The concubine is poisonous

Chapter 121
After Ran Hai left from the Zhongcui Palace, he went to the Empress Dowager's Compassionate Palace to discuss some matters with the Empress Dowager, and after making some explanations, Ran Hai said to the Empress Dowager: "Now that doctor Sun knows too many things. I'm afraid I can't stay."

The Empress Dowager nodded and said: "Well, things are changing too fast. Now he knows everything. It is indeed a disaster to keep him. I will take care of this matter. Don't worry about it. Concubine Yun and Hui'an, I will also watch it." Now, brother, let's concentrate on dealing with the affairs of the government and southern Xinjiang."

After Ran Hai nodded in satisfaction, he turned and said goodbye, left the palace, returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion and wrote another letter, and sent someone to the southern Xinjiang military camp to deliver to Mo Luotang.Although Ran Hai was downgraded to the fourth rank by the emperor, the house has not been renamed, and the plaque of the prime minister's mansion is still hung.

Ye Junyan, who was in the Hall of Qinzheng, was looking at the military situation reported from various places at this time, and had a headache.

After preliminary investigations and calculations, nearly 25 soldiers and horses from the southern Xinjiang army successfully retreated from the front line, and more than 20 troops also retreated from several cities along the way. Now Mo Luotang brought 60 soldiers from southern Xinjiang The horses have also joined the army, and there are nearly [-] soldiers and horses in Ying Keqing's hands.

However, Ye Junyan's army currently has less than 40 people who can immediately participate in the battle, and more than 20 people are being transferred from different places. It will take time for all of them to arrive.What puzzled Ye Junyan was why Ying Keqing didn't take the opportunity to massively attack his own army.

If Ying Keqing and Mo Luotang decided to launch a fierce attack before Zhaoxuan State's troops joined forces, and defeated their main force first, then it would be relatively easy to defeat the rest one by one. Ye Junyan couldn't help but feel a little puzzled by his actions. If the opponent played his cards step by step, even if he was weak, he was at least within the budget, and his controllability was relatively large, but the opponent's deployment was unclear, which made the situation difficult to quantify.

Ye Junyan did not know until he received the latest secret security sent back by the spies that Mo Luotang had already sent envoys to start lobbying some militant countries around Zhaoxuan Kingdom, hoping that they could attack Zhaoxuan Kingdom in southern Xinjiang Able to attack the border defense of Zhaoxuan country together, cooperate with the southern border, and want to attack Zhaoxuan country from inside and outside.Mo Luotang also hoped that the other party would share the territory and wealth of Zhaoxuan Kingdom equally among the participants after taking Zhaoxuan Kingdom in the future.

After knowing Mo Luotang's intentions, Ye Junyan breathed a sigh of relief. Although he hadn't thought of a good way to solve the immediate danger, at least he knew the other party's movements, so Ye Junyan didn't have to act like a blind man anymore. I can't see the direction in the fog.

At the same time, Ye Junyan has considerable confidence in his own border defense force, so Ye Junyan believes that there will not be many people who dare to take risks to stroke the tiger's beard of Zhaoxuan Kingdom. .What I need to consider is how to face the 60 troops in southern Xinjiang. Ye Junyan believes that Mo Luotang will not wait until his army is assembled before launching a general offensive. Ye Junyan believes that within a few days, Mo Luotang's lobbying Once it's over, there's bound to be some action.

The facts were exactly as Ye Junyan expected. Sure enough, two days later, Nanjiang mobilized an army to start a war with its own army, and some small countries in the surrounding areas that Mo Luotang successfully lobbied also began to attack the border areas of Zhaoxuan Kingdom.

However, due to Zhaoxuan State's strong border defense deployment, even when it was pushed to the limit by the southern border, it did not relax the strength of the border defense at all, which made many small and medium-sized countries with longing hearts stop and dare not participate in this unknown trend. In the struggle between great powers, most people are afraid that if Zhao Xuanguo survives this crisis, he will settle accounts with himself.

However, there are those who are afraid of death, of course there are those who are not. There are actually three countries that were moved by the words of the Southern Xinjiang envoys, and they did not hesitate to challenge Zhaoxuan's border defense with all their troops.

They believed that Zhaoxuan Kingdom had the most and strongest troops invested in defending southern Xinjiang, with hundreds of thousands of troops, but they were still defeated by Southern Xinjiang in one day, so they thought that they might also be able to stroke the tiger's beard.

However, they forgot that when they came to Nanjiang to capture the border defense of Zhaoxuan Kingdom, apart from making a sudden attack when the enemy was unprepared at night, the number of troops dispatched by Nanjiang was as high as one million. This was the main reason why Nanjiang defeated the border defense of Zhaoxuan Kingdom in an instant .And these two or three countries, one with less than 20 troops, one barely enough with 15 troops, and one with even less than 13 troops, want to create a myth and break through Zhaoxuan Kingdom's never-relaxing border defense force overnight. The result is predictable.

However, although the two countries had already raised their flags to fight in less than two days after the start of the war, it also caused some burdens to Zhaoxuan Kingdom. In addition, Mo Luotang repeated his old trick and sent people to Zhaoxuan Kingdom to spread rumors again. The actions of cholera and public sentiments brought a certain amount of pressure to the Zhaoxuan Kingdom. In addition, the 60 troops in southern Xinjiang suddenly bet on the fierce offensive, and the [-] miles of land that Zhaoxuan Kingdom had seized before gradually fell into the hands of the Southern Xinjiang army. under control.

In the palace, ever since Ye Jun made Gu Xinning the empress, the empress dowager has been wary of Gu Xinning, especially after Ran Hai brought the news of Mo Luotang, in order to protect Ran Yunmo and prevent Gu Xinning from discovering Ran Yunmo's secret, The Empress Dowager is watching Gu Xinning's every move almost all the time, as long as Gu Xinning does anything that may pose a threat to Ran Yunmo, the Empress Dowager will appear in time to resolve Ran Yunmo's crisis.

The empress dowager thought that there was nothing strange about what she did. After all, she and Ran Yunmo were Gu Xinning's deadly enemies. Even if it was obvious that she was always on guard against her, it would not be a big deal. It's not normal to even ignore it.

However, Doctor Sun of the Imperial Hospital suddenly hanged himself. On the table in the room where he hanged himself, there was a suicide note, which stated that the reason for Doctor Sun’s suicide was because he missed his family. The news of being killed by the Southern Xinjiang army made her so sad that she didn't want to live, so she chose to commit suicide. This incident caused some small waves in the palace.

Imperial Physician Sun is the hero who treated Concubine Yun's injuries. Although Ran Yunmo's injury is not a difficult problem to treat, after all, it is treating the royal family. He should have been rewarded with a lot of money, but suddenly Suicide, so many people can not help but regret it.

However, Gu Xinning understood that things were not that simple. Doctor Sun must have died because he knew something he shouldn't know.As for the things that should not be known, Gu Xinning of course already knew it in her mind. Although Gu Xinning did not participate in some details, the cause was nothing but related to Ran Yunmo's pregnancy.

Although Gu Xinning's heart is like a mirror, she still pretended not to know anything on the surface, but she just showed some regret like others.

The next day, when the court was in court, due to the continuous retreat of Zhaoxuan's army, all the officials in the court were in danger. Ye Junyan originally intended to take command of the expedition in person, and was about to discuss with the ministers when he suddenly saw Ran Hai The former said: "My Majesty, I think that although there is a difference in numbers between our army and the Southern Xinjiang army, it is not too big, so the key to victory or defeat should be the momentum of the two armies. At this time, the Southern Xinjiang army relies on its large numbers Only when our arrogance is high can we suppress our army for a while, if our army can have a high momentum, even if there are only 40 troops, it must be able to defeat the 60 troops in southern Xinjiang."

Ran Hai is indeed a capable minister in terms of power in the officialdom, but he is far inferior in military affairs, so in Ran Hai's mouth, Ye Junyan rarely hears constructive suggestions for the military. Ye Junyan did not expect Ran Hai to be here When I was able to put forward this point of view, I couldn't help wondering what suggestion Ran Hai was going to make, so I said to Ran Hai with great interest: "Oh, what Aiqing said is very much in line with my wishes, but I don't know what strategy Ran Aiqing has to win. ?”

Ran Hai bowed and said: "I don't dare to win the game, but at least it can boost morale and give full play to our army's combat power."

Ye Junyan said: "Huh? Tell me what you think."

Ran Hai said: "Only the emperor's personal conquest can boost the morale of our army at this time."

Unexpectedly, what Ran Hai said was the same as what he thought in his heart. Ye Junyan began to doubt Ran Hai's intentions. Suggestion, at least it proves that Ran Hai really intends to make it possible for Zhaoxuan's army to defeat the Southern Xinjiang army, but why did Ran Hai do this?Of course Ye Junyan didn't think that Ran Hai suddenly found out his conscience and suddenly wanted to be a virtuous prime minister.

Ran Hai must have his purpose and conspiracy to do this, but Ran Hai's proposal is exactly what he was going to do, if he didn't do it, then his original plan would need to be re-planned, if he did, would it be exactly as it should be? Ran Hai's will, but unknowingly fell into Ran Hai's set?
Ye Junyan couldn't help but hesitated when he saw it. At this time, Du Wangshan said: "The imperial conquest is indeed a good way to boost morale, but the current situation in the court is turbulent, and the emperor needs to be in charge. The minister thought that he could send other officials Just do it for me.”

Ran Hai retorted: "With Mr. Du, a loyal and important official, in the court, how can it be unstable? The most tense thing now is not the court situation, but the war ahead. The body of the emperor is not enough to deter the world. "

Ye Junyan didn't speak, just watched the dispute between the two of them, and wondered in his heart, why did Ran Hai insist on letting the emperor personally conquer every day today? With the empress dowager's slickness, she would never do anything that might be annoying to the monarch , Ye Junyan felt more and more that there was really something tricky in it.Although Ye Junyan originally intended to take the imperial conquest, but because of Ran Hai's repeated proposals, he felt resentful.

So he said that he would carefully consider this matter, and as for whether he wanted to go to the imperial conquest himself, he would make a decision again, and then let everyone disperse and retreat.

After Ran Hai and Du Wangshan argued for a while, seeing Ye Junyan speak, they stopped talking. After everyone left, Ran Hai and Du Wangshan did not leave, but went straight to Qinzheng Palace together, although they were on the same road , but the purpose is different, Ran Hai is to persuade Ye Junyan again in order to understand the righteousness, while Du Wangshan is to dissuade Ye Junyan.

So the two came to the Qinzheng Hall on the same road with different intentions. Just as they were about to ask the eunuch to report, they saw a eunuch come out from the inside and said to the two: "My lords, please stay. The proposal of an adult, no one wants to see it for the time being, please go back first, both adults."

Du Wangshan and Ran Hai heard the words, looked at each other, said "Huh!" at each other, and then turned and left.

(End of this chapter)