Jiaochu

Ye Lanchen handed a secret report to Ye Lingjue, which stated that Xiyan was secretly stationing troops on the border with the intention of starting a war.

Prime Minister Zhou felt that the intelligence was wrong. If Xiyan wanted to go to war with Dahui, he would never let go of this perfect opportunity for the Yue clan to rebel.

Yanjiang analyzed that the last rebellion was planned by Wu Yue and Xi Yan secretly. He asked one hundred thousand cavalry to test Da Hui's strength first. He wanted to use the mantis to catch the cicada and the oriole behind, but he did not expect that something would happen within the Yue clan. Problem, the wishful thinking came to nothing. In addition, there was a locust plague in Xiyan last year. It is probably because of this reason that they did not choose to go to war.

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, if there is a war, they will probably come to our Dahui to grab food." Yan Jiang said, half joking and half serious.

Ye Lanchen thought about it and asked Ye Lingjue's opinion.

Ye Lingjue raised another possibility. The purpose of stationing troops in Xiyan is to prevent other countries from invading. Once a locust plague occurs and the people have no harvest, they will be starved to death. It is very easy for an uprising to occur. The purpose of stationing troops is to prevent being attacked from both sides. , but just in case, we still have to send someone to find out. If something happens, we will not be unprepared.

Yan Jiang took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the border to explore the truth, and Ye Lanchen was right.

By the time Yanjiang heard back the news, it was already half a month later.

Xiyan stationed about 50,000 troops on the border, and secretly sent caravans to Weichen and other small countries to purchase grain.

Three days later, another news came back from Yanjiang.

Qi wanted to join forces with Da Hui to attack Xi Yan.

Ye Lanchen once again summoned Ye Lingjue and Prime Minister Zhou in the imperial study. Zheng Mian, the Minister of War, and He Zhiyuan, the Minister of Household, were also there.

Zheng Mian advocated joining forces with Qi to attack Xiyan, confidently stating that he had sufficient troops and that joining forces with Qi would be absolutely foolproof.

Prime Minister Zhou also felt that this was the best time to attack Xiyan.

Ye Lingjue was worried that there was fraud involved. If Qi State betrayed him, the consequences would be disastrous.

Prime Minister Zhou said that Qi State has always wanted to defeat Xi Yan and become the overlord, so he should not cheat.

Ye Lanchen saw that He Zhiyuan, the Minister of Household Affairs, was silent and asked him what he thought.

He Zhiyuan replied that the country should recuperate and strengthen its national strength so that it can defend against enemies externally and quell chaos internally. If the people live in peace, then the world will be at home.

Zheng Mian felt that the other party was trying to make peace with Xini, and it was as if he had not said anything, so he strongly advocated sending troops to attack Xiyan.

While Ye Lanchen was thinking about it, Eunuch De came in and reported: "Your Majesty, Sir Shangguan wants to see you."

When they heard that Master Jianzheng had arrived, several people were a little surprised. After all, he rarely showed up and often went into seclusion.

"pass."

Eunuch De led Shangguan Yuan in and then left.

Shangguan Yuan bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have something that I want to report to you alone."

After everyone else had retreated, Shangguan Yuan reported: "Your Majesty, I watched the sky last night and saw Wei Yue Yan disappearing and appearing. I was afraid of a military disaster, so I made a prediction."

"How?" Ye Lanchen asked.

Shangguan Yuan cupped his hands and replied: "Big evil."

After Shangguan Yuan came out of the imperial study, Prime Minister Zhou asked, "Your Excellency, you are here in person, but there is another natural disaster?" Shangguan Yuan bowed his hands and bowed before replying: "The Emperor's Star is stable, Prime Minister, there is no need to worry." Then he resigned.

When he was approaching Si Tianjian, a figure jumped out from the side and stopped in front of him. Shangguan Yuan raised his hands and prepared to salute. Ye Lingxi asked anxiously, "Have you said everything? What is your father's reaction? Are you going to send troops to attack Xiyan?" ?" Shangguan Yuan answered the question, "Princess, please go in and have a cup of tea first."

Ye Ling Xixin said how could he be in the mood to drink tea.

Last night, she had another dream.

The word "tragic" is not enough to describe the scene I dreamed about this time.

Corpses littered the fields and rivers of blood flowed.

The strong smell of blood swept across the entire battlefield, the shouts of fighting were earth-shattering, the smoke filled the air, and the battle flag fell to the ground... In the end, there was only silence, filled with the breath of death.

When she woke up from her dream, she was already breaking out in a cold sweat. She wanted to tell her father immediately, so she ran away without even putting on her shoes. The movement woke up Hehe and Lingdang, who hurriedly chased after them without even bothering to put on their shoes. When they chased them into the yard, she had already Jumped over the wall and ran away.

The moonlight was very faint and looked gray, and the stars were not very bright, as if they were covered by dark clouds.

She ran forward desperately and fell into the flowers.

Then one hand lifted her out.

She raised her head and saw a circle of white dazzling things. When she looked closely, she realized it was hair, and she immediately knew who the person in front of her was.

"Did the princess dream again?" Shangguan Yuandao said.

She told the other person everything in the dream, and she didn't care that the other person was talking about her and not her friends. At this time, she didn't care whether the secret would be exposed.

"Weichen will tell the emperor tomorrow." Shangguan Yuandao said, "It's so dark that the princess can't see the road. Weichen should send the princess back."

On the way she asked, "Master, don't you sleep at night?" Shangguan Yuan replied, "Because I thought the princess would come out tonight." She was speechless.

……

Ye Lingxi sat downstairs and waited for three minutes. She couldn't sit still anymore. She got up and walked to the stairs to take a look upstairs. There was no one there, so she decided to go upstairs and have a look.

When she was almost upstairs, Zhu Xingguan quickly came over to stop her and asked her to come down quickly. Ye Lingxi saw Zhu Xingguan panicking like "It's over, we've caused a big trouble!", and she was afraid that if she didn't come down, the other party would come up and take her down. Pulled it off.

Seeing her coming down, Zhu Xingguan breathed a sigh of relief, and his frightened white face returned to a rosy complexion.

"Princess doesn't know something. Master never lets people go upstairs." Zhu Xingguan explained.

However, with such an explanation, Ye Lingxi's curiosity to go up and find out increased a little more.

After a while, Shangguan Yuan came down from upstairs holding a box.

Ye Lingxi's eyes followed him as he walked over, sat down opposite her, then opened the box, took out a string of bracelets and handed it to her.

There are five beads on it: red, yellow, green, black and white.

"Princess, you should be fine if you put this on." Shangguan Yuandao.

Ye Lingxi's heart skipped a beat. It sounded like she was about to die. When she reached out to take the bracelet, her fingers trembled slightly, as if she had cramps. After putting the five-color bracelet on her wrist, she felt at ease. Some.

"Princess, you still remember what Wei Chen said last time, there is a price to pay for spying on the secrets of heaven." Shangguan Yuandao.

Ye Lingxi nodded and held the bracelet unconsciously.

"What the princess is dreaming about this time is," Shangguan paused, then slowly said the next two words, "the world."

Ye Lingxi's heart thumped again, feeling that running into ghosts was not as scary as it was right now. Although she had only a partial understanding of it, her intuition told her that the consequences of the last two words were not something she could bear now.

"The minister underestimated the princess," Shangguan Yuandao said.

Ye Lingxi: "..." She looked down at the bracelet and asked, "Does this really work?"

Shangguan Yuandao: "Whether it works or not, I'm not sure yet."

Ye Lingxi: "..."

"Princess, don't go out these days."

"why?"

"Beware of being struck by lightning."

"..."