Chapter 349: The Princess of the Wa Kingdom

According to the old lady's handwriting, the disaster of the Dingguo Mansion originated from a nursery rhyme.

This matter has to start from a year and a half before the rebellion of the Dingguo Mansion, when the Daliang Navy led by Liu Rui, the Duke of Dingguo, and the Japanese Naval Army fought a decisive battle at sea, the Japanese Army was defeated, the generals were captured alive, and the 50,000 Naval Army was almost wiped out, and only a small group of remnants fled back to the Japanese Kingdom desperately.

The lord of the Wa State was afraid that Daliang would take advantage of the victory to pursue, attack the Wa State itself, and surrender to Daliang to sue for peace. The first emperor appointed Qiu Zhijing, the father of the deceased Empress Yao and the brother of the current Empress Dowager, as the envoy of the peace talks, and rushed to the port of Dengzhou to negotiate with the envoys of the Japanese state.

This negotiation lasted for several months, and finally the two countries reached an agreement, the Wa State voluntarily as a subject state of the Great Liang, paid tribute to the Great Liang every year, and the Great Liang returned the generals and soldiers captured in the naval battle, and sent envoys to the Wa State to monitor the Japanese naval army. In order to show sincerity, the Wa Kingdom offered a princess to Daliang and relatives.

Who knew that the princess of the Wa Kingdom encountered a rare storm on the way to Daliang and his relatives, the fleet was scattered, almost all the escort ships capsized, and the main ship on which the princess was riding was nowhere to be found.

The naval forces of the two countries were ordered to search the sea for several months, but no trace of the princess of the Japanese kingdom was found. The lord of the Japanese kingdom only has such a sister who has not yet married, and the daughter is young, and he can't find a second choice with his relatives, so he can only give up on the matter of harmony, and the two countries are also suspicious.

Da Liang suspected that the Wa Kingdom had never thought of making peace from the beginning, and the disappearance of the princess was just a trick to prevaricate and deceive Da Liang; The Wa State suspected that the Great Liang had betrayed his treachery and attacked the Heqin fleet, but in turn accused them of not wanting to be Heqin.

Both countries are actively preparing for war, and the situation at sea has suddenly become tense.

This year coincided with a major drought in Shandong, Hebei and Henan. Food prices have skyrocketed, and from time to time hungry people have robbed the rich households in the official warehouses. The first emperor successively sent several batches of disaster relief messengers, but they failed to solve the problem. In order to inspect the people's situation, he went out on patrol in micro-service, traveled to the border of Shandong, and went to Dengzhou Mansion on the way to see the situation of the water armament war.

Because he was out on patrol in a micro-service, he didn't want to alarm too many people, so he quietly lived in the Dingguo Mansion.

The eldest granddaughter of Dingguo Gong is named Baolan, and she has just passed away. Not yet married. Born with a dignified and elegant life. Knowledgeable and courteous, good at singing and dancing, extraordinary knowledge, and outstanding talent and appearance. The first emperor fell in love with her at first sight. So he revealed his tone to Dingguo Gong. intends to marry Liu Baolan. Continued to be posted.

If there is a queen in the family, it is a great glory and grace, how can it be reasonable to set the country? The people in the Dingguo Mansion who knew about this were all ecstatic. Liu Baolan herself was also very happy.

The Holy Chrysostom made a promise, and immediately after returning to the palace, he issued an order to marry, and no one thought about whether there would be any changes in this family business. Liu Baolan took it for granted that she was the woman of the first emperor, and with the acquiescence of her family, she went in and out with the first emperor, enjoying the scenery and playing during the day, and lingering at night.

There has never been an impermeable wall in the world, and the first emperor has not returned to the palace, and the news that he wants to continue to establish the eldest granddaughter of the Dingguo Mansion has reached the ears of some well-intentioned people.

Empress Yao died early, the back seat was vacant, and the harem concubines and the ministers of the former dynasty were all working hard in the back position. Among them, the most deliberate is Queen Yao's cousin, Concubine Yao Liang, who was the first of the four concubines at that time.

This concubine Yao Liang's cousin was once the queen, and her uncles and brothers were quite used in the court, and her style of acting was very flamboyant and domineering.

It's a pity that the first emperor's attitude towards her was always obscure, not pampered, nor cold. If she didn't mention the matter of the post-Li, he would go to her palace for two or three nights a month, and when he mentioned the post-Li, he would alienate her for a while, making her helpless and helpless.

She has been planning and calculating for many years but has not been able to do so, and at first heard that the first emperor wants to set up a yellow-haired girl who has not dried up as the queen, how can she not be anxious, and how can she not be angry? immediately contacted his father and brother, and asked them to hurry up before the first emperor returned to the palace no matter what, and wanted to prevent the first emperor from establishing the queen.

Involved in this matter, there are also enemies who obey the Yao family's words, that is, the mother's family of the current Queen Mother.

The Yao and Qiu families joined forces to find the shortcomings of the Dingguo Mansion in order to prevent Liu Baolan from entering the palace. Helplessly, the family style of the Dingguo Mansion is strict, and the military discipline of the naval army in charge is like a mountain, like an iron plate inside and out, not to mention gnawing, even a tooth mark can't be bitten.

When there is nothing to be done, a nursery rhyme catches their attention. The nursery rhyme was sung by a young boy of seven or eight years old, in the Japanese language.

At first, they thought that the little boy was a Japanese man, but after careful questioning, they learned that he was a native of Daliang, and that he had learned the song from others.

It turned out that the father of this little boy was a talented man who was hired to teach in a large family. He is the same age as the young master of that family, has a similar temper, and often plays together after class.

Seven or eight years old is the time when cats and dogs are suspicious, and there is nothing that they don't do when they go up trees and climb walls. While the two children were playing in the back garden, they stumbled upon a dog hole, and by drilling through this hole, they could sneak into the back garden next door.

There lived a very beautiful young lady next door, who used to sit in the pavilion and hum a tune they did not understand. Over and over again, over and over again, I listened to it a lot, and I learned it unconsciously.

There are actually Japanese people hidden in the city where the anti-Japanese heroes live, which is undoubtedly a big trick. Yao Qiu and his family followed the clues they got from the little boy and found a secluded house in Dengzhou City, and found that the person who lived there was actually the princess of the Wa Kingdom who was supposed to marry in Daliang, but was killed on the way and disappeared for a year.

After further investigation, it was found that it was none other than Liu Xusheng, the youngest son of Dingguo Gong, who rescued the princess of Wa Guo at sea, smuggled her back to Daliang, and hid her in this mansion.

Hearing this, Jian Ying has already understood that eight ~ nine points, harboring the princess of the Japanese kingdom, this is no longer a handle, but evidence of treason against the enemy. And the little boy who sang and leaked the whereabouts of the princess of the Japanese Kingdom, no need to ask, must be Zhou Shu's maternal grandfather.

"How did the Marquis of Taiyuan Mansion get involved?" She asked.

"When the Yao and Qiu families found out about this, they naturally wouldn't go to the first emperor to expose it in person, otherwise the first emperor would immediately think of the battle for the second throne. The temper of the old Taiyuan Marquis is the same as that of the current Taiyuan Marquis, and they are all a little too upright......"

Zhou Shu didn't say anything about the rest of the words, and Jian Ying also understood that the old Taiyuan Marquis was used by the Yao and Qiu families. With the princess of the Wa Kingdom as evidence, the Yao and Qiu families took advantage of this opportunity and their power in the court to do something from it, and the big hat of treason was properly fastened on the head of the Duke of Dingguo.

There is one more thing, she is quite puzzled, "Harboring the princess of the Japanese Kingdom, even if there is no collaborator and traitor, it is also a big crime to sabotage the peace talks between the two countries, Liu Xusheng, as a general of the navy, will not know how serious the consequences are, so why does he still do this?"

Don't tell me that he has an affair with the princess of the Wa Kingdom, unless his brain is gnawed by a shark, he will risk the lives of his whole family for a woman! ”

――(To be continued......)

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