Chapter 9 Going out of Beijing to supervise the transportation of grain and grass
After Ren Xin left, Chen Xi walked up to Li Hao and asked, "Your Highness just let her go."
"Otherwise, would you like to keep her for tomorrow's breakfast? It's too polite."
Chen Xi was obviously not impressed by Li Hao's joke, scratched his head, and continued, "Your Highness, she is Ren Xin, you really believe in her promise."
Li Hao looked at him like that and said with a smile: "Take it easy, don't worry about it, what are you worried about, you've been busy all night, go back early to rest."
After speaking, Li Hao was about to leave, but halfway through, he saw Chen Xi's expression of wanting to stop talking, and couldn't help but stop and ask, "Why don't you leave, what are you thinking?"
But Chen Xi was stumbling, making Li Hao a little impatient, and said, "Just say what you asked?"
Chen Xi made some mental preparations before he said, "Although Ren Xin is beautiful, there are not no people in the capital who can compare with him.
And the queen mother is already looking for the crown princess for you, you might as well mention it, after all, Ren Xin is still too dangerous."
Li Hao looked at Chen Xi speechlessly: "In your eyes, the reason why Gu let her go is because he wants to see it."
Of course, Chen Xi didn't dare to agree to this, but the look in his eyes clearly revealed his thoughts.
Although there was no need to explain to Chen Xi, looking at his ghostly appearance, Li Hao couldn't help but say, "What Gu values is not her appearance, but her ability, she has served in Zhu Yiwei for many years, and she has been sitting all the way from Baique to the position of left envoy.
If she can be brought to work, many things in Angola will be much easier in the future."
Speaking of his marriage, Li Hao suddenly remembered his agreement with Zhang Han.
Because of Ren Xin's assassination before, Li Hao lived in the palace for several days, and I don't know if Zhang Han sent a message.
Then he asked, "By the way, you go and ask tomorrow if there is anyone who has served the Zhang family of the Imperial Emperor Shi to send a message to the mansion in the past few days."
When Chen Xi heard this, he thought crookedly, and said in his heart, You still don't admit that it is Chun's heart, so he nodded silently and left the room.
After waking up the next day, Li Hao remembered one thing through Ren Xin, because according to the opening on TV, the war between Anwu and Wu was Yongyou for six years.
The era name Yongyou has not appeared now, but according to what Ren Xin said in the play, she has only been a left envoy for a year and a half, and it just so happens that she has just taken the throne now.
According to the algorithm of the new monarch's enthronement and change of the yuan, at that time, Emperor Yang Xingyuan should have just ascended the throne for six years.
According to the information given by Jinyiwei and Hou Guan, the current Emperor Wu, that is, Yang Xingyuan's father, is now sick in bed and has not been in court for a long time, I am afraid it will be difficult to survive this year.
And Emperor Li Falcon, because the queen knew about his collusion with Beipan, wanted to go to the temple to kneel and cause harm, it was five years before the war.
Therefore, compared with the two, at this time, Emperor Li Falcon should already be trading with Beipan.
If you think about it this way, then there can be an explanation for Emperor An's provocation against Suguo this time, that is, after he got the horse, he felt that his strength had increased greatly, and he wanted to come to Suguo to take advantage of it.
At the same time, if there is a big victory, he can also strengthen his prestige to a certain extent to reduce the impact of collusion with Beipan.
So after seeing Chen Xi, he immediately asked Chen Xi, "I asked Jinyiwei to keep an eye on the situation in Shadong and Beipan before, have they sent back any news recently?"
Chen Xi originally wanted to go back, but what Li Hao asked about Zhang Han yesterday was now questioned by Li Hao, so he could only reply: "Yes, but it is all some daily news, and there is nothing special."
Although Chen Xi said this, Li Hao did not intend to let it go, after all, some intelligence can be obtained from different angles, and the cognition can be different.
Then he said, "You have brought me the news about Shadong and Beipan in the last year, and I want to take a look."
Chen Xi agreed, and then rushed to a secret file room in the East Palace and brought the information over.
After some scrutiny, Li Hao noticed two situations from it, one is that the people of Beipan concentrated a group of war horses in the direction of Tianmen Pass last month, but
There was no subsequent battle at Tianmen Pass, so Jinyiwei's caravan in the grassland was only regarded as an internal transfer and did not care.
After all, the Central Plains and Beipan have been opposed for several generations, although the private transactions are continuous, but the scale is generally very small, and there are almost no official transactions on the surface, and they didn't expect it to be normal.
But to put it mildly, in Li Hao's opinion, this is really strange, Beipan and the Central Plains are fighting against each other, but what does this have to do with the mutual market between the two sides.
Judging from the original history of China, such as the Han and Xiongnu, the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Turks, the Song and Liaojin, it was common for the Central Plains countries to exchange rich grain, silk, and tea for the war horses they needed.
And this did not affect the Central Plains countries to turn around and launch an attack on the grasslands after they became strong, except for the Song Dynasty.
Unless Emperor Li Falcon has made any other agreements to lose power and humiliate the country, Li Hao can really only use cultural differences to make a conclusion.
The second is the eastern side of Shadong, where their two young masters recently had conflicts with other tribes in order to grab a horse farm, and used knives and guns for this.
However, this kind of thing often happens in Anguo, and it is a matter of the people not holding officials accountable, so Jinyiwei does not pay much attention to it.
But Li Hao understands that the occurrence of these two events means that the contradictions between Emperor Anguo and Empress Anguo are about to break out in an all-round way.
Then he asked, "When I asked Jinyiwei to find a way to install people in the Anguo Palace, how was the progress going, and was there any of the queen's side?"
Chen Xi thought for a while and replied, "Jinyiwei's own manpower, there are only five people who came out of Yixue before, and they went in to be palace maids with different identities, but their identities are not high.
In addition, he bought more than a dozen palace maids and guards to find out the news, but they were not important people, and there were no people around the queen."
Li Hao was ready to save the queen, after all, with her identity, she should be able to play a role in attacking Anguo in the future.
And with her in hand, she is not afraid that Ren Xin will not be obedient, which is also the reason why Li Hao said when Ren Xin was leaving, his identity would change if he met again.
It's just that if you want to put people in the palace of a country, where is it an easy task, especially when Li Hao is really in charge for a short time.
Therefore, Li Hao could only try his best to make use of the resources in his hands and said, "You send a message to Andu, let them speed up the pace of infiltration, and find another way to transfer our people to the Invitation Moon Tower to do things.
It's not a very important place, so it shouldn't be difficult to do, and once you enter, let people find out everything about it and send back a topographical map."
Chen Xi was very strange about Li Hao's decision, and couldn't help but ask the reason.
It's just that Li Hao is really hard to explain to him, and he can't say that he knows that Empress Anguo will be burned to death there soon.
Fortunately, Li Hao is a superior person, and when he doesn't want to explain, he doesn't have to talk nonsense with him, just let him execute it.
However, Sudu is thousands of miles away from Andu, and even if you use flying pigeons to deliver news in the middle, it will take two days to arrive.
Therefore, Li Hao is also worried that the situation will change at that time, and he will not be able to cope with it, so it is best to have a way to give himself the opportunity to go to Andu in person.
But in Sudu, there are too many people staring at Li Hao, and with Cui Ming and Wang Yi here, it is impossible for Li Hao to leave for such a long time.
I still have to find a chance to go out, so that when I get outside, Li Hao can have room to operate.
But that's all for later, after all, it's hard to find a suitable excuse.
After getting down to business, Li Hao remembered Zhang Han and asked again, "By the way, if you asked you to ask yesterday, did you ask?"
Chen Xi consciously understood Li Hao, and his enthusiasm for this matter was obviously higher, and he immediately replied: "I have already inquired, and no one from the Zhang family has come to the door recently, and Miss Zhang should have agreed to this matter."
Chen Xi's words, Li Hao didn't care, after all, Li Hao didn't know Zhang Han's thoughts, I don't know if she didn't come over because she knew that she was assassinated and had been in the palace, or because she acquiesced.
In this matter, Li Hao didn't want to drag the mud and water, after all, although he was not in a hurry about this marriage, it was not good to delay others.
He said to Chen Xi, "
Later, I will write a letter, and you can find someone to deliver it to Zhang Han in person, but remember not to let outsiders know that it was Lone who wrote the letter to her."
Li Hao didn't write much on the letter, and asked her about her thoughts quite directly.
After Chen Xi took the letter, he quickly sent someone to deliver it.
And Zhang Han's reply to Li Hao was equally concise, with a few words expressing his willingness.
With a reply, Li Hao didn't investigate the reason, anyway, in feudal society, Li Hao didn't want to engage in any free love.
So Li Hao entered the palace and informed Wang Yi so that she could start preparing.
Wang Yi was very happy about this, and immediately went to Cui Ming to discuss, but now the war between the two countries is approaching.
Although Cui Ming was not too nervous, he didn't have the heart to put it on it, so he left it to Wang Yi to manage.
Anyway, the etiquette system to be followed when the prince gets married is extremely cumbersome, and it will take at least a year and a half to complete it all, and then the war between the two countries will end, and he will naturally have time at that time.
It's just that just when Wang Yi was happy to be in charge, there was something wrong with Li Hao's side.
Because in the face of the note sent by Su Guo to An Guo, Emperor An not only did not have the slightest remorse, but accelerated the mobilization of troops and horses, and played the slogan of the imperial expedition.
Emperor An has always liked to do this, but Su Guo is very unhappy with this set because of the previous abolition of the prince.
In addition, Cui Ming is not a male lord right away, so he has no interest in the royal driving pro-campaign.
The Anguo vanguard soldiers and horses soon passed through the Ziyang Pass and stepped into Lingzhou to confront the soldiers and horses led by the Marquis of Yongchang, and reinforcements were arriving one after another.
Seeing this, Cui Ming once again increased troops on the border, and at the same time dispatched Wang Kun to Hezhou in person to preside over the supply of food and grass for the front-line army.
As a result, Anguo's letter arrived at this time, and Emperor An caught Cui Ming's immobility in the capital for many years, and damaged Cui Ming inside, saying that he was cowardly or something.
And at the end, he invited him to hunt in Jizhou, and laughed at him that most of the people did not dare to go, but only dared to hide in the capital.
After listening to the Anguo envoy in the court and reading the letter of state, the whole court was angry, if it weren't for the tradition of the two armies fighting and not killing the envoy, I was afraid that he would not be able to get out of the palace.
It's just that anger is anger, but Cui Ming also knows his ability, rather than going to the front line by himself, it is better to hand it over to the commander general.
It's just that in the face of An Di's provocation, he always has to reply.
Li Hao had always wanted to leave the capital before, but this time he seized the opportunity, and when he stood up, he asked, "Father and Emperor have every opportunity, so naturally he doesn't have time to go and personally lead the war.
But the sons are willing to share the worries of their father and the emperor, and follow Wang Shangshu to Hezhou to participate in supervising the affairs of grain and grass."
Cui Ming didn't expect Li Hao to take the initiative to ask for his life at this time, and he was a little stunned for a while.
And the courtiers below reacted, but neither the centrists nor those who had already stood in line understood Li Hao's thoughts at this time, and they didn't know whether to stand up for or oppose them.
Therefore, the court, which was still lively just now, suddenly fell into silence.
In the end, Wang Kun stood up and said that the prince was the capital of the country, and he should not be easily moved, so it was better to discuss it later.
Cui Ming also meant this here, so he skipped this topic first and then discussed other things.
After the dynasty was dispersed, Cui Ming called Li Hao to the harem and asked Li Hao's thoughts: "Why did you suddenly remember to go to Hezhou."
Li Hao replied: "Erchen also wants to contribute to the country, but Erchen's ability is limited, so he can only do some auxiliary work.
In addition, Emperor An's imperial expedition is in person, and his father wants to sit in the imperial court, so it is not easy to move, and the ministers go to Hezhou, which can also show the soldiers that the royal family of Dasu is with them, and inspire the soldiers to swear to kill the enemy.
Moreover, the son is the crown prince, who can not only represent his father, but also be lower than Emperor An, even if he supervises the transportation of grain and grass in the rear, he can also block Emperor An's mouth and prevent him from underestimating me."
Cui Ming also understood that this was feasible, but he was still a little worried about Li Hao's safety, and said, "Although Hezhou is the rear, it is also extremely close to the battlefield.
And as an important place for the transfer of grain and grass for the army, Anguo would have made some moves.
In addition, with you at that time, Anguo will definitely pay more attention to it, and this is not a joke."
Li Hao said: "The major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, although the sons and daughters are young, they also understand this truth.
However, as the crown prince, Erchen should take responsibility since he has enjoyed this noble glory, and his uncle Wen Taowu is first-class, and Erchen is by his side, so there will be no danger in the future.
In addition, the ministers of the DPRK and China have their own factions, and even if they have an uncle, they may not be able to do their best when doing things, but if they have their sons, they can also accept their slackness and work together for the country."
Cui Ming is still a little hesitant about this, but from his point of view, this is indeed the best method at present, and he still has trust in Li Hao's governance ability.
Then he said, "It's useless for me to agree to this matter, if your queen mother knows that I let you go to Hezhou, I'm afraid that she will have to quarrel with me."
If you really want to go, then go and persuade your mother, and I will promise you then."
With Cui Ming's words, Li Hao can be regarded as having passed the biggest hurdle.
Leaving Wang Yina, Li Hao did not go directly, but found Wang Kun first, planning to break him first.
In fact, this is indeed easier, after all, compared to Wang Yi's sensibility, Wang Kun is much more rational.
After listening to Li Hao's statement, he had already agreed seven or eight points in his heart, because as long as this big battle, Su Guo was not defeated.
With his performance, Li Hao will immediately be able to establish prestige in the army, and his position will be more stable.
Coupled with Li Hao's agitation method, he said that he would not be unconfident in his ability and think that he could not protect himself.
Wang Kun immediately changed his tone and agreed to follow Li Hao to persuade Wang Yi.