Ten days later.

Windy City, Royal Palace, Imperial Garden.

A hundred flowers are blooming, and it is another spring.

Xuan Ling was wearing a green silk robe, covered with an apricot yellow horse coat, and tied a leno soft scarf on his head, and was supported by two little eunuchs to walk in the garden.

Huang Jien pushed a wheelchair cart and followed behind, along with Taiwei Gao and Liu Kaijun.

Taiwei Gao had a smile on his face, this time Xuan Ling re-employed him because the negotiation with the Sui Gong of Dajing was smooth, although he had not returned Dali Temple to himself, but he could accompany the emperor around, and he would have a chance.

This Liu Kaijun was originally the assassin of Xingzhou, and now he has been promoted to Beijing and has become a member of the Privy Council.

Today, Prince Dongping went to Haizhou, because the Qihua Palace was served in the alchemy base in Leizhou, and those who were involved in the pharmaceutical industry would be escorted to Beijing by boat, and he was going to interrogate the prisoners.

Lin Chengyong was overworked and finally fell ill, and he didn't go to court these days, let alone accompany the holy driver, but because he was sick, Sikong Man and the queen's disposal has been delayed.

Three days ago, Niu Shiguang, the right Xuanzheng doctor, escorted King Jing Zhaoyi back to Beijing, while Zhaoxu committed suicide in Luzhou, which was a blow to Xuanling, although he hated the two rebels, but he had not thought of killing them.

Xuan Ling walked in front of a plum tree, this is a red plum, the tree is blooming brightly, and small red flowers are dancing on the branches.

"What about King Xin, why hasn't he come to greet me for a long time?"

Xuan Ling suddenly remembered Zhao Zhen, counting that he had sprained his waist, he had not yet appeared.

Huang Jien glanced at Taiwei Gao, he knew that Taiwei Gao and Lord Liu had been preventing Zhao Zhen from entering the palace.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Xinwang studied hard, forgot to sleep and eat, and the villain asked someone to go to the palace to ask."

Xuan Ling shook his head.

"No, I remember that he was in a hurry to see him more than ten days ago, but I didn't see anything on my hands, why have I been quiet these days, is he angry with his father?"

Huang Jien smiled: "His Royal Highness King Xin is not a cautious person, maybe he has something else to delay." ”

Gao Taiwei and Liu Kaijun have always had a headache about Zhaozhen, he is shouting every day to enter the palace to see the emperor, if Lin Chengyong comes back, the two of them will definitely not be able to stop him.

Xuan Ling snorted.

"Do you know what he's looking for?"

"Oh, King Xin said that he received a flying pigeon from the Nine Emperor Princes, and he has something important to report to the emperor!"

Xuan Ling turned his head with a look of displeasure on his face.

"Yes? Did the king write a letter, where is the letter, and why don't you report such an important matter to me? ”

Huang Jien hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

"The emperor was angry, and he was supposed to tell you, but you sprained your waist the next day, and it was delayed for a while, and now the letter has been handed over to the Privy Council."

"Why give it to the Privy Council?"

Before Huang Jien could explain, Captain Gao knelt down with a cane.

"Your Majesty, the letter was originally received by the Royal Pigeon Fang first, and they handed it to His Royal Highness the King of Letters, and His Royal Highness got the letter and hurriedly came to the emperor, isn't this bypassing the Privy Council, it is unreasonable, so it was sent back, and it will be sent to the emperor after the retrial!"

Xuan Ling was slightly relieved.

"Now that the Privy Council has passed the hand, then tell me what is written in the letter?"

"Your Majesty, the old minister read the letter, by no means? Wang wrote, he said that he was in the military camp of the Dajing State, and he was a staff officer for Wan Yan and Shilan, and he also asked us to prepare the army, saying that the Dajing State would soon wave its army to the south, isn't this nonsense, there is really such a big thing, he should write directly to the emperor, why should he fake the hand of the king? ”

Liu Kaijun immediately agreed.

"Yes, Your Majesty, if His Royal Highness is really in Dajing, why don't the envoys they came here know about it, and say that he is missing?"

Xuan Ling saw Huang Jien on the side and stopped talking, so he asked, "Huang Daguan, what do you have to say?" ”

Huang Jien bowed again.

"Your Majesty, maybe? His Royal Highness is far away in the grassland, and he doesn't know that the rebellion in the capital has been quelled, so he wrote to His Royal Highness the King, as for the Great Beijing Kingdom, although they signed an agreement with us, we don't know who Wan Yan A Shilan is! ”

In fact, Zhao Zhen couldn't enter the palace to see the emperor, it was the ghost of Taiwei Gao, he knew that Zhao Ju was not dead, and he was already scared, if Zhao Ju came back, then his betrayal of the country and glory must be exposed, and then he was afraid that the end would be worse than Sikong Man.

Xuan Ling nodded.

"It makes sense, go and bring that letter to me to see if it's the handwriting of the foal, I'll know when I look at it!"

Taiwei Gao nodded, and asked Liu Kaijun to go back to the Privy Council to get the letter, in fact, he had already taken precautions, and he asked Zhaoju to copy the letter again, and the handwriting had changed.

But Liu Kaijun had just turned around, and before he could take a step, there was a report from outside.

"Your Majesty, the urgent letter from the state has arrived!"

Xuan Ling was taken aback, could it be that what the letter said was true, and the Great Capital Kingdom really wanted to go to the Great One? Surgery?

A guard rushed in with a fire-lacquered letterhead and knelt above his head.

Xuan Ling didn't wait for Huang Jien to forward it, grabbed the letter, and tore open the seal with a hiss.

Liu Kaijun saw a change on Xuan Ling's face, and he didn't know what the situation was.

"Your Majesty, yes, is it the Dajing Kingdom that sent troops?"

Mrs. Gao hurriedly refuted him.

"Don't talk nonsense, if Dajing Kingdom comes to attack us, it will be an eight-hundred-mile expedited letter, and it is impossible to only send an urgent letter!"

Xuan Ling nodded, put down the letter, and looked a little solemn.

"No, Lord Liu is right, it's the Dajing Kingdom that is going to send troops!"

This time, Captain Gao was taken aback and asked, "What, this is the emergency document of the state?" ”

Xuan Ling shook his head.

"No, this letter was written by Su Dabeard, he reported to me the results of the training, and also said that the Dajing Kingdom suddenly mobilized men and horses, and they continued to send scouts to the northwest, and there was a possibility that they would move west, but I don't know why they came."

Hearing that Dajingguo's goal was not to merge states, Gao Taiwei and Liu Kaijun both breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Kaijun said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's a good thing that Dajing is going west, which shows that they are not stable on the grassland, and in addition, our peace talks are very smooth this time, which is all the credit of Lord Taiwei." ”

The peace talks were a treaty signed by Taiwei Gao, and Liu Kaijun gave him a sedan chair to show his merits, and Ouyang Mu was most dissatisfied with this treaty that the Great Capital Kingdom did not mention whether the sixteen states in the first place would be returned.

Captain Gao smiled humbly.

"Lord Liu has won the award, this is all Your Majesty's wisdom, without Your Majesty's strategy, how can you achieve such a feat?"

Liu Kaijun felt that it was pointless for him to go and get the letter again, because the facts had proved that the letter was untrue, and he said flatteringly: "Your Majesty, there are two small countries in the west of the Great Capital Kingdom, Xichun and Gaochang, and they used to stumble on the Big Bird Country, maybe Wan Yan and A Shilan hate them and want to teach them a lesson, right?" ”

Xichun and Gaochang are not small countries, they have a vast territory and a large population, but Liu Kaijun deliberately belittles them.

Xuan Ling stroked his beard, his face was cloudy, and when he heard Liu Kaijun mention Gao Changguo, he suddenly laughed.

"Do you remember that there was a letter from Hejian Mansion last month?"

"What's the twist?"

"The official of the Hejian Mansion said that he made a geokinetic instrument according to the method of the ancient book, saying that there will be a catastrophe in Gaochang Kingdom recently, and the big bird and Gaochang are old enemies, and now if Gaochang suffers, it is strange that they don't take advantage of the fire to rob!"

Taiwei Gao looked suddenly enlightened, and gave a thumbs up and praised again and again.

Liu Kaijun was a little puzzled.

"This kind of shameless thing of falling into the well and taking advantage of people's danger, Dajing has done it?"

Mrs. Gao nodded repeatedly.

"What can't be done, barbarian land, how can there be courtesy, righteousness and shame at all, they just take advantage of your illness to kill you, Mr. Dongguo and the wolf you know!"

Liu Kaijun sighed, looking admiring.

Huang Jien didn't make a sound, but he was puzzled in his heart, what Taiwei Gao said was so reasonable, why could he be sure that Dajing would not come to fight Da??, he was saying the hope in his heart as reality, right?

Taiwei Gao said again: "Your Majesty is really clever, at first glance it sounds like a wonderful idea, but if you think about it carefully, it is very likely, if Dajing Kingdom goes to fight Gaochang, the pressure on our border will be gone!" ”

Xuan Ling smiled: "I am still worried that the forbidden army has not been adjusted in place, and now it seems that I have been given time to slow down again!" ”