qiang Fang. She is the only one in the government and the public.
Zu An's balls suddenly ached. Naturally, he didn't want to be separated from Pei Mianman, and Pei Mianman didn't want to either.
But after careful consideration, the two of them realized that this might be another test, so Pei Mianman volunteered to fight.
As for Zu An himself, he still had no choice but to stay in Yindu. Firstly, he had just eliminated the high priest, and many of his former forces had sneaked into the dark. Once he left, trouble was likely to occur. Secondly, apart from the generals and soldiers, the most important thing in a war was The most important thing is logistics, or it can be said that whether the war can be won or not depends mostly on logistics.
Only if Zu An did a good job in logistics in Yindu, could Pei Mianman fight on the front line with confidence.
There was something strange in Zu An's heart. They said that the male was the outsider and the female was the inside, but with him it was completely the other way around. However, he did not refuse. After all, it was related to the trial plan, and he did not want to affect the overall situation because of some men's face issues.
With Qiang Fang's experience, both Pei Mianman and Zu An became familiar with their respective tasks this time. About three months later, Pei Mianman returned to Beijing victorious.
Zu An thought he could finally free his hands to deal with the Zhou people, but soon another king of the ancient Tang Dynasty came to ask for help, and Gongkou Fang from the north of the Yellow River invaded.
After finally handling the affairs of the mouth, there was an invasion from the more powerful ghost side on the Mongolian plateau. Zu An and Pei Mianman were so anxious all day long that they could not care about the Zhou people in the west.
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ps. The character Xiao Tuo also has a prototype in history. It was Fu Tuo, one of Wu Ding's concubines. There were originally several concubines with higher status who could be ranked alongside Fu Hao. Unfortunately, those characters were too uncommon, so I found them in the harem. After a long while, I chose the character Futuo, whose name looks a bit normal...
