Golden Stage

Fu Shen didn't know whether Gu Shanlu planned to invite him to dinner, or whether he came here specially to make things difficult for him.Anyway, when he finally came out of the restaurant, smelling of alcohol and full of anger, he was forcibly pulled into the carriage by some highwayman who had been waiting for a long time.

"Okay," Yan Xiaohan gritted his teeth, and said darkly, "coax me to wait for you at home, and run out to have a drink with someone..."

Fu Shen opened his arms silently, pressed his whole body over, and hugged him tightly.

"..." The end of Yan Xiaohan's threat was out of tune in an instant, and he coughed dryly, "What are you doing, don't think acting like a baby is useful... What's wrong, you're still unhappy after drinking?"

"Menggui." He murmured.

There was a wave of ups and downs, and the emperor changed two, but they were still suspicious and suspicious. The "Great Master" is like a perennial dark cloud, as long as Fu Shen lives in this world, he will never be able to get out of this haze.

This voice made Yan Xiaohan's heart instantly feel like being scratched by a cat. He stopped sneering, and stopped being angry, and carefully lifted him up a bit: "Huh? Tell me, what happened?"

Fu Shen didn't want to talk, but suddenly felt a little sad, so he hugged Yan Xiaohan even tighter.

Yan Xiaohan saw that he didn't make a sound, but just blindly burrowed into the person's arms, looking aggrieved, couldn't help but chuckled, and said in that kind of helpless tone of petting: "Okay, don't want to Don't talk about it. Are you sleepy? Sleep for a while."

The carriage was bumping, the embrace was warm, and Fu Shen fell asleep in a trance of despair.

When he woke up in the middle of the night, he found that he was lying on the couch safely and soundly, his body was clean and fresh, without the smell of alcohol, and the sound of another person's even and long breathing could be heard beside the pillow.Yan Xiaohan turned sideways to him, and put one hand on his waist through the quilt.Fu Shen could clearly see his peaceful sleeping face through the dim light outside the bed curtain.

The person woke up, and the wine also woke up. Fu Shen stretched his breath, and slowly settled down in the quiet night.At this time, when I think back to Emperor Changzhi's notice and Gu Shanlu's reminder this afternoon, my mood is not so intense.

He even thought it was a bit ridiculous. Back then, Emperor Yuantai assassinated him first and then gave him a marriage. All kinds of methods were used in turn, and the thunderbolts came one after another. Didn't they all come together in the end?How could time have changed, and he stood taller, but not as good as before, and he was so worried about acting like a baby with Yan Xiaohan because of this trivial matter?

It all depends on Yan Xiaohan!

Fu Shen is really at ease by his side. He has never gained such a strong sense of security from other people. Not to mention anything else, there are people by his side. Fu Shen would never fall asleep after drinking, and someone moved him in the middle. Moving up and down, changing clothes and taking a shower, I didn't wake up after all this tossing.

The emperor just came up with an idea, and it still needs to go through many hurdles to put it into practice. It may not be until the year of the monkey when the real war starts.Even if Yan Yingdian nodded and let him go, if he really wanted to lead the army, he could go to the Southwest and discuss it slowly with Duan Guihong, at most it would delay him for a year or two.

What is there to worry about?

Loyalty is the shackles he uses to bind himself, not the shackles that are sent into the hands of others to be driven.Fu Shen found that he was indeed more open-minded than before, probably because he had experienced the ruin of a country and family, and this kind of open and secret fighting in the court seemed extremely low-level, as if he was full of food.

Sometimes "the end of the road" is not really no way out, but because the bottom line is too high.Facing Emperor Yuantai, Fu Shen still had some scruples, but if Emperor Changzhi really pushed him into such a situation someday, Fu Shen certainly wouldn't mind playing tricks for the world, and then exchanged this imperial city, deep palace, and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains for another. A new emperor.

He was so engrossed in his thoughts that he turned over without paying attention, but Yan Xiaohan woke up with just such a slight movement, and asked in a daze, "Jing Yuan?"

"It's okay, you go to sleep." Fu Shen was in high spirits, pulling the thin quilt up for him.Yan Xiaohan gave a soft "Mmm", and seemed to have fallen into a dream again, but after a while, he opened his eyes again, and looked over with clear eyes: "Are you sober?"

"Well," Fu Shen picked up a lock of his long hair from the pillow and wrapped it between his fingers, "Don't worry about me, I'll sleep with you."

"You're already awake, why should I sleep?" Yan Xiaohan got off the bed with his clothes on, poured two cups of tea and brought them back, the two moistened their throats silently, Yan Xiaohan turned on the lamp, and lay back on the bed again: "Now Can you tell me?"

Fu Shen: "What?"

"The emperor asked you to enter the palace this afternoon, did he tell you about the Southwest?" Yan Xiaohan put his arms around him loosely, "The same thing that Gu Shanlu asked you to talk to you at night? It seems to worry our Duke. "

Fu Shen hadn't experienced the skills of the leader of Feilongwei for several years, and he was incredulous for a moment: "How do you know? I carried you in my purse when I went out?"

"What's the matter?" Yan Xiaohan said with a smile, "It's just my old job."

It is familiar and pervasive again.Emperor Yuantai raised something, even his own son couldn't escape it.

Although the Flying Dragon Guard had been abolished, the original team was still there, and after returning to the capital, Yan Xiaohan was still in charge of the Imperial Army's defense, and countless bright and dark lines had already been laid out.Emperor Changzhi became suspicious of him after the meeting at the Golden Terrace, and Xue Sheng and others fanned the flames every day, not as trusting as before.However, the available talents for the Emperor's subordinates were really limited. Apart from Yan Xiaohan, he couldn't find anyone else who could command the Forbidden Army, so he had no choice but to hold his nose and continue to use him.

The consequence of doing this is roughly equivalent to leading a wolf into the house, sending the throat under the fangs of others, and it will be too late to close the door.

Besides who Yan Xiaohan was, he was taught by Duan Linglong, the most powerful eunuch of the Yuantai Dynasty since he was a child, and joined the Beiya Imperial Army when he was a teenager.Intrigue and playing tricks are like eating and drinking for him, it has become instinctive.

Sensing the change in Emperor Changzhi's attitude, he put a little effort into "coaxing the emperor". Sure enough, now Emperor Changzhi was very kind and depended on him again.

Fu Shen had to admit that Yan Xiaohan was indeed much better than him in terms of "swindling and deceiving", and it was a skill that he couldn't learn.If Yan Xiaohan was the one who entered the palace this afternoon, he might be able to fool Emperor Changzhi into changing his mind.

"The emperor is very persistent on this matter, and I'm afraid he won't give up easily."

After listening to Fu Shen's report, Yan Xiaohan rejected the idea that "he can convince Emperor Changzhi": "You should have seen the emperor's temperament, he can't stand the stimulation, and he is so ambitious, he knew he was afraid when he was hiding in the mansion. Know how to be restrained; once you sit on the world, you will be the only one, and you will be too paranoid."

It’s not scary to be mediocre, it’s scary to be incompetent; it’s not scary to be stupid, it’s scary to be smart.

"He doesn't have the courage of the Supreme Emperor, but he wants to learn the methods of the Supreme Emperor. In the past when he was in the south of the Yangtze River, he used the old officials from the north, but now he deliberately promotes the nobles in the south of the Yangtze River for the sake of balance," Yan Xiaohan said, "Besides that, there is also the issue of national prestige. , Jiangnan's safety issue... On the Western Expedition, the emperor and the Jiangnan gentry have the same position, so I can't persuade you, and if you persuade too much, he will be anxious with you."

Fu Shen frowned: "There is no other way but to let him do whatever he wants?"

"Unless there is an earthquake in Mount Tai, or an abnormal celestial phenomenon, it will be difficult to turn this matter around." Yan Xiaohan rubbed his shoulder through a layer of clothes, "Gu Shanlu's reminder is right, you are a thorn in the eyes of many people now, regardless of this matter In the end, if it succeeds, they will try to find your fault, and even take the opportunity to implicate the queen and prince, you must be careful yourself."

"I know," Fu Shen sighed, "It seems that Yan Ying Palace can't stop him from dying."

"Food needs to be eaten bite by bite, and the New Deal has to be implemented step by step, so why be impatient." Yan Xiaohan stretched out his hand to hold his eyebrows, "Come on, don't frown, just smile."

"In the middle of the night, why are you going crazy?" Fu Shen said expressionlessly, "Don't laugh. Why don't you smile for me?"

"Hey, just laugh," Yan Xiaohan coaxed, "You made me wait all afternoon today, you must give me some compensation, right?"

Fu Shen was entangled in such nonsense by him, and his overwhelming melancholy dissipated. He originally wanted to keep a straight face for a while, but he couldn't hold back his smile, and nodded on a small piece of his chest that was exposed: "Rogue. "

Yan Xiaohan said confidently and confidently: "A good man does not have a good wife, and a poor man takes advantage of the flowers."

"Flower Branch" almost trembled into a dog-beating stick.

When Fu Shen managed to catch his breath, Yan Xiaohan hugged him into his arms with the quilt on, and announced viciously, "I'm going to spoil you."

"Hahaha……"

The situation was exactly as they expected.Not long after, Emperor Changzhi proposed to conquer the Southwest in the Hall of Yanying. Except for the Northern Frontier Army who was on Fu Shen's side, the other forty or so courtiers, even Yan Xiaohan, agreed to the Emperor's proposal.

With such an appearance, outsiders looked at the two of them with a deeper meaning—during the Northern Expedition, the Beiyan Army and the Tianfu Army still marched and retreated together in a decent manner. How long has passed? Disagreements have already been put on the table.

The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change, and the treacherous people are unreliable.

In the spring of the following year, Duke Jing Fu Shen was ordered to lead an army of [-] troops to the south to conquer Duan Guihong, king of Xiping County.

This time it was not the old Beiyan iron cavalry that accompanied him on the expedition, but an expanded imperial army, the main force of which was the Jiangnan army that Zhao Xicheng commanded when the Central Plains was recovered.

It was still on the golden platform in the suburbs of Beijing, with flags flying and horses neighing.

Emperor Changzhi went to see the army outside the city in person, just like Emperor Yuantai led all the civil and military officials to send the young general north to fight against the enemy. It seemed full of ambition and pride, but in fact they all watched with cold eyes.

Yan Xiaohan stood not far from Emperor Changzhi, his eyes swept over the ministers one by one, and finally fell on Emperor Changzhi's slightly fatter back.

He has no expression, and looks cold, but it looks more real than the monarchs and ministers who are pretending to be emotional.

Fu Shen cast a glance from a distance, the eyes of the two met in mid-air, Yan Xiaohan nodded slightly.

He vaguely felt that under the solid armor, the man seemed to be smiling.

The night before his departure, Yan Xiaohan said to Fu Shen: "Just go south with peace of mind, I will watch over you in the rear, so you don't have to worry about anything."

At that time, Fu Shen didn't say anything, just smiled, and pulled his chin and kissed him.It seems to know nothing, but also seems to have insight into the truth.

As the spring breeze swept across the wilderness, Yan Xiaohan watched the handsome flag drifting away, and silently completed the unfinished words of last night in his heart.

When you come back, I will give you a clean court hall.