Reborn as King again

In the midsummer of August, another major event happened. Zheng Guo sent an envoy to send me a secret letter, hoping to stop the war with Datong and divide Dashang instead.Originally Dashang and Ran were two small affiliated countries intermingled between Datong and Zheng. Since the war between Datong and Zheng, the two small countries have taken refuge in the neighboring big country respectively.However, due to civil strife, the country has been destroyed, and its territory is included in Datong.The only small countries that are still involved are big merchants.

Ouyang Hai, the Emperor of the Zheng Kingdom, hopes to annex Da Shang with me at this juncture. Thinking about it, there is no loss to me, and there is nothing to calculate. Anyway, sooner or later, Da Shang will be eliminated.But from this point of view, Zheng Guo, like Datong, seems to be the umbrella of a small country on the surface, but in fact they are always thinking about how to annex each other.

I privately summoned a few old ministers to the Imperial Study, of course not to discuss with them, but to tell them that I plan to cooperate with Ouyang Hai to swallow up the big merchants together.He Wenyan, who has always been influenced by Confucian culture, despises Ouyang Hai's approach. After all, the big merchants trust Zheng Guo and form an alliance with Zheng Guo. How can Zheng Guo stab the big business in the back? !

If He Wenyan knew that I had let Xiaoba control the demise of Ranguo, I don’t know how he would feel. After all, Ranguo is also a small ally country that trusts Datong’s offerings every year.He Wenyan's thoughts and deeds are only suitable for the period of business maintenance, or the period of peace and happiness. Now wars are constantly breaking out among the countries in the Central Plains. In order to win the battle and expand the territory, how can they not use some means.

After I made the decision, I sent a secret decree to He Wenwu overnight, telling him that I had contacted Ouyang Hai and planned to stop fighting and divide the Dashang territory with him, but I was suspected by Dashang and caused unnecessary losses. I asked He Wenwu to put on a show on the surface, and occasionally fight a little with Zheng Guo's army, so that there should be no more large-scale wars.I gave He Wenwu full authority to have private written correspondence with General Zheng Guo, and let them think about the battle plan and how to divide the territory of Dashang.

Even if I know what He Wenwu is like, I still don’t trust him. I don’t trust anyone. Besides, He Wenwu is only good at fighting with soldiers. He doesn’t know how to calculate and plan. In my previous life, I would not have taken back the military power from him so easily.So I wrote a letter to Xiaoba by the way, asking him to assist He Wenwu from the side. When negotiating with Zheng Guo, Xiaoba must know every step of the way, so as not to let Datong suffer.

Three months later, He Wenwu and Zheng Guo's general Wu Cong made a plan. On the surface, they seemed to plan to fight the last battle before the year. The scale was very large. The two dispatched almost all their troops. The Imperial City Mall is five hundred miles away. If this battle is really fought, it will definitely hurt the vitality of both sides, but this is just a pretense.

Two months before the start of the war, He Wenwu had already divided his troops into two groups, one of which was quietly moved to the station of Zheng Guo's army.And sewed Zheng Guo's military uniform overnight.At the same time, the real Zheng Guojun began to change into civilian clothes and marched towards the mall in batches.

The last battle between Datong and Zheng Guo years ago was just a play directed and acted by He Wenwu. They were caught off guard.Within a day, the mall was captured, and Wu Cong captured the great merchant emperor Liang Chengyi alive.

To capture the king first, He Wenwu and Wu Cong felt that instead of spending their time and energy occupying the various cities of the Great Merchants, it would be better to attack Huanglong directly.Wu Cong volunteered who would send troops to attack the mall. After all, when Dashang and Zheng Guo formed an alliance, Wu Cong had been to the mall and knew the terrain and environment there very well. Fighting would be much easier, so He Wenwu agreed battle plan.

Sure enough, after the imperial city was captured and the emperor was captured, the entire business was plunged into panic and chaos. Soon, the prefects guarding the cities handed over letters of surrender, willing to open the gates just to save their lives.In December, the entire Dashang was jointly occupied by Datong and Zheng Guo.

After the great merchants were destroyed, it was time to discuss how to share the land equally with Zheng Guo.Fortunately, the mall is located in the loyal area of ​​Dashang. We decided to use the mall as the dividing point, and return the east to Datong, and the south to Zheng. I will send envoys to negotiate with him about the specific situation.Getting another piece of territory years ago is really the best gift for the New Year.

Everything would go smoothly, but Ouyang Hai made a request to me. He will not share the mall equally with me, but give me all of the mall, and also give me the Liang family of the royal family of the great merchants who were captured alive. I only hope that I can return his second son, Ouyang Chu.Let me just say, why Zheng Guo took the initiative to invite Ying to attack the mall, so that he could capture the Liang clan alive and exchange hostages with me.

Ouyang Chu was unfortunately captured in the Phoenix City battle with He Wenwu before, and was sent to the capital as a prisoner.If Ouyang Hai hadn't brought it up, I would have almost forgotten about it. After all, I have too many prisoners.Since the other party is Prince Zheng, I thought he was almost disabled if he was not dead. The eunuch I sent to find Ouyang Chu told me that Ouyang Chu is still imprisoned in a prisoner camp in good condition, with no damage.

This is really not like my style. I vaguely remember that Zeng Jin seemed to have played with Ouyang Chu, and he was able to live a good life. But that's good, I can negotiate more conditions with Ouyang Hai. If Ouyang Chu is killed by me Playing like a human and a ghost, I'm afraid it won't be long before the war will start again. After fighting for so many years, it's time to recuperate.

I told Ouyang Hai that it is possible to return Ouyang Chu, but adding the Liang clan to the mall is not enough, I want ten more cities.Ouyang Chu is the most outstanding among Ouyang Hai's sons, otherwise he wouldn't have tried to beg him for it.Later, Ouyang Hai negotiated again, and finally decided to exchange seven cities, plus the Shang City, with the Liang family for Ouyang Chu, the second prince of the State of Zheng.

I asked Xiaoba to sign the split agreement on behalf of me. I can rest assured that Xiaoba will handle things. His clever mind will not let the other party take advantage of him.

In the spring of the following year, when the queen mother came back from Nanshan, she looked a little clearer, with less majesty and more indifference between her brows. I always felt that something was different about her.Someone will report to me regularly about my mother's daily sleeping and eating. There is nothing unusual. Something must have happened to my mother that I don't know.

When my mother went to Nanshan, Lanmei accompanied me. I called Lanmei quietly at night and asked her about my mother's situation in Nanshan. Lanmei said that my mother lived very well in Nanshan. She copied scriptures and listened to Buddhist scriptures every day. Leisurely.

One of the changes made by the mother is to believe in Buddhism. People will believe in these things more or less when they are old. The same is true before the mother went to Nanshan, but she is definitely not as pious as she is now.The queen mother only eats Vegetarian food, recites Buddha's name in the ancestral hall for two hours every day, and copies Buddhist scriptures in the afternoon.A few days after his mother returned to Beijing, Grand Master Xia went to the palace to ask for an audience, but his mother did not summon him, and then he responded to Grand Master Xia's request several times in a row, as if he didn't want to ask about court affairs anymore.

Lan Mei told me that my mother met a teacher named Jing Miao in a nunnery in Nanshan.

Later, when the queen mother returned to Beijing, she approached Mrs. Jingmiao several times, hoping that she could go with her before. Now Mrs. Jingmiao lives in a small nunnery on the outskirts of the capital, and the queen mother still goes out of the palace every now and then to listen to Jingmiao. The teacher explained the Buddhist scriptures.

I sent someone to check the details of Mrs. Jingmiao. She was an ordinary nun who fled to Nanshan as a refugee. When she was about to starve to death, she was rescued by a nun in the nunnery. Mrs. Jingmiao felt that the Buddha had pity on her and gave her She had a chance to live again, so she shaved her hair and became a nun. She has been living in the nunnery in Nanshan. In the past 20 years, she has never even stepped out of the gate of the nunnery. Too much influence to start believing in Buddhism.

Since the queen mother wants to believe in that thing, I will naturally contribute. In order to show my filial piety to the queen mother, I spent a lot of money to repair the nunnery where Master Jingmiao lives. For the name, the nunnery was named "Jing'an".In this way, it can be regarded as half a royal temple. For a while, the incense in Jing'an was very strong, and almost all the women and Taoists in the capital would come to Jing'an to pay their respects and listen to Master Jingmiao's explanation of Buddhist scriptures.

At the beginning of March, my mother asked me to call Xiaoba back to Beijing. I was so scared that I thought my mother knew about Xiaoba and He Wenwu, but after a little questioning, I found that it was not the case at all.

The queen mother recited the prayer beads in her hand and told me, "The Ai family just misses Xiao Ba a little bit."

Normally, I would ask Xiao Ba to come back to see his mother, but this is just the signing of the armistice agreement with Zheng Guo, the division of the city, Ouyang Chu's escort, and the diplomacy with Zheng Guo are all things, I still have to rely on Xiao Ba Eight helped me to do it, and now I can't call him back no matter what.He couldn't refuse openly, so he had to listen to his mother's words and issued an imperial decree to call Xiao Ba back to Beijing, and then wrote a letter privately telling Xiao Ba not to come back, what to do.

Xiao Ba was very obedient, and wrote a memorial when I turned around, saying that I was very busy, that I had no face to come back after finishing the things I explained. The queen mother summoned Xiao Ba back, not just thinking about him.

As for the matter of the harem, the queen mother completely let go of it. The Phoenix Seal was handed over to Zhou Ling, and she didn't cultivate him very much. He let him think about it slowly, and didn't pay attention at all. I remember that she spent a lot of effort back then. How the princess who trained the emperor's brother became the mother of a country may really be because the queen mother is too old to care about it.