Qi Wangfu.

"Are you sure he's out of jail?" Zhou Yan asked.

"Yes."

"Let's go again."

Waiting for the guards to withdraw, Zhou Yan sat down and thought about what to say to Wang Xiao for a while.

He really didn't expect Wang Xiao to be able to get out of Dali Temple Prison easily, and now he has agreed to let Song Xin plan to patrol Shandong, and now he doesn't know how to deal with Wang Xiao's questioning.

Presumably, Wang Xiao will inevitably come to question himself.

The volume of "Zizhi Tongjian" in his hand also had no intention of reading it carefully, and Zhou Yan waited for a long time, but he still didn't wait for Wang Xiao.

He had no choice but to beckon his attendant again.

"The horse went back to Wang's house first, and then went to Wendao Academy."

Zhou Yan was slightly surprised: "He went to see his eldest brother?" Wang Zhen still has the heart to teach today? ”

"Yes."

"This is a firm Wen Rongxin who can't lock people up." Zhou Yan groaned.

He felt that it was a little bad to ignore the law like this, but Wang Xiao was older and his brother-in-law, so he couldn't say anything, so he had to wait patiently.

After a long while, he still didn't see Wang Xiao, so he had to inquire again.

"The colt went to the elephant garden again."

Zhou Yan felt that it was a little bad for Xun Qi to collude with Jinyiwei, but they were his own group, and he couldn't say anything, so he had to wait.

It was a long while.

"The colt went to the suburbs of Beijing again......"

Okay, he's probably not coming to the Qi Palace—Zhou Yan frowned and pondered.

Could it be that Wang Xiao meant the same as Zuo Jinglun, planning to let himself go to Shandong?

The fourteen-year-old King Qi weighed in his heart and felt a little lost.

He opened the book in his hand and read it for a while, hoping to see some political wisdom in this great work of general history, but he was still unable to understand it.

As the day got dark, Zhou Yan sighed, sure that Wang Xiao would not come.

Suddenly.

"Your Highness, it's not good! Outside the gate, many soldiers surrounded the palace. ”

Zhou Yan suddenly got up and asked, "Whose person?" ”

It can't be the prince's person, right?

Then another guard reported: "It's the horse who asks to see His Highness......"

~~

When Zhou Yan saw Wang Xiao for the first time, his impression of him was better than he imagined.

This colt, who has made a lot of noise in Beijing, is not as aggressive and frivolous as he imagined. Looks like a handsome boy with a good image and a gentle personality, and his manners are also very polite.

"I've seen Your Highness."

"Why did the colt bring people around my mansion?"

"Your Highness, don't worry." Wang Xiao's eyes were calm, and his smile was quite gentle, with a sense of reminder.

Zhou Yan was slightly stunned, and reacted that he was a little impatient.

In the future, when dealing with many ministers of the court, such a sentence will show timidity, and it will appear that the bearing is insufficient and the city government is not deep.

So he restrained his expression and smiled calmly: "Brother-in-law doesn't have to be called His Royal Highness, let's discuss the preface in private and make it a normal name." Today, my brother has to be crowned a king, and I have to thank my brother-in-law. ”

"Then I'll take the liberty of it." Wang smiled: "Time is tight, I have something to say." Now that we have received His Majesty's order, we will immediately begin to treat the epidemic and provide disaster relief. I have a set of methods, which I first tried in Beijing, and then spread it to other places after it was effective. It's a little late today, but it's okay, first order Shuntianfu and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to clean the ditches, sweep the streets, and exterminate rats and insects; Then the patrol camp and the three major battalions will strictly control the flow of population in the capital......"

"Today?" Zhou Yan was slightly surprised.

"Yes, it's urgent, I've been waiting too long." Wang smiled: "I will go back and talk to His Highness about the other methods." ”

"But ......"

"But someone advised His Highness that there is no need to cure the epidemic?" Wang Xiao's voice froze, his eyes were slightly condensed, and he asked slowly: "Can they persuade His Highness to use this to develop his own power?" ”

In the humble hall, the two fell silent.

Zhou Yan's throat rolled slightly, and he swallowed his saliva.

"To Henan? Or Shandong? Or Nan Zhili? Wang Xiao asked slowly.

Zhou Yan's expression was slightly different, and he sighed: "This matter ...... The big picture counts. ”

"It seems to be Shandong."

After a while, Wang smiled and sighed: "Actually, I also think what they said is right. ”

"Huh?" Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment, and was a little surprised.

"But the timing was not right." Wang said with a smile: "The Jingshi is in turmoil, and many people have long had the intention of retreating. I am an unlearned person, so before I came today, I specially asked my eldest brother, analyzed it from Zuo Jinglun's point of view, and calculated the idea they gave His Highness. ”

Zhou Yan stretched out his hand and asked Wang Xiao to sit down.

Wang smiled: "Come to think of it, they asked His Royal Highness to cross the Yellow River to Shandong or Henan in the name of governor of the disaster and not return." If there is a change in the capital on a different day, Jinan or Kaifeng will be used as a base. Leaning on the Yellow River in the north as an obstacle, you can calmly deal with Jiannu, and in the west, you will send troops to occupy Tongguan and govern across the Qinling Mountains from Tang Zhongyuan...... If the operation is done properly, it can defend the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty. If the situation is unfavorable, cross the Yangtze River to the south and guard half of the country. ”

Zhou Yan looked around, nodded and said, "Yes, this is Lao Cheng's words to seek the country." My Chu Guojing division is placed in the north, too close to the border pass, under the iron hooves of Jiannu, and is harassed by the rogues, just look at the past ten years to keep recruiting troops and Qinwang, in vain to waste food, grass and manpower. There will be instability in a moment, the whole country will be shaken, and in this case, the slightest carelessness will lose everything. The only way to move south ......"

"If Your Highness really thinks so, you can write to your Majesty to move the capital, why should you flee south alone?" Wang smiled.

Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment, his face instantly turned red, and he was faintly angry.

Wang Xiao asked rhetorically: "Your Highness, have you ever thought about why Your Majesty didn't move south?" Are you really just afraid of being scolded by Qingshi? ”

Zhou Yan said: "Father ......"

- The father is thin-skinned.

Wang smiled and said: "Since His Highness's advisers have made suggestions, have you ever said how to subdue the civil and military forces of Shandong?" How to subdue the southern subjects? The southern gentry are intertwined, how can they really suppress and co-opt? Today's disaster and epidemic is not only in Beijing, Henan is also ten rooms and nine rooms, Kaifeng City has been flooded so far, there are still countless refugees who have no place to go, have they said how to resettle? His Royal Highness fled Gyeonggi alone, and at the beginning he could be treated in the name of Fuzhi, but after a long time, what was the name? ”

"Your Royal Highness has ever thought that Zheng Dang has been planning for a long time in order to let the prince move south. Why don't you go south in the name of the governor this time, and push this opportunity to you? ”

Zhou Yan muttered for a while, but couldn't answer.

"Because what Zheng Dang is asking for is a name." The king said with a smile: "If the Son of Heaven decrees that the prince should move south, it will be for the sake of defending the country and for orthodoxy." Fleeing privately and operating in secret like this is a disobedience. If His Royal Highness listened to the words of the advisor and went south, the Son of Heaven and the crown prince were still sitting in the capital at that time, guarding the gate for the country, and he was willing to die in Sheji. So what is Your Highness? What do the subjects of the north think of His Highness? What do the subjects of the world think of His Highness? ”

"They don't think that His Highness is focusing on the overall situation and taking precautions. They will only think that Tang Zhongyuan has not yet gone east, and Jiannu has not yet gone south, so you, the prince, will not be ordered to flee without permission, because of cowardice. When the time comes, who will dare to trust his life to a cowardly lord. When the time comes, His Highness will only become a target, a tiptoe stone. ”

"Your Highness, don't underestimate the hearts of the people in the north and the people of the world. Back then, Inspector Li beheaded the general soldiers of Dongjiang Town, and today we will not say why. It is only said that this move made the Liao people lose their hearts, and the Liao people's loss of heart caused the situation in Liaodong to deteriorate, and finally it was difficult to recover. Now that the time has not yet come, if Your Highness makes the northern subjects lose their hearts again, then you don't want to mention anything to slow down and regain the lost territory in the next year. ”

"A strategist can seek temporary benefits for His Highness, but he cannot seek thousands of miles for His Highness. Only when there are all the people in the heart can the people return to their hearts, and only when there is a family and country in the heart can the family and country be blessed...... Please also ask Your Highness to think twice. ”

Zhou Yan stayed there.

He felt that what Song Xin said was also right, and he felt that what Wang Xiao said was also right. For a while, I didn't know who to listen to.

In the past, he only felt that he had great ambitions in his heart, but now that he has become the king of Qi for less than a day, he has already felt a dilemma, and only after he has ascended to the throne can he know the difficulties of the superior......