The reply of the Ming Wangfu quickly confirmed that Hu Qingyan's guess was not wrong.

It's just that after it was really confirmed that King Ming pretended to be His Majesty in this game, the three of them were not proud of guessing the facts, but fell into a difficult choice.

Although King Ming's game was aimed at His Majesty, in fact, in fact, Hu Qingyan and the three of them were also put in by King Ming.

The bureau was set up by King Ming, but the people who could operate it were Hu Qingyan and the three of them.

If they continue to follow King Ming's plan, then they will personally help King Ming to make a game against His Majesty.

This is undoubtedly equivalent to their complete betrayal of His Majesty, and once they do, I am afraid that there will be no turning back.

The three of them were silent, and none of them spoke out first.

In the end, it was King De who spoke: "It's not a way to drag it out any longer, we have to come up with a resolution as soon as possible, Chief, what is your opinion?" ”

Hearing that King De directly named Zhang Bangli's name, Hu Qingyan suddenly looked at Zhang Bangli and observed his expression.

However, Zhang Bangli frowned, bit his cheeks, and wanted to speak several times, but he wanted to speak and stopped, obviously unable to make up his mind.

Seeing this, King De looked at Hu Qingyan again: "Pavilion Elder, let's talk about it first!" ”

In fact, Hu Qingyan had already hinted at it, and after analyzing King Ming's plan, he finally said, "Now I can only hope that Your Majesty can hold the enthronement ceremony calmly, and it is best to let the means prepared by King Ming not need to be used." ”

At first glance, it seems that he has already been inclined, as if he has agreed to King Ming's plan, and then he sighed.

But if you really think so, he can retort at any time, saying that he doesn't mean that.

Both King De and Zhang Bangli know him, this person is cunning and cunning, and it is impossible to easily take the lead in expressing his views on such a sensitive topic.

This ambiguous remark was probably deliberately used by this old guy to test the attitude of the two of them.

Sure enough, Hu Qingyan pretended to be an ostrich again at this moment and spoke, but the meaning was still vague: "It's not easy for the old man to say this, it mainly depends on what the two think." ”

When King De heard this, he had to say: "Ge Lao, now you just want to hide, but you can't hide, the matter has been placed in front of us, and the three of us must have a unified attitude." ”

"What the prince said is reasonable, and the old man also means this, but the old man really doesn't have any ideas now, so let's do it, you two are determined about this matter, and the old man will definitely not hold you back!" Hu Qingyan smiled bitterly, his words seemed to be crisp, but in fact he didn't say anything.

King De was speechless for a moment, there was nothing he could do with this old guy, knowing that he would never be the first to make a clear statement no matter what.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, King De could only talk about it first.

But he didn't expect that before he could speak, Zhang Bangli on the side suddenly spoke up: "Then I'll talk about it first." ”

Hearing this, King De and Hu Qingyan hurriedly set their eyes on him.

Zhang Bangli slowly raised his eyes and glanced at the two, Zhang Bangli seemed to have made up his mind, and his expression calmed down, but he only heard him say first: "Now, no matter what the situation, we have to bear it together, if something really happens, if I die, I can't run away from you." ”

As soon as these words came out, Hu Qingyan and King De were silent.

Zhang Bangli didn't look at their expressions, but said in a deep voice: "As far as I personally think, Your Majesty is indeed unstable. At the enthronement ceremony, none of us is sure what His Majesty will do. If His Majesty really attacked King Ming desperately at that time, the consequences would be so serious that he couldn't even think about it. ”

King De nodded, but Hu Qingyan just listened and didn't make a sound.

Zhang Bangli continued: "In fact, in the past few days, why haven't we racked our brains to find a way to successfully complete the enthronement ceremony? Now, the Ming King can come up with a way to deal with the worst possible outcome, which is not a bad thing from the perspective of thinking about the country. ”

This time, Hu Qingyan also nodded, and didn't pretend to be an ostrich anymore, but still asked rhetorically: "But the problem is that the method that King Ming came up with can't prevent His Majesty from making trouble at the enthronement ceremony." He was just trying to fight back when His Majesty was attacking him. ”

Hearing him speak, King De's eyes swept over Hu Qingyan's face, wondering what his attitude was.

When Zhang Bangli heard this, he asked rhetorically: "Even if we don't help King Ming do this, King Ming can be caught without fighting back?" ”

Hu Qingyan frowned, then shook his head and said nothing.

Zhang Bangli continued: "We don't know whether Your Majesty will attack us, and we can't stop King Ming if he doesn't fight back." These are beyond our control, and when the worst comes, we can only settle for the next best thing, and we can only try to minimize the conflict and calm the situation as soon as possible. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Bangli pondered for a moment before continuing: "I thought about it and thought, when the worst happens, if King Ming can use this means to directly overwhelm Your Majesty, although this will still greatly damage Your Majesty's majesty, as long as it does not develop to the point of fighting each other, it will be the best result." ”

King De suddenly interjected next to him and added: "The chief doesn't need to be too pessimistic, isn't the Lin family involved now?" If it really comes to that point, we can completely transfer the artillery fire to the Lin family, and we will recognize that they are sowing discord and bewitching Your Majesty, Your Majesty is deceived by them, let them give an explanation, the Lin family is involved, Hu, Liu and Zhang will not be able to get out, and then everyone will be a confused lawsuit, and our country will not be able to please them, and it will not be easy for them. ”

These words made Hu Qingyan and Zhang Bangli stunned at the same time, and then began to ponder around King De's words.

And since King De has already spoken, he has also expressed his position, no longer hiding it, and continued: "I also agree with the general chief's point of view, in addition to the pros and cons that the chief minister just said, in fact, King Ming's bureau has been set to this point, and we don't have much choice at all. Now, if we don't cooperate with King Ming, then we don't have to wait until we ascend the throne, King Ming will turn against us, and how will the situation develop then......"

"In this way, the prince and the chief have decided to cooperate with King Ming." When Hu Qingyan heard this, his eyes fixed on the two of them and asked.

Zhang Bangli nodded directly, but added: "I agree, but there is a premise, King Ming must agree, if the enthronement ceremony, His Majesty did not make it difficult for him." He must not take the initiative to attack His Majesty with this matter, otherwise we would rather bear the name of bullying the king and betraying the lord, and we will also make the truth public. ”

King De pondered for a long time, and finally nodded: "The chief minister's words are good, we are out of consideration of the overall situation, and we have no choice but to make this decision, and we are by no means deliberately deceiving the king, this point must be made clear with the Ming Wangfu." ”

After that, the two looked at Hu Qingyan at the same time, and Hu Qingyan finally nodded: "That is the case, then let's do it." ”

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It was King De who came forward, and after some bargaining, the two finally reached a cooperation.

There is no basis for trust between the dynasty and the southern army, and it is certainly not possible to make empty statements.

Without King De opening his mouth, Chu Ruocai offered to leave a blank sheet of paper and black as proof, and King De responded after pretending to be displeased.

After the matter was negotiated, the country and the dynasty naturally no longer needed to hold on to the people of the southern army, and the three handsome people of Hu, Liu and Zhang saw that Chu Ruo was able to come out unharmed, so they died down.

The people from the three parties originally planned to ask Chu Ruocai carefully about the situation tonight, but Chu Ruocai said that he would talk to them later on the grounds that he had something important to report to Lin Huayao.

Although the three parties were anxious to know the truth, they also heard what Chu Ruocai meant, whether they would inform them in detail, Chu Ruocai couldn't be the master, so they had to ask Lin Huayao first.

The people of the three parties were somewhat unhappy in their hearts, they risked their lives for the affairs of the Southern Army, and tossed for most of the night, and now the people of the Southern Army are fine, but they don't even give them an explanation.

It's certain that I'm unhappy in my heart, but I can't help it, so I can only hold it for the time being, go back and wait first.

Seeing that it was about to dawn, the palace finally fell silent.

With the signed agreement in his arms, King De met with Zhang Bangli and Hu Qingyan, who were still waiting.

Closing the door, Hu Qingyan and Zhang Bangli's eyes fell on the document in King De's hand.

Hu Qingyan calmly asked King De, "It's done?" ”

King De nodded, handed the document in his hand to Hu Qingyan, and then sat down opposite Hu Qingyan, picked up the tea on the table, and drank it all.

Hu Qingyan opened the document, read it carefully, and then said: "Hey, the appetite is really not small, except for the six cities of Xijiang and the reduction of the original anti-barbarian agreement, the Southern Army undertakes two percent of the tasks. He also asked the dynasty to come up with another 5 million gold coins and some weapons and ammunition. In the end, even the Daomen after getting rid of King Ming had to get a piece of the pie. ”

When King De heard this, he wiped the sweat on his head and said with a wry smile: "That's all, I was afraid that the promise would be too happy, which would make them suspicious, and after some bargaining, it was settled, and their original appetite was more than twice as big as this." ”

"The hearts of the people are not enough to swallow the elephant, even if our country dares to give it, they must have the stomach to swallow it." Zhang Bangli stretched out his hand to take the agreement from Hu Qingyan's hand, read it again, and couldn't help but snort coldly.

After he finished reading, the three of them looked at each other and fell silent again.

King Ban Yude got up, took the agreement, and only said softly: "Then send it to King Ming." ”

What else can you say about something that has already been discussed?

Zhang Bangli and Hu Qingyan watched the back of King De leaving, Hu Qingyan also got up, and sighed before leaving: "This step out, we can't turn back, how will the history books evaluate what we have done today, and I don't know what loyalty and treachery will be?" ”

Zhang Bangli shook his head: "King Ming has a sentence that is very suitable for us, what you do, as long as you live up to your heart, right or wrong, let it be judged by future generations." ”

Hu Qingyan's footsteps paused slightly, didn't say anything more, and turned to leave.

When he went out, Zhang Bangli also got up, walked to the window, and looked outside, it was the darkest hour before dawn.

Zhang Bangli looked in the direction of the Ming Palace, but did not move for a long time.

just whispered at the corner of his mouth: "Emperor Xian, for the sake of the foundation of the dynasty, the minister has to make a choice......"