"What are you doing here?"

The princess stretched out her hand and touched my lips, and her long-lowered eyebrows slowly opened, like flowers blooming in the wind in March, delicate and beautiful with a little more charm.

Her clear eyes met mine, and the quiet smile on the corner of her mouth was like the warm morning sun in the early morning, shining warm and sweet in her heart.

I looked at the princess with a dumb smile, and I always felt that I couldn't get enough of it.

"Doing bad things. ”

Frankly, I'll be honest about what I just did.

When I woke up, I don't know how long it had been since I was in the princess's arms.

The afternoon sun is still dazzling, but it is blocked by the umbrella-like linden tree. In front of me is the quiet beauty of my beloved who closes his eyes and rests quietly, and the smell in my nose is the unique fragrance of grass and earth mixed with earth, and from time to time, there will be a gentle and pleasant breeze, a qiē and a qiē, it looks so beautiful.

It almost gave me the illusion that everything was silent, and that I was suddenly living today.

Carefully left her arms, and sat quietly beside her, looking at her.

She leaned under the linden tree so softly, still dressed in plain white, and the concentric knot of the peace buckle with a slightly rough workmanship could always be seen on her slender waist;

She is beautiful, but she is rarely so fond of pink by other boudoir women, and the beauty between light makeup will not be reduced by half a point in any case;

Her gold ornaments such as jadeite and jade are also very rare, not none, but rarely used, which is probably related to her perennial presence in the barracks.

Yes, the woman I like is not only Her Royal Highness, the most noble eldest princess of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also the young marshal of the dragon cavalry guard, the ace army of the Northern and Southern Wei Dynasty, and the commander of the first army of the future dragon cavalry guard!

Sitting side by side with her, I reached out and gently put my arm around her waist, worried that she would be uncomfortable leaning against the edge of the tree, and afraid of waking her, and only after she was firmly in my arms did I breathe a sigh of relief.

Holding the lovely child in my arms, my heart is mixed, this qiē is because of the upcoming seven days.

I was naturally reluctant to be separated from her for seven days, but what worried me even more was that I would not be able to protect her by her side if something happened to me.

Because in the next seven days, a major event will definitely happen in the government and the opposition, which is related to the safety of the society and the lives of more than 100 members of my Gao family.

If I am not careful, my life will be in danger, and the princess will definitely be implicated.

The biggest source of this crisis is the governor of the thirteen states.

The secret agents sent by my uncle had already discovered that the governor of Thirteen Prefectures Town had come to Beijing this time, and it was not as simple as just celebrating the birthday of the Empress Dowager, but I was afraid that there were other plans.

It's a pity that the information sent out by the secret sigh is very limited, and there is no way to know their specific plans and purposes. But people who have a little political strategy can more or less guess the thoughts of these state and town governors.

If it is said that the governors of these states and towns want to seek to usurp the throne, this possibility is not very large, and once this matter starts, it will be a big rebellion and unpopular. Second, the head of the state town is full of harmony, but in fact, they are also in their own positions, and no one will really convince anyone. Once something happens, who can say who is respected?

As long as they don't really force them to rebel, they will never make this decision and commit the next offense.

So what do they want most now? Naturally, it is to consolidate their power!

The governor of the state and town has always been appointed by the imperial court, and once the term of office is completed, the imperial court will send competent officials to replace him, in case the military town is divided. It's just that over the past hundred years, the power of the imperial court and the local government has risen and fallen one after another, and the control of the local government has become more and more inadequate, which has led to the position of the governor of zhì beginning to appear for many years.

In addition, the Northern Wei Dynasty suffered from the Turks in the north all the year round, the Northern Qi in the east, and the Chen State in the south.

At this moment, the governors of the prefectures and towns have become the climate, and if the imperial court wants to cut down the feudal towns, it must be fully prepared to hit it with one blow, and rash action will only bring about its own destruction.

And the governors of the prefectures and towns also understood this truth, and tried their best to maintain the scene of peaceful coexistence with the imperial court, and when delaying time, they were also secretly accumulating their own strength to prevent the arrival of the imperial court to cut down the feudal towns.

The situation was temporarily stable, but the imperial court did not change the order to change the person in charge as soon as the term of office expired.

This has always been a sharp sword hanging over the head of the governor of the prefecture and town, who knows when the imperial court will suddenly issue an edict saying that it will remove the candidate for the governor of the prefecture and town? If the power in his hands is taken away, how should his own net worth and life be attached? When the matter comes, will he risk death to fight for a brilliant future, or will he obediently tie his hands and arrest him?

Thinking of this, the governors of the state and town rarely had the same goal, and the knife was unanimously aimed at the imperial court.

Almost at the same time, they came to the table one after another, asking the imperial court to grant permission to the position of the governor!

What is this not a blatant threat to the imperial court? However, Gao Qin, the left prime minister who monopolized power in the DPRK and China, rejected the above list of the governors of these prefectures and towns on the grounds that 'there is no such precedent for the patriarchal law'.

The governors did not give up, and when they asked for merit and rewards after quelling the regional rebellion, they continued to ask for the hereditary position of the governor in exchange for the inherited title, but they were still rejected by Prime Minister Gao, on the grounds that there was still no such precedent!

Regardless of whether the managers were soft and hard or coercive and tempting, Prime Minister Gao was like an iron plate in the middle of the road of the chiefs, making them grit their teeth with hatred and eager to eat their flesh raw.

At this time, the governors knew that if they wanted to accomplish this, the first one to be eliminated was Gao Qin.

The court only knows that there is a left prime minister, Gao Qin, but don't forget that there is also a real noble prince and right prime minister, the virtuous king Xiao Yan!

If they want to get rid of Gao Qin, they can only do it beyond the reach of the whip, and the only way to kill people with a knife is the best policy.

Soon, the managers secretly sneaked people into the capital to contact the virtuous king Xiao Yan, and the bait thrown out was also very tempting, and the people who sent out and the people who contacted only said one sentence, "I wish to help you achieve what you want", and after that, the chains of interests began to be entangled together, and it was difficult to separate.

Xiao Yan often complains of illness, has always lived in a simple house, is respectful and self-controlled, and is quite prestigious in the court.

In my opinion, such a person is the most dangerous enemy. Because you never know where his next move will be, but I am never afraid of such an opponent.

As long as the person has a deep* and obsession with something, then there is no need to worry about not being able to guess what the person is thinking.

Xiao Yan's * and obsession are very deep, so deep that they are carved into the bone marrow and integrated into the bloodline, which can be regarded as the original motivation for him to work hard, and it may also become a deadly trap that pushes him into the infernal abyss!

The game between the two prime ministers of the DPRK and China has actually been going on in secret, they contain each other, and they can't really get rid of each other.

For the Empress Dowager, who is well versed in the balance of power, such a situation is what she really wants to see.

Because of the Empress Dowager's mediation, Xiao Yan could not get rid of Gao Qin as planned, and now he could only use the power of the governor of the state and town to wipe out Gao Qin's party in one fell swoop!

I have always been well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the forces in the court, and the fighting method between my uncle and Xiao Yan is like two masters who have done the Tao talking about the game, except for watching and learning from the sidelines, I never intervene in the meantime.

Because the snipe and the clam compete, the fisherman can profit!

I know the Empress Dowager's mind very well, back then, she was able to support a Gao Qin to fight against Xiao Yan, it was because she saw Gao Qin's methods, it was worth using, and later it also proved that she was discerning.

In the past few years after Gao Qin entered politics, he offended a large number of nobles in order to rectify the rule of officials and rectify policies, and offended this group of soldiers and ruffians in the state and town because of his strict refusal of the hereditary affairs of the governor of the state and town, which pushed Gao Qin to the forefront and almost became the target of the public.

If this group of people made a fuss, disrupted the order of the court and the central government, and played slogans such as 'punishing the ministers, the Qing monarch's side' and refused to obey the control of the court, then the empress dowager would be angry at that time, and she would definitely kill Gao Qin to calm the anger of the people, just like Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty killed Chao Cuo.

The royal family's killing of courtiers has always been based on the overall situation of the court, and whether they are loyal and traitorous is not as important as they think!

I am the eldest son and grandson of the Gao family, and once my uncle falls, the Gao family will have no place to turn over, and the lives of my descendants of the Gao family will also be in jeopardy.

So, I can't sit still.

This matter is a matter of life and death for the Gao family, and I didn't want to involve the princess. How did she know that she had already intervened in this matter, and only said that she didn't want chaos in the court, but in fact, I knew that what she wanted to protect the most was me!

In the face of the beauty's deep affection, in addition to my gratitude and joy, at this moment, I want to kiss her delicate red lips and savor the sweetness and tenderness inside.

No one could have predicted how dangerous these seven days would be, and even I could not guarantee that I would return to her unscathed, and even at this moment, as long as it was at this moment, so that I could be close to her, hold her, and kiss her......

Then, no matter what happens in the future, I can face it without regrets.

I slowly approached her, feeling her breath getting closer and closer to me, my heart was in a hurry, and my heartbeat suddenly accelerated, obviously it was my wife, even kissing her was a matter of course, but why did I have a feeling of kissing her secretly, in fact, I was like this, it seemed that I was ...... Kiss her.

When she stretched out her hand to block it, I felt a sense of loss that something bad had not succeeded, a little bit, a little bit.

The princess saw my thoughts at a glance, and there was a smile between her eyebrows, and she comforted me with kind words, and said:

"This is a temple, don't break the rules. ”

"If it's not a temple, it's fine. ”

I couldn't help but blurt out that I always felt that the princess had this meaning in what she said.

The princess just smiled and said:

"Look at you, there's no one doing it. It is said that Shakyamuni Buddha participated in meditation and enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and achieved positive results. It's good that you don't want to make progress under the Bodhi tree, you are lazy and don't talk about it, and you still think about love, so it's not serious. ”

To me, the princess was angry, and replied with a smile:

"Who said that if the four major members of the family are empty, you have to give up the heart of love? Buddha, like me, also has the heart of love. Has the princess ever heard of the long-cherished marriage between Shakyamuni Buddha and his wife? It is precisely because of this long-cherished marriage that the Buddha was able to selflessly love all living beings and all sentient beings. ”

"Besides, I am not a monk, I am an ordinary man, and I cannot achieve the great love of the Buddha, but I can only immerse myself in the ordinary love of this world, find my figure in the eyes of those who love me, and engrave the appearance of my beloved in my heart, which is my lover's heart. ”

As he spoke, he took her hand and put it on my heart, imprinted my figure in her eyes, smiled and said:

"Look, that's it!"

The princess's gaze became gentle and full of affection, and she stretched out her hand to caress my face, and looked at my horse dress today, which was extremely dazzling, and said:

"Today, you are wearing this colt official uniform, and I almost don't recognize you. ”

I smiled and said:

"You must have recognized me, didn't you find me?"

"So you've been waiting here for me to find you?"

After saying that, the two of us couldn't help but look at each other and smile, and I hugged her in my arms.

"No matter what you become, I will always recognize you at a glance. ”

When I say full of confidence, I am not a momentary sweet talk.

The princess just smiled, speechless, maybe she believed, maybe she half-believed.

"You've always been in my heart. What you see will eventually have a fascinating mind, but what you see in your heart will be much more sincere, believe me. ”

"Well, well, I believe you!"

I speak sincerely, and the princess deserves to be firm.

After a moment of silence, the princess suddenly asked me a question, and said:

"Are you afraid?"

I shook my head, but didn't speak.

Caressing my face, the princess's eyes were full of determination, and she said:

"Don't be afraid, I'm by your side. ”

My eyes also became intent, and I took the princess by the hand, and said:

"Well, I'm not afraid, it's because of you by my side that I'm fearless!"

Yes, as long as the princess is by my side, no matter how bumpy and thorny the road ahead, I can go on with all my might.