That night, all the officials of the Ganzhou Mansion gathered at the Yamen of the Commander's Command, met with the prince, and discussed the war. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Daqi who doesn't know that His Royal Highness the crown prince is a lone seedling of the old Chu family, he said that he wanted to fight, and no one dared to stop him, and they all expressed their respect for the prince's orders.

At the end of September of the 21st year of Jinghe, Arslen, the son of the leader of the Wara Heshuot tribe, captured Hami, but was unexpectedly besieged by the Great Qi army for more than half a month. Since then, it has opened the prelude to the counterinsurgency of the Great Qi against Warat and the northwestern provinces.

Within half a month of the siege of Arslen, Zeng Chengfang, the governor of the northwest, personally gathered his troops and led the people to Ganzhou without sleep. The old man was so tired that he almost vomited blood, and as soon as he arrived in Ganzhou, he commanded the envoy to the Yamen, pointed at Shi Zhengmao's nose and scolded, "Do you know that if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has any accident, half of the sky in the Great Qi Dynasty will collapse!" What kind of intentions do you Shi Zhengmao have, dare to instigate the prince to go to war! ”

Shi Zhengmao didn't dare to make a mistake in front of Zeng Chengfang, so he had to be scolded for being bloody, and when the old man stopped, he said helplessly, "Your Highness doesn't dare to instigate His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness really insists on doing so." ”

Zeng Chengfang can sit in the position of the governor of the northwest, seniority is one thing, that scheming is absolutely not lacking, he is not a random angry character, this time he used Shi Zhengmao as a pawn, just to let the prince know his attitude, this war is not a joke!

A cadre of officials sat on pins and needles in the hall, lest the next one to be pointed out by the old man would be himself, and for a while the room was so quiet that he could hear the needles falling. This embarrassing atmosphere lasted for a long time, and it stands to reason that someone had already gone to the prince's courtyard to invite someone, but since Zeng Chengfang was angry and scolded people, everyone has been hanging for a long time. At this time, everyone realized that something was wrong, and His Highness had not been so difficult to invite before.

At this time, Chu Yuan sat on the Taishi chair in the room, his eyes closed and his divine sense was scattered, and he calmly watched Zeng Chengfang's face become worse and worse.

On the side, Han Qing took a grape in his mouth, and said a little vaguely, "Brother Junyue is enough to lose, I look at this Lord Zeng to sit down again, I'm afraid I will really have to go back to my breath." ”

Chu Yuan slowly opened his eyes and said, "No one has ever dared to point fingers at Sang and scold Huai in front of me, but he is alone." ”

Han Qing's eyes rolled, and he pretended not to care and said in an ordinary tone, "It's a governor anyway, can you really not give him face?" ”

Chu Yuan didn't know why, he always felt that the little girl had something to say, and when he looked at her eating grapes there again, he thought that he was too worried, so he said, "Naturally, you have to give it, but you also have to kill his sharp spirit first." ”

Han Qing muttered while eating grapes, "I know." ”

When everyone in front of them was going back and forth in the room as if they had burned their butts, Zeng Chengfang's face was already as gray as the bottom of the pot. Chu Yuan was invited by Shi Zhengmao, Shi Shiran went to the front hall, and when he entered the door, he saw Zeng Chengfang leading the officials to salute him.

He personally held Zeng Chengfang's arm, "Your Excellency the Governor has led the troops all the way here, it's hard work, so you don't need to be polite." ”

Zeng Chengfang didn't get off the horse at this time, but was lost by the prince, so he had to say a few words of greeting.

After Chu Yuan sat everyone down, he said, "This palace has received an eight-hundred-mile urgent holy decree from my father, and he has allowed me to put up the seal of command and be fully responsible for the battle to quell the rebellion against the northwest tribes, do you have any objections?" ”

Zeng Chengfang choked, since he received the prince's order to transfer troops, he wrote an excerpt to Emperor Jinghe, and vigorously showed several major drawbacks of fighting with various ethnic groups in the northwest, saying that now people are only because a henchman of the son of a patriarch was killed, so they robbed Hami City, and they didn't want to fight with Daqi at all, how could Daqi provoke this dispute first.

The old man doesn't have any bad intentions, but he advocates maintaining stability in the northwest, and he is really afraid that the prince will be young and suffer losses on the battlefield if he loses the battle, and if he accidentally bumps into it, it will be even worse.

He heard that the prince came up and said that Emperor Jinghe had made a will, and agreed with the prince to lead the troops to quell the rebellion, he shook his head in his heart, and said that the emperor was a son slave, and everything valued the prince's meaning, but he didn't expect this kind of thing to come by the prince's temperament.

So what else is there to say? Zeng Chengfang took the lead in expressing his position: "The ministers obey the order, they will fight this battle well, and swear to protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" ”

All the people followed suit.

Chu Yuan knew that the Governor of the Northwest was a stubborn character, and he didn't try to reverse his thoughts, but only began to arrange follow-up matters.

He had already ordered someone to build a warehouse for storing grain and grass in the barracks outside the city, and then he said, "The deputy general sent by Beijing will bring 20,000 soldiers and horses and sufficient grain and grass over in the future, and everyone should just focus on the war." ”

Zeng Chengfang saw that the wood had been completed, and it seemed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was full of strength to fight Wara, so he had to get off the donkey, and he started the war with everyone in detail.

Arslen is the eldest son of Hai Rigu, the patriarch of the Heshuot tribe, and is very trusted on weekdays. Hai Rigu sent him to Hami this time, mainly to incite the rebellion of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions and to purchase military supplies.

He Shuote's department was deep in the northwest grassland, and it had been a long time since Hai Rigu received the news that his eldest son was besieged in Hami. He was furious, and immediately led his troops to help, and when he arrived in Hami, Chu Yuan had already assembled the army of Daqi and had been waiting for him for a long time.

Chu Yuan led his troops to besiege Hami City, not only did he not send people to attack the city every day, but he sent people to throw food into the city every day, no matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like he was going to fight a good war.

Hai Rigu found out that it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who led the troops in Daqi, and he was very puzzled, so he sent someone to negotiate. It means that for the sake of He Shuote's people who are the people of Daqi, he will give him face and release his son. There is really no need to fight this battle.

Chu Yuan had already found the corpses of Batu Buhe and the others who were pretending to be medicine merchants, and threw them all to Hai Rigu, and asked what his son meant by sending henchmen to hunt down and kill the prince.

Only then did Hai Rigu know that his son had done such a stupid thing before the time was ripe. You said that you killed the prince, but you sent so many people to kill them, and you asked someone to catch them, it's really useless! In fact, he misunderstood his own son, and Arslen still doesn't know that his subordinates were killed by running to hunt down the prince on their own initiative.

Here, Hai Rigu knew that the safety of the prince of Daqi was involved, and it was a little difficult to do, but in the end, he couldn't give up his own son, and he felt that it was not a good time to start with Daqi, so he thought he was unlucky, and sent someone to talk, wanting to compensate the prince with war horses, cattle and sheep gold and silver, trying to redeem his son.

Chu Yuan said here, it's nothing to put Arslen, and don't want war horses and other things, as long as Hai Rigu can sign a labor contract with the imperial court, adult men and women over the age of sixteen in the He Shuote Department must be dispatched by the imperial court to participate in the reclamation of the South China Sea Islands, and the remuneration and treatment are the same as those of Daqi civilians, and they can choose to emigrate or return to their hometowns at the age of fifty.

Hai Rigu finished reading the conditions of the Great Qi Prince, and turned over the table in anger, without the young and middle-aged people, what else would he plot? This prince of Daqi is also too damaged, this is to make him sign a contract to sell himself, and he is dead!

Hai Rigu knew since then that there would inevitably be a fierce battle with Daqi, and he still owed some with his strength. So while dragging Chu Yuan to negotiate in Hami, he secretly sent people to contact the leaders of various tribes on the grassland, wanting to form a coalition to defeat the Great Qi army.

On the Gobi Desert in the northwest in October, the cold wind is biting, and the dripping water turns into ice. Han Qing lifted the curtain of her tent and walked out, stepping on her suede boots, and reaching out to pull the fox fur cloak on her body. Looking up, the rows of tents looked like checkerboard lattices, and the gray eyes could not see the head.

"Ah Qing, I was looking for you, my grandfather said that he has a few Tianshan Snow Lotus in his hand, you must be interested!" The person who came was Han Qing's beautiful girl from the Western Regions who didn't have time to say goodbye in Hami City, and Anar was also.

It turned out that before Chu Yuan left, he confessed his identity to the old man Nizamu, and said that the two teams of medicine merchants were very dangerous, and persuaded him to leave Hami City early the next morning.

Nizamu led his granddaughter out of Hami City, and after weighing it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had received so much medicine for his wounds before, and he must have needed it very much. So he went back to the south to collect a large amount of wound medicine and came back, just when Chu Yuan's army besieged Hami City, and the old man could be regarded as a meritorious person.

Han Qing pursed her lips and smiled, "You only arrived in the middle of the night, but I didn't expect that the first one was to look for me, why didn't you go to see my brother first?" ”

Anal rarely showed an embarrassed look, she said embarrassedly, "I didn't know your brother's identity before, and I did those things that annoyed him, but now I am dead hearted, and I don't dare to come to him anymore." ”

Han Qing saw that she was simple-minded, and no longer teased her, and said sincerely, "I advised you earlier, the young man from the Western Regions is handsome and infatuated, you are a blessed person, and you will definitely be happy in the future!" ”

Anar was moved, held Han Qing's little hand, and said in a bent Daqi sentence, "Aqing, thank you, I, Anar recognize you as a friend!" Then he thought of something, and said excitedly, "Don't you like our young men from the Western Regions to be good-looking, why don't I introduce you to a few of the best-looking, you pick one to marry to our Western Regions, so that we can always be together!" ”

Han Qing looked at her energetic appearance and felt very interesting, the desert yellow sand really gave the people here an open-minded and enthusiastic life. She was about to speak, when she suddenly heard someone next to her snort coldly.

Seeing that Anar was already a little frightened, she didn't have to turn around to know who was coming.

Chu Yuan heard from afar that the annoying girl from the Western Regions was talking about what to introduce the young man from the Western Regions to Aqing, and he really didn't know what to do! He didn't care about the generals around him, and walked towards the two of them in a big stride.

"If Aqing feels bored, I'll find Xiaodouzi to accompany you!" The implication is that she disagrees with her dealings with Anal.

Han Qing has not been happy these days, and she doesn't have a good face for Chu Yuan, "What can I talk about with Xiaodouzi?" Anar said that the old man Nizamu has the precious Tianshan Snow Lotus there, Brother Junyue should be busy, don't worry about me! With that, he took Anar and walked away.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was left alone to touch his nose awkwardly in the cold wind.