The Wuling Palace in Yizhou has now been upgraded to the palace of Emperor Liang. In April, King Wuling ascended the throne and became the emperor, changing the Yuan Tianzheng, and it has been a few months since then, and the Yizhou group has also become accustomed to it from the beginning of the hesitation.

After weighing the system, King Wuling overhauled the armor and trained the troops in the name of the thief from the east, and as for other ceremonial systems, for the time being, they could only be simplified because of the ugliness, and did not make too many changes.

The main hall of the original Wuling Palace, now as the palace where the Tianzheng Emperor Xiao Ji and the group discuss important military and political affairs, every major event that needs to be decided is called to the group to be announced.

Under normal circumstances, Xiao Ji mainly lived in the military camp in the south of the city, and the military and political affairs in the city were presided over by Xiao Yuanzheng, the second son of the king of Xiyang, and Xiao Yu, the clan of the king of Qin. Only when they encounter something important that cannot be decided, they will notify Xiao Ji in the military camp outside the city.

There is a major event that happened today, that is, the Western Wei Dynasty, which had sent people and horses to collude with internal thieves to invade Shuzhong, actually sent envoys to come.

The envoys of the Western Wei Dynasty were temporarily placed in the Sword Pavilion and were not allowed to enter, and Xiao Yuanzheng, the king of Xiyang, was busy informing Xiao Ji, the son of heaven, in the military camp in the south of the city, of the news. Xiao Ji also did not dare to slack off after learning the news, and hurriedly led a group of Praetorian Guards to return to the palace in the city.

"What is the intention of Wei to send an envoy at this time?"

Xiao Ji is in his forties, although his physique is not extremely tall, but he is calm and powerful, and at a glance he is more majestic than the disabled King of Xiangdong, and he has a kingly spirit between Gu Pan. After returning to the palace, he looked at his son Xiao Yuanzheng and asked in a deep voice.

"The Sword Pavilion guard hurriedly sent someone to complain, without careful examination. After receiving the letter, the child did not dare to be arbitrary, and immediately sent someone to report to the official's family. ”

After hearing this, Xiao Yuanzheng hurriedly bowed down and said, and then took out a letter from his arms that had not yet been opened and presented it with both hands: "The Wei envoy has another book, because the official family has not yet returned to the garden, and the child has hidden it in his arms, and he does not dare to show it." ”

Xiao Ji nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, he was quite satisfied with his son's meticulous and cautious, took the letter with one hand, patted his son on the shoulder with the other and said with a smile: "In life, a small setback is not a bad thing. If you hadn't been defeated by the Wei people, you wouldn't know that there are still heroes in the world who are difficult to beat. Now it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, and it has returned to Shuzhong by the hands of the Wei people. If you are still under Jiangling, the seven officials are narrow-minded, and they will definitely refuse to let you return, and your father is afraid that he will break his arm! ”

Xiao Yuanzheng nodded again and again after hearing this, and then said with pity: "It's just a pity that the tens of thousands of soldiers gathered in Yingzhou, if they still stay in the other realm, they can attack Jiangling with Wang Shi's east and west, and the world will be determined in a moment!" ”

Xiao Ji didn't feel sorry for this, and said with a smile: "It's really commendable to be ambitious, but sometimes you have to do what you can." Your father is brave and resourceful, and he doesn't need his children to sacrifice their lives to help. What's more, although your brother was defeated by Baling before the envoy came to tell the rebel army a few days ago, he quickly regrouped and made a comeback.

The seven officials are just corrupt Confucian scribes, how can they suppress the giant evil and stubborn thieves. I just hope that he can not lose his temperament, and dare to die on the day of the destruction of Jiangling City, so that I will not go out of the east to avenge him! ”

Shu was already closed, especially after seeking to go east before, but was guarded by Jiangling after the gorge and the way out of the east, the reception of external news was even more closed.

Last year, even because the Jingzhou Governor's Office sent an envoy to escort Xiao Yuanzheng to negotiate, Shuzhong learned that Hou Jing's army marched westward, and the Jiangling soldiers were able to keep Jiangling alive after a hard battle.

Since then, all the news received by Shuzhong has been provided by Xiao Yuanzhao, the eldest son of Xiao Ji and the crown prince who is now sitting in Badong.

Therefore, in Xiao Ji's cognition, at present, Hou Jing's chaotic army is still extremely rampant, and the strength of the troops is better than before, and the Jiangling side has lost troops and retreated, and the situation is already precarious.

Xiao Ji didn't look down on Xiao Yi, the seventh elder who could only dance and make ink, and had no bottom line to cater to the former prince Xiao Gang, because of the lag of news, he still didn't know that Jiankang's throne had been changed a few times, and he thought that the puppet emperor Xiao Gang, the third child, was still in power. And judging from his brazen act of claiming the emperor, don't talk about Lao Qi, his brothers are probably garbage in his eyes, and it is not an obstacle for him to be the emperor at all!

As he spoke, Xiao Ji sat down in the hall with the letter, and when he saw the seal of the Western Wei Dynasty and the foreign government on the outside of the letter, his face couldn't help but become a little serious, and he only felt that the Western Wei sent an envoy to Shu at this time, no matter what the purpose was, I was afraid that it was not a good thing.

In fact, as Xiao Ji expected, the wording in this letter was very unkind, still talking about the previous war between the two sides, accusing Shuzhong of not abiding by the previous armistice agreement between the two sides, privately detaining the captured Western Wei soldiers as official slaves, and sending troops to harass Yang Fachen, who had already taken refuge in the Western Wei. Therefore, the Western Wei side wanted to send envoys to visit the country to investigate whether this was really the case.

When Xiao Ji saw this, he laughed angrily in his heart. He knew what the idea of the Western Wei Dynasty was, it was nothing more than to see him as the emperor, and felt that he was eager to go east to settle the chaos and recover the lost land, so he wanted to make trouble unreasonably, set up obstacles for him, and impose constraints on his actions.

"When a thief comes to attack me, he is the first to be unrighteous! Now he is making things difficult with this, and the Qiang slaves really don't know shame. Even though the country is in danger, how can I be coerced by this and expel the Wei envoy from ......"

Xiao Ji Zhenshu has been in Shu for more than ten years, and he has made the most meritorious contributions among the brothers, and naturally he is not a person who compromises and seeks perfection, and when he saw this vexatious letter from the Western Wei Dynasty, he no longer planned to entangle with it. If the thief wants to fight, then he will fight, and it just so happens that recently he is also thinking about whether to recover Hanzhong first and then go east to settle the chaos!

However, just as he was about to crumple and throw the letter, his eyes inadvertently swept over some words on the side of the letter, and his expression and words were stagnant, and he recovered after a while, frowned and read it carefully, and even his face changed greatly, and he exclaimed: "Impossible, impossible!" ”

Xiao Yuanzheng was also surprised when he saw his father lose his temper like this, and he hurriedly approached the front of the case, and whispered: "The official family ......"

Xiao Ji turned a deaf ear to his son's shout, but grabbed the letter that had been slightly wrinkled and read it carefully, and only closed his eyes for contemplation after a long time, and then asked in a deep voice: "You have been under the Seven Officials' Mansion, and you have the momentum to quell the rebellious army when you watch the battle of its army?" ”

"How is this possible?"

Xiao Yuanzheng immediately subconsciously laughed after hearing this, when he was defeated and captured by the Western Wei Dynasty in front of Runan City, it happened to be when Hou Jing's chaotic army raided Yingzhou City and the Jiangling army rushed to flee, so he had already left the impression in his heart that the rebels were powerful and powerful. Although I later received news of the defeat of the rebels outside Baling, after all, hearing was false, and seeing was not enough to offset the impact of seeing being believing.

"But the Wei people said that the Jiangnan rebellion had already been quelled, Wang Shengbi and others had recovered Jiankang, and the thief leader Hou Jing had also been awarded the ......."

Xiao Ji threw out the letter in his hand, and his tone was full of surprise.

When Xiao Yuanzheng saw this, he hurriedly picked up the letter and read it carefully, and after reading it, his face was also shocked, and he whispered: "This, this is really incredible!" Gangneung had been defeated and retreated again and again, how could it be ...... Could it be that the Wei people are using fraud? ”

"It's not impossible! The Qiang thief has always acted without a bottom line and is mercenary, knowing that my voice is blocked, so he lies and threatens! ”

Xiao Ji also said in a vicious voice, but then frowned again, and after a deep groan, he said: "But everything is clear if you listen to everything, especially such a big thing, you can't tolerate the slightest negligence!" With my warrant, you should go to Padang first and ask your brother what the situation is in the east, and if he does not know, he will immediately send someone to investigate carefully! ”

"Son!"

After Xiao Yuanzheng heard this, he also hurriedly said yes, but after thinking for a while, he hurriedly bowed again: "But if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince refuses to respond to the question, what should I do?" ”

If he refuses...... Why wouldn't he? What are your plans? Fang Jin's father and son conspired together, and if they didn't succeed, they would die, and the foreign affairs had not yet been decided, and they used the conspiracy on their siblings! ”

Xiao Ji didn't understand what his son meant at first, but after turning the corner, his face changed sharply, and he angrily scolded this second son with a lot of thoughts.

"Don't dare, don't dare...... It's just that this matter is too important, so、That's why it's for thoroughness, because there is a gaffe! Ask the official family for forgiveness, father, father...... My son has been wandering for a long time, thinking of his relatives like a disease, and now he is finally ......"

Xiao Yuanzheng saw that his father was so angry, and he was busy bowing to the ground, and kowtowed again and again.

His brother Xiao Yuanzhao has been following his father because of the preference of Emperor Gaozuwu, so the father and son have a deep relationship, but his second son stayed in Jiankang as a proton, and then he was transferred to various officials, and his father was also less together and more separated, and the relationship was inevitably a little weak.

If it goes on like this, it will be fine, but there is suddenly an extra throne in the family that needs to be inherited, even if Xiao Yuanzheng does not want to take the heir, he also wants to use his father's majesty to give his brother a little beating, so that the prince can be polite when facing himself. But he didn't want to be met with such a fierce reaction from his father just for such an outrageous thought, so he could only kowtow and beg for mercy again and again.

Hearing Xiao Yuanzheng's cry of grief and pity, Xiao Ji's anger on his face subsided slightly, but his mood was messed up by the message conveyed in Wei Ren's letter, and he waved his hand and said: "Since it is an unintentional mistake, this matter will be stopped for the time being." If there is another offense in the future, it will be severely punished! Stand down, I'll send another member to Padang! ”

After Xiao Yuanzheng heard this, he hurriedly nodded yes, didn't dare to say anything more, and was about to bend down to retreat, when he heard Xiao Ji in the hall command: "The envoy of the Wei State, quickly send the cronies of the Fuzhong and Inner Gardens to welcome in, and you are not allowed to contact outsiders!" If the secret is leaked, it will be punished severely! ”