Everyone's eyes lit up.

From the beginning of entering the main hall to the present, this is the first promise that everyone heard from the mouth of the Emperor of Cangguo.

A promise that makes people hopeful.

In four years, the edges and corners of everyone have already been smoothed, even if it is one ten-thousandth of hope, it is enough to make them excited, not to mention the personal statement of the Emperor of Cangguo.

It's a blessing from heaven.

Of course, there are vigilant people among them.

For example, the county lord Ji Qingyue.

As a county lord, she understands something deeper.

Emperor Cangguo is so interested in the identity of the princess, it must be that he is not untargeted, he just wants to hear the story, he either has a picture, or he just knows some inside story.

As for what the inside story is...... That's where she worries.

"Does Your Majesty want to listen to what you don't know, or do you want to listen to what you know and what you don't know?" Ji Anling asked.

"What do you think?"

Yang Mu glanced at her coldly, sneering in his heart.

This is a smart woman, and at this point, she is still testing herself, trying to avoid the important and light.

Do I seem to be a very good fool?

Smart women, Yang Mu has seen a lot, such as Miaoxi, such as Ruan Cairui, and even the queen who disdains to be clever, they are all very smart women, and Yang Mu has almost been hit several times.

However, this is the first time she has seen Ji Anling.

Four years ago, she didn't know about the situation of the Dali Dynasty and the Cangguo, and it was normal to make mistakes, but in the short period of time just now, she had already confronted herself several times.

From momentum to topic initiative, to the avoidance of sensitive issues, she doesn't look like a woman in her twenties at all, but like an experienced old fox who often deals with people.

If it weren't for her absolute advantage, she wouldn't be able to lead her by the nose today.

Knowing that his careful thinking had been seen through, Ji Anling was slightly disappointed, but he covered it up well and was not noticed, and said: "Since Your Majesty has sent someone to the Dahong Dynasty to investigate, there is no need for the foreign minister to say more unnecessary words." In fact, the status of the foreign minister in the Dahong Dynasty is not low, but the regent of this generation. ”

"What is the main duty of the Regent? Also, don't be a foreign minister, you are no longer a courtier of the Dahong Dynasty, and your current status is a wanted criminal. Yang Mu corrected it.

"Foreign minister...... No, the duty of the concubine is to assist the government. Before the Son of Heaven was sixteen years old, the concubines were in charge of the government, and the six auxiliary ministers were in charge until the Son of Heaven was sixteen years old, and the concubines would return the power. ”

"I see." Yang Mu nodded in his heart and said, "Since you are the regent emperor, you must also have a lot of real power, I don't know what other reasons are there besides the power brought by your identity, right?" ”

"Does Your Majesty want to ask, the Son of Heaven of the Dahong Dynasty?" Ji Anling replied.

Yang Mu smiled, it was easy to talk to smart people, she had just mentioned it, and she asked vaguely, so she asked herself.

It's easy.

"The Son of Heaven of the Dahong Dynasty was indeed brought out by the concubine at the beginning." Ji Anling paused and said: "When I came to the Dali Dynasty through the desert, I came here for cooperation and alliance, and I am so weak that I naturally need something to prove my identity, plus the Son of Heaven is young, and he has the appearance of a faint king, and the concubine is afraid that there will be traitors and bewitchers, so I will take the Son of Heaven with me." ”

"Tianzixi, where is it now?" Yang Mu looked at her and asked.

"In ...... The concubine is brave and dares to ask Your Majesty, if the Seal of the Son of Heaven is dedicated to Your Majesty, what can the concubine and others get? ”

"What do you get? Hahaha! Yang Mu suddenly smiled and said, "Do you think you still have the ability to bargain now?" Tianzixi is a scourge, why don't you hand it over to me Dacang and make a deal with the new emperor of the Dahong Dynasty? ”

Ji Anling was silent.

Yang Mu's words are indeed right, what can she do if she is killed by a knife?

"I, Da Cang, can also support you to be the enemy of that great emperor." Yang Mu said suddenly.

"Your Majesty means ......"

"You guessed right, the exchanges between countries are not simple friends and enemies, I can use this Son of Heaven Seal to win the favor of the Dahong Dynasty, but I can also stab me in the back." Yang Mu said.

Hearing this, Ji Anling didn't speak.

She roughly understood what Yang Mu meant, in Yang Mu's heart, her group of people was just chess pieces.

Moreover, it is a pawn that is ready to use.

Whether Cangguo will help them or not depends on the future strategic direction, and the only thing she can do is wait.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, when do you plan to give your concubine freedom?" Ji Anling asked.

"I won't give you freedom." Yang Mu sat on the dragon chair and said, "However, the rest can go." ”

"That ......"

"You two, let's enter the palace in the future."

Enter...... Entering the palace?

Suddenly, Ji Anling and Ji Qingyue raised their heads at the same time, with shocked expressions.

The so-called entering the palace is to become the concubine of Cangguo.

In a sense, after becoming a concubine, it is equivalent to losing freedom.

"No...... Cannot! An An, you can't promise! Zhang Zhan, who had been kneeling beside him, became excited and hurriedly shouted.

"Smack-"

This move, naturally, was a strong blow to the whip of the brocade guard, and the sound of the tinkling of iron chains resounded throughout the hall.

Yang Mu's face became very cold, and he asked jokingly, "Are you opposed?" ”

Zhang Zhan moved his lips, but in the end he didn't say anything.

During the period of his imprisonment, he had seen the horror of Jinyiwei's torture, perhaps because because of the confession of his superiors, no one had ever broken his hands or feet, or his body was disabled, and at most it was just some skin trauma.

Even the five or six women who were taken into custody together were not violated, although he later learned that the high-ranking members of the Jinyi Guard were all eunuchs, and the jailers who guarded them were also eunuchs in the Jinyi Guard, but this did not affect the jailers in his heart about these people.

Because, behind this seemingly light weight, those punishments that often don't seem very cruel are the most palpitating.

For example, in the past four years, he has not eaten a single piece of meat.

This is definitely not an exaggeration, but a special punishment for prisoners by Jinyiwei, and it is also a special way of training, and many people do not hesitate to give up their dignity for a piece of jerky.

"Concubine...... Yes, thank you, Your Majesty. Ji Anling knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Ji Qingyue hesitated and struggled slightly, and also knelt down to thank her.

Yang Mu was very satisfied and finally took the first step.

Long-distance close attack, according to the distance of the Dahong Dynasty, is it also a kind of long-distance crossing?

Wu State, Wei State...... Hehe.