Chapter 208: Marriage
What Li Gengyun planned for Zhao Zhen is the most suitable route at present. Zhao Zhen also understands this, but Zhao Zhen's thoughts are far more than that.
If the general trend is unpredictable today, although Zhao Zhen controls the dominance of Xiangzhou, Li Gengyun has always been an unstable factor, although his current state is still in the stage of making suggestions for Zhao Zhen, but it is difficult to guarantee whether there will be changes in the future. In particular, Li Gengyun has agreed to Gonggong Liu's request to rescue King Tianping, even if what Li Gengyun is planning now is to send King Tianping to Nanchu as a hostage, which is used to guarantee that Nanchu can lend troops to Zhao Zhen, but once the Great Song Dynasty recovers his homeland, King Tianping will definitely come back to inherit the throne, and Zhao Zhen is just the identity of a queen mother after all, and no one can predict what the outcome will be.
So Zhao Zhen thought that she had to let Li Gengyun have some restraints, and she had to control Li Gengyun so that he would always work for herself. So she thought of a way, that is, to marry Li Gengyun and Lin Wanyu, even if Li Gengyun left Xiangzhou and left Lin Wanyu by her side, with Li Gengyun's affectionate and righteous personality, she would never abandon Lin Wanyu, so the best way she thought of was to let Li Gengyun and Lin Wanyu get married as soon as possible.
"Mr. Li is in his twenties this year, and I heard that Mr. Li snatched Miss Lin's hydrangea in Yangcheng before. This can be regarded as a coincidence, and Miss Lin is helpless in Xiangzhou, so Zhen Er thought that it would be better to marry Miss Lin and Mr. Li, and marry Miss Lin before Mr. Li went to Nanzhou. β
As soon as Zhao Zhen spoke, Li Gengyun had already thought of what her purpose was, wasn't it just to help herself, using Lin Wanyu as a bargaining chip to blackmail her future so that she would not rebel. Li Gengyun gradually discovered that Zhao Zhen's scheming skills gradually awakened, and she had begun to understand the truth of restraint, and her purpose was very simple, that is, to let Lin Wanyu restrain herself. After getting married, no matter where he goes, he will inevitably think of Lin Wanyu's affairs in Xiangzhou, and will not rebel, and at the same time, he will consider Lin Wanyu's safety and complete one task after another for Zhao Zhen.
The current situation is very special, Li Gengyun understands that although Zhao Zhen still believes in himself, there is still a trace of uneasiness in his heart, especially the existence of the King of Balances, which makes Zhao Zhen feel that her status will be threatened in the future, which has been similar to many times in the history that Li Gengyun has recognized, such as Lu Pheasant and Wu Meiniang, they all have such considerations. However, everyone's methods are different, they didn't do anything to kill them all, at least they left blood for the royal family, but Zhao Zhen is different, she has already ascended to the throne of the queen before she is weak, and the Tianping King is already in her thirties, in comparison, the Tianping King can be her uncle. If it is unified in the future, will this throne be given to this uncle or will it be reserved for the empress herself?
Li Gengyun already had the answer in his heart, of course, it was left to the empress, but who should be after the empress? Li Gengyun originally didn't plan to think about this, because he only wanted to retire after helping Zhao Zhen become the empress smoothly, but now what Zhao Zhen did and what she thought made Li Gengyun have to think about this matter, because it is related to the guarantee of Zhao Zhen's status as the empress in the future.
It was precisely because of this consideration that Li Gengyun originally wanted to refuse Zhao Zhen's proposal, but now he nodded and agreed to the request for marriage.
"Well, it's okay, when I was in Yangcheng, I promised Wanyu to protect her, now that Xiangzhou is stable, there will be no other actions by the Northern Yuan army before the year, so it is better to take advantage of this time to hold the wedding. However, now that the funds are tight, it will be easier to organize the wedding when the time comes, and the money saved will still be used for military spending as the primary purpose. β
Li Gengyun considered that Xiangzhou's military strength is expanding quite rapidly, and he brought back 3,000 men and horses two days ago, and the food and clothing of these people is also a large expense. Therefore, Li Gengyun agreed to the marriage, and also asked Zhao Zhen to arrange this wedding in a simple way, not to be extravagant and wasteful.
"Thank you, Mr. Li, then Zhen'er will go back to draft the edict, and the documents for tomorrow's marriage will go down to the Li Mansion. Mr. Li is at home and waits in peace! β
Zhao Zhen heard that Li Gengyun agreed to give marriage, she was also overjoyed, she didn't know what Li Gengyun's purpose was to agree to give marriage, on the one hand, it can be said that Zhao Zhen will have the means to restrain Li Gengyun in the future, by controlling Lin Wanyu, so as to achieve the goal that Li Gengyun will not betray himself, and on the other hand, that is, the aspect that Li Gengyun thinks, that is, Lin Wanyu is in Xiangzhou, and even in the future, Zhao Zhen will arrange special protection, and it is absolutely impossible for accidents to happen. Since Zhao Zhen regards Lin Wanyu as a bargaining chip in her hand, she will definitely not let Lin Wanyu be hurt in the slightest, otherwise Li Gengyun's anger may not be able to control herself.
"Okay!"
After Zhao Zhen finished speaking, he left happily, and at the same time, Li Gengyun also stood up with a smile, and also left the Xiangyang City Prison after Zhao Zhen left.
After getting out of prison, Li Gengyun saw a man and a woman standing outside the gate of the cell, it was Li Gengyun's brother He Jin and his fiancΓ©e Lin Wanyu.
When the two of them saw Li Gengyun walking out unharmed, their faces were immediately happy, and Lin Wanyu cried even more excitedly, and when she found that the tears were flowing, she hurriedly turned her face sideways to avoid Li Gengyun's gaze and secretly wiped away her tears.
"Brother Yun! Are you okay! β
"Very good!"
He Jin also laughed when he saw that Li Gengyun was fine, and then patted Li Gengyun on the shoulder and said, "I just said that Brother Yun can't be fine, there are few people in this world who can rarely fall Brother Yun!" β
"Less oily and slippery! If I can't get out today, are you going to rob the prison again?! Li Gengyun pointed to the two halberds on He Jin's back, isn't this the weapon He Jin is good at, when they came just now, He Jin was already ready to rob the prison, and Lin Wanyu also quietly hid a pair of scissors in his sleeve, which seemed to be discussed with He Jin.
Li Gengyun vaguely saw the scissors that Lin Wanyu hid in his sleeve, and then said to Lin Wanyu with a confused expression: "Wanyu, aren't you, Ah Jin is so impulsive, why are you so impulsive?" Have you agreed to come and rob the prison together? β
"Brother Yun, you wronged me this time, I told my sister-in-law, it's good for me to come alone, but she has to follow, when I met the queen just now, Lin Sen and Xiangrui thought that my sister-in-law was going to assassinate the queen, and we were almost going to fight!"
He Jin told Li Gengyun what had just happened, but he found that Li Gengyun didn't react at all, just walked in front of Lin Wanyu and whispered.
"The queen has given me a marriage, and she will marry you to me, and tomorrow the edict will come to our house. I think we're going to get married someday! β