"Have you heard what those two servants said?" Emperor Hongming sat at the table and asked Eunuch Su.
"Your Majesty, in fact, these two people have already been interrogated by the First Prince. This is the transcript of the interrogation at that time, and it was sent by Eunuch Chen who is next to the First Prince." Eunuch Su handed over a stack of papers.
Looking at the handwriting on the paper, Emperor Hongming recognized it almost instantly, it was written by Yan Sa himself stroke by stroke. Looking at the sharp handwriting on the paper, Emperor Hongming could hardly imagine how angry the child felt when he personally asked the truth from the two people.
After carefully reading the paper in his hand, Emperor Hongming's eyes became darker and darker. At this time, his mentality was strangely returned to the peak state of his life, even though every word and every sentence on the paper made him cry blood in his heart. , but maintained a calm state, until he saw the last line of words on the paper with slightly new ink, and suddenly his pupils shrank.
"The relationship between you and my father and son has long since faded away!"
Holding the sharp pen on the paper, Emperor Hongming's eyes were full of sadness.
At this time, Eunuch Su came in with a bowl of hot medicine, and happened to see Emperor Hongming flipping through the last page, walked over to comfort him and said: "Your Majesty, come and drink the medicine, this is the prescription that the eldest prince has worked so hard to find. It's the great prince's filial piety!"
Emperor Hongming was startled, and turned to look at the medicine bowl in Su Gonggong's hand. He drank this medicine countless times, but he never thought that the medicine would not work for a long time, and how much effort it took Sa'er to keep the effect of this medicine.
After taking the medicine bowl and drank it down, Emperor Hongming sighed in his eyes, this child is still too soft-hearted, even though he made a move to force the palace, he went out of his way to save his life.
The two were talking, when there was a faint sound of orderly footsteps outside the hall, Emperor Hongming glanced out the window, frowned and asked Su Gonggong: "Recently, the Imperial Forest Army has been practicing frequently, what happened?"
Su Gonggong nodded towards Emperor Hongming, and said: "The servant heard yesterday that there was some commotion outside the capital, I'm afraid... the third prince assembled an army to attack the capital."
"Nonsense!" Emperor Hongming immediately patted the table with a sullen face, "Now that the capital is prosperous, what is he going to do!"
In fact, even if Emperor Hongming summoned Qi Yue to protect the Third Prince at the beginning, it was only to act as a guard, not to imply that the Third Prince would use the strength of the Suppressing North Army to start a war.
Now that Emperor Hongming thought about it for a while, he knew why the third prince made such a plan. It must be because he found that the capital was being ruled by the first prince like an iron bucket, and all the important court officials surrendered to the first prince, so he panicked.
However, Qi Yue and Yang Hui let the third prince mess around? Emperor Hongming's face was gloomy. He knew Qi Yue's ability. If he really led troops to attack the capital, the Imperial Forest Army would definitely face a bloody battle.
Wait, Qi Yue
Emperor Hongming thought of the order he gave Qi Yue before, and immediately said to Su Gonggong in a hurry: "Quick! Send a message to Qi Yue, and say that the widow has withdrawn his order, and let him not target the eldest prince!"
Eunuch Su showed embarrassment: "Your Majesty, General Qi has already arrived around the capital from the border. Not to mention that we can't spread the news now, even if we can spread it, we don't know where it will go?"
"Look for Chen Bing! He will definitely help with this matter!" Emperor Hongming was in a panic, for fear that Qi Yue would really follow his order to support the third prince and harm the eldest prince.
Eunuch Su responded and ran out in a hurry.
After walking around the room twice, Emperor Hongming took out two blank imperial edicts, and wrote something on one of them with a gloomy expression.
Since the third child wants to attack the capital, let him come, and he has to settle the accounts of these years.
Sitting in the military tent, Qi Yue was listening to the military adviser describe the actions of the third prince in the past few days.
"The third prince didn't want to take down Jizhou first because of the food and grass issue. What was the result?"
Hearing Qi Yue's question, the military adviser immediately talked to him vividly: "Where can he take it. General, you don't know that the third prince has already led troops to Jizhou, but he heard a scout say that a group of Imperial Forest Army is secretly marching towards our camp. "
"Oh?" Qi Yue raised his eyebrows, "He let me sit in the camp, why didn't I see the Imperial Forest Army attacking?"
"Hey, isn't he being tricked by someone? When the third prince heard the news, his face immediately changed, because he didn't take the precious imperial decree with him, but stayed in the camp. So the third prince made a quick decision, I gave up attacking Jizhou and immediately returned to help. When I returned to the camp, I found no shadow of the Imperial Forest Army?"
Hearing this, Qi Yue showed a smile on his face: "Then when he returns to Jizhou again, will he find that the city wall is already full of imperial forest troops, and if he wants to win Jizhou, he will have to fight hard?"
"Hey, general, how do you know?" The military adviser asked in amazement, but he also knew about Qi Yue's ability, so he was only surprised for a moment before continuing to describe the ugly face of the third prince to Qi Yue.
The third prince didn't have enough food and grass in his hands, so of course he didn't bother to attack Jizhou in the end.
Qi Yue didn't listen to the military adviser anymore, but just smiled while holding a teacup. Naturally, only Xiangfeng, who passed by today and knew the general location of the camp, could make such a cunning plan.
Most of the soldiers didn't want to start a war at this time. Even though the third prince coaxed them to increase their ranks, these soldiers still felt relieved after knowing that they failed to capture Jizhou.
Qi Yue has now pushed the third prince, the heir apparent, out of his heart. From his point of view, even if Emperor Hongming and Yang Hui praised the third prince, this person is not worthy of being an emperor in his heart.
But to support the eldest prince as emperor, Qi Yue was even more unwilling. He even planned to approach the second prince or find an obedient son of the clan to push him to the throne.
Because Xiangfeng works under the eldest prince, if the third prince ascends the throne, he will not be spared, and the first prince is more likely to execute him because of his great achievements.
Qi Yue's eyes were gloomy, and he even thought of rebelling and pushing the young man to the throne. Although Emperor Hongming showed kindness to him, Qi Yue would rather be an ungrateful person than cause even the slightest harm to Xiangfeng in the end because he clings to this kindness.
The men and horses of the Zhenbei Army are coming from the north, and Qi Yue has also started his own plan.
While he was thinking, someone outside announced: "General, the third prince sent you over."
When Qi Yue walked into the tent of the third prince, he found that all the subordinates of the third prince had gathered together.
"General Qi came just in time. I am asking if anyone is willing to go to Xiangzhou to control the floods on my behalf. The flood in Xiangzhou is serious. Although I am busy with King Qin, I am still very concerned about it, so I specially recruited a few people to ask about your intentions. "
The third prince's move was really made by Yang Hui as a last resort. In recent days, there have been repeated troubles, and he has no intention of taking care of Xiangzhou's affairs.
The reason why Yan Lan is not worried about the people's will in Xiangzhou is because he has been to Xiangzhou several times before and has already established a reputation here. Moreover, he knew that the prefect of Xiangzhou had a special status, even if the eldest prince went there, it might not be effective.
Hearing what the third prince said, several officials in the tent and local generals began to discuss in whispers.
Qi Yue glanced at them and said in a deep voice, "The general is willing to go."
"Oh? General Qi's words are serious?" The third prince's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he pretended to hold back a few words, "It's more useful for you to stay here!"
"The last general has made up his mind, please let the third prince fulfill it." Qi Yue bowed his head and saluted. Xiangfeng went to Xiangzhou alone, seeing how busy he was until late at night on weekdays, he would definitely not take good care of himself when he arrived in Xiangzhou, Qi Yue was already worried because of this, and now the decision of the third prince happened to be in his favor.
Moreover, the third prince is very suspicious of him, Qi Yue's secret plan has already started, and the tasks have been assigned, so it is easy for him to arouse the idea of the third prince here. Although it is easy to control the third prince now, Qi Yue is not going to kill the third prince, and remove obstacles for the eldest prince for nothing.
The third prince tried to dissuade him a few more words, but in the end he could only agree. In fact, Qi Yue was willing to go to Xiangzhou, and the third prince was happy to receive his Zhenbei army. He looked at Qi Yue and said with a smile: "Here in Xiangzhou, General Qi, it's just right for you to go, just in time to meet the daughter of the prefect of Xiangzhou, so as to relieve the pain of lovesickness."
Lovesickness? What lovesickness did he have with the daughter of the prefect of Xiangzhou
Qi Yue was puzzled, and looked at the third prince strangely, but he didn't ask rashly. Instead, he returned to his account and repeated the words to his military adviser, asking if the third prince had any plans, otherwise why did he mention it on purpose? The daughter of Xiangzhou prefect.
The military division was also puzzled when he heard this sentence, he scratched his head and turned around in the tent twice: "Xiangzhou... Xiangzhou..."
In the past in the Zhenbei Army, he had always acted as a clerk, sorting out information from the capital for Qi Yue. The military division always felt that he seemed to have heard about Xiangzhou at some point, but he couldn't remember the following.
"The daughter of the prefect of Xiangzhou...the daughter?" The military master muttered a few words, then suddenly slapped his head and screamed, "I remembered, isn't the daughter of the prefect of Xiangzhou the wife of your unmarried general?"
"Nonsense, when did this general marry someone else?" Hearing what the military adviser said, Qi Yue suddenly became displeased. Can this be said nonsense? If you are not careful, you will be misunderstood.
Seeing Qi Yue's darkened face, the military adviser suddenly remembered the matter between him and the young man, and his expression became embarrassing: "This...a year ago, news came from the middle of Beijing that the emperor had proposed a marriage to the general. But at that time, there was a small riot on the Mongolian side. General, you led the troops to fight, so this matter was ignored... "
The more the military adviser said, the lower his voice was. It was indeed his dereliction of duty. Now that the general is happy to hear the news, he might not want to tear him apart.
Qi Yue really wanted to strangle him to death! He immediately thought of the youth's anger when he mentioned the prefect of Xiangzhou that night. And this eunuch is inexplicable and almost wants to become his "father-in-law", young people must not think that all the nasty things he did were connived by him!
Not only is he going to Xiangzhou, but he has to get there as soon as possible, otherwise... Qi Yue can't imagine how bad the young man's impression of him will be.
"Prepare the horse, I'm going to Xiangzhou immediately!" Qi Yue said decisively.
Not knowing that a certain man was about to come, Qingyun drove all night, exhausted by boats and cars, and finally arrived in Xiangzhou.
As soon as he entered Xiangzhou, Qingyun saw a large area of farmland that was submerged, and many farmers huddled on the high ground, shivering even in midsummer.
A gleam of anger flashed in Qing Yun's eyes. He expected that the floods in Xiangzhou would be serious, so the relief funds approved at the beginning were quite a lot. Now it seems that not a single cent was used for the people of Xiangzhou.
Seeing this luxurious carriage with the logo of the Great Yan Empire approaching, some people's eyes lit up, but the light was fleeting, and soon their eyes returned to dead silence. The officials who wanted to be sent by the imperial court could no longer bring them any hope.
The carriage drove all the way to the higher-lying inner city of Xiangzhou. As soon as it reached the gate of the city, Qing Yun heard someone shouting at the gate: "Excuse me, is the imperial envoy sent by the imperial court in the carriage? Imperial envoy!"