When the ministers heard this, they already understood what Emperor Yuanqing meant.

The Great Prince of Aesop showed off the high-quality iron ore to show their importance, and if Daqing wanted to continue to buy their iron ore, he could not blame Aesop for today's events, and he had to hold accountable those who hurt his pet.

"The Emperor's ......"

Xia Yanxiu still couldn't bear this breath, and said, "The Aesop mission just arrived today, and this kind of thing happened, obviously to test my Daqing attitude. If this matter is stopped, they will definitely have to make an inch, and the emperor cannot back down! ”

Gu Shengyu, the secretary of the military department, said: "Your Majesty, what Xia Xiang said is very true, but the great prince of Aesop has already said that the excellent quality iron ore they brought this time is two percent lower than the previous price. If the emperor investigates the wolf murder of Prince Aesop, we will definitely not be able to get this iron mine. ”

Xiaoyaohou said in a deep tone, and snorted: "Not only can't you get the iron ore, but I'm afraid that Aesop will sell it to the Jin Kingdom!" It's not been a day or two since Aesop secretly made small moves with Jin Guo, they just took advantage of the contradictions between our Daqing and Jin Guo, left and right, and took advantage of the benefits, which is really despicable and shameful! ”

Nanguo Gong sighed: "However, this is clearly Aesop's conspiracy, what can we do about it?" ”

There was silence in the imperial study, and everyone understood Aesop's thoughts, and they understood that this wolf murder was just Aesop's temptation, and there must be a follow-up move later. It's just a small tribe, and the area is not even one-tenth of Daqing, and it is impatient to take revenge!

"I know what you said, but it's just this iron ore ......"

After a while, Emperor Yuanqing spoke, his face was also unsightly, "That's why I asked you to discuss what to do." ”

Emperor Yuanqing looked at Xia Yanxiu and frowned deeply: "Xia Xiang, today's matter has something to do with you, you can talk about it first." ”

"Your Majesty, Aesop is so arrogant, of course it's ......"

The words rushed out of his mouth, but before he finished speaking, Xia Yanxiu looked at Emperor Yuanqing's increasingly ugly face, and changed his words in an instant, "If you want to calculate, you will calculate!" ”

Emperor Yuanqing's face softened a little, and asked, "How do you plan it?!" ”

After many years of career, Xia Yanxiu has been very good at observing words and feelings, and understands Emperor Yuanqing's thoughts, he pressed his previous thoughts, thought about it and said: "Aesop came this time, in addition to watching the wedding of the ninth prince and the little girl, I heard that he also plans to make peace with us. It is speculated that Aesop is actually deeply jealous of us, so he wants to use his relatives to strengthen the relationship and alleviate the current growing contradictions. ”

"We can secretly test and find out if Aesop has other purposes before making plans."

Unexpectedly, Xia Yanxiu actually changed his tone, begged for perfection, and even endured such a shame and humiliation for his daughter!

Xiaoyaohou, who had always been at odds with him, sneered and said, "If Aesop still has a purpose, and even plans to cooperate with the Jin Kingdom, then what does Xia Xiang plan?" ”

As soon as Xia Yanxiu heard it, he knew that Xiaoyao Hou was picking on his thorns, so he said unhurriedly: "If Aiso dares to cooperate with Jin Guo, this is eating inside and out!" I'm definitely not going to let Aesop go, I'm going to let him

We taste regret. ”

He clasped his fists and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, my father is sitting at the border and is always on standby, are you still afraid of Aesop?" It's just that it's better to settle the dispute, it's just a trivial matter, now the important thing is to buy Aesop's iron ore and continue to replenish armaments, so that you can be fully prepared at the moment when the war with the Jin Kingdom finally starts! ”

Hearing this, a few people next to him were a little sweaty, today's incident, Xia Xiang is also a victim, right? How could he endure such humiliation?

Sure enough, it's the big thing first, give up the small self to protect the big me!

"Although the war with the Jin Kingdom should consider Aesop's side, we don't have to be afraid of Aesop because of this."

Xiaoyao Hou disagreed, and said: "Your Majesty, as soon as Prince Aesop came to Daqing, he provoked trouble, this is a humiliation to my Daqing national prestige, and it must be severely punished." ”

Seeing Xiaoyao Hou contradicting him the most, Xia Yanxiu said in a deep voice: "Xiaoyao Hou has thought that once he uses force against Aesop, the Jin Kingdom will take advantage of the situation. War together, not to mention the loss of labor and money, there will be countless casualties, I want peace in Daqing, not war! ”

"You're just scared of Jin Guo!"

"Now I'm talking about Aesop, not Jinguo!"

Seeing that the two were arguing, Emperor Yuanqing slapped the table: "Enough!" What a noise! ”

Seeing that Emperor Yuanqing lost his temper, the two could only shut up, but they still glared at each other.

After a long time, Emperor Yuanqing finally said: "I have been hesitating, I don't know how to deal with it, since Xia Xiang can endure this breath for Daqing, then I can't act rashly!" Today's matter, let's put it aside for the time being, secretly observe the intention of Aesop's mission, and make a decision after finding out clearly! ”

Since this is the case, everyone can only say: "Yes, the emperor." ”

Although he made a decision, Emperor Yuanqing was unhappy after all, but he had to take the words of Prince Aesop to heart just now. Now the important thing is the relationship with the Jin State, and they must win Aesop's support, otherwise they will defect to the Jin State, which will be the disaster of Daqing.

Unexpectedly, once a friendly country also received Daqing's assistance, but now it is becoming more and more excessive and begins to provoke Daqing.

He put up with this account for the time being!

"Tomorrow we will have a banquet to entertain Aesop's mission, and I'll see what they're going to do." Emperor Yuanqing sneered, and then ordered someone to inform the Aesop delegation and start preparing for tomorrow's welcome banquet.

Gonggong Lu took the order and went down.

Originally, he entered the palace to complain to Emperor Yuanqing, but how did Xia Yanxiu know that it would be the current result?

Out of the imperial study, he was a little glad that he didn't say it, otherwise he would really let the emperor call the shots for him, but the emperor would be embarrassed again. In the end, it will only hinder Aesop's conditions, and he will not severely punish Prince Aesop, and in the end, he will be blamed for not knowing the general situation and putting state affairs first.

It's really unpredictable......

Xia Yanxiu sighed in his heart, secretly saying that fortunately he saw the opportunity quickly, but at this moment, there was a snort behind him. He turned his head and saw that Xiaoyao Hou was looking at him with disdain and sneering.

"Xia Xiang is really good, his daughter was almost killed, and he can swallow his anger so much, the old man really admires it!"

As soon as Xia Yanxiu heard it, he knew that he was sarcastic about himself, and suddenly

The old face flushed: "Xiaoyaohou, what do you mean by this?" The old man just focuses on the overall situation, so he wronged himself, do you really want to teach them a lesson? ”

Xiaoyao Hou snorted at him and said disdainfully: "It's not that you don't want to teach Aesop a lesson, but you are figuring out the holy will and tending to the flame!" You know that the emperor called us here to discuss how to deal with Aesop's conspiracy, but you didn't think of anything and just backed down...... You are not worried about the king, but you are cowardly and afraid of things, and you are wasted! ”

"You...... Xiaoyaohou, I respect you three points older, so I am polite to you, don't deceive people too much! ”

"You should go and say this to Prince Aesop!"

After reprimanding Xia Yanxiu, Xiaoyao Hou snorted again, and then brushed his sleeves and left.

The rest of the military department Shangshu and Nanguo Gong also looked at Xia Yanxiu with complicated expressions, and arched their hands and left.

The anger did not come out, and he was still ridiculed, and Xia Yanxiu returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion gloomily. As soon as he sat down, the Zhao family hurriedly came to ask how things were going and whether the emperor had ordered the great prince to be severely punished.

Annoyed, of course Xia Yanxiu would not say anything about today's imperial study, but only frowned and said: "The old man mentioned it, but the emperor pays attention to the overall situation, and will not move the eldest prince of Aesop at will, and also said that a banquet will be held on the day to entertain the Aesop mission, and all the courtiers and their families will participate." ”

When Zhao heard this, he said angrily: "Not only does the emperor not help us severely punish the murderer and repay him for him? Then will our Meng Yao's sins be in vain? ”

"If the emperor wants this, what can the old man do? Do you want the old man to carry a knife and kill the great prince Aesop? Xia Yanxiu said with a calm face: "If Meng Yao hadn't run out by herself, she wouldn't have encountered this kind of thing." ”

"Master, are you a strange Mengyao now?" When the Zhao family heard this, why did they think that Xia Yanxiu was getting worse and worse than before?

In the past, no one bought anyone's account, but now they are afraid to do anything, where is there still a little bit of the momentum of the left minister?

"It's come to this, it's useless to blame anyone."

Xia Yanxiu barely held back his temper and said: "Tomorrow's banquet, all the courtiers will attend, you go and tell Meng Yao first, let her see the eldest prince of Aesop and don't be impulsive, when there are so many people, it will be troublesome if something is bad." ”

"Master, you are really too ......" Zhao didn't seem to know him anymore, he looked at him several times, and Xia Yanxiu was uncomfortable when he saw it, so he left disappointed.

Xia Yanxiu is also aggrieved, what does a woman know? If it had been before, how could he be so stubborn?

was all affected by Lan Jingcheng, and he almost lost his heart. It's easy to continue to go to the court, Xia Yanxiu just wants to be more stable, and when Meng Yao really marries the sixth prince, or with the war in the Jin Kingdom, the old man fights at the border, and the status of the Prime Minister's Mansion is truly unshakable.

In this way, the imperial court must rely on the Xia family, so that he can have the confidence to be proud!

"Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship...... "Xia Yanxiu said secretly, and finally dispersed the grievances in his heart.

Although the Zhao family was aggrieved for her daughter, since the emperor said that everyone should attend the welcome banquet, she could only tell Xia Mengyao about it. Over at Begonia Garden, she sent someone casually, and it was over with one word.

As for Xia Ruxue and the Great Emperor...... No, the Zhao clan now directly calls him Lan Jingcheng, of course they can't go.

Now the two of them live in Runqing Pavilion, they rarely go out, and Xia Yanxiu doesn't want to see them, except for letting the girl's subordinates serve the living and eating, he basically doesn't go to Runqing Pavilion, and when he sees Lan Jingcheng, he doesn't know how to call it, and his heart is also angry.

Not to mention Xia Mengyao's fear of Prince Aesop, and even more of the psychological shadow of the wolf, how could he not want to participate, Xia Jinse expected this result.

No matter what happened today, Emperor Yuanqing would not punish the Grand Prince Aesop, but the Aesop mission must be welcomed.

One is private, the other is open, and the two things have to be separated.

Xia Jinse was also very curious, what kind of giant wolf who was proficient in human nature was, maybe she could see it at the welcome banquet.

Before going out the next day, Xia Yanxiu once again warned Xia Mengyao and Xia Jinse that they would be cautious in their words and deeds and go through the motions. In addition, he also had a mind to take the opportunity to take Xia Junping to let people know that his son had recovered.

"Father, my brother's leg injury is just right, and he is still recovering, so he can't participate in the palace banquet." Xia Jinse directly refused.

"Haven't recovered yet? How long has it been? Xia Yanxiu was very disappointed.

Xia Jinse glanced at him and said lightly: "Father doesn't want to think about it, my brother's leg injury has been injured for seven years, and the treatment has only been more than three months, how can he get better so quickly?" ”

Xia Yanxiu was stunned for a while, remembering the seven years when he had snubbed his eldest son, and his face was also red, and he didn't say anything anymore.

Finally the whole family went out, Xia Yanxiu looked at the family, but it was a pity that the most beloved second daughter Ruxue was missing.

Since the eldest prince's accident, it has also affected Ruxue, as the former eldest princess, even if she is not ordered to enter the palace, can she still say goodbye to the eldest prince and go out with the whole family?

It's better to be honest at home!

Soon, several carriages drove towards the palace gate, and when they arrived at the Taiji Hall where the banquet was held, it was already very lively inside.

(End of chapter)

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