Chapter 544: The Draft; treasure
Many people thought that King Meng would not stop there. Pen & Fun & Pavilion missed Liu Xingzhu www.biquge.info, but at least if you look for a few more beauties to send to the palace before the draft, it may not be impossible to get back to Yicheng.
Some people also lamented that the old emperor's heart was big, and the three kingdoms of Dacheng, Dayu, and Dayue used troops together on the Great Zhou, and the border was in chaos, and in the prosperous place of Kyoto, the emperor still had the mind to go to the draft, thinking about how many beauties to fill the harem with for his own pleasure.
What is even more surprising is that until now, there are a large number of people in the capital who do not know that Dacheng Dayu used troops against Da Zhou. Although there was also a war with the Great Moon Dynasty, because it had been fighting for some time, the Great Moon had never been able to take advantage, and in order not to cause chaos, the people were unanimously declared to be victorious, which made the people very numb to this matter and did not care much at all.
And how difficult this battle was, only the soldiers who were really fighting against Otsuki knew it.
The opponent's strength is not as strong as theirs, the armor is not as strong as theirs, the weapons are not as sharp as theirs, and they have not even been able to inflict too much damage on them, but, in the end, they still suffered heavy losses.
Although the other side killed more people, they also relied on their desperate charge to bury their nearly 200,000 troops, and these troops were enough to guard the borders of a small country, so that the other party did not dare to act rashly.
In addition, Dayu Dacheng consumed 200,000 of their troops in just a few days, and the loss of nearly 450,000 troops had never happened in the Great Zhou Dynasty for decades.
It may not be a good time to use people now, but once the war is over, the generals on the trilateral border will probably all be punished. Although this battle was inexplicable, the reason was also because their emperor molested the empress. can be a minister, even if he is unhappy, he has to hold it in his heart, and he can't say that the emperor is not.
But in fact, there have been many voices of dissatisfaction with the emperor in the army recently.
The border war was fierce, with many dead and wounded. Many people don't even know that there is a group of people who have paid for them not to become slaves of the country.
In the blink of an eye, because of the palace draft, Tiandu City began to be lively again. A wave of beauties were sent into the palace by officials from all over the country, and everyone understood that the emperor's harem would have many more women with outstanding appearances, and the newcomers laughed, but the old people could only force their faces to laugh.
Of course, there are also those innocent little girls who yearn for the luxurious life in the palace, and after actually entering this birdcage called the palace, they will face the cruelty they have never seen before.
And to quit, it's too late.
These hundreds of women, after layers of elimination, will only be left with ten people in the end, and the emperor will personally choose the ones he likes. There is no limit to the number, if there is a match for the eye, maybe ten can stay, if they don't like it, maybe everyone will be eliminated.
The eliminated women either go out of the palace and go home to marry normally, or stay in the palace to replace a group of elderly palace maids.
There will not be few people who choose to become palace maids every time, because they always have luck in their hearts, maybe one day they can meet the emperor and be favored by the emperor, and they will have the opportunity to be a mother.
In this palace, some people want to escape, and some people flock to it. But no matter how rotten it is, it is still being chased, like a moth to a fire, and one by one desperately burrowing into this flame.
The queen's face was unwavering, she was used to the bewitching sluts who appeared in the palace from time to time.
Da Zhou's harem is like this, since she married the emperor in her teens, she has become an old lady until now, fortunately, the palace sends beauties from all over the world from time to time, but the emperor does not change the queen to play on a whim.
But the queen also understands that she, the queen, is actually just an ornament, and the emperor doesn't have much love for her, marrying her and making her the queen, from beginning to end, just because the palace needs a queen to maintain the stability of the harem. And he also needs a wife to help her deal with those women who are no longer interested in the novelty after playing.
And the queen is not jealous, or there is no need to be jealous.
If it was in the past, now she is old, no matter how she takes care of herself, she has found all the ways to maintain her health, practiced martial arts, and has strong internal strength, but when she is old, she is old, even if she tries her best to delay this aging, but in the end she is not the cruelty of the years, she even knows that she does not have many years to live, and the position of the queen will be given to another woman sooner or later.
Holding the information of those show girls in his hand, the origins and experiences of each person in them are clearly recorded.
"Niangniang, in this year's draft, there are more beauties sent to the palace than in previous years, and there are a few people sent by the previous dynasty, and many families have already bought off the people who do the next thing, and they want to keep them until the end." The slave in front of him is the one who has been following the queen since entering the palace, and he was still young when he followed her, but now he is full of wrinkles.
This is the person she trusts the most, more than the emperor.
"It's not a question of the number of people, it's about the quality?" The queen didn't even raise her eyes, just sat on the chair and said, "No matter how many people there are, only ten people can be selected after all." Xiao Guizi, have you seen all these show girls with your own eyes? ”
"Mother, the minions have seen it with their own eyes." Xiao Guizi has always done things safely.
"But is there a great look?" The queen asked.
"There are a few. It's just that the servants pondered, with the emperor's preferences, the few sent by the previous dynasty may not have many opportunities. On the contrary, officials from all over the country sent them to the palace, but there were two outstanding ones. It's just that they can live to see the emperor...... I'll have to talk about that for another time. ”
Xiao Guizi has seen a lot of such things, and most of the best among the show girls will not survive to the end, unless you have enough means.
It is precisely because it is excellent that it attracts everyone's attention. Behind the dazzling, what a heart-wrenching plot to endure, only by experiencing it firsthand, can you know how terrifying it is.
It's just that whether they have the opportunity to feel terrifying or not is two words, so Xiao Guizi will sigh, and it can be regarded as a perfect interpretation in another sense.
"Did King Meng send someone?" The queen rubbed her brain, and suddenly remembered such a stubble. A few days ago, there was a lot of commotion in the capital, and the matter was reported to the palace. I heard that the people who were originally going to be sent to the palace by King Meng were robbed by King Yun and sent to the palace first.
That woman is also a means, and she is still being favored until now, and the emperor can't wait to tie it to her trouser belt every day, and she can't extricate herself from it.
Of course, she had heard the rumors, even if she didn't want to hear them, she should have noticed all the causes and consequences when she went to check the origin of Liu Xingzhu. Therefore, it is rumored that King Meng, who is not to be outdone, will never give up, and will definitely recruit more beauties to be sent to the palace before the draft, in the hope that they will replace Liu Xingzhu's position.
She also felt that it was very possible, after all, King Meng and King Yun had been fighting for decades, and no one would let anyone, and no one would yield to admit defeat, so it was not surprising that there would be such a-for-tat approach.
She doesn't have any preferences herself, and the hot candidates for the crown prince, whether it is King Yun or King Meng, are not her sons. She doesn't care, she just hopes that her son and grandson will be an idle prince in the future, and this idea has also communicated with King Yun and King Meng, so she doesn't care who takes the throne in the end, because it means nothing to her.
And by the time she can become the queen mother, she will probably be dead, and what do you care about all those things in life?
Xiao Guizi frowned, and seemed to be a little strange: "Niangniang, the slave checked everyone's origins, but he didn't find any show girls sent by Lord Meng......"
"No?" The queen is also strange. Such a good opportunity to stuff people into the palace in such a justifiable name has been missed, is King Meng so angry that he has forgotten about it?
But when she thought about it, she felt that something was wrong.
"Forget it, don't care about King Meng for now. Xiao Guizi, you first check all the show girls you think are good for this palace, and then carefully check their origins, if there is no problem, you can save the lives of these people, and make sure they become one of the last ten. For the rest, let the emperor choose for himself. The queen waved her hand, not bothering to look through the information of the women who had come in and wanted to replace her.
It's just that for a short time, she felt stuck again. The queen waved her hand and motioned for Xiao Guizi to step back, she was going to rest.
"Yes, mother, the slave will do it." Xiao Guizi accepted the order, and naturally completed the task given to him by his mother perfectly. It's just that he suddenly remembered something again, and said: "Niangniang, on the way here, the slave met Liu Guiren, Liu Guiren means that he wants to come to Niangniang in the afternoon to say goodbye, if Niangniang is tired, the slave will go on a run and tell Liu Guiren not to come." ”
When the queen heard that the favored Liu Xingzhu Liu nobleman was coming to greet her, she was curious about what she was going to do, guessing whether she was taking the initiative to show favor or coming to provoke, the queen was a little interested and said: "No need, just call her here." Bengong is also curious, what is the purpose of this high-profile Liu nobleman looking for Bengong. Bengong doesn't believe it, she's just here to ask for peace. ”
Xiao Guizi naturally took the order to retreat, and the queen fell into deep thought.
At this time, in the palace of King Meng, there was a huge flower in front of King Meng.
This flower is called the Overlord Flower because of how large its flowers are.
This flower is the one that Ye Xici once asked for with Xiao Yu. And it did not appear in Ye Xici's hands at this time, but in the Mengwang Mansion, which can be traced back to the rumors that suddenly spread about the overlord flower.
It is said that this flower is actually related to a certain treasure of Chen Guo back then.
At first, King Meng did not take this to heart.
There are so many rumors and gossip circulating in Beijing every year that it is impossible to confirm them one by one. Although the content is related to the treasure of Chen Guo, in the end, no one will go to the palace to steal this overlord flower because of a rumor about the treasure.
What's more, a flower is just a treasure, what treasure can be involved?
Chen Guonai is an old antique from 700 years ago, and how many years has this overlord flower lived? How can it be related to Chen Guo's affairs?
Therefore, from the beginning, King Meng did not take this rumor to heart. It wasn't until a few days ago that a man came to the house and talked to him for a long time, which made him interested in this matter.
The person who came claimed to be the prince of the Wind Country and wanted to cooperate with him to find clues to the treasure of the Chen Kingdom.
At first, he thought the other party was boring, but the other party swore by him, which made him a little suspicious. After repeated negotiations, the other party told the truth.
It turned out that this person was from the royal family of the Wind Country, and his mother's family was from the Chai family.
Chai Zhao, the ancestor of the Chai family, was the king of Dingbang in Chen State. Until the demise of the Chen State, his great name still occupied a supreme position in the hearts of the people of the Chen State.
Because, without Chai Zhao, there would be no feat of Chen Guo dominating the world. If it weren't for Chai Zhao leading Chen to destroy the Yue Kingdom first, and then unify the world, there would not be the glory of the Chen State.
However, after the fall of the Chen State, the Chai family disappeared.
It's not that it can't be found, it's just that the Chai family is divided into several branches and integrated into each country.
After the fall of the Chen State, the country was divided into many kingdoms again, and the Chai family no longer had any feats since then, and became an ordinary family that was wiped out by everyone.
It's not just this person who claims to be the prince of the Wind Country, but even Da Zhou also has a branch of the Chai family. And he is no stranger to this branch. His frost king's younger brother Xiao entered, and his mother's family was the Chai family.
Da Zhou Chai's family.
At this point, King Meng suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Some time ago, the people in Lucheng and the imperial court had a lot of trouble, and the situation has not calmed down until now.
I heard that many elders had died in Mu Wangfu, and this matter also reached the ears of my father, but my father didn't care about it, and he didn't send troops to support Mu Wangfu, but instead left everyone to fend for themselves.
However, compared to what happened to Mu Wangfu, his father obviously cared more about the disappearance of Uncle Ning Wang, and the brother of King Shuang also disappeared at the same time. But there is some corroborative evidence that Brother Frost doesn't seem to be really fully involved in those things, he left on his own one day, but it is unknown where he went.
He didn't care if the Frost King lived or died, so he just listened to some news. However, now there is a prince of the Fengguo who is the mother of the Chai family, and he swears that this overlord flower is indeed related to the whereabouts of a treasure of the Chen country, and those treasures are the king of Chen Dingbang and the ancestor of the Chai family, Chai Zhao, after destroying the Yue country, a part of the wealth of the Yue country collected by him was hidden in a certain place.
This is some of the things recorded by the Chai family, when Chai Zhao took refuge in Chen Guo in order to avenge Wen Yingzi, led the troops back to the Yue Kingdom, and destroyed the Yue Kingdom, after that, all the wealth of the Yue Kingdom belonged to Chai Zhao alone, and was taken to Wen Yingzi for burial.
The Chai family didn't get any of these treasures, but there was a brief record in the family, but the specific location of the treasure was not written, but it only left some clues.
And the prince of the Wind Country said that he had been tracking the whereabouts of this treasure for all these years, and finally determined the location. And this overlord flower is the clue.
However, the location of the treasure is in the territory of the Great Zhou, and he, a foreign prince, can't make a big move, so he came to find an ally to dig up the treasure together, and what he got afterwards can be half of one person.
When King Meng thought about it, he immediately wondered if his brother of the Frost King, who suddenly disappeared, could it be that he knew the whereabouts of the treasure, so he pretended to disappear, but in fact he went to dig up the treasure in advance?
After all, the mother of the Frost King was born in the Great Zhou Chai family.
There is such a record in the Chai family of the Wind Country, and the Chai family of the Great Zhou should have something similar, right? (To be continued.) )