"Niangniang, the matter has been confirmed, and the Wang family stayed in His Majesty's study for an hour." Behind the vanity mirror, the palace maid whispered.

"It is said that a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as stealing, and stealing is not as good as stealing. There's some truth to that. Chai Erniang sneered. Li Jing was fortunate to be in the study, this matter itself is nothing, the key is that Li Jing also played his own banner afterwards, saying that he advised himself, which made Chai Erniang dissatisfied in his heart, and exempted 100,000 stone grain in one go. It's just that this pot has to be carried if you don't have to carry it, who made him the emperor?

"Mother." The palace maid stood there not knowing what to do.

"Forget it, let's go down! Don't tell anyone about it. Chai Erniang said coldly. It is taboo to inquire about the emperor's privacy, and if it is passed out to let people know, Chai Erniang will be even more unlucky.

"Yes." The palace maid's back is already wet, Chai Erniang has Li Jing's trust, naturally it has nothing to do with it, but she is a little palace maid, if she is known to others, she will definitely die.

Chai Erniang waved her hand, let the palace maid retreat, sat in front of the dressing mirror, looked at the face in the mirror, the years did not leave any traces on her face, it was still the same as the flower and moon appearance back then, but she felt that she was still a little older, maybe the women in the palace have been like this since ancient times. It's not just her husband who is facing her, but also other women.

"Greetings to Your Majesty." At this time, the voices of the palace maid and the chamberlain came outside, and Li Jing came. Chai Erniang suddenly returned to her original appearance, still smiling, as if nothing had happened.

"Your Majesty, why did you come to the concubine today?" Chai Erniang greeted her, beckoned the maid behind her and said, "Quick, go and get the lily lotus seed soup, it's hot this day!" ”

"Jiangnan is very hot at this time, this is natural, so hot that I don't want to move." Li Jing didn't know Chai Erniang's strange appearance, even if she knew, Li Jing wouldn't say anything, wasn't she just a Qin Hui woman? Li Jing controls the world, and between the world, what can be managed by himself, I am afraid that he is just more serious in front of Li Ying.

"Your Majesty, although it is a little hotter on our side, imagine those ordinary people, they are still working outside on this hot day! The concubines heard that in some places they couldn't even eat. Chai Erniang invited Li Jing to sit down, took a small fan herself, and personally fanned Li Jing on the side.

"Not really! The grain in various localities has already been distributed, and the local government is also organizing the people to build water conservancy. Li Jing sighed and said: "I don't want to give Zhao Gou a twist, so I will find an excuse to let Zhao Gou send the food quickly, and the imperial court can be regarded as a big loss of vitality this time." Even next year, I'm afraid I won't be able to fill the treasury and march south to the Zhao family. ”

"Your Majesty, wouldn't it be better to kill tens of thousands of troops directly into the territory of the Zhao Clan?" Chai Erniang heard that Li Jing was attacking Goryeo, and said with some hesitation. She believes that at this time, if the Zhao clan is conquered in the south and dominates the world, she can also get a lot of food.

"You can't be a hero if you steal your own food, you can only have a sense of accomplishment if you steal other people's things." Li Jing suddenly said unashamedly: "Jiangnan is not my territory now, I still don't care about grabbing some things from them, because that is the sin done by the Zhao family, but if I unify Jiangnan, even if I hollow out Jiangnan, I may not be able to grab much food, but I will also offend the people of Jiangnan, the hearts of the people of Jiangnan are not in me, I have offended, and it will be more difficult to deal with it in the future, it is better to hand it over to the Zhao family for the time being, anyway, it will fall into my hands sooner or later." ”

Li Jing shook his head, how much grain can there be in Jiangnan, although there is a lot, but most of it is in the hands of those gentry, how can it be handed over to himself? Only by letting the Zhao clan temporarily act as a villain, get more food from the other party, and let the Zhao clan plunder from the gentry, will not only weaken the power of the gentry, but also make the gentry and the Zhao family deviate from morality, and when they go south, they can get a lot, which is what Li Jing thinks in his heart.

And at this moment, far away in Bianjing, as Zhao Huan's envoy Xiangyang prefect Li Heng's life is not easy, I thought that I was just going through the motions, Zhao Huan has already negotiated with Li Jing, Li Jing himself is using Zhao Huan to deal with Zhao Gou, I believe that Zhao Huan will be merciful here, but things are not so simple.

As the envoy of the peace talks, a head of the household department received him, and he was still kind and pleasant at first, but when Cao Jing, the secretary of the household department, appeared, things changed.

"300,000 stone grain?" Li Heng's mouth was open, and he looked at Cao Jing deadly, although Jing Xiang had some inventory, but he wanted to take out 300,000 stone of grain, what will the soldiers eat in the future? Does this war still need to be fought?

"The news of Your Majesty's coming, Zhao Gou also gave 300,000 stone grain, Lord Li, Zhao Gou's request for 300,000 stone grain is to ask Your Majesty to move to Nanyang and even Xinye, what's the matter, where do you think Your Majesty should move?" Cao Jing put down the paperwork in his hand and said with a smile: "It is precisely because Your Majesty once had a relationship with Emperor Jing Kang that he agreed to 300,000 stones." ”

"Lord Cao, these 300,000 stones, the imperial court really doesn't have so much food, please check it out." Li Heng's face changed greatly, he didn't expect Zhao Gou to make such a big determination in order to deal with Xiangyang.

"The war between the two of you is a war of life and death for you, which originally had nothing to do with us, but you took Yue Fei in, hehe, everyone in the world knows that Yue Fei is the enemy of His Majesty, and you also took in His Majesty's enemy, how can Datang let you go? Looking for you to ask for 300,000 stone of grain, it is already extraordinarily Kane, but the generals such as Planter Dao and Wu Song always want to avenge Nanyang? Cao Jing listened to it and immediately said disdainfully: "Although my Datang has fallen into a drought, the background is still here, and it is still possible to use tens of thousands of troops, at that time, I don't know that Emperor Jing Kangdi may resist the tens of thousands of troops of the Seed Master Dao?" "This is already a blatant threat, but Li Heng has nothing to do.

"Yue Fei." Li Heng gritted his teeth in his heart, but what's the use of regretting it at this time? Without Yue Fei, you can't get the Yue family army, how can Zhao Huan re-ascend the throne?

Cao Jing glanced at Li Heng indifferently, so far, he has to agree if he agrees, and he has to agree if he doesn't agree. Zhao Huan didn't want to be killed by Zhao Gou, so he could only swallow the bitter fruit in front of him. In this situation in front of him, when Zhao Huan was let go, I am afraid no one thought of it.