The young general took his men with him and entered the city with the young men.

Bianliang City is still prosperous, just like it was seven years ago. Pedestrians who came and went looked at them in amazement. There were about a hundred sergeants in this column, followed by more than a dozen rumbling carriages, and it looked quite spectacular. The carriage was so tightly covered that no one knew who was sitting inside, not even the sergeants who were escorting them.

If they wanted to know who was inside, they would be surprised.

Yuan Hao, the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, who had given the official family a headache for many years, was brought to Bianliang City by this young general, along with his cronies, which had to be a big surprise.

The little boy craned his neck, trying to shrink his presence.

Her face has grown now, and she can slightly see the appearance of Mrs. Han in the past. If there are people you know here, most of them will come out. But fortunately, Mrs. Han didn't go out often, and there were not many passers-by who knew Mrs. Han, so she walked a short distance at the city gate without danger, and Gao Su let her go with a smile.

After all, she is not a real sergeant, and it is not good for Gao Su to take her to meet the emperor.

She shrunk her neck, took out three grass stems from her arms, calculated the direction where Han Fu was, and went there without hesitation. The streets of Bianliang City were spacious, so there were no incidents of surprise, and she couldn't help but smile when she looked back.

I vaguely remember that during the Western Han Dynasty, when Gao Su returned to Chang'an for the first time, thousands of people were empty and greeted each other.

Now it is the same in the capital, and the same victory has returned to the court, but people are like commonplace, ignoring the returning generals. At most, when the general's carriage and horse pass by, look to the side to avoid it a little, so that the general's carriage and horse can pass.

It's true that things are different from people, and people are different from each other.

She pinched the three grass stalks and slowly walked in front of the Han Mansion in an unfamiliar direction. She hadn't returned for seven years, and she didn't know what had happened to the people in the house. I vaguely remember that before I left, the house was lush and lush, and I could hear crisp laughter from time to time. But now...... The whole mansion was quiet, as if it was tightly suppressed.

She knocked cautiously at the door, and an impatient little man peeked out of the door.

"Who are you?" The little guy asked impatiently while yawning.

Seven years have passed, and the servants in the palace have already changed—at least the porter has changed. She secretly calculated for a moment, took out a jade ring from her arms, handed it to the little girl, and said softly, "Do you recognize this?" ”

The little guy yawned halfway and opened his eyes.

He rubbed his eyes vigorously to make sure what he was seeing, and then stared at the young man in front of him. The young man's face was softer than that of ordinary men, and his eyes were warm and moist, as if he could see through his thoughts. He opened his eyes wide and looked closely, and no matter how he looked at the young man, he felt that he was very similar to his own mistress.

The boy noticed his gaze, smiled, and loosened his high collar slightly.

The neck is smooth and white, in the sun - there is no Adam's apple.

"Ahhh The little girl ran back excitedly, calling all the way, "The girl is back!" ”

She paused, shook her head and smiled bitterly for a moment, and slowly walked up the stairs. The hard stone steps reflect the sunlight, and the house is no longer as crowded as it used to be, showing an emptiness and tranquility. She paused slightly, squeaked open the door, and slowly walked inside.

After seven years, I am back here again.

The news of the girl's return spread throughout the mansion in an instant, and the maids secretly left their work at hand and stared at her one by one. The Song Dynasty was not the Tang Dynasty, and very few women here would wear men's clothes, let alone return dressed as a man. She slowly walked into the house and recognized people one by one, mother, brother, grandmother, and aunt in this life......

I don't know if it's her delusion, but when she returned to the house this time, she always felt that there were a lot fewer people in the house.

Soon Mrs. Han solved her doubts. There are indeed a lot fewer people in the house, because Han Qi supported the new policy a few years ago, and the voice of opposition to him in the DPRK and China is very large. From the very beginning, he was ready to be dismissed.

A few days ago, the official family couldn't even stand it, and was about to relent, but was dispelled by an unprecedented victory.

The Western Xia Kingdom has been a major problem for the Song Dynasty for decades, and now that the great trouble has been removed, the Song Dynasty is relieved, and the invisible pressure that was originally pressed on the emperor - the lord of the Western Xia, the Hexi Corridor, and military spending has been dissipated by more than half. The voice of opposition is like a punch in the cotton, fluffy and floppy, and it is not a climate.

The New Deal, which had been suppressed to the extreme, slowly regained its vitality because of the victory in the northwest.

These are all things that Mrs. Han said to her. Mrs. Han is in Bianliang, the closest to the center of the whirlpool, and what is going on in the court, as the main mother of the Han Mansion, she needs to know at the first time.

In the evening of the same day, when Mrs. Han was washing her daughter's dust, news came from outside, saying that Lang Jun would not come back tonight.

Because of the general who was born in the imperial examination, the general who annexed the Western Xia State in one go, he made it clear in the court that he would support the new policy in the past few years. And—he also talked privately with the emperor for two whole hours, and when the emperor came out, he was in good spirits.

You must know that the emperor has been very busy in the past few years, and his spirit has long been much worse than before.

Han Qi didn't leave, the young general didn't leave, and even a few marginalized courtiers were summoned into the palace overnight. No one knew what was going on in the palace, only in the Han Mansion, a piece of turquoise tortoise shell was scorched by the flames, and it was filled with smoke.

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It's not the first time Yun Yao has done this kind of thing, but every time she does it, she has a feeling of being a thief.

She saw the situation in the palace in the smoke rising from the tortoise shell. The emperor and his courtiers sat in a circle, talking in whispers. It is rumored that this emperor is gentle and harmless, and will never put on a show in front of courtiers, but now it seems that it is really a little too gentle, and he does not look like an emperor at all.

Among the courtiers, she saw the young general.

The young general smiled, his eyes a little careless. In his hand, he slowly spread out a yellowed scroll, which was a map, outlining the mountains and rivers with extremely thin strokes. Yun Yao remembered that it was not a map to the west.

She had lived in the west for seven years, and had seen so many maps that she had already formed a clear outline in her mind.

It wasn't a map to the west, it looked like a vast plain with a steep mountain range.

"Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures."

The young general tapped the picture lightly, a faint smile on his lips.

Han Qi, who was beside him, suddenly stood up and gasped for air.

The emperor, who was sitting at the front, frowned and muttered, "This is crazy. ”

"But now is the right time." The young general slowly rolled up the picture, handed it to the emperor with both hands, and said slowly, word by word, "Annexing the Western Xia Kingdom, their morale is high. One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. ”

There was one more sentence that he did not utter.

According to the soft literati style of the Song Dynasty, if the soldiers slack off, they don't know how many years will it be before they can find a second chance to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

"And." He said slowly, "You can also give them a reward: those who have made military merits, you can wash off the tattoos on your face." ”

Han Qi looked at him in amazement, his breathing became louder and louder, and his pupils shrank slightly.

This is crazy.

Even Han Qi, even the officials who supported the New Deal, never considered this crazy plan.

The young general said unhurriedly: "They will support the official family." He paused for a moment before continuing, "The officials must not want to see them grow bigger, right?" ”

His voice was calm and powerful, with a strange soothing power.

The emperor was slightly moved.

Ever since he ascended the throne at a young age, he has been in the shadow of many. He had to admit that whether it was Empress Dowager Liu or many old ministers in the court, they were much better than him. But this feeling is too depressing, he can't set up his favorite people, can't do many things, even this new deal......

The young general maintained his original posture, held the map in the palm of his hand, and handed it to the emperor with both hands.

It's a complete plan, a crazy yet seductive. Human plan.

The emperor is like being Gu. Confused, he slowly reached out and grabbed the map.

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It's over.

There was a crisp crackling sound in the brazier, and the cold, hard tortoise shell slowly cooled away in the flames. She slowly reached out and picked up the tortoise shell, holding it in her palm, her heart pounding.

There were footsteps outside, and the voices of the servants saying hello.

Han Qi is back.

His steps today were very hurried, and he stepped on the cold dirt at once, and returned to the backyard in a few steps. She heard Mrs. Han say something to him, so he called the little maid and asked his daughter, who had just returned, to come to him for questioning.

She calmed down, held the tortoise shell in her arms, and came to Han Qi nervously.

There was a faint look of excitement in Han Qi's eyes, and there was also some brightness that came from nowhere. "I know he's extraordinary." Han Qi said, "But I didn't expect that his courage would be so big." Western Xia, Yanyun ...... Once these two things are done, the official family will be the king of the ages. Thankfully, he was on our side. ”

Yun Yao intuitively believed that the "he" in Han Qi's mouth was Gao Su.

"But ......" Han Qi turned his head and looked at his daughter, with a moment of hesitation in his eyes. But in the end, he summoned her to him and told me, "When we left the palace, he confessed something to me. ”

"He said he was pleased with you, Yao."

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The atmosphere froze for a moment.

Han Qi looked at her and said word by word: "He personally said that he was pleased with you." Ah Yao, you get along with him day and night in the northwest, you ......"

Mrs. Han clutched the handkerchief tightly and turned her head to look at her, with mixed emotions in her eyes.

Yun Yao was still in the shock just now, and did not come back to her senses. He said he was pleased with her? At such a time, confessing to her father in this life that he is pleased with her? He...... What does he mean by that?

When she was reminded of what she had just seen, she suddenly felt confused.

"A-Yao, I want a word from my father." Han Qi looked at her and said word for word, "He just led people to annex Western Xia, and then he wants to take back Yanyun's lost land. This man is only nineteen years old, and his talents are far superior to those of your father. Twenty years later, he will either be a capable general who has not been born for a hundred years, or a traitor who has not been born for a hundred years. A-Yao, are you going to marry him? ”

When she heard this, she laughed and laughed.

Either a capable general who has not been born for a hundred years, or a traitor who has not been born for a hundred years?

Gao Su, of course...... The former.

She unconsciously spoke this defense, and suddenly saw her father's eyes change.

"You trust him so much?" Han Qi asked.

"yes." She nodded approvingly.