Queen He Lan came to visit on the second day after Ren Qi Ning set out. Mo Xiuyao and Ye Li had already left the inn and were living in an ordinary courtyard in the city. Although quite a few children of nobles had gone missing, they did not know how Tan Jizhi did it. These nobles all had the same goal and did not report this suspicious matter to Ren Qi Ning. Therefore, Ren Qi Ning did not know what kind of changes had happened in his palace. Complacently, he led his army to attack Zijing Pass.
Although the North had not been established for a long time, the nobles in the court, especially the old officials of the previous dynasty, had long lost the fighting spirit and fighting spirit to establish a country. They had waited for too long. It was so long that if Ren Qi Ning's generation could not do it, they would very likely give up on this illusory and ethereal dream of becoming a rich country. Therefore, although they were still far from achieving the goal of becoming a rich country that their ancestors had envisioned, they had already established a large country. In their view, as long as they chased away or killed those people from the North, they would have succeeded. Therefore, they had worked hard for too long. Now, it was naturally time for them to enjoy it.
Now, in the eyes of these old officials of the previous dynasty, the so-called important matters of the court were far less important than their own matters. They had obtained gold, silver, and jewelry, land and mansions, their beautiful wives and concubines, and their children and grandchildren. They had worked hard for so many generations for the Lin family. Now, it was naturally time for them to reap the rewards. Therefore, no one felt that the matter of their son being kidnapped was very strange, or that some kind of power might have infiltrated Changqing City. They only knew that they had to save their children and grandchildren. They could not let the kidnappers kill their children and grandchildren. Among them, the current Prime Minister was the most concerned. Because the one who was kidnapped was the son of his most beloved concubine, who was also Imperial Concubine Yun's younger brother.
"Prince, Princess, Queen He Lan requests an audience." In the courtyard, Ye Li and Mo Xiuyao were sitting across from each other, playing chess. Hearing the report from the guard outside, Ye Li threw down the chess piece and said with a smile: "Let her in."
Not long after, Queen He Lan walked in with a group of people. Behind her was the leading man from the Northern Region who had fought in the inn the day before yesterday. It was said that he was Queen Helan's cousin.
"Prince Ding, Princess Ding." Queen Helan smiled brightly, without the shyness and coyness of a Central Plains woman. Ye Li smiled and said, "Thank you for coming here personally. Please sit." Queen Helan did not stand on ceremony. She sat down opposite Ye Li and Mo Xiuyao and said with a smile, "Prince Ding and Princess Ding are really capable. If my cousin had not entered the palace and told me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have known that the two of you had arrived in the Northern Region."
Ye Li said apologetically, "We came in a hurry and did not have time to greet the Queen. Please forgive us."
Queen Helan waved her hand and said, "You don't have to be polite with me. I'm very happy that Prince Ding and Your Highness can come in person. At least this proves that the two of you are sincere about cooperating with the Northern Region, isn't it? "Ye Li glanced sideways at Mo Xiuyao. Mo Xiuyao smiled faintly, indicating that he would leave everything to her.
Ye Li nodded and stopped beating around the bush with Queen Helan. She looked at the two people sitting there and asked, "Can Queen Helan decide everything in the Northern Region?"
Queen Helan smiled and said, "The tribes of the Northern Region have secretly elected my father as the Khan. Even if there is something I can't decide, my father can always decide. Your Highness, please rest assured. " Ye Li nodded with satisfaction, but sighed inwardly. The people of the Northern Region were not as scheming as they thought. At the very least, Queen Helan, her father, and this seemingly wise young man in front of him were not easy to deal with.
"That's good. The Prince Ding Mansion can help the Northern Region deal with Ren Qining. It will ensure that he and his forces will have no chance to stir up trouble in the Northern Region. But at the same time, the Northern Region must promise that after the matter is settled, all of them will return to the border between the Northern Region and the original Da Chu State. I wonder if Queen Helan has any objections? "Ye Li said faintly.
Queen Helan nodded and said, "No problem. We just want to live our original life. Although we Northern Region people are not as smart as you Central Plainsmen, we don't want to be used as a tool. " Every time Ren Qining went to war, he always had the army of the Northern Region rush to the forefront. This was because the army of the Northern Region was braver than the newly formed Central Plains army, but it was also because he wanted to weaken the army of the Northern Region and reduce the population of the Northern Region in this way. Now that the Northern Region had established a country, its land area had expanded. But the people of the Northern Region were not good at farming, and many of them were not used to the life of the Central Plains. Their lives were even more difficult than before.
"Although the people under Ren Qining are selfish and insatiable. But many of them are really capable. Moreover, Ren Qining is always on guard against us. Now that he has gone to war, he has taken most of the soldiers of the Northern Region with him. Most of the soldiers stationed in Changqing City are from the Central Plains. After two years of war, there are only about 300,000 soldiers left in the Northern Region, but Ren Qining has more than a million soldiers from the Central Plains. I wonder what Prince Ding and Princess Ding plan to do? "The young man who had been silent all this time asked, but there was a hint of resentment in his tone. There were only about 300,000 soldiers left in the Northern Region, and this could be considered a gift from the Prince Ding Mansion. In the battle of the Chu Capital last year, the Northern Region lost more than 200,000 soldiers, and at the same time, all the tribes in the Northern Region hated Ren Qining to death.
Ye Li did not care about his attitude. When two armies fought, there was naturally no time for mercy. Moreover, many people from the Da Chu State and the Prince Ding Mansion had died in order to protect the Chu Capital. Between the two countries, there were no eternal friends or eternal enemies. At least for now, when it came to Ren Qining, their goals were the same, weren't they?
Ye Li said calmly, "Ren Qining does have more soldiers than the Northern Region, but I'm afraid that there are not many that can be used." Both Mo Xiuyao and Ye Li were people who came from the military. Naturally, they knew the difference between the soldiers who had just joined the army and did not know anything and the so-called elite soldiers who had been through hundreds of battles. If they really fought, ten of the Central Plains soldiers under Ren Qining's command might not be able to defeat one soldier from the Northern Region. It was not that they were too weak, but compared to the valiant elite soldiers who had galloped through the white mountains and black waters and fought among the various tribes, they were just a group of ordinary people who had just picked up weapons.
"Moreover … these soldiers were originally the people of the Da Chu State. When it comes to important times, they might not be loyal to Ren Qining." The reputation of the orphan of the previous dynasty was good, but that was because the people had a better life after careful management. Only then would they start to miss the distant previous dynasty. But now, Ren Qining had established a country and occupied the Da Chu State as the prince consort of the Northern Region. In the eyes of many people, he was just an invader who looked like someone from the Central Plains. Moreover, the people of the Northern Region did not have a good life these past two years. On the contrary, it was Ren Qining who recruited soldiers that made the people suffer. The area outside of the Bauhinia Pass was close to the barbarian lands and had always been sparsely populated. Ren Qining recruited more than two million soldiers in just two years. How could the people not complain?
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