marquis of jingan

Chapter 898
Emperor Yongping raised his head and looked quietly at the young man in front of him. He didn't speak immediately, but silently took out a handkerchief from his arms, covered his mouth and coughed violently.

At first, Li Mu thought it was some kind of secret signal to summon the sword-axe hand, and was taken aback, but the emperor of Northern Qi coughed for a long time, and his face flushed a little after coughing. Only then did Li Mu know that His Majesty, the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, had probably fallen ill.

After an indeterminate amount of time, Emperor Yongping finally calmed down. He looked up at Li Mu: "I haven't been in court for nearly three years."

"You Li family, although you were driven to the south, you are still a country after all, and you are the envoy of the Southern Dynasty."

Emperor Yongping looked at Li Mu and asked, "You don't even know about this?"

The Emperor of Northern Qi had been ill for several years, this was very clear to the entire Chen court, His Majesty the Emperor wanted the Northern Expedition wholeheartedly, and he also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to see if he could take a big bite out of the Qi people.

Naturally, Li Mu knew about this matter, he lowered his head slightly, and said: "The credentials of the two countries have to be cautious, if His Majesty does not recognize it afterwards, at least the prime minister of the Northern Dynasty, the six ministries and nine ministers should be invited to the scene together, Only then can the letter of credence be submitted."

Emperor Yongping squinted his eyes and looked at Li Mu: "In this case, please ask your envoy to go back to the guild hall and wait for news. When I have time, I will ask someone to invite your envoy to enter the palace again."

Li Mu took a deep breath, cupped his hands and said, "The foreign minister resigns."

After that, he turned around and strode away.

Seeing Li Muyuan's back, Emperor Yongping coughed twice, an old eunuch walked over immediately, put on another coat for the emperor, lowered his head slightly, and said, "Your Majesty..."

Emperor Yongping took a deep breath, and said: "Go and ask the fourth brother to come, and then, try to see what is written in the Southern Dynasty's national book, and pass it to me."

The old eunuch nodded immediately: "I understand."

He backed down slowly, and not long after, Wei Wang Zhao Kai entered the warm pavilion cautiously, then knelt down in front of the old father with a plop, and respectfully said, "I pay homage to my father!"

Emperor Yongping glanced at his son on the ground, but he didn't let him stand up, but said slowly in a voice that was not too loud: "You went to see me in the palace yesterday, what did you say to me?"

Zhao Kai didn't understand the old father's intention for a while, so he lowered his head honestly and said: "Yesterday, my son went to the palace to meet the emperor, and told the emperor that the envoy from the Southern Dynasty has arrived, and this envoy , is the son of Jin Wang in the Southern Dynasty, or the eldest son of Jin Wangfu, his status has a lot to do..."

"If we can win over this person, we might be able to provoke the clan of the Southern Dynasty and cause great chaos in the Southern Dynasty..."

Emperor Yongping looked calm.

"I just tested him, and this person has no intention of contradicting Chen."

He looked at Zhao Kai again, and continued: "As for you saying that he came to discuss peace..."

Emperor Yongping snorted coldly: "I don't think that's necessarily the case. If you really came to ask for peace, how could you refuse to even give me the letter of credence after seeing me!"

The emperor glared at Zhao Kai.

"Forget it, I won't argue with you for now, I will tell you after I have read the contents of the Southern Dynasty's credential, lest you complain in your heart that I have wronged you."

Emperor Yongping waved his hand somewhat resentfully.

"If you are asked to supervise the battle along the Huaihe River, you will be supervised like this!"

At this time, His Royal Highness King Wei felt aggrieved in his heart.

"Father, the battle was fought by General Zhou..."

Emperor Yongping heard the words, shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, you go down."

Zhao Kai kowtowed to the emperor and left the Nuan Pavilion in embarrassment. It was unknown whether it was because it was too hot in the Nuan Pavilion or because he was nervous.

It was night, and a blank sheet of paper was handed over to the emperor's desk.

On the white paper, the contents of Nanchen Guoshu were transcribed.

Ever since Emperor Yongping fell ill, he slept very late at night for the past two years, and he would only go to bed after midnight, so the piece of paper was seen by Emperor Yongping almost immediately.

That night, His Majesty the Emperor, who was over 50 years old, almost coughed up his breath on his bed after reading the contents of this paper.

In the end, there is only one sentence left in a thousand words.

"Cc to Prince Wei's Mansion..."

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Also on this night, in Li Mu's room in the Ministry of Rites Hall, a thin scholar who was not in a very high grade sat quietly opposite Li Mu, lowered his head and said, "Master, the younger one is also from Jiankang. Speaking of which, we are still from the same hometown.”

Li Mu was also looking at the young man in front of him. This young man came after he arrived in Yandu.

When he came, he spoke a strong northern dialect, but because of an unremarkable letter stamp in his hand, Li Mu still met him.

"You say you are from Jiankang, but you speak Xuzhou dialect."

Shizi looked at him quietly and asked, "How do you tell?"

"If you don't speak Xuzhou dialect, you won't be able to get along."

The young man looked cautious and whispered a few words in Jiankang dialect.

After proving his identity, the man bowed his head slightly and said: "My lord, this villain belongs to the Di Bao Si. A few years ago, he was ordered by Si Zheng to come to Northern Qi to do things. Now he is clearly from Xuzhou. It is also the Yandu introduced by Xuzhou's road."

Li Mu was thoughtful.

"Since Di Baosi sent you to Beiqi, it means that there must be something important for you to do. Why are you so reckless and come looking for me?"

"Sizheng ordered, dare not not come."

The man looked up at Li Mu, and said, "Your Majesty should have seen the Emperor of Qi Ren today, right?"

"Yes, see you."

The man from the mansion's newspaper department lowered his head slightly, and said, "Now, the contents of the national certificate brought by the son of the prince may have been placed on the table of the emperor of Qi."

Li Mu thought about it.

When he entered the palace during the day, he did bring the letter of credence into the palace, and it was not surprising that people from Qi followed him, so he nodded lightly and said, "It stands to reason that when I was on the way, the contents of the letter of credence It should be on the table of Emperor Yongping, if he didn't see it until today, then the Northern Qi Qingjing Department is no more than that."

"After seeing the content of the letter of credence, the emperor of Qi, if he is not going to turn his face immediately, then..."

"Most likely, I want to put you under house arrest."

The man lowered his head and said: "Besides, no matter whether it is the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty or his courtiers, no one will meet the prince again. They just pretend that the prince has never been to Yandu."

Hearing this sentence, Li Mu was startled.

He woke up with a start.

Yes!Changing places, if he is the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty and he no longer wants to fight, the only way to deal with this letter of credence is to deal with it coldly!

Pretend it never happened, never seen it!
From now on, he won't be able to see the Northern Qi emperor, or even the ministers of Northern Qi, and will be locked up in an inconspicuous courtyard until the relationship between the two countries reaches a turning point again.

Li Mu frowned, looked at the person in front of him, and said slowly, "What did your Si Zheng say?"

"What Sizheng means is that we are the ones who will help the prince spread the contents of the credential in the Northern Qi Dynasty."

"In this way, even if the son's errands are completed, he won't be imprisoned again."

"However, the son himself may be in some danger."

The man from the Di Baosi lowered his head and said, "Si Zheng said, this is the best way for the prince right now."

(End of this chapter)