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Yuan Cixian roughly deduces from the dream: for some reason, Shaohe went away to Dunhuang for self-exile. After many years of avoiding the world, he heard the news of Lu Shiqing’s death and returned to his hometown. He did not know how he learned about the existence of Xu Zhai.

At that time, when all the dust settled, Xu’s house had already become an abandoned place, and Lu Shiqing died, so naturally there would be no more defenses there. Due to her special status, it is not surprising that she can go inside to find out.

That is to say, although Shaohe lived a new life, his knowledge is as limited as Yuan Cixian’s, and may even be even less. She didn’t know the most important thing, the political changes in Dazhou and surrounding countries during the turbulent years. But since she was able to get the news of Lu Shiqing’s death, it meant that she was not completely isolated from the world, but left an opening, only to receive information about him. Then, she might know a thing or two about some important events involving him.

The secret road of Xu’s house was exposed for no reason, and even Lu Shiqing was unable to detect the flaws. After this dream and then associating, Yuan Cixian quickly thought of Shaohe who knew about it. Knowing the location of Xu’s secret passage, but not knowing the specific entrance in Lu’s mansion, this just echoed the dream. The news leaked from her mouth, so it should be correct.

But Yuan Cixian was not sure under what circumstances she revealed this secret. If you are willing, you can actually understand it. No one knows what happened in the deep palace of Nanzhao. I have been submissive for two lifetimes, and once it bottoms out due to some stimulus, even a calm pool of water may cause huge waves.

If it is controlled by others, it is also conceivable. After all, after the accident on the night of giving birth, Yuan Cixian deeply felt that Xiju had no bottom line in his actions. With this kind of person’s means, maybe Shaohe’s cooperation was not needed at all. As long as she knows, he is afraid that there will be ten thousand ways to pry her mouth open.

Lu Shiqing didn’t show any objection, just said that he knew, and then carried her to the bed to rest, and told her that it was not Yinshi, so he had to sleep for a while, but he had to go to the palace immediately.

The military situation is urgent and there is no need to delay. At this moment, Chang’an City is afraid that there is no peace everywhere. Not only Lu Shiqing, but the courtiers are rushing to Daming Palace. Yuan Cixian didn’t delay him, and nodded obediently. When he left, she couldn’t fall asleep anyway, so she simply put on her clothes and got up, lit the lamps and candles in the room, and then pulled out a map of the surrounding countries from the outside.

Seeing her getting up at night, Shi Cui and Picking Zhi hurriedly came to wait on her, watching her staring at the map and frowning in thought, they didn’t dare to disturb her until she sighed softly and asked, “What excuse did King Ping use for his army?”

Shi Cui just got the news from Cao An, and hurriedly replied: “Yesterday was the Buddha’s birthday on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. King Ping raised his army on the grounds that he was guided by the gods and Buddha at night and came to the side of the Qing emperor.”

Yuan Cixian smiled: “Mr. Qing, who is Qing? Shi Qing?”

Shi Cui nodded: “The crusade is full of three hundred articles, but the words are sharp and sharp. They say that the gods of heaven and earth show his heart. How to reach a conspiracy agreement with the Uighurs and Nanzhao, how to collude with the princes in the court, how to care about the two masters.”

She snorted coldly: “It’s nothing new. It’s true.”

“Madam, don’t worry, His Majesty must know that this is an excuse. Even if he has doubts, he will not make things difficult for Lang Jun at this juncture. After all, King Ping is going to lead troops into the capital, and Lang Jun has no soldiers. .”

Yuan Cixian nodded: “I’m not worried about this. The sage said that he must deal with King Ping first. I was just thinking that the way the sage dealt with him might turn Da Zhou into a mess.”

“What do you think Ma’am said?”

She followed the sound of the rain outside the window and said calmly: “The sage has neither the mind that others doubt, nor the ability that no one doubts. It’s our Yuan family’s turn. Tell me, now that Huainan is rebelling, if the imperial court wants to preserve its strength and seek the greatest benefit, who should it take against King Ping?”

Shi Cui was stunned: “The sage wants to use the military power in southern Yunnan to send the king of southern Yunnan to help Beijing.”

“In order to get rid of the serious troubles in his heart, the sage is simply unconstrained!” Cai Zhi frowned.

Yuan Cixian thought that he was far more than a wild horse, nodded, looked down at the map of his subordinates, pointed to the top and said: “Our soldiers and war horses in southern Yunnan cannot be raised by the water and soil in Huainan. Dad has a chance of winning. However, he led the urgent march all the way north, which will inevitably consume a lot of money. It is a tough battle to confront King Ping, who has a geographical advantage, and it may not be easy to win in a short time. When the two armies confront each other, the greater the loss, the happier the saint will be. ”

Picking a branch and saying: “But the sage may not be able to laugh soon. The eldest son of the Nanzhao Emperor in Chang’an is a fake, and the new Nanzhao Emperor is willing to risk the disgrace of the world. Seeing the emptiness of southern Yunnan for a long time, How could it be possible not to be moved? Once Nanzhao makes a move, Da Zhou will be distracted by him… What should I do?”

Yuan Cixian nodded to affirm her judgment, and said: “It’s the Uyghur’s turn to play at this time. The sage did not expect Nanzhao, but Shi Qing and His Highness the Sixth Highness could. In order to avoid harming the border people, You must have made preparations early to win over the Uyghurs as a friendly army.”

“It’s just that no matter what, the spears of the Uighurs can’t be aimed at the hearts of our soldiers of the Great Zhou. Even if these soldiers are doing the deed of destroying the Great Zhou, it is suspected of treason to use the soldiers of the Uighurs to stop them. If so, it is collusion with the enemy. The current King Ping is no different from the Second Prince. Therefore, Shi Qing will invite Uighur reinforcements to avoid the Great Zhou Civil War and go directly to the southwest to fight against Nanzhao.”

Picking branches thought about it and asked: “But the Uighurs have just experienced half a year of war, and their footing is not stable. The Turks are the predecessors of the Uighurs. They have withdrawn from the stage of history for several years. They always think about making a comeback. Now they are probably ready to take advantage of the vacancy. Choose this opportunity to attack the Uighurs again. If the backyard is on fire, how can the soldiers who came to our aid fight against Nanzhao with peace of mind?”

When Shi Cui heard this, he was puzzled and said: “The Turks were repelled not long ago, how could they have the ability to regroup so quickly?”

“What if the army that was repelled before was just a misty bullet?” Yuan Cixian asked rhetorically, “The fact that the second prince escaped halfway and led the Turks to attack the Uyghurs was strange in itself. It was not difficult for him to be rescued by King Ping, but Why can you command the Turks? He is the enemy of the Turks. Besides, the Turks are destined to be attacked by the Da Zhou and the Uyghurs when they are stable. There is no reason for success. It is not following the second prince. Are you busy?”

“So, the second prince is a **** from the beginning to the end, and the one who really cooperates with the Turks is King Ping.” Caizhi judged, “Ping Wang hopes that the Turks can hurt some people and play this half-year-long game. You chase me and fight!” The drama completely cut off the second prince’s life, and at the same time consumed the imperial court’s combat power. The condition in exchange was to give them a real chance to regain their strength, that is, now that Da Zhou and Uighur are in a hurry? ”

Yuan Cixian nodded: “King Ping is sure that the saint’s old eyes are dizzy and can’t see the situation clearly. He is willing to let him and father consume each other. He will retain the fighting power of Gyeonggi at the beginning and will not take him down in one fell swoop. As long as he is in father’s hands If we wait until the Turks attack, there will be a possibility of a reversal. At that time, even if the saint repents, Dazhou will be in a hurry, and it will be impossible for Gyeonggi to mobilize enough troops to deal with him.”

Shi Cui shuddered when he heard the words.

This battle is intertwined, starting from the beginning of King Ping, the imperial court colluded, southern Yunnan, Nanzhao, Uighurs, and Turks gradually appeared on the scene, and finally returned to King Ping.

If the trend of the world is really predicted in this way, it will push Da Zhou to the road of national subjugation.

She asked: “Since we have already foreseen the possible situation in the future, is there no way to stop it?”

“Yes.” Yuan Cixian fell silent after finishing speaking, looked out the window at the lingering wind and rain, and spoke again after a while, “First, father must fight to the death and kill King Ping while the Gyeonggi army retains its strength. Put the head on the head, and then strive to unite the Huainan sergeants who were instigated to rebel, and unanimously speak out. Second, when necessary…”

She stretched out one hand, curled her five fingers and pressed them towards her palm, making a choking motion: “There must be someone who can firmly control the saint.”

The next step is as Yuan Cixian expected.

Emperor Huining ordered Yuan Yizhi to set off immediately to lead the army to aid Beijing. At the same time, he sent Jingji and Jiangnan garrisons, one south and one north to attack the enemy, trying to keep King Ping out of the east of Shannan, delaying time to wait for assistance from southern Yunnan.

Half a month later, Yuan Yizhi and Ping Wang officially confronted each other. Seeing that the reinforcements had arrived, the soldiers and horses in Gyeonggi and Jiangnan were ordered to withdraw from the Shannan East Road in order to preserve their combat power.

But below, something unexpected happened to Yuan Cixian.

Yuan Yizhi’s army has been in full swing since the moment they confronted King Ping, and won the first battle easily, blocking the enemy outside Fangzhou, the hinterland of the east of Shannan.

After three days of fighting, Fu retreated another hundred miles and forced the Huainan army to Fuzhou, a border area in the east of Shannan, where they were forced to lie dormant.

Next, he sneaked around his back, intercepted the luggage, burned the food and grass, step by step, so that King Ping had to retreat to the same place, in a dilemma.

Yuan Cixian felt incredible. He knew that his father had marched for many years, and was a leader in the Great Zhou Dynasty in terms of experience and tactics, but she was also very clear about the defensive strength deployed by the imperial court in southern Yunnan. Even if Dad evacuated the entire south of Yunnan, it is impossible to have such a victorious momentum.

The army from southern Yunnan, which confronted King Ping, was like the elite of the elite, each of them stopped a hundred with one.

Did it fall from the sky?

Yuan Cixian had nowhere to confirm the doubts in her heart. Because since the beginning of the war, Lu Shiqing seldom returned home, staying in Zichen Hall or Xuanzheng Hall during the day, and staying at the office of Zhongshu Province at night.

Two days later, the fighting became more urgent, and the soldiers in Huainan could no longer bear it any longer, and desperately broke out.

Yuan Yi sat and waited for the net to be collected. Under the cover of several cronies, he took the lead, passed the pass, went straight to the tiger’s den, and cut off King Ping’s head with one knife.

In the blink of an eye, the Huainan rebels scattered like birds and beasts.

When Prince Ping’s head was rushed back to Chang’an, Nanzhao didn’t even have time to take action against Da Zhou in the future.

When the news reached the capital, Manchu was shocked.

Before being able to rejoice, everyone was subconsciously shocked.

terrible. When the imperial court dodged from left to right because of an order from the Qing emperor, and calculated to use their strength to attack damage, the combat power in southern Yunnan was so terrifying!

From this point of view, as long as Yuan Yi wanted to turn against him, he could become the second king of Ping!

All of a sudden, there were rumors in Beijing, saying that what Yuan Yizhi brought with his trip was not at all the garrison at the southwest border, but the private army he raised.

Yuan Cixian was not angry with the rumors, because she felt that they were right.

If Dad hadn’t raised a private army over the years, relying on those local soldiers alone would definitely not have this strength.

In order to buy time for Da Zhou to breathe, he killed King Ping before Nanzhao took action, but Dad did his best not to speak, and he did not hesitate to show his old self. And this matter must have been discussed with Lu Shiqing.

Because of this, Lu Shiqing has not returned to his residence these days, and is always on standby at Daming Palace.

If the sage is willing to trust Father and order him to return to defend the Southwest after the crisis on the Qing Dynasty’s side is resolved, then everything will be fine and nothing will happen. But once he is overwhelmed by the power of southern Yunnan and decides to take this opportunity to eradicate the Yuan family and kill the donkey, Lu Shiqing will control him immediately.

Manpower, excuses, retreat, Yuan Cixian knew what he was ready for, but he never wanted the old emperor to really force him and the Yuan family to come to this point.

It’s a pity that the sky didn’t come true. That night, news came out from the Daming Palace that Emperor Hui Ning fainted due to days of hard work and didn’t wake up all night. At dawn, he said that he would temporarily hand over the follow-up of the war to Lu Shilang.

This news means that the sage has made up his mind to cross the river and demolish the bridge.

The saint, who was always healthy, fell ill overnight, everyone was surprised and suspicious, courtiers and princes and grandchildren asked to see him one after another, but were all rejected. In front of the Zichen Hall, there was a crowd of people who asked to face the saint, and they confronted Lu Shiqing’s Jinwu Guard who had been placed earlier for a whole morning.

At noon, a remnant party of King Ping couldn’t stand it anymore, and denounced the saint for not being ill, and it was Lu Shiqing who had kidnapped the emperor.

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Shiqing made a gesture to go down, and Jin Wuwei stepped forward and cut his throat with a knife.

The blood splashed on the heavenly steps, Yuan Cixian knew that from this knife, the Yuan family rebelled, and Lu Shiqing and the Yuan family rebelled together.

Everything is back to the way it was in the previous life.

Next, it was Zheng Zhuo’s turn to play.