Tuoba Hong looked coldly. Wen Zhuang was his sister-in-law, and the half-children in the palace did not actually have any brother-sister friendship, and for him, Wen Zhuang was just a suitable pawn sent by the Qin State at the right time.

But when Wen Zhuang stepped out of the palace gate, he still spoke: "Wen Zhuang, don't worry, the royal clans of the Qin State will believe that you are for the mother country, but only you know that it is for your ambitions...... As an imperial brother, what I want to tell you is that my own sister, Duanyang, twelve years ago, actually died of her own ambition. You should understand that women are not suitable for the court and the battlefield. ”

It's just because of Duanyang...... Because the former Duanyang was also a friendly emperor, at this moment, Tuoba Hong's coldness loosened slightly, and he said to Wen Zhuang what an emperor would not say.

He hoped that Wen Zhuang would not follow in the footsteps of Duanyang. Duanyang is his own sister, Wen Zhuang, she can be regarded as a sister anyway.

Everyone rumored that Duanyang was such a pitiful and tragic princess, who married the Xiongnu for the sake of the people of Qin, and finally died tragically as a victim. Only her imperial brother and queen mother knew that it was she who took advantage of the war between the two countries to boldly unite with the tribal leaders under the Xiongnu to overthrow the king of Khan and seize power, and was sentenced to death after being defeated.

Is it for Qin or for herself?

All the people who shed the blood of the Tuoba royal family have the courage to look at the world in their bones.

The young queen, who was only fifteen years old, died in a foreign land, and could no longer answer the question.

Wen Zhuang's figure stagnated slightly. Then she stepped forward and said lightly: "What did the imperial brother say...... I don't understand. ”

***

In the dark midnight, no one knew what kind of madness was happening in the brightly lit Jianzhang Palace.

Lin Yuan quickly returned to Yuzhao Palace, and on the second day, the news that the envoys of the Xia State were executed by the emperor had been announced to the world, and it was spread widely. The Wenchen led by Xu Shizheng retorted: "The Qin State is exhausted from the war with the Xiongnu, if there is another Xia State around, even if it can win, it will be a waste of money and labor, and the Qin State that has obtained the territory of the Xia State will only be an empty shelf with a strong foreign power and a cadre in the middle, which is very dangerous......"

However, Prime Minister Zuo stood with the generals this time, and bluntly said that the Qin State was strong enough to seize the Xia State. Moreover, with the help of Mongolia, the two countries swallowed Xia, and there was no danger at all. The fact of encroaching on the territory and expanding the territory has a crazy attraction for the generals, and there is a passionate voice in the court.

As Tuoba Hiroshi had predicted in advance, the sound of the main battle finally overpowered the main one.

At this time, the Mongol king, who was visiting the Qin State, naturally became a guest. Tuoba Hongri set up a banquet to entertain him, presented him with a thousand taels of gold and satin cloth, the Mongolian king as a return gift, with high interest to offer him from Mongolia to move over the rare beasts, to Tuoba Hongdao wants to open a gladiatorial arena in the palace of Daqin, please come to watch.

Tuoba Hiroshi hesitated slightly, for such a barbaric and cruel thing as a beast fight, he considered whether there would be a possibility of assassination. The king of the Huns liked to play this trick, and the Hongmen banquet never danced the sword, but there were often tigers and black bears who stood on the scene to perform "accidentally" rushed out of the prison door and pounced on the crowd.

Although he claimed to the outside world that Great Qin and Mongolia would never be reconciled and never broken, he himself knew how fragile this alliance was, and he also knew that Yuan Lie's temperament would turn his face at any time. Zuo Cheng was quite choked up, he looked at the Mongolian king with a smile, and came up with a righteous reason - Daqin is a state of etiquette, and it is not suitable for holding gladiatorial battles.

However, the right prime minister said: "Fierce beast gladiatorial is a show that Qin State did not have in the past, it must be very exciting, right?" Yuan Lie replied proudly: "Naturally, our Mongolian warriors all worship strength, if Emperor Qin is lucky enough to visit Mongolia, and even see the gladiatorial battle between man and beast, that is really wonderful." ”

The right prime minister glanced at the left prime minister who was frowning, and arched his hand towards Tuoba Hong: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the Mongolian king has come from afar and brought us a gladiatorial battle for us to watch, why not do it?" However, the imperial palace in the capital is full of pavilions and pavilions, and the banquet venues are all large halls, which is obviously not suitable for putting fierce beasts in to enjoy. Why don't the emperor go to the Mulan enclosure closest to Kyoto, and the emperor's relatives and nobles in the capital, and the military generals of Wenchen will also accompany him, and everyone will enjoy watching in the enclosure! ”

Tuoba Hong's eyes lit up when he heard it, what a good idea! Paddock: What is that? A place for royal hunting. The venue is so large that it can spread out more than 100,000 soldiers and horses! At that time, if there is any accident, there will be Qin troops all around, and the black bear will become a hedgehog in the blink of an eye when one person and one arrow are shot, what are you afraid of?

Yuan Yeol smiled meaninglessly and raised his hand in agreement.

So on February 15, in the early spring of the eleventh year of Qianwu, the emperor led the dignitaries of the capital to the Mulan enclosure.

Different from the Zhulu Enclosure in the far northwest, the Mulan Enclosure is located in the suburbs of Beijing, only a few dozen miles away from the palace, and the sedan chair can be reached in two hours, and the scale of the palace is not very large. On weekdays, when the royal family does not come, the children of the nobles in the capital often come here to race horses and shoot, and it is also a place for the defenders of the capital to practice.

When Yuan Lie was invited into the seat by Tuoba Hong, he looked around at the black pressure of the Imperial Forest Army, and the corners of his eyes twitched a little.

The people of the Qin State are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they really don't blow it...... It's just to watch a gladiatorial fight and engage in such a big stance.

At that time, Tuoba Hong and the Queen Mother sat on the same table, Queen Xiao had been moving in the past few days and did not dare to go out again, and among the concubines, Concubine Jing and Lin Yuan were sitting beside the emperor. Concubine Jing is the head of all the concubines, and most of them sit in this seat, but Lin Yuan crossed Zhao Zhaoyi and sat in the same row with her.

That day, Lin Yuan broke into the Jianzhang Palace without obeying Tuoba Hong's order, which made him angry at first, and he refused to see her for several days. However, it was only a few days - a few days later, Lin Yuan went to the gate of Jianzhang Palace aggrievedly and knelt in front of the gate to plead guilty, his heart almost softened into water, and he hugged the beauty of the Spring Festival tent that night to warm up, and then spoiled Lin Yuan more and more.

When they came to the paddock today, they didn't forget to place Lin Yuan on their side, and the two talked and laughed, eyebrows and affection, which overshadowed the concubines next to them.

Concubine Jing even bit a mouthful of silver teeth. She knew that when Yuan Lie came to the Qin State, this matter itself was a disaster for Lin Yuan. Yuan Lie spoke wildly at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, and then the emperor ordered Lin Yuan to be grounded in the palace without an edict. At that time, the emperor was already annoyed with Lin Yuan.

Seeing the man who covets his wife and concubine dangling in front of his eyes, ordinary people can't stand it, let alone the emperor who sits on the throne.

No matter how beautiful Lin Yuan is, every time the Mongolian king comes to stir up the situation, the emperor's affection for her will definitely be reduced.

However, now I don't know why, Hui Zhaoyuan, who was supposed to continue to be grounded and facing the crisis of falling out of favor, actually attended in front of everyone again, and had to be favored to sit in front of the emperor by Zhao Zhaoyi, and the favor was strong and enviable. Concubine Jing looked at the scene in front of her, as if the emperor had never been annoyed with Lin Yuan, and had never felt guilty because of Yuan Lie's intervention!

Naturally, she wouldn't know what happened in Jianzhang Palace that day - she wasn't Empress Xiao, she would always be just a harem concubine, and she was not qualified to know those things at all.

It can only be said that Lin Yuan's method worked, this trick was once used by Fan Yu, she secretly learned to use it, and it was really tried repeatedly. stabbed Yuan Lie in front of Tuoba Hong, even if it became a burden to the confrontation between the two emperors in the end, Tuoba Hong was angry with her presumptuousness for a while, but after thinking about it, he would pity her more and more, convinced that she was bent on himself.

It is too difficult to dispel the suspicions of an emperor, especially when the suspicions are related to ambiguous feelings.

But it's not impossible.

What Lin Yuan did made Concubine Jing stunned.

At this time, the crowd was sitting in a huge pasture used for running horses in Suri. There are not only the relatives and nobles of the Qin State here, but also the envoys of the Goryeo and Dayue Kingdoms who have not yet left Beijing, and they are also invited to be present at this time. However, the people of both countries did not have the slightest hint of the chatter and laughter of the night before, and they looked respectful and fearful, and shrank in the corner seats, not daring to pay attention to Takubahiro. Compared to Mongolia, which is known for its strong soldiers and horses and its relatively large territory, they are all small countries, and just a few days ago, the unlucky Xia envoys were shown to be beheaded, and it is not known whether the ambitious emperor of Qin will also deal with them in order to annex their country.

The so-called worship of all nations and friendship for eternity? In the struggle for power between countries, this superficial alliance agreement is simply a joke.

As soon as the war between the Qin State and the Xia State began, they strangled the envoys of the Xia State who worshiped in the palace of the Qin State, which was clearly a prestige for all countries in the world.

Everyone sat down, and the nobles and ministers of the Qin State also came. A tall fence made of white iron was set up a distance before the seats, in which the attendants of the palace came in and out, and finally one of the palace people locked the exit, and the sound of trumpets and drums gradually sounded in the field.

The accompanying Mongol warriors were already cheering to the trumpets. In the Qin State, martial arts competitions and other things were still very common, and fierce beast fights were too rare, but for the Mongols, this kind of show was commonplace. They were habitually excited, and several sturdy warriors in armor climbed over the fence to enter, holding spears and slowly approached the cage that was pushed into the house by the palace people, and the leader actually opened a cage door with a black bear with one hand, causing an exclamation all around.

Yuan Yeol looked at Tuoba Hong, and a mockery appeared on his face. Sure enough, it was the royal family of the Qin State who was drunk and dreamed of death, and they would be terrified even when they saw the beast.

"The West Horde has arrived—" As an attendant at the corner gate sang loudly, Wen Zhuang was dressed in a Huren costume woven of white fox skin and gold silk, wearing a dzi gold dzi on his hair bun, and entered the table with a light smile on his face, and saluted with the Mongolian kings Yuanlie and Tuoba Hong respectively.

"I'm late, but luckily the gladiatorial fight has just begun." She gently stepped forward to pour wine and cloth for Yuan Lie, and whispered in his ear, "King Khan won't blame me." ”

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