Although Lao Jiu has already sat on the dragon chair, he still has to hold the enthronement ceremony before it can be justified.

After the original emperor's funeral on the side of the Ming Palace, the dynasty should hold an enthronement ceremony as soon as possible.

Who knows that after the Praetorian guards withdrew from the palace, more than ten days passed in a row, and the palace still did not give a letter of approval on when he would ascend the throne.

Mo Bai, who stayed in the house without leaving the house, also began to be a little unable to sit still.

If Lao Jiu does not ascend the throne, it will be difficult to officially put the anti-barbarian matter on the agenda.

Since the first emperor was mourned, after Mo Bai killed the Qi Barbarians and the envoys, the Qi Barbarians used the pretext of forcing the dynasty to hand over Mo Bai and greatly increased the troops on the battlefield in northern and southern Jiangsu.

Great Xia, which was already very difficult to defend, was strengthened by the banner barbarians, but in just ten days, several cities were lost in a row.

If this continues, I am afraid that it will not be long before the entire territory of the two provinces will fall.

When the time comes, Qiman will really gain a foothold in Great Xia.

The two provinces can be used as a place to raise troops, or the troops can be really spread out in all directions within the territory of Great Xia.

At that time, if Great Xia wants to deal with the banner barbarians again, the price he will have to pay will be countless times that of now.

Mo Bai really wanted to enter the palace in person and ask, what was going on, why did he delay his ascension to the throne?

But he had promised not to interfere in the government's affairs before, so he decided to wait.

In this way, after another three days, when the palace still did not give any news about the enthronement, Mo Bai finally couldn't sit still and went straight to the palace gate.

Because the palace ordered that before ascending the throne, the princes temporarily lived in the palace and were not allowed to go out.

Mo Bai didn't want to intensify the conflict with Lao Jiu, and before the palace ban, he still found a reason on the table for the queen mother's follow-up.

Sure enough, the palace didn't dare to forcibly stop him, and after letting him go, Mo Bai went straight to the imperial study.

"Your Highness!" On the way, Mo Bai was stopped by Hu Qingyan.

Mo Bai knew that Lao Jiu should not want to see him, so he asked Hu Qingyan to stop him.

When you see him, there is no need to see Lao Jiu again.

As Hu Qingyan came to the cabinet room, after sitting down, Mo Bai didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Pavilion Elder, the matter of Your Majesty's accession to the throne has not been decided yet?" ”

Hu Qingyan smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said, "The old minister knows that His Highness must have come for this matter. ”

Mo Bai nodded, didn't hide it, stared at Hu Qingyan, and said in a deep voice: "Elder Ge, it has been almost half a month since the first emperor returned to the mausoleum, and the dynasty has not coordinated the relations between the DPRK and China?" ”

Hearing Mo Bai's tone was obviously not good, Hu Qingyan hurriedly said: "Your Highness, don't misunderstand, since the first emperor returned to the mausoleum, the old minister did not dare to slack off on the affairs of the court for a day, so far, although he did not dare to say that the court was peaceful, but there must not be any big chaos." ”

"In that case, why has the first emperor not been able to ascend the throne for a long time?" Mo Bai asked again.

"This ......" Hu Qingyan smiled bitterly: "Your Highness must have known the battle situation ahead." ”

"This king said that he was unwilling to meddle in the government, and he is not a lie. This trip to the palace to ask, it was precisely because of the unfavorable war ahead that the king was not in a hurry. Mo Bai nodded.

"Since Your Highness knows it in your heart, you should know where Your Majesty's difficulties are now." Hu Qingyan sighed.

"What do you mean?" Mo Bai raised his eyebrows.

Hu Qingyan looked at Mo Bai for a moment, and saw that he really didn't understand, so he said: "Let's put it this way, Your Highness thinks that the two provinces of northern Jiangsu and southern Jiangsu can last for a long time?" ”

"What do you mean?" Mo Bai repeated the previous question again, but this time, it was not just frowning, but anger suddenly flashing in his eyes.

Seeing that Mo Bai's eyes suddenly became sharp, Hu Qingyan knew that King Ming might have understood what he meant.

Hu Qingyan shook his head slightly, as if he was helpless, and said: "Now the news of the defeat in front has been spread by some people with ulterior motives, and now the people in Beijing are extremely angry. It is not difficult for His Majesty to ascend the throne now, but after ascending the throne, he will need a big victory to start a new dynasty. As soon as he ascended the throne, news of the fall of the two provinces of northern and southern Jiangsu came, and the majesty of the new dynasty would be greatly damaged......"

Mo Bai heard this and fell silent.

After lowering his head and muttering for a long time, Mo Bai raised his head, looked at Hu Qingyan again, and asked, "Then now, what do you plan to drag on until the two provinces have completely fallen, and then ascend the throne?" ”

Mo Bai's expression couldn't see joy and anger, but Hu Qingyan only felt that Mo Bai's eyes were extremely terrifying, which made him shudder, and he couldn't help avoiding his gaze, and said softly: "Now the country is very embarrassed, according to the opinions of the military department, there is no unity, some think that the fall of the two provinces is a foregone conclusion, and now the country and the dynasty continue to hold on alone is no longer meaningful, it is better to retreat first and preserve strength." However, on the battlefield ahead, Fang Shuai and several generals who were still fighting resolutely opposed abandoning the defense, asked for the support of the country and the DPRK, and did not retreat from the two provinces. ”

Hearing this, Mo Bai had completely understood why Lao Jiu was reluctant to ascend the throne.

It's not that Lao Jiu is not in a hurry, but the entire territory of northern and southern Jiangsu provinces has fallen, which has become a foregone conclusion, and this loss of land is destined to be the responsibility pointed out by Wanfu, Lao Jiu does not want to, and does not dare to bear it.

So he wanted to wait until after the fall of these two provinces before ascending the throne.

In other words, let these two provinces fall on their own initiative before he ascended the throne.

In this way, the heavy responsibility for losing the land will not be borne by him.

As for the future, if you start a joint fight against the barbarians, no matter how victorious or defeated, you will also bear it with the warlord, not let him bear it alone.

Listening to Hu Qingyan's meaning, there should be some people in the dynasty who agree with Lao Jiu's opinion,

In their opinion, the joint anti-barbarism is about to start anyway, and now why should the dynasty have a hard top, take the initiative to retreat, and still preserve its strength.

This side thinks very well, but there are also people who have different opinions, such as Fang Youqun's side, they refuse to agree, but ask for support from the country.

Even if Hu Qingyan didn't say it, Mo Bai could already think that now the dynasty should be in a stalemate with Fang Youqun, and Fang Shuai has even used "generals are outside, and military orders are not subject to".

Thinking of this, Mo Bai only felt cold in his heart.

He really didn't expect that Lao Jiu would not succeed to this point, and because he was afraid of taking responsibility, he would actually think of taking the initiative to give up the country.

In history, there are not many such emperors, and there are not many of them in the history books.

And those who dare to joke about the land are mostly the kings of the dead country.

At this time, Mo Bai suddenly thought of Dingwu.

This emperor, who is also destined to look bad in the history books, has never had the idea of giving up his country on his own initiative.

Even if Mingzhu was lost, it was because Dingwu was deceived by the banner barbarians, and misjudged the wolf ambitions of the banner barbarians, which led to the Mingzhu Incident, and the dynasty was restrained by many inside, and the generals were ineffective, so they finally retreated with hatred.

However, now Mo Bai has done everything possible to solve the internal troubles, resulting in a joint anti-barbarism, at least during the first war of resistance against the barbarians, Daomen had Mo Bai suppression, and the warlords were subject to the joint agreement, and did not dare to say that they were completely obedient, but at least they would no longer wantonly make trouble, in a sense, the internal troubles that had been formulated at the beginning of the military were temporarily calmed down.

On the battlefield, there are such brave and resourceful commanders as Fang Youqun, and the situation has been greatly improved from that time of Dingwu.

But in this way, Lao Jiu actually took the initiative to give up the land just because of his own thoughts.

"Elder Ge, what is your opinion on this matter?" In the end, Mo Bai suppressed the urge to rush to the imperial study to slap Lao Jiu a few times, closed his eyes slightly, opened his eyes and looked at Hu Qingyan, and asked.

can stalemate for so long, it is obvious that Hu Qingyan has not done anything in this matter, if he strongly supports Fang Youqun, then Lao Jiu must now carefully consider his position.

Hu Qingyan hesitated slightly, and finally said: "Your Highness, of course the old minister is unwilling to give up my Great Xia territory to others, but Your Majesty's consideration is also based on the overall situation. ”

"In other words, you don't want to take a stand on this matter." Mo Bai didn't bother to fight with him, so he said directly.

Hu Qingyan was silent.

Mo Bai stood up, turned his back to him and said: "Pavilion Elder, this king has always believed that as the head of a country's cabinet, the minimum responsibility must still be had, especially in the major rights and wrongs, there must not be the slightest ambiguity, because often when deciding the fate and future of the country, your words and deeds will play a major role. In the history books, not only will the emperor's merits and deeds be recorded, but the head of the cabinet will struggle all his life and reach his current high position, and he will definitely leave his name in the history books. A person's life is only a hundred years, and it is so glorious to be remembered by history. But whether it can be beautiful for a hundred years, or it will be stinking for 10,000 years, it depends on the head of the pavilion himself. ”

With that, Mo Bai walked away.

Hu Qingyan got up, looked at Mo Bai's back, and didn't move for a long time.

Out of the cabinet room, Mo Bai walked in the palace, and didn't look at the direction of the imperial study, he was really afraid that he couldn't help it, and he would rush in and beat Lao Jiu's bastard to death.

He could feel the breath of His Excellency the real person, which had always been fixed on him, but he didn't feel it.

Before I knew it, I came to the middle palace.

The old palace maid was waiting at the door, she should have received the news that he had entered the palace.

Mo Bai went to see the Queen Mother, did not talk about the purpose of this trip to the palace, only chatted a few words, and Mo Bai rushed to leave.

After he left, the queen mother said to the old palace maid beside her: "The emperor has something on his mind, who did he see when he entered the palace today?" ”

"His Royal Highness and the Cabinet have gone to the Cabinet." The old palace maid said.

The Queen Mother was puzzled, but she didn't know the situation, and she didn't want to ask Hu Ge Lao, so she had to give up and said: "Speaking of which, it has been a few days since the first emperor returned to the mausoleum, why hasn't Your Majesty prepared to ascend the throne?" ”

……

Return to the Ming Palace.

Mo Bai summoned Lu Xunyi and instructed: "Send a message to Du Juan, and transfer ten more grandmasters to northern Jiangsu to protect Fang Shuai." ”

Lu Xunyi was taken aback: "Your Highness is talking about now?" ”

"Not bad!" Mo Bai nodded.

"This ...... Will it make the new gentleman suspicious! Lu Xunyi hesitated, but still said.

"Suspicious? So what? Mo Bai suddenly looked sideways at Lu Xunyi.

Lu Xunyi was stunned when he heard this!

He really rarely heard Mo Bai speak like this, and when he looked up, he saw Mo Bai's eyes very sharp, and he suddenly noticed that Mo Bai's mood was wrong at the moment, so he didn't dare to say more, and immediately said: "Yes, I'll do it." ”

"Wait!" Mo Bai said: "In addition, pay attention to the public opinion in Beijing, and once you find that there are unfavorable remarks about the other party in Beijing, you will report it immediately." ”