The night hall was quiet and silent, the candlestick was swaying like a golden tree. Ning Que looked into the queen's eyes and said, "Shame brings courage and anger. If anger can be released, the rest is courage. This is what you said to Empress. What we need to consider now is who will bear the anger of the Tang people."

The Queen did not answer.

Ning Que continued: "After the cemetery of Xiang Wanyuan, the problem of war horses will be solved by the academy."

The queen shook her head and said, "No matter how strong the academy is, it is impossible to make a difference out of nothing."

Ning Que said: "Everything that has been lost from me will definitely be taken back in the future."

The Empress did not understand where his confidence came from, and was finally convinced by his firm tone. After thinking for a moment, she said with a serious expression: "Since that's the case, I'll sign it."

Ning Que said: "You can't sign because you and His Holiness can't let you and His Holiness bear the anger of the people."

The queen said: "But you once said that the academy cannot sign because this peace agreement will eventually go back on its word."

Ning Que said: "The Xiling Temple is well prepared and will definitely ask me to sign even with my senior brother. As for the court, Ye Hongyu said it well, and we still have a way out."

The queen was extremely intelligent and immediately understood what he meant and said in disagreement: "It is my son who sits on the throne, so I have to bear the corresponding responsibilities and obligations. There is no difference between anyone else in the Li family and I sign."

"At least it can form a certain buffer." Ning Que said: "As a member of the Li royal family, if you sign your own name on such a peace treaty that is powerless and humiliating, you can only thank the world for your death. Only by ease the anger of the people can you slightly relieve the people's anger. In this situation, you cannot die in the queen."

"The academy has already entered the world. The eldest gentleman promised to educate the children. The court will no longer have any disputes. In fact, when I think about it carefully, whether I am there is me or not is no longer important to the Tang Dynasty."

The queen smiled and said, "And for me now, death is really not scary."

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Ning Que naturally couldn't push the queen to the front desk. He left the palace overnight and went to the prince's mansion.

The candlelight in the study was dim, and Li Peiyan's face was still handsome and his smile was very nice. However, there were a lot of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his eyebrows, which were once like swords, also became very soft.

"I have never had any great ambitions in my life. I just want to pick up the voids for the emperor's brother, and to ease the relationship with the Taoist sect on behalf of the royal family. At most, I want to be a wise king who has left his name in history."

Li Peiyan looked at Ning Que opposite him and smiled self-deprecatingly, saying, "Now I think that if I had not been born in the emperor's house and had to be the prefect of a certain county, I believe it would be more useful than now."

"This is the problem with Your Highness."

Ning Que said: "In the great era, what you think is too trivial and small, and over the years, you have given too much to the temple. Your Majesty does not like it, the Academy does not like it, and the people do not like it."

Li Peiyan said: "It seems that I am really useless."

Ning Que said: "These images are exactly in line with the role that Your Highness is about to play, so I think you can still make some contributions to the Tang Dynasty and the royal family before leaving this world."

Li Peiyan looked at the candlesticks on the table, looked at the falling candle tears, sighed and said, "After you killed Xiahou, you have ignored my existence. I always thought that the academy put pressure on you for the sake of the emperor's face, or that you killed enough people, the resentment of that year has subsided, or that you just wanted me to fall into the fear of not dying, but I didn't expect that you were waiting for me here."

"No one can calculate what will happen several years or even decades later like Haotian. I can't think of it so far. It's just like the third senior sister once said, some people are more useful than death."

"The purpose is to die at the right time?"

"Yes."

"Ning Que, you are indeed the coldest-blooded person in the world." Li Peiyan praised emotion: "Now the Tang Dynasty is in turmoil, and you need a cold-blooded and realistic person like you to protect it."

Ning Que said: "Everyone is qualified to say that I am cold-blooded, Your Highness, you don't."

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I couldn't sleep all night, not toss and turn, but to travel around Chang'an City.

Ning Que left the prince's mansion and returned to the house in Yanming Lake to meet Ye Hongyu, and said directly: "It is impossible for the academy and the royal family to go to the Xiling Temple to apologize to Haotian."

Ye Hongyu said: "Yes, you can send a mission."

Ning Que said, "No."

Ye Hongyu thought for a while and said, "Imitate the old things in Southern Jin, let Hongxiuzhao go to the temple to perform dance."

Ning Que said: "It may be feasible, but it must not be an official identity, and I will ask for their opinions first."

Ye Hongyu said: "Continue."

Ning Que said: "All the other conditions can be agreed, but the temple must ensure the absolute safety of the Great River Kingdom. Whether it is Yuelun or Nanjin, as long as you cross the Great River, it will be considered a break of the contract."

Ye Hongyu said: "There is no problem. As a reciprocity, the Tang State must also ensure the safety of Qinghe County."

Ning Que said, "This was originally in the conditions of your temple."

Ye Hongyu shook his head and said, "It is the safety of everyone in Qinghe County, including those Qinghe people stranded in Chang'an City during the war. Tang State must release them."

Ning Que said: "It seems that this is the condition proposed by the Qinghe clans when they surrendered to the temple."

Ye Hongyu said: "If the temple cannot even do this, how can we win the trust of hundreds of millions of believers in the world?"

Ning Que was silent for a moment and said, "I promise you that once the peace agreement is signed, as long as the Xiling Temple coalition forces withdraw from Qinghe County, I will send the people in the Qinghe Guild Hall back."

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In the early morning, spring rain falls again and dust falls.

Tang Kingdom agreed to most of the requests made by the Xiling Temple. Prince Li Peiyan solemnly signed his name on the peace agreement, and at the same time wrote his name on the pillar of shame in history.

When the news came out, the government and the country were in an uproar. No one knew what happened during this long night. Why did the big men in the palace dare to take the big fuss and really sign this peace agreement.

The Tang people gathered in front of the imperial city could no longer control their emotions. They cursed angrily and spitted at the vermilion palace walls. Then some old-year rumors spread among the crowd.

Those rumors in the past year were actually not rumors, but things that everyone knew, such as the bloody murder of villages in Yanjing, and the prince and the head of the Xiling Temple. They once involved a bloody crime in Chang'an City by a certain Chundao Gate, so they were demoted to a commoner by the late emperor. They were not regained their title until Li Huiyuan ascended the throne...

The palace gate slowly opened. Li Peiyan walked towards the crowd. He was wearing a dark robe with black and red gold, and looked particularly eye-catching in the faint spring rain that fell in the early morning.

Countless people looked at him, their eyes full of contempt and anger, and some even tried to rush over and beat him up.

A lower-level official in the yamen asked why, why the court wanted to cede Dongshan County and Xiang Wanyuan. The voice of this official was really painful, as if he was bleeding.

Countless people are questioning, denying and scolding, does the court not want to take back Qinghe County? Why do they still send the traitors in the Qinghe Guild Hall back?

The palace was filled with bloody sounds.

If it weren't for the heavy protection of the Yulin Army, Li Peiyan would have probably been torn to pieces at this time.

Li Peiyan suddenly stopped and looked at the angry sea of ​​people around him.

The expression on his face was very calm, and the expression deep in his eyes was very complicated.

The crowd gradually became quiet.

"Why? There are not so many truths in the world. The Tang Dynasty needs time, so I will fight for time for you. The Tang Dynasty needs peace, so I will fight for peace for you. The Tang Dynasty attacks the Tang Dynasty in the world, how can the Tang Dynasty handle itself? Can it really be an enemy of the world? If you think I am wrong, you will prove it to me in the future."

His expression was very indifferent, but his hands in his sleeves kept trembling.

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Li Peiyan returned to the palace.

Angry people surrounded the palace.

The students in the front yard of the academy and the Imperial College students were assisting the Ministry of Works in the city to repair the damaged houses in the war. After listening to the news, they carried countless broken bricks and stones here.

The Yulin Army soldiers and guards were on high alert, but their number was too small to shock the angry crowd. Angry slogans echoed around the palace.

Some people even carried out tung oil and lit the torch.

At the most tense moment, a desolate cry suddenly sounded inside the walls of the palace.

A white banner stretched out behind the gate of the royal palace.

Prince Li Peiyan of the Tang Dynasty is dead.

The street became extremely quiet. Looking at the white banner that was particularly desolate in the spring rain, people put down the bricks and stones in their hands, and the torches that had just been lit gradually went out.

Ning Que stood at the alley in the distance, quietly watching the scene.

There was no emotional fluctuation on his face.

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Li Peiyan represented the Tang Dynasty in signing the peace treaty. For the Xiling Temple, it did not mean the end of the negotiations and the final victory, because the temple also needed the signature of the academy.

If possible, of course they would rather sign the signature of the Grand Master, who is famous for his kindness or the Second Master, who is respectful and unrestrained, but there is only one person who has entered the world in the academy, that is Ning Que.

At this time, Yanming Lake was shrouded in smoke-like spring rain, but it was not desolate. The members of the Xiling Temple mission and the Grand Secretary of the Tang Kingdom were all in the hall, no one spoke, and their moods were different. There was no need to mention the Xiling Temple, and the Tang officials such as Grand Secretary Zeng Jing were very heavy.

Everyone was waiting for Ning Que to come back to sign, and Ye Hongyu was also waiting in the plum garden, but Ning Que did not show up for a long time because he went to a place before returning to Yanming Lake.

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In front of the Qinghe County Guild Hall is Zhi Street and behind it is Hushan. At this time, it is also misty spring rain, and the scenery is very beautiful.

Several guards and more than 20 Yulong Gangmen watched the movements around the guild hall with vigilance.

During the turmoil that night in Chang'an City, the clans of Qinghe County in the guild escaped while the chaos was in chaos. Afterwards, they caught these people back, and they took a lot of effort. They didn't want this kind of thing to happen again. If they were told, the guys in the guild would be sent back to Qinghe County immediately, and I don't know what they would be angry.

It was at such a moment that Ning Que walked into the Qinghe Association. He took a towel and wiped his hair wet from the spring rain, dusted off the water droplets from his clothes, and naturally seemed to go home.

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Chapter completed!