After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

After Qi Zizhen's so-called theft of the "sacred book", all the officials and ministers in the court seemed to be temporarily intimidated by Song Yaoxu, and they were peaceful and peaceful, and did not make any other troubles.

At the same time, as the grand ceremony of the new emperor's ascension to the throne and the succession of the national teacher is approaching, and the candidate for the prime minister is still undecided, Song Yaoxu started his busy day again after taking a full day's rest on the day Qi Zizhen woke up.

During this period, Qi Zizhen received a secret letter from Qin Gong and Tang Leyuan. According to the letter, they have already begun to deploy to attack Southwest Town at the end of the month, but they are still facing some problems, such as the disparity in strength and so on. The probability is not high.

Tang Leyuan, who has always been carefree, is obviously more serious in this letter, and even mentioned a few words about his family in a vague way, as if to explain the funeral.

Thinking about it, he should be thinking of fighting to the death.

Qi Zizhen could see the seriousness and anxiety of the border war. Combining some information he had come into contact with on the border before, as well as the situation mentioned in the letters between Tang Leyuan and Qin Gong during this period, he wrote a brief letter. reply.

In the letter, there is only one sentence in the five words of the Art of War - "You must live, but you can be captured."

In fact, he originally wanted to add a sentence of "humble but proud", but considering that Song Xingqiu was there, he shouldn't need to say this sentence.

When the Southwest General attacked the border of the Ling Dynasty, he spared the "weakest" Jiuyou County alone. From this, it can be seen that the biggest flaw in the Southwest General's character is arrogance.

An arrogant general will inevitably take a contemptuous attitude towards an enemy army weaker than himself. At this time, they can set a trap and pretend to be humble to lure the enemy army to further relax their vigilance.

Song Xingqiu, who is the princess of Jiuyou County, must be very clear about this point.

But after the enemy's vigilance is relaxed, the most important thing should not be to attack immediately, but to set a second trap-to drive the enemy to a dead end, and pretend to leave a way out for breakthrough.

General Southwest will steal the current king's fate, so his ultimate goal must be to climb to the throne of Wumeng Kingdom.

But besides fate, there is one more important prerequisite for climbing the throne—he is still alive, and he still has his life to sit on the throne.

Therefore, no matter how much the Southwest General fights, he will never give up his life to fight. If he can push them to a desperate situation, as long as he releases a little chance of life, he will never let it go.

People who are arrogant and want to survive are often the easiest to lose their minds.

Qi Zizhen took a breath, carefully rolled up the letter, touched the familiar little gray bird, found some grains for it to eat, and tied the letter to its feet.

The little gray bird was already very familiar with him, it flapped its wings and flew out from the door of the room after eating and drinking a few chirps.

Just at this moment, Song Yaoxu walked in from the door and almost collided with the little gray bird head-on.

Holding a small plate of pastries to avoid the little gray bird, he walked up to Qi Zizhen and asked, "Is there any news from Le Yuan and the others?"

Qi Zizhen put the paper, ink, pen and inkstone aside to make room, nodded and said, "They said they plan to launch a general offensive at the end of the month and fight to the death with General Southwest."

Today is the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the end of the month is only ten days away.

The Southwest General is strong, and Southwest Town belongs to his home field. Tang Leyuan and the others still need to fight for a quick victory if they want to have a better chance of winning. After all, Wumeng Kingdom is far more than the Southwest General.

Therefore, Song Yaoxu didn't comment too much on Tang Leyuan's decision.

If they didn't come back unexpectedly, they should have made the same decision.

Song Yaoxu sighed, did not continue to dwell on this topic, put down the pastry and asked, "How is your health recently?"

Qi Zizhen replied obediently: "It's okay, it's not a problem to take care of myself after I succeed."

After the succession ceremony is over, Qi Zizhen will be the national teacher, and Song Yaoxu will be the emperor. Both of them have no reason to stay in the East Palace.

At that time, Song Yaoxu will move to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and Qi Zizhen will also have to move to the National Teacher Tower. Ning Qingwei, who originally lived in the National Teacher Tower, will return to his mansion in the capital.

Because of the special status of the national teacher, he usually has a relatively high degree of freedom in the court. He can come to the court if he wants to, and he doesn't even need to ask for leave if he doesn't want to. However, considering the current instability of the court situation, Qi Zizhen must Strive to go to court every day.

This also means that he needs to get up early in the morning, and then walk from the National Teacher Tower to the palace alone to wait for the morning court to start.

Therefore, Qi Zizhen must strive to improve his physical condition before the succession ceremony, at least he must survive the morning court this winter.

Fortunately, the succession ceremony was scheduled for the [-]th, and spring was coming soon after the first month. His body only tended to get worse when it was cold, and it was basically the same as usual when the weather warmed up.

The only thing is that we can't sleep together at night, which is a pity.

Qi Zizhen sighed leisurely in his heart, picked up a small pastry and ate it in one bite, letting the clear and sweet taste spread from the tip of his tongue.

I don't know if he saw his small thoughts, Song Yaoxu raised his hand and rubbed his head, and there was a little melancholy in his smile.

Living together in one courtyard or even one room for such a long time, suddenly having to be separated into two places inside and outside the palace, is really not used to it.

Especially since they have been with each other for nearly a year, it can be said that they look up and see each other every day. Except for the days when the soldiers were divided into two groups, they have never been separated by such a large distance.

However, Qi Zizhen digested this fairly quickly, and it happened to be a temporary distance for a while.

It's not good for either of them in the end if it's too sticky.

He ate half of the pastry in threes and fives, leaving the rest to Song Yaoxu.

Song Yaoxu shook his head and said, "I haven't done much, so you don't have to keep Zizhen for me."

Hearing the not-so-good mood in his tone, Qi Zizhen instinctively felt that there must be another reason, and asked, "Did something happen in the court?"

"It's not like another incident." Song Yaoxu frowned slightly, "It was the county guard in the northeast who reported the situation, saying that the snow disaster had become more serious, and the roads were blocked and houses collapsed. Seeing more and more More and more people are displaced."

Officials specially assigned for disaster relief had already rushed to the affected county, but the situation seemed to be deteriorating.

Now that the grand ceremony is approaching, if at this juncture they still have a big banquet like normal succession, it will be the easiest to leave criticism.

However, according to the current situation of Song Yaoxu and Qi Zizhen, it is impossible for them to leave the capital and go to the Northeast County to manage and help in person. It is really hard for them to say what is the root cause of the deteriorating disaster situation there.

If they don't know the root cause, where should they start?

Qi Zizhen also fell silent after Song Yaoxu finished introducing the situation. After thinking for a while, he said, "At present, I mainly suspect that there is something wrong with the officials sent by His Highness."

As he spoke, he put the cakes on the table aside, took back the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote down the list that Song Yaoxu had shown him before, including the names and positions of the officials, their grades, and a brief summary. Past employment experience.

According to what he wrote, it can be clearly seen that the three officials who were sent to the disaster relief had one thing in common—they had worked as sheriffs in a county town further north.

At the beginning, Song Yaoxu considered that snow disaster relief required certain relevant experience, and specially selected these three people to bring relief supplies to the rescue.

Logically speaking, even if the snowstorm situation is difficult to control for a while, at least the people affected by the disaster should get some relief.

However, the letter from the magistrate of the disaster-stricken county said that the number of people who died of freezing and starving in the wild due to displacement is still increasing, and it is obvious that they have not received the relief they deserve.

Song Yaoxu frowned even more after hearing Qi Zizhen analyze the situation.

It's not that he didn't suspect the three officials, but now that they can't leave the capital, it's really hard to investigate their behavior outside.

And most importantly, they have no one they can really trust.

This is really a bit difficult to do.

Qi Zizhen put the pen holder back on the pen holder, looked at the few lines written on the thin rice paper, thought for a long time and suddenly said: "Your Highness, why don't we send Zhou Hancai to try again?"

"Zhou Shilang?" Song Yaoxu was stunned for a moment, his eyes still filled with worry, "But firstly, he has no experience in serving in the north, and secondly, he is still very likely to be the king of Guan. If you send him there again Will the risk be a little big?"

Qi Zizhen understood Song Yaoxu's consideration at this time, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "But according to what we have learned so far, Zhou Hancai has the most outstanding ability in the court. If his ability is real, then I think he is a Those without practical experience should also be able to adapt to local conditions based on past relevant records.

"In addition, I have carefully reviewed the list of official transfers in the past. Emperor Hongchu almost never issued an order to promote officials himself. He only agreed to the promotion when Guan Wang or other officials proposed. Zhou Hancai alone is an exception."

After entrusting the Tiger Talisman before, Qi Zizhen's opinion of Emperor Hongchu changed a lot. Coupled with the warning that the "man of Enke" he found in Song Yaoxu's room a while ago was unusable, he believed that Emperor Hongchu was right. There should be a reason for Zhou Hancai's exception.

According to Zhou Hancai's experience as an official, since he entered the imperial court through the imperial examination, he has almost never failed a job in his charge.

If the snow disaster sent him this time, it would be the best temptation.

Thinking of this, Song Yaoxu let out a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Okay, I will find time to summon him to have a talk today."

Seeing that his expression was not as tense as before, Qi Zizhen put away his seriousness just now, picked up a piece of pastry and handed it to his lips, with a smile on his face: "Then can your Highness eat something in peace now? "

Song Yaoxu also smiled again, followed Qi Zizhen's actions to eat the pastry, and then chatted with him about ordinary and relaxing topics in the room for a while, and then left with the empty plate.

He exited Qi Zizhen's room and looked up at the blue sky, which had been hazy for several days and had rarely cleared up.

Song Yaoxu withdrew his original gentle and faint smile, recalling Zhou Hancai's obscurity in that life, a few gloomy thoughts flowed from his eyes.

Zhou Hancai... Will he be a usable person?

The author has something to say: the next chapter will succeed you hehehe ww

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