Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

Murong Yan and Murong Qin looked at Zhenbei King Hongxuan with the same affection as they looked at their own husbands.

After the banquet,

At the repeated persuasion of his mistresses, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Li, Hongxuan left General Feihu's Murong residence and returned to his Prince Zhenbei's Mansion.

Hongxuan returned to the master bedroom in the palace.

The maids brought fragrant tea and clothes to help King Zhenbei wash up and go to bed.

Dafeng Imperial City Qianqing Palace

Emperor Dingwen sat cross-legged on the couch and took the fragrant tea carefully brought to him by Wei Peichu, the young eunuch sent by the Imperial Household Department to serve him.

Emperor Dingwen liked this young eunuch Wei Peichu very much. He was smart, careful in his work, and handsome in appearance. He was unlike Shen Qian, who had served him for many years and was gloomy.

"What time is it now, Peichu?"

"Your Majesty! It is now three quarters past midnight."

"Three quarters past ten!" Emperor Dingwen took a sip of tea and asked, "Do you have any memorials from Prime Minister Zhang?"

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Household Department has not yet received Prime Minister Zhang's memorial."

"Humph! This old dog, as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, advocates peace, but he didn't even see such a big hidden danger. If it weren't for my son Hongxuan, Dafeng would be in danger!"

"When will the delegations from Northern Merchants arrive in the capital?"

"Reporting to the Emperor! According to the spies, we will arrive in the capital in five days!"

"Well! Keep a close eye on their movements!"

Emperor Dingwen pondered for a moment: "Since you advocate war, how should we deal with the Northern Merchants' delegation? Kill them or keep them?"

This issue must be handled properly. Although two countries at war do not kill envoys, if a war really breaks out, Bei Shang’s national teacher Yun Yi will be the number one enemy.

"Pei Chu, ask the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department to summon Prime Minister Zhang to come to the Qianqing Palace to see me."

"It's the Emperor!"

Half an hour later, Prime Minister Zhang came to the Qianqing Palace and knelt on the ground.

"Old minister, I pay my respects to the Emperor!"

"I want to ask you, why is there no memorial from you today? As the Prime Minister, don't you know that after the court meeting decides to fight, you need to deal with the Northern Merchants' delegation on the way?"

"Old minister, I am guilty!"

"I ask you, the advocate of war! How do you deal with the Northern Merchants' delegation coming to Beijing now?"

"I think that since you are in favor of war, then Beishang's national advisor Yun Yi is the most powerful enemy of Dafeng. Yun Yi has terrible military talent and political skills, and is the most trusted counselor of Beishang's new national lord Ba Xin. We must kill Yun Yi before Beishang can react, so as to eliminate the trouble of Dafeng's most powerful enemy. Without the national advisor Yun Yi, Beishang will definitely not be the opponent of Dafeng."

Prime Minister Zhang's words touched Emperor Dingwen's heart.

"Well! You are not confused. You share the same idea as me, Commander of the Imperial Guards!"

As soon as Emperor Dingwen finished speaking, a man wearing a purple robe embroidered with a flying fish pattern appeared silently in the palace. He had thick eyebrows, a strong face, and narrow eyes that seemed to reveal a murderous aura.

He knelt on one knee with his fist clasped, without saying a word.

"You must mobilize 500 secret guards to kill Yun Yi, the Imperial Master of Beishang! Kill Yun Yi at all costs and bring his head to me."

"Yes, sir!" The hoarse voice of the commander of the Jinyi secret guards sounded.

He stood up and walked out of the Qianqing Palace.

"Wait!"

The leader of the Jinyi Secret Guards, who had just walked out of the Qianqing Palace, stopped and looked back at Emperor Dingwen.

Emperor Dingwen frowned, touched his chin with his right hand and looked at Prime Minister Zhang who was kneeling on the ground, "You think the same as I do? Does my son Hongxuan think the same as I do?"

"Your Majesty! The King of Zhenbei proposed the war, so he must have the same idea as me. If we don't kill the Beishang State's national teacher who came to our door, there will be endless troubles if we let him go back to the mountains."

"I need to hear Hongxuan's words in person to feel at ease. He was the one who proposed the war, and he should also be informed of such an important plan to kill the Northern Merchants' envoys."

Emperor Dingwen put down the tea in his hand and said to the young eunuch Wei Peichu.

"Pei Chu! Send the Imperial Household Department to invite the King of Zhenbei. I have something important to discuss with him."

"It's the Emperor!"

Wei Peichu retreated and quickly passed the news to the Imperial Household Department.

The Imperial Household Department sent a fast horse to the Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion and brought Hongxuan, who was about to go to sleep, into the palace.

Hongxuan came to the Qianqing Palace and met Emperor Dingwen.

At this time, Emperor Dingwen took off his gorgeous dragon robe and put on a comfortable and loose imperial robe.

Seeing Prime Minister Zhang kneeling beside him, he couldn't understand what was going on. Hongxuan was just about to kneel down and kowtow.

"Hongxuan! Come! Come and sit down opposite your father." Emperor Dingwen pointed to the cushion on the bed opposite him.

"Father! I cannot disrupt the etiquette between the ruler and his subjects."

Prime Minister Zhang was still kneeling below.

"Haha! Xuan'er! In this Qianqing Palace, we are father and son, don't be too restrained!"

"Yes! Father!" Hongxuan sat on the left side of the bedside table. Hongxuan didn't know why Emperor Dingwen called him here so late at night.

"Hongxuan! At the court meeting, you proposed that Dafeng should fight or make peace. Then how should we deal with the Beishang delegation coming to Kyoto? Among the delegation is Beishang's national teacher Yun Yi, who is an extremely important counselor of Beishang."

Hong Xuan was stunned when he heard this. He was a little sleepy at first.

It was like being poured with a bucket of cold water.

He looked at Prime Minister Zhang who was kneeling in the hall. Hongxuan understood that his father had made him kneel on purpose.

"Father, how do we deal with Yun Yi, the Imperial Master of the Northern Merchants' delegation?"

Hongxuan frowned, and suddenly he understood.

"Father! Are you going to kill the Northern Shang Kingdom's Imperial Preceptor Yun Yi halfway?" After saying this, he looked at Emperor Dingwen who was sitting opposite him in surprise.

"Yes! Father is thinking the same thing. This is also what Prime Minister Zhang meant. I have already sent out 500 Jinyi Secret Guards to do this. After all, it was you who proposed the war, so I still want to let you know about this and ask for your opinion."

Hongxuan exhaled a breath at this time, with a look of relief in his eyes.

At the same time, he looked at Prime Minister Zhang who was kneeling on the ground. When their eyes met, Prime Minister Zhang seemed to see a kind of contempt in the eyes of Zhenbei King Hongxuan.

"Father! I can conclude that there is no Beishang Imperial Master Yun Yi in the Beishang delegation! If Father sends the Jinyi Secret Guards to kill the delegation, he will fall into his trap."

"what?"

"this!"

Emperor Dingwen and Prime Minister Zhang were both shocked.

"Hongxuan! The information my spies obtained is that the Northern Shang delegation is led by Northern Shang's national teacher Yun Yi. How can you say that he is definitely not in the Northern Shang delegation?" Emperor Dingwen frowned and said. He was very confident in his intelligence spies.

"Okay! Father! I will not tell you whether the Northern Merchant Imperial Master is in the delegation. I assume that he is, but what are the consequences of killing the Northern Merchant delegation?"

Zhang Shoufu said, "King Zhenbei, if you kill Beishang's national teacher Yun Yi, Dafeng will have one less terrible enemy."

"Hehehe!" Hongxuan smiled.

Emperor Dingwen looked at his son in confusion. He found that as an emperor, he could no longer understand his son.

"What you said, Prime Minister Zhang, is that if we kill Beishang's Imperial Master Yun Yi, Dafeng will have one less terrible enemy. I disagree with you. When two countries are at war, they don't kill envoys. If we kill Beishang's envoys, where is Dafeng's credibility? Where is Dafeng's benevolence and righteousness?"

Emperor Dingwen and Prime Minister Zhang both frowned.

"My son! Since we are going to fight, we cannot keep the Beishang Imperial Master who has come to our door."

Emperor Dingwen thought that his son Hongxuan was too soft-hearted.

"Father! Allow me to finish my words. If the envoy is executed, the credibility and righteousness of Dafeng will be destroyed. This is the real purpose of the new ruler Baxin sending Beishang State Master Yun Yi."

"The new ruler expected that if Dafeng Kingdom prayed for peace, he would get golden women and ceded cities, and use this capital to completely strengthen himself and consolidate his power in Beishang Kingdom."

"If Dafeng does not pray for peace but for war, then the new ruler of Beishang, Baxin, would most like Dafeng to kill all the envoys sent by Beishang, so he sent the national teacher that Dafeng wants to kill the most."

"If we hadn't sent Yun Yi, the imperial advisor of Beishang and a pillar of Ding State, our Great Feng State wouldn't have taken action."

"Kill the envoys from Beishang! Dafeng has become a country without justice and benevolence. Beishang's cavalry came out in full force to attack Dafeng under the pretext of revenge for Beishang's national master."