I am a ruler in troubled times

Emperor Yonghe was 'unwilling' to compromise with Xue Lin.

From the very beginning, he firmly disagreed with the negotiation with Chen Guo.

Until Xue Lin took the rice sac to become addicted, because of the high concentration of rice sac in Xue Lin's hand, his attitude kept softening.

In the end, he "reluctantly" agreed to negotiate a peace with Chen Guo.

Then Zhao Guo and Chen Guo started a new round of disputes over the place and time of the peace talks.

After all, Emperor Yonghe, who was caught by the handle, made a concession.

The location of the peace talks is still Bai County proposed by Chen Guo, and the time is delayed by ten days.

Song Peiyu kept a close eye on the dispute between Zhao Guo and Chen Guo over the place and time of the peace talks, and easily figured out Chen Guo's bottom line through letters of credence from Chen Guo.

The location of the peace negotiation must be in Bai County, Cheng County and Feng County are also not acceptable.

The time can be advanced or delayed by up to ten days.

Every time he felt Chen Guo's attachment to Bai County, Song Peiyu would go to the cubicle of the study in the East Palace to study the sand table in Yuzhou.

What is so special about Bai County?

Song Peiyu still hadn't figured this out until the time for peace talks agreed between Zhao Guo and Chen Guo approached.

After Chongyi and Song Peiyu left Xianyang, Emperor Yonghe suddenly decreed to hand over some unimportant documents to the three provinces for processing, confirming the rumors that he and King Su were powerless.

Most of Zhao's courtiers agreed with the negotiation with Chen Guo. Although a small number of courtiers disagreed, they did not resist the negotiation with Chen Guo.

In Zhao Chen's eyes, the fact that the State of Zhao does not have a navy, and that it will not be able to have a well-trained navy for at least five years, means that the State of Zhao will have nothing to do with the State of Chen for at least five years.

Moreover, Emperor Yonghe and King Su... at least within a few years, Zhao Guo should not have too many changes.

Negotiating peace with Chen Guo can not only confuse Chen Guo and make Chen Guo relax his vigilance, but also prove to the world that Da Zhao hopes that Kyushu will be peaceful, and Chen Guo is not intolerant.

In the future, when everything is ready for Zhao Guo, if he wants to find an excuse for Chen Guoxian to violate the peace agreement between the two parties, will he still worry about not finding it?

Song Peiyu saw Zhao Chen's thoughts in his eyes, and always felt that Zhao Chen's thoughts were also in Xue Lin's calculations.

Before formally sending the letter of negotiation to Zhao Guo, Xue Lin had already cleared away all obstacles for the peace negotiation.

These include snatching Bai County, Cheng County, and Feng County from Zhao Jun at any cost, draining Wei Zhong's last use value, using Wei Zhong to make Emperor Yonghe and King Su stained with rice bags...even taking the initiative to deal with Zhao Guo. The letter of credence revealed that if the two sides negotiate a peace, Chen Guo can make appropriate concessions in Yuzhou, which is currently governed by Zhao and Chen.

I don't know how Chen Guo's courtiers think about Xue Lin's wholehearted desire to negotiate peace with Zhao Guo.

Song Peiyu did not expect that Xue Lin was devoting himself to the peace talks and made clear arrangements for Zhao Guo, thousands of miles away.

In order for Chong Yi and Song Peiyu to arrive in Bai County within the time frame specified by him, Xue Lin was even willing to take the risk that he had deliberately avoided in the past to meet Chong Yi face to face, but arrogantly ignored the voices of Chen Guo's courtiers who opposed peace talks with Zhao Guo.

Not long after Song Peiyu and Chongyi left Xianyang, they received the news that Xue Lin had already set off from Jinling.

Compared with Chong Yi who always brought mighty cavalry with him wherever he went, and Song Jinyu alone as a civil servant was enough, Chen Guoxuan Taidi's pomp and circumstance were really outrageous.

Chong Yi and Song Peiyu only brought [-] cavalry and seven or eight civil servants.

These seven or eight civil servants also have a clear division of labor.

There are bachelors who are familiar with history books, are especially good at citing scriptures, and are self-cultivating in Hongwenguan.

There is also a sweep of Yushitai, which not only makes the colleagues who have been in the court hate their teeth, but even the colleagues of Yushitai annoy him, but he can't do anything about Yushi.

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There is also Lu Jihe who makes the above people have nothing to do with him.

However, Emperor Xuantai of Chen Guo brought half of the court with him, from the veterans of the three dynasties to the upstarts who became prominent after Emperor Xuantai ascended the throne, there were 30 people.

After arriving in Yuzhou, Song Peiyu finally got Xue Lin's accompanying list. The neatly arranged names on the list made Song Peiyu find a very interesting phenomenon.

The people on the list were either veterans who had had a lot of disagreements with Xue Lin since Xue Lin ascended the throne, but there was a guard of honor behind him, which made Xue Lin unable to deal with it for a while.

Or it was Xue Lin's confidant who was single-handedly pulled up.

Song Peiyu didn't believe that Xue Lin, who was arrogant and conceited, brought these Chen Guo veterans who always contradicted him, because he wanted to listen to different opinions during the peace talks.

With Xue Lin's character of vengeance... It's almost as if he wanted to bury these Chen Guo veterans who were always against him in Bai County.

Song Peiyu originally thought of this possibility because of a flash of inspiration in his mind. After casually telling Chong Yi about his discovery, Song Peiyu felt more and more that this seemingly incredible idea was most likely Xue Lin's plan.

The disobedient courtiers of the Chen State were also buried in Bai County, and then announced to the public that those veteran officials who were quite prestigious in the Chen State were killed by the Zhao State.

For Xue Lin, wouldn't it be a one-shot?

The sudden tingling pain on his cheek brought Song Peiyu back to his senses, and after raising his eyelids, he met Shang Zhongyi's slightly dissatisfied gaze.

The face that was already close at hand suddenly came up, and Song Peiyu's hands who pushed Chong Yi subconsciously turned into hugging Chong Yi's neck.

Lips and teeth met, Song Peiyu was immediately enveloped by the sweet and greasy smell of peach blossoms, and even her breath smelled of peach blossoms.

While leaning on Chong Yi's shoulder and gasping for breath, Song Peiyu heard Chong Yi's deep voice, "Don't think about it, after entering the city, hang Xue Lin's head on the city wall to sacrifice the flag."

It's good that Chong Yi didn't mention Xue Lin.

Hearing Xue Lin's name, Song Peiyu's mind, which was full of chaos due to lack of oxygen, immediately woke up, and his eyes shifted, and he focused on Xue Lin again.

Chong Yi felt that the person in his arms was absent-minded but didn't care. Judging from his rich experience, although Song Peiyu would not pay attention to him at this time, he would not miss his words.

After a long silence, Chong Yi's voice suddenly became softer. It was obviously a very flat tone, but it made people feel inexplicable grievances, "I ate five peach blossom candies in purses today." All in front of Song Peiyu.

Usually, he only needs to eat more than two packs of peach blossom candies, no matter what Song Peiyu is doing, he will immediately put down what he is doing and stop him from eating candies first.

"Hmm..." Song Peiyu put his hand on Chong Yi's shoulder, and leaned into Chong Yi's ear to answer.

Chong Yi narrowed his eyes and suddenly felt something was wrong.

He turned his head abruptly, taking a panoramic view of Song Peiyu's focused profile.

Song Peiyu was hugging his neck for strength, padded her feet, and looked behind him intently.

Song Peiyu turned a blind eye to the look on his face that turned from sharp to resentful, the brilliance in his eyes became more and more dazzling, suddenly he held Chong Yi's head, and kissed Chong Yi loudly on the face.

Chong Yi was stunned, and bright ripples appeared in his dark pupils, "You..."

"I discovered the connection between Bai County, Cheng County, and Feng County!" Song Peiyu said impatiently to Chong Yi.

Chong Yi's opened lips immediately pursed into a straight line, looking down at the person lying on his shoulder.

The person who is best at observing words and expressions on weekdays completely ignores Chong Yi's obvious expression changes.

Song Peiyu withdrew from Chong Yi's arms, took Chong Yi's hand, and strode towards the map hanging on the wall. After walking a few steps, she suddenly couldn't move an inch.

He turned his head around and grabbed Chong Yi's hand with both hands, "Come on, let me tell you what I found!"

Chong Yi's gaze swept over Song Peiyu's excited eyes, and the expression on his face became colder, but he silently held Song Peiyu's hand tighter, following Song Peiyu's wishes, Song Peiyu dragged him to the place where the map of Yuzhou was hung by the wall.

Song Peiyu stretched out his hand and swiped across the locations of Baixian, Chengxian and Fengxian, "How is it? Did you find it?"

After Chong Yi's focused eyes moved from Song Peiyu to the map, he immediately became perfunctory. He squinted his eyes and looked at Song Peiyu's hand, and said nonsense, "Well...you drew a straight line."

"Yes! These three county towns are built along Moshui." Song Peiyu didn't expect that Chong Yi, who was always too lazy to think, could understand him immediately, put his hand on Chong Yi's head and kissed loudly again.

Chong Yi immediately put his arms around Song Peiyu's waist, and retaliated and bit the lip that wanted to leave. Although the force was ruthless, it would not hurt.

Song Peiyu would rather be in pain than feel such an unbearable position.

After a long while, Song Peiyu, who was out of breath, was let go, and his palm was softly slapped on the map on the wall, but he couldn't continue to share his discovery with Chong Yi immediately because of his breathlessness. I don't know if it was because of breathlessness or panting , a crimson color spread silently on his face.

Chong Yi kindly asked Song Peiyu to lean against him to calm her eager breathing, and even offered to stretch out her hand to ease Song Peiyu's breath, but in exchange for a loud voice on the back of her hand and Song Peiyu's white eyes.

After Song Peiyu regained her breath, she immediately pushed Chong Yi away, warned Chong Yi to be more serious with her eyes, and then continued to tell Chong Yi what he found.

He suddenly noticed just now that Bai County, Cheng County, and Feng County are in a straight line from a certain angle, and the three counties are all run through by Moshui.

Over the past few decades, the once famous Moshui has become a river that is about to dry up, Song Peiyu didn't immediately think of this.

Bai County, the location of the peace talks proposed by Chen Guo, is located in the most downstream position.

This is an angle that Song Peiyu never thought of when she investigated Bai County, Cheng County, and Feng County.

Because of this discovery, among the [-] cavalry led by Song Peiyu and Chong Yi, there were suddenly dozens of doctors, and a steady stream of doctors came from Yizhou and Weijun.

In addition, Song Peiyu also screened out abnormalities that had never been noticed from other news collected in Yuzhou.

This is the news that Chongyi's personal guards went all over the Chu city of Yuzhou and found out among the soldiers.

Since three years ago, the weather in Yuzhou has become more and more strange. The weather in May is getting hotter every year, and there is more and more rain in June.

Western Henan is mostly located upstream, and the situation is better.

I heard that last year, many places in eastern Henan were flooded.

After hearing these news, let's look at Bai County, Cheng County and Feng County that are run through by Moshui.

Song Peiyu also remembered the possibility that Chen Guofei would set the location of the peace talks in Bai County.

As the date of the peace talks agreed between Zhao Guo and Chen Guo approached, Chong Yi, Song Peiyu, and Xue Lin all arrived at the county seat closest to Bai County.

In the correspondence between the two parties, Xue Lin expressed that he wanted to hold a banquet in Baixian County in three days to clean up Prince Zhao and Yuan Jun and show his friendship as a landlord.

After Song Peiyu received the letter, he immediately immersed himself in the news of Yuzhou's weather changes in recent years that he had asked people to collect, trying to find out the pattern as soon as possible, and speculated on the possibility of floods in Baixian County due to the desert water that was about to dry up.

After reading Xue Lin's letter, Chong Yi only said that he knew it, and ordered Laifu to bring his whetstone and polish the darts he carried with him.

Disturbed by the regular 'click' sound, Song Peiyu raised her head and looked at Chong Yi with a faint gaze.

Chong Yilift and Song Peiyu looked at each other without any intention of stopping.

After a while, Song Peiyu suddenly overturned the news piled up in front of him, and strode towards Chong Yi.

Sit back and polish your darts!

He is so stupid, there is a human lie detector by his side, what else is he investigating?

If you have anything to say, you can ask Xue Lin directly in front of Xue Lin three days later.

Among the many graves that Xue Lin planned in Bai County, the graves of himself and his confidantes must not be included.

Three days later, at the cleansing banquet, all Zhao Chen and Chen Chen who came to Bai County to participate in the peace talks will be present, and Xue Lin will not be absent either.

As long as Xue Lin's brain is not completely broken, Xue Lin will not regard the dust-cleaning feast three days later as the last day to collect the net.

As for after the cleansing banquet... Song Peiyu silently accelerated the speed of sharpening the knife.

Looking at Song Peiyu who had been working for a while, Chong Yi blinked helplessly, then suddenly got up and walked behind Song Peiyu, holding Song Peiyu's hands.

Hold the head and tail of the dart in your hand, and polish the dart to the best condition with just one stroke.

Chong Yi raised the dart in Song Peiyu's hand, and blew lightly, the hair on the dart snapped off.

"I promise you won't see the living Xue Lin." The deep voice rang in Song Peiyu's ear.

Song Peiyu's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately said, "Don't! I have something to ask Xue Lin myself."