The next day, Helianyi woke up from his hazy drowsiness when the sound of conch shells kept coming and going outside the military camp. Looking up, he saw Shen Liuxiang sitting by the bed guarding him.
"Princess, are you awake? Are you feeling better?"
"Why are you here?" He Lianyi looked at the Luohan couch, but Xiao Yunyan was not there. Shen Liuxiang said: "King Ji went out early in the morning, and he asked me to come in and guard him. I scared my slave to death yesterday. .”
"What's the noise outside?"
"I heard that King Ji is going to Song County."
"Song County?" He Lianyi thought for a while and figured out some clues: Xiao Yunyan came to the border area only half a year ago, and Xiao Yunsheng was the commander-in-chief of the army. Xiao Yunyan and Xiao Yunsheng often had different opinions. When she was robbed by Li Xi and sent to the army, Xiao Yunyan was returning to Daliang Jingzhong to ask for soldiers and horses from his father. The way he came back was angry, which showed that things were not what he expected. There is a big discrepancy. It should not be that many soldiers and horses were obtained, but it is not nothing. Therefore, he should place the soldiers and horses he asked for in Song County, and his ultimate goal should be Qizhou.
Seeing that He Lianyi was deep in thought again, Chen Liuxiang advised, "Princess, the doctor told you not to think too much in the past two days."
"I had to know what he was thinking, what exactly he was going to do."
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At noon, He Lianyi had just had lunch and was sitting down. Xiao Yunyan walked in and looked at He Lianyi with concern on his face: "How are you? Are you feeling better?"
"It's much better, but I'm still a little tired."
"That's good. By the way, you have also seen that my troops are moving. It will be inconvenient to take you with me. Aren't you going to Linchuan? I will send you there right away."
Helianyi was stunned for a long time before asking: "Your Highness, are you planning to let me go?"
"Isn't this what you want?"
He Lianyi looked at Shen Liuxiang. Shen Liuxiang understood. After leaving the tent, He Lianyi asked again, "Are all the people outside here reliable?"
"They are all my confidants, of course they are reliable."
He Lianyi then spoke: "Your Highness, I want to go to Song County with Your Highness."
"Follow me to Song County?"
"Your Highness, please sit down. I have something to say to Your Highness."
Xiao Yunyan sat down, and He Lianyi said: "I have thought a lot in the past few days, and what His Highness said is not unreasonable."
"I have said too much. Which sentence are you referring to?"
"The easiest way for me is to follow His Highness. I will have the opportunity to kill Helian Dingbang personally in the future."
"Then you are willing to follow me?" Xiao Yunyan's face was full of surprise, but there was not even a hint of joy.
He Lianyi hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, please don't get me wrong. The reason why I am willing to follow Your Highness is because I want to cooperate with Your Highness."
Xiao Yunyan frowned and looked at her with disdain, "Cooperation? What can you cooperate with me?"
"If I could give His Highness what he desperately wants now, would Your Highness be interested?"
"What I urgently want right now is to get you." Xiao Yunyan half-joked and half-seriously said.
"Your Highness, don't be ridiculous. Your Highness must have something he sincerely and urgently wants in his heart. With His Highness' ambition, it will definitely not be any woman."
"Oh, I would like to hear, what do I want?"
"Qizhou."
"Qizhou?" Xiao Yunyan suppressed his laughter, and a light flashed in his eyes inadvertently, "Go on."
"Qizhou is not an uncontested place for His Highness. But His Highness must make meritorious service. Only by making more meritorious deeds will there be troops. If this battle is won, it will of course be the icing on the cake for His Highness, and he will be able to Create greater capital. But if we lose, we don’t know how many of these two thousand troops will be left, and the future for His Highness will still be slim."
Xiao Yunyan sneered coldly: "What a joke, why is my future so uncertain?"
"Then let me guess what His Highness is thinking right now, how about it?"
"you say."
"If my guess is correct, can Your Highness agree to what I ask for?"
"What?"
"That's it - please, Your Highness, please stop playing tricks on me."
"This is not difficult."
"His Highness wants troops because he is worried about the future, so he takes great pains to capture a city as a foothold in the future. The Gaochuan area on the western front is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so His Highness came up with this idea. I Is that right or wrong?”
Xiao Yunyan coughed slightly, but did not say yes or no, he just said: "Go on."
"Now in the Liang Dynasty, the one with the highest reputation for establishing a crown prince is Prince Rui. Once he is really established as the crown prince, His Highness will become a mere fish in the future and be preyed upon by others." He Lianyi deliberately did not continue, Xiao Yunyan's eyes seemed to be hidden. He picked up a sharp knife and said: "Continue."
"Not only His Highness, I am afraid that His Highness's maternal ancestors, the Yang family, and the former Prince's family will all be under suspicion, so His Highness is now taking precautions and earning a foothold for himself, so that he can settle the Yang family and the Prince's family around him in the future. "
Xiao Yunyan looked at her deeply, with a light in his eyes, as if he wanted to see through her. Helianyi was stared at by his naked gaze and unconsciously lowered her head. Xiao Yunyan said: "He Lianyi, it seems that you know a lot about me and Daliang."
"The battle for your country's reserve position is naturally what I, Daxia, are most concerned about. I'm afraid Your Highness knows a lot about my father and brother, right?"
"That's true."
"His Highness's loyalty to the Crown Prince is highly praised by everyone in our country." He Lianyi paused for a moment and then said: "Even His Highness's love story of redeeming his daughter with a daughter-in-law was often mentioned when we were getting married. Everyone in the world knows it. He said that His Highness is a rare gentleman."
Xiao Yunyan immediately shouted to stop and looked straight at her, "No, I don't need such a high hat. Whether I am a gentleman or not depends on each person. Facing you, I really have no idea of a gentleman. "
He Lianyi avoided his eyes and deliberately changed the subject, "Let's get back to the business. If I tell His Highness that His Highness should not stop here, would Your Highness be willing to listen?"
"Appreciate further details."
"Your Highness is very ambitious. If King Yi ascends the throne in the future, although he and Your Highness have been raised under Queen Ren since childhood, you and he have different personalities and political views, so it will be difficult for you to express your ambitions in the future."
Xiao Yunyan suddenly raised his head and stared at her for a long time before saying, "How can I have political disagreements with Brother Six? He and I have always been on the same side."
He Lianyi said: "That was once upon a time. At that time, the prince was still there, and you were all working hard to maintain the prince's status. But now that the prince has passed away, you have Mr. Yang behind you, and Xu Zhengrong behind him, and you all have them too. Is it possible to stand on the same front as the successor to the crown prince? I don't think His Highness is someone who is willing to be inferior to others."
Xiao Yunyan's expression changed slightly and he said: "Prince Rui is supported by Concubine Liang inside the palace, and Liang Yong and Liang Wen outside the palace. Their power cannot be underestimated in the court. And he is also my father. The one who is at the heart of the emperor. As for me and my sixth brother, no matter whether we have different temperaments or political opinions, they are not worth mentioning."
"Prince Rui Xiao Yunhao?" He Lianyi shook his head, "The so-called authorities are blind to the beholder, can it be that His Highness really cannot clearly see the situation in Daliang?"
"What's the situation?"
"It has been half a year since the death of your noble prince. Originally, Prince Rui was the most popular candidate for the new prince. But now, not only has he not been appointed as heir apparent, but he has also been treated coldly. Now that things have happened, you really think that he is the one who is dear to your father's heart. Are you people? The Liang family was just a bargaining chip for your father to suppress the crown prince at the beginning. It can be seen that Prince Rui is not someone you really want to support at all. Although your father has many heirs, in my opinion, he will not be able to compete for the crown prince's seat in the future. There are only two people, Your Highness and King Yi."
He Lianyi said, pretending to look at Xiao Yunyan casually, and saw his brows twitching, his eyes gradually glowed with a little sparkle, and he took advantage of the victory and pursued her: "Among all the princes, only His Highness was taken into the lap of the Queen and raised since he was born. His identity is the same as that of a legitimate son, and he has a grandfather to rely on behind him, so why does His Highness only want to settle down in a corner instead of trying to conquer the world?"
He Lianyi saw that Xiao Yunyan was a little moved, so he struck again while the iron was hot: "You and I were born and raised in the palace city. Have we not seen enough of the intrigues, bloodshed, and swordsmanship in it? This isolated city with four walls cannot tolerate the most. Even if you are sincere and kind, if you want to survive, you can only keep fighting. For the sake of power, your highness has not experienced the story of father and son turning against each other and brothers killing each other, right? The world is complicated, and even if King Yi ascends the throne in the future, your highness may not be able to live in peace for the rest of his life. thing."
After hearing this, Xiao Yunyan suddenly looked solemn, raised his head and asked her: "Well, but I really can't figure it out, what does this have to do with Qizhou?"
"His Highness needs to win this battle. Only if the first step is taken firmly can His Highness have a chance to continue."
Xiao Yunyan looked at her as if he had never met her before. He froze for a long time before asking: "Are you trying to say that you can let me easily obtain Qizhou City?"
"Maybe? I want His Highness to win back a city without losing any blood."
"Of course I want it, but how can you, an exiled princess, let me break a city without attacking?"
"The guard of Qizhou is Du Shaojie. I know this person somewhat. I will use my own methods to get him to surrender to His Highness. Please trust me, Your Highness."
"I still don't understand, why do you do this?"
He Lianyi poured a cup of tea for Xiao Yunyan and handed it to him. Xiao Yunyan took a sip of tea, and He Lianyi continued: "In the past few days, I have thought a lot and figured it out: I am willing to follow His Highness, but I will only become His Highness's counselor, not the princess."
"If I want counselors, I will naturally have a lot of people who are willing to follow me. Why do I need a woman to be my counselor?"
"But I can do what they can't."
"What can you do?" Xiao Yunyan laughed deliberately again, his eyes full of provocation and aggression: "Oh, if you want to be my counselor during the day and my concubine at night, then no one else can do it. .”
He Lianyi was so big that only Xiao Yunyan dared to tease her so blatantly. Seeing that he not only did not restrain himself at all, but intensified, he felt angry, ashamed and angry, "I have just said that, if I am right, Your Highness Stop playing tricks on me. Please fulfill your promise, Your Highness."
"I'm not teasing you. I'm really tossing and turning because of you these days." Xiao Yunyan's words were frivolous, but his expression was very serious.
He Lianyi looked away embarrassedly and had no choice but to give in, "Then please, Your Highness, please don't embarrass me again in the future."
Seeing her sincere look, Xiao Yunyan could only sigh: "Well, then tell me, what can you do to help me?"
"Achieve great things."
"Great cause? What is great cause?"
"For Your Highness, what else can be called a great cause besides the throne?"
"I have never thought about it."
Helianyi stared at him and said with a smile: "Your Highness, you can think about it from now on."
Xiao Yunyan took a sip of water, his eyes blurred. Seeing the situation, Helianyi said: "Perhaps His Highness still has this idea occasionally, otherwise he would not be in a hurry to achieve something."
Xiao Yunyan finally looked at her again, and the two just stared at each other. He Lianyi was stared at directly by him again. After staring for a long time, he finally became a little frightened. He lowered his head and said, "Why is your highness looking at me like this?"
Xiao Yunyan looked at her for a long time, then suddenly stood up and said in a cold voice: "If you want to sow discord between father and son or brother, you are wrong. I will not be instigated by you, nor will I do anything inappropriate." The thought that should be taken." With that said, Xiao Yunyan stepped out.
