Li Qingxia always believed that the people were loyal to the king, and that was a matter of course. There was no doubt that she had never thought about the feelings of the people. When Yang Peng said this, she couldn't help but feel that she really shouldn't. Make decisions for the people. However, soon the Confucian idea of loyalty to the emperor came to mind, and he said seriously: "Loyalty is a great righteousness, and it is only natural for the people to be loyal to the emperor. If the emperor dies in the country, the people will naturally follow him! Otherwise, it is unfaithful and unjust." They are worse than pigs and dogs!"
Yang Peng couldn't help but cursed: "Fart!" Li Qingxia was stunned. She never expected that King Yan, who was more cunning than a fox and so deep in the city, would actually say dirty words. Yang Peng sneered and said: "According to what the princess said, you Xixia should surrender to us Yan Yun! It should be noted that you were originally subjects of the Central Plains Dynasty, but you rebelled and proclaimed the emperor and separatized the northwest. Isn't this a treasonous and unfaithful pig? Behavior worse than a dog?”
Li Qingxia was speechless. Even though she was resourceful and resourceful, she could not refute Yang Peng's move of "attacking his shield with his spear." Didn't you say that everyone should be unconditionally loyal to the king, otherwise it would be disloyal and unjust, and you are worse than pigs and dogs? So that's what you Xixia people did in the first place. Doesn't this mean that you Xixia people are worse than pigs and dogs?
Yang Peng softened his tone, "Loyalty to the king has never been justified! The Confucian rhetoric is just a tool used to fool the people and control them!" Li Qingxia's heart was shocked. She was extremely smart and immediately understood what Yang Peng meant. She couldn't help but I feel that what Yang Peng said is right, but the two sides are in a hostile relationship. Even if they agree with the other party's ideas, they cannot say it out loud. Otherwise, it will increase the opponent's momentum and destroy their own prestige.
Yang Peng continued: "The princess is extremely intelligent, so she must be able to understand what I am saying. In fact, how different is the human society from the society of animals? The Wolf King, Monkey King, and Deer King are all those who serve everyone in their groups. Roles, such as facing the invasion of foreign enemies, these kings have to bear the brunt, otherwise they are not qualified to be kings. The king is like this, he is elected by everyone, his status is naturally high, but his responsibility is even more important! If he cannot serve everyone, there are Who is qualified to be a king? If animals are like this, are humans, as the primates of all things, inferior to animals? All actions in society should serve everyone, not a family, a family or even a certain person! Therefore, the king can only What should you do for the people, but you are not qualified to ask the people to do anything?"
Li Qingxia sneered, "I didn't expect that King Yan could not help but be brave and cunning, and he was also so eloquent! The four words 'tongued lotus' couldn't be more appropriate to describe King Yan!"
Yang Peng said with a smile: "Princess, you are honored! If what I said is unreasonable, no matter how many flowers I can turn out with my tongue, it will not be of any use! I, Yan Yun, need not say more about my military power. The princess came all the way to Tianjing New City and lived in Tianjing New City for a few days. I believe that with the princess's wisdom, she can see the advantages and disadvantages of both societies! If Xixia merges with Yanyun, it will definitely be a big deal for the people of Xixia A good thing! Since it is beneficial to the people, why wouldn’t the princess do it?”
Li Qingxia stared at Chen Xiao with a strange expression, a little confused, a little angry, and a little unclear. Yang Peng just looked at her with a smile.
Li Qingxia suddenly said loudly: "No matter how many benefits there are, they can't be compared with dignity!!" Yang Peng nodded with deep sympathy, "That's right! In a hundred years of life, why should you lower your noble head for a little benefit!" Li Qingxia was stunned. She originally thought that the other party would refute her words again, but she did not expect that the other party would actually agree with her point of view. Today the other party gave her too many surprises.
Yang Peng glanced at Li Qingxia and said with a smile; "However, it is normal for a family to have conflicts and then reconcile. It is not embarrassing or even disrespectful! Dangxiang people are also descendants of Yan and Huang, and so are their ancestors. The Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors are the same as us Hans, Khitans, and Jurchens. Since they are one family, if they are merged, they are just going home, so how can they harm their dignity?"
Yang Peng's words and sincere attitude moved Li Qingxia, but Li Qingxia still felt that it was inappropriate. Although she agreed with Yang Peng's statement in her heart, she still felt unwilling to do so. She felt that since everyone was Yanhuang Descendants, why must it be you Han people who will unify the world, and not the Dangxiang people? After all, it is still a feeling of pride that is at work.
Li Qingxia glanced at Yang Peng, "What's the use of Prince Yan telling me so much? I'm just a daughter of my father, and a daughter who has been deprived of power. I have no idea about the coming of Daxia." It won't have any influence! King Yan has found the wrong person!"
Yang Peng chuckled, "We were just chatting at the banquet. I'm just saying it, and you can listen to it. Don't take it seriously!" Li Qingxia thought that Yang Peng would come up with another set of very seductive rhetoric, but she didn't expect that he would say it so lightly. Putting this topic aside, I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed.
Yang Peng picked up the wine glass and drank the wine. Seeing this, Jin Xiuying hurried over and filled Yang Peng's glass again. Yang Peng smiled and said to Li Qingxia: "The princess is so beautiful, why bother worrying about these things, just marry a good man and live a good life!"
Li Qingxia felt annoyed, and then became alert: "From just now, my emotions have been influenced by him, and I am completely led by his nose. I can't continue like this!" ' As soon as I thought of this, I suppressed my annoyance, raised my head, and said with a smile: "Thank you, King Yan, for your concern. I don't want to get married yet!"
Yang Peng took a bite of the food and said with a smile: "Why should the Xiongnu be home before they are destroyed?"
Li Qingxia smiled slightly, nodded and said: "Not bad!" Yang Peng chuckled and glanced at Yelu Hanyu, "I didn't expect that our Yanyun turned into the Huns!" Li Qingxia said with a smile: "This is what King Yan said, I never said that." After a pause, "The ambition of King Yan is probably not comparable to that of the Huns!" Yang Peng smiled and said nothing, giving people an unfathomable feeling. Li Qingxia dislikes this situation the most. She wants to find out the details of the other party, but she always sees only shadows but cannot see the truth.
Seeing that Chen Xiao didn't say anything, Li Qingxia simply made it clear: "I think King Yan wants to build a powerful empire comparable to the Han and Tang Dynasties!!" Yang Peng laughed. Li Qingxia stared at Chen Xiao, trying to understand his thoughts, but she felt that his laughter was full of longing and regret, longing and pride. Li Qingxia instantly understood Yang Peng's thoughts, and couldn't help but feel shocked. The palm of her hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly, and with a squeak, the wine glass fell to the ground.
Yang Peng asked with a smile: "Is the princess uncomfortable?" Li Qingxia took a deep look at Yang Peng and said in her heart: "I didn't expect your ambition to be much greater than I expected!" How could a person like you be born under the sky! 'I then thought about how Xixia should protect itself. I felt that the current situation is like the situation at the end of the Warring States Period when the Qin Dynasty rose. There is only one way for countries to protect themselves, and that is to unite, a true alliance! Li Qingxia felt that this alone was not safe, so she thought of another idea and said to Chen Xiao: "Prince Yan, I want to make a bet with you?"
Yang Peng and Yelu Hanyu looked at each other. Yang Peng asked with a smile: "What bet are you making?" Li Qingxia said: "If King Yan cannot destroy me, Daxia, within two years, he will never be able to attack Daxia again in his lifetime." Use troops!!" Yang Peng thought for a while, nodded and said: "Yes! I promise you! If Xixia cannot be destroyed within two years, I will never use troops against Xixia again in my lifetime!"
Li Qingxia was overjoyed and said anxiously: "King Yan is the greatest hero in the world, so he can't keep his word!" Yang Peng smiled and nodded, "Since I promised you, I will never go back on it! But this year only There are more than three months left, not counting the two years starting from next year!”
Li Qingxia nodded and said, "Okay! That's it!" Yang Peng smiled and said, "Slow down, slow down!" Li Qingxia was furious: "Want to regret it, King Yan?"
Yang Peng smiled and said: "Since it is a bet, you can't just bet on my family. You Xixia must also come up with a bet, otherwise it will not be a bet!" Li Qingxia frowned and said: "If our side loses, the country will lose." They are all destroyed, what else is there to bet on?" Yang Peng shook his head, "That's not the case!" He glanced at Li Qingxia, "This bet must be with the king of Xixia, and with the current situation of the princess, I'm afraid there is nothing we can do. Make this bet with me! I will only give the princess more than three months. Before the spring of next year, if the princess cannot become the lord of Xixia, this bet will be invalid, because the Xixia Kingdom is not yours. I bet you that the Xixia Kingdom will not be negotiated at all. Not!"
Li Qingxia lowered her head and frowned, remaining silent. Yang Peng continued: "If the princess becomes the lord of Xixia, this bet will officially begin. If I lose, it will be what the princess said just now, but if my Yanyun army comes to Xingqing Mansion, I will I don’t want to do more killing, so please ask the princess to open the city and surrender!..."
Li Qingxia nodded, "Okay! I promise you!"
Yang Peng smiled, "One more thing, if you lose, you have to marry one of my generals!" Li Qingxia was stunned for a moment, then became furious and glared at Yang Peng. Yang Peng said with a smile: "Don't be angry. In fact, this does not wrong you! My subordinates, Yang Dezheng, Fan Long, etc., which one is not a powerful general in the world, who is not young and handsome, the princess admires heroes, I believe it is not Will you like them?" Li Qingxia stared at Yang Peng with a blushing face, and after a while she asked: "Is this a bet?" Yang Peng nodded, "Yes." Li Qingxia hesitated for a moment and raised her head. He came to look at Yang Peng and said, "I promise you!"
Yang Peng smiled and picked up the wine glass, "The bet has been made, let's see how things develop!" Li Qingxia couldn't help but beat her heart when she saw Yang Peng taking so much time to relax. However, since the bet has been made, there is no need to go any further. Overthink it.
After Li Qingxia said goodbye and left, Yang Peng and Yelu Hanyu were still sitting in the waterside pavilion drinking and chatting. Yang Peng took a sip of wine and couldn't help but sigh: "This princess is amazing!" Yelu Hanyu smiled and said: "She has been led by your nose from the beginning to the end. Isn't she still amazing?" Yang Peng nodded, "Although So, but I still made a mistake!" Yelu Hanyu nodded, "She said that the eldest brother wanted to build a powerful empire comparable to the Han and Tang Dynasties. The eldest brother couldn't help laughing! This laugh revealed the eldest brother's intentions. ! With Li Qingxia’s shrewdness, she must have figured it out, and that’s why there was such a bet!” Yang Peng nodded, “That’s why I say that Li Qingxia is amazing, she managed to survive under completely unfavorable circumstances. Can be an outstanding soldier!"
Yelu Hanyu frowned slightly and asked, "Brother, do you really want to carry out this bet?" Yang Peng nodded, "Of course! If a man doesn't agree, he must do it! Since I promised her, I will never break my promise!”
Yelu Hanyu said with some worry: "Our food and grass problem will not be solved until at least one year. In other words, we only have one year to attack Xixia! One year is not long or short, and although Xixia's country is powerful It’s a big setback, but if our army is going to attack Xixia within a year, it’s hard to say we are sure of victory!”
Yang Peng drank a glass of wine, and Jin Xiuying hurriedly came up to fill it up for Yang Peng. Yang Peng smiled at her, and Jin Xiuying was so surprised that her heart beat loudly. Yang Peng turned back to Yelu Hanyu and said: "It is interesting to do something that is a little risky. If you are sure of winning, it will be boring!!"
Yelu Hanyu smiled slightly, glanced at Yang Peng, and said angrily: "You are really bad. Although you agreed to the bet, you used the bet to trip her up!" Yang Peng said with a smile: "Who said that? It's only natural that she proposed such a bet and bet on herself!" Yelu Hanyu rolled her eyes at Yang Peng, "I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about the prerequisite you proposed, asking her to do it next year. Seize the throne before the spring begins! Alas, if this happens, Xixia will inevitably be in civil strife, and its already insufficient strength will be further depleted, possibly leading to a situation of endless civil war and stalemate. In that case, we can reap the benefits!"
Yang Peng glanced at Yelu Hanyu and said with a smile: "You can see it?" Yelu Hanyu said: "Not only can I see it, but Li Qingxia must also have seen it!" He frowned, "It's just that now Given the situation, she has no choice but to take a risk!" Yang Peng rolled her eyes and complained: "It's really bad for you to force such a beautiful woman into such a situation!! "
Yang Peng smiled bitterly and said: "No, you just met her once and you are actually standing by her side. I am your man!" Yelu Hanyu pursed her lips and smiled, "I know you are my man, but you don't have to always Just keep it on your lips!" Yang Peng said seriously: "That's not possible! I have to say this to such a beautiful wife a hundred times a day!"
Yelu Hanyu was happy. After Li Qingxia left the palace, the three cronies waiting at the door immediately came up to her and worshiped her together: "Princess." Li Qingxia came back to her senses, turned to look at Prince Yan's Mansion behind her, and said to the three of them: "Go back." Immediately after boarding the carriage, the other three people got on the horse one after another. Gao Feng shouted: "Let's go!" The group of people set off and headed to the hotel. Along the way, Li Qingxia didn't speak. The three cronies were very curious about what the princess said to King Yan, and they felt itchy in their hearts. But the princess didn't say anything, so they couldn't ask.
When the group returned to the hotel, Li Qingxia suddenly sighed: "King Yan, it's more terrifying than I expected!" The three cronies were all shocked, and Gao Feng couldn't help but ask, "The princess and that King Yan both said What happened?" The other two were also very curious.
Li Qingxia was silent for a moment and sighed: "This man is almost invulnerable. What's even more terrifying is that he has unparalleled ambitions. He wants to create a great empire that surpasses the Han and Tang Dynasties!!" The three of them were startled, and Li Xu frowned. : "In this case, peace will be impossible! With our current capabilities in Daxia, I'm afraid..."
Gao Feng glared and shouted: "What the hell are you afraid of! If Yan Yun's army comes to kill us, we will fight him! Even if we die, we will have to use him as backers!!" These words made everyone's pride rise sharply. Li Wenchang said loudly: "What Gao Feng said is right! In the worst case, if you fight hard, you will be a good man again in twenty years!"
Li Qingxia said: "I made a bet with King Yan..." The three of them looked at each other and thought: With such a relationship between the two parties, they are still in the mood for a bet? Li Qingxia said: "I made a bet with him that Yanyun can't destroy Daxia within two years!" The three of them were shocked. They didn't expect that they were making such a bet. This was simply betting on the survival of the country! ! Li Xu asked: "I wonder what the bet between the princess and King Yan is?"
Li Qingxia said calmly: "If I win, King Yan will not be able to invade our Daxia in his lifetime!..." Gao Feng said happily: "Great! What's so great about King Yan is that he has been fooled by our princess!! "Li Xu frowned and said: "It's easy to say, but with the current situation in our country, it may not be easy to resist it!" Gao Feng glared and shouted: "I don't believe we can't resist it for even two years!" Li Wenchang frowned He said: "Whether you can resist it or not is another matter. I'm worried about whether King Yan will keep his promise? It's hard for me to believe that he will keep his promise for this kind of thing!" Gao Feng and Li Xu nodded in agreement.
But Li Qingxia said categorically: "I believe he will keep his promise! A man like King Yan will either not promise you, but since he has promised, he will definitely do it!" The three of them nodded involuntarily. Gao Feng said loudly: "In this case, we only need to consider how to resist Yan Yun's offensive here. We will definitely be able to resist it!"
Li Xu glanced at Li Qingxia and asked: "I wonder what the princess's bet is?" Li Qingxia's calm face actually turned a little red, and said: "There is nothing to say about my bet. If we lose, the country It’s gone, everything is gone! But he put forward a precondition, that I must become the master of Xixia before this bet will be executed, and there is a time limit, before the spring of next year!”
Gao Feng said loudly: "What's the matter? The princess should have been the emperor of our Xixia a long time ago! If the princess had been the emperor a long time ago, our Xixia would not have ended up like this!"
Li Xu said in a deep voice: "This is a vicious plan of King Yan. He wants our Daxia to kill each other so that he can reap the benefits!" Li Wenchang frowned and nodded, but Gao Feng had a look of confusion. .
Li Qingxia said helplessly: "I know this, but what can we do! Judging from the current situation, our situation in Daxia is the most unfavorable. In a year's time, once Yanyun has enough food and grass, we Daxia will bear the brunt! At that time, we, Daxia, will be the first to suffer the consequences. , even if we resist desperately, I am afraid it will be difficult to reverse the fate of the country and the family! Only by taking dangerous measures and taking risks, there may be a glimmer of hope! King Yan's move is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy. He knows I have no choice!!" Everyone fell silent, feeling very heavy. They felt that King Yan was really a terrible demon king. The fate of themselves and the entire Great Xia seemed to be in his hands. Now they can only hope for God's blessing. Let the princess ascend the throne smoothly and be able to withstand Yan Yun's offensive in a year. However, this is not easy said. One year later, Yan Yun's attack will be like a landslide or a tsunami. It will be a terrible military disaster that has never been encountered since the founding of the Xia Dynasty. Whether it can be resisted, even the most nerve-wracking peak will be completely shattered. not sure.
Li Qingxia looked at the night sky and murmured: "We will do our best to obey fate. It depends on whether God will favor us in Daxia!"
The next morning, Li Qingxia came to say goodbye to Yang Peng, and then led her men to leave Yanyun and return to Xixia. She had achieved the purpose of this trip, and she knew what she should do, but she had no idea whether it would succeed or not. For the first time, she felt that her destiny was not in her own hands, and at the same time she felt faintly lucky. Fortunately, I was born in the same era as an extraordinary person like Chen Xiao. This life will not be wasted. Even if I die in his hands in the end, I will have no regrets!
After the group left Tianjing New City, Li Qingxia looked back, with a complicated and inexplicable expression in her beautiful eyes. At this time, Yang Peng was looking through official documents in the study. Wang Kai hurried in with a secret guard dressed as a waiter, clasped his fists and said: "King Yan, our people have discovered something about those Japanese people." Yang Peng raised his head and looked at the secret guard who looked like a waiter. . The secret guard stepped forward and clasped his fists in worship: "I have met my master!"
Yang Peng asked: "What's going on?" The secret guard said: "My subordinates were ordered to disguise themselves as waiters and monitor the Japanese. Last night, I heard their conversation. One of the old men called the young man your highness. Later, I heard that he called himself the emperor. He also said, 'We must do our best to expand territory for Japan.'"
Yang Peng frowned and said: "He is really a member of the Japanese royal family! This guy came all the way to Tianjing New City, definitely not just for sightseeing! Now the Japanese are invading Goryeo, what is the purpose of the Japanese prince coming to me? What do you want to do?" After thinking about this, he looked at the secret guard and asked, "What else did they say?"
The secret guard said: "They also said that our Yanyun is much richer than imagined, and occupying one of our areas is far better than the entire Goryeo!" Yang Peng sneered: "What a big statement! If there is no internal problem in China, , how much damage can you Japanese cause?" Looking at the secret guard, "Is there more?"
The secret guard said: "The Japanese prince said: 'For the time being, we should not quarrel with Yan Yun's army. We should unite with Yan Yun and use Yan Yun's power to contain the Khitan people. Only then can we annex Goryeo, and then invade Liao Kingdom. When we have enough strength, Then fight Yanyun decisively and occupy the Central Plains. In the end, the weak Song State in the south is not worth mentioning. In this way, Japan's grand plan to dominate the world will be completed!'
Yang Peng sneered and asked the secret guard: "Is that all?" Yin Sha nodded, cupped his fists and said, "This is all we know so far."
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
