The lay disciple named Ding Yu entered the nunnery. Yongqing followed and closed the door.

Ding Yu also seemed to know that she didn't call her in to let her pack up the tea, and as soon as she entered the room, she turned to look at her with a shallow smile on her face: "Has Your Highness agreed to your plan?" ”

Yongqing bowed slightly: "Not bad!" ”

Ding Yu said happily: "Okay, then I'll go and arrange it for His Highness immediately." ”

"Wait!"

Yongqing called her and said, "Not only me and the imperial brother are leaving, but my queen mother is also leaving." ”

Ding Yu was taken aback and said, "Queen Mother? I'm afraid...... Deep palace Ouchi, I am afraid it will not be so easy to bring the queen mother out. ”

Yongqing said: "What if my queen mother arrives at this Chongxiao Nunnery? ”

Ding Yu muttered: "In that case, it will naturally be easier than in the palace, but ...... Although the queen is not the current queen who commands the six palaces and the mother of the world, once she leaves the palace, she will inevitably be grand, and even if we can rob the mother out, even out of Bianliang City, this goes to Hexi, the mountains are high and the road is far away, and it is not easy to drag yourself in the hands of officers and soldiers. If Shi Ji quietly took the princess and Prince Defang away, as long as he grabbed a day or two, there would be a lot of hope for success. ”

Speaking of which. Ding Yu said to Yongqing seriously: "Although my lord has established himself as the emperor, he is really forced to be helpless, in fact, he has not forgotten the grace of the first emperor, and has not forgotten the care and care of the mother and the princess for him.

Today's saints are narrow-minded, suspicious, the former dynasty prince Chai, Shu abolished emperor Meng, Southern Tang abolished emperor Li, and even the first emperor and princess's royal brother Dezhao, all died strangely, speaking of which there seem to be suspicious actions of today's saints, now that the two princes are growing up, I am afraid that the suspicion of today's saints is rising again, and sooner or later they will have to attack him, and it is difficult to save a prince from leaving, if you want to go with your mother, it is simply impossible. For the sake of safety, let's ask the princess to dispel this idea, today's saint cherishes feathers, and no one is allowed to gossip, and it will not be blatantly detrimental to a Song queen who is not much of a threat to him......"

Yongqing interrupted her words and said categorically: "If the queen mother can't leave, Yongqing and the imperial brother Defang won't leave either!" If Miss Ding can't do this, then there is nothing to talk about between you and me, and you can leave. ”

"Princess ......"

Yongqing turned around and left, Ding Yu hurriedly called her, bowed his head and thought for a moment. He paused lightly and said: "The princess is really embarrassing, no matter what, I promise you that it is, but this time there will be a bloody storm on the way, and the original plan will be completely overturned, the stakes are very high, and the princess will let me think about it carefully and make detailed preparations." ”

Yongqing turned around and softened Yan Sè and said: "That's natural, I want to gather Niangniang and the imperial brother in Chongxiao Nunnery without arousing the suspicion of Jinshang, and you need to make a lot of preparations first, you can discuss it yourself and think of a perfect plan." ”

Ding Yu smiled bitterly: "Is it a perfect strategy?" Alas, just do your best. After speaking, he arched his hand to Yongqing and hurriedly walked out.

Ding Yu, a lay disciple who had recently taken refuge in the Three Jewels and had not yet taken the precepts, is said to be a widowed woman who had opened a winery on East Cross Street to make a living. Before long, the Taiwei's family came to the door again to make trouble, how could she, an ordinary woman's family, confront the eunuch's family, so she had to close the business in a hurry, and in desperation, she came to become a monk and practice.

This is just what she said to the public, as for her true identity, it is not enough for outsiders, at least Princess Yongqing knows that she is by no means an ordinary woman, but a person sent by Yang Hao of Hexi to lurk in the capital, but her identity, Yongqing will never be transparent to people.

Watching Ding Yu go out, Yongqing sighed softly, and slowly walked to the inner room, on the incense case in the inner room, under the statue of Guanyin Dashi enshrined, is the spiritual seat of Zhao Kuangyin, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

Later, she quietly walked into the henchman Ni Lin'er, who was waiting for her to eat and drink, Lin Er stood behind her, and also saluted the statue of Guanyin and the Taizu Spiritual Position, and got up after the salute, and then whispered to Yongqing: "Princess, you ...... Did you promise them? ”

Yongqing slowly turned around. said in a somewhat low tone: "I have seen through it, after the death of my father, our family will have to be at the mercy of others." Today's officials treat us favorably only for the people of the world to see, but in fact, they are just using us to achieve their role in deceiving the world. Whether it is a high-ranking member or this Ding Yu, the forces behind them are also using us for their own interests. Hmph, they can use us, why can't I use them? ”

Lin Er was surprised: "Use them? ”

Yongqing smiled coldly, slowly clenched a pair of pink fists, and said with some excitement: "Yes, now that I have been in power for a long time, the role of our family has gradually decreased." My brother Defang has grown up, grown up chéngrén, and has become a thorn in the side of the saint today, and I am worried...... Sooner or later, he will be killed by that Jian man. I, as a sister, should always plan well for him, in the eyes of these people who think they can control the fate of my family, I will always be the little princess who has nothing to do. But...... I'm going to grow up, won't I? ”

In a side hall in the last courtyard of Chongxiao Nunnery, a nun is fetching water by the well, the water sprinkled on the well platform is frozen, and if you are not careful, you will fall on a big heel, if you are unlucky, you fall into the well, and no one sees it, then even your life is gone, and the monks with a relatively high rank will not come to do this kind of strength work in person.

This nun had just arrived, and she was mute. She came to the nunnery to place an order, but she couldn't even speak, she could only compare and draw, originally knew that the guest monk was going to drive her away, or the abbot Dingru Shitai saw her pitiful, and was kind and left her behind. This side hall is inhabited by old women and beggars who live on the streets without food and clothing in the cold winter season, and the presiding master has taken them in, and designated them to live in this side hall and are not allowed to move around at will, and the nunnery has sent a few little nuns to take care of them, and this mute female nun is also one of them.

A bucket of water was lifted, the hook was removed, and the bucket was about to carefully walk down the stone steps with the bucket in both hands, when the mute nun suddenly stopped, and behind her there was a nun standing quietly, it was the master of the nunnery here, Princess Yongqing, the biological daughter of Emperor Zhao Kuangyin of the Great Song Dynasty.

There was no one around, Yongqing stared at the mute nun, and suddenly asked, "Your injury...... Is it already? ”

The mute nun nodded slightly, in the harsh winter season, her hands were violently in the cold wind, and after a while, her kung fu would freeze red, especially when it was stained with water, but her hands were a little exceptional.

Yongqing's eyes fell on her hands, her hands did not match her delicate face, those hands were two sizes larger than ordinary women's hands and feet, and the skin was a little rough, but the skin of those hands had not changed at all, and the place where the water had been stained was steaming, as if those hands were a pair of hearths filled with burning charcoals.

Yongqing nodded with satisfaction, and said softly: "Then, you just stay here patiently, things are already a little eyebrow-raising." ”

The mute nun's natural peach blossom eyes immediately became bright, and it was so sharp that people didn't dare to look at it: "When, where and where?" ”

The mute nun was able to speak, but her deliberately lowered voice was a little rough and hoarse. Some of them are like men's voices.

Yongqing said: "Maybe a month, maybe half a year, I can't tell the specific time or place now, it's in this Chongxiao Nunnery!" ”

The mute nun's eyes flickered, her pupils narrowed like the tip of a needle, she nodded softly, did not speak again, but went to carry the bucket with both hands, as if with great effort, and cowardly moved down from the well platform......

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When Pan Mei handed over the recital to the official family, she expected that she would be severely punished, and she had already prepared a package to be sent to Lingnan for the rest of her life, and she didn't want the official family's holy decree to come down, so she reprimanded Wang Jien for a bloody squirt, relieved him of his post as a supervisor of the army, and sent him back to Hebei to concentrate on raising food and grass for Guo Jin and the army stationed in Linfu at Yanmen Pass.

Not only did he not punish him, the commander of the three armies who had lost his troops and returned from a great defeat, but fully affirmed his correct decision to withdraw his troops. Pan Mei was surprised by the official's reaction, and soon learned that Cao Bin spoke up for him, Pan Mei was grateful, and had the heart to fight a few beautiful battles, and the revenge of the Snow Black Snake Ridge with one arrow. At the same time, he also has an explanation for the magnanimity of the official family and Cao Shumi.

The new prison soldier Song Qi is also a confidant of the official family, and Pan Mei is somewhat contemptuous of Wang Jien, after all, he is from an eunuch, and Song Qi is a dignified and upright two-list jinshi, and he is a figure who was reused by the official family when he was still in the palace, and Pan Mei did not dare to snub him. Fortunately, although this person does not understand military affairs, he never talks nonsense about military affairs, and Pan Mei completely lets go of the affairs of troop dispatch and dispatch.

And the new Dingguo Festival makes Song Wei also a veteran of a hundred battles, although the use of soldiers is not as good as his Pan Mei, but it is not easy to be with his generation, although this person's military rank status is not weaker than him, some are not easy to command, but Song Wei is here, mainly to control the Ninghua Army, Jinning Army and other six-way border army, with him unified jurisdiction of the six-way border army, it is better than the six-way border army to do their own thing.

Under such circumstances, Pan Mei also achieved some achievements, and several forts on the eastern line of Hengshan occupied by Xia generals Mu Si, Bian Yiwolf, Han Jian, Li Conglong and others were taken back by him one by one, but after continuing to move forward into Hengshan, the battle was no longer so smooth. Taking advantage of the dangerous terrain on Hengshan, a large number of fortresses and tunnels were built when the two armies of the Song and Xia armies confronted each other, the Xia army was defeated and retreated, and the Song army carried out a solid renovation again when guarding Hengshan, and this summer military strategy recaptured Hengshan, and these strong forts and tunnels were renovated three times, and these places have been as solid as a rock.

In addition, after entering the winter, the heavy snow in the mountains is inconvenient to move, and it is not easy to attack, the Song army repeatedly launched fierce attacks, but after the loss of 80,000 troops, the mobile forces of the two states of Linfu have been very limited, although Pan Mei personally led the army to continue to launch large-scale battles, the results are still very small, and its footsteps are still stopped at the foot of Hengshan, in view of this, Pan Mei will join the supervising army Song Qi, deputy marshal Song Wei After careful discussion, it was decided to temporarily stop the large-scale offensive to wait for a good opportunity.

At present, Zhao Guangyi is secretly jealous because of the private alliance of the old ministers of the previous dynasty, and the increasingly fierce rebellion in Xichuan seriously pulled his hind legs, and Zhao Guangyi felt a headache from the bottom of his heart about the Hengshan War, and he felt a little chicken rib feeling that he was not fighting or not fighting. However, Yang Hao was originally a Song minister, but he was brazenly self-reliant, which has touched the bottom line of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is an act that Zhao Guangyi cannot tolerate no matter what.

Even if he is unable to continue to move westward now, this act of beating and beating must be done, whether he can fight is one thing, and whether he has this attitude is another. Song Qi, as Zhao Guangyi's confidant, knows his mentality very well, but in the cold winter season when water is dripping into ice, it is really not suitable to continue to launch an offensive, so he also agrees to suspend the offensive.

At the same time that the detailed analysis of the discussion with Pan Mei and Song Wei was secretly reported to the imperial court, Song Qi also sent a public report with the imperial court with a wonderful pen, which extremely exaggerated described how the Song army turned defeat into victory, seized several fortresses on the eastern line of Hengshan, and drove the Xia army back to Hengshan, which can be regarded as a whitewash for the failure of the official family to use troops in the northwest.

The imperial court printed Song Qi's recital to the newspaper and copied it all over the world, making it known to everyone. However, at the same time, Yang Jiye launched counterattacks many times, relying on the land to give the Song army a painful blow to the war report, but was ignored by the imperial court's choice, under the guidance of the imperial court's selective public opinion, the negative impact of the defeat of Black Snake Ridge gradually disappeared, in the eyes of the common people, the imperial court still has the strength to fight Hengshan, but because of the cold weather, so the temporary truce, not only the common people, but also many middle and low-level local officials are also this optimistic attitude.

At the same time, the Liao State sent troops directly to the front of the camp of the Song and Xia countries, which also made the Song court very sensitive, Zhao Guangyi personally summoned the Liao envoy to reprimand and ask the Liao State about the intention of sending troops to the northwest at the time of the Song and Xia exchanges, and the Liao State envoy had already received instructions from Shangjing, and immediately replied to this: the Song and Xia countries exchanged troops, as their close neighbors, the Liao State had the right to send troops to garrison the border in order to ensure the security of its land and people, and pay close attention to the progress of the warring parties.

How can this innocuous answer be satisfactory, the envoys of the two countries fought several times over this, but each of them was afraid of each other, so they still restrained themselves and did not rise to the level of a more serious foreign dispute. Under these circumstances, the two countries of Song and Xia temporarily maintained a military standoff, and the Song and Liao countries temporarily maintained a stalemate in foreign affairs, and the grim situation in Hexi thus entered a period of delicate equilibrium.

However, this delicate balance was soon broken. If it weren't for an accident at Fengtaikou at the junction of the Three Kingdoms, then Zhao Guangyi would have temporarily ignored the stalemate in Hexi with an ostrich mentality at this time, calmed down and first solved the problem of the chaotic people in Xichuan who became more and more fierce, and at the same time continued to vigorously promote young generals and centrist generals internally, and used relatively peaceful means to weaken the control of the former ministers over the army step by step, but the occurrence of this accident made Zhao Guangyi appear a ray of light in front of him, and pulled his attention back to the northwest again.

The cause of the matter is very simple, the three mountains of Fengtai Mountain face each other, there is a valley in the middle, and there is a river through the valley, dividing the valley into two, this big river, the west of the river is the Xia country, the east of the river is the Liao country and the Song country, and the Song Liao takes the mountain peak occupied by the Song State as the dividing line between the two countries. The division of the borders between the three kingdoms only followed the tacit boundaries between the three parties in those years, namely the jurisdiction of the Determination of Difficulties and Festivals, the jurisdiction of Fuzhou and the jurisdiction of the Liao State, and at that time, most of the natural objects such as mountains and rivers with obvious signs were used as symbols, and there were no boundary markers.

The Liao soldiers stationed down after doing nothing, every rì outside the village to patrol hunting, once they chased a yellow sheep, crossed the frozen turbidity river, into the territory of the Xia country, similar to this occasional crossing of the border is very common, for deeper considerations, few people will see this as an offense, those Liao troops caught the yellow sheep and were ready to return to the camp, but the Xia patrol soldiers actually solemnly surrendered their weapons, confiscated the yellow sheep, and then deported them out of the country, driven back to the east of the river.

This time can stab the hornet's nest, how can the people of Liao have suffered such a big loss, with their arrogant feelings, if it weren't for the fact that their own team and the emperor of the Xia Kingdom attacked Yinzhou together, they have a love of incense between each other, they would have nothing to do with it, and they deceived the Xia people, but now it's good, the Xia army dares to take the initiative to provoke?

Lai Duofu, the general of the Xia army, led people to the Xia army camp to shout and scold, although Yang Yanxun returned the yellow sheep and the weapons he had confiscated, he told the Liao people not to bully into the Xia realm. Duofu is not a master who is willing to suffer, at that time he got something back and turned around and left, but that afternoon when the Xia soldiers went to the Turbidity River to shave ice to get water, he rushed up with a hundred and ten personal soldiers and punched and kicked, saying that the source of the Turbidity River is in the territory of Liao, and the west of the river is Xia Tu, and the east of this river is connected to this river, which is the territory of Liao. Those Xia soldiers were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces, and finally they were tied back by them, stripped naked and tied to the barracks fence in this cold winter weather, and whipped to the public.

At the beginning, Yang Yanxun personally asked Yang Hao how to deal with it if the Liao people provoked, and Yang Hao told him eight big words at that time: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. At that time, Yang Hao thought that although Yang Yanxun was young, he was thoughtful, but he didn't know how Yang Yanxun thought long-term, but he was actually a general of the Han State, and every time the Han State fought with the Song State, he would beg for help from the father emperor of the Liao State.

As a general of the Han State, Yang Yanxun felt pain about this, because he saw the Liao people arrive, and between the Song and Xia Dynasty, the Liao people seemed to be on his side, so he asked Yang Hao about his attitude towards the Liao people. After getting Yang Hao's answer, he had confidence in his heart, now that his own people were kidnapped and stripped naked and flogged and tortured, as the main general, if he swallowed his anger and calmed down like this, how could he still lead troops? At that moment, he brought soldiers to rob people, and although they were robbed back, there was a small-scale weapon fight between the two sides, and several people died in each side, and this time the matter became big.

Duofu sent his henchmen to quickly report to Yelu Xiuge, the king of the North Courtyard stationed in Datong Mansion, and asked the king to decide, Yang Yanxun also immediately wrote down the cause and effect in detail, and ordered someone to report it to Yang Hao. Song army Fengtai guard general Yue Yang was afraid that the Liaoxia army was unfavorable to him, when he saw the conflict between the two sides, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, although he was inconvenient to send troops to get involved, but let people stand on the camp and shout a few loudly, to the soldiers on both sides of Liaoxia to fan the flames but it was just a matter of moving their mouths, under their conscious provocation, the conflict between the two sides became more and more intense, Yue Yang was very proud, so he reported the matter to Pan Mei and the supervisor Song Qi.

Song Qi doesn't know how to use soldiers, but how clear are the people of Jīng Yu Zhi, and how clear are the people of Jīng Yu Zhizhi about human accidents? He immediately found a problem from it: if Liaoxia can cause such a big conflict because of these things, it will not only be a dispute between lower-level soldiers, it can be seen from this incident that the Liaoxia two sides have absolutely no secret alliance, the Liao army has no goodwill towards the Song army, and there is also not much goodwill towards the Xia army, and similarly, the Xia army does not seem to welcome the arrival of the Liao army, otherwise even if a few more people die, for the sake of the overall situation, the generals on both sides will also maintain restraint and will not condone the arms fight among their subordinates, Song Qi noticed this, immediately reported this matter to Zhao Guangyi.

Datong's Yelu Hugo has been paying close attention to the progress of the war between the Song and Xia sides, when he left Shangjing, the Empress Dowager Xiao had instructed him to act at the opportunity, and try to maintain the balance of the situation in Hexi, if the Song and Xia sides can take Hengshan as the boundary, Song can't eat Xia, and Xia can't drive away Song, that's the best ending.

Yelu Xiuge is an all-round man in literature and martial arts, and he is not just a brave and warlike general, and Empress Dowager Xiao's instructions will be understood immediately. The Song State occupied the Lin Mansion, and if it took a step forward, it would pose a threat to the Xia State at any time, and the Xia State would bow down to the Liao State and use the power of the Liao State to balance the Song State, so that the Liao State could gradually exert influence on the Xia State until the Xia State was controlled, just like the Liu regime of the Han State at the beginning, and became a pawn of the Liao State to contain the Song State.

And to support the Xia State, so that it can gain a firm foothold on the front line of Hengshan, can attract the Song army to fight with it for a long time, the Song State will deploy more and more troops in Hexi, and the annual consumption of grain, rice, and military salaries is innumerable, even if a Xia State cannot drag down the Song State, it will also drag the Song State soldiers tired and poor, and at that time, Mo said that the Song State is unable to conquer Youyan in the north, and in the long run, it will inevitably be relied on the face of the Liao State. This so-called driving wolf and fighting tiger is a lose-lose strategy.

Who expected that the Song army was eager to fight quickly, and the army rushed forward, but because the battle line was extended, and it coincided with the cold winter, the Xia army was cleared of the wilderness, cut off its grain route, and the Song army was defeated and returned, and the vitality of the army in the west was greatly damaged.

In line with the idea that whoever is strong will step on him, and whoever is weak will pull him, so that they can always fight equally, Yelu Hugo is creating some incidents and exerting pressure on Xia Guo, as soon as the news of Duofu is sent, it is really dozing off and someone will send a pillow, Yelu Hugo was overjoyed, and immediately asked the pro-soldier to give Duofu a sentence: "Xia people hand over the murderer who injured my children, otherwise, take their camp and drive their defenders!" ”

Zhao Guangyi received Song Qi's information, and couldn't help but be happy, speaking in his heart, the loss of 80,000 troops can afford to pay for him, the richest man in the world, not to mention other places, Yanmen Pass is now stationed with heavy troops, but the Liao people have increased their troops in Datong, and the intention is not good, he does not dare to transfer without authorization, if the Liao and Xia people fight, then ......, as soon as he thought of this, Zhao Guangyi immediately gave Song Qi a secret decree, asking him to go to Fengtai in person, and try to expand the dispute between the two armies of Liaoxia in order to make profits.

When Zhao Guangyi's eight-hundred-mile horse galloped out of Beijing, Yang Hao, who was in Xiazhou, summoned Mu Yu to his side and secretly instructed him: "Xiao Yu, when you go to Fengtai, you must be careful, not only to provoke a formal war with the Liao, but also to control the extent of the war, everything must be done according to our instructions, and you must not be emotional......

As soon as Yang Hao said this, Tuoba Haofeng rushed in angrily and shouted: "Shengshang, the big thing is not good, Lai Duofu, the defender of the Liao army in Fengtai Mountain, brazenly sent troops to attack my camp, the Fengtai camp was lost, and Yang Yanxun has retreated to Ertai Mountain. ”

As soon as Tuoba Haofeng said this, Yang Hao must have been shocked and angry, but after listening to his words, Yang Hao and Mu Yu both showed a very strange look on their faces, and the two of them looked at each other, and they had the following strange conversation:

"Holy Lord, Your Lordship...... Do you still need to go? ”

“…… Go, let Yang Jiye increase his troops and help Yang Yanxun take back Fengtai Village. ”

"Yes, the minister is gone!"

Yang Hao snorted and muttered to himself: "Brother Yixiu, confidant......"