Jiang's Wu Fort, the main courtyard.

Because the young emperor confirmed that he would go south to pick up the queen mother, the officials in Qiantang asked the queen mother to settle in the palace countless times, waiting for His Majesty to enter the Qiantang Mansion to welcome the queen mother.

But Zhang Shaoguang didn't want to go anywhere. There are 3,000 cavalry camps in Wubao, her granddaughter, and her only cousin Zhang Nuo who can rely on now.

The subordinate officials of the East Palace are vacillating, the Jiangnan family is aggressive, and this high-ranking girl and queen mother who has been pampered all her life has suffered a lot during this time.

As she said, as the queen of the queen, she has sat to the extreme of what a woman can do, who is rare to be a queen mother?

It's just a "mourner".

"Queen Mother, how many gray hairs do you have, do you want to pull them out?" The girl who combed Zhang Shaoguang's hair asked softly.

Her female official didn't run out of the palace with her, and now all the girls are from the Jiang family, although they are also well-trained, but they still don't have their own personal helpers.

If it were her female officials, they would have pulled it out quietly, and they wouldn't tell her how many gray hairs she had grown.

"No need, the mourning family has had gray hair since childhood." Zhang shook his head. "I don't have to hide it carefully."

If the news of the birth of gray hair is spread in the palace, it is inevitable that there will be rumors that "the queen is too laborious" or "the red face is old", so even if a few gray hairs occasionally appear since childhood, they can only be carefully hidden.

Now that His Majesty has passed away, who will you look at with your red face?

The girl who combed her hair carefully combed the queen mother's hair bun, changed her into plain clothes, and began to do what she had to do every day - reciting Buddhist scriptures for the queen mother.

Zhang Shaoguang closed his eyes, ostensibly listening to Buddhist scriptures, but in fact thinking about what to do next.

Luoyang was destroyed, and her son moved the capital to Chang'an to guard the country for Da Chu. The Jiangnan clan used her and Jiangnan's support as a threat and asked the young emperor to go south to pick her up, including the shadow of Zhang Nuo, the Duke of the Jin Kingdom.

They won't let Ping'er go south for no reason, there should be some plan, otherwise they will send her directly to Beijing.

It is understandable that the Jiangnan clan asked Ping'er to go south, they have always been arrogant, even if they □□ to recover Jiangnan, they all visited them one by one in Wuzhou and told them.

Now that three dynasties have changed, these people are still this virtue.

But why does Zhang Nuo support this? If you consider the situation of Dachu and the safety of Ping'er, you should have quietly sent her back to Beijing with the Xiaoqi camp anyway. There is no major turmoil in the south, and the hand of the Yin Dynasty thief cannot reach here, so sending her back to Beijing is the easiest and most advantageous way.

No matter what she does, she just needs to take care of herself, take care of her granddaughter, and wait for her young son to pick her up.

With the tens of thousands of troops in Dachu, can't they pick up a few women and children?

"Queen Mother, Patriarch Jiang brought many ladies over." The wife of an official of the East Palace hurriedly entered the house to remind. Now that the female officials around the Queen Mother have not been brought out, the wives and young ladies of these subordinate officials have become first-class female officials, and they spontaneously accompany and protect the Queen Mother.

Zhang Shaoguang opened his eyes and stood up expressionlessly.

The one who should come must come, Jiang Daoqi has to be silent all the time, she is surprised.

Jiang Daoqi respectfully asked to see him at the door in accordance with etiquette, and Liu Shi, the wife of Fang Yude in the East Palace, came in as a female official to report, Zhang Shaoguang said that he could meet him, and several soldiers of the cavalry battalion at the door let Jiang Daoqi and his party into the house.

This main house was originally lived by Jiang Daoqi and his wife, and when Zhang Shaoguang arrived in Jiangnan, Jiang Daoqi naturally gave up the main courtyard and lived in a distant place by himself. He was too clear about the pattern here, and immediately led a few girls into the house and bowed to Zhang Shaoguang.

The girls brought by Jiang Daoqi were all about ten years old, and the eldest looked to be only eleven or twelve years old, and they didn't grow in size.

But these girls are all good-looking, and they have a weak willow posture that is rare in the north, with picturesque eyebrows, fair skin, and indescribable touching, which makes people feel pitiful.

Zhang Shaoguang has been the queen for more than ten years, although he has been imprisoned for a while, his power is still undiminished. She looked at the girls with scrutinizing eyes, and turned her head slightly to Jiang Daoqi to inquire.

"The Empress Dowager Qi, these young ladies are all behind the Jiangnan Gaomen, the red clothes are Tao Wei Niang, the white clothes are Xiao Qian Niang, the green clothes are Zhu's Qi Niang, and the yellow shirt is Gu's Jiu Niang. Considering that the Queen Mother has no female officials to serve her closely, it will inevitably be lonely when His Majesty comes to welcome you back to Beijing, so we chose the daughter of the family to be your companion. ”

"The mourning family has the wife of a subordinate official as a companion, and they do not feel lonely."

"Although the Queen Mother is generous and generous, if Your Majesty blames us for not fulfilling the friendship of landlords, it will be our sin. If the Queen Mother is not satisfied with the ladies behind her, she can gather several big families in the south to continue to send suitable ladies to the Queen Mother for selection. ”

Behind Jiang Daoqi, several famous ladies fell to the ground, waiting for the queen mother's choice without saying a word.

The daughters of the Zhu and Gu families, Xingqi and Xingjiu, did not reveal their names before the Queen Mother accepted them. Obviously, he still wants to maintain the style of the clan and the girl's name, and he doesn't want to show that he is in a hurry to cling.

But it was already a request for the families to send their young daughters to her.

For hundreds of years, it was indeed customary for the Queen Mother to adopt the orphans of loyal ministers or to accept girls from dignitaries as female officials.

The official position of these female officials was generally to show favor to their subordinates, and some female officials would give young handsome men as wives when they reached the age of adulthood, which was regarded as a reward for their parents; Some female officials were given directly to the king's side to take care of the Son of Heaven's daily life instead of the queen mother.

The latter is generally respected by the people in the middle palace of the Heavenly Palace, and they dare not have the slightest slackness. Most of the time, it is a step to the sky, and because of the close service, there is a place.

Concubine Liu Xian, who was next to the first emperor Chu Rui, was such a concubine, she entered the palace to accompany the queen mother at that time, entered the Zichen Palace as a female historian to serve, and then gave birth to the second prince and was promoted to the imperial concubine.

Because the Chu family was born in Jingnan, and Chu Rui's mother was born in Jinyang, most of Chu Rui's harem were the daughters of the Guanzhong family, and the family in Jiangnan was reluctant to marry their daughters into the palace at first, and then they couldn't marry if they wanted to. In addition to □□ in the palace, there was a concubine Sun who was born in Jiangnan, and there were almost no Jiangnan women in high positions.

In order to balance this imbalance between the northern and southern clans, and also to get the support of the southern clans led by the Jiang family, the crown prince Chu Chengxuan appointed Jiang Qingling, the daughter of the Jiang family, as the crown princess, and the southern clan will also have a future queen, which is the best appeasement for the southern clans.

Because the Jiang family is an absolute leader in a strong position, these southern high-ranking families have no intention of rushing to send their daughters to the East Palace to block the Jiang family. After all, if the crown princess has no concubine and gives other women a lead, it will be a slap in the face.

Now Jiang Daoqi's daughter gave birth to a baby girl, and it is a felony for Jiang Daoqi to change his own baby boy to confuse the royal bloodline. These family members and the Jiang family are both allies and competitors, and it is normal for them to want to create another "queen".

It's just that none of the southern clans can send their daughters in the concubines like the Jiang family alone, so no one in the family can convince anyone to represent the entire southern clan.

The final result is that the most powerful families sent away their daughters, and their purpose is obvious.

Isn't this young young emperor still married?

A sneer appeared at the corner of Zhang Shaoguang's mouth, looking at a few girls kneeling on the ground, and faintly:

"Get up, and let the mourners see you."

The Jiang family is indeed ambitious, but Jiang Qingling, a child, has chosen very well. When her hard-working eldest son was alive, he and the Jiang family's daughter Qin Se reconciled, which can be called the interpretation of the flower, which relieved a lot of worries for the prince; In order not to confuse the royal blood, he did not hesitate to turn his back on the family and rebel against his father, and his character is also excellent.

It's a pity that there are no blessings.

No matter how ambitious the Jiang family is, the tutor is still excellent, otherwise they would not have raised such an excellent daughter, who can endure, have scheming, and decisiveness. The Jiang family is now in the hands of their daughter, and they have no loss at all.

However, the Tao family and the Xiao family are all rich and wealthy in the southern family, and there are not many famous people, the Zhu family is arrogant, and the Gu family has just improved a little, but it is just a big name, and no one can match the Jiang family.

The Jiang family can only plot for the crown princess's concubine, and these people will step up to the sky and think about the throne next to the Son of Heaven.

Zhang Shaoguang is not stupid, and knows what her youngest son will get if he wins the support of the Southern Clan. Money, food, people, acceptance of displaced people from the north, and a stable political situation in the rear......

That's why they're so confident.

She couldn't afford not to take it, but she didn't want to take it so easily.

Zhang Shaoguang looked at the four ladies, and couldn't refute in his heart that these four girls were all beautiful embryos, and they would grow into stunning ones in a few years. But the Zhu family's eyes were unwilling, the Gu family's eyes were a little cowardly, and Tao Xiao's second daughter was eager, but she could plan something.

So Zhang Shaoguang pointed to the daughter of the Zhu family, and said in her expectant eyes: "This little lady of the Zhu family is good-looking and outstanding, so she can stay." ”

The light in the eyes of the daughter of the Zhu family gradually went out, and she leaned over quietly to thank her.

Zhang Shaoguang pointed to the Gu family's daughter again. "The Gu family has been a big family for hundreds of years, and it is famous and can be a female sage. Gu's Jiuniang is gentle and lovely, and the mourning family loves her very much, so she will stay as a companion. ”

The Gu family's Jiuniang is indeed gentle, and she lost her mother since she was a child, she was raised by her stepmother, and she has always been obedient and accustomed to it.

Tao and Xiao looked at Zhang Shaoguang expectantly. They are more beautiful than Gu Nu and Zhu Nu, and their family backgrounds are better than those of the two families, but the Queen Mother looked at them and said:

"These two little ladies are too beautiful, it's a pity to be the companion of the mourning family, they should stay in the south of this beautiful place with a good person. If you really want to send it, you don't have to be so outstanding, but it makes the mourning family feel guilty. ”

The two little girls saw that the two old friends who were not as good as them on weekdays were left behind, but they were driven back, and their faces were not good at that time. Jiang Daoqi on the side knew at a glance why the Queen Mother didn't keep them, and he didn't say much at the moment, and he was about to leave after taking the two children.

Zhang Shaoguang looked at Jiang Daoqi and knew that his decision to exchange a baby boy for a baby girl was exposed, and he was afraid that he would not please both the clan and the subordinate officials of the East Palace. She knows that his cousin's name is "Nuo", and he has paid the most attention to commitment since he was a child, and the more he is betrayed by his own people, the more intolerable he is. The patriarch of the Jiang clan and her cousin are brothers-in-law and allies for many years, but they were taken hostage to Jiangnan, and they must have cut off their robes and broken their righteousness.

Seeing that the Duke of Jin Guogong was in control of the situation, and Ping'er welcomed him personally, and when he returned to the court in the future, he was also the minister of Tuogu, and Jiang Daoqi's situation of losing all the games in one move was even more embarrassing.

Such a person is cornered, and it is the most terrifying.

Her heart moved slightly, and Jiang Daoqi said:

"I heard that your own brother, Hubu Shangshu Jiang Daoyi, has a daughter, who looks beautiful and is ten years old?"

Jiang Daoqi led these four ladies to meet the Queen Mother, naturally because both parties had already determined the candidates, and the Duke of Jin and the Southern Family had reached some kind of agreement, and they were also sure that the Queen Mother would definitely compromise.

The Jiang family, as the largest family in the south, did not have a girl led into the main courtyard, which in a certain sense has already expressed the attitude of the two parties towards Jiang Daoqi.

But now the Queen Mother's words have raised a glimmer of hope for Jiang Daoqi.

"I don't know, what does the Queen Mother mean?"

He paused and bowed to ask.

Seeing Jiang Daoqi's expression, Zhang Shaoguang knew that he had made the right bet.

"Patriarch Jiang, you and I are considered sons and daughters, and getting to such a point can be regarded as making people worse. You have a loss of virtue, and you have the court to judge your sins, but your daughter is very well educated, and the mourning family has no prejudice against the Jiang family. Jiang Qingling is so good, thinking that her cousin should not be inferior. If Jiang Daoyi is willing to let his daughter come over to accompany the mourning family, the next time you come, you will also bring her over. ”

This is a promise not to offend the children of the Jiang family.

Jiang Daoqi stood in place, something flashed and flashed in his eyes, as if he didn't believe that this queen mother would show forgiveness to him so easily.

If the crown prince does not force the palace, the first emperor will not fall, and a series of subsequent things will not happen. It can be said that he and the Duke of Jin were the initiators of the death of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and he chose to change the baby in order to let the Jiang family gain monstrous power. All this is unforgivable in his own opinion, and the Queen Mother shows a friendly attitude?

Could it be that Zhang Shao patronized the overall situation to such a point, and even could endure this kind of thing?

The young emperor welcomed back such a queen mother, and the future is even more limitless.

Jiang Daoqi only weighed the pros and cons slightly, and immediately knelt down to thank him.

"I thanked the Empress Dowager for her grace. Next time I come, my niece will definitely thank the Queen Mother for her great kindness. ”

"Thank you don't have to, the mourning family will tell Jin Guogong about this matter, you better go back and ask your niece if she is willing." If she doesn't want to, the mourning family is not reluctant. ”

"The Queen Mother is kind, and the Jiang family is grateful."

Zhang Shaoguang gave Jiang Daoqi a glimmer of hope, and the risk of this hope was too small, and the benefits were too great, so that the balance in Jiang Daoqi's heart couldn't help but start to shake again.

Out of the door, Jiang Daoqi turned his head to look at the two depressed girls behind him, and couldn't help but feel proud in his heart.

Where to look at the appearance and personality of the in-law relationship, it is nothing more than family background and background.

Although he is now defeated, the future of a family does not depend on how they enjoy victory, but on how they endure defeat and continue to stand up. Now that the opportunity has come, even if there is little hope, he will give it a try.

As long as his Jiang family is still there, he will always climb to the top, so why bother to make any deal with the thieves who collude with the Hu people!

"Yin Siqi, I'm sorry, I have to take you as a gift for my niece."

Pengcheng, the palace where the young emperor lived.

The young emperor went south to greet the queen mother, and naturally there were local officials all the way to build a palace in advance at the foothold. Because the young emperor decreed that extravagance and waste were not allowed, and that no other palace should be built, it was generally the local nobles or clans who temporarily let their mansions be renovated, emptied of everyone, and let the palace guards and palace people be stationed, and then invited the emperor to station.

The two most famous local clans in Pengcheng are the Liu family and the Wei family. Chu Chengping and his relatives lived in the Wei family.

There was a large lake in Webster's mansion, and the water of the lake was living water, and the Praetorian Guards were worried that someone would sneak into the source of the living water, so they stationed many Janissaries and Janissary warriors on both sides of the lake to prevent the Assassins from mixing up with the palace.

At this time, Gu Qing and her two children, Qinqin Pingping, were playing by this lake and looking at the scenery.

If there's one thing that's boring about rushing, it's that you can't just get out of the car. When you sit down one day, even the most comfortable car will have a sore back. The feet are even more earnest to call the earth.

As soon as they arrived in Pengcheng, the two children first received the local officials and squires De Lao, and then dealt with some of the twists and turns sent by the court, and finally had a little leisure, and after asking Taifu Qi to be in the way, they couldn't wait to play in this house.

Li Rui and Li Jun led the warriors and the Praetorian Guards to follow the young emperor and his sister all the way, according to the agreement, as long as they were exposed to people, Li Mei wore the crown of the emperor's clothes, and Chu Chengping followed in the clothes of ordinary palace maids.

In order not to make the emperor too conspicuous, Li Mei also had a few little palace maids and eunuchs who were serving beside Chu Chengping, these children were all smart children who didn't see it even when they saw it, and they only cared about walking with their heads down, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads more.

When he arrived at the lake, Gu Qing cheered, pointing to the painting boat and going down to the lake to play.

Now the autumn is crisp and the weather is exceptionally sunny, which is the best time to sail on the lake. Li Mei and Chu Chengping were also tickled by Gu Qing's shouting, so they proposed the idea of going boating in the lake.

There is only one painting boat of the Wei family, and the rest are small boats. Li Rui was worried about the safety of his two children, so he hesitated.

Li Jun looked at the painting boat, and his face was also embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, if you want to get on the ship, you have to recruit more elites of the Praetorian Guard to protect you." Li Jun frowned, "The people don't get on the boat." ”

"Why?" Li Mei asked in Chu Chengping's tone.

"The people worship fire and believe that the great water will extinguish the flame of light, and it is taboo for them to sail on the water." Li Jun then added, "Moreover, they are a nomadic people, they are not good at boating, they can't swim in the water a few times in their lives, and they know even less about water, so they can't move freely when they get on the boat." ”

"That's why we don't choose the waterway to the south, because the Karma don't get on the boat, do they?" Li Mei drew inferences from the others, and immediately remembered why he abandoned the smooth and fast waterway instead of taking the land route.

"Not really." Chu Chengping, who was on the side, shook his head and said loudly: "Because our troops are all cavalry, they can't walk by water." ”

Li Mei stuck out her tongue, feeling that she was so stupid.

"Since Your Majesty is interested in boating on the lake, then the minister will arrange it. Your Majesty, please go to the pavilion by the lake to rest for a while, and then send someone to pick you up when the arrangements are made here. ”

The lake pavilion is built on the high ground of the lake, which is afraid that the lake will be flooded after the lake level is raised, and the scenery is also good. It's just that this path has been built into a blue brick path in order to pursue artistic conception, and the road surface is not wide. It rained yesterday and the day before yesterday, so they stayed in Pengcheng, and now the water on the green bricks has not dried out, so it is inevitable that it will be a little slippery.

Gu Qing is A Piao, and it takes no effort to go up. Li Jun and the warriors behind him carefully escorted Li Mei, as well as the young emperor in women's clothes, and walked towards the lake pavilion on the top of the hill.

Skirts are always more inconvenient than pants, although Chu Chengping doesn't feel any humiliation in wearing women's clothes, but when the road is difficult, it is inevitable that it will be a little awkward, and his pace will slow down.

A man wearing ring lock armor carefully guarded Li Mei's side. However, Li Mei walked on top of the green bricks, and this man could only step on the moss-covered sloping dirt road. The people were accustomed to walking on the grassland, where could they get used to such a road, and they were wearing heavy armor, and after a while, the soles of their feet slipped and they fell down the slope.

The Janissary warriors and Praetorian Guards on duty around Li Mei were the most elite and fierce warriors, and most of them wore iron helmets or ring lock armor to show the strength of the guards.

No matter how short this mountain bag is, it is a few feet, and if it falls this time, this man will not live.

Li Mei saw that the situation was urgent, and he couldn't care about the "don't be reckless" that Taifu Qi repeatedly advised.

She stretched out her hand and grabbed the man in the horrified eyes of the crowd.

"Your Majesty let go!"

"He'll take you down too!"

"Go and catch Your Majesty!"

The frightened Karma and the Praetorian Guard's hearts were about to jump out. The Qianren are tall, these warriors are very stout, and with the strength of his fall, it is by no means something that a ten-year-old Han child with little arms and legs can pull.

Not even if he was an emperor.

However, Li Mei stretched out her hand and pulled back, not only successfully stopped the momentum of the falling of the man wearing ring lock armor, but also under her force, the big man who weighed hundreds of pounds was thrown to the bluestone ground in front of him in an arc and sent out

There was a muffled sound of "bang".

She threw a big man in the shape of a big man, and it was no different from throwing a pillow.

Gu Qing looked at the stunned expression of the whole city, and looked at the sky wordlessly.

God, the ancestors of the Li family are actually aliens, right?

It must be an alien!

The man who landed safely was actually thrown to the ground by skill, Li Mei learned martial arts with Mama Hua since he was a child, and it was just ordinary to lift weights lightly, so this man was not injured.

He thought that if he didn't die, he would lose half his life, but he was easily saved by the little emperor.

In the legend of the Karma people, those who are born with great divine power are all descended from the gods, and Li Rui used this to subdue many Karma people and make them obey his orders.

However, Da Chu, a ten-year-old child, also showed this terrifying strength, so it wasn't such a simple reason as "superb martial arts", right?

He shook his head and got up, immediately bowed down at Li Mei's feet, and finally shouted.

After a while, the warriors of the Qianren people knelt on the ground in an uproar, and the cries in their mouths became louder and louder, even alarming Li Rui, who was preparing to paint a boat at the foot of the hillside.

"What are they shouting?" Li Mei asked her cousin curiously.

Even after getting along for almost a month, Li Mei still can't understand these people.

"They are admiring the divine power of the 'Heavenly Khan'."

Li Jun smiled, so that his cousin didn't have to care.

The majesty of these men did not come suddenly.

The people are scattered, and before they come into contact with Da Chu, they have never been so condensed.

This time, they were invited to protect the emperor, they could get a lot of remuneration, and they could go to the south of the Central Plains to see for a long time, and the young and strong people in the clan were very happy to join this team one after another.

In addition, as soon as they came to Da Chu, they borrowed their suitable armor and weapons, and they looked indescribably mighty, and they were even more happy, and they didn't even want to take off the armor on their bodies when they slept at night.

A group of people who couldn't even afford to use an iron sword a few years ago, because they had a good life with Da Chu, and many people were reluctant to leave because they had made friends with Da Chu, and many people were reluctant to leave, and they were willing to stay and be driven by the Son of Heaven of Da Chu.

But when they came, they saw that the Son of Heaven was only a ten-year-old child, and he looked weak, so they dispelled their thoughts.

Nomads worship heroes, and the leader of a tribe can not be clever or wise, but he must be strong. For example, Suluk and Douling's father were the most outstanding warriors in the tribe, and they became leaders in their prime. Once a stronger warrior appears in the tribe, he must obediently give way to Xian.

Along the way, although these people kept their promises to protect the little emperor every step of the way, they did not respect him very much in their hearts. Even if the people of Great Chu knelt down and kowtowed along the way, the mountains shouted long live, and some people were even more excited and wept, these people didn't understand why the emperor of Great Chu was so small and so weak, I was afraid that he couldn't even lift his sword, but there were still so many people following.

For this, the people asked Li Jun, the most convincing Dachu official. Li Jun thought for a while and replied to them: "In a certain sense, he is the most powerful person in Dachu. As long as he is still here, there is hope for Da Chu, he can gather thousands of troops and horses as a child, can you be the leader of your tribe? ”

The people shook their heads and said no.

"The Han people do not decide to win or lose by strength."

"So what?"

It can't be compared to knowledge and appearance, right?

"Faith."

And now, people think that Li Jun is deceiving people.

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Nonsense.

Obviously, it depends on strength!

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

However, Da Chu, a ten-year-old child, also showed this terrifying strength, so it wasn't such a simple reason as "superb martial arts", right?

Li Rui: I haven't learned martial arts for a day......

Li Mei: I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and I am the one who is superb in martial arts......