Nightfall Chapter 202: The choice between anger and courage

After Ning Que left Yanming Lake, he did not go directly to the palace. Instead, he went to Songhe Tower and had a drink. He didn't drink much. Then he took a walk along Zhuque Avenue, not far away. It was sprinkled by Chun Yu on his head, face and body. Fortunately, Chun Yu was gentle and his clothes were not very wet.

Invigorating blood with wine, dispersing qi with steps, and clearing heart with rain, he gradually calmed down, accepted the extremely angry changes in the real situation for Tang Guohe Academy, and came to Sanyuanli.

The neighbors in the neighbourhood are preparing dinner, the smell of vegetable oil and the smell of burning wood are mixed, and it smells good, and his mood becomes more and more calm.

He stood under the stone steps in front of the courtyard and waited. Not long after the courtyard door opened with a creak, the second brother walked out, and then there was a creak in the night.

Ning Que bowed to Ye Se and Stone Steps and said: "Drinkers and Haotian should have received Haotian's promise. They can get eternal life to maintain their self-consciousness, so they chose to obey."

Jun Mo said: "They can't survive the second Yongye. This is their biggest fear."

Someone in the courtyard set up high lights, the streets were illuminated, and the night faded, revealing two wheelchairs.

Yu Lian said: "Haotian Kingdom, it is impossible to allow self-consciousness to exist."

Jun Mo said: "The wisdom of a coward is not as stupid as a brave."

The elder brother did not participate in the discussion of the younger brothers and sisters. He quietly looked at the night sky, at the bright moon behind the rain clouds, and looked at the Haotian Divine Kingdom with no return.

Jun Mo looked at Ning Que and said: "Anger sometimes brings courage, but more often it is meaningless."

Yu Lian looked at Ning Que and said, "Since you have calmed down, then continue to talk."

Ning Que understood what the senior brother and senior sister meant, and asked: "How to talk?"

Yu Lian said: "Talk as you want."

Ning Que remembered that he and the Queen had said similar things, and his expression was a bit bitter.

The big brother retracted his gaze at the night sky, looked at him and smiled and said, "Little brother, can you please?"

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The hall was very quiet, and even the light from the candlelight seemed a bit deserted. All the eunuchs and palace ladies were isolated from a distance. Before the case, there were only the Queen and Ning Que.

The queen looked at the yellow letter on the case and was silent. Ning Que looked at the condition summary file of the Xiling Temple Mission and was silent, but after all, it was impossible to keep silent.

"Is there really a practitioner who spends eternal night in the world?"

The queen looked at Ning Que and asked, still feeling a little weird.

Ning Que thought for a while, and said: "There are saints who have come out for thousands of years. The drunkard and the butcher have practiced for thousands of years in the world. Although he has not been manifested outside the city, his realm is definitely more than most. The imagination of ordinary people, in other words, secular force has no meaning to him."

The queen frowned slightly, and said, "Compared with the master, who is the alcoholic?"

Ning Que wanted to say: "The alcoholic realm or higher, but the strength does not necessarily exceed the subject."

The queen was puzzled and asked: "Why is this?"

"He and the butcher can only walk in the darkness for countless years, both physically and mentally, they have been exhausted and decayed, while the master always walks in the light, and with the departure of the master, it reaches the peak."

Ning Que said: "If one of the alcoholics or butchers dares to walk into Chang'an City, I have a seven-point confidence in killing them. Even if they enter Chang'an together, I still have one point."

The queen said: "One point of confidence is basically the same as not being sure."

Ning Que said: "If it's other practitioners, this statement is correct, but since you are facing a butcher who is a drunkard, then you can be very sure about it because they are afraid of death."

The queen said: "Isn't it true that such a great practitioner of unfathomable realm has not broken life and death?"

"The teacher once said that the way to practice is time. The longer you live, the stronger your ability, but the longer you live, the more you are afraid of death. Immortality is the greatest temptation, and death is the greatest fear. "

Ning Que said: "Drinkers and Butchers are such two people, so they surrendered to Haotian. It is precisely because of this that they both dare not step into Chang'an City."

The queen's eyes were brighter, and she said, "That's outside the city?"

"If both brothers and sisters are in peak condition, maybe you can give it a try."

Ning Que remembered the hip flask that was swaying in the spring breeze, and shook his head and said, "The problem now is, maybe no one can find or chase those two people."

The luster in the queen's eyes gradually converged, and said: "This is equivalent to saying that the alcoholic and the butcher are two big knives hanging above my Datang Zimin's head, and they may fall at any time."

Ning Que said: "Xiling Temple dared to propose these conditions because of this."

The queen looked at the briefing file on the case and said after a moment of silence: "The existence of the alcoholic and the butcher must be a secret, and no one can know it."

Ning Que understood what the queen meant.

Datang has just walked out of desperation, and the confidence of the people has gradually recovered. The morale of the army is high. The Zhennan army has been fighting so hard, but it has always refused to completely block Qingxia, because everyone is waiting for the counterattack. one day.

If the Tang people are made aware of the existence of alcoholics and butchers, morale will inevitably be seriously affected. Wars without the possibility of counterattack will be endless torture for everyone.

Ning Que looked into the eyes of the queen and said: "How did the court and the academy explain the peace agreement signed with Xiling Temple? The land and war reparations ceded by the Tang Dynasty will inevitably be known to people."

The queen smiled and said: "Shame will bring courage and anger. If there are ways to release the anger, then the purest courage is left."

Ning Que felt that the queen’s smile was very beautiful, but he felt a little bit cold for some reason—how can the army and the people of Tang Dynasty completely release the anger brought about by this shame and agreement?

He didn't want to think further, and he felt that he was thinking too much.

"The people may be able to hide it temporarily, but the ministers in the court must know the truth of the matter. The academy does not want the court to be in turmoil again because of this incident. Since the people support them, they are at this time, Should bear the mental pressure for the people."

After thinking about it, the queen agreed with him and rang the little golden bell on the case.

It didn't take long for more than ten of the most important ministers to arrive in the night hall.

Entering the palace overnight, the ministers were a bit exhausted, just thinking that the palace urged them so urgently, fearing that the war in Northern Xinjiang might resume, or the negotiation with the Xiling Temple might go wrong. How dare you be a little bit lazy.

Even though they had thought the situation was bad, they still didn't expect that the news waiting for them in the palace was so bad that the night hall was silent for a while.

"Any other conditions can be agreed..."

There was a tired voice in the hall, from General Shu Cheng who had just rushed back to Chang'an City.

The general's expression was very painful, because he knew that this agreement would be a shame that the Tang Empire could hardly erase, and every one of those conditions hit his heart like a thorn.

But those conditions can be agreed. Under such a severe situation, Datang has no other choice. However, one of the conditions put forward by Xiling Temple is unacceptable anyway.

He looked at the queen and Ning Que, and said word by word: "Xiang Wanyuan, you can't let it."

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The Tang Zhengxi Army withdrew from Congling, and most of it was merged into the Zhenbei Army, under the command of General Xu Chi, preparing for another possible war between the Spring and Deep Cavalry and the Golden Tented Cavalry. General Shu Cheng returned to Chang'an City so that Xu Chi could command the two armies. At the same time, the Chang'an City Military Department needed a powerful general to sit in. He opposed the ceding of Xiang Wanyuan, not because the military could not bear the humiliation, but because of the importance of Xiang Wanyuan.

Xiangwanyuan is located to the south of the Seven Walled Villages in the northern border of Datang. It is a natural grassland that stretches for thousands of miles. It is the most suitable place for breeding horses regardless of rain or landforms. It is also the main source of Datang horses.

One of the most important reasons for the great Tang cavalry in the world is that it has been supplying Wanyuan with the most wonderful horses for thousands of years.

The most important one of the conditions for the negotiation of the Xiling Temple was that on behalf of the Golden Account King Court, it offered to cede to the late plains, and this was also a condition that was absolutely unacceptable to the Tang Dynasty.

Last autumn, the Cavalry of the King’s Court of the Golden Tents invaded south like a pack of wolves. The internal disputes within the Tang Dynasty did not stop. The cavalry who accompanied your majesty to the wasteland trapped Helan City. Under such an absolutely severe situation, General Xu Chi never thought of retreating at all. The Zhenbei Army paid an unimaginable tragic price, and finally blocked the Golden Tented Cavalry at the line a hundred miles south of the Seven Castles.

Why? Because Datang must keep Xiangwanyuan, this racecourse is the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's prosperity for thousands of years, and the foundation of the Tang army's all-round world. It can even be said that Xiangwanyuan is Datang.

The cavalry of the King's Court of the Golden Account was originally a powerful enemy of the Tang State. If Wanyuan were ceded out, the King's Court of the Golden Account would definitely become more terrifying, while the State of Tang would continue to weaken.

There was a somewhat puzzled voice from a civil servant in the hall: "Compared with the cession of Dongshan County, this pasture is nothing. Even if there are fewer horses, it will be taken back from the Golden Tent in the future."

Even at this moment, Datang officials still possess strong optimism and confidence.

Shu Chenghan said, "Xiling Temple wants us to pay for the horses, and then let Xiang Wanyuan out. In the future, even if the Tang Dynasty has good armor and weapons, but no more horses are available, how can we grab them? , How could it leave a loophole, they just want to break the foundation of our Datang."

What he worries most is that the queen and the academy do not understand the importance of Xiang Wanyuan, watching Ning Que sternly said: "If Xiang Wanyuan is ceded to the Palace of the Golden Account, Datang will not be far from destroying the country. !"

The queen looked at Ning Que and said, "If you cede Xiang Wanyuan, Datang will never want to regain your vitality within a hundred years. The Xiling Temple must be aware of this and then propose such a condition."

Ning Que looked at the files on the case and didn't make a decision for a long time.

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