"Your Majesty, I have been in drought for two consecutive years, and the agricultural harvest has been frequently reduced, and this year's fiscal collection is less than 30% of last year's.

In the Dongfu Palace, in the Chaoyang Palace, there were several civil officials, led by an old man of about sixty a year, wearing official uniforms, and arrogantly reprimanded the young man in a dragon robe sitting in the hall.

"Your Majesty, now I am facing constant internal and external troubles, and the people are struggling to make a living, if taxes are increased at this time, I am only afraid"

"Lord Chen, we are not advocating increasing taxes, but severely punishing the wicked people who refuse to pay taxes, at this time the treasury is empty, the queen mother's birthday is imminent, and the court will be enshrined in Beishao, the national strength is worrying."

"Your Majesty, I still hope that Your Majesty will make a wise decision."

"陛xià"

"Lord Zhaohua has arrived!"

There was a sudden sound outside the hall, and the hall was instantly quiet, and the civil officials in the hall consciously spread out and stood in two rows on one side, raising their hands to rub their foreheads against the back of their hands, and beads of sweat fell down their cheeks, which was definitely not the arrogant appearance just now.

The door of the hall opened suddenly, and the person who was dressed in a silver-white battle armor and jade crown with a bundle of hair, stepped on a pair of white dragon boots with a three-inch thick soles, and walked into the hall with a straight waist was the county lord of Zhaohua.

I strode into the hall and leaned over and clenched my fist at the young man sitting in the hall, "The minister is still victorious." ”

"Good!" When the young man heard those five words, he was overjoyed when he patted the dragon case, "Sister, okay!" ”

I was full of black lines, leaned over here and didn't move, just raised my head slightly, glared at the guy who had broken the rules, he just woke up, put away the childish appearance and sat down calmly, and said seriously, "There is a county lord of Zhaohua in the east, I am deeply honored." Sister Ping. ”

I slowly withdrew my fist-clasped hands, straightened up and looked around, "Before I stepped into the Chaoyang Palace, I had already heard the dispute in the hall, and I didn't know what was going on. ”

The figure of the Nan Prime Minister headed by "this" flickered, as if he was about to stand up, but after I looked sideways, he lowered his head again and swallowed the second half of the sentence into his stomach.

"Hmph." I felt that he was guilty and didn't want to argue with him, so I turned around and reprimanded loudly at the palace gate, "As a courtier, you don't want to share your Majesty's worries and observe the people's feelings for the benefit of the people in order to seek the peace of the country and the people, and dare to question the young emperor in the Chaoyang Palace, what is your intention!" ”

The silence was terrifying, and you could hear the horror of sweat dripping on the ground.

"The Queen Mother's birthday costs money, and the court costs money to serve Beishao, and everyone present is indispensable, where does the money come from?!" These ministers in front of them are not wine bags and rice bags, at least they know how to transfer the hatred of the people, Dongfu is in danger, but these people are trying their best to ensure their own benefits, "I fought on the front line, and I saw that my Dongfu soldiers died without complaint, and I tried my best to protect the soldiers in Dongfu, eating rotten vegetables, covering with broken quilts with loopholes, and you repeatedly squeezed them in order to save military expenses." Now that there is me Zhaohua in the Dongfu barracks, you can't move your mind, so you will stretch out your hands holding money to the people! ”

"What Sister County Lord said is extremely true!" The kid jumped up from the dragon chair again, and when he had my support, he jumped off the high platform in the hall, and stood behind me with a proud look, "You rice buckets, now I have been in drought for many years, and the people have nothing to pay for the court taxes, even if the punishment is increased, how can they not even eat and what to pay, and if this continues, the people will be in turmoil, and it will be unfortunate for me to go on in the east!" ”

What I said is quite reasonable, since I am so able to break it, how did I let a group of old guys press on the dragon chair just now and blame him, I turned my head to look at him with my eyebrows raised, waiting for him to perform this play.

As soon as the stinky boy saw that I didn't answer, his expression instantly became wrong, and he silently begged me for mercy, bullying the ministers who didn't dare to look up.

I pursed my lips, suppressed the urge to laugh, cleared my throat, and continued, "Your Majesty, in that case, the minister has a plan. ”

"The county lord speaks quickly." He couldn't wait any longer.

But I deliberately delayed," His Majesty xià. It's better to sink again, deliberately remove his appetite, seeing that this kid is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, I reluctantly continued, "Reduce unnecessary expenses in the court, start with the queen mother's birthday banquet, save expenses, halve the ministers who have nothing to do in the court, reduce the daily rewards, and the land owned by each household of the courtiers in office and retirement shall not exceed 100 acres, recycle the cultivated land in the court, and open the granaries in various places to help the people, in order to survive this year's famine, the recovered land will be managed by the court in a unified manner, and refugees will be hired to cultivate collectively." ”

"Okay, just do what the county lord says." He clapped his hands and applauded, regardless of the bowed heads around him, he had already frowned in pain and didn't dare to speak, "Since there is no problem, you can retreat, the county lord stays, I have something to say to the county lord." ”

"Yes, your ministers obey."

Answering the order with a hard head, shaking his head and sighing, one by one like a defeated rooster, he withdrew from the Chaoyang Palace.

"Sister, you can be counted as back, this time the battle of encirclement and suppression is still smooth, it will be two months to leave, these old guys saw that you were not in the court, but they seized the opportunity to embarrass me." Seeing everyone withdraw from the main hall, he jumped up and down as if he had come to life, without the slightest steadiness just now.

"You. You know how to be the same thing as what, and you know how to look inside and out, so why do you let a group of old guys embarrass you? I followed his meaning and quipped, since there are no outsiders, the so-called monarchs and ministers naturally don't need to pretend, and simply sit on the steps of the high platform.

"I'm afraid." The young man was also afraid, and sat down beside me with his mouth curled and regardless of his image, "Just like what you said, Sister, I do know what they are calculating, but I know that they are calculating me, I still don't dare to say, you are not here, who knows if I said the wrong word, and they are clamoring to replace me, maybe before you come back, they will kill me unknowingly." ”

Vauon is sixteen years old and has reigned for five years. It was supposed to be a bright young man with clear eyebrows, but he set up a thousand-pound dragon robe, and after saying that, he turned his head and laughed again, "That's right, Sister, have you found Ah Ning?" ”

Hearing him mention Ah Ning, all my thoughts were blank, and I was left with only loss, "At that time, I heard that the Cheng clan occupied my Dongfu Belvedere City and wanted to establish themselves as kings, and the banner was that the heirs of King Ning's lineage rebelled, I really thought that I could find Ah Ning." ”

"Sister, don't worry, Ah Ning will be fine. Maybe we'll find her sometime. Fu Ang put his hand around me and comforted me.

"Little Ang, I don't know what's going on. I don't even remember when I lost Ah Ning. I looked sideways at him and told him of my uneasiness.

"Don't worry." Fu Ang avoided my eyes, turned his head, and patted me on the shoulder, "Sister, don't worry, I will get back what Beishao owes us." ”

I was so surprised that I couldn't help but grab the sleeve of his left arm, and he turned his head back with a very heavy emotion in his eyes, and I suddenly realized that I was holding his dragon robe in my hand, so I let go in embarrassment.

The love in his eyes is very big, there is a kind of anger burning, in the six months after I returned to Dongfu, I have the impression that this little boy has always been a person who has been exposed, and he will suppress such a big resentment in his heart, which makes me feel very strange.

I stiffened and stood up, "I just came back from a victory, and I have to go to the Queen Mother to say goodbye." ”

"I'll go with you." Volion jumped almost excitedly. "Then we'll dine together at the queen's in the evening, and I'd love to hear you tell you the wonderful stories of how you led your troops to attack the city."

"陛xià." The door opens.

Gonggong Ji, who was beside Fu Ang, leaned forward and walked forward, lowered his head but quietly raised his eyes to look at me and lowered his head again, lowered his voice to ask Fu Ang, "Your Majesty, Master Gong is here." ”

Master Gong is here.

I don't know what's between Fu Ang and Gong Yu, but for me, Gong Yu should be my benefactor, because everyone is saying that Gong Yu rescued me from Beishao.

"You get busy first, I'll just go with General Huo." Huo Yu walked into the Chaoyang Hall behind Gonggong Ji, I raised my hand to signal him to wait, and said to Fu Ang, "After you have met the palace master, come and join us again." ”

"It's fine." Voon nodded, albeit reluctantly, but agreed.

I bowed my head lightly to Huo Yu, and then said goodbye to Fu Ang with a smile for the time being, Huo Yu bowed his head slightly from beginning to end, looked at Yiqiē in his eyes, and quietly followed me out of the Chaoyang Palace.

"It seems that I can't let you go home so early today, you know, I have a headache that we have to face this master next, who is more difficult than the Cheng clan we just defeated, you have to accompany me!" I tilted my head slightly to him and explained helplessly, "The old rules, the inside should be the outside." ”

Huo Yu smiled lightly, clean and hearty.

Gong Yu's master and apprentice walked towards the hall under the leadership of the father-in-law of Chaoyang Palace, and happened to pass by us. I nodded to Gong Yu as a greeting, but Gong Yu walked over as if he didn't see me.

But the little apprentice who followed him responded to me with a smile, and he was very nervous, and Gong Yu followed closely in small steps.

"Why did the county lord bow his head and go to the palace master to show goodwill." I stood where I was, and Huo Yu stopped with me.

I turned around and smiled at him, and continued to walk towards Tai**.

"I'm not impressed, but I'm grateful to him. Since the establishment of my Fu clan, there have been too many twists and turns in our generation, and the only one in the line of King Ning is now only my Fuyin, and the royal family "I suddenly broke off, because I didn't know how to explain it, because I was willful and reckless to raise troops to force the palace, forcing the first emperor to die of a serious illness, too many things made me have to bear the sins I once owed, and took a deep breath, "Your Majesty respects the palace master very much, and he is also my savior." I don't have to please him, I'm just grateful to him for saving me from Beishao. I heard that the knife I stabbed into my chest was very deep, and it took Master Gong two years to revive me. ”

I may never forget the autumn night in the Shao Palace, the long corridor that seems to never end, the closed palace gate, and the cold eyes of the people under the Shao Palace. "Some things, maybe wrong once, will never be possible."

Huo Yu listened very carefully, his sinking eyes seemed to think about what I said, and when he looked at me, he seemed to fully understand what I meant.

Huo Yu is the most powerful general under my command, and also my best friend, the position of the general of the Huo family is hereditary, when I led the army to resist the siege of the Beishao army, it was Huo Yu's father who fought side by side with me, he was trapped in the Shao Palace for two years, and fell asleep for two years, and when he returned to Dongfu, all the qiē have undergone earth-shaking changes, the original Huo general has died on the battlefield, fortunately, the Huo family still has such a only son.

Huo Yu is a very clean teenager, twenty-one years old, not rude and burly, he is thin, with red lips and white teeth. He said very little, and in the past six months, he has won many battles for Dongfu with my birth and death.

Sometimes, I feel as if I have forgotten something, and during the more than two years of being in a coma, all the qiē that happened around me was sued by others, and everyone sued me for this qiē, which was undoubtedly aggravated again and again, and Dongfu was bound to fight with Beishao's determination.

Sighing, "Let's go." ”

"Early this morning, someone came to report, saying that the county lord returned triumphantly and would enter the palace before noon, although Niangniang didn't say it, but she was also very concerned about the county lord." Before I stepped into the door of the Queen Mother's Qingyang Palace, I saw Ao Zhan, the commander of the forbidden army guards in the palace, waiting for me under the palace wall, and saw me coming alone with Huo Yu.

"Whose man is he, you say?" After just two words of greeting, I said goodbye to this Ao commander, and looking at his departing back, I asked Huo Yu suspiciously.

"I heard that he was the most trusted guard in front of the first emperor, and after the first emperor died, no one knew where he went, and besides, he and the county lord returned to the palace at the same time." Huo Yu's answer is very simple, but at the same time he also said his doubts, he is the same as me, he is suspicious of some things, but obviously he is not as curious as me, it may have something to do with his personality, he is indifferent and peaceful, and he is not a very ambitious person. "It seems that the Queen Mother has been waiting for you."

In the words left by Commander Ao, I was deliberately reminded to be on guard.

"It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided."

"Ministers, meet the Queen Mother." In Qingyang Palace, the two of us half-knelt in front of her.

The Empress Dowager of Dongfu Wei, named Wei Ning, is the orthodox blood of the Xiyi royal family, and it is said that the current Xiyi monarch Wei Xiao still wants to call her an aunt. He is about forty years old, in his prime, charming and colorful, with the taste of, but with more arrogance of royal nobles.

The Empress Dowager Wei, who everyone in this palace is afraid of, before I came back, she was in charge of everything in the court, and during the five years of assisting the young emperor, her life was also extremely brilliant. Everyone in the palace knows that the palace forces are divided into two factions, one is the conservative old force headed by the Empress Dowager Wei, and the other is the old force of the Ning Wang faction headed by the lord of Zhaohua, and the two factions started their own infighting from my return to the Fu Palace, although I avoided the direct conflict with the Empress Dowager Wei several times, but still could not escape the spearhead of the snobbery.

And for Fu Ang, on the one hand, his mother, on the other hand, is his only trusted sister, although it is difficult to be caught in the middle, he has never given up to coordinate the relationship between us, and has pulled us to eat at the same table several times to do peace. But now, she wasn't in a hurry to get us up.

"I heard that in the Chaoyang Palace today, it is the county lord who mentions yì to His Majesty to save all kinds of expenses in the palace."

Sure enough, I had just taken the knife on her birthday, and she immediately found me.

"Nowadays, Dongfu natural disasters are continuous, the national strength is really not as good as before, a qiē needs to be thrifty, I believe that the Queen Mother will definitely lead by example after knowing this qiē, and become an example of my Dongfu taking the lead in thrifty spending." I bowed my head and replied, not wanting to cause trouble.

There was a muffled sound, although she later lightened the strength of her hands, but a slap on the table, it would make some noise, and her tone changed significantly. "The county lord has really taken great pains to lie down for me, this palace almost listened to the instigation of such a small guy, and the county lord is to blame."

I half-bent to the ground, did not raise my head to meet her gaze, did not intend to provoke her, at this time to intensify the conflict, it is not good for anyone.

"The county lord is not only outstanding in appearance now, but also both civil and military, but also has the world in mind, the monarch of Nancheng is really a good blessing, I don't know when the monarch of Nancheng plans to marry the county lord and return to Nancheng?" Although this tone is not bitter, it is almost the same, I know that I am like a thorn in her back to her, and in the past six months, she has also found the only way to deal with me.

I couldn't help but gasp.

"On the birthday of this palace, the monarch of Nancheng has asked people to bring a letter, and promised to come to congratulate the palace in person, and this palace will definitely be a good matchmaker for the county lord this time, and strive to let the county lord marry as a wife as soon as possible, so as not to be twenty-four or five years old and still wait for the word boudoir to cause gossip."

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