In the first month, the rumors of war or no war in the outside world have reached the point of flying all over the sky, and ordinary people are talking about this war that may occur between the Southern and Northern Dynasties, not only the people of Luoyang City are talking, even the people of the Southern Dynasties are also saying that there are also various rumors in Jinling City, when this public opinion is launched, the government wants to suppress it again, and it is obvious that it can not be suppressed.

In the palace of Jinling City, Empress Xiao Zhan is also paying attention to the discussion of the people, as the emperor, she is concerned about the safety of the people of the entire Southern Dynasty, even if there is no war between the north and the south, she must coordinate the overall situation and make strategic arrangements. It's just that with the power in her hands, it's too difficult to accomplish this, even if her imperial uncle Xiao Ling doesn't seem to care about anything, but the power of soldiers and horses is still in the hands of those generals under the Huiwang system, these people either support the army and respect themselves nominally obey the orders of King Hui, or these people are the vassals of King Hui, and only King Hui obeys.

"Your Majesty, you have been tired from a long day, and it is time to go back to bed early." Chen Heliang, the eunuch in charge of the palace, stepped forward to say to Xiao Zhan.

At this time, Xiao Zhan still had some playbooks on hand, all of which were sent from Zuo Chengfu. Although she re-established the system of left and right Cheng, but only Zuo Cheng was in office, and the right Cheng Sima she liked could not take on the big responsibility, coupled with the abolition of the cabinet system, so that many of the recitals were backlogged, especially at the end of the year, the recitals were piled up, and she had to take out six or seven hours a day to review the recitals.

Xiao Zhan glanced up at Chen Heliang, lowered his head again and looked at the notebook, and said, "You don't need to serve here, you can go down first." Grandpa Chen, if anyone comes, remember to bring them over to see me. ”

Chen Heliang glanced outside and said, "It's dark, I'm afraid no one will enter the palace." ”

Xiao Zhan thought for a moment. He continued: "What news could be coming? ”

In the past few days after the New Year, Xiao Zhan's spirit has not been very good, mainly because of Sima Yi's "disappearance". Sima Yi suddenly left his residence on Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is unknown where he went, and Xiao Yang originally sent people to protect Sima Yin, but was actually broken into by her messenger that night. And the messenger was also killed, and she didn't know what was going on, but her heart was full of worry, because she didn't know whether Sima Yi had left on his own initiative or had been kidnapped.

If it is the former, Sima Yi deliberately wants to avoid her, and may have to return to the north, which is a result she does not want to see, which also means that the day of war between the two dynasties will not be far away. If it's the latter. She didn't know how to explain to the emperor of the Northern Dynasty, let alone where to save Sima Yi.

Xiao Zhan was a little upset, and wanted to stop for a cup of tea, but found that the tea was cold, and Chen Heliang was also sent out by her just now, and he couldn't drink a cup of hot tea. Xiao Zhan had no choice but to go to the main hall first to sort out his thoughts by the way, but he felt upset. A lot of things are tangled in my heart like a mess, until the end. These things seemed to disappear suddenly, and she suddenly remembered the days in the Northern Dynasty, although those days were boring, but at least she didn't have to worry about so many state affairs, and she spent every day in depression and happiness.

"When is it a head?" Xiao Zhan muttered to himself with some self-pity.

At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps came. Xiao Zhan subconsciously looked over, but saw Chen Heliang open the door and come in, and said with an excited look: "Your Majesty, there is news......

Xiao Zhan hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "But is there Mr. Sima's whereabouts?" ”

"Mr. Sima?" Chen Heliang was stunned first. I didn't know what Xiao Zhan was talking about, so I came to my senses and said, "No." It was the king of Linjiang who sent someone to deliver the letter. ”

Xiao Zhan's originally expectant look also cooled down, and when he took the letter and opened it, it was a letter written by Zhu Tongjing, the king of Linjiang. Not for anything else, but Zhu Tongjing's book of the court's transfer of troops to Jiang Zuo, in fact, he was also secretly contacting Xiao Zhan, and Zhu Tongjing wanted to eradicate King Hui's power through secret cooperation with the imperial court.

"Alright, I already know, you can go down." Xiao Zhan suddenly said with a very tough attitude.

Chen Heliang didn't dare to disobey, he was once a close confidant of the Empress Dowager He, and he was also a veteran of the Three Dynasties in the palace, and his relationship with Zhu Tongjing was also known to Xiao Zhan. Xiao Zhan didn't want to have too much communication with Chen Heliang, because even in the palace, Xiao Zhan didn't have any cronies, all she could do was to complete the duties of the emperor, as for the attraction of connections, or the selection of wise men, those had nothing to do with her.

Xiao Zhan returned to the back of the desk, picked up the notebook and looked at it, but he still didn't have much energy.

Until the dead of night, when Xiao Zhan was a little sleepy and wanted to go back to rest, suddenly there was a very slight movement at the door, Xiao Zhan was a little alert, took the long sword hanging on the wall in his hand, and approached the door step by step.

"Your Majesty don't panic, it's down." A very familiar voice came, and the person standing at the door with a smile was none other than Li Shanye, a person from the rivers and lakes who had entered the palace many times before.

"Mr. Li? Why are you here? ”

Xiao Zhan looked at the door, and more than a dozen guards, including the access control, were already lying on the ground, as if they were all subdued by Li Shanye.

In the past, Xiao Zhan took the initiative to invite Li Shanye into the palace to discuss things, but he didn't expect that this time Li Shanye dared to enter the palace without authorization, and beat all the guards, she didn't know why, but she felt that things were not as simple as before.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me, if I want to enter this palace, I must use some means, otherwise the guards along the way will kill me as an assassin. Hehe, Your Majesty don't worry, I didn't come down to disadvantage Your Majesty, but I wanted to help Your Majesty. ”

Even if Xiao Zhan trusted Li Shanye before, but now she is also on full alert, pressing her hand on the hilt of her sword, ready to face Li Shanye's surprise attack at any time.

Xiao Zhan knew that Li Shanye was through Sima Yi's relationship, and Sima Yi and Li Shanye were friends, and they were both teachers and friends, because of Sima Yi's praise for Li Shanye, Xiao Zhan was in the mood to contact such a reckless person in the martial arts. But at the moment, it seems that the reckless people are reckless, and they do not follow the right path when entering the palace, but want to follow these crooked ways.

"Your Majesty thinks that you don't have to enter the palace in this way, and there will be a chance to enter the palace in the future?" Li Shanye's face suddenly became colder, but he pointed in the direction of the palace gate. "Your Majesty might as well go out for a walk with you, there are some things that you still have to talk about outside the palace."

Xiao Zhan didn't want to go out of the palace in the middle of the night with such an unfamiliar man, which would put himself in danger, but Li Shanye came so inexplicably, but it seemed that he had another purpose. She was eager to find out.

Li Shanye said: "Is Your Majesty still afraid that you will not be able to do it in such a mountain village?" ”

"Mr. Li is strong in martial arts, so he can't be afraid. But if the gentleman wants me to leave the palace for a while, there must be enough reasons. Xiao Zhan said in a cold tone.

Li Shanye smiled and took out a thing, in the black light and blindness, Xiao Zhan also carefully identified it before he recognized that it was the waist card she gave Sima to enter and leave the palace, although Sima Yi never used this waist card to enter the palace, but this thing should be kept by Sima Yi, but now it is in Li Shanye's hands, so it explains. Sima Yu may have been taken captive by Li Shanye.

"Mr. Li, are you trying to blackmail me?" It's good that Xiao Zhan didn't see the waist card, and he wouldn't go out of the palace with Li Shanye after seeing it.

Li Shanye said with a smile: "Your Majesty may have misunderstood, this thing was obtained from some gangsters. I have a deep relationship with Brother Sima, how can I use him to blackmail Your Majesty? On the contrary, some people, even if they used to have a deep relationship with Brother Sima, now they regard his life as a child's play, and only then do they want to pass His Majesty's relationship. Rescue the Sima brothers. ”

Xiao Zhan listened to Li Shanye's words, not like a slur. But she didn't quite believe Li Shanye's words. Although in several conversations with Li Shanye in the past, she could feel that this was a capable person with a talent of heaven and earth, but she also knew that he had some ill intentions, and she couldn't let Xiao Zhan completely trust him. On the contrary, it is Sima Yi, who is in a foreign land, who has always been very sincere in his words and actions, even if Sima Yi was once the military advisor of King Hui. Xiao Zhan also trusts him very much.

"What if I don't go with you?" Xiao Zhan looked at Li Shanye coldly.

Li Shanye smiled slightly and said: "Then maybe Brother Sima is worried about his life, Your Majesty should think clearly." ”

Xiao Zhan said angrily: "You also said that you are not blackmailing me, you broke into the palace gate late at night, and you want me to go out of the palace with you, but you think that my Great Qi Dynasty has no law at all?" I am the Ninety-Five. You have to sit in the palace, you have to kill and kill, and see if you can get out of this palace gate! ”

Li Shanye sighed lightly and said, "Why should Your Majesty be angry? If I want to be unfavorable to Your Majesty, I am afraid that Your Majesty will not be able to stand here, and the reason why I invite Your Majesty out of the palace is really an important matter for Your Majesty to witness. His Majesty said that it is not false that it is the respect of the Ninety-Five, dare to ask at this time, the northern soldiers and horses are about to move south, what can Your Majesty, the Ninety-Five, do? Even if you take a step back, at the beginning, His Majesty's throne was still mentioned to the Sima brothers first, and then the Sima brothers were asked to ask King Hui to make His Majesty return south. He is not a villain, but a hero who helped His Majesty ascend the throne. ”

Li Shanye's sudden invitation to merit also puzzled Xiao Zhan's heart. If Li Shanye really had the intention of inviting merit, then the few times they met before, even if he didn't say it, Sima Yi would mention it to her, but she had never heard Sima Yi talk about it at all.

Li Shanye said again: "Your Majesty may think that you have bad intentions, but don't forget, I still have a deep relationship with Little Brother Sima, how can I harm him?" On the contrary, it was the people of King Hui's Mansion, even if they were colleagues of the Sima brothers, but they were jealous of the talent of the Sima brothers and King Hui's appreciation of him, and they had always had a plot against him, and His Majesty had sent a messenger to deliver the letter, but they didn't know that the messenger was a person from King Hui's mansion at all. ”

This time, Xiao Zhan finally had some letters, and it was also after the messenger died, Xiao Zhan sent someone to investigate, only to know that this person was once a subordinate officer in King Hui's army, and later he was not a general, but instead a messenger by his side to run errands, which was clearly the eyeliner of King Hui's side to her. Even if King Hui is a little mediocre and will not have such foresight, there are many people under King Hui's command who have wolf ambitions, and it is difficult to guarantee that this person is not sent by those people.

"If Your Majesty doesn't believe it anymore, there is nothing you can do about it, but Brother Sima may be in some danger."

Xiao Zhan frowned and said, "Even if Mr. Sima is in danger, you go to the rescue alone, what else do you want to do?" ”

Li Shanye smiled bitterly: "Then listen to Your Majesty's meaning, you can't do anything in the world as an emperor, but you can do everything in the next grass people?" Is the world His Majesty's or the grass people's? ”

Xiao Zhan said: "It's okay if I want you to go out of the palace, but I want to take my personal guards to go, if you have any misdeeds halfway, I will immediately send someone to take you down." ”

Li Shanye bowed and saluted: "I will follow Your Majesty's will." ”

Xiao Zhan was a little relieved at this time, and hurriedly went to find the guards, and when the palace guards surrounded Li Shanye, Li Shanye was still calm, obviously Li Shanye didn't care about these guards.

Xiao Zhan was far away and asked, "Mr. Li is not afraid of my words and untrustworthy, and will take you down?" ”

"Don't be afraid, because Your Majesty cares about the life and death of Brother Sima, and he won't follow the next grass people now."

Xiao Zhan nodded and said, "Then ask Mr. Li to lead the way." ”

Li Shanye didn't say much, walking at the front of the team, he was surrounded by a lot of guards of the Imperial Forest Army, and when he arrived at the palace gate, Xiao Zhan asked people to prepare horses, and the group rode horses to follow behind Li Shanye, who was also riding, and the direction of going was not outside the palace gate, but seemed to be in the direction of King Hui's mansion.

"Your Majesty, do this...... Is there something wrong? "The foreman of the guard was nervous after noticing that something was wrong, although this trip was to follow Li Shanye to King Hui's Mansion, but how to say that the emperor also led the troops to King Hui's Mansion, which has the meaning of falling out with King Hui's Mansion.

"No matter, just let me go." Xiao Zhan's face was very cold, and his eyes only looked at Li Shanye, who was walking in the front.

Although Xiao Zhan didn't know Li Shanye's exact intentions, he also knew that this person would not create a conflict between the palace and King Hui's mansion out of thin air, which would not be of any benefit to Li Shanye. And she, the emperor, was also elected by King Hui, even if there is a dispute, with the relationship between her and King Hui, as well as King Hui's character, it will be over in the end.

"Under the rule of King Hui's Mansion, everyone who comes will dismount!"

Before they arrived at King Hui's mansion, a large number of guards came out of King Hui's mansion and shouted loudly.

Li Shanye rode at the front, but he didn't mean to back down. On the contrary, the guards next to him hurriedly stepped forward and revealed their identities, but those guards of King Hui's Mansion did not appreciate it at all, even if the emperor came to them in person, they would not give any face. Because they are only King Hui's soldiers, they only know that they are loyal to King Hui and do not know that there is an emperor in the world, and what is even more important is that there have been assassins in King Hui's mansion before, and King Hui attaches great importance to security, and if these people are let through, their lives are likely to be lost. (To be continued......)