"If I listen to you, in the future, when the Tianluo army kills the city, should I learn from Xiong Huan to move the capital to Shanggu City and leave the prince to guard the city, or should I learn from Zhu Tingxun to be located in the prince and stay and defend the city myself?" Seeing that everyone still did not agree to the rescue, Feng Bomou threw out another question.

The crown prince Feng Tao couldn't figure out Feng Bomou's true intentions, so he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground: "Erchen is willing to stay and defend the city, father, you go to Shanggu first." ”

Feng Bomou didn't look at the prince, his eyes kept staring at the ministers.

Li Shirong didn't expect His Majesty to ask this question, Qin State is different from Chu and Yan, Sucheng is located in Youzhou, and Youzhou is the most edge of the mainland, and the capital has always been moved closer to the Central Plains, and now it can only be moved to Goryeo.

"The minister thinks that there is no need to move the capital, Sucheng is already the strongest city in the whole Youzhou, if even Sucheng can't be defended, then it is even more impossible to hold other places." Li Shirong replied.

When Liu Hongyu heard this, he hurriedly agreed: "Exactly, the minister thinks that the top priority is to recruit new soldiers and actively prepare for war, in addition, we are in-laws with the Qi State, and they are also at war with the Song army, so it is better to ask them for assistance, maybe the Qi State can send a large army to rescue us." ”

Feng Bomou was a little moved when he heard this: "But the Qi country now has 400,000 troops outside, do they still have the ability to rescue us?" ”

"How do you know if you don't try, Qi State borders with Bingzhou, we promised to cede Bingzhou to them, anyway, most of Bingzhou is also in the hands of Tianluo Sect now. As long as their two armies fight each other, how can the little-known Wang Chiji be the opponent of the Qi army, and when they are defeated, we will also take the opportunity to go out to deal with Gao Kegong and recover Bazhou and Jizhou in one fell swoop. The more Liu Hongyu spoke, the more excited he became.

But when Feng Bomou heard that he was going to cede and merge the state, he was a little reluctant, and asked Li Shirong: "Prime Minister, what do you think of Da Sima's suggestion?" ”

"The minister thinks that he can give it a try, Xie Anshi, the owner of Yunluo Villa, is extraordinary, and he can arrive in Shangjing quickly if he is sent as an envoy. As for ceding and annexing states, this is also a helpless way, otherwise why would Emperor Qi agree to help us. Li Shirong couldn't think of a better suggestion, so he could only agree.

Feng Bomou sighed and arranged for someone to invite Xie Anshi into the palace.

Compared with the war-torn Central Plains, the overseas Ryukyu Islands are peaceful. It's been half a year since Ning Buqu came to Naha to recuperate, and now although the internal injury has not healed, the external injury is almost healed.

Ning Bu Qu was not idle during the period of recuperation, in addition to reading the military books by himself, he also urged the Ghost Shadow Gate to practice martial arts every day, planning to rebuild the Ghost Shadow Gate when he returned to the Central Plains in the future.

On this day, Ning Bu had just gathered everyone together, and was about to start practicing, when Shigeharu Takenaka suddenly broke in.

"But what happened in the Central Plains?" Ning Buqu saw that he looked sad, and knew that something was wrong, so he didn't bother to say hello, and asked directly.

Shigeji Takenaka's tone was heavy: "Jinxing was broken by the Qi army half a month ago, and your Yan Kingdom has perished." ”

"What about my father?" Ning Buqu asked eagerly, and all the ghost shadow men behind him also hugged up, asking nonsense.

Shigeharu Takenaka's tone was sad: "The young master and everyone are mourning, and the lord of the Ning gate committed suicide a month before the city was broken. ”

"What? My father committed suicide? What the hell is going on? Although Ning Buqu had been mentally prepared for his father's death, he did not die on the battlefield, but committed suicide, which made him very puzzled.

It turned out that not long after Shi Luosheng left Jinxing, Jiang Huanyan arrived with 200,000 Qi troops. But Jiang Huanyan did not directly attack the city, but was stationed in Binyang City, which was a hundred miles away from Jinxing.

The ministers of the Yan State have long been waiting for the Qi army to come over and fight to the death, but who knows that after two months, Jiang Huanyan still does not move.

This made the court talk a lot, and Zhu Qitang's newly promoted hussar general Mo Shixin proposed to take a force to Binyang to see what Jiang Huanyan wanted to do. But Prime Minister Zhu Yingyu disagreed, saying that Qi Jun had already burned high incense if he didn't come to provoke him, so why did he take the initiative to provoke them.

Originally, what the two said was reasonable, but the background at that time was when the struggle between the civilian official group and the military general group was the most intense, and under the leadership of some well-intentioned people, this controversy quickly evolved into a dispute between the main battle and the main surrender, and the military generals accused the civilian officials of being afraid of death and wanted to surrender to the Qi country, and the civilian officials were not to be outdone and scolded the military generals for their bravery.

This quarrel naturally escalated the conflict between Emperor Taishang Zhu Tingxun and Emperor Yan Zhu Qitang.

Zhu Qitang originally wanted Mo Shixin to lead his troops out to investigate, but after thinking about it, Zhu Tingxun still had 30,000 troops in his hands, what if Mo Shixin left, and Zhu Tingxun took the opportunity to seize the position?

Zhu Tingxun was also worried that Zhu Qitang would find someone to assassinate him and take away the military power, so he arranged heavy troops to guard around him day and night.

As the conflict between the two intensified, Ning Zefeng, who was sitting at home, suddenly figured out the reason why Jiang Huanyan did not move.

When the Qi army conquered Anyang, Jiang Huanyan deliberately let Zhu Tingxun go, just to let him come back and fight with Zhu Qitang.

Thinking about this, Ning Zefeng couldn't sit still anymore, he came to the palace to meet the old and new emperors, but both Zhu Tingxun and Zhu Qitang thought that Ning Zefeng was a lobbyist sent by the other party, and they couldn't listen to his words.

In the end, Zhu Tingxun also sneered and said that Ning Zefeng was ungrateful, and after following the new master, he would no longer listen to his orders and disobey himself.

Zhu Qitang also said that Ning Zefeng was not like a minister, and he was not as loyal to himself as he was to the emperor.

Ning Zefeng was not aggrieved when he heard it, but he had no way to defend himself, so he had to ask for orders to sneak into Binyang alone to assassinate Jiang Huanyan to show his loyalty and patriotism.

But when Zhu Tingxun heard this, he asked him if he wanted to take the opportunity to surrender to the Qi army? Of course, Ning Zefeng refused to admit it.

At this time, Zhu Qitang asked again, if he didn't have this thought, why didn't Ning Busucto escape from Nanjun, and didn't go back to Jinxing but went overseas? And why did he send all the disciples of the Ghost Shadow Sect overseas before the decisive battle with the Qi army?

Ning Zefeng was speechless for a while, not knowing how to explain.

Zhu Tingxun's father and son saw that he did not defend himself, but they also strengthened their views, and also said that for the sake of Ning Zeping's death in the war for the country, they would not pursue Ning Zefeng's second heart for the time being, and let him go home by himself and reflect on himself in front of the tablets of the ancestors of the Ning family.

Ning Zefeng, who was arrogant, could not stand this grievance, in order to show his heart, he hit his head against a pillar on the spot, and the guards next to him couldn't react, so they could only watch him commit suicide by hitting the beam.

This time it was Zhu Tingxun's turn to blame himself, the Ning family had worked for the Zhu family for many years, what kind of person Ning Zefeng was, they also knew very well in their hearts that they deliberately ridiculed him just now, just wanted to use him to be angry with the other party, but they didn't expect it to be self-defeating, but they forced a general to death.

The big mistake has been made, and the Zhu family and his son originally wanted to have Ning Zefeng buried quietly, but within a few days, I don't know where the news came from, and the cause of Ning Zefeng's death spread all over the city.

After the people knew the truth, they were in an uproar and ran to the palace to ask the Zhu father and son to give an explanation.

The Zhu father and son began to want to calm the people, and asked Zhu Yingyu and Mo Shixin to come forward to appease them, but the people didn't appreciate it at all. It's no wonder that the Ning family is synonymous with loyalty in the minds of the people of Yan Kingdom, not to mention the loyalty of the previous dynasties, just say that these two generations of Ning Zeping, Ning Zefeng and Ning Unyielding, which is not a hero worthy of the respect of all the people, now Ning Zefeng is forced to death in such an unknown way, how can the people let it go easily.

Seeing that the appeasement was completely ineffective, the Zhu father and son had no choice but to order the slaughter of those who took the lead in making trouble, although this time temporarily shocked the people, but also planted the seeds of hatred in their hearts.

All this that happened in Jinxing naturally couldn't be hidden from Jiang Huanyan, he had already planted eyeliner in the palace, and the cause of Ning Zefeng's death was also ordered by him to be released.

When Jiang Huanyan led the army to the city, Jin Xing just repeated the scene in Penglai. The people spontaneously organized a riot, and many of the Yan army had served under Ning Zeping and Ning Buun, who saw that the city was about to be broken and their lives were not guaranteed, so they all stood with the people and opened the city gate to let the Qi army enter the city.

The last battle of the Qi army against Yan ended in a way that the world could not have imagined. With less than 200 casualties in this battle, the Yan army surrendered. In the palace, the Zhu father and son, who had no time to reflect, also committed suicide by hanging the beam next to the pillar that Ning Zefeng hit and killed.

Ning Buqu couldn't cry anymore when he heard the whole process, and the ghost shadows behind him also cried one by one.

Shigeharu Takenaka didn't bother everyone and silently retreated himself.

In the Shangjing Imperial Palace, Jiang Wushuang received Jiang Huanyan's good news and a letter of help from the envoy of the Qin State at the same time, and after reading it with a smile, he asked: "The Qin State intends to let us send troops to rescue on the condition of ceding and annexing the state, what do you think of Aiqing?" ”

The crown prince Jiang Huan Song stepped forward: "Father, the Qin State and our Great Qi are the countries of in-laws, and they are in trouble now, so we should send troops to help." ”

Jiang Huan Song knew the details of the Tianluo Sect, and also knew that Shi Luosheng had a great relationship with his third and fourth brothers, and now he was the concubine of Daqi, if Jiang Huan Chu wanted to compete for the throne in the future, he would definitely stand on Jiang Huan Chu's side, so he wanted to take the opportunity of Qin Guo to ask for help to get rid of Shi Luosheng.

The second prince, Jiang Huan Qin, stepped forward to second, although he had a competitive relationship with the crown prince, but at the moment, Jiang Huan Chu was still a greater threat, so he also had the same idea as Jiang Huan Song.

Jiang Wushuang was noncommittal, and asked again, "Are there any different opinions?" ”

Prime Minister Song Chong is also one of the few people who knows the details of the Tianluo Sect: "The minister thinks it's inappropriate, the third prince has just destroyed the Yan Kingdom, and now our main energy should be put on the Song Dynasty." Compared with the Tianluo Sect, Deng Yuanjue's threat is greater, and several of the main generals of our Great Qi are all in Chu now, and they can't find a suitable candidate to rescue the Qin State for a while. ”