Listening to Gongsun Yao's question, Yang Yi stuffed a melon seed into his mouth and said with a smile: "I don't know Ge Jin, but it is certain that this person is just a chess piece of someone else." ”

"That's...?"

Yang Yi shook his head helplessly and was speechless.

At this moment, a gray and white moth continued to flutter intoxicated around the oil lamp on the table, and seemed to have indulged in the brilliant light.

Suddenly, the moth slammed into the lampstand, and the oil wet its wings so that it fell inexorably into the bright oil, fluttering twice and then no longer moving, and the flame of the oil lamp was also affected by it and made a "zizi" sound, and it seemed to burn very hard in a trance, and it was about to be extinguished.

Yang Yi twisted the wick with chopsticks, and the oil lamp lit up again.

"In the face of the tempting lights, the moth to the fire must go forward and succeed, even if the flames that can destroy the world cannot stand it after all. Some people want to do this pair of chopsticks to turn the tide, but they don't know that chopsticks also have a time when they are anxious..."

Yang Yi felt that of course he didn't want to be this pair of fire-fighting chopsticks, he thought that he was not able to endure and did not have the courage to withstand the test of fire. If the whole world wants to make this chopsticks the most, and rekindle the wick of Daguang, which can no longer see the open flame, it is none other than the person who sits on the throne in the capital...

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The high-intensity work of more than ten consecutive days made Du Li, the secretary of the military department who was nearly 50 years old, look extremely tired. Du Li held the court board and was a little sluggish and walked to the palace with the flow of hundreds of officials. And the hundred officials did not talk about political affairs all the way, chatted and chatted, the crowd was unusually quiet, almost no one spoke, just walked silently outside the palace.

"Lord Du..."

Du Li stopped and turned sideways, and he followed with a solemn face, and Du Li bowed his hand back: "Prince." ”

Li Cen nodded and bowed back, and the two walked out side by side.

"Isn't there a way?" Du Li looked at Li Cen Ning on the side as he walked.

Li Cen sighed and shook his head: "The emperor is determined, and this matter is a foregone conclusion." ”

Du Li closed his eyes and took a deep breath of pain and said: "Since the founding of Taizu, there has never been such a precedent, why is this the emperor!" ”

Li Cen pondered for a moment and said, "I don't agree with the emperor's approach, but what..."

"Why can't you dissuade Yang Qi? He simply disregarded the emperor's life and death like this! Du Li was obviously in a good mood, and his voice raised a lot, and many of his fellow officials looked up.

Li Cen smiled helplessly, he naturally knew that this Du Li was notoriously outspoken, and anyone dared to scold.

"Master Du, it's not that Li is inactive, this matter is indeed not within my ability, and the third prince naturally has his opinions."

"Then he can't instigate the emperor to go to the emperor for the position of a prisoner!" Du Li said angrily.

Li Cen pondered for a moment and said, "Lord Du has been with you for decades, can't you see the key to it?" ”

Du Li was stunned, and he was speechless.

Half a month ago, the border pass urgently reported that Di left and right Ping Wang soldiers divided into two roads and forced into Beishui, wanting to cut off the communication arteries between Shuozhou City and the imperial capital.

At the same time, Hu Yanzhi led the fierce army to attack the northern army in Shuozhou, and the northern army struggled to support, if it were not for Qi Jingshan, the commander of the northern army, to rush back to Shuozhou City in time, it may be that Hu Yanzhi had already broken through Shuozhou City at this moment and waved his army south.

However, several reinforcements and logistical supplies sent by the imperial court were ambushed by the fierce Di people, not to mention the loss of troops, and the materials were all returned to the fierce Di, even if the isolated northern army was brave and good at fighting, it was only a matter of time before the city was broken and killed.

Everyone knows that once the city of Shuozhou is broken, the fierce Di will go south will be a flat river, and no matter what the forces in the DPRK and China have in their hearts, at this time, a huge Daguang court cannot find a general who can lead the troops to rescue the northern army.

Some people even turned over old accounts in private, saying that the emperor should not have killed the Zhenbei general Lu Xuan back then, so that there were no generals available in the court at this time, and the fierce Di dared to have no scruples.

When the emperor heard Zhao Gui report such rumors, Long Wei was furious, and after smashing countless jade artifacts, he got an inconclusive piece of news: Yang Yi, the son of the Ninth Emperor who had been missing for several days, was committed by a fierce person and may have been killed.

This time the emperor was really angry, this year's great light number of catastrophes are related to the fierce Di people, first sent the elite into Jingzhao Mansion to assassinate himself, and then found out in Yang Ang's Mansion to cooperate with the enemy to force his rebellion, and now there is news that Yang Yi was killed by the fierce Di, which can be described as too deceitful.

After a dull half a day, the emperor ordered Zhao Gui to send an edict that no one expected: "The emperor will personally march and rescue Shuozhou City." ”

For a time, the government and the opposition were shocked, and countless officials begged to see him outside the palace overnight, wanting to stop the emperor's impulsive move. However, the emperor avoided it, but ordered all the ministries to immediately start the expedition, and ordered that when the expedition was set out, the third prince Yang Qi would supervise the country.

When Yang Qi heard this, he was overjoyed, and after entering the palace to see the emperor, he changed the plaque of the prince's mansion to the palace of the superintendent. The forces to which it belonged also began to fall to support the emperor's personal expedition, and for a time the two factions quarreled in the court every day.

But no matter how they quarreled, how the ministers cried and even admonished each other to death, the emperor's intention to go on the expedition did not waver in the slightest.

"Your Majesty... Why are you so troubled! Du Li faced the golden and majestic imperial city, and almost cried.

Du Li knew very well in his heart that the decision made by the emperor seemed to be impulsive, but in fact it was a helpless move. Now that the situation in the north is chaotic, some small groups of rebels in various parts of Daguang are also taking advantage of the situation to cause chaos, and if the big problem of murder is not solved as soon as possible, Daguang will be in danger.

Rather than being bitten to death by the fierce Di, it is better to have a hard-fought battle. For the fierce light cavalry who is good at running and the ambitious Hu Yanzhi, the bait of the Great Light Emperor is enough to make him give up all looting and come to fight.

Li Cen also looked at the imperial city with him, and condensed: "Maybe this is also a way to survive the Jedi, and only the emperor's royal drive can make all the generals and subjects of Daguang burst out with the power to repel the fierce Di." ”

"Lord Du, the matter has come to this, you and I should do our best to arrange all the expedition matters, and we must ensure the safety of the emperor."

Du Li looked at Li Cen and shook his head helplessly when he heard this, he was right, since the emperor's intention to go on an expedition has been extinct, he can only do his best to be a courtier.

Li Cen held Du Li's arm, and when he saw that he had calmed down, he suddenly said thoughtfully: "Master Du, do you think Yang Yi was really killed by the fierce Di people?" ”

Du Li was stunned, as if he didn't expect Li Cen to ask this question.

The disappearance and murder of the Nine Emperor Princes Yang Yi was a major event that alarmed the capital, but this matter was just a rumor but Yang Yi's body was never found.

And Du Li had exhausted his efforts because of the emperor's personal conquest, and when Li Cen asked, he remembered that his subordinate Yang Yi, the son of the Nine Emperors, was still dead and dead.

Du Li wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered Yang Yi's seemingly harmless face, but it was actually an unpredictable smile, and he couldn't say anything for a while that he was probably dead.

Li Cen smiled like this, and said, "Master Du, do you also think that Yang Yi is not dead?" ”

Du Li said worriedly: "Then where did this Yang Yi go?" ”

Li Cen pondered for a long time, and he couldn't think of why Yang Yi suddenly disappeared without a trace: "I don't know, but for some reason, the old man always feels that his existence will be a variable." ”

"What variables?"

"Only Heaven knows..."