In Chang'an in early spring, the cold of winter has not yet receded, and people can't help but shiver at night.

Liu Yan sat on the couch, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, so he looked at his companion reading on the opposite side of the chessboard. Wu Sicheng, who was sitting sideways, looked at the chess game in front of him with a sad face, his current robbery materials were not enough, and seeing that the big dragon in the center was in danger of being killed, sweat seeped out of his forehead a little bit.

"I think you should admit defeat, your big dragon will be killed by me in less than ten steps, won't you give up and admit defeat when the time comes?" Liu Yan said with a smile. Usually he loses nine and a half games in ten games of chess with Wu Sicheng, but today he rarely has an advantage, and he is really happy at this time, but he doesn't show it.

Wu Sicheng scratched his head and said, "Your Highness, you can't arbitrarily assert the outcome of the chess game before it is over." ”

"Oh? You still don't throw in the towel? ”

"Yes, this is just like the situation in Liaodong today, although Cheng Yun's soldiers are strong and strong, and the momentum is huge. It is difficult for the imperial court to send troops to quell the rebellion, but can the imperial court do nothing and let it go? ”

One sentence touched Liu Yan's heart, and he put down the tea bowl at the moment, leaned over and said, "Can the Chang Miao you recommend be good?" Not to mention anything else, just say that He Ling, the veteran general who guarded Youzhou, and Chen Yunhai, the general of Jizhou, one is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and the other is a loyal uncle who inherited the title, and it is doubtful whether they can obey his orders. ”

Wu Sicheng smiled faintly: "In the villain's opinion, if Master Chang can't even control these two people, how can Your Majesty entrust him with the task of counterinsurgency?" Your Highness, please relax, hasn't Your Majesty already sent Lord Yang Lian, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to Liaodong as the minister of the Imperial Mission? ”

Liu Yan frowned, and said: "This is exactly what I want to ask you, since my father has decided to quell the rebellion, why bother to send any more Qin messengers?" Isn't that a waste of time for people to send people to death? ”

"That's to stabilize Chengyun. This Lord Yang is the fourth son of Jianwei General Yang Qianqing, and Cheng Yun's career back then was thanks to the promotion and cultivation of this old Lord Yang. Wu Sicheng said as he spoke.

Liu Yan responded with a chess hand and said, "Won't Chengyun take Qin Cha as a hostage?" ”

Wu Sicheng sneered: "Your Highness doesn't know something, this Yang Lian is also one of Chang Miao's close friends. According to the villain, this time it is most likely that Chang Miao recommended this person to His Majesty, and the two of them may have already discussed privately how to calculate Chengyun together. ”

When Liu Yan heard this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I see, speaking of which, Chang Miao is afraid that he has already made a plan to crusade against the rebellion, and his father has already approved it." It's just that the stakes are so important that outsiders don't know. ”

"Your Highness Mingjian." Wu Sicheng lowered his head and made a move in the chess game at the same time. This hand was in the wrong place, blocking the few breaths left of the already precarious dragon.

Liu Yan saw that he couldn't miss the opportunity, and was about to start, but saw Ji Chonghai coming in a hurry. The chess hand stopped in mid-air and said, "Old Ji, why don't you go to rest so late, why are you running here?" ”

Ji Chonghai hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "The old slave came to disturb His Highness's game this time, and it was precisely because it was getting late that the crown princess ordered the old slave to remind His Highness that it was time to go to bed." ”

Liu Yan's brows twisted into a ball after hearing this: This princess is the wife of her father, born in a famous family, and is the second daughter of the hereditary Pingguo Gonghua Tianyu. is five years younger than himself, and it has been three years since he married himself. If this princess talks about her appearance and figure, she can really be called a natural stunner, so that men can't walk when they see it; It's a pity that God just made a joke, this woman's personality is really calm, and she doesn't have the appearance of a delicate little daughter at all. This made Liu Yan like getting a white jade steamed bun, which he couldn't eat. Therefore, Liu Yan didn't like to go to the crown princess, so it was better to go to a few side concubines, or simply find Wu Sicheng or others to have fun with.

At that moment, Liu Yan pursed his lips: "What are you going to do with her, Cheng Tian has a straight face and I owe her money, if you laugh more terrifyingly, it is as unnatural as the convulsions of a corpse." I don't want to have nightmares, don't go! ”

Ji Chonghai straightened up and looked at the chess game, then gave Wu Sicheng a look, turned back to Liu Yan and said, "Your Highness hasn't been to the crown princess for a long time. According to the old slave, for the sake of the heirs, His Royal Highness should also be reluctant to go, not to mention that this game of chess is about to be decided······"

"Look at you," Liu Yan deliberately didn't answer, but pointed at Wu Sicheng and said: "Lao Ji is a veteran of chess, he said that you lost, don't you still admit defeat?" ”

After that, Liu Yan dropped the chess pieces heavily on the chessboard.

Wu Sicheng said while responding to his hand: "Your Highness, the crown princess is virtuous and virtuous, fair, and has no jealousy, she really has the style of motherhood in the world, Your Highness ······"

"Shut up!" Liu Yan dropped the chess pieces heavily and said angrily: "Doesn't she have a demeanor no matter how she looks at it?" I didn't abolish her, I just offered this holy woman, what's wrong? Needless to say. ”

Wu Sicheng smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness is right, but Your Highness lost this game of chess." ”

After Wu Sicheng finished speaking, he fell behind, and Liu Yan was dumbfounded when he saw it. It turned out that Wu Sicheng's move that seemed to be in the wrong place just now was actually a trap, and he was negligent for a moment and was surrounded by a large area in the lower right corner. In this way, Wu Sicheng's big dragon has been out of danger, and he is cut off and unable to return to the sky.

Liu Yan pushed the chessboard in a huff. Just as he was about to get up, he suddenly rolled his eyes, pointed at Ji Chonghai and Wu Sicheng and said, "Oh, I understand, you two just made a look, could it be ······"

Ji Chonghai hurriedly kowtowed and said, "The old slave just saw that Xiao Wu's trap was very cleverly set, so he deliberately spoke to distract His Highness." ”

Liu Yan was so angry that his mouth crooked and his eyes slanted: "You, you, you, you old man who eats inside and out, how can there be someone like you!" ”

Wu Sicheng hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, please forgive your sins." Please think about it, Your Highness could have seen this trap of the villain, but the two of us could help each other to blind His Highness and turn defeat into victory. This game of chess is similar to the war in Liaodong. ”

Liu Yan tilted his head and thought about it, and smiled: "You two ghosts, I won't say anything after calculating, and I have found a good excuse." But it's not bad, it's fun. It turns out that the outcome does not depend entirely on the inside of the game, and the outsiders who disturb people's hearts can also play an unexpected role. ”

Liu Yan looked out the window with his hands behind his back, and the sky in the northeast seemed to have a glimmer of light.