Yuan Qingling did not expect that even his father would not support him. No wonder the courtiers were against it.
In fact, many people are afraid of war. Once a war breaks out, the mountains and rivers will be shattered and the people will be displaced. They will have their hearts in their throats every day, especially now that everyone thinks it is a peaceful and prosperous age. At this time, being warlike will push the country into a state of doom.
land.
But the provocations of Bei Mo never stopped?
When they first joined forces with the Great Zhou Dynasty, Beimo was not really involved in the war. They had been accumulating strength.
The Zhou Dynasty, which has strong military power, has not dared to relax in the past two years. It has been strengthening its frontier strength and developing its domestic economy. Now Chen Jingting and his wife are also stationed in Maocheng, stationed on the border with Xianbei, which is hundreds of years away from Maocheng.
Here is the ridge of the Northern Desert, which can also be regarded as an important military area in the Northern Desert.
Da Zhou didn’t dare to relax, but Bei Tang did. If Bei Mo didn’t attack him, who would they attack?
But there was nothing she could do to help with these matters. Looking at Lao Wu who was worried and upset, she could only comfort him softly.
Yu Wenhao held her hand, adjusted his mood, and said: "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. I will have dinner with you. I won't go back to the Yamen today."
"Um!"
Yuan Qing Ling responded and walked out with him.
Tang Yang and Xu Yi who were outside also followed. After having lunch together, Tang Yang and Yu Wenhao entered the study.
In the evening, Yu Wenhao wrote a letter to King Wei, asking him to pay attention to the movements in the Northern Desert.
A few days later, An Jingyan came back with news, saying that he was about to hold talks with the wizards in northern Xinjiang. If it went well, the war was expected to be settled. However, Xianbei made conditions. Everything else was easy to talk about, except for one thing, which was that Xinjiang would be exempted from the problem.
There are no permanent taxes in the north, troops can be stationed, and officials cannot be established in the government. In other words, the north of Xinjiang is still autonomous and not subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
Emperor Ming Yuan could not agree, so he let An Jingyan talk about it. He could be exempted from taxes for up to three years, and the garrison must be there, but the northern part of Xinjiang must obey the rule of the king of southern Xinjiang.
This is the bottom line, it depends on how you talk about it.
At this critical moment, Fourth Master Leng came to Prince Chu's Mansion, and this time he took Yu Wenhao directly into the study.
Yuan Qingling watched him walk in. She had never seen the fourth master walking so fast in her life. In the past, he always walked like an old man walking a bird with his hands behind his back. Today, he was particularly vigorous and resolute, and Rong Yue also followed him.
, but Rong Yue did not enter the study.
Yuan Qingling pulled Rong Yue into the room, "What's going on?" Rong Yue let Lu Ya go out first, closed the door, then came back and looked at Yuan Qingling, solemnly saying: "The Tiandi Tong of Lenglangmen got the news and said
Someone offered one million taels of gold for the prince's head."
"What?"
Yuan Qingling was extremely shocked. One million taels of gold would be converted into more than 10 million taels of silver.
"who is it?"
Yuan Qingling asked subconsciously, her face turned pale.
"No one can provide one million taels of gold," Rong Yue looked at her steadily, "Only one country can have such a large financial resource. Of course, it does not mean that no businessman can afford this money.
It’s just that there is no need for a businessman to spend all his wealth to get into trouble with the prince.”
Yuan Qingling looked at her blankly, "Is it Bei Desert?
The people of the Northern Desert actually used this method?
One million taels of gold!"
"The fourth master said that the Beimo has been engaged in military activities in recent years, and the treasury has long been empty, so the one million taels of gold are suspected to belong to Hong Lie. When Hong Lie formed an alliance with him, he informed the people of the Beimo of the location of the gold, so
After the Beimo people took this batch of gold, they first wanted to buy the prince's head. The prince would take the lead in the battle. Once something happened to the prince and the Northern Tang Dynasty lost its crown prince, there would be a period of shock. The Beimo people took the opportunity to invade and caught us off guard.
If the war can be ended quickly, one million taels of gold is still worth spending, because the people of the Northern Desert cannot afford it. If it takes three to five to seven years, it will cost more than one million gold?
So, how can this transaction be considered worthwhile?"
This time, Yuan Qingling could really understand the sadness of being born in an imperial family. He had great power, but he also put himself in danger.
"Don't worry too much. The Fourth Master is here to set up defenses at the Prince of Chu's Mansion. At the same time, he will arrange to secretly protect the Crown Prince. After all, the Crown Prince cannot always stay in the mansion. But this time, the crisis is greater than every previous crisis.
Severe, one million taels of gold, how many people flocked to it, I can’t imagine, and according to the information obtained by Tiandi Tong, people with werewolf bones are very likely to come."
"A person with werewolf bones?
Aren’t they all almost dead?”
Yuan Qingling's heart twitched. How ruthless people born from werewolf bones are and how high their martial arts skills are can be seen from Ruinian and Hongye.
"No, werewolf bones are batched every three years. After these people come out, they will be used by Hong Lie for eight years. If they don't die after eight years, they can be free. And after these people left Hong Lie, many of them came out to do evil.
Live."
"Dirty work?"
Rong Yue explained: "Underworld work is our jargon. It means that no matter who the target is, as long as you give them enough money, the Emperor...well, no matter their status or wealth, they will go."
Yuan Qingling felt uneasy, but when she saw that Rong Yue was still hesitant to speak, she said, "Please tell me all at once, so that I don't have to make random guesses."
Rong Yue looked at her and sighed deeply, "After the reward order came out, I heard that guests from the south came out of the mountains. I don't know if they came to the capital or if they came for the millions of gold."
"Visitor from the south?
Who is he?" Rong Yue was a little frightened when talking about this person, and said: "He is a frightened sword demon in the world of killers. His sword is as fast as lightning, and his internal skills are so deep that he can kill people by flying flowers and picking leaves. It's just a matter of distance.
Ten feet away, he draws his sword, and his sword energy can kill someone."
Yuan Qingling's face turned pale immediately, and her whole body couldn't help but tremble, "Back then, the Su family offered one hundred thousand taels of silver to buy my life, which made everyone in the world go crazy for it. Now this million
Two gold coins, apart from them, I don’t know how many people will take action after hearing the news. Rong Yue, can Lenglangmen have the ability to resist?"
Rong Yue couldn't bear to hide it from her, "Any gang, killer sect, or sword demon, werewolf bone, as long as they don't swarm in, as long as there is a sequence, the Lenglang sect can handle it."
In other words, Lenglangmen cannot actually guarantee the safety of Lao Wu, because the number of people that these million gold can mobilize are too many to imagine.
Yuan Qingling's heart felt cold. Even the fourth master said there was nothing he could do, so there really was nothing he could do.
"Can I hide?"
Yuan Qingling asked, but felt that he had asked a very stupid question. Where could so many killers hide?
If you can really hide, what's the difference between that and being killed?
The same can be done to allow the Northern Desert to take advantage of the situation.
She said coldly: "I said before that people in the Northern Desert don't play tricks. It's really not a conspiracy, but a heavy hammer. My father still wants to hide his power and bide his time, isn't it..." Although she was extremely angry, she didn't care about it in the end.
The word cowardice comes out of my mouth.
"Don't worry yet. Anyway, we will be ready. In addition to Lenglangmen, there are also Ghost Guards, Hongmeimen, and Gu Si's forbidden army can also help. However, if there is really a war, the prince is afraid that he will not be able to rule personally. Otherwise, these
Everyone will become Bei Mo's helpers. These people have extremely high martial arts skills and can move freely among thousands of armies. They are very inconvenient for the marching layout. This is probably the second purpose of the Qin family. If they can't stop Bei Tang from starting a war, then stop him.