Chapter 163: A letter of help from Wu

On that day, Deng Sheng was handling government affairs in Ganyang Palace, and Deng Yong, who had resigned, hurried in.

Deng Sheng was very surprised that Deng Yong came to find him so anxiously. Since Deng Yong took down the Secretariat Order, he was basically ignorant of the ministers. He stayed at home all day and occasionally went to travel around with Cai Feng, Huang Biao, Li Tianhu and other old friends. It was very comfortable. How could he remember to find him today?

"Old minister Deng Yong pays homage to the king!" Deng Sheng bowed as soon as he came in.

"Uncle Wang doesn't have to be too polite, please get up quickly!" Deng Sheng said with a smile.

"King, something happened!" Deng Yong had no intention of chatting with Deng Sheng, and directly told Deng Sheng that something big happened.

"Why are you so anxious? Uncle Wang said slowly." Deng Sheng had never seen Deng Yong look so anxious. It seemed that something really happened, so he could tell.

"Oh..." Deng Yong sighed and said, "I don't know if the king still remembers Princess Tai'an."

"Sister? Didn't she be the queen of Wu? What's wrong?" Deng Sheng of course remembered his sister. When King Wuzhuang was in the martial arts, he pressed Jing State to the ground and rubbed the heroic spirit. Wu State, far away in Jiangdong, also came to make friends and married the eldest princess of Deng State, Princess Tai'an, for the princess of Wu State. Later, the prince of Wu State ascended the throne, and Princess Tai'an became the queen.

As the eldest sister, Princess Tai'an has always taken good care of Deng Sheng and other younger brothers since she was a child. Deng Sheng had a good relationship with her. When Princess Tai'an got married, Deng Sheng was unhappy for a while. When Deng and Wu had some friction in Jiangxia, Deng Sheng did not care too much about Princess Tai'an. Last year, Wu attacked Jiujiang, and Deng Sheng refused to rescue Chu for this in-laws.

"Oh, the king should see it yourself." Deng Yong took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Deng Sheng.

Deng Sheng took the letter and opened it and looked at it. His face became increasingly ugly. He slapped the letter on the head of the desk with one hand and said angrily: "The King of Wu bullies people too much!"

Deng Sheng picked up the letter again. Deng Sheng became more and more angry as he read the content of the letter. It was said that after Deng Sheng's sister Princess Tai'an married into Wu, she first became the crown princess, and later became the queen of Wu, and gave birth to a son and a daughter for the King of Wu. The marriage was quite happy, but everything changed at the beginning of this year.

At the beginning of this year, the Wu Kingdom beat Chu and seized Jiujiang County. The prestige of Wu Kingdom increased greatly. In order to make friends with Wu Kingdom, the Xiang Kingdom next door sent a princess to marry. It is said that this princess is as beautiful as a fairy, and is fascinated by the King of Wu. Later, she gave birth to a son for the King of Wu.

But this Xiang princess is not a good-for-nothing one. She was favored by the King of Wu. She was not satisfied with giving birth to a son, so she actually took over the position of queen and prince. So she framed Princess Tai'an and Princess Wu, the son of Princess Tai'an. Finally, she fooled the King of Wu to kill the prince, deposed the position of princess Tai'an and her daughter into the cold palace together.

Life in the cold palace was not easy. Princess Tai'an and her daughter were bullied. Originally, Princess Tai'an could tolerate it for her daughter's life. However, the inhumane father of the King of Wu actually wanted to marry her daughter to the Shanyue tribe of Yue Kingdom, so as to take the opportunity to provoke the chaos in Yue Kingdom. Princess Tai'an finally couldn't bear it anymore. Later, someone advised her that her mother's family, Deng Guo, was very fierce now, and asked her to write a letter to go back to ask for help. So Princess Tai'an wrote this letter of help.

After a lot of hardships, the letter finally came to Deng Yong. After Deng Yong read it, he came to Deng Sheng in a hurry.

In short, thousands of words gather together into one sentence, that is, to favor concubines and destroy wives.

"Oh, Tai'an's child is in a miserable life. I didn't know how much hardship I suffered for our Da Deng back then. Now such a thing happened. King, Tai'an is your own sister. The King of Wu treats her like this, so he doesn't take the King and Da Deng seriously." Deng Yong sighed.

"Bang!" Deng Sheng was furious and slapped the head of the desk, saying, "I bully too much. Even my father was still alive. Now I am so humiliated by the King of Wu and the traitorous concubine. What can I say that I can't swallow this? Come and call Su Hong, the Minister of War for me."

Soon, Su Hong came to Ganyang Palace and saluted: "My dear Su Hong, please pay homage to the king!"

Deng Sheng was not in the mood to be polite with Su Hong, and threw Princess Tai'an directly in front of Su Hong.

Su Hong picked up the letter inexplicably, opened it and looked at it, his face changed drastically, and he said angrily: "The State of Wu bullies too much. He actually bullied me, Princess Deng, the king, you can't just forget about this matter."

Deng Sheng nodded and said, "Su Qing, I will be sent to the State of Wu. I can give you a hostage to the King of Wu. Why should I treat my princess like this? Tell the King of Wu that if he is unwilling to ask for my sister, I will send it back safely, otherwise I will be polite to him."

"Here!" Su Hong took the order and left.

After Su Hong left, Deng Yong comforted Deng Sheng again. Just as he was about to leave, Cui Tai was late.

As soon as Empress Dowager Cui came in, she said anxiously: "Master, I heard that something happened to Tai'an's child in Wu State? Is it true?"

Deng Sheng nodded and said, "Is it true? Queen Mother, let Uncle Wang tell you." Deng Sheng didn't want to mention it again, so he asked Deng Yong to tell her to Empress Dowager Cui.

"Brother Wang, what's going on? Tai'an is so good, why did something happen?" Empress Dowager Cui saw that Deng Sheng didn't want to say it, so she was directly accused Deng Yong.

"Oh..." Deng Yong sighed, and then told the Queen Mother Cui all the way through the whole story.

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Cui burst into tears and said, "How come Tai'an's child is so miserable? The King of Wu is too much. King, you have to stand up for Tai'an. Tai'an took great care of you and my mother and son back then, and loved you very much. You can't ignore it."

When Deng Sheng saw Empress Dowager Cui crying, he hurriedly comforted him: "Don't worry, my mother, my son has sent Su Hong to Wu State to rule, but the King of Wu. If the King of Wu does not give me an explanation, I will never let him go. Just rest assured, don't be too sad. Health is important. My mother, I will go back first, my son and Uncle Wang will discuss it carefully."

Empress Dowager Cui has been in poor health in recent years, and Deng Sheng is afraid that she will cry for a long time.

Empress Dowager Cui wiped her tears and said, "Okay, the Ai family listened to the king, but the king had to have some snacks." After that, he left.

After Empress Dowager Cui left, Deng Yong also left. After that, Deng Sheng summoned Yue Fei, Jiang Wan and Cui Hao.

Soon, Deng Sheng ordered the gathering of troops, horses, money and grain to be transported to Nanjun and Jiangxia. At the same time, he ordered Yang Yanzhao of Jiangxia and Chang Yuchun of Nanjun to prepare for war.

As soon as this order was issued, all the civil and military officials in the court were confused. Which one was Deng Sheng playing? Where was he going to fight? Why couldn't he hear any wind before?

So everyone tried their best to inquire and soon found out that something happened to Princess Tai'an who married Wu from afar. Deng Sheng was furious and planned to send troops to teach Wu a lesson.

However, the situation in Deng State was not optimistic. Although there was still some money and food surplus in the past two years, there was too much to do. If you can fight in a war, just stop fighting. So they persuaded Deng Sheng not to be angry and raise troops.
Chapter completed!