On this day, the two were chatting in Fengming Palace, and Nan Guying remembered the matter of the envoys of the two countries, so he asked Sima Hongyan: "You can hang the envoys of Dongning and Nanyi in the post house for almost a month, when do you plan to summon them?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Who said I was going to summon them? I'm waiting for them to go back on their own! ”

Nan Guying was stunned for a moment, and asked inexplicably: "You let them come to Yanling, but you didn't see them, what does this mean?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "If I hadn't subdued Xiyue and encircled Beiling, I'm afraid that Dongning and Nanyi would never have sent envoys to Yanling to visit for the rest of their lives." Now my style of opening and closing makes them feel the crisis, so they send someone to touch my bottom and probe my tone. Shall I do as they wish? ”

Nan Guying smiled: "This is also true! ”

Sima Hongyan said again: "Besides, they still think very highly of themselves, and they only send a few ministers, they are not as sincere as Beiling, wouldn't I summon them to fall into their own identity?" I'm not going to give them that face. I just want them to know that if they want to talk, they can talk fairly, don't be clever, and fool me like a little girl who doesn't know anything, they will miscalculate. ”

Seeing Sima Hongyan speak casually, Nan Guying couldn't help but sigh: "Hongyan, I found that you were born a king, and I can't hide it from you at all, as if other people's ideas are all under your control." ”

Sima Hongyan smiled: "I'm not as powerful as you say, but I understand what they want in their hearts, and naturally I know what the purpose of everything they do is." I like to go straight again, so I'm too lazy to negotiate with them, so I'll just hang them. It is estimated that it will not be long before the Lord will naturally come. ”

Nan Guying nodded secretly, since Sima Hongyan was sure, he didn't need to worry. Then he remembered another thing, so he said to Sima Hongyan: "By the way, these days, I see that Li Siyu and the ninth princess of Beiling are fighting hotly, could it be that there is already affection between these two?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "You just saw it? A few days ago, Han Xuefeng returned to China, and he couldn't persuade this ninth sister to go back for three days. No, Han Xuefeng himself went back to Beiling to recover his life, and Han Miaoqi seemed to be willing to go back after attending our wedding ceremony. ”

Nan Guying said: "Then if Gongzi Li and the Ninth Princess really have a heart of mutual promise, do you really want to fulfill them?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Of course it will be fulfilled, and I will marry the two of them." If this thing happens, it will break the history of hundreds of years of no marriage in the Central Plains, how interesting is such a meaningful thing! ”

Nan Guying shook his head with a smile and said, "You! Seeing that you seem to do things out of temperament, in fact, you have long been calculating the gains and losses in your heart, and many people have been deceived by your seemingly foolish appearance. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Sometimes you can better protect yourself by letting others not understand!" ”

Since the emperor's brother returned to Beiling to return to his father, Han Miaoqi has been even more free. After getting along with Sima Hongyan and others for this period of time, they have similar tempers, and they are even more invisible. Every day, I play everywhere, watch everywhere, and don't think of myself as a guest.

I was a little embarrassed before, but then I simply asked Sima Hongyan for permission and asked Li Siyu to accompany him every day. Han Miaoqi has never been fixed by the reserved etiquette of women, she just likes to chat and talk with Li Siyu, and she always thinks about it when she doesn't see her for a day.

Li Siyu also has a good impression of this straightforward princess of Beiling, especially the undisguised enthusiasm is completely different from the Yanling woman's desire to refuse and welcome, this exotic style actually touched his nerdy heart.

However, the two have a good impression of each other, and there is nothing to overstep, just a simple feeling that they like to be with each other.

Even Sima Hongyan secretly connived, and others wouldn't say anything, and even sometimes when they saw Li Siyu and Han Miaoqi coming together, others would make room for them.

Princess Beiling stayed in Yanling for a long time, and she also had close contacts with Prime Minister Zuo of Yanling, and these news invisibly caused huge pressure on Dongning and Nanyi. In particular, the envoys sent by these two countries have been kept in the post house and ignored, which makes these two countries speculate again and again.

As far as Yanling is concerned, it has annexed Xiyue and united Beiling, and its strength is not the same, and it is completely qualified to compete with Dongning or Nan. For their own safety, Dongning and Nanyi had to re-evaluate the situation, it seems that the young phoenix lord who had underestimated Yanling before, if he didn't show sincerity, maybe one day he would come to the city.

Dongning and Nanyi made adjustments almost at the same time, hurriedly recalled the envoys sent before, rearranged the envoys, and visited the Lord of Yanling Feng again.

This time, the status of the envoys sent by the two countries was not ordinary, Nanyi sent Zhuge Yu, the prince of their own country, and Dongning was Hongwang Lan Shengwu himself. The second mission of the two countries began to march to Yanling without delay, and sent fast horses to submit the credentials of visit to Yanling in advance.

Sima Hongyan smiled and said nothing when he received the two national letters, and threw them to Nan Guying next to him, Nan Guying picked it up and looked at it, and saw that Sima Hongyan was right this time, so he asked Sima Hongyan to discuss the matter with the ministers tomorrow.

Sima Hongyan said: "Tonight is different from the past, just the necessary etiquette, there is no need to mobilize the people for them, as if something big has happened." We didn't invite them anyway, so there's no need to waste money for them. ”

After a while, he said to Nan Guying: "Other things can be ignored, but there is one thing that cannot be ignored." Only you can arrange this! Nan Guying was slightly surprised, and she didn't know what Sima Hongyan wanted to do.

King Hong of Dongning entered Yanning Pass, and Zhuge Yu, the prince of Nanyi, walked Yanyi Pass, this time Sima Hongyan did not embarrass them, and sent cavalry guards all the way to the capital.

Hong Wang Lan Shengwu was obviously not in a hurry, he walked very slowly and calmly, he was carefully observing the livelihood of Yanling. Because he knows that whether this country is strong or not, he doesn't need to look at how luxurious the palace is, nor how big the emperor's pomp is, but only needs to see how well the people are living.

Before setting off for Yanling, King Hong had a general judgment on the condition of Yanling. Due to Sima Hongyan's implementation of the identity verification system, it is no longer easy to send secret agents to Yanling, and the hidden nails that were buried before have also been removed, so the way to understand the situation in Yanling is now very limited.

However, after King Hong entered Yanling, he felt that there was not much difference from his own judgment, and there were still large tracts of abandoned land and a large number of refugees in Yanling. Especially the people close to the border live the most difficult, all of this is in the eyes of King Hong, and he already has a general plan in his heart. But after reading this, I always have a feeling that something is not quite right, and I can't think of anything wrong for a while.

Later, King Hong realized that something was wrong, as the monarch of a country, it stands to reason that he should deliberately hide the poor side of the people. But along the way, King Hong found that Yanling didn't seem to hide these things at all, and even the Yanling cavalry guarding them turned a blind eye.

And then there are the eyes of those refugees, and King Hong feels very wrong. There are also refugees in Dongning, he has seen it countless times, but the eyes of the refugees in Dongning are always pleading and helpless, and they are always full of despair. But the Yanling refugees are not, they don't seem to be desperate because of embarrassment, on the contrary, their eyes are full of hope, although they are ragged and unkempt, but those eyes are shining with longing for tomorrow.

It's not normal, it's so abnormal!

Only in the face of poverty can the powerful find a sense of superiority. Because the powerful give pity and disdain to the poor, and the yearning and envy that the poor show when they look up to the powerful make the powerful get the greatest satisfaction.

But when all these differences do not exist, the powerful have no superiority and no sense of satisfaction, because they will be surprised and frightened when they find that all that they have seems to be tomorrow in the poor as well. Because there is no difference in status, status, and wealth, where can there be dignity and humility?

The people of Yanling gave King Hong this kind of surprise and fear, he felt that the people of Yanling did not show envy or fear when they saw their noble and illustrious convoy, just like seeing a tree on the side of the road as ordinary and indifferent, if they saw the royal convoy in Dongning and did not kneel, they would all be whipped.

"How does this Sima Hongyan govern the country?" King Hong kept asking this question in his heart.

King Hong was cunning, and before coming to Yanling, he ambushed more than a dozen spies in the convoy, preparing to spread them as soon as he entered Yanling. Who knew that the Yanling cavalry was extremely careful, and carefully counted the number of personnel back and forth three times before letting the convoy enter the customs, and then checked the number of people every time they stopped or set off, as long as there was one less person, they would never set off until they found the missing person, so that King Hong's plan was in vain.

Along the way, when he arrived in the capital, King Hong was already full of curiosity about the phoenix lord Sima Hongyan, and he couldn't wait to meet this unique first empress.

However, he is anxious, which does not mean that Sima Hongyan is anxious. The second envoy group of Dongning and Nanyi was still arranged to enter the post house for a short rest, and the meeting was notified separately.

However, this time Sima Hongyan did not let them wait too long, and on the third day when the envoys of the two countries arrived in the capital of Yanling, Sima Hongyan summoned the envoys of the two countries at the same time and invited them to the palace hall for a meeting and discussion.

On the same day, the south gate of the inner city of the capital was opened, and Dongning and Nanyi envoys were invited to meet in the palace. The road from the post house to the south gate of the imperial city was full of people from the capital, and they all looked at the convoy of envoys of the two countries indifferently, and there was no half of respect in their expressions, and there seemed to be a little ridicule in them.

This made the envoys of the two countries very uncomfortable, but their identities were also the royal family of the same country, but these Yanling Diao people didn't even have a number of courtesies, and they didn't kneel, which was simply unreasonable. But this is on other people's territory, and if you are angry, you can only endure it temporarily.

If the envoys outside the Imperial City felt contempt, then the moment they stepped through the south gate, they felt shock.

Because inside the south gate, the neat and uniform Yanling cavalry was waiting for them.

Just outside the city, these outsiders sat in the car, looking at the ordinary people condescendingly, although they felt uncomfortable, but they still had a powerful momentum above everyone. And the countless elite cavalry in the inner city appeared in front of them in an instant, but it brought them a huge deterrent. Especially at the moment when the cavalry appeared, the envoys of the two countries actually had a feeling that life and death were in the hands of others.