Chapter 752: Safe Haven
It was a good thing for Su Tingxia to move the people of the entire Bohai Kingdom inward, and Han Jian finally agreed despite his opposition in his heart. But when it comes to moving residents, they will encounter trouble, and who of the Hebei generation wants to migrate to Liaodong, which they consider to be a bitter cold land?
Now that the residents of the Bohai Interior are oppressed, they began to rebel, in fact, it is also a reasonable thing, Lin Ke originally went to the local area to quell the looting of the Bohai Interior Residents by the official army, but the Bohai immigrants not only did not appreciate it, but now they turned around and beat Lin Ke as a lackey of the imperial court. Han Jian will not pay too much attention to the matter of Lin Ke being besieged for the time being, but will let Lin Zhan pay attention to it, and don't let these citizens of the Bohai Kingdom make too much trouble in the north. Now it is just a local dispute or a trivial matter, if there is a national contradiction and the situation is expanded, it is not what Han Jian wants to see.
The focus of the imperial court and the Eastern Palace's attention was on the Xianbei cavalry in Guanzhong and the old land of Xiliang. When more detailed information from the north came back the next day, Yang Rui knew that it was an oolong, and Lin Ke had no intention of rebelling against the imperial court at all, but only because of a misunderstanding caused by the lag in intelligence. At this time, Yang Rui also felt that the imperial court's intelligence system had reached the point of being dispensable, and if there was no really capable person to preside over it, things like "Lin Ke's rebellion" would still happen.
Waiting for Yang Rui to discuss the matter with Han Jian, Han Jian didn't want to interfere more in this. Yang Rui originally had a loyal subordinate, that is, Yi Die, but Yi Die can't get Yang Rui's trust now, as long as Yang Rui re-entrusts Yi Die with important tasks, then the imperial court will not be more advanced in terms of intelligence acquisition, but at least it will not be worse than before. Regardless of Han Jian's concern, Yang Rui was helpless, there was a lot of quarrel, and the husband and wife knew more about each other's personalities, and Yang Rui also knew that she was the one who was hurt in the end when she was angry with Han Jian.
By the tenth day of the first month. The old land of Xiliang has basically been plundered by the Xianbei people. At this time, the Xianbei people set the goal on the three key passes set up by the imperial court in the old land of Xiliang, and plundered the population from the local area as a barrier to attack the city, preparing to attack these three key passes.
The imperial court did not send reinforcements, which also made these three key passes almost under the clutches of the Xianbei people. It was only one day, and by the eleventh day of the first lunar month, there was already information coming from the front. It is said that the Xianbei people have captured Liangzhou, the capital of Xiliang. This result also surprised many people in the DPRK and China.
The thousands of elite soldiers in Xiliang actually only guarded Liangzhou for one day. Liangzhou was breached, and the remaining two cities seemed to be unable to hold on, Han Jian had already sent someone to send a military order, ordering the soldiers and civilians in the old land of Xiliang to withdraw to Yangguan, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack again. In this way, it is equivalent to giving a large area of the old land of Xiliang to the Xianbei people.
This also aroused the criticism of many people in the court, and for a while, there were more voices condemning the Dongwang Mansion. This made Han Jian helpless.
Han Jian gave up the garrison in the Xiliang Land out of strategic considerations, and it was easier to withdraw to Yangguan. Anyway, the grain and grass are stationed in Yangguan. It is also to use the danger of Yangguan to garrison. Subsequently, Han Jian also ordered Han Cui's clan to step up the garrison of several important cities in Guanzhong, so as not to be taken advantage of by the Xianbei people to attack Guanzhong.
Just after the Spring Festival, Luoyang City is still a festive atmosphere in the festival. The envoys of the Southern Qi arrived in Luoyang at this time, and these envoys were sent after Xiao Zhan ascended the throne, and for some reasons, these envoys were recalled by the Southern Qi and later re-dispatched. Unlike in the past, it was not the Eastern Palace, which received the envoys of the Southern Qi Dynasty this time. It was the imperial court, and Yang Rui personally sent someone to receive it. Han Jian was not allowed to take over.
This time, the Southern Qi people came mainly to negotiate the border and negotiate peace, because the Southern Qi had sent troops to attack Yuzhou before, and had also occupied several cities of the Wei Dynasty, and later after the withdrawal of the Southern Qi soldiers and horses, these cities and Yuzhou did not receive them. Yuzhou is now also in internal and external difficulties, and Huang Shilang, Hou of Zhennan, is not a civilian official after all. There is a lack of experience in local governance, and the king of the south himself is under house arrest in Luoyang, and now the hearts of the people in Yuzhou are fluctuating, and everyone feels that if it were not for the sudden invasion of the Xianbei people, perhaps the imperial court and the Dongwangfu would have sent troops and horses to pacify Yuzhou. Completely pacify the north.
On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Han Jian came out of the palace very early. Because there are not many reports about the military aircraft on the front line, the Xianbei people are temporarily reorganizing the army after capturing the land of Xiliang, and they are in the stage of calm before the war, and Han Jian can also have some free time. At this time, the imperial court also made a gesture of receiving the envoys of the Southern Qi Dynasty and agreed with the Southern Qi people on the matter of peace.
In the middle, there were two Southern Qi people who sent worship posts to the Eastern Palace, and the meaning was also obvious, and the Southern Qi Dynasty hoped to establish a good relationship with the Eastern Palace, rather than with the imperial court. But Han Jian avoided the relationship with Yang Rui, and he also promised to gradually return the government to Yang Rui, so he turned a blind eye to the overtures of the Nanqi people. On the contrary, it was Han Song's family who had the desire to meet with the envoys of Southern Qi in private, but Han Song's family deliberately did not say it to Han Jian, but sent people with close cronies to contact the Southern Qi people.
Han Song's family wanted to use the people of Southern Qi to put pressure on the imperial court and put pressure on Yang Rui, but Han Jian pretended not to know that he didn't want to make a big deal about it. Dongwangfu is also a courtier of the Wei Dynasty now, and he can't have any "illegal dealings" with foreign envoys. But even if Han Song's family did something, the people in the court didn't dare to have too many opinions, which involved Han Jian's opinion, if Han Jian just wanted to contact the people of Southern Qi in the name of the Eastern Palace, and ignore the court, the court would have no choice.
Because of this incident, Yang Rui didn't even say a few words when he met with Han Jian on this day, in front of some ministers, Yang Rui just casually asked about the envoys of Southern Qi, and after learning that the envoys of Southern Qi had settled down, she simply didn't mention it again. Yang Rui didn't mention Han Jian or mention, so the husband and wife were still in harmony, even if the courtiers noticed some clues, they knew that this was a private conflict between Yang Rui and Han Song, and it didn't seem to have spread to the relationship between Han Jian and Yang Rui.
When Han Jian returned to the house, Han Song's family was not in the house, and Han Jian knew that Han Song's family had gone to meet with the envoys of Southern Qi in private.
This time, Han Song's work can be regarded as "blatant", and the place where Han Song's meeting with the envoys of Southern Qi is simply in the National Post House, and it is just a bright and bright meeting. As the king of the east did not go to meet, but the princess of the county did, this meaning is very intriguing, as for what the Han Song clan mainly went to discuss, outsiders do not know, and what is involved is nothing more than the relationship between the East Wangfu and the Southern Qi. This is tantamount to skipping the level of the imperial court and treating the imperial court as nothing.
"If the prince doesn't think it's good, then the concubine is ...... Go back and talk to Erniang? Seeing Han Jian's face tightened, Yang Li'er naturally guessed that Han Jian was upset because Han Song went to meet the envoys of Southern Qi, and said in a tentative tone.
"No need." Han Jian said, "Even I won't listen to Erniang." You'd better save your tongue. ”
Yang Li'er stuck out her tongue slightly and continued to tease the child. Anyway, she has nothing to do in the Dongwang Mansion, and now she is happy and quiet, and she can ignore many things. In addition, now that Gu Xin'er is pregnant and can't come out and walk around often, Yang Li'er comes out of the courtyard more often, but there are still not many opportunities to communicate with people. The entire Dongwang Mansion still seems a little deserted.
Han Jian did not spend the night in the Dongwang Mansion that night. Instead, he went to Yi Die's place.
Even if Yi Die doesn't think she is a person from the East Palace, she still thinks she is Han Jian's woman, and the condition that Han Jian gave her at the beginning was to keep to herself. When Han Jian arrived at Yi Die, the maid in the kitchen was still preparing food, and Yi Die was reading some information just after bathing. Yi Die has been abandoned by the imperial court, and the things she is responsible for are all trivial things, which do not involve military aircraft.
"Look at what? It's all useless things, if you feel useless, it's better to come directly to the East Palace. Work for the East Palace! Han Jian entered the house and said to Yi Die.
Yi Die's face showed some gloom, as if she was very dissatisfied with Han Jian's words, but she didn't dare to come out, and still came over like a partial concubine to relieve Han Jian.
Han Jian had already sent someone over an hour in advance to inform him that he would come, so Yi Die was also prepared that he would come, Yi Die was now completely "9 to 5" life, according to Han Jian's orders. She had to go back to the courtyard where she had been housed before dark, and she would not leave until three o'clock the next day. And really do intelligence work. There is very little time to rest every day, and it is even more irregular, which is one of the reasons why she is abandoned.
"In the East King's heart, the slave is just a plaything. Why, then, should the slave be teased? Although Yi Die's reply was respectful, it was also a little dissatisfied. It was regarded as a kind of "tribute" to Han Jian who just said that she would serve the Dongwang Mansion.
Han Jian didn't look away angrily, but he picked up some of the information that Yi Die put on the table and looked at it. Since Yi Die has made up his mind to be a member of the court in life and a ghost in the court when he dies, he is useless to say anything else, but now Yi Die is accustomed to his "hegemony". Just like Yang Xiuxiu at the beginning, at least Yi Die had no resistance in this matter.
"Tomorrow, the envoys of the Southern Qi Dynasty will enter the palace to pay tribute to Your Majesty, and you, as the Buku envoy of the Punishment Division, remember to go to the palace to protect Your Majesty's safety." Han Jian said.
Yi Die frowned, there were many guards in the palace, and the people of Nanqi couldn't bring swords when they entered the palace, how could they protect it? But after thinking about it, it seems that this is what Han Jian means by letting her meet Yang Rui more, Yang Rui is now abandoning her, because she is not sure whether her heart is towards the court or the Dongwang Mansion, Yang Rui is very clear about the mentality of women, after Yang Rui is now almost certain that Yi Die is "occupied" by Han Jian, even if she once believed in Yi Die's loyalty to her, but she herself stood in the position of a woman, and felt that Yi Die could not do things for the court wholeheartedly. If she can't do it from her own standpoint, how can she ensure that Yi Die can do it?
But so far, Yi Die has truly achieved a "clear distinction between public and private", even if he acquiesced to the fact that he was Han Jian's woman, but he did not change his belief in serving the court at all. Perhaps without the support of the belief of serving the imperial court, she would rather die than succumb to Han Jian, in fact, this is also the "coercion" that Han Jian put forward to her.
Because of Yi Die's resistance to Han Jian in his heart, even if Han Jian came over to have a love with Yi Die, he couldn't have more emotional exchanges, many things were forced and forced relationships, although they were not forced physically, but psychologically. Yi Die is just like a subordinate who is ordered to do things, and she will do whatever Han Jian asks her to do, which makes Han Jian so boring.
Soon Han Jian slacked off, and only then did the maid dare to bring dinner over. Han Jian ate a few bites, and suddenly didn't want to stay overnight at Yi Die's place.
"Get up and eat by yourself, if there is nothing to do, this king will not come over these days." Han Jian said a word to Yi Die, who was still lying on the bed and covering his body with a quilt, and went out without even eating a few more bites.
When Han Jian came out, he felt as if he was a sinner. The former Yi Die was so "peerless", which made Huang Lie linger on her, but because she wanted to conquer her completely, the current Yi Die seemed to have lost her soul.
Originally, the place where Yi Die lived was the residence of Ning Xiuyan and Yang Xiuxiu, Han Jian came out of the East Palace, and thought that Han Song was still meeting with the envoys of the Southern Qi Dynasty in order to be angry with Yang Rui, so he didn't want to go back to the East Palace, but went to Ning Xiuyan.
Ning Xiuyan hadn't prepared for Han Jian to come, so she had dinner with Yang Xiuxiu and Ning Shun'er early, and was about to rest, when she learned that Han Jian was coming from the maid's anxious report.
"The master is too, since he came and didn't give notice in advance, he could let the concubine prepare early." Ning Xiuyan personally greeted her, but at this time, Han Jian had already entered the courtyard. At this time, Han Jian's face was a little gloomy, which made Ning Xiuyan feel that Han Jian was coming with a breath of anger in her heart, she originally wanted to ask something, but thinking that the matter might be related to her father Ning Yuan, she didn't dare to say it when it came to her mouth.
"It's fine." Han Jian said a word, and when he entered the hall, there were only two maids waiting on the side, Ning Shun'er and Yang Xiuxiu were not there, so they should have gone back to the room. There is an embroidery shelf on the side, it should be that Ning Xiuyan doesn't want to sleep too early at night, and is going to embroider after dinner to pass the time.
"The master is here, and the concubine will let people inform the county lord and Shun'er." Ning Xiuyan said.
Han Jian shook his head slightly and said, "If they are already resting, there is no need." It's good to have you alone. ”
Ning Xiuyan smiled with relief on her face, just now she was still worried that Han Jian came over for the Ning family's affairs, but now seeing that Han Jian was very friendly to her, she knew that she was too worried.
"Look at what the master said, could it be that the master came because he caused trouble elsewhere, and he was a substitute here as a concubine?" Ning Xiuyan was thoughtful after all, and soon guessed that Han Jian was a little unhappy because of the woman's business.
Han Jian sat down, casually picked up the tea on the table, took two sips, and said, "You really guessed correctly." Just came from your old yard. ”
"The master is too, I want to drink tea and let the girls prepare, this is ...... The concubine has just drunk. Ning Xiuyan seemed to be a little annoyed, but she was a little ashamed in her heart, Han Jian came over as if she was her own person, and she didn't even ask if it was new tea or old tea or who drank it or was afraid of poison, which also showed that Han Jian could let go of mundane things here.
"It's so tiring. Just wanted to come and talk to you. Han Jian said with a sigh. (To be continued......)