see you tonight princess

No matter how cunning the means are, it will not be worth the intimidation if the target of intimidation does not accept your intimidation.Xia Mengfu brought the ministers to discuss matters with Duan Lingge and Duan Xi, and everyone knew it was a tug-of-war.After staying up until midnight, Xia Mengfu finally compromised. It seems that this method is different, and another method needs to be found.

When Xia Mengfu came out of the Yuanji Hall with a sullen face, he shook his hands angrily: "How disrespectful to the family? I am so angry! Back then, I believed that I was the one who made the marriage right, but how did I know that after my son married her, it was actually the eldest princess who wanted to make it right?" Old man!"

All the ministers talked a lot, shook their heads and said to him, "Then, my lord, if this plan fails, what should we do in the future?"

Xia Mengfu glared at them, shook his hands and left angrily, and a long string of tails followed him quickly on the palace road.After storming out of the imperial city, Xia Mengfu calmed down a little. He said in a deep voice, "Don't think that there is nothing I can do if I wait. The eldest princess won't eat the toast I waited for. I'm afraid someone will let her have a fine wine."

"What does the prime minister say?"

"Today I received a secret report. Because of the battle in Beiguan, the Ten Princes said that he was going to accept the emperor's commendation, and he was going to lead the troops to Beijing." Xia Mengfu's serious expression did not reveal his inscrutable attitude.

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It was more than ten days later that Duan Lingge experienced the viciousness and power of Xia Mengfu's methods.Duan Lingge, Xia Mengfu and the ten princes fought for power. One party held the imperial power, one party held the political power, and the other party held the military power.

But because of the salt industry, the conflict between Duan Lingge and Xia Mengfu suddenly became acute. Xia Mengfu secretly plotted against Duan Lingge.

Not only that, but he also used some tricks to deliberately deceive the ten princes.It seems that overnight, Xia Mengfu and the Tenth Prince had a tacit understanding, and first of all they must join hands to contain Duan Lingge.

So when Lan Mo found out that the ten princes did not come to Beijing alone, but brought fifty thousand so-called "meritorious" soldiers to Beijing to receive the emperor's award, the ten princes' fifty thousand elite soldiers were only a hundred miles away from Zhaoli City.

When Xiao'e and Duan Xi heard the news, their faces turned pale with fright. The sweet-scented osmanthus caramel in Duan Xi's mouth fell to the table with a "snap", and then hugged Xiao'e and shivered.

"Sister Xiao'e!"

"Brother Xi!"

Duan Lingge's expression was icy, and the fingertips holding the jade pen turned white with force, revealing her anger.

Lan Mo said in a deep voice: "In order to defend Beiguan, Zhaoli City's guards have mobilized [-] soldiers to participate in the battle. Zhaoli City is indeed empty of troops, but there are still [-] Yulin troops in the camp on the outskirts of the city. If you dare to act rashly, Her Royal Highness may not be able to give it a go."

When Lan Mo said this, it seemed that the [-] Yulin Army was going to face the [-] Frontier Army, and it was going to be a head-to-head encounter.When Xiao'e and Duan Xi heard this, they trembled even more, their teeth chattered.

"Hehehe... Sister Xiao'e..."

"Hehehe...Brother Xi..."

Duan Lingge glanced at Lan Mo and frowned.Duan Lan, the imperial aunt of Duan Lingge, came in from outside the hall at this moment, and reprimanded as she walked, "Lan Mo, you are so confused! A war between the two armies means that our lives are over!"

When Duan Lingge saw the imperial aunt coming, she stood up to greet her.Lan Mo was reprimanded, and seeing Xiao'e and Duan Xi trembling, he immediately knew that he had made a slip of the tongue impulsively.

Lan Mo hurriedly knelt down: "Lan Mo made a slip of the tongue, please forgive the princess, please forgive the emperor's aunt."

No matter how many troops there are.The capital of a country is a place where troops must never be used.No matter which country in history, military disasters and calamities to the capital all ended with the monarch fleeing, being killed, captured, or directly destroying the country.Fighting to the death with soldiers approaching the city is a dead end that a king cannot take no matter what.

In the center of power in a country, thousands of troops are mobilized, but what plays a role has always been strategy and politics.Lan Mo knew that she shouldn't have such thoughts at all, she was still too hasty, she failed to think about everything from the perspective of a princess, she folded her hands and bowed her head with a look of shame on her face.

Duan Lingge nodded, and said softly: "Aunt, Lan Mo is eager to protect me, I don't know how powerful it is. It's okay, everyone can speak out in front of me. Lan Mo has made great progress, and he knows the pros and cons in a second. relation."

Duan Lan said: "In the current situation, no matter whether it is the aristocratic family or other distant relatives of the royal family, they are all eyeing this Zhaoyang Palace. They either want to get a piece of the action, or they want to take advantage of the chaos to rebel. How can the imperial nephew treat the unfaithful and unrighteous people here?" Return the benevolence of a soft-hearted woman?"

Duan Lingge was silent for a moment, but still said in a calm tone: "Auntie, this is not the end of the matter. Lingge dare not say that everything will turn the tide, but everything will be fine in the end. Please help me solve the current crisis first, Auntie."

"No matter how I help you, I'm just stretched and stretched. The only way to solve the root cause is to be ruthless. How come you are becoming more and more benevolent? This time I naturally want to help you, but It’s better to make a decision early.”

Duan Lan and Duan Lingge played charades back and forth, and no one else understood what they meant.There is only one point, Duan Xi understands.

"No, the fight is over..." Duan Xi tried to straighten his small body: "Then, what should we do? Can I issue an imperial decree to admonish the ten king uncles and order him not to bring soldiers? "

Duan Lingge sighed softly: "The matter has come to this point, even if he is admonished, he will come after all. If he is provoked and the situation changes, it will be unfavorable. For the current plan, I can only pretend that I am against the ten princes." The intention is to be merciless, as long as he has won the battle and returned triumphantly, and I welcome him to Beijing with joy and encouragement. Only in this way is it possible to let him relax his vigilance a little, and we can only wait for him to see him. When it becomes clear, think about it slowly.”

"Then what should we do? Xi'er listens to Sister." Duan Xi patted his chest and promised.

So that day, Duan Lingge prepared a large amount of copper coins, fine wine, livestock, fresh food and a large number of new clothes and hats with great fanfare, and hurriedly escorted them to the north of Zhaoli City.Along with a large number of military supplies, there is also a royal chariot with six horses, which is the so-called "Tianzi driving six".

Duan Lingge said that this was to commend the Tenth Prince’s military exploits, and thinking that he was an aristocrat of the royal family, he specially gave him the emperor’s chariot so that he could enter Zhaoli City in the emperor’s chariot and receive the cheers and congratulations of the people.As for the [-] meritorious soldiers brought by the ten princes, the princess rewarded them one by one by finding an open and open water source outside the city, and sent them a steady stream of fine wine and food to the military camp.

On the day when the ten princes entered the city, Duan Lingge would personally lead the civil and military officials of the Southern Dian Kingdom to hold a grand banquet in Zhaoyang Palace to commend the ten princes for their military exploits.

Duan Lingge, who has always advocated frugality, showed this time how the noble princess of a country who lived on Jinshan knew how to be extravagant and extravagant.There are lights and festoons everywhere in the city, streets are refurbished, music and dances are played everywhere, and firecrackers are fired.For a while, even though it was just the beginning of summer, the city of Zhaoli was bustling with gongs and drums, as if it was a New Year's Eve festive.

Duan Lingge held a state banquet in Zhaoyang Palace, and all the officials gathered.During the banquet, delicacies from mountains and seas, delicacies of the four seasons, melons, vegetables and fruits are too numerous to count.

Beginning at noon, tapas will be placed on each table, but there will be a row of eight fruit bowls with embroidered gauze: Xiangyuan, tangerine, pomegranate, zizi, goose pear, milk pear, hawthorn, flower papaya; carved honey One line of frying: carved plum balls, red xiaohua, carved bamboo shoots, honeydew melon and fish, carved red tuanhua, carved kumquats, green plum lotus leaves, carved ginger, honeydew bamboo shoots, carved bamboo shoots.

There is also a line of preserved cured meat: meat strips, saponins collards, Yunmeng scorpion, mango wax, meat cured, milk house, spinach, Jinshan salty soy sauce, wine vinegar meat, meat melon; , you can also eat some sweet things, such as the eight dishes in a row: picking bees, papaya grapes, balm seeds, big kumquats, new coconuts, ivory boards, small olives, elm oranges, Atractylodes ginseng, olive flowers, Silk plum, plum meat cake, water red ginger, mixed silk plum cake.

I ate some snacks in the first round, and in the afternoon, I can’t avoid eating some salty and sweet refreshment fruits, such as Longzhang fruit line: lychee manna cake, lychee Polygonum flower, lychee Haolangjun, Longzhang peach strips, crispy walnut, Jujube rings, pears, fragrant grapes, pine nuts, icing jade bees, white peach sticks, and the Xianglian incident.

When the formal banquet began in the evening, hundreds of beautiful ladies in gauze and flowers on their heads held white jade plates and served those seemingly inexhaustible appetizers:

The first one, quail seeds, lychee and white kidney

The second cup, milk house lottery, three crispy soup

The third cup, sheep tongue stick, sprout tripe

The fourth cup, gizzard stick, quail soup

The fifth cup, tripe scallops, mandarin duck fried belly

The sixth cup, fried shark soup with deep-fried shark

The seventh cup, fried eel with horseshoe crab and goose gizzard soup

The eighth cup, stuffed crab with crab and Yu Rui soup from milk house

Ninth bowl, fresh shrimp hooves, fried eel

The tenth cup, hand-washing crab, anchovy and fake clams

No.11 cups, five delicacies, crab clear soup

No.12 cups, quail crystal chowder, pork belly and fake river ray

No.13 cups, Shrimp and Fish Soup, Shrimp and Fish Soup

No.14 cups, jellyfish, two-color cocoon soup

No.15 cups, raw clams, blood powder soup

After drinking for three rounds, there will be a round of more delicious persuasion dishes. A few of them are: Jiangyu Fried Belly, Jiang Yu Sheng, Scallop Sticks, Ginger Vinegar Raw Snails, Spiced Conch Fried Belly, Ginger Vinegar False Gongquan , simmered oysters, special oyster fried belly, fake public right fried belly, cockroach fried belly;

Those who eat a lot can also taste: roasted kidneys with wine and vinegar, roasted tripe, roasted preserved quail, fried quail with three fresh bamboo shoots, roasted dove, Huozan stone head fish, Tubu spicy soup, sea salt snake bream, Pan-fried three-color bream, pan-fried crouching bird, Lihu fish paste, fried frog, chicken herringbone roasted kidney paste, catfish, muntjac and floating wine crab, dried swallow fish, Huozan mullet, crispy slices of wine vinegar hoof, Simmered seeds, fried sheep with wine, boiled salmon, spicy soup with belly.

(Note: The above refers to historical materials "Sui Yin Man Lu", "Yu Shi Pi", "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu", etc. The names of dishes, the shape and quantity of dishes served are all summarized, deleted, and extracted from historical materials. )

As the saying goes, "Thirteen lines of appetizers, fifteen glasses of wine. There is no interruption between meals, and there are still four dishes after the meal."

Before the banquet started, Duan Lingge personally greeted the Tenth Prince by the seat, and then invited him to sit on the head of His Royal Highness, which can be described as extremely honorable.

The Tenth Prince is tall, wearing a deep purple Ruyi golden python robe, a jeweled crown on his head, and holding a sword in his hand. He has a beard on his face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looks very domineering.As soon as he entered the palace, he heard all the civil and military officials bow their hands to congratulate him. Duan Lingge stood by his table and invited him to take a seat. Sound like a bell—

"Ahaha, the prince will accept it with a smile. Today is both a state banquet and a family banquet. I am the elder, the nephew of the eldest princess and the nephew of the emperor, and I will have a happy gathering with me, ahaha!"

All the ministers laughed and said yes.Duan Lingge smiled calmly, invited the prince to sit down, and announced the beginning of the banquet.Not long after it started, all the ministers toasted and chatted with the ten princes one after another.

Duan Lingge sat upright, watched, moved her chopsticks occasionally, and ate very little.Duan Xi may have also been infected by Duan Lingge's cold and tense temperament. He has been cautious all the time, not daring to breathe, and not daring to move when the table is full of food.

So the tenth prince stood up and said: "Nephew of the emperor, when I sent you to Beijing, you were still a five-year-old baby. How come three years have passed and you haven't grown up yet! Come, come, let uncle let me see you!" , Is it strong enough? Get up!"

Amid the astonishment of the crowd, the Tenth Prince walked up to the throne with a sword in his hand, stretched out his hand, and grabbed Duan Xi like a chicken. ?