On the second day after arriving in Nanyun City, while Xia Wutong and Tang Qiuyu were going shopping, the emperor and Mu Mucong went to the empty prison in Nanyun City to visit Long Potian, who had been in jail for several days.

Looking at the eldest prince walking in with a food box and Mu Mu following behind him, Long Potian opened his mouth, but did not speak.

At this moment, he knew that nothing he said would help. From the day he received the letter from his father and decided to help the new emperor assassinate the generalissimo and the national advisor, he had no chance to look back.

"How are you feeling today? Speaking of which, it's much cooler inside than outside. The whole Nanyun City has become a furnace these days." The eldest prince said calmly as he handed the food box to Long Potian in the prison.

"Since General Xie came to see me, I don't regret dying. I just wish I couldn't choose between my family and the Generalissimo." Long Potian lowered his head and replied.

The eldest prince shook his head, looked at Long Potian who looked haggard, and said painfully: "The Imperial Master once said that there is no right or wrong in this world, only willingness or unwillingness."

"When you were willing to fight with me before, it was because you didn't have a choice in your heart. Only when your family forced you to make a choice did you feel the difference between your willingness and your unwillingness."

"I will not make a decision on your matter. Let the Imperial Master handle everything." The eldest prince looked at it with a look of pain on his face.

He really couldn't do it with his own hands against his subordinates who had been with him for many years. This was also the reason why the emperor told Li Ye that the eldest prince was too kind.

The emperor wanted to borrow Li Ye's knife to remove all the obstacles around him. To this end, he did not hesitate to ask Mr. Mo, who had retired from the world for many years, and even made the choice when Li Ye was idle.

This is why the ministers in the imperial city said that the emperor had hidden Li Ye for five years.

Mu Mu, who was standing next to him, looked at Long Potian who was sitting on the ground in the cell quietly. She couldn't understand why the deputy commander who fought with the grassland tribes yesterday would stand up to the killer for the sake of his family.

side of.

She, who had always been cruel, couldn't bear to see Long Potian getting haggard in prison.

But she couldn't give advice to the eldest prince. She was just a witness and couldn't make a decision for Li Ye. She still knew this.

Although she was about to win the war with the grassland tribes, she knew that there was still a big battle waiting for Li Ye and the eldest prince.

The guy who has already sat on the throne will not let them go easily.

"Generalissimo, I will not be able to stay with you in the future. I hope you will take care of yourself. It is said that the new emperor of the Imperial City has decided not to supply food and grass to Nanyun City. They will kill the army of Southern Xinjiang and force you to

Submit."

Looking at the eldest prince, Long Potian said softly.

After all, this is no longer a secret. In the future, the eldest prince will naturally know about receiving supplies from the imperial dynasty.

The eldest prince nodded. This matter had long been expected by the imperial master. The two of them had been planning for this since last winter.

"They want to treat me, the Imperial Preceptor, and the hundreds of thousands of troops as eagles? It's a pity that neither I nor the Imperial Preceptor are eagles, so we won't go as they want." The eldest prince looked at Long Potian and revealed again.

A look of regret.

There was silence in the prison. The eldest prince looked directly into Long Potian's eyes. After a long time, he said slowly: "Don't blame me and the Imperial Master for being cruel. After all, this is the choice you made first."

Among the five regions, the only one with the strength to compete with the new emperor in the imperial city was the southern Xinjiang army. Long Potian also understood this. After receiving his father's secret letter, he sat in the military camp and thought about it all night.

According to the words of the three princes, all this is his choice.

"Although I understand that the final victory must be the Generalissimo and the National Preceptor, I really can't do it if I am asked to disobey the father who gave birth to me and raised me. If there is an afterlife, let me be a cow and horse again to repay the Generalissimo.

The grace of knowing and encountering someone.”

Having said this, Long Potian lowered his head and stopped looking at the eldest prince and Mu Mu.

Mu Mu slightly lowered her eyelashes and said to the eldest prince: "Let's go back. Sister and Mr. Tang should be back soon." Although the prison was cool and cool, she didn't like the depressing atmosphere.

The eldest prince frowned slightly, looked at Long Potian in the prison and said softly: "Take care of yourself, I'll see you another day."

...

On the way back to the mansion, Mu Mu looked at the eldest prince, frowned and asked: "Grand marshal, brother treats the cavalry of the three towns on the grassland as eagles. I didn't expect that the new emperor of this imperial city also wants to treat us as eagles."

The eagle comes to boil."

The eldest prince looked back at her and said with a smile: "With you and the Imperial Master here, naturally you can't do what they want."

Before the two of them entered Li Ye's living room, they saw Yang Kaiyi hurriedly coming out.

"What does City Lord Yang want from me?" The eldest prince looked at him and said with a smile.

Yang Kaiyi looked at the two people who walked in, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his face, and whispered: "The materials for the Imperial City were supposed to have been escorted the day before yesterday, but there is no sign of them today. Is there something wrong?

"

The eldest prince was stunned, thinking of what Long Potian said, he looked at Yang Kaiyi and smiled bitterly: "It's not that there is a problem, that is a big problem. They want to cut off our food and grass and force me and the Imperial Master to submit."

"What should we do?" Yang Kaiyi said anxiously after hearing this.

The emperor took him into the living room, and Mumu went to make tea and roast water.

"Have we finished harvesting all the food we plowed in the spring?" The eldest prince did not immediately answer Yang Kaiyi's words.

"Everything has been recovered. Three million catties of grain and five million catties of forage have been harvested. They have all been dried and put into storage."

Upon hearing this, the eldest prince nodded with satisfaction and continued to ask: "Before it snows, can we plant another season of coarse grains?"

Yang Kaiyi nodded and replied: "Okay."

"Then arrange for the army to defend the city to plant another season of coarse grains. Tell all the soldiers the true situation. We will give you part of the army first and owe the rest. Tell everyone that we will pay back double the amount after we return to the imperial city.

.”

I wanted to force him to bow his head by cutting off the food and grass. Li Ye had anticipated this on the first day he came to southern Xinjiang.

"With the grain we have harvested now, plus what we have in stock, if we grow another season of coarse grains, the army will have no problem holding on until next spring." Yang Kaiyi lowered his head and calculated, looking at the eldest prince and said.

"What City Lord Yang doesn't know is that the Imperial Guard has arranged for the army to cultivate thousands of acres of land outside the three towns. If we add in the production situation there, we will be rich even if we persist until next summer."

Upon hearing this, Yang Kaiyi finally showed a smile on his face, clapped his hands and said with a smile: "If we add the assistance from the cities in southern Xinjiang and the funding from Tianfeng City, we don't have to worry about the problem of food and grass."

The two looked at each other for a moment and laughed almost simultaneously.

Confused Mu Mu looked at the two of them and said nothing. In fact, she was planning how to get rid of Xia Wutong and Tang Qiuyu, and then sneak back to Xichun quietly in a few days. She would also stay in Nanyun City.

Tired of it.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor outside the door. The eldest prince glanced at Mu Mu and said with a smile: "When my father left, he entrusted my sister to the Imperial Master."

That means that the princess should be tolerant. He had already known from Li Ye's words that the two were not brothers and sisters. How could he not know that Mu Mu was so disgusted with Li Ye? He would not object to his sister falling in love with Li Ye.

.

What he was afraid of was that the unreasonable Princess Nanyun in front of him could not tolerate his sister. This was a master who was not afraid of anything.

Even the Imperial Master and him were people who would feel pain when they saw them.

As he finished speaking, Xia Wutong in a white skirt and Tang Qiuyu in a red skirt walked into the living room, first gave Yang Kai a fist salute, and then met the eldest prince.

Looking at Mu Mu sitting aside making tea, Xia Wutong walked over and piled a large bag of snacks on the table.

He looked at Mu Mu and said with a smile: "Sister, come here, they talk about theirs, and we eat ours."

Mu Mu looked at her and thought for a long time before asking: "Have you brought Sister Hua's peach blossom cakes?"

Xia Wutong was stunned, and quickly took out a few boxes of peach blossom cakes and put them on the table. He held her hand and said with a smile: "I went to Sister Hua's place before I came here. She still wants to come to southern Xinjiang."

Mu Mu opened the box of peach blossom cake and looked at her and said: "I'm afraid Sister Hua won't be able to come here."

Hua Tianxia belongs to the second prince. Li Ye told her about this, and even Nalan Yu also complained in front of her.

However, Mu Mu also knew that Hua Tianxia had no bad intentions for Li Ye, and she couldn't help but follow the second prince.

She even thought that when her brother and the eldest prince returned to the imperial city, they would collect Huamanlou and solve Nalan Yu's heartache.

How did Xia Wutong know that Mu Mu was worried about so many things? In her eyes, as long as Mu Mu was happy, she could take her to Xichun to find that guy Li Ye.

"Thank you sister for the peach blossom cake. I told the marshal a few days ago that Mu Mu hasn't had sister Hua's peach blossom cake for a long time." Mu Mu squinted her eyes and looked at Xia Wutong and said.

Nanyun City was sealed off, and the Imperial City deliberately targeted the eldest prince and imperial master of Southern Xinjiang. Even if some merchants wanted to bring Huangcheng's food back to Nannan Xinjiang to sell, it would not be an easy task.

The greedy Mu Mu has even thought about going to Tianfeng City for a stroll, maybe there will be snacks brought back from the Imperial City.

Yang Kaiyi thought of what he was worried about before, but now it seems that it is no longer a problem. He couldn't help but look at the eldest prince and said with a smile: "It seems that people are not as good as God. No matter how powerful they are, they can't compare to the national master and the generalissimo."

The eldest prince looked at him and said calmly: "If we really get to that point, and City Master Yang has been following us, I think it will be a happy ending for everyone. I hope you can get what belongs to you."

When Yang Kaiyi heard this, he was so excited that he almost knelt down. He looked at the eldest prince and said in a solemn voice: "Don't worry, marshal, I will definitely share the joys and sorrows with the southern Xinjiang army and advance and retreat together."

The eldest prince waved his hand and said with a smile: "Hurry up and make a plan and arrange for the army to continue plowing outside the city."

Upon hearing this, Yang Kaiyi stood up, said goodbye to everyone in the room, and turned around and left the living room.

The eldest prince looked back at Xia Wutong and Tang Qiuyu and said: "The imperial city has cut off our food and grass. Now our life will be harder. Are you sure you want to stay?"

"Why is the second brother so unreasonable? Didn't my father teach him how to behave when he left?" Xia Wutong looked angry after hearing what the eldest prince said.

"So what if he was taught? When my father only asked him to supervise the country and didn't let him ascend the throne, didn't he do it too?" The eldest prince looked at it and said with a smile.

"Is there really no room for maneuver in this matter?" Tang Qiuyu looked at the people in front of him and asked worriedly.

"From the day they sent assassins to assassinate me and the imperial master, there was no way out. How could we turn around?" the eldest prince replied in a deep voice.

Tang Qiuyu and Xia Wutong were stunned and couldn't find anything to say.

...

That night, the personal guards in black who had returned from Xichun brought Li Ye's reply to Xia Yunlan who was guarding Nanyun City.

Xia Yunlan, who received Li Ye's reply, took people to the prison in Nanyun City that night without saying a word.

The next day, the eldest prince received the news from Yang Kaiyi that Long Potian committed suicide by taking poison last night out of fear of crime.

The eldest prince who received the news did not go to the prison to check, but replied after a long silence: "Find a quiet place outside the city, bury Deputy Commander Long in a dignified manner, and receive the rank of general."

After the visitor left, the eldest prince sat alone under the eaves, looking at the scorching heat of the city, but his heart felt completely cold.

I know that the Imperial Master did not want to embarrass himself and did things for him that he could not do and did not want to do.

At this time, he suddenly remembered what his father said to him before leaving: "If you want to be the leader of a country, you cannot always leave a poisonous tail for yourself."

As for Long Potian, in the eyes of the Imperial Master, he had a poisonous tail.
Chapter completed!