Although Eleven Niang saw that Yeluqi had shown concern, and did not change her attitude, she continued to be frank: "On the other hand, I do think about the eighth prince, at present, the victory or defeat of Northern Liao Xiao is unpredictable, and the eighth prince will inevitably take unpredictable risks when he returns to China, so it is better to stay in Jinyang for the time being, and when the situation is clearer, it is not too late to return to China." ”

Northern Liao Xiao only needs one banner at the moment, of course, it is impossible to let Yeluqi lead the army to fight, as long as Northern Liao Xiao is sure that Yeluqi is still alive, in fact, it makes no difference whether he returns to China or not, because Northern Liao Xiao can't expect Yeluqi to come forward to kill Concubine Shu's mother and son after returning to China, in case Yeluqi is booby-trapped, won't Northern Liao Xiao even lose his banner? Therefore, since Yeluqi does not need to show his face, it doesn't matter where he is, as long as he can show his face in public when he succeeds to the throne.

"The princess seems to have given her a choice, but in fact, there is a second way?" Jeruqi had clearly made up his mind, and his attitude still didn't seem very friendly.

Eleven Niang smiled: "I believe that if I get in a different situation with the eighth prince, the eighth prince will treat me like this." ”

The implication of this is that you are a fish and a meat, and I am a sword, so you can accept your fate.

"So what does the princess need me to do right now?" Yeluqi is also knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and he did not continue to complain about the heavens and people, after all, now that he has fallen to this point, it has nothing to do with Da Zhou, and he can only blame the cruelty of the Northern Liao's internal fighting, and even he has to be grateful to the princess of Jin, because if it were not for the princess of Jin, he would only be incognito and stealing his life in this life, and he would never have any hope of returning to his homeland, let alone inheriting the throne.

And after the negotiation with Yeluqi was over, Binu, who had been listening, finally couldn't help but wonder: "From the opinion of the servant, this eighth prince is very tough, isn't the princess worried that his words are not believed?" ”

"He's not tough, he's smart." Eleven Niang is extremely willing to point to Binu: "The really tough people, even if life and death are at stake, will not be willing to survive in the enemy country, for example, Silla is closer to Northern Liao, and there is no dispute between the two countries, why didn't Yeluqi abscond to Silla in the first place?" ”

"Yes, why?" Binu was obviously extremely wrong: "Since Yeluqi can gain a foothold in Dazhou, he believes that it is more convenient to go to Silla, why does he go to the near and far?" ”

"Think again." Eleven Niang sold the guanzi.

After a moment, Binu suddenly realized: "It is precisely because there is no dispute between Silla and Northern Liao, if Yeluqi's whereabouts are exposed, Northern Liao can completely ask Silla to arrest Yeluqi and return it to Northern Liao. ”

Eleven Niang approvingly: "It is what you said, therefore, Yeluqi is a smart person, he will not regard Da Zhou as an enemy because of Yelu Hong's ambition, to put it bluntly, in his mind, it is more important to protect himself, since Yeluqi is not hostile to Da Zhou, so I think that peace talks with him will at least have a foundation." ”

This is also an important reason why neither He Ye nor Shi Niang think that peace talks with the Turks can be made, because there is a life-and-death enmity between the two countries, which is like Shi Niang and Empress Dowager Wei, all peace is a disguise, and sooner or later you will die or die.

"Of course, if the Great Zhou continues to weaken, it is difficult to guarantee that Yeluqi will not be treacherous in the future, but if you fall behind, you will be humiliated, in fact, the loser has no indignant position, I have always believed that peace talks must be based on the benchmark of mutual benefit, and now we and Yeluqi can achieve mutual benefit. Northern Liao Xiao needs the banner of Yeluqi now, even if they can beat Yeluhong in the future, after years of internal friction, the national strength is difficult to recover for a while, and Yeluqi stays in Taiyuan, and is only sent back to his homeland after the situation is settled, even if he can take the throne, in the short term, his royal power will inevitably be restrained by the heavy ministers, and he has no strength to break the contract, and then start a war with the Great Zhou, if you wait until Yeluqi gains a firm foothold, or the Northern Liao recovers the national strength, and the Xiao family and other big clans are focused on the outward, the Great Zhou is still weakened and at a disadvantage, that is His Royal Highness and I are incompetent, deserved to be bullied. ”

Peace talks with Yeluqi, it is only a time difference, Eleven Niang is quite clear, if before the Northern Liao pacification of civil strife and the recovery of qi, the Great Zhou is still facing internal and external troubles, of course, it cannot be expected that Yeluqi will maintain the peace between the two countries because of the grace of patronage, but if the Great Zhou has also been out of trouble at that time, I believe that the Northern Liao will also be afraid, and this peace agreement will take effect.

After Shi Niang's explanation, Binu understood some truths, but there were still many doubts, and she sighed: "Although Emperor Wuzong said that he created a prosperous generation, he was too merciful, why didn't he exterminate all the barbarians at that time, if that was the case, there would not be so many alien races eyeing him at this time." ”

Eleven Niang smiled: "Most of the barbarians live on nomadism, even if they conquer their territory, is it possible to forcibly relocate the people of the Great Zhou to go to nomadism?" But if you only attack it, you will inevitably be gradually recaptured by the barbarians after a long time. Moreover, the war is a great war, it is inevitable that the soldiers will not be killed or injured, which is not beneficial to the people's livelihood, just to expand the territory and ignore the casualties is not the government of virtue and virtue, so although Wuzong destroyed the Turks, but the rest of the barbarians are mostly shocked and surrendered, the reason why the current chaos is caused by the weakening of the Great Zhou National Strength in the final analysis, and Wuzong cannot be blamed. ”

"But those barbarians have never been subdued by De Yien, just like a group of vicious wolves, who want to bite Da Zhou from time to time."

"Who let Da Zhou be a piece of fat in their eyes at this time? It is precisely because the Central Plains is rich that it is necessary to enrich the country and strengthen the army, if the beast dares to invade, it will immediately return the force, no matter how hungry the beast is, it will not dare to risk itself. ”

Therefore, Shi Niang thinks that instead of blaming the ambitions of alien wolves such as Turkic, Northern Liao, and Tiele, it is better to review herself, if the Great Zhou is still as strong as it was when Wuzong was in its heyday, where would these alien races dare to make trouble?

"In this way, Empress Dowager Wei should be blamed." Binu finally felt that he had completely understood right and wrong.

But Shi Niang still didn't agree: "Empress Dowager Wei did have, but not the initiator, if you talk about the root cause, the corruption of the official system has been formed around the time of Mingzong." ”

Binu was shocked: "The Mingzong Dynasty is still in its prime!" ”

"Yes, it was still a prosperous era at that time, so when the maladministration was formed, no one paid attention to it, and occasionally there were officials who reprimanded the evils of the times, and most people thought it was alarmist, and then it became more and more corrupt, and the so-called embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, which is the truth."

"In this way, Empress Dowager Wei is not wrong?"

- Of course, these words did not come from the mouth of Binu, but Ai Lu, who had already heard it stunned, as the princess's personal guard, today's eleven niang saw such a "dangerous" thing in the face of the enemy prince, of course Ai Lu had to protect him every inch.

At this moment, without waiting for the princess to refute, Binu first pointed out the fallacy: "Even if the national strength is weak and the cause of the corruption of the official system is not the Empress Dowager Wei, it does not mean that she is not at fault. Before the death of Emperor Renzong, if it were not for the persecution of Empress Dowager Wei, His Royal Highness would have been able to ascend the throne smoothly according to the edict. ”

"But Empress Dowager Wei is just a woman, so many men can't correct their shortcomings, it's ridiculous to blame a woman." Ai Lu subconsciously retorted.

Binu was about to start a debate, but was stopped by Eleven Niang, she looked at Ai Lu: "Where did you hear these remarks?" ”

Ai Lu was stunned for a moment, and slapped his forehead heavily: "I'm evil, right, how can I fight for the Queen Mother?" Yes, I have heard that...... By the way, there was a time on the top of the Mandarin Duck Pavilion in Meiyuan, basking in the sun and drowsy, and I heard Xie Meiren and a servant woman say this. ”

Binu said strangely: "Don't look at Xie Meiren's approachability, but be very cautious, if it is an ordinary servant, it will not cause her to make such remarks, but if it is a close servant...... Why did the servant question the queen? ”

"Xie Ji's grandmother, originally not a slave, only because he was occupied by the nobles, he had no food and clothing, so he sold himself as a servant, because of the rebellion in Hengzhou, even though the war did not reach Jinyang, but the more and more remarks questioned the queen mother's governance, the more the milk was affected by these remarks, and it was normal to complain, although Xie Ji said that he did not want to be a dagger for the queen mother, but of course he did not want to disobey the queen mother, and it was reasonable to say this to defend the queen mother." Although Eleven Niang did not regard the Xie family as a grudge for the time being, of course, she would not neglect the personnel around her, and had already investigated the background of the servants and maids around her, and explained a little at this time, and then said to Ai Lu.

"If Empress Dowager Wei is just an ordinary harem, of course she can't be blamed for the shortcomings of the military and politics, but she is not an ordinary woman, but a person in power, so she can't be blamed because she is a woman, compared to Empress Dowager Wei, the praise contained in the history books is really innocent, but because of her beauty and not like to laugh, King Zhou You smiled for the Pomeranians and did not hesitate to play the princes, and the result was rated as a red face and a curse, and the verbal criticism has been criticized so far, Xiao Ai thinks about it, compared to Bao Xi, how many things that have brought disaster to the country and the people have been done by the Empress Dowager Wei, if she has no fault, It's probably not even Jia Nanfeng's bad. ”

Ai Lu was extremely ashamed: "I'm a quick ...... for a while"

turned around and pestered Binu to explain: "Why is Bao Xi scolded if she doesn't like to laugh, and who is Jia Nanfeng, why is she bad?" ”