Shangguan Li was deeply favored by the emperor, and his life became more and more happy. Lin Yuan and Zhao Zhaoyi still hold the palace power, and the emperor has no intention of delegating power to the queen, but even if there is not enough power, Shangguan Li, the queen, has done something that envy the world.

In the harem, only the queen and the concubine are the most powerful, one of these two is the main palace, and the other is the mother of the East Palace, even if Yun Dan, who has been promoted to the throne of Concubine Zhen, cannot steal the limelight. Because of the coercion of these two mountains, there are many fewer disputes among the concubines, and even if there is, they are all low-ranking concubines who are jealous.

Shangguan Li is no longer targeting Lin Yuan. She seems to like a comfortable and sweet life, and she is tired of being a wife by the emperor's side every day, coveting the enjoyment in front of her. The days without worries pass faster and faster.

Lin Yuan was not at ease in such stability, she didn't know what the queen was playing in her heart. Her son has become the East Palace, won't the queen feel anxious? Could it be that she would be willing to watch Tuoba Hong a hundred years later, the world will be pocketed by Lin Yuan's mother and son?

But it's not all without it. The crown prince is getting older, both civil and military are outstanding, and his fifth brother King Wu is not left behind, and he does not dare to compete with the East Palace on the face, but he is immersed in hard work in private. Lin Yuan saw that his heart trembled, but because King Wu acted cautiously and respectfully on his face, he couldn't catch any mistakes or omissions, so he could only watch him work hard like a wive.

Time is like silk, the queen mother was seriously ill in the winter of the fifteenth year of Qianwu, and the emperor listened to the words of the imperial doctor and prepared to move his mother to Huanxiu Villa to recuperate.

At that time, it coincided with Changning's marriage, and the queen mother stayed in the palace for her for an extra month, and stayed until the first month of the sixteenth year of Qianwu before leaving the palace. Changning's marriage can be called ten miles of red makeup, Tuoba Hong loves his daughter, and he makes an exception to seal her as the eldest emperor, with 2,000 households. Her biological mother, the Zhao family, who was named Concubine Zhuang half a year ago, was favored by the emperor because of her daughter's happy event and raised the seven princes born by the Zhang family.

Because of Concubine Zhuang and Concubine Shu's friendship, after the Seven Princes were recorded in Concubine Zhuang's name, the position of the prince of the East Palace was more stable. And the Seven Princes changed their names to "珝" on the same day, the same as "Yi", which means auxiliary.

In the Northern Frontier Battlefield, Tuobahiro's fears soon became a reality. After the veteran Shangguan Yue returned to Beijing due to illness, the newly appointed young commander began to show his shortcomings.

In the 16th year of Qianwu, the frontline received good results as usual. However, the Xiongnu town and the border city of Jingjing in the north could not be attacked for a long time, which caused the Qin army to advance slowly.

On the first day of the eighth month of the seventeenth year of Qianwu, when Xiping Mansion, the old summer capital, changed hands for the fourth time, in order to compete for it, Mongolia tore up the alliance with Qin. The war between the two countries ended.

The Mongol breach of the treaty caught the Qin state by surprise. Originally, the two countries would only have disputes when they were fighting for the territory of the Xia Kingdom, but they were united in the face of the Huns. This time, however, before the news of the break of the alliance spread, the Mongols raided the rear of the Qin army on the Xiongnu border. The Qin army had the Xiongnu in front of it, and there was a sneak attack in the rear.

In the face of absolute adversity, without the god of war Shangguan Yue as the commander, Chen Xiu, a young general who was only 27 years old, and 300,000 troops, slept in the thick wind and sand of northern Xinjiang.

The Mongols had been prepared for a long time, and the Qin army was unprepared. In just half a year, the sixteen states of Yan Ji were lost.

When the news reached the capital, the sick queen mother was furious and vomited blood and died.

When the Queen Mother went away, the emperor rushed to Huanxiu Villa at night and knelt in front of the Queen Mother's sickbed. The Queen Mother returned to the light and pointed at the emperor and said, "You are too greedy......"

The front line was defeated, the Empress Dowager died, and the entire Qin State fell into an unprecedented crisis.

On the tenth day of the fifth month of the eighteenth year of Qianwu, the emperor personally led a heavy army and went north to fight.

The prince in the capital is in charge of the country, and the prime minister is the regent.

The harem ladies are no longer in the mood to fight. Everyone lives behind closed doors, and without the emperor, there is no need to compete for favor, and these women have lost their pillars all of a sudden. Many concubines began to live in Chonghua Palace at a young age, chanting and burning incense day and night, and did not ask about world affairs.

The emperor was personally involved in danger, and the external troubles were like wolves and tigers, and the Great Qin State was making a big gamble. For the second time in her life, Empress Shangguan went down to the middle palace and ordered her uncle in the Shangguan clan to re-lead the troops and go out with the holy driver, but the whole clan played a blood letter and disobeyed the order. Her father, the former god of war, Shangguan Yue, knelt down and begged her:

"Lord, Queen, don't you understand this...... The Qin State was the overlord of the Central Plains, and the savings accumulated in the first ten years of the Qianwu Dynasty were strong enough to bear the consequences of any war. Even if we lose this time, at most we will pay compensation for the cession of land, but we will not lose the country. We are still a big clan in the DPRK and China, and our status and interests have not been damaged. However, if the Shangguan clan participates in the war again and saves the country at the most critical moment, what will happen to us! ”

The queen was furious and smashed the jade seal of the country to the ground. The national seal of the Qin State is an ancient relic and a family bi, which has been passed down from generation to generation in the dynasties thousands of years ago. Shangguan Li smashed the jade seal, and the jade seal lacked corners, and then made up for it with red gold. 【1】

The queen was weak, and in the end, the generals in the Shangguan clan failed to go to the battlefield.

This year, the crown prince Tuoba Qi was nine years old.

It was destined to be eventful. In October of the 18th year of Qianwu, a major corruption case broke out in Jiangnan. The officials headed by the commander of Qizhou Jiumen embezzled a large amount of grain, grass and treasury transported to the northwest front from the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, and the number of people involved was large, which was known as the "Luancang Case" in history.

The prince was not in chaos, and appointed King Xianyu and Feng Qingming as Qincha to inspect Jiangnan. Two months later, Qin sent back to Beijing to restore his life, escorted all the corrupt officials into Beijing, and presented a thick stack of scrolls to the prince above the early dynasty. The prince first issued an order to send the vanguard army of the capital to urgently escort the smuggled and delayed grain and grass to the northern frontier, and everything was on the front line. Subsequently, he issued another decree to confiscate and behead all 120 officials suspected of embezzlement.

Among them, only a few of them are the most greedy and deserve to be put to death according to the law, and the rest are not guilty to death. In particular, most of the officials just followed their bosses to get some oil and water, and they got very little. And the prince dealt with it with an iron fist, cutting everyone across the board, regardless of who deserved to die and who didn't.

At the same time that the corrupt officials in Jiangnan were uprooted, the crown prince's execution of a large number of officials attracted the rebuttal of the courtiers. Many courtiers wrote: "The country is worried about internal and external troubles, and the crown prince has set off a bloody storm, which may cause more serious civil strife." Prime Minister Zuo admonished him and asked him if he had reversed his word for the "benevolence and righteousness that he put forward back then".

The prince insisted on his opinion and replied: "Forgiveness is not benevolence, and killing is not unkindness. ”

Subsequently, the crown prince issued a third decree. The huge amount of property copied from the mansion of the criminal minister was divided into three equal parts, one of which was used to hoard grain and cast troops to aid the northern Xinjiang. Two full of the treasury, the national tax exemption for half a year, Shuzhou, Gansu, Tongzhou and other places for one year.

As a result of the successive wars, the high level of taxation became more and more unbearable for the people, and although the people did not break out into an uprising, the complaints were true. And now that the situation on the front line has deteriorated, and the taxes do not know how high they will be, in the long run, it is not impossible to really force the people to rebel in the end, and it will really be over at that time. The crown prince gave his will, the whole country rejoiced, and the people of Qin got a chance to breathe, and their resentment towards the royal family was really much less.

The people all claimed that the prince had ruled the country well.

News from the front line continued to spread into the palace one after another.

After Tuoba Hong's personal expedition, the morale of the soldiers really increased greatly, and the previous decline was restored. In March of the 19th year of Qianwu, Yanzhou was recovered.

During this year's Dragon Boat Festival, a rare banquet was held in the palace. Since the break with Mongolia, the Qin army was defeated on the battlefield, and the queen mother died of illness, and the palace did not dare to hold a wedding banquet for two years. Now that the emperor has personally reclaimed some cities, Empress Shangguan and Concubine Shu discussed, and finally hosted a Dragon Boat Festival to add some joy.

However, on the night of the night banquet, King Wu Tuoba ignored the ban in the palace and left the palace overnight.

The queen went crazy that night, and sent secret guards all over the capital to find King Wu, for fear that he would be captured or even assassinated by the assassins of the enemy country. When the emperor returns, she can't explain this, and she doesn't want to sit down anymore. The queen searched for two days and there was no news, and the prince and the concubine were frightened, but on the third day, news came from the defenders of the capital that King Daowu led 30,000 elite soldiers from the barracks in the Mulan enclosure and rode to the north to fight.

Everyone in the palace was dumbfounded. The emperor left the palace, and several royal families of King Duanxu went out with him, and except for the prince, all of them were female dependents who stayed in the court. Shangguan Li is anxious and angry, King Wu is a ten-year-old child, what can he understand? Also led troops north to help in the war? He is a prince, his identity is blind, Mo said that the probability of being intercepted by the assassin on the way is very high, and when he arrives in the northwest, will he help the war or add to the chaos?

The queen immediately ordered someone to bring her Feng Ling and Feng Yin to chase after King Wu quickly. Of course, she couldn't catch up, although King Wu was young, he was very able to endure hardships, and he didn't sleep for two days and two nights, leading his generals over the mountains and mountains, and walked out of thousands of miles early.

The crown prince of the prison country had no choice about this matter, and finally he and the queen wrote an excerpt together, and sent it to the emperor of northern Xinjiang, instructing someone to answer the king of Wu, and if he received it, he would send a letter back to report safety.

In terms of face, the queen is the mother of King Wu, and the crown prince is the younger brother of King Wu, but they all have their own thoughts. Things got to this point, the queen didn't pay attention to it anymore, and the concubine and the crown prince were angry.

Why did King Wu lead his troops north? Doesn't he understand the cruelty of the battlefield? Didn't he know that he was still young, not skilled in martial arts, and not capable enough to protect himself in the chaotic army? Isn't he afraid of death?

The royal family is the most greedy for life and afraid of death, and King Wu took such a big risk, of course, in order to obtain military merits in preparation for the future succession.

Seeing that his sixth brother was firmly seated in the East Palace, and he would take over the Great Qin Jiangshan as a matter of course in the future, he was unwilling.

But now that the status of the East Palace is stable, the crown prince is the same age as him, and his talent is better than him, and he has no other way but to make dangerous moves. He needs to use the method of gambling his life to let his father see his excellence and give him hope and opportunities.

Remarks: [1] During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, He's Bi went through several exiles and finally returned to Qin, where it was made into a jade seal by Qin Shi Huang. After the destruction of Qin, this jade seal was attributed to Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty and became the national seal of the Han Dynasty. In the ninth year of AD, after Wang Mang usurped the throne, he asked his aunt, Wang Zhengjun, the empress of the Han Yuan Emperor, for the national seal. Wang Zhengjun cried and scolded Wang Mang, smashed the national seal to the ground, and the national seal was missing corners from then on, and made up for it with gold.

This historical record was later refuted, and some scholars suggested that the Heshi Bi and the Han Dynasty jade seal were not the same thing.

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