When he returned to the palace in the evening, Ji Qingchen had a meal with Bai Xiangcheng, Guo Quan, Tang Yifu and others. After eating, Bai Xiangcheng left, and Guo Quanyi also left under the pretext of leaving, leaving only Tang Yifu and Ji Qingchen. Ji Qingchen asked Tang Yifu to invite him to the study, and began to inquire about the preparation of Huitong Bank. Because Wei Zhongxian had received an order from Emperor Yan to secretly send 50 million taels of silver to the palace, now only Tang Yifu's bank could open for business, but Ji Qingchen couldn't wait for this day, he would go north to Caozhou tomorrow, so he could only invite Tang Yifu to the study to inquire.

"Your Highness, rest assured, Huitong Bank will definitely open before the year!" Tang Yifu assured, seeing that Ji Qingchen was a little incomprehensible, he continued, "Now the façade of the bank is under construction, but the important thing is the guys in the bank, so Yifu is now collecting and cultivating talents in this area." ”

Any industry is inseparable from the talents of this industry, which Ji Qingchen knows. So when he heard Tang Yifu's explanation, his heart was clear. Then he asked, "I wonder how Lu Dao is going to cultivate talents in this area now?" ”

"For talents in this field, because of the time constraints, Shaw can only search for young people who are talented in arithmetic, and then teach them about the bank, that is, our knowledge of Huitong Bank lending." Tang replied.

"Didn't Mr. think of opening a special school to cultivate talents in this area?" Ji Qingchen frowned and asked, "Mr. Tang's plan is to use five years to develop and grow, and then defeat Wei's Qianzhuang, there will be a great need for talents from this side at that time, how can it be enough to cultivate like Mr. now?" ”

Tang Yifu's eyes lit up when he heard Ji Qingchen's suggestion, but he immediately gloomed, and said with a sigh, "Your Highness, Dayan scholars pay attention to fame, who wants to specialize in studying these miscellaneous studies, besides, there are not many talented people in the entire Dayan arithmetic, and these people that Yifu is looking for now are still the foundation left by the previous eldest brother." ”

"This-Mr. Tang can find a talent who has fallen behind, and of course he can also find some orphans or children from poor families, presumably they won't refuse such a good thing, right?" Ji Qingchen suggested.

When Tang Yifu heard Ji Qingchen say this, he was immediately interested, thought for a moment, and said excitedly, "Your Highness's suggestion is good, Yifu will start preparing immediately." ”

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen nodded, and sent Tang Yifu out of the study, now Ji Qingchen trusts Tang Yifu very much, because he trusts his uncle Ye Qingzhi very much, even if he has only met once, and Tang Yifu is Ye Qingzhi's student, this is the premise for Ji Qingchen to believe in Tang Yifu.

As soon as Tang Yifu returned to the door, Ji Qingchen was about to go back to the study to read the book. Seeing Zhang Rang hurriedly walked in front of him, handed an invitation to Ji Qingchen and said, "Your Highness, this is an invitation from Ye Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, let His Highness come to the house to talk." ”

Is my uncle finally going to see me? Ji Qingchen thought so in his heart, so he wanted Zhang Rang to order, "Prepare a car immediately and go to the Shaoqing Mansion." ”

Zhang Rang led the order.

After a while, the carriage and horses were ready, and Ji Qingchen strode out of the palace, jumped into the carriage and came to Ye Qingchen's mansion. When he arrived at the gate of Ye Mansion, he didn't need to be informed of Ye Mansion, there was already a housekeeper waiting at the door, and when he saw Ji Qingchen's frame, he directly let the carriage enter the mansion through the side door.

When he arrived at Ye Mansion, Ji Qingchen, who got out of the carriage, saw at a glance his uncle Ye Qingzhi and Ye Qingchen, who were already waiting next to the car.

"I've seen the eldest uncle and the second uncle!" Ji Qingchen immediately saluted.

"No need to be polite! You are going north tomorrow, and you must rest early in the evening, so let's go to the study and talk! Ye Qingzhi said.

Ji Qingchen nodded slightly.

The three of them came to Ye Qingchen's study.

"This time you go north, in the face of 200,000 Beirong iron horses, do you have confidence?" After taking a seat in the study, Ye Qingzhi opened the door and asked.

"Nope." Ji Qingchen replied truthfully.

"You're the one who took it this time!" Ye Qingzhi sighed and said, "Even if you don't ask for war, the position of the governor of Northern Liao is still yours, why should you take the risk of asking for war, what are you going to be the chief of the Northern Liao camp?" With Dayan's current strength, there is no second way to go except to negotiate peace with Beirong. ”

"Is this what Uncle meant?" Ji Qingchen asked, making peace with Beirong, this proposal was very abrupt, which caught him a little off guard.

"This is the meaning of the Political Affairs Hall-" Ye Qingzhi said, "Actually, not only the Prime Minister and the Six Scholars of the Political Affairs Hall, but His Majesty and the Privy Council do not have the confidence that you will be able to stop Beirong from going south this time." ”

"So they're ready to make peace with Beijung?" Ji Qingchen asked a little annoyed.

"Yes! This time, you go north to Caozhou, facing the 200,000 troops of Beirong, once Caozhou City loses, His Majesty may send Qincha north to negotiate peace. Ye Qingzhi replied.

"These cowards—" Ji Qingchen said angrily, and his mood suddenly became a little bad because of Ye Qingzhi's words.

"You can't say that, in fact, in the past three years, our armaments have been relaxed, and we are not the opponent of the 200,000 iron cavalry of Beirong!" Ye Qingzhi sighed a little helplessly.

"What does that mean, uncle?" Ji Qingchen knew that Ye Qingzhi would see Ye Qingchen's mansion more than just chatting.

"If you want to negotiate peace with Beirong, this is only a follow-up after the defeat of Caozhou, so before you go north to Caozhou and fight Beirong, the imperial court still hopes that you can win this battle to prevent the Beirong cavalry from going south." Ye Qingzhi muttered, "Therefore, what my uncle means is that you just do your best, don't do anything stupid after the defeat!" ”

"This-" Now that Ji Qingchen knows that he is looking for himself because he is afraid that he will commit suicide after defeat, or kill himself and reveal the secrets of the imperial court to himself, his heart is very moved, so he said seriously, "Please rest assured, Uncle Qingchen will definitely not stop Beirong from going south and win this battle for Dayan." ”

"Yes! Just do your best! Ye Qingzhi still insisted on his own point of view.

"Yes!" Ji Qingchen didn't want to argue with Ye Qingzhi, so he nodded and agreed.

"This time you go north to Caozhou, Gu Qi will wait for you in Caozhou City, you have him by your side to give advice, uncle is very relieved, I am not ready to recommend you to the strategists around my uncle, their talents are not as good as Gu Qi and Gu Kaizhi." Ye Qingzhi said very seriously, "However, Gu Kaizhi has a longitude and latitude in his chest, and he is good at Yang Mou, so he is lacking in conspiracy and power, and how can the two armies fight only with Yang Mou and no conspiracy?" So my uncle will tell you another person, his talent is not inferior to Gu Kaizhi, especially good at conspiracy and power, you can get his help, and this time the fight against Beirong will get twice the result with half the effort. ”

"But-" Ye Qingzhi said this, and paused, "This person has a very stubborn temper, and he decided to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests twenty years ago because of the frustration of officialdom, and he is not far from the mountains to enter the office. If you want to invite him, I'm afraid you'll have to put some thought into it. ”

"I don't know who this person is?" Ji Qingchen was very excited, as for whether he could let this person invite out of the mountain, it was not difficult for Ji Qingchen at all, he was still very confident in himself in this regard.

"His name is Liu Wen, the word Boji, and he lives in seclusion in Jiming Mountain, Yunzhou, you go to Caozhou this time, you can go and see it if you have time." Ye Qingzhi said lightly, "The old man thinks, the national crisis is at hand, and Old Man Liu won't reject you!" ”

"Thank you, uncle!" Ji Qingchen said happily.

"You are the nephew of the old man, we are all a family, why are you so polite?" A smile appeared on Ye Qingzhi's rare face.

So Ji Qingchen chatted with Ye Qingzhi and Ye Qingchen for a while about the current situation in King's Landing, and Ji Qingchen told Ye Qingzhi about his suspicions about the crown princess and the Shangzhou Wei family. Ye Qingzhi pondered for a long time, and told him that he would deal with this matter, so that Ji Qingchen could go to Caozhou to prepare for the war with peace of mind. Ji Qingchen nodded in agreement. When the three of them chatted, Ji Qingchen said goodbye to Ye Qingzhi and Ye Qingchen and left Ye Mansion.

At midnight the next day, Ji Qingchen, who got up early, finished washing, put on the black prince python robe under the service of the maid, hurriedly ate some breakfast, went out with a knife, and went straight to the Kunshan military camp. Because Emperor Yan is going to practice for the army outside the city today, he has to prepare in advance.

As the commander of the three armies, he did not wear the armor given to him by Emperor Yan. Because he was not used to wearing armor, he developed the habit of cloth clothes in World War II as early as when he left the country. Besides, the armor in the winter was too cold, which made him uncomfortable to wear, and he didn't want to suffer this crime, so he put on the python robe when he was entertaining.

This time, there were also Huang Taiji and four hundred Beirong cavalry in the Kunshan military camp with Ji Qingchen. Just last night when Ji Qingchen returned to the palace, Huang Taiji went to the study and told him that the White Cavalry Battalion was willing to go north to Caozhou to participate in the war, saying that they had surrendered Ji Qingchen, that is, Dayan's soldiers, and the Beirong cavalry was no longer their fellow citizens, they were only for Dayan, only for Ji Qingchen.

Hearing Huang Taiji's impassioned oath, Ji Qingchen was very happy.

He didn't think that going north to fight against the Beirong cavalry with more than 400 people could play any role, but this was a kind of impact on the Beirong cavalry in his heart, at least he could let the Beirong cavalry know that as long as they surrendered to Dayan, one of them could fight, and the food and clothing were better than they were in Beirong. Ji Qingchen would not be naïve to think that this alone could persuade the Beirong cavalry to surrender, but he knew that with the example of Huang Taiji, there would always be a second Huang Taiji and a third Huang Taiji in future wars......

When they arrived at the Kunshan military camp, the Xiaocai battalion was ready to go.

Bai Xiangcheng, Li Changzheng and others saw Ji Qingchen and immediately stepped forward to salute. Ji Qingchen returned the salute and began to inspect the military appearance of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and he was very satisfied when he saw the heroic and high-spirited 800 soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion. Ordered the cavalry battalion to be opened, and the destination was outside King's Landing.

On the way, Ji Qingchen received a messenger sent by Cheng Qianfan, saying that the 60,000 cavalry and 40,000 foot soldiers of the Long Xiang Army were already ready to go outside King's Landing City, and were waiting for Emperor Yan's review, and he nodded with satisfaction.

A moment later, the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the White Cavalry Battalion led by Ji Qingchen met with the Long Xiang Army outside King's Landing.

Cheng Qianfan, Bai Yang, Yuwen and other generals stepped forward to salute Ji Qingchen, and after a few words of greeting, they found that the sun was rising in the eastern sky.

At this time, Ji Qingchen knew that Emperor Yan was about to leave the palace to inspect the army in the outer city, so he ordered the army to tidy up the army.

After another half a pillar of incense time, I saw a "squeak" outside the city opened, the first six hundred forest riders rushed out, to the front of the Longxiang army fifty steps before stopping, and then saw two hundred guards surrounded by a military uniform on the war horse Yan Emperor and Bai Jin two people, rushing out of King's Landing City, Emperor Yan is over fifty years old, but because of the hard work of China and Japan, the hair is a little white, Bai Jin is over sixty years old, and the temples have long been white.

The two old men rode on war horses, their momentum was not reduced, and they also wore war swords at their waists, and they were majestic.

Behind him was the carriage of the queen and the concubines, and behind him was the carriage of the prime minister and the six ministers. They collectively came out of Taiji to Taimiao to worship their ancestors, and then went out of the city with Emperor Yan to practice for the army.

Seeing Emperor Yan from a distance, the army did not move, but Ji Qingchen, Cheng Qianfan, Bai Xiangcheng, Bai Yang and other generals in the army immediately dismounted and hurried to meet them.

"Ji Qingchen, the general manager of the North School Camp, see my father!" Ji Qingchen said strongly.

"See Your Majesty!" Cheng Qianfan, Bai Xiangcheng, Bai Yang, etc.

"See Your Majesty!" The army of 100,000 shouted.

Emperor Yan noticed Ji Qingchen who was not wearing armor at a glance, and was a little displeased. After all, Ji Qingchen is the commander of the army, and he is not the prince of the supervising army, what is the matter with this commander not wearing armor but wearing a royal robe! However, he noticed the cold and murderous aura between Ji Qingchen's eyebrows and the calm bearing that only a coach exuded from his whole body, and the displeasure just now was swept away, and he said lightly, "Flatten!" ”

Then he said to the people, "Flat! ”

"No!" Ji Qingchen, Cheng Qianfan, Bai Xiangcheng and others received orders and made way for Emperor Yan, Emperor Yan and Bai Jin rode alone, and Ji Qingchen followed Emperor Yan on foot with Cheng Qianfan and Bai Xiangcheng. Emperor Yan and Bai Jin rode to the front of the 100,000 army, and Emperor Yan said loudly, "Can the Long Xiang army be worthy of a battle? ”

"Fight! War! War! The 100,000-strong army roared in unison, and the roar shook the sky.

Emperor Yan was very satisfied with the high morale of the Long Xiang Army, so he moved his eyes to the Xiao cavalry camp in front of the Long Xiang Army, which surprised him himself. Because he found that these 800 people were riding horses and standing quietly in front of the 100,000 Long Xiang army, and their momentum did not belong to the Long Xiang army at all. And from the faces of these eight hundred soldiers, he saw strength and self-confidence, and a spirit that was not afraid of death.

What a ride! Emperor Yan thought of this in his heart, and his gaze moved to the identity of the soldier of the Xiaocai battalion again, and he was even more surprised. Because the equipment of these 800 cavalry battalions is so good, even his 6,000 feather forest cavalry can't be missed. The horse lance of all colors, at a glance, you can see that the road is a weapon that has been passed down by the family for several generations. A good bow of all colors, equipped with three pots of bows and arrows, and a short crossbow with three pots of arrows. All of them resemble a wolf's blade knife, the style is simple, and at first glance it is a fine war knife with fine workmanship. All black armor and black horses.

These 800 soldiers are not far behind the 800 forest riders! Emperor Yan thought of this in his heart, and he had an intuitive impact on Ji Qingchen's army training and army management. The other people who followed Emperor Yan saw the equipment of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and their hearts were as shocked as Emperor Yan, and they couldn't help but see a little more respect in Ji Qingchen's eyes, especially Xue Ju, the squire of the Ministry of War, who was deeply shocked by the strength of the Xiao Cavalry Camp the moment he saw the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and his dissatisfaction with Ji Qingchen in the past disappeared, replaced by indescribable admiration.

"Not bad! It's battle! Fight to the death with the Beirong cavalry! Emperor Yan continued to roar loudly, "Since I ascended the throne and became emperor, I have been leading the army to fight in the south and the north, so there is a situation where the Quartet is convinced today. However, the ambition of the Beirong wolf son wants to go south to occupy the territory of our Dayan and kill the people of Dayan, so we can only fight with them. It's a pity that I am old, Bai Jin is over sixty years old, and it is difficult to go north with you to kill the thieves, so I can only let my son replace me, and I can only let Bai Jin's grandson replace our two old bones and drive the Beirong thieves out of Dayan. ”

Emperor Yan took a deep breath, and he said from the bottom of his heart, "This time you go north, I can only practice here, I hope you can win!" ”

"The majestic swallow will never fall! The blood is inexhaustible, and the fight to the death is endless! The 100,000-strong army shouted, "The majestic Yan will never fall!" The blood is inexhaustible, and the fight to the death is endless! ”

"Dayan doesn't fall, the iron sword is still there!" Li Changzheng and Wang Yin shouted from the cavalry battalion. Although the number of people is small, the momentum is not lost to the 100,000 dragon army.

"Dayan doesn't fall, the iron sword is still there!" One hundred thousand dragon soldiers shouted.

Suddenly, the battle spirit outside the city of King's Landing was high, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

Emperor Yan and Bai Jin glanced at each other, and they were both very satisfied with the morale of the Long Xiang army and the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, so they gave the order to set off. Suddenly, I heard Concubine De shouting, "Erchen-"

"Mother-" Ji Qingchen turned around and saw that Concubine De had already gotten off the carriage and was slowly walking towards him. He immediately stepped forward, knelt down in front of his mother, and said, "Please take care of your body!" ”

"Mother Concubine Zhi said-" Concubine De tried her best to control her crying, gently stroked Ji Qingchen's face, and after a long time, she took a black embroidered dragon cloak from the hand of the palace maid beside her, and gently draped it on Ji Qingchen's body and then tied it to him, "This is the cloak that the mother concubine made for you overnight, just take it as a little bit of the concubine's heart for you to go north to fight Beirong this time!" ”

"Thank you, Princess!" Ji Qingchen kowtowed, got up with Concubine De's reluctant eyes, and strode in front of Emperor Yan, "The army is ready to go, please show your father!" ”

"Let's go!" Emperor Yan said.

"No!" Ji Qingchen received the order, strode to Xiying's side, turned over and got on the horse, he grabbed the reins of the horse with his left hand, and held the green dragon horse lance in his right hand, and ordered the army with great momentum, "Go!" Caozhou! ”

The 100,000 army received the order, left King's Landing in turn and went straight to Caozhou, and disappeared on the official road in an instant.