Willing to be hired by Jiangshan

Southwest border

Thousands of arrows piercing the heart... Yan Xi felt a chill down his spine, did he have to be so cruel to himself?

Yan Xi evasively said, "Your Majesty, is this too... vicious?"

"Vicious?" Lin Rongchen's face was sullen, but he couldn't see what it meant.

Yan Xi said embarrassingly: "I really don't have anyone I like, why doesn't the emperor believe it? That Yu Ziyuan, I only regard her as my younger sister."

Lin Rongchen slightly bent the corners of his lips, and quickly smoothed them out, "If what you said is true, why should you care whether the oath is vicious or not? Or... you actually already have someone you like, and you just refuse to tell me. "

Yan Xi's smile instantly froze, cracked, and shattered into pieces, "Ahem...the emperor was joking."

Lin Rongchen's body leaned forward, and his whole body was almost attached to Yan Xi's body, "It's said that you tell the truth after drinking, Master Yan, dare to try it?"

"For example, why don't you dare?" Yan Xi turned his head away with a red face, only feeling that his whole body was wrapped in Lin Rongchen's breath, and he became dizzy, and he didn't even have the confidence to answer.

It's not that he hasn't had a drink with Lin Rongchen, and he doesn't seem to have said or done anything particularly outrageous, otherwise, Lin Rongchen would have swallowed him alive long ago.So he felt that there was nothing wrong with his wine.But... what if?What if you talk nonsense?

Lin Rongchen said with a smile: "That's a good thing. There are just a few jars of pear blossoms in the storage room. Master Yan can have a good time tonight."

"..." Why is there such a coincidence?Yan Xi felt that the situation was not good, and scratched the tip of his brow with his index finger, "Your Majesty, can that... this humble minister... go back on his word?"

Lin Rongchen looked at him with a half-smile, "What do you think?"

"I can't." Yan Xi was dejected.

The two returned to the small courtyard, Lin Rongchen moved three altars of pear blossoms and placed them in front of him, "Is it enough?"

"Enough is enough..." Yan Xi wanted to give himself a slap, why was he leading him by the nose again? "I'm afraid that my speech and behavior after drinking are not prudent enough, and I will offend the emperor."

Lin Rongchen smiled indifferently, "If I am the kind of person who cares about everything, do you still have your life standing here?"

makes sense.

He opened the seal of Lihuabai, remembered something, and asked suddenly: "Why did the emperor want to marry this humble minister?"

Lin Rongchen said nonsense without changing his face: "Before the grand master goes to sea, I beg you to find a good marriage for you."

"Grandfather?" Mentioning Li Xingzhi, Yan Xi's expression darkened, "He really can't worry about me and my brother."

I don't know if he was fighting it out, or because Lin Rongchen mentioned Li Xingzhi, which reminded him of sad things, and he never let go of the hand holding Li Huabai.

Lin Rongchen made a pot of tea and tasted it leisurely.

He seldom drank, and felt that losing his sanity was a terrible thing.The only time he drank more was in front of Yan Xi that day, he was really pissed off.

A jar of pear blossoms was eaten in vain, Yan Xi patted the table, and said boldly: "Whatever the emperor wants to ask, just ask!"

Lin Rongchen ordered the remaining two jars on the table, "Don't waste it, drink it all!"

"..." One altar is Yan Xi's limit.Halfway through the second altar, he already had one thing to say, another thing to say two, and explained everything.

"Is there really no one you like?" Lin Rongchen put down the teacup, propped his chin and looked at Yan Xi with a smile on his face.

"Yes." Yan Xi burped.

"Who?" Lin Rongchen tilted his ear.

Yan Xi pursed her lips tightly and shook her head.

Lin Rongchen laughed, "Can't you say that?"

Yan Xi nodded.

He persuasively asked, "Why?"

Yan Xi whispered in his ear: "He will be decapitated."

Lin Rongchen pretended to be surprised, "Could it be the princess?"

"Of course not." Yan Xi lowered his voice, looking around with his black ink-like eyes, but didn't say anything.

"That's the emperor?"

"Hush!" Yan Xi jumped up and covered his mouth, "Don't be..."

Lin Rongchen grabbed his hand and pulled him into his arms instead.Yan Xi struggled so hard that he almost scratched his face.

"..." After finally catching the waving hands, Lin Rongchen kissed his earlobe, "Yun Xin, it's me."

"The emperor?" Yan Xi put his arms around his neck and sniffed at his chest, "It's really you."

Lin Rongchen couldn't laugh or cry, dare to recognize people by hearing?

Yan Xi quickly relaxed, pressed against his chin, and closed her eyes safely.The alcohol surged up, his face was burning red, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and he seemed to rub against Lin Rongchen's arms uneasily.

Immediately, Lin Rongchen's blood surged up, his mouth was dry, and he no longer restrained himself, he leaned over and kissed those bright red lips.When he came back to his senses, his palm was already on Yan Xi's smooth and delicate back.He took a deep breath, calmed down for a moment, withdrew his hand, hugged him into his arms, straightened the hair on Yan Xi's forehead, "Is it so difficult for you to admit that you like me?"

Looking at his shallow and flat breathing, Lin Rongchen felt very despicable.Dare not to say anything, dare not do anything, full of worries, but asked Yan Xi to confide in him.Threatening him to become a concubine in the palace, forcing him to get drunk, and even kissing him secretly... These are not the actions of a gentleman, let alone an emperor.However, he can only use this method uselessly to obtain a momentary illusion to comfort the surging, churning, and roaring emotions in his heart.

If he didn't know what Yan Xi was thinking, he wouldn't have made all kinds of demands.After all, it's just because Yan Xi likes him.

"There are many things I can't tell you now... One day in the future you will know, don't blame me. Yan Xi, no matter what I do, I will never hurt you." Lin Rongchen hugged him tighter, stroking his fingers Rubbing his cheek, "One day, I will make up for everything I owe you."

When I woke up the next day, the room was empty.Yan Xi tidied up and entered the palace for early court.

There are three major events in the early court: the progress of the Queen Mother's birthday, the day when the beautiful girl entered the palace, and Xiang Jiayan's case.

Apart from talking about the Empress Dowager's birthday, Lin Rongchen casually asked him about the compilation, Yan Xi kept his head down during the rest of the time, secretly thinking about whether he said something out of line or did something out of line last night.

Hearing that Xiu Nu entered the palace, he raised his head, happened to meet Lin Rongchen's gaze, and lowered his head very guilty.The entry of a beautiful girl into the palace means that Lin Rongchen will have many concubines by his side from now on, and he not only has to pretend to be one of them, but also watches them talk and laugh every day.Yan Xi felt that he was deceived by lard, so he could agree to this?

Obviously everything was well arranged, why did it get exposed when it came to Lin Rongchen?Moreover, Fu Zhuo and Huang Jingchun didn't seem to notice it yet.With how cautious they acted, they would definitely kill people immediately afterwards, but Lin Rongchen was even faster than them!

As for the case of Xiang Jiayan, as Fu Zhuo expected, he was sent into exile.Unfortunately, Lin Rongchen hadn't bothered to send his match to Jiayan when he heard someone outside the hall shouting "Report——"

With this long voice, all the ministers who shouted felt trembling, and when they saw the father-in-law entering the palace holding the feather in his hand, all of them turned green, you looked at me, I looked at you, and looked at each other.

Hundreds of pairs of eyes stared at Lin Rongchen's every move. Seeing his brows furrowed deeply, he gasped!I'm afraid it's not... going to war?

The hall was so quiet that a needle could be heard.

Lin Rongchen raised his head, facing the restless, anxious or frowning faces.He received the letter and said calmly: "Ji Beicheng said that Nanzhao sent troops to Taihe City."

Hundreds of pairs of eyes turned to Feng Lanshan with a "swish".Feng Lanshan expressed that he was under a lot of pressure, and said tremblingly, "You...what are you looking at me for?"

Everyone condemned with their eyes, and it wasn't just you who said that the sky is changing and there is going to be a war!

Lin Rongchen's fingers touched the armrest of the dragon chair, "It turns out that all the lovers still remember the incident of Yinghuo Xingling's crime against Taiwei. However, General Ji said in his letter that there was a severe drought in Nanzhao this year, and only The hungry people have been repelled by him, so don't worry."

The shock brought by the word "siege" made everyone ignore "repulsed".They think the siege is too serious!What's more, if you don't move, it's enough. If you move, there will be one and there will be two. It's better to take precautions early.

So everyone chattered.

"Your Majesty, these mobs are so hungry that they can do anything, so we have to guard against it!"

"There is a severe drought in Nanzhao, how do you know if the king of Nanzhao will have the same thoughts as those mobs and suddenly send troops to Tianhe?"

"I have long heard that the King of Nanzhao is ambitious and covets the northwest, but now the severe drought just gave him a reason to send troops to invade! Soldiers will definitely put all their eggs in one basket to survive!"

"Your Majesty, there are less than 4 troops guarding the southwest, please make a decision early!"

……

Morning has not been so lively for a long time.Just a word of war is like this.

Lin Rongchen's eyes swept over everyone one by one, and finally stopped on Fu Zhuo, "What does the grand master think?"

Fu Zhuo said: "Taihe takes the mountain as a screen, the terrain is quite high, it is not easy to attack from above, there is a tendency that one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it, and there is General Ji and [-] soldiers sitting in the town, it is not a worry."

"Yes! Who is General Ji? That is the patron saint of the southwestern border of Yunchu!" Someone immediately echoed.

"En." Lin Rongchen nodded, and caught a glimpse of a face that hesitated to speak. "Captain Chang, do you have something to say?"

Under great pressure, Chang Xiao stood out in the eyes of everyone. "Your Majesty, if your memory serves me right, the southwest area is rich in rice, fungi, and various Chinese medicinal materials, such as Gastrodia elata and Panax notoginseng..."

Before the words fell, there was an uproar in the hall.

Abundant products and medicinal materials are fatally attractive to Nanzhao in severe drought, so it is worth their desperation!Even with General Ji around, we still have to increase our troops to ensure nothing goes wrong.

It was only then that Fu Zhuo discovered that this Tanhualang who had thrown his pen into the army seemed not simple.

"Then what does Captain Chang think of me?"

Chang Xiao didn't seem to have been stared at by so many people at the same time, she was a little shy for a moment, paused, and then said: "The general thinks that the distribution of Yunchu's troops is unreasonable."

"Oh? What an unreasonable law?" Lin Rongchen was full of interest, and turned his body sideways, motioning for him to continue talking.

Chang Xiaodao: "Yunchu is adjacent to Yandan in the northeast, and it borders the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the north. Each garrison has 4 troops. In the northwest, there are about [-] troops stationed because of the Hu people's frequent crimes. , and the east is the coastal area, with barriers, why are there [-] guards? The southwest border is not short, and [-] people are not enough. Why not transfer some of the excess troops from the east and west to the southwest? In this way, even if there is a chaos in the future , It can also ensure that the Southwest will not fall before the arrival of reinforcements."

Xiang Jiayan mentioned this issue when Feng Lanshan observed a big difference in the astrology, but Lin Rongchen didn't say anything at that time, and even pressed down.

He instructed Feng Lanshan to report it in front of all the officials, just to take the opportunity to gamble on Fu Zhuo's mouth, so that he would not mention the post-sealing matter in a short time.As for whether there will be a war, in Lin Rongchen's view, a speculation is not worth discussing in the court.What's more, there is nothing imminent happening, trying to transfer troops from Fu Zhuo based on astrology is simply wishful thinking, but it will only make Fu Zhuo feel that he is afraid.

It's different now.The opponent sent troops.He could use the lack of troops as an excuse to ask Fu Zhuozeng to send troops to the southwest.

Fu Zhuo sneered, talking about it, he just wanted to erode the military power in his hands a little bit.As for going in such a big circle, let a captain speak out?

He wanted to see how Lin Rongchen opened his mouth like a lion this time.

The author has something to say: draw key points, remember this Ji Beicheng, pass the exam.