Chu Yaocen asked Wan Kill to take the note to Xiaohu, and when Xiaohu opened it, it was indeed her brother's handwriting, and a big stone in her heart finally put it down, and happily said to Wan Kill: "I want to show this to the queen mother and the second emperor brother, you go with me." ”

Before he could say whether he would agree or not, he was dragged away by Xiaohu.

Now he is already the second prince who has entered the imperial study, he is indeed very courageous, as soon as he ascended the throne, he stabilized those ministers who were clamoring to resign, and the method he used was also concise: If you want to go, you can leave, I will not keep you.

Now that the Queen Mother was discussing with him in the imperial study, Xiaohu ran in, and said loudly to them from a distance: "Queen Mother, second brother, there is news of the third brother." ”

The second prince and the queen mother were both surprised and surprised, took the note handed over by Xiaohu, and recognized that it was indeed the handwriting of the third prince, and they were all relieved, and the queen hurriedly patted her chest and said: "Oh, this kid, he also knows to give us a reply, but I am worried about death." ”

The second prince was also very happy at first, but after a while, a suspicious look appeared on his face, but he didn't say it immediately, but followed the queen mother's words and said straightly: "It's really good, it's great that the third brother is fine." By the way, Queen Mother, you haven't eaten well in the past few days, and today's government and politics are almost talked about, otherwise the Queen Mother, you will go back to the dormitory first and have a meal, how about it? ”

The Queen Mother touched her stomach and said, "This one is relieved, but I really feel that I am hungry, so you should also let others prepare some food earlier." ”

The second prince nodded, and let the queen mother go back.

As soon as she left, the smile on the second prince's face was removed, and he asked Xiaohu in a serious tone: "Xiaohu, who gave you this note?" ”

Xiaohu saw that his expression was suddenly wrong, and he suddenly panicked, is there something wrong?

Xiaohu blinked, she couldn't think of anything wrong...... But you must not tell him that he killed him, otherwise he will be suspected by them......

But when he saw Xiaohu's entangled face, he took the initiative to admit it and said, "Back to Your Majesty, this note was given to the princess by me, and I took it off the leg of a pigeon that flew to the princess's window, and I don't know where the pigeon flew from." ”

The second prince looked at the end of the kill suspiciously, he met his eyes, the end of the kill did not dodge at all, the second prince thought about it, and also felt that this thing should not be done by the end of the kill, the end of the kill has been entangled by the little tiger, there should be no time to do anything to the third prince.

Xiaohu asked inexplicably, "Second brother, what's wrong?" Isn't this written by the third brother? ”

"His handwriting is unique, and it should be difficult for ordinary people to imitate, so he should have written correctly." The second prince replied.

"Is there anything wrong with that? Why don't you look happy at all? Xiaohu wondered.

"You look at the edge of the paper, there is something untidy, it must have been torn off part of it, and if the third brother really wants to write to tell us that he is safe, why don't you say more? What do these words mean? The second prince said: "I suspect that the third brother wrote something in front of him, but it was torn up." ”

Xiaohu took the note and looked at it, it was indeed a little untidy, and she was worried: "Will there be something wrong with the third brother?" ”

The second prince shook his head: "I don't know, but he should still be in the city, and I will let people hurry up to find him." ”

"He's going to be fine," Wan Kill glanced at the note and said, "No matter what he said before, the last sentence was that he was fine." ”

The second prince thought for a long time, put the note on the fold, and said, "I hope the third brother will be fine." ”

After the next few days, the people of the second prince still did not find out the whereabouts of the third prince. During this period, they also opened the door of the bamboo house and went in to look for it, but that time, the third prince was locked in the underground wine cellar by Zhang Xiuhe, and Zhang Xiuhe did not release him until the footsteps above were far away.

At this point, the second prince could only think that the third prince had left Jianye, so he had to send someone out to find it. Although the territory of Wu is not as vast as that of Li State, it is still quite easy to hide someone.

Time flickered, a month passed, and the third prince of Zhuju was really about to collapse, he had no idea what the situation was outside now, and he didn't know what Zhang Xiuhe was going to do when he was under house arrest. Zhang Xiuhe and he both live here, and he only goes out for a short time every day in the early hours of the morning to buy some vegetables from those vendors who have come to the city from other places, and come back to cook them for him.

The rest of the time, I was with him, chatting with him ramblingly, talking about the relationship between their brothers when they were young, talking about poetry and songs, but not mentioning the situation outside.

The third prince asked him more than once how the court was doing, but Zhang Xiuhe was either vague or said he didn't know. Moreover, Chu Yaocen hadn't been here for a long time, and he couldn't get more news from the third person at all.

The third prince began to plan to escape. He grew up with Zhang Xiuhe since he was a child, and knew that in terms of force alone, he would never be able to beat Zhang Xiuhe, and now that he was here, he couldn't get drugs or anything, so there was no way to escape in this way. Then, he only secretly escaped during the period when Zhang Xiuhe went out to buy vegetables.

Today, in the court, the second prince received a letter from a distant envoy from Bei Zhai, and they already knew about Toto's death here, so they immediately made a decision and sent someone to send a letter over, which said that Wu Guo should lose money and food, otherwise he would crusade against Wu in the name of killing their prince, and also used the words "although far away, he must be punished".

After hearing these words, the second prince couldn't help laughing, and said to the envoys below: "I haven't killed you in the name of killing the crown prince of our country, and you actually came to the door yourself." You quickly spend a month going back and telling your monarch that if war starts, go to war, but don't forget to bring the coffin with you! ”

Seeing that it didn't make sense, the envoy hurriedly smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this condition is not non-negotiable. Aren't we asking for 500,000 loads of grain? You can give 250,000 quintals, as long as I go back and say a few more good words in front of the king, this war will not be fought. You don't want to go to war at this time, do you? There's chaos over there. ”

Not only did the second prince laugh, but the other ministers in the court couldn't help laughing, and the second prince said: "Do you think that our Wu State court is a vegetable market?" Can you still bargain? ”

The envoy saw that it was not good, so he directly lowered his face and said: "We are warlike in Beidi, and the soldiers can be ten with one, if Your Majesty thinks you can beat us, we are happy to accompany you." ”

The second prince snorted coldly and said, "Bei Zhai actually sent such a stupid person as you to be an envoy, it can be seen that the people of Bei Zhai are not very smart." It is absolutely impossible for a person who can conquer the world to have strength, otherwise the little emperor of Li State would have been killed by his uncles a long time ago. You, I only hope that you will be reincarnated in the future and born in our country of Wu, so that you can be smarter. ”

"You ......"

"Get out, if you don't get out, am I going to kill you?" The second prince's eyes widened, and he was so frightened that the envoy's legs trembled, and he couldn't walk for a while, but he was still not convinced, and pointed at him and said, "Wu is a small country, you wait!" ”

The second prince sneered and said, "Your stupidity has made me unbearable, come on, drag him down and cut him down!" ”

As soon as he said this, Qingdi was still joking, but there were already guards outside who came in to pull him, so Qingdi reacted and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, no, there has never been an envoy between the two countries." ”

"I didn't kill him, I just killed a monkey sent by the king of Bei Di to disgust me, if I don't kill him, then I'm sorry for the time wasted on this monkey." The second prince said.

…… Although Qingdi still felt that it was inappropriate, but when he said this, he felt that there was no reason to oppose it.

The envoy was still killed, and Bei Zhai now has more reason to send troops. However, when such two countries go to war, what affects the war is definitely not the fame of the division, but the real strength.

Now the DPRK and China are divided into three forces, one thinks that Bei Zhai is just scaring people and will never travel long distances to fight, and the other thinks that Bei Zhai has always been crazy, and others can't figure out what they want to do, and they are likely to fight. The soldiers of Wu are good at water warfare, although the people of Beidi are indeed very strong and capable of fighting, but as long as we stick to our positions, we can definitely defeat them. There are still a very small number of people who believe that Wu needs to strike first, take the lead first, and send troops to attack them.

The second prince listened to the noisy ministers for a long time, and finally made a decision, saying, "Then, let's take the initiative to beat them." ”

No one agreed with this idea, but now as soon as it was said, everyone panicked, and they went to dissuade the second prince noisily, but the second prince waved his hand and said, "You should be quiet first, listen to me, I decided to attack them, and I have my own plan." ”

When the ministers heard him say this, they were quiet for a while, and they all looked at the three princes and listened to what he had to say.

He said: "You have always felt that our country of Wu is good at fighting water wars, so can we only fight water wars?" Could it be that our country of Wu can only be protected by the water around it? But have you ever thought about what will happen if the water in the Jianghuai River dries up one day? At the age of eighteen, I took over a part of the forces of the DPRK and China, and I let them practice riding and archery, and after so many years of unremitting efforts, they already had the strength to compete with other countries. ”

Qingdi chuckled and said, "Your Majesty, don't take it for granted, what is Bei Di's strength, it's not what you think, you haven't seen it, you shouldn't take this risk." ”

"So is it okay to stick to the country of Wu? How can you be sure that Bei Zhai has not sent people to learn how to fight water warfare for so many years? He's so arrogant, what if he really studies tactics other than targeting us? The second prince looked at Qingdi and said, "It has never been my style to sit back and wait for death, and I want to send troops." ”

From tomorrow, there will be two shifts every day, one shift at 8 a.m. and the second shift at 6 p.m., to see how many days I can hold on ~ Thank you for your support ~