The imperial power, the aristocratic family and the Hou Mansion are three pillars. The imperial power is controlled by the aristocratic family, and the aristocratic family is controlled by the Hou Mansion. Yanyang has been in peace for several decades.
The undercurrents are surging, but they are all hidden behind the calm.
Xie Jue asked, "What if the royal family unites with the aristocratic family?"
"How is that possible!" Zhenbei Hou laughed, "Unless he is crazy."
"Okay!" Xie Jue said calmly. Thirty thousand cavalry entered the city to garrison. He sent his shadow guards to monitor Gaoping and Guli, not bothering to talk to his father.
Since the prince has colluded with the Northern Barbarians, doesn't he have the ambition to sharpen his sword and attack the Hou Mansion?
However, the Hou Mansion is self-respecting with its troops, and there are generals in the south of the Yangtze River. His father has no arrogant intentions, and the prince cannot find anything wrong with the Hou Mansion, and will only make an issue in the peace talks with the Northern Barbarians.
He wanted to mobilize troops from the border, but without Marquis Zhenbei's nod, neither he nor Xie Zhang would be able to mobilize troops. I hope he thinks too much.
In addition to managing the money of the Hou family, Xie Jue also built an intelligence team to stay in the capital to collect information about the aristocratic family and the royal family. He also planted people in the palace without telling his father and younger brother. Firstly, it was to protect his sister.
The second was to collect intelligence in the palace. Xie Jue knew that if the Marquis of Zhenbei knew that he had planted spies in the palace, he would be furious, so Xie Jue concealed it and refused to report it.
After Xie Jue returned to Beijing, he collected information from Emperor Jianming and the East Palace. When he learned that the prince ordered Feng Yu to be killed, he felt uneasy. He had no reason to kill Feng Yu!
He has always been very knowledgeable and will do his best to investigate someone when he suspects them.
During tonight's night outing, Dugu Jing sent someone to assassinate him, and Lin Sheng's appearance at just the right time must have been Dong Gong's plan.
The three brothers came out of the study room in the main courtyard. The sky had turned white. Xie Jue had stayed up almost all night and wanted to enter the palace for peace talks again. Xie Zhang patted his shoulder distressedly.
"Tingfeng, my father is right, we and the royal family can't reach that point." Xie Zhang said softly, "If my father wants to implement the New Deal, the royal family will only unite us to fight against the aristocratic family. After the new deal is implemented, we will return to Ningzhou
."
"Okay!" Xie Jue thought, the prince might want to sharpen his sword against the Hou Mansion, but he really has no leverage, unless he doesn't even want the throne.
He looked at Xie Xun who was looking at the moon and sighing, "What's wrong with your legs?"
"What's wrong?" Xie Xun raised his eyebrows.
"Your second brother is asking why you couldn't stand firm when your father kicked you?" Xie Zhang chuckled, "Did it hurt from the fall?"
"I have rough skin and thick flesh. It doesn't hurt at all." Xie Xun's face suddenly changed, "It's broken!"
The one who hurts is the third girl. She is so unyielding that she will bring bad luck to him. Xie Xun rubbed his brows, he really couldn't blame him.
The four father and son had already had a talk, but who knew that in the middle of the night, they were dragged up to the study room to talk about something again? This was all because Xie Jue investigated and found that the prince and the northern barbarians seemed to be colluding.
Xie Xun was so angry!
The collusion between the royal family and the northern barbarians was definitely a slap in the face to these generals who fought bloody battlefields and guarded the frontiers.
However, the Marquis of Zhenbei felt that Xie Jue was suspicious, so Xie Xun quarreled with the Marquis and said a lot of treasonous things in a hurry, forgetting the time.
Unexpectedly, when Mr. Hou kicked him, the third girl happened to come over.
Xie Zhang and Xie Jue looked at the young Marquis who was afraid of offending others. Xie Zhang said, "Zhixu...why is it so weird?"
Xie Jue agreed and felt strange. The two returned to the hospital together. Xie Zhang endured it and asked tentatively, "Is Chu Ning in your room?"
"Um."
"Where is he sleeping?" Xie Zhang remembered that in the second brother's courtyard, only the main courtyard could sleep. The guest rooms were full of books and only had warm beds. He must not have slept well.
"On the bed."
Xie Zhang thought to himself that the answer was wrong. He chuckled and said, "You and Chu Ning are both old and can't sleep on the same bed."
"Didn't sleep."
Xie Zhang, "..."
Xie Zhang thought to himself that after returning to the hospital, he should wash up and eat, and he should go to court early. Indeed, he did not sleep on the same bed. What Xie Zhang wanted to say was that he and Fang Chuning should pay attention to their words and deeds in the capital. The capital was not as good as the border, and they were afraid of gossip. After all, they were not
Biological brothers, being too close will also attract criticism.
But looking at Xie Jue's expression, he didn't realize there was anything wrong with him, so Xie Zhang had no choice but to give up and forget it. They often slept together in Ningzhou anyway.
After Feng Yu was kicked, she returned to her body and still felt that her bones were aching. It was obvious that there were no scars on her body, but she could not forget the severe pain at that moment.
Does the young Marquis often get kicked by the Marquis?
Zhang Boxing beat his father and almost went to jail. Master Hou beat his son with ruthlessness. Sure enough, the son could be beaten casually.
Qiuxiang and Chunlu were confused when they saw her coming back, "Girl, aren't you going to practice sword practice today?"
Feng Yu thought of what the Marquis said and shook her head. She was afraid something big was going to happen in the Marquis's house tonight, and Xie Xun didn't have time to inform her, so she got kicked.
She was very angry at first, but then she thought that Xie Xun might often be lectured by the Marquis, so she decided to forgive him magnanimously. Feng Yu had something on her mind and couldn't sleep well. Playing the flute disturbed her dreams, so she sat by the window with nothing to do.
I am going to take care of the accounts of the Twelve States. I plan to wait for my sister to get married before she goes to the Twelve States.
It would be great if the war in Ningzhou ceases and the trade routes between the northwest and Sangnan can be opened up. Sangnan has developed animal husbandry and agriculture, but there is a serious shortage of mining. Yanyang strictly prohibits mining from going to Sangnan. Smuggling iron ore is like treason, but Feng Yu thinks it can be bartered.
In exchange for Sangnan's crop seeds, Yanyang's agricultural development is far inferior to Sangnan's.
Speaking of iron ore, the Northern Barbarians have a special kind of ore called red sand ore. It is as solid as a rock and indestructible. This is why the Northern Barbarians are invincible on the battlefield. This kind of ore is also found at the junction of Ningzhou and the Northern Barbarians.
, has been dug up over the years.
Only one-third of the Zhenbei cavalry can be equipped with red gauze armor. In addition to the red gauze armor, the Northern Barbarians also have spears, scimitars, and spears refined from red sand ore. Their spears can penetrate the war horses.
Protective gear, the armor of ordinary cavalry, can be used for defense and offense. Therefore, in every battle where the Northern Barbarians fought with all their strength, Yanyang suffered heavy casualties.
The red sand mine will definitely be a condition for peace talks in Yanyang.
But will the Northern Barbarians give it to them?
No one expected that the peace talks between Beiman and Yanyang would collapse on the first day.
The first step in Yanyang is to get red sand mine.
The Northern Barbarians were the first to take Xie Jue's life.
The two sides did not hide their swords behind a smile, nor did they make excuses. They went straight to the point. Next to Dugujing were the Northern Barbarian military counselor Slante and the priest Jintu, as well as two Northern Barbarian generals.
When he met Emperor Jianming, Dugu Jing said that Xie Jue had killed the Northern Barbarian soldiers before the peace talks, and that Emperor Jianming had to pay with blood for the peace talks to continue.
The whole court was in an uproar, both civil and military. Firstly, the Northern Barbarians were so audacious that they dared to propose killing the second son of the Marquis. Secondly, the second son was also bold enough to kill the Northern Barbarian general on the eve of the peace talks.
Zhenbeihou stood in the first row of military officers. If the Northern Barbarian King came, Zhenbeihou would directly start a fight. Unfortunately, it was the Ninth Prince. It was beneath his status to argue with a junior, so Zhenbeihou did not intend to say a word.
"Why did Xie Jue kill the Northern Barbarian generals on the eve of the peace talks?" Emperor Jianming asked.