Thousands of Mountains

Yun Jianqing has returned to Beijing.

The dignified commander of the Funan Battalion and General Yun Jianqing returned to Beijing with his family. Back then, he and General Lin Moyan were the only kings with different surnames in Daning. After the Kansai massacre, Lin Moyan After being dismissed and seized the title, the only remaining king with a different surname was Yun Jianqing.

They grew up together with the emperor Chen Ze, who studied with the prince when they were young, and helped the succeeding emperor guard the country when they grew up.

Both he and Lin Moyan volunteered to lead the army, one went to the northwest and the other to the southeast. The night before leaving, the two of them had a long talk with each other all night long.

Lin Moyan frowned and asked, "I have no wife and no children, and I am a widow. Since I was a child, I have determined to be a man who wants to fight in the battlefield. It is suitable to guard the northwest. Why do you want to go to the southeast?"

Yun Jianqing drank the wine in his glass, "Tell me, is it the danger from the court or the enemy?"

Lin Moyan smiled slightly, "I know what you mean, do you have so little confidence in him?"

Yun Jianqing also relaxed, and sighed, "People change, he just took over the throne now, so everything is naturally focused on appeasing him, but you and I grew up with him, what kind of temperament do you need, I don't need to say more .”

Lin Moyan was silent, and then said, "Is it just because of him? It has nothing to do with Chunhui?"

Yun Jianqing paused, holding the wine glass in the air for a moment, and said to Lin Moyan, "It's only you and me at this moment, I won't hide it from you." Seeing Lin Moyan listening carefully, Yun Jianqing said slowly, "From the day I knew he liked Chunhui, I had stopped thinking about it. Ever since I was a child, I would try my best to get what he wanted regardless of the consequences. Instead of fighting for both sides, why not let go from the beginning, and don't have to. Make Chunhui difficult."

"How do you know that Chunhui likes him? What if she really likes you?" Lin Moyan looked at him and said.

"Is this important? I'm not the emperor, he is the emperor." Yun Jianqing lowered his head.

Lin Moyan also let out a long sigh, one fights for everything and is still the emperor, the other has let go from the beginning and is just a courtier, the end of this wrestling has been written from the beginning.

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Having not returned to Beijing for 19 years, Yun Jianqing looked at the bustling Huantian Street, and his thoughts were pulled back from his memories.

The house had already been sold when he left the capital, he knew that there was no turning back, and now he came back and naturally lived in Yunye's Shizi Mansion.

Yun Ye and Shen Cang respectfully stood at the door to welcome him and his wife, Wu Yutan. Wu Yutan hurried forward and took Yun Ye's hand and looked left and right. The reunion after parting is always very exciting. Just like when I was in Fujian, it was deserted and unremarkable.

He has mixed feelings about the child he brought back in exchange. He knows that it is impossible for him to live the life of an ordinary person with the title of prince, but he hopes that he is just an ordinary person. The art of war and personal skills that should be possessed are not taught at all.

The less talented and mediocre you are, the less you pay attention to, you can live a stable life.

Yun Jianqing thought so, and Yunye had repeatedly confessed when he entered Beijing that he would not make friends with powerful people, would not climb the ranks, and would not attract attention.

However, he forgot that although this child has mediocre aptitude in his eyes, he has a good skin. With the title of son and the background of Funanying, how can he not be wooed by various forces in this capital.

That's why when Yun Jianqing heard that Chen Ze had given Yunye and Princess Zhegui a marriage, he was immediately furious and smashed a table with his palm.

Not only was she furious that Chen Ze wanted to completely lock up his marriage gift, but she was even more furious that Zhe Gui, who Yun Ye wanted to marry, was a daughter of the Qiu family.

Chunhui was originally a queen, but she passed away strangely within a few years after giving birth to the prince Chen Ji, and became a successor with Qiu Yiren.

Chunhui's death was very strange and sudden, Yun Jianqing had no time to react when the incident happened, but thought of the child she left behind, who was expected to have a difficult life in the palace, so he became concerned and ordered Shen Cang to teach his child Kung Fu, and Ask him to bring Yin Cen to the capital and to Prince Chen Ji at the right time.

Everything was as Yun Jianqing expected, Chen Ze and Chunhui were deeply in love, and after Chunhui passed away, nothing remained. Chen Ze became extremely displeased with Chunhui's prince, Chen Ji, and let Qiu Yi pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger. Chen Ji was expelled from the palace.

Ever since Qiu Yiren became the empress, Chen Ze has become more and more obsessed with alchemy and alchemy, and has nothing to do with the government.

For this woman from the Qiu family, Yun Jianqing couldn't get along with her both privately and in public, and now Yun Ye wanted to marry Qiu Yiren's niece. Yun Jianqing went to Beijing full of anger, saw Yun Ye, It is also inevitable to think that it is his ignorance to avoid suspicion, and his random friendship with Zhao Lun and others led to the current situation, so he is even more unkind to him.

In the study, Yun Jianqing and Shen Cang sat and stood.

Shen Cang kept silent. When he was by Yun Jianqing's side, he almost never opened his mouth.Yun Jianqing asked for a while, "He...is he also in Beijing?"

Shen Cang naturally knew who he was asking, "Yes, now the mansion is at the end of Pai'er Hutong, the innermost one."

Yun Jianqing asked again, "Why didn't you dissuade him from becoming an official?"

Shen Cang replied, "I think what he said is reasonable, so I didn't stop him. In addition, the general doesn't know something. His temperament cannot be stopped by others."

Yun Jianqing, "Why do you have to be an official?"

Shen Cang, "The crown prince is old, and the threat he receives is not just from assassination. He can't move even if he is weak in the court. Ping Shan entered the court as an official, so he went to help him."

Yun Jianqing snorted coldly, "Childish! Two ignorant children think they are right."

Shen Cang was silent.

Yun Jianqing said again, "Yun Ye and Zhao Lun are so close, why didn't you stop them?"

Shen Cang sighed in his heart, it was too difficult for me...

He replied calmly, "Zhao Lun once said something that moved the heart of the prince."

"What?"

Shen Cang replied in Zhao Lun's tone, "Now you are helpless in Beijing, but if you marry Princess Zhegui, the entire Qiu family will be your support."

Yun Jianqing slapped the table next to him with a "slap", and Shen Cang clearly saw several cracks on the table under his palm. "This kind of villain, he wants to win over Yunye, so he pulls my entire Funan camp into his camp, Qi Yanzhi, and Qiu Yiren's camp, wishful thinking!"

Facing Shen Cang again, with piercing eyes, "Yunye is isolated and helpless? He actually believes such deceptive words?"

Shen Cang nodded and said in his heart, if you had cared more and loved Shizi earlier, you wouldn't have...

Yun Jianqing clenched her fists in anger.

It's just that the fist never landed on Yun Ye, Yun Jianqing just wouldn't even scold him angrily, like an iceberg for ten thousand years.

When Yun Ye saw his father, his whole body fell into an ice cellar. Two icebergs lay across the middle of the room, and Shen Cang also felt that he couldn't bear it anymore. He admired Wu Yutan for how he survived these years.

Shen Cang thought for a while, but didn't ask Yun Jianqing if he wanted to see Yin Cen. He made up his mind on this matter and would never take the initiative. Yun Jianqing owed both Yin Cen and Yun Ye. Yun Jianqing had to propose it himself, and Yin Cen had to agree.

The next day, Yun Jianqing went into the palace to meet the emperor, and it was in Guangming Hall, which he was not very familiar with.

When he kowtowed, Chen Ze helped him up. He hadn't seen him for 19 years. Chen Ze looked at him and smiled, "I'm old!"

He also ordered Gao Ren, "give a seat to King Funan."

Yun Jianqing thanked him, sat down on the teacher's chair, and smiled at Chen Zeshu, "Your Majesty has also worked a lot."

As soon as the words fell, Chen Ze laughed, and Yun Jianqing followed but said, "Your Majesty, take care of your health. Living in this alchemy room every day is not good for your health."

Chen Ze was not angry and evasive in front of his old friend, but smiled helplessly, "Why, even you don't believe that if I practice daily, I can ascend to immortality as soon as possible?"

Yun Jianqing had nothing to say, how could he, a military general who fought hard on the battlefield, believe in these messy and false talks, but he didn't want to refute them at the moment, the monarch and his ministers had just met, so there was no need to be so tense.

So he smiled faintly, "No, I naturally believe that His Majesty will be among the immortals sooner or later."

Chen Ze also skipped this topic and asked, "Gu Cheng reported to me the day before yesterday that the defense of the southeast coast is still relatively stable. Is this true?"

When it comes to military affairs, Yun Jianqing's tone is naturally much more serious, "The Japanese are determined to disturb the government and people's livelihood of my Daning Dynasty. Although there have been no large-scale invasions in recent years, there are quite a few people pretending to be spies and infiltrating the common people. Get rid of these people." It is much more difficult for people than to clear up the invading army. The Japanese are cunning and very good at hiding. They disappear in an instant after doing evil, and they are hard to guard against."

Chen Ze frowned, "Then is there a good way to deal with such spies?"

Yun Jianqing replied frankly, "There is no best solution. After catching one person, try every means to get him to confess his accomplices, and strengthen patrolling. Anyone who is suspicious will be arrested immediately to reduce mistakes."

Chen Ze nodded, "From this point of view, the southeast now has a long time to fight against the Japanese, and it is indeed a hard-working general."

Yun Jianqing immediately cupped his hands and replied respectfully, "This is the duty of a courtier."

At this point, Chen Ze got to the point, "General, do you still remember the marriage agreement you and Lin Moyan made back then?"

Yun Jianqing was taken aback, he naturally remembered, but after all, it was just a casual agreement made by the three of them when they were teenagers, he nodded, "Of course I remember."

Chen Ze smiled, "You all think I'm just kidding, but I always keep it in my heart, if I have a daughter of the right age to marry, this marriage of Zhige should be a marriage with my royal princess."

Yun Jianqing thanked him again, "Thank you, Majesty Long."

Chen Ze waved his hand, "It's a pity that the princess is still young, so I had to find another suitable person from the surrounding relatives. Princess Zhegui has both ability and beauty. When the queen recommended it to me, I felt that this is a good match for Zhige." gone."

Yun Jianqing frowned slightly, "I've heard about the name of Princess Zhegui's virtuous talent, but it's just the emperor, Zhi Ge is just a wild boy who grew up by the sea, didn't read much, and didn't have half an inch of kung fu. How can I be worthy of the princess, I think, if the emperor remembers that he promised to marry him back then, it is better to find the daughter of an ordinary family in Beijing."

As soon as this remark came out, Chen Ze's expression darkened, "Could it be that the general despises her as a daughter of the Qiu family?"

Yun Jianqing frowned even deeper, bowed his head and cupped his hands, "I don't dare."

Chen Ze's tone was tinged with anger, "The queen is the daughter of the Qiu family. I know you all say behind my back that the queen controls Chaogang and the cabinet secretary, but have you ever thought about it? The queen has only one King Han, and the one I established Prince, he is still Chunhui's son! Even if the empress acts a little arrogantly, what will she get in the end?! You slander the empress so much, but you slap me in the face!"

Having said this, Yun Jianqing raised his head, looked into Chen Ze's eyes and said, "Since the emperor knows that the queen controls the court and the cabinet, can he just let the prince be alone because he is not the queen's son?! What if the queen corrupts the court?" , Colluding with foreign thieves, even if the prince succeeds to the throne in the future, he will face what the emperor left him, what kind of a big Ning? There is devastation, and the people are in dire straits!"

"Bold!" Chen Ze was dumbfounded by Yun Jianqing's merciless words, and slammed his palm on the table with a loud shout, "You..." Chen Ze pointed at Yun Jianqing, so angry that he couldn't say no Speak up.

Yun Jianqing got up from the grand teacher's chair, and knelt firmly on the ground, "Even if the emperor is furious, I still have to say this. All the civil and military men in the court are afraid of the power of old man Qi Ge, and dare not speak out. I am a military general. Husband, let’s talk.”

Chen Ze's face was pale and pale, his cheeks and eyes were sunken even deeper, and he was panting heavily. Gao Ren comforted him and said to Yun Jianqing, "Don't talk about it, general, nothing is better than not letting the emperor get angry. It's important..."

Yun Jianqing said coldly, "Eunuch Gao, it's because everyone wants to make the emperor happy that this situation has come into being."

Gao Ren lamented again and again, Chen Ze coughed violently and finally calmed down.

"You..." Chen Ze pointed at Yun Jianqing again, "As an important minister of the court, do you have evidence for what you said? If there is no evidence, do you know that I can punish your nine clans just because you slandered the queen today!"

Yun Jianqing kowtowed again, "I have no evidence." He raised his head and looked at Chen Ze, "If I have evidence, I'm not trying to speak to the emperor today, but impeaching me to death!"

As soon as the words fell, Chen Ze coughed violently again, panting and shouting, "What a dead impeachment...you don't even have to kill your life, but you must kill the queen, you...you are not doing it for the public, you are doing it for personal revenge !"

Yun Jianqing looked at Chen Ze, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, what personal enmity do I have with the Empress?"

Chen Ze panted heavily, leaning on the desk beside him, pointing at Yun Jianqing, "You swear you will never forget Chunhui's death, so you put all these crimes on the Queen's head."

Yun Jianqing's heart was shocked, and he still asked in a steady voice, "All I said just now was for the public, and I had no selfish intentions. Since the emperor mentioned selfishness, I would also like to ask, please answer the doubts that have been in my heart for many years. " Yun Jianqing raised his head and looked into Chen Ze's heart, "How did Miss Chunhui die back then?"

"Bold!" Before Chen Ze could speak, Gao Ren shouted from the side, "You can call the former Empress whatever you want?"

Yun Jianqing didn't pay attention, and still looked at Chen Ze. Chen Ze met his eyes, and some grief that had been hidden for too long in his heart began to float up vaguely, that extremely gentle face seemed to be reflected in his mind again. inside.

The momentary guilt couldn't stop overflowing, but facing Yun Jianqing, Chen Ze's eyes suddenly became cold again, "The former empress died of a strange illness, and everyone in the palace can testify."

"What kind of strange disease? What kind of symptoms? Why is there no record in the Tai Hospital?" Yun Jianqing asked three times.

Chen Ze seemed to be trembling slightly, "I... I don't need to answer you, but I think...you have known the late empress for many years, so I told you that there is no name for this strange disease, no one has seen it before, and no one can heal it. Sudden onset, and no time to call the imperial physician, so there is no record... Are you satisfied with this answer?"

Yun Jianqing shook his head slowly, "Who is the Emperor helping to hide? Helping himself, or helping others?" Chen Ze's chest rose and fell, and Yun Jianqing pressed tightly, "When Chunhui passed away, I didn't have time to do anything. Back in the capital, I will find out what happened back then."

"Inverted! Inverted!" Chen Ze slapped the table angrily while shouting.

However, Yun Jianqing said the last sentence recklessly, "I hope that the emperor will consider it carefully and cancel the marriage between Yun Ye and Princess Zhegui. On the princess' side, I will come to apologize, but this marriage, I must not." agree."

As soon as these words came out, Chen Ze was so angry that he couldn't speak, but he vomited a mouthful of blood.

Yun Jianqing also froze on the spot.