"What happened in the capital?" Helan Ya didn't want to go back to her room to sleep, so she went to the kitchen with Zhong Zhiling, and they talked while eating tofu pudding. "I heard you smashing the cup in the room, and I knew you must be angry, so I got up and went to see what happened. But I still don't know what happened in the capital."
Zhong Zhiling then told Helan Ya the whole story. After listening to it, Helan Ya couldn't help but frowning. She was so angry that she stopped drinking the tofu pudding and slammed the table, saying, "Is the Emperor of the Great Zhou crazy? Even if he hates you to the core and wants to kill you all the time, doesn't he care about your current status? You are the son-in-law of the Turkic royal family. If anything happens to you, will the Turkic royal family sit back and watch? Isn't he afraid of provoking a war?"
"Of course he is afraid of provoking a war between the two countries. So since our wedding, hasn't he not made any moves? It shows that he has some concerns," Zhong Zhiling said, picking up a steamed dumpling and handing it to Helan Ya. He added, "This time he wants to use the murder of the fourth prince to kill me. But he may not convict me in a high-profile manner. According to his personality and scheming, he should try to kill me on the way when I take you back to Beijing to pay homage to the imperial tomb. He will tell the outside world that I died accidentally, but to the royal family, he will definitely accuse me of murdering the fourth prince. He may even humiliate me when I am buried."
"Brother Ling, you don't have to be angry anymore," Helan Ya looked at him with gritted teeth, reached out and covered the man's hand, and sighed, "We grew up in the royal family and have been accustomed to these conspiracies and intrigues since childhood. Although we don't want to be involved in them, do we really not fight back? Now that we are this old, there is no need to get angry about these villains. We can just rush into the capital and bring him down."
"Yeah, there's really no need for me to be angry with him anymore," Zhong Zhiling nodded, holding Helanya's hand and rubbing it against his cheek, and said in a deep voice, "I just want to wrong you."
"What's there to be wronged about?" Helan Ya smiled dumbly and stretched out her hand to pinch Zhong Zhiling's nose. "Brother Ling, I'm very happy that you can trust me and are willing to let me take care of the Northwest Camp."
"Why should I worry about you?" Zhong Zhiling also laughed, and said with emotion, "After this is over, Ming Wei will ascend the throne, and I can safely hand over the military power. Then we can settle down in Jiangnan, and we will have nothing to worry about in the future."
"What do you mean by having nothing to do? You have to work hard to set up a family property and raise children?" Helan Ya said with a smile. At the same time, as if she suddenly remembered something, she hurriedly asked Zhong Zhiling, "You asked Meng Tan to lead the troops to control the armies in Longshan. You are worried that the Longshan army will return to the capital to provide assistance under the order of the emperor. This is a good plan, but it is far from enough to control the Longshan army. If the Southern Xinjiang army and the Huguang army, which His Majesty trusts the most, are ordered to return to provide assistance, then won't our Northwest army be attacked from both ends? You have to come up with a way to deal with it first."
"Madam, what you said makes sense. You are worthy of being the eldest princess," Zhong Zhiling couldn't help but laugh. He stretched out his hand to stroke the hair on Helan Ya's forehead, and said, "But the army of Southern Xinjiang is our family. How can we fight against our own people?"
Helan Ya was stunned: "Ah? The Southern Xinjiang army is actually... our own people?"
"Yes, not only the Southern Xinjiang army, but also the Tibetan army are our own people," Zhong Zhiling explained patiently, "Chi Chongyuan and Cheng Xiangyang are Mingwei's confidants. In the past, they wanted to share a share of military power, so they sneaked into Southern Xinjiang on Mingwei's orders. Didn't they rush Xu Chengjin to get into trouble last time? These two people jumped up and became the frontier officials in charge of the Southwest Army and the Tibetan Army. Mingwei mentioned it in the letter and sent the letter to these two people. These two people should have received Mingwei's order now. When the three armies meet in the capital, are they still afraid of the Huguang army?"
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