The fourth year of Daning Chengzhi was the seventh year of Han Jian's reign as emperor, and it was also the fourth year after Han Jian pacified the world and changed the Yuan Dynasty.

After four years of recuperation, the new Ning Dynasty's national strength gradually recovered, after years of war, the people can finally settle down and work, the military strength of the Daning Dynasty, from the initial 700,000 soldiers, down to 350,000, its garrison is mainly in Beiguan and the former Qi Dynasty. The national capital is still Luoyang.

Han Jian's eldest son, Han Xi, was canonized as the crown prince in the first year of Chengzhi, and Yang Xi, the former royal family of the Wei Dynasty, was demoted to the king of Yongding, which was a prince, but it was hereditary and eternal, which was a kind of compensation for Han Jian's old friends. As for Yang Rui, although he still has no official title and title, he is the step-"stepmother" of the crown prince Han Xi, and even Yang Li'er, the martial queen, the biological mother of the prince, must be second to the imperial heir.

In the early years of Chengzhi, there was a lot of turmoil in the imperial court, but after the turmoil, Ning Yuan still sat firmly in the position of the first assistant, until September of the third year of Chengzhi, after Han Jian sent someone to assassinate Li Shanye, after obtaining evidence of collusion between many ministers of the court and Prince Yan Ning's old department, Ning Yuan had to take the initiative to beg for self-preservation, and the person who succeeded Li Shanye as the first assistant was not someone else, it was Xu Ding who finally chose to surrender to the Northern Dynasty in the war between the North and South Koreas.

Li Fangwei, as an old minister of the Southern Dynasty and a friend of Sima Yi, was basically treated by Han Jian after he surrendered to the Northern Dynasty. As the mainstay of the new dynasty, Li Fangwei has his own set of things, in addition to being able to figure out the intentions well, but also played a very good role in encircling the old ministers of the Southern Dynasty, Han Jian also completed the reasonable establishment of the northern and southern courts through him, after the establishment of the new dynasty, only a few generals of the Southern Dynasty waited for the opportunity to rebel. All were quickly quelled.

At the same time, Li Fangwei was also helping Han Jian find Sima Yu in the world, but after a few years of searching, Sima Yu seemed to have disappeared from the world. No matter how much you search, you can't find it. Not even the slightest message.

In September of the fourth year of Chengzhi, Han Jian toured Jinling. This is the first time in four years that Han Jian has returned to Jinling after conquering the Southern Dynasty and returning to Jiangbei, and it is also the third time in his life to Jinling City.

At the same time, the people who accompanied him to the south, in addition to some civil servants and military generals, also included Fa Yi and Daxi Liu, as well as Xiao Zhan and his infant son Han Zhe, Yongding Wang Yang Xi, and Shoufu Li Fangwei. The reason why Han Jian went south. It was also because Han Jian received some rumors that Sima Yi had appeared in Shuzhong half a year ago, and it was not the secret intelligence agency under the command of Daxi Liu who investigated this information, but the Cao Gang of Jinling City, and the Jinling local organization established by him when Han Jian first set foot in Jinling.

Han Jian's visit to Jinling City was also a temporary decision, and Han Jian's plan in the middle of the year was to go back to Jiangdu City. Jiangdu, as the companion capital of the Daning Dynasty, was also the hometown of Han Jian, and Han Jian decided to refer to the Ming Dynasty system. Set up a companion ****** in Jiangdu City, mainly responsible for the handling of large and small affairs in Jiangnan. After all, Luoyang is far away from the mountains and rivers in the south, and it will be inconvenient for many government affairs in the south to be submitted to Luoyang, and if a ****** is set up in Jiangdu, it will play a very good role in the long-term peace and stability of the south.

But it was also on the way of Han Jian's tour of Xingjiang that he learned some news from Sima Yi, and Luan drove through Yangzhou and arrived in Jinling City on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, which happened to be the Double Ninth Festival.

Li Fangwei served as the first assistant of the imperial court. He is also Han Jian's minister, and he knows the roots of the Southern Dynasties. At this time, Li Fangwei played a role. It is somewhat similar to Ning Yuan when Han Jianchu replaced Yang Rui as emperor, and Ning Yuan was responsible for liaising with the former ministers of the Wei Dynasty. And Li Fangwei was responsible for contacting the former ministers of the Southern Dynasty. Han Jian's use of the two was a stopgap measure, and he did not plan to last long. Li Fangwei may also see this, the biggest difference between him and Ning Yuan is that he doesn't have much ambition, and he has more heart than Ning Yuan in terms of quyi pandering.

Before Han Jian arrived in Jinling City, Li Fangwei sent a letter to Jinling Taishou in advance, selected 20 beauties from Jinling City to accompany him, and at the same time performed at the palace banquet with 60 dancing girls. On the night of Han Jian's arrival in Jinling City, a banquet will be held to entertain the military generals of Jinling City, which is also Han Jian's concern for the old land of the Southern Dynasty.

The use of southerners to govern the Southern Dynasty was also a national policy formulated by Han Jian after the pacification of the Qi Dynasty.

There was a banquet that night, and there were more than 100 ministers and generals who participated in the banquet, and after the banquet, Han Jian would issue a holy decree to move the prototype of the ****** in Jinling City to Jiangdu City. Although Han Jian was not drunk with a thousand glasses of wine, he was no longer interested in drinking it, because after arriving in Jinling City, he got the news of the Cao Gang, saying that Sima had specially sent a messenger to deliver a letter to him, and the time to meet was the day after Han Jian arrived in Jinling City, which was the tenth day of the ninth month.

"Sima Qi, Sima Qi, what the hell are you going to do?" The warbler Yanyan below was still dancing, but Han Jian didn't have much of the heart to continue watching, he was about to let Li Fangwei continue to preside over the banquet, and when he was about to go back to rest, Li Fangwei respectfully came over to tell him some things.

Li Fangwei said: "Your Majesty, after the autumn of this year, Jinling City selected show girls, and selected twenty people from the three thousand show girls, and now they are in the Jing'an Hall of the Imperial Palace, is Your Majesty summoning to sleep?" ”

After Han Jian ascended the throne, although he was not taboo about women, he did not accept too many concubines, and it was when he was the most unruly when he was in Jinling City.

Although Han Jian drank a few glasses of wine, and he also missed the happy time when he was in Jinling City, he also believed that Li Fangwei and King Jinling Taishou would inevitably choose the best beauties, but he still lacked the freedom of his youth. Or maybe it's because he's tired from the journey, and he's a little powerless.

Han Jian said: "I can't drink enough, I want to go in and sleep for the time being, and I'll leave it to you Aiqing here." ”

Li Fangwei knew that Han Jian was not interested for the time being, so he had to get up and send him off with the officials.

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On the second day, Han Jian arrived at Wangxiang Tower, one of the landmark buildings of Jinling City, very early.

Wangxiang Tower can directly overlook the Qinhuai River, the three-storey small building overlooks the distance, and the scenery around the entire Qinhuai River can be seen at a glance. Han Jian has often dreamed in recent years, dreaming that looking at the vista in Wangxiang Tower, there seems to be a jade shadow, but unfortunately Han Jian has never been able to see the appearance of the jade shadow clearly. Many years later, Han Jian had almost forgotten who that person was.

Because of the arrival of the holy car, the surroundings of Wangxiang Tower were guarded by officers and soldiers. On the third floor of Wangxiang Tower, there is only Han Jian.

He was waiting for Sima's messenger. But Han Jian waited for a day, but still no one came.

"Your Majesty, seeing that it is about to fall into the night, do you want to go back to the palace first?" Fa Yi, who came out with Han Jian, came up from the second floor to ask for instructions, because he was afraid of disturbing Han Jian's tranquility, even Fa Yi and Da Nishiliu, Han Jian's personal attendants, could only wait on the second floor.

Han Jian looked at the sunset. Shaking his head slightly, he said, "Wait a little longer." ”

Han Jian still has some expectations for today's meeting, although Han Jian also knows that Sima Yi may not show up again in this life, his former friend has divided the victory and defeat on the battlefield, but it is also divided under extremely unfair circumstances, if Sima is really given enough troops and situation, or even a few years, the final result of that war may be reversed.

Han Jian also knew that Sima Yi was the most remembered person in his heart. It was Xiao Zhan, the empress of the Southern Dynasty, and he didn't care about friendship, so he actually took Xiao Zhan as his own. But after all, it was a political transaction, and now Xiao Zhan is no longer the empress of the Southern Dynasty, and after giving birth to him, Xiao Zhan's mood is also much calmer, because Han Jian is ready to crown her son king.

Finally, before the sky darkened, a carriage slowly came to Wangxiang Tower.

There was a servant in the carriage who looked like a woman in men's clothes, and waited for her to remove the stool and lift the curtain of the carriage. A graceful woman walked down from inside.

Han Jian saw the woman from a distance and seemed to feel very familiar. It was almost the same as the jade shadow he had seen in his dream, but maybe he was reincarnated. When he gets old, he forgets many things, and he can't even remember who this woman is for a while.

The woman went upstairs under the escort of Onishiyanagi and Fayi, and went up to the third floor, where she stood at the top of the staircase, holding an ordinary envelope in her hand, and the woman bowed her head, but only bowed, but did not kneel.

Han Jian squinted at the woman, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly remembered, but sighed helplessly: "Miss Qian......"

This person is not an outsider, it is the talented girl Qiansu Oak in the south of the Yangtze River who Han Jian met on the flower boat of the Qinhuai River when he first came to Jinling City. Han Jian hadn't seen her for many years, and after the Civil War ended, the Qiansu oak disappeared as if Sima Yi had disappeared.

"See Your Majesty." Qiansu Quercus looked very ashamed, her face flushed slightly, and she saluted.

Han Jian suddenly smiled bitterly and shook his head, feeling a little sorry for himself. It is also the passage of time, when he met in Qiansu Oak, he was just a humble Cao Gang in the rivers and lakes, but now he is the emperor, the monarch who unified the world.

Han Jian waved his hand slightly, and Fa Yi and Da Nishiliu understood something, and went down from the third floor, so that only Qian Su Li and Han Jian were left on the entire third floor.

"Sima asked you to come?" Han Jian asked.

Qian Su Oak bowed slightly, stepped forward, respectfully handed Sima Yu's letter to the table, and the person was about to step back, Han Jian said, "Just sit down and talk." ”

But the oak does not sit down.

Han Jian took the letter written by Sima Yi, and suddenly felt a lot of emotion, but he didn't know what Sima Yi would write to him. Between two old friends, there is actually no need for communication, and in fact, nothing can be said to be irretrievable. When Han Jian opened the letter, he saw that there were only two blank sheets of paper inside, and there were no words.

Han Jian breathed a sigh of relief for a while, this is probably Sima Yu's character. If I don't want to tell you, then don't say anything.

"Why is that?" With a slight smile on his face, Han Jian looked up at Qian Su Quercus.

Qian Suli looked up at it, only to know that the letter was a blank paper, and she also said with a slight puzzle on her face: "The folk girl doesn't know." ”

Han Jian nodded, but sighed and said, "Then Sima Yi, did you bring anything here?" ”

Qian Suli thought for a while, shook her head and said: "The folk girl has not seen Mr. for many years, but in the first year, Mr. suddenly sent someone to send a letter, asking the folk girl to rush to Wangxiang Tower in Jinling City on the day of the Double Ninth Festival this year. There was a delay on the way for the people's daughter, so it was a day of delay......"

Han Jian remembered that when he and Sima Yi had not yet broken up, Sima Yi did mention it in a letter, saying that there was a beautiful person in the Southern Dynasty who had been waiting for him, but unfortunately time had passed, and Han Jian did not expect who this person was at that time, nor did he expect that Qian Su Que would wait for eight years for such an "irrelevant" person as him.

Or, Sima Yi wanted to use this letter to fulfill him and Qian Suqi.

Han Jian stood up and walked in front of Qian Su Oak, who looked very nervous at this time, nervous, and slightly cramped. But when Han Jian picked up her hand, she didn't have the slightest struggle or resistance, but her expression was slightly ashamed.

"It's a September day, and it's a little cold after nightfall." Han Jian suddenly untied his big sword and draped it on Qiansu Quercus's body, Qiansu Quercus's body only trembled slightly, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes shining.

Han Jian thought to himself: "I'm sorry for Sima Yi, an old friend, but he never hated me, but he was helping me." ”

When Han Jian held Qian Su Oak's body, he felt this even more. After eight years of waiting, Qiansu Oak finally got its wish at this moment.

The palace lamp is still the same, but the color has been changed.

(End of book) (To be continued.) )