On the surface, Shen Leng didn't seem to have any change in expression, but his heart had already exploded...... He was sure that His Majesty would never mention such words to anyone casually, but His Majesty said these words to him before the Northern Expedition, what did he mean? The emperor acts, and there will be different arrangements in different periods, and the meaning of saying this to Shen Leng at this sensitive time could not be clearer.

His Majesty said, you should think about it more, how can Shen Leng not think about it.

A word came out of Shen Leng's mind, and as soon as it appeared, Shen Leng's back was chilled, and it didn't take long for a layer of fine beads of sweat to appear on his forehead.

Orphan?

Does Your Majesty think there will be any accidents in the Northern Expedition? That's why he said such a few words to himself alone before the Northern Expedition, although His Majesty didn't express it too clearly, but Shen Leng was not an idiot who naturally thought clearly, which made Shen Leng have to think of the word Tuogu......

"Think about it, but don't think about it."

The emperor seemed to see through what Shen Leng was thinking, and glanced at him: "Just understand what I mean literally." ”

Shen Leng lowered his head: "The minister understands." ”

The emperor walked up to Shen Leng, raised his hand and wiped the cold sweat that was scared on Shen Leng's forehead, at this moment, he seemed to forget that he was the emperor, only remembering that he was a father.

And his action that seemed a little too close scared Shen Leng again, and Shen Leng subconsciously took a step back.

Looking at Shen Leng's panicked appearance, the emperor felt distressed for a while...... Obviously, this is just a normal behavior between father and son, but just because he is Shen Leng and he is the emperor, he can be scared like this, saying that the monarch and the minister are like the father and the son, the monarch and the minister are the monarch and the minister, and the father and the son are the father and the son.

The emperor withdrew his hand, turned around and took a handkerchief and handed it to Shen Leng: "Is it too hot in this East Warm Pavilion?" ”

"Yes, yes, it's hot."

Shen Leng took the handkerchief and subconsciously wiped his forehead.

The emperor sat down, as if he felt that he should change the topic, or suddenly remembered something, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly: "Xiao Shen Ji, this child...... When Lai Cheng came in yesterday, he said to me, it's really weird, he doesn't want to do the homework that Lai Cheng gave him, but he can't write anything when he checks it, and he doesn't write anything about it, but he can understand it after listening to the lessons he lectures. ”

Shen Leng replied naturally: "Suichen." ”

It's a natural shamelessness.

The emperor said in his heart that you are not with me? The things in the bones can't be changed.

"Concubine Zhen likes the two of them very much, so ...... Maybe even if you return from my northern expedition, Concubine Zhen may not be willing to put the child back with you. ”

Shen Leng sighed in his heart, but what can he say as a courtier, Concubine Zhen treats Cha'er as her own Shen Leng can naturally see that it is even better to treat the two little guys, sometimes think about it, Concubine Zhen has paid more to take care of the children than Cha'er.

"The minister knows."

Shen Leng hung his head.

The emperor carefully looked at the young man in front of him who had become more and more mature, and had to think that he should thank Shen Xiaosong, Shen Leng is not arrogant, impatient or domineering in his current position, and he still treats people and does things like he did at the beginning, this is something that Shen Xiaosong has taught, and it has penetrated into Shen Leng's bone marrow.

"I will go hunting in two days, I want to compare with you, you assist the prince's team, I will see who has the greatest results when the time comes."

Shen Lengdao asked seriously: "What if the minister wins?" ”

The Emperor thought for a moment and replied, "If you win, I will let you choose a reward for yourself." ”

Shen Leng lowered his head and said, "That minister will definitely win." ”

The Emperor asked, "What do you want?" ”

Shen Leng replied, "Yes...... The minister did have one thing he wanted. ”

"Tell me what it is."

"Forgiveness once."

After hearing these four words, the emperor frowned slightly: "What did you do wrong?" ”

Shen Leng shook his head: "The minister doesn't, the minister is just ......"

The emperor saw him snorting, snorted and said, "Isn't it true that you have done something wrong when you talk so much?" Say, I'll see how much I need you to ask me for such a reward. ”

"The minister didn't ask for himself."

Shen Leng said seriously: "The ministers have been deducing the situation in Northern Xinjiang for the past few days, and I suddenly thought of one thing yesterday...... If Samburu wants to control the 300,000 army, he will inevitably go to the camp in the north courtyard, and only if he goes in person can he stabilize the army's heart, and the 300,000 people will not casually obey a general sent by the southern courtyard, so Sambulu will inevitably stay in the north courtyard camp for a while. ”

The Emperor nodded: "And then?" ”

"Qin Se is Samburu's henchman, it is his own sister, but it is also a nail that is driven into his heart......"

Shen Leng glanced at the emperor and sorted out his thoughts: "The minister thinks that Samburu went to the camp in the North Courtyard not only to stabilize the morale of the army, but also to solve the matter of Gedi City and Sula City, these two border cities are unstable in Qin Se's hands, he can't be sure whether Qin Se will stand on his side, even if it is his own brother and sister, Sam Bulu is suspicious by nature, if he learns about the relationship between Qin Se and Meng Chang'an, he will definitely immediately send someone to the Binghu Palace to control Qin Se." ”

The emperor's brows furrowed: "Therefore, after Qinse is controlled, Gedi City and Sula City will also fall into the hands of Samburu, everything you worked so hard to plan will come to naught, with those two cities, the Northern Expedition army can smoothly attack the territory of Heiwu, but if you don't fight again, you will inevitably suffer heavy losses." ”

Shen Leng said: "If the news is transmitted back to Chang'an, the courtiers will inevitably react violently, and they will think that the matter of Sura City is a misplan by Meng Chang'an, and they will use the matter of Qinse as an excuse to participate in his ......."

The emperor was silent for a moment: "If things are as you speculate, what do you think Meng Changan is doing now?" ”

Shen Leng replied: "First, take back Qinse, and second, recapture Sula City." ”

The emperor got up and paced back and forth in the room: "Grab back Qinse? If Meng Changan is really like what you said, it means that Meng Changan is also thinking about the plan you told me before, kill Samburu and push Qin Se up, if Meng Changan doesn't have such thinking, I don't believe that he will use his troops lightly for a woman, he should know that before I lead the army to the northern frontier, it is the most correct thing not to change the situation by not engaging the black warriors on a large scale. ”

Shen Leng said: "If the minister didn't guess wrong, at this moment, General Wu Xinyu would not watch something big happen over there in Xifengkou." ”

The emperor's footsteps stopped: "If such a fight starts, the plan for my northern expedition will be a few months in advance." ”

Shen Leng lowered his head: "Good thing." ”

"A good thing?"

The emperor looked at him: "You can tell me where is the good thing." ”

Shen Leng replied: "Your Majesty feels that if you start fighting in advance, my Daning is not well prepared, but for the black warriors, the preparation is even more insufficient, Samburu has not yet secured the 300,000 army of the Northern Courtyard, and he can't rush back to the Southern Courtyard, the Black Warriors are fighting against my Daning border army on the two lines of Hanhai City and Sula City, Samburu's heart will be chaotic, he is waiting for His Majesty to come in person, but His Majesty has not arrived in the northern Xinjiang The war has begun, and all the arrangements of Samburu are also messed up...... The minister calculated the time, and it was no surprise that the army transferred from the northwest would return to the north a few days later, and the sword soldiers in the east were not far from Xifengkou at this moment, and all the coping strategies of the black warriors had to change. ”

The emperor nodded: "What you said also makes sense...... Tomorrow I will let the cabinet discuss it, and urge the granary to be heavy, and the time for me to go north must be advanced. ”

He looked at Shen Leng: "So, are you asking for an exoneration for Meng Changan's fault?" ”

"Yes......"

Shen Leng said: "The minister said this, the situation is where the situation is, even if the minister is transferred to the northern Xinjiang, it will definitely not be better than Meng Changan." ”

The Emperor said, "If you win, I will promise you." ”

Shen Leng looked up at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, can that minister ask twice?" ”

The emperor snorted: "Inch in? And for whom? ”

"The minister is to ask for an exoneration for Liao Shaoxian, the governor of Chang'an Mansion, and Feng Peng, the imperial history of the Imperial History Tower."

The emperor's face changed: "What does it have to do with this?" ”

"A manly man, and he has the heart to serve the country, even if he wants to die, it is better to die on the battlefield."

Shen Leng said: "Let these two people go to the northern Xinjiang and go to Meng Chang'an's account, if the two of them die in battle, they will die as they deserve......"

The emperor frowned: "The law of the country cannot be broken. ”

Shen Leng: "Death can't be changed, it's just a different way, the minister knows that these two people are guilty of homicide, and cutting off their heads in public in the vegetable market is a canonical punishment, and it is to maintain the majesty of the national law, and the minister feels that His Majesty will give them a different way to die, and the people will understand." ”

The emperor looked at Shen Leng and said, "They want to kill you." ”

Shen Leng said: "Both of them are death row prisoners, even if they exchange one life for one life on the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang, they will earn it." ”

The emperor was silent for a moment and waved his hand: "I'll talk about this matter later......"

Shen Leng lowered his head: "Yes." ”

The Emperor walked back to his desk and sat down, and after a moment of silence, he said, "If you don't talk to me, there may be something wrong with Xifengkou, and there is something I won't tell you in advance...... Tomorrow's court meeting, there will be people participating in the Eastern Xinjiang General Pei Tingshan, and there will be a lot of evidence, and I will issue an order to remove Pei Tingshan from his post. ”

Shen Leng was stunned: "Why?" ”

The emperor looked at Shen Leng's eyes: "Since two years ago, I have instructed Lai Cheng to let him participate in Pei Tingshan's book every once in a while, it has been brewing for two years, and the time is almost right, after the removal of Pei Tingshan, there will be chaos in Dongjiang, and the sword soldiers in Dongjiang will rebel." ”

Shen Leng reacted violently: "For the black warriors?" ”

The emperor snorted: "This is also the reason why I set a two-year period for you when you went south, and it is also the reason why I transferred the sea sand back, and the sea sand has already reached the eastern frontier." ”

Shen Leng's mind was spinning rapidly: "Your Majesty thinks that there are black warriors in the court?" ”

The emperor looked at Shen Leng: "What Ye Yunsan was doing at the beginning, the black warriors must also be doing, he can become a close confidant of the Heiwu Khan, this court may not have the eyes of the black warriors, this battle, I can't be careless, after the news of the rebellion of the sword soldiers in the eastern Xinjiang spreads, I will dispatch Meng Changan to lead the army to quell the rebellion, and then the 100,000 troops in Xifengkou will move to the southeast." ”

Shen Leng said: "The black warriors will react!" ”

The emperor nodded: "So I will not go to Hanhai City in person." ”

Shen Leng's heart beat faster, before this time, the emperor would not tell anyone about his true intentions, if he didn't mention that Meng Chang'an might be concerned about it, the emperor still wouldn't say it to him, and he wouldn't say it to anyone.

It stands to reason that the emperor's northern expedition is naturally going to the place where the iron cavalry in the northern part of Hanhai City is located, even not long ago, when the emperor and Shen Leng were discussing it, they were still saying that the military affairs of Xifengkou would be handled by Meng Changan and Shen Leng, and what the emperor said now was the strategy that the emperor had thought of and set a long time ago.

"I will be in Xifengkou, and Yuan Shu will take the forbidden army to Hanhai City."

The emperor looked at Shen Leng's eyes and said word by word: "Therefore, my life and death will be handed over to you." ”