Duan Shuqing: "It's all there." She stood side by side with Yue Tang and looked at the soldiers walking not far away, "Everything is all right?" ”

Yue Tang: "Back to the emperor, everything is fine, you can sleep for a while." ”

Duan Shuqing didn't answer, and sighed with a slight smile: "Will Tang'er betray me?" ”

Yue Tang: "The minister doesn't dare, and he won't." ”

Duan Shuqing smiled: "I have received a report, you will join forces with the Beiting Li and Wai to besiege the palace and present my head to the new monarch." She raised her hand and stroked Yue Tang's face, as if she had taken a closer look, "I didn't see that you had the appearance of a queen." ”

Yue Tang didn't dodge or dodge, nor did he immediately bow down and shout grievances, he looked at Duan Shuqing calmly, and said: "The emperor may not believe me or Ke Zhao, but even if the former Prince Xi has 100,000 troops to invade Great Xia, General Yue Bai and the two generals in the court can have 150,000 troops to compete with it, and the emperor does not need to worry." As for the queen or something...... she smiled, "The emperor should know that I don't want to be trapped in the deep palace." ”

Duan Shuqing put down his hand, still with a smile on his lips, and said, "So, do you deny colluding with Beiting?" The report is so realistic, it's hard for me to believe it or not. ”

Yue Tang: "The emperor can verify everything, minister, with a clear conscience." ”

"Guilty?" Duan Shuqing smiled, "Prince Xi before Dieyuan's private meeting, is it considered ashamed?" ”

Yue Tang was slightly startled, and then smiled and said: "If the emperor is really suspicious of the ministers and conspiring with him to seize Great Xia, there is a simple way to solve it - to take back the military power of the ministers." He groped around his waist and took out the troop transfer token, and presented it with both hands, "The minister never complained. ”

Duan Shuqing looked at the token with a smile, casually reached out and took it, shone it in the moonlight, and said with a smile: "The Guiying token, which can be adjusted to at least 30,000 horses, is really majestic." She pinched the token and sighed self-deprecatingly, "If I weren't me, I don't know if I would have galloped across the battlefield like you." She glanced at Yue Tang, "The best destination for the soldiers should be to die on the battlefield, right?" ”

Yue Tang faintly felt that Duan Shuqing had murderous intentions towards him. Maybe she wanted to kill herself when she was in Lanxi, and that murderous intent was hidden and now she was ready to move? Or is it a hint that she should have disappeared sooner?

The tiredness that had already been growing in his heart once again erupted, Yue Tang lowered his head slightly to hide the impatience that was about to erupt, and said in a deep voice: "All the people who are in the army, all of them are desperate to protect the country on the battlefield, and they are willing to sacrifice their bodies in horse leather, but they also want to live in peace and triumph. Her voice was stained with the fatigue of years of fighting and the compassion of seeing too much death, "Your Majesty, the peace is initially decided, and the truce between the two countries will always be peaceful, isn't it?" ”

Duan Shuqing smiled: "Good Tang'er, then you, who are ordered to marry and enjoy wealth and glory, will always be the only female general in the limelight in Great Xia, and you can also raise as many faces as you want, isn't it?" ”

Yue Tang was suddenly a little relieved.

None of them could understand why the other party didn't take the seemingly smooth and leisurely path, and chose a place full of thorns to struggle.

But now, suddenly, they understood.

They're just chasing their hearts.

Idealism only.

I don't know if it's self-deprecation or relatedness, Yue Tang and Duan Shuqing looked at each other and smiled.

Duan Shuqing stuffed the Guiying token back into Yue Tang's hand and said, "What I gave you can't be easily returned. Put it away. ”

Yue Tang took the token and put it away, and said, "The emperor's minister? ”

Duan Shuqing smiled: "Believe it or not, at the moment, this palace can only be guarded by you, and I will feel a little at ease." ”

Yue Tang smiled slightly: "Minister, thank the emperor for his trust at this moment. ”

Duan Shuqing didn't say anything more, turned around and walked towards the dormitory. When she closed the temple door, she turned to look at Yue Tang, under the faint light and dim palace lights, the female general's back was slender and straight, revealing unyielding and tenacious. She used to like these two things very much, and now, she has some resentment about them.

The door of the hall slowly closed in front of Duan Shuqing's eyes, blocking her view of Yue Tang, and there was a slight muffled sound. She walked slowly into the inner hall and looked at the report on the case, but did not move for a while. The confidant palace maid stepped forward and asked softly, "Your Majesty, is this newspaper still destroyed as before?" ”

Duan Shuqing was silent for a while, and said, "Keep it." Nice evidence. ”

Nice, well-known evidence.

For a few more days, Fang Rong's body lay on the road to the palace. After investigation, he committed suicide by cutting his throat, and he also put a handwritten letter from him beside him, which clearly wrote eight big characters: "I am ashamed of the first seat, and I feel uneasy." ”

This incident caused an uproar again. The crime of "murdering the former emperor and having doubtful bloodlines" was once again rampant, causing the old emperor, who was already resentful, to rise up and issue a series of articles, which disturbed the already floating people's hearts even more uneasy.

Only then did Yue Tang know that Fang Rongtong went to Lanxi not simply to cure the plague, but also for a more important purpose to find Guo Ting'an's codex and destroy it. It is not known how this codex ended up in the hands of others and spread out in front of the world at this time. And although Fang Rong was found to have committed suicide, Yue Tang judged that he must have been placed on the road after he killed him. It's just that Fang Rong's body was guarded by the empress after it was collected, and it was impossible to send a servant to verify it.

The people's hearts have not yet been appeased, and there is a riot in Qinzhou. A group of more than 2,000 Rao exiles killed the parents and officials of the curtain land and occupied the subordinates in the name of "punishing the evil and the righteous emperor", claiming that one of the former emperor's sons and nephews was the emperor, and swore to correct the blood of the former emperor, so as to sue the former emperor for his death.

Duan Shuqing was furious and immediately sent troops to encircle and suppress the rebellious people. Unexpectedly, the number of people in this chaos increased to 10,000 in just ten days, and the soldiers sent to surround it were overwhelmed. Ke Zhao invited himself to go on the expedition, but he was ambushed on the day he arrived in Qinzhou, and he fell into the vast water and did not know whether he was alive or dead. Yue Bai, who was far away in the southwest, asked for battle, but unexpectedly, the southwest regenerated and dragged him to the southwest and was powerless.

On this early day, the ministers clearly felt the heavy pressure of the empress. She once again sent two generals to Qinzhou to suppress the turmoil, and then instructed the other officials to deal with the rumors in Beijing, and severely punished those who spread the rumors. Yue Tang has been standing respectfully in the middle of the ranks, and she only replied when the empress asked about the situation in Beijing, unlike the worries of other courtiers, she was indifferent in her heart, as if no matter what happened, she could be at ease.

But the sudden arrival of the eight-hundred-mile urgent report broke Yue Tang's peaceful mood. The herald who knelt in front of the empress hurriedly and clearly said: "Your Majesty, the traces of the former Prince Xi have been found among the chaotic people in Qinzhou!" ”