After the general fell ill

Never live alone. "

As soon as he finished speaking, a finger touched Su Ce's lips lightly.

Gu Yan said in a suppressed voice, "Stop talking, I understand everything." After speaking, he hugged Su Ce into his arms and sighed softly.

Su Ce rested his head on Gu Yan's arm, his eyes suddenly brightened in the darkness, and said softly, "I used to think that if a person lives a lifetime, it would be good if he uses death as the end point to prove his life."

Then the topic changed: "But now I think about death in order to live better, Ting Yuan, stay with me."

Gu Yan let out a muffled "Yeah", and said in a hoarse voice: "An Lan, in the past six months, I have wanted to set you free many times. If you want to live, I will do my best to cure you; if you want to die , I will not do more to stop it."

After saying that, he put his head into Su Ce's neck, let Su Ce gently stroke his damp hair, sniffed the medicinal fragrance from Su Ce's skirt, and thought, "Su Anlan, then you can only stay with me." me.

They stared at each other's eyes at the same time in the darkness, and Liao Yuan's mind was like a sudden smoke, sweeping over in an instant, and even the air was tainted with the breath of love.

After the action, Gu Yan approached Su Ce to ask for a kiss, but Su Ce slapped him lightly.

Then this hand stroked Gu Yan's body lightly and sometimes heavily, and when his fingertips touched the scar-like skin, he inadvertently asked, "What's the matter with this scar?"

Gu Yan restrained his movements, and his mind was naturally clear. He glanced down at the scar on his waist and abdomen, and replied, "It's from Qingzhou."

Su Ce didn't ask any more questions. After it was over, Gu Yan gathered Su Ce's white silk shirt. Just about to say something tender, Su Ce joked, "It's a pity that Princess Sile didn't marry you. It's no longer Ting Yuan's superb skills."

An angry Gu Yan bit Su Ce's neck, making Su Ce laugh out loud as if he had succeeded, and gritted his teeth, "Sleep!"

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28. Udi

"The war with Udi, it's time to end."

In a blink of an eye, late autumn has arrived, the vegetation is sparse, and there is a scene of chilling between the heaven and the earth.

At this time, Emperor Xiao Zhuo's desk would be filled with Bianguantang newspapers, most of which were related to Udi.

When the weather turns cold, Udi, a nomad who is good at riding and shooting, will go south to invade the states of the Qin Dynasty, burning, killing and looting, so as to ensure that they can survive this winter.

This serious trouble in the Qin Dynasty's northern border has always been a thorn in Xiao Zhuo's heart, and if he doesn't get rid of it, he will feel like a thorn in his throat.

A few days ago, the emperor had just gone hunting with his ministers and workers, and this day he led his ministers to Ling'an Temple to offer incense.

Lingshan is full of maple trees all over the mountains. In late autumn, the forests are dyed red. When the autumn wind blows, it is like a red ocean surging, and there is the sound of "sizzling" waves lapping on the shore.

In Ling'an Temple, there are mostly ancient pines and cypresses, which are still green. Only the corridors of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion are full of ginkgo trees. The yellowed ginkgo leaves flutter to the ground, like a golden butterfly.

Xiao Zhuo set foot on the golden ground with only four or five people with him. After telling Master Hongjing not to follow, he strolled leisurely with the courtiers beside him.

"After Udi withdrew from the desert to the north, it was difficult to find their traces, but they went south to plunder every autumn and winter."

Xiao Zhuo, who was dressed in a bright yellow five-clawed dragon robe, almost blended into the background of the ginkgo tree, his tone was extremely flat, and there was no joy or anger on his face.

Chen Su and Wang Fang looked at each other, and tacitly chose to keep silent, while Gu Yan, who was the most qualified to speak, remained silent, as if in deep thought.

Xiao Zhuo shook his robe sleeves and said solemnly: "Traveling far away into the vastness, the transportation of luggage in the rear has become a problem again."

Seeing that Gu Yan still hadn't spoken, Chen Su asked, "Your Majesty, are you planning to go on an expedition next spring and summer?"

Xiao Zhuo nodded and said, "It's time to end the war with Udi."

As soon as these words came out, Gu Yan seemed to wake up from a dream. Xiao Zhuo had discussed with him a few days ago about the decisive battle with Udi. No way, Xiao Zhuo had been thinking about this for the past few days.

Udi was a country entrenched in the northern border at the end of the previous dynasty. The former king Limu annexed various tribes and tribes to establish Udi to compete with the Jin Dynasty.

However, with the collapse of the Jin Dynasty, Li Mu's frosty sideburns gradually declined. Shortly after the Jin Emperor drank poisonous wine and died, Li Mu also died suddenly while hunting.

Two powerful neighboring dynasties lost their monarch together and fell into the flames of war. Compared with the divided Central Plains, each claiming to be emperor, Udi's bloody fight is just a coup d'état in which Li Mu's three sons competed for the throne and controlled the palace. It is far easier than unifying the north and the south in the Central Plains.

Li Mu's youngest son, Zhijie, was the final victor. After becoming the king, he quickly quelled the domestic turmoil with thunderous means, and at the same time united with various tribes to seize Shuozhou, Bozhou and other places to expand the territory when the Central Plains had no time to take care of it. , There is a great plan to take a share of the Central Plains people.

It wasn't until the fifth year of Shiping that the people from the Central Plains who had always been weak in Zhijie's eyes suddenly dealt him a severe blow.

This year, when Xiao Jiang, Liang Mao, and Han Liang had three points in the world, it was the year when Su Ce finally had the energy to set his sights on the frontier.

If Zhi Jie is like a battle flag flying in the wind in the hearts of the Udi people, then Su Ce is a spear that can pierce the flag.

Su Ce left Daizhou, took back Liaodong and other places with roundabout tactics, beheaded three generals under Zhijie's command, and directly cut off Wudi's threat to Guangyang.

As the saying goes, when the house leaks, it rains all night. Udi had just encountered Su Ce's tactic of appearing and disappearing, and after a year, he encountered the same helpless Gu Yan in Shuozhou.

After Gu Yan regained Shuozhou, the city of Chang'an, which was easily penetrated by Udi people, was now safe to defend, and no longer bothered by the constant defense against the fall of the capital.

It was thought that two genius generals were born at the same time in the land of the Central Plains, which was exhausted by the war. After Zhi Jie calmed down, he decided to fight the Central Plains people to the end.

In the following three years, even though the Udi people frequently used 36 strategies of war, they still could not shake the frontier at all.

The Central Plains people reversed their offensive and took advantage of the victory to pursue. Zhijie was unable to do so for a while, so he had to retreat northward to the desert for the time being in order to come to Japan.

Xiao Zhuo's pace was neither fast nor slow, and his tone was calm to discuss the specific matters of Udi's decisive battle with the courtiers around him. From the serious look on his face when he gave orders from time to time, it could be seen that Xiao Zhuo attached great importance to this matter, as if it was the most important matter of the court.

"How is General Su's body?" Xiao Zhuo followed a ginkgo leaf falling to the ground, and asked Gu Yan.

Gu Yan took a step forward and stood side by side with Xiao Zhuo, and replied: "Mr. Cao and Xueyuan Envoy have diagnosed him, and he has improved, but after autumn, the symptoms seem to recur."

Xiao Zhuo looked straight at Gu Yan and said, "Ting Yuan, the strategies agreed a few days ago are all based on the premise that Su Ce can still go to war. If not, it will take a few years to finish this old opponent."

Gu Yan didn't refute, if he and Su Ce went deep, Zhi Jie would be unable to escape.It's up to people to plan, but it's up to God to make things happen. Su Ce's physical condition is just the most unpredictable thing.

Xiao Zhuo walked away side by side with Gu Yan, leaving Chen Su, Wang Fang and others a few steps away.At this time there was only Gu Yan by his side, Xiao Zhuo said bluntly: "Let Su Ce enter the palace tomorrow, I want to see him."

Gu Yan saluted and replied: "Yes."

Then Xiao Zhuo talked with Gu Yan about the past of the only male empress in the previous dynasty, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally, "Empress Wen was born as a commoner, and she was appreciated for saving Emperor Wen of Jin in the frontier in the early years..."

When the word "frontier" was mentioned, Xiao Zhuo subconsciously glanced at Gu Yan, "At first, he was appointed as a sixth-rank bodyguard, and then he was promoted step by step, until Emperor Wen of Jin came to the throne, Empress Wen already held the weapon that could command all the emperor's hidden guards. The token, the power is so high, it is eye-catching."

Gu Yan and Xiao Zhuo looked at each other frankly, and then said: "Emperor Wen of Jin can ascend the throne smoothly, and Empress Wen is planning behind him."

"That's right. In less than a year after Jin Wendi ascended the throne, he defied all opinions and canonized Empress Wen, took charge of the phoenix seal in the harem, and retained her power to hold secret guards until Empress Wen died of illness. The two were posthumously given the same posthumous title. It's a good story." After saying that, Xiao Zhuo laughed lightly, which made Gu Yan a little confused.

From the moment Xiao Zhuo talked about this taboo topic in front of him, Gu Yan treated it with caution, in case Xiao Zhuo suddenly threw him a difficult question that he was not prepared for, but until the topic ended, Xiao Zhuo did not ask what Gu Yan thought Things he already knew.

Xiao Zhuo seemed to be in a good mood, and joked, "Isn't the first encounter between Empress Wen and Emperor Wen very similar to Zhen and Ting Yuan?"

Gu Yan's heart skipped a beat when he heard the words, hoping that Xiao Zhuo and He Liang were not thinking the same thing.

"Really similar."

"To be in charge of the hidden guards and to be in charge of the soldiers and horses of the world, one is bright and the other is dark, they are very similar." Xiao Zhuo looked at Gu Yan calmly, with a faint smile on his lips.

From Gu Yan's point of view, no matter how you look at this smile, it seems to have malicious intentions. The emperor suddenly wanted to molested his courtiers, and said that any historian who was present would write the word "Mei Shang".

Seeing the emperor using the former empress Wen as a metaphor, Gu Yan thought carefully about the various things involved between the monarch and his ministers since he met Xiao Zhuo. Where people misunderstand.

For example, if he offends the third prince to protect Princess Sile, doesn't he love the house?

Unknowingly, Gu Yan's thoughts gradually went astray. He thought about this matter in Xiao Zhuo's place, and he felt more and more that Xiao Zhuo was pleasing to his eyes. Just found him, a fair and handsome young man.

He must not let Xiao Zhuo lead him astray, and replied: "Your Majesty, there are also differences between the minister and the former Empress Wen."

Xiao Zhuo: "Oh?"

Gu Yan stared at Xiao Zhuo calmly, and said in a deep voice: "Empress Wen was only the wife of Emperor Wen of Jin during her lifetime. After her death, Emperor Wen of Jin was extremely mournful.