Fan Xian looked at him with indifferent laziness in his eyes, "Although Qingzhou is at the forefront, it is still under the control of the Western Day Camp. Why are we so afraid of it?"
Li Hongcheng pointed his finger at his nose and said angrily: "You are a high-ranking official, and you will go to Qingzhou if you think about it, don't you know how much trouble you will cause?"
Qingzhou City is the most remote state city in the Qing Kingdom. It is the land that the eldest prince forcibly conquered when he led the army for the first time. It is also the newest state city. Rui Suo Chong, if Xihu knew that Fan Xian of the Overwatch Council had gone deep into Qingzhou, he would attack at all costs.
Fan Xian knocked off the finger that was about to point at his face, and said angrily, "Aren't you a dignitary? Isn't he the prince? Isn't Ye Linger?"
"But we are all in the military camp!" Li Hongcheng looked at him, raised his voice angrily, and said, "You think I don't know you? You will stop when you arrive in Qingzhou? I know you too well. Seeing the grassland in front of you, would you be reluctant to go in? You like to take risks, you like to sneak around, and you never follow the big troops to advance or retreat.”
"Can I just watch you sneak into the grassland under my control?" Li Hongcheng gritted his teeth and said, "I tell you, there is no way!"
Fan Xian was silent. He didn't expect Hongcheng to see his plan at a glance, but the dark fire in his heart was burning, so he had to enter Qingzhou to see what was going on, even if he didn't enter the grassland. become.
"I promise you, I won't bring my subordinates into the grassland." He looked at Li Hongcheng, and said seriously: "I'm just going to Qingzhou to check some things, if... If I don't come, no one will know what's going on What happened, trust me, it's a big deal."
"What are you going to Qingzhou to investigate?" Li Hongcheng calmed down, looked at him and asked word by word: "If you have a will, I will let you go there. If you don't, then you don't say anything."
"If I have a will, I'll tell you a fart!" Fan Xian couldn't help becoming angry when he saw that he didn't get in, and cursed: "Don't forget, I'm an imperial envoy! Your Majesty allowed me to do something cheap, so I'll let you know , I respect you, I really want to go to Qingzhou, what do you use to stop me?"
Hearing this, Li Hongcheng gritted his teeth, but he couldn't find any words to refute. After a while, he said in a cold voice: "I must warn you, the current border is different from before, and it is easy to die, Hu people It's becoming more and more insidious... It's similar to your methods. The reason why you brought the Overwatch Council into the city before and I caught you is because Dingzhou City has now mixed in many spies. The governor of Xidaying and Xiliang Road The government is very nervous about this matter.”
"Your disguises can't even fool me, let alone those barbarians." Li Hongcheng stared into his eyes and tried to persuade him: "Ye Linger is different from you. The Ye family is still respected by barbarians in the west, but Your reputation represents the face of the court, if the barbarians can kill you, they will definitely do whatever it takes."
"Spies... There are indeed many spies." Fan Xian let out a long breath, and said quietly: "In the past thirty years, the barbarians have been unable to send spies into the country, because we look so different... As a result, only these two years There are more, and I am also very curious, where did these spies who sold our information to the barbarians come from out of thin air."
A strange light flashed in Li Hongcheng's eyes.
Fan Xian looked at him and said, "The most important purpose of my trip is to dig out that person and everyone related to that person. For this matter, I have prepared for four full months! If you want to stop I, you go and ask His Majesty for orders."
Li Hongcheng raised his hands to show that he gave up, but he still sneered and said, "But have you ever thought about it, if something happens to you, what will His Majesty do? What about people like me in Xi Daying?"
"You overestimate the barbarian." Fan Xian lowered his eyes slightly, and said mockingly, "You underestimated me."
Li Hongcheng was startled, then pulled him in suddenly, and walked to the study where the map was kept. After walking through the back garden, he came to a room, lit up the lamp, spread out a huge map, slapped his palm heavily on a certain place in the far west, and said in a cold voice: "Look at the location of Qingzhou, it's far away. Two hundred miles away, if you want to go, I will send a team of thousands of people to take you off. If you don't want someone to take you off... Then I want to know, how do you deal with the barbarian raids in the last thirty miles of flat desert? "
Fan Xian looked at the map carefully. Although he had studied this map many times in the Kyoto courtyard, he still felt a chill when he looked at it again. The road to Qingzhou was close to the edge of the grassland. With the ability to appear and disappear, he can indeed launch an attack at any time.
"I'm a businessman, and Hu people don't kill businessmen." Fan Xian said with his head down, but he was thinking about the agreement with Hu Ge.
Li Hongcheng didn't answer his words, pointing to the map and said: "In the past two years, Hu people have come out of the grassland every day to sweep up the farmland behind Qingzhou... Do you know how many people died? Once those Hu people killed You have to get up, it doesn't matter if you are a businessman or not? Even if you are a master of the ninth rank, if you are facing hundreds of rangers, what is the way to escape?"
Before Fan Xian could answer, he continued to move his fingers on the map: "Look at this area, this is the main direction of the Hu people's attack. In the past two years, more than a thousand garrison troops have died."
Fan Xian knew about the tragedy on the border, and said, "Is there any way to solve this problem?"
"I can guarantee that the iron cavalry under my account will never lose to the ranger of the barbarians, but this is like two people stabbing each other with knives. The knives are very sharp, but the targets are different. They dare not touch my main force. , but I couldn’t catch their main force.”
Fan Xian thought about it, and said: "The barbarians' tents are moving, but our people are tied to death on the land because of the fields. Naturally, the harm they have done to us is greater than the harm we have done to them. harm."
Li Hongcheng nodded helplessly.
"That's why I'm going to Qingzhou even more. I'm going to see who is the expert who invented the bastard's fighting method of fighting the grass valley..." Fan Xian's eyes were cold, and the dark fire began to ignite in the cold.
Knowing that Fan Xian could not be persuaded, Li Hongcheng stared into his eyes and asked, "Why... the Overwatch Council pays so much attention to the Xiliang matter?"
"It's not courtyard affairs, it's my private matter." Fan Xian was obviously in a bad mood, looking at the red dots on the map and said, "Of course, it's not just a private matter. I must stabilize the situation in the west by next year. I need your help, and at the same time, I also want to cut off the support that the barbarians get."
"Before next year?" Li Hongcheng looked at him suspiciously, wondering why he was so anxious about the situation in the west.
"Next year, Sigu Jian can last at most until next spring." Fan Xian lowered his head, and said, "I put more than half of my attention on observing Sigu Jian's injuries. This great master can really endure... It took so much longer than expected, although he has never seen outsiders in the past two years, but we know that he is still alive, and we know that he will die next year."
"What does Si Gu Jian's death have to do with Xi Bian?" Li Hongcheng asked angrily.
Fan Xian raised his head, looked at him and said, "Because if Si Gu Jian dies, His Majesty will send me to Dongyi City... I don't have time to solve the problem in the west anymore."
Li Hongcheng sneered, and said, "Do you think that you can solve the world's affairs by yourself? I recognize your ability, but I hope you don't think too highly of yourself."
Fan Xian knew that the other party's words were not malicious, so he spread his hands and said, "After Sigu Sword, Dongyi City will always fall to one side. A smooth transition into our hands."
"Or if the two sides are fighting, Dongyi City can still maintain a neutral stance."
"Impossible." Fan Xian laughed at himself, shook his head and said, "Once Sigu Jian dies, the conflict between the City Lord's Mansion and the Sword House will break out. How can Dongyi City have the right to be neutral?"
"But you still didn't explain, what does this have to do with your rush to Xiliang."
Fan Xian looked at Hongcheng helplessly, and after a long silence, he said in a low voice, "The reason is very simple. I must prove to the world that I can solve the problems of Xiliang and Dongyi City."
"Then?" Li Hongcheng looked at him suspiciously.
"Then I want to prove to His Majesty that if... I mean, if you really want to rule the world, you don't necessarily have to fight. Dou... fight as little as you can."
Fan Xian's voice became lower and lower, so low that he didn't even seem to believe the words. Li Hongcheng was also dumbfounded, and sat silently by the side, wondering if he had heard something wrong.
Li Hongcheng stood up suddenly, and walked back and forth quickly in the study, as if he wanted to digest the news he had just heard. After a while, he stopped beside Fan Xian and laughed uncontrollably. ridiculous meaning.
"You idiot!" Li Hongcheng yelled at him, "You can think of such a naive idea? Do you think you are a god, and you can kill the barbarians without a single soldier? Solve Dongyi City, and Beiqi!"
Li Hongcheng was trembling with anger, pointed at Fan Xian's face, his fingertips trembling, "I thought you had such a great idea to go to Qingzhou, but it's such a naive chaos!"
"What exactly do you want to do? Are you really flattered by the students in the Taixue and forgot your name? Do you really want to be a saint?"
Li Hongcheng grabbed Fan Xian's skirt fiercely, gritted his teeth and said, "Are you crazy? No one in the world will obediently act according to your ideas!"
The faces of the two were very close. Li Hongcheng looked at the sadness in Fan Xian's eyes, and shouted in a low voice, "Prove it to His Majesty? What are you thinking?"
Fan Xian lowered his head, and said in a low voice, "What am I thinking? If I say I hope the world will be peaceful and there will be no war... Do you think this idea is absurd?"
Li Hongcheng let go of his hands, and Fan Xian sat back on the chair.
He looked at Fan Xian shaking his head for a while, and was so shocked that he couldn't speak. As the son of the Qing Dynasty, he hates war so much? Fortunately, he knew how many life-and-death moments Fan Xian had experienced in this life, and he was definitely not a person who covets life and fears death.
"This idea is not absurd." Li Hongcheng said word by word: "On the contrary, this does not constitute an idea at all."
Fan Xian raised his head and said stubbornly, "Why not? If I can rule the world with my own strength, why should Your Majesty go to war in the South and North, and let those tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of common people ... dying for this glorious purpose, for so many lives, why can't I think so!"
"Okay, okay." Li Hongcheng nodded angrily, and said, "You can think like this, but you will never be able to do it, and I advise you, it is best not to let His Majesty know what you think, or he will definitely think you are crazy .”
"I was already crazy." Fan Xian closed his eyes and said faintly, "You don't know how I have lived these two years. I think about this problem every day. It seems that the next moment the war will break out. What are those things? People who don’t understand will die under horses, under swords and guns. I want to change all this, but I don’t know how to do it... No one can help me.”
"No one can help me!" He suddenly became angry, opened his eyes, stared at Li Hongcheng, stretched out a finger and said loudly: "They are all gone! Chen Pingping has nothing to do, her father is old, and Lin Ruofu was arrested in Wuzhou." Your Majesty is scared like an old rabbit! Where is the boss? I'm afraid he is still willing to go to war, and he doesn't want to stay in the capital..."
Uncle Wu Zhu also left, leaving him alone, Fan Xian added in his heart.
"It's just me." Fan Xian's lips trembled slightly, and he gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "I'm the only one left thinking and struggling at night. Going to try to do it."
"Ridiculous! Ridiculous! Childish!" Li Hongcheng shook his shoulders, as if wanting to wake up the lunatic, "It took Your Majesty thirty years to create such a good situation... Xihu? If His Majesty does a good job Get ready, you can turn them into rubbish! Under the current situation, you want to go against His Majesty? Let me tell you, Your Majesty doesn’t need you to do this for him, he is capable enough to do it himself!”
Li Hongxiang looked at Fan Xian like an idiot, "For two years, you let the Overwatch Council deliberately cut power to stabilize the court, and you let the internal treasury regain its former glory, enrich the national treasury, and supplement military expenditure... If you If you really pacified Xihu for him and took back Dongyi City, you have already made all the preparations for His Majesty before the big battle, but you want His Majesty to give up the idea of going to war at this time?"
"Do you think His Majesty is crazy or are you crazy?"
"What's the matter? What happened to you in the past two years?" Li Hongcheng looked at Fan Xian incredulously, and asked, "The world is peaceful? This kind of thing has never happened before."
"At least when I'm alive, I hope the world will be peaceful. This is my ideal in life."
Fan Xian laughed at himself, and after a moment of calm, he said seriously: "When I was young in Danzhou, I was thinking about what I would do in this life, and then I gradually realized that it would be best if the world could be peaceful."
"Two years ago in the capital." Fan Xian raised his head, looked at Li Hongcheng's bearded eyes and concerned eyes, and said faintly, "I watched the second child vomit blood and die, and the eldest princess stabbed herself to death. There are so many rebel soldiers, imperial guards, and subordinates of the Overwatch Council who became sacrifices on His Majesty’s path just because of the goal of unifying the world, and it was at that time that I became firm in this ideal, is it ridiculous?”
"I've seen dead people too." Li Hongcheng stared at him, "In the past three years on the grassland, I've seen even more dead people than you, but so what? History is always like this. It's ridiculous, you know?"
"A ridiculous ideal is still an ideal." Fan Xian folded his hands on his chest, regained his composure, and said quietly, "If a person has no ideals, what is the difference between them and a salted fish?"
"In the entire Qing Kingdom, no one will support your so-called...ideal." Li Hongcheng also gradually calmed down, shaking his head and said pitifully: "Including Dean Chen, including Fan Shangshu, no one will support your idea .”
"I understand." Fan Xian said: "I am different from most people in the world. I just want to use the facts to convince His Majesty."
"Your Majesty... will never be persuaded!" Li Hongcheng emphasized his tone.
"What didn't happen, who knows?" Fan Xian stood up and said, "Don't forget, I'm the father of two children now, you're always going to get married and have kids these two years, we have to give our own children What is left behind, at least I hope it is not a turbulent world with endless wars and dead bodies on the way.”
"You don't think His Majesty will rule the world?" Li Hongcheng asked after hearing Fan Xian's words after being silent for a long time.
"Conquering the world is easy, but governing the world is difficult." Fan Xian tidied up his messy clothes, and said slowly: "The Northern Expedition broke up the Great Wei, but let the Zhan Family inherit Da Zuo, Jiangnan Jiangbei, Shandong Yan The people of the capital are easy to surrender, but the old people of the Wei Dynasty are not so easy to bow their heads. Even if my Daqing iron cavalry invades the capital, it will take at least several decades for the Li people to recognize the rule of the Li royal family."
"To be precise, it was decades of suppression and massacre." Fan Xian walked out of the house, "I don't want Xiaohua and Liangzi to see the beautiful scenery of the West Lake and the East China Sea in the future, but blood flowing The club, the iron chain Yokoe, so I want to try to change it, at least change the way."
"But decades of iron and blood will bring about eternal peace." Li Hongcheng still couldn't accept Fan Xian's thoughts.
"If the world is divided for a long time, it will be united, and if it is united for a long time, it will be divided. Unifying the country may bring more benefits to the people, but I can't worry about it that far." Fan Xian said: "I once told Yan Bingyun about this idea. I can only think about the moment I live, the moment my children live."
"I just don't want to be a salted fish, I don't want to be a saint." After saying this, Fan Xian walked out of the house. Inside the room, Li Hongcheng pressed his palms on the map, and suddenly said, "Why are you telling me this?"
Without turning around, Fan Xian replied with a smile, "We are friends, and I will not hide my thoughts from my friends."
Then he thought of the friend in the floral dress, and his heart throbbed.
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A few days later, the imperial envoy of Xiliang Road, the Supervisor of the Overwatch Council, and Fan Xian, the Duke of Danbo, went to the city to patrol the city on behalf of the saint. The governor of Xiliang Road and the general came out to meet them. At the end of three days, the General's Mansion tried the case of spies in the mutton shop. It was found out that Jiangnan merchants had secretly cooperated with Hu thieves to smuggle salt and iron, and a total of 14 people were beheaded.
After the banquet, the imperial envoy left the city and saw them off across the city. On the same day, imperial envoy Fan Xian had already disguised himself as a businessman, boarded a carriage bound for Qingzhou, and started his investigation journey.
Just like what he said in his exchange with Li Hong that night, he must calm down the situation in Xihu and subdue Dongyi City peacefully before the world goes to war, so that he can prove to His Majesty the emperor his ability and the feasibility of his means. However, this trip to Xihu is not only a step for Fan Xian to get rid of Xianyu's life, but more importantly, he has to solve a matter, a matter that makes him very angry, but this matter cannot be explained clearly to Hong Cheng .
The carriage was moving forward on the official road among the endless villages. Before and after the convoy, the subordinates of the Overwatch Council were watching everything vigilantly, in case they were suddenly attacked by the barbarians' team.
Fan Xian hoped that a small group of barbarians could come, but it was a pity that after that night, Li Hongcheng launched the autumn offensive in the ninth year of Qingli first, killing the rangers of Xihu back to the foot of Tianshan Mountain, on the grassland , the empty rear of Qingzhou suddenly became quiet.
Fan Xian withdrew his gaze from the window, knowing that Xi Daying's big move was entirely to ensure his own safety. Although Hongcheng didn't say it clearly, he was using his own actions to help him.
His eyes fell on a knife in his hand. This knife was ordinary in shape, but it was made of excellent materials. It was definitely not something that the barbarians could craft. But the problem is that this knife was made five months ago. Huren weapons seized in Qingzhou City.
The four officials in Qingzhou City sent the knife back to the capital with great vigilance, and presented it before Fan Xian's eyes. This knife didn't have any marks to find out where it came from, but Fan Xian recognized it at a glance, because this kind of knife was made in a secret workshop on the North Sea.
Fan Xian's eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger, and the true energy in his body was released, snapping the knife in two.
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(Book friend Luo Ye, please let me speak for you: Zhang Jizhong wrote the post celebrating Yu Nian. He scratched his head. Everyone is very serious, just like Fan Xian is now serious.) (, If you want to know what will happen next, please log in , more chapters, support the author, support genuine!)