The emperor already had an intention in his heart, but he wanted to use it to test the minds of his courtiers.

In fact, there have been things about harmony since ancient times, that is, there were princesses who had relatives in the Great Cost Dynasty, although it was just when Dacheng had just opened the country and the foundation was still unstable, but when I heard such a thing, it was inevitable that people would feel disgusted.

Although it is only an expedient measure and a last resort, as an emperor, he knows best that he needs to exchange the happiness of his daughter's life for temporary stability, which is the incompetence of the emperor.

No matter what the reason was at that time, even if it was really a last resort, it was still incompetent.

The emperor already hated harmony, but it was just disgust.

If it really comes to the point where he has to use his relatives to maintain the stability of his family and country, even if he has a useless infamy, he doesn't mind giving it a try.

But Da Zhou can't.

At the beginning, the Great Yu Dynasty tried to maintain the relationship between allies with harmony, and he was a little repulsed in his heart, thinking about whether he could enhance the relationship between the two countries without having to be close, but he was stopped by Fang Xiaoyu and told him to take a good look at it before speaking.

Only then did he realize that his eighth daughter, the little guy who had fun causing trouble since she was a child, actually looked at the other party's eighth prince.

The impression that the eighth prince gave him was actually good. There is a strange free and easy air all over the body. This kind of aura is different from the disguised elegance, his free and easy breath, which comes out of his bones, is more similar to the people of the rivers and lakes, which makes him a little envious.

Since he was a child, he has been aiming for the throne, although he has unswervingly gone down this road without looking back, but once upon a time. As a man, how could he not have thought about the world of swords, the chic and heroic spirit of a poem, a sword and a wine? However, such a life can only exist in his imagination. Because he is the emperor, he is concerned about the safety and survival of the entire Dacheng, and the courage on his shoulders is as heavy as ten thousand catties.

He just dislikes and kisses, but if the two little guys look at each other correctly, he doesn't rule out marrying Xiaoba to Dayu. One is that the eight princes do not participate in the seizure of the heir, and as the princess, the little eight is also safe. Second, it can also maintain good relations between the two countries because of this, so why not?

Moreover, he also saw with his own eyes the pride of Emperor Fengtian for the Eight Princes. There is also the friendliness that the crown prince exudes to the eighth prince.

So, a reminder from Fang Xiaoyu made him change his mind. Even if Dayu still asks for harmony, he will not object.

But still the same sentence. Big Zhou can't.

In this world, any country has the opportunity to nod his head. But Da Zhou can't.

Even her daughter is in the right eye for someone in Da Zhou. He would rather beat the mandarin duck with a stick and be resented by his daughter for a lifetime. Da Zhou still can't do it!

What Da Zhou did, for an emperor, was a naked act of trampling on dignity.

The two countries are at war and do everything they can. He can understand this, after all, he is also the emperor of a country, and he always has the basic vision and heart.

However, before he was an emperor, he was still a man.

was played by his own pillow person. Give her a high position, give her a pampering. Rejoice that she gave birth to a son and daughter for him, and gave her and the child the best love, but in exchange for a grand conspiracy.

Especially Shucheng's child, he has loved him since he was a child, except for his high hopes for the prince, among all his sons, except for Xiao Sixteen, who is sick, he loves him the most.

But she poisoned him. Although he is his son, he is calculating for the conspiracy of the Great Zhou.

His heart ached.

When he was suspicious at first, he almost had the urge to uproot Zhou Xiangfu. The daughter and grandson are spies for other countries, how can the Zhou Prime Minister's mansion be washed up and down?

But he still has reason, so he is scrutinized. only to discover a shocking secret.

Just as Fang Xiaoyu suspected from the beginning, he was not a stupid person, he found that the timing of Zhou Xiang's loss of his concubine and the timing of Jian Zhengyan and his wife coming to Beijing were too coincidental. But if there was only this one suspicion, he wouldn't think about it deeply, but Zhou Ling suddenly appeared in the capital, was suddenly molested, was suddenly discovered by the housekeeper of Zhou Xiangfu, and suddenly returned to Zhou Xiangfu to recognize his relatives.

The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear.

From a bystander's point of view, there is something unusual behind this incident. And Zhou Xiang, who was in the bureau at the time, and his father didn't seem to notice that Jian Zhengyan was wrong.

He wanted to talk to Fang Xiaoyu. He realized that Fang Xiaoyu might know a lot of the inside story.

It was she who discovered the conspiracy of the Great Zhou in the northwest. She only said that there was a mole in this palace, but she did not mention the identity of the other party.

At that time, he didn't doubt him, thinking that Fang Xiaoyu really didn't know who the traitor was, but now it seems that this matter is related to Jian Zhengyan and his wife, and Jian An, as the daughter of Jian Zhengyan and his wife, will she really stay out of the matter?

The strangeness of Jian An's death, now it seems that the so-called fact that he was jealous and was killed by others is not tenable at all. And Xici's child has always been haunted by Jian An's death, and Fang Xiaoyu married Xici, so he wanted to investigate the matter.

Therefore, Jian An's death may be the opportunity for everything.

So, the day before the invasion of Beiyan by the Quicksand Country and the day before he sent Fang Jianzhang to go on a crusade, Fang Xiaoyu entered the palace and talked with him in the study for a few hours. He was finally able to sort out the cause and effect of this matter, but his heart became colder and colder.

Da Zhou is so calculating.

In other words, the Great Zhou people's calculation of playing around the bush is simply perfect. One ring after another, one ring after another, and one ring after another, interlocking with each other, they actually used such a bloodless way to play with one country after another.

But fortunately, he found out in advance. When you find it, you have time to prepare.

He really felt that Fang Xiaoyu might really be his lucky star, and it was the lucky star of Dacheng.

He had already made a decision in his heart, so there was today's palace banquet and the temptation at this moment.

The conspiracy of the Great Zhou, except for the people related to Fang Xiaoyu and him, the ministers did not know about it. But how many of these courtiers are also spies inserted by the Great Zhou, but he doesn't know.

Therefore, he wanted to test the meaning of these courtiers on this matter, and then further determine how to investigate these tumors.

"This matter seems to be just a request from Da Zhou. But in reality, the stakes are high. The emperor glanced vaguely at everyone, looked at everyone's expressions, and continued: "The Great Zhou is so rampant and domineering. Dare to threaten me, and force me to send my daughter thousands of miles to Da Zhou to be toyed with, in fact, it is too much deception! But it is also related to the security of the northwest, especially when the Northern Yan has already raised troops, if it starts a war with the Great Zhou, it will definitely consume too much national strength, and it will also give the rest of the surrounding small countries a chance to move. Everyone Aiqing thought. This pro, should it be with? Should this battle be fought? ”

"Your Majesty. The minister thought that Da Zhou was so aggressive, which was to ignore my Dacheng. If I beg for peace as a princess, it will only make Da Zhou despise me even more. So. The minister felt that this matter could not be done. ”

Fang Xiaoyu raised his eyes to look at the person who spoke. Unexpectedly, the first one to speak was Mei Cangyun, an old fox.

But what she had to admit was that at least Mei Cangyun saw the essence.

Take a step back today, and you will have to step back every step in the future. Once a person has a psychological hint that he can escape, no matter what he does in the future, one of his thoughts is to escape.

This is a catastrophe for one person, but it is even more so for a nation.

Mei Cangyun may be accustomed to using means, or she may have an enmity with her Zhenyuan General's Mansion, but it doesn't matter if he is sincere or false. Fang Xiaoyu still felt that what he said was very reasonable.

"What Mei Aiqing said is reasonable." The emperor pretended to be contemplative.

But at this time, someone spoke: "Your Majesty, what Prime Minister Mei said is not true. Harmony has existed since ancient times. If you can use this to delay the opportunity for the Great Zhou to invade the northwest, why not? Even if the Great Zhou and his relatives are not sincere, but at this time, the battle between Beiyan and the Quicksand Country is the main thing, and when Beiyan wins the battle, he will turn his hand to clean up the Great Zhou, why care about the temporary gains and losses? ”

"Lord Shang's words are bad. Although the honor and disgrace will not hurt the muscles and bones, it will make the world look down on me! is iron-clad, but he lives in fear, bending his knees under the obscenity of the Great Zhou, where to put the face of the family and the country? Where will your majesty's face go? ”

The one who said that he affirmed the matter of harmony was the Ministry of Shangshang Jingwei. And the person who refuted it was the crown prince and Fu Shangwenshan.

The prince and the prince naturally represent the face of the prince. The words of the crown prince and the prince are almost equivalent to the voice of the prince in the court.

It is not impossible to do things that are close to each other, but they cannot be forced to do it. Although the national strength of the Great Zhou is stronger than that of the Great Cheng, after all, the Great Cheng is not one of those small countries like weak startlings, and there is no need to look at the face of the Great Zhou.

This time, the quicksand country invaded Beiyan, which was already extraordinary. Everyone knows that the national strength and population of the Quicksand Country are all pulled to the battlefield except for the old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is no way to gather 500,000 troops to confront Northern Yancheng, which makes people suspect that there is a secret instigation from another country.

At this time, Da Zhou suddenly jumped out, threatening Beiyan with all his swords, and using the northwest land as a hostage, and dared to use this to blackmail the emperor and his relatives.

Affinity is not the goal. Da Zhou's move is basically a slap in the face of Da Cheng and the face of the emperor. He was nakedly mocking Da Cheng's weakness, but in fact, he was also creating some opportunities for Ye Shucheng and them.

Fang Xiaoyu quietly glanced at Ye Shucheng, who had been silent. Since the palace banquet, he hadn't even looked at himself, which was very unusual.

Fang Xiaoyu is naturally not so arrogant that she feels that her charm is unparalleled in the world, and all men must surrender to her feet. It's just that every time Ye Shucheng sees her, the eyes of hatred and disgust never leave her. If her gaze could be condensed into sword qi to kill, she would probably have been crushed by Ye Shucheng a long time ago.

But today, he didn't look at her. Just with a faint, just like the gentle smile that he disguises in front of people on weekdays, he calmly looks at the dispute between the ministers over the matter of peace, and seems to be interested?

The wine glass in Fang Xiaoyu's hand suddenly clenched. She suddenly remembered that half a year later, a horrific incident occurred in the capital.

Although this incident is a natural disaster, it has not been possible to explain why it happened.

And it was this incident that really kicked off the prelude to the continuous natural and man-made disasters.

Taking advantage of this unbelievable incident, Ye Shucheng successfully seized the opportunity to create chaos in various places, and spread rumors that the emperor was unkind and punished by heaven. And many of the people in the capital who really experienced that incident were convinced of this. Under the spread of each other, there were small actions that were ready to be moved in various places, and Ye Shucheng even threw money to quietly recruit troops in various places, under the banner of resisting Dacheng, raging everywhere, looting the people to collect more money, the purpose was not to rebel, but for the critical moment He stepped forward, and the rebels he fought were in panic all day long, so as to accumulate military merits and reputation.

Even under his internal and external cooperation, the so-called rebels actually appeared outside the gate of the capital. If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the eldest princess, I'm afraid the situation would have deteriorated further.

And in addition to these small actions, Ye Shucheng was not idle in the court. He instructed those chess pieces that were not placed on the surface to ask the emperor to issue an edict to give an explanation to the world, and also to appease the people.

At that time, the great inheritance was indeed full of natural and man-made disasters, and the emperor was not a god, so he naturally could not predict the coming of the disaster, so he could not prepare in advance, so that the people were miserable.

The emperor at that time also thought that Dacheng was simply cursed by God, and his belief in Buddhism became increasingly serious. The pressure of the court, the opposition of the people, the rebellious armies from all over the city, and the poison in his body, this made the emperor almost demonic, and finally indulged in Buddhism and could not extricate himself, and finally Ye Shucheng became a thing, not only did he die, but even the prince was not spared.

Fang Xiaoyu's impression of his previous life abruptly stopped in the emperor's decadence. She had never seen Ye Shucheng ascend to the throne and kill the crown prince. She didn't even see the unwillingness on the emperor's face when he was poisoned and died silently in the deep palace.

But she knew that in the next few years, in addition to the inevitable natural disasters, most of the human disasters that made the people suffer were from Ye Shucheng's hands.

And the opportunity for all this was the incredible natural disaster half a year later.

Fang Xiaoyu hesitated. Should the emperor be informed of this in advance? She was afraid that the emperor still had father-son affection for Ye Shucheng, and the woman's kindness would waste this great opportunity.

Fang Xiaoyu had other plans in her heart.

She plans to make good use of this natural disaster, and she may be able to get rid of Ye Shucheng.

So she silently pressed the plan to talk to the emperor and buried the matter in her heart.

She needed to make a good calculation. She needed to have a general plan for how to make the most of it.

And now is clearly not the time to think about that. Because these ministers are arguing about whether they should accept the threat of Da Zhou and send the princess and relatives. But as everyone knows, all their postures have fallen in the eyes of the emperor. (To be continued.) )