The feast had been prepared for nearly three hours, and in the evening, eight large tables had been set up in the courtyard of the palace, on which were filled with various delicacies, among which there was a table, and the portion of the plate was much more than the other tables, and this table was prepared for Meng Qi.

All the ministers of Hirata Kingdom attended the celebration banquet, and according to the previous rules, the female ministers and Meng Qi sat at the same table, and the rest of the ministers were at their own devices.

Before the banquet began, Meng Qi picked up his wine glass, looked around at the ministers, and said: "This celebration banquet is mainly to celebrate the royal family's successful defense against the local rebellion led by the former imperial historian Sun Qingchun. ”

When the words fell, everyone was extremely surprised, many of them were friends with Guo Da in private, but they didn't expect Guo Da's identity to be a traitor, and immediately several ministers had beads of sweat oozing from their foreheads, and even the wine glasses in their hands were unstable.

If the emperor thoroughly investigates the ministers who have personal relations with Guo Da, then many people will be involved.

One of the ministers was puzzled: "Your Majesty, you said before that Lord Guo was a witness to finding out the traitor, why did you become Lord Guo a traitor again at this moment?" ”

Meng Qi said with a smile: "I was bluffing you before, at that time I didn't get the evidence of Guo Da's crime, and now I have the evidence in my hands that Guo Da contacted and gathered various local forces and intended to rebel, as for the evidence of his collaboration with the enemy and treason, I haven't got it yet, but it should be soon." Meng Qi narrowed his eyes, looking like he was in his chest.

The ministers had different expressions.

Meng Qi continued: "Before, I secretly investigated many officials who had private dealings with Lord Guo, and preliminarily ruled out your suspicions. ”

Hearing this, many ministers wiped a cold sweat, even if they were not guilty of treason, but if Meng Qi suspected them and threw them into the prison of the Criminal Department, then the end would be more than lucky.

Qin Zhi swallowed unnaturally, she recalled that Meng Qi's visit to the Qin family that day was not a simple visit, but to investigate the Qin Mansion, and the little gardener answered Meng Qi's question wittily, which should have dispelled Meng Qi's suspicions about the Qin family.

Thinking of this, Qin Zhi couldn't help but secretly rejoice, at the same time, she was also thinking about how she should contact Qu Yuguo after Guo Da died, in the secret letter handed over by the little gardener that day, she did not explain the matters after Guo Da's death, it seems that when Guo Da wrote the letter, he didn't expect that he would be controlled by Meng Qi when he turned around, and until he finally died, he didn't have the opportunity to contact Qin Zhi again.

While Qin Zhi was thinking nonsense, Meng Qi proposed: "Let's come together and toast to the future rise of the Hirata Kingdom!" ”

"Good!" The ministers chimed in.

Meng Qi caught a glimpse of Qin Zhi beside him who didn't move, with a dull expression, and reminded loudly: "Hey, Qin Zhi, what do you want?" ”

Qin Zhi came back to her senses, only to find that everyone stood up with their wine glasses, and only she was still sitting in a daze, so she hurriedly stood up with her wine glasses.

"Sorry, I was distracted." Qin Zhi said embarrassedly.

"Here, cheers!" Meng Qi looked at Qin Zhi and said with a faint smile.

Qin Zhi smiled back, then looked away from her eyes, I don't know when she didn't dare to look directly at Meng Qi's burning eyes.

She always felt that in Meng Qi's eyes when she looked at her now, in addition to coveting her beauty, there was also a deep meaning, but she hadn't figured out the true meaning yet.

Seeing that everyone finished drinking, Meng Qi took the lead in picking up chopsticks and said, "Okay, let's eat vegetables." ”

"Yes." The ministers should go down.

Meng Qi had a great appetite, ate quickly, and after a while, he emptied a table of dishes in the strange eyes of the surrounding female ministers.

Seeing this, Wei Zhong, the chief eunuch next to him, hurriedly ordered the imperial dining room to come and clean up, and then gave Meng Qi a table full of dishes.

Meng Qihan smiled: "Gaffe." ”

A female minister hurriedly waved her hand and didn't mind: "In ancient times, there were people with great courage and ability, and the amount of food was also large, and Your Majesty was able to eat so much, which is a harbinger of the first emperor of the ages in the future." ”

Meng Qi smiled: "What a first emperor of the ages!" ”

Eating with Meng Qi, even if the amount of food was small, the surrounding female ministers were affected by Meng Qi's good appetite, and they couldn't help but eat more than usual, but Qin Zhi was depressed, and she really couldn't eat, so she only ate a few bites of vegetarian dishes, then put down her chopsticks and kept drinking tea.

Meng Qi ate, looked at Qin Zhi and asked, "By the way, to what extent has the land reclamation plan progressed in that place in the Northeast?" ”

Qin Zhi reported: "Back to Your Majesty, on the first day of the Xiaguan taking the Longxing Qinghe Army to the Northeast, he wiped out all the local bandits, and some mountain bandits surrendered, so I took it upon myself to incorporate them into the subordinate camp of the Longxing Army, and happened to open up the land with the army and peasants. ”

Meng Qi nodded and said, "Well, you did a good job. ”

"In the next two days, I took the two armies to visit several local families and conveyed His Majesty's will, but they did not all cooperate, only the Gong family and the Li family cooperated with His Majesty's will and released the slaves in the clan, and the remaining families, headed by the Zhu family, united to protest His Majesty's will. Qin Zhi continued.

Meng Qi nodded, Qin Zhi strictly followed Meng Qi's intentions, and when he sent troops at the beginning, Meng Qi explained to Qin Zhi that there was no need to use troops against those disobedient families for the time being.

"Because of the large number of people and the abundance of labor, we completed the work of filling in the swamp and cutting down the thorn bushes in one day, and then a few days later, we borrowed the tools of the local cultivation and carried out the renovation of the land, and it was expected that the work could be completed in three days, and then the next day, we received His Majesty's order that we should rush back to the palace to save the driver, and we rushed back."

Meng Qi asked, "Then how much work is left?" ”

"It's not much, if it is by the local peasants and the recruits who have previously recruited the bandits, it will take about a month." Qin Zhi said.

Meng Qi nodded and said, "Then the Longxing Qinghe Army doesn't have to go back, and the rest of the work will be left to them." ”

"Also, send a message to those disobedient families, give them another day to think about it, and the day after tomorrow, I will personally go to the Northeast." Meng Qi added.

"Yes." Qin Zhi took the order.

As he spoke, Meng Qi solved the meal on the table again, and the female ministers at the same table all looked embarrassed, if the courage is great, the amount of food is large, then Meng Qi's courage can swallow mountains and rivers.

The manager, Wei Zhong, hurriedly asked people to clean up the dishes again, and filled Meng Qi's table with vegetables.

Meng Qi opened up to eat, just to make up for the meal he didn't eat at noon.

In the later stage of the banquet, it became Meng Qi's eating performance alone, everyone looked sideways, and their hearts were horrified, how could one person eat so much?

The banquet lasted for about two hours, until the moon was on the branches, the silver light landed, Meng Qi finally had a full stomach, he stood up, and said with a smile: "This banquet is over here, everyone go back today to have a good rest, from tomorrow, all of them will enter a state of emergency preparation!" ”

"Yes." The ministers took orders.

"Okay, all..."Meng Qi was halfway through speaking, when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his stomach, he bent down and covered his stomach, and after a while, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead.

The faces of the surrounding ministers changed greatly, and they hurriedly gathered around and asked, "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" ”

The chief steward, Wei Zhong, turned pale with fright, and he shouted screaming: "Imperial Doctor! Call the Imperial Doctor. ”

Meng Qi felt the pain becoming more and more intense, and his head began to get confused, and a strong sense of powerlessness permeated from all corners of his body, devouring the last bit of clarity in him.

At this time, after half a day, the electronic female voice sounded in his mind again:

"The host ingested an overdose of toxins, causing the system to collapse due to poisoning, and emergency repair is underway."

After that, there was no sound.

Meng Qi was shocked, and his heart was horrified: 'I'm poisoned? Could it be that someone poisoned the food? How come?! These meals were sent after multiple inspection procedures, how could they be poisonous, and besides, how could other people not be poisoned? ’

Meng Qi finally looked around, and he found that everyone was standing by and watching him intact, and there was no sign of poisoning at all, and he was the only one in the audience who was poisoned.

"Could it be..." Meng Qi suddenly thought of something, he was awe-inspiring at the moment, and the next moment he lost consciousness and passed out.