Chapter 120
Xiao Luo was stunned, yes, what did he want to discuss with her?
"The emperor wants to ask if he should accept the overtures of the Evil Horse Taiguo?" The corners of Meishuang's lips are slightly hooked, revealing a hint of meaning.
Xiao Luo stopped the action of drinking sour plum soup in his hand again, and a trace of astonishment flashed through his dark and deep eyes, and then nodded, "Sort of." β
"Your Majesty, I don't know what the courtiers think about this issue?" Meishuang pursed her lips and asked again.
In fact, the intention of Yamatai is very clear, and Xiao Luo, the courtiers' entanglement, did not hide Mei Shuang.
One school of thought is that the Great Qin State is a large country with a large population, with a unique geographical location since ancient times, abundant water and plants, and abundant products, so there is really no need to depreciate itself to deal with the small countries in the East China Sea, and the Evil Horse Taiwan State has a very poor reputation in the East China Sea, and making friends with it will damage the image of the Great Qin State.
The other faction believes that it is extremely important to have diplomatic relations with the four seas, and that in recent years, the emperor has pacified the four seas in the early years to have a prosperous country, and many friends are stronger than many enemies.
When Xiao Luo counted the opinions of the ministers, Mei Shuang also knew in her heart, and she didn't know whether this emperor should make friends with this witchcraft country from the East China Sea. The reason, it goes without saying, if one day the same fate as the Jiurang family of the Donglai Kingdom is put on the same page, and it is impossible to prevent it from being poisoned by Gu and cutting off its children and grandchildren, it will really be worth the loss.
Therefore, the easiest way to eliminate future troubles is not to pay, but why didn't Xiao Luo, who has always been decisive, do this? Moreover, you still have to "discuss" with yourself?
Mei Shuang secretly thought, the Yamatai Kingdom has definitely been planning for a long time to come to the door at this moment, from the perspective of the Yamatai Kingdom, when conquering the small countries on the other side of the East China Sea, it didn't take much effort at all, they all bowed down at the feet of Queen Himiko, only the Donglai Kingdom, which had been ruled by the family for a long time, never gave in. Among them, if there was no strong external force to intervene, the Jiurang family would have been in the bag long ago. In fact, with Mei Ru's internal connection, she successfully played the role of Infernal Affairs in front of Donglai Kingdom, what else is the secret? Therefore, the purpose of their visit this time is to make friends with the Great Qin State, and they are even more determined to win the Donglai Kingdom led by the Jiurang family.
Of course, before knowing the emperor's true thoughts, she didn't want to be smart enough to say her opinion, after all, "should accept" or "should not accept", the reason for these two answers is afraid that the emperor has listened to those courtiers, what special reasons can she put forward?
"Anyway, the whole world belongs to the emperor, and the emperor can do whatever he wants," Mei Shuangyuan replied.
This ambiguous statement made Xiao Luo look sideways, hehe, cunning enough, she can predict the fate of the Donglai Kingdom, so naturally she will not know the situation of this Evil Horse Taiwan Country. Although he had an idea in his heart, he still wanted to hear her opinion, but he didn't expect that this woman actually learned to do Tai Chi.
Xiao Luo put down the sour plum soup in his hand, and the corners of his lips contained a hint of meaning, "They came for another purpose, that is, to exchange Mei Ru out."
Mei Shuang was anxious when she heard this, "I'll go, Mei Ru framed the court officials, and also intended to help the fake left minister usurp power and rebel against the sky, this Nima is a big crime of killing the head, how can it be child's play?" Do you want to let her go? Daddy, right? This Yama Taiguo Nima is too shameless to get home! β
Seeing that Meishuang was so excited, Xiao Luo knew what she was afraid of, and this was what he wanted. Seeing that the fish was hooked, he said quietly, "I think so, but I also feel that it is difficult to do, after all, I promised Mei Ru that as long as I save you, I can save her life."
"Isn't she dead now? The emperor has fulfilled his promise. But you must not let her out, if she goes out, the designated disaster will be endless," Meishuang twisted her eyebrows.
Just now she was still dreaming of going out of the palace, if Mei Ru was released, wouldn't it be dangerous for her to walk outside the palace again? What's more, she revealed a lot of her secrets in front of Mei Ru, and the only secret has not been revealed yet, according to Mei Ru's habits, she will definitely let that secret accompany her to sleep forever.
I'll go! Mei Ru is really going out, it's a time bomb for herself, maybe when she detonates herself, she will be blown up to pieces! The only thing that could restrain her now was the Ninety-Five Venerable in front of her, and she had to convince him not to let Meiru out no matter what.
"She is just a woman's family, what kind of storm can she set off?" Xiao Luo deliberately disagreed.
Your sister, the storm that this woman set off before was still small, which of these major events has missing her shadow?
"Although she is a woman, hasn't the emperor seen her methods? What's more, her ambition is inflated, the emperor must not be soft-hearted for a while"
Mei Shuang didn't dare to be careless about things that mattered to her own life, she said, "The people of Yamatai have always played cards according to common sense, and they are scheming, even if the emperor intends to make friends, they must not be guarded against."
Xiao Luo stared at Mei Shuang, and nodded for a while, "I know"
Meishuang glared, got it? You know before I finish speaking? I mean, Mei Ru is simply a typical representative of the thousands of people in Yamatai, you must not let Mei Ru out, you know?
Mei Shuang's eagerness Xiao Luo saw it in his eyes, but what he had to think about now was not the question of whether to make friends with Yamatai, the question was how to deal with Mei Ru, even if the envoy of Yamatai did not come, he still had to think about this issue.
Mei Ru's true identity is a person from the Evil Horse Taiwan Kingdom, although it is not necessarily the blood relationship, but what she did is to get the true inheritance of the masters of the Evil Horse Taiwan Kingdom, so once Mei Ru is accused, it is reasonable for someone to come to the door to ask for it. The envoy of this Yamatai Kingdom came to see him at this moment, and making friends was an excuse, and asking for talents was the real intention.
As Mei Shuang said, once Mei Ru goes out, she will definitely be a scourge. But now, he needs to think about it all.
- When it was almost time for dinner, Gonggong Li saw that Xiao Luo had not come out for a long time, so he sent someone to come in with a green head card full of concubines and concubines in the palace.
"Your Majesty, it's time for the flop, please go back to the Emperor"
Mei Shuang looked over, there were more than a dozen signs neatly stacked on it, Concubine Chen's name was at the front, and she was lined up in turn, and she also saw Shi Jieyu's name.
She looked at Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo also glanced at her, and finally raised his hand and waved, "I'm going to have dinner here tonight, stand down." β
The emperor said this is tantamount to refusing to be lucky to any woman in the harem tonight, which made Concubine Chen, who was waiting for Xiao Luo in the harem with great expectations, so angry that she casually pulled the bronze mirror on the table to the ground, and asked the maid beside her with a calm face, "Go and inquire, where is the emperor staying tonight?" β
After dinner, it was still early, Xiao Luo took Meishuang to a palace, Meishuang looked up at the plaque on the palace, "Library Pavilion", and thought that this was the emperor's place to collect books.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered it, Meishuang felt as if she was in a museum, and her eyes were not enough.
In the huge palace, the jewels, in addition to the celebrity calligraphy and paintings hanging on the four walls, is the multi-treasure pavilion against the wall is full of all kinds of rare treasures, exquisite workmanship of mutton fat jade bottles, rare nine-foot-high red coral, pure gold made of gold mountains, etc., the long table in the middle is also neatly stacked with all kinds of treasures that can not be named, Mei Shuang was amazed and thought, any of these are priceless treasures in modern times, and they are actually piled up here by the emperor, and there is not even a safe.
Mei Shuang sighed in her heart, Nima was not even honest with the emperor, it was obviously a "Treasure Pavilion", but she actually hung a sign of "Library Pavilion".
Xiao Luo took Meishuang to a long table, only to see a pile of brocade boxes neatly stacked on it. He motioned for Meishuang to open. Meishuang opened it and looked at it, obediently, isn't this the legendary pearl of the night?
The size of an egg, although the appearance does not look special, but you can see a faint brilliance, especially in the current light, there is actually a faint light, it is said that the light of such a night pearl at night is no less than a few watts of light bulbs.
Of course, what shocked Mei Shuang was not this night pearl, but the fact that there were a total of twenty such night pearls in the box stacked below.
Meishuang opened another box, and I said, is this a pearl? Why is it so big? It's round and bright. There are even black pearls.
Meishuang is really a feast for the eyes, Xiao Luo is also appreciating, but he is appreciating Meishuang.
In front of these treasures, the woman's eyes were full of amazement, and apart from the amazement, there was no extra affection, such as greed.
After reading it, Xiao Luo pointed to the rare treasures inside and said to Mei Shuang, "You can choose whatever you want." β
When Mei Shuang heard this, she put down the night pearl in her hand, "I'll just take a look, why do you want these things?" β
Xiao Luo was a little surprised, "Don't you like it?" β
Meishuang looked around and shrugged, "Then the emperor will give me a night pearl, I will put it at the head of the bed when I sleep at night, and I can read a book or something when I wake up." β
Xiao Luo nodded, "These are all just sent by the envoy of the Evil Horse Tai Kingdom, you can choose one if you like." β
βwhatοΌβ Mei Shuang retracted her hand as if she had been burned, as if there was an evil aura on the night pearl that she had just dreamed of, "They sent it?" β
In fact, if you think about it, it is not surprising that the Night Pearl came from the sea, and it was sent by Yama Taiguo.
"Are they trying to trade these things for Meiru?" Meishuang suddenly blessed her soul and asked.
Xiao Luoshun pointed to the side, followed the line of sight, Mei Shuang saw a bronze mirror more than one person high standing next to it, the copper mirror is exquisitely made, the pattern is peculiar, inlaid with all kinds of gold and stone, pearls and jade, standing in front of the bronze mirror, you can see the clear figure of the person.
"It is said that this bronze mirror took a year to complete." Xiao Luo said, "It has the function of warding off evil spirits. β
Mei Shuang was silent, in addition to this bronze mirror, all kinds of strange jewels, there are also many expensive brocade silks, which is really courteous.
Mei Shuang lost her mood in an instant, Seeing the emperor's meaning, this gift was also accepted, and it was about the same as agreeing to the conditions of Yama Taiguo.
However, she soon thought about it, the friendship between the two countries is the trend of history, how can she stop it by herself?
Seeing Mei Shuangwu pondering, Xiao Luo said, "I believe that one day you will use these, and then you can choose these treasures."
On the way back, Mei Shuangxin said that it sounds like the emperor is very generous, but no matter how valuable the treasure is, can it be used as food or clothing for her? Moreover, she is not a concubine in the palace, and she does not need to rely on the treasures given by the emperor to show off her grace.