Unexpectedly, Yuan Xingcai didn't eat Nalan Ye, knowing that as long as he didn't violate military discipline, Nalan Ye would not blame himself, and stood there with a smile: "It's the owner of Qingfeng Jewelry Store in the city, called Yao Mingyuan, don't worry, Lord Wang, I have already found out." ”

His brother-in-law is Li Chengming, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of North Vietnam, who looks honest, but in fact, he handed over the gold and silver treasures he got to his brother-in-law to sell, and then used the money to buy a lot of land in his hometown. Although they are all in the name of his brother-in-law, the actual person who paid the money is this Li Chengming. ”

said and looked out the window with contempt: "This kind of person who does well on the surface is either really honest, or he eats people and doesn't spit out bones, this Li Chengming is the latter kind." ”

Yuan Xing, who was born in poverty, has seen his home being looted by those corrupt officials since he was a child. When the family had no money, even the only little food would be taken away, and because he couldn't afford to eat at home, Yuan Xing was taken in by Nalan Ye on the verge of starvation, so he is where he is today.

Many people are like Yuan Xing, what they hate the most is this kind of rich and unkind people, so every time they say that they want to investigate corrupt officials and corrupt officials, everyone is very active, and they can quickly find out their details.

"You, you, if you rob someone, you rob someone's house, and you find so many charges against others, just one is enough to copy his house." Nalan Ye knew that Yuan Xing remembered that he was oppressed when he was a child, so he joked about it.

Nalan Night Army is strictly disciplined, never takes a grain or grass from the common people wherever he goes, and sometimes when he encounters a poor family, he will take the army to work for his people, which is also one of the reasons why Yuan Xing and his generals swore to follow him to the death.

"No, who knows how much people's fat and ointment they looted, and how much blood of ordinary people they got on their hands." As he spoke, Yuan Xing felt that he was far away, so he hurriedly stopped, and asked seriously: "Lord Wang, we have only robbed more than a dozen households for a while, and there are already more than five million taels, how can we deal with this silver?" ”

They robbed the money, but how to deal with it, Nalan Ye has the final say, this is the main purpose of Yuan Xing's visit to Nalan Ye this time.

"Take it from the people, use it for the people,"

Nalan Ye flipped through the roster sent by Yuan Xing, and said softly: "This attack on North Vietnam has had a great impact on the people of North Vietnam, and the houses and rice fields have been lost to varying degrees, so let's use this money to compensate for their losses." The silver is five taels per capita per household, and one stone per person for grain, and if the house is damaged, you will take the soldiers to help them repair it during this time. It can be regarded as accumulating some blessings for us. ”

"That's a good idea, I'll arrange it." Yuan Xing slapped his thigh happily, and walked towards the door happily as he spoke.

When he went out, he didn't forget to make fun of Nalan Ye: "Lord, you also said that I would excuse myself, you are much better than me." If the princess knows, you should say that you are pretending to be a good person. ”

Nalan Ye shook his head with a smile, took out a booklet and was about to smash him, Yuan Xing saw that his goal had been achieved, and ran away with a smile.

Recently, there are always people who see Nalan Ye alone in a daze, and everyone says that he misses the princess, but in fact, everyone misses the princess very much. Especially when everyone gets up at night and sees Nalan refusing to sleep with the lights lit at night, everyone can't help but beg in their hearts, "Princess, come back quickly." ”

Three days later, as soon as Nalan Ye returned from inspecting the situation in the city with Yuan Xing, he heard that Yong'an was coming.

Yong'an chased after him at this time, there is only one possibility, that is, there is news of Qingluan. Unable to hold back the excitement in his heart, he hurriedly asked the guards to call Yongan to his study.

Just since she lost contact with Luo Qingluan, Nalan Ye has been worried that she can't sleep well, lest she be bullied outside.

As soon as he stepped into the study, Yongan saw Nalan Ye walking back and forth there, and he knew better than anyone how much the prince hoped to hear the news of the princess as soon as possible. These days, I have been inquiring non-stop from all sides, and now although I have a little eyebrows, I dare not conclude that these news must be related to the princess.

"Yong'an, is there any news?" Seeing Yong'an, Nalan Ye greeted him as soon as possible, looking at him expectantly, hoping that he could give him a satisfactory answer.

Nalan Ye's overly excited performance made Yongan not know what to say, he looked embarrassed, and replied in a low voice: "Lord, there is no news of the princess for the time being." ”

Hearing Yong'an's answer, Nalan Ye's eyes suddenly lost that kind of expectant light. Seeing him like this, Yongan hurriedly said the news he had received recently: "Although there is no exact news about the princess, but recently the secret pile of the Dark Night Hall reported that it was in the direction of Western Chu to North Vietnam, there were secret guards from the Southern Wei Dynasty, and there were also many dead Western Chu guards and the royal guards of North Vietnam, I am afraid that this matter has nothing to do with the disappearance of the princess." ”

"The secret guards of the Southern Wei Dynasty and the imperial janissaries of the North Vietnam?"

Both of these are the existence of royal authority, and in the Southern Wei Dynasty, only members of the royal family are qualified to raise secret guards. The Praetorian Guards of North Vietnam were directly under Han Xun's orders.

"Exactly." Yongan nodded firmly, although he had not gone to the scene to confirm, but the secret pile reacted, saying that when the government was cleaning up the corpses, they had found their identification items.

Pacing with his hands in his hands, Nalan Ye quickly sorted out all the information, hoping to find clues from it.

"In this way, Qingluan may have been held by Han Xun and wanted to bring it back to North Vietnam to blackmail me, but I didn't expect to meet our reinforcements from Western Chu on the way, and under the fight between the two sides, he was taken to the Southern Wei Kingdom by the secret guards of the Southern Wei Dynasty." After an analysis, Nalan Ye instantly felt that this matter had nothing to do with Lin Xiaochen.

Another point, since Xichu sent reinforcements to save Luo Qingluan, the queen mother did not inform him, but she was afraid that because the operation failed, she was afraid that he would be angry, so she simply didn't say anything.

"If the secret guard was Lin Yixuan's person, the princess would have sent someone to send me a letter a long time ago, and Lin Xiaochen had always colluded with Bai Yixuan, so it must have something to do with him at this time."

After sorting out the general course of the matter, Nalan Ye only felt angry: "Okay, you Lin Xiaochen, I always suspected that Qingluan was brought back to North Vietnam by Han Xun, but I never thought that a second prince of Southern Wei was actually involved." ”

"What do we do next?" After Nalan Ye said this, Yong'an suddenly felt that things were not so simple, and he knew about the friendship between Lin Yixuan, the prince of the Southern Wei Dynasty, and his own prince and princess. But if it is the second prince who is involved, then the current situation of the princess is very worrying.

"Someone." With Nalan Ye's roar, a personal guard hurriedly came in from outside the door: "Quickly notify the whole army to assemble." ”

The guards were ordered to retreat, and from time to time the sound of assembly horns was heard.

Within a single cup of tea, all the soldiers were assembled in the camp, waiting for Nalan to give orders at night.

In the end, Yuan Xing was left to lead 30,000 soldiers to garrison the city, and Nalan Ye led the other 170,000 soldiers directly to the last city of Puning County, Anqing City.

The next day, Bai Yixuan was discussing state affairs with his ministers in the early court. A dusty guard hurriedly broke in.

"Report ...... Queen Niangniang, the Western Chu army has marched towards Anqing City, please send troops to help as soon as possible. ”

"What?" Bai Yixuan was so shocked that she stood up suddenly.

The ministers were all shocked in their hearts, and they all shouted and discussed: "This Xichu has only stopped for a few days, why did it start attacking again." ”

"At the speed of Inalan Night, I'm afraid that we will be able to attack the capital in a few days."

"yes, yes, what can I do?"

was already very irritable in his heart, but being so noisy by the ministers, Bai Yixuan was even more angry, and roared: "Shut up for me!" Look at you all panicked, it's just to grow the morale of others, destroy your own prestige, what kind of system will you become! ”

After yelling, Bai Yixuan felt a headache and touched her forehead to ease the anger in her heart. Looking at the group of old ministers in front of him, he usually finds himself one by one and is not able to speak, and when it comes to the critical moment, no one can come up with an idea, and the more he looks at it, the more angry he becomes.

"Quickly let the new soldiers prepare to meet the enemy." Bai Yixuan ordered in a cold voice.

Kang Yuanda, the secretary of the military department, hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Niangniang, most of the new soldiers are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they have not received a few days of training. ”

Hearing this, Bai Yixuan was immediately furious: "At this time, I can't control so much, if Nalan Ye is allowed to attack the capital, everyone here will not be able to escape death." Do you want to die? ”

The ministers suddenly look at me and I look at you, no one dares to disobey Bai Yixuan's intentions at this stall, but they are not willing to sit still and wait for death.

Zhao Dong, a scholar, walked out of the queue at this time: "Niangniang, now that it is the most critical time in North Vietnam, Your Majesty can no longer shrink into the harem, and should come out to preside over the overall situation." Otherwise, if it goes on like this, North Vietnam will die sooner or later. ”

"Please come out and preside over the overall situation." Seeing that someone was willing to come forward, the ministers immediately catered to it.

"Is this a dissatisfaction with the acting government of the main palace?" Bai Yixuan's face was ruthless, and she asked Zhao Dong with a smile instead of anger.

Zhao Dong hurriedly knelt on the ground, but still insisted on replying: "Weichen doesn't dare, it's just ......"

"It's against you."

Before Zhao Dong finished speaking, Bai Yixuan roared when he saw this: "Okay, you Zhao Dong, Your Majesty is worried, and you are unwell so you recuperate, but you have to ask Your Majesty to come out and work hard, do you want Your Majesty to die of exhaustion?" It's just a shameful heart, and it's a big rebellion. Come on, I will strip Zhao Dong of his official uniform, demote him to a commoner, and beat him to death! ”

Two guards immediately came in outside the hall and dragged Zhao Dong down, Zhao Dong was emotional, and shouted loudly like crazy: "Your Majesty, if you don't come out to preside over the overall situation, Beiyue will die." Your Majesty, North Vietnam is dying. Your Majesty......"

It wasn't until she couldn't hear Zhao Dong's voice that Bai Yixuan felt a little more comfortable in her heart, and glared at the ministers fiercely: "Do you have anything else to play?" If you have nothing to do, just retreat. ”

None of the people who were shocked dared to come forward to speak, for fear that one would accidentally follow in Zhao Dong's footsteps.