"Could it be that Su Chonghua will continue to make waves?"

"Definitely!" An unfathomable light flashed in the emperor's eyes, "Since you can't demote him casually, then promote him!" ”

"Su Chonghua, the general, is already an official position of Zhengyipin, except for the royal lineage, what is a higher official position than this." This is all to blame Gu Tianba, originally Tianyuguo's official position was only the prime minister, but in order to curry favor with Su Chonghua, Gu Tianba gave him a general who sat on an equal footing with the prime minister and was the head of a hundred officials, making him completely above the six departments, and also making Su Chonghua more unscrupulous and fearless.

"The prince with a different surname! Outside the fiefdom Meiling Pass! ”

"That's right! How I didn't expect that! "In front of the royal family, it doesn't matter what kind of general you are, whether you are a prime minister or a scholar, you are all slaves, you work for the royal family, you receive the royal salary, you can't appease the people well, you are scolded as a dog official, you don't serve the emperor well, and your head is not guaranteed. Subordinate jealousy, peer competition, superior oppression.

With Su Chonghua's pride, he will never be willing to be a slave, even if he is already standing in the front row of hundreds of officials, if he doesn't look at the face of the Son of Heaven, he has to kowtow and kneel at every turn.

The prince who has a fief is different, he also goes to Meiling Pass and seals you a town general, that is, he is stationed, and he shows the royal territory, and taking an extra point is corruption and bribery, and taking an extra cent is bullying. The prince is the master of that piece, even if he finds the gold and silver mountains, he can still move to his own home, within the fiefdom, he is the only one, he is the heaven of that piece, and he is the same.

For example, today, the Yu court basically took into account the cities and counties north of Meiling, and although it confiscated a penny of taxes there, it did not send troops to protect the lives of any of the people there. The land of Tianyu north of Meiling has always been the backyard of the Northern Desert and Western Vietnam and the robbers from all sides. I can't think of it, but the people there have a good year.

The north of Meiling was divided into the fiefdom of Su Chonghua, and the Tianyu court did not have any losses. But it can make all forces jealous and dare not come to loot at will as before. Although the people inevitably have to pay some taxes to Su Chonghua, they have protection and dependence, and they no longer have to live the kind of days when they are worried all day long and may lose their lives at any time, thus forming a win-win situation.

If Su Chonghua wants to recuperate in the fiefdom and deliberately rebel, he must prepare for three years and five years, to say the least. I don't believe that three or five years later, Tianyuguo will still be so weak, and at that time, even if he worships Hua's strong soldiers, my Tianyuguo will no longer be muddy. If he dares to rebel, I will have a reason to take his fief and cut him down to the roots. If he is safe and stable, I will also remember his meritorious service in defending foreign tribes and protecting the people outside Meiling Pass, and I will no longer worry about him.

When Su Chonghua learned that I had returned to the court safely, he hurried back. Before entering the general's mansion, he met the father-in-law of the herald. According to the father-in-law who delivered the decree, Xiao Chonghua was very calm after receiving the decree, and immediately ordered the housekeeper to pack his bags, enter the palace to thank his father, and pushed the farewell banquet held for him by the staff, and even the cronies in the army did not say hello. Early in the morning of the second day, they set off for the outside of Meiling Pass.

I think that Su Chonghua is aware of current affairs, and I won more with less at Wangyong Pass, and defeated Beimo. He consciously did not compare to the 200,000 troops of the Northern Desert, coupled with the divine artillery in my hand, the chance of his rebellion was less than half, and it was better to go to Meiling Pass, which was far away from the Tiangao Emperor, and be the overlord of his side.

It wasn't until much later that I realized how naïve and ridiculous I was, how proud I was. I thought that Su Chonghua obediently went to the fiefdom as if he was fleeing, and he was afraid of me if he didn't continue to rebel, but in fact, I was just a little clever and small trick in his eyes at that time, and this little measure would make him jealous, but it didn't reach the point of letting him run away.

Mu Yu's departure made me feel more and more that staying in the palace was a very boring thing, but when I left the palace, I would always unconsciously go to the courtyard that was once full of wisteria flowers, but now it is empty.

I spend all my time thinking about how to make Tianyuguo strong. First of all, the Ministry of Rites was ordered to build a school to resume the civil and military examinations, and the original three-year session was changed to a year-to-one session; build bridges and pave roads, and build water conservancy; He also drew a lot of drawings according to memory, including weapons, farm tools, and daily utensils, which were supervised by the Ministry of Industry to build, experiment, and improve; Strengthen the supervision and consideration of officials at all levels and localities, and promote the capable, the mediocre, and the inferior; According to the actual situation of Tianyuguo, the law was appropriately amended, and the labor reform of prisoners was promoted; Recruit troops, train strictly, strengthen the defense of each pass, strengthen the city wall, and reset the post station......

After Mo Qian came back from Xiyue, he went to the Ministry of Industry to take office, and my series of actions made Tianyu's treasury tight again, and the 20 million taels of gold that flickered from Xiaoye were gone before I felt the tweed.

As a result, the New Year in the palace was very shabby, not only was the banquet free, but even the rewards given to the palace people every time they used to celebrate the New Year were changed to verbal praise.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, after a simple Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with my father and emperor, I returned to the East Palace, looking at the empty courtyard of the East Palace, my mood was inexplicably low, and I returned to the palace in despair, but I saw that Xiao Ye actually set up a fire in the open space, on which a whole deer was erected, which had been roasted and yellowed, and the oil was bubbling out.

The mood suddenly became cloudy and clear, I ran into the house to bring out the wine I had made before, and sat side by side with Xiaoye on the thick cashmere cushion to eat meat.

"Your Highness!" Manager Xu came to report: "Prince Chu has come to His Royal Highness, and he is waiting outside the door." ”

"Let him in!" Since I dismissed the East Palace, the East Palace has been terrifyingly empty, first Xuanyuan Che, then Xiao Qingyu, and now even Mu Yu has left. Qin Ruoan had just taken over the power of the army, and he was so busy that even if he returned to the palace, he just came over to ask for peace and left in a hurry. Now there are only Xiao Ye and Zhuangyuan left in this East Palace.

Zhuangyuan Xun saluted and sat down peacefully, I thought he was restrained, pulled him to sit beside him, and filled him with a large glass of wine.

"!" Picked up my small cup that could hold at most one or two, and touched the cup in the hand of the champion who could hold half a catty, raised his head and took a sip, poor Zhuangyuan, and drank the cup for a long time before drinking the wine in the cup.

"Come again!" I filled each other up again, but when I saw that the champion was already embarrassed, I looked at Xiao Ye, who was cutting meat on the back of the deer with a knife.

"I'll drink for the champion!" Xiao Ye put the fragrant piece of meat on the plate in front of me, took the cup of Zhuang Yuanxun again, and drank a full cup in a few sips.

"Why are you drinking for him or not for me?" I held my own wine glass and let Xiao Ye drink it.

"You two drink, let me do it, isn't that a partnership between the two of you to pour me?" Xiao Ye hugged a deer leg the size of a pipa and sent it to me angrily, "Eat the meat first!" ”

"I don't eat it!" I pouted and twisted my head to the side, "Anyway, this wine must be drunk for me!" ”

"It's all up to you, you still let me do it!" Xiao Ye put down the deer's leg and put my cup and his cup together, a large and a small contrast, that is called a stark. "Are you unreasonable?"

"I'm going to be unreasonable, how about it?" I'm also forced to be helpless, the amount of alcohol is not good, I can't do it if I don't cheat! Alas, if I had known that, I shouldn't have brought the wine out. What a self-inflicted sin!

Zhuangyuan Xun hurriedly played the round, "Otherwise, I'll drink this cup for His Highness!" ”

"I haven't drunk my own wine, and I'm embarrassed to drink it for others!" Xiao Ye glared at Champion Yuan Yuan in warning, and then looked at me proudly.

"Master Golden!" I yelled, "Saya bullied me!" Come out and hit him! ”

"Hey! We don't play like this. "Murong Xingye didn't want to have a good Chinese New Year's Eve, fighting with a secret guard in the dark, letting Lin Muyu and that fake Chu Moxuan sing about wine.

"Master Golden! Master Gold ...... "Usually as long as I shout, Master Gold will immediately appear in front of me, what is the matter today, I have shouted so much, why hasn't Master Gold Mask appeared."

"Stop shouting! The golden-faced secret guard follows you every day, and it's not easy to celebrate the New Year, can't you give people a holiday! Murong Xingye said this, but there was a faint uneasiness in his heart, the golden-faced secret guards rarely left Lin Muyu's side, even if he was not there, naturally there were other secret guards who came out to explain everything to Lin Muyu, but Lin Muyu shouted for most of the day, but no one appeared, which was too abnormal. Although he was unwilling to let Chu Moxuan accompany Lin Muyu to keep the New Year, it was even more unrealistic to let Lin Muyu go back to the room to sleep immediately.

"Okay, I'll drink it for you!" Xiao Ye finally found out with her conscience and drank the wine in the cup for me. Then, he slumped on top of me, "I'm drunk!" ”

"Sayo, Sayo!" I thought Xiao Ye was talking and playing, but I didn't want to, this guy said that he was really drunk, no matter what I called, how to pinch his beautiful face into various expressions, he just raised his hand and told me not to make trouble, change positions, and then sleep. I had no choice but to ask Manager Xu to send someone to send him back.

Champion Yuan and I were not strong enough to drink, so we didn't touch the jar of wine again, just drank venison, talked from the court to the people, from the collapse of Fengqi, to the revival of Tianyu. I gradually became a little sleepy, but the time had not yet arrived, and I didn't want to give up halfway through the year, so I held on and continued to chat with the champion without answering.

"Bang, Bang" woke me up with a distant sound, and I realized that I didn't know when I had fallen asleep on the shoulder of the champion.

"What time is it?"

"It's three watches!"

"Oh!" The third watch is the sub-hour, that is, from eleven o'clock to one o'clock at night. I said to Zhuangyuan, "If you are sleepy, go back to sleep first, you don't have to accompany me." ”

Zhuangyuan shook his head, "I'm not sleepy!" ”

Before long, I began to doze off again, and in the haze, Champion gently put my head back on his shoulder. I smiled at him and started to get confused again.