In the fourth year of Longsheng, the princess was in addition to filial piety, and the prince went to the palace of Yongding County to pay homage to propose, and the princess showed her face, and Taizong was overjoyed when she heard it, and she gave her marriage.

At the time, Gaozu is still called Kang Jian, since the widow of the king of Qi, every time worried, heard the marriage is happy, the pro-marry, on the banquet the king of the county arm said, the two families are in-laws, is the princess of Duanyi Xu Yongding county prince son.

Princess Duanyi, the fourteenth daughter of Gaozu, from the Duan family of Zhaoyi, virtuous and calm, beautiful posture, fifteen years old, Liu He, the son of the king of Yongding County, is pure and good, indifferent and knowledgeable, nineteen years old. Qin and Jin are established, and Liu is Sui'an.

――"Yongshi - The Biography of Princess Jiaping"

Walking into the Qi Palace, Li Lin handed over his mount to the guards, and was about to go back to his residence to bathe and change clothes, but was stopped by the guards and said, "Your Highness Lin, the prince ordered you to see him as soon as you come back?" ”

Li Lin hesitated, he always had mixed feelings of admiration and fear for his father, and Li Xian was either busy with government affairs every day, or surrounded by his twin siblings, and he didn't have time to take care of himself at all. At that moment, he didn't dare to hesitate, hurried to the flower hall of the inner house, and before he approached the door, he heard a hearty laugh from the hall, which was his father's voice. Li Lin quietly walked to the side of the flower hall and looked in through the half-open and half-closed window. At a glance, Li Lin's body suddenly froze, how could this be, sitting opposite his father, with a leisurely demeanor and starry sideburns, wasn't it his brother-in-law Jiang Zhe, the two were playing against each other, I saw that my father was so happy, and he probably killed his brother-in-law on the chessboard again. When will this Chu Junhou, who is not even willing to go to the court, run to his house and run the door, it will not be that he already knows that he is angry and crying Roulan, right? Li Lin was thinking nonsense, while hesitating whether to sneak away, only when he didn't come back, at this time, the evil shadow who was inseparable from his brother-in-law smiled at the window lattice, intentionally or unintentionally, Li Lin hung his head and found that he could not sneak away, so he could only slowly walk towards the door of the flower hall.

Laughing lightly, I pretended not to know that Li Lin was probing his brain outside the window, and I was really ashamed to say that my own children were very smart and knew how to avoid my bullying. Roulan is relying on the queen mother and His Royal Highness the prince to support her, not to mention that the queen mother raised Roulan with her own hands and raised her as her own daughter, it is His Royal Highness the Prince, why not treat her as a sister, His Royal Highness the Prince, although he is the prince, but after all, I am his brother-in-law, and he does not dare to be rude to me, but where can I afford to provoke the queen, if it is not for the emperor who has collapsed, I am afraid that I will not even dare to teach Roulan. As for Jiang Shen, it doesn't matter if this tired kid doesn't mention it, it doesn't matter if he is the king and hegemon in the monk temple for ten months a year, in order to avoid me, he went to his future father-in-law's house to cheat and cheat, especially after his little fiancée Li Ning was born, this kid basically can't see anyone except for the New Year's Day. Since King Qi abducted my son, naturally I want to take revenge and come back, Li Lin, this kid is more unlucky, and he has become my pistachio. As for Li Ning's twin brother Li Zhuo, the current prince of Qi, I don't dare to bully, Princess Qi, Princess Lin Bi of Jiaping, I know how powerful she is. When the King of Qi went to the Yongding County Mansion to propose, I was the one who pleaded with him, and when Lin Bi broke into the Qi Palace, I was also present, if I hadn't given Li Xian an idea of kneeling down and asking for guilt, I was afraid that Lin Bi would have killed Li Xian with a sword, and then committed suicide to apologize. If this is the case, I am afraid that the Northern Han Dynasty, which has finally landed in a forced landing, will re-erect the rebel flag, and want to digest the land and people of the Northern Han Dynasty within a few years, which is a fool's dream. Fortunately, I was prepared, and I took this opportunity to say Long Tingfei's last wish, which finally made Lin Bi dissipate his anger, and gave King Qi an excuse and opportunity to pursue a beautiful woman. After three years of painstaking work, King Qi finally got his wish.

In fact, it's not that I want to take risks, this is also a helpless move, after the surrender of the Northern Han royal family, Dayong is not without the call to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but it was vetoed by Li Zhen, speaking of which Li Zhen is really wise and generous, although the Northern Han royal family destroyed the country and surrendered, but Liu's influence in the Northern Han Dynasty has been deep-rooted, if Liu is uneasy, then the Northern Han is uneasy. Although it is relatively easy to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but the future troubles are endless, not to mention that the Lin family will be dissatisfied and rebellious, that is, those Northern Han generals and soldiers who were disarmed and returned to the fields after the Northern Han Dynasty surrendered, as well as the Demon Sect that has retired, they will not give up resistance because of the fall of the Northern Han royal family, but will make them unyielding and embarrassed with Dayong. However, if Liu's influence is allowed to continue, it will also be a hidden danger to Dayong's imperial power.

In the end, I found another way to put forward a strategy to integrate the Northern Han royal family, since the Northern Han royal family is prestigious, and has won the hearts of the people, then they will be integrated into the Dayong royal family, where the daughter of the Liu family will marry into the royal family as a princess and princess, and all the descendants of the Liu family, let them marry the daughter of the royal family, so that if it goes on, at most three generations, the Liu family and the royal family have become inseparable blood relatives. Even though the hatred between the military and the people of the two countries continues, as long as they are encouraged to intermarry and let their blood merge together, no matter how deep the hatred will disappear after the blood is connected.

And to achieve this strategy, the most important thing is the marriage of King Qi and Princess Jiaping, King Qi led his troops to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, although it was His Majesty who finally closed the net, but for the Northern Han people, Li Xian is the culprit, and Princess Jiaping, as the spiritual leader of the Daizhou Lin family and the pillar of the Northern Han royal family, she is the wife of Long Tingfei who has not passed the door, and it can be said that she is the only leader recognized by the Northern Han military. But if you want to achieve this goal, you can't let Lin Bi have a trace of reluctance, and being forced to marry and be happy with each other have two effects. For this purpose, I made a plan behind the King of Qi, and finally let Lin Bi nod and marry, which is even more difficult than when I designed to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, Li Xian called Feng Liu in vain, when pursuing Lin Bi, I saw what clumsiness, fortunately, in the end, I got my wish. At the wedding of Li Xian and Lin Bi, Emperor Taishang completed the final blow and married Princess Duanyi, who had just passed the ceremony, to the prince of Yongding County, the original crown prince of the Northern Han Dynasty, Liu He. Liu He has a pure temperament, and he is not interested in power, if the Northern Han Dynasty is still alive, he is really a little incompetent as the crown prince, but as the prince of Yongding County, he is the most in line with the hearts of the Dayong royal family. As soon as these two marriages were completed, the effect was immediately revealed, and many generals and officials who were originally unwilling to serve Dayong also went out or joined the army, and with the addition of the Northern Han warriors, the vitality of the Yongjun army, which was hit hard during the conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty, gradually recovered.

Of course, among them, Li Zhen and I also counted Li Xian, the king of Qi, in order to pursue Lin Bi, Li Xian gave up military power quite familiarly, and no one can let such a couple hold military power. Especially after Li Xian's wedding, he almost no longer set foot in the military, which gave the emperor the opportunity to take back all the military power when he reorganized the army, and there was no longer a force within Dayong that could oppose the imperial power. Although he is a little too much for Li Xian, one is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer, and he is not the only one who gives up the power of the country for the sake of beauty. Besides, although I designed to take away his military power, his influence in the army is still there, and his marriage to Lin Bi also gave him the most practical guarantee, unless he wanted to subvert the society, no matter who sat on the throne of Dayong, he would not easily attack him. Besides, when it comes time to conquer Southern Chu, he will also be indispensable, and he will be able to destroy the Northern Han and Southern Chu successively, and no matter who is satisfied with such military exploits.

Such a balanced situation was brought about by my efforts, which can be described as a high degree of hard work, but Li Xian is too unrighteous, Lin Bi has not yet roared in Hedong, and now the prince of Qi, who is under one person and above ten thousand people in the court, has completely betrayed me in order to please the beauty, so that I am a little weak when I see Lin Bi now. The only thing I am glad about is that the people of the Northern Han Dynasty did not count the death of Long Tingfei and others on my head, after all, for them, it is always a bit of a loss of face to lose at the hands of a weak scholar, so this black pot is naturally carried by Li Zhen and Li Xian for me, anyway, no matter what, the last person to shoot is not me.

But at the same time that I felt a little disadvantaged, I also found a way to get angry, that is, to bully Li Lin, but to put it bluntly, if it weren't for my love and pity for this kid, I wouldn't tease him, after all, because of me, he lost his mother and grew up in the army since he was a child, and with the birth of Li Ning and Li Zhuo, the status of the prince of Qi was completely out of his favor, and unlike those brothers who were not valued in the first place, Li Lin, who was originally a son-in-law, was even more miserable. In order to make up for this child, I proposed to the emperor to give him the title of prince of the county. And now he is the companion of the crown prince Li Jun, if there is no accident, he will also be Li Jun's right-hand man in the future, which should be enough to compensate for his loss.

When I was thinking about it while tasting tea, Li Lin had already walked in, and for such a long time, even the turtle had crawled in, and after he walked in with his head down and gave Li Xian a salute, he was about to hide in the corner of the house, and I smiled and said, "Lin'er, what are you hiding, don't you come to give me a salute to my brother-in-law?" ”

Li Xianyan frowned when he heard this: "Lin'er, what are you doing, you don't understand any etiquette." ”

I gently shook the folding fan to block Li Xian's words, and said, "Lin'er, didn't you make any mistakes and didn't dare to see me, right?" ”

Li Lin hurriedly said: "No, no, I didn't cry Roulan." He almost bit his tongue when he said a word, and somehow, when he saw Jiang Zhe's smiling expression, he panicked. couldn't help but peek at the two elders.

Li Xian glared and said: "What, you are crying in a soft blue anger, what's the matter, don't explain it to me yet, and then go and think about it for me behind closed doors, don't eat dinner." ”

Li Lin didn't dare to respond with a bitter face, but then I smiled and said: "What should I do, Roulan's girl is very pampered, and she is angry with her, so as not to make her more and more domineering, sixth brother, don't be like the queen's mother, you are afraid of spoiling this girl in your mouth." Lin'er, tell me what's going on, if this girl is unreasonable, I'll punish her when I go back. ”

Li Lin almost didn't shed tears, fortunately it was not Roulan's fault, if Jiang Zhe seized the opportunity to punish Roulan, I was afraid that I would have to suffer family law afterwards, and then I might be reprimanded by the queen's mother, and in the end, the cousin of the prince would probably detain himself for ten days and a half months, in the palace, there are rules everywhere, not to mention how boring, I can't stand it. Looking at Jiang Zhe's tigerish gaze, Li Lin hurriedly said today's matter lightly.

Li Xian frowned after hearing this, he didn't blame Li Lin for bullying others, anyway, he also knew that Li Lin would not go too far, at most, it was just a little hard work for the Nanchu boy, he was even more domineering and arrogant than Li Lin when he was young, he said thoughtfully: "You said that this young man looks like thirteen or fourteen years old, he can use a three-stone strong bow, if you talk about bows and arrows, he is the best at riding and archery, this is also one in a thousand, I don't know how his archery skills are?" It's no wonder you're paying attention, Lin'er, give me the order to bring that young man back to me, and I'm going to try his skills. ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but smile, there must be a father and a son, although Shen'er is not like me, but Li Lin is very much like the king of Qi, seeing that Li Lin is about to go down to pass the order, I stopped: "Wait a minute, such a trivial matter, your dignified prince intervenes is too shocking, let the children's affairs be solved by themselves, Lin'er, although you are young, but you are already the king of Jiajun who is enshrined by the imperial court, this matter will be handed over to you, but you are not allowed to disregard people's lives, how to deal with your own decisions." ”

Li Lin was overjoyed, he still remembered the young man from Nanchu in his heart, but he didn't dare to regenerate right and wrong because of Roulan, now that Jiang Zhe is in charge, then he can do whatever he wants, and he itches in his heart, and he can't wait to go and capture the young man back to the mansion immediately.

Li Xian saw that he was so urgent, and scolded: "There is no qualitative at all, what is the hurry, since this person claims to be here to find relatives, will he leave so quickly, besides, he has escaped, as long as a military order is passed down, are you still afraid that he will flee back to Nanchu?" Today, your little aunt and they are coming to visit your mother, and at tonight's family banquet, your mother said that no one is allowed to be absent. ”

Li Lin had to obey the order, but peeked at Jiang Zhe, now he knew why his brother-in-law was here, his aunt's guest of honor General Wang Ji was his brother-in-law's doorman, if he came to Chang'an, he must go to see his brother-in-law first after reporting to the military department, it must be his stepmother who wanted to see his sister and brother-in-law first, so he forced his brother-in-law to wait at his home. couldn't help but bow his head and snicker, although his brother-in-law was majestic, even in front of the emperor's uncle, he was careless, but in front of Princess Jiaping, he was trembling, it was really funny, I really couldn't figure out how he played with the Northern Han Dynasty monarchs and soldiers in the palm of his hand.

At this time, I have no intention of knowing Li Lin's small movements, proficient in archery, I can open a three-stone strong bow at a young age, Yunlu, Lu Yun, hum, such a child's play method also wants to hide from my ears and eyes, but I don't know what he came to Dayong to do, but he definitely didn't come to visit his ancestor, and I heard that Lu Can loved this eldest son Lu Yun for ten minutes, presumably it was the young man's own idea, and I also learned that he would make a noise and let him not treat this young man as a spy and go to prison. Now that this young man has come, I should also do my duty as an elder, let me teach him a little lesson, well, let Li Lin and Roulan deal with it, and with Huo Cong grasping the overall situation, there should be no unexpected changes.

Thinking of Huo Cong, I couldn't help but smile contentedly, this Huo Cong is my most proud disciple, and he will definitely be blue in the future, I am impetuous, I am knowledgeable but not refined, and although I have the heart to forbear, I always can't help but show my edge. And my other disciples, each has different shortcomings, Lu Can's heart is too bright and loyal, and he will eventually suffer from this, Jing Chi has a rough temperament, and sometimes his impulsiveness is difficult to control, although I love him unpretentiously, but unfortunately it is difficult to become a famous general after all, the eight horses have their own strengths, but they are limited to their qualifications and experience, although they can be independent, but they can't control the overall situation. As for my children, although Roulan is smart and smart, now it's just that I deliberately let her not have the opportunity to face the cruel reality, a girl, I don't want her to be too good, I just want her to spend her life happily, Shen'er, don't mention it, my intelligence He may inherit three points, but my laziness has inherited ten points, I feel sorry for Master Cizhen, such a foolish boy, can he serve as the responsibility of protecting the Dharma, but a fool has a foolish blessing, his temperament, maybe he will have a good life.

After counting the fingers, only Huo Cong is my most proud disciple, persevering, broad-minded, has his own opinions and can achieve change, well-read but concentrates on scripture and history, the most rare thing is that he is willing to be plain and good at forbearance. I am just a prisoner imprisoned in wealth and glory, although the shackles are all kinds of beautiful friendships in the world, but after all, they are not free, but he is a real hermit who can hide in the court, and he is also the only disciple who can inherit my mantle, so I know that there is a problem with his identity but I keep him, firstly, he is a talent, and secondly, if such a person does not stay by his side, it will be a little dangerous.

At this time, Tao Lin, one of the four guards beside King Qi, hurriedly came over and said, "Lord Wang, Lord Jiang, the county lord and Wang Yibin have arrived, and the princess is invited." ”

Li Xian and I looked at each other and smiled, and walked side by side to the Yin'an Hall of the palace, as soon as I walked into the main hall, I saw the graceful and luxurious Princess Jiaping holding Lin Tong's hand and whispering, while Chi Ji stood aside and stood solemnly, in front of Lin Bi, he was always a little restrained. Seeing me at a glance, he hurriedly came over to salute him, and said: "Seeing that Mr. looks the same as before, Chi Ji has peace in his heart, and this time I met a thief on the way, and he asked me to greet Mr. I originally wanted to go to see Mr. first, but when I entered the city, I heard from Mr. Xiao that Mr. was also here with His Royal Highness King Qi. ”

I couldn't help but hold my breath for a while, why didn't this kid open the pot, a hint of a sinister smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and I smiled: "It's nothing, just come and play chess with King Qi today, Chiji, how is it, I heard that you were injured half a year ago, are you okay now?" ”

Lin Tong said worriedly when he heard this: "Sir, although Ji Lang's arrow wound has healed, he still feels pain when it is windy and rainy, I just want to ask Mr. to take a look for him?" ”

I smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay, it's a meridian injury, let him come to my house, I'll give him acupuncture a few times, and by the way, I will also teach him this set of acupuncture, if you talk about medical skills, or Chi Ji learned better, although he later changed careers and became a veterinarian." "But I secretly thought in my heart that my Soul Snatching Golden Needle is unparalleled in the world, and there is absolutely no problem in removing the root of Chiji's illness, but that set of golden needles was originally used for execution, and it may be more painful. Of course, with my ability, there will naturally not be a trace of flaw on my face. Lin Tong nodded happily and thanked me, but when I was secretly proud, I saw Lin Bi glancing at me lightly, with a faint warning in her eyes, I was shocked, and hurriedly avoided her gaze, and said secretly, I didn't dare to tell them the truth.

At this time, the family banquet had been prepared, Lin Bi pulled Lin Tong and walked out, Li Xian followed out, I saw that Chi Ji looked a little strange, as if he had a secret to report, so he deliberately lagged behind, and sure enough, Chi Ji whispered in my ear: "Sir, the thief asked me to tell you that General Duan has returned to Middle-earth, and according to Mr.'s previous orders, he has already asked General Duan to be sent to Nanshan to behold." It should be in Chang'an in the next few days, and there will be more detailed information at that time. ”

I was shocked in my heart, Duan is invincible, after the Northern Han Dynasty asked to surrender, I wanted to recruit him back, who knew that he had gone to sea, and there was no trace of him since then, I didn't think that he finally came back today, for this opponent I am quite sorry for, how should I treat him?