After rebirth, I seduced the abstinent Marquis and became the white moonlight

Chapter 67: Jin Wang Zhao Xi
After hearing Si Yan's invitation, Shen Ning rolled his eyes, snorted, and didn't move, as if he was still angry.

Seeing that she was still feeling awkward, Si Yan directly pulled her hand and picked her up. Shen Ning pursed her lips and couldn't help laughing, then took advantage of the force and threw herself into his arms.

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At the banquet, Xiangyang County Magistrate Jiang Dahe was extremely flattering and arranged beauties and fine wine. Unfortunately, Si Yan had Shen Ning by his side, and Zhao Qingxun showed no interest in women, so the beauties were completely useless.

Halfway through the dinner, new wine was served. Si Yan picked it up and smelled it, then immediately glanced at Zhao Qingxun. Coincidentally, Zhao Qingxun was also looking at him at this moment. Their eyes met, and there was coldness in both of theirs.

Jiang Dahe didn't know that the two had seen through him, and he asked with a smile: "Your Highness, why don't you drink it? This is the best osmanthus wine."

Si Yan sneered and turned his wrist. The next second, with a "bang", the wine glass fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

His narrow eyes were full of danger. Liang Jinjin said, "Knockout drug, the county magistrate's method is not very clever."

Even though he knew that the visitors had ill intentions, Si Yan did not expect that this group of people could not even wait for a day.

Zhao Qingxun also said: "You are the prince's man, right? Who gave you the courage to murder the prince so blatantly?"

Seeing that the relationship was about to fall apart, Jiang Dahe stopped pretending and shook off the fat on his face, saying with disdain, "Murder? Who said that? Who knows? By then, you will have already become corpses."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Dahe opened the secret door and left. At the same time, many archers suddenly appeared from the roof of the house outside. Their arrows were tied with gunpowder and they all shot at the house where Si Yan was.

For a moment, flames shot into the sky.

At this moment, Si Yan was actually somewhat glad that he had Shen Ning with him. At least he felt at ease.

The reason why the prince's men dared to plot against Si Yan and the third prince here was simply because they felt that this place was in the middle of nowhere and they were isolated and helpless, but they didn't know that they had been prepared.

Si Yan has hundreds of thousands of troops in Liang Province. Although he cannot come to support, it is still no problem for him to send a hundred or so elite soldiers.

When he set out from the capital, Si Yan traveled 800 miles to Liangzhou in an emergency, asked for a team of soldiers, and arrived in Xiangyang at the same time as them.

Just when they were in danger, the archers outside were suddenly attacked. The two armies engaged in a melee, and Si Yan's men clearly had the upper hand.

In less than an incense stick of time, the enemy was already at the end of its strength. After the battle, Jiang Dahe saw that the situation was hopeless and committed suicide by taking poison.

Although the danger was temporarily lifted, looking at the situation, Si Yan and Zhao Qingxun both felt that it was not advisable to stay here for long and decided to leave overnight for Youzhou.

In fact, these assassinations are just trivial matters. They all know that more difficult bones are still to come. After all, borrowing troops from the King of Jin is not an easy task.

Prince of Jin Zhao Xi was the youngest son of the late emperor. As he was born in his old age, the late emperor doted on him very much. Zhao Xi's mother, He, was young, beautiful, and pregnant, so she was naturally also loved by the late emperor. However, serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. It is not easy to be by the emperor's side.

Zhao Xi was young and promising. He originally sat in the position of Si Yan and was very popular. The late emperor was afraid that he would covet the position of crown prince, so he thought of a way to check and balance him, but the starting point was not him, but his sister Zhao Ru.

Marriage has been a means often used by emperors to consolidate their power since ancient times, and this burden naturally fell on Zhao Ru.

Zhao Xi naturally did not want to let his sister marry far away, and tried various methods to make the late emperor give in. Just when he thought victory was in sight, he learned that the late emperor had secretly met with the envoys of the Liao Dynasty when he was not in the capital and decided on the marriage.

If things had ended here, the relationship between father and son would not have been what it was later.

What was really absurd was that after the Liao prince arrived, he actually fell in love with Zhao Xi's biological mother, the beautiful He. The customs of the Liao people were much more open than those of the Zhao State, and divorce and remarriage were not uncommon. The problem was that the Liao prince was reckless, and the late emperor actually agreed to such an outrageous request, because Zhao State needed help from the Liao at that time.

In this way, the mother and daughter served one husband, bought the big and gave the small away, and packed them up and sent them directly to the Liao Dynasty.

When Zhao Xi learned about this, he led tens of thousands of his personal soldiers to chase after them. However, even after catching up with them, the Liao people would not let them go. They had taken them away with great difficulty, so there was no reason to give them back.

However, the prince of the Liao Dynasty was not a completely unreasonable person. He had his eyes on He and had no intention of marrying Zhao Ru at first. It happened that one of his generals had not yet married, so he immediately suggested the girl to that general.

But even if that was the case, Zhao Xi would not do it. There were so many good men in Zhao State, why should he let his sister marry so far away? What's more, there was his mother who simply treated him like a dead person.

The two sides had been entangled at the border for a long time. The late emperor issued several golden medals to ask Zhao Xi to return to the capital. Otherwise, even if he deceived the army and rebelled, he had no family to care about in the capital, but the families of his generals were in the hands of others.

In the end, under the pressure of the late emperor and the persuasion of He, Zhao Xi had no choice but to return to Beijing.

But this time, he really gave up on his father.

After returning to the capital, the late emperor was reluctant to touch his own son, and wanted to punish the generals who disobeyed military orders with him. Zhao Xi was reluctant to see his brother, with whom he had been through life and death, suffer, and in a rage he asked for a fiefdom. He found a remote and desolate Youzhou, took his tens of thousands of soldiers and swore that he would never enter the capital again in his life.

After so many years, he has indeed done it.

But things change, who could have thought that the court would need his help again.

After entering Youzhou, relying on Zhao Qingxun's relationship, the group directly stayed in the Prince of Jin's Mansion. Although Zhao Xi had a bad relationship with the court, he would not refuse to see him.

Zhao Xi is more than ten years older than Zhao Qingxun and is now thirty-five. Perhaps because of his mother, he has never married or taken a concubine. He lives a life of confinement, with only the people of Youzhou and the soldiers under his command.

His regular life keeps him in good shape. Unlike other men who become bloated when they enter middle age. In terms of body shape, he is not worse than Si Yan.

After many years, Zhao Qingxun met this elder again and bowed respectfully: "Uncle."

Zhao Xi lazily sat in the upper seat, his beard making him look very majestic. He glanced at the few people and said in a casual and uninhibited voice: "I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it. If you are courteous to me for no reason, you are either a traitor or a thief. You came all the way here, don't say you missed me. Tell me, what do you want to do?"

Zhao Qingxun, who was originally planning to exchange pleasantries, looked embarrassed. Si Yan was also shocked by his straightforwardness. Since he didn't want to beat around the bush, he just said it directly:
"Uncle, I'm sure you've heard about the war in the Western Rong. Now the war has spread to our Zhao State, and people's livelihood is in decline..."

Zhao Xi frowned and said coldly: "Speak to the point."

Zhao Qingxun choked and said simply, "Borrow troops."

Zhao Xi was even more decisive than him and replied with two words: "No."

Zhao Qingxun was not surprised by this result and tried to persuade him with emotion and reason: "Uncle, don't forget that a fire at the city gate will also affect the fish pond."

Unexpectedly, Zhao Xi threw the teacup away and said sternly, "You little bastard, you have grown wings, right? Are you teaching me how to do things?"

　As expected, I can't write about political intrigue, so I'll just pass it over.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)