"Your Highness, would you like me to step aside for a moment?"

Seeing that the others had left at Qian Chunqiang's signal, Gu Qing'er asked in a low voice.

"No need, Qing'er, you are so well-behaved, how can I bear to let you go?"

Li Chengqian hugged Gu Qing'er's slender waist, pulled her into his arms, kissed her on the face and then teased her.

When she came here, she was already prepared to give up her dignity, but when it really came to this, Haitang Duoduo found that she still couldn't do it.

"My humble concubine Haitang Duoduo pays homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Qing..."

After saying this, she seemed to have used up all her strength.

She called herself a humble concubine and seemed to be begging for help, but Li Chengqian had no intention of letting her go so easily.

"You left, didn't you? If you don't want to be my concubine, why did you come back?"

"Duoduo has something to ask."

"You have something to ask for? Who are you to ask for my help? The Saintess of Northern Qi?"

Li Chengqian said without comment.

"I am willing to be your Highness's woman. Please let the 8 surrendered soldiers of Qi live."

Haitang Duoduo knelt on the ground, bowed deeply to Li Chengqian, and pleaded.

In the great battle that night, except for Uesugi Tora who successfully broke through with a small number of cavalry, all other Northern Qi soldiers became prisoners of Southern Qing, totaling 80,000 people.

"Humph"

Li Chengqian pushed Gu Qing'er away from his arms, stood up and walked towards Haitang Duoduo.

"Are you negotiating terms with me? 8 surrendered soldiers as payment for your body, Haitang Duoduo, you think too highly of yourself."

Compared to Fan Xian, who has integrated into the current society without forgetting his identity as a modern man, Li Chengqian is much more thorough.

Nowadays, the morals and values ​​of his previous life can hardly constrain his behavior.

"Your Highness, Haitang only asks you to give them a chance to live."

Nanqing had more than enough food and fodder for its own soldiers, but it was stretched to the limit after taking with it the 8 surrendered soldiers from Northern Qi.

It was impossible to release them and let them fend for themselves, so the idea of ​​killing the prisoners, which was against the natural order, came into being.

"It's not impossible to survive. As the Saintess of Northern Qi, help me persuade the stubborn forces that are still resisting around Yecheng to surrender."

Li Chengqian put forward his conditions.

"Your Highness..."

"Why, no?

Qing'er's father can help me appease the people of Yecheng. If you can't even do that, why should you be my woman?

They are not my women, why should you let me give them a way out? "

Li Chengqian said bluntly that he not only wanted the stubborn resistance in Fuyu to surrender, but also wanted to cut off Haitang Duoduo's retreat.

"If you can't do it, forget it. I don't take these things too seriously. It's nothing more than wasting a few more lives."

"Your Highness, Haitang can do it..."

Li Chengqian's tone of indifference to human life forced Haitang Duoduo to make a decision.

"You just left?"

When Haitang Duoduo stood up and prepared to leave, Li Chengqian called her again.

"Your Highness..."

"I was very dissatisfied with your performance last time. Qing'er is here today. Let her teach you what it means to sleep with you."

There is a sequence in learning and everyone has their own specialization. Li Chengqian arranged a teacher for Haitang Duoduo.

…………

"Good news, good news from the front"

The battle report from the front line was delivered to the imperial capital at an urgent speed of 800 miles.

Xingqing Palace

"Your Majesty, there is good news from the front."

Eunuch Hou came with a smile to tell Emperor Qing the good news.

"Oh, there is good news so soon. Show it to me."

Knowing Xu Shijie's character, he wouldn't have taken it so seriously if it wasn't a big victory.

"Well, this boy really has some of my charm back then..."

After watching only the beginning, Emperor Qing applauded.

"What happened to your Majesty?"

Eunuch Hou is a very good helper.

"The Crown Prince launched a surprise attack on Wuchao and burned all the Qi army's food and grass. Xu Shijie won the battle and captured 8 Qi soldiers. We, the Qing Kingdom, won this national war..."

Emperor Qing has always been a man who never shows his emotions, and Eunuch Hou has not seen a situation like this for more than ten years.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty. Congratulations, Your Majesty. I am here to celebrate the country..."

"Humph, this is not the end. Xu Shijie also said that they are going to attack Yecheng. From what I know about him, he would not write this in the victory report if he is not absolutely sure. Maybe Yecheng has already been captured by now."

After reading the good news, Emperor Qing became even more proud.

"Yecheng is an important town of Northern Qi. If we take Yecheng and pass Jiaoguan, Changchunguan, and Wuguan, we can directly reach the capital of Northern Qi. Marshal Xu is going to achieve the feat of destroying the country."

Eunuch Hou continued to flatter.

"It's not the end of the country. Although there are only three important passes between Yecheng and Shangjing, the capital of Northern Qi, the strategic depth in between is more than a thousand miles."

There is a reason why Emperor Qing has been the winner over the years, as he is always proud but not complacent.

"To add icing on the cake, I have another piece of good news to congratulate Your Majesty..."

"Oh, what good news is this that is worth a dog slave like you telling me now?"

Emperor Qing scolded with a smile.

"Your Majesty, I just received news that the imperial physician of the Eastern Palace examined the Crown Princess' pulse yesterday and found that she was pregnant."

"Oh, is this news true?"

Just when he was thinking about how to transfer Li Chengqian back, but had no good reason, Emperor Qing was delighted when he heard the news.

"How dare I joke about such a thing?"

Eunuch Hou quickly assured.

"Is that so? Then tell the Crown Prince that the Crown Princess is pregnant and ask him to return to the capital as soon as possible."

Others are afraid that their friends will have a hard life and that their friends will drive a Land Rover, but Emperor Qing is not like that because he has no friends; but he also has his own fears.

He was afraid that his son was a coward, but also afraid that his son was as fierce as a tiger. He transferred Li Chengqian back to Beijing at this moment because he was afraid that his son would become too powerful to be eliminated.

.........

Fan Mansion

Fan Jian and Liu Ruyu also received the news that Fan Ruoruo was pregnant, and told Fan Xian the news.

"What? Ruoruo is pregnant?"

Fan Xian did not show much joy.

"Yes, Ruoruo is indeed a blessed person. If she can give birth to a baby boy this time, he will be the crown prince."

Liu Ruyu was sincerely happy for her daughter, and also happy for the prosperity and wealth that the Fan family would enjoy in the next few decades.

"Why, you seem a little unhappy?"

Fan Jian frowned and said that he thought Fan Xian still had a grudge against the prince.

"Father, Ruoruo, giving birth at this age won't be dangerous, right?"

Fan Xian expressed his concerns.

"What's the big deal? When I gave birth to Sizhe, I was one year younger than Ruoruo."

Liu Ruyu said bluntly that she felt Fan Xian was a little bit ignorant.

Chapter 241 Return

Yecheng

Unlike Li Chengqian who lived in the prefectural mansion, Xu Shijie, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, never left the barracks.

"Good, good plan, you are worthy of being the Crown Prince..."

Xu Shijie clapped his hands as he looked at the letter that Li Chengqian had sent over.

"What happened, father?"

Hearing the noise in the tent, Xu Qing walked in.

"I was worrying about how to deal with these surrendered soldiers from Northern Qi. Your Highness the Crown Prince gave me a good idea. Take a look."

Xu Shijie handed the letter to Xu Qing, also intending to teach him.

"Release 50,000 surrendered soldiers, cut off their right hand tendons and left foot tendons, and give them three days of food. Good, it is indeed a good idea."

Having been taught by Xu Shijie since childhood, Xu Qing also saw the merits of this strategy.

Killing the prisoners without knowing the reason would not only damage his reputation, but also be detrimental to pacifying the people in Yecheng; if he didn't kill them, he wouldn't have enough military rations to feed these surrendered soldiers. Just when Xu Shijie was in a dilemma, Li Chengqian handed him this letter.

"I was originally worried that the Crown Prince would be deceived by that Saintess from Northern Qi and force me to release these prisoners of war. Now it seems that I was worrying for no reason."

Haitang Duoduo followed Li Chengqian's instructions to persuade the surrounding stubborn forces to surrender. Although Xu Shijie saw it, he did not let down his guard against this woman.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is a natural born king. At first, I thought he was obsessed with women, but these days, when I saw Gu Weiyong and the patriarchs of the big families in the city helping us to appease the people of Yecheng, I understood his deep meaning."

The idea of ​​joining the army when you can't defeat them is not new. Li Chengqian didn't even show any intention in that regard. The night he checked into the governor's mansion, Gu Qing'er, the governor's legitimate daughter, climbed into his bed.

Not only did Gu Weiyong, his cheap father-in-law, move out of the prefect's mansion, he also helped him appease the people of Yecheng.

In recent days, the leaders of the big families in the city have offered their daughters to him one after another. In order to appease the people and for the stability of Yecheng, he accepted them all with a smile.

…………

"Li Chengqian, you clearly promised me to treat them well, why is this happening?"

In the study of the prefect's mansion, Li Chengqian was playing chess with Ye Mengyao, the daughter of the head of the Ye family, a prominent family in Yecheng, when Haitang Duoduo rushed in regardless of everything.

Originally there were four major families in Yecheng, namely Zhao, Ye, Qiao and Zhen. After Li Chengqian allowed the Qing army to destroy the Zhao family, the three major families that were originally on the sidelines came to surrender one after another; not only did they send money and food, they also offered young and beautiful women in the family. The most eye-catching one among them was Ye Mengyao.

"presumptuous"

"Your Highness, calm down. Your Highness, calm down..."

Fearing that she would be implicated, Ye Mengyao bowed her head.

"You go out first."

Li Chengqian was a little disappointed. He waved at Ye Mengyao, motioning her to leave first.

"Yes, Your Highness."

It is said that serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. How could Li Chengqian, the prince of an enemy country who holds the power of life and death in Yecheng, not be another tiger?

Ye Mengyao followed closely and left the room.

"I thought you were smart and would figure it out on your own. But I didn't expect you to be so stupid and come to me snoring. Who gave you the courage?"

Li Chengqian certainly knew why Haitang Duoduo came to see him.

"You promised me that you would treat them well, why did you lie to me?"

Haitang Duoduo's eyes were filled with tears and she looked like she was about to collapse.

Just now, she saw the miserable appearance of those released prisoners of war, some of whom she had persuaded to surrender in recent days.

"I didn't lie. I have treated them well..."

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