This time, the court discussion in the Taiji Hall was not smooth, which made Queen Cui very unhappy, and at the same time made her realize from the side that she was now in crisis.

Therefore, at the end of the court meeting, she summoned Cui Jingsheng and Ji Qian to her bedroom, wanting to discuss with the two how to deal with Ji Qingchen. Because she felt that the current courtiers had been divided into two parts, one part supported them and was ready to fight Ji Qingchen endlessly, and the other part was neutral, they didn't want to go against Ji Qingchen, and they also didn't show a good impression of Ji Qingchen, and this part of the court and the middle of the court had a large proportion.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, Empress Cui felt that in addition to letting Ji Qian ascend the throne as soon as possible and justifiably mobilizing an army to judge, the rest was to deter them with absolute force and make them fall to their side.

Only with military power can we have the right to speak, but this is under the premise of war, and it must be placed in peacetime, and political means must be used.

And in the past three years, Ji Qian has calmed down a lot, and he is no longer as impulsive and angry as before. However, this is only limited to general circumstances, but whenever he encounters something related to Ji Qingchen, he can't be calm, this is a psychological effect, who told Ji Qingchen to have two wive-taking hatreds with him?

So although he didn't talk much in the Taiji Hall today, it wasn't that he didn't want to say it in his heart, but that he didn't have any good ideas.

In the past few years, his ability has been very spitting, but compared with the three kings, it is much worse, if he fights against the three kings alone, he is not the opponent of any of the three kings at all, the reason why the three kings can fight like this is because there is Queen Cui and Cui Jingsheng on the side to help him, so that he is like a fish in water.

Therefore, he lived a very stable life and did not experience any strong winds and waves, but when something big happened like today, he was suddenly confused and had no idea.

He didn't speak in the Taiji Palace, but kept cursing Ji Qingchen in his heart.

In fact, Queen Cui summoned him and Cui Jingsheng to the dormitory, saying that it was to discuss how to deal with Ji Qingchen, but in fact, Queen Cui already had an idea in her heart, and she just asked the two of them imaginatively, to put it bluntly, this matter is very important, Queen Cui did not dare to call the shots alone, so she summoned Cui Jingsheng and Ji Qian to her bedroom, and wanted the two of them to take the risk with her.

"They're so deceitful today!" As soon as he arrived at the queen's bedroom, Ji Qian, who had a gloomy face, scolded indignantly, "None of these courtiers are good things, so they know that they see our jokes and fall into the ground!" ”

Today, in the court meeting of the Taiji Palace, except for his henchmen, none of them were willing to stand up and say a word and come up with an idea, which really made Ji Qian see that his power in the court was not as high as usual.

Cui Jingsheng didn't speak, just remained silent. Because he has already experienced such a scene, except for a few henchmen, which of the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee is not a person who has become an official, and at this time he still does not know how to protect himself? Only someone like Ji Qian, who has never experienced anything, would be angry about this.

"You know that you are noisy, what's the use of arguing?" Empress Cui was very dissatisfied with Ji Qian's performance and scolded angrily. Seeing that it was the queen mother who reprimanded herself, Ji Qian, who wanted to continue to complain, suddenly closed her mouth.

"Brother, we have to deal with Ji Qingchen ourselves!" Empress Cui said to Cui Jingsheng, "I don't know what Brother Lu Dao can do?" ”

"I can only use Bai Jin to defend the city, and let Li Muzhi lead the troops to recruit Ji Qingchen!" Cui Jingsheng sighed and said, "Of course, as long as Ji Qingchen doesn't lead his troops south and wants to divide Northern Liao, we don't care about him, just let him go!" Because we must first stabilize the situation in the imperial court, we must immediately let Ji Qian ascend the throne and become emperor, and then it is not too late to call on the world to crusade against the traitor Ji Qingchen! ”

What Cui Jingsheng said is indeed the safest way at present, but Ji Qingchen is sitting on the 600,000 army of Northern Liao, does he really just want to divide Northern Liao and stand on his own? This is definitely impossible, who has an army of 600,000 and 400,000 iron horsemen who sweep the world, will not be short-sighted and just want to divide one side and claim hegemony.

"The traitor Ji Qingchen must be defeated, otherwise our prestige will be ruined, who will want to listen to us?" Empress Cui said fiercely, "As for the three kings, they can't let them go, now that Ji Wen has gone to Jinzhou to transfer troops, and the armies of Yizhou and Xizhou are rushing to King's Landing, and the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry is eyeing King's Landing, we can't be indifferent." ”

"I don't know what to do with Lu Dao Niangniang?" Cui Jingsheng asked, even in private, he called Queen Cui Niangniang.

"Our troops are already stretched thin to deal with Ji Qingchen, let alone the three kings?" Empress Cui said lightly, "You can only use external forces!" ”

"With the help of external forces?" Cui Jingsheng didn't understand what Queen Cui meant all of a sudden. And Ji Qian on the side seemed to understand what Empress Cui meant, and suddenly asked, "Is the queen mother talking about leaving the country and the Lingnan Yi clan?" ”

"Yes." Empress Cui replied affirmatively, moved her gaze to Cui Jingsheng and asked, "What does my brother think?" ”

Cui Jingsheng did not speak immediately, but fell into deep thought, with the help of the strength of the country and the Lingnan Yi clan to deal with the three kings and the help, you have to pay the price, this is no different from betraying the country, will be poked in the backbone by the countrymen, and will not be tolerated by the seven great families. But if we don't do this now, how can we survive the current crisis?

"Brother, this is only temporary, as long as Qian'er ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, when the time comes, we will fully assist him and recover what we have lost, who would dare to say that ours is not." Empress Cui seemed to understand Cui Jingsheng's worries, so she said confidently.

"What's your plan?" Cui Jingsheng finally relented after a moment of silence.

"Let the Lingnan Yi and Xishu send troops, attack Yizhou and Xizhou, contain Ji Hongchang and Ji Ping for us, let the troops leave the country to go south, enter Ningzhou and Suzhou, and contain the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry and the Northern Liao Elite Cavalry for us, when the time comes, only Ji Qingchen Beirong more than 100,000 cavalry and Ji Wen's 100,000 elite cavalry will not be able to threaten us, and we can also take the opportunity to let Qian'er ascend the throne and be the emperor, when the three kings and Ji Qingchen are already with the Lingnan Yi clan and Xishu, Liguo and Li Muzhi's army is almost exhausted, we will command the world again, disposed of the three kings and Ji Qingchen for the crime of treason. Empress Cui said what she thought in her heart, which she thought of when she saw the ministers in the Taiji Hall who were unwilling to assist her in crusading against Ji Qingchen.

"At what cost do we get their support?" Choi asked.

"Give Yizhou to the Lingnan Yi people, Xining Prefecture and Suzhou to leave the country, and as for Xishu, give them half of Xizhou!" Empress Cui sighed and said, "If you don't pay a heavy price, I'm afraid they won't agree." ”

Seeing that the Cui family was still pondering, they listened to Ji Qian say, "Didn't the crown princess, Ji Zhao and the Shangzhou Wei clan clamoring to go to other places?" Since you are going to give Suzhou to leave the country, why not give Suzhou to Ji Zhao in exchange for what we need? When the time comes, whether they can hold on or not, it doesn't matter what we do! ”

"Well, that's a good idea." Empress Cui nodded and said, "In this case, let's divide Xining Prefecture, Xizhou, and Yizhou to Ji Yong, Ji Ying, and Ji Man!" If these three states are lost from them, it doesn't matter what happens to us. ”

Ji Qian's trick is indeed very insidious!

Because these four states were nominally distributed to Ji Zhao and Ji Ying and others, but secretly Empress Cui traded them to the Liguo, Xishu and Lingnan Yi tribes, and when the four states were seized by the Three Kingdoms, the uninformed people would only think that Ji Zhao and Ji Man and other four kings were ruined and did not keep their fiefdoms, and they would not blame the Empress Cui behind the scenes.

"Give Suzhou to Ji Zhao, let Yizhou be given to Ji Ying, Xining Prefecture to Ji Yong, and Xizhou to Ji Man!" Cui Jingsheng thought about it and said his idea.

"Also, if they are given a fief, they must be granted a fief within ten days." Empress Cui said, "Otherwise, it will startle the snake after a long time." As for the secret talks with Liguo, Xishu and Lingnan Yi people, I will leave it to my brother. ”

Hearing what Queen Cui said, Cui Jingsheng could only nod slightly. What else could he do? Do you want to hand it over to Ji Qian, who has more than enough success and more failures?

The next day at the court meeting, Empress Cui put forward a resolution to discuss with Cui Jingsheng, and told everyone about the decision to seal the four states to the four kings.

Ji Ying, Ji Yong, Ji Man, and Ji Zhao in the main hall couldn't believe it when they heard Queen Cui's words. Still, they resisted the urge and began to wonder if there was some conspiracy behind it.

Because there is nothing to do, it is either a traitor or a thief, and all four people understand this truth.

As for Empress Cui's decision, everyone naturally has no objections, because the four of them are princes, and Ji Ping and Ji Hongchang, who have a good relationship with Ji Ying and Ji Yong and Ji Man, have no objections, and everyone is embarrassed to meddle in royal affairs, so they can only be silent.

The happiest of them all is Ji Zhao, who has been awarded the title of Prince Xian with a fief from a ragtag king, and this status has increased by more than one or two levels.

So when he returned to the East Palace, he immediately told the news to the crown princess.

And before the crown princess understood what Empress Cui was doing this, Ji Qian's henchmen had already arrived in the East Palace and explained to the crown princess that the reason why Ji Zhao was named the prince of Suzhou was because Ji Qian wanted to deal with Ji Qingchen, and the army lacked food and grass, and wanted to make a deal with the Shangzhou Wei family.

As soon as the crown princess heard such an explanation, the doubts in her heart were gone.

Indeed, if you want to fight against Ji Qingchen's 600,000 Northern Liao army, you have to form an army of 300,000 or 400,000 in order to reach a level with Ji Qingchen in terms of strength, and the new formation of so many people and horses requires things such as money, food, and materials that the Cui clan can not afford, so it is understandable to make a deal with their Wei clan.

As for what to give Ji Ying and Ji Yong, Ji Man 30,000 was also crowned prince.

This is because the three of them are much higher than Ji Zhao in terms of identity and status, since Ji Zhao has been made a prince, how can they not give them a seal, which will make people guess what the purpose is.

The crown princess was even more convinced by this explanation.

In this way, the crown princess used Shangzhou Wei's family to fund all the expenses for Ji Qian to form an army of 400,000, and then gave the 700,000 army three years of food and salary as the price, and finally obtained a holy decree from Ji Qian.

As for Ji Ying, Ji Yong and Ji Man, they were very unenthusiastic about Queen Cui's reward. Because whether it is Xizhou, Xining Prefecture and Yi are all on the border, and they are also on the border of Liguo, Xishu and Donghuang, which is a disguised derogation for them who just want to be an idle prince, as long as they are prosperous and rich.

And with the relationship between the three of them and the three kings, they felt that as long as any of the three kings ascended the throne and became emperor, the reward given to them would not be worse than that of Queen Cui.

It's just that this will was determined through the court, and they had no right to refuse, so they could only receive the order.