Chapter 64: Exhortation!

"Yes, I will leave Shangjing at the beginning of spring next year, and I can't be sure where I'm going. Li Yiqi rubbed his temples and said a little helplessly.

If things are prioritized, protecting the Li family will always come first in his heart, and the second is to help the crown prince Xia Qing ascend to the throne.

Helping Xia Qing ascend to the throne is also a means to indirectly protect the Li family, Li Yiqi is willing to devote his energy wholeheartedly to it, as for other things, if it can be avoided, it can be delayed.

But now it seems that some things are out of his control......

"Don't worry, in terms of time, the little woman will not embarrass Childe, and when I need Childe's help, I will take the initiative to find Childe. Ye Ling owed Li Yiqi gratefully, paused, seemed to think of something, her beautiful eyes flashed slightly, and said with a straight face: "If it is possible, the prince should advise His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not to go to the west." ”

"West?" Li Yiqi's eyes moved, and he asked in surprise, "Why?"

He knew that the west side in the other party's mouth naturally referred to the Anxi Protectorate that guarded the western border of Great Xia.

When the disciples of the royal family reach adulthood, they need to be sent to the Nine Metropolitan Protectors to experience, which can almost be regarded as a coming-of-age ceremony, which is extremely important and not a trivial matter.

When joining the army, the identity of the prince must not be exposed to the outside world, and at critical moments, he even has to put on armor and go to the battlefield in person.

The eldest son of Emperor Xia, that is, the eldest prince of the past, had an accident while training in the army and unfortunately died, and the degree of danger can be seen.

For the disciples of the royal family, the capital protectorate chosen by the army is extremely important, if it is arranged to Liaodong and Anbei, which are facing strong enemies and frequent wars, then the danger is naturally greater.

And vice versa, if a disciple of the imperial family is sent to a capital protectorate like Anzai and Haizhou, then there is no need to worry about security. The Anxi Protectorate faced a small city-state in the Western Regions, and the Haizhou Protectorate faced the pirates in the scattered islands in the East China Sea.

Anxi Protectorate is an extremely ideal choice in Li Yiqi's heart.

After all, in his opinion, the crown prince Xia Qing is not the kind of person with a calm temperament, and he is not shrewd and capable, rather than letting the prince go to a war-torn place to make war exploits and establish prestige, he would rather let the prince stay in some safer places.

Of course, Li Yiqi has a more ideal choice in mind, that is, the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, which the Li family has painstakingly operated for 30 years.

There, it is the base camp of the Li family.

However, he also knew that it was possible for the imperial court to let the prince go to any capital to protect the palace, but it was absolutely impossible to go to the Annan capital to protect the palace.

The reason is very simple - the war has not yet been brought to the fore.

Judging from the news that Li Yiqi knows, at this stage, those who have taken refuge in the princes from all walks of life are just juniors among the disciples of some families - Gu Qianyang, the son of the Gu family, Wang Tianyu, the son of the Wang family, He Yuzhen and He Yujing, the two brothers and sisters of the He family, and Bi Fan of the Bi family......

Even though some of the representatives of the younger generation of these families have stepped into the officialdom, in terms of status, they are far inferior to their elders who hold important positions in the imperial court.

This is a very smart decision, even if these juniors of the family are friendly with a certain prince, they can still use the guise of 'like-minded interests' to block the mouths of the people, and not implicate the family they represent behind them.

At the same time, it can also show their hearts to a certain extent, so that these princes can accumulate strength and establish prestige with peace of mind.

Now that Emperor Xia is in the prime of life, no prince has been bold enough to directly win over the important ministers of the court, even if they dare to win over, those ministers do not dare to take refuge.

The prince's collusion with important ministers in the court and the formation of a party for personal gain has always been a taboo in the palace, which is a serious crime and is tantamount to rebellion.

But the Li family is different, Li Jiu killed himself not in the capital, but guarded the Annan Protectorate all the year round.

The Annan Protectorate is located in Jingzhou, the southernmost part of Great Xia, Li Jiu killed in order to resist the offensive of the barbarians with all his might, and monopolized the power of the military aircraft in the south, and is one of the few people who can really do 'will be outside, the monarch's order is not subject to', and the people who have a heart even call the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate the 'small court' in the southern border of Great Xia.

Jingzhou Tiangao Emperor is far away, and something happens in the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, whether the imperial court can know it, it depends on whether Li Jiu wants to let the imperial court know. This is also the reason why everyone in the court, including Emperor Xia, is both dependent on and afraid of Li Jiu.

Sending the crown prince to the Li family's base camp, because of Li Yiqi's identity, the crown prince Xia Qing is bound to see Li Jiu, which becomes a private meeting between the royal disciples and the ministers of the court, which will inevitably make people think more.

Everyone will be suspicious.

What do they say and talk about among themselves?

Will the behemoth of the Li family become the strongest pillar behind the crown prince?

Is it possible that the Li family will be the first to take the initiative to stand up in support of orthodoxy?

The elders of the DPRK and China will have doubts about these things. One is the crown prince who inherited the orthodox position on behalf of the throne of the dynasty, and the other is a feudal official with an army of 600,000. The two still met privately thousands of miles away from the capital, or under the banner of the imperial court and the Xia Emperor...... No fool would do this kind of thing to shoot himself in the foot.

Once the crown prince and Li Jiu kill meet, it will inevitably cause a series of chain reactions, breaking the calm on the surface of the capital city now, and exposing the trend of undercurrent surging under it.

In this way, not to mention the instability of the government, and more importantly, it will also cause panic in the hearts of other princes, thereby accelerating the progress of seizing the heir, which Emperor Xia does not want to see. None of the princes is willing to make the situation clear in advance. No one rushes into battle before they are fully prepared.

Knowing this, Li Yiqi had already expected that if someone suggested that the crown prince be sent to Annan, not to mention that the third prince, the fifth prince, and the eighth prince would try their best to stop it, I am afraid that the important ministers of the court and the central government will also write to dissuade them for the sake of the stability of the government, and even Emperor Xia himself may have some concerns.

In this way, the prince is destined not to go to Annan, and the nine major protectorates of the Great Xia Dynasty, in addition to the Annan Protectorate, the prince's remaining ideal choices are only Anxi and Haizhou.

Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Haizhou Metropolitan Protectorate.

These two places are not too dangerous, and at the same time they are facing foreign enemies, so it is convenient to gain military achievements and improve fame, which are extremely ideal choices.

It's just that the choice of the prince's experience is not in the hands of the prince himself, but in the hands of Emperor Xia, as for where Emperor Xia will arrange for the prince to go to experience, Li Yiqi is also ambiguous in his heart.

If Emperor Xia sent the crown prince to the Anxi Protectorate, it would be even better.

Gao Yunzhi is a personal essence, and he must be respectful to the prince. Li Yiqi put his arms behind his back, raised his eyebrows, and asked with a little curiosity and nine points of doubt.

Ye Ling Dai's eyebrows furrowed slightly, with a hint of warning in her voice, and she said faintly: "Li Gongzi, you must not underestimate the countries of the Western Regions. ”

"Your tall man has long been guilty of the wrath of the people, who has been wreaking havoc in the Western Regions all day long, ravaging the people and robbing them of their wealth. ”

"The Sassanid kingdom he conquered some time ago is one of the vassal states of the Great Food Empire. ”

"The Great Food Empire and the Sassanid Kingdom have been intermarried all the year round, and the Sassanid royal family has many princesses who have married under the Great Food Empire, and that time your Anxi army broke through the Sassanid capital, not only looted the Sassanid Palace, but also captured a large number of prisoners in the palace. ”

"Among these captives, there are many people who have the blood of the Great Food Imperial Family in their bodies, which is a violation of their dignity, and the Great Food Empire will not sit idly by. ”

At the end, Ye Ling's light and intoxicating voice was full of worry, Li Yiqi listened silently, his face did not change, he smiled, waved his hand and said: "The Western Regions are too far away, I don't know what you are talking about Sassanid Country, Great Food Country...... That's not what I'm supposed to care about, I just want to know, if something happens, how do I find you, or how do you find me?"

Li Yiqi's expression was calm, and his voice was extremely calm, even with a hint of disdain.

How can a disciple of the princely soldier family be afraid of a foreign enemy, this is a shame.

However, Li Yiqi did not know at this moment that he had made the same mistake as almost all the ministers of the imperial court, that is, the misjudgment of form.

Basically, everyone subconsciously thinks that the small countries in the Western Regions are weak, and they are constantly fighting with each other, Gao Yunzhi led the Anxi army into the forest, then the countries of the Western Regions will be suppressed, and the 200,000 troops can suppress the Western Regions, and the western border of Daxia will be unbreakable. It was this contempt that brought irreparable disastrous consequences to the future Xia Dynasty......

Seeing Li Yiqi's confident and calm appearance, Ye Ling was silent in his heart, sighed, his lips moved slightly, and he wanted to say something but didn't say it.

After being silent for a long time, she spoke: "Childe doesn't have to come to us, Childe has a special identity, it is not difficult to find Childe, and Childe has the curse of our holy beast demon on his body, I can feel Childe's position." ”

"So amazing?" Li Yiqi rolled up his sleeves and took a deep look at the black line on his wrist, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised in his heart, and sighed.

"Yes. Ye Ling smiled slightly and replied softly.

"Heaven and earth are so big, there are no ......" Li Yiqi flicked his sleeves, arched his hand at Ye Ling, and said: "Then it's decided, Your Royal Highness the princess, it's not too early, I should also leave, farewell." ”

"I still hope that my identity will be kept secret. Ye Ling's slender eyelashes blinked slightly, Sakura's lips opened slightly, and her voice was soft and pleasant.

"......" Li Yiqi's eyes moved slightly, he thought for a while, nodded silently, and turned around and walked outside.

"I'll send Childe. Ye Ling got up to see each other, the two walked out of the room, and the people who were waiting outside saw the two coming out, and hurriedly greeted them.

"Your Highness the Princess!"

"Her Royal Highness the princess is out!"

There was a commotion outside the door, everyone gathered around, and the female official Yehuan had a happy face, made a blessing to Li Yiqi, and then stood behind Yeling obediently.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, how are you?!" Tang Qi's ball-like body couldn't help but tremble, his face was full of joy and excitement that could not be concealed, and his bloodshot eyes flickered.

"I've been bothering Tang Gongzi these days. Ye Ling's gaze was extremely quiet, and he bowed politely, the veil on his face could not hide the delicate and beautiful face underneath, and his posture was indescribably charming.