When he left the imperial study of Ganlu Palace and returned to the palace, Ji Qingchen found that in addition to Zhang Rang and Guo Quan, there were also Bai Xiangcheng, Li Changzheng, Wang Yin, Liu Qingqing and others from the Xiaoqi Battalion gathered in the hall. Everyone agreed that Ji Qingchen immediately asked him for battle, and everyone expressed their willingness to go north to fight with the Beirong cavalry.

"Regarding the matter of sending troops to the north, my father has his own decision, you can go home and wait!" Ji Qingchen said a little weakly. When he entered the palace, his purpose was to refuse marriage, but when he left the imperial study, he never said this sentence, and now he felt very guilty in his heart, feeling that he was useless, and felt that he was sorry for Shu'er who was far away in the capital.

Everyone was originally in high spirits, ready to go north to fight Beirong, and make meritorious contributions, but the establishment is not a meritorious achievement. But seeing the lack of interest in His Royal Highness Ah Jiu, they thought of the recent request of Lingnan King Bai Zhiquan to choose a son-in-law for Princess Dream among the princes, and then thought that Princess Dream lived in the palace, they seemed to understand something in their hearts, and their faces that were flushed for their achievements just now became a little blue, and they began to be indignant for Ji Qingchen.

However, in this case, they still didn't have the courage to rebel against Ji Qingchen, so they could only watch Ji Qingchen silently.

All of a sudden, the hall became surprisingly calm!

The atmosphere is a bit condensed!

"Listen to Your Highness, go back and rest! As long as we wait for the will of the imperial court to be reached, we will go north to Yunzhou and fight the Beirong cavalry to the death! Bai Xiangcheng saw that the atmosphere in the hall was a little cold, so he immediately spoke.

"No!" The crowd received the order and exited the hall.

On the side, Zhang Rang and Guo Quan also saw that Bai Xiangcheng and Ji Qingchen had something to say, so they came and left very interestingly. At this time, there were two people left in the hall, Ji Qingchen and Bai Xiangcheng.

"Is Your Highness worried about Princess Meng's marriage?" Bai Xiangcheng asked, he had always spoken so straightforwardly, and there was no extra nonsense.

"People are in the emperor's house, and they can't help themselves!" Ji Qingchen ignored Bai Xiangcheng's question, and said to himself.

"What His Highness said is that whether it is the emperor's family or the major families, everything must be done to estimate the benefits, so Xiang Cheng will leave the Bai family." Bai Xiangcheng replied.

"Leave?" Thinking of Emperor Yan's debt theory, Ji Qingchen said helplessly, "Can you leave?" ”

"Xiang Cheng can, but His Highness probably can't." Bai Xiangcheng replied bluntly.

"For what?"

"Responsibility." Bai Xiangcheng simply spit out these two words. Seeing that Ji Qingchen was silent, he continued, "The Bai family is just a family of thousands of people, if Xiang Cheng leaves, the responsibility is only these thousands of people, but His Royal Highness's family is the world of this Dayan, if His Royal Highness leaves, he will definitely have to bear the responsibility of the people of the world, Xiang Cheng thinks that with His Royal Highness's compassion, he will definitely not be able to do it." ”

"Are you saying that this king can only take care of everyone and give up his small family?" Ji Qingchen's cold eyes stared at Bai Xiangcheng like a knife and asked.

"Why does Your Highness need to ask Xiang Cheng? Didn't you already make a choice when you left Shangjing? Bai Xiangcheng said, his eyes met Ji Qingchen's murderous eyes without fear.

The two looked at each other silently for a long time before Ji Qingchen withdrew his gaze, and his voice was much softer, "Do you think this time this time the king is invited to fight north, and the Xiaocai battalion faces the Beirong cavalry, what are our chances of winning?" ”

"Less than 20 percent." Bai Xiangcheng said, "But if we don't go north, I'm afraid we won't even have a chance of winning." ”

"That's right! The 100,000 troops of the Northern Liao camp were defeated, the 200,000 iron cavalry soldiers of Beirong pressed the border, and the troops were stationed under the city of Caozhou. Ji Qingchen sighed. He knew very well the brutality of the Beirong cavalry, especially this time the Beirong cavalry was hungry and crazy, if it really went south to the hinterland of Dayan Yunzhou and Shangzhou, it would definitely be a nightmare for the people of Yunzhou and Shangzhou.

"Therefore, Xiang Cheng thinks that His Highness should ask for a war to go north. Since the defeat of the Northern Liao Xingying army in the first battle of Yanmen, it has exposed many contradictions in the internal discord of the Northern Liao army in the past, and now Dayan can use it in addition to Liu Donglou, there is Jiang Rengui left, and there are two privy envoys of the Privy Council, but Liu Donglou wants to guard Ningzhou to prevent the departure of the national iron cavalry, Jiang Rengui wants to sit in Yizhou City, to prevent the Yi people from going north, and the remaining two privy envoys are already over sixty years old, and they want to lead the troops to the battle, I am afraid that His Majesty will not agree. This is a good opportunity for His Highness to show his ambitions. Of course, among the princes, King Ning and the Eighth Prince are also people who can fight well. However, His Royal Highness was named the King of Northern Liao, and His Royal Highness's fiefdom of Liaozhou was occupied by Beirong. ”

"We only have less than 20% chance of winning, and you still support this king to go north?" Ji Qingchen asked rhetorically.

"If you can win with a ninety percent chance, I'm afraid it won't be Your Highness's turn." Bai Xiangcheng said bluntly, "It has been ten days since the battle report came from the front, but the imperial court still has not moved, and Xiang Cheng guesses that it may be the lack of a leading army, and no one dares to lead the troops north." ”

"Yes! Ten years ago, in the battle of Yanmen, 100,000 elite soldiers of Dayan were killed by 30,000 iron horsemen of Beirong, and the eldest brother Ji Chengqian died in battle, and this time Beirong poured out of the nest, and 200,000 iron cavalry went south, who could compete with them. Ji Qingchen said to himself, "If you want to repel the Beirong cavalry this time, I'm afraid you need at least 300,000 troops!" ”

"According to Xiangcheng's estimate, there are more than 300,000, but because of this, His Royal Highness is required to rise to the challenge, break through the barbarians in a battle, and get 300,000 soldiers. Bai Xiangcheng said in a sharp tone.

Do you really want to have 300,000 soldiers to reign over the world? Hearing Bai Xiangcheng's words, Ji Qingchen secretly said to himself! However, he also felt that what Bai Xiangcheng said was very right, as long as he had the power, who would dare to let him do what he didn't like? He made up his mind and said, "It's decided, you go back and let all the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion write a letter of request, and this king will write to his father tomorrow and go north to beg for thieves." ”

"No!" Bai Xiangcheng received the order, bowed to Ji Qingchen to say goodbye, and strode out of the hall.

With a conversation with Bai Xiangcheng, Ji Qingchen's heart felt a lot more comfortable, and when he left the hall and was about to go back to the study to write a letter of invitation, he met Princess Dream on the way.

Dream Princess Bai Meng'er seemed to have come to Ji Qingchen on purpose, and when she saw Ji Qingchen bowing to him slightly, she said, "Your Highness, Meng'er has something to say, I wonder if His Highness has time?" ”

"Princess-" Ji Qingchen knew what Bai Meng'er wanted to say, so he wanted to refuse, but Bai Meng'er stopped him, "Your Highness just needs to listen to what Meng'er says, Meng'er doesn't need His Highness to agree." ”

"Then let's go for a walk in the garden!" Ji Qingchen sighed softly and agreed.

"Yes!" Bai Meng'er agreed.

The two of them walked side by side on the path in the courtyard in the back garden one after another, and quietly walked to the pavilion by the lake, before Princess Meng spoke, "Your Highness, my uncle's choice has nothing to do with Meng'er, Meng'er knows that His Royal Highness has a heart, and I envy her who is far away in the capital." So although Meng'er can't change this reality, he is willing to do his best to delay for His Highness for a while, and the rest is up to His Highness. ”

"Princess, why bother?" Ji Qingchen sighed, not knowing what to say.

"Meng'er is willing to do this, because Meng'er doesn't want the princess named Shu'er to be sad and sad." Dream Princess Bai Meng'er said faintly, "Your Highness, this world is very big, and there are many people, but there may be only one person you can really meet, and if you lose it this time, there will be no next time." Just like His Royal Highness's piano music, I wish to win the heart of one person, and the white head will not be separated, what a beautiful oath this is, this is such a beautiful love between the two people. So Meng'er is unwilling to let this dream oath be broken, and she doesn't want this love to turn into a resentful world. ”

Princess Dream seemed to use all her strength to say this. Because when she finished saying this, her face became a little pale, and when she saw that Ji Qingchen on the side was silent, she left alone.

Quietly recalling these words of Dream Princess Bai Meng'er, thinking of Emperor Yan's heartfelt words, and then thinking of Bai Xiangcheng's advice just now, Ji Qingchen fell into pain again.

After staying quietly in the garden for a long time, he came to the stable of the school field, rode his war horse Xiying, carried his war knife and wolf blade, and ordered that Zhang Rang and Guo Quan's guards should not be allowed to accompany him, but rode out of King's Landing alone.

Riding alone out of King's Landing, he galloped all the way, and in an instant he arrived at the foot of the mountain, looking at the towering foothills in front of him, he continued to ride his horse uphill and galloped for more than thirty miles, until there was a stream in front of him, he got off his horse, let Xiying go to drink alone, he took off the wine bag on the saddle, held the wolf blade in his arms, and sat by the stream, drinking quietly and silently.

The water bladder used for the march was enough to hold four catties of wine, and Ji Qingchen drank it alone, but he found that not only was he not drunk, but he also became more sober. Because at this time, he remembered a lot of past events that were about to be sealed in the dust, like the scene when he first arrived and left the country, like the bits and pieces he got along with Shu'er, and the scene when he parted with Shu'er.

All of this, like a sharp knife, stabbed him in the heart fiercely, making his heart hurt and hurt! But he didn't know what was wrong with him, obviously his heart hurt very much, but the more he hurt, the more he thought about it.

In this way, like a stone sculpture, he sat quietly by the stream, and this sitting was an afternoon, and from the afternoon to the evening, until the evening, he still did not say a word, and remained motionless......

And when he returned to the monarch to temporarily send his little white horse Xiying, just like knowing his thoughts, after drinking the water, he walked to his side very spiritually, and knelt quietly beside him, except for rubbing his arm with his head from time to time, he obediently accompanied him to look at the northern sky......