Wu Jie sat in the corner of the carriage, silent.

She leaned against the wall of the car to keep herself away from Yuan Jing.

"I lost my composure before, I'm sorry." Yuan Jing lit the Qingluan lamp on the car window, and said in a low voice.

After apologizing for the second time, Wu Jie looked at his calm eyebrows and made sure that this guy wasn't crazy. She looked away, "What are you going to do next?"

"What else can I do? Soldiers come to cover the water and earth, hit!" Yuan Jing said simply, showing a smile.

"How long will it take?" Wu Jie asked hurriedly. Yuan Jing won this battle with his ingenious counterattack, but South Chen was not injured at all, the barbarian forces in the north, and Gao Zimo's. Soldiers and horses, and Chen Jiao in the south are unwilling to give up. Da Wei's crisis has not been lifted at all.

"Are you still caring about me? Yes, I can't let you go. I want you to go back to Dongyue Xinshao City, and then marry South Chen. Marrying that person, I will never allow it." Yuan Jing will Turning on the lights, he turned his head and spoke flatly.

The warm fire danced in his eyes, diluting the frozen chill before.

"You..." Wu Jie was angry, she had already given up on going south before, okay?

"What needs to be considered now is how to restore the situation as soon as possible."

"You don't have to worry about these, I will defeat them one by one, whether it is South Chen, the Northwest General's Mansion, or the barbarians in the north, ten or twenty years, even if it takes a lifetime, I will not give up."

A lifelong war? Wu Jie took a long breath.

"Before he told me that South Chen has a newly developed giant navy ship that can carry thousands of troops and can sail in rough seas. He once considered joining forces with the General's Mansion in the Northwest, so that he could quickly cut off the Beiman's retreat and calm down fighting."

Yuan Jing looked at her, but didn't speak.

Wu Jie continued: "You can negotiate a peace with South Chen, and join forces with South Chen to implement this plan."

When Chen Jiao told her about her future strategy, she was thinking about it. Of the four powers in conflict in the world, South Chen and the Northern Wei Dynasty are the most powerful after all. Gao Zimo's troops were limited, while the northern barbarians' troops were strong, but they were not popular, and everyone in the Central Plains resisted.

"Let's negotiate a peace. He actually doesn't want to watch the barbarians slaughter the Central Plains." Wu Jie raised her head and looked at Yuan Jing expectantly.

It was the only way she could think of to end the war as quickly as possible.

However, what Yuan Jing gave her was only a slight tilt of his head.

"I refuse." He smiled, a little childishly willful. He can bow his head to many people, but not him.

"You..." Wu Jie was so angry that she almost died of anger from him.

"With every day of delay, wars are raging in the north, and the situation is getting worse."

"This is our business, you don't have to think about it so much." Yuan Jing interrupted her, and suddenly stepped forward.

Wu Jie was startled by him, and retreated instinctively, but found that there was a carriage wall behind her, and there was no way to retreat.

He leaned close to her ear and whispered: "Instead of worrying about this, why not think about how to serve me in the future."

"Don't think about going out of the palace, don't even think about it in this life."

He smiled and stared at her with a compelling temperature in his eyes.

The carriage quickly returned to Lian'an City, a small city in the south along the river, which became an important town where the two armies intersected in an instant, which was definitely the first time for this small city.

Wu Jie returned to the wing behind the City Lord's Mansion. Looking at the untouched furnishings, she sat by the window, feeling suffocated for a while. Compared with the battle situation, she has more worries. Although it was only a brief contact, she felt very clearly that some aspects of Yuan Jing were different from before. It was as if a certain taut string suddenly snapped, and something unspeakable collapsed.

This change made Wu Jie nervous and terrified. Anxiety about the future is also growing.

She didn't see Yuan Jing for the next few days, and the follow-up soldiers and horses arrived in the city, along with the military affairs of all parties. Yuan Jing quickly became busy.

I thought I wouldn't see him for a long time, but I didn't expect that he came to the wing that evening.

Wu Jie was standing outside the porch looking at the thick snow in a daze, when she heard the movement behind her, she turned her head to look.

Yuan Jing's face was deep and melancholy. Wu Jie immediately realized: "Is there any bad news on the front line? Are the barbarians continuing to go south?"

Yuan Jing walked through the corridor in silence and came to the pavilion. He stood beside Wu Jie, looking at the snow in the courtyard.

"There is no news of the barbarians, Yuan Zhe can hold on for the time being. It is I who received a bad news. Yin Changqing died."

Wu Jie's heart trembled slightly. Yin Changqing was also a general of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Although he was young, he had made great achievements and was both wise and brave on the battlefield. Didn't expect to hear the news of his death so soon. From another point of view, even if a general of this level has fallen, the battlefield on the northern front must be very cruel and intense.

Yuan Jing shook his head: "Changqing didn't die on the battlefield, but committed suicide in the Northwest General's Mansion."

Wu Jie was stunned.

There was bitterness in Yuan Jing's eyes: "Do you still remember? I told you that story before. The first time I went to the battlefield, I went to the Northwest, served in the logistics axis heavy battalion, and went into the countryside with the team that requisitioned grain and grass. .”

Wu Jie nodded, she was deeply impressed by Yuan Jing's story. Especially talking about what happened to the mother and child whom he saved.

Just mentioning this matter at this time, is it possible...

"Yes, the old woman's son who died in battle was Yin Changqing. When the news came that year that he died in battle, he was not actually killed. More than a dozen colleagues forced a way to survive, and cooperated with the front-line attack plan, set fire to Beidi's food and grass, and made great contributions."

Wu Jie had also heard that Yin Changqing was a born general who had survived many times of death and made outstanding contributions on the battlefield.

"Because of this battle, he was promoted all the way, returned home, and heard about his mother."

"A few years ago, when I was still the prince, he came to Beijing to report his duties, so he came to visit me secretly and thanked me for this."

"I didn't expect that such a result would come from just occasional acts of kindness." Yuan Jing said in a low voice.

"After several exchanges, he joined Zhen's command and became a pawn buried beside Gao Tanyu."

"He is actually a very grateful person. Gao Tanyu is also considered to be kind to him. He betrayed Gao Tanyu because of me, and he has been depressed."

"Once I talked to him about the future, he said that he intended to be loyal to me not only because of kindness, but also because he believed that I could bring a more peaceful life to the world than Gao Tanyu."

"When will these tragedies of wars and family destruction stop?"

Wu Jie listened quietly. She understood Yin Changqing's choice. Since Yuan Jing came to power, he appeased the people's livelihood, built water conservancy, and opened up trade routes. As for Gao Tanyu himself, he is invincible in military strategy, he never loses against the barbarians, he is a rare general in the world, but it does not mean that he is a suitable person to govern. Just looking at his support of Yelan Country to plunder the western territory for profit, we can see that this kind of behavior is basically killing the chicken and taking the eggs. Although he has saved a lot of money in a short period of time, he can avoid the business travel that was originally a prosperous and rich commercial road. The blood vessels that continuously input nutrients were cut off.

Yuan Jing is a very magnanimous and talented lord, which is more in line with Yin Changqing's ideals and beliefs, so although Gao Tanyu has been kind to him in these years, even he himself has made friends with Gao Zimo and Gao Empress. Well, neither swayed his position. Because for people like Yin Changqing, belief is a stronger force than personal love.

"Then... General Yin killed himself in the Northwest General's Mansion to ease the relationship between Emperor Cheek and Gao Zimo."

After all, the emperor is a legitimate lord, and he has dealt with the officials of the Northwest line more leniently before. The best friend of the Northwest General's Mansion doesn't have that deep hatred for the emperor. Now that Yin Changqing, the traitor, was dead, Gao Zimo's anger for revenge had subsided for the most part.

"The envoy from the Northwest General's Mansion went to the court the day before yesterday and agreed to the terms I set out."

He had sent someone to send Empress Gao back to the northwest. With this as a condition, Shang asked Gao Zimo to sever ties with Beiman, and also promised him to break the earth and become king.

Wu Jie suddenly realized that Yuan Jing was going to fight against Beiman, South Chen and Northwest General's Mansion at the same time, and he was not so arrogant that he thought that he could fight ten against one. The relationship between Gao Zimo and Beiman had already begun to be divided.

"Now Changqing has used his life to add a bargaining chip to me."

"It's really a bargaining chip that weighs more than a thousand catties." Yuan Jing looked into the void and sighed.

After a moment of silence, he whispered: "I was wrong before, let's negotiate a peace. You are right. It is my duty as an emperor to quell the flames of war and let the people of the world recuperate as soon as possible."

Wu Jie stared at her blankly, feeling a strange feeling welling up.

She had a kind of fear before, being captured, Yuan Jing's mentality and mental state were subtly distorted, it seemed that Chen Jiao had stimulated him too much. Now because of Yin Changqing, he finally recovered.

The madness hidden in the eyes completely disappeared, and the whole person returned to a calm and rational posture.

Wu Jie looked away, resisting the soreness welling up in her nose.

The confusion and fear of these days finally saw a glimmer of light.

Yuan Jing finally figured it out, and the envoy was dispatched soon.

Just ten days later, South Chen's reply arrived.

Chen Jiao wants to go north to negotiate with Yuan Jing himself. Of course, it is impossible for the emperors of the two countries to meet within the borders of any country. In the end, the location for the peace talks was chosen in the city of Xinshao in East Vietnam.

After being separated for several years, Wu Jie was finally able to return to her hometown.

We set off from the mouth of Lu rivier by boat, sailed down, and arrived in Xinshao within a few days.

Standing in a familiar hall.

Concubine Lu kept her daughter in tears, and even Prince De Wu Chengqi quietly wiped the corners of his eyes and quickly pretended to look out the window. Wu Wan tugged at the corner of her sister's skirt, not wanting to let go for a moment.

Wu Jie also had red eyes.