The Daqing Dynasty is located in the center of the world, and the city of Luoyang is the capital of the Daqing Dynasty, which is undoubtedly the most spectacular and prosperous city in the entire Southern Continent.

The buildings in the city pay attention to the planning concept of "the unity of heaven and man", and correspond to the planning of the capital city with the stars in the sky, so as to highlight the supreme power and supremacy of the Qingguo Emperor.

The Zihui Palace, where the Emperor Qingguo lived, was the center of Luoyang City, which looked magnificent and magnificent, bright and open, like a young lady in brocade.

In the deep palace, Huang Yu, the current Empress Dowager of Qingguo, was lying on a brocade chair with her eyes closed and listening to what the palace maid next to her was chattering.

The Queen Mother is only forty years old, dignified, kind and kind-eyed, maybe she has been caught in the wrestling of power in this life, and there is a little silver thread mixed between her temples, even so, the Queen Mother still has a sense of oppression, and there is a compelling silver light flowing between her eyes.

Behind her, there are two female officials waiting, both of whom are people with soft lips, carefully pulling out a fruit from the pile of strange melons and exotic fruits on the sandalwood table, cutting it into small pieces and feeding it to the Queen Mother, one of the maids is also holding a pot of Huadiao wine in her hand, and the Queen Mother likes to eat fruit with half a catty of Huadiao.

Before her, the queen of Qingguo, that is, the mother of Zhao Xi, the eldest princess of Qingguo, died of illness when Zhao Xi was six years old, and the emperor promoted the most favored concubine Huang Yu to the queen of Qingguo, and then gave birth to Queen Zhao and Zhao Wentian, Huang Yu preferred the youngest son Zhao Wentian to Queen Zhao, and he was even more indifferent to the eldest princess Zhao Xi.

When the former emperor Zhao Huailong was still ruling the Qing'an Dynasty, she privately did not know how many concubines in the palace who had secretly conceived dragons, so that the first emperor knew what she had done, and it was unprecedented that she did not show any displeasure, Huang Yu's mastery of the harem of Qingguo can be said to be unprecedented and unprecedented, and those mothers who gave birth to the prince naturally were also silent in front of her, and did not dare to show any opposition to her actions.

Among the five children born to the first emperor Zhao Huailong, Qing'an Longxian Zhao Xi is the eldest daughter, Queen Zhao is the second daughter, the eldest son is Zhao Wentian is the eldest son, and the remaining two princes Zhao Kai and Zhao Qian have no chance to be the prince, but after Zhao Wentian ascended the throne of Qing, he left Luoyang and became kings.

The fourth prince, Zhao Kai, was named King Xiang by Zhao Wentian, and was awarded the post of General Canglong to guard the frontier for Qingguo.

The fifth prince, Zhao Qian, came out of the domain in Zhuoluzhou, Qingguo, and was crowned King Kang, and will soon marry a county lord of Zhejiang and Han.

The proper distribution of power made Zhao Wentian no longer have to be wary of his brothers around him, and he could sit on the dragon chair and be his Daqing Emperor with peace of mind.

The Empress Dowager of Qingguo, who was watching and listening to all directions, had already learned what happened to the concubine, compared to the startled Qinghuang Zhao Wentian, the Queen Mother's reaction seemed much calmer, and she drank wine and listened to music and teased birds in the harem every day, and her life was extremely pleasant.

"Zhao Xi, you're here. ”

The Queen Mother didn't know what to do without seeing her, she slowly opened her eyes, and saw the gorgeous young woman standing in front of her, so she beckoned her to sit down, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to have time to come to see the Mourning family. “

Today, Qing'an Longxian did not travel with a sword, but wore a palace dress and smiled softly: "The queen mother has won the award, it is what I should do to share the worries of Your Majesty, and as for coming to see you, I am also doing my filial piety."

She called the woman in front of her as the queen mother like Empress Zhao, and the queen mother beckoned to the palace maids and ordered: "You all leave, let me talk to Zhao Xi." “

The palace maid curtsied and then retreated, leaving only Zhao Xi and the Queen Mother in the royal courtyard.

After the Queen Mother finished speaking, she closed her eyes and recuperated, and Zhao Xi was not in a hurry, waiting patiently for her to say the first sentence.

After a long while, the Queen Mother asked: "I heard that Long Wumastiff was very seriously injured when he was in the Concubine Pass, has this injury been healed now?" ”

Zhao Xi smiled politely: "It's just a small injury, and the queen mother cares, but the tragic sacrifice of the dragoons this time has caused us a very bad impact among the countries, and even some ill-intentioned people say that the Yin country is now stronger than the Qing country, which is really nonsense." ”

"But they still lost, right? Lost to the Yinguo Iron Cavalry, who made you so reckless and Yinguo Iron Cavalry, now there are not many dragons in Qingguo, every dragoon is an unchangeable existence, just like this, you lost dozens of dragoons in vain, if you let the emperor know——"

Before she finished speaking, a woman in red next to her actually covered her face and sobbed in a low voice, Zhao Xi immediately comforted her sister when she saw this: "Sister, this defeat is not your fault, we underestimated these barbarians of the Yin Kingdom, so we gave them a chance to win." ”

But Empress Zhao still covered her mouth and cried, and the Queen Mother frowned and said: "Queen, you should also reflect on your stubbornness, Your Majesty has just ascended the throne not long ago, and the position has not yet been secured, so you took your brother's edict to use the Dragon Protector Legion and the Yinguo Iron Cavalry to fight hard, and now your teeth have also been knocked out, think about something all day long, the mourning family should have married you off a long time ago."

The Queen Mother only has one biological daughter of Queen Zhao, and the previous burning of the Prime Minister's Mansion made Queen Zhao's reputation very bad, and those princes and nobles did not dare to propose to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother didn't know who she could choose to be her son-in-law, so the matter dragged on for five or six years, until Empress Zhao is now twenty-four or five years old and still alone.

Empress Zhao said poignantly: "My daughter knows that she is wrong, my daughter is willing to pray day and night for those dead dragoons, and she is also willing to ask Your Majesty to give an order, hoping that Your Majesty will not abandon the body of the female stream, and let her daughter take the dragoons to fight against the barbarians of Yinguo!"

The Queen Mother finally became angry, and couldn't help but point at her and scolded: "Presumptuous! The mourning family has not asked His Majesty to remove your position as the princess of the prison country, which has already given you enough face, and you still want to take the dragoons to take revenge on the people of the Yin country? Those iron barbarians can do everything, if you die under their iron hooves and let the queen mother's white-haired people send the black-headed people, how can you explain to him when you see the first queen later?"

"We can do everything but lose our dignity in front of the princes. ”

The tears in the corners of Empress Zhao's eyes were unknown

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When it was erased, there was a sword-like light flowing in the golden pupils.

Zhao Xi looked at the mother and daughter confronting each other, as if they hadn't heard anything.

The Queen Mother was so angry by her daughter's words that a palace maid hurriedly came up to smooth the Queen Mother's back.

The Queen Mother looked at this stubborn daughter, took a deep breath, and said in a soothing tone: "You are not young anymore, but why are some things so stubborn, what about giving you three hundred dragoons now? You are really sure to kill that person named Chu Chu or something." ”

Zhao Xi opened his mouth to remind: "Chu Xianzhao." ”

The Queen Mother gasped and said: "Yes, it was the person named Chu Xianzhao who seriously injured your brother-in-law and killed all those dragoons, you didn't ask the mourning family to let Your Majesty use the dragoons without asking the mourning family, what's the use of you coming to the mourning family to make trouble now?"

"My daughter didn't make trouble, we are dragons! Dragons are dragons! We can't go back and be shrunken turtles if we lose!"

"Zhao Xi, you go out first, I have something to say to the queen. ”

The Queen Mother looked at her daughter with a majestic voice, Zhao Xi had no expression on her face, and temporarily left the small courtyard with her back to the mother and daughter.

Just as she stepped out, she heard a crisp slap!

The Queen Mother's scolding came into her ears like a torrential rain, mixed with many unbearable words.

She didn't turn to look at her sister's ugliness, and left it all behind for the time being.

"Are you crazy? How many times have the mourning family told you that you are doing things for your brother, not exercising power for him, he is the emperor, you are not!"

The Queen Mother pointed to her who was covering her face and her hair and said sharply: "Why do you have to get involved in the affairs of Yinguo and Shuyue, Your Majesty is young and ignorant, you, who are a sister, also coaxed him to send troops to Shuyue, now you can lose the face of our Qingguo royal family, you don't want to meddle in their affairs, the whole Qingguo still has face! Do you know how those princes laugh at us behind our backs?"

At this time, this kind woman seemed to have turned into a filthy shrew, pointing at her daughter and scolding: "It's no problem if you didn't want to marry at the beginning, according to your wishes, the Mourning family burned the entire Prime Minister's Mansion with dragon flames, your father wanted to kill your dragon, and the Mourning family also interceded for you! Even if you break into a big disaster in Qingguo, the Mourning family will carry it for you, you are the only daughter of the Mourning family! What you want to do in the whole Nanlu, the Mourning family doesn't care! But please don't mess with those people in the Yinguo again, Xilin! Yan Mang! Shuyue! Chu Xiaohua knocked down all these countries like crazy, the mourning family doesn't want Qingguo to become another country of destruction under the Yinguo Iron Horse, you can't have any say in the affairs of the army, and don't incite your brother to do anything, understand?"

Empress Zhao covered her red and swollen left cheek, and said in a trembling voice: "My daughter knows"

Seeing that she was finally willing to soften, the Queen Mother personally helped her up, stretched out her hand to rub her daughter's face and said indifferently: "Your Majesty has just become the emperor, and there are many things that you need to worry about for him, but there are some things that you should not cross the Lei Chi, and your age is not too young, after the mourning family chooses the queen for your brother, it is time to personally pick a colt for you, just live in peace in the palace, don't interfere so much in other things."

"Yes, Queen Mother. ”

She replied in a low voice, and no one knew what was going on in her heart.

The Queen Mother turned her head to look at Zhao Xi who was standing at the door, and said in a much gentler tone: "Zhao Xi, your filial piety and mourning family have been understood, now that Long Wumastiff is injured, you should accompany him more, you two have been married for so many years, why don't you have a child yet? ”

Zhao Xi smiled bitterly and nodded, his brows slowly tightened at some point, as if he had thought of something.

When the two watched the Queen Mother slowly walk into the palace with the support of the palace maid, Empress Zhao took a deep breath, looked at her eldest sister, and said with a wry smile on her face: "What's the use of letting it go, I'm afraid that it won't take a few more years, and the Yinguo Iron Cavalry will be in the city." “

Zhao Xi sighed and said: "I really didn't expect that the people of the Yin Kingdom would become so powerful now, the iron cavalry that slaughtered the dragon in the mouth of Long Wu Mastiff sounds incredible, if an ordinary soldier can fight with the dragoons after wearing those armors, then what is the role of the three thousand dragon cavalry of our Daqing Dynasty?"

Without waiting for Empress Zhao to speak, she then sighed: "I have a civil and military dynasty in the Daqing Dynasty, and there is no one who can solve the problem of the people of the Yin country, and now the princes have their own ghosts, even if we want to start a war with the people of the Yin country and summon them to come to King Qin, how many people will respond to our call?"

"This waste of Tantai Ninghua, this palace trusts him so much, and even finally hopes that he will block the Yinguo Iron Cavalry under the city of Lijing, that is, I hope that he can be the emperor of Shuyue and provide preparation and help for our future Northern Expedition. “

Empress Zhao gritted her teeth and looked at her sister, and said with great resentment: "When Yinguo Tie rode to Lijing City, he had more than 10,000 troops, and the number of Lantai Ninghua was five times as many as theirs, plus the help of the dragoons, they were actually defeated by them? The battlefield will only infinitely amplify their ability and make them stronger!"

Zhao Xi looked at the eaves of the dormitory with some silence, and then slowly spoke: "The vision of the ally you chose is not very good, although the person of Tantai Ninghua has great ambitions, but his heart is higher than the sky and his life is thinner than paper, and to put it mildly, he is a usurper, why did he win Chu Xianzhao and Tantai Ningsu, who are pregnant with the king's breath?"

"It is the destiny of the gods to let them carry the king's breath, and anyone who disobeys the destiny will eventually die by heaven. “

"Hmph, Destiny? Isn't Ningsu also dead now? But Shu Yue still insists on forming an alliance with Yinguo, in addition to holding the thick thigh of Yinguo, this is also a public statement to the whole world that Shuyue will support Yinguo's move to go south in the future, and if Yinguo goes south, he will definitely choose to set foot on the land of Nanlu from Shuyue through Tiannan Road

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, in my opinion, the position that Chu Xiaohua wants is the emperor of the whole world. “

"The emperor of the world?"

A trace of anger flashed in Empress Zhao's eyes, and she said sadly: "Chu Xiaohua is still the king of the Northern Regions now, dare to ask who in the Northern Regions can fight with Chu Xiaohua now, the only Yan Mang who can wrestle with the Yin State has been taken, and the defeat of our Qingguo in the battle of Concubine Pass this time may have made those princes have a heart of disobedience." Although the court said that he surrendered to my Daqing, but the relationship with our Daqing has been in a state of cold war, and the Tang State is the same, and the country of Nanfo is all monks and does not even have an army, not to mention the Dayue Kingdom far away in the land of Nanban, if we really start a war with the Yinguo people, how many princes can really support us, for these princes, is it to look at me If Daqing is really defeated by the Yinguo people, and Luoyang City is trampled into ruins by the Yinguo people, they can naturally surrender to the Yinguo people, and get rid of my Daqing's control over them, Chu Xiaohua will go back to the Northern Regions in the name of the king of the worldWhy not let them stay in their respective lands and become emperors?"

Zhao Xi listened to his sister's words, looked up at the sky, and let the breeze blow.

Empress Zhao sighed and said with emotion: " Sister, when my brother and I were very young, I traveled the world alone, I admire my sister's courage, what is the life of the rivers and lakes, and what is the difference between us in the palace, I don't know, but I know that there are old gods and goddesses on Longhu Mountain, everyone can hold the thunder in their hands to see the world, there is a Qinglian Sword Sect in the Tang Kingdom, there is the sword saint Li Yutian who sells poetry, and those top masters are countless, my sister should know more people than me, if I also wanted my sister to enter the rivers and lakes alone, will I have the opportunity to break into the name of a sword fairyThere should also be an opportunity for more Qingguo people to know me Empress Zhao, instead of mentioning me, I think of the bad thing I set fire to the Prime Minister's Mansion back then. “

Zhao Xi smiled slightly: "The rivers and lakes are only a bigger palace than here, and there are also a lot of things that are false and wrong, and people from ordinary backgrounds want to make a name for themselves in the rivers and lakes, just like a little eunuch who has just entered the palace and becomes a great eunuch with extreme human rights, it is not easy at all." “

Empress Zhao clenched her fists with both hands, and said with a blurred look: "But I haven't seen such rivers and lakes, because I only have everything in the palace, and it's so big, standing under my eyes, stepping on my feet, our younger brother is still too young, I'm not afraid that he will make mistakes, I'm afraid that he will do nothing and mix with those foxes in the harem every day, he has the royal breath left by his father, and the life of no one in the entire Qingguo is not as important as him, I must not watch him be pulled down from the throne by a group of invaders in his lifetime!" I will never tolerate the Yinguo Iron Cavalry stepping into the land of my Daqing, burning the hard work of countless people of our ancestors, and treating us as if we were the people of Xilin, I will never tolerate such a future! I want my Daqing Dynasty to be prosperous forever!"

The iron cavalry of the Yin Kingdom, while stepping on the countries of the Northern Regions, also stepped on the fate of many dynasties.

Zhao Xi looked at his sister without saying anything, her appearance looked the same as before, but it was a little different.

These two most powerful women in the Daqing Dynasty faced each other silently, and as for how to face the upcoming war now, both of them had no bottom in their hearts.

Empress Zhao naturally wanted to do that thing, if she had killed Chu Xianzhao and Chu Xiaohua at the beginning, it seemed that many of the problems that plagued them would be solved now, but these two people were more difficult to kill than the other, after all, the Northern Regions were not the Southern Continent, and at the peak of the Qing'an Dynasty, even if the Zhao royal family burned the palace of a vassal state with a dragon, the people on their side were angry and did not dare to speak, and no one dared to stand up and openly resist them.

The Northern Regions are different, they don't know too much about the people in that land, in the Northern Expedition 80 years ago, they fought a draw with the Northern Regions, and no one took advantage of it, and this time the war in the Concubine Pass was lost to the Yinguo Iron Cavalry, they have already capsized twice in the gutter, and if it goes on like this, something will happen sooner or later.

Zhao Xi said slowly: "If it continues like this, we don't know how many stable years we can spend, and I feel that the scenery that can be seen next will be stained with blood." ”

"Then it depends on what place is stained with blood, is it our southern continent, or is it their northern region?"

After Empress Zhao said this, she turned around and left the Queen Mother's bedroom, never looking back at her sister again.

In the place where Queen Zhao didn't see it, the queen mother, who was standing on a high place and watching her daughter leave, stroked the silver threads on her temples, listened to the "heartfelt words" of the two princesses, and sighed: "The mourning family really doesn't understand, why do they do so many things, isn't it good to live a good life of brocade clothes and jade food?"

The old lady who served her smiled: "You are the person who cares about these juniors the most, maybe they have made some mistakes now, but it is also a manifestation of their concern for the Daqing Dynasty, sometimes it is better to do wrong things than to do nothing at all." “

The Queen Mother said in a soothing tone: "Although the child has become the emperor of Daqing, he really doesn't look like a king compared to the previous emperor, he listens to his sister too much, he does whatever his sister does, he has been like this since he was a child, and now he is the emperor, how can he be like this? He needs to learn how to rule, learn to distinguish between friends and enemies around him, some enemies are hiding by his side at the moment, pretending to be his courtiers and friends, he still doesn't know it, his eyes are almost covered by his sister." “

The old lady hesitated and said: "Your Majesty and the princess have reached the age when they should marry, the queen mother might as well marry the princess first, let their two sisters and brothers be separated for a period of time, maybe it will be helpful for Your Majesty's future growth, as you said, Your Majesty has watched Her Royal Highness do many things, and the princess is not in a hurry to marry, and he is not in a hurry to marry."

At this point she stopped, some words were half enough, and the remaining half would get into trouble.

The Queen Mother looked at this henchman for many years, nodded slightly, the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes slowly wrinkled, and nodded: "The mourning family will find a way to deal with this matter, and the mourning family will not believe that the huge Nanlu will not find a man worthy of Empress Zhao, since Empress Zhao does not like to marry those royal nobles, then the mourning family will choose a man for her who is not a royal nobleman but is worthy of her." “

The old lady smiled with a smile on her face: "The Queen Mother is wise." “

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