When Han Jian entered the main hall, he felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere. It stands to reason that the edict should be read by the minister after the arrival of the empress with the two princes who were about to be crowned kings. But until now, the empress and the two princes are still nowhere to be seen, and even in addition to him, the other two county kings and one county lord in the capital, the county king of Yanning, the king of Kang and the county lord of Anping have not appeared. Even if the old King Kang is in poor health, it stands to reason that the prince of King Kang will receive the will of the empress to enter the palace like him.

Han Jian thought, could it be that something happened?

Han Jian was puzzled, Lu Shaokun hurried over again, and said in public: "Everyone, please go back first." Today, His Majesty is in poor health, and I am afraid that it is inconvenient to come out to meet you, as for the canonization, I will be simple. There is no need to be extravagant. ”

The officials left one after another with a lot of confusion and a kind of helplessness about not seeing the empress. Han Jian was about to leave, but remembered what Lu Shaokun said before to let him go to Hanli Palace, so he wanted to go up and ask Lu Shaokun to take him over, but he saw Lu Shaokun's footsteps hurriedly going to the apse. The apse is a forbidden place in the main hall of the palace, except for the empress, unless it is a palace maid or a eunuch, Han Jian cannot enter unless he is summoned.

Han Jian couldn't, so he had to go out to find the location of Hanli Palace by himself.

Coming out of the main hall of the palace, Han Jian looked at the direction in which the other ministers went, all in the direction of the palace gate. That is, he was the only one who was summoned.

But why the summons was held in Hanli Palace, where he had never been before, and not in Ye'an Pavilion, Han Jian was a little puzzled. And what exactly does Hanli Palace do, he doesn't know.

Han Jian walked directly through the side door of the main courtyard of the palace and led to the familiar corridor of Guò. Arrived at the gate of the courtyard of the Wenwu Palace. At this time, the courtyard of the Wenwu Hall was quiet, and not even the shadow of a guard could be seen. Han Jian was about to go in and ask someone, when he saw Yang Xi waving to him behind the shade in the courtyard.

"Young Master Yang, did you come to me?" Han Jian looked around, there was no one else but Yang Xi, so he had to step forward and ask.

"No, my sister came to you. Something happened, my sister seemed to be in a hurry, she was afraid that you wouldn't find where Hanli Palace was, so she asked me to come here and wait for you. Yang Xi said with some emotion.

Han Jian looked at Yang Xi in front of him. Dressed in civilian clothes, it is no different from what you wear when you leave the palace on weekdays. Where is the official appearance of accepting the canonization of the prince and participating in the celebration? Han Jian thought, this also shows that Yang Xi has long known that he doesn't have to go to the main hall of the palace to attend the cumbersome canonization ceremony today. In other words, something really happened.

"What's the matter?" Han Jian walked briskly with Yang Xi to the next door of the Wenwu Palace. He asked.

"You'll know when you get there. I don't know the specifics. I only know that my sister just sent a few people out, and it should be a war in the north. Yang Xi said.

There is going to be a war in the north? Han Jian's heart tightened slightly, did he mean that the imperial court was going to war with the Northern King? Do you also say that those ethnic minorities north of the Great Wall invaded the south?

Han Jian thought for a moment. It should be that the latter is more likely. Now, although the imperial court has successively uprooted several forces entrenched in the capital by the Northern King, and has also seized a large amount of money and grain, in the final analysis, the two sides have not yet reached the time to tear their faces, and the Northern King will not be so hasty to rebel. But Han Jian also felt that there was a possibility of the Northern King rebelling, and after the Northern King learned of the imperial court's moves, he knew that once the imperial court got this large amount of money and food, he might not be able to win again after the rectification, so he hurriedly raised troops and was able to catch the imperial court by surprise.

Since both situations are possible, Han Jian doesn't think much about it. Directly follow Yang Xi to the Hanli Palace.

This is Han Jian's first time coming to Hanli Palace, Hanli Palace is just a small house, only one floor, after entering, I feel that the light is not very good, it is very dark, it is not like a palace but a warehouse. In the Hanli Palace, there were no ministers, eunuchs and palace maids at this time, and even Lu Shaokun did not come. The empress stood in front of a table with some miscellaneous items, as if she was staring at something on the table, and there was only one person next to the table, it was Yang Xi's brother, the third prince Yang Yu.

"Sister, I brought Brother Han here." Yang Xi greeted the empress as soon as he entered the door.

"Coming?" The empress glanced back at Han Jian, waved her hand and said, "No need to be polite, just come and talk." ”

Han Jian was about to salute, but when he heard the empress say this, he went directly to the table, and only then did he see what was on the table. It turned out to be a very sloppy map, judging from the geographical location on the map, it should be a military map of the north, involving some strategic points inside and outside the border pass of the Great Wall, including the northern section of the Yellow River.

"King Dong, take a look." The Empress waved her hand.

Han Jian took a look, because the military drawings were a little sloppy, and there were no airplanes and large-scale surveying and mapping tools in those years, so it was impossible to draw a military map with normal proportions and sizes. In addition, there is nothing special about the military map except for a few geographical annotations, so it can only be said that this is a military map, and he doesn't need to look at this at all if he knows something about geography. The map in my head is better than this.

"Your Majesty summons, I don't know what's going on?" Han Jian glanced at Yang Yu and asked the empress respectfully.

The empress sighed slightly: "Xianbei people, we are going to start a war with my Wei Dynasty again." They've already crossed my border twice this month, the most recent being the night before yesterday......"

Han Jian finally confirmed his guess, it turned out that it was the northern ethnic minorities who made trouble, not the rebellion of the northern king.

"That majesty xià...... What do you think? Han Jian asked. This is a question on the form. In his mind, after all, the imperial court and Xianbei did not go to war once or twice, even if it was a large-scale invasion of Xianbei, there would be one almost every few years, and the Xianbei people did not stop after the empress ascended the throne. It may be in the past two years, because Xianbei has to deal with the rise of several other ethnic minorities in the north, and there is little action on the northern border passes, but this does not mean that Xianbei will give up the southward raid. Xianbei only went south to plunder, even if he occupied the city of the Wei Dynasty, he would never occupy it for more than half a year before withdrawing his troops from the south of the Great Wall. The Wei Dynasty also had several deep cities north of the Great Wall, but these cities were not taken seriously and were often abandoned after the war.

The affairs of the north have always been dominated by the king of the north. The king of the north went to war with Xianbei, at most, he constantly asked the court for money and food, and in addition, he rarely asked the court to send troops, and even if he asked the court, he would shirk it for various reasons. Han Jian thought, could it be that this Xianbei invasion was fake, but in fact, the king of the north tested the imperial court, and by the way, asked the imperial court for money, food, and soldiers?

The empress sighed: "The Xianbei people are not greedy, the king of the north has not sent troops for a long time in these years, and the Xianbei people have gradually recovered their vitality. This Xianbei violated my border, and it was menacing, so I had to guard against it. ”

Han Jian thought about it, this means that the empress is going to send troops?

Han Jian felt that it was not quite right, if you want to send troops, you should go to the military department to discuss, at the moment, the empress should have seen him and a group of ministers last night, and discussed the matter after giving the two princes the crown. The military department was normal, and even the entire military department came to participate in the consecration ceremony of the two princes, but the empress didn't inform the military department, and directly asked him and the two princes to come over to discuss. What is the Empress avoiding?

"What His Majesty said is extremely true." Han Jian didn't know anything, and the empress asked him for his opinion, which was nothing more than to fight or not. Could it be that he said it might be a plot by the King of the North? In front of Yang Xi and Yang Yu, he couldn't say many things directly.

The empress suddenly seemed to think of something, looked at the two brothers Yang Xi and Yang Yu, nodded and said, "Third brother, sixth brother, you go back first, after noon, I will send someone to arrange a mansion for you." I have a few words to say to the East King. ”

"Okay, sister." Yang Xi smiled and nodded in agreement, he felt that his ability should not be able to help his sister, and staying would also add to the chaos, and if his sister wanted to discuss things with Han Jian, it should be of great help to things, so he didn't need to worry.

Yang Yu's thoughts were much more complicated than Yang Xi's, he frowned and glanced at Han Jian, he couldn't understand why the empress didn't ask their brother's opinion, leaving Han Jian alone to speak. Even if his sixth brother didn't have any skills, he thought that his knowledge and ability were enough to help the empress.

Although Yang Yu had an opinion in his heart, he still didn't say anything, and left with Yang Xi.

When the two brothers left Hanli Palace, the empress looked at Han Jian and said, "If you have anything to say, it's okay to speak up." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Han Jian saluted and said, "The minister thinks, is this a plan of the Northern King, in fact, the Xianbei invasion does not exist in the first place, and the Northern King wants to use this to blackmail the imperial court, so that the imperial court can broadcast money and grain, which is convenient for him...... Rebel? ”

The empress was slightly stunned when she heard Han Jian say so bluntly, and soon the empress regained her face and said: "What you said, I haven't thought about it, but the matter of Xianbei's invasion was sent back by an urgent document from the border gate of the imperial court, and the six-hundred-mile beacon tower has been lit, and there is no room for fraud." ”

"That's not for sure." Han Jian said a word, and stopped talking.

The empress glared at Han Jian and said, "Didn't it hurt to let you speak out?" ”

"Your Majesty, the king of the north has been at peace with Xianbei all these years, even if the king of the north has the heart to settle the people, then Xianbei can be so peaceful?" Han Jian asked first.

"Hmm." The Empress nodded, not commenting.

Han Jian continued: "In the minister's opinion, maybe the Northern King and Xianbei have any secret agreement, when Xianbei put down the rebellion of several small ethnic groups, the Northern King did not send troops, so that when the Northern King rebelled, the Xianbei people could help him." ”

The empress frowned and said, "Then you mean that the current invasion of Xianbei is the collusion between the Northern King and the Xianbei people, just an illusion?" ”

"It's not necessarily an illusion." Han Jian sighed, "The king of the north is a tiger, and the Xianbei people are wolves." Tigers and wolves eat people, and there is no reason to spit out the bones. Perhaps in the beginning, there was some kind of agreement between the two sides, but when the war actually began, it was not really binding on either side. An invasion like an act, and you may really think it ...... later" (to be continued......