Luodu, East Palace.

Prince Guo Zhan is standing on the edge of the corridor, holding a porcelain bowl in one hand, and pinching out a little fish food from the porcelain bowl with the other, and spilling it into the pond under the corridor, where the goldfish scramble to jump out of the water to grab the fish food.

At this moment, a little eunuch hurriedly ran behind Guo Zhan and said, "Your Highness, Xirong's envoy Tuoba Tao asks to see you." ”

Guo Zhan handed the porcelain bowl in his hand to the palace maid who was waiting on the side and said, "Let him come in!" ”

"No!" After the little eunuch heard this, he ran outside the gate of the East Palace again, and Tuoba Tao was waiting anxiously outside the East Palace at this time.

Seeing the little eunuch appear at the gate of the palace, Tuoba Tao immediately greeted him and said, "Little father-in-law, I don't know if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of your country will have time to see you." ”

"Your Excellency, my crown prince ......" The little eunuch stopped talking halfway through his words.

Tuoba Tao is such a smart person, he immediately understood the intention of the little eunuch, and he was very close to the little eunuch, and stuffed a piece of fine Hetian jade into the little eunuch's hand and said: "Little father-in-law, a little meaning, not a respect." ”

"Envoy, look at you, how embarrassing you are!" The little eunuch said, put Hetian Yu away and said: "Originally, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of my family didn't want to see Your Excellency, but our family persuaded His Royal Highness for a while before His Royal Highness the Crown Prince agreed to see Your Excellency, Your Excellency, please come with our family!" ”

"There is a little father-in-law in front of you to lead the way."

Under the guidance of the little eunuch, Tuoba Tao finally met Guo Zhan, the prince of Great Qi, in the corridor of the East Palace Garden; After seeing Guo Zhan, Tuoba Tao put his right hand on his chest, bowed to the crown prince Guo Zhan and said, "Foreign minister Tuoba Tao pays a visit to His Royal Highness the Prince of Great Qi. ”

"The envoy is exempt." Guo Zhanyan said: "Come and give a seat." ”

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie." Tuoba Tao got up and thanked him, and sat down on the stool with that.

"I don't know what your Excellency the envoy is doing when you come to see this palace?" Guo Zhan picked up a bowl of ginseng tea and asked Tuoba Tao, and after asking, he blew and drank a sip of tea. It's a lot of style.

Tuoba Tao scolded secretly in his heart: "Knowingly ask, what Lao Tzu is doing, you know better than anyone else." ”

Although Tuoba Tao thought so in his heart, he said very hypocritically: "Your Highness, the foreign minister is here for the conflict between your two countries in the land of Longxi;

Xirong and Daqi were originally friendly and good-neighborly states, but His Royal Highness King Yong of your country wantonly provoked a war, attacked our Xirong Khanate, and exterminated our Xirong Khanate, and now it has invaded Longzhou in our country, and plundered the land of the six states in the east of our country, causing heavy losses to our country. ”

"Your Excellency, have you broken your brain?" Prince Guo Zhan sneered: "What you just said is really a big mistake; Originally, Xirong was just a down-and-out clan living in the Qingtang generation, and my Emperor Taizu took pity on you and allowed you to go to Shanzhou to live;

However, you have taken revenge and invaded my territory step by step, not only seizing the Hexi Corridor and the land of Longxi, but now you want to further occupy Guanzhong, which is even more delusional;

This palace will tell you today, if your country knows each other, quickly withdraw from Longxi and Hexi, and Lao Bashi will go back to his hometown, otherwise my ninth brother King Yong will definitely lead the Yongjun army to level all the tribes of your Xirong tribe. ”

The words of the crown prince Guo Zhan were full of anger, but Tuoba Tao did not have a seizure on the spot, and his face was flushed, like a monkey's buttocks.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince humiliates our country so much, isn't he afraid of causing a national war? Although the Xijon Khanate is small, it also has millions of elite soldiers, and it is not certain who will win and who will lose in a real fight! Tuoba Tao said angrily.

"Then it's not like I haven't beaten before." The crown prince Guo Zhan said indifferently: "Not long ago, the ninth brother of the palace, King Yong, just gave a pot of more than 100,000 elites of your Xirong Left Army; If you have the ability, you will come, the ninth brother of the palace, King Yong, but he told the palace that he can eat as much as your Xirong army dares to come. ”

"Humph! Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has said this, then let's see you on the battlefield! In the next farewell. Xirong's envoy Tuoba Tao got up directly and brushed his sleeves away.

After Tuoba Tao left the East Palace, he got into the carriage directly.

The coachman asked Tuoba Tao, "My lord, should we go back to the post house first, or should we go to the Honglu Temple first?" ”

"I also met with Honglu Temple, went back to the post house to pack up my things, and returned to Shancheng immediately." Tuoba Tao said angrily.

While driving the carriage, the coachman asked Tuoba Tao, "Is something wrong with my lord?" ”

"If you don't talk much, you can't catch a car, do you?" Tuoba Tao roared angrily: "Shut up Lao Tzu and hurry up." ”

On the other side, inside the East Palace.

After Tuoba Tao left, the crown prince Guo Zhan smiled happily.

From the room not far from the corridor, an official in official uniform walked out, applauding and saying, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really clever! The admired Wuti threw himself to the ground, not only successfully drove away the peace envoy sent by the Xijon Khanate; And also pushed His Royal Highness King Yong to the front of the soldiers of the Xirong Khanate, which is really a plan to kill two birds with one stone! ”

"Zhou Qing, just know this in your heart, don't say it." The crown prince Guo Zhan said very cautiously: "If this reaches the ears of my father, this palace will inevitably be punished." ”

"Remember, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can rest assured, there are people around here who are finally His Highness, and this word will not reach His Majesty's ears." Zhou Wentai patted his ass.

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Guo Qi, who was far away in the Longzhou earthquake pass, did not know that the peace talks between the two sides had completely collapsed, and at this time, Guo Qi, the king of Yong, was appeasing the governor of the palace Shi Song Yiming in the big tent!

"Yiming, don't get angry; Come for a cup of tea. Yongwang Guo Qi personally served Song Yiming a cup of tea.

Song Yiming took the tea, put it on the tea table on the side, and said to Guo Qi, the king of Yong: "My lord, I beg you, now that the war is over, the defense line of Longdi Mountain has almost been built, and His Royal Highness should return to Yongcheng, Yongcheng still has a lot of things waiting for you to deal with!" ”

"Yiming, this king can't return to Yongcheng yet, and it's likely that this king won't return to Yongcheng for a long time in the future." Guo Qi said to Song Yiming with a very tough attitude: "Didn't this king tell you before, you can make your own decisions about all political affairs, and you don't have to let this king handle everything." ”

"Lord, it is the honor of the lowly to trust in the lowly office; But you can't call the shots of everything! Song Yiming said to Guo Qi: "It was good to say before, now that the lord has recovered Longzhou, the appointment and dismissal of officials in various parts of Longzhou still need to be the lord in charge, and now that spring ploughing has arrived, how to organize the new people to open up wasteland and farm, and how to transfer people from all over the Longdi Mountain defense line to return to the two states...... These things have to be decided by you. ”

After Guo Qi heard Song Yiming say a lot of this, his head immediately became bigger, and Guo Qi was most annoyed by these cumbersome political affairs.

So Guo Qi said to Song Yiming: "Yiming, these are trivial matters, you just need to decide for yourself, so the elected officials, let them temporarily take over, do a good job and turn them into regular immediately, and then report to the king;

In addition, spring ploughing is the first major event now, this king fully supports you, you need to draw how many people from the Longdi Mountain defense line to tell the guards everywhere, you are working hard, and when this king recovers a few states, this king's fief will be expanded, and it can be called a real 'feudal country' (note 1), and then the first prime minister of my Yongguo must be you. ”