37.
It was different from Chu Shaoling's previous expectations. Everyone did not live in Donghua Temple for a long time. On the seventh day, the emperor sent someone to pick up the empress dowager.
The emperor bowed to the Queen Mother Zhang, and said, "The border Xiliang Kingdom is invading and some chaos has occurred. The emperor is worried about the empress dowager, the eldest prince and the fourth princess, so he asked the slave to bring three thousand imperial guards to pick up the empress dowager, and the princess will return to the palace earlier."
The Empress Dowager panicked and asked quickly: "But something big happened?! Tell me clearly."
Eunuch Zhang hurriedly said, "It's okay, this...hey, the Empress Dowager is really hard for a slave. How can I know the great affairs of the government? The slave only knows that the emperor has made trouble in this country in the past few days, so he has to eat and sleep. Although there is nothing serious, it is not peaceful. The emperor remembers that the Empress Dowager is worried about being worried outside and is rushing to let the slave come to pick him up. Besides, the Mid-Autumn Festival is here, so the Empress Dowager will return to the palace early to prepare for the festival to enjoy the moon."
"There is a war on the frontier, and the Ai family has no time to enjoy the moon. Just pack up their things." The empress dowager thought about it but was still worried, "Yang'er is outside too! What did the emperor say?"
Eunuch Zhang bowed and agreed: "Don't worry, the Empress Dowager, the Emperor has also sent someone to send a message to the south. Fortunately, the Fourth Prince's errand has almost finished his work. He will not be able to come back in a long time, and there will be no trouble."
The Empress Dowager felt a little relieved, caressed her heart, and said, "That's good, go and tell Ling'er and Fuyi to get some good things, and we will return to the palace immediately."
The servants outside loaded the carriages and set up horses in a hurry. Chu Shaoling then went to the empress dowager's back to comfort him after the letter. The empress dowager still sighed: "What's the use of reciting scriptures and worshiping Buddha in the Ai family? Why is it always uneasy..."
Chu Shaoling whispered: "It has been forty years since the former emperor's expedition to Liaoliang in the west. This time, Dizi gradually became restless again. Every time it is autumn harvest and winter, he will always invade the border and burn, kill and loot. I wonder what's going on this time... Don't worry, the emperor's grandmother, Liaoliang is not worth fearing."
After hearing the grandson comforting the empress dowager, she was still panicked and said, "How can you know that this small country is powerful? When the late emperor personally conquered Liaoliang, he lost thousands of people. The barren land wasted for half a year before he defeated Xiliang."
When talking about the past, the Empress Dowager was still sighing: "At that time, your father was only seven years old and he didn't know anything. Several old princes were eyeing him in the court. If it weren't for the old emperor who had relied on those old ministers, I wonder what to do. At that time, the Ai family was frightened in the harem every day, and they were always afraid of something wrong. Now, when I remembered that when I came to the Ai family, I was still worried... "
Chu Shaoling chuckled: "The emperor's grandmother has experienced great turmoil. What's the point of seeing this? Just go back to the palace."
The empress dowager was still worried and instructed: "If it is not good to go back to the court, you are not allowed to fight! I know that your age is not afraid of heaven or earth, and I just want to go to war!" Da Chu always sends a prince to fight in wars to inspire the morale of the three armies. Chu Shaoling chuckled when he heard this: "Don't worry, the emperor and grandmother, I can't resist my shoulders and I can't lift them. What are you going to do?"
After comforting the Empress Dowager Chu Shaoling returned to Bodhi Garden, the palace people went in and out to pack their things, but they did not see the Wei Ji. Chu Shaoling called Wang Muhan to ask, and Wang Muhan looked unaware of it and said, "I saw it just now, just... Lord Wei just cleaned up his small bags in the prince's house, and he couldn't find it if he was wrong."
Seeing that Chu Shaoling's face was put down, Wang Muhan hurriedly said, "Mr. Wei probably has something to do. He took advantage of the time when the prince went to the front to see the empress dowager, so he went to do it. Master Wei understands the rules and will definitely come back soon."
Wang Muhan's analysis was reasonable, but Chu Shaoling couldn't help but worry. Where did that stupid thing go?! He knew that he was in chaos and was still wandering around.
Chu Shaoling was about to send someone to find Shi Wei Ji and came back. Chu Shaoling felt relieved, but he was still a little angry. He just cared about Wei Ji's little face and scolded him in front of these people, saying, "Pack up your things and let Eunuch Wang put them in my box and don't let someone touch you."
Wei Ji didn't feel Chu Shaoling's anger at all. He didn't know why he was still beautiful because of something. He had a smile on his lips. He nodded and went to clean up after hearing this.
After an hour, everyone finished packing up. Chu Shaoling helped the empress dowager get into the car and settled it. He went to Fuyi's car behind to take a look, and asked a few words to serve Fuyi's palace servants. After all the things were done, he turned around and turned around to his own car.
Behind Chu Shaoling's car, after Chu Shaoling got on the car, Wang Muhan shouted "Get up", the eunuch in charge in front shouted at him one by one, and passed it straight to the front. When the eunuch in front heard it, he shouted: "Get up." Then a huge convoy slowly moved towards the imperial city.
Chu Shaoling got into the car and called Wei Ji in. Wei Ji was still beautiful. From time to time, he turned his head and smiled with a pursed lips. Chu Shaoling laughed: "Just just ran out secretly to pick up some good things? I'm so happy?!"
Wei Ji smiled and just continued to write and said that he would return to the palace immediately. Wei Ji immediately thought that he had not paid for the monk's incense and oil this time.
The Wei Ji is getting more and more difficult to leave the palace now, and it is not even easy to go home. Not to mention coming to Donghua Temple, the money for the longing lamp to give Chu Shaoling a long-lasting lamp is not short. Fortunately, he is very generous. Wei Ming gave Chu Shaoling all the silver money twice and put it in the Wei Ji purse. This time, Wei Ji directly gave the monk two hundred taels of silver to prevent him from coming for a while.
The guard of the incense and oil money went to worship again, and suddenly found that there was an exact same lamp next to Chu Shaoling.
The rules for lighting lamps, only one can be lit on a tin. The monk smiled indifferently: "A donor of the embroidered dragon on his clothes came once, and gave me ten thousand taels of incense and oil money, and asked me to lit the eternal lamp for one person. He also specifically instructed that these two lamps should be put together and accompany each other for generations, Amitabha..."
Wei Ji's eyes suddenly became red at that time. Chu Shaoling knew about it, and even lit a cup for himself.
Chu Shaoling raised his hand and rubbed his head on the guard halberd, and said, "What do you want to ask you, what have you just done?"
Wei Ji smiled and shook his head. Chu Shaoling was anxious just now. Now he thought about it and knew what was going on. He just liked to tease him: "What are you doing when you shake your head? I've said, I haven't settled the score with you yet."
Wei Ji was warm in her heart. Chu Shaoling stretched out his body and leaned on the soft pillow. He pulled Wei Ji and let him pillow him, and whispered: "I dare to run around next time, let's see how I torment you... are you hungry?"
"No, I'm not hungry yet." Wei Ji lifted the curtain of the car and looked out. The imperial guards protected their convoy tightly. Wei Ji had never seen this scene before and asked softly, "Your Highness, isn't Liao Liang far away from us? Why are you still so careful?"
Chu Shaoling gently stroked the back of the guard halberd and whispered: "During the time of Ruizong, he once followed Beiyi. On that day, Beiyi Assassin had sneaked into the imperial city and kidnapped a little prince at that time..."
Wei Ji had never heard of such a thing before, and said silently: "Why don't you know... what happened later?"
Chu Shaoling chuckled: "Later, King Beiyi used the little prince as his magistrate and forced Ruizong to withdraw his troops."
"I remember that Ruizong retreated to the Northern Yi incident, but..." Wei Ji was a little confused, "There has never been a hijacked by the prince?"
Chu Shaoling sneered: "Of course you don't know, because the matter is not easy to tell outsiders... Ruizong did not want to save the little prince at all. Ruizong said to the outside world that the little prince died suddenly, and Beiyi kidnapped him was just the prince's servant, and the war continued."
Wei Ji opened his eyes wide, how could this happen?!
Chu Shaoling gently rubbed the back of the guard halberd and said slowly: "The generals should believe it if they don't believe it. The Northern Yi invaded our territory and could not be tolerated. He had to sacrifice the little prince, even if... that person was the brother of Ruizong."
Wei Ji murmured, "Then... what happened to the little prince?"
Chu Shaoling was silent for a moment and said, "When King Beiyi found out, he was furious and tortured the little prince. After knowing Ruizong's reply, the little prince understood the deep meaning of Ruizong. He resolutely gritted his teeth and said that he was just a guard. Beiyi was half-believing and half-doubted. Before the two armies fought, the little prince took the little prince to the front of the formation. On that day, the little prince was only a hundred feet away from Ruizong. The little prince cursed Beiyi dog in front of the formation to boost morale, and then... was killed by Beiyi."
"Later, the war was settled, and Ruizong gave the title of the little prince who was sacrificed to the flag, promoted the eldest son of the little prince to the prince, and gave him ten generations of titles. It was said to the outside world that Ruizong cherished his younger brother's death... This kind of thing naturally cannot be known to outsiders. It has been passed down for many generations, and most of the royal family members do not know about this old thing. However, when there are wars again, they always have to protect the royal family relatives and nobles, for fear of another kidnapping."
"I think it's incredible, right?" Chu Shaoling looked at Wei Ji and chuckled, "It's different from what you think?"
Wei Ji first encountered the royal secrets and felt shocked. From Chu Shaoling's words, he could vaguely feel that Ruizong made this decision and endurance, and the little prince was not afraid of life and death in front of the formation.
Wei Ji can understand the little prince. If one day he himself becomes a burden to Chu Shaoling, he will choose to sacrifice his life to make Chu Shaoling have no worries. Wei Ji thought for a while and said, "The little prince is a loyal minister, Ruizong is a wise ruler, Ruizong... It is not easy to make this decision. It is not easy to exchange his brothers for peace among the people, and to be criticized by others."
Chu Shaoling nodded and thought to himself that I can't be a wise king. If the same thing happens to Chu Shaoling, he will never make the same decision as Ruizong.
Chu Shaoling chuckled as he still remembered the heroes of the Guards. He could not have had such a chance to make such a decision. How could he let the Guards leave his side and let others catch them?
Wei Ji was moved for a while, remembered this incident again, and asked softly: "Didn't Liao Liang be personally expeditioned by the late emperor? Have they all been surrendered? Why are you here to fight again?"
"Half of Liaoliang's country is in the desert, with barren land and no other things to exchange for food. It's okay to have a good harvest. If there is any natural disaster, you can't support yourself at all." Chu Shaoling explained to Wei Ji softly, "It's just a matter of complying with me. If you are defeated, you can't accept me. If you don't accept me, you'll still do evil when you wait until you recover."
Wei Ji thought that Zhang Lishan had a rough idea of telling him about the national conditions of Liaoliang, and said, "General Zhang had told me before that the people of Liaoliang were fierce, and women could go to battle to kill the enemy. They were very brave. I think they were forced to do so. If they didn't do this, they wouldn't be able to fill their stomachs."
Chu Shaoling nodded and chuckled: "I heard that there was another queen in Liaoliang Kingdom..."
Chu Shaoling and Wei Ji were chatting about Liao Liang, thinking about this war in his mind. The emperor was the lord of the war and the emperor didn't know. If he was the lord of the war, should he find a way to push Chu Shaoruan or Chu Shaomo to fight? In fact, Chu Shaoling wanted Chu Shaoyang to go, but Chu Shaoyang was too young and it was not easy to deal with...
What if the emperor is the lord of peace? Chu Shaoling secretly planned in his mind that he would have to settle the Fuyi situation when he went back this time. If the emperor is the lord of peace, the lord of War and Fuyi situation would be a little uneasy. Although the Great Chu Kingdom has never had the custom of marrying a princess, it is necessary to guard against it.
Chu Shaoling was dealing with the frequent problems of the Wei Ji and thinking about returning to the palace. When he came to his senses, he saw that the Wei Ji had taken a piece of paper and started drawing it. Chu Shaoling looked carefully at the drawing of the Wei Ji and it turned out to be the boundary line between Da Chu and Liaoliang.
A circle was drawn on both sides of the border of Guardian Ji to represent their own capitals. Chu State also drew several teams, each writing 10,000 troops, 20,000 troops, and 10,000 troops.
Chu Shaoling was slightly shocked. Not to mention no, he could not draw so clearly this boundary line by himself. Did Wei Ji learn so much with Zhang Lishan? Or did this child know before?
Chu Shaoling looked calm and pointed at the representative team Mo Hen, asking: "Why are you posing in the eagle formation? How do you determine the number of people?"
Wei Ji was stunned and said, "There are not many places between Liaoliang and our borders. The terrain is not a plain or not, and it is not wide. I remember this place when I saw this terrain before..."
The Weiji drew a circle to the northwest direction and then said, "This place has many mountains and hills, but here... there is a flat and vast land here. However, because it is not a plain, the wings do not need to be too large, so ten thousand troops are just needed. The key is to use the eagle head to split the enemy formation, then gather here to embrace it, and then the eagle head turns into eagle wings and kill them in the middle, so that you don't have to go deep into the hinterland of Liaoliang, and it is not far from the place where it can be provided on my border. If it goes well, you can eat 50,000 troops of Liaoliang at one time."
After Wei Ji finished speaking, he saw Chu Shaoling not talking. He raised his head and looked at Chu Shaoling, and said, "I... I'm talking nonsense."
Chu Shaoling leaned over the head of Wei Ji and kissed him, his eyes full of joy: "When did you know so much? I can tell these things quietly."
Chapter completed!