"Lord Li, I don't know if your majesty came to the camp in person, but what is Your Majesty's new will?"

The one who spoke was a middle-aged man with five big and three thick, and the skin on his face was covered with the wind and frost that had stayed in the northern land all year round.

"Yongding Hou doesn't need to panic," Li Chenjin looked at the people kneeling on the ground, and walked into the camp with his sleeves brushed up, "Your Majesty once ordered Yongding Hou to stand still, but I don't know that Yongding Hou has repeatedly violated the holy will and sent strong soldiers to sneak into Pingzhou to rob the people's daughters and plunder money, but he has the heart to rebel?" ”

Hearing this, General Yongding Hou Zhao gasped in fright, thinking that the emperor was far away, and these things of digging people's city walls and stealing chickens and dogs would only be rotten in their stomachs by their own people, but they unexpectedly spread to the front of the emperor!

Yongding Hou followed behind Li Chen, and glanced back at everyone, there must be spies among them!

But he didn't expect this weak scholar-like general to have eyes on his back, and said faintly:

"General Zhao's personal guards do have my people, Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and the northern border is particularly important, so I sent someone to secretly assist General Zhao."

Yongding Hou half-knelt on the ground and saluted, only feeling that he weighed a thousand catties.

"General, please get up," a man who looked like an official came up and helped Yongding Hou up, "The battle between Pingzhou and Liaodan is imminent, and General Li is strategic and far-sighted, so His Majesty specially sent General Li to help General Zhao." ”

"Your Majesty's great grace, Zhao doesn't dare not thank you." With that, he kowtowed in the direction of the south to thank him.

"My lord," when the Marquis of Yongning set up a banquet to invite Li Chenjin alone, to pick up the wind and wash the dust for him, "Zhao has been fighting in the north for many years, this area has always been in constant turmoil, Liao Dan is very good at cavalry and archery, and the army is strong, and it is a matter of time before Pingzhou breaks the city - why did Your Majesty call that Liao Dan to fight flat and cheapen those barbarians?" ”

Li Chenjin raised his eyes and glanced at the person opposite, "Your Majesty cares about all the people in the world, since Pingzhou is going to die sooner or later, at that time, I will send troops to help and contain all the people of Pingzhou, isn't it a good thing to accumulate merit and virtue?" ”

"What's more—" He drank a glass of sake, and the mood in his eyes was unpredictable:

"How can the territory of a country be handed over to others?"

Suddenly, Li Chenjin frowned, slapped his right hand on the table, and immediately flew out a silver chopstick, nailed directly to the door.

"Who's out there?"

"Big ...... Great General. ”

The servant pushed open the door with a smile on his face and walked in from the outside, with an expression of escape from death.

"Ember?" Li Chenjin's scrutinizing eyes locked on him, "What's the matter?" ”

"General, Your Majesty has sent someone to bring some fine wine from the south, and it is placed outside, I don't know how to arrange it?"

is obviously a man, but there is a bit of femininity in his gestures.

"Oh," the white-clothed general replied casually, with a little inexplicable smile hidden in his eyes, "The top two pots are the best, take them to the Empress Dowager Shulu, and say that General Ben wishes her all things come true." ”

"Yes, General."

The servant, who was called Jing Shen, lowered his eyes, and the white powder paint on his face covered all his expressions.

He saluted and respectfully withdrew.

In the Liaodan Palace, hundreds of officials arrived.

Yerod led a few pairs of elite soldiers to break into the hall directly regardless of the obstruction, looking at the woman who had lost her right hand, with a complicated expression.

The ministers were in an uproar.

The Empress Dowager Shu Luping stood on the hall with an expressionless face:

"Isn't the Khan leading his troops to war? How did you come back? ”

The young new king of Liaodan looked at her like this, was silent for a long time, and then spoke:

"Queen Mother, I don't know what mistake my son made? The queen mother sent assassins to murder her son! ”

Before the words fell, the ministers were in an uproar.

"Queen Mother, I am your own child!" He clenched his hands into fists, and his voice was a little hoarse, "How can there be a mother in this world who wants to harm her own son?" Mother, what did I do wrong? ”

The Empress Dowager Shulu in the palace tightly clasped her eyebrows, but hundreds of pairs of eyes looked at her inquiringly, and she couldn't attack.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

She threatenedly lowered her severed hand in front of her.

"Last night, you sent dozens of assassins to attack the king's account, but fortunately, the soldiers around me reacted very quickly, and I was able to pick up a life."

"Queen Mother, the leader is your cronies and guards! Those people said that you think that I have missed the opportunity by thinking too much about the Pingzhou matter, so you will get rid of me as soon as possible! ”

Two days ago, Li Qianyin told him:

King Yi, Li Hebiao, was firm in his heart for peace talks, and since he came to the peace talks once and failed to achieve his goal, he would come back a second time.

And Li Kang, the son of heaven in the Central Plains, and Shu Luping, the Empress Dowager of Liaodan, secretly colluded, not to mention that Li Kang had already murderous intentions towards Li Heyang, and if the peace talks were really successful, how could he kill chickens and monkeys and threaten the princes from all walks of life?

What's more, Li Kang's claim to be emperor is not justified.

Water can carry boats, but also overturn boats, and the people's aspirations are far more dangerous to him than those blind old ministers in the court.

Therefore, he waited for Pingzhou to open the gate of Yechao to relieve refugees after the city was broken, and won a reputation of loving the people and being virtuous, so that he could sit on this dragon chair in the eyes of all the people in the world.

From this point of view, Li Heyang is a real dragon descendant, and secondly, to hinder his plans, he will naturally secretly provoke the Empress Dowager Shulu to take the opportunity to kill the first prince.

"Li Kang traded Pingzhou and helping the new king ascend the throne, but these are not what the Queen Mother really wants."

"I know the Queen Mother wants her brother to ascend to the throne, but if that's not what she really wants, then what does the Queen Mother want?"

Jerod was skeptical.

"What does the Queen Mother want, isn't it clear to the Khan?" She asked rhetorically, "What the Queen Mother wants, the same as what the Khan wants—"

"It's all the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun."

"Yes, if you get the sixteen states, the forces of the DPRK and China will definitely be one-sided, so why do you need to rob the ...... in person?"

Liaodan Khan muttered.

Li Qianyin did not answer, but paused and continued:

"Even if the Son of Heaven is willing to give, it is impossible for the Manchu Dynasty officials to agree-the Queen Mother can't get the sixteen states, so naturally she won't really help him kill Li Heyang, in order to persecute Li Yan and raise the bargaining chips."

"In collusion with the Central Plains, the Queen Mother will definitely not see the light of day. In that case, the Khan might as well take advantage of this matter and put this mess back on the Queen Mother's head."

At this moment, the Empress Dowager Shulu really didn't expect that she, the second son who had been obedient since he was a child and could only lead troops to fight, would plan so carefully this time, regardless of the relationship between mother and son, he would take her into an army.

In order to ensure that this matter is not exposed, the people she sent to assassinate Li Hebiao are all extremely credible people around her.

Looking at the dozen or so soldiers that Yerod had asked to be brought in, she couldn't refute it.

Empress Dowager Shulu staggered back a few steps, and slumped on the throne in discomfort:

"Dejin, the queen mother really didn't hurt you, but she was afraid that the Han people would hurt you, so she asked them to go and escort you."

She sighed deeply, "The queen mother is old, and since the khan ascended the throne, she is not as filial as she was when she was a child, and the estrangement between you and me is increasing. ”

"The queen mother knows that the khan just hates me, and hates me for still holding this government and not letting go."

"Okay," the Empress Dowager Shulu beckoned, took a jar of good wine and two wine bowls, and filled them respectively:

"Today, the Queen Mother pleads with you in the presence of all the ministers, and if the Khan is willing to let go, he will drink my bowl of wine to make amends."