Yi Jiuxiao's New Year was spent alone, in the yard he bought.

The four-rank official court will not give the mansion, so he can only live in his own house, but fortunately, Yi Jiuxiao bought a house immediately after the national examination.

At his current rank, his income is also high, and he usually hires servants. But Yi Jiuxiao didn't. It's not that he is lonely, but that he needs a pure cultivation environment, being in the academy during the day and coming back at night is almost to practice martial arts.

In the past half a year, although there has been no major breakthrough in the martial arts, the improvement is still obvious, whether it is in refining the body, refining the veins and refining the gods, there has been progress.

He vaguely felt that he had reached the middle stage of the Martial Sect, and he had touched the late stage of the Martial Sect, which was much stronger than when he fought against Ji Hai.

Martial arts cultivation is not simply about locking yourself up and practicing all day long. What martial arts needs is war, to improve and comprehend in battle, but what Yi Jiuxiao lacks now is war.

In the past, in Wanjia, he could still compete with Wan Shumad, but now he only has solo practice. There are many masters in Bozhou City, but he doesn't dare and can't just find someone to fight.

He really wanted to go to the battlefield and fight the enemy to the death, but he didn't have such a chance. Not to mention that in the academy, even if it is an official of the military department, how many people can personally fight on the battlefield?

Sometimes Yi Jiuxiao was thinking that if he had been staying in the academy and dealing with books all day long, his cultivation might be wasted.

The Academy is a transcendent existence, like a paradise, high above. Many bachelors have been in the mix for decades until they die of old age, and they have ended up with nothing in their studies or careers.

Yi Jiuxiao didn't want to do this, he still wanted to go out, and it was best to go to the battlefield.

Unexpectedly, in early February after the Chinese New Year, the opportunity came. Yi Jiuxiao not only has to go out, but also has to go a long way, and he has to take a long road that may not return.

Yi Jiuxiao submitted a national policy plan to Dean Fei a few years ago, but he didn't expect this plan to fit Dean Fei's mind.

Dean Fei has been thinking about the strategy with neighboring countries for several years, but he has not finally made a formal proposal, and this time Yi Jiuxiao's plan finally made him firm up his determination and decided to formally propose it to the emperor.

Regarding how to make friends with neighboring countries, Yi Jiuxiao also put forward several ways in the plan, which are all borrowed from the practices of the Great Song Dynasty and the previous dynasties. One is to pay tribute, the other is to make peace, and the other is to send protons to each other, and as for signing a covenant, it is often a dead letter.

Nagong is the most common way to deal with small and large countries, weak and strong. If you don't attack me, you can protect me, and every year I will pay you some money and food in exchange for peace, and this method has become common and well-known among the surrounding countries.

Harmony, that is, marrying the princess to the other emperor's or crown prince, to establish a kinship, this method was used more in the Great Song Dynasty and the previous dynasties, and it can basically be exchanged for decades of peace, but it has not been used in this continent so far.

Proton, that is, the emperor put his son in the other country, to show sincerity. If the two countries are hostile, they will kill each other's protons, which is the most used method during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and can also be exchanged for temporary peace.

Fei Tong took a fancy to the second way, that is, to be close, the emperor had many children, and there were eight princesses alone, of which three were of marriageable age.

If one of the princesses were to marry the crown prince of Wei as a concubine, and when the crown prince ascended the throne, he would be the queen, so that the two countries could rely on each other for at least a few decades to defend themselves against the enemy.

Why is it only a few decades? Most of the emperors are cultivators, and most of them are masters of Jindan and above, who can live for hundreds of years and rule the country for hundreds of years.

In fact, this is not the case, the emperor of this continent did not abdicate until he died. But when the crown prince grows up and can take charge, they will take the initiative to give way.

They will retreat to the background to concentrate on cultivation and become the guardians of the imperial family, and the current emperor Qi Changhao's father is alive, maybe the emperor's grandfather and grandfather are alive, but they no longer care about the government, and they don't even want to be an elder.

It just so happens that Wei Yang, the crown prince of Wei, is nearly thirty years old and has not yet married, so if he chooses a princess to marry, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds.

This matter is also just a test of the attitude of the Wei State, and the surrounding Wei State is also eyeing each other, and they should also want to find a reliable ally, but it is just who took the initiative to raise this matter.

This matter should be done sooner rather than later, Fei Tong wrote his ideas and attached them to Yi Jiuxiao's proposal, as a supplement to the proposal, to further enrich Yi Jiuxiao's plan.

On the second day after Yi Jiuxiao submitted, he entered the palace to meet the emperor and submitted the proposal. At his official level, although he didn't say that he came and went freely in the palace, it was very easy to see the emperor.

On the second day, the emperor suddenly entered the palace to discuss the proposal.

The emperor is more anxious than Fei Tong, for many years the state of Qi has been persecuted by the Great Zhou, the consumption of national strength, the loss of the country, and the suffering of the Li people, which makes him worried and unable to sleep and eat. If this method is feasible, it can contain the Zhou State, although it may not be able to take revenge, at least he does not have to worry too much about his reign for decades.

After Fei Tong entered the palace, he saw the emperor in the imperial study, and he found that Dazai Peng Chen was also there, and it seemed that the emperor also summoned Peng Chen to come over to discuss the matter.

The three of them went over the proposal again and again, and finally came to the conclusion that it was okay to give it a try. So the emperor ordered Peng Chen to summon the envoys of Wei in Qi and ask him to send a message to Wei Wen, the emperor of Wei.

After Peng Chen left the palace, he invited Qiu Chengfeng, the envoy of Wei, to discuss the matter with him. Qiu Chengfeng naturally couldn't make the decision about such a major matter, and only said that he would quickly pass the matter to the Emperor of Wei and give the result as soon as possible.

The capital of Qi and Wei is 20,000 miles away, even if the horse passes the book quickly, it will take a long time to go back and forth, who knows that Qiu Chengfeng will reply in less than a month after the year.

The reply of the Emperor of Wei was extremely in favor of this matter, and hoped that Qi would send the princess to Wei to marry the crown prince as soon as possible.

The reply was so fast, it really didn't make Peng Chen expect it, but when he saw the handwritten edict of King Wei with the imperial seal, he was sure that everything was true and there was no falsification.

Peng Chen could actually think that if a great monk was involved in this matter, he would definitely be able to do it quickly. Just like himself, if he flies, two thousand miles a day is not a problem.

There must be people like himself in the Wei State, and there must be masters lurking in other countries, otherwise there will be a war and it will be too late to receive the summons for a few months.

On the third day of the second lunar month, Fei Tong and Peng Chen were summoned to the palace again by the emperor, seven days after receiving a reply from the Wei emperor.

In fact, on the day he received the reply, Peng Chen entered the palace to see the emperor, and the emperor didn't say anything at the time, but just asked him to go back first, it seems that he wanted to discuss the princess candidate with the queen and other harems, and this candidate is also a vital part.

The emperor has several princesses, Peng Chen and Fei Tong know, but what about each princess, they don't know. Therefore, which princess to choose to go to the marriage can only be discussed by the royal family itself.

Today, the emperor gave a decision, and after discussing with the harem, he sent the seventh princess Qi Qingyun to make peace.

The seventh princess is born to the queen, who is now eighteen years old, and is called Princess Yun in the palace.

This princess is beautiful, smart and clever, usually very favored by the emperor and the queen, but she is not spoiled and arrogant, and she is very measured.

Princess Yun is good at everything, but her cultivation is too low, and she has only refined the eighth layer of qi so far, and it is indeed rare to use the royal exercises and cultivation resources.

The two capitals are 20,000 miles apart, and the mountains are dangerous, the road is far away, there are many bandits at the border, and more importantly, to prevent the obstruction of the enemy.

Just like the Great Zhou Kingdom, if he knew that Qi Wei and his relatives would inevitably interfere and sabotage it, so escorting the princess to arrive safely became a very critical issue.

First of all, it is impossible to send a large number of troops, and if you send tens of thousands of troops, it is safe to be safe, but the cost is also staggering. Moreover, it will make Wei State misunderstand and think that it is going to take the opportunity to invade, so it can only send elite soldiers.

Second, the identity of the escort should be noble, so as to show the importance of the royal family of Qi to this matter, so that Wei will not despise the princess, so the person at the head cannot be an ordinary general.

Peng Chen and Fei Tong thought of a person at the same time, and this person was Qi Changguo, the king of Anyuan. Qi Changguo itself is a royal family, but the emperor's cousin, hereditary King Anyuan, Jindan mid-term cultivation, is one of the masters of Qi State.

Qi Changguo usually doesn't ask about political affairs, but he leads the unified position of the forbidden army in the capital, which is also a false title, there are two deputy commanders under the capital, and the daily affairs are handled by the deputy capital. His existence is only to deter these people from having different intentions, and he usually concentrates on cultivation, so his cultivation is quite profound.

There is another reason for choosing King Anyuan to preside over the escort, that is, King Anyuan also has a daughter named Qi Qingru, known as the lord of Ru. Lord Ru is a cultivation genius, now at the age of nineteen, he is already a master in the late stage of foundation building, and a young cultivator in the Qi Kingdom is the number one master.

Because the princess is a girl, she has only practiced the eighth layer of qi, and her cultivation is low, and the escort must have a female master to take care of her, and the lord of Ru and the princess are cousins, and they are usually familiar with each other, so it is naturally very convenient to get along.

The emperor is very much in favor of King An Yuan's father and daughter escorting him, regardless of his status or ability, they are very suitable.

So in addition to King Anyuan's father and daughter, whether to arrange other officials to participate, the three of them were all considering, and finally Fei Tong proposed one candidate, that is, Yi Jiuxiao.

The harmony plan was originally proposed by Yi Jiuxiao, and Yi Jiuxiao focused on the study of national policies, allowing him to participate in the envoy and act as a ceremonial official, which could also enhance his horizons and allow him to fully understand the current national conditions of Wei.

For Yi Jiuxiao, the emperor has always admired it and thinks it is appropriate to let him pass. But there are still some concerns, one of which is that he is too young, only eighteen years old. The second is that he is a pure scholar, and if he has no cultivation, can he survive the difficulties and risks along the way.

So the emperor asked Fei Tong to ask Yi Jiuxiao's opinion, and if he wanted, he would go, and he was unwilling to rearrange the candidates.