Wu Yingying had to bow his head and say, "I don't know." ”

Cai Yu said with a smile: "The omniscient General Wu also has times when he doesn't know. The reason why Lone dares to renew you, a new minister, is because your eyes remind me of Pan Guoshi. You act very differently from him, but your eyes are as arrogant as he is, and not as cautious as others. ”

Hearing Cai Yu like this, Wu Yingying was shocked, he was a modern person, so he naturally lacked reverence for the monarch, he thought that he had paid enough attention, but who knew that Cai Yu was still careful to see the difference, but he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.

Cai Yu didn't care when he saw the sudden change in Wu Yingying's face, and continued: "Is Lone right? Don't worry, Lone is not a faint monarch who likes flattery, nor is he a tyrant who takes people's lives at every turn. At first, Lone didn't know why Pan Qing and a Confucian dared to laugh at the prince, but then Lone slowly figured it out, the so-called desireless is rigid, probably referring to people like you. ”

Wu Yingying relaxed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is serious, the minister is an ordinary man and has a lot of desires. ”

Cai Yu saw that he seemed to be frightened just now, and now he regained his tired appearance, and couldn't help but sigh, and then remembered Pan You, who hanged himself, and sighed: "If Pan Qing had half of your Yuantong and had a relationship with his monarchs and ministers, it would not be like this." ”

Seeing that Wu Yingying bowed his head and said nothing, Cai Yu said again: "I have been reading for pleasure since I was a child, and I don't like political affairs, when my father was still alive, my brother Hongyi was worried that my uncle would compete with him, and he did not hesitate to poison his uncle, but he never worried about me. The country is like this, if my brother Hongyi is the king, it should be far better than me. There was a sense of depression in his voice.

Wu Yingying listened to him talk about these royal things, and didn't dare to answer, so Cai Yu continued: "Although it is not my wish to be the king of a country, after I ascend the throne, I will govern the country with benevolence, lenient sentences and reduced taxes, treat ministers with courtesy, and will definitely open the treasury to help the people in a famine year, and never take the initiative to provoke wars." What did Lone do wrong? Heaven is disgusted, and he wants Lone to be the king of this fallen country? Wu Yue's Qian Yu said that the Central Plains is where Zhengshuo is, so no matter who becomes the emperor of the Central Plains, he will call him a minister, but I am not reconciled!"

He is not a mediocre person, facing the pressure of the emerging northern regime Song State, although he has a lot of affection for the wind and snow, the depression in his heart has accumulated early, and he has to maintain the dignity of the emperor in front of the ministers and concubines on weekdays and cannot vent, today he happened to be aroused by the two things reported by Wu Qiao, and he was unable to help himself for a while.

Cai Yu waved his hand and said: "It is difficult for the son of a rich family to fight for his life as a prisoner, if it is really as you say, isn't it difficult for Jiangnan to fight against the Song master? ”

Wu Yingying said: "Jiangnan is rich in money and grain, and the treasury of the Central Plains is empty under the successive wars, and if it is an expedition of laborers, it will definitely not last." As Wu Xiang said, our country only needs to clear the wilderness, and when the Song army's grain and grass are exhausted and retreat, a general can be sent to pursue it to break it, and then take advantage of the situation to recover the land of Jianghuai, then Zhongxing can wait. ”

Cai Yu said with a smile when he heard this: "I only want the Song division to retreat, just keep the peace of the party, the northern soldiers are fierce, even if I enter Jianghuai, who can defend it for me." ”

Wu Yingying was speechless, thinking that Empress Cai was really not easy to fool, in fact, with the combat effectiveness of the Tang army in the south, it was almost impossible to take an offensive against the strong Song army in the north.

Seeing the gloomy look on Wu Yingying's face, Cai Yu couldn't help but feel a little gloomy in his heart, and comforted: "Wu Qing doesn't have to be depressed, the Central Plains has been in turmoil for a hundred years, and there are Khitan in the east and Uighurs in the west. ”

Wu Yingying said in his heart, this is the national policy set by Cai Yu, the ancestor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to protect the land and rest the people, and wait for the opportunity to enter the Central Plains, so he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty will encourage you."

Cai Yu patted him on the shoulder and said: "Lone wrote a sub-word, which is the words you filled in the river, and I will let the palace people hand it over to you and take it back, I hope you will fight hard to kill the enemy for the people of Jiangnan, and all the Song troops who taught the south to commit crimes will be wiped out." After saying these words, Cai Yu's mood finally improved, and he waved his hand to let Wu Yingying retreat with a eunuch.

Although Wu Yingying has entered the palace many times before, but has never entered the inner court, at this moment followed a eunuch through the hall, everywhere you can see glass screens and sculptures made of gold and jewelry, when passing a small bridge, it is found that the rockery towering in the trickling stream is actually all carved with spices obtained from the sea, no wonder the air is filled with a thick fragrance.

Probably there are few men in the palace, and the palace maid in a green silk dress has to look at him when she walks by hurriedly, and some of the bold ones actually throw a flattering eye at him, so that Wu Yingying, who has suffered from many women's white eyes in his previous life, is very addicted, but unfortunately he soon arrived at a pavilion facing the water on all sides.

The eunuch said: "Huang Sibao, Your Majesty will give the Nian Nujiao written yesterday to Wu Yingying, and I will take him to pick it up." Wu Yingying's heart moved when he heard this, and he remembered the particularly shy female history in the morning.

After a while, Fang heard the voice of a woman inside, "Please General Wu come in." The eunuch was stunned, stepped aside, and made way for Wu Yingying.

Wu Yingying stepped inside, and when he saw Xiao Zhouhou standing in the room, he was accompanied by the female history called Huang Wen behind him, and immediately bowed and saluted: "The foreign minister doesn't know that the queen is here, and I ask for forgiveness." ”

Empress Zhou knew that Wu Yingying was Cai Yu's newly valued courtier, and said with a smile: "General Wu doesn't have to be formal, and the palace is also here to read some of the ancestral music and dance for the newly made music and dance in the palace." He turned his head to Huang Wen and said, "Why don't you first take out the 'Nian Nujiao' written by His Majesty and hand it over to General Wu, and then sort out the fragment of this "Ni Clothes and Feather Song" for me." Huang Wen whispered.

Wu Yingying noticed that a sandalwood case behind them was piled with various paper fragments, and there were many symbols that he couldn't read, although they had been carefully pasted, but the handwriting was still difficult to read. Rows of huge bookcases fill the room, and the yellowed pile of old papers exudes a strange aroma, which sets off the petite figures of the two girls, which makes people feel a little awe-inspired.

This is Jianye Scholar's Room, Wu Yingying silently said to himself in his heart, in history, it was destroyed in a fire after the Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, but now, it has a collection of tens of thousands of volumes, including a large number of Zhong Wang ink, valuable famous paintings "Jiangxiang Spring and Summer Landscape Landscape", "Mountain Trip Picking Melon Picture", "Fan Wang Cluster Tent", "Lu Si Daoshuo Fang Xing", "Moon Customs", "Yang Concubine Makes the Snow Clothed Girl Mess Shuanglu Map", "Cat" and so on, known as the wealth of the collection, the essence of the pen and inkstone, the crown for a while, far more than the so-called Central Plains Zhengshuo's Song State collection.

Seeing that Wu Yingying was stunned, Huang Wen turned around and opened a bookcase next to him to take out a handscroll that was obviously newly written, and did not directly hand over the handkerchief to Wu Yingying, but carefully unfolded it and laid it on another red sandalwood bookcase, while taking out a green seal and stamping it with the six big characters of "The Seal of Jianye Study", and explained to Wu Yingying in a soft voice: "General Wu, forgive me, this pair of characters was made by His Majesty yesterday, and it is not yet time to use the seal." When she did these things, Zhou Hou also stood patiently and watched, and said with a smile: "General Wu has done a good job, and Your Majesty has written well." ”