Nightfall Chapter 204: White banners in the spring rain
The night hall was quiet and silent, the candlestick swaggered like a golden tree, Ning Que looked into the eyes of the queen and said: "Shame brings courage and anger. If the anger can be released, the rest is courage. This is your mother's words. , Now we need to consider who will bear the anger of the Tang Dynasty."
The Empress did not answer.
Ning Que continued: "After ceding to 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 cannot be made out of nothing."
Ning Que said: "Everything that I lose will 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 solemnly said: "In this case, I signed it."
Ning Que said: "You cannot sign, because you and your Majesty cannot bear the anger of the people."
The queen said: "But you once said that the academy cannot sign, because this agreement will eventually go back."
Ning Que said: "Xiling Temple is fully prepared, and I will definitely ask me and even my senior to sign. As for the court, Ye Hongyu said it was right. We still have a way out."
The queen was extremely clever, and immediately understood what he meant, and said disapprovingly: "The one sitting on the throne is my son, so I have to bear the corresponding responsibilities and obligations. Anyone else in the Li family signs with me. It makes no difference."
"At least it can form a certain buffer." Ning Que said: "As a member of the Li family, signing his name on such a power-aborting and humiliating peace treaty can only give thanks to the world. It can slightly relieve the people. Angry, and in this situation, you can’t die the queen."
"The academy has entered the WTO. Mr. Da promised to educate the children. The court will no longer have disputes. In fact, think carefully at this time, whether there is me. It is no longer important to Datang."
The queen smiled and said: "And for me today, death is really not terrible."
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Ning Que naturally cannot push the queen to the front desk. He left the palace overnight to the Prince's Mansion.
The candlelight in the study is dim, and Li Peiyan's face is still handsome and his smile is amiable. It's just that the wrinkles around the corners of the eyes are a lot more, and the brows that used to be swords have become very soft.
"I have never had any big ambitions in my life. I just want to fill up the vacancies for the emperor's brother, on behalf of the emperor, to ease the relationship with the Taoist, at most I want to be a virtuous king with a history."
Li Peiyan looked at Ning Que on the opposite side, and laughed at himself and said: "Now thinking about it, if I was not born in the house of the emperor, I believe that I will be a prefect of a county outside, I believe it will be more useful than now."
"This is where your Highness's problem lies."
Ning Que said: "In the great age. What you think is too trivial and small, and in these years, you have given too much to the temple. Your majesty does not like it, and the academy does not like it. The people do not like it either."
Li Peiyan said: "It seems that I am really useless."
Ning Que said: "These images are in line with the role that His Royal Highness will play, so I think before leaving this world, you can still make some contributions to the Tang Dynasty and the royal family."
Li Peiyan looked at the candlestick on the table, looked at the tears of the falling candles, sighed and said: "After you killed Xiahou, you never paid attention to my existence. I always thought that it was the academy's respect for the emperor's brother. Putting pressure on, or you killed enough people, the grievances of the year have subsided, or you just wanted me to be trapped in the fear of death, but did not expect that you were here waiting for me. "
"No one can calculate things that happen in a few years or even decades like Haotian. I can't think of it so far. It's just like the saying that Senior Sister San once said, some people are alive than dead. More useful."
"The usefulness is... to die at the right time?"
"Yes."
"Ning Que, you really are the coldest-blooded person in the world." Li Peiyan praised with emotion: "Now that the Tang Dynasty is in a precarious manner, you need a cold-blooded and realistic character like you to guard it."
Ning Que said: "Everyone has the right to say that I am cold-blooded, and your Highness does not."
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Sleepless all night, not tossing and turning, but traveling around the city of Chang'an.
Ning Que left the Prince’s Mansion and returned to the house in Yanming Lake. He went to see Ye Hongyu and said directly: “Neither the academy nor the royal family can go to 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 the Southern Jin Dynasty, let Hongxiu move to the temple to perform dances."
Ning Que said: "It may be possible, but it must have no official status, and I have to seek their opinions first."
Ye Hongyu said: "Continue."
Ning Que said: "All other conditions can be agreed, but the temple must guarantee the absolute safety of Dahe Nation. Regardless of the Moon Wheel or the Southern Jin Dynasty, as long as you cross the river one step, it will be regarded as a breach of contract."
Ye Hongyu said: "There is no problem, as a counterpart, Tang Guo also has to ensure the safety of Qinghe County."
Ning Que said: "This is already 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 during the war. Tang must release them."
Ning Que said: "It seems that this is the condition that the Qinghe lords made when they surrendered to the temple."
Ye Hongyu said: "If the temple can't even do this, how to 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 those people in Qinghe Guild Hall back."
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In the early morning, the spring rain fell again and the dust fell.
Tang Guo 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 ruling and the people were in an uproar. No one knew what had happened in this long night, why the big figures in the palace dared to risk the world's disgrace. Really signed this agreement.
The Tang people gathered in front of the imperial city could no longer control their emotions, swearing angrily, spitting at the vermilion palace wall, and then some old rumors spread among the crowd.
Those old rumors are not rumors, but things that everyone knows, such as the massacre in Yanjing, where the prince was close to the head of the Xiling Temple. It was involved in the murder of a certain Chun Daomen in Chang'an City, so it was demoted to the common people by the first emperor. It was not until Li Hunyuan ascended the throne that he regained his title...
The palace gate opened slowly. Li Peiyan walked towards the crowd, wearing a dark robe with black, red and gold, in the faint spring rain that fell in the early morning. It looks particularly eye-catching.
Countless people looked at him with contempt and anger in their eyes, and some even tried to rush over to beat him.
A lower-level official in the yamen asked in pain why, why the court wanted to cede Dongshan County and Xiangwanyuan. The voice of this official was really painful, as if bleeding.
Countless people are questioning and scolding, don't the court want to take back Qinghe County? Why send back the traitors in the Qinghe Guild Hall?
The front of the palace is full of **** sounds.
If it weren't for the heavy protection of the Yulin army, Li Peiyan might have been torn to pieces at this time.
Li Peiyan suddenly stopped and looked at the angry crowd around him.
The expression on his face is calm. The expression deep in the eyes is very complicated.
The crowd gradually calmed down.
"Why? There is not so much truth in the world. Datang needs time. This king will buy time for you. Datang needs peace. This king will fight for peace for you. The whole world will fight against Tang, how does Datang deal with it? Is it really possible to be an enemy of the world? If you think this king is wrong, you will prove it to this king in the future."
His expression was indifferent, but his hands in his sleeves kept trembling.
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Li Peiyan returned to the palace.
The angry people surrounded the palace.
Students from the front yard of the college and students from the Imperial College were in the city assisting the Ministry of Engineering to repair the houses damaged in the war. After listening to the news. Carrying countless broken bricks and stones came here.
The soldiers and guards of the Yulin Army were waiting, but their numbers were too small to deter the angry crowd. Angry slogans echoed around the palace.
Someone even took out the tung oil and lit a torch.
At the most tense moment, a bleak cry suddenly sounded inside the palace wall.
A white banner sticks out behind the gate of the palace.
Li Peiyan, Prince of Tang Dynasty, is dead.
The street became extremely quiet. Looking at the white banner that was particularly bleak 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 in the far lane, watching this scene quietly.
There is no mood swing on his face.
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Li Peiyan signed the peace agreement on behalf of the Tang Dynasty. For the Xiling Temple, it does not mean the end of the negotiation and the final victory, because the temple still needs the signature of the academy.
If they can, they would of course be more willing to sign for the benevolent gentleman or the second gentleman who is not deceived, but there is only one person in the academy who has entered the world, and that is Ning Que.
At this time, Yanming Lake was shrouded in the smoky spring rain, but it was not bleak. All the members of the Xiling Temple delegation and the scholars of the Tang Dynasty were in the hall. No one spoke, and the moods were different. With regard to Xiling Temple Needless to say, the faces of Da Tang officials such as the scholar of Zeng Jing are very heavy.
Everyone was waiting for Ning Que to come back and sign. Ye Hongyu was also waiting in the plum garden, but Ning Que did not show up because he went to a place before returning to Yanming Lake.
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There is a straight street in front of the Qinghe County Guild Hall, followed by Hushan. At this time, it is also a misty spring rain and the scenery is very beautiful.
Several guards and more than 20 Yulong Gang watched vigilantly at the movement around the hall.
When the city of Chang'an was turbulent that night, the children of the Qinghe County clansmen in the club escaped. It took a lot of effort to catch these people back after the incident. They didn't want this kind of thing to happen again. If you let them know, these guys in the club will be sent back to Qinghe County immediately, and they don't know what they will look like.
At such a moment, Ning Que walked into the Qinghe Hall. He took the towel and wiped his hair wet by the spring rain, and brushed off the water droplets on his clothes, naturally as if he were going home.
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