General Shen didn't dare to make decisions about this matter, so he sent people to Beijing to report to the Empress Dowager Zhou and the new emperor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Empress Dowager Zhou convened the ministers to discuss the matter, and the ministers had different opinions, some of them fought and some of them made peace.

In the end, it was the Empress Dowager Zhou who made a decision and decided to agree to the rude demands of the Eastern Qin State and pay the annual tribute to Western Chu every year.

She couldn't watch the first emperor die, and she couldn't let everyone criticize her for supporting Mo Chuan's ascension to the throne for selfishness.

It's just that in this way, the burden of the Western Chu State has suddenly increased, and the annual tribute has almost exhausted most of the national strength of the Western Chu State, which makes the Western Chu decline year by year and become more and more weak.

The Eastern Qin State seized the handle of Western Chu by itself, and the envoys who came to demand the annual tribute every year became more and more arrogant and rude.

This year, it has intensified, and the envoy they sent actually proposed that they would come up with a topic to compete with the Western Chu State for three games, and if the Western Chu lost, it would be necessary to double the annual tribute!

It's tolerable, it's unbearable.

Since Mochuan ascended the throne, he has worked hard to keep the whole country in order, and the people have finally gotten rid of the suffering of war and chaos over the years, and have lived a life of eating enough food and wearing warm clothes.

In order to cope with the huge annual tribute of the Eastern Qin State, he would rather reduce the expenditure in the palace than increase the taxes of the people, and he can be called a good emperor who is diligent and loves the people.

But Rao is like this, the national strength of Western Chu is still gradually weakened, fortunately, there is General Shen guarding the border, he was majestic in the battle of Baishui Pass, and everyone in the Eastern Qin soldiers was terrified.

Eastern Qin has not dared to invade Western Chu all these years, and it is precisely because of General Shen's prestige that he is intimidated.

After listening to the story of the eldest princess, Shen Ning couldn't help but sigh for a long time, thinking about the cause and effect.

She felt even more distressed for Mo Chuan.

Remembering that when he was a teenager, he lived a carefree teenage life, but Mo Chuan was so young that he had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of a country, no wonder he said that he had never heard stories and never told stories, because he had no childhood and youth at all.

He, the emperor, is not glamorous, but full of shame.

So he was silent and endured humiliation, and when she first met him, he was a stuffy gourd who didn't say a word.

It wasn't until he gradually opened up to her that a smile slowly began to appear on his face, but she would often find the inadvertent depression between his eyebrows, and he hid things in his heart, even to her.

Now she finally understood.

But the more she understood, the more she felt sorry for Mo Chuan.

"Eldest princess, what kind of questions did the envoys of Eastern Qin come up with?

At the palace banquet last night, the envoy did say the first test question, which is called 'Walking Horses and Viewing the Monument', and this princess has grown so big that she has never heard of what it is! The princess asked the envoy, what is the Horse Monument? The envoy sneered: If your country doesn't even know about the Horse Monument, then there is no need to compare this competition, and it is better to admit defeat directly. ”

When the eldest princess said this, she was so angry that her eyebrows rose, and she pulled out the sword at her waist and waved it twice in the air.

"This princess was so angry that she almost wanted to cut off his head, it was Tingxuan who grabbed me, otherwise he would not be allowed to be presumptuous in front of this princess!"