Chapter 358, ulterior motives

In the afternoon of this day, Yan Yan and Lu You returned home, and the emperor's reward also arrived, a total of two boxes, a box of fruits, including lychees, bananas, and mangoes, which were chilled with ice cubes; In addition, there is a box of seafood, also chilled with ice cubes, with prawns, crabs, and a few shellfish, as well as a large fish that is more than two feet long.

Although these things are still frozen with ice cubes, Yan Yan feels that they are not too fresh, so she plans to simply invite everyone to a seafood barbecue tomorrow, and she is now full of seasonings.

After telling the cook to take care of the things, Yan Yan returned to his room and saw Lu You lying on the kang table in a daze with a short article, Yan Yan climbed to his side, and when he came up to take a look, it turned out to be a topic of strategy.

"There is a conquest without a war, and there is an opportunity to control the Tao; Evil kills good life, and the reason for cultivating pavilions... The husband is in the spring and the snow is in the sun, the cold canopy is easy to roll, and now he wants to be a pioneer to induce, temporarily suspend the military punishment, write the arrow and go down to the ministers, blow the flute and return the captive to ride. What should I do? The purpose of this essay is to ask how to achieve a diplomatic effort to stop fighting with the border states.

Seeing this topic, Yan Yan naturally thought of the prince and Lu Duan, three months have passed, but Yan Yan has never received any news from them, and I don't know if they have gone smoothly this time.

Yan Yan had the heart to ask the emperor, but he never found a suitable opportunity, and he was afraid that the emperor would think too much.

That's not right, if Yan Yan didn't guess wrong, this policy topic was made by Mr. Ji, and it shouldn't be untargeted for Mr. Ji to come up with such a question at this sensitive period, right?

Also, during the previous few holidays, Lu You basically didn't write articles at home, and he only had two days off a month, so he spent these two days with Yan Yan, but he would talk to Yan Yan about the strategies he wrote at school, and Yan Yan would occasionally put forward some of his own opinions.

Don't blame Yan Yan for thinking too much, the last time Mr. Ji gave a public lecture, he had seen Yan Yan and Lu Ming argue a few times, and according to Lu You, the old man was very appreciative of the new ideas he occasionally put forward in his article, so the old gentleman deliberately arranged this strategy, in order to see if Yan Yan would have any surprising words.

In addition, there is also a possibility that the old gentleman does not approve of the emperor starting this war, so he wants to use the views of these students to convince him, after all, the most powerful disputes now are the Khitan and Jurchen, and the Great Zhou can completely help each other, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, maybe in the end he can pick up a cheap one or something.

"How do you bring the strategy home and do it?" Yan Yan asked directly.

"This is the homework that Mr. specially assigned to me, saying that this time I took two more days off, and I had four days, and I ordered someone to ponder this article, lady, I remember that you once discussed this issue with the emperor, and you can talk to me about it in detail." Lu You put on a posture of listening to his ears.

When Yan Yan heard this, he confirmed his guess a little, "Did the old gentleman tell you how to solve the problem?" ”

She knew that Mr. Ji, in addition to these private disciples, would occasionally give public lectures and go to Class A to teach, so this policy was obviously aimed at the students in Class A who were going to participate in the Spring Festival, and Lu You's current identity was just a child, not even a Xiucai, where could he use to contact the strategy so quickly?

Thinking of this, Yan Yan leaned on Lu You, found a comfortable position in his arms and lay down, and then said: "This article is the topic of the previous dynasty's spring policy, speaking of border disputes in history, our Han nation has always rarely taken the initiative to start wars with others, and generally passively endured wars and invasions, which also triggered several ethnic migrations, and a large number of Han people from the Central Plains went south into Lingnan, Southwest, South Vietnam and other barbarian lands. This shows that we Han people do not like war in their bones, in the face of war and humiliation, first choose humiliation, but after humiliation, in the end, they still have to rely on war to solve the problem, only when they are beaten down and scared, they are willing to honestly retreat to their own territory, and only then are they willing to sit down and negotiate. ”

Next, Yan Yan took out the famous quote about Churchill about interests, the two countries are in dispute, there are no eternal enemies and no permanent friends, there are only eternal interests, and how to find a balance of interests to achieve a win-win situation between the two countries, this is the meaning of diplomacy.

In fact, he read no less books than Yan Yan, so he quickly cited examples of friendly exchanges between the Han nation and Fanbang, such as Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions, Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet, and Princess Jincheng's marriage to Tibet.

However, Lu You also cited several examples of Fanbang invasions and several great migrations and integrations of the Han people in history, the most famous of which is Wuhu Chaohua, but as he spoke, he suddenly realized that Yan Yan had not responded to him for a long time, and when he looked down, he saw Yan Yan close his eyes and fall asleep.

Seeing this scene, Lu You smiled dumbly, lowered his head and gently straightened his feet, and then slowly lay down, and moved Yan Yan's head up slightly, in order to let Yan Yan sleep more comfortably.

This night, the two slept until dark.

During this period, Aomiao came in once, saw that both of them were asleep, didn't say anything, turned around and went out.

And Yan Yan also woke up after listening to Qingmiao say that Zhou Wan came to the door again, saying that the emperor ordered someone to escort her father into Beijing, and it was estimated that her father was more than lucky this time, so she was depressed and wanted to find Yan Yan to solve the problem.

According to Qingmiao, after waiting for about half an hour to see that Yan Yan hadn't woken up, she left.

"Didn't say anything else?" Yan Yan asked.

How could there be such a coincidence, she just showed her face in the palace and pulled a wave of hatred, and Zhou Wan immediately came to the door?

What will the emperor think if it is passed out? What will the Queen Mother think?

Also, what about the three princes she plans to have a banquet tomorrow? What should she do if Zhou Wan hits the door again?

But who delivered the message to her this time?

"No, she just said that she came to talk to Miss, not why." Aomiao shook her head.

"Back to grandma, Miss Zhou sent a few snacks to the master, saying that she made them herself." Qing Glaze added.

After speaking, she ordered Qingxiu to bring the food box, which was a few plates of glutinous rice made of glutinous rice, and of course, wormwood glutinous rice was indispensable.

This is really a coincidence, Yan Yan said that he would have a treat the next day, and here Zhou Wan sent the glutinous rice to the door.

However, Yan Yan quickly denied this idea, it was just a coincidence, because she knew that it was very troublesome to make this kind of wormwood glutinous cake, and the short period of more than an hour from Yan Yan's exit to Zhou Wan's entry was obviously not enough.

Besides, if she really wanted to calculate Yan Yan, she could wait for Li Sui to come to the door the next day and then use this excuse to come to the door.

Thinking about it like this, Yan Yan calmed down.