Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Looking at the World
There was silence in the Xinuang Pavilion, and Yang Hao stopped in the yard. At this moment, there were sporadic snowflakes in the sky again. Yang Hao stood in the snow for a while, stretched out his palm, watched the crystal snowflakes falling down on his palm, and then turned into a drop of water like a teardrop, and then he walked towards the pavilion. out. "The king is here." Ding Chengzong was in the pavilion. When he saw Yang Hao, he smiled faintly and pushed the car to meet him. This is the Xinuang Pavilion. The hall was originally as warm as spring, but when Yang Hao came in, he felt a little cold. After sweeping his eyes, he found that the window was open, revealing a piece of ice behind, a small pavilion.In summer, there is a rippling pool of clear water, vines hanging on the rockery, and the scenery is very elegant, but at this moment, everything is dying. From a distance, you can see a few young palace people playing on the ice near the shore playing. Yang Hao only glanced at it, then withdrew his gaze and focused on another person. There were only two people in the palace, one was Ding Chengzong, and the other was naturally Princess Yongqing. Yongqing has grown his hair again, and now he is no longer a monk, but wearing a moon-white robe. Yang Hao glanced at her standing up slowly, with a demure demeanor, like a lotus, it is hard to imagine, this The girl is the little princess who naively asked herself for the white fish and the parrot.But her eyebrows and eyes are clearly that little Yongqing, only a size bigger. "Resignation." Ding Chengzong retreated knowingly, quietly flashed out of the Nuan Pavilion, and the door was gently closed. Yang Hao took two steps forward, Princess Yongqing had already gathered her waist and saluted: "I have seen you, Your Majesty." Yang Hao is silent. Once upon a time, he wanted to greet Yongqing to greet him, but now that the monarch and his ministers have changed, Yongqing has to bow to him.For a while, Yang Hao had a feeling of translocation in time and space, and the vicissitudes of human affairs, as if he had just come to this world, looking at the vast world, the sun and menstruation, the feeling of eternity, things are different. "your Highness." Yang Hao returned the gift solemnly, and Yongqing smiled lightly: "Yongqing, now she is just a weak woman who has a home and a country that is difficult to vote for under the wing of the king, what kind of princess is she?" Yang Hao sighed, and after a long silence, Fang said: "Here, the princess can't publicize her reputation, but I, Xixia, will still treat the princess with the respect of the princess of the kingdom. The princess can live here with peace of mind. As long as Yang Hao is here, Xixia Here, there is Princess Yongqing!" Princess Yongqing stared at him for a long time, she let out a breath, and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Do you have nothing else to ask for? You have tried all kinds of troubles to rescue me, just to support me?" "I want to help the princess because... the princess loves Yang Hao, the late emperor knew Yang Hao, and Yang Hao doesn't ask for anything from the princess." Princess Yongqing's eyelids slightly closed, and two strings of tears flowed down her cheeks. Yang Hao comforted: "Princess, the death of your empress and His Royal Highness King Qi is not the fault of the princess. The deceased is gone, the princess should not be sad, and don't blame yourself. From now on, the princess, please live here with peace of mind. If you need anything, please remind Yang Hao, there is no need to be restrained." Princess Yongqing shook her head slightly, opened her tearful eyes, and said to Yang Hao: "But this is not what I want!" Yang Hao raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "What does the princess want?" Yongqing didn't answer but instead asked: "Your Majesty really wants to have a mate, did you accidentally do it?" Yang Hao said: "Central Plains? After conquering the Central Plains, where do you want to conquer? Desires are endless, but no matter how great a person is, it is impossible to conquer everything. Endless conquests can only destroy him in the end. If I say For the sake of the common people in the world, so I don't want to use weapons, that's nonsense, it's so great, I just hand over Xixia to Zhao Guangyi. My Yang Hao, the first thing I want to do is to protect my family and hope they can be safe and happy.The second thing I want to do is to have a career of my own, whether it is farming, doing business, working, becoming an official, or owning a piece of my own foundation.But I have never swollen to the point of getting carried away. The Song Kingdom is a giant, and I can't eat it. Once there is a fight, even if we are undefeated, it will only be an ending of consuming each other and being exploited by others. " Yongqing nodded lightly: "If I knew you thought so, I believe you thought so, maybe the queen mother and brother Wang would not have died." She smiled sadly, and said again: "At that time, I might accept your help very happily, live in Xixia with peace of mind, and use your kindness very selfishly. But I can't do it now, so I will tell you , it's good that you are like this, but it's just your own thoughts. Liao doesn't think like this, and neither does Song. You don't want to beat others, but others will beat you. You want peace, unless you It can destroy the opponent, or be stronger than it, otherwise it cannot be achieved at all.” Yang Hao opened his mouth, but he didn't say what he planned for Longyou. He didn't need to discuss these important military affairs with Princess Yongqing. Yongqing said: "Do you think that by occupying Longyou and forming a larger force, you can curb my second uncle's ambitions, so that we can live in peace? From ancient times to the present, you have seen two powerful countries. Can the big countries that are so close to each other live in harmony and live in peace?" Yang Hao's expression changed slightly: "She knows about my plot against Longyou?" For a moment, Yang Hao already thought that Zhong Fang and Ding Chengzong must have talked with Princess Yongqing first, understood her intentions, and reached some kind of agreement , That's why I told her such an important thing.Of course, Princess Yongqing is now in the hands of Yang Hao, so she will leak it out. However, this kind of behavior clearly shows the thoughts of the important ministers and confidants he relies on as his right-hand arm. They are also full of enthusiasm for expansion, opening up territories, and making contributions. As for his eldest brother Ding Chengzong, who has no desires, and the great Confucian who has read poetry and books, they all have such thoughts, let alone what will happen to those generals. Yongqing said: "A person has an exhausted lifespan, intelligence, military strength and national power. It is indeed impossible to fight and expand endlessly, but this reason should not be the reason for you to be content with the status quo. At least, some things It is within your ability, so why don't you do it? Now you have a strong army, with soldiers like clouds and generals like rain under your command. In any country, the civil servants and military generals at the beginning of the founding of the country are the most honest and capable. If you don’t take advantage of this opportunity and do what you can do well, then what will you leave to your children and grandchildren?The problems you can solve should be left to them and involve them in more wars? That’s right, the sun and menstruation are empty, and they take turns. No matter which country, there is a process of beginning, prosperity, and decline. No matter how wise you are, you can’t guarantee that all your descendants will be wise. If you want to last forever, arrange for 10,000 years Everything after that is simply mediocrity.But if you can arrange everything a hundred years, three hundred years, or even five hundred years later, why do you only care about the few decades before you were alive? " Yang Hao's heart skipped a beat when he heard it, and his mind was clear for a while, like enlightenment, and then he was confused for a while, muddled and undecided.He didn't expect that the little princess who was ignorant of the world could say such words, and his will was shaken. Princess Yongqing looked at his face, feeling very nervous: "What Zhe Ziyu taught me really has some effect, it seems...he is no longer so calm and peaceful." After a long time, Yang Hao took a long breath, and then said: "I'm almost...to be persuaded by Her Royal Highness, hehe... Maybe what you said makes sense, but...the problem is, what you said, I It can't be solved. On the contrary, if I try to solve it, I will leave a bigger mess for the people now and for the people who will come later. Moreover, only the princess is left with the blood of the first emperor. Yang Hao... just want you to be safe , I don't want to use you." Princess Yongqing said: "You are wrong, Yang Hao! It's not that you use me, but I want to use you!" Yang Hao was dumbfounded: "Use me?" Princess Yongqing said: "To be precise, it should be mutual use. What you have combined with what I have, in fact, the power that can be generated is far beyond your estimation. What you can give me is what I cannot give. The power you have, and what I can give you is something you never thought of." Yes, it's not just Yang Hao who can't think of it, even she would never have thought of it without Zhe Ziyu's guidance.On her way to Xingzhou, she kept pitying herself and hurting herself. She only felt that she was a useless woman. She thought that what she could give Yang Hao was just a righteous name, but now, she was full of confidence. She turned around and walked slowly to the window. The snow reflected her skin like jade and porcelain. She said in a powerful voice: "Why don't you try? If you don't try at all, how will you know?" Can it be successful? Just go to the ice near the shore and try its thickness, isn't it enough?" Yang Hao stared at her back, and said in a deep voice: "If I really succeed, what will happen? Such an ending is not what your father, your mother, and your brother's spirit in heaven want." "I know what they want!" Princess Yongqing turned around suddenly, and the wind lifted her long hair. Her hair was disheveled and her eyes were like silk, like a beautiful banshee in the wind: "So, this cooperation, you can get everything, I just want you to do it!" To one thing, a very easy thing, for you, it is just a promise!"
"kill!" With a roar of a tiger, many knights masked with felt scarves and only a pair of eyes exposed rushed out of the forest on the side of the road, holding various weapons in their hands, including knives and forks, and even a sharp ax for chopping wood. army. There was a scream of "ah", the blade of the ax was stained with blood, and the head of a road-building slave who bore the brunt was split open by the sharp axe, and the brains and blood splattered, which was shocking. "Who is so bold! How dare you hurt the person who built the Eagle Road in Daliao?" A Khitan general rushed forward with his horse, drew his sword and roared angrily. What answered him was a cold arrow, which was shot like lightning, and the arrow swept through the air, carrying a blue light, obviously poisoned, these people were obviously hit by someone, and they didn't want to leave anyone alive. With a "poof", the sharp arrow pierced into the throat, and blood gushed along the blood groove, which turned black in an instant.At this time, those people had already rushed into the road construction team. Whether it was the slaves and migrant workers who were building the road, or the generals of the Liao Kingdom who supervised the work, they just greeted them with weapons. Grass fell down one after another. The knights rushed to fight in blood, invincible. They insisted on cutting a bloody road from the road construction team, rushed out dozens of steps, circled the horses, and charged again, chopping with knives, chopping with axes, picking with forks, and shooting with arrows. Extremely, until all the enemies were lying in a pool of blood, the knights jumped off their horses one after another after the leader shouted, and checked one by one. Things, looking like a horse bandit looting. When everything was tidied up, the leader poked two fingers into the entrance and let out a sharp whistle. All the knights immediately got on their horses and rode away, quickly disappearing into the thick jungle. The snow was falling, first covering the bloodstains, and then began to cover the human body. At this moment, two horsemen suddenly jumped out from the side of the road. They looked around vigilantly. Wearing a bag, he quickly flipped through the pile of dead bodies, looking for the murderer's accomplices, and then stuffed something into their arms. Although their unexpected sneak attack gave them an absolute upper hand, more than a dozen people died. These murderers came and went like the wind, seeking speed. Of course, it was impossible to take a pile of corpses on the road, but they were not worried. There wasn't anything iconic about them, but now there is. In the distant Liaodong, under the leadership of the remote West Frontier, the flames of the Three Kingdoms War were ignited, and they quietly lit up...