Xian Sun of the Ning Mansion of the Red Chamber

Chapter 353 Two Choices
The sky over the capital city suddenly covered with cloudy clouds, officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion and soldiers and horses can be seen everywhere, even the mysterious embroidered guards also rushed to the streets, the sky was about to become cloudy, and began to drive away the people, The gates of the imperial palace were filled with burly imperial guards in bright armor.

Today's court meeting was suddenly interrupted due to the emperor's fainting. Chief Assistant Yang Jing, Wenhua Palace University scholar Ye Baichuan, and Dongge University scholar Gu Chunting jointly blocked the inside and outside of the palace city in the name of the cabinet. In the palace, no one is willing to leave easily at this time.

Those who are interested naturally do not want to miss this opportunity. This is the second time that the emperor has fainted in public. The last time was because of the prince Yang Qizhi. Who knows when the emperor will suddenly leave a will.As for those who have been on the sidelines, their minds are also active, and their bodies are restless. They must find a backer for themselves as soon as possible, so that this official can do well, right?

Outside the palace of the Qing Dynasty.

Only Yang Jing, Ye Baichuan, and Gu Chunting were left here. With the cooperation of the three, even the inner court blocked the news, and the palace even issued strict orders that no one, including the maids and eunuchs, was allowed to move around at will.

Outside the dormitory, Yang Bi, Prince of Li, and Lin Ruhai, the censor of Zuo Du, led a group of civil and military officials to kneel on the steps. Taking advantage of no one's attention, Yang Bi waved for a young eunuch and gave a few orders in a low voice. The waist card left quietly, Lin Ruhai saw everything in his eyes, there was a hint of worry in his eyes, but he could only temporarily suppress it, after all, he is not a powerful minister, and he doesn't need the prince Yang Bi to act cheaply in the palace.

Not long after, a group of phoenixes stopped outside Qianqing Palace, and Concubine Yi came down from the steps under the service of the maids.

"My son, please greet my mother and concubine."

Concubine Yi had a mournful expression on her face, she looked as if she had just cried from her makeup, and she was still trembling at this moment and asked, "How is your father?"

"My son doesn't know."

After hearing this, Concubine Yi's expression turned serious, and she reprimanded in front of all the officials: "You bastard!"

"You are both a courtier and a son. Why don't you do your filial piety in front of your bed these days, and what are you doing outside the palace? Isn't there no human relationship in the Tian family? What are you kneeling here for? Why don't you follow me in!"

After hearing this, all the officials looked at each other, unable to refute, let alone stop them, they could only watch Yang Bi help Concubine Yi walk into the hall.

Inside the canopy hall.

Dai Quan came out in a hurry, nodded to the three Yang Jing who were facing him, and then went straight to the outside of the hall.

Seeing this, the three of them had no choice but to go out and meet Concubine Yi's mother and son who were walking in.

Ye Baichuan frowned, Gu Chunting seemed unaware, while Yang Jing secretly looked at Yang Bi and nodded slightly.

"The servant greets Concubine Yi."

"As the emperor's close servant, how do you take care of His Majesty? The inner court doesn't know any news about such a big incident. What are you doing in a daze? Take me to visit Your Majesty quickly."

Dai Quan was reprimanded by Concubine Yi, but he didn't dare to show any grievances, so he could only plead guilty: "Since what the empress reprimanded, the slave deserves to die, and the slave is guilty."

It was naturally the intention of the three cabinet ministers not to notify the palaces of the inner court, but Dai Quan, who was the emperor's close servant, naturally would not shirk his responsibility at this time and use his status as a slave to embarrass the monarch and his ministers.

It's a pity that there is no audience for such superb acting skills.

"I'll talk about the apology later, and let me see your majesty before I can say anything else." Concubine Yi, who has always been amiable and dignified, showed a rare dignified demeanor as the lord of a palace at this time, and everyone had to reconsider. Get to know this concubine Yi.

"Your Majesty has an order to atone for your sins."

Concubine Yi, who was about to step up, suddenly asked, "Is this also included?"

Dai Quan nodded calmly.

"Your Majesty ordered that I feel a little sick, but now there is no serious problem. All the ministers should return to their homes to make things safe. Concubine Xuanyi and Xianfei will come in to serve you."

Yang Jing asked again: "Eunuch, did your majesty say who will be in charge of the cabinet today?"

Dai Quan looked at Gu Chunting and said, "Old Gu Ge, I have to work tonight."

"A courtier does his duty, so he dare not claim his labor." Gu Chunting clasped his sleeves and said.

After Ye Baichuan heard this, he felt slightly relieved. It seems that His Majesty has really woken up. He and Fu Donglai had already guessed about Gu Chunting's position. What's more important is that Concubine Yi and Concubine Xian accompanied him, and the eighth son Yang Zhuo Although he is young, his roots are upright and young, and he will not leave all officials with the illusion and excuse that Yang Bi is the best.

He understood the purpose of Yang Jing's question. To be honest, if he hadn't been worried about other things, he would have found a reason to stay in the palace, but he was useless!
"Since His Majesty has made arrangements, let's work hard on the spring court, and Mr. Yang Ge and I will go back to our respective homes."

While Yang Jing was still hesitating, Ye Baichuan took the lead in agreeing.

As the chief assistant, especially when it comes to the emperor himself, if he insists on staying, the emperor may not be able to refute it.

Seeing this, Yang Jing had no choice but to give up.

Now that the situation has become clear, as long as the New Deal is not alone, it is still acceptable. Looking at today's unexpected situation, I am afraid that their follow-up plans will have to be changed. This kind of thing can only be discussed in person. Trapped in the palace, there is indeed much change.

Yang Bi looked at Concubine Yi, as if he was a little surprised by Jiade's intention to call Concubine Yuan here. Yang Zhuo was too young, even Yang Bi never regarded him as an opponent, and even for the sake of acting It was convenient to let Jia Ying leave the capital. It is reasonable that his father should not want to see a situation where the ruler is weak and the minister is strong in a hundred years, but now it seems that it is not as simple as he thought.

With Jiade's personality, he naturally doesn't want to be in the future and be firmly controlled by civil and military officials, but from time to time, the direction of things is often not as expected.

Since the two prostitutes rebelled and the other died, Yang Bi's power in the court was too great. Among the princes, except for Yang Zhuo, he didn't have a single one who could resist him.

Naturally, Jiade was not interested in Yang Zhuo, but in the Jia family, Jia Ying who was wandering outside with a heavy army in hand.

"How much time do I have?" Jia De, who was lying on the dragon couch, suddenly asked.

Lu Zuoming pondered for a while, and said: "The poison in your majesty's body is chronic. If you take care of it properly, it will not be difficult to live for another two or three years. However, the best way to take care of it is to avoid rushing and working hard. Now."

"I want to listen to the truth!" Jia De's eyes suddenly became sharp.

Lu Zuoming thought of his wife and children, and said, "If you take care of them properly, I think, there will be no difference in your life expectancy in another year or two."

"one or two years"

"It's enough." Garter murmured only in his own audible voice.

Late at night, Fu Mansion.

Fu Donglai, who lost his position as chief assistant, inevitably looked much older.

"Yang Jing is so calculating!"

"Our Lord Chief Assistant is not a clay puppet. He is clearly a thousand-year-old fox who knows how to forbear. Use the matter of establishing a reserve to force His Majesty to kill the old man, so that his position as Chief Assistant can be secure, and kill two birds with one stone." what!"

"How is Your Majesty?"

Ye Baichuan shook his head and said: "The officials were all outside the bedroom at that time, and His Majesty did not summon them, but judging from the arrangements in the palace tonight, there should be no serious problems at the moment. What I am worried about now is you, Duke Donglai. The minister is so persecuted, I am afraid of your majesty."

Fu Donglai is just dismissed from office now, and there is a possibility of recovery at any time. As long as Fu Donglai is still there, those people will not easily attack the New Deal.

But if you go to prison for a crime and step back step by step, I'm afraid that even your life will be in danger, and the new party will completely disintegrate.

Fu Donglai was surprisingly calm, thought for a moment and said: "The chess is out of the game."

"If you want to resolve the crisis of the New Deal, it's not that there is no way. It's just that if you want what you want, you must first learn to give up. Even if your majesty can save the old man, he will not be able to keep it forever. Yang Jing is fighting between taking the old man's life and saving his position. Your Majesty will make an exchange, either to calm down the government and allow the officials to support Yang Bi as the crown prince, or use the old man's head to block Yang Bi's path to the crown prince."

"But then again, once Yang Bi moves into the East Palace and his prestige rises to a higher level, it will be a matter of time to kill the old man. Or if the old man is killed, the new party will completely disperse. At that time, who can stop Yang Bi and Yang Jing?" ambition, not to mention there is a Prince Teng outside."

"In this game of chess, if we only focus on the court, then we have no chance of winning. The end will be the same. It's nothing more than sooner or later."

Ye Baichuan pondered for a moment, then asked, "Donglai means to take advantage of Jia Ying's influence?"

Fu Donglai nodded: "I'm afraid His Majesty also meant the same, otherwise he wouldn't let Concubine Xian and Concubine Yi serve together."

"Emperor Bazi is young, but it is precisely because of his young age that he will not be biased in the government. As long as he is properly trained, those who have not been seen in the future will not inherit His Majesty's ambitions. Besides, Jia Ying is also a young man who is interested in the New Deal. Be aggressive, and it has already become a trend. There is no way to do this, just wait and see, the government will change in the next few days."

"Isn't Duke Donglai worried that the ministers will be strong and the ruler will be weak in the future?" Ye Baichuan asked.

"It's better than wasting your hard work and mine, so you have to stick to this position for the future." Fu Donglai said solemnly.

Yang House.

"It's time for Wang Ziteng to return to Beijing. We must strike while the iron is hot. Otherwise, once Jia Ying and Yang You return to Beijing, His Majesty and the New Party will add support and make another twists and turns." Yang Jing looked at Mu Hong who was opposite and said slowly: "The old man has already Paved the way for him, the reserve position and His Majesty Fu Donglai can only choose one, after this time, I am afraid that I am the chief assistant no matter how hard it is in the emperor's heart, I hope Wang Ziteng will not let us down."

Mu Hong replied with a smile: "Life is long, don't look at momentary gains and losses. In vain, Fu Donglai is famous all over the world, how can he not know the truth that when the water is full, it overflows, and the moon is full, then it loses. Don't worry, Wang Ziteng is a smart man, he knows What should I do."

"However, I have another concern."

"what?"

"When Yang Yi was around, the emperor used Yang Bi's hands to restrain Zhao Wangfu and the queen to stabilize his throne. Now that Yang Yi has been surrounded, he has lost the qualification to compete for the big position. Just looking at what the emperor did tonight, it seems that he intends to push the eighth son away. Even though Yang Zhuo is young, it is a disaster to come out to fight with officials."

"What do you want to do?" Yang Jing turned to look at Mu Hong in a daze and asked.

"Naturally, it is clearing the way forward." Mu Hong said lightly.

Yang Jing's pupils shrank. Although he had his own selfish intentions, he was born in an orthodox family and followed the rules of the monarch and ministers. His methods of doing things were far inferior to Mu Hong's fierceness and ruthlessness. His friendship for so many years made him see more clearly It seems that there is no awe of imperial power in the heart.

"Is that right Yang Cheng?" Yang Jing asked the doubts that had lingered in his heart for a long time.

Mu Hong shook his head with a smile and said: "The old man is already dying, but he just took advantage of his age to run around for Prince Li. Such a big deal, does Ting Jing think that the old man has that ability?"

Yang Jing smiled and didn't answer. Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts, and it doesn't matter whether it is true or not at this time.

The westerly wind in the desert in the north of the Great Wall is howling, and the soldiers have already wrapped their cotton-padded clothes. Even the Shaanxi frontier army, who is used to the cold wind outside the Great Wall, still seems a little uncomfortable in the face of the severe cold in the north of the desert. Many had already fallen along the way, and when the army finally arrived at Sanyinda Mountain, which was four hundred miles away from Helin, there were only about [-] troops left behind Jia Ying, and most of them were Liaodong soldiers brought from the capital. cavalry.

"Fortunately, you had the foresight to save the [-] Liaodong iron cavalry. Otherwise, the Western Army alone might return in vain. This is still the case here, and I don't know what is going on with King Suzhong. A lot of old soldiers died in battle, far less than in the early days of the Guardian, Jizhou soldiers are still worse than Liaodong soldiers." Mu Enci tightened his thick cloak tightly around his body to cover the wanton cold wind, Shivered and said to Jia Ying.

"God is fair, Mobei is bitterly cold, our troops are limited, and the main force of the Xiongnu royal family can't support much, otherwise Batu Wendusu would not have gone all out to conquer the south and robbed the large pastures in Monan. The foundation of the dynasty’s prosperity lies in the territory of Dingkou. Without the support of the grasslands in the south, the survival of the Huns will only be more difficult than ours. As long as the central army can arrive on time, we will win this battle.”

Fighting a war is not only about the victory or defeat of the battle, but more importantly, the logistics of food and grass. Jia Ying, who is a member of two worlds, knows this very well.The most difficult part of this Northern Expedition was not how to annihilate the remnants of the Huns, but a long march.

Being able to bring all the troops to Mobei is a victory in itself, which is a feat that has never been done since the opening of the dynasty.

For this march, Jia Ying can be said to have made sufficient preparations. When Jiangnan formed a naval division, he ordered the Nanjing Military Bureau to try to build a compass and binocular clairvoyance, and even recruited many unsuccessful scholars to study. Map surveying and mapping, although he is a two-handed swordsman, he might as well be full of talents everywhere. In addition, the HNA helmsman he attracted with a lot of money from the França East India Company still came in handy. After a long time, Yang You's Central Route Army still arrived as scheduled.These preparations are naturally invisible to others.

After more than a month, Jia Ying's West Route Army and Yang You's Middle Route Army finally got in touch when they were about to arrive at Helin. Naturally, there were many twists and turns, not to mention bloody killings. As far as the decisive battle is concerned, it is just a warm-up before the battle.

But in the distance, a group of rangers and flying horses galloped towards them.

"Report!"

"My lord governor, Lord Suzhong has led the vanguard to camp eighty miles to the east of the army, and the prince has led his own troops to come here."

"it is good!"

Jia Ying flicked his horsewhip and said to Mu Enci: "Send out the most elite Ye Bu Shou. Our hall needs to know the reality of Helin Xiongnu's army. Agujin wants to fortify the walls and clear the fields to trap our army to death. How can this hall allow him to do so!"

"Also, contact the spies of Embroidery Guards, it's time to use the backhand we planted."

"Decree!" Mu Enci cupped his fists and said.

"Xi'er!"

"Lead the army and follow the hall to meet Prince Suzhong!"

(End of this chapter)