Chapter 99: The Grasshopper Shakes the Tree

The 12th year of Yongan was an eventful year.

Not to mention all kinds of big and small things inside and outside the court, just the great drought in the northern grasslands gave the empress a headache.

This is a legacy of history.

Daliang Taizu was added to the yellow robe, and the Eastern Expedition to the Northern Expedition swept away the world's forces, and he was heroic, but at that time, there was also a great man in the northern grasslands, who unified the grassland and established a unified Northern Barbarian regime.

The name of Barbarian is extremely ironic.

A satire on Da Liang.

Daliang Taizu did not want to conquer the grassland, and once mobilized a large army to go out of the sixteen states of Yanyun, but he returned with a feather, and had to give up strategically, recuperate and wait for the opportunity.

After that war, the king of the steppe gave the name of the country and took the word barbarian among the barbarians.

Naked slap in the face Da Liang Taizu, when you went out to conquer the grassland, didn't you say that the group of fools on the northern grassland were barbaric, stupid, and ignorant and primitive, and the male master could take his ears lightly?

Then look at how I can be savage to you.

After the death of Taizu and the accession of Taizong to the throne, he intended to expand the territory, and after eradicating dissidents and consolidating the power of the court within three years, he let the privy envoy at that time lead an army of 200,000 to enter the Northern Barbarian regime.

However, the privy envoy could only talk on paper, and even chose to send troops to Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures after the autumn, and fought a protracted war until winter, when a heavy snow fell, the elite army of Daliang was suddenly stunned, and was defeated by the iron cavalry of the grassland, and the 200,000 army was almost wiped out.

Of course, that privy envoy was finally dealt with by His Majesty Taizong.

Since then, Da Liang has no spare strength to advance into the grassland.

On the contrary, the Northern Barbarians have repeatedly produced male masters, and then the situation has changed, and the Northern Barbarian male lords will come to the front yard of Daliang every three or five days to take a walk, and take some cattle, sheep, chickens and horses or something.

During the Huizong Dynasty, the Northern Barbarians were a Tianjiao figure, leading the Northern Barbarian army to the south, and the soldiers went all the way south to pass through the sixteen states of Yanyun and then rushed straight to Kaifeng, forcing the Zhao family to cross south to Lin'an during the Jianyan period, losing half of the country.

If it weren't for the birth of the Great Liang soldier God Yue Jingzhong, coupled with Renzong's abandonment of the ancestral system, and the great Liang's civil and military talents, it may have been dominated by the Northern Barbarians.

Over the years, the people of Daliang have long been accustomed to the barbarism of the Northern Barbarians.

The grassland is in great drought, and the possibility of invasion from the north to the south has greatly increased.

In the 12 years of Yong'an's court affairs, most of the focus was on strengthening the military defense of the north, and the household department, the military department, the three officials of the Privy Council, and the ordnance supervisor fully cooperated, and all war resources were tilted to the north in one go.

But even so, Her Majesty the Empress had a headache.

The central ministers or officials with a little foresight all know what our Empress Majesty has a headache - not the upcoming invasion of the north and the south, but now that the war resources are tilted to the north, the prince of the Yue family is like a tiger.

This is the itching of Da Liang.

Yue Jing is loyal to Yongzhen Kaifeng, and the Yue family is hereditary on the throne, which has become the henchman of the kings of the Great Liang Dynasty.

At the court meeting on this day, Her Majesty the Empress, who had a headache, had even more headaches.

Without him, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department said something: Liu Xiangyang, a hundred households in the 13th Xiwei Institute of Changling Mansion, left his post a few days ago, entered Xiangyang Mansion with a knife, and assassinated Xiangyang Mansion Tongju, and was later shot on the spot.

The empress said angrily, "You, Lord Shangshu, won't you do it!"

Shangshu of the Criminal Department was scolded and had no temper, and he felt uncomfortable in his heart, this Nima is easy for you, Liu Xiangyang is Xu Jizu's son-in-law, and there are many twists and turns in this matter.

The criminal department is in a dilemma, and everything will offend people.

Her Majesty the Empress looked at the elderly Shangshu of the Criminal Department with a-eating expression, after all, she was not too embarrassed by this old minister of the two dynasties, and said a word to let Dali Temple assist the Criminal Department.

The old minister of the two dynasties immediately thanked him.

The Criminal Department and Dali Temple co-organized, no matter what the inside story of this matter is, there is finally room for prevarication and maneuver.

The most important point is that Xu Mao, the secretary of Dali Temple, is the Xu family, His Majesty arranged it like this, and handed it over to Dali Temple to co-organize without taking into account the principle of avoiding suspicion, which can be regarded as a step down the Xu family, but the general sentence of the one who was killed seems to have a good family background.

It is a relative of the next room of the Tobe squire's house.

And...... Rich!

Because of the care of the household servant, in the early years, he got the salt seller along the Guangnan West Road, and became the richest man all the way after more than ten years.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Her Majesty the Empress rested for a while in the Vertical Arch Palace, and said to Jiang Zhaoyue, the envoy of the Fengwu Bureau: "Declare my will, Zhao Xin and Zhao Jin come to meet you." ”

Jiang Zhaoyue silently poured tea for the empress, and said softly: "Your Majesty, the two commanders are here early, I see that you are taking a rest, so I let the two adults wait outside." ”

The empress bows.

Outside the vertical arch hall, Zhao Xin and Zhao Jin, the two bigwigs of the North and South Zhenfu Division, lowered their voices, exchanged information with each other, and finally looked at each other with a dark belly and smiled, the Xu family was going to be unlucky.

It is estimated that after the case is over, no matter whether it is done well or not, Xu Mao, the secretary of Dali Temple, will be moved by His Majesty, and the Western Army sitting in Juzhou will control Xu Jizu, and it is not safe to hold the position of governor of Juzhou.

The mayfly shook the tree, and Liu Xiangyang really did it.

However, the two didn't think that the Xu family was done with it.

The ghost knows if Zhao Li, the king of the Qian, who is now fascinated by Xu Qiuge, will come to intervene.

This prince is still very powerful in the court.

Thinking about it, our iron-blooded prince Wang Kun is happy to see Zhao Li come to the rescue of the Xu family, after all, Her Majesty the Empress and Zhao Li are fighting to the death, and he has more room for operation from the Dragon Prince.

It's lively......

When Jiang Zhaoyue came out, Zhao Xin and Zhao Jin glanced at each other again, and they both saw the information in each other's eyes: You have to get the Xu family in Liuzhou ruthlessly!

As the two swords of Her Majesty the Empress, Zhao Xin and Zhao Jin know one thing, Her Majesty the Empress is not happy, and they are not much better.

The next day.

In the exquisite courtyard at the foot of the sunset mountain, the literati in black played black and white alone.

Wen Wan Qingyi sat next to her and read softly.

A young man walked in, dressed in a very decent Confucian shirt, with a jade pendant swaying around his waist, quite a bit of a scholarly atmosphere, and a smile on his face.

That smile made people look like a kick on his face, seeing the delicate red clothes of raising flowers, the young man copied his hands and said: "Red clothes, raising flowers is not interesting, why don't you be my princess, it is much more interesting than raising flowers, I think Mr. will also be very happy that you marry a good family." ”

The delicate red clothes didn't raise their heads, "Get out!" ”

The young man didn't think it was angry, and said with a smile: "Forget it, I don't like spicy food, I still like the gentleness and shyness of Tsing Yi, and the style is boundless." ”

Tsing Yi, who was reading to the black-clothed literati, raised his head and said sarcastically: "Doesn't Your Highness like mature women like married women, it's really flattering to fall in love with Tsing Yi." ”

After saying that, he smiled gently.

The young man seemed to have been pricked by a needle, "Don't, Tsing Yi, your smile like this makes people's hearts furious." ”

When this gentle woman laughed like this, it was basically nothing good, and the son of the Ministry of Works' squire family was cut off by her like this.

Tsing Yi smiled but did not speak.

In fact, I have a lot of affection for this young man.

Young man, Zhao Changyi, the king of Xian'an County.

came to the black-clothed literati, stared at the bun on his head, and was stunned for a long time before he said meaningfully: "Sir, where did you buy this wooden hairpin, it looks good." ”

Déjà vu.

The black-clothed literati's hand stiffened, his expression remained unchanged, and he looked at the left and right to say something else, "I just came out of Ouchi, and I was scolded by Your Majesty for being bloody?" ”

Zhao Changyi sat down with a wry smile, "I can't hide it from Mr." ”