Make peace with the Lord of the Prairie

"Ah, choo!" In the carriage, Ming Heng sneezed so loudly that everyone inside and outside the car was shocked.

When the official saw that something was wrong, he opened his fan early to cover his face and avoid splashing saliva.After he finished playing, he put away the fan, and said with disgust: "The sixth prince, how decent is he?"

Ming Heng felt aggrieved: "My nose is itchy, I can't help it."

"Cold?"

"No," Ming Heng touched his nose and said indifferently, "Probably someone is missing me."

In Jingheyuan's bedroom, the atmosphere was extremely quiet.

Even though it had been a while since He Hanhuan told the truth, He Zexi still couldn't regain his senses for a long time, and was even a little dizzy, his eyes went black for a while, and his mind was full of He Hanhuan's silent acquiescence just now.

My younger brother, despite his identity, actually had a relationship with the sixth prince...

He has lived for more than 20 years, and nothing shocked him more than this.Although both the Central Plains and the Grassland are tolerant towards Nanfeng, it is still difficult for He Zexi to accept the fact that one is the prince of Anling and the other is the king of a country.

He was stunned for a while before he uttered dryly: "You two...how decent are you!"

After being taught by his brother, He Hanhuan gradually became guilty, and explained in a low voice: "You also know that Chunhuan powder is very overbearing, and this is a helpless move. You can't just watch me explode and die."

"Then why is it the sixth prince...the others..."

"Others? Have you forgotten that Chunhuansan is a medicine specially for lower-ranking people? In that case, you let me find someone casually? After thinking about it, the sixth prince is the most suitable." He Hanhuan learned People who don't come to the Central Plains are shy, and speak straightforwardly and boldly.He spoke calmly, but it was He Zexi who blushed first, and turned his head to show an expression of not being able to bear to listen.

But He Zexi also understood that what his younger brother said was the truth, how could he find someone casually in his capacity, wouldn't this be humiliating his dignity as the king of a country?It's just that when he thought of his always strong younger brother being crushed by a man, he couldn't help being angry and distressed, and felt wronged for his younger brother.

He Hanhuan saw his brother's expression, but dared not tell him the truth.If he told him that he was willing to be crushed by Ming Heng, and even secretly met a few times later, He Shilang, who has always been a gentleman, would have to hang himself with a jujube thorn and beat him.

After He Hanhuan sorted out the situation in front of him, he immediately gave in and pretended to be wronged in an attempt to soften his brother's heart: "Brother, don't be angry, I really couldn't help it at the time. Besides, I was the one who suffered the most."

He Zexi is not angry, he is clearly distressed, even if he is angry, it is because Qi Mingheng has taken such a big advantage of his younger brother for nothing!It's just that it's done, it's useless for him to be angry again.Sighing dejectedly, he asked He Hanhuan: "What are you going to do now?"

"What should I do?" He Hanhuan looked blank.

"You and the sixth prince, you and him from now on..."

He Hanhuan interrupted him with a chuckle: "What future do I have with him, we just slept together, do you want me to marry him?"

These words made He Zexi a little surprised: "You really think so? Do you really have no personal feelings for the sixth prince?"

He Hanhuan was silent for a long time before saying: "Even if there is an affair, so what, can we still get married? Even if I agree to marry him, will Emperor Anling agree? Besides, we are both men, and there is no such thing as chastity. I am just I slept with him once, and I didn't lose a piece of meat. As for Mingheng, he didn't suffer a loss, and he got a benefit for nothing, didn't he? He helped me with the antidote, and I made him comfortable, and I owed nothing to anyone. "

Probably no one in this world knows He Hanhuan better than He Zexi.Regarding the matter of selfless love for the sixth prince, He Hanhuan has already explained the problem without denying it.His younger brother is decisive, he is outspoken about whether he likes it or not, and he never hesitates, which means he is wavering.He didn't know if He Hanhuan said that on purpose to prevent him from worrying, or if he hadn't realized his feelings for Ming Heng, but he didn't intend to expose it, after all, it doesn't matter whether they have feelings for each other or not. possible thing.Since he knew that there was no result to this matter, there was no need to speak out to increase the annoyance.

"It's good that you understand it in your heart." He Zexi thought it over and beat it.

He Hanhuan nodded with a calm expression.After a pause, he raised his head again and looked at his brother apologetically: "I'm sorry, but my waywardness has troubled you."

He Zexi said indifferently: "It's okay, since you have told me the truth, I will be able to deal with it freely from now on."

"It's clear...the sixth prince has been pestering you...how about I tell him the truth."

He Zexi coldly rejected He Hanhuan's proposal as soon as he said it: "What nonsense! No one can tell you about your background!"

He Hanhuan actually regretted it after finishing speaking, lowered his head and whispered: "I was confused."

He Zexi's heart softened again, and he stretched out his hand to rub the top of his younger brother's hair, and comforted him softly: "Don't worry too much, the sixth prince has a pure heart, and with my identity, he probably feels ashamed of me, it will be fine after a while. By the way, father will return to Beijing soon, why don't you...leave Beijing for a few days?"

He Han was unhappy: "Why can't I stay here when my father returns to Beijing? I still want to see his old man? He must miss me too."

"It's only temporary," He Zexi explained patiently, "Father has been guarding the border for more than ten years, and he has made great achievements. This time, His Majesty will reward you when he returns to Beijing. At that time, the Duke's mansion will inevitably come and go, and there will be many people. It is too much for you to stay in the capital." Taking risks, it is better to leave for a while and come back after father settles down. Why don't you take advantage of this time to go back and have a look? You have been away for some time. A country cannot live without a king, and neither can you Be willful."

He Hanhuan didn't refuse this time, and after a long silence, he said reluctantly: "Well, I'll go back first, and come to see you and father again in a while."

"Ah."

On the other side, Ming Heng bid farewell to Guan Ze and returned to the palace.As soon as he entered the Chonghua Palace, someone from the palace came to pass the word, saying that Emperor Qianyuan had summoned him to talk to the imperial study.Ming Heng didn't dare to neglect, went back to the palace, changed his clothes, and followed the palace servants to the imperial study.

At the door of the study room, Yuan Xi, the chief executive, stood guard at the door, and hurriedly bowed to greet Ming Heng when he saw Ming Heng: "I have seen His Highness the Sixth Highness."

"Eunuch Yuan."

"Go in, Your Majesty, Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time."

Ming Heng was worried, pulled Yuan Xi aside and asked in a low voice: "Grandpa Yuan, do you know why Father Huang asked me to come?"

Yuan Xi smiled lightly and said nothing, lightly tapped the back of Mingheng's hand, and said in a thin voice: "Your Highness, you don't need to be nervous, it's a good thing. Come in quickly." After speaking, he raised his voice to tell Emperor Qianyuan in the room.

Soon Emperor Qianyuan called Ming Heng to go in.Ming Heng had no choice but to bite the bullet and walked in.Walking to the front of the imperial case, he lifted his clothes and kowtowed respectfully: "I see my father."

"Get up." Emperor Qianyuan's voice could not hear any joy or anger, which made Mingheng even more uneasy.

Since his concubine's mother died of illness, Emperor Qianyuan became more and more indifferent to him, and usually didn't even look at him.Others love him so much, whether true or false, but Mingheng enjoys himself. He has no intention of being on the throne, so whether his father cares about him is irrelevant to him.In my impression, it was the first time that my father had talked to him in private.

Ming Heng stood up, but he didn't dare to slack off, he stood upright in front of Emperor Qianyuan, and said cautiously: "Why did the emperor call my son here?"

Emperor Qianyuan didn't answer, and threw a memorial: "Look at it first."

Ming Heng stretched out his hand to catch it, and started reading according to the words.

The memorial was urgently sent to Kyoto eight hundred miles from the local area, and it was compiled by the magistrate of Chengzhou.

Chengzhou Prefecture is the westernmost state capital of Anling, bordering the small country Xiwu in the west and Yerun, the largest nomadic people in the north, in the north.Due to the complex environment and frequent inter-ethnic population, the security of Chengzhou Prefecture has always been a problem.The bandits who had been rampant in the northwest for many years were stationed in the deep mountains of Chengzhou.Most of those bandits were deserters. After fleeing to Chengzhou under the cover of anonymity, they were unwilling to live a down-to-earth life. They relied on their three-legged cat kung fu to occupy the mountains and become kings.The imperial court sent troops to suppress the bandits several times, but they all failed, and the bandits became more and more rampant.

The magistrate of Chengzhou said in the memorial that they had carried out another bandit suppression recently, but the opponent had a large number of people and occupied a favorable terrain, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. A lieutenant was lost.The magistrate of Chengzhou reported the situation of the bandit suppression in a few words, and then used more than half of the space to confess, expressing his willingness to be punished, and then changed the subject, bluntly saying that the enemy was too powerful, not that he was incompetent, and tried to excuse himself.

Ming Heng frowned more and more, after reading the ten lines at a glance, he quietly folded the memorial and put it back on the imperial case.

Emperor Qianyuan asked: "What do you think about the bandits in the Northwest?"

Mingheng settled down and thought for a while before answering: "The bandits in the Northwest are mostly outlaws who step on blood with their knives. In addition, the terrain in the Northwest is complicated, they occupy a favorable terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is not much advantage in a head-on confrontation with them. The failure to suppress the bandits is also justifiable.”

Emperor Qianyuan snorted lightly, unable to tell whether he was happy or angry, Ming Heng raised his heart suddenly, suspecting that he had said something wrong.However, Emperor Qianyuan soon took out another memorial and sighed, "Look at this again."

Mingheng took it with both hands, unfolded it and looked at it.Different from the ten lines at a glance just now, he read this copy extremely slowly, reading it word by word, for fear of missing a word.Because this memorial was impeached by a county magistrate under the Chengzhou prefecture for colluding with the bandits, cooperating with the bandits, collecting the people's fat and anointing, and enriching their own pockets. Even the lieutenant general who died in the payment operation was not killed in battle at all, but It was because he discovered the secret of Chengzhou magistrate, and was killed by the magistrate and bandits.

Mingheng's expression changed after watching the whole thing, and he looked at Emperor Qianyuan in shock: "Father, is this true?"

Emperor Qianyuan sneered: "It's all delivered to me, do you think it's true or not?"

Ming Heng couldn't believe it, and murmured: "It's no wonder that those bandits have been unable to suppress them for so long. So it's not that they can't but they don't want to! Father, if what the memorial says is true, the prefect of Chengzhou really deserves death."

Emperor Qianyuan stood up silently, walked to the window with his hands behind his back, and then said lightly: "There is no hurry. At this moment, Zhang Wanqian has been domineering in Chengzhou for many years, and I am afraid that there are more than the crimes mentioned in the memorial. It is urgent. It is time to send someone to Chengzhou to investigate and discuss clearly." At this point, Emperor Qianyuan paused, turned around and looked at Ming Heng, "Would you like to go?"