Luoyang City.

Empress Dowager Deng, who is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, is sitting in Yunming Palace.

She had a white cloth on her forehead, and her brow was furrowed with sorrow on her face.

When Mother Deng came in, she saw this scene at a glance, and when she saw that her daughter was still holding on to the fold at this point, she couldn't help coughing and called: "The Queen Mother ......"

Hearing her mother's voice, Empress Dowager Deng raised her head, she threw down the brush, hurriedly walked to the hall to help her mother who was about to salute, and helped her sit down on one side of the couch, Empress Dowager Deng, whose eyes were bloodshot because she stayed up all night, said in a dumb voice: "Mother, why are you here?" ”

After Deng Mu glared at her, she said angrily: "If I don't come, won't I wait for you to toss me to death?" ”

At this time, she finally worried about her daughter again, and reached out to touch the emaciated Empress Dowager Deng, who was too haggard, and Mother Deng said pityingly: "You child, the world is too busy to finish, you still have to take care of your body." ”

Hearing her mother's words, Empress Dowager Deng smiled bitterly, she took the Runhou medicine handed over by the palace maid, took a small sip, and said in a dumb voice: "Mother, it is really a woman's family in charge of the government alone, and there are too many people staring inside and outside the court." Especially after Long'er died after only a year after he became emperor, rumors were everywhere in the court and the opposition, one by one, openly and secretly, saying that in order to monopolize the power of the court, I poisoned Liu Sheng, the eldest son of the first emperor, the king of the plains, and fabricated the legend that he had a chronic illness, and now in order to make way for You'er, who is related to me, I killed Long'er, who was only two years old......" Speaking of this, Empress Dowager Deng's voice became more and more hoarse. She was really troubled and resentful for too long, and couldn't help but confide in Mother Deng, "My daughter doesn't bother to pay attention to these rumors." But mother, you see, now even Yuzhou has an epidemic, and a whole county of people has died! When she heard the news and ordered the city gate to be closed and tens of thousands of people were left to fend for themselves, this heart was pinched. ”

She rubbed her brows wearily and muttered, "It was last night." The daughter also dreamed of the ancestor emperor. In their dreams, they accused their daughter Si Chen of messing up the court, so that the sky could not tolerate it, and they were frequently ill. ”

"That's all nonsense!" Mother Deng was angry and heartbroken. She shouted with a tiger face: "This is obviously Sui'er thinking too much." The epidemic thing. It's not just today, when the first emperor was there, didn't it also happen? ”

"It's happened. Not so often. When Empress Dowager Deng said this, tears even welled up in her bloodshot eyes, she looked up at the roof beams, and muttered: "The child really doesn't understand, I am so conscientious in governing the world, how can I still be so troubled?" Man-made disasters can still be understood, but how can natural disasters frequently befall the world? How can the demons do this to me? How could the heavens do this to me? ”

She closed her eyes and said bitterly, "Mother, do you know the truth? However, in a few years, in order to let the affected people survive as soon as possible, the child has exhausted the treasury! In my Han Dynasty, a hundred years of rivers and mountains, and the wealth accumulated by several generations of saints, were completely consumed by my daughter in just a few years! ”

As soon as Empress Dowager Deng's words came out, Rao is mother Deng's face also changed. She often interacted with courtiers and understood what it meant for the treasury to be empty! What is going on, the court has no power to fight back!

As soon as Empress Dowager Deng opened her eyes, she saw her mother's worried face, and couldn't help but regret it. Her mother was just an ordinary noblewoman, and knowing such a national event did not do her the slightest benefit, but made her trouble.

After repenting for a while, Empress Dowager Deng smiled and whispered: "But mother, you don't have to worry too much, although the treasury is empty, the child may not have no way to make money!" ”

Mother Deng's eyes widened, and she shouted softly in disbelief: "But this is not a matter of tens of thousands of taels of gold, this is an empty treasury, where do you get rich?" She didn't believe that Empress Dowager Deng had a way to make money. In Deng Mu's concept, since the past dynasties, wealth and the like have a fixed number, and the amount of taxes cannot be easily changed.

Thinking of paying taxes, Mother Deng became worried again, she frowned and admonished seriously: "Child, you don't want to add taxes, do you?" This is not a good thing, originally you were a woman in charge of the court, which attracted countless people to gossip, if you add more endowments to cause civil revolt, but a big disaster will happen! ”

When Empress Dowager Deng heard this, she couldn't help but chuckle, she stood up elegantly, picked up a fold from the table, shook it, and said slowly: "The way to make money is a child, and it has nothing to do with endowment, let alone touching the interests of any powerful person, attracting others to attack my Deng family." ”

She walked out gracefully, slowly and methodically opened the fold, presented it to Mother Deng, and let her look at it.

Deng Mu looked down suspiciously, and looked at it ten lines, and Deng Mu's eyes opened wider and wider, and opened more and more.

Hurriedly seeing the last line, Mother Deng laughed happily, the old woman, whose face was originally elongated because of worry, was several years younger at this moment.

Mother Deng was happy for a while, stood up and pressed her daughter's hand, and said with a smile: "You child, putting on such a worried look, it really shocked your mother!" ”

Blaming this, she asked with concern, "Did the messenger send it?" With such a large gold mine recovered, should you send some soldiers over? ”

Mother Deng was really happy, and said endlessly: "Speaking of which, this Liu family is really your lucky general, look, when she was Liu Baiyi, as soon as she arrived in Luoyang, she found a gold mine for Sui'er, and the gold mine was estimated to be so big at the beginning, how do you know that it is a rich mine when it is dug out." I didn't expect her to go to a barbarian land like Lingnan, and actually make such a gold mine. Sui'er, is it really as said in this recital, that the gold mine is so big that it can supply the treasury for twenty years? ”

Empress Dowager Deng smiled gracefully: "This is true. ”

"Good, good! That's great! Mother Deng clasped her palms together and said gratefully: "This is the opening of the sky's eyes, Sui'er, you are worried that you have no money, no, you have found such a big gold mine?" This is Sui'er, your blessing is monstrous. ”

Speaking of this in one breath, Deng Mu remembered the current situation, couldn't help frowning, and said worriedly: "Then Sui'er, did you send an envoy to Lingnan?" When was the woman going to bring the gold mine? She won't have any conditions, right? Alas, the woman was also a blessed woman. If you have to put forward conditions, Sui'er, you can give her some, but your brother's affairs, don't let go easily. ”

Mother Deng was talking endlessly here, but after the Empress Dowager Deng put the fold back, she paced in the hall.

Mother Deng realized it later, and after talking for a while, she found that her daughter's face was not good, and she frowned at the moment, and said unhappily: "What, does she dare or not?" This gold mine has always been nationalized! Besides. Isn't she always in a hurry to please you? You give her a little sweetness. Isn't she just rushing over to her? ”

The Empress Dowager Deng, who was pacing, slowly shook her head.

Seeing her groaning, Mother Deng hurriedly stopped speaking, she looked at her daughter worriedly, and thought: What else is there to say about this? Such a huge gold mine. Can you still let that woman control it?

Empress Dowager Deng paced slowly. Quietly pondering. After thinking for a while, she said in a deep voice, "The gold mine is going to be recovered, but there is a problem now. The mine said that it was outside the state of Fan, and without the woman to lead the way, the people of the court couldn't even touch a place. ”

After saying this most worrying question, Empress Dowager Deng said: "Besides, the Liu family, since she went to Lingnan, has become more and more bold, some people say that she has subdued the Baiyue clan, and can support tens of thousands of strong soldiers...... However, in just one or two years, the Liu family actually did what the predecessors couldn't do, speaking of which, I really looked down on her before! ”

When Mother Deng heard this, she flattened her mouth disdainfully, and said casually: "So what? Does she still have the courage to resist Sui'er? I think she just used this to raise her value, and wanted us to agree to her entry. ”

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Deng nodded and said, "I think so too. ”

As soon as she said this, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and in the blink of an eye, a eunuch said softly outside: "Empress Dowager, Lingnan is urgent." ”

Lingnan Urgent?

This is exactly what she was waiting for, and Empress Dowager Deng hurriedly shouted: "Send it quickly!" ”

"Yes!"

Turning her head to look at her mother, Empress Dowager Deng said: "I sent some people into Lingnan a while ago to let them find out about the current situation of the Liu family, and now there is news. ”

When Mother Deng heard this, she still didn't care, she took a sip of bird's nest and said, "You are too meticulous in your actions." What's there to investigate here? The woman was so desperate for Kuro that she drove her away. How long has it been? Does she still have the ability to change her mind? ”

Speaking of this, Mother Deng sighed lightly, but said fairly: "But Lingnan is notoriously miasma, that woman has the courage to go to such a place, and it is also commendable that she can find such a large gold mine for you." Hey, but she is too wild, too disobedient and doesn't understand the rules, otherwise it hurts. ”

Empress Dowager Deng did not speak, because at this moment, a sound of footsteps was coming from outside, and after a while, a eunuch presented her with the Lingnan news she most urgently needed.

After elegantly walking to a few cases, Empress Dowager Deng slowly unfolded the urgent report.

When the Empress Dowager Deng was flipping through it, Mother Deng also drank a bowl of bird's nest, and she raised her eyes to look at her daughter with concern.

I don't know how long it took, with a deep "bang", Empress Dowager Deng put down the urgent report heavily!

Her face had turned blue!

Mother Deng saw that her daughter was angry, but she couldn't figure it out, so she waited for Empress Dowager Deng to speak with a concerned face.

After Empress Dowager Deng took a deep breath, she rubbed her forehead with a headache, and then opened the emergency report and looked at it for a while, until the palace was silent, until Mother Deng waited longer and longer, and she began to feel bad in her heart, and she suppressed her anger and said in a deep voice: "That woman is perverse in Lingnan, and she is called the Queen of Baiyue by the locals!" ”

As soon as the words 'Queen Baiyue' came out, Mother Deng was also angry, and she asked angrily with a tiger face: "Queen Baiyue, what does this mean?" She is a woman, and she still dares to be the king? Isn't she afraid that Qing'er will never want her again? ”

Empress Dowager Deng was in a state of anger, she picked up a few paperweights and threw it to the ground, and there was a cracking sound at the 'horn', and after the eunuchs and palace maids outside the hall brushed and struck a chill, she blushed and whispered word by word: "Is it not just the queen?" She is still in the harem of Baiyue Guangna! It is said that all the Yi tribes can't wait to offer her beautiful men, and she is full of words in that place! If she doesn't like it, it is difficult for anyone to move an inch in the local area, and everywhere she goes, those barbarians are kneeling and worshipping! Those individuals are proud to be her guests! Although she calls herself a princess, everyone prefers to call her the king of Baiyue! ”

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