Above the ornate hall, the lights are brilliant. The dancing queen danced in the hall, her clothes fluttering like a flying butterfly, lively and light.

It's just that the people above the hall all have sad faces, and the silence is like a plague, which instantly spreads to every corner.

Fang Xiaoyu sat on one side and quietly observed everyone's expressions. Next to her was King An, and opposite was Fang Haozhi and the eldest princess. They exchanged glances with each other, and each of them had a heart in their eyes.

But Fang's smile was very relaxed.

Today's palace banquet is inexplicable. When someone from the palace came to the palace to deliver the decree, in addition to King An, the prince, even Fang Xiaoyu was also invited.

From the father-in-law who passed the decree, I learned that today's palace banquet is going to be banqueted by ministers from all ministries, and there are no women at all, so I have been thinking about it with a smile in front of the palace, and she is also in the banquet this time, what is the intention.

The strange thing is that when Fang Xiaoyu entered the palace, he immediately ran into Ye Xinrou who was waiting in front of the door.

As the seventh princess of Dacheng, she was always despised because of her appearance in the past, and her mother did not have a deep background, so she was not very favored by the emperor. Recently, because of her friendship, the emperor has looked at her differently, and it is obvious that she has gradually surpassed the other princesses and won the emperor's favor first.

But Ye Xinrou, who was waiting at the palace gate, kept her brows furrowed, her eyes were no longer as light as before, and her demeanor was no longer as heartless as usual, but she looked like she was preoccupied, anxiously waiting for Fang Xiaoyu's arrival.

She went to the palace to find Fang Xiaoyu, but at that time, Fang Xiaoyu had already left the palace and was on her way to the palace. She was anxious. simply ran to the palace gate and waited for Fang Xiaoyu.

She pinned everything on Fang Xiaoyu's body.

When Fang Xiaoyu's carriage entered the palace gate, it was stopped by Ye Xinrou.

Fang Xiaoyu also said in her heart that Ye Xinrou's anxious temper would not be panicked when she didn't see her for a day, which showed Ye Xinrou's expression of relaxation at all. Fang Xiaoyu was a little puzzled.

And Ye Xinrou led her all the way to the hall of the palace banquet, and explained to her the reason why she was so flustered on the way.

The reason lies in the problem that Ye Shilan has always been worried about in the past - and pro.

The alliance with the Dayu Dynasty was carried out in secret, and the emperor of the Dayu Dynasty had just returned to the dynasty at this time, and the alliance with the Emperor was only hidden in secret, and the secret was not revealed. Because the Dayu Dynasty is the same as the Great Cheng, the inside has been infiltrated by the Great Zhou, so every move must be extremely cautious. Don't show the slightest bit of horse's feet.

Although Emperor Fengtian intended to make peace with Dacheng and promote the solidity of the alliance, the Eighth Prince privately favored the Eighth Princess. Emperor Fengtian naturally wouldn't be too tough, so he had to break up a pair of mandarin ducks.

So, Ye Xinrou, the originally dangerous seventh princess, because the eighth princess and the eighth prince of the other party had a pair of mung beans. Completely proud.

But today you have to bring up the old thing again? Or did Emperor Fengtian suddenly repent? Or did the Eighth Prince suddenly empathize and fall in love with Ye Xinrou?

Fang Xiaoyu was a little confused. But Ye Xinrou is not much smarter. She just got the word that someone wanted to negotiate with Dae-seung. For the sake of diplomatic relations between the two countries, they hope to marry back a princess of Dacheng, and in exchange, the other party is also willing to send a princess to Dacheng's man.

Ye Xinrou has limited information, and no matter how much she inquires, she can only know these things. This made Ye Xinrou very flustered.

The eighth sister has already identified the eighth prince of Dayu, even if she wants to make peace, it must be when the emperor of the Dayu Dynasty comes again. Marry to the Great Yu Dynasty. But this time, it seems that it is not Da Yuchao who proposes to be close to Da Cheng, but someone else. This made her in a trance all day, doing everything wrong, and breaking several sets of dishes even with a meal, which made her feel that something was wrong with herself.

Fang Xiaoyu fell into doubt.

If it is not the Dayu Dynasty that proposes to make peace, what other country can be so valued by the emperor and need to settle the situation with the distant marriage of a princess?

But I didn't have a clue.

It was not until the beginning of the banquet, when the ministers took their seats, that the emperor was late. And his complexion does not look very good, his face is full of gloom, it seems that it is a piece of magma that is about to erupt, and whoever goes up to light the fire at this time will die.

The singing and dancing are obviously light and lively, but they are set off by such an oppressive atmosphere. Fang Xiaoyu could even feel the embarrassment and overwhelm of those dancers on the dance floor.

The emperor is not happy, and as a courtier, he can't be happy. In this breathless atmosphere, the group endured a song and dance, and finally the emperor waved his hand impatiently and waved away the dancing girl, and then said helplessly: "It has been two and a half months since the Quicksand Country invaded Northern Yan, and even if General Zhenyuan went to suppress it, it would have little effect. ”

As soon as the emperor's words fell, Fang Xiaoyu felt the eyes of the crowd glancing at him. She quietly picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in the glass with a calm face, but her heart was open.

The reason why such a palace banquet invited her to come here is probably because there was a problem with Beiyan's expedition. The most important thing is that the long-lasting drought has come, and with menacing malice, it has completely disrupted the deployment of the Northern Yan War.

"Yesterday, I just received a battle report, 500,000 soldiers and horses of the Quicksand Country are approaching the city, and Beiyan is in danger. Fortunately, thanks to the good strategy of General Fang Jianzhang Fang, he was able to retreat from the enemy for a short time. But it's just a palliative, not a cure. Now Beiyan is affected by the severe drought, and there are almost no grains left. Nothing is more serious than the depletion of water sources. And the rivers and streams outside the city were surrounded by the army of the quicksand country, and even the other party used poison tricks to poison the well, and the food and water source of Beiyan would not be able to support it for long before it was exhausted. Although I have ordered people to transport food and water to Beiyan, I can't solve the near fire with far water, and I have a long way to go to completely defeat the quicksand country. ”

The Emperor's brows furrowed tightly.

At the beginning, Fang Xiaoyu mentioned to him that there would be a major drought, and he naturally took it to heart. Therefore, when the quicksand country exhausted its sword soldiers, he sent Fang Jianzhang to Beiyan to suppress the enemy, and at the same time, he also hurriedly transported a large amount of grain and water to Beiyan. But how long has it been. The news from the battle report was that the Northern Yan soldiers were almost at the end of their ammunition and food.

This made him furious.

The most important thing is that the chaos in Beiyan is more serious than imagined. After Fang Jianzhang went to Beiyan, he didn't care about the fatigue of the car and horses. Immediately set about rectifying the order of Beiyan. But the other party didn't seem to want Fang Jianzhang to be able to smoothly unify Beiyan, and began to discharge troops one by one, harassing the surrounding areas, and sending a large army to guard the city gate, as if he wanted to trap people in the city.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the not much grain left in the Beiyan granary was burned by a fire, but the guards of the granary were the overseers he personally sent.

At this time, Beiyan was already in chaos. Fang Xiaoyu wants to rectify Beiyan, and it takes a lot of trouble. But the enemy seemed to know his every move, and every time he reached the critical point. The other party sent people to harass him, so that he missed many opportunities to rectify.

Now that the grain is burned, Beiyan is even more precarious. If this continues, I am afraid that we will not have to wait for the enemy to enter the city. They themselves dragged themselves down first.

At this time, Fang Jianzhang was very Zhenyuan general. Carrying the life and death of the entire Beiyan, but when he was in town, he was burned with food, and the pressure he had to face was more than a little bit?

The emperor was not a fool, and naturally he could see that there must be something strange about the sudden fire in the grain. But he was far away in the capital, and he didn't know the specific situation of Beiyan, except for being in a hurry, he didn't know how to ensure that Beiyan would inevitably win.

The Emperor gave a general account of the situation. Sure enough, almost all the ministers had sad faces. Even the eldest princess couldn't help but worry about Fang Jianzhang's affairs.

For the generals, winning the battle should have been. But once the war is lost, no matter how brilliant and brave it was, it will become a shame that they will remember forever, unless it is washed away with a hearty victory. There is no other way.

"But that doesn't stop there. It was not normal for the Quicksand Country to send troops to invade Beiyan this time, and I suspected that there was another country behind the scenes. And the northwest came to report again, saying that the Great Zhou Dynasty is also eyeing the northwest, and it has been moving frequently recently, for fear that it will be deceitful......" The emperor deliberately paused, secretly observing the expressions of these courtiers, and then said: "And I only received a secret report this morning. Da Zhou shot an arrow on the battlefield in the northwest, and a note was tied to the arrow, and the letter was sent to the palace eight hundred miles northwest in an urgent manner......"

Suddenly, a piece of letter paper with a mess of creases appeared in the emperor's hand. Obviously, this messy crease was caused by the emperor who was angry and crumpled it when he saw it, and then reopened it to give it what it is today.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, what does this letter say?" At this time, Mei Cangyun's family asked. His questioning almost spoke to the hearts of the ministers.

The emperor's face was a little gloomy, and he said: "The letter mentioned that the envoy of the Great Zhou will arrive in Dacheng in a few days. At that time, they will courtship the king of Yun, hoping that I can marry a princess to Da Zhou and be a concubine for Yunxiang. ”

The emperor's tone was very blunt, not to mention that Da Zhou was so arrogant, not to mention that he wanted him to marry a daughter, but he still gave an old man a side concubine, which was simply a naked contempt for him, the emperor of great inheritance.

And Fang Xiaoyu also frowned at the right time.

If she remembered correctly, she seemed to have heard the emperor mention the age of King Yun. An old man who is already seventy or eighty years old, even if he has a prominent status in the Great Zhou, but he wants to marry his flower-like daughter or a concubine, how can this make people indifferent?

The problem is that the timing of Da Zhou's sudden proposal of such a condition seems somewhat ingenious.

The quicksand country suddenly raised an army of 500,000 troops, and it was unexpectedly caught off guard by Beiyan. Not to mention the strength of the Quicksand Country, it was the question of where they suddenly found reinforcements, which was already a question she desperately wanted to know.

But Ye Xinrou sat beside Fang Xiaoyu and didn't leave one step. Even though she shouldn't have been sitting here as a princess, she still firmly leaned on Fang Xiaoyu's side to sit, which made her feel safe.

Dacheng didn't marry, and there was not much left of the princess who was suitable for marriage. The eighth sister has a sweetheart with the eighth prince of the Dayu Dynasty, and with her temper, she would definitely rather die than remarry at will. The seventh sister is not in good health. The other sisters are either married and have a happy family, or they are still too young to play in their arms, and the word will not be allowed to be given to others to be her puppets. She is probably the only one who can contribute to this harmony, but she has a sweetheart, and she doesn't want to be tied to someone else's chariot and lose her life to please a man she doesn't like.

What's more, this man is still an old man of an enemy country in his seventies and eighties. If she really marries, what hardships and pains she will have in the future, just thinking about it is terrifying.

"I'm very hesitant." The emperor said in a deep voice: "I am not willing to succumb to the obscenity of the Great Zhou, but the threat of the Great Zhou is like a thorn in my heart, neither advance nor retreat. ”

"Even if I hate Da Zhou for threatening me, I have the heart to return this letter untouched, and give them a hundredfold and a thousand times more humiliating to me. However, the Great Zhou was aggressive towards the northwest, and knew that at this time, the Northern Yan and the Quicksand Kingdom were in a fierce battle, and they threatened to raise troops to attack the northwest if they did not get along. Therefore, I want to listen to the meaning of the Qing family, is this pro, and is it discordant? ”

The emperor's expression looked angry, but his eyes were calm. It seems that he has already made up his mind in his heart, and he asks so much just to get a glimpse of the minds of these ministers.

Fang Xiaoyu began to think in his heart.

The emperor's meaning should be that he is unwilling to be friendly.

Although the Great Zhou is stronger than the Great Cheng, it has been hostile for many years after all.

It is also said that there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. In particular, the exchange of interests between countries can often sacrifice some small things to fight for some big interests, so even if the emperor chooses to make peace, it is not impossible. It just depends on whether the benefits are big enough.

But the situation in Da Zhou is a little different.

Fang Xiaoyu had to admit that Da Zhou's method of invading him was nine twists and eighteen bends, and if it was handled well, it was often the easiest to confuse people and difficult to discover.

In addition, the Great Zhou has always been a tough attitude towards people outside, and such a tough posture is exactly the obstacle that is really used to confuse people, which will make people ignore the fact that such a tough Great Zhou will use such a roundabout and time-consuming method to seize the power of other countries, so for many years, there are carefully arranged chess pieces in many countries, and many of these chess pieces are even descendants of the lineage of the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

But because of this, once it is debunked, this is almost a never-ending situation.

From the emperor's point of view, Da Zhou not only installed so many secret chess pieces in Dacheng, but even his wife and son were tools used by others to calculate him, such a shame and humiliation, as an emperor, how could he easily swallow this breath?

What's more, the emperor was also poisoned by his own pillow man and his own son, and until now he needs to be forcibly suppressed with internal force to ensure that he will not become as crazy as Jian An. And the culprit of all this comes from Da Zhou, how can he be willing to push another daughter into the tiger's mouth?

The most important thing is that he knows that if this kiss is reconciled, this daughter will be like a meat bun beating a dog and never returning. It is useless except for temporarily delaying the time to completely break with the Great Zhou.

But he asked anyway. He wondered what his courtiers were thinking about it. This will play a vital role in his future rectification of the entire court. (To be continued.) )

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