"Thirsty?" Seeing that Ye Tingfeng subconsciously licked his lips, Emperor Jianning took the tea cup on the side of his hand, fed Ye Tingfeng and took a sip.

Ye Tingfeng put his slender hand on Emperor Jianning's wrist, took a sip, smiled at Emperor Jianning, and said, "Wanyan Zhe, now the Xie family is at a disadvantage." ”

"Tell me about it."

"Look," Ye Tingfeng pointed to the name written on the rice paper, and said to Emperor Jianning, "Now the Qin family has four daughters in the harem, one is the queen and one is a beloved, while the Xie family only has one wonderful beauty. If I were Xie Yuanxing, I would definitely not feel comfortable in my heart. Empress Qin is the queen, relying on his credit for helping you become the emperor, and now that the Qin family will snatch the throne, resentment will rise in his heart. ”

"What do you say?" Emperor Jianning put the fold to the side, patted his leg, and said, "Sit here." ”

Ye Tingfeng put down the rice paper, and on the side of her body, Emperor Ren Jianning hugged her.

"Now, we have to press the Qin family." Ye Tingfeng smiled at Emperor Jianning, "Let the Xie family know that you didn't want to suppress the Xie family because Xie Yuanxing worked hard to cover the master." ”

"Then, I will be promoted to the position of a beautiful woman and a five-grade lady." Emperor Jianning smiled and asked, "What do you say?" ”

"Jin is the fourth grade of Ronghua." Ye Tingfeng pursed his lips and chuckled, looking at Emperor Jianning with bright eyes, "The Qin family has a queen." Moreover, the Lu family will be grateful to Dade for this, killing two birds with one stone, and carving ...... with one arrow"

"Listen to you, but take your time, she has not been in the palace for a long time, and the courtiers of the foreign court will think that I am afraid of the Xie family."

Ye Tingfeng nodded slightly, put the rice paper to the side, and his eyes fell on the fold that Emperor Jianning had put down.

In the past, Emperor Jianning came to Fengyang Hall empty-handed, but recently he has repeatedly brought excerpts. And the fold is painted with cinnabar red, and the things described in it are the most important.

Thinking of Emperor Jianning's frowning brows recently, Ye Tingfeng turned around and asked, "Wan Yan Zhe, is there something big happening in the court?" ”

Emperor Jianning's heart crossed with trouble, and he shook his head and smiled at Ye Tingfeng, "It's okay, there's nothing." Seeing that Ye Tingfeng still wanted to ask, Emperor Jianning stood up with Ye Tingfeng in his arms and said with a smile, "Feng'er, your energy is too good." ”

The corner of the skirt was drawn, and the fold that was placed on the small table fell to the ground and spread.

Listening to Feng Jiao's smile at night, the first sentence of the excerpt was written: International trade is not connected.

Like a flower smile, this freezes the frame......"

International trade is an important hub that maintains the peace and stability of Dashun and Dayue.

With the International Trade Center, Dayue can get grain cloth from Dashun to ensure that the people of Dayue have no worries about food. Without the International Trade Center, the barren land of Otsuki could not support its people.

Unable to maintain food and clothing, Otsuki can only turn into a beast, show its fangs, and invade other countries, using various methods to maintain the normal supply within his own country.

Ye Tingfeng understood the importance of Guomao, but what she didn't understand was why Guomao didn't work.

Could it be that her eldest brother is ambitious and wants to break the peaceful relationship between the two countries, send troops to fight, and redraw the territory?

Listening to Feng's stiff smile at night, the panic in his eyes fell exactly in the eyes of Emperor Jianning.

He looked back and saw the fold that had fallen to the ground and opened.

After a pause, Emperor Jianning hugged Ye Tingfeng's hand and exerted himself slightly. Closing his eyes and sighing lightly, Emperor Jianning smiled at Ye Tingfeng, "Feng'er, it will be like this every year, just pass a few letters of state, and renegotiate the quantity and price of the transaction." ”

"Really?" Ye Tingfeng turned around and asked seriously. Seeing that the lines on Emperor Jianning's face were tight, she stroked Emperor Jianning's face with her hand and said softly, "Wanyan Zhe, you can't hide something from me." ”

"I'm not hiding it from you." Emperor Jianning put Ye Tingfeng on the beauty couch and sat down, stretched out his hand to pick up the fold from the ground, and said to Ye Tingfeng lightly, "Last year's pig iron in Dayue was better than in previous years, and the ministers wanted to increase the price of pig iron to seek more benefits." ”

"That's it?" Ye Tingfeng's beautiful eyes stared at the fold in Emperor Jianning's hand, wanting to see through it.

"Or else?" Emperor Jianning closed the fold and put it on the table again, then reached out and picked up Ye Tingfeng again, and said, "Feng'er, you don't have to pay attention to these laborious things, you can just help me manage the harem." ”

Ye Tingfeng nodded lightly, and meekly leaned his head on Emperor Jianning's chest, and his heart was completely messed up.

Emperor Jianning looked at Ye Tingfeng's delicate face full of thoughts, and let out a long sigh in his heart.

At the ugly moment, Ye Tingfeng, who was supposed to be asleep, opened his eyes. She raised her eyes to see that her breathing was balanced, and Emperor Jianning, who was sleeping soundly, shook his arm lightly with her hand.

Why the two countries went to war in the last life, I don't know if I heard it at night. But the national trade is not accessible, which is enough for the barren Dayue to send troops.

After shaking it lightly twice, Emperor Jianning didn't see him wake up, and Ye Tingfeng got up quietly, went around to the foot of the bed and got off the bed softly.

Pulling up the bedgown that had slipped to her shoulders, she whispered into the inner sanctum.

The fold was still on the table next to the beauty couch, carefully listening to the movement in the direction of the dormitory, and listening to the fold into the candlestick at night.

After a slight glance at the contents of the fold, Ye Tingfeng's face turned pale, and his body shivered involuntarily, as if he was in ice water.

Otsuki's largest iron ore mine suffered a mining disaster, and it was impossible to mine again for two years, and Otsuki's pig iron production fell by half.

The remaining half, although the quality is not high, is barely enough to trade with Dashun.

But the ministers of the court disagreed, thinking that they could not devote all their resources to this deal.

Xie Yuanxing proposed to gather 200,000 troops to press to the border between the two countries, and coerce Dashun to agree to replace pig iron with horses for international trade.

Coercion by force, 200,000 troops......

With trembling hands, he closed the fold and put it back in its place, and despair rose in the bottom of Ye Tingfeng's heart.

Emperor Yongning is definitely not the kind of person who will succumb to obscenity.

What's more, in terms of national strength and military strength, Dashun is not comparable to Dayue.

In the past, Dashun tolerated and showed weakness to Dayue everywhere, because Dashun's weapons were not as sophisticated as Dayue. Now the International Trade Center has been open for more than ten years, and the amount of fine iron imported into Dashun in these ten years is enough to arm Dashun's 300,000 iron horsemen.

The land area of Dayue is not less than that of Dashun, but the population is less than one-fifth of that of Dashun. Coupled with the barren land, there are very few people who can enlist in the army.

In the past ten years of recuperation, the population of Dayue has indeed increased a lot, but those Xinding are still children in their teens, and they have the heart to defend the country, but they have no strength to raise troops to resist the enemy.

Under such circumstances, Da Yue's dispatch of troops to Da Shun was a move to hit a stone with an egg.

The jade hand trembled slightly, and the night listened to Feng go to get the tea cup on the table that had already been cold, trying to calm himself down.

The outstretched hand fell into a large and gentle hand.

Ye Tingfeng looked up and saw Emperor Jianning standing in front of him, his face was not good.

"I ......" Ye heard Kaede want to speak, but found that his throat seemed to be choked, and tears appeared in his eyes.

Emperor Jianning sighed, and the anger in his heart that rose from listening to Ye Feng peeking at the excerpt was melted away by the tears in Ye Tingfeng's eyes.

He took Ye Tingfeng's trembling body into his arms, reached out and took the teacup and handed it to Ye Tingfeng's lips, and said, "When ministers write excerpts, they tend to make things more serious......

The tea in the entrance was cold, which made Ye Tingfeng shiver and burst into tears.

She had a boulder pressed against her chest.

"Don't cry." Emperor Jianning raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of Ye Tingfeng's eyes, and stroked the green silk behind Ye Tingfeng's head, and the turmoil in his heart was even better, "Feng'er, don't cry." ”

He couldn't say anything other comforting than to let Ye Tingfeng not cry.

He said to Ye Tingfeng that the situation was not as serious as the minister said, but in fact it was much more serious.

He had passed the letter of state with the Emperor of Dashun, and the Emperor of Dashun did not agree to reduce the transaction volume of pig iron, let alone to lower the price of grain.

In this case, Otsuki is already struggling.

Now, relying on the last batch of grain last winter, Dayue can maintain a normal supply for three months. However, if the food that could have arrived in the spring could not arrive as scheduled, the people of the Great Moon would face a lack of food.

At that time, the people's hearts will be in turmoil.

Even if the imperial court opened a warehouse and distributed grain to appease the people, and tried its best, in the end, it could only ensure the food and clothing of the subjects until autumn.

The harsh winter after autumn has become an insurmountable difficulty.

If the imperial court can't think of a way to deal with it by then, the only way is to invade the border of Dashun in order to get grain for the winter.

"Wan Yan Zhe...... Can we make peace? Ye Tingfeng raised his eyes to look at Emperor Jianning, his eyes were full of ardent expectations, "Whether it is the people of Dayue or the people of Dashun, they all want to live as peacefully as they do now. They don't want to fight, they don't want to kill, they don't want their wives to be separated, they don't want to be separated. ”

"Yes, don't cry." Emperor Jianning closed his eyes and said softly, "Feng'er, there is nothing that cannot be solved, as long as a mutually acceptable method is found, the international trade can still be carried out." ”

Ye Tingfeng stretched out his hand and put his arm around Emperor Jianning's neck, choked and shook his head again and again, "Wan Yan Zhe, don't go to war, don't fight, I'm afraid, I'm afraid ......"

Emperor Jianning comforted Ye Tingfeng and said, "No, I think of other ways not to let the two countries go to war." ”

Ye Tingfeng hugged Emperor Jianning tightly and used all the strength of his body.

Ye Tingfeng fell asleep again with tears, and Emperor Jianning no longer had a trace of sleep.

When he was the king of Jin, he once thought, isn't it just war? Although the land of Dayue is barren, Dayue Nan'er is not a coward, as long as he is given 200,000 iron horses, he has the confidence to cross the border, enter the Dashun Imperial City in one fell swoop, and incorporate the fertile land into the territory.

But when he was really the emperor, he understood why Emperor Shiyuan agreed on the matter of national trade despite the opposition of hundreds of officials.

As the king of a country, he is no longer alone. He is responsible for the lives of millions of people in his own land, and he is responsible for the rise and fall of a country.

When Ye Tingfeng woke up the next day, Emperor Jianning had already left. Her eyes were red and swollen, and she was dreaming about yesterday's events.

Cai Xiang and Wen Qing saw that she was in a bad mood, and they didn't dare to listen to Feng talk and laugh at the same night as before, so they waited quietly for Ye Feng to get up and freshen up.

Ye Tingfeng's heart has been tense, and his face has not returned to ruddy.

She couldn't tell whether she was feeling sad for Emperor Jianning's embarrassment or her upcoming fate.

Thinking about it, his white forehead wrinkled tightly.

After picking incense and listening to the night, Feng finished pulling her hair and asked softly, "Good princess, what happened?" Awkward with the emperor? ”

"No ......" for a long time, I heard Feng hold back a word from his throat and eyes.

The two of them hadn't quarreled for a long time, and when she thought about it, it seemed that the only few awkwardness she had was also her fault. Emperor Jianning was angry in his heart, and he was also the first person to turn back.

Ye Tingfeng took the wet handkerchief in Wen Qing's hand, covered his face, and said to Wen Qing in a tight voice, "You go and call Yao Yuan." ”

Wen Qing nodded, turned around and went out.

After listening to Feng's makeup, he came to the inner hall and sat down, and before he could taste the fragrant tea in his hand, Yao Yuan came in from outside.

Yao Yuanjian's eyes were slightly red when he heard the night, and he subconsciously lowered his head, as if he had seen something he shouldn't see.

Ye Tingfeng said to Yao Yuan in a hoarse voice, "Yao Yuan, no matter what method you use, this palace wants you to inquire about the affairs of the previous dynasty, no matter how big or small, this palace must know." ”

Yao Yuan nodded lightly, said his best and went out.

After Yao Yuan left, Ye Tingfeng leaned on the bed, although he no longer cried, his brain was booming.

At the end of the hour, Xiao Guzi hurriedly ran back from outside, and said to the night Feng, "Princess, Le is full of energy, and I see red under my body......"

Ye Tingfeng's mind was not in the harem, and Xiao Guzi said it twice in a row before she listened to it in her heart. After saying 'keep an eye on it' to Xiao Guzi, he let Xiao Guzi retreat.

On the twenty-first day of the first month of the fourth year of Jianning, Chong Ronghua gave birth to three princesses prematurely, and the mother and daughter were safe. “

The princess in Le Chongrong's womb was born, and the pregnant concubines in the harem were Queen Qin except Yun Ronghua.

Yun Ronghua was flustered.

The more panicked Yun Ronghua became, the more Queen Qin was afraid that Yun Ronghua would make a mistake, so she was more careful about Yun Ronghua's diet and daily life, and she couldn't wait to turn around and there were eight palace maids and grandmothers watching on her side.

Yun Ronghua's body thinned down at the speed of his eyes.

On the twenty-second day of the first month of the fourth year of Jianning, Mrs. Zhaoyue's seventeenth birthday, Emperor Jianning held a banquet in the Fengyang Palace.

Emperor Jianning had the heart to help Ye Tingfeng have a lively time, but there was no joy in Ye Tingfeng's heart.

One, this day is not her birthday at all. Second, the increasingly tense relationship between Dashun and Dayue made her really happy.

The main owner of the palace banquet was worried, and he looked preoccupied, and the other concubines couldn't enjoy themselves.

As soon as the time passed, they all found various reasons to leave.

Before Mrs. Yu left, she approached the pale Yeting Feng in the name of toasting and asked again, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, are you willing to cooperate with this palace." ”

Ye Tingfeng looked up at Madame Yu, her pale little face tense.

From Ye Tingfeng's chilling gaze, Madame Yu got the answer. She drank all the contents of the cup and chuckled at Ye Tingfeng, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, hehe......"

The last hehe, cold into the heart and lungs.

In Ye Tingfeng's eyes, Madame Yu had been forced into a state of madness by Empress Qin.

Day and night, Emperor Jianning did not stay in Fengyang Palace, but returned to Qingxin Palace.

If it was in normal times, Ye Ting Feng would think that Emperor Jianning had a political matter that had not yet been dealt with. But now, this kind of behavior fell in the eyes of Ye Tingfeng, and it became a manifestation of Emperor Jianning's intention to alienate her.

Therefore, Ye Tingfeng's heart ached again, and his sad face hung on his face.

Listening to what kind of character Feng is on weekdays, he knows what incense and Wen Qing have in his heart. It's the first time I've seen such a disturbance now, so I don't know where to start.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month of the fourth year of Jianning, Yao Yuan finally swept some rumors in the foreign court after inquiring for a few days.

After Yao Yuan stood in the inner hall and chattered for a long time, Ye Tingfeng finally heard what he cared about in some miscellaneous matters.

"You say, General Xie ordered troops on the school field three days ago?"

"That's how the slave heard." Yao Yuan bowed his head and said, "It is said that it is a thousand miles of camp, and the spring practice is ......."

"What kind of practice does it take to pull out the camp for thousands of miles?" Ye Tingfeng stretched out his fingers and calculated, the distance between the Great Moon Imperial City and the border was only a few thousand miles......

"This servant doesn't know, the march has always been secret." Yao Yuan replied respectfully, "The servants inquired, but they didn't inquire about where General Xie would lead his troops." ”

Ye Tingfeng narrowed his eyes lightly and said to Yao Yuan, "This palace knows, you can go down." ”

After Yao Yuan left, he listened to Feng's order to ask Qing to call Litmus in and bring the carrier pigeon with him. Then he lay down on the bed with squinting eyes, his face extremely pale.

Cai Xiang faintly noticed something, and her heart became worried, but she didn't dare to ask Ye Tingfeng.

In the afternoon, when a carrier pigeon spread its wings and flew away, Emperor Jianning came to the Fengyang Palace. Seeing that Ye Tingfeng's face was not good, he stroked her cheek with a slightly rough hand and was silent for a long time.

Ye Tingfeng's delicate hands clenched Emperor Jianning's big hand, and his heart was sore beyond measure.

She can use her best to play with the entire harem in the palm of her hand. But for two countries, she couldn't do anything.

She looked at Emperor Jianning with teary eyes, and just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Emperor Jianning.

"Feng'er, don't ask anything, I promise, the two countries will not go to war."

Ye Tingfeng gritted his teeth, and wanted to ask Xie Yuanxing where he was ordering troops on the school field, and wanted to ask him where he wanted to go when he pulled out the camp for thousands of miles.

But she couldn't ask these words.

Stretched out his arm around Emperor Jianning's neck, and listened to Feng cry softly at night.

In the face of reality, they are nothing. The feelings between them cannot change the upcoming military confrontation between the two countries.

"Wan Yanzhe, let me go." After a long time, I listened to Kaede's calm words at night.

The two countries fought each other, and the princess lost her original role, and she didn't want to stay here anymore.

"As long as Dashun doesn't send troops...... hugging Ye Tingfeng, Emperor Jianning didn't let go, gritted his teeth and said, "As long as Dashun doesn't send troops, I won't send troops." ”

Ye Tingfeng buried his face in Emperor Jianning's arms, trembling.

In the rest of the days, Emperor Jianning became more and more busy, and rarely entered the harem again.

On the twenty-ninth day of the first month of the fourth year of Jianning, a small sedan chair, supported by the palace maid, was carried into Mrs. Yu's Lanlin Garden.

On the fourth day of the second month of the fourth year of Jianning, the rare good weather in the half moon, the deep blue sky is cloudless, and the delicate sun hangs in the air, sparing no effort to exude its heat.

After breakfast, Cai Xiang said to Ye Tingfeng, who had not shown a smile on his face for many days, "Princess, the weather is good today, let's go outside for a walk." ”

Ye Tingfeng leaned on the beauty couch, and the gentle sunlight fell on her crimson palace dress through the window, not only did not make her feel warm, but made a chill rise from her heart.

Looking at the dust floating in the sun, Ye Tingfeng shook his head lightly and said to Cai Xiang, "I don't want to go out." It's so cold......"

Hearing this, she reached out and pulled Ye Tingfeng's hand, which was cold. He raised his hand again to listen to Kaede's forehead, which was hot.