"Report, Suzhou 800 miles expedited!"

"Bring it on!"

Emperor Yongxi saw the battle report at the first glance, his eyes suddenly felt dark, Wu Anhou was greedy for merit, and wanted to use the way of encircling Wei to save Zhao to relieve the siege of Ningzhou, an important town in the southeast, but he fell into the plan of Tian Ji, a famous general of Southern Chu, to lure the enemy, and was defeated on the south bank of the Suhe River, with an army of 100,000, only 30,000 left, and retreated to Suzhou City.

The 30,000 Beiya forbidden army was less than 20,000 killed, and the remaining less than 10,000 were killed, and only half of them were able to fight.

There are a total of 50,000 troops in Suzhou City, except for the defeated coalition army, the rest is the Suzhou Guard, even if the warriors in the city are temporarily recruited to join the army.

In the end, it was only 100,000 people, and it is difficult to say how much combat power these 100,000 people can have.

Moreover, in the face of the siege of nearly 300,000 troops in Southern Chu......

Emperor Yongxi really wanted to catch Pei Hao, Marquis of Wu'an, and slammed him with two ear scrapers, so that he could stabilize the situation in the southeast and not let him face the imposing Southern Chu army.

Now it's okay, Yangzhou is lost, Suzhou may also fall, the important town of Ningzhou is lost, the three towns are lost, the Southern Chu army is Pingchuan, and Luojing is in danger.

Day by day, he said that he would go south to destroy Chu and unify Middle Earth, but he was beaten to his own land first, and he was defeated and retreated.

"Decree, Yan Zhengliang, the general of the Right Weiwei, will take over the post of the chief of the march of Wu'an Hou Southeast Road, purge the soldiers and horses, and stick to Suzhou, waiting for rescue!" Emperor Yongxi ordered.

"Your Majesty, what should Wu Anhou do?" Zhongshu Ling Lu Qian asked.

"The first-class Wu'an Hou will be the third-class Hou, and he will be ordered to wear a crime and make meritorious service in front of the battle." After Emperor Yongxi calmed down, he spoke out about his treatment of Pei Hao, Marquis of Wu'an.

The title was lowered, and he was allowed to make meritorious contributions, which was indeed light compared to the consequences of his defeat, but after all, Marquis Wu'an was his person, and the generals in the army who were single-handedly drawn out would not be awarded the title of first-class marquis if he had not made great contributions to him.

This Wu'an Hou is still a second-grade martial artist, the Pei family, who was born in a family of military generals, the interests behind it are very complicated, even if Emperor Yongxi is angry, he can't act rashly and cut people directly!

The news of the defeat of Suzhou quickly spread throughout Luojing, although Suzhou and Luojing were separated by more than 2,000 kilometers, but it inevitably cast a shadow on Luojing, who was approaching the end of the year.

Moreover, the children of the forbidden army Duoluochuan, many of the families in Luojing have sons or husbands who serve in the forbidden army, and there are many people who go out with the army this time.

For the families of these soldiers, the news of the defeat on the battlefield, the heavy casualties, and especially the death of two-thirds of the soldiers, was like a bolt from the blue.

Although the list of those killed in the war is not yet known, it is terrible news that any dead soldier falls on the head of a family.

There were also people in Tonggu Lane who served in the forbidden army, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive in the coalition forces that went to the southeast this time.

There is another person that Lu Qian did not mention, that is, Ye Yuan, the third prince of the army, who is the supervising army, is not unable to mention it, but he does not dare to mention it.

Emperor Yongxi has never set up a crown prince, so he naturally learned the previous lesson, and the third prince Ye Yuan is talented and talented, so he is a more optimistic candidate.

This time, it is to accumulate qualifications and military merits.

……

"Prime Minister Zuo, Da Zhou has been defeated again!" Shang Chen excitedly came to Alehai's study with a battle report, obviously this news was good news for Xirong.

"The wolf lord came to the eagle letter, agreed to the conditions proposed by Da Zhou, and when the time is right, he will come to Da Zhou in person tomorrow to marry Princess Liuli!" Alehai stood up and said.

"The wolf lord agreed?" Shang Chen was very surprised, although the conditions proposed by Da Zhou were not necessarily very binding, if the wolf lord agreed, Da Zhou would inevitably announce it to the world.

For ordinary people, dishonesty may not have much consequence, but for a monarch, the damage is huge.

Moreover, it took so long for the wolf lord to reply to the letter, and it was obvious that Xirong had great resistance to the marriage conditions proposed by Da Zhou this time.

Even from the very beginning, there was opposition to the marriage with the Great Zhou in Xirong, but the wolf lord suppressed it with prestige.

If you just marry a princess of Da Zhou and satisfy the desire of the wolf lord, it is nothing, but if you want to make the princess of Da Zhou the queen of the wolf, and the male son of Xirong, I am afraid that the nobles of Xirong will strongly oppose it, especially the sons of the wolf lord.

They have been competing for so many years, and now that there is a person who is directly in power, they and the forces behind them will not agree.

"Well, it's a secret letter written by the wolf lord himself, you can understand it by reading it yourself." Alehai handed Shang Chen a sheepskin and said.

Shang Chen solemnly took the sheepskin, lowered his head and read it carefully.

The text on the wolf's skin is Xijon script, and it is also a secret language, which can only be understood by those who know the secret language of Xirong, even if the eagle letter is intercepted, it cannot be deciphered and know its contents.

This is one way to keep communications secret.

"Prime Minister Zuo, the defeat of the Great Zhou is the time when we negotiate conditions with them, why do we have to agree to their conditions?" Shang Chen asked puzzled.

"If His Majesty the Wolf Lord only wants to marry Da Zhou, why do you need to appoint Princess Liuli?" As the confidant of Xinli, the wolf lord of Xirong, Alehai naturally knows some secrets.

Shang Chen's body shook slightly, he was able to be sent to Luojing as the deputy envoy of the mission all the year round, and his political sensitivity was definitely not low.

He is clear about the situation in Xirong, the situation in Xirong is similar to that of the Great Zhou, and Xirong also has Liuli Temple, the holy land of martial arts.

Moreover, the infiltration and control of Xirong is far from being comparable to that of Tianlan Sect to Great Zhou.

Liuli Temple is a holy place of Buddhism, the unity of Buddhism and martial arts, and Tianlan Sect is also different, it is not only a holy place of martial arts, but also has religious attributes.

Therefore, there is inevitably a contradiction between secular power and clerical power.

The wolf lord actually wants to introduce the Tianlan Sect to Xirong, can this Liuli Temple endure it? It's not just that there is a "Liuli" in Ye Liuli's name that can explain it clearly.

Who in the world could be smarter than those bald people who don't need to grow their hair?

Of course, Liuli Temple also has ambitions, they have always wanted to enter Middle-earth to preach, but unfortunately, there are holy places like Tianlan Sect in Middle-earth Martial Arts, and there are many first-class martial arts sects, they don't come just as they want.

After several failed trips to the east, he returned to Xirong in a gloomy manner.

The wolf lord actually persuaded those old bald men in Liuli Temple, I really don't know how many benefits were used in exchange?

This kind of deep stuff can only be understood, not spoken.

……

"Mama Su, how are things packed?" In Yuning Palace, Ye Liuli and Mama Su were packing up their things for the move, joining Nanya, and changing their identities, so it was not suitable to live in the imperial city.

Moreover, it is not free to enter and exit the imperial city, and it is not convenient for her future work.

So I had to move out, and the idea wasn't a day or two, but I didn't find a suitable reason before.

And now, there is.

Although Ye Liuli was named a princess, she did not have a princess mansion outside the palace, nor did she have a private property of her own, so it can be said that she was the poorest princess in the Great Zhou.

Back in Luojing, she has been living in the imperial city, and Emperor Yongxi settled her in Yuning Palace, which also means to look good under your nose.

After all, this is the daughter of the former prince, although she is a princess, she will not seek to usurp the throne, but only ten years later, there are still many officials in the court who have the former prince in their hearts.

He wanted to kill them all, but the problem was that he, the emperor, was not able to do whatever he wanted, otherwise, he would not have pinched his nose and canonized Ye Liuli back then.

If he is not canonized, Ye Liuli will completely cut off relations with the royal family, and he will be a member of Tianlan Sect in the future, you must know that the relationship between the former prince and Tianlan Sect, if it weren't for the fact that there is also a force in Tianlan Sect that is unwilling to meddle in secular power, otherwise the coup d'état back then really doesn't know who will kill the deer.

He canonized Ye Liuli, on the one hand, he knew that he couldn't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, on the other hand, he also wanted to ease the relationship with the Tianlan Sect, and in addition, he also put a fetter on Ye Liuli.

These are also the conditions for Tianlan Sect to take away Ye Liuli.

What happened back then was not something that a little girl who was only seven or eight years old understood, but Ye Liuli had suffered from snacks and knew the source of her hardships very early, so she was not interested in the Great Zhou royal family and Yongxi, the emperor's uncle.

"But, Your Highness, we haven't found a place to live yet?"

"Are all the inns in Luojing City full?" Ye Liuli said, "It's really not good, let's live directly in Nanya, there are a lot of empty courtyards there, I am a counselor, and the level should be enough." ”

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