Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Su Mingzhe's concubines were all busy returning home to Ning for reunions, or entertaining relatives who came to Beijing to visit them.
Su Mingzhe was bored by himself, so he simply carried a box of gifts and went to the depths of the prison.
“There is a beauty in the north. Unparalleled and independent.
Look at the Qingren city once, and then look at the Qingren country.
I would rather not know a beautiful city or a beautiful country. Beautiful women are hard to come by. "
After the song ended, deep in the dark prison, the sound of shaking chains could be heard, and a refreshing female voice shouted:
"Who's yelling?"
"My Excellency, Su Mingzhe, I have met Saint Duoduo."
Su Mingzhe carried the gift box and walked all the way down to the depths of the dungeon, where he saw Ku He, Lang Tao, and Begonia Duoduo, who had been imprisoned for nearly a year.
"What a saint, she is just a prisoner now."
Haitang Duoduo snorted softly and immediately lost interest in talking when she saw Su Mingzhe wearing a white robe and red armor.
In Nanqing, the black robe represents the Procuratorate and the royal family.
The red robe represents the army and the martial arts family.
The white robe represents the eunuch and the eunuch party.
Although Haitang Duoduo is a descendant of Tianyi Dao, she inevitably has deep discrimination against eunuchs and eunuchs like normal people.
Su Mingzhe didn't come to see Haitang Duoduo, and he didn't care about her rude behavior. He put down the gift box and opened it, revealing the various mooncakes inside, which were placed in Kuhe, Langtao, and Haitang Duoduo. in front of people.
Then he came to Master Ku He again, squatted down and said with a smile:
"Master Ku He, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Your Majesty ordered me to come and visit you."
"Thank you for your trouble, Your Majesty."
It has been almost a year since Ku He and his two direct disciples were arrested.
Nan Qing did not kill, release or torture the three of them, but detained them deep in the dungeon of Zhao Prison.
Because there was no place to take a shower, the three of them started to stink.
Su Mingzhe held his breath, and after a moment of silence, he brought up the old words again and advised:
"Master, His Majesty has an oral message, asking if you have thought it through. Now the war between the two countries is about to break out. As long as you are willing to write to your little emperor and ask him to surrender, so as to avoid the loss of life, I, Daqing, are willing to preserve the Northern Qi ancestral temple so that you can lose the incense of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Absolutely."
After hearing Su Mingzhe's words, Ku He opened his eyes, his gaze was long, and his tone was indifferent:
"Your Excellency, don't say any more. Although Ku He is from outside the country, he will not forget his old master. Please come back."
"Okay, I'll leave now, but I ask you, Master, to think about it again, just for the sake of all the creatures in the world."
As Su Mingzhe said this, he was about to turn around and leave, but unexpectedly, Haitang Duoduo from the cell next to him hummed softly again:
"If you really want to think about the world's living beings, why don't you advise your little emperor not to start a border war?"
Su Mingzhe originally didn't want to answer Haitang Duoduo's words. After all, the smell deep in the dungeon was not pleasant, but he remembered that this saint was a heroine in the TV series, so he said:
"Girl Duoduo, the general trend of the world is that if we unite for a long time, we will divide, and if we divide for a long time, we will unite. The unification of Nanqing and Northern Qi can be said to be an unstoppable trend of the times. Even if we Qing people don't take advantage of our strong national power to carry out the Northern Expedition this time, In the future, when Northern Qi becomes stronger, you may also want to go south and annex Daqing, right?"
Su Mingzhe's words sounded a bit like being a rogue.
However, Haitang Duoduo really couldn't refute.
Because what Su Mingzhe said was the truth.
Afterwards, Su Mingzhe smiled again and said:
"As the saying goes, if God gives you nothing, you must suffer the consequences. Now our Daqing has a prosperous literary fortune and a prosperous martial arts. In this Northern Expedition, we will definitely be able to determine the country in one battle. Girl Duoduo, tell me, what reason does my Daqing have to let go? What about you?"
As Su Mingzhe said, he gave Ku He one final advice:
"Master Ku He, please think more about it. If we wait until our Qing army arrives at the city and want to surrender, it will be too late."
After leaving prison.
Su Mingzhe thought for a while, then disappeared into a dimly lit manor.
This is the Royal Courtyard where Li Yunrui lived after he was kicked out of the palace.
Since Li Yunrui moved here, Su Mingzhe often came here to have trysts with her.
Perhaps because he was nourished by love and was a little sweet, Li Yunrui was quite happy here and did not miss Shu. Even during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he did not think of returning to the palace to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager.
When Su Mingzhe arrived, Li Yunrui was wearing a pink mandarin duck bellyband and a thin veil on the outside. He was standing in the dormitory, dancing gracefully.
After Li Yunrui saw Su Mingzhe, not only did he not stop dancing, but he danced even more vigorously.
The Luo belt with double hanging can't be painted, and the person's delicate posture is the lightest.
Her soft breasts hugged the moon in the sky, and her jade hands flicked the ice on the water's surface.
After a while, Su Mingzhe asked Li Yunrui to sing a beautiful song.
The song was crisp and clear at first, just like the rushing sound of a small stream.
Then it was like rivers gathering together, with a loud sound and a loud sound.
Eventually everything calmed down.
Several days passed in a flash.
After more than half a month of traveling, the Northern Qi delegation finally arrived at the capital of Nanqing.
Before Zhuang Mohan entered the city gate, hundreds of students from Nanqing ran out of the city to greet him.
Almost like stars holding the moon, Zhuang Mohan arrived at the gate of the Northern Qi Embassy under the protection of the Tiger Guard.
In order to welcome Zhuang Mohan, the Northern Qi embassy, which had been closed for ten months, was reorganized under Su Mingzhe's order.
Even, in order to show sincerity, Nan Qing released the imprisoned assassin Haitang Duoduo, and she and Su Mingzhe, the stall owner in the prison, were responsible for protecting Zhuang Mohan.
"Begonia Duoduo, I have met Mr. Zhuang."
"Su Mingzhe, I have met Mr. Zhuang."
Su Mingzhe and Haitang Duoduo stood at the entrance of the embassy, welcoming the Northern Qi envoys to come in and stay.
This time the envoy of the mission is Zhuang Mohan.
But the person in charge of the negotiations was the deputy envoy Chang'anhou.
The Marquis of Chang'an is the elder brother of Wei Yun, the Imperial Guard of the Northern Qi Dynasty. He is also considered an important minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty. He is now a general leading troops on the border.
Because this peace negotiation involves the vital interests of the Queen Mother Wei and the young emperor.
Queen Mother Wei was worried about finding someone else, so she had no choice but to transfer her eldest brother over.
Su Mingzhe sat with him for a while and then left.
There are fifty Tiger Guards guarding the place.
In the absence of the Grand Master, no one can harm Zhuang Mohan and his party.
The Marquis of Chang'an originally pretended that the old god was present, but when he saw Su Mingzhe voluntarily retreating, he immediately waved his hand and ordered his men to close the door. Without bothering to hide his anxiety, he asked Haitang Duoduo:
"Holy girl, how is the Imperial Master doing now?"
"My master is imprisoned in the dungeon."
Haitang Duoduo recounted what happened last year when her master brought her and Lang Tao to assassinate Emperor Nanqing, but was surrounded by three great masters and imprisoned:
"In Nanqing, although the three of us were imprisoned deep in the prison, there was no torture to extract confessions, nor coercion and humiliation. However, the Nanqing monarchs and ministers have always wanted the master to persuade the Queen Mother and Your Majesty to give up resistance and surrender the country. The master has always disagreed. Now you are here. Nanqing Jun and his ministers may want to promote force, so they released me to meet you."
"Does Nanqing really have three great masters?"
When the Marquis of Chang'an heard the news that had been rumored for a long time, he suddenly became exhausted and sat back on his chair.
After a long time, the Marquis of Chang'an looked a little dull and asked:
"Holy girl, you said that Nan Qing has a strong military and has three great masters. Do we in Northern Qi still have hope this time?"
Haitang Duoduo frowned when asked:
"Our Qi country has had a national destiny for a hundred years. As long as everyone is united, what will happen even if there are three great masters in Nanqing?"
After hearing Haitang Duoduo's words, although Chang'an Hou did not speak, his eyes showed some disapproval.
The Marquis of Chang'an is not one of those civil servants in the court. He is a general who leads troops. He knows how much influence a high-level martial arts expert can have on the battle situation.
Something to mention here.
The two brothers, Chang'an Hou and Changning Hou, were both students of Zhuang Mohan and belonged to the Confucian school of "Shang Ren".
In addition, he had also been on the battlefield and had seen corpses all over the mountains and plains. Therefore, the Marquis of Chang'an particularly hated war.
"We still have to find a way to achieve peace talks."
In the blink of an eye.
Come September.
The deputy envoy of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Chang'an Hou, and the negotiation minister Xin Qiwu sent by Nanqing had been negotiating for almost half a month.
The two of them argued hard based on the content of the negotiations and refused to give in.
The bottom line of the Northern Qi mission is not to lose an inch of territory.
However, there is also a negotiable part, that is, the young emperor can pay tribute to the Qing Kingdom and even send his daughter to marry him.
Nan Qing's request was relatively simple and crude.
Su Mingzhe just wanted Northern Qi to be included in the Qing Kingdom's territory.
As for what can be negotiated, it is to allow the Northern Qi Dynasty to retain the upper capital as the location of the ancestral temple, where the incense will continue.
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The bottom line gap between the two sides was too big, and the negotiation naturally reached a deadlock.
Since the Northern Qi delegation moved into the embassy, Su Mingzhe came to check on it three times a day.
When you are bored, you will also go to the Liquid Crystal River to play.
Recently, a new oiran came to Zuixianfang, named Si Lili.
Su Mingzhe fell in love with this beauty from Northern Qi at first sight, and then spent 10,000 taels of silver to keep her for a month.
Every night, the two of them went boating and took a night trip, as happy as gods.
That night, Si Lili had been in Kyoto for a month.
Su Mingzhe's monthly subscription expires.
Si Lili was secretly relieved, and finally no longer had to suffer every day.
As a result, after she had sat in the attic for a while, she saw the guard maid running up in a hurry and said anxiously: "Miss, Master Su has hired you again!"
"What? He took me down again?"
When Si Lili heard the news, he felt a ringing in his ears.
If an ordinary courtesan sees a man who is so infatuated with him, he would like to redeem himself immediately and follow him for the rest of his life.
However, at this moment, Si Lili could only be so moved that his eyes turned red:
"This bastard isn't done yet, is he?"
"Miss, what should we do now?"
The maids were also helpless. They were spies sent to Nanqing by the Jin Yiwei.
Now that Si Lili has been hired by Su Mingzhe on a monthly basis, where can they go to get information?
