The return of the son-in-law

In Li Chonghao's study, many ministers were arguing endlessly about this matter, and most of them still insisted that King Qin should not be abolished because of this matter.

"Your Majesty, King Qin was named King Qin because of the signing of a treaty with Ningguhan, thanks to Chao Gang. Now that Ningguhan is dead, the actions of other Tatar tribes cannot be blamed on King Qin!"

"It is precisely because His Royal Highness the King of Qin signed the treaty with Ning Guhan that he is very clear about the contents. Now almost no one in the Tatar Grassland is ignorant of this matter, the King of Qin is to blame!"

"You're just spitting blood! According to what you mean, His Royal Highness King Qin deliberately instructed others to pass it on? What good will His Highness King Qin do by doing this? It will only make him dedicate himself to such a passive situation!"

"I didn't say that. It's because you have a guilty conscience that you think so."

"It's just unreasonable!"

"Enough!" Li Chonghao felt annoyed in his heart when he saw several of his important ministers staring and blowing their beards because of this matter, like some ignorant shrews, and shouted, "I have already done this matter." With a decision, the King of Qin does not know people well, so he is no longer worthy of being the first-rank prince of Zhenguo. First, he will be relegated to the third-rank Fuguo prince, and after three days, he will go to the northwest with Wang Jian and others."

Yue An's eyelids twitched, and before he could speak, the other ministers had already started admonishing him.

"Your Majesty, absolutely not! As His Majesty's only son, how can King Qin risk himself?"

"Your Majesty, King Qin is not as weak as the crown, please think deeply!"

"My son? What's wrong with my son? I'm not the emperor's son yet! Which article in the ancestral family law states that the son must be succeeded by the son? Return to the king of Qin? I've already said, go to the title of king of Qin and be demoted to the auxiliary state Prince, there is no more King Qin now!" Li Chonghao couldn't hold back the fire in his heart when he heard these ministers come up with such a set of rhetoric, and cursed, "Since he is my son, why would he even do such a small thing? Don’t you? This matter started because of him, if he can beat Tatar back, then forget it; if Tatar is allowed to come in, he will thank the world with his death!”

This clearly means that Li Shaojun will die in the northwest!

Yue An knew that he could not continue to remain silent at this time, so he took two steps forward and said, "Your Majesty, King Qin cannot be demoted at this time!"

Li Chonghao was furious: "Yue An, you want to persuade me with them too!"

Yue An shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, there are also rumors of Tatar's army marching in the capital, and the demotion of King Qin at this time just proves this point? Once the news of Tatar's army going south is spread, I am afraid that the capital will also be in turmoil. At that time, it was not only the northwest area that was involved. This is the first. Second, at the time, the King of England was established and abolished, and it only lasted for half a year. This matter has been discussed by the people in the capital for a long time. The most vicious thing to say. Now that King Qin has been established and then deposed, wouldn’t the common people have something to talk about?”

If it were another emperor, he might not care so much about what the people said.But Li Chonghao is different. He is determined to be a Mingjun, but he has neither the talent nor enough perseverance. When he first became the throne, he persisted for more than a year and couldn't bear it. After that, he persisted intermittently, at most for five days .

Yue An's words fell on his heart. Thinking of the criticisms after Li Shaojun was abolished, and the fierce opposition from the ministers before, Li Chonghao began to hesitate again.

Yue An saw that his expression was in a trance, so he continued: "His Royal Highness King Qin is the only prince among all the princes of His Majesty today, and his status is indeed more noble than other princes. In my opinion, this time the Tatar army will go south, and the northwest may be inevitable. It's been a fierce battle, if His Majesty insists on sending His Highness King Qin to oversee the army in the northwest, it is better to give His Highness King Qin a title of Super Grade, so that thousands of soldiers in the Northwest will understand that His Majesty cares about them."

If it is a super grade, then it is the crown prince.

Li Chonghao looked at Yue An with complicated emotions, with mixed feelings in his heart.For the first time, he realized that he seemed to have never seen through the prime minister.

It is said that he is loyal, but several times he has come forward to speak for Li Shaojun in critical situations and tried his best to turn the tide; but he is said to be partial to Li Shaojun, and he has never seen the two have close contacts, but he sent people around every year and festival, Or just ran into a few small talk.

Li Chonghao's habit of looking at people and things is to look at everything with the worst eyes. If Yue An and Li Shaojun have almost no contact in order to avoid suspicion, Li Chonghao will suspect these two people instead.It's just that every time Yue An spoke for Li Shaojun, he used the banner of thinking for Li Chonghao, which was justified.

Li Chonghao thought over and over again, and thought that since Yue An became the prime minister, he was much more comfortable as the emperor than when Liu Yuanheng was there, so he dispelled the suspicion that he hadn't even sprouted.

"Okay, let King Qin conquer the Northwest for me. If he returns triumphantly, the crown prince will naturally be his."

Those ministers who supported Li Shaojun were both happy and anxious.The happy thing is that since the emperor was so forthright, he agreed to make King Qin the crown prince after King Qin returned triumphantly. What is anxious is that the battle situation in the northwest is unknown, and several tribes of Tatar have formed an alliance, and they are determined to win the northwest. The next time I go, the outcome is still hard to determine.

Thinking of this, several ministers were beating drums in their hearts, but no one raised any objections—because this was already the best result they could achieve.

Having been an official for many years, the ministers in the study are all familiar with the temper of the Holy Majesty. From Li Chonghao's face, he can tell that he is impatient.

Let’s talk about Guo Zhan’an in the northwest, because the northwest is far away from the capital, the news that King Qin’s acting emperor’s expedition has not yet spread to the northwest, Guo Zhan’an and others are urgently discussing how to spread the news of Liu Jianhua’s rebellion, just to save the King of Qin. doomed.

Time was running out and everyone couldn't delay, so in the end it was decided that Guo Zhan'an would write a letter stating all the deeds he had found, and then Jiang Yannian would write a letter, and the testimony of all the generals would be recorded and sent to the capital together.

As for Old General Shao, although there was a reason for the incident, he still had to write a statement of guilt.

For this, Guo Zhanan felt guilty: "Uncle, I am the one who hurt you this time."

Old General Shao was quite open-minded: "It's not harmful, it's not harmful. You are being plotted by the wicked. As an elder, how can I sit idly by? Moreover, Liu Jianhua used the Immortal Sai to murder soldiers in the barracks, intending to cause chaos. As His Majesty's personal seal Huaienzi, you should miss your majesty's kindness and contribute to your majesty's country and society."

"However, this time Uncle led his own soldiers to capture Liu Jianhua and the others. I'm afraid that if His Majesty wants to reduce Uncle's personal soldiers, Yongcheng will be in trouble."

Old General Shao laughed loudly: "Good boy, I know you are worried about me. But since you have done everything, what are you thinking about? I Shao Fang is worthy of the sky, worthy of your majesty, worthy of my ancestors, and even more worthy of The world! As for Your Majesty, that is not something we can control."

Seeing General Shao's posture like this, Guo Zhan'an felt that the world in front of him opened up a lot: "What Uncle said is that I was the one who got into a dead end."

"You are still young, after you have narrowly escaped a few times on the battlefield, you will understand what it means to be happy in life, don't let the gold bottle be empty to the moon! Haha, think of me as an old man, the only thing I can recite These are some poems by Shixian." Old General Shao patted Guo Zhanan's shoulder with a smile, and said, "I have already arranged a banquet for you, and we will bid farewell today. I don't know when we will see you again .Although you have to hurry and can't drink, how about replacing wine with tea?"

Guo Zhanan cupped his hands and said, "That's exactly what I mean."

After the banquet, Guo Zhan'an was inconvenient to stay in the Viscount's mansion. Shao Nianli personally selected a team, took out his usual carriage, and ordered someone to send Guo Zhan'an back to Xuzhou.

In Xuzhou's Guo Mansion, Huo Yu had already received Guo Zhan'an's handwritten letter in advance, knowing that he would be back in the next two days, and was looking forward to it.

When he saw Guo Zhan'an getting off the carriage, Huo Yu's nose sore and he almost cried out in front of everyone.

Guo Zhan'an had seen Huo Yu from a long distance away, and he wished he could hold him in his arms and nibble on him hard, so as to dispel his longing for the past few days—Because of the crisis, Guo Zhan'an didn't care about his children's love, and waited Liu Jianhua was captured, and the booklet was handed over. After Guo Zhanan breathed a sigh of relief, the longing that had been squeezed deep in his heart could no longer be restrained, jumping in Guo Zhanan's heart like boiling water.

When he got closer, seeing Huo Yu's eyes were slightly red, he knew that this man was trying not to cry, so he said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few days, but I have grown up a bit."

Huo Yu let out a long breath, and replied, "Brother made fun of me again. Brother, who are these?"

Guo Zhan'an introduced them one by one: "These are the old general Shao and his close friends. This time, they came back to Xuzhou with me specially, so as not to let the remnants of Liu Jianhua secretly attack them."

Huo Yu was taken aback: "Is there any remnants of Liu Jianhua caught?"

Guo Zhanan hurriedly comforted him: "Don't worry, it's just because there are too many people participating in the rebellion, and the count has not been completed yet. Old General Shao and General Shao are worried about me, so they did this. Several of Liu Jianhua's cronies have already been killed, even if there are The other fish that slipped through the net are just some small shrimps, it’s too late for them to protect themselves, how dare they jump out?”

Huo Yu was still a little worried, and planned to ask Wu Xin and others to step up the defense of Guo Mansion in the next few days.But these are not enough for outsiders, Huo Yu said with a smile: "Brother has worked hard all the way, and I have ordered the kitchen to prepare food and drinks to clean up the dust for my brother. Please come along with the military masters. It just so happened that the capital Zhuangzi went to Some fresh fruits and vegetables were sent, although they are not delicacies from mountains and seas, they are fresh and refreshing. There is also Xuzhou's famous white-cut mutton, which are all delicious."

The dozen or so soldiers were not polite to Guo Zhan'an and Huo Yu. After thanking them, they untied their weapons, and Jia Huan led them to the front hall.

Huo Yu hadn't given his filial piety yet, so he didn't appear at the banquet, Guo Zhan'an was the only one who drank and ate food with the soldiers.Of course, there were no elders at the banquet, and Guo Zhanan was the one with the highest status, so no one forced him to drink and eat meat.

Although some soldiers found out that Guo Zhanan only drank a glass of wine at the banquet at the beginning, and did not even touch the good white-cut mutton with a chopstick, but everyone has different preferences, and they are not the kind of polite people. Just eat it yourself.

After entertaining the soldiers, it was Jia Huan who came forward again and led them to rest in the cleared yard, while Guo Zhan'an went back to his room. As expected, Huo Yu was waiting inside.

Perhaps it was because of being in fear for so many days, Huo Yu was uncharacteristically clinging to Guo Zhanan.

"Brother is finally back." Huo Yu hugged Guo Zhan'an with both hands, leaned his head on Guo Zhan'an's collarbone, and murmured, "If brother doesn't come back, I'm going to Yongcheng to arrest people."

"Arrest?" Guo Zhan'an deliberately teased Huo Yu, wanting to dispel a ray of worry, "Who gave you the guts to go to the Viscount's Mansion in Yongcheng to arrest the court official, eh?"

"Just, just, just," Huo Yu blushed, stammered for a while, and then said, "Just because I am the man ordered by the court! The official ordered by the court didn't come home for more than ten days, and even a letter If you don’t pass it on, do you want to learn from that Dayu, or do you want to learn from that Chen Shimei?”

Guo Zhanan couldn't laugh or cry: "You compare me to Chen Shimei, huh?"

As he said that, Guo Zhanan moved down a few inches with the hand that was originally on Huo Yu's waist, squeezed the flesh on Huo Yu's thigh, and said: "If it's because your one-year filial piety period is not over, or I will I want you to know if I am Chen Shimei."

Huo Yu hurriedly pushed Guo Zhanan away, and said in a hurry: "It's fine, what are you doing?"

Guo Zhan'an put one hand on the place where Huo Yu's hand brushed, and said, "This is Chen Shimei. I managed to escape from death twice before I could come back. It's good for you, just push me away right now."

Huo Yuxin thought it was true, and hurried forward to hold Guo Zhanan's hand, wanting to check Guo Zhanan's injuries, while asking, "Is brother injured? Where is the injury? Let me see!"

Guo Zhan'an took the opportunity to grab Huo Yu and lie down on the bed together, and said, "I'm not injured, but you, it's hard for you these days."

Although Huo Yu didn't like to take credit in front of Guo Zhan'an, Jia Huan had already told Guo Zhan'an all about Huo Yu's actions these days.I heard that Huo Yu was holding himself back without any timidity and fear, and he went out to scold the soldiers who came to the door and ran away. He also arranged the Guo mansion to be tight and strictly restrained the servants of the Guo mansion, so that Liu Jianhua would not send them here. The soldiers could take advantage of the opportunity; the queen was so nervous that she couldn't sleep for several nights in a row. Sometimes Jia Huan couldn't rest assured, and came to check outside Guo Zhan'an and Huo Yu's room in the middle of the night, and heard a slight whimper coming from the room. Guo Zhanan felt distressed for a while.

Seeing that Huo Yu is going to be 16 years old, and he has reached the age of experience, many people of his age are engaged, and some even become fathers, but Guo Zhan'an always regards Huo Yu as a child who was born three years ago. The child in the Tiger Village who cried because his wife had turned into a man.

I just want to be nicer to him.