The more Zhu Houxi spoke, the more excited he became, his mouth was like a river gushing, and his face showed a very sickly flush: "It's true that Lu Bing is very righteous to me, but in all fairness, there were contradictions between our monarchs and ministers a few years ago, and even there was a crisis in our feelings, but in this case, Lu Bing is still loyal to me, doesn't this mean that my majesty is a master who can always aspire to and be loyal to?" Now that the long-lost Jiayuguan has returned to the Ming Dynasty, I can also be said to have left great achievements in history and dared to call a generation of Ming monarchs. Look, if Lu Bing can defeat the three kingdoms of Yaerqiang, Tulupan and Yili, then I will be the first person to open up the territory. To put it a little crazy, Emperor Taizu Gao did not fight so far in the Yarkand Khanate, and the length of east and west can be said to be the longest in the world of the Han people since ancient times. ”

"Holy Lord, you forgot that there is also the Ordos Ministry." Zhang patted his ass at the right time and said, the more Zhu Houxi looked at her, the more pleasing he became, nodded but pretended to be clear and modest in his heart and said: "Queen, you don't want to be happy, I am not the kind of person who is happy with great achievements." The situation of this Ordos Department is different from that of Yarkand, and the Yarkand Khanate wants to completely defeat it and make it its own territory. And although the Ordos Ministry accepted the letter and the table, but after all, it is still a vassal state, and when people see that our national strength is weakened, they will tear up the treaty and become enemies of the Ming Dynasty again. Therefore, the vassal state is just a good name, and the real control is nothing, saying that all the countries came to worship and meet Tianwei, but they just came to Daming to beg for a bowl of rice to eat, and let me give them some rewards, I understand this. Look, in time, I will completely eat Ordos and let it really be included in the area controlled by my Ming Dynasty, and my Ming will appoint officials. Garrisoned by my Ming Dynasty. ”

"Some emperors like to be happy and content with the status quo, and naturally want to be surrounded by vassal states. But I am different, I am a person of great virtue who opened the world, and I will definitely be able to sweep away the four razors and dominate the world! Zhu Houxi said.

Zhu Houyu said with great pride, and Empress Zhang's expression of worship was timely and appropriate, which appropriately satisfied Zhu Houxi's vanity. Suddenly, there was a military intelligence report, and there was war all around Daming at this time, so Zhu Houxi ordered. Whenever there is a military situation, whether he is in the last dynasty, or when he is sleeping, or even changing clothes, he must report it in time, Zhu Houxi does not want to leave a delay in history, and he is defeated like a mountain, and he does not know how to become a faint monarch who is ridiculed by later generations.

Zhu Houxi took a military report. At the same time, another military report also arrived, Zhu Houxi looked at it for a long time, sometimes his brows stretched and sometimes his brows tightened, and Zhang watched from the sidelines, not knowing whether the Dao Shengshang was happy and angry.

Zhu Houxi read the military newspaper. Let someone bring a brazier and burn it. Then he lowered his head and drank the porridge, but apparently absent-minded, and seemed to eat and chew wax. Zhang said with concern: "Your Majesty, you have nothing to do, right?" ”

Zhu Houxi sighed as if talking to himself: "Strange, really strange, Ming Ming Jun reported that Yili was victorious, but what can Cai Longyu's department not take advantage of the situation to enter, and quickly intensify the destruction of Yili Li." At that time, they could attack the relatively weak Turpan Khanate, which was busy fighting against Yarkand, from the north. Successive victories and brilliant achievements. On the contrary, Chen Bing and Jiayuguan only sent a small number of soldiers to test and fight small-scale sporadic battles, attacking those unimportant cities and then reporting for merit. If it is said that Cai Longyu and Xia Dade don't know the two reckless men don't know, why don't Qi Jingtong understand the soldiers behind the door? ”

"It's not that they don't understand, but they don't want to do it?" Zhu Houxi continued to analyze to himself: "What is the purpose of this? Passive response to war is not Lu Bing's style. Also, the Gutian side also stopped attacking, and Chen Bing defended the Yunnan-Guizhou border. Even if Shen Yew is treacherous, why can't young generals like Tang Kekuan and Yu Dayou keep it? ! What are the soldiers and horses I allocated to them for food, in vain I have high hopes for their young generals, hoping that they can give up the conservative style of play and fight quickly, but the result is hey" Zhu Houxi frowned and couldn't help but sigh.

Zhu Houxi's expression was captured by the Empress Zhang, who had already honed her essence in the deep palace, and she knew that the suspicion of the Dao saint had committed it again, and she had to follow the saint below, otherwise she might be burned and regarded as a fellow party.

Zhu Houxi fell into deep thought, and Zhang said: "If the saint is not at ease, he can remove the general." ”

"No, no, the war is in full swing, and the temporary change of generals can't help but be familiar with the battle situation, it is easy to delay the military aircraft, and it will disturb the morale of the army. Besides, these people were all sent by Lu Bing, didn't I obviously believe Lu Bing by doing this? Lu Bing took action when the country was in danger on all sides, solved the national crisis, disrupted Annan, defeated Yili Jiangli, defeated Ordos, and even the rivers and lakes were settled a lot by him. Even if there is a dereliction of duty, everything is not perfect, how can everything be as it should be, and I am already very satisfied with this situation. Zhu Houxi said.

Zhang Shi was puzzled: "Then why should the Holy One be worried? ”

"I'm just strange, when Wang Shouren fought the Gutian rebels, as soon as the army arrived, the enemy army was defeated one after another, and the northern and northwest nomads who had plagued me for many years were vulnerable in front of Lu Bing, and they were all defeated by Lu Bing, so why couldn't they go to Gutian, where others were easy to fight?" Zhu Houxi shook his head slightly and said: "If nothing else, let's talk about Annan not far from Gutian, it is a regular country, although the alternation of regimes and wars continue, but the strength of a country is much better than that of the Gutian rebels, such a threat can be dealt with by Lu Bing, but it is not possible to go to the relatively easy Gutian and the Japanese here." Coupled with his immobility in the northwest and Yungui, it is even more strange. ”

Zhang's words were not shocking: "Is it that Lu Bing wants to support the army and respect himself?" Zhu Houyu was stunned and looked at Zhang, Zhang saw that Zhu Houxi's eyes were full of inquiry, this essence came from coincidence, so he was overjoyed, and knew that he had bet on the right one, and said that the emperor was in his heart.

So Empress Zhang continued to say this: "I don't mean that Lu Bing will rebel, he has already analyzed it for a while just now. The meaning of this palace is that Lu Bing is now the general of the Dragon Shadow. is a stand-in for His Majesty, so as long as this battle continues to be fought for one day, he can continue to be the Dragon Shadow General for one day. If the war is settled. Where else does he have the qualifications to be the Dragon Shadow General? ”

Therefore, this palace thinks that this is the real reason why Lu Bing is passive in waiting for war, it is nothing more than greed in his heart. The doubts of the saint can also be explained according to this explanation, Lu Bingren is righteous, so he knows that the Zhu family cannot be lost, and the powerful soldiers will return to harm the people as soon as they enter the Ming Dynasty. And the cavalry into the plain is even more invincible. Therefore, he defeated these most dangerous enemies, and left those who were not painful to raise. As long as they are there, Lu Bing's status is there. Zhang said.

Zhu Houyu nodded, Zhang was not mistaken, Zhu Houyu did nod. He listened. That's what he thinks too. Just when Zhang was silent and waiting for Zhu Houxi to praise her for being smart, she heard a "snap". Immediately, Zhang Shi felt a hot pain on his face, yes, Zhu Houxi slapped her.

Exposing people does not expose shortcomings, and hitting people does not slap their faces. The Han people pay the most attention to integrity, to a large extent, integrity is face, not to mention the queen, that is, if any palace maid is slapped in the face in public, she may not want to jump into the well. The queen mother is the world. is the mother of a country, and was slapped by Zhu Houxi. For a while, I thought I was dreaming, and it took me a while to cry, crying and saying, "Your Majesty is beating this palace!" ”

"You're the one who hit you!" Zhu Houxi suddenly stood up, pointed at Zhang's and said, "The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, don't you know what to do!" I almost missed my big thing, and let me blame Lu Bing. If I listen to you, how can I let Lu Bing keep my world after I have a gap in my heart! You stinky, I'll hit you? I won't lose anything if I kill you! ”

Zhu Houxi chattered endlessly, since he was a child, he liked to run out of the city to go to the market in Anlu Prefecture, although he had not learned and practiced the ability to scold the street, but practice makes perfect, and he would listen to it a lot. It may not be good to go out and scold with the splashy skin, but he is invincible in the face of everyone's beautiful queen, then again, he is the emperor, who dares to scold him. So the more she scolded, the more ugly it became, and the louder she scolded, the queen was embarrassed.

Empress Zhang sat there with her face covered and cried in a low voice, Zhu Houxi raised her hand and wanted to fight, but when she saw the eunuchs and palace maids around her kneeling on the ground, her heart sank, and she suddenly remembered that she had killed Queen Chen by mistake back then, so she sighed and said, "You remember it for me!" If I interfere in political affairs again, I will depose you. You have to abide by women's morals, remember your identity as a queen, and set an example for women in the world, okay, I'm gone, you should reflect on it. ”

Zhu Houxi turned around and left, and after walking a short distance, he heard the queen's howl, Zhu Houxi rubbed his hands that were a little numb, walked quickly with a gloomy face, and his mind was also spinning quickly, and suddenly he stopped and said to the eunuch beside him: "Go and draw up an edict, and order Lu Bing to return to Beijing quickly, there must be no mistake!" ”

"Yes."

Empress Zhang was completely snubbed by the emperor, and wanted to go to the Empress Dowager Zhang to complain about her grievances, but she was scolded by the Empress Dowager Zhang, and she came back crying, and was called over by the Empress Dowager Jiang halfway, and scolded again. What is said is righteous Ling Ran, in fact, it revolves around one content, that is, it can't be said that Lu Bing's is not. Empress Zhang didn't understand, of course she was wrong, she shouldn't interfere in the harem in the government, but how much love this Lu Bing is, the emperor is facing him, the Empress Dowager Jiang is facing him, and even the Empress Dowager Zhang is protecting Lu Bing, it seems that Lu Bing can become the general of the Dragon Shadow really has his reasons.

In the eyes of Empress Zhang, Lu Bing is just a subordinate child of Xingwangfu, even if he has the foundation of Shandong now, and his father is also the assistant director of the governor, Jinyiwei. But how did she know about Lu Dao Lu Bing and Zhu Houxi's past, and at the same time, she definitely didn't know that although the Empress Dowager Jiang asked Zhu Houxi to be careful about Lu Bing, she also knew that Lu Dao Lu Bing would now calm down for his son, and the two of them had a relationship like an elder who watched Lu Bing grow up since childhood.

As for the Empress Dowager Zhang, she has to protect Lu Bing, after Zhu Houzhao's death, she has become a lukewarm queen mother, and the two queen dowagers in the harem stand side by side, and she has no status at all. The two younger brothers are not angry, speaking of which, as relatives, they are not used in the background, so they are not big. If it weren't for Lu Bing's cover over the years, the situation would only be worse than now.

When Empress Zhang returned to the palace, she couldn't help but be a little scared, she had to think about it carefully, hoping to ease the current situation, after all, she was now surrounded by enemies and became a loner. When she was still Concubine Shun, she witnessed the fact that the emperor kicked Empress Chen to death, to be honest, it was because of herself at that time, if it wasn't for the saint playing with herself and Concubine Wen, the Chen family would not have been

However, Chen died well, she couldn't become the queen without dying, and the root cause was that Chen died by self-inflicted suffering. Empress Zhang couldn't help but be a little worried, did she also go too far? Will she also die a disgraceful death like her, becoming a generation of wasted queens? (To be continued......)