Under the moon.

The two monarchs and ministers, lonely men and widows, sat opposite each other.

Li Ran lowered his head and didn't speak, in fact, he also had a calculation in his heart about this question of the empress, but he hadn't recovered from Fang Cai's sudden "gentle township" yet......

"Why don't you speak. After a long time, the empress broke the silence.

"The minister is thinking. Li Ran said.

"Have you thought about it now?" asked the Empress.

"Half and half. Li Ran said.

The empress frowned slightly: "What do you mean?"

"Your Majesty's question, the minister already has the answer, but the minister really can't think of the question in his own heart. ”

He raised a handsome little face and looked at the stunning woman opposite.

The empress's pink cheeks were slightly red, she coughed lightly, and looked away: "You...... I can't answer the question in your heart, so let's talk about what I just asked you. ”

"Yes. Li Ran said: "Xiaochuan Ichiro is light on my princess of the Celestial Dynasty, although he has failed, his heart can be punished, and he should be killed by a thousand knives, but——"

"By no means now. ”

Li Ran swept away the decadence of Fang Cai and stood up: "Dongying Island, under the monopoly of the Genji shogunate, has risen rapidly in recent years, and the ambition of foreign aggression and expansion is also expanding day by day, and almost all the surrounding large and small sea countries and islands are occupied by them, and a few years ago, they launched 200,000 navies to defeat Goryeo and land on the Goryeo Peninsula in one fell swoop. ”

Speaking of this, Li Ran arched his hand to the empress with admiration: "That year, it was the year 853 of Daxuan, the minister was twelve years old, and he only remembered that the monarch of Goryeo sent dozens of envoys and generals to our court for help. ”

At the same time, that year was also the second year of His Majesty's royal conquest to quell the "scourge of the barbarians", my great Xuan Kingdom was in full swing, the four seas surrendered, under the edict of His Majesty, the Dongying people retreated without a fight, and returned to their country from the Goryeo Peninsula in a gray manner. ”

"Yes. ”

The empress nodded: "After all, those widows are small people who bully the soft and fear the hard, curled up in the land of projectiles, even if they have wolf ambitions, they can't become the climate, compared to the ice country and barbarians back then, they are not worth mentioning at all." ”

"What Your Majesty said is very true, however, no matter how small the poisonous snake is, it can kill people with one blow......"

Li Ran shook his head and said: "Over the years, Dongying has invaded and plundered everywhere abroad, implemented an iron-fisted and high-pressure policy internally, and the strength of the army and the development of martial arts have been thriving, dominating the East China Sea.

The empress glanced at her phoenix eyes: "Go on." ”

"That's because the Dongying Genji is laying out a shocking situation, he is trying to paralyze our Celestial Empire with a well-behaved submission posture, and then let His Majesty turn a blind eye to them, and when they conquer Goryeo, based on Liaodong, and then go north to annex Penglai and other island countries, at this point, the entire East China Sea will be filled with "sun flags", and the next step is ——"

"Do you think I'm afraid of them?" said the Empress.

"Of course Your Majesty won't. Li Ran smiled: "Because just three years ago, Your Majesty had begun to secretly deploy the East China Sea for war preparations, and Your Majesty's brilliant heavenly might was always shrouded in the East China Sea, ready to burn the Dongying territory in one fell swoop." ”

Hearing this, the empress's body was shocked: "Li Daoguang told you this?"

Li Ran shook his head and said: "Your Majesty misunderstood, although the courtier's father is loyal to the people and fulfills his duties, he definitely does not dare to speculate on the affairs of the court, these ...... It's all the minister's own guess. ”

"Okay, then you can go on, how did I prepare?" The empress looked at the young man in front of her fixedly, and her phoenix eyes were full of incredulity.

Li Ran paused and said: "Your Majesty has tried his best to override public opinion and appoint the descendants of the Mo family of the "Yanshu Organ" family, and Mo Rufeng is the squire of the Ministry of Works, this is the first one. ”

"The minister once heard the minister's father say that this ink squire, since he took office, has never appeared in the court, the ministers have a lot of discussions about this, if the minister guessed correctly, this ink lord is in the East China Sea at the moment, secretly operating a major matter for His Majesty - shipbuilding. ”

"You ......" The shock in the empress's eyes reached the extreme: "Do you know someone from the Mo family?"

Li Ran shook his head: "The minister said that the minister is just a bold guess, and there is no basis. ”

He pondered for a while, and then said: "If you want to conquer Dongying, you must first conquer the East China Sea, and it is inevitable that you will have to confront the invincible Genji fleet head-on. ”

Seeing that the empress was silent, Li Ran said again: "Compared with the first thing, Your Majesty's second strategic planning, the minister admires it even more. ”

"Your Majesty has set up additional martial arts guards in the provinces of the East China Sea, and moved thousands of martial arts "warriors" and warriors of more than one rank to the East China Sea, in order to make this second plan. ”

"Go on. The empress took a deep breath and said.

Li Ran said: "On the coast of the East China Sea, there are hundreds of large and small gangs, among which the powerful ones are the "Sea Shark Gang", "Giant Kun Gang" and "Demon Whale Club", these gangs have been trading with many island countries including Dongying for many years, and have monopolized all the trade in the East China Sea except for official transportation, and there are thousands of warships and sailors under their command, so they have already become suitable chess pieces in His Majesty's layout of the East China Sea. ”

"And what Your Majesty is waiting for now is a strategic executor who will affect the whole body - the military governor of the East China Sea, I don't know if the minister is right?"

"It's a genius from heaven. The empress glanced at the young man deeply, her eyes were complicated: "That's it, keep talking, and tell everything you know." ”

"Your Majesty has overrated, the minister said, everything is just the minister's speculation in the current situation. Li Ran said humbly: "In this martial arts conference, the courtiers only know that Your Majesty is bent on winning, but they don't know Your Majesty's heart, and they are not at all between the fights in this small ring, Your Majesty's ambition has already flown out of Zhongzhou and swept the entire East China Sea!"

"The so-called martial arts conference, winning or losing is not important to Your Majesty at all, all you need is a suitable talent, a martial arts talent who is loyal to you, a talent who can stand out and impress the martial artists of the world, as the military governor of the East China Sea, to promote the grand plan of the East China Sea for you. ”

"Good. I ...... to you It's breathtaking. ”

The empress stood up and looked at the young man who was spitting lotus flowers: "So, you said so much, you tell me, in your opinion, who do you think has the best chance? is your brother-"

"Li Huan?"

"I ......" Hearing this, Li Ran was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly said: "If the subordinate brother has such qualifications, he will naturally be the best to do, and if the strength is not good, he should be held by an outstanding person!"

"Okay, I don't mean to accuse you of hiding your secrets, let's get back to the topic, if you were me, what would you do with Ichiro Laughkawa. The empress said.

Li Ran pondered for a moment and said: "It's still the same sentence, Xiaochuan Ichiro can't kill now, not only that, but we also need to send the best imperial doctors and monks to diagnose and treat his injuries, so that the puppet emperor in Dongying can feel the magnanimity of our Heavenly Empire." ”

"The minister once talked to Wen Shangshu that in the hearts of the people of Dongying, the emperor is the embodiment of God, and has a very significant role in controlling the hearts of the people, and it is also based on this that the shogunate Genji did not dare to replace him, with the intention of the minister, if His Majesty wants to take Dongying, this Xiaochuan-kun, sooner or later, it will be useful, even if it is ...... It's just the role of "leading the way", and when the time comes—"

"It is not Genji who is the emperor who orders the princes, but you, the empress of the Celestial Empire. ”

"Li Ran, do you know why I have been so wary of Dongying people in the past few years?"

"I don't know. Li Ran said.

The empress said: "When I destroyed the Ice Kingdom and shocked the world, Dongying was just a barren land, and the people were crude and uneducated. ”

"However, I have never taken this matter to heart, and I have made fun of the emperor of the first emperor for worrying about the sky...... Because in my eyes, not to mention compared with the Ice Kingdom and the barbarians, even if it is the Goryeo and Mobei countries, any one of them is more than a little stronger than the Dongying people. ”

"Before Emperor Xianjun died, he told me about this, at that time, Dongying was still weak, although I agreed to him, but I still didn't take it seriously in my heart. ”

"I didn't expect that, in just a few years, this small country in Dongying has sprung up, conquered the East China Sea, invaded Goryeo, and was invincible. ”

After speaking, she looked at Li Ran with a pair of phoenix eyes in a daze: "Do you know, you just said that you have to use the name of the emperor to rule Yingzhou, and the strategy that the emperor set for me back then...... Same. ”

At this moment, Li Ran was horrified in his heart, and countless thoughts were intertwined in his heart.

"This dog's old Murong Lao'er, ah, no, it's Lord Yue, I won't ...... He's a time-traveler, right? He knows so much about the little devil? If not, then he must have the ability to predict the future!? ”

He was thinking about it, and he felt a soft touch behind him, and the empress hugged him from behind!