Xiaoliu replied respectfully: "Go back to your Majesty, my master should have arrived in Luzhou by now."
Xiao Chuodai frowned slightly and said angrily: "What do you mean should? You don't even know where the adults in your family are?"
The empress, who was pretty but majestic, seemed a little annoyed, but her tone of resentment and anger made her... less nervous.
Xiaoliu hurriedly bent down and replied: "Mother, shortly after Xiaoliu returned to Kaifeng with the Lord, the Lord ordered Xiaoliu and Tieniu to escort Madam back to Luzhou. The day after we left Bianliang, we heard that Zhao Guan's family was driving
Beng, not long after we returned to Luzhou, we received another news that the emperor's younger brother had ascended the throne. By the order of the late emperor, my family was appointed as the Hengshan Jiedu Envoy by the imperial court, and the inspector was appointed as the Taiwei. As an envoy, he was informed of the affairs of Luzhou Prefecture.
We two brothers were very happy, but before we could wait for you in Luzhou, we received this box from you. Since we have lived in Khitan for a long time and are familiar with the language and terrain, we were ordered to deliver it in person.
, when we left, my adults had just arrived in Jiangzhou. Judging from the time, they should have arrived in Luzhou by now."
Xiao Chuo raised his charming eyebrows in surprise and said, "Bring the box to me."
Scimitar Xiaoliu picked up a box from his side and presented it forward with both hands. A female guard next to Xiao Chuo immediately stepped forward to take it. Then she wanted to lift up some cases in the corner of the hall to open them for inspection. Xiao Chuo said impatiently: "No need.
Be careful and bring it to me."
The female guard obeyed the order and put the box down gently on the imperial desk. Xiao Chuo looked at the box, which was more than half a foot thick and two feet square, and saw that the seal and paint on it were still intact. It was obvious that no one had tampered with it.
She raised her hand and stroked the box, and a little deer suddenly jumped in her heart.
What will be in the box? According to the original plan of the two of them, they must cooperate with her to eliminate Prince Qing now, and in the future they must cooperate with the Khitan under the three-party conflict. It stands to reason that there should be something in this box that they can jointly attack Yinzhou and capture.
What about Prince Qing's plan? Will he...will he give me something personal? Otherwise, why would he do it so strictly that he would even hide it from his two sworn brothers?
For a moment, Xiao Chuo was a little nervous, shy and expectant. From the all-powerful emperor of a country, he returned to the mood of a little girl.
She had already learned the news about Zhao Kuangyin's death, Zhao Guangyi's succession, and Yang Hao's being granted the title of Jiedu through her own news channels. She had a deep understanding of what these two official positions meant. Yang Hao was young, and in just two years, he had become
He was a very popular minister, and he founded a government office, and naturally became a prince. This speed of promotion was really unheard of, and more and more mysteries shrouded this man. The more she wanted to see clearly, the more she felt that he was shrouded in mystery.
It was so foggy that she couldn't see clearly.
The Song Dynasty had been sparing no effort to weaken the power of the Jiedushi and centralized power in the court, but it would let him become a Jiedushi with real power? This unreasonable thing made the ice-snow and smart Xiao Chuo puzzled, and reminded him of Zhao Kuangyin
Sudden sudden death, she even boldly imagined whether Yang Hao and Zhao Guangyi had colluded. Zhao Kuangyin's death was a huge conspiracy, so Yang Hao received generous rewards and was allowed to serve as governor...
But even though what happened in Bianliang was strange and strange, she couldn't judge the truth at that time just based on some clues. On the one hand, she had to think about the impact of the changes in the political situation of the Song Dynasty on her Khitan, and on the other hand, she couldn't help but think about the man who called her.
The man who couldn't let go, these days in Beijing, no matter whether he is handling the government affairs with high spirits or admiring the flowers in the garden with low eyebrows, he is always thinking of him with a trace of affection. At this time, he really got the news about Xiao Chuo, a middle school girl like Xiao Chuo
The hero couldn't help but feel a sense of "fear of being close to home".
After fumbling for a long time, she tore off the seal, opened the two clasps, and gently opened the box.
When the box was opened, Xiao Chuo's eyes lit up. She had thought about everything, except that she didn't expect that there was a piece of mud and a piece of clay in the box. There was a wooden board fixed at the bottom of the box, and on the board was a sand table, which was made of clay.
The shapes of mountains, rivers and cities are vivid and lifelike.
Xiao Chuo's biggest enemy was Prince Qing. She had been thinking about the situation in Yinzhou a lot these days. She only glanced at it briefly and saw that the sand table was exactly the topography of Yinzhou. Xiao Chuo bent his waist lightly and looked at it intently.
A novel and unique map.
When the Khitans were on the battlefield, the generals would sometimes gather sand and stones to make pictures, demonstrate the deployment of troops on both sides, discuss military matters with their generals, and study countermeasures. However, they rarely made such fine and detailed sand tables. This sand table is as if it were made by himself in his hand.
Looking down at Yinzhou from the air, you can fully see the mountains and rivers there.
Xiao Chuo saw that there was still a letter stuck to the inner layer of the box lid, so he took it out and opened it under the lamp to read. The letter had no addressee, the name of the letter writer, no beginning or end, and he explained clearly from the beginning how the two sides used their troops and how to use them.
Attacking from the north and the south to capture Yinzhou, after reading the entire letter, he turned it over and looked at it carefully. There was nothing else around, and Xiao Chuo's face gradually became lonely.
She folded the letter, raised her eyes to Scimitar Xiaoliu, and asked calmly: "That's it? Yang Hao didn't tell you anything else?"
Before Scimitar Xiaoliu could answer, Tieniu had already shaken his head and said with a naive smile: "Empress, we were sent to Khitan without even seeing you in person. How could we possibly get any instructions from you? I won't hide it.
Madam, neither of us brothers know what is in this box. It was already sealed when your Excellency delivered it."
Xiao Chuo's eyes dimmed and he said coldly: "I understand, you go back to the hotel to rest and wait for my reply."
Xiaoliu and Tieniu looked at each other, wondering why the Queen suddenly showed a displeased look. They also didn't know what Yang Hao said in the letter, so they had to leave.
Xiao Chuo breathed a sigh of relief, leaned back on the chair, waved his hand, and several female guards bowed and retreated. The hall suddenly became quiet. After a while, Xiao Chuo opened his eyes and looked at the exquisite scene in front of him.
On the sand table, a hint of resentment gradually appeared in his eyes: "Is the only relationship between that heartless and unjust man and me one of mutual use?"
From being possessed by him in a drunken state, to being shy and humiliating and actively teasing, until finally being roughly fucked by him...
Xiao Chuo's cheeks were a little hot, and her bright eyes also flashed with a hint of seductive confusion. It is undeniable that when she had a bad relationship with Yang Hao for the first time, she was ashamed and angry, and she wanted to cut Yang Hao into pieces with a thousand knives.
Yes, even if you take the initiative to tease him later, you just treat him as a tool.
But Ye Yeyan is so good, it inevitably affects her psychology from her physiology, causing her to gradually develop a subtle feeling for Yang Hao, but she clearly realizes that once the value of use disappears, this man must be removed from the world.
She disappeared from the world, so she calmly controlled her reason and prevented herself from being really passionate about this man and becoming a prisoner of lust and emotions.
However, despite all kinds of vigilance and guarding, this man finally walked into her heart. When Yang Hao took the initiative as a death row prisoner who could take his life with just a flick of her little finger, she was the one who held the power of life and death.
When the Queen Regent was at the mercy of his hands, when he pushed her down forcefully in the cell and entered her body like a savage Khitan herdsman roughly possessing his slave girl, that man was stunned from body to heart.
His mark was firmly imprinted on her body and would remain with her for the rest of her life.
She is a woman. In Yang Hao, she experienced for the first time the greatest humiliation of being a woman, but she also experienced the greatest joy of being a woman; she was the most powerful empress of the empire in the world, but she was killed by one of her own
The prisoner pinched her seven inches, making her unable to resist and experience the feeling of being a weakling at the mercy of others. This man... was also the biological father of her unborn child. How could she forget him after all these things?
Every day, she has countless memorials to read, she has to deal with government affairs, develop people's livelihood, rack her brains to balance the conflicts between tribes, and carefully deal with the temptations and provocations of the Jurchen, Shiwei and other tribes, but no matter
Whether she is busy or leisurely, there is always a constant throbbing of abandonment in her heart, which is the tenderness and sadness of a woman.
But what did he do to her? He sent someone back and told her coldly that he was ready to send troops to attack Yinzhou. He also emphasized in a very philistine way that King Qing would give it to
She will handle it, and Yinzhou must be handed over to his hands. Apart from that, there is nothing more.
Forget it, I shouldn't be obsessed with it. Ever since my father helped me to the throne of the queen, I have been destined to walk alone on this road of power. I will never look back. Looking back is a cliff.
The cliff is enough to shatter me and my family into pieces. If I walk on this road, I will be destined to be associated with strategy and power for the rest of my life, and be a loner with nothing in sight. Why should I be so stubborn and do what I want him to do!"
Yang Hao's ladle of cold water woke her up. Xiao Chuo was confused, and her sad eyes returned to sharpness and shrewdness. She stood up, leaned forward, and calmly looked at the geographical map of mountains and rivers, thinking about it in her mind.
Looking at everything mentioned in Yang Hao's letter, and comparing it with the extremely detailed sand table in front of him, which marked all the important military stations, mountains and rivers inside and outside Yinzhou, he was thinking about sending troops.
Yinzhou is thousands of miles away, and the battlefield is changing rapidly. It is impossible for King Qing to make moves according to their designs, so Yang Hao's letter does not have a detailed battle plan. He just proposed that the two sides should jointly send troops to deal with various changes based on the terrain of Yinzhou City.
possible proposals and the distribution of spoils. As for the specific cooperation in combat, it depends on the tacit understanding between the two generals on the battlefield.
Against Yinzhou, both Yang Hao and Xiao Chuo are bound to fight, and it is a battle that they must win. Yang Hao is eager to capture Yinzhou, not only to establish the military power of Luzhou, but also to make him the famous talisman of Hengshan Festival.
In fact, it is necessary to fully grasp the Hengshan Mountains, a strategically important place between the Western Regions and the Central Plains. Similarly, it is also an urgent need for Xiao Chuo to stabilize the Khitan regime by getting rid of Prince Qing, a swaggering rebel.
It hit it off right away.
As for the distribution of the spoils, Prince Qing must be handed over to Xiao Chuo whether he lives or dies, and Yinzhou City belongs to Yang Hao. In fact... if possible, Xiao Chuo would never mind hunting rabbits and getting rid of Qing.
At the same time, the king occupied Yinzhou, paving the way for the Khitan forces to continue to expand westward. However, as Cui Dalang originally analyzed, the Song Dynasty was confronting the Khitan, and the two tigers were roaring across the mountains. For the time being, they were unable to deal with this northwest wolf. Now,
Just make sure that the northwest does not fall into the hands of the other party. Neither of them wants to easily add an enemy, even if the enemy is relatively weak, so even if Yinzhou is defeated by her people, now she can only hand it over to Yang Hao.
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Who should be sent... Brother Yelvxiu definitely can't do it. Jurchen, the royal family is about to move, and more than 60 vassal states are paying tribute. They need this tiger general to control them when they go to Beijing. Besides... he and Yang Hao have always had some bad blood, so it's hard to say where he will go.
Will he get hot-headed and take advantage of the situation to stir up trouble with Yang Hao again, thus destroying his long-term plan to stabilize the northwest, contain the Central Plains, quell civil strife, and revive national power?
In that case... the only choice is to send Yelu Xiezhen. He is the king of the South Academy and can mobilize troops nearby. Moreover, Yelu Xiezhen is smart and steady, and is worthy of the important task. If the King of the South Academy, Yelu Xiezhen, is ordered to lead the elite Sixth Academy Division,
Fifty thousand elite troops marched westward to Yinzhou, and sent the privy envoy Guo Xi. Prime Minister Yelv Xianshi stayed in the South Courtyard, mobilized the tribal army, Jingzhou Army, and the national army to strengthen their vigilance against the Song Dynasty. Our North Courtyard remained stationary, and the Song Dynasty was bound to fail.
If Zhao Guangyi really dares to send troops brazenly at this time, he can order Yelu Xiezhen to quickly return to the army, and form a pincer with our troops from the North Academy to attack the Song army. King Qing will have Yang Hao to restrain him, so he will not lead his troops to pursue him...
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"That's it!"
Xiao Chuozhong, who just now showed off her childish demeanor, turned into the decisive and murderous heroine. She picked up the ink pen, took out a roll of paper, and was about to issue an edict when she saw the box of mud on the table.
The calm mood suddenly became uncontrollably furious. She stretched out her hand and pushed the box to the ground. The sand table immediately fell to pieces. Xiao Chuo sneered, as if the person who was shattered to pieces was the ruthless person.
The man only glanced coldly, then sat down on the chair and began to draft an edict to the South Courtyard. Suddenly, a light flashed in front of his eyes, and there seemed to be something. Xiao Chuo couldn't help but be startled.
The female guards outside the palace heard the movement inside, and rushed out with their swords in hand. Seeing Empress Xiao holding a lamp and bending down to look at something, the leader of the female guards shouted urgently: "Empress, what happened?"
Xiao Chuo didn't even raise his head, and said calmly: "It's nothing, you all can go out. You are not allowed to enter without being summoned."
"Yes!" Several female guards hurriedly retreated. Xiao Chuo squatted on the ground, picked up a piece of mud and looked at it. It was hollow. Looking at the ground again, Xiao Chuo picked up a stick and a half stick from the mud on the ground.
The hairpin in the paper is a simple double-pointed hairpin. It is not expensive or gorgeous, but its hollow and flexible shape makes people happy.
"How...is there such a thing?" Xiao Chuo was a little surprised, a little happy, and the stern lines on her face gradually softened. She unfolded the paper wrapped with the hairpin and was about to throw it away when she suddenly saw writing on it,
I hurriedly moved the lamp and took a closer look, and saw a line of words written on it: "Why comfort the separation? A tortoise shell hairpin behind the ear."
Xiao Chuo's nose felt sore, and a cloud of mist filled her eyes. She sniffed and quickly searched the pile of mud again. She soon found a small paper ball. When she opened it, she saw that it was a
A silver ring with a unique shape. Xiao Chuo quickly looked at the paper ball and saw that there was indeed a poem on it: "Why is it said to be diligent? It refers to a pair of silver."
The corners of Xiao Chuo's charming mouth were slightly raised, as if she wanted to smile, but she pursed her lips and held back very reservedly. Who is she? With thousands of miles of land in her hand, how could she be moved by such a thing?
Xiao Chuo curled his lips with "disdain and disdain", picked up the ring and looked at it carefully, and suddenly found traces on the inside. If he looked carefully, he found that it was a series of numbers of year, month and day, and it was made of Khitan.
Xiao Chuo finally couldn't help but smile: "Is it possible that this hateful guy just bought some jewelry at the market in Shangjing and is using it to fool me now?"
"It seems that it was made not long ago. This date...this date..."
Xiao Chuo suddenly felt as if his hand had been burned, and the ring fell to the ground with a clang. Xiao Chuo's cheeks were dizzy, his eyes were filled with tears, and he finally regained the mood that a seventeen or eighteen year old girl should have: shy, happy, and wanting to return it.
welcome……
"That guy was such a scoundrel. That day... that day... his memory was engraved on this ring. It's really shameful..."
Xiao Chuo bit his lip, suddenly picked up the ring quickly and pocketed it in his skirt, and then continued to play the treasure hunt game in the mud.
Bracelets, earrings, jade pendants wrapped tightly in "Yinzhou City"...
Why is the contract so wide? It wraps around the wrist and jumps away...
How to establish a relationship? Beautiful jade embellished with Luo Ying...
Why is it so trivial? Two pearls in my ears...
Those mountains and rivers made of clay were all smashed to pieces by Xiao Chuo, and every piece of jewelry wrapped in the most passionate poems was like a glass of rich wine, making her drunk.
The strange noises in the palace made the female guards outside feel uneasy. A guard commander took the courage to peek into the palace quietly and saw the usually dignified and majestic queen squatting on the ground, holding a lamp in her left hand.
, holding a pile of paper balls in his right hand, looking down at something wrapped in the skirt on his knees, smiling innocently and brightly like a little girl who "laughs off her red skirt and wraps her duck up".
So unhappy...
At this time, Yinzhou City was in a state of devastation.
There was a city ban, a curfew, and soldiers were everywhere. Patrol soldiers walked through the streets and alleys. In the night, there were only their flowing lights and heavy footsteps.
The East Gate Suspension Bridge creaked and lowered, the city gate opened, and a group of more than ten knights galloped straight into the city. As they passed the city gate opening, the horses' hooves stepped on the bluestone road, and the sound of their hooves was like thunder.
A Khitan general came forward to greet him. He clasped his fists in salute on his horse and shouted loudly: "General Liu, you have finally arrived."
Lai Qi suddenly reined in his horse, and the men on horseback stood up. Xi Yu Yu let out a long hiss. The general on horseback gathered up the cloak blown by the wind and said loudly: "In order to avoid the eyes and ears of Luzhou, we travel day and night and take small roads.
, so I came a little late."
The Khitan general said: "General, you have worked hard all the way. King Qing has already arranged a post for the general. Please go and have a rest. Tomorrow morning..."
The visitor said in a deep voice: "No, the military situation is urgent. Make arrangements as soon as possible to get a head start."
He turned back and called: "Yanlang, Yanpu."
Behind him, two vigorous young generals in their early twenties stepped forward on horseback and responded loudly: "Dad."
The man said: "You two and the guards will go to the hotel first."
He looked back and said to the Khitan general: "General, please take me to see King Qing immediately!"