Thirty years of fame and fortune
Liu Buqi was extremely serious. "Your Majesty, Your Highness, the Han Kingdom of the grasslands and the Yehe tribe of Liaodong have been harassing Youzhou year after year. Even at this moment, the people of Youzhou are still fighting on the Great Wall with bloody resistance against foreign humiliation!"
"A thousand days of guarding against thieves is not as good as one day of killing them! On behalf of the millions of soldiers and civilians guarding the borders of Youzhou, I earnestly implore the Crown Prince to grant the Prince of Yan full authority to handle the campaign against the Yehe tribe and the Steppe Khanate!"
After a pause, Liu Buqi's deafening voice once again resounded throughout the three armies!
"We in Youzhou are willing to serve as Taiyue's vanguard, using our own strength to expand the empire's territory and eliminate foreign threats!"
This speech was beyond everyone's expectations! The newly appointed King of Yan wanted the power to wage war against foreign powers! Amid the complex situation within the empire, was he planning to withdraw?
Yue Lingxi and Liu Buqi smiled at each other. They were still a little undecided when they discussed it secretly before, but this sudden assassination only added fuel to the fire and made them make up their minds!
The actions of the court officials meant that Yue Lingxi's background had made the emperor determined to kill him!
As the youngest of the new royal family in terms of age and qualifications, the new King of Yan has a shallow foundation. It is hard to say that Youzhou, which he has managed for only a few years, is truly united and impregnable!
Take Gao Yi, for example. What the Empire currently sees is his unwavering loyalty to Yue Lingxi. What they don't know is that the "one-year agreement" has already expired. Back then, Yue Lingxi and Gao Yi had a "pledge" in front of Zhenbei Pass!
When Yue Lingxi takes control of Youzhou, that is the day to start dealing with Yehe!
The Gao Yi family has been guarding Youzhou for generations, and people from generation to generation have died in the sieges of Yehe and Caoyuan. It can be said that there is a deep blood feud. The reason why he was able to resist the temptation of high positions and generous salaries.
It’s simply because Yue Lingxi and Liu Buqi have demonstrated the ability and intention to completely resolve external threats!
Gao Yi is so righteous, and so are the millions of Youzhou border residents and Youzhou soldiers who are now gathered under the banner of Canglang.
Generations have guarded the border, and every household has been in mourning. The loyalty of the people of Youzhou can be so "cheap" that they are willing to believe that Yue Lingxi, a young marquis who has just started out and is fighting in the battlefield, is "one of them" in Youzhou!
But if Yue Lingxi really betrayed this trust, allowed foreign enemies to invade, and rashly raised an army, causing chaos in the empire, I am afraid it would completely hurt the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in Youzhou!
By then, no matter how powerful Yue Lingxi is and how Liu Buqi plans his strategy, Youzhou, with its generals in disharmony and its people instability, will no longer have the capital to fight against the forces of all parties!
In addition, if the emperor of the empire were to risk his life and death to expose Yue Lingxi's origins, this legitimate heir to the empire would immediately become the target of public criticism!
Yue Hua's rise to power was illegitimate, rendering Guannei Hou's "cleansing the imperial court" useless. Prince Ning's pretext for intervening in the imperial court was also fabricated! The Crown Prince, already embroiled in a simmering feud with the Emperor, would likely turn against Youzhou in a stalemate!
Not to mention the countless ambitious people who are hiding beneath the waves of the empire, waiting for the arrival of a great era of chaos. When the time comes, it will probably be them who rise up in the name of "Hidden Prince" and crush the empire!
At this time, Yue Lingxi's best choice is to get out of the chaos of the empire as soon as possible, cultivate his own prominent reputation, find a way to free Youzhou from the constraints of the empire's food and grass, and win the hearts of his subordinates. To achieve all this, the best way is to "fight to support the war"!
"This...this...this!" Yue Chengqiu didn't expect that what Liu Buqi wanted was the power to conquer foreign countries!
It is really difficult to make a decision. Once this right is granted, Youzhou will become a truly independent force!
Instead, Emperor Yue Hua looked deeply at Prince Yan Yue Lingxi who was staring at him!
As for the affairs of the "Hidden Prince" Yue Fan, they are probably the only two people in the world who know the details. Prince Ning has some guesses at best, but he can't produce any real evidence!
"Since the Prince of Yan is so willing to help the country, I will appoint you as the General of the Northern Expedition and give you full authority to prepare for the campaign against the Yehe tribe and the Han Kingdom of the grasslands. You will seize the opportunity to attack them within a year!"
Yue Lingxi deliberately avoided the chaos in the empire, probably because he thought of the unpredictable impact that might be caused if his life story was exposed!
It was because of these concerns that I did not rashly tell Yue Chengqiu about this matter, and now I can just let it go.
Let this boy be held back by the two quagmires of the Yehe and grassland empires. Perhaps he will repeat the mistakes of the previous emperor!
The Emperor's initiative in offering rewards relieved both the Crown Prince and Prince Ning. Within a year, Prince Yan would launch a campaign against the foreign powers. Regardless of success or failure, within a few years, Prince Yan's powerful Youzhou troops would no longer be involved in the empire's civil unrest.
On the battlefield, there are not only military strategies and fighting battles, but also countless conspiracies and intrigues. It is still unknown whether the King of Yan can escape unscathed! This gives them an opportunity to re-plan their strategy.
Yue Lingxi himself was very satisfied with the emperor's appointment and willingly knelt on one knee to accept the order. Of course, this time he was in his own formation.
Wang Sheng, who had always been somewhat taciturn, could not hold back the tears that welled up in his eyes. He followed Yue Lingxi down from his horse, knelt on one knee, raised his sword and shouted:
"Send troops to Zhenbei to avenge our previous humiliation!"
Behind him, two thousand Youzhou soldiers knelt on the ground, swords raised, and shouted, "Leave Zhenbei and avenge our previous humiliation!"
Most of them are orphans left behind after the late emperor's disastrous defeat in the campaign against Yehe more than 20 years ago. The bones of their fathers are still discarded on the banks of the Black Water River. It is their lifelong wish to step out of Zhenbei Pass again and collect and bring back the bones!
Among the Youzhou army, only Liu Buqi did not dismount. Having lived in Yanjing for many years, she could truly feel the Youzhou soldiers and civilians' desire to break out of Zhenbei Pass! But she had never expected Wang Sheng and the Youzhou army to have such a big reaction at this moment.
Perhaps it was because he had been too immersed in conspiracy and intrigue over the years and ignored the righteousness of the brave soldiers around him.
It was right to put the interests of Youzhou first, but if one ignored the people's support, it would be inconsistent with one's original intention! On this point, the gap between him and Yue Lingxi was not even a little bit.
The inner reflection made Liu Buqi lose her composure. Her behavior of sitting alone on the horse, if it were in Yue Beiqiu's time, the crime of misbehaving in front of the emperor would be enough to bring her to eternal damnation!
Although the emperor is in a weak position now, this obvious disrespect will still have a very bad impact at this moment when everyone is paying attention to him. Crown Prince Yue Chengqiu has been "forced" to prepare to scold him!
Fortunately, Liu Buqi woke up and an idea popped into his mind in a flash!
My hair stands on end with rage, I lean against the railing as the rain stops. I raise my eyes, let out a long cry to the heavens, my heart afire. Thirty years of fame are now dust, eight thousand miles of journey are now clouds and moon. Don't wait, your youth will be wasted, only to be filled with empty sorrow.
The shame of the late emperor has yet to be avenged. When will the hatred of my ministers be extinguished? Drive the long chariot and crush the gap in the Helan Mountains. With great ambition, I would feast on the flesh of the barbarians and drink the blood of the Yehe people. When I start over, I will rebuild the old mountains and rivers and face the heavenly palace.
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