Ye Cheng’s voice was calm, but it carried an unquestionable dignity.
It made Su Qing, an experienced officialdom veteran, feel creepy.
He barely suppressed the fear in his heart and asked Ye Cheng. "General, in this case, what do you think?"
Ye Cheng nodded, "Since Mr. Fei understands the righteousness, please ask Mr. Fei to lead the Yangzhou uprising as soon as possible, so that they and I, Jiangzhou, can be horns with each other. I will also send 10,000 troops to station at the border of Jiangyang and Yangzhou to meet them. Su Qing originally thought that Ye Cheng would be polite before giving the order, but he did not expect that he would directly give them the next action plan.
However, in this case, Su Qing had no choice but to follow the order, "Yes, General, I will go back and tell my Lord Fei."
"By the way, my lord heard that the Duke likes to eat grapes, so he asked his subordinates to send some from Yangzhou."
Ye Cheng smiled slightly and said slowly, "Thank you, Mr. Fei, but I heard that Yangzhou's lychees are more famous."
"If you like it, we will definitely do it next time." Send some for your Excellency. "
"No need, I will go to Jiangzhou to eat in person after all the dust settles. You are so tired from this trip, so go down and rest first. I will arrange the post to accommodate you properly."
"Thank you for your kindness."
Su Qingdao.
After sending Su Qing away, An Ning walked out of the room, "Brother Ye Cheng, although Master Fei has great righteousness, he was once the emperor's confidant after all. Do we trust him completely like this?"
Ye Cheng held her hand and said slowly, "An Ning, you don't need to doubt anyone, and you don't doubt anyone who employs you. You must keep this in mind when you become the king in the future. If Mr. Fei doesn't kill, An Qing has already betrayed everyone. He chose us to serve the people of the ten counties of Yangzhou and to protect the world, so I dare to trust him."
An Ning suddenly realized, "I understand, brother Ye Cheng, that's why you left Zhou Tian before, right?"
Ye Cheng nodded slowly with a smile, "That's right, An Ning, let's go back to the meeting. We will be very busy next."
Three days later, Xuanzheng Hall in the capital.
Yecheng's rebellion message spread to the capital.
An Qing held the memorandum in her hand, her hands shaking with anger.
"How unreasonable! How unreasonable!"
The Minister of Household Affairs came out of the queue tremblingly and kowtowed, "Your Majesty is angry. It must be because the incident of three hundred thousand stone insect grains the day before yesterday triggered a civil uprising, and the Duke was forced to do so." The general of the country, I love you, now tells me that he has no choice."
"I want to ask you, who can force him? Tell me, who has the ability to force him to rebel?"
A Ning's chest heaved violently as she talked about musical instruments. She has never been so angry since she ascended the throne.
Originally, the 300,000 stones of worm food was to humiliate Ye Cheng and restrain him.
Unexpectedly, he actually did the opposite! He also said that killing the demon queen would bring disaster to the country!
"Also, I really want to ask the Ministry of War, when did I issue an imperial edict to recruit 700,000 troops from Jiangzhou?"
"The rebellion in Jiangzhou has just been put down, why am I recruiting those Jiangzhou people who are likely to rebel again? Let them know. Come from the capital, will my head be chopped off and hung at the capital gate? "
"Master Zhu, Minister of the Ministry of War, please explain, what is going on?"
At the foot of the stairs, Song Yingchang, the Minister of the Ministry of War, was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed uncontrollably.
"Your Majesty, calm down, your subordinates don't know. I am investigating the matter. I have more than 300 members of my family, old and young, as guarantors. I definitely did not issue such an imperial edict!"
"Hmph! You didn't send it, and I didn't send it. Could it be that the imperial edict in Ye Cheng's hand was given to him by God?"
"Your Majesty, calm down, I really don't know!"
An Ning sneered and was about to punish Song Yingchang when Xiao Tianque stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the matter has come to this, it is useless for you to get angry." If Ning's new army joins him, I'm afraid it will be more difficult to deal with. I think Ye Cheng is not on good terms with us. "
"But this guy is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and he should not betray his country on his own initiative. Therefore, I suggest that we send someone to Jiangzhou to communicate with him to see if we can get him to give up the idea of rebellion."
An Qing was silent for a moment and took a deep breath, "That's fine, my dear, in your opinion, how should I persuade him?"
"Ye Guogong rebelled, firstly because of the insect food issue, and secondly because of the imperial edict that came out of nowhere to recruit 700,000 troops. Do you really dare to think that the entire Jiangzhou can gather these 700,000 people?"
I believe that as long as these misunderstandings are resolved, there may not be anything to discuss. Now that there are wars everywhere, the court is really unable to cope with the confluence of Ye Cheng and Zhang Ji. Your Majesty... please think again."
An Qingfeng narrowed her eyes and fell into thought.
Xiao Tian's words can be said to be exactly what she wanted. What she is best at is tactics and people's hearts.
In addition to fear and use of Ye Cheng, she also had a different feeling deep in her heart.
She did not want to see Ye Cheng really betraying the court. Thinking of An Qing, she was silent for a moment and sighed, "That's it, Xiao Aiqing, who do you think is the right person to go?"
「我看国子监新上任的祭酒杨定扬大人口舌伶俐，可担此任。」
「好，杨爱卿，你愿意为国承当此大任吗？」
只见穿着从四品官袍的杨定，缓缓而出，那俊朗的The letter was full of fearlessness, "I am willing to go to Jiangzhou to persuade Lord Ye to return to your majesty."
"Very good, I order you to be the imperial envoy and set off for Jiangzhou immediately to meet Ye Cheng."
An Qing looked at Yang Ding with joy and gave instructions word by word.
"After Aiqing arrived in Jiangzhou, he told Duke Ye that the matter of insects and grains was caused by a gangster in the household department who was corrupt and perverting the law. I have killed all the people in the household to vent my anger on him. I have great trust in him. As long as he is willing to know his way back and his position as Duke remains unchanged, I can even... consider re-performing the engagement we made back then. In short, at all costs, help me stabilize Yecheng!"
"I will do my best and die to repay Your Majesty's kindness in finding out what happened today!"
Say it, Yang Ding kowtowed his life, with an imperceptible glint flashing in his eyes.
Seven days later, Jiangzhou Fucheng.
In the residence of Duke An Guo, Ye Cheng was playing chess with An Ning.
Suddenly, Zhou An came.
Ye Cheng finished the last white chess piece and won the game. He raised his head and looked at Zhou An, "Tell me, what's the bad news."
"Master, you are so smart. It is indeed not good news. The capital learned that the master had rebelled and sent an envoy to try to persuade the director to return. Now the envoy has arrived at Jianxing County on the northern border of Jiangzhou."
Ye Cheng smiled slightly and said, "An Qing You are so sensible? You just don't want to send troops to suppress us, but you also send an envoy to Zhao'an?"
An Ning smiled, "Brother Yecheng, now that the Great Zhou Dynasty is full of war, An Qing is unable to suppress us, so we can only send people to recruit us. What should we do?"
"Since An Qing has given us a step, of course we must take advantage of it and buy more time."