At the beginning of November in the first year of Cheng'an, Daqi ushered in a peace that it had never enjoyed for hundreds of years: the Dongyi army and nobles were all wiped out, and the northeast wilderness officially surrendered to Daqi.The imperial court announced the abolition of slavery, and set up imperial institutions in the Northeast Wasteland. The war horses produced in the Northeast Wasteland were supplied to the imperial court. The imperial court distributed the living materials needed by the herdsmen in the Northeast Wasteland every year according to the number of war horses produced.

Emperor Daqi rarely appeared in the court hall since his enthronement ceremony, except when there were important events.Daily affairs such as correcting memorials are discussed by Zhengyan Pavilion to avoid excessive power of Zhengyan Pavilion.

In addition, the emperor consolidated the military power in one hand, announced the abolition of the enfeoffment system of the previous dynasty, and returned the military power and land of all kings with different surnames to the court with iron blood.Since then, the state of fragmentation since Zhou Xian's theft of the country has finally come to an end.

Brother Zhou Yi and Zhou Qi officially took over the Northeast Camp, but now the main task of the Northeast Camp is not to fight against the Dongyi people, but to protect the Northeast wilderness, to protect the peace here

Two months after the decisive battle with the Dongyi people, King Ming announced his resignation from all positions in Shangshutai, and he would never intervene in court affairs.But he has re-developed a group of hidden guards in the capital. These dark guards are the eyes of Xie Ce. Even if he is not in the court, he knows everything about the court.

With Xie Ce's support, Nie Rulan no longer attacked Wei Nan's forces in private, nor expressed any views on it.

"Lord Nie, I haven't seen the emperor for almost a month. It's almost winter, and I don't know if the emperor's dragon body has recovered?" In the court hall, Lian Ruoqian asked Nie Rulan, clasping his hands.

Although Nie Rulan and Li Jingze handled affairs on behalf of the emperor every day, they were still not trusted by Lian Ruoqian and his group of cronies of the emperor. The only person they trusted was the emperor besides King Ming.

"Aren't I here?"

Under the expectant eyes of all the ministers, Xie Ce, dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, walked towards the dragon chair in high spirits.

"See Your Majesty!"

"You don't need to be too polite." Xie Ce said with a smile.

Seeing that Xie Ce was safe and sound, Lian Ruoqian and his group felt at ease.Xie Ce reused Lian Ruoqian and Wei Nan's previously mentioned group of highly capable but low-ranking courtiers, promoted them quickly, and entrusted them with heavy responsibilities, so that these people and Nie Rulan and Li Jingze could check each other.

Nie Rulan and Li Jingze once thought that as long as they entered Zhengyan Pavilion, they would be able to strengthen Wang Kuanglan's ability when Xie Ce made muddled decisions.Unexpectedly, in the end, Zhengyan Pavilion's function was only to criticize papers and run errands for Xie Ce step by step, and the imperial power was still firmly in Xie Ce's hands.

Moreover, after Xie Ce ascended to the throne, except for the matter of not getting married, every decision he made was very accurate, which pushed Daqi step by step towards prosperity.

Both Nie Rulan and Li Jingze knew that Xie Ce's decisions were all due to Wei Nan's contribution, so they no longer stopped them.As long as Da Qi can get on the right track, Nie Rulan and Li Jingze have nothing to ask for.

Xie Ce looked at Nie Rulan and Li Jingze, who looked sluggish, and said kindly, "I have been recovering from my injuries for the past few months. Lord Nie and Taifu Li have worked hard. Although my injuries have healed now, King Ming's leg injury has not healed. I can only continue to work hard." Bit and Zhengyan Pavilion."

"The ministers must do their best." Nie Rulan and Li Jingze led the people from Zhengyan Pavilion to salute Xie Ce.

Xie Ce left with a smile, and the daily affairs of the court were naturally handled by Zhengyan Pavilion as usual.

"Brother, do you want me to carry you?" Xie Ce sent his followers away, and asked Wei Nan caringly as he walked along the tree-lined path in the Royal Garden while supporting Wei Nan.

"No... I'll walk slowly, it's okay..." Although his forehead was already hurting and sweating, Wei Nan still endured the pain and wanted to walk a little longer.

The moment Shaohao Khan pulled the cannon on his body, Xie Ce threw Wei Nan to the ground, blocking most of the impact force for him, and he was rushed into a temporary loss of consciousness.

Before Wei Nan had time to check Xie Ce's situation, the big tent collapsed, and a huge wooden pillar fell down and rolled towards them.Wei Nan was unable to get up for a while under the pressure of Xie Ce, so he had to use his feet to support the giant log rolling towards them, so as to save him and Xie Ce from being crushed into meat paste by the giant log, but his right foot was also crushed under the giant log in the end. .

Wei Nan's chronic disease of his right foot was difficult to heal. After Xie Ce and Chen Youqing's long-term massage, he was almost healed, but now he fell short, and the situation is even worse than before.

After discussing with each other, the two decided that Wei Nan would no longer interfere with the court affairs on the surface, but secretly kept a group of hidden guards for Xie Ce's use, and he and Xie Ce would recuperate in the palace with peace of mind.

"It's better to be young, you'll be healed after being injured so badly, and my leg is still like this..." Wei Nan said with some frustration while sitting on the stone bench with Xie Ce's support.

"You're talking like you're seven or eighty years old!" Xie Ce coaxed with a smile, "His Royal Highness Prince Ming is in full bloom, with a peerless appearance, and not old at all! It's just that he is recovering slowly because of a bone injury."

He squatted down and looked into Wei Nan's eyes, held his hands in his hands and said softly: "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely heal your leg and never let you cripple."

"Okay, I believe you!" Wei Nan stretched out his hand and gently pinched Xie Ce's face, and said in a low voice, "Follow me to see General Cao... In three days, it's time for her to be buried..."

When Cao Jingqiu was dug out, he was already dead, and Jin Luoyi, who should have died long ago, actually fell on her body, and seemed to want to use his remnant body to shield her from the wind and rain.

Ever since Li Laizi saw Cao Jingqiu and Jin Luoyi being dug out, he lost his soul and locked himself in the mansion all day, not even visiting the mourning halls of Cao Jingqiu and Jin Luoyi.

The relationship between Jin Luoyi and Cao Jingqiu is complicated, how the two will be buried has always puzzled Xie Ce and Wei Nan.Wei Nan sent someone to consult Li Mangzi's opinion before, but Li Mangzi still looked lost and didn't say anything.

"Hey, I said you, can't you let me report to the emperor before going in?" The little eunuch's helpless voice sounded from a distance.

"You... stop!"

Amidst the eunuch's eager yelling, Xie Ce raised his head and saw Li Mangy in plain clothes, ignoring the little eunuch's obstruction, walking towards him aggressively.

"Go down!" Xie Ce shouted back the eunuch who blocked Li Manzi.

Li Laizi rushed over and knelt in front of the two of them, kowtowed to them and said, "Your Majesty, I request that General Cao and... be buried with her master."

"Li Xun, have you...have you made up your mind?" Xie Ce lifted Li Manzi up, looked at his thin and pale face and asked.

"Think it over..." Li Laizi lowered his head and didn't look at Xie Ce, "The fate of my minister is unlucky. I was born at an untimely time. If I didn't meet General Cao earlier, everything is fate!"

"Your Majesty, I accept my fate! In her most critical moment, Jin Luoyi was with her, and I am grateful to him!" Li Manzi's eyes were red, and the sobs in his voice could no longer be concealed.

Wei Nan looked at him and reminded: "Li Xun, are you telling the truth? I don't want to get your impulsive answer! Once a person is buried, it is impossible to dig it out again!"

Li Laizi admired Cao Jingqiu for so long, now he wants to watch her buried with another man, Wei Nan is afraid that he will regret it later.

"I..." Hearing Wei Nan's question, Li Manzi held his forehead in pain and didn't know what to choose.

"You man, don't pretend to be generous if you can't do it!" Xie Jiju looked at him reproachfully, "Okay, listen to me! Men are unmarried and women are unmarried. It is inappropriate to bury them together. Separate burials."

Li Laizi lowered his head and silently wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"What are your plans in the future?" Xie Ce looked at Li Manzi and asked in a low voice, "We have been brothers for so many years, I will promise you whatever you want..." Xie Ce put one hand on Li Manizi's shoulder, In front of him, he no longer called "Zhen".

"I don't have any other plans, I just want to protect the Great Qi for Your Majesty. I beg Your Majesty to fulfill my wish and assign more affairs to my minister. Don't let my minister idle..." Li Manizi said in a low voice .

If you don't relax, you won't think about the dead person you couldn't love.

"Li Xun, listen to me. You have suffered too much with me for so many years. I have made arrangements for military affairs. You go out and travel around the world. I have left you with different memories of the famous mountains and rivers in various counties. Fortuitous encounter, you have to pay attention to it." After Xie Ce finished speaking, he took out a scroll from his arms and handed it to Xie Ce.

"It records the places you are going to. After you swim these places for me, come back and help me. Do you hear me?"

Li Laizi held back his crying, took Xie Ce's scroll tremblingly, kowtowed to Xie Ce and Wei Nan, and left, he was afraid that he would not be able to hide his crying once he opened his mouth.

"Fate makes people..." Wei Nan sighed as he watched Li Manzi's disappearing figure.

"Brother, tell me, who exactly does Cao Jingqiu love?" Xie Ce asked blankly.

The adventure of traveling around the world was not something a brute like Xie Ce could have imagined, but Cao Jingqiu had prepared it and handed it over to Xie Ce before his death.

"She only loves her great general. Li Xun and Jin Luoyi are not in her heart. Gratitude is not love." Wei Nan looked at Li Manzi's distant figure and said in a low voice.

On the seventh day of the winter month of the first year of Cheng'an, Cao Jingqiu, the legendary female general of Daqi, was buried. The Emperor of Daqi proclaimed her Marquis of Jing'an, and went to the scene to watch her burial.

In the second year of Cheng'an, the emperor of Daqi basically managed to hang his clothes and hand over his hands to rule the world.He and King Ming spent New Year's Eve in the middle of the capital, and they drove back to Chaotian Mountain together, and then went to Liushui Villa in Cangshan County, and finally rushed back to the capital before the Spring Festival.

"Brother, slow down." The carriage stopped in front of the Wenwu Hall, Xie Ce lifted the curtain of the carriage and reached out to help Wei Nan get off the carriage.

Wei Nan didn't wear the prince's clothes, but was dressed in plain white, and Xie Ce stepped down from the carriage.

His legs are completely healed, and the white clothes on his body are worn to please Luo Qingshan (Luo Qingshan is a Taoist priest of Xuanqing, who loves white clothes); he wears a white fox scarf around his neck - not for keeping warm, but for Xie policy request, in order to cover the words on the neck.

Anyway, it's a cool day, Wei Nan doesn't object to such a dress.As long as the people he loves are happy, it doesn't matter to him.

Wei Nan has few hobbies, and he puts his own needs behind those he loves.

But now Xie Ce has also touched the heart of this person, he can always understand what he thinks in his heart, and then do his best to satisfy everything he wants.

"Xie Ce, do you feel that this side hall of the Wenwu Palace is too small?" Wei Nan asked while staring at the palace in front of him.

Now that Daqi is powerful, Wei Nan doesn't want to wrong himself too much - this crowded side hall is far from the luxurious sleeping hall of Prince Ming's Mansion.

If it weren't for the heater in the side hall of Wenwu Hall, which was suitable for Wei Nan to recuperate from his injuries, Xie Ce would have wanted to move to the sleeping hall a long time ago.He smiled dotingly at Wei Nan and said, "I know my brother is still thinking about the hot springs in Prince Ming's Mansion that you can take a dip in at any time, so I'll ask someone to change the dormitory tomorrow, and then ask someone to lure a hot spring to the back of the dormitory to repair a hot spring." Chi, is brother satisfied?"

"Yeah!" Wei Nan nodded in satisfaction.

"Let's rest here for the time being tonight, and we will go back to Prince Ming's Mansion tomorrow. We'll come back after the bedroom is repaired, okay?" Xie Ce helped Wei Nan to go inside.

"I listen to you!" Wei Nan smiled like a flower, stretched out his hand and scratched Xie Ce's nose, "Xie Ce, why are you so caring?"

"No way, who made His Royal Highness King Ming so attractive!" Xie Ce laughed.

"Why are you so sweet today, what's wrong with holding back?" Wei Nan looked at Xie Ce suspiciously as soon as he entered the door.

As soon as Xie Ce closed the door, he put aside the previous calmness and wind, and impatiently hugged Wei Nan and kissed him. While kissing, he said in a low voice: "Brother, can you avoid going to Liushui Villa in the future? These days It's killing me..."

Wei Nan pushed him away, took off the scarf and said with a smile, "I know you're exhausted, so go take a shower first..."

"Xie Ce, I'm curious, why are you so disciplined at Flowing Water Villa, you insist on sleeping in the same bed as me at night?" Wei Nan squatted by the tub, asking while washing Xie Ce's hair.

Xie Ce soaked in hot water, closed his eyes comfortably and enjoyed Wei Nan's washing for him, his face was covered with drops of water, and his face blushed, and he said in a low voice, "Your master... I'm a little afraid of him, he knows everything...I dare not..."

Wei Nan couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, and seeing Xie Ce so shy, he couldn't help but tease him: "Then you think he doesn't know we are in this palace?"

"Ah?! He knows it's so far away?!" Xie Ce was startled, and turned his head around.Wei Nan was pinching his hair to wash him, and it hurt when he moved.

"What are you doing nonsense! Does it hurt now?" Wei Nan rubbed Xie Ce's head with foam in his hands, and coaxed in a low voice, "So what if he knows? Do you think there are not many people in Beijing who know about our relationship?" ?"

"Brother, you don't know, that's different..." When Xie Ce thought of what Luo Qingshan told him about Fangfei Tower, he felt extremely terrified: it doesn't matter if others know their relationship, but it's too terrible to be peeped into their relationship!

Wei Nan frowned, complaining in his heart that Luo Qingshan dared to do anything, and he was not afraid that Xie Ce would doubt his identity.Seeing that Xie Ce was scared like that, he could only wash the foam off his head with clean water, while comforting him gently: "I'm kidding you, he's not a god, how could he know such a far away thing."

Xie Ce had a bitter face, and pouted his lips: "Brother, can't you just take care of your master? If he does this again, I won't dare to go to Liushui Villa in the future."

While wiping Xie Ce's hair, Wei Nan smiled and said, "I'll tell him later, and tell him not to do this in the future."

Xie Ce lay on the bed and wrapped Wei Nan around like an octopus, and kissed the letter on his neck.

"Thank you, Master Dazhai, don't suck there anymore, okay? I was sucked by you again for several days...you like the writing on my neck so much?" Wei Nan whispered slightly reproachfully.

"I like it, but my brother is not allowed to show it to others, only to me...you have to cover it with your collar on weekdays." Xie Ce hugged Wei Nan with great satisfaction, and carefully looked at his neck that was flushed red from his kiss.

If it were the same as before, Wei Nan would definitely rob him and hurt him a few more words.As time with Xie Ce grew longer, he also understood that Xie Ce's silly words contained his sincerity, so Wei Nan seldom mocked him.

"Okay, listen to you. From now on, I will cover my neck and only show it to you..."

Hearing Wei Nan's doting words, Xie Ce put his arms around his neck and said in satisfaction, "My brother treats me so well... Ce'er feels so happy..." Even though he said this a thousand times, every time he said this to Wei Nan Speaking of it, it is full of the most sincere original intention, and the sincerity that I will never change for anyone in this life.

"Brother, my master urged me to choose the prince again yesterday, what should I do?" Xie Ce asked vaguely while holding Wei Nan's neck while half asleep and half awake.

"You tell him to give birth to one, and then you immediately choose his son as the crown prince." Wei Nan laughed wickedly, and started playing tricks again.

Unexpectedly, Xie Ce thought seriously and nodded, "Good idea!"

Seeing that he was serious, Wei Nan was afraid that this stunned young man would really call Nie Rulan to have a child tomorrow, so he said: "I'm talking nonsense, don't take it seriously, don't make your master mad..."

Xie Ce glanced at him with a smirk, kissed his lips, and sealed his unspoken words: "I'm not that stupid...Go to sleep, I have my own ideas."

Seeing Wei Nan taking long and delicate breaths with his eyes closed, and sleeping extremely peacefully, Xie Ce's heart was full: his only pursuit in this life is this person, and now, he can finally protect him for the rest of his life. , let him be free.

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