Chapter 278: Equal Status
After going down the mountain, Liao Yunxi and Xue Jing were already waiting there with a team of guards and servants. After www.biquge.info the family got together, Xue Ying silently crossed the crowd and walked to the inconspicuous carriage at the back.
Aunt He'an in front of the carriage nodded: "Miss." ”
"Let's go back. Xue Ying was tired and hungry, and when she got into the carriage and lowered the curtain, she paused and looked ahead. Xue Jing was talking about something, Xue Qi and Liao Yunxi both looked down at him, their faces were the same gentleness and love, and even the arc of their smiles was exactly the same, after listening to Xue Jing's words, the couple casually glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of deep affection and tacit understanding without words.
A family is a family, and when they are together, they will form a magnetic field of their own, and others cannot invade it.
"Miss?" Aunt He'an reminded softly.
"I'm so hungry, I want meat!" Xue Ying grunted and lowered the curtain, letting her face disappear in the darkness. In the past, when she saw other people's families loving each other, she would be full of envy and blessings, but only once, but what appeared in her heart was bitterness and sourness.
Xue Ying, where are you? Have you gone to another world? Are you happy there? Have you found a family that truly loves you and takes care of you?
If you can, don't come back, your relatives in this world seem to have forgotten you.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
The next day, Xue Ying was in class, and Qiaoya came to report: "Miss, Master Xue, Mrs. Xue and Young Master Jing are here." ”
Master Liuli stopped and said, "I'll go and see Wanwan." ”
"Thank you, Master. Xue Ying and Dong Xun stood up and saluted each other.
After the master left, Xue Ying frowned and asked, "What are they doing here?"
"I said I was here to thank you. Originally, Zhao Zhuangtou didn't want them to come up, but Master Xue said that he would hand over the silver ticket to the young lady himself, so Zhao Zhuangtou let them go. ”
Dong Xun covered his mouth and smiled: "Zhao Zhuangtou really understands Miss. "The silver ticket is the best way to resolve Xue Ying's little temper, whether it is Xue Qi or Zhao Zhuangtou, they have seen through this.
Xue Ying shrugged her shoulders and looked like a scoundrel who was "I'm just greedy for money, what can you do with me": "Let's go, pick up customers!"
After seeing the ceremony, Xue Ying asked naturally: "The three of you are here to say goodbye, right? There is nothing interesting in the mountains and wilderness, so I won't keep it much, I wish you a safe journey." ”
Xue Jing snorted: "Sister Ying, are you angry?"
"Nope. Although Xue Jing has done some things that are not good for Xue Ying in order to help her family these days, she has no intention of blaming her. Xue Jing's surname is Xue, and it is normal for him to want to protect his relatives, not to mention that he has not done anything harmful.
"I ......" Xue Jing looked sad, "I'm sorry, Sister Ying." Can I come back to you later?"
"It shouldn't be possible in the near future, I will go to Ganxiao Temple in a few days. ”
Liao Yunxi said: "It's so early, isn't there still more than a month to go?"
"Get this year's peace charm early, Master Xue should rest assured as soon as possible. As long as I receive money, I am still quite active in my work. ”
With all that said, Xue Qi had to take out the box with the silver ticket and hand it to Dong Xun.
"County Lord, is it convenient to say a few words alone?"
Xue Ying wanted to refuse, but after all, she had just received one million taels of silver from others, and she didn't feel very embarrassed, so she said, "Okay." ”
The rest of the people retreated, and only Xue Ying and Xue Qi were left in the living room.
"It's still about the volley boardwalk. Last time you asked, since we have suspicions that someone is secretly repairing the volley plank road, why don't we just send someone to stop it?"
Xue Ying frowned fiercely: Why is this still a problem?
"I once said that the volley plank road is an important passage to transport materials to the Northern Xinjiang Theater, and since the period of the first emperor, the relationship between the Northern Xinjiang Theater and the imperial court has been in a semi-separate state, to put it more bluntly, the Northern Xinjiang Theater and the Dagu Imperial Court are mutually restricted, and they can basically be called equal status. In order to maintain this balanced relationship, the former Empress Dowager once ordered the former emperor to sign a secret agreement with Chuan Shuai, one of which was that the right to use the volley plank road belonged to the Northern Xinjiang Theater. Only a very few people knew about this series of secret agreements, and although the others felt that the relationship between the imperial court and northern Xinjiang was delicate, they would never have imagined that things had come to such a point.
After the destruction of the volley plank road, neither the imperial court nor the northern Xinjiang theater put forward a proposal for repair, firstly because the relationship between the two sides was complicated, and secondly, because the project was huge, and the manpower and material resources consumed were a huge burden for the imperial court. ”
Xue Ying took his words: "The best way to repair the volley plank road is to cooperate with both sides, the imperial court will contribute money, and the northern Xinjiang theater will contribute, but unfortunately there is always a knot between the imperial court and the northern Xinjiang theater, and wanting to achieve cooperation is tantamount to a fool's dream." ”
"It doesn't have to be a fool's dream, as long as Princess Yunyang reissues a letter of instruction, the imperial court can retake the Northern Frontier Theater, and when the time comes, the two sides will become one, and it is only logical to repair the volley plank road. ”
"After going around in such a big circle, you still want to tell the book of fate. Xue Ying was helpless. "Continuing with the question just now, since you have an opinion on repairing the volley plank road, why don't you just stop it?"
"As I just said, the right to use the volley plank road belongs to the Northern Xinjiang Theater. Although I am very reluctant to use this argument, the fact is that to stop the construction on the volley plank road, it will have to be resolved by diplomatic means through consultation with the Northern Xinjiang Theater of Operations. ”
Xue Ying understood a little: "Legally speaking, the Northern Xinjiang Theater is within the jurisdiction of the Dagu Imperial Court, and Dagu will be very embarrassed to use diplomatic means against them." So you have heard about what happened on the plank road, but you have to pretend to be deaf and dumb at the moment?"
"Yes. ”
"Is it so troublesome? Isn't it enough for the emperor to directly issue a holy decree? Dagu and Northern Xinjiang are still a family on the surface, and the people in the Northern Xinjiang Theater will not directly refute the emperor's face, right?" Xue Ying clearly remembered that the eleventh prince had instructed Cai Qi to help Xue Yao pick snow hairpin flowers, which showed that the imperial court's rule over the Northern Xinjiang Theater was still very acceptable on the surface.
"We don't even know who the current marshal is, so how can we judge his attitude towards the holy decree? What if he uses this as an excuse to make public the instructions of Princess Yunyang and the former Empress Dowager, accusing the emperor of reneging on the covenant and even declaring independence?"
"Hit him!"
"Is there a civil war between the imperial court and the Northern Frontier Theater? A few years later, both sides were defeated, and it was just the right opportunity for the Northern Plains to wipe us out. ”
"I have to say...... You're really a. ”
Xue Qi glared at her coldly: "How can you be considered a?" Do you want the imperial court to be tough and fight with northern Xinjiang?"
"I hate war!" When Xue Ying first crossed over, Xue Ying's biggest worry was that she would be burned by war, and she didn't let go of this inexplicable worry until now.
"Then take out the letter of command and give the emperor a fair and honest reason. Chuan Shuai's heir has always refused to show his face, what do we think about his existence, whether he is capable, who he is loyal to, and what are our plans for the future of the Northern Xinjiang Theater...... We don't know anything, and the time left for us in Kitahara is running out. ”