Chapter 22 (Thank You for the Monthly Pass of the Seven Stars and the Moon)
Fished Huo Dao out of the cell, locked Xianyu and Xian Gao again, and did not allow outsiders to contact them, so as not to be controlled by Xianyu again, Mi Huang went to Cheng Jia's private residence, and then took Huo Dao and they pushed the door into the private mansion, originally prepared to wait for Su Cong to call Yue Lao to inquire about Lou Chuan, but saw Pan Taishi was watering Zizhu in the yard, saw her looking up and down a little, stroked her beard and smiled, "It's good to come back safely!"
"It worries the teacher. ”
Mi Huang learned to give a salute, and was glad in his heart that Pan Chong walked with them, otherwise Pan Chong would have to follow them around when he was nearly sixty years old, and he was frightened.
Anu placed one or two pots of tea on the stone table in the courtyard, and then retreated from everyone, Pan Chong beckoned to her, "Come, I have a meeting with the princess, your master and apprentice, I haven't sat together for many years, drink a cup of tea, come here." ”
"Yes. ”
Even if there was a big thing now, Mi Huang had to put it down, and then sat opposite each other as Pan Chong sat down at the stone table.
Pan Chong poured a cup of faint green tea in front of her and himself, and said quietly, "When you come back this time, I heard that you arrested two people from Zheng Guoxian's clan and locked them in a cell in the eastern suburbs?"
"Yes, this Zheng State people infiltrated my Chu State, and now their intentions are unknown, I am worried that their names are Shangjia, but they are actually guests. ”
Mi Huang said.
The reason why she didn't say it in the cell just now was because she didn't want to startle the snake.
Pan Chongyan smiled slowly when he heard the teacup in his hand, "Why did the princess have this idea?"
"Teacher, how can an ordinary businessman be interested in the two major military items, the blue brick production process and the building ship manufacturing drawings? I'm afraid that it is the strong guest group backed by Zheng Guo, with the two things of green bricks and buildings, not to mention how much huge profits can be obtained from it, only to say how much effect these two things can have in Zheng Guo's urban defense and military affairs, and it is not easy to say that they took advantage of the floods in our Chu State for many years to forcibly capture the population, and it is likely that they will also be transferred to Zheng State, which is undoubtedly a huge consumption of the population of our Chu State. ”
Mi Huang replied in a deep voice, a gloomy look on his face.
Pan Chong put down the teacup in his hand, raised his head and glanced at Mi Huang with a smile, "It seems that the study of the government and politics in the past year has been fruitful. ”
Mi Huang excused himself slightly, sat upright, and sure enough, Pan Taishi's words changed, and then said, "The princess still remembers what the teacher said about "Spring and Autumn, Ask One or Two", and what "The Legend of the Goods and Colonies" said?"
Mi Huang thought for a while and replied, ""Spring and Autumn Question: Ask the Second One" has clouds: if you are wealthy, you are thin, if you don't know poverty, you can't make profits. "The Biography of the Goods Colony" has another cloud: and its decline, good Jia tends to profit, even more than the Zhou people. ”
"Celebrities compete for fame, businessmen seek profit, and people do what they want. The word 'Li' is the head, it is not surprising that Zheng Guoxian wants these two things, not only this green brick, but also this building boat attracts the covetousness of other countries, even the waterwheel standing by the river, the bronze plough pushed in the field, and the entire eastern suburbs will become a huge piece of fat for the world to covet, my Chu army needs military rations to go north, my Chu city needs to be consolidated, my Chu country needs to repair the warship, other countries don't need it?
Other countries need it too.
Because these are needed for a bigger war.
So even if Zikong wants to desperately cover the fat in the eastern suburbs, sooner or later he will be discovered by the world. I'm afraid that if you get them to the eastern suburbs, they will see greater benefits, and they won't be able to drive them away when the time comes. Pan Chong said this, dipped his hand in tea, and wrote a small seal on the stone table.
"What then, teacher, kill them and don't let them go!"
Mi Huang's eyes sank suddenly, Xianyu's illusion technique certainly made her heart move, but compared to the interests of the Chu State, it was insignificant.
"You can kill both of them now, but you can't kill all the people you covet. ”
Pan Chong shook his head, dipped his fingers in the tea, and drew a simple picture on the stone table, and after the painting was completed, he focused on Zheng Guo in the center.
"For our Chu State, there is only one major event at present, that is, the Northern Expedition to capture the northward passage of Zheng State, reversing the defeat of Chengpu, and everything else is to serve this battle, including the eastern suburbs that Zikong is now building, and the Yingdu Wangcheng cannot let him have the slightest turmoil in any way...... And Zheng Guoxian's family is also the person we want to take, they can open up all walks of life in Zheng Guo for us, after all, it is easy to open the door of Zheng Guo with the army, if you want to stabilize Zheng Guo, you also need people inside Zheng Guo to appease us, their Xian family firms are all over Zheng Guo, and they once helped Zheng Zi persuade Qin to retreat, and they have a high reputation in Zheng Guo, and they are our best helpers. ”
"This world is no longer the world of the royal family surnamed Ji, and the princes of all countries have long been exposed to their disobedience, and everyone is now just missing a justifiable reason to replace it. And my Chu State was even excluded from the orthodoxy of the Central Plains, in this case, what if we changed the world? In the past, Cheng Zhou Dynasty Shang, Yin Shang Dynasty Xia, can't I, Jing Chu, replace Zhou?" In the end, Pan Chong was even louder than the other, and his voice could not be calmed for a long time.
And Mi Huang was deafening when he heard this.
Jing Chu Dai Zhou!
Even if Ao Ziyan said that he wanted the world, he didn't say such a big thing.
"Teacher, such a great feat, my Chu State has gone through eight generations, and now it occupies the entire territory of the south, can Huang Fei complete it in his lifetime?"
Pan Chong smiled, "It's impossible in your father's generation, he is already old, and the old one doesn't even want to go to the foreign court, but you are still young, and you still have a small one in your belly!"
Mi Huang stroked her towering abdomen, and the child in her womb seemed to hear Taishi Pan's words and beat slightly, two generations have completed all the ambitions of the eighth ancestor of the Chu State, although she had privately thought that if she ascended to the throne one day, what would she want to change?
Maybe she didn't think about a bigger world.
What she wants is that no one in this world will bully her, and no one will deceive her, although she knows that these are delusions, and there is never justice where someone is, but she just hopes that all this can be improved, so that more people can live better, instead of being bullied.
She frowned slightly, her face was hesitant, and she said slowly, "It's just that we have Qiang Qin in the east, Qiang Jin and Qiang Qi in the north, and there are many small countries around us. What Huang wants in his heart is not this world, but the stability of the world, or the stability of my Chu country. ”
"Even if the princess doesn't want to fight, can she not fight? Will the Jin Kingdom let us go to the Chu State? Will Wu Yue always be under our control? They don't rebel every few years, only by continuing the policy of our martial king to expand the land and destroy the country, and there will be no borders in the future, can the war be stopped, the world can be stable, the people can be stable for a long time, and everything can be done according to the wishes of the princess. ”
Pan Chong didn't speak again after saying this, but just ordered Anu to change a cup of tea for him again, and then drank the tea leisurely.
Mi Huang held the teacup for a long time and was silent.
Only when the world is unified, the world will operate according to her wishes.
This sentence is undoubtedly the most touching to her, and she is now tactfully subservient according to the wishes of others, and she is unwilling.
After a long time, he got up and bowed deeply, "Mihuang is taught!"
"Do you know what to do next?"
"Accept the Xian clan and prevent civil strife. ”
"No, prepare to return to the court!"
"But now that I am pregnant, my father told me to recuperate......"
Mi Huang clenched the teacup with both hands, and the tea in the cup shook slightly.
"Does that lady really want to recuperate until the child is born, and then take the eldest child, and hide in the East Palace all the time, and even hide in the harem in the future?"
Pan Chong put down the teacup and said, a trace of light suddenly floated in his indifferent gaze, and asked loudly, "You have endured for eleven years, is it just to make wedding clothes for others? Even if Ziyan is my disciple, this Chu country is the blood of the ancestors of the Xiong family surnamed Mi, if the Ao family destroys the family and helps the family surnamed Mi to complete the unification, if they can sit and enjoy the world with your Mi surname, but they can't sit alone in the world." ”
"Teacher ......"
Mi Huang's lips trembled slightly, there were some things she didn't want to say, saying it meant drawing her sword with him, but, "I want to go back, I want to return to the court......"
Only above the court can she feel her existence, and this trip to the eastern suburbs has made her deeply aware of the passivity of the current situation.
What happens every day in the court?
What are those gate valve careerists under the ninth-level jade ladder planning?
She didn't know anything, she couldn't see anything, she couldn't hear anything...... Even in the face of a crisis, we can only use very little information to find clues and face the dilemma.
"Then go back, you are right, and on your father's side, I will go to make it clear to you, presumably he doesn't want the power of Chu to fall. Oh, he's not a stupid person, but now that he's old, his old eyes are dizzy, and he has the wrong mind for a while. It is estimated that only Pan Chong dared to say bluntly that King Chu was not a stupid person, and at the same time criticized Mi Huang in person for not being ruthless enough.
"Yes, then ask the teacher to arrange it for me. ”
Hearing this, Mi Huang picked up the teacup and metabolized it with tea.
Pan Chongnian stood up slowly, looked down at her and said, "Remember, patience hangs in the heart, a little more is a woman's kindness, and a little less is unbearable." You have endured it for eleven years now, and if you endure it any longer, you will really be a woman's kindness, and this throne or the world will have nothing to do with you. ”
"Everything, you have to think about it yourself. ”
"Yes, teacher. ”
Mi Huang bowed and stood up, watching Pan Chong return to his room, but Anu, who was cleaning up the tea cup, suddenly spoke, "Lady, today's words of Jing Chu Daizhou are the first time in the old slave's life that the old slave has heard the Taishi mention it, and even the old slave thinks that the Taishi's heart is like water, and he no longer cares about the government, it turns out that he still hasn't forgotten his original ambition in his heart." ”
Qi Huang Qi said, "Then why hasn't the Taishi been in charge of the government for more than ten years, and only stays in the upper study to teach?"
"Huh...... Because of the Ruo Ao clan in this court, the Cheng clan has already fought hard enough, do you want another Pan clan?" Anu said with a smile, "And these were never what the Taishi wanted." ”
"Does Anu remember how the king ascended to the throne twenty years ago?"
Mi Huang was slightly startled, the old slave in front of him who seemed to have few words didn't expect to say "crazy" like a master, this is a taboo for the Chu royal family, everyone knows it, but they never declare it.
However, she still nodded, and only listened to Anu continue, "At that time, the Taishi was the teacher of the King of Chu, and before King Cheng died, the King of Chu heard the news that he would be abolished, but the news had not been confirmed, so he panicked, so he asked the Taishi what to do? Pan Chong was naturally not in a hurry, he had already seen that King Cheng was not interested in the king, so he first suggested that he entertain the aunt of the King of Chu, Jiang Mi, and then deliberately expressed disrespect at the banquet, and the King of Chu did as he said. Jiang Mi was really furious, and scolded the king of Chu at the banquet as a cheap thing, and said that it was no wonder that his father, the king of Chu Cheng, wanted to kill him and set up another son. So the king of Chu confirmed the news that King Cheng was going to change his position, and he quickly replied to the Taishi.
Do you know that the princess said those three words to the king at that time?"
How can outsiders know such a secret?
Fathers don't go around preaching.
Anu smiled, put the teacups in place, and said.
At that time, the Taishi only asked the king three words.
One asked, "Can you serve the prince?"
The king said, "No." ”
The second question: "Can you go into exile?"
The king said, "No." ”
Three asked, "Can you do great things?"
The king said, "Yes." ”
So in October, the king raised troops to surround the Chu Palace, forced King Chu Cheng to death, and killed other princes and grandsons, the only regret was to let the prince who got the news run away. ”
Everyone knows this result.
There is nothing strange about the phoenix, "It's just that the phoenix is stupid, what does this mean?"
"The king killed his father to ascend the throne, and the princess knows how King Cheng ascended to the throne?
"Yes. ”
"That's why the Taishi said that the Tai Nu was not ruthless enough. ”
Since ancient times, the people who sat in that position were all ruthless-hearted people, and the princess was the only soft-hearted person, but Anu was very surprised that the princess said this to the princess alone. ”
After saying that, Anu left with the tea tray, leaving Mi Huang alone to sit alone in the courtyard for a long time.
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At this time, in the Criminal Prison Department of Yingdu City, the case of the displaced people was investigated for several days, and Chen Huang, who had reviewed all the files in the past two years, reported the case of the detention of the displaced people to Ruo Ao Zike.
Ruo Aozike, who was drinking iced herbal tea on a hot day, stood in front of the case, holding the herbal tea, casually flipped through the file he had sorted out, and then casually closed the table, and did not look at him again, but beckoned to him, walked to the coffee table in front of the window, and greeted, "Chen Huang, come and sit, the weather is hot, cool off, see that you have been busy all night in order to investigate the case, and your face is on fire!"
Handily ordered someone to bring him a cup of cold iced tea, Chen Huang respectfully unveiled it, and replied solemnly, "Lord Xie Si, this is what Huang should do." ”