171 The Troubles of Statecraft

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Qiu Zhenyu touched his beard, and said with a smile: "I just know that you have the ability, so I handed over this matter to you, then the imperial city is still the palace of your Zhao dynasty after all, and you should be more comfortable than those women." ”

Zhao smiled disdainfully: "What does the master want Wang Jieyu to do?" ”

Qiu Zhenyu said: "Tell her that as long as you do what we tell us, you can ensure the integrity of her and the eldest prince, and even in the future." And what she has to do is very simple. ”

Zhao squinted her eyes slightly, watching her husband's mouth open and close, listening to those ruthless things, and after a while, she asked coldly: "Master thinks the queen will be fooled?" You just despise her so much?

Qiu Zhenyu shook his head and said, "How can you look down on her, she is very capable." ”

Zhao said: "Master, although I will never admit that the little is the son and daughter of the Qiu family, but the master doesn't think that in fact, your father and daughter are very similar?" ”

Qiu Zhenyu closed his eyes, seemingly closed his eyes to recuperate, but in fact, he secretly hated in his heart, what his wife said was not bad at all, he even felt that so far, the tricky enemy he had met was his daughter, probably in his heart, and there was a little bit of luck, thinking that the father-daughter relationship could bring him something, so he was caught off guard again and again, making him feel ashamed.

"I will do what the master has explained, but you can't sit back and wait now, the emperor will open up his court in a big way." Zhao said proudly, "Don't end up, I did everything I had to do, but you lost first, master." ”

Qiu Zhenyu smiled coldly: "The woman's opinion." ”

On the same day, the emperor received a message from Xiping Province, and Song Yuan reported about the looting that had occurred outside Xiping Province, at the place where Daqi and Zanxi and Liang were at the intersection of the Three Kingdoms. Although it was Liang Guo who injured people, it was the Zanxi people who first provoked the incident.

Originally, this was just a small conflict on the trade field, if someone else would never send a letter of 800 li to the capital urgently, but Song Yuan was familiar with history and was familiar with the origin and results of every battle in history, whether it was a foreign war or the internal strife of various countries, it often started from a trivial matter and intensified. This conflict, in Song Yuan's view, cannot be ignored.

And in the past few years, the emperor has a headache, although the land of Daqi is fertile and abundant, and it occupies the best feng shui land in the Three Kingdoms, only the lack of salt, from the beginning of the Zhao State, the Zanxi people have relied on selling their green salt, and obtained the food they rely on for survival from the Liang State and the Zhao State.

However, after the establishment of the Great Qi court, the Zanxi people suddenly raised the price of salt, and the court needed to spend three times the price to get the same amount of salt as before, and in the years when Xiang Ye and the Zhao dynasty were in turmoil, the Liang state violated the original alliance of the three kingdoms and exchanged a large number of weapons for salt. But the contract of that year was signed with Zhao State, and now the dynasty has been changed on the same land, Xiang Ye has no position to make difficulties, and has been striving to improve the trade relations between the three countries in recent years, but Liang and Zanxi have reached a tacit understanding and aimed their guns at Daqi.

Originally, Xiang Ye only needed to hold Kishu City and manage the food and clothing of the people of Kizhou, but now, this major matter related to several countries is on his shoulders.

The emperor was in the Qingming Pavilion, and several confidants and ministers discussed until sunset, hoping to come up with a complete countermeasure, obviously the attitude of the two neighboring countries was very polite, before the Qiangshui Pass stopped, let the Nanban succumb, not only did not deter them, it is likely to make them more wary of Daqi, and want to get the maximum benefit before the Xiang Dynasty is really strong.

When he walked out of the Qingming Pavilion, Xiang Ye felt hunger in his belly, and when he came to the Shangyang Palace, he smelled the fragrance of the food when he entered the door, and the gentle person smiled and filled the soup, and said like an ordinary wife: "The emperor quickly washed his hands and came to eat." ”

Xiang Ye smiled knowingly, sat down after washing his hands, and a bowl of warm and delicious soup was in his stomach, and the whole person was refreshed. After gobbling it up, such a strong body needed food more than ordinary people, and what annoyed him the most was that the emperor's family was sitting in danger, and he had to pass three or four hands to eat, and he had no appetite at a glance. But here, not only freedom, but also the company of beautiful women, Min'er's smile is more delicious than any delicacy.

"Zhou Huai said that the emperor didn't eat at noon, he must be hungry at this time, he can't eat violently when he is hungry, slow down, and wait for another supper?" Min'er didn't add any more food to the emperor, and took the initiative to put down his chopsticks and said, "Let's go to the water pavilion to feed the fish." ”

After a full day of wine and food, and a busy day, the emperor inevitably became lazy, and said lazily: "Go ahead, I will go and jump alive again after those fish, and your skirt will be splashed." ”

Min'er pulled him and walked to the water pavilion regardless of it, but saw that there was already a zither there, a cushion for a chair, and an incense burner with cigarettes, Min'er said: "Feed the fish, the emperor will rest for a while, and I will play the piano for you." ”

Xiang Ye sat down on the chair and pointed to the lake: "It's good for me to look at you." ”

Min'er motioned to the palace people who brought fish food to retreat, and simply sat down in front of the zither, and the ten fingers brushed the strings lightly, and there was a natural sound, melodious from the Taiye Pool.

"It's rare to be idle, and my head is loose, but if I am so idle every day, I must be bored again, people, ......," Xiang Ye said lazily, "Looking back, when I was in Kishu, I was too busy to accompany Ruoyao, but compared to now, I know what is really busy, but if it is a day like Jizhou, I will be restless, and I have to worry about whether there will be countries sharpening their knives towards the border, and whether there will be rebels with bad intentions." Even if the world is peaceful, there is no peace in the heart. ”

Min'er was silent, playing the piano by herself, her heart was so quiet, she couldn't hear the slightest distraction in the piano sound, at the end of the song, the emperor's mood calmed down a little, and he didn't continue to say those words, maybe he said it, and his mood was good.

At this time, Min'er asked, "Is there an accident at the border?" ”

Xiang Ye shook his head: "It's okay right now, it's just a precautionary measure." And doing these things, it is difficult to have a sense of accomplishment, but it will give birth to the frustration of being busy, not to mention that the ministers are unwilling to do useless things, I will also be impatient, how good it is to fight happily. ”

Min'er just listened, occasionally asking a few words, without coming up with an idea, and not asking the emperor what he was going to do, she just wanted to give the emperor an outlet and let him understand that he was willing to listen to anything. Naturally, Xiang Ye said to Min'er, it was completely different from others, in the past few years, he had also tried to communicate with Concubine Shu, but Concubine Shu always looked cautious and nervous, and she didn't understand and didn't like to listen. In fact, the emperor doesn't need a woman to solve these things for himself, he just wants to have someone to talk to, Min'er, who meets all his needs.

However, the emperor's sorrow still had an impact on Min'er, and she was not shocked in front of Xiang Ye that night, but the next day the emperor went to the Xuanzheng Palace, she stood in front of the door of the dormitory in her bedclothes, and ordered Qingya: "Imperial Doctor Xuanchen came to see me." ”

Even Qingya didn't calculate that the queen suddenly found Imperial Doctor Chen, she would do such a thing, she thought that the queen was going to study the matter of assisted conception and midwifery, but the queen actually asked Imperial Doctor Chen to create a man-made infectious disease, and she wanted to take this opportunity to put Haitang Palace under house arrest.

After the matter was arranged, a letter from Wonju happened to be delivered, Min'er read her grandmother's letter happily, looked up and saw Qingya looking at herself blankly, and asked with a smile: "What's wrong?" ”

Qingya said: "It's okay for Niangniang to put Wang Jieyu under house arrest, along with the eldest prince, will you also be under house arrest, after a long time, the outside should suspect that you can't tolerate the eldest prince, and the previous criticism of the emperor has been suppressed, but they must be ready to attack you at any time." ”

Min'er shook her head and said: "Like the emperor, take precautions, passively wait for them to make a move, it is better to take the initiative to lead them to make a move, we don't know who is trying to control the Wang family behind the scenes, and we don't know what kind of secret the Wang family is carrying, so we will wait until the time something happens to understand why it is too late." There is no power behind the Wang family that can shake the court, only a prince can make a fuss, but I won't harm a child, let alone her, I just want to make things clear. ”

Qingya is kind-hearted: "Niangniang has always been resolute and resolute in distinguishing between right and wrong, but when outsiders say it, they are arbitrary and arbitrary. There are legends outside that the ladies of the harem are afraid of you and dare not get close to you. ”

Min'er smiled: "I'm not high, do I still mingle with them?" Morning and evening...... It is also to be separated. ”

Qingya looked at the queen and once again convinced herself to be firm. She will always sway for the sake of human affection, pity and sympathy, but the queen never wastes this feeling, she can let go of Han Meiren and Jinxiu, but no one can see this side, her kindness and mercy do not exist to make people praise.

"Come and grind the ink, don't think about it." Min'er smiled indifferently, as if nothing had happened.

But in the afternoon of this day, several palace maids fell ill with a fever, and the hospital asked the emperor to order a strict ban on entering and exiting, so as to investigate the cause, and tossed until the evening, Haitang Palace and the other two palaces were required to all people not to leave the palace without permission, and the eldest prince was also quickly sent back to Haitang Palace, and Min'er did not separate their mother and son.

So by the next day, although the imperial doctor had already said that it was not in the way, the concubines who were afraid of natural disasters were also staying in their respective palaces, and Haitang Palace was also the only place where they continued to be required to be confined, except for the queen mother, who was worried about the eldest prince, no one cared about the life and death of Wang Jieyu and her palace people.

Unconsciously, three days passed, and the concubines began to move again, only to find that Wang Jieyu and the eldest prince were still in the Begonia Palace and could not come out, which was a little curiosity and rumors, and one or two sentences gradually became a wind, and everyone knew about it inside and outside the palace.

There is no doubt that the Zhao family will no longer be able to put their hands into the Begonia Palace at this time, and she and Qiu Zhenyu are both troubled by this, but Qiu Zhenyu also concluded that the eldest prince has been under house arrest, and sooner or later some courtiers will protest.

However, everyone was waiting for how this matter would develop, and the emperor and empress were calm and light.