At the spring banquet on March [-] last year, the crown prince picked flowers and presented them to the beauties. In the midst of all the attention, he presented the prize of the martial arts test to the young man who won the first place in the literary test. That beautiful picture.

The painter happened to be among them.

Although the matter has passed for nearly two years, due to this year's spring banquet, the Prince's Mansion rarely took part in the competition, and the blockbuster young man of the Wei Kingdom did not appear again, so there was nothing special to watch in both the literary and military examinations. Not to mention the emergence of top-notch talents, the most talked about is still the last spring banquet.

The painter only looked up, then quickly lowered his head, trembling, not daring to make a sound.

The snowdrops like salt grains are still falling silently, and time seems to stand still.

The Ling Lie cavalry, known as the Blood Slaughter, just stood quietly in the middle of the street, watching the coach holding a painting picked up halfway, his usual sharp and stern eyebrows, the coldness and determination were gone, leaving only a deep silence .

"In the future, this painting is not allowed to be sold again."

After an unknown amount of time, the person above opened his mouth, with Shen Su's intonation that would not be violated.

An ingot of gold fell into the painter's arms.

The painter was taken aback, because all the paintings on his booth would not be worth the money.He raised his head and wanted to speak, but the iron cavalry flew away like dark clouds.

In fact, the painter had an even more outrageous idea in mind.

Even if he only had a quick glance just now, the overly sharp and handsome eyebrows still left a deep impression on him... No, never, the artist thought in his heart.

"Your Highness!"

When approaching the gate of the other courtyard, Xu Qiao rode forward, called out, and observed Sui Heng's complexion carefully.

Before I knew it, almost two years had passed.For the past two years, His Highness has been obsessed with military affairs, and spent most of his time in military training at Mount Li, as if he had forgotten all about the past.

But everyone in the other courtyard, as well as Xu Qiao and other confidantes, all understand that Xiao Langjun, who has been missing for nearly two years, is still an untouchable Ni Lin in His Highness's heart.

His Highness had searched all over Jiangnan and Jiangbei, but there was no news. That big man seemed to have really evaporated from the world.Now Jiang Guo has become the only remaining hope, but will Jiang Guo really exist?

I'm afraid that even His Highness himself dare not think deeply about this question.

When they met on the river that day, His Highness agreed to the two-year agreement proposed by the other party. Is it because cats and mice are playing with each other, and the chances of winning are sure, or because His Highness himself dare not face the final answer.

No one knows, and no one dares to ask.

It's just that they usually pay attention to it and don't mention it before His Highness.

The corpse that Dali Temple fished out from Mount Li has been kept in a special ice coffin and placed in the office of the Dali Temple. The corpse is disposed of, and the dead are buried in the ground.However, every time he met the cold and terrifying eyes of the prince, he swallowed his words silently.

Who would have thought that walking on the street today, such a portrait would suddenly appear.

Xu Qiao worried that Sui Heng's mood would be affected.

Sui Heng didn't show any special expression, and told him lightly: "Tell Chen Qi, after the palace banquet tonight, I have something to do, let him come."

Xu Qiao should be.

He said again: "When I just entered the city, the last general saw the envoys of the Qi State, and the leader seemed to be Tian Que. The king of Qi sent Tian Que over, I am afraid it is not just as simple as attending His Majesty's birthday banquet."

Sui Heng pulled the corner of his mouth lightly: "Old fox, of course it smells like meat."

The Sui Emperor's birthday banquet was still held in Mingyi Palace.

The hall was full of bright lights, the courtiers of the Sui Kingdom and envoys from various countries gathered together, except for the Qi Kingdom who sent the Prime Minister Tian Que as an envoy, almost all the other subordinate countries were the kings and important celebrities and ministers. Wei Lian, the lord of the state of Wei, also sat next to the lord of the state of Chen.

Everyone tacitly understood that this trip to Sui Capital was ostensibly to attend the Sui Emperor's birthday banquet, but in fact there were more important issues waiting.

Jiangbei has already entered winter, and in two months, the surface of the Yellow River will freeze. If there is no accident, the cavalry of the Sui Kingdom will drive south to attack Jiangguo.According to the agreement, as a subordinate country, it must cooperate with the suzerain country to fight.Although Sui Heng might not be able to look up to soldiers and horses of their subordinate countries, he still had to show his attitude.

In the past two years, Jiangbei was stable as before, but the situation in Jiangnan has undergone considerable changes.

The most striking thing is that Jiang Rong, the crown prince of the Jiang Kingdom, who is famous for being weak and weak all over the world, took back the Luo Kingdom and the Yun Kingdom successively after he left the customs. face portal.

Speaking of his tough tactics, Jiang Guo completely deprived the rulers of Yun and Luo of their jurisdiction over their country's political and military affairs after recovering Yun and Luo. all.

Yun and Luo are now called subordinate countries, but they are actually two puppets of the Jiang country without any real power, and they are not as powerful as ordinary local officials of the Jiang country.

"I heard that Jiang Rongyu directly let the lords of Yun and Luo bring their heirs to live in Jiangdu. They were named as guests, but they were actually under house arrest. Then Luo Changqing was not dissatisfied with His Highness the Crown Prince for letting Luo Fengjun live in the Sui Dynasty. They are all hostages, and they tried every means to get their son back, and even colluded with Jiang Guo to kidnap Chen Sima's biological mother, now Jiang Rongyu is so kind and revengeful to him, he is afraid that his intestines will turn green with regret."

Some people lamented, some gloated.

Before the banquet started, the ministers of several Jiangnan subordinate countries started talking in low voices.

"However, it's strange to say that the prince of the Jiang Kingdom is famous all over the world, and he never does anything against the behavior of a gentleman. Now, this style of behavior has nothing to do with the word 'gentleman'?"

"Doesn't this just prove that the virtues preached before are all fake! Since Your Highness established the recruiting platform in Chendu, how many celebrities have taken the initiative to expose Jiang Rongyu's crimes of forging his name? Jiang Rongyu probably saw the general trend." Irreversible, simply smashed the jar and smashed it, revealing the true face."

"But I heard that Jiang Ronghe has now built a stage for cleansing injustices at Muyun Pass to hear injustice cases all over the world. In just over a year, thousands of injustices, false and wrong cases have been corrected. The lights on the stage are constantly lit day and night. The prestige, not only has not weakened, but has become higher and more prosperous. Now the people in the south of the Yangtze River regard Jiang Rongyu as the king of Yunzhong, and many people even take the initiative to build a shrine for him. Burning incense and praying for blessings is like being possessed by a demon. Needless to say, in Yun and Luo, even the three countries of Chen, Wei, and Jiang, many people are bewitched by it, and they want to go to Jiang to seek justice for Jiang Ronghe. Tell me, what is this called!"

"It's no wonder that the people are like this. Apart from being hypocritical and ugly, this Jiang Rongyu does have some skills. I heard that he built another beacon tower that stretches for nearly a hundred miles between Muyunguan and the Yellow River, and built a beacon tower on the platform. He built a Lianyun crossbow with an extremely long range, and let people blow up all the mountain roads, official roads and plank roads between Yun, Luo, Chen, and Wei, completely cutting off the connection between several countries. He also accepted many Refugees, let them move into Muyunguan to plow and reclaim wasteland. The refugees who enter the pass can not only get the land for free, but also be exempted from tax for three years. They are all scrambling to go to Muyunguan to reclaim wasteland. Since last year, Muyunguan has begun to build a granary dedicated to supplying military rations. Now in the south of the Yangtze River, no one knows the name of Jiang Rongyu. Fight to the end with His Highness."

Just as he was talking, the palace servants announced that His Royal Highness the Prince had arrived.

All eyes were focused on the gate of the hall. Two years ago, in the famous meeting on the river, Sui Heng lost Luo Guo carelessly, and lost to Jiang Rongyu, a sick child. , Knelt down to the left minister, Jimo Qingyu, to admit his mistake.Although Jimo Qingyu did not receive that gift in the end, everyone understood what a shame that incident meant to Sui Heng.

That night, Sui Heng went up to the Linglong Pagoda again, and sat on the top of the pagoda for three days and three nights.After descending from the pagoda, Sui Heng plunged headlong into the Lishan camp to train his troops. He stayed there for several months, honed day and night, and studied new tactical formations.

Since then, everyone has known that the three characters "Jiang Rongyu" refer to Nilin, the Crown Prince of the Sui Kingdom, who wished to peel his skin, crush his bones, and eat his flesh.

If Sui Heng attacked Jiang Kingdom in the past because of the feud between the two countries and his ambition to unify the world, this winter's battle must have also involved the prince's own strong personal grievances towards Jiang Rongyu.

It seemed that Xu Qiao and his confidantes knew that His Highness hated Jiang Rong and this person not only because the other party won the competition in the meeting and took Luo Guo away, but more importantly because the other party used tricks to deceive Yun Guo away.

On that day, Jiang Yun lied that he had an old illness and wanted to use the white elk as medicine, luring His Highness to bid with him across the river, and spread the name of the white elk.Afterwards, the people of Yunguo gave up farming one after another and ran into the mountains to hunt deer. The grain production in Yunguo dropped sharply and there were countless wastelands.

After coming down from the Linglong Pagoda, Sui Heng suddenly figured out the real reason why Jiang Yun spent so much money to buy the deer.

It's a pity that the name of the white elk in Yunguo has been spread in all countries. Even the nobles and ministers of Yunguo are obsessed with hunting deer in exchange for huge wealth. It's too late to stop it.

Jiang Yun abolished the entire Yun Country and its title of "No. [-] Granary in the South of the Yangtze River" without a single soldier.After that, Jiang Yun blew up the roads between Yun and Luo leading to other countries in the south of the Yangtze River, and prohibited Jiang and Luo from supplying food to Yun.After struggling for a month and exhausting all the food in the country, the king of Yun Kingdom entered Jiangdu crying, knelt outside Jiang Yun's curtain, and begged for mercy.

Sui Heng gritted his teeth with hatred because of this matter, not because he hated Jiang Yun's secret tricks, but because he hated Jiang Yun for deliberately spreading false news about his old illness to lure him into raising the price.

Sui Heng had already changed into a black brocade robe, covered with fox fur, he was handsome and relaxed, and entered the hall with Luoxue on his shoulders.The palace servants immediately stepped forward and helped the prince take off the cloak.

Seeing everyone's eyes focused on him, he narrowed his eyes slightly: "Why, is there something on Gu's face? What makes you so interested?"

There was a bit of teasing in his words, but there was invisible power and sharpness hidden in his eyes.

The crown prince of the Sui Kingdom has been hiding the front for two years, and he seems to have a calm temperament, but compared with two years ago, not only has the deterrent and oppressive power not diminished at all, but it is also more freely retractable, making people breathless.

Not to mention the two years of hard work, the combat effectiveness of the Qinglang Battalion is probably beyond the description of Xue Tu.

Everyone hastily shrunk their necks and looked away.

Sui Heng has broad shoulders, long legs, and a wasp-like waist. He has a first-class body and good looks in the world. He is truly a proud son of heaven. .

He walked into the hall, first saluted Sui Emperor, and then ordered someone to present a thousand-year-old white ginseng from the northern border as a birthday gift to Sui Emperor.

Millennium white ginseng is so rare, and in a sense, it is also a symbol of auspiciousness.

All the people at the banquet stood up one after another to congratulate the Sui Emperor.

Emperor Longyan of the Sui Dynasty was overjoyed, and asked the internal officials to pour the wine, and drank with everyone.

In the middle of the banquet, Tian Yu suddenly stood up holding the wine cup, and said, "This time my king sent me to the Sui capital, and actually wanted to reach another sincere cooperation with His Majesty."

Emperor Sui smiled and asked him to speak.

Tian Yu threw the ground and said loudly: "About the Sui Kingdom's attack on Jiang Kingdom this winter, I, Qi Kingdom, are willing to help the Crown Prince."

As soon as these words came out, Sui Heng's face remained unchanged, but the other subordinate nations showed surprised expressions.Because for a long time, Qi State dominated the east, maintained a neutral state, and rarely participated in the disputes between the Jiangnan and Jiangbei countries. Now it broke the convention and took the initiative to participate in the war, which is really rare.

Tian Wei pointed to his first few generals, this time he looked at Sui Heng: "My king said, but if your highness needs anything, all these strong generals from our country of Qi can be dispatched by your highness."

Sui Heng didn't even look at it, he just asked, "What does King Qi want?"

Tian Yu was taken aback, he didn't expect the other party to be so straightforward, but communicating with a smart person is indeed saving worry and effort, he said: "My king wants to ask His Highness for someone after he breaks through the Jiang Kingdom."

"who?"

"Prince Jiang, Jiang Rongyu."

Everyone had different expressions, and they didn't understand what old grievances existed between King Qi and Jiang Rongyu.

But two people frowned at the same time.

One is Chen Qi, and the other is Jiang Yuping, the leader of the Jiang Kingdom.

Because they all wanted to get the right to dispose of Jiang Yun, they had already discussed it properly, but they didn't expect King Qi to intervene again.

Everyone looked at Sui Heng, waiting for Sui Heng to make a decision.

Sui Heng said expressionlessly, "I'm afraid we will disappoint King Qi."

"Everyone else is fine, but this Jiang Rongyu, I have to deal with it personally."

**

Jiangbei has entered early winter, and the first snow has fallen, and Jiangnan is still in late autumn.

Luo Changqing, the lord of the Luo Kingdom, was led by his servants, and came to the Jiang Palace, the palace named Lanxin, anxiously.

The entire palace, no matter the pavilions or the arrangement of flowers and plants, exudes a pleasant and elegant atmosphere, just like the master who lives here.

Luo Changqing stood nervously outside the palace, and asked the palace servants: "When will His Highness Rong and you be free to summon your servants?"

The palace man politely said that the Highness was still asleep in the afternoon, and asked him to wait patiently. If he wanted, he could drink tea in the pavilion beside him.

How can Luo Changqing still have this mood, the situation in Jiangnan and Jiangbei is tense now, and the war is imminent, he can't wait to go back to Luo country.

While Luo Changqing was waiting anxiously, he suddenly saw a pair of dark eyes poking out from the palace.Luo Changqing was taken aback, he had never seen such beautiful eyes, and wanted to take a closer look, but the pretty little guy who looked like an elf had disappeared.

For a moment, he suspected that he had seen the wrong eye, and asked the palace man: "Was that just now?"

The palace man responded with a good temper: "It's the little emperor's grandson."

After finishing speaking, he kindly added a sentence: "The little emperor's grandson has a big temper, the king must not provoke him."

Luo Changqing was taken aback.

He had heard long ago that on New Year's Eve last year, Prince Jiang returned to Jiangdu from Muyunguan to recover from his injuries, and brought back a small oil bottle.

No one knew who the child's mother was, and no one dared to ask. It was said that she died of dystocia.

Could it be that little doll just now?

Behind the curtain in the hall, the young prince wore a golden shirt, his black hair was only loosely pulled up with a headband, his eyelashes were slender, and his face was like jade. He sat behind the case and used his left hand to review memorials. Gongsun Yang stood respectfully outside.

"Is he still out there?"

"Yes."

Gongsun Yang thought for a while: "Do you want my subordinates to drive him away?"

Jiang Yun pondered for a moment, saying that there was no need to say it, just as he was waiting for the words to be written, he suddenly felt the curtain move.

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