Chapters 16-20

Liao Li's affairs came to an end. Later, we secretly sent people to Jingzhou to investigate and found that the Liao Shui tribe members had mysteriously disappeared two years ago. Some people said that they went to Qingzhou, while others said that Jizhou, although the territory was different, they were all the territory of Cao Wei.

After careful investigation of the so-called family and subordinates of Liao Shui in Hanzhong, he found that he had all hired them for money. No matter how he asked, he didn't know his background. Liao Shui actually joined Ji Han alone to make trouble. This made me quite annoyed. Although Liao Shui was indeed capable and dared to die for Cao Wei, on the other hand, he used his own strength (although Cao Wei's support, he was in the dark) and used his fake identity to make such a big noise under my rule, and even people reported it to the court to know it, which fully demonstrated how big the loopholes my rule was.

So I wrote the words "household registration" under the pillar of the bedroom. Generally, I would write everything that I think is important on the pillar, which is close to each other in the morning and evening, and I can remind you at any time. For example, now the pillars are written with "Xianbei", "school", "military school", "trade road" and "military farming".

It was really annoying that I knew I was deceived and had been plotted against by someone, but I couldn't find any real evidence. In anger, I wanted to take revenge against the old fox. Later, I thought about it, I gave up. If history did not change, he would not live for three months. Forget it, he lost a game and let him move back before he died. So I issued a special amnesty order and released Liao Li directly.

The meeting with the Xianbei envoy was full of twists and turns.

First of all, my ministers did not agree to the negotiations with the Xianbei, represented by the Secretary of the State Reign Liu Ba. He even said to me bluntly: "Your Majesty, this is the way to destroy the country. These Hu people are not my race, and their hearts must be different. For hundreds of years, they have frequently invaded the Central Plains, causing smoke to spread on the border, the people are living in poverty, the people are displaced, nine out of ten families are empty, and they are suffering. If they unite with them, what do the people in the world think of us? How can the people support us? Even if the rioters and traitors in the Wei State dare not do such a thing, Your Majesty comes to do it, what are we still the orthodox faces that we call ourselves orthodox and call the world to recover the country?"

These words are a bit heart-wrenching. This is indeed what I am worried about. If I am not a race, my heart will be different. This view has made us Han people afraid to let go of our arms and know other nations, and refuse to believe that they also have talents as outstanding as us, and are unwilling tolerate and forgive. I do not agree with this view. In fact, I respect every nation, from the Wuling Barbarians to the Nanzhong Barbarians, from the Qiang people to the Xiongnu. In this world, everyone is raised by their parents and has the right to survive. In this world, in addition to killing, there should be another way to allow everyone to survive together.

I said to Liu Ba: "You make sense, but the hatred in the world is buried from generation to generation. If you don't resolve it, you will never be able to resolve it. I also know that Hu and Han are too divided and cannot be easily dealt with, but contact with them is just a constitution. My mind cannot be smaller than Tan Shihuai and Ke Bieneng. Tan Shiban dares to value Han people, and Ke Bieneng dares to contact me. Am I not as good as them?"

Liu Ba said: "Like the Xiongnu, the Xianbei people made a living by grazing, chasing water and grass, wearing short clothes, living in yurts, advocating force, and fighting bravely. The hard life outside the border also created their strong and unyielding character, which made them seem aggressive, often tampering with border areas and robbing the property of the Han people. When he was in Youzhou, Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, used a soft method. He collected Hu people from abroad, gave them land and seeds, taught them to farm, build houses, and care about their lives... Gongsun Zan was another method, he established a powerful ministry.

The team, severely cracked down on all those who dared to provoke his authority, and even destroyed them for a little reason. But was it successful? No, neither of them solved the border troubles, the Xianbei and the Han Dynasty still fought every year, and the Wuhuan surrendered and rebelled. Even the Huns, who had been naturalized in the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, began to fight for the greatest benefit for themselves whenever there was any disturbance. Therefore, Your Majesty should not underestimate these alien races. Their strength and their ferocity are not as much as we can imagine. They should be killed all the Xianbei and inferior races, and it is no different to seeking a skin from a wolf."

I smiled: "Shangshu Ling is too worried. The Xianbei is indeed powerful, so they can defeat the Huns, occupy the grasslands, and attack us every year. But Lian is not an incompetent and ignorant lord, let alone Kongming and you, I don't believe that these barbarians can make money. Now the world is in chaos and heroes are rising. People always say that it is the three kingdoms of Wei, Han and Wu. In fact, I regard this world as the seven kingdoms, the Han and Wu world, the Wei, Han and Wu are the three kingdoms, the Xianbei, the West, the Central,

The three eastern tribes are also the Three Kingdoms, and the Western Qiang Kingdom in our west is also the same. My goal is to first clean up the Western Qiang Kingdom and Budugen, solve all the problems around, and then concentrate on dealing with Cao Wei. I don’t want Cao Pi’s experience of the five armies blooming from all sides to attack Ji Han again. I think that as far as we can see, we can go. If we are limited to Wei and Wu, then we are still fighting in a corner of the chessboard. Do you think this is the reason?"

When I said this, Liu Ba naturally had nothing to say. Speaking of which, although I am young, I acted like a virtuous lord. I made a private discussion. Some said I was like the Gao Emperor, and some said I was like Emperor Guangwu. In fact, this was the reputation I gained when I was young in Jingzhou, and I was promoted by Mr. Shuijing and others. My battle for Yongliang also raised my reputation to a relevant level. In Ji Han, my words were still quite substantial. I was not a founding lord like my father, so I was not as strong as him. I was a perfect person. I knew my strengths and shortcomings, so I discussed with the ministers when I encountered problems. Kong Ming and the main responsible person made a decision. In this way, the ministers felt that I respected them, so they respected me on the other side. Even Liu Ba, who did not like his father, and Liao Li, who had eyes on his forehead, was still polite to me in the court.

He convinced the ministers in the court and met with the Xianbei envoys.

The leader of the messenger who came this time was Kebineng's son-in-law Yu Zhuo. It seemed that this person was no different from the Han people, but he spoke very fluently in Chinese. It was effortless to communicate with him. However, he couldn't say a few words to me, so he whispered a few words to the three people around him. I knew he was translating my words, but I couldn't help but think that in Ji Han, there was a need for talented people who spoke Xianbei, otherwise I wouldn't know if they scolded me in person.

After saying a few polite words, they got to the point. They really wanted to unite with me, but not for a long time, but for a short-term cooperation. They wanted to attack Youzhou and Bingzhou and planned to join forces with me.

I was attracted by this proposal. When asked about the specific time, location, and action measures, I couldn't help but nod. Ke Bineng is indeed a character. He planned to invade Cao Wei on a large scale this fall, and asked me to contact the Eastern Wu and attract the attention of Cao Wei from the south and the west. They knew that the Huns in Bingzhou were united with us, so they asked them to send troops to cooperate in the attack. After success, they would give us 20,000 cattle and sheep as a benefit.

I was so angry that I, Ji Han, lacked these 20,000 sheep? It was a joke to use us like this. I shook my head and said, "I don't want cattle and sheep, I don't want that. I want to go to the county, Shuofang, Jiuyuan, and Yunzhong four counties." At present, the Xianbei in the west has a very strong force. Our country has been completely territorial from Fengyi and north of Anding. I proposed to ask these four counties to place all the territories west of the Yellow River into its own siege. In this way, it connects the counties such as Anding and the North, not only pushes the Xianbei forces north of the Great Wall, but also pushes them to the northernmost end of the Yellow River.

Yu Zhuge was startled and said, "Your Majesty, you want to destroy the entire Budugen clan? What are the benefits of this to us? Do you have this strength?"

I smiled: "Just kidding, don't you want to Danhanshan Wangting? Don't want to occupy the plump grasslands of the north and south of the Qingshan Mountains? Just want to invade year by year, grab it when it comes, and run away when it robs. What's the skill? With this, can you snatch Danhanshan into your hands? To be honest, I don't want to make a small fuss like you. I am the descendant of the Great Han Emperor. I have hundreds of thousands of troops, the wisest prime minister and the bravest general in the world. I know that you are a hero and believe in his vision. What do you want to be strong? Land, only with land, your cattle and sheep can breed, your troops can increase, and you will have countless warriors. You grow on horseback, and only places with abundant water and grass are your home. And I, you also know that most of my troops are infantry and bows.

Arrow soldiers, I don’t value grassland so much. As long as the border is not disturbed, I just don’t want to have another Bu Dugen in the north of Chang’an. Bu Dugen is a descendant of Tan Shihuai. Join forces with me to eliminate Tan Shihuai’s descendants. You adults can truly become the leader of the Xianbei. You are all straight men, and I don’t want to circle around you. Do you think about it yourself. Should you follow your elders south to rob, die and lose lives, and exchange the warriors in the tribe for some money and goods? Or should you expand your territory, increase your people, and fight for one piece of grassland after another for your descendants? If you want to do it, I will help you. If you don’t want to do it, I will not support you in the south, and I will not let the Huns send troops. You are willing to attack. Yan Rou and Liang Xi of Cao Wei will deal with you."

My proposal stunned several Xianbei envoys. None of them would have thought that I would have such a big appetite and would have proposed the idea of ​​attacking Budugen. But this is exactly what I want. If I don’t act like a belligerent, I’m afraid that Budugen will fall in the future and they will threaten me. But will they be intimidated by my tough attitude and not unite with us?

"Your Majesty, your request is too much." After a while, Yu Zhuge still refused, "You are interfering in the internal affairs of the Xianbei tribe. We cannot agree to join forces with you to kill our tribe members."

"Okay, that's fine. If you fight Cao Wei, I will fight Kebineng. Anyway, the battle will always be fought. Since you are here, I will give you some clues. The four northern counties must be taken back. This is the territory of the Han Dynasty! Moreover, I will tell Bu Dugen that I attacked him according to the appointment of Lord Kebineng."

Yu Zhuzu shook his head and said, "Lord Bu Dugen won't believe it."

I smiled and said, "He will believe it. He doesn't know whether the two of you have had a discord. Besides, you have been here."

Yu Zhuzuo gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, don't be too confident. At that time, we may help Lord Bu Dugen attack Your Majesty's army. At that time, we will not know who will win or lose."

I smiled again: "Okay, as long as Bu Dugen agrees to cross the border to attack, I will admit it even if I fail. The problem is that you want to unite with him, will he be willing? Are he from you or Cao Wei? I have another news to tell you that Cao Wei came a few days ago and wanted to discuss peace with me. Why did they discuss peace with me? I have an irreconcilable grudge with Cao Wei. They just want to free up troops and solve you. If the peace agreement fails, they still secretly pretend to be your people to assassinate me. What do you think they want to do? If I hadn't found out their details, I was afraid that the heads of several envoys would have been hung outside the city gate of Chang'an. Cao Wei had already spared no effort to apart you. It's ridiculous that you still thought you were taking the initiative and wanted to attack them. The power of Cao Wei's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, I want to come.

You also know that after attacking Wuhuan, they traveled 3,000 miles in a hurry and could win the battle. What will happen if you catch lice on their heads? Bu Dugen is so powerful, why should you be guarding the border for Cao Wei? Is it because he is old and can't ride the horse? He is waiting for you to be defeated by Cao Wei! You have angered Cao Wei and are facing a catastrophe. If it weren't for the coalition army here to threaten them, they could gather elite troops and enter the grassland north! I still said that, whether it is the Xianbei tribes or the Han countries, there are constant disputes and mutual revenge. Whoever has the strong strength and whose fists are bigger has the final say. Now you are surrounded by Bu Dugen and Cao Wei, out of your disadvantages. If you don't make a decision early and cut off one of Cao Wei's arms, your destruction will probably not be far away."

Yu Zhuo was sweating all over when he heard this, and finally said, "I can't make any decisions about these things. I have to go back and report to my elders before making a decision."

I nodded and said, "Yes. I will give you time. I will spend a few more days in Chang'an City to see my Ji Han scenery. When I go back, I will also send an envoy to follow you. Lord Kebineng is fair in his work and has always had prestige. If he leaves the situation between the two countries, I actually want to make friends with him."

Speaking of which, my strength was made after discussion with Kong Ming. The Xianbei people only believed in strength. If you retreat, they would think that you are weak and can be bullied. Moreover, my words were not all false. Cao Wei's strength was far stronger than Ke Bineng. If I remember correctly, the Xianbei's invasion of the south was repelled by Liang Xi, the governor of Bingzhou. So he wanted to go south, but I didn't care, but I didn't want to echo him. I wanted to make him echo me north. I must fight the Xianbei Budugen tribe, otherwise, they invaded the Western Regions every year and stabilized the counties in the south, which would make it difficult for us to concentrate on construction. Moreover, the Budugen tribe is scattered in large numbers.

Around the desert, hundreds of tribes were like a pile of loose sand, and Bu Dugen did not distinguish between rewards and punishments like Ke Bieneng, and did not have any ambitions. If this kind of diseased tiger was not fought, it would be a good thing. However, my fight was not as the Xianbei people said. If a national war was said, it would be necessary to recover the four counties. At present, a war of more than 100,000 people would drag down Ji Han's economy. What I want to fight is elite wars, use an outstanding general, lead a small number of troops to selectively attack and disrupt, and take the initiative to attack, achieve the goal of supporting the war with war, and ensure the stability of Ji Han's north. The recovery of the four counties will be a few years later.

And the general I chose is Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei, he is coming back soon.

On March 20, the recruitment of scholars in Chang'an City began. The reason why I chose this time was because the students from both sides of the north and the south could adapt. However, I was afraid that the epidemic would cause illness at the turn of spring and summer. I asked a special arrangement for the doctor to go to see the sick students for free, and prepared medicinal soups such as licorice, honeysuckle, mung beans, etc. to provide free soups for medicinal materials. I asked Kong Ming, Liu Ba and the three of them to be responsible for the presidency to ensure fairness.

The test questions were drafted and distributed before the start of the test, but I was afraid that someone would cheat. The strategy was my own question: "Promoting Jihan", "Breaking Cao Wei", "Going to Zhurong", and choosing any question.

Standing on the palace wall, I saw thousands of students entering the examination room, and I seemed to see countless shining gold. At this moment, I suddenly saw a figure mingling among those students, and it seemed to look very familiar.

I asked Hessie beside me: "Why does that person look a bit like Xu Ling'er?"

Hesse nodded and said, "Although I can't see clearly, I have a little elephant. But Miss Xu is currently in the General's Mansion of Cheqi, so that person may be her brother."

I nodded.

I am an emperor. According to the requirements of the ministers, I cannot be good at listening and observing students, so I can only look at them in the distance with ordinary clothes. Only during the palace examination can I see these people. I smiled bitterly, and the emperor, I, also have a prison to circle me.

On March 23, all three exams were over, the dragon gate opened, and the students left the examination room. I hurriedly asked Kong Ming and others to hand over the papers and check them out in person. I only looked at Shi Ce to see if there were any kind things. What made me happy was that after seeing this, I found that there were quite a few good ones. Shi Ce had the most topics on "King Ji Han", and the content was all kinds of, including those who discussed military farming, those who discussed opening channels, and those who discussed trade, and of course, they had to govern the country with virtue, believing that as long as morality was established, they could be invincible in the world.

In comparison, there are many fewer ones who defeated Cao Wei. After reading a few articles, the lyrics are still smooth, but most of the content is not new. In fact, compared with Cao Wei's strength, it is impossible for anyone to eat the other party in one bite. Even if there are a few more battles in Weinan, it will only change the strength of both sides, but it is difficult to solve the opponent in one go. In fact, in the original history, Cao Wei occupied three-quarters of the world and attacked the weak Shu Han for more than ten years, let alone now we are weak against the strong.

In contrast, there are even fewer people who write about "He Zhurong". The only few of them discuss the equality of Hu Han in Yizhou. They only limit their attention to the places we have occupied. However, even so, it is not easy to write about this topic. In the end, there is a very few Han chauvinism. Finally, there is an article about Xianbei that caught my attention. He wrote the history of Xianbei clearly and wrote three strategies for the upper, middle and lower to deal with the Xianbei. Many of them were not known to me. He proposed not to get along with Xianbei, but to break the Xianbei, how to use the internal contradictions of the Xianbei to differentiate, attack, attack, and fight in the grassland. Although many of them were just a simple taste, they showed their extraordinary eyesight. I took a look at the name, called Wang Nan, and the name Li Ke. This is really an interesting name.

Later, the palace examination was organized, and more than 30 filial piety members on the list entered the palace. I personally gave the test. The first top scorer was Ma Bing, but he was the son of Ma Liang, the governor of Yizhou.

The second and third places were brothers, and the elder brother was named Chen Zhi and the younger brother was named Chen Yu. I saw that the brother looked very much like Xu Ling'er, especially that younger brother, who was like Xu Ling'er putting on male makeup. When I asked, the elder brother smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the grand tutor is the grandfather of the minister." It turned out to be Ling'er's two cousins. I laughed too.

Wang Nan, who wrote about Xianbei affairs, ranks ninth. Yin Zong, the son of Dongguan Ling Yin Mo, ranked eleventh. This should be a blow to him. In terms of talent, Yin Zong's knowledge is quite like a father. I thought he would be the top three in high school. Unfortunately, although his knowledge is solid, he is not very proficient in practical strategies and arguments. He is full of frivolous paper, so he naturally does not catch my eyes.

Overall, the majority of the children of various gentry were still occupied by the children of all gentry. After all, their families had the conditions, books and teachers, while the rest of the farmers, workers and merchants did not have these convenient conditions. However, there were finally more than a dozen non-gentry students, which was a gratifying change.

Later, I commended these talents with great fanfare, paraded in Chang'an City, letting them show their faces in front of the crowd, held a banquet at Qiongtai, and let the ministers accompany them. At this moment, everyone knew my importance to the sacrificial scholars, and later, schools in various places grew up like mushrooms after a rain. Because I valued Shijing, the Tai students also began to take the initiative to pay attention to national affairs and no longer focused on the mystery.

During this period, I had a few words with the king and asked about his ancestors, which was actually the famous Qianfu King Fu Fu.

Wang Fu, bytexin and nickname Qianfu, was born in Linjing, Anding County (later from Zhenyuan, Gansu). He was born in 80 AD and died in 167, at the age of 80. His ideological composition was relatively comprehensive and complex. His mainstream was the Confucianism of Confucius and Mencius, mixed with some Taoist and Legalist ideas. That is to say, the pre-Qin thought had a profound influence on him, and it was difficult to get rid of the influence of the traditions of the Western Han Dynasty. For example, in "Salt and Iron Theory" of "Adjust the Origin and Suppress the Last" and Dong Zhongshu's "Understanding Man and Heaven" or "Intelligence of Heaven and Man". However, the reality he faced has undergone a lot of flexibility and development compared with the virtuous literature of the Western Han Dynasty and Dong Zhongshu's lectures. For example, in "Wuben", he talked about "Recently the Origin and Suppress the Last" . His speech is different from the one in "Salt and Iron Theory". The theory of "Salt and Iron Theory" is that the original is the origin, the end is the end, one-on-one. This is the initial reflection of the classical economy in the Western Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty was different, the classical economy was complicated, and there were already signs of decline. When faced with this reality, Wang Fu divided the "origin" into two, agriculture as the basis, and travel as the end; he divided the "work" into two, the application as the basis, and the clever decoration as the end; he divided the "shang" into two, the currency as the basis, and the sales of Qi as the end. In this way, he changed the one-to-one of the Western Han Dynasty into three to three, the support area expanded, and the attack area was narrowed. These ideas were simply specially set up for us Ji Han.

Both me and Mr. Kong Ming respected this husband very much. When I saw his descendants, I couldn't help but feel even more happy. When I talked about it in detail, this king was very hard-working, and he was even used as a slave for three years by the Xianbei people. Later, his family thought of countless ways to redeem it. It was precisely because of this experience that he was more familiar with the situation of the Xianbei in the West.

"Do you know Xianbei's words?"

"meeting."

I really want to sleep, a pillow fell from the sky.

Jiang Wei returned on April 5th. His return caused a small sensation in Chang'an City. He was my disciple, a disciple of Kong Ming and Zhao Yun. He was both civil and military, able to fight and sweep across three thousand miles, and spread the border four counties. Among the younger generation, he was a hero with one finger. More importantly, he did not think he was self-cultivated, not proud, or conceited. He even said in his memorial to me that he had no credit, and his success was because of his subordinates who died on the battlefield.

In the blink of an eye, I haven't seen Jiang Wei for more than two years. I miss him very much and miss the days we were together. At this time, Wang Jun was not here, so I secretly made an appointment with Zhuge Qiao to go to the inn to meet Jiang Wei. Zhuge Qiao was very interested when I saw me, and because I rarely had such childhood behavior in recent years, I didn't dissuade me and went with me.

Of course, I went to see him in the name of Zhuge Qiao. At this time, Jiang Wei was there, and the servants were in and out of the crowd. The soldiers came and went. A central army stood in front of the door and said, "My Lord will only dare to see you after you meet the emperor tomorrow. Please come back."

I was relieved when I saw Jiang Wei's courtesy. When the central army saw Zhuge Qiao's famous post, they seemed to have no idea about his relationship with Jiang Wei, and bowed repeatedly: "Sir, it's really a coincidence that my lieutenant has an order, so the young one dare not disobey it. The lieutenant is just a small official of 2,000 stones. Why do you guys come to see him? He said that after seeing Your Majesty, you must return to worship you all."

Zhuge Qiao was angry at his words and said, "What do you know, you are a killer? Go in and tell your elders that you will come to greet him in person, and I will tell you that I will come with the one in the north."

The central army didn't understand: "Who is the one in the north?" He looked up and saw that Zhuge Qiao's face was wrong, so he turned around and ran in fear.

Soon after, when the Central Army returned, he was full of horror, and bowed deeply to Zhuge Qiao, and whispered: "Please, please, my lieutenant." He turned around and shouted: "Sir, it's really a coincidence that my lord cannot meet guests today, please come back."

Zhuge Qiao and I walked inward. As soon as we entered the door, we saw Jiang Wei bowing to the ground: "Jiang Wei meets Your Majesty. Your Majesty's Majesty has come here in person, and Jiang Wei dare not take the blame."

I smiled and helped him up: "Bo got up. The one who came to see you today is not Your Majesty, not the Emperor, but your partner A Dou. I haven't seen you for two years, do you think of me?"

Jiang Wei shed tears: "I miss Your Majesty all the time."

Zhuge Qiao smiled and said, "I didn't expect that the iron-bone general who killed people would be so easily moved. But why did Brother Boyue be cruel and hurt others?"

Jiang Wei said: "Why do you say this?"

Zhuge Qiao said: "Tao Fu Xu's granddaughter..."

Jiang Wei blushed immediately: "Your Majesty, you know this too. Alas, God always wants to mess with people."

I knelt on the couch with a smile, let Jiang Wei and Zhuge Qiao sit down, and asked, "Okay, since Bosong mentioned this, I also want to know what Boyue thought about this. I also know Miss Xu, a very talented woman, in terms of appearance, talent, and life experience, can't you be worthy of you?"

Jiang Wei shook her head and said, "This matter is hard to describe. Your Majesty, Miss Xu is infatuated with me. I am not a plant or a tree, so how can I not know? In the Western Xinjiang that day, she disguised herself as a man and rode a horse with us men to fight. Once I ordered the enemy to be tied to the horse. After three days and three nights, she was so tired that she vomited blood and fainted. She was like an ordinary soldier in my curtain, eating coarse grains, wearing iron clothes, and marching day and night, never complaining. Such a strange woman is the only one in the world. However, Miss Xu is a woman after all, and she is unfilial after her father's back, and she is almost named the army Sima. If so, she would be a deceiving king. Such a woman who is unfilial and unfair and unfair in her wife's virtues will not dare to marry each other."

I thought it was good when I heard Jiang Wei's previous words, but after hearing it, he actually said that Ling'er was unfilial and bullied the emperor and did not obey the virtues of women. He was furious and slapped the table and stood up: "Jiang Wei! Xu Ling'er went to the front of the enemy as a woman to serve the country and kill the thieves and made meritorious contributions. She protected Ji Han's country, so what can I say to deceive the emperor? Ling'er could not bear the control of her family and ran away from home. Of course, there was something wrong with her, but you put a big hat like not obeying the virtues of women and unfilial to her parents on her head. Don't you think about it, who is she doing this? No wonder I heard Xingcai say that she was seriously ill, it turns out that you hurt her like this. Do you know that everything she did is for you! Everyone else can say her, but you can't!"

Jiang Weichang knelt down and bowed again: "Your Majesty, I know my crime. I am sorry Miss Xu, I have nothing to say."

Zhuge Qiao said on the side: "Bojo, Your Majesty was going to help you, let Ling'er return to the Xu family and let the Xu family agree to your marriage. Wouldn't everyone be happy? I didn't expect you to say such words."

Jiang Wei was stunned for a moment, and was silent for a moment, and finally kowtowed again and said, "I am sorry to Miss Xu."

Seeing him like this, Zhuge Qiao couldn't help but touch his chin with his hand, and he was helpless. Seeing that he was determined, he couldn't say anything more. Anyway, he returned with meritorious service and was my partner. Marriage matters are not my country. Why should I put this effort into it? Now I turned around and stopped talking about Ling'er. I only talked about his childhood. I also talked about the situation in Chang'an, and talked about the Western Qiang Kingdom and the Xianbei. Just as I was talking about it, it was dark outside, and Zhuge Qiao pulled me. I was stunned for a moment, and Zhuge Qiao said, "Boejo, you have just come back, have a good rest, and you will come to court tomorrow to report. After a while, the curfew, I and Your Majesty will come in contempt and go back first."

I thought to myself that I was afraid of a curfew, but when Zhuge Qiao blinked at me, he replied, "Yes. Please rest. This time I come back, I have a lot to say to you, and we will talk about it tomorrow."

I came out with Zhuge Qiao. I asked him, "What are you doing when you are so anxious? I wanted to have a night chat with Boyue."

Zhuge Qiao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, why did Jiang Boyue disagree with Miss Xu's marriage?"

"Why?"

Zhuge Qiao said: "I saw Bojo's appearance, but he was not unwilling to do so, but there was some reason that forced him to give up. In Ji Han, there was only one person who could make him play the role of this woman against his wishes and against His Majesty's kindness."

"who?"

"Jiang Boyue's mother."

Jiang Wei was a filial son. His father Jiang Jiong died during the chaos of the Qiang tribe. When I was looking for a companion, the mother and son were taken to Jingzhou by the fourth uncle, and later to Yizhou and Chang'an. After hearing Zhuge Qiao's words, I couldn't help but think that Jiang Wei's mother had already made a marriage to him, so he used such an excuse to refuse?

We quickly went to Jiang Mansion. Jiang Mansion is located next to the East City, a small courtyard with only one house. Except for Jiang’s mother, there were only three or two old families. Later, I gave Jiang’s mother four maids, but she retreated back. She said that she was old and there was no need for so many people to serve. This was a very virtuous old mother.

The old man at the door was named Jiang Tong. He fought with Jiang Wei's father in his early years. Zhuge Qiao often came to visit Jiang's mother, so he met him. He bowed and said at the sight: "Young Master Zhuge, you are here. I'll report it to you."

Zhuge Qiao said: "No need, I have the same kindness as Boyue. My mother is my mother. How can my son even inform me of my mother?" As he said that, he raised his legs and walked in.

There was a lamp in the room, and two people were reflected on the window, one was an old woman, the other was a teenager. Could it be that Jiang Wei and his younger brother were not there? I looked at Zhuge Qiao, and Zhuge Qiao was also stunned. However, he heard Jiang's mother say, "Child, come here to accompany me every day, make me happy, help you relieve your worries, wash it on my behalf, it's hard for you."

The young man said, "Auntie, I'll be back tomorrow."
To be continued...