Chapter 203: Niangniang, please take a look
The relevant contents of the draft of the Kyoto Treaty were leaked, and the argument for peace had already been spread in the Dune Palace, and the auxiliary minister Su Shun (who was also the head of the household department) was still deliberately concealing the facts at this time, and he did not know what he was going to do.
"What are you yelling about, Lord Su Shunsu? What the emperor has approved, you are still hiding it, what do you want? "Yi Guifei Lala clan took a few palace maids, pedaling clogs, holding silk silks, like a female duck swaying over.
Lala entered the palace at the age of seventeen, was a nobleman of Lan, and at the age of twenty-one, he gave birth to a son with Emperor Tongqing, and was named Concubine Yi and Concubine Yi. On the one hand, the Lala clan wants to raise children, and on the other hand, they want to compete for favor in the harem, and they often review the chapters for the frail and sickly Emperor Xiantong.
After five years as a junior attendant by the emperor's side, Lala honed the ability to control ministers and be capable and shrewd, which directly stimulated her desire for political power. And the queen Colu is illiterate, kind, similar to Muna, and the most lethal thing is that she has no heirs. The first person in the Lala clan to unite to seize the scepter was the Cobalt Clan.
"This official and General Gong Jichang are discussing military affairs...... The concubine is auspicious. Su Shun bowed down and greeted Lara.
"The army has all arrived in Kyoto, and the main palace is not auspicious. Lord Su Shunsu, this palace asks you, how many years will it take for our Qinghe Kingdom to pay 16 million taels of silver? Lara's face was gloomy.
"At the beginning of the emperor's succession, there were 2.7 million taels of silver in the treasury, and 1.69 million taels of silver in the treasury in three years, but in fact there were only 118609 taels ......," Su Shun replied loudly.
"Damn, the emperor is poorer than my uncle." Gong Changyu sighed, "No wonder General Ben won the battle in Lenghu Mountain, and the emperor rewarded me with 3,000 taels of silver." β
Other soldiers also coaxed: "The emperor has no silver, absolutely impossible, impossible." β
"Fool us, huh?"
"There shouldn't be any fakes. We've been here for more than half a month and haven't eaten a single meat. β
"Hey, we're out of luck when we meet such a poor emperor."
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"Everybody, quiet, quiet." Su Shun shouted.
Where will the soldiers of the Jingyi Battalion listen to him, and the discussion is endless. Without silver, there will be a mutiny at any time, but with Gong Chang here, these regiments dare not make a mistake in training and arming. Gong Changyu did not immediately stop the uproar of the army, he wanted to see how Su Shun stepped down.
"Ladies and gentlemen, listen to Lord Su's wordsβ" Lala waved his silk handkerchief. As soon as Concubine Yi spoke, the soldiers of the Jingyi Battalion gradually quieted down.
"Master Su, let's get to the point." Lala continued.
"Yes." Su Shun nodded slightly, "In recent years, the taxes of the richest counties in Jiangnan have been transferred to the pseudo-blue wolf country, and the treasury revenue has decreased sharply, probably about 8 million taels of silver per year. β
"How many eggs can I buy for a tael of silver?" Lara elongated by two.
"900." Su said.
"Why is the egg eaten in this palace ten taels of silver?" Lala asked.
"This ......," Su Shun was speechless for a while, "This is a matter of the Internal Affairs Office, and the official does not know about it." β
Su Shun was telling the truth, the Internal Affairs Office was not within his purview. In order to prevent the gradual deterioration of the situation, the Qing and imperial courts stipulated that the ministers in charge had no fixed number, and also sent the princes and nobles of the clan to take charge of a specific department in the name of the ministers, which had the meaning of mutual containment and supervision.
In the exercise of their duties, they must be handled in accordance with the established regulations, and no edict of the emperor shall be exceeded in the slightest, so as to ensure the absolute stability of the order in the palace and maintain the absolute majesty of the autocratic imperial power. There are more than 50 institutions of various kinds in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and its subordinate departments, and there are more than 3,000 officials in total, excluding craftsmen and eunuchs.
Due to the large number of personnel, the household department had to allocate 1 million taels of silver to the head of the internal affairs department every year, as for what items they bought and how to spend them, Su Shun never asked. After all, it is a matter of the emperor's private affairs, and the emperor has to give as much as he wants, as long as there is still silver in the treasury, as far as possible to meet the emperor's needs first.
"Oh. Then the palace needs to inquire about the minister-in-charge. Lala's eyebrows raised and his silver teeth were bitten.
"Concubine Niangniang, don't check it out. In the past ten years, the chief of internal affairs has been like walking a lantern, changing and pulling out one after another, and he can't find out. Su Shun lowered his head and suggested.
"Master Su, if this palace is not mistaken, you are the head of May, right?" Lala asked.
"I have a really good memory. But now I'm the head of Wenfeng, and it has nothing to do with me. Su Shun said.
"That's fine." Lala's took it when he saw it.
She was scolding in her heart, hmph, you are Su Shun, the days of this palace in the palace are so poor, it is even more bitter than the nuns in the nunnery, and you will not be angry for long. The sick emperor is probably dying, as soon as the emperor's big tree falls, you will be finished, and after I seize the scepter, I will have to behead you. But now is not the time, Hongu should bear with it.
Su Shun saw that Concubine Yi Lala could suppress the soldiers of the Jingyi Battalion, and led the Praetorian Guards to the "Lingbo Zhishuang" Palace, because the emperor would still listen to the opera with great interest!
As soon as Su Shun left, Lala's clan met Gong Chang closely: "General, listening to your accent, you don't look like a person from the Central Plains, where is your hometown?" β
"Hui Niangniang, the last general's current home is Baocheng Mansion in Jingnan County, and the ancestors lived in Bohai County, but I don't know where Bohai County is......" Gong Changyu hugged his fist.
"The Bohai County of the Western Han Dynasty is located along the coast of the Bohai Bay in today's Jizhou and Liaoyang. The end of the millet is built by the main body, and it is first called Zhenguo (Zhenguo). Tang Xuanzong canonized Da Zuorong as the king of Bohai County and the governor of Kuhan Prefecture, so he was named Bohai. The Bohai Sea straddles both sides of the Ussuri River. In the fourth year of Tongguang in the Later Tang Dynasty (926 in the Western calendar), it was destroyed by the Khitan...... "When the Lala clan heard that Gong Changyu's ancestor was from Bohai County, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
ββ¦β¦ General, please come into the palace and speak. Lala paused.
"Niangniang, can you say it outside this palace?" Gong Changyu didn't know Lala's intentions.
"General, there is a lot of wind and sand outside the palace, so it's better to go into the Warm Heart Hall and say it." Lala turned around and led a few maids into the palace gate.
Gong Changyu immediately understood Lala's intentions, and ordered the soldiers to evacuate to a place two miles away from the palace, and then under the guidance of a palace maid, he went to the Warm Heart Hall with his sword alone.
Lala sat on the soft-seated mahogany chair, stretched out his long nail covers, and said to the maid of the palace, "Show General Gong a seat." β
"Xie Niangniang." Gong Changyu hugged his fists and saluted.
"General Gong, why don't you kneel when you see this palace?" Lala asked with a smile.
"I am a military general, and I only salute in the march." Gong Changyu replied.
"It's not the same in the army and in the palace, it's different. We, the Qinghe Kingdom, have been quarreling with Western European powers such as Eagle Strike Li on this issue of etiquette for a hundred years, and it is time to take a break and change our thinking. The Kyoto of the Qinghe Kingdom fell into the hands of the Fan Army, and it was no longer important to ask for face. Lala reached out and took a cup of herbal tea, lifted the lid, and took a sip, "The emperor just wants to die to save face, and he is unwilling to make a contract with the Ousi, and the Ouxi people earn too little silver in my Qinghe Empire, so they started a war." β
"The Eursians want to communicate with each other and trade with us. The emperor was blindly xenophobic, still fantasizing about restoring the glory of the former empire and all nations, and regarded the Occidental people as Yi people, unable to keep up with the rhythm of the times. Gong Changyu said.
"Just now, the general was from Yun's ancestral home in Bohai County, and the Gong Jia clan of Liaoyang County moved south to change the Han surname Gong, so the general is also a descendant of my Yan Ya, and like my Lala clan, he originated in Tianchi Changbai Mountain." Lala's is to win people's hearts.
Gong Changyu secretly thought, this Yi Guifei is not talking nonsense with her eyes open, my ancestors are all Miao people, how can I be a distant relative of the Fei Luo family? This girl is quite handsome......
Gong Changyu couldn't help but look at it a few more times, the problem is here, Concubine Yi's forehead is too high and wide, it's too bad!
His uncle told him that if a woman has a square and big forehead, then she is very ambitious, ambitious, and always wants to be a leader, and the wider the forehead, the greater the ambition. Hey, Concubine Yi is such a face, her personality is stubborn to the end, and she never realizes that she is wrong, and she is stubborn to the end.
Kefu Xiang, the emperor is miserable. It seems that the Qinghe Empire is about to change, and the second Empress Wu of the Linzhao Dynasty is about to appear, it is only a matter of time. General Ben's wife, Feng Jiao'er, is completely different from Concubine Yi's appearance, Wangfu, hehe.
Seeing that Gong Changyu kept looking at his face, Lala couldn't help but hold his forehead and smile and asked, "General, is this palace ugly?" β
"Oh no. Niangniang has the beauty of falling geese and sinking fish, which is the color of the country and the fragrance of the country. Gong Changyu said some beautiful words, he was testing the vanity of this "Kefu woman", "like a turnip flower in March, she looks like fifteen, sixteen or seven, and like eighteen or nineteen." β
"General, does Hongu really look that young?" Lala clutched his cheeks, which were covered in rouge gouache, and exclaimed.
"Mother, the last general will not dare to lie." Gong Changyu is serious. But I was laughing wildly in my heart, you are a fairy woman, the age and gloomy aura are completely asymmetrical, it seems that if you go to those forty-year-old aunts and the city government, the good days of Su Shun, the head of the household, are coming to an end.
"General, sit down a little bit, and let Hongu take a good look at the saber at your waist." The Lala clan suddenly stared at Gong Changyu's Lock Dragon Divine Sword.
"It's disrespectful to be close." Gong Changyu stopped and said, "Niangniang is the phoenix body of the mother in the world, and the end will be terrified." β
Lala signaled the maid to retreat, Gong Changyu stood up, untied the lock dragon sword, held it in both hands, and walked over step by step: "Niangniang...... Please take a look. β
Lala was dressed very little at this time, and the white skin under the tulle was dewy. Gong Changyu glanced at him, and then sat down on the chair five steps away.
Holding the scabbard, after taking a closer look, Lala took out the Dragon Lock Divine Sword, held it in front of his eyes, and danced for a while. Suddenly, a dart flew in from outside the hall and hit the body of the dragon's sword, falling to the ground with a thud.
"Oh no, there are assassinsβ" Gong Changyu shouted in a lost voice, and a lunge lunged towards Lara.