When the empress spoke, Zhao Liwen was stunned for a long time and didn't react.

The empress didn't speak, her eyes turned to the outside of the imperial study, and her thoughts in her heart were fleeting, Sui Yang and most dynasties in history, more than 300 years of history, the monarch of later generations is far less virtuous than at the beginning, she Zhao Ningbing took over the dragon throne from her brother, not to be the person who eats the corpse, since I can't be the founding emperor, I have to be the master of Zhongxing, and in the Spring and Autumn History Books a hundred years later, Zhao Ningbing's name will be left.

The empress was stunned to think about her wish to be only seventeen years old when she first ascended the throne two years ago, but after sitting on the throne for a long time, she Zhao Ningbing only knew that the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, and how many people wanted to be the ministers of Zhongxing?

The Senate, the old royal family, the two parties of Qingzhou and Jiangnan in the middle of the court, many deep-rooted forces, which one is not a headache for the empress?

Take the household department as an example, almost all of them have become the private backyard of the Qingzhou Party, and the empress has wanted to meddle in the household department several times, and the people sent to it have eaten nails?

Even if the 100,000 soldiers in Daxing City are all in their hands, the prestige of the empress has not been high, after all, the identity of the empress is there, and there is a woman as the emperor since ancient times? Those who are full of sour children, who are willing to obey.

Just like what the empress and Wang Xiaolai said more than a month ago, the Son of Heaven also has difficulties.

When the first emperor was alive, she Zhao Ningbing was not a prince, and she was far from being able to cultivate her own power, so that she was hurriedly raised to the throne by the Eight Sages King, and in the temple, except for the Eight Sages King who was no longer a title, and Lu Gongyou, the martial marquis and the secretary of the military department, there was no more trustworthy courtier.

It is precisely because of this that the empress attaches so much importance to Wang Xiaolai, a potential talent.

Even if she doesn't have much ability, the empress is willing to train Wang Xiaolai to be her own person, as long as she is obedient, regardless of whether she is sincere or vain.

Isn't it all about letting the situation force it?

When I think of this, the empress is one head and two big.

"Your Majesty, Lord Narcissus is back."

At this moment, a small yellow door was passing at the door.

The empress raised her head when she heard the voice, and sighed: "Is she, alone?" ”

Xiao Huangmen replied: "Back to Your Majesty, there are also Yulin Lang Wang Xiaolai, and Liu Mianyi, an officer of the Guards." ”

The empress turned around and brought the dragon robe: "Let them in." ”

Xiao Huangmen said a promise, bowed and stepped out.

After a while, Narcissus led Wang Xiaolai and Liu Mianyi in.

The empress just picked up the teacup and was about to speak, when she saw Wang Xiaolai's face blue and swollen, she was stunned: "Wang Xiaolai, what's going on on your face?" ”

Wang Xiaolai was very embarrassed, and glanced at Narcissus, who didn't care, he hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, this is a fall on the road, a fall." ”

When the empress heard this, she looked at the narcissus, and she knew almost everything, and she smiled at the moment, and said: "Okay, you are a little king, these days, I have made you miserable?" ”

Wang Xiaolai sighed, he didn't know how to answer, he could only smile and say hard work.

"I ask you, when you inspected the inner court before, why did you derelict your duties and leave the team and order Suizhu to be arrested? Coupled with the fact that I have been worried about you for eight days, how do you think I am going to punish you? ”

Wang Xiaolai said it in his heart, and I caused Suizhu to be arrested and get rid of it, obviously she was fooling around and involved me.

But Wang Xiaolai didn't say it, and he didn't dare to say it, so he could only lower his head and be deaf and dumb.

Seeing that Wang Xiaolai didn't speak, the empress was not angry: "Okay, I wanted to cure you of a crime of dereliction of duty, and I thought that you saved Suizhu, and the merits and demerits were offset, Wang Xiaolai, what do you think?" ”

Wang Xiaolai hurriedly said: "Cheng, Cheng, this is the best, the best." ”

Narcissus was displeased: "It's vulgar, thank you Your Majesty." ”

It can be seen that Wang Xiaolai is really afraid of narcissus, and other people will at least give Wang Xiaolai a time to fool, but Narcissus is the only one, just do it directly, and you can't beat it, can Wang Xiaolai not be afraid of her.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty."

"Not yet." Narcissus scolded.

Although Wang Xiaolai pretended to be polite on his face, in his heart, he scolded Narcissus all the time, and he had this ability.

"No, Wang Xiaolai, you stay, I have something to say to you in a while." The empress stopped.

As she spoke, the empress faced: "Liu Mianyi, right?" ”

Liu Mianyi hurriedly bowed: "The end will be." ”

"Speaking of which, I'm a little curious, how did you know the news that Princess Suizhu was kidnapped by gangsters?"

Liu Mianyi told the truth, including how his father-in-law Liang Er reported the letter, how he met Narcissus, and so on.

After hearing this, the empress rushed to Wang Xiaolai and said: "I didn't expect you to be so clever in adversity, not bad, not bad." ”

was praised by others, especially a beauty of the empress's level, Wang Xiaolai was very useful.

"It's all drizzle, sprinkled with water, it's not worth mentioning." At that time, Wang Xiaolaile's tail was eager to go to the sky.

Narcissus saw it and sighed.

"Liu Mianyi." Empress Dao.

Liu Mianyi clenched his fists: "The end will be." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, you're a Dubo of Lu Gongyou's Wude Battalion."

Liu Mianyi nodded and said, "The last general is a hundred commanders under the tent of Marquis Wu." ”

The empress laughed: "Yes, yes, you have a meritorious role in saving the princess this time, and I named you the chief of the song, how about it?" ”

Liu Mianyi sighed and knelt down to thank Long En.

There is an unwritten convention in the Sui Yang army, if there is no war, a soldier from a poor background can do Dubo, it is already the limit, if you want to be promoted to Qu Chang, you have to go to the two northwest borders to work hard for several years in exchange for this position, as for the generals and the like, don't even think about it, now the empress said a word, directly promoted Liu Mianyi to Qu Chang, how could he be unhappy.

"Okay, go down, go to Lu Gongyou to receive the reward."

"Yes."

Liu Mianyi went down happily, Wang Xiaolai stopped doing it, didn't he just praise me, why did he seal Liu Mianyi in the blink of an eye, you little girl doesn't play cards according to the routine, and you can give two verbal rewards.

But the empress had already ignored Wang Xiaolai, and instead looked at Narcissus who was still kneeling on the ground.

"Narcissus." The empress finally spoke, but the expression on her face was quite serious.

After serving the empress for many years, Narcissus knew very well what the empress's temper was at this time, and she didn't dare to breathe at that time: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty." ”

"What did I tell you when I handed over the Dark Guard to you?"

The empress said this, and the sweat on Narcissus's forehead was like a spring.

"Your guard is not effective, and you almost caused Suizhu to have an accident, and you went to the court lieutenant prison by yourself, what should I do, you know the rules." The empress's anger was no longer hidden at this time.

Narcissus took a deep breath and went down respectfully.

Wang Xiaolai was stunned, he was still happy just now, and he turned his face no matter how he said.

"Your Majesty, Narcissus she..." Zhao Liwen wanted to beg for mercy for Narcissus, but was stopped by the empress waving her hand, so she had no choice but to shut up.

"Zhao Weng, this is what Narcissus deserves, you go down first."

The empress said so, what else could Zhao Liwen do, he could only retire.

"Well, Your Majesty, why don't I go too?" When Wang Xiao said this, he kept looking at the empress.

The empress looked back at him: "You stay, I have something to tell you." ”

Wang Xiaolai: "···"

Worried and fearful, Wang Xiaolai didn't know what the empress was going to say to him, he always felt that the empress was too unpredictable, and he didn't know whether the empress was going to punish herself, and she really planned to talk and chat.

Just when Wang Xiaolai was thinking nonsense in his mind, the empress looked up at Wang Xiaolai, who was muttering blindly, happy, and didn't take the initiative to talk to him, just when Wang Xiaolai couldn't wait, she picked up the refugee report sent by Zhao Liwen before, handed it to Wang Xiaolai, and said: "Look, this is the report of tens of thousands of refugees in the south." ”

Wang Xiaolai couldn't figure out the pulse of the empress, so he carefully took it in his hand and looked at it, half loud, grabbed his scalp and said embarrassedly: "That Your Majesty, I don't know this word." ”

The empress was puzzled when she heard this: "You can't read?" ”

Wang Xiaolai nodded, and at the same time said in his heart, I am not illiterate, but I don't know your ancient Chinese like Xiaoshu.

"Alright, I'll read it to you."

The empress said, she opened the excerpt and read it, Wang Xiaolai didn't think there was anything, but if there were others on the side, I was afraid that I would be shocked to lose the big teeth, from ancient times to the present, there is a reason for the Son of Heaven to read the excerpt to a Yu Lin Lang.

After reading it, the empress put down the fold: "Now that the wasteland has been mined, let's wait to build houses for the refugees, I plan to send 10,000 guards in the city to go, you say, how about it?" ”

Wang Xiaolai shook his head when he heard this, and turned to look at the empress: "Your Majesty, are you rich?" ”

The empress was puzzled: "What are you asking for?" ”

Wang Xiaolai said: "10,000 troops go out of the city for 20 miles to build houses, it doesn't cost money, Your Majesty, you have that extra silver, and use it to relieve the victims, isn't it better?" ”

"The refugee house?"

"Hey, let them build it themselves, Your Majesty, you can recruit some craftsmen to guide you, you don't need to send troops at all, in this way, don't mention saving money, if those refugees build their own houses, they will work harder, at best, Your Majesty, you send a small army to watch, don't let the materials be stolen, such a simple thing, Your Majesty, why don't you know."

The more Wang Xiaolai talked about it, the more enjoyable it became, and later, he forgot the difference between his identity and the empress, and his spit flew everywhere, so he almost hooked his shoulders and back, completely similar to the appearance of eating barbecue and blowing 13 on the roadside with friends in his previous life.

But the empress didn't click on it, she just smiled, as the monarch, she didn't know the truth here, she just wanted to see how good Wang Xiaolai was in dealing with such small things.

Looking at Wang Xiaolai, who was dancing with her eyebrows, the empress smiled slightly, her face full of appreciation.

Although this person is still inexperienced, he can use it.