Beirong goes south to Yanmen, then you can only let go and fight!

Because this is a ferocious and barbaric nation, making peace with these nations will only make the other party more advantageous. However, the war with Beirong should also pay attention to strategy, and the Wenchen headed by Prime Minister Pei Wenju believed that the current war would not expand unswervingly, as long as the Yanmen Pass could be held and Beirong would not be allowed to go south, and the military generals headed by the Privy Council believed that Beirong had repeatedly gone south to provoke, and this time Beirong had to be taught a lesson, and Dayan should mobilize the armies of Yizhou and Ningzhou, and destroyed the Beirong army in a war, and killed the inside and outside of Yanmen, completely solving this problem of henchmen.

The attitude of the two sides towards the war is the same, that is, it is necessary to fight, but they are arguing about the size of the scale.

However, what the ministers of Dayan did not expect was that the news of Beirong's southward movement gave a great gift to the Three Kingdoms mission who was still in King's Landing, because through the previous battle between Ji Qingchen outside King's Landing and Lingnan and Donghuang and the Beirong Three Kingdoms rangers, Dayan, who had an excuse, rejected all kinds of requests put forward by Xishu and Donghuang with a tough attitude in one go, and forced the Lingnan Yi clan to give up the idea of marrying Princess Dayan through strong force, but now Beirong went south to give them a chance, and the Three Kingdoms immediately discussed it after getting the news. On the repetition of the old tricks, Xiang Dayan proposed to be friendly and friendly with some preferential policies that were beneficial to them.

When the envoys of the Three Kingdoms re-made their request, the ministers in the Great Yan Dynasty thought that there were still three hungry wolves around them.

It's just that the top priority is to deal with the 200,000 troops of Beirong, so Emperor Yan ordered Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites to continue to negotiate with the Three Kingdoms Missions, trying to delay time, and see the situation of the battle between Great Yan and Beirong before determining whether to agree to their request. Emperor Yan's idea is good, after all, he thinks that with the danger of Yanmen Pass, coupled with the tens of thousands of troops guarding Yanmen Pass, even if Beirong's 200,000 iron horsemen go south, not to mention taking the initiative to attack, if you want to defend Yanmen Pass, he believes that Dayan can still do it.

However, what he didn't expect was that the situation would become more serious than he thought.

I don't know whether the road is due to the incompetence of the commander of the Northern Liaoxing Battalion, or the low combat effectiveness of the defenders of the Northern Liaoxing Battalion of Dayan, nearly 100,000 defenders of Yanmen Pass in the Northern Liaoxing Camp of Dayan failed to hold Yanmen Pass under the repeated attacks of 20,000 cavalry in Beirong, causing the Beirong cavalry to break through the pass, and go all the way south to Caozhou, the junction of Yunzhou and Shangzhou, before being stopped by the Dayan army and stopped the attack.

When this news reached King's Landing, the people of Dayan were in an uproar! Dayan Qunchen was dumbfounded, unable to believe it, thinking that he had misheard. Because they couldn't believe that the Black Eagle Cavalry, known as one of the four elites of Dayan, would be defeated, and with the natural danger of Yanmen, the 100,000 army did not defend against the attack of 20,000 Beirong cavalry. Moreover, the 20,000 Beirong cavalry still dismounted and fought on foot, not what they were good at fighting immediately.

This news made Emperor Yan very angry, and almost immediately ordered Yulin to ride north to escort Wei Quanxing, the head of the Northern Liao Xing Battalion, Xu Zizhang and Xiang Ziyu back to Junlin for military treatment, and it was thanks to Prime Minister Pei Wenju and the privy envoy Bai Jin and the deputy privy envoy Li Muzhi to persuade each other, saying that it was not easy to change the commander before the battle, especially in this situation, once the commander of the Northern Liao Xing Battalion was changed, and there was no suitable commander to lead the defeated army that was already demoralized, it was possible to let the Beirong cavalry break through the Caozhou defense line, which made Emperor Yan withdraw his will.

However, before Emperor Yan and Pei Wenju, Bai Jin, Li Muzhi and others discussed specific countermeasures, such as the number of troops to be sent, the number of generals and the weight of grain and grass, the Three Kingdoms missions did not know how Lu Dao got the news, they felt that the time was ripe to threaten Dayan, so they strongly asked Ye Qingchen, the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, and Chen Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to negotiate with them, if they did not agree to their request, they could not guarantee the mood of the people in their own country.

Being coerced in times of crisis is really uncomfortable.

However, in this case, it is impossible not to bear it. In desperation, the monarchs and ministers of Dayan could only be forced to accept the request of the envoys of the Three Kingdoms, marry the three princesses to the princes of the Three Kingdoms respectively, and also agreed to provide them with salt, ironware, tea and other commodities proposed by the Three Kingdoms, which can be described as a very rich dowry. At the same time, Bai Zhiquan, the king of Nanling of the Lingnan Yi clan, also put forward a request to choose a husband for Princess Meng among the princes of Dayan. This request is a bit humiliating, but the humiliating request of marrying the princess has been agreed to before, so why not agree to it again now? The so-called debt is not worried. Therefore, Bai Zhiquan's proposal was not opposed by Emperor Yan.

In the end, after much deliberation by Bai Zhiquan, the husband of the Nine Emperor Prince Ji Qingchen and the dream princess Bai Meng'er was selected.

When Ji Qingchen, who was still practicing calligraphy in the palace, heard the news, he was so angry that he crushed the wolf pen in his hand and smashed the rosewood book case with his palm.

However, after thinking about it carefully, he affirmed that this was an act of revenge against him by Lingnan Bai Zhiquan and Bai Shangwu's father and son.

Because according to the Great Yan ancestral system, the heir to the throne is not allowed to marry a foreign woman as a wife, which is to prevent the princes from marrying barbarian princesses when they are vying for power and using external forces. In other words, as long as Ji Qingchen agrees to marry Bai Meng'er as his wife, he will have no chance to take the throne. However, Ji Qingchen is not angry about this, but because he has someone he likes, this person is Shu'er, he must not marry the princess of the Yi clan when Shu'er was still leaving the country and enduring the oppression of the Empress Dowager Xiao.

"Did my father agree to this?" After venting the anger in his heart, Ji Qingchen, who had calmed down, asked Zhang Rang, who was ventilating the news on the side.

This news was conveyed to Ji Qingchen by Wei Zhongxian through Zhang Rang, except for Bai Zhiquan and Bai Shangwu's father and son, Emperor Yan and several important ministers, everyone else did not know what to do.

Zhang Rang did not speak, but nodded slightly.

"Father, this is-" Ji Qingchen was angry for a while, and his face became pale, because he knew that as long as Emperor Yan agreed, then this matter was already a certainty, and he couldn't regret it, unless he committed the crime of disobedience and betrayed Dayan, otherwise he could only passively accept it, but he didn't want to, didn't want to, didn't want to. So he strongly suppressed the blood that was surging in his heart because of his anger, and he said in a low voice, "Zhang let the car be prepared, and this king wants to attack the face saint." ”

"Your Highness—" Zhang Rang shouted, but he still didn't move, just stood quietly in the study.

"What are you doing in a daze—go!" Ji Qingchen roared angrily.

"Your Highness, my godfather asked the slave to inform His Highness of the news, just hoping that His Highness would be mentally prepared and not make any out-of-the-ordinary moves, now is an extraordinary period for Dayan, no matter what His Majesty does, he will focus on Dayan's society, and His Highness must be cautious!" Zhang Rang cried.

Zhang Rang has not been by Ji Qingchen's side for a long time, but he understands Ji Qingchen's character, and knows that as long as Ji Qingchen faces the saint this time, there will definitely be no good results.

Seeing Zhang Rang standing still, Ji Qingchen continued to shout loudly, "Guo Quan, prepare the car!" ”

"Please be cautious Your Highness!" Suddenly, Guo Quan, who didn't know where Lu Dao came from, also said, standing still like Zhang Rang.

"You-" Ji Qingchen became more and more annoyed, he angrily kicked Zhang Rang, and overturned Guo Quan, strode out of the study, and went straight to the school stable outside, but as soon as he stepped out of the small courtyard of the study, he saw Ye Qingchen coming in a hurry, Ye Qingchen stopped him as soon as he saw Ji Qingchen, and shouted, "Qingchen, this time is very important, you have to stay calm, and don't be impetuous, delay the big thing!" ”

"Uncle, you—are you going to stop this king?" Ji Qingchen looked at Ye Qingchen in a daze and said to himself secretly, because he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't figure out why everyone would stop him and not let him face the saint and make it clear to his father that he was unwilling to marry the princess of the Yi clan.

"Qingchen, uncle knows that you don't like the princess of the Yi tribe, but what can you do, this is the request of the king of Nanling, you should know that as long as we don't agree to him, the Lingnan Yi tribe may take this opportunity to raise troops to the north to attack Yizhou, and now Beirong has entered the Guannei, and is about to kill Xingzhou, and there are strong enemies in our northwest who are eyeing the country, if you annoy the Lingnan Yi clan again, Dayan will be attacked on three sides, and this will be the crisis of Dayan's Jiangshan Sheji!" Ye Qingchen said bitterly.

He knew that his nephew was a bit ruthless and ruthless, but he still knew how to be proportionate and reasonable.

Sure enough, after hearing Ye Qingchen's explanation, Ji Qingchen took the steps back, he didn't know how to answer Ye Qingchen, he could only be stunned by Ye Qingchen. And at this moment, I suddenly heard a commotion outside the palace gate, and saw Wei Zhongxian hurriedly walking into the palace and preaching loudly, "Your Majesty Xuanbei Liao King enters the palace to face the saint!" ”

With Emperor Yan's will, Ye Qingchen could no longer stop Ji Qingchen, Ji Qingchen retracted his gaze and left the palace in a hurry with Wei Zhongxian.

Along the way, Ji Qingchen and Wei Zhongxian didn't speak, and when they entered the imperial city, on the way to the imperial study of Ganlu Palace, Wei Zhongxian suddenly said, "Your Highness, Your Majesty values you very much!" ”

Hearing Wei Zhongxian say such a sentence, Ji Qingchen, who was following Wei Zhongxian, was a little unsure of what this old eunuch meant, so he could only wait for Wei Zhongxian's next words in silence.

"Your Majesty has been too tired in the past few years! Because the Liguo, Beirong, and Lingnan Yi tribes are all countries with strong military force and high ambitions, they look around Dayan, can they have a peaceful sleep and sleep under Your Majesty? Wei Zhongxian sighed and said, "The old slave said that he didn't mean anything else, but I just hope that His Highness will not live up to His Majesty's expectations!" ”

Wei Zhongxian, who had always been silent and appeared in front of everyone with feminine and ruthlessness, said this, which still made Ji Qingchen a little moved. Because the meaning of Wei Zhongxian's words couldn't be more obvious, that is, Emperor Yan valued him, and didn't it mean appreciation and liking, didn't it mean storage and emperor's throne?

Quietly watching the back of Wei Zhongxian who was moving forward, Ji Qingchen's heart was in turmoil at this moment! Because he didn't know how to tell Emperor Yan that he didn't want to marry Princess Meng. But in his heart, he was absolutely unwilling to marry a princess of the Yi tribe.

Walking into the imperial study with a complicated feeling, Ji Qingchen found that Emperor Yan was sitting in front of the jade case and writing hard, as if he was writing something. He glanced at Ji Qingchen, and before Ji Qingchen could say goodbye, he said, "No need to be polite, sit down!" ”

Ji Qingchen agreed, and sat on the stool that Wei Zhongxian moved to him.

At this time, Emperor Yan put down the pen in his hand and said to Wei Zhongxian, "Without my will, no one is allowed to enter the study for half a step!" ”

"No!" Wei Zhongxian took the order, exited the study, and closed the heavy door.

Suddenly, only Ji Qingchen and Emperor Yan were left in the study.

At this time, Ji Qingchen was about to speak, but was stopped by Emperor Yan, who spoke in a kind and tired tone, "Today, don't talk yet, you can talk about your opinions after listening to me." ”

"No!" Ji Qingchen can only take orders.

"In the past few days, you should know the news that Beirong has broken through Yanmen Pass and entered Caozhou, right?" Emperor Yan opened his mouth and said, "Although the Beirong soldiers are strong, no matter how fierce the Beirong cavalry is, not to mention that they have already killed Yunzhou, even if they are killed under King's Landing, I will not be afraid of them." Because as long as the monarchs and ministers of Dayan are united and the people work together, there will always be a time when Beirong will be defeated and driven out of the pass. However, our Dayan not only has an enemy in Beirong, but also the Liguo in the northwest, the Yi people in the south, and even the two vassal states of Xishu and Donghuang. Dayan can not be afraid of Beirong, but is it difficult not to be afraid of the union of these five countries? So this time, when the Xishu, Donghuang and Lingnan Yi tribes forced me to agree to the request of marrying a princess, which was insulting to the national body and the face of the ancestors of the Great Yan, I did not object, it was not that I didn't want to, and it was also not that I didn't dare, because my courage was not so small, but because I couldn't bear it, I couldn't bear to cause the Great Yan War to poison the people because of my face. ”

"You may say in your heart, you don't care, because it has nothing to do with you, you will think that I am the emperor, I am the monarch of this country, but just a prince, and it has nothing to do with you when the people are bullied by war." Emperor Yan took a deep breath and continued, "But what I want to say is that this has something to do with me, and it also has something to do with you, because you are a member of the Ji royal family, and you are my prince. Do you think about who gave you what you fed, drank, and wore? These are the people's taxes, and they are the things given to you by the people of Dayan. You have chariots and horses to guard when you go out, and you have maids to wait for you when you enter the house, how did such treatment come about? When the people see that you want to address Your Highness, they want to greet you with courtesy, you are high, and when the ministers see you, they want to greet you with a smile, and they want to treat you as a courtier, have you thought about how this treatment came about? It was given to you by the people, and all these things are still given to you by the people. If it were because they didn't promise the Ji royal family to rule the world, and they didn't agree to the Ji royal family to rule the Dayan Dynasty, would we still have this 800-year-old dynasty? Do we still have the Ji family, which is known as the thousand-year-old royal family? ”

"Therefore, today I summoned you to the imperial study to tell you that when you were born in the Ji royal family, whether you agree with it or not, whether you want to or not, you have already owed a debt to the people of the world, this is a debt that you must repay in your life, and it is also a debt that the children of our Ji royal family must repay in your life. Just like me, if you become an emperor, you have to return it as an emperor, just like my brothers, that is, your imperial uncles, they have become princes and county kings, and they have to return as princes and county kings. We have power and wealth that the people of the world do not have, and we also have debts that the people of the world do not have. Emperor Yan's voice was very stern, almost roaring. It is for this reason that your eldest brother died in Yanmen Pass ten years ago, and when I knew that his death was strange, it was not a simple defeat and killing, and I did not delve into it, and I did not deliberately find out the mastermind and murderer behind the scenes. Because every child of our Ji royal family must repay the debt in their own way, because we are superior to others when we are born, we have supreme power, and we can enjoy treatment that is difficult for others to achieve in their lifetime. And Cheng Qian died on the battlefield, which was to repay the debt with his own life. ”

After Emperor Yan said this, he did not continue, but quietly looked at Ji Qingchen. Halfway through, he spoke, "Now tell me your opinion!" Let me hear it. ”

As the prince, Ji Qingchen heard Emperor Yan say this heartfelt words for the first time, saying the opposite of the scholars and scholars shouting about the divine authority of the monarch every day, he was not only shocked by Emperor Yan's honesty, but also frightened Emperor Yan's calm and cold reason. However, what really surprised him was that Emperor Yan knew that the death of Prince Lu Dao in battle was not a war crime, but a conspiracy, but he did not pursue it.

In this, Ji Qingchen believes that Emperor Yan did not pursue it, part of the reason is like what he said, it may be to repay the debt, but part of the reason is based on Ji Qingchen's guess, that is, the enemies behind the scenes are too powerful, and Emperor Yan himself does not dare to solve it, so he can only endure it, and can only endure it.

This moment!

Suddenly, a sad thought rose in Ji Qingchen's heart!

He didn't have any distractions in his heart all of a sudden, he just wanted to go north to Yunzhou, drive Beirong out of the pass, and recover the lost territory of Liaozhou. Because, he was persuaded by Emperor Yan's words, and at the same time, he also knew what he should do!

"Back to my father, my sons have no opinions. The son asked his father to fight, and wanted to go north to Yunzhou to recover the lost territory of Liaozhou," Ji Qingchen said loudly.

"It's good if you don't have it!" Emperor Yan said lightly, "As for the matter of going north to Liaozhou, I will discuss it with the Privy Council and the Prime Minister, and now we have not determined the generals who will go north to face Beirong, so you will wait a few more days." ”

"No!" Ji Qingchen could only agree loudly, and then withdrew from the imperial study under the signal of Emperor Yan.