After nearly half a year of the southern expedition, it was already December when the Yunnan was destroyed and returned to the dynasty, and it was another season of heavy snowfall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the gate of the south city of Yongzhou, hundreds of officials lined up, and the people gathered to be ecstatic, and the queen begged from afar, and this situation was exactly the same!

I still remember that when I came back from the Northern Expedition last year, it was also this pomp and plot, but this time the people and officials seemed more excited, and Queen Meng had less worries in the past!

After all, this time is not like last time, Dayong is far stronger than Dian in terms of army and national strength, and it is reasonable to win and return. So Queen Meng is much better this time, she didn't burst into tears like last year, but kept smiling, and pretended to be angry and glared at me from time to time.

The mother's lovely expression made me feel very affectionate, and I found that I regarded her more and more as my own mother, and when I saw her, I couldn't wait to turn over and dismount, and gallop all the way to the queen's carriage, just like a child meeting his mother.

Empress Meng stretched out her hand to hug me, and then smiled at the ministers: "Look at the children, they are already two victorious people, and they are still roaring like children!"

After speaking, Queen Meng immediately laughed non-stop, looking at me tenderly, her eyes were still a little moist!

How can parents in the world not feel sorry for their children, eleven-year-old children will pick up the burden of the Great Yongguo, and have won two expeditions and two victories, during which the hardships and tribulations can be imagined, Queen Meng naturally knows this.

Wang Zhe kept smiling beside the carriage, his eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and he kept praising me and saying: "Lao Chen has always felt that His Royal Highness the Prince is the dragon and phoenix among the people, as long as His Royal Highness the Prince comes out, everything will be successful! This time he went south to destroy Yunnan, which also confirmed this sentence like iron!"

Seeing that his sycophants were clapping so loudly, I turned my head and asked, "Prime Minister, when this king is away, everything can be taken into order, and the situation will be stable?"

After hearing this, Wang Zhe said with a smile: "The old minister once promised His Royal Highness the prince that he should do his best to ensure that the court is foolproof! What the old minister said should be counted! The prince's command is full of talents, and the generals have been guarded by all the rebellions in all directions, and the danger of summer time has already been turned into a disaster. Now that His Royal Highness the Prince has triumphed in Yunnan, my Dayong court is as stable as Mount Tai, which is gratifying and congratulatory!"

Queen Meng hugged me and said happily: "Emperor, there are many hardships all the way here, what reward do you want, you might as well tell the queen mother directly!"

I replied with a smile: "No need for the queen mother!", and after speaking, I said to Wang Zhe: "This king remembers that the prime minister promised in the past that if I can destroy Yunnan and return triumphantly, the prime minister will be willing to give me countless treasures, I don't know if this is true?"

After hearing this, Prime Minister Wang smiled awkwardly, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The prince still remembers this! Please rest assured, the prince will order at this moment to send someone to send all the five thousand taels of gold to His Royal Highness the prince!"

After listening to this, I raised my head and laughed, and said to the prime minister: "This king is to tease the prime minister, no merit will not be punished, and the destruction of Yunnan is to serve my great Yongguo, and the duty of this king is also, don't really send it!"

After hearing this, Prime Minister Wang nodded his head, smiled and stretched out his hand to touch his beard, and then said loudly: "The old man only discovered today that he and His Royal Highness the prince will assist me in the great Yong country, which is the fast thing for the old lady! The prince is full of scriptures, far-sighted, omnipotent, invincible on the field, and the destruction of Bangna County will never be in trouble, and the prince's unique pen has never been seen in the world! Although the prince is eleven years old this year, the prince's talent is far above the old man, and he should be worshiped by the old man!"

After speaking, Prime Minister Wang respectfully made a big salute to me, which made the ministers and the people laugh happily!

After worshipping Wang Cheng, Prime Minister continued: "This worship is out of the old man's inner admiration, there is no flattery, you don't have to laugh!"

After Wang Zhe finished speaking, everyone laughed louder, they were both happy and moved, and everyone was naturally happy to see me and Wang Cheng say goodbye!

After hearing this, Queen Meng looked at me with a smile, and the kindness on her face was very kind, which seemed to be silently telling me: Emperor, you are really powerful, even Wang Zhe obeys you like this, why worry about the world!

Surrounded by the ministers and everyone, the carriage slowly drove into Yongzhou City, and the loud calls of the soldiers guarding the city immediately came from the city: "Long live His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, long live the Queen Mother!"

As the crown prince, he can only be called Chitose no matter what, but in the face of the soldiers being called like this, no one stood up to stop him, but laughed even happier! Obviously, everyone understands in their hearts that although I am the crown prince, I am no different from the emperor, because sooner or later this position will be reserved for me!

The emperor's eldest brother is gone, and the thought of me going to sit on that boring dragon chair and listen to the endless deliberations of the ministers makes my head immediately tingle!

No, the day after I returned to Yongzhou, I had to sit back in that position and listen honestly to the ministers making a year-end summary.

Originally, most of these things were the responsibility of Wang Zhe, Xiao Qing and Uncle Baili, and they had to be reported to me and Queen Meng one by one, and my ears were calloused.

Then it was Wang Zhe's turn, Xiao Qing's and Uncle Baili to report separately, my God......

But soon I was noticed by one thing, Uncle Baili said: "The tax paid by the county town in the country is the least in Fangling and Changwei, and it is only one-eighteenth of the other counties!"

...... It seems that after the harvest of the autumn crops, the surplus grain of the people in these two counties is still not taken out to sell, what are these people doing with so much grain at home!

Hearing this, I couldn't help but look up and sigh, and then Wang Zhe smiled and said: "Your Royal Highness the prince doesn't have to sigh, the gamble at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet in the past, the old man just made a joke with His Royal Highness the prince, the prince doesn't have to take it seriously! The old minister had long expected such a result, so he strongly opposed this matter in the past! Fortunately, it only involved the two counties of Fangling and Changwei, and there was a holy decree as a cover-up, so it was okay!"

...... I said unhappily: "The prime minister doesn't need to be anxious, you and I have been about two years, and this is just a year old!"

The prime minister smiled and said: "His Royal Highness the prince is perfect, but he is a little too stubborn in this matter, and the old man is also sorry for the prince, hey!"

He smiled and shook his head, as if he was really disappointed in me.

Who knew that Empress Meng also asked: "Emperor, if this method doesn't work, you can find a new way, and you don't need to be discouraged because of this!"

I turned my head sideways to look at Queen Meng, but I didn't expect that even she had lost confidence in the tax reform!

After seeing her kind eyes, I had to bow my head silently and didn't say a word!

At this time, the loud voice of the eunuch came from the door of the main hall: "The envoys of the Xirong tribes are here!"

I hurriedly looked up, only to see several envoys from a small number of famous ethnic groups in the west walking in with their heads bowed, each of them holding bamboo slips in their hands, and countless attendants carrying boxes beside them, and I don't know what kind of plane they are trying to do!

Unexpectedly, the leading envoy opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty the Honorable Empress Dayong, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Dayong! I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led the army south to destroy the Dian Kingdom, divided the land into counties and counties, and has a great tendency to open up the territory and expand the territory! We are all small clans of Xirong, and we have admired the Dayong Kingdom for a long time, and we have long had the intention of returning to obedience! However, the Qiang people in the west have repeatedly invaded the east, plundered my property and kidnapped my wife and children, if the Dayong Kingdom helps me to send troops to Xirong to the Qiang land, my Xirong tribes are willing to return to Dayong and become the counties of Dayong! I hope that the Great Yong Kingdom can remember my Xirong, remember the loyalty of the old Qin, and avenge our dead clansmen!"

...... , Xirong, Qiang people,......。

After hearing this, Wang Zhe looked up at me, then lowered his head and thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness the Prince, all the tribes in Xirong have indeed always admired my Dayong! Over the past few years, the Qiang people in Xirong have slowly risen, and the Qiang people have been rampant and have repeatedly offended other tribes, burning, killing, plundering and captive, and their sex is the same as that of the Xiongnu! I wonder what His Royal Highness the Prince has plans for this?"

I nodded, and asked the Xirong envoy directly, "Where do the Qiang people lead?"

The envoy of Xirong replied: "The territory of the Qiang people is very extensive, and the Qiang land borders my Xirong in the east, Kunlun in the West Sea in the north, Jishi Mountain in the south, and even to the top of the high mountain in the southwest, and the desert in the west!"

I was stunned for a moment after hearing this, doesn't the top of the high mountain refer to the XC Plateau? Xihai I know that what the ancients called Xihai is now QH Lake! Kunlun Mountain and Xihai are together??? this is the first time I have heard of it! The west is bordered by the desert, that is, the westernmost desert that has reached XJ. What is this stone mountain, it shouldn't refer to the stone mountain of GS? It is about the same latitude as QH Lake, what is the south side? If Nima were to be counted like this, wouldn't it span thousands of miles from east to west, north and south...... I don't know.

I immediately asked Wang Zhe and said, "Prime Minister, where is Jishi Mountain?"

Wang Zhe was really well-informed, and he immediately replied: "Jishi Mountain is located in the western part of Baima, about 500 miles away from Baima County!"

...... , in this way, the territory of the Qiang people should be in the current Qilian Mountain generation!

I then asked the Xirong envoy and said, "What is the population of the Qiang, what is the number of soldiers?"

The envoy of Xirong shook his head and said: "The Qiang people have a wide range of activities, all of them are nomadic tribes, and the Qiang tribes occasionally attack each other, and it is impossible to know the number of people in all their tribes!

I smiled and said, "Oh! It's just a bunch of tribes that don't unite with each other, so there's nothing to be afraid of!"

I continued to ask the prime minister, "What is the connection between the Qiang people and the Xiongnu?"

The envoy of Xirong replied first: "There are attacks on each other, and they hate each other!"

The prime minister added: "The Xiongnu stopped at Kunlun, and all parts of Longxi County were not occupied, and they were separated by many Xirong tribes! The Xirong tribes were relatively strong, and they had many intrusions on the Xiongnu in the north, and the Xiongnu fought repeatedly but could not be wiped out, and they hated them very much!"

I asked the envoy of Xijon again, "What is the envoy's department of Xirong?"

The envoy of Xirong replied politely: "We all belong to the Di branch and live in various parts of the former Longxi County!"

After listening to this, I had a rough idea in my heart, and then I said to the eunuch beside me: "Please ask the envoys of Xirong to rest in the palace first, and inform the envoys when I have made a decision!"

The envoys saluted, and then left the hall with the eunuchs with their retinue and gifts!

Then Wang Zhe immediately said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, my Dayong has just destroyed Nanyun, and the army needs to recuperate, and it is inconvenient to fight again at this time, please ......"

The eunuch at the door suddenly interrupted Prime Minister Wang and called out loudly: "The Hun envoy has arrived!"

In just six words, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked, and even I stood up from the chair in surprise!

The Hun envoys are here again, and what do the Huns want to do? I suddenly panicked in my heart, and seemed to be afraid to hear their names!