At the end of the lunar month, a few days before the New Year's Pass, Sun Gan raised his arms and shouted in Wannian Township and lit a fire. And Sun Qian was not the only one who lit the fire in Jiangnan Province, and almost at the same time, dozens of townships and counties in Xiuzhou, Muzhou and other places had people inciting the displaced people to rise up.

These people did not rush into the towns and villages to loot and then scatter, but in a very short period of time, they gathered countless people who had been resentful for a long time, gathered in the countryside near Qingxi County, called themselves 'righteous army', distinguished the rank by turban, burned down houses along the way, plundered the children of gold silk, turned civilians with family property into displaced people, and forced them to join the rebel army.

Under the leadership of the rebels, the displaced people attacked the county towns and towns where all the guards at the city gate had withdrawn, went to the armory to get the ordnance that had been prepared long ago, and went to the granary to remove the piled up grain.

The city of Hangzhou, which is more than 200 miles away, does not seem to have received the news of the Muzhou uprising, and is still busy raising money, grain, and tribute to send to Chang'an, neither sending troops to suppress nor appease.

In the middle reaches of the Fen River, on the river near Taiyuan, the boat temporarily paused for supplies and then quietly left at night.

The wedding room on the second floor of the building boat is full of incense, the turtle head copper furnace is burned in the house, the wall is also pasted with the word "happy", and all kinds of gold utensils are also placed on the desk, covered with red cloth, and the decoration is very joyful.

The desk next to the window was lit with a dim light, and Xiao Qi, who was wearing a black tulle nightdress, sat quietly at the desk, looking at the letter that the Xiao family had just sent.

The letter was written by Xiao Ting, who had become the head of the Xiao family, Huainan was the gateway to the south of the Yangtze River, although it was far away from Muzhou, but the Xiao family had taken root in the south of the Yangtze River for thousands of years, and it was impossible not to receive half of the news.

Under Xiao Ting's description, there was a group of organized bandits in Muzhou, with more than 1,000 people, burning and looting everywhere, the government was slow to react and did not suppress it with all its might.

Xiao Qi read the letter carefully, was silent for a moment, and then shook his head.

With the information she got now, King Wu got the jade seal, and the next step must be to threaten Song Ji's throne. But trying to pull up hundreds of thousands of displaced people and the regular army of Dayue to resist head-on is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Since King Wu himself did not come forward, but let the Jianghu Liukou lead the people to revolt, it shows that King Wu did not want to use force moths to fight the fire. According to her calculations, she should want to sit back and watch the rebel army swell to an insignificant scale, and then use this to impeach Song Ji.

But the entire Jiangnan fell into civil strife, and it was difficult to pull down the king of a country, even if Song Ji couldn't end it, at most the crime was already known, and then sent heavy troops from northern Xinjiang to the south to quell the rebellion.

Therefore, it is not enough to worry about internal troubles, but also external troubles.

Xiao Qi stood up, opened the window, and looked north in the cold wind, her eyebrows furrowed.

Da Yue's biggest external trouble is the Northern Qi Dynasty. If the entire Jiangnan fell into civil strife, the northern Xinjiang lost the Qi army and entered the customs, half of Dayue's country would be directly gone, even if Song Ji was the hero of Wen Taowuluo's generation, he would not be able to take such a big crime, and he would become a faint monarch and tyrant pointed out by Qianfu on the spot.

The next thing is simple, it is not unhappened in history, all the princes contact the princes and generals, and work together to abolish the emperor and establish a new monarch, as long as more than half of the five surnames and the seven kings insist on deposing the emperor, even if Song Ji does not abdicate, he will become a real loner.

This method will inevitably drag the whole world into the quagmire of war, and the northern Xinjiang will be lost, and millions of people may be buried under the blade for this.

But whether the vassal king can do such a thing, Xiao Qi has no doubts, he will definitely be able to.

Those in power only consider their own interests, and the slightest kindness of a woman is the life of the whole clan.

Take Xiao Qi herself, she is now the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, Song Ji's move to cut the feudal domain is to drive the Xu family to extermination, even if there is no chance to do it in the present generation, decades later, a hundred years later, it is likely to kill her children and grandchildren, as long as this knife is raised, the two sides will fall into an infinite chain of suspicion, and they will never stop.

Xiao Qi knows very well that one day, the Xu family and the Song family can only live one, this day is only the difference between morning and evening, and they will not come, who is merciful, they all deserve to die. In order to continue the family, what about the chaos in the world, your Song family's world is gone, what does it have to do with me?

Although King Wu's surname is Song, since the division of Jiangnan, he has been two families with the Chang'an City clan, and the difference between him and King Su is not big, so it is not unusual to be able to make this kind of thing.

However, in the current situation, Xiao Qi does not need to consider which side to stand on. Because even if Song Ji abdicates, the dragon chair cannot fall on the head of King Su, whether it is King Wu as the emperor, or the King of Chu and the King of Wei, after taking the throne, what he thinks about is how to cut the Xu family's domain, this is the family affairs of the Song family, and it has nothing to do with the Xu family, and there is nothing wrong with watching them die.

Maybe you can wait until Chang'an City and the vassal kings of all walks of life are defeated, and let the Xiliang army come out to harvest?

Xiao Qi frowned and thought for a moment, but still shook his head, Chang'an City really can't withstand the pressure of the vassal kings and the Northern Qi, and it will definitely pull the Xiliang army out to quell the rebellion, how can it be possible to let the Xu family sit in the rear to recuperate......

counterinsurgency ......

Thinking of this, Xiao Qi squinted slightly, and her eyes flashed with light, as if she had thought of something very crucial......

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Knock Knock –

After a long time, there was a knock on the door of the marriage room, and it was opened without being summoned.

Xiao Xiang'er, who was dressed in a red nightdress, held a tray in her hand, closed the door with her shoulder a little lazily, and slowly walked to the desk.

Xiao Qi was rubbing her forehead that was a little painful, and when she saw her sister come in, she put away the paper on the table and smiled:

"Xiang'er, why did you come here? Itchy and can't sleep at night? ”

As a sister, they have shared the same bed and served Xu Buling together, and they are not yellow flower girls, so these girlfriends are naturally not too shy about secrets.

and Xu Buling have been separated for nearly two months, and Xiao Xiang'er, who has been accustomed to 'detoxification' and 'repayment', can imagine how she came over, and it feels more difficult to stay alone than in the palace, and she feels wrong to comfort herself with golden quail eggs, so she can only run to Xiao Qi's house in the middle of the night, and talk about some nonsense, so that her sister, who has been serious and calm since childhood, will supervise her not to make mistakes, lest Xu Buling come back and find that she can't help but use quail eggs, so as to make fun of her.

Xiao Qi has a keen mind since she was a child, and she can see her sister's thoughts, and she has made many jokes about it.

Xiao Xiang'er was originally more cheerful, and in the face of her sister's ridicule, she didn't care at all, and said:

"Yes, after all, Xu Buling and I have been used to it for more than a year. It's like you, it's only been a few times, and you haven't even tasted it, so naturally you're not greedy. ”

These words made Lu Hongluan ashamed to see people at most, the sisters were not good at stubble, Xiao Qi didn't care, and turned to look at the tray in Xiao Xiang'er's hand.

Inside the tray are razors, brushes, paints, etc., whose functions are unknown.

Xiao Qi stood up, sat down next to the carved soft couch, picked up the teacup and took a sip:

"What weird stuff are you doing?"

Xiao Xiang'er has liked strange and obscene skills since she was a child, and her handiwork is very good, and she has made a lot of messy things, and Xiao Qi naturally knows it as an older sister. However, these are ordinary objects, and there is nothing special about them.

Xiao Xiang'er's apricot eyes crooked with a little smile, put the tray on the small case, and then rubbed Xiao Qi's shoulder with her hand:

"Sister, I read miscellaneous books a few days ago, and I saw some more elegant painting methods, that is, painting on beauties, I'm very interested, you let me try it."

Xiao Qi was inexplicable, she thought about it carefully, and there were indeed allusions to the prodigal son using the body of a beautiful woman as a canvas in some wild history miscellaneous books. She frowned and said:

"What's there to try? You're not a man, people paint on beautiful women, and they don't paint. ”

Xiao Xiang'er raised her hand and pressed Xiao Qi's shoulder and pushed her upside down: "Alas, it's okay on the boat anyway, you just let me try, good sister~"

"Why don't you go find Hongluan? She's also a beauty, don't you have a good relationship with her? ”

"That vinegar jar, conservative and whatever, how can you promise me ......"

"Alas......"

Xiao Qi had no choice but to lie on the soft collapse and stretch out her arms:

"I'm really convinced of you, draw quickly, I still have to wash, it's been a few days."

Xiao Xiang'er's cheeks were as bright as hibiscus, and she hurriedly lifted her sister's legs, let her lie flat on the soft collapse, and then untied the ties of her nightdress.

Xiao Qi noticed that something was wrong, and raised her hand to hold down her skirt: "What are you doing?" ”

Xiao Xiang'er's eyes were quite serious, and she pulled her hand away: "I said that I painted on my body, your arms are so thin, you can't paint bamboo?" ”

“……”

Xiao Qi pursed her lips and agreed, anyway, she could wash it later, and she didn't twist it, so she lay down again.

It's just that after Xiao Xiang'er untied her nightdress and revealed her smooth skin, she didn't take the paintbrush, but picked up the razor and leaned under Xiao Qi's belly.

"Ahh

Seeing this, Xiao Qi turned over, held her sister's wrist, and was anxious and angry:

"Dead girl, are you crazy? What do you do with a razor? Murder of my own sister failed? ”

Xiao Xiang'er blinked her eyes like an apricot: "Aren't you painting, how do you draw ...... hair?"

"You—"

Xiao Qi's face turned red, and she was about to get up when she put her nightdress together: "You go back to sleep for me, I will come back in two days, you mess around and let him see it...... Phew—you two don't have a good thing. ”

Xiao Xiang'er saw that her sister resisted so badly, and she didn't insist, but said with a smile:

"Okay, okay, I'll throw away the razor and just draw, right? Please, I'll try ......"

With a little shame in her eyes, Xiao Qi snatched the razor, threw it into the box under the small case, glared at Xiao Xiang'er a few times, and then lay down again.

This time, Xiao Xiang'er was finally honest, took the paintbrush seriously, drew a pattern of flying phoenixes spreading its wings on Xiao Qi's body, and wrote 'Qiqi is the most well-behaved' five small characters, the position is self-explanatory.

After finishing the painting, Xiao Xiang'er showed a little cunning in her eyes, coughed lightly, put away the brush, and nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, very beautiful." Then he picked up the tray and walked out.

Xiao Qi looked down twice, feeling inexplicable, got up and closed her dress, and walked to the next bathing room:

"Not resting here?"

"No need, sister, you should rest early."

"Oh......"

Xiao Qi frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong, but Xiang'er's temperament has always been like this, and she can't say why.

Moments later......

In the foggy bathroom, Xiao Qi's slightly embarrassed reprimand:

"Xiang'er! You come over to me, why can't this thing be washed off? ”

"Oh, it'll fade in a few days."

"I'll be back in a few days! You...... Why didn't you say it earlier? ”

"Sister, you didn't ask, what can I do, I'm really sad about my sister~......"

"You! ……”