NFBE Chapter 404 Ye Jieyu talks freely
Chapter 404 Ye Jieyu talks freely
The Hall of Nourishing Heart.
The whole family naturally had a very lively lunch.
After lunch, the eldest prince felt sleepy and wanted to take a nap.
Eunuch Ai carried him to his small bed in Qiyun Hall and fell asleep, leaving only the adults in the room.
"Xiao Yuzi, tell the story to Father and the Third Brother."
The emperor ordered Eunuch Yu.
Eunuch Yu came out.
He talked about the time when he and Huang Ye came out of the Ministry of Punishment, and the time when they sent envoys from the Kingdom of Nanzhao to the Great Xia Dynasty.
The young Prince Fu knew about the affairs of the Nanzhao Kingdom, and the Third Prince had also heard about it from him.
As for the matter of the deposed empress and Concubine Lin...
Why is Consort Liang involved now?
"I think that Concubine Lin did not lie. She is a very careful person."
Huang Ye said to the people in the room.
“I just don’t know where she got those poisons that harm people?
"I suspect that the two kinds of poison that the eldest prince was infected with were also provided by her to the deposed queen."
"But there's no need for her to do these things in the harem, and she doesn't look like someone who has ambitions."
When the third prince investigates a case, he pays the most attention to cause and effect.
The main reason is that Concubine Liang is too ordinary.
Although she is also good-looking, there is never a shortage of beauties in the harem.
And her sullen personality...
If she really did this, then what was her intention?
"Let's put this aside for now. If she dares to reach out again, we will always be able to catch her by the neck."
The emperor was worried about something else.
"You sent the envoy from Nanzhao to the Dali Temple. Did you send a letter to Nanzhao?"
This matter involves the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and if things go wrong, war will break out.
"I called you here today to discuss this matter."
The emperor looked at the people in the room.
"Xuanyuan Jing has been appointed as the crown prince of the Nanzhao Kingdom. The Emperor of Nanzhao ignored the warnings of our Great Xia Dynasty and openly asked us to hand over Concubine Shu to them..."
"That Prince Zhennan, has the emperor sent anyone to check on the situation?"
Little Prince Fu expressed his opinion.
"If there's no problem with the Prince of Zhennan, I think we should just fight them until they hand over the person..."
The young Prince Fu was also a proponent of war.
"I sent someone to the Zhennan Palace a few years ago, and the news he brought back was that there was no unusual movement in the Zhennan Palace..."
What the emperor said was obviously not credible, as the person who delivered the message was thousands of miles away.
To put it bluntly, it is not certain whether the news was spread by Prince Zhennan.
Moreover, the 200,000 troops mobilized by the emperor have been assembled and are stationed on the border.
That's not two thousand or twenty thousand people, it's a full two hundred thousand people.
As a local emperor who has guarded the south for generations, it is impossible for him not to know the movements of the imperial court.
In the past, the memorial asking about the situation from Prince Zhennan would have been submitted long ago.
But up to now, the court has not received any memorial from the Prince of Zhennan.
This is very wrong.
Also, the Nanzhao Kingdom was just a small country, and they didn't have the confidence to challenge the Great Xia Dynasty.
But this time, their envoys' attitude was unusually tough.
This is also something worth noting.
Huang Ye felt that since Emperor Nan Zhao could sit in that position, he must not be a fool.
He would not joke around with his own country.
If he was not sure, he would not choose to turn against the Great Xia Dynasty.
"There's a 50% chance that something went wrong with the King of Zhennan."
Combined with the intelligence sent back by the spies, the emperor also had a general understanding of the current situation in the south.
"If I were the Prince of Zhennan, I would not betray the court..."
The same thing about Huang Ye.
If this rebellion fails, not only will the merits accumulated by our ancestors from generation to generation be wasted.
In the end, he will end up being a traitor...
Anyone can figure out this account.
Huang Ye felt that if the Prince of Zhennan had a little bit of brains, he would not joke about his ancestors' foundation.
It is obvious that the King of Zhennan is a smart man.
"Don't forget, Xuanyuan Jing married the daughter of the King of Zhennan..."
The third prince reminded everyone.
If a fight breaks out this time, Xuanyuan Jing has a chance of winning with the help of King Zhennan.
Assuming Xuanyuan Jing wins, the Prince of Zhennan will be credited with following the emperor, and her daughter will become the queen.
The Prince of Zhennan is the emperor's father-in-law.
Coupled with the military power in his hands, it is no exaggeration to say that he has power over the government and the country.
"Have you ever thought that if the Prince of Zhennan doesn't want to be the father-in-law of the emperor, what if he also wants to sit in that position?"
Little Prince Fu expressed his opinion.
"It's not impossible."
The emperor said thoughtfully.
The key point is that the Prince of Zhennan's Palace is too far away from the capital, and the court knows very little about the situation there.
That is to say, all the superiors in the Great Xia Dynasty had never questioned the loyalty of King Zhennan.
This resulted in the court's lack of intelligence about them.
"If the Prince of Zhennan joins forces with the Nanzhao Kingdom to attack the Great Xia Dynasty, what are their chances of winning?"
Huang Ye asked the people present.
What she has always believed in is to fight if someone doesn't obey, and the only thing she can do is to see if she can win.
"If we go to war with the Great Xia Dynasty, even if Nan Zhao joins forces with the King of Zhennan, their chances of winning will be less than 20%."
Although the emperor is no longer in power, he has been in power for so many years after all.
He also had a general idea of the national conditions of the two countries.
"Then what are you still discussing? They dare to gamble with that 20% chance, and you still don't dare to defeat them."
Huang Ye felt that since this war was inevitable, it should be resolved quickly so that the common people would suffer less.
"It would be best if the Nanzhao Kingdom no longer exists, and the place we fight against is just a Nanzhao County of the Great Xia Dynasty..."
Huang Ye's words made Prince Fu and the Third Prince's blood boil.
"Sister is right. Instead of wasting time here and giving Nanzhao country enough time to prepare, it is better to strike first and leave them no time to breathe."
The third prince nodded repeatedly, that is how it should be done.
It would be best to do as Concubine Ye said and incorporate the territory of Nanzhao Kingdom into the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty.
"The one leading the 200,000-man army this time is General Yu Lei."
When the emperor mentioned the name of General Yu Lei, he became visibly happier.
"He has a lot of experience in warfare. A few years ago, he was the one who defeated the northern grassland tribes so badly that they dared not come and cause trouble again."
Yu Lei is highly appreciated by the emperor and is a trump card in the emperor's hand.
"The situation in the north is different from that in the south. The south has a rainy and humid climate, which is prone to breeding poisonous insects, mosquitoes and ants."
Huang Ye had been to some places in the south in his previous life and was very familiar with the climate there.
"Also, there are a lot of rain forests in the south, and there is miasma in them."
"If we don't take protective measures, if the army rushes in rashly..."
"It's possible that the whole army will be wiped out."
Huang Ye was definitely not exaggerating. She knew all this geographical knowledge in her previous life.
Everyone in the room was stunned to see Huang Ye talking so freely.