Chapter 178: The Hand Behind the Scenes
After driving away the onlookers and placing the Xiyan envoy and Sima Hao, Mu Xiuji entered the palace and reported the matter to Emperor Changtai. (Baidu search eight ║ zero ║ book ║ house to see the good-looking romance)
A small fire in the hotel led to such a shocking scandal, Princess Yancheng took advantage of the fire to elope with the guards, and there is no one to see - the people of Hengtong Street spread ten or ten hundreds, and almost the entire Jingzhao knew about it.
There are even some good deeds who spontaneously performed a fragrant plot: the bitter princess was forced to kiss, but in the end she was unwilling to be manipulated, and eloped with the guards who had been silently admiring her, and since then she has been far away from the world and has lived a hidden life of male farmers and female weavers.
Of course, this is their imagination, and no one knows what the real situation is, because Princess Yan Cheng's elopement left the Xiyan Mission and Dayong in a mess.
In the Zichen Palace, Shangguan Changzhi lowered his head and choked up with red eyes: "Father, the princess has not been found yet." Erchen was still happily waiting for the princess to marry the princess...... "No matter why Princess Yancheng eloped and where she is now." In short, Shangguan Changzhi, as a sufferer, was extremely aggrieved in front of Emperor Changtai.
Emperor Changtai looked at Shangguan Changzhi, and he also felt extremely angry in his heart. The matter of the hotel, Mu Xiuji has already reported in detail, Princess Yancheng doesn't like to be friendly, you can say it directly, then Xiyan can change someone.
Now that there is such a scandal as elopement, the whole Jingzhao people know about it, how should this end? Now Princess Yan Cheng hasn't been found, even if she finds it, what should she do? Can it continue to be reconciled with relatives? Emperor Changtai's mind was a mess.
Not long after, Honglu Shaoqing Fang Congzhe came to report: "I found Princess Yancheng!" She was with the guard. The two pretended to be husband and wife and were about to escape from the gate of Jingzhao City, and now Princess Yan Cheng and the guard were taken back to the hotel! However......" Fang Congzhe wanted to speak and stopped.
"But what?" Shangguan Changzhi hurriedly asked, and Emperor Changtai was also waiting for an answer.
When the princess and the guards were brought back, the prince of Xiyan couldn't restrain his anger and executed the guards on the spot, and the experienced grandmother in the palace also found out Princess Yancheng...... It was found that Princess Yancheng was not perfect! Fang Congzhe stiffened his head and told him what happened after finding Princess Yancheng.
"Not perfect? Father, this marriage. Forgive the sons and daughters should not admit it! The entire Jingzhao people knew that Princess Yancheng had eloped with someone, and now the princess was not perfect, maybe she had already been secretly married. If Erchen marries Princess Yancheng again, Erchen won't be able to raise his head at all! Please forgive me! With that, Shangguan Changzhi knelt down violently, his face was both aggrieved and resolute.
Fang Congzhe on the side also knelt down when he saw this: "Your Majesty, almost all the officials and people know that Princess Yancheng has eloped, if you agree to this peace affair, I am afraid that it will greatly damage the royal face." Fallen to the great eternal national prestige......"
Princess Yancheng's elopement made everyone in Jingzhao known, and it ended with the death of the guards and the cancellation of the harmony. For the sake of national prestige and face, perhaps for the guilt of Shangguan Changzhi. Emperor Changtai finally announced that he had given up on the matter of making peace.
Princess Yancheng eloped. It was a naked blow to Dayong's face, and the receiving mission also recovered relevant losses and compensation from the Xiyan mission.
In the end, the envoy of Xiyan filled all the dowry of Princess Yancheng into the treasury of Dayong, including many jewels and spices, worth 200,000 taels, and compensated another 100,000 taels of silver tickets. At the same time, Sima Hao, the prince of Xiyan, also promised that in the mutual market, the good horses traded by Xiyan would also make price reductions to compensate.
At this point, Dayong's damaged face can be regarded as barely recovered.
Emperor Changtai thought of the injury of the five princes in the elopement of Princess Yan Cheng, and gave him the 100,000 taels of silver tickets compensated by Xiyan. The red silk and other festive objects hanging in the Five Princes' Mansion have also been taken down a long time ago.
As for Princess Yan Cheng, she has been crazy since the guard died. was closely guarded by Sima Hao's guards, and was ready to be brought back to Yandu to be disposed of by Sima Zheng, and not many people paid attention to her final outcome.
There was such an ugly thing, the Xiyan delegation felt embarrassed, and soon asked Emperor Changtai to resign, Xiyan is making Murong Li simply miserable: the matter of harmony is not successful, the princess has such a thing, he doesn't know how to explain the situation to the emperor after returning to Yandu.
Before the Xiyan delegation left Jingzhao, Dayong had no intention of setting up a farewell state banquet at all, and only made the reception mission simply deal with things.
While Murong Li and Fang Congzhe were still drinking, Sima Hao and Shangguan Changzhi were also having a secret conversation in a certain room.
"This is 200,000 taels, I wish us a happy cooperation!" Shangguan Changzhi said with a smile, and handed the 200,000 taels that had been prepared to Sima Hao.
These 200,000 taels, there are 100,000 yuan compensated by Xiyan, and Shangguan Changzhi himself made up another 100,000 taels, these 200,000 taels, as a result of buying a marriage cancellation, he thinks it is completely worth it! And this is just the beginning, what he is looking forward to more is the cooperation with Sima Hao in the future.
"Happy working together! I'm not here for just 200,000 taels, the key is to keep the news exchange in the future, which is the biggest reason why I cooperate with you. This Xiyan and Dayong will be in the palm of our hands, cheers! Sima Hao took the 200,000 taels and said with a smile on his face.
His ambitious eyes and calm posture show that this is his true face, and arrogance and violence are just his outward expressions.
"That's nature! For future cooperation, we toast! After listening to Sima Hao's words, Shangguan Changzhi replied, his eyes were also full of ambition like Sima Hao, and in this regard, they were the same kind of people.
Shangguan Changzhi admired Sima Hao, but also secretly became jealous. He just provided the plan, and the direct execution was done by Sima Hao, he could be so ruthless to his imperial sister, and the whole thing was flawless, and the final result was almost perfect. It can be seen that this person is cautious and ruthless, and Shangguan Changzhi is worried that he is seeking skin with the tiger, so he has to guard against it.
"Don't worry, I'm never interested in you! I want, it's just what I deserve, this Xiyan, originally mine, I just want to get it! Glancing at Shangguan Changzhi, Sima Hao said lazily, his eyes also became dangerous, and he looked very violent, which showed what Shangguan Changzhi was afraid of, and he could guess it.
"Good. I'll send someone to contact your people on a regular basis. Anyway, thank you very much for this incident! Shangguan Changzhi also said cheerfully. No matter what kind of person Sima Hao is, anyway, the crisis of harmony has been solved, and the Xiyan mission will also leave Jingzhao, as for future cooperation, that is a matter for the future.
The Xiyan delegation left Jingzhao, and what was left for the ordinary people of Jingzhao in the end was just a fragrant elopement topic.
Shen Ning thought of the poor Princess Yancheng, and couldn't help but feel a burst of sighs, another poor person, born in the royal family, involuntarily, Princess Yancheng's character, in the end, could only be sacrificed as a tool, such a weak person, if something like this happened, what else could he do besides death?
Perhaps, Princess Yancheng has fallen to this end, and the Shen family will also be responsible. If it weren't for the Shen family's use of ground movements to promote peace, Shangguan Changzhi would not have come up with this poisonous plan in order to refuse the marriage, whose fault could this be? Shen Ning felt a deep sense of self-blame.
"Sister, don't think so. We misunderstood that Sima Hao, and mistakenly thought that he was such an arrogant and incompetent person, but we didn't expect that he secretly colluded with Shangguan Changzhi and ruined his sister's innocence. This is something that none of us expected, sister, don't blame yourself! Shen Yuhong said.
After receiving Shen Yuyi's secret letter earlier, Shen Yuhong came up with a plan to startle the snake, planning to make a fake assassination of Sima Hao after he entered Jingzhao, so as to arouse the vigilance of the Jingzhao guards, but before they could implement this plan, the guards around Sima Hao quietly eliminated a group of assassins from Xiyan.
Shen Yuhong guessed that there must be something they had overlooked; Before they could figure out the mystery, there was an elopement of Princess Yan Cheng, and all the plans of the Shen family this time failed! This was also a blow to Shen Yuhong, but when he saw Shen Ning's self-blame, he couldn't help but comfort her like this.
In all fairness, if he did it to Shen Mi, Shen Wan and other sisters, Shen Yuhong thought that he couldn't do it, so this time it was the opponent who was too ruthless, not that they should blame themselves.
"The second brother is right. We misunderstood Sima Hao, and we also underestimated Shangguan Changzhi, who would have thought that he would join forces with Sima Hao! Listening to Shen Yuhong's words, Shen Ning nodded.
Her self-blame is more aimed at her own carelessness, or underestimating Shangguan Changzhi!
He was happily preparing for the wedding on the surface, but secretly everything had already been planned. Killing people is not enough, but he viciously ruined Princess Yancheng's innocence and slandered her for fornicating with the guards! If it weren't for the fact that the grasshopper pretended to be the mother-in-law who delivered the food and entered the envoy's pavilion and heard Princess Yan Cheng's crazy self-talk, Shen Ning would not have thought that this sensational princess eloped was not true at all.
Shen Ning thought of Sima Hao's elopement of Princess Yancheng in public, and it was obvious that Sima Hao and Shangguan Changzhi had joined forces.
"The fifth prince rejected the matter of making peace, and got 100,000 taels for nothing. The news from the palace is that the emperor feels deeply guilty about the five princes and intends to choose another good family business for him to compensate. This time, the five princes won a big victory. Shen Yuhong sighed, and then began to worry.
After the two things of Qiyue Hall and Heqin, the Shen family has already faced the five princes directly, and the five princes will definitely attack and retaliate against the Shen family.
Shen Yuhong's worries are also Shen Ning's worries, she knows better than Shen Yuhong how terrifying it is when Shangguan Changzhi takes revenge on a person and a family.
Could it be that even if she relived a lifetime, she still couldn't deal with him? Thinking of this, Shen Ning couldn't be calm, he always dreamed of the nightmare of the Shen family's annihilation at night, he was always absent-minded during the day, and even when he went to ask the county lord of Rongping to say goodbye, he was in a trance.
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Midnight!