Chapter 111: There will be no time after that
What kind of reaction Xiao Mingche would have when he received the letter with only the word "oh", Li Fengming didn't think much about it, and he didn't want to think about it.
Because there are so many things she needs to think about next.
I came here to avoid the assassins that Li Yun's cub might send at any time; the second is to stay away from the upcoming disturbances in Yongjing City, so as not to cause trouble for Xiao Mingche; The third is to calm down and figure out a way for the golden cicada to come out of its shell without causing too many waves.
She is not so reckless, and the reason why she hid in the Dicui Mountain Palace is not that she intends to "disappear" from here immediately.
After all, it is with his relatives, at least nominally, he bears a responsibility for maintaining diplomatic relations between the two countries. With the current identity of Princess Huai, if you want to run away, you can't just pack your bags and change your clothes.
Xin Wei pretended to be stupid, half-truths and half-truths made her happy, "Let's just slip away at the right time, and someone will always clean up the rest of the mess." What does Your Highness do so much? ”
"You said it lightly," Chun Yudai glared at her with an angry smile, "If His Highness suddenly disappears out of thin air, the Qi Kingdom suspects that Wei does not have the sincerity to form an alliance for a long time. ”
Li Fengming raised his cheeks and sighed bitterly, "Yes." I came to Qi and Qin, and Her Majesty the Queen did it. ”
If there is a mess at this juncture, they are undoubtedly handing knives to the Wei Emperor Party and the second prince Li Yun and others, who just took this opportunity to completely suppress Empress Wei to the point that they could no longer turn over.
At present, Li Yao is not yet an adult, and no matter how weak the power of the Hou Party is, it is also a force that can protect her.
"When I was a child, A-Ning was round and swayed when she ran. She learned to speak very late, and at first she would only chase me and shout 'Sister', but she couldn't tell why, so she was so anxious that she burst into tears......"
Li Fengming covered his somewhat moist eyes.
"Now that A-Ning is in a precarious position, I can't protect her, at least I can't harm her."
If you want to get out of Qi and leave without trouble, "cheating death and escaping" is the best choice.
But if you want to leave without causing trouble for the Wei State, this bluff must not be abrupt or reckless.
Li Fengming already has a clue in his heart about the way to get out of the way, but he needs to wait for an opportunity when the time and place are right.
When Li Fengming faded out of everyone's sight and hibernated in the palace and patiently waited for the opportunity to escape, the city of Yongjing was "wonderful".
At the beginning of September, Emperor Qi officially issued an edict to agree to the advice of Xiao Mingche, the king of Huai, and allowed him to recruit the first batch of female soldiers on a trial basis as the commander of the southern border army.
This is an earth-shattering move in the Qi country.
As soon as the news came out, the borders were full of discussions and legends about Xiao Mingche, and his reputation among the government and the opposition suddenly skyrocketed.
As soon as the conscription of female soldiers was opened, the crisis of the lack of soldiers in Qi was alleviated.
In the long run, this is not good for the crown prince himself.
But this incident made the main battle faction rise sharply, and King Heng and the main peace faction behind him fell into passivity, and the prince still benefited in the short term.
Therefore, instead of doing anything to suppress Xiao Mingche, he tried his best to raise it and set up "Huai King Xiao Mingche" as a golden signboard for the tough main battle, further winning the support of public opinion from the government and the opposition, and condensing the courage and blood of preparing for the war.
When most of the subjects stood on the side of the main battle, the prince was more confident, so he concentrated all his forces and took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack on King Heng.
In mid-October, taking the opportunity to prepare for a war against the Song State, the crown prince successfully seized the control of the household department from King Heng.
lost the important help of the household department, and Hengwang lost a miserable game this game.
He has no way to crack it on the surface, so he can only let the imperial historians of his camp desperately impeach the prince for "reckless military force and disregard for the people's livelihood".
Of course, Xiao Mingche was also impeached by piggybacking, saying that he "conscripted female soldiers to shake the foundation of the national system, and was suspected of being radical and greedy for merit and blind belligerence."
When Cen Jiashu brought the news to the palace, Li Fengming just smiled.
"Your Royal Highness has an order, how to deal with this matter, it is up to the princess to decide, and everyone in the palace is at your disposal." Cen Jiashu Road.
Li Fengming put down the teacup and raised his eyebrows lazily, "Your Highness is afraid that he wants to raise you to waste." If I need to work all these little things, then what use do you have? ”
Cen Jiashu was choked so lightly, his white face suddenly turned red, and he stopped talking.
"You obviously have a way to deal with it, what kind of tricks do you come to me?" Li Fengming couldn't bear to see the beautiful man embarrassed and couldn't get off the stage, so he smiled at him, and his voice softened.
"His Royal Highness King Huai is not in Beijing, and Qi has no rules for the princess to answer the impeachment of the imperial history, this impeachment is just a show, and His Majesty will not take care of it. Since His Majesty will not take care of it, the Huai Wangfu does not need to make any formal response. ”
The matter of recruiting female soldiers was actually mentioned by Emperor Qi hinting to Xiao Mingche.
King Heng still hasn't understood this mystery, and now he is desperately inciting Yushi to attack Xiao Mingche, essentially slapping his father's face.
You don't have to do anything, just wait to see Emperor Qi teach this stupid son a lesson.
"However, if we let those imperial histories talk to themselves, our mansion will not defend ourselves for His Highness, and over time, public opinion will always be led by the nose, and His Highness's reputation will eventually be unfavorable."
It must be said that this Cen Jiashu is really not a straw bag, and he knows how to take precautions and take precautions.
With such a person staring at Xiao Mingche's back, Li Fengming was really relieved.
"Have you told your Highness about this? What did he think? ”
"Your Royal Highness means that it is appropriate to ask the princess to take the trouble to think about it at this time." Cen Jiashu finally stopped beating around the bend.
Li Fengming smiled, his expression solemn, "Cen Jiashu, I have never asked, what have you learned from your four masters over the years?" ”
Facing her blazing gaze staring directly at her, Cen Jiashu felt something, slowly stood up straight, proudly took his hands, and made a loud noise.
"Heaven and earth are beginning to open, and yin and yang appear together. If you merge, you will make a profit, and if you divide it, you will lose. ”
In the world, responsibility, power and profit have always been inseparable.
When women have been suppressed as the "weak" party for a long time and have no opportunity to take responsibility, they naturally lose the possibility of reaping power and benefits on their own.
It is as big as protecting the family and defending the country, helping the people through the world, and entering the phase; From farming and labor, managing family finances, and raising children for the elderly, they should all be the common responsibilities, rights, and interests of the two groups.
Although men and women are born with their own strengths and weaknesses in many things, there is no difference between superior and inferior strength and weakness in the beginning.
It takes the two groups to become one, which is the most indestructible truth in the red dust.
Not every woman is weak, not every woman is cowardly, not every woman is ignorant.
At least, at the very beginning of being human, by no means.
They should have the same opportunity as men to choose to take responsibility, so that they can break free from the fate of being suppressed, despised, restrained, and dependent on their fathers, brothers and husbands for the rest of their lives.
Xiao Mingche started the first step of "recruiting female soldiers", which was to give them this opportunity.
So there's nothing wrong with him.
Li Fengming was very satisfied with Cen Jiashu's answer.
"According to your Royal Highness's wishes, let Zhan Kaiyang go to Wen Zexi, and ask Scholar Wen to organize a public debate in his private name."
She smiled and bowed her head with relief.
"Cen Jiashu, stand boldly on the debate platform. It's not just a fight for your lord, but also an opportunity for you to make a name for yourself. A hundred years later, the historian who compiles the history of the Qi country will definitely not be able to bypass your name. ”
From October 28 to the third day of November, Wen Zexi, a scholar of the university, organized a public debate in the debate field of the Panshan Academy in his private capacity.
Scholars from all over the country flocked to the city, and the nobles of the boudoir and even the pawns of the peddlers were allowed to go and watch.
The topic of debate was "Huai Wang Xiao Mingche's recruitment of female soldiers, whether it was greedy and warlike, or far-reaching for the country".
This public debate not only forcefully countered the impeachment of Xiao Mingche by the imperial historians, pushed Xiao Mingche's popularity to a new peak, but also triggered a trend of thought in which women in Qi fought for the same responsibilities and rights as men.
After this incident, Xiao Mingche's position in the Qi State cannot be easily shaken.
From beginning to end, Xiao Mingche, the king of Huai, himself methodically promoted the training of troops in the south, and did not bother with this debate at all; Princess Huai also did not leave the palace an inch.
caused such a big movement, and there was only one strategist Cen Jiashu in the Huai Wangfu.
The discerning people in the DPRK and China are all impressed by the Huai Wangfu, after all, the so-called weightlifting is light, and it is about that.
After the Huai Wangfu calmly dismantled this public opinion attack, King Heng also knew that Xiao Mingche was no longer a pitiful little man who could be rounded and flattened.
As the saying goes, two fists are no match for four hands. ran into a wall here in Xiao Mingche, and King Heng could only let go of the Huai Wangfu for the time being, and concentrate on biting the prince.
Now that Xiao Mingche is safe, Li Fengming doesn't have much suspense in Qi State.
On the twenty-fifth day of November, Cen Jiashu came to inform him that Xiao Mingche would return to Beijing on the eighth day of December.
Li Fengming immediately understood that the excellent opportunity to run away that he had been waiting for for half a year had come.
"Chunyu, what's wrong with what I asked you to investigate?"
"I haven't gotten the palace defense map, but Xin Wei has been close enough to the head of the palace guards in the past six months, and he has found out the general law." Chun Yudai took the drawings and spread them out.
"This is a sketch of the terrain around the palace. Go out in the back garden of the palace, go over Dicui Mountain and go east for another thirty miles, there is a small wharf called Shuanghuaidu. Get on the boat from Shuanghuai Ferry, pass through Guizi Creek in the eastern suburbs of Yongjing, and you can enter the Green Pine River. ”
The Green Pine River passes through the Yongjing of the Qi State to the east, and then runs through the whole territory of the Xia Kingdom and then enters the sea, with many tributaries on the way, and the waterways extend in all directions.
As long as you enter the Green Pine River, it will really be high from now on.
Li Fengming bowed his head, "Xin Wei, I let you contact the Cao Gang earlier, is it okay?" ”
Xin Wei firmly bowed his head, "Your Highness, rest assured, nothing goes wrong." At that time, Yufang and Tuwu will wait in Shuanghuaidu in advance. ”
The wharf of Shuanghuaidu is small and remote, and Yongjing Jingzhao Mansion has always turned a blind eye, so some small goods that cannot be put on the table are transferred here.
"Good. On the day Xiao Mingche came back, we went straight to Shuanghuaidu from the back mountain. ”
Li Fengming has repeatedly scrutinized that on the day Xiao Mingche returned to Beijing, he first had to accept the congratulations of officials and people on the outskirts of the city, and then enter the city, enter the palace to face the saints, and then return to the house.
It's going to be tossed all day.
And all she needed was the time difference for the whole day.
"Inform Mama Hua one day in advance, saying that on the morning of the eighth day of the new year, we will go to the back mountain to pick some flowers and fruits, and we will go directly out of the city to welcome Xiao Mingche, and there is no need to arrange someone to escort you in the palace."
Just say that she wants to surprise Xiao Mingche, and Mama Hua will not immediately spread the news of her leaving the palace to the Huai Wangfu.
And the other side of the Huaiwang Mansion thought that she was still in the palace, and his attention was on Xiao Mingche's entry into the palace to face the saint, and he would not rush to take her back to the palace.
In this way, it will not be until dusk at the earliest, when Xiao Mingche returns home from the palace, and he will have time to ask where she is.
By the time the Huaiwang Mansion and the palace were on both sides, the whole day had passed, and Li Fengming and his party should have gone to Shuanghuaidu.
The Dicui Mountain behind the palace is dense and high, there are many strange flowers and fruits, and there are thousands of cliffs, and there are often the movements of fierce beasts.
In the morning, in the name of going to the back mountain to pick flowers and fruits, and then make an illusion of "the three masters and servants fell off the cliff", and it is not too strange to find the corpse.
Princess Huai, who was close to her, fell off a cliff and her bones were gone, and Qi Guo would definitely not dare to make a big deal about it, but would try her best to suppress the news.
The Wei State is also full of chicken feathers now, as long as the Qi State does not make a lot of noise, there will not be too many people on the other side who will take the initiative to ask a princess who is close to him.
In this way, there will be no hidden danger of disputes in diplomatic relations.
"However, after we leave, if the second prince really sends someone to assassinate you, won't he soon find out that you are gone?" Xin Wei couldn't turn for a while.
Li Fengming laughed casually, "Does he dare to say to His Majesty the Emperor that he sent someone to Yongjing to assassinate me, but he couldn't find any trace of me?" ”
Emperor Wei asked her to come out and kiss, just to be out of sight and out of mind, let her fend for herself here, and give full play to her residual heat by the way.
After all, the marriage between her and Xiao Mingche is related to the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and Emperor Wei will not be stupid enough to hope that she will die at the hands of the Wei people.
If Li Yun dared to let Emperor Wei know that he had sent someone to assassinate Li Fengming, then he would not have any good fruit to eat.
So even if he found that Li Fengming disappeared out of thin air, he didn't dare to leak it.
"Okay, there's nothing wrong with it," Li Fengming held down his uncomfortable heart, "It's really an impeccable escape plan." ”
After finishing speaking, a slight dull pain arose in my heart.
She seemed to know what was going on, but she didn't want to think about it, and she didn't plan to stop there.
In life, there are always many choices.
She's been abandoned twice, and she really doesn't want to face a third abandonment. So this time she won't sit back and wait for others to choose her, she chooses to go by herself.
On the eighth day of December, it was cold.
On a flat day, the wind swept the clouds in the dome and snowflakes covered the sky.
Li Fengming was dressed in jade pigment clothes, and under the protection of Chun Yudai and Xin Wei, he calmly walked out of the back garden of the palace.
After entering the overgrown mountain path, Li Fengming looked up at Dicui Mountain, which was slowly whitening in the snow, and his heart hurt again.
This kind of pain is no stranger to her, and she has always come to it from time to time in the last few days.
Like a needle tip suddenly piercing the fingertips, the pain is really painful, but it's not unbearable.
Dicui Mountain in the dawn of a snowy day is very quiet, facing the faint morning light, indescribably clear and ethereal.
is like Xiao Mingche's eyes on the night of the wedding.
Lonely, cold, no sorrow and no joy.
By the time dawn comes, he'll be at the gates, right?
Dressed in silver armor, he sat on horseback with an expressionless face, and his peach blossom eyes coldly swept over the crowd of people who greeted him.
Thinking about that scene, Li Fengming spread his hands to catch a few cold but gentle snowflakes, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.
I wanted to remind Xiao Mingche a word a long time ago, but somehow, I always forgot to say it. Now I remembered it again.
She wanted to remind him to be a fool and not to always look at people coldly. looks so good-looking, as long as you are willing to smile more, you can make many girls bloom in their hearts.
Xiao Mingche, you will meet a lot of good girls in the future, you carefully choose one who treats you well, don't meet a villain like me again.
The green mountains do not change, the green water flows for a long time, and there will be no time in the future. Leave.
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