The towering towers stand in the morning light. Chenzhoumen was bustling early in the morning, and the smoke of Huainan could not affect the market of Tokyo too much. The entire city relied on trafficking in vegetables, meat, and supplies from the near and far villages, and merchants from all over the world came and went in Tokyo.

At this time, an old eunuch wearing a hat and a robe rode to the Chenzhou Gate, and when he came to the city gate, he could only dismount and wait for the crowd to pass through the city gate slowly, and there would be a lot of people in the morning. Inside and outside the gates stood two rows of soldiers in armor, and anyone they found suspicious was to be checked, while others were more troubled, and they could enter by paying taxes to the officials according to the type of goods they carried.

A person like the old eunuch Cao Tai, with white temples and no hair on his mouth, looks like a eunuch all over his body, and no soldier is willing to take care of a eunuch, and everyone pretends not to see it.

When the Empress's guard of honor returned to Tokyo a few days ago, the eunuch, who often walked around the Empress, did not see anyone along the way, and must have been sent to do something else. But as a eunuch in the palace, he won't be out for long, and he will definitely return to Tokyo soon.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Cao Tai suddenly heard someone shouting to him: "Father-in-law Cao." ”

Cao Tai turned his head to take a look, and saw that it was Jingniang and that little Taoist aunt Qingxu, who had seen it when he was in Chenzhou, and he was very familiar with Qingxu. He hurriedly led the horse over, and Jing Niang said again: "The queen's body has been getting better recently?" ”

"The miscellaneous family went to Shouzhou, so I rushed back to find out." Cao Tai looked kind.

Jing Niang didn't have too many words, and said directly: "Guo Duzhi asked me to take Qingxu and go to the palace with Gonggong Cao, and then show the queen." ”

"That's a good idea." Cao Tai said, but he pondered for a moment, looked left and right, and whispered, "If you have something you want to offer to the queen mother, you can give it to the miscellaneous family first...... When you enter the palace, you have to search your body, this is the rule. He also emphatically said, "Even if you are a minister who has made meritorious contributions for many generations, you have to search your body when you enter the outer hall, and you have to search for weapons, this kind of search is relatively simple; But if someone enters the inner hall, they search very carefully, for fear that people outside will bring poison into the palace. Miscellaneous families will not be searched, and several doors are guarded by miscellaneous people. ”

Cao Tai was such a smart and experienced old eunuch, he "happened" to meet him halfway when he came back, and they suddenly took the initiative to ask to see the queen. Cao Tai could figure it out with his toes, it wasn't that simple.

Unexpectedly, Jing Niang shook her head indifferently and said, "There is nothing." ”

Cao Tai didn't ask any more questions, and let them get on their horses and follow him north.

When it came to the north gate of the Great Inner Palace, sure enough, Jingniang and Qingxu were taken to a house by the eunuchs first, and then more than a dozen palace women came in to close the door, and pulled a curtain in the house, and one of the older said: "Take off all your clothes, and don't have a single one left." And the hairpin on his head, and all the ornaments on his body. ”

I saw Qingxu holding his hands on his chest, looking at the middle-aged palace woman who was talking very innocently and shyly.

But this pitiful expression did not impress the palace woman, and the palace man snorted coldly: "Don't pretend! I see a lot of show girls every year, I have seen all the ladies show me, they are all women to see what's great...... Your breasts are so small, Heisei is like that, you think I'll be interested in watching it? ”

Qingxu suddenly looked angry when he heard this.

The other people next to them had already begun to search for their baggage, and grabbed a large handful of yellow rune paper from the empty cloth bag, and the palace maid flipped through it casually, and it was full of ghostly talismans, and threw it aside. Another palace maid was holding Jing Niang's hairpin and looking carefully in the direction of the light to see if there was any mechanism.

…… After they were checked, Qingxu followed Jing Niang out sullenly. Seeing this, the eunuch Cao Tai had a relieved smile on his face.

A group of three people silently entered the Zide Hall from the back door, and there were several rooms outside the queen's bedroom, in which there were palace maids and eunuchs on duty, Cao Tai first asked Jing Niang and others to sit in a room and wait, and ran in to report.

Fu Shi was really lazily lying on her side reading a book, and there were a group of palace maids next to her, some of whom were fanning her fans, and some were gently hammering her legs and waist. Cao Tai stepped forward and knelt at her feet, and said respectfully: "Queen Mother, the slave family has returned from Huainan. ”

When Fu saw Cao Tai, he sat up, raised his hand and waved it gently, and the people around him hurriedly bent down and went out.

"Get up and speak."

"Slave Shane." Cao Tai lifted the hem of his robe, got up from the ground, bowed and said, "Jingniang and Qingxu have entered the palace." The slave family saw the official family, and then saw Wang Pu. ”

Cao Tai said something in a few words, paused first, and listened to the queen's question, and then continued: "The official family only let the queen's mother reward Guo Du with some property, and the official family said that Huainan needs good generals, and after the battle, he will recount the previous achievements...... The current situation in Huainan is that Shouzhou has not yet been captured, and Wang Shi (the army of the Zhou Dynasty) has cleared Liuguan and just occupied Chuzhou; Zhao Kuangyin, the capital of the palace, performed the best in these battles and won the appreciation of the officials.

First, Li Gu's forward department crossed the Huai River in Zhengyang, advanced to Shouzhou and defeated the southern ** who was out of the city; However, tens of thousands of reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty attacked Zhengyang, and Li Gu was afraid of being attacked by the enemy, so he retreated from Shouzhou to guard the pontoon bridge. Later, the official family thought that Li Guyi had delayed the fighter plane, and handed over the military power to Li Chongjin......"

Fu Shi raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard this, she remembered that when she was still on the way to Chenzhou, she heard that the official family used Li Gu as the striker, so she wanted to change her position to Li Chongjin; But he didn't say it for other reasons. Unexpectedly, the official family still re-entered with Li.

Cao Tai continued: "Zhengyang ** was defeated and more than 10,000 people died. Later, the official family thought that Shouzhou was going south, and ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the iron cavalry to attack Tushan, the stronghold of the ** water and land troops downstream; Zhao Kuangyin lured ** in the vortex mouth and broke ** 10,000 people.

After the victory of the vortex, the official family immediately ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the iron cavalry army south to attack Qingliu Pass, and the Southern Tang Dynasty guard Huang Fuhui led the army into Chuzhou City, and then went out of the city to fight, and was cut off the horse by Zhao Kuangyin alone, and was seriously injured, and Wang Shi took advantage of the situation to occupy Chuzhou. Zhao Kuangyin sealed the property in the city and handed it over to the officials. ”

Fu Shixin said: Brother Shao didn't seize any property after the fight, so he grabbed the captives and extorted them from Shu, and he did a very bad job; And Zhao Kuangyin grabbed it, but handed it over to the treasury intact. Compared with the two, it is really a superior judgment, and Zhao Kuangyin's ambition is definitely higher than that of Brother Shao...... However, she still prefers people like Brother Shao.

Cao Tai finished his report after a while, and he always picked the important words and said them concisely. But he stood there and didn't move. Fu Shi said again: "After a stick of incense, let Qingxu and others come in to see me." ”

"Whoa." Cao Tai bowed down and retreated.

Fu Shi propped his head with a powder fist and thought about it again. It can be determined in his heart: in the eyes of the officials, the generals who can fight are more important than anything else, and Li Chongjin can take charge of the military power of the enemy in front of him.

After a serious illness, Fu felt that he understood the emperor more clearly. Maybe a woman really has to look at a man completely without emotion in order to really understand him.

Sooner or later, the world will be unified, but no one can say how long this process will last. Fu Shi could feel that the emperor was in a hurry, he didn't want to leave such great achievements to later people, and wanted to do all the major things of Wenzhi and martial arts himself.

He was also very wise, discarded all prejudices, and did everything in order to ensure the combat strength of the Zhou army, in order to open up territory and annex the world. Everyone's future is based on whether they can fight and establish military exploits, and the emperor is giving his courtiers an accurate idea: as long as they can fight, everything is easy to say. Only in this way can the officers and men of the Zhou army be eager to fight and have high morale.

Therefore, Fu Shi pondered that Brother Shao said something that was not very decent last time in Chenzhou, but it didn't matter. As long as he can perform well on the battlefield of Huainan, as well as in the battle of Shu, then the emperor will not bother with him; Moreover, Shao Ge'er is a person who has made meritorious contributions in the Battle of Gaoping, if the official family thinks that he is a good general, everything is easy to say.

It didn't take long for two women, one tall and one short, to enter the palace. It is Jing Niang and Qingxu.

But Qingxu didn't come forward, he was left there far away, and Jing Niang walked up with a stack of yellow paper to meet him. Fu Shi looked at her with a smile, glanced at Qingxu who was left behind, and said, "Flat." ”

Jing Niang raised her head and glanced at Fu Shi. Fu Shi remained silent, and said in his heart: This woman is more courageous than a man.

Jing Niang looked at the many books piled up on the cabinet next to her, and Fu also had one in hand. She pointed to the pile of books and said, "Please allow the Queen." ”

Fu Shi felt that she was very strange, it was purely a feeling, and it was different from the behavior of other people when they saw the queen, at least there were no superfluous words. Fu Shi calmed down and looked at what she wanted to do, and nodded slightly.

Jing Niang took out a historical record from the pile of books, and then walked up to the queen, but put the book aside first. She pulled another piece out of the rune paper and pointed to the symbol drawn on it: "This is a ...... Two...... Three ......"

Fu Shi suddenly felt a little interesting, and nodded again.

Then Jing Niang pointed to one of them again: "From top to bottom, three counts." The first is the number of pages, the second is the number of lines, and the third is the number of words. After that, I looked through the book just now, found a word, and said, "Kun." ”

Fu Shi suddenly realized, and his eyes suddenly lit up slightly.

Jing Niang said again: "These ten symbols, why don't I write them down?" ”

Fu shook his head and said, "Remember." ”

At this time, Jing Niang was surprised, and couldn't help but say: "I just said it just now......" Fu Shi smiled: "Remember." In the palace, no one dared to let me speak a second time. ”

Jing Niang got closer and whispered: "Guo Duenvoy said, just in case, there is something important to play the queen in the future." In case of emergency, send Qingxu into the palace empress Neidan Tuna's method, in these yellow papers, if the third place is four numbers, this one is a report. ”

Fu asked, "Do you have a four-number piece of paper in your hand?" ”

Jing Niang shook her head: "No, today I was ordered to tell the queen this method." ”

Fu nodded, thought for a while and said, "On the second and sixteenth day of the first month of each month, Cao Tai will go to the East Market to buy some items for me. If 'he' had anything to say, he would send someone to Dongshi to find Cao Tai in the next two days. ”

Cao Tai went to buy things for the queen, which was actually a reward errand, because the things she bought back were usually at least several times more expensive, and she acquiesced.

"Void." Fu smiled again and beckoned to the little Dao Gu in the distance, and his love and pity were overflowing.