The Empress summoned the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, and the Princes and Ministers of Luoyang to the palace to speak, and it was only a routine questioning. From beginning to end, the empress did not specifically ask Han Jian's opinion, and Han Jian did not speak, so that the two monarchs and ministers seemed to be strangers.

In this royal summons, there is one person who is particularly dazzling, that is, Yang Yu, the new king. After Yang Xi was appointed as the crown prince to envoy to Southern Qi, Yang Yu's status in Luoyang City remained undiminished. This time Luoyang was about to encounter a war, the empress specially summoned this younger brother, entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and let Yang Yu do everything himself when arranging the Yellow River defense line, which had the meaning of making him take the crown prince under ten thousand people alone.

It is understandable for the empress to do this, because the empress has always been alone with Yun Ying unmarried, and the closest people around her are only two younger brothers, and now that Yang Xi is outside, she has nothing to rely on, and it is reasonable for Yang Yu to come out and take the lead. But Han Jian knew that although Yang Yu was also old and had some connections in the court, Yang Yu was still lacking in his ability to do things, and it was difficult for Yang Yu to shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting his family and defending the country in such a special period.

But so what? He is a brother and sister, he is the king of the east, and he is an outsider. Han Jian seemed to be jealous of Yang Yu in his heart, in fact, Han Jian didn't have too deep prejudices against Yang Yu, what Han Jian thought was just that when the empress was in danger, it was he Han Jian who offered advice by the empress's side. It's a pity that the empress didn't give him a chance, and she also explicitly ordered him not to ask about anything.

The content of the entire imperial summons is how to arrange the river defense. In this regard, the people in the Privy Council and the Ministry of War are very experienced, and Han Jian does not need to work hard to make suggestions. The Imperial Summons lasted for more than an hour, and Han Jian didn't say a word. When he came out to see the sun in the west, it was still early.

The people who came to the palace seemed to be all running around to arrange the river defense, but Han Jian was like a nobody. Han Jianxin walked towards the gate of the palace, but his speed was slower than him, it was Yang Xiuxiu, the lord of Anping. The speed at which the two of them walked was in stark contrast to the brisk pace of the others, like two people who were out of step with the world.

"Lord Anping, please." Han Jian felt uncomfortable being followed by a person, Yang Xiuxiu seemed to be deliberately following him, and he walked fast. Yang Xiuxiu also appropriately accelerated her pace. He walked slowly, and Yang Xiuxiu walked slower than him. Tang Xiuxiu just wanted to follow Han Xiu not far and not close after he was more than a foot away.

"The East King is polite." Yang Xiuxiu saw Han Jian turn around, and smiled slightly. There was a bit of lightness in the smile. It's very different from her crying out of the palace a few days ago.

Hey! Invasion by foreign enemies. It seems that she is in a good mood. Han Jian said in his heart.

"It's the county lord, you're polite." Han Jian said with a smile. "How embarrassed is it to go like this, as if the county lord is at the bottom of the roots?"

Yang Xiuxiu is in a good mood. Hearing this, she couldn't help but glance at Han Jian, but a smile immediately rose on her face, and said, "The East King seems to be indifferent to the fact that the Xianbei people are going south, does it mean that the East King thinks that the Xianbei people will not kill Luoyang City?" ”

"Lord Anping, don't talk nonsense, when will you be indifferent? Lord Anping, have you ever been concerned? ”

Yang Xiuxiu raised her eyebrows slightly, looking a little proud: "Resisting the horse leather shroud of foreign enemies has always been your man's business, when will it be our little girl's turn to worry about idleness?" ”

Han Jian nodded, Yang Xiuxiu was telling the truth. Although the status of women has improved in the current empress dynasty, in the final analysis, women are still in the society with the status of vassals of men. In the feudal society, where physical labor was greater than mental labor, the division of labor between men and women was different, which also created such an era, so it was impractical to advocate women's rights in ancient times. In this time and space, there is no story of Mulan and Mu Guiying, but there are still many stories of heroes and heroines, and the current daughter of Nanwangfu, Yang Li'er, is such a "heroine", saying that women have nothing to do with the battlefield, that is just Yang Xiuxiu's rhetoric.

Han Jian was choked by Yang Xiuxiu, and only smiled, the two of them still walked to the gate of the palace one after the other, but this time the two were much closer, and Yang Xiuxiu just walked behind Han Fitness, and her snort was audible.

"The marriage of the county lord of Anping, it seems that he will not be in a hurry for a while?" Han Jian said suddenly.

"Humph!" Yang Xiuxiu snorted lightly, she was in a good mood today, and it was completely because of this. When Han Jian said this, she was in a bad mood.

Before she came to the palace, every time the empress would ask about her marriage to Lu Fengning, urging them to get married as soon as possible. And Yang Xiuxiu has no good impression of Lu Fengning, Yang Xiuxiu is also a very independent woman, after her father's death, she has been taking care of the county palace, and to take care of her younger siblings, she wants to find a man she can rely on. And Lu Fengning is completely an "embroidered pillow" in her opinion. The two knew each other at a young age, and they were childhood sweethearts, Yang Xiuxiu knew that with Lu Fengning's ability, not to mention enjoying Qingfu after she got married, she would not only want her to take care of the county palace, but she might even have to shoulder the affairs of the Lu family. Strong women don't necessarily like to be strong women, sometimes they just don't get the opportunity to be a bird.

"King Dong, you seem to have reached the age of starting a family, oh?" Yang Xiuxiu suddenly smiled slyly and replied to Han Jian.

Han Jian shook his head slightly, this Yang Xiuxiu is the kind of woman who refuses to suffer, and her personality is very similar to Lin Xiaoshu.

After all, Yang Xiuxiu is over twenty years old, and Han Jian seems to be a "junior" in her eyes. Yang Xiuxiu is the same generation as the empress, and she is one level higher than Han Jian in terms of seniority. However, Han Jian is not surnamed Yang, and he has no blood relationship with the Yang family, so this "elder" statement is also unreliable. But in any case, Han Jian is just a fledgling hairy boy, and Yang Xiuxiu thinks that he has much more experience than Han Jian, the king of the East, whether it is running a family or life.

After Yang Xiuxiu replied to Han Jian's words, she thought to herself, at such a young age, even if he was not embarrassed to hear such words, he should be blushing and speechless, right.

Unexpectedly, Han Jian just smiled and nodded, "Hmm." When the time comes, the wedding banquet will be held, and the county lord will definitely be invited to come over for a glass of wine. ”

"Like wine?" Yang Xiuxiu laughed dumbly, how old is this kid, and he is ready to marry a wife? But think about it again, a man can get married at the age of sixteen, and a woman who can't marry after twenty is considered an old woman in this era.

It's not that Han Jian is precocious. It's that she got married late. Yang Xiuxiu thought that if she didn't want to marry Lu Fengning, but someone else, maybe she would have been married a long time ago, and even her children would have run away all over the place. The daughters of the same age as her, including her best friend, have long been married and have children, but she is still single.

While speaking, the two had already arrived at the gate of the palace, and Han Jian had already left the palace after speaking, and Yang Xiuxiu had no chance to fight back a few more words.

looked at Han Jian's back. Yang Xiuxiu also suddenly became a little annoyed. I don't know why. Since she met Dongwang for the first time, the two seem to have a grudge, and she feels that she is sorry for herself if she doesn't scold Han Jian.

"It's really weird, what am I doing with such a kid?" Yang Xiuxiu muttered to herself with some annoyance.

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North of the Yellow River. A force of troops and horses is rapidly moving south. This army is a starry night. It only took three days. The north bank of the Yellow River is close at hand.

At sunset, the army stopped to rest and prepare to go south the next day. This is the beginning of this army. The first long break. All the soldiers realized that there might be a war tomorrow, and they had to recharge their batteries for the night to prepare for the next day.

In the big tent of soldiers and horses, a man in his forties and close to fifty years old was reading the letters from the south in front of the mutton fat lamp that had just been lit. This middle-aged man has deep eyes and a beard, but the beard is not long, as if he has carefully trimmed his beard before, but he has no time to deal with it because of the rapid march of the past few days. The letter in his hand seemed to be a very serious matter, so that the more he looked at it, the angrier he became, and as his brow furrowed, there were still a few more horizontal lines on his face. Although he never admitted that he was old, he was indeed old. If you don't do something, you'll miss it.

"Father, the child has just gotten ......," the curtain of the tent was lifted, and a young man came in quickly, talking something as he went.

The middle-aged man drew his sword, and only when he could see the person who was coming clearly did he put the sword back into its scabbard. There was anger on his face.

"Presumptuous! I've said it a few times, no matter where you are, follow the rules! ”

"Yes, child." The young man hurriedly saluted and apologized.

These two people, the young one is Yang Ke, the son of the Northern King, who had attended the palace banquet on behalf of the Northern King and repelled two Southern Qi swordsmanship masters at the banquet. And the other person is his father, Yang Ru, the king of the north.

Yang Ru is the younger brother of the empress's father, Yang She, and the empress's own uncle.

When Yang Shi was the emperor, he strictly guarded the king of the north, but because the fief of the king of the north was in the north, and he fought against the Xianbei people all the year round, he had the right to have soldiers in his hands, so that Yang Shi could not get rid of this younger brother in his life. Yang Shi died of a sudden illness, and he suspected that his younger brother had poisoned him until he died, so he did not dare to hand over the throne to his youngest son, but passed the throne to his daughter, and explained many words to his daughter before Bintian, all of which were how to remove the threat of the Northern King to the imperial court. Therefore, from the beginning of the empress's accession to the throne, she has begun to prepare for a war against the king of the north.

Yang Ru glanced at his son, lowered his head and was still looking at the letter, and asked casually, "Why are you in such a hurry to come?" ”

"Back to my father, I just got the news from the south that the imperial court has ordered that the Hebei provinces should not go out of the city, and the Yellow River should not be cut down and burned boats, and the plates should not go down the river. It seems that the imperial court has taken precautions. Yang Ke said cautiously in front of the North King.

Yang Ke knew very well that his father was very suspicious and sensitive, if it weren't for the importance of this matter, he would never have broken into his father's tent so rashly. Yang Ke is not the eldest son of the North King, there are many brothers in front of Yang Ke, and he is only the third in the lineage. His two elder brothers, both of whom were disliked by the Northern King because of their personalities, were deprived of the opportunity to inherit the Northern Wang's son, and he also knew very well that if he did not show his "eloquence", he would also be rejected by his father. The lineage of the Northern Wangfu will completely decline, which is an unacceptable result for him. Therefore, since Yang Ke was a child, he has been strong everywhere, not only knowledgeable, but also superb in martial arts, and cautious in everything so that his father can't find fault with him.

When the king of the north heard the news, he smiled coldly on his face and said, "I think that if the Yellow River is blocked, I will not be able to capture Luoyang City with 30,000 soldiers and horses?" She was a little too self-righteous. ”

Yang Ke knew very well that the "she" in his father's mouth at this time was the current emperor of the Wei Dynasty, and she was also the empress they should have been regarded as the lord. This time, the king of the north rode south, and he didn't even show specific intentions to him, but Yang Ke was not stupid, he knew that his father didn't come to chase any Xianbei cavalry with his troops and horses, because the Xianbei people only did not move after making some signs of disturbing the border on the border, and his father was going to rebel. Although he had guessed in advance, he knew that his father was going to attack Luoyang City directly, he still didn't dare to believe it, could it be that his father was sure of victory?

The king of the north is eloquent and strategic, he is very suspicious, and there are many ministers around him, but most of them are disliked by the king of the north. In the eyes of the Northern King, there will be no one in the world who is smarter than him, and no one will think more far-reaching than him. The North King is the kind of person who only believes in himself, so even Yang Ke, who is as close as a son, doesn't know the specific intentions of the North King.

"But Father, now that the court has such a will, we are afraid that we will march so quickly, I am afraid that ...... It is difficult to cross the Yellow River...... It's summer, and the water level of the Yellow River is ......"

"What water level?" The North King scolded, "What do you know? Do you think that the father will let 30,000 soldiers wade across the river? Just do your thing, and there can be no difference in the scheduling arrangements between the top and bottom of the army. ”

Yang Ke felt very helpless, and even had a feeling of being speechless to his father. Now it is clearly a rebellion, in his opinion, the Yellow River has passed, not to mention that there is the city defense of Luoyang City on the south side of the Yellow River. With these light cavalry alone, can you knock on the gate of Luoyang City?

However, Yang Ke also knew that since his father had an order, he couldn't ask more, because it would anger the Northern King. In addition to being suspicious, the king of the north was also the kind of person who was short-tempered and moody, and he always believed that his mother's violent death was not due to illness, but because his father killed his mother in a fit of rage, because he had witnessed his father beat a concubine who had hidden silver to death. Yang Ke's mother had been afraid of his father since he was a child, and when Yang Ke was thirteen years old, his mother died violently, and he didn't even see his mother's corpse, which deepened his suspicions.

When Yang Ke came out of the big tent, he couldn't help but say to himself: "No matter what, I can't let the lineage of the Northern Wangfu be cut off in my hands, and I can't let my mother's longing for years of forbearance come to naught." ”

Thinking of the two elder brothers who were sent to Bohai by his father, Yang Ke even had some hatred for his father in his heart. But he also knew that if his father's rebellion succeeded this time, his father would be the lord of the Wei Dynasty, and he would also ascend to the throne of the crown prince. The crown prince is much better than a prince of the Northern Prince.

Yang Ke himself is also an ambitious person, and he doesn't want to be like a slave who can't hold his head up in front of his father and be an obedient dog by his father's side.

"It's just...... How to cross the Yellow River ......" is something that Yang Ke can't figure out. (To be continued......)