Thousands of Mountains

On a dark rainy night, a figure in military camp riding clothes, holding the rein and galloping horse, approached the imperial city. At this time, the city gate was closed. Shouting along the road, "The 800-mile northwestern frontier hastened the military situation—the city gate opened quickly!"

The guard on duty at night on the city wall was awakened by the shouts, and before he had time to put on his poncho, he stood on the city wall and looked from a distance. He saw a man on horseback wearing a military uniform of the Northwest Town Beiying, holding a document with a long feathered arrow, and hurriedly ordered the guards below to open the door. .

The messengers of the Zhenbei Camp rushed into the imperial city like arrows, blowing a whirlwind of water mist like a sharp knife.

Galloping all the way into the palace gate, the supervisor of ceremonies did not dare to delay when he saw the urgent military situation. Gao Ren, the eunuch with palm prints beside the emperor, entered the Guangming Hall and reported to the emperor Chen Ze that there was military information from the northwest. Chen Ze had not gone to bed yet. , and did not wear the royal uniform, but the slanted-breasted wide robe and large sleeves as always, the thinnest and smoothest cicada-wing silk tribute from the south of the Yangtze River. Usually, beside him is Fang Shoujing, a Taoist priest who has lived in the deep palace for the past ten years and has been offering various elixir to Chen Zejin.

Chen Ze was reclined on a rosewood couch, his face was pale and his cheeks were sunken, his eyes were slightly closed and he nodded lightly, saying, "I see."

Gao Ren asked tentatively, "The messengers from the northern battalion of the town are still kneeling outside the hall, what should the emperor do?"

After a while, Chen Ze opened his eyes sharply and said in a stern voice, "Call Qi Yanzhi! Tell everyone in the cabinet to enter the Yinghua Palace immediately! The messenger is also brought there."

Gao Ren hurriedly responded, and stepped back quickly.

Chen Ze said loudly again, "Call the prince over, and King Han!"

Fang Shoujing handed over a red jade pill, served tea, and said, "The emperor has worked hard day and night, and no one can share his worries these years. Outsiders don't care about the health of the emperor's dragon body, but the emperor himself still has to take care of it."

Chen Ze snorted coldly, took the pills, looked at the black abyss outside the palace, and said in a cold voice, "In ancient times, if the monarchs and ministers were not of one mind, the world would be in chaos. Now, the monarchs and ministers are becoming more and more incomprehensible to me. They called me a living god to my face, but said behind my back that I was a fool and ruined the country, and I only knew how to make alchemy to become a fairy all day long."

Fang Shoujing was a little taken aback, and asked, "Who is so bold to slander the current emperor?"

Chen Ze had no expression on his face, and said coldly, "There are too many, important officials in the court, without exception."

After a while, Gao Ren entered the hall and reported that the cabinet and the crown prince had arrived at Yinghua Hall. Chen Ze got off the couch, and the young eunuchs hurried over to serve him and put on his slippers and robes. Chen Ze walked out of the hall, and a luxurious soft sedan chair was waiting in the hall. Outside, Chen Ze got into the sedan chair, and the eunuchs carried it towards the Yishi Pavilion in the Yinghua Palace.

The five cabinet courtiers waiting in the Yinghua Palace were still carrying the humidity of the night rain, and the crown prince Chen Ji was also among them, but the King of Han Chen Yi was not there.

Chen Ze glanced at the crowd, and asked in a deep voice, "King Han hasn't arrived yet?"

Just as he was talking, Queen Qiu Yiren's voice came from outside the hall, "Yi'er just caught a cold, so she came late, the emperor can't be blamed."

The Queen brought Chen Yi into the Yinghua Hall together. Chen Yi was fat and fat, rubbing her nose with the back of her hand, and immediately leaned over when she saw the prince's brother.

Chen Ze frowned, and said sternly to the queen, "The cabinet discusses important military affairs, the queen doesn't need to come."

There was a moment of embarrassment on Qiu Yi's face, and then he returned to his normal expression, and said, "The concubine is just escorting Yi'er, and she will return to the palace immediately, the emperor calms down his anger." After saying that, she bowed shallowly and exited the palace.

Chen Ze pointed to the orderling, and the cavalryman was still wet, and asked, "How is the situation in the Northwest Army?"

The messenger kowtowed and knelt down, and said, "Tak Hulun, the Great Khan of the Shule Kingdom, has unified the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. This time he personally led a large army to invade our northwest frontier defense. He really came prepared. The deputy commander of the Northwest Battalion, Ji Ran, fell to Guanxi. After the defeat, General Ji has been captured by the enemy, and the President leads General Yan to retreat to Xining with the rest of the army. If there is no reinforcements, the seven guards in Kansai will be lost!"

Everyone was shocked, and Chen Ze turned to his back and asked angrily, "Gu Cheng, do you know the military situation in the Northwest? Why is the military situation so urgent that it was not communicated?!"

Gu Cheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, got up and knelt down in a panic, "Your Majesty, calm down, I know, but the battle situation at the border is changing rapidly, and I have never heard of General Ji's fall in the past few days..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Ze was already furious, "You can rest easy if you haven't heard about it, right? I have two iron cavalry defense lines in the north and south of Daning. If it weren't for those years, all of you would have waited in court to report Lin Moyan's negligence and dereliction of duty. Xi Qiwei slaughtered the city overnight, forcing me to dismiss him and put him under house arrest, will he be vulnerable today?!"

Chen Ze was heartbroken, "Seven Guards of Guanxi! Those are my shields for the entire west of Daning! If there is no west, the whole of Guanzhong can drive straight in. When other people's cavalry break through the capital, you will hold your heads on the ground and tell me Never heard of it!"

Everyone fell to the ground in panic, but Qi Yanzhi got up calmly and persuaded, "The massacre of the city caused by General Lin Moyan's dereliction of duty back then is no more worthy of excuses than today's military situation. His Majesty's punishment back then was already extremely merciful. In exile, let him be under house arrest because of his meritorious service in guarding the border for many years. In terms of the emergency situation in the Northwest today, if the massacre of the city hadn't hurt the vitality of the army and the people, it wouldn't be where it is now. , the root is still in Lin."

Hearing this, Liang Luoshu was so angry that his beard and beard trembled. He knelt on the ground and almost burst into tears. He said tremblingly, "General Lin has guarded the border for 20 years, and his military discipline is strict. As far as the city is concerned, when the tragedy happened that year, you didn’t go into the details to find out what’s weird inside. Instead, you insisted that it was General Lin’s fault, and easily took away the reputation of the iron cavalry that the general’s military life built. You... I want to ask you what is going on. What's on your mind!"

"The Grand Tutor doesn't have to sacrifice his life to defend a sinner. There are all the witnesses and evidences back then. Negligence is an iron case. No one has wronged Lin Moyan. He himself has never defended himself. Why do we have to argue about this person today? .” Gu Chengru said.

Chen Ze waved his robe, furious, "Leave aside the matter of the past, I will ask you a question today, except for Lin Moyan, who can keep the peace in the northwest? Huh? You jointly elected Yan Shiliang back then, how is it now? After the shame and humiliation of being arrested by the lieutenant general, Gao Ren passed the decree to Yan Shiliang, if Xining can't keep it, it's not enough for Yan Shiliang's nine clans to go to Kansai to be buried with him!"

Everyone knelt on the ground and looked at each other. Chen Ji and Chen Yi also bowed down on the ground together. After a while, Chen Yi's fat body was shaking, and a puddle of water came out from under the hem of his robe.

Chen Ji at the side was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what was going on. He quietly waved to Gao Ren who was guarding by the door, and motioned to the ground. Here comes a clean cotton cloth.

Chen Ze also noticed Chen Yi's strangeness. Seeing the water stains on the ground, he looked at Chen Yi with an angry and disgusted expression. Gao Ren came over to pull Chen Yi up again and again, and said, "Since King Han is not feeling well, this old slave will take him early Go back and rest."

Chen Zen let out a hum, Chen Yi trembled and was dragged away by Gao Ren, dripping all the way down, in a state of embarrassment, all the officials shook their heads and dared not speak.

Chen Yi, who was sent back to the queen's dormitory by Gao Ren, ran over crying after seeing her mother, howling, "Father scared the child."

When Empress Qiu Yiren saw this, she was stunned for a moment, then pushed him away, and slapped him fiercely in the face, "Useless thing! Father told you to sit aside and listen to politics, and you'll be scared to pee." After beating him Looking at the crying son, the look of severe disgust in his eyes was not at all the gentle and amiable queen in the daytime, she seemed to be mocking herself and said to herself, "If you are so cowardly, one day you will really sit in that chair, you have to scare me!" I lost my soul."

Chen Yi had just returned from her father's terrified slap, and received an even more terrified slap from her mother. She was at a loss for a while, with tears hanging on her face, she forgot to cry, and froze on the spot...

In the meeting cabinet of the Yinghua Palace, the cabinet ministers have been unable to draw up the list of generals to go to the expedition. Chen Ji, who had been silent since entering the hall, raised his face at this moment, cupped his hands at Chen Ze and said, "Father, my son has a merciless request. "

Chen Ze waved his hand, "Say it."

"There is no one in the court who can go to the northwest at this moment. If General Lin Moyan is not allowed to go to the northwest, General Lin regards the northwest as his home, and will do his best to protect it. In addition, this time, he specially set up a favor for his father, as a crime. Going there, out of gratitude and for the reunion of the family, will certainly not let the Seven Guardians of Kansai miss their hands."

As soon as this remark came out, both Qi Yanzhi and Gu Cheng objected, "It's absolutely impossible, His Highness the Crown Prince's remark is a joke..."

Chen Ze interrupted the two of them again, "You give me a list? Besides Lin Moyan, who can pacify the Northwest? I will order him to suppress the North General, give him a tiger talisman, and set off immediately tonight!"

Qi and Gu looked at each other, and Qi Yanzhi sighed deeply, "It's a pity that there is no one in court!"

Chen Ze beckoned Gao Ren to draw up an edict to temporarily resume his position as the commander of the Northern Camp of Lin Moyan Township, dispatch [-] troops from Liaodong, and set off for the northwest immediately.

Chen Ji and Liang Luoshu were slightly relieved at this moment.

Only then did Chen Ze order Chen Ji to get up and give him a seat. Seeing that Chen Ji looked more and more like the face of the former Empress Chunhui, Chen Ze was in a daze for a moment, and came back to his senses and said to him, "It's late at night, go back to the house to rest."

When Chen Ji came out of the palace, it was already a quarter of Yin's time. When he saw Yin Cen guarding outside the palace gate, Chen Ji felt warm in his heart and ran over quickly.

Chen Ji dragged Yin Cen into the carriage together, the carriage was not spacious, it was padded with soft pillows, just big enough for two people to sit together.

Chen Ji and Yin Cen crossed their shoulders and arms, feeling the warm breath coming from their bodies, and they felt at ease, and the tension and panic in the Yishi Pavilion a moment ago were all washed away.

Yin Cen asked, "Why are you called into the palace so urgently in the middle of the night?"

Chen Ji talked about the emergency situation of the Northwest Frontier Defense, and General Lin Moyan also talked about everything that happened to General Lin Moyan after the tragedy that year. He also talked about his recommendation to re-appoint General Lin tonight, and the emperor also approved it.

After hearing this, Yin Cen thought about it in his mind, and he was more sure that there was something wrong with the Kansai case back then, but he felt a little more at ease when he heard that General Lin Moyan was finally able to go to the northwest again.

Chen Ji held Yin Cen's hands, "Every time I hear about the events in Kansai, I think of you. Even if it's not for Daning, but for you, I will keep Kansai safe."

Yin Cen was wrapped in his hands, feeling that the child's strength was growing, he turned his head and smiled, and said in his heart, "Back then... some things have passed, and some things may never pass."

Chen Ji got closer and leaned his head on Yin Cen's shoulder. Now he was half a head taller than Yin Cen, but he still looked like a child when he leaned over like this. Yin Cen erected his back to make him lean more comfortably Some time later, he put his hand on the other person's back, gently stroking and patting him. Ever since Yin Cen entered the mansion at the age of 13, after Chen Ji was poisoned by the whirling Nianxiang San|poisoned, he often coaxed Chen Ji to sleep like this. Beating the familiar rhythm, Chen Ji quickly fell into a deep sleep.

There is a smell on Yin Cen's body, which can only be smelled at a very close distance, a faint refreshing smell of green grass after the rain. Every time Chen Ji puts his head close to his shoulder and neck, he can't help but get closer and smell like an animal. He was repeatedly scolded by Yin Cen with a smile and said that he looked like a prince from a distance and looked like a puppy up close. He was embarrassed to tell Yin Cen that he just liked the smell of you, so he had to sniff it hard every time as if pretending to be joking.

At this moment, he was caught in that smell again, warm, with just the right body temperature, refreshing, accompanied by Yin Cen's smooth breathing and heaving chest, for some reason, there were so many dangers around him, and only this figure was not A burly, even a little thin person can give him a sense of security to fall asleep peacefully. He pinches Yin Cen's slender and slender knuckles and leans against his neck. Ji felt that Brother Pingshan in front of him was totally different from his usual appearance.

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