Liu Yixuan rushed out of the mansion and headed straight to the imperial city along Zhuque Street. Because the Prime Minister's Mansion was not very far from the imperial city, he only turned over an intersection and arrived. Liu Yixuan slapped his horse and rushed to Xuande Gate. The grand ceremony had already ended. The square outside Xuande Gate was empty and there were not many people, only a few eunuchs and some imperial guards were cleaning the venue. Liu Yixuan hurried to the street near the palace gate to ask the people watching the fun. A hawker told him that the princess's marriage team had set off the city an hour ago.

After Liu Yixuan got the letter, he did not hesitate. He hurriedly carried a spear and turned over to the horse and chased the west road of the city. He rushed through the streets and alleys along the way, causing the people in the city to hurriedly dodge and complain. Liu Yixuan was determined to chase the team that sent off the brides, but he couldn't care about so many. He only whipped the horse under his crotch and ran out of the city.

After leaving the Xicheng Gate, Liu Yixuan chased along the official road. After walking about five miles, he encountered a fork in the road. The official road was divided into two places, one heading northwest and the other heading southwest. This made Liu Yixuan suffer a difficult moment because he only knew that the Jin soldiers occupied Luoyang. Ling'er must have gone straight to Luoyang with the third prince Wanyan, but he knew nothing about which way to go to Luoyang. Liu Yixuan had been in the Northern Song Dynasty for some time, but he had never been to Luoyang. Do you have Google Maps in your hand at this time, for fear that he would take the wrong path and go further and further away from Ling'er?

While I was suspicious, I saw a thatched tea shop next to the fork in the road. A fat, white and middle-aged man was sitting under the wall of the thatched hut basking in the sun. Liu Yixuan hurried over and dismounted and asked, "Shop? How to get on the way to Luoyang?"

When the shop saw someone asking for directions, he opened his eyes and looked at Liu Yixuan in a sleepy way, and smiled happily, "You should ask for directions? Drink a bowl of tea before rushing to the road?" Then he picked up a big pot and poured water into the bowl on the desk.

Liu Yixuan had no intention of drinking tea here, and only said, "I don't drink tea, I just want to ask you how to go to Luoyang."

When the shop saw that he was not drinking tea, he lost interest in him and said coldly: "The guest official is going to Luoyang? Luoyang has been occupied by the Jin people. What are you doing there?"

Seeing that the owner of the shop not only did not give him a way, but asked this and that, he lost his patience for a while. Seeing that he was doing a stall selling tea, he took out a piece of silver from his waist and placed it on the table, and said, "Don't ask what I'm going to do, just tell me how to go to Luoyang!"

The shop owner happily said when he received the reward: "The guest official wants to go to Luoyang, just walk to the north, and the south road leads to Junzhou. Fortunately, you met me. If you took the wrong path, you will go in the wrong direction..."

Liu Yixuan had no intention of listening to his nonsense, so he turned his horse's head around and ran wildly towards the northwest. After walking another five miles, he encountered a grave. At this time, the graves were deserted and trees were desolate. Several crows heard the sound of horse hooves and left the trees. Liu Yixuan slapped his horse to the hill and rushed to Luoyang to the west. Sure enough, he saw the bride seeing the bride lined up with yellow flags, rushing towards Luoyang to the west.

"drive!"……

Liu Yixuan couldn't wait because he couldn't imagine what Ling'er would be like at this time. She might be hiding in the chariot and crying sadly, or she was waiting foolishly for herself to save her. Liu Yixuan didn't know how the Empress Dowager and Qin Zong did ideological work for Ling'er, or simply said how they tricked Ling'er into the chariot. According to Liu Yixuan's understanding of Ling'er, if Ling'er learned that she was married to the prince of Jin, she would never agree to get married. Liu Yixuan believed that Ling'er's heart was the same as herself. Since they both liked and loved each other deeply, they would never compromise with this unfair fate.

But Liu Yixuan thought carefully, what could she do for Ling'er, a weak princess, facing the arrangements of her parents and brothers? After all, this was an era of "parents' orders and matchmakers' words". One of his two emperors became prisoners of the Jin people, and the other was still surrounded by the Jin army. If Ling'er really became confused for a moment and agreed to marry the prince of the Jin Kingdom to redeem the two brothers, it would be impossible. However, the more Ling'er knew the general and understood the righteousness, the less Liu Yixuan could not let her suffer any harm. How could such a good princess give to those barbaric Jin barbarians for nothing? The Northern Song Dynasty was beyond rescue, but Ling'er must be saved. This is the lowest principle in Liu Yixuan's heart.

The team of sending off relatives was only 500, and it was a formation composed of 400 imperial guards and 100 eunuchs and palace maids in the imperial city. In order to negotiate with the Jin people, Qinzong specially asked Zhang Bangchang, the Minister of War, to bring the letter of state to meet the princess of the Jin Kingdom and Wanyan Zongwang. The purpose was to allow the Jin people to fulfill their promise after receiving Princess Ling'er, and immediately withdrew from Luoyang. He also compiled the letter with the Liao King Wanyan Xie on the eastern front, and asked him to withdraw the troops of Jeju. The two countries stopped fighting and truce from then on.

Zhang Bangchang took the letter of state, took several subordinate officials, and walked at the front of the team. While he was in the procession, he suddenly heard the back army coming to report that someone was chasing the team behind him, so he turned around and looked behind the team. Sure enough, he saw a young general running towards him with a long spear. Zhang Bangchang didn't know what happened, so he hurriedly led his subordinates from the front of the team to the end and ordered the team to stop moving forward and standby on time.

Liu Yixuan saw the team ahead from afar and stopped. Knowing that they had discovered themselves, he rushed straight into the team. Liu Yixuan quickly glanced at the team that was sending off his brides. He saw that there was a beautiful mountain and river tung flower phoenix chariot in the middle of the team, which was particularly conspicuous. He knew that it was the princess's chariot. Liu Yixuan slapped his horse and headed straight for Ling'er's chariot, but was blocked by the guards of the imperial guards.

At this time, Zhang Bangchang and several guards rushed to the front. Seeing that it was the young master of Liu Xiangguo, he hurriedly asked, "Why did Mr. Liu come here?"

Liu Yixuan looked closely and found that the person in charge of sending off the bride was Zhang Bangchang, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War. Although Zhang Bangchang and Liu Yixuan were one generation apart, Liu Yixuan had also followed his father to attend several court meetings in the Privy Council. He still had some impression of the several well-known old ministers in the court. Zhang Bangchang looked in his early fifties, with a medium figure and thin body. A goatee was floating on his chest, which seemed a bit elegant. Since Li Gang was dismissed from the position of Minister of War, Qinzong handed over all matters between the Ministry of War to this Lord Zhang. Zhang Bangchang and the Grand Tutor Zhu Fan were both representatives of the peace talks and advocated the adoption of a policy of softness against the Jin people. Therefore, Qinzong also handed over the princess' marriage to him.

Liu Yixuan was rushing to stop the marriage gang, but seeing so many soldiers and escorts and the old minister Zhang Bangchang, he thought that it would be impossible to save Ling'er successfully.

Zhang Bangchang was in the will of Qin to send the princess to marry him. He wanted him to transfer the carriage back to the city. Unless there was an imperial edict from Qinzong, there was absolutely no hope. Besides, if Zhang Bangchang was a tough guy who was fighting, Liu Yixuan might have tried his best to explain the reason and move him to break up with the Jin soldiers and take the princess back to Bianliang. However, Zhang Bangchang was also a complete surrender faction, and it seemed that there was not much chance to rely on the three-inch tongue to save Ling'er.

Liu Yixuan thought about it and had to take a risk to save Ling'er. In extraordinary times, it must also have extraordinary means.

"Oh, it turns out it's Lord Zhang. I'm here to be polite!" Liu Yixuan clenched his fist and bowed. Then he said, "I will follow the emperor's will to ask you to escort Princess Yuling's chariot to return to Bianliang immediately."

"What? Go back to Bianliang?" Zhang Bangchang simply didn't believe his ears. He looked at Liu Yixuan with suspicion, then turned around and looked at his stops, obviously he had doubts about the imperial edict brought by Liu Yixuan.

"This morning, the emperor also told me to take good care of the princess and handed over all the letter of national negotiations with the Jin people to me. How could he suddenly change his mind?"

Zhang Bangchang's doubts were reasonable and his voice was a little higher than Liu Yixuan. In fact, this was true. The princess's ceremonial guard had just come out of the capital for less than two hours. At this moment, I sent someone to return the same way, which was obviously unreasonable.

After hearing Zhang Bangchang's question, Liu Yixuan felt guilty. Today, he not only had to make up the lies well, but also make up the characters so that he could get through the test. Moreover, Liu Yixuan had already made up his mind that once he could take Ling'er away, he would take Ling'er away, never return to the capital, never be a prime minister, and no longer care about the Northern Song Dynasty!

Because after Ling'er's marriage, Liu Yixuan completely recognized the slave faces of the Northern Song Dynasty. They only wanted to be at peace for a while and never reflected on themselves. It was a crime to end up in a country and destroy their families. Liu Yixuan had no extravagant hopes for the future, and only wanted to stay with Ling'er and not let her suffer such innocent grievances. If she could save her back, he would take Ling'er to the Jiangnan area and find a quiet town to live a good life. Because according to the direction of history, although the Jin soldiers would destroy the Northern Song Dynasty, it would take some time to attack Jiangnan. If he fled to Jiangnan area with Ling'er, one could take refuge, and the other could stay away from the disputes in the court and no longer care about these destructive affairs of the Northern Song Dynasty. This would be a best strategy to protect oneself in the troubled times.

"Well..." Liu Yixuan seemed a little nervous when facing Zhang Bangchang's questioning, but in order to act more like a little, Liu Yixuan deliberately looked serious with a stern face and continued, "I don't know much about this. The emperor is the emperor. There are unexpected situations in heaven. How could we be a minister predict? Why, does Lord Zhang suspect that I am falsely passing the imperial edict?" Liu Yixuan glared at the eyes, raised the door, revealing the appearance of an imperial envoy.

But Zhang Bangchang didn't take his tricks. Zhang Bangchang knew that the Liu family had a engagement with the princess before, so Liu Anguo tried his best to dissuade Qin Zong from agreeing to marry the marriage. Today, the young master of the Liu family came to pass the imperial edict in person, and it was not certain that it was really a false edict to disrupt the marriage plan. Zhang Bangchang looked back at his subordinates around him, and obviously had no countermeasures. Among the subordinates, there was a former disciple who whispered to Zhang Bangchang: "Sir, this young master of the Liu family had an engagement with the princess. Today, it was 80% fake. If it was really the emperor's will, there should be an imperial edict. He said it was unfounded, how could we believe him?"
Chapter completed!