I can't die!I haven't ruled the world yet!

Chapter 97 Is there a dark room? (this chapter four thousand)
Shenshi on February [-] is the auspicious time monitored by Qintian, and everything is suitable.

Shenshizheng, start the spring plowing ceremony.

As the emperor, Rong Cen personally went to the fields to plow the fields, changed into coarse clothes, lifted his trouser legs and stepped into the mud, pulled the oxen and pushed the plow, and returned after the sunset.

He returned to the Hall of Renzheng exhausted and was having a hasty dinner when he received an urgent report from the Western Territory.

The regent's face was gloomy, and he said the key points in a few words while she was eating.

"There was a change in the western region. Shao En and other old generals were taken into captivity. Wen Renxu disappeared and his whereabouts are unknown. I guess, the queen mother must be behind the scenes. The daughter of Yaozhou Wei in the north was forced by her to be imprisoned. If you are tossing about all kinds of things, Jingdu has laid hands on the Duke's Mansion, and now in Liangzhou in the west...the queen mother is causing chaos everywhere in Dayin, just to make you useless, so she can wait for the opportunity to seize power."

The moment Rong Cen put down the bowl and chopsticks, the regent had just finished speaking.

It's been a day, and I don't feel good about eating.

Others fleeing famine are not as thrilling as her.

"It was clear that Xi Lin had been beaten back before, but in the blink of an eye, he made a comeback again."

Rong Cen choked from eating too fast, poured a cup of tea to clear the air, threw the empty cup on the table with a little force, and the sound of the porcelain colliding was loud.

I can't swallow the breath in my heart, but I have to swallow it.

She knocked on the table with her right finger bone "da da da", and the tip of her tongue nimbly swiped around her mouth, swallowing the sweet and astringent aftertaste of seasonal vegetables. .”

"It's a fluke to be able to fight back. The people of Xilin grew up on horseback. Not to mention the men, even the women are brave and good at fighting. They are too tough. Ten thousand soldiers and guards can equal Dayin's fifty thousand." The regent hated him so much His teeth itch, but he has to admit that Lin Jun is the best in this continent.

Dayin's army and guards were scattered, unorganized, and disciplined, and the military strength was not enough and there were few people. The two armies were fighting, and they could not be compared with numbers.

"Then train your troops diligently. I remember that Mr. Bang has an excellent way of training troops?"

"Don't think about it, his heart is not in practical work. Now he only thinks about how to make the imperial concubine happy. He hopes that Jinyu will give him a promotion and a title. It is best to make him a regent."

"Regent?"

Rong Cen listened to the music, and his face was quite embarrassing.

She rubbed the faucet on the handle of the dragon chair, and stuck her index finger into the dragon's mouth, which opened wide.

Rong Cen looked at the Prince Regent suddenly, but saw that the other party was also looking at him in shock.

"Yunqi, I seem to have heard something, what did you do?"

"I didn't do anything."

Rong Cen glanced at the dragon's head calmly, pursed his lips and said nothing, turned his neck to find where the organ touched by her was.

The regent's sharp eyes instantly noticed the difference: "Move and look at the painting behind you."

The painting hanging high from the top of the head in the Hall of Renzheng is as tall as a person and a half. It is the original work of the ancestors.

It is the Puhui in the "Puhui Years" in the late emperor's last words.

Ordinary people's drawings are horizontal, but this one is actually vertical. If you glance at it at random, it's like someone is stepping on someone.

But if you look closely, you can easily see that this is a crowd of people celebrating something.Combined with what the first emperor said, it can be known that it was assisted by immortals during the Puhui period.

In the center of the picture is the so-called immortal, with white clothes and white hair as long as a weeping willow, and a white beard that is as long as a weeping willow.

The two of them took a lot of effort to carefully remove the painting and moved it to the table next to it, but now they didn't think about it anymore, because there was a two-inch gap in the place where the painting was originally hung, It was pitch black.

"Is there a darkroom?!"

The regent subconsciously looked at Rong Cen, thinking that she should be clear, but she also looked at it without knowing it.

If this dark room was built by the emperor's brother, why didn't he tell Yunqi?Don't have time to die?Forgot to say?Or did Brother Huang never think of telling anyone?Or, Brother Huang didn't know about the existence of this dark room?

Rong Cen suggested: "Go ahead and have a look."

But the gap in the door looked big, but no one could pass through it. The two of them struggled and pulled for a long time, but they couldn't open it. They stuck to the wall, gritted their teeth and pushed to the sides. They were sweating profusely from pushing, and were so tired that they finally heard "Zi La". "The sound of the wall moving was the closing switch that I didn't know where it touched. Caught in Rong Cen's hand.

Well, I've been busy for a long time, and it's all useless work.

Rong Cen was full of doubts, and the regent seemed to want to do some more research. Before the two of them could investigate further, he heard Wan Li report loudly: "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister and the Tai Tuo are asking to see each other!"

Coming here at this time, Xu Shi rushed over after receiving news from the western region.

"pass!"

After returning to Wanli outside, Rong Cen tidied up his appearance a bit, and winked at the regent: "Next time."

The regent said nothing more.

As soon as Wen Renmo and Lu Yi entered the hall, they knelt down and saluted and shouted long live. Compared with the reverence and piousness of the former, the latter seemed more casual and sloppy.

"No courtesy, please get up quickly! Wan Li, watch the seats, and bring some tea!"

After finishing the order, Rong Cen asked leisurely: "Why did the Prime Minister and the Tai Tuo come here?"

The last time the two veterans came here so neatly was because of a quarrel, each of them wanted to drown each other with saliva while talking.

Wen Renmo was the first to get the opportunity to speak: "I got the latest news that the Liangzhou military guards returning to the court were attacked by dead soldiers..."

Lu Yi interrupted him and retorted: "No, it's a Jianghu killer, not a dead man, the prime minister should pay attention to his words!"

"Dead warriors and killers have the same purpose. What's the difference other than buying murderers and raising murderers to kill people? I didn't say it was your dead warriors. What's the matter of the Taifu? Could it be that he has a guilty conscience?"

"I, Lu Yi, have been an official in the court for more than ten years. I walk upright and stand upright. I have never been a thief. Why do I have a guilty conscience?"

Listen, this is a mutual pinch.

If it is not indecent, these two people can fight.

Rong Cen coughed twice, one is to find a sense of existence, and the other is to stop the war of words between the two, "I just received the news about the matter in the western region, I wonder if the two elders have any countermeasures?"

Wen Renmo and Lu Yi looked at each other, and both motioned for the other to speak first.In the end, no one wanted to be the first bird, and the two unexpectedly harmoniously gave way.

"Master Prime Minister is knowledgeable and talented, why don't you talk about it first."

"Hey, I'm an old bone, and my brain can't keep up with your young people. It's Mrs. Lu who will say it first."

The two brought their humility to the extreme, and there was clearly no difference in age, but it was a feeling of sympathy for each other.

Rong Cen: "..."

At the critical moment, the regent was indifferent, watching the excitement was no big deal, "Why don't you talk about it together?"

"Ah, yes, yes, the Prime Minister's Taifu, let's talk together." Rong Cen agreed.

As soon as the words fell, the two people below looked at each other again, both of them were proud and determined to win, and they both turned their heads resolutely, and looked up at the person on the dragon chair.

They all said in unison: "I think I can borrow troops from Nanxun to completely repel that wolfish and ambitious Xilin!"

Rong Cen: "..." She was really speechless, so she fought for loneliness for a long time just now.

The next moment, the two fought again, refusing to budge.

Wenren Prime Minister: "The Grand Tutor said before that he would kill Nanxun's envoys in one fell swoop, but now he wants to ask Nanxun to borrow troops. He is really flexible!"

Taifu Lu: "The prime minister said earlier that Dayin would never rely on others, but today he begged the emperor to borrow troops from Nanxun in a low voice?"

"Before you sent dead soldiers to assassinate the Nanxun envoys, but this time, Nanxun will not easily agree to this trick of borrowing troops."

"Since ancient times, there has been no permanent enemy. The past is the past, and this time is this time. The situation is different and the countermeasures are different. On the other hand, the prime minister, do you mean that only you can borrow Nanxun's military guards? The prime minister is really embarrassing. You think too much of yourself! In other words, the prime minister and Nan Xun have colluded for a long time, and they used the grace of saving their lives to clear up the suspicion of collaborating with the enemy and treason. Mistake..."

"You...are talking nonsense!" The Prime Minister did not argue with Lu Taifu, and turned to Rong Cen to express his feelings: "Your Majesty has learned from you that this old minister is loyal to Dayin and will never commit treasonous acts!"

"Whether you know it well, who knows if it's true or not, just talking doesn't work, the prime minister is eloquent, you can say black things into white things, and you can make dead people alive."

Wen Renmo raised his hand to cover his chest, as if he was about to suffer from an old disease.

Seeing this, Lu Yi said again: "Your Highness the Regent, look at this old man who is still old enough to pretend to be a sick beauty like a Liyuan opera singer!"

Rong Cen: "..."

She really has a big head.

The regent has been worrying too much recently, especially today when he learned that the Duke is gone, and he couldn't sleep well during his lunch break. He was sleepy after listening to the two fighting, and couldn't help yawning. His face was exhausted, and he blinked. Blinking, I don't know what night it is, my eyelids can hardly be opened, and through the dim light, I can vaguely see the two old faces of the Prime Minister and Tai Tuo. I feel in a daze as if I am still in the morning, so I casually snatched the eunuch's report: " There is a book to play, but there is no book...retire!"

Rong Cen: "..." You are outrageous.

Wen Renmo and Lu Yi: "..."

In the end, Rong Cen sent the two away, saying that he would carefully consider the feasibility, and looked forward to their memorial to report the situation in detail and write clearly how to implement the countermeasure.

Watching the regent's chicken pecking at the rice for another quarter of an hour, Rong Cen couldn't stand it any longer, and ordered Liang Shangjun, Lao Ba, to ask for a drug and pour it into the tea, and told him to drink it, and then asked someone to move him back to Guangshou Palace to sleep up.

Ignoring Wan Li, Rong Cen was the only one left in the Hall of Renzheng. She began to clear her mind.

In the south, there is Haisong, the new Yizhou Weitong, who will not worry about torturing Yuan Shu to death.There are Empress Dowager and Concubine Wen Shu in Zhen Guogong's mansion. Although they are old and weak, women and children, they can especially take on great responsibilities.On the other side of Miss Hongluan, Rong Cen has sent people to keep an eye on her. There has been no movement recently, and I don't know what is going on. Who is imprisoning her?
Leaving aside the inconvenient solution to the northern border, the major problem now is Liangzhou.

The Xilin nomads have strong folk customs, but they lack clothing and food. They need to change their residences from time to time, looking for pastures for raising cattle, horses and sheep.

If you only fancy Dayin's vast land and rich products, it is not impossible to barter for a truce.But the question now is, is Xi Lin fighting for survival or because of ambition?Even if peace talks are feasible, who should be sent to the west?
Before the conclusion of the western border strategy was reached, a name suddenly appeared in Rong Cen's mind.

Meng Yang, the son of Marquis Changyi and the eldest son of the Meng family.

As soon as the thought came to him, Rong Cen shook his head violently.

No, his legs and feet are inconvenient, so he can't go that far.

But then I remembered that he said that he had been to Liangzhou, and he was familiar with the terrain and customs there. He also had a simplified map of Liangzhou.

The suspicion that Meng Yang grew up in Liangzhou once again surfaced in Rong Cen's mind.

However, why did Chang Yihou and his son cover up this matter?Why do you say that Meng Yang grew up in Suizhou?

The subtle sound of the glazed tiles being gently tapped on the top of the head came to the ears, and it was inexplicably clear and pleasant.

Rong Cen raised his head, and the dappled sunlight slanted down through the missing square tile on the roof, which was a bit dazzling.

The next moment, the glare was blocked by something, and she saw a face that was not very clear, far away, and the familiarity between the brows and eyes was still strong.

Two quarters of an hour later, Rong Cen was led to the old place, Zangjiao Hall.

The layout here has not changed in any way, but Rong Cen specially told Xiao Lian to add more defenses. After all, there are still too few people. A few scattered imperial guards are guarding the gate of the palace, which is not much different from no one on duty.

Naturally, they would not stop the emperor, and respectfully asked An Ren Rongcen to pass.As for the man beside her, she also enjoyed the honor.

"Have you been here these two days?"

Rong Cen glanced inside the hall, there was no dust, it should be someone living there and someone cleaning it.

But if she wanted to say that this person was Jiang Yun, she would not believe it.

Jiang Yun's temperament can't be idle, he probably has been doing bad things all over the place recently, and he just came back.Otherwise, why are you looking for her now?

Jiang Yun laughed and said: "Your Majesty doesn't believe it, so why ask such a question? Why don't you just ask me what I have been doing these days."

"Will you tell me if I ask you?"

Rong Cen took the tea with attractive aroma, took a sip, and his taste buds were stimulated by the delicious taste, "Your tea-making skills are exquisite and rare."

"It's good that your Majesty likes it." Jiang Yun didn't mention the tea ceremony, but said: "Recently I'm inquiring about the Xiaoxiang Tower. Your Majesty should be interested in the matter of Miss Hongluan."

"nature."

Rong Cen raised his eyebrows, motioning for him to start talking.

"Miss Hongluan is the daughter of Yaozhou Wei Yin Liangrun. She tried her best to follow the caravan and arrived in the capital after going through many twists and turns. She was sold into the Xiaoxiang Tower as soon as she settled down. Your majesty should know all about this?"

"En." Rong Cen nodded, but his eyebrows were tightly furrowed.

The clue she got was that Tan Yuman was sold by gangsters in Yaozhou, and changed hands several times along the way, and was finally sold to a ship merchant in the east. , and then Qin Yuman was sold to Xiaoxianglou for the last time, and has since become the top Hongluan girl.

"Your Majesty don't need to worry, the facts are what His Majesty knows. What I said just now is just what Miss Hongluan thought."

(End of this chapter)