Not long after the Shangyuan Festival, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the end of the month. One day at the end of the first month, early in the morning, Xiao Luzi and Mi Hong moved the ladder and climbed onto the roof to get busy.

Mi Qing walked into the courtyard gate, saw the actions of the two and said with a smile: "You can be regarded as having a diligent time, I said last time, now that the Shangyuan Festival has passed for almost half a month, you know how to be lazy, and you don't take down the red lantern that you don't use." Now look at the palace, which courtyard still hangs such an eye-catching thing? ”

"Sister Miqing, it's not that I want to be lazy," Xiao Luzi's voice sounded, and he smiled while holding the horizontal rope on it: "Look at our courtyard, the first one in the palace is not too simple, it is Manager He, and he has nagged several times." And the plum blossoms in the yard, when they bloom, it's good, but now they have to thank you, at first glance, it's really missing some aura, so the red lantern has been hanging, and it's also joyful and fresh to look at. I'm going to replace it with a golden dragon head today, so I took it down, otherwise I wouldn't want to take it down. ”

Mi Hong helped on the side, took the red lantern, and handed over the two golden lanterns made of proclamation, and it was about to be the day when the second dragon raised its head in February, and according to the rules of the palace, the dragon head lantern should be hung.

"It's just that you have a lot of words," Mi Qing said with a smile, "You have to find all kinds of reasons for being lazy." ”

A few people were busy and noisy outside, but in the house, Su Mi felt listless. After explaining to everyone, she lay lazily on the bed.

It was only when she was in the middle of the game that she realized that the things she needed to face might be far more severe than she could have imagined.

Every time she thought of the queen's reluctant smile and cold eyes, Su Mi felt cold.

What she relies on now is Qi Long's favor, but this favor is a double-edged sword, which has given her a lot of opportunities, but it has also brought endless troubles. Regarding Qi Long's kindness one after another, Su Mi really didn't bother to think about what kind of heavy blow he would throw in the palace, and how much turmoil and afterglow it would cause.

She was thinking back to the meeting with Mr. Ge that had just passed yesterday.

The efficiency of the emperor's special explanation was naturally extraordinary, and just three days after consulting with the empress, Ge Chengming was summoned to the court and began to be responsible for drawing images for the palace concubines of Daqi.

The first concubine to inherit this glory was Su Mi.

She put on a gorgeous long dress of dark blue brocade, and the skirt and skirt were embroidered with white pear blossoms, and the petals gradually decreased from the bottom to the top, so that the clear white seemed to be rising gently, and when she reached the waist, the long skirt was tightly bound by a wide moon-white embroidered pale gold Chinese belt, slender waist, not a grip. Covered with a thin, almost transparent silver light gauze robe, hazy, elegant and shy. His black hair is tied into a gorgeous celestial bun and adorned with jasper hairpins carved in the style of magnolia flowers, which are inlaid with rounded pearls. Although the clothes are simple, there is a gorgeous elegance in the freshness, and the human face is like a flower, and the look is drunk.

She had already sent Xiao Luzi and Mi Hong to watch the lights and play, and only Chen Yan and Mi Qing were left to serve in her palace. After waiting for a while, I heard the inner supervisor outside report that Mr. Ge had arrived.

Seeing the old man again, although there was already a precedent for Chen Yan, Su Mi couldn't help but be excited, she stood elegantly in front of the silk cloth and posed, and the accompanying little eunuch placed the brushes, inkstones and other things, and then retired. Ge Chengming rolled up his sleeves, lifted his paintbrush and lightly touched the ink.

Su Mi chuckled with a little nostalgia: "How is Mr. lately?" ”

"I am displaced, but I can also enjoy myself," Ge Chengming smiled and said: "I'm all old bones, what's the matter, but the second miss has suffered in the past few years." ”

"Such frustrating words are not like what Mr. Ge said," Su Mi said: "In the past, Mr. has not always been ambitious, but now although he has followed Nan Chen, Prince Cheng is also a rare British master and famous general in contemporary times, and with the assistance of Mr., he will definitely be able to achieve a career in the battlefield, and his father will be very pleased in the spirit of heaven." ”

"In this troubled world, if you want to achieve a career, only a peerless celebrity is absolutely not enough." Ge Chengming couldn't help but sigh and shook his head gloomily.

"Now that Mr. Nan Chende is helping, he must be like a tiger with wings." Su Mi asked, "Why is the gentleman so depressed?" ”

"I'm just a scholar, how can I be a tiger's wing." Ge Chengming smiled bitterly, but his words came out of feeling, originally he had always believed that he was talented and peerless, and he would be able to assist the British Lord to achieve the foundation of the world, but after Gu Qingting's failure, his pride was completely overthrown. Gu Qingting is not only his lord, but also his close friend, he assists his side, all the battles, invincible, but the last failure, everything is overturned, at that time, Ge Chengming suddenly realized that manpower is sometimes poor, even if he has no last resort on the battlefield, there are variables that cannot be grasped. For example, the change of power in the distant court was not something he could fully speculate.

"Sir, but in Nan Chen is not willing?" Su Mi observed the words and suddenly asked.

Ge Chengming smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that old truth, Prince Cheng is indeed a rare hero in contemporary times, but unfortunately, he is just a prince." ”

Su Mi immediately understood that Prince Cheng was deeply tabooed by Emperor Chen in Nanchen. With the respect of a prince, a direct line of the royal family, and a heavy army, it is inevitable that Nan Chen's current son of heaven will be suspicious.

"I heard Yanchen say that my father's old department followed Mr. and returned to Nan Chen, I don't know if it's okay now?" Su Mi asked with some concern, this kind of court power is the most dangerous.

"That's what I'm here for." Ge Chengming let out a long sigh and explained the matter carefully.

"We have returned to Nan Chen, although Prince Cheng is very courteous and has always valued it, but unfortunately this matter has reached Prince Cheng's brother, Nan Chen's current King Chen Huai's ears, there have long been many treacherous villains in the court who are jealous of the prince's outstanding achievements, and they took the opportunity to say that Prince Cheng conspired to collect foreign forces, and was suspected of rebellion."

"After a few times, although King Huai didn't believe it on the surface, and reprimanded and punished the people who played it, it is difficult to say what he thought in his heart. Ge Chengming shook his head: "We also have to guard against it, the prince is also for this, so he simply incorporated us into the spy organization, left Nanchen, and came to Qi to lurk, waiting for the opportunity." ”

"That's why we're here now," Ge Chengming said with a somewhat gloomy sigh. He is good at military and political strategy, war layout, and now he is forced by the situation, but he wants to do something lurking here, which can be regarded as a disguised discouragement.

"Mr. Ge thinks that in the war in Kaichun, what is the chance of Nan Chen winning? This time, ninety percent of the Qi State is going to be led by the Duke of Dingguo. Su Mi suddenly changed the topic and asked.

Ge Chengming smiled confidently and said, "Naturally, Nan Chen will win." ”

"Why is the gentleman so confident?" Su Mi asked.

"If it is against the previous Wang Luxury, I am only afraid that there will be a little hesitation, but against the current Wang Luxury, I can assert without hesitation that the Qi army will definitely have a fiasco this time."

"What do you mean by that?" Su Mi asked.

"The second lady doesn't know that Wang Hao's temper can be seen from the previous battles he has participated in, although this person can also be called resourceful and decisive, wise and brave, but he is arrogant by nature and can't listen to other people's advice. Such a general, if he wins, must be a complete victory, but if he loses, it is usually a crushing defeat. This can be seen from the fact that he suffered two consecutive defeats under Wancheng three years ago. In the past, he was in Emperor Qiwu's army, and every time he fought, most of them were Emperor Wu's personal expeditions, and after all, someone suppressed his head, so that his shortcomings would not be obvious, but now that he is leading the army alone, this is enough to kill. After those two fiascos, he was in a high position in the Qi State to the extreme, and everyone cared about his power, and did not dare to let anyone give him a head drink, what I heard in Qi Jing was all ridicule and ridicule for his discussions, and then he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, which would only make him more narrow-minded. So this time, I can assert that Nan Chen will definitely win a big victory. ”

Ge Chengming said, but he began to worry a little in his heart, such a victory, I don't know if it is good or bad for Prince Cheng. Although Wang Hao's threat is solved, there is still a Ni Yuan behind him, and I believe that Emperor Chen will not be stupid enough to destroy the Great Wall.

"In this way, isn't Nan Chen going to take the opportunity to recover the lost territory and expand the territory?" Su Mi asked.

"It's easy to win this battle, but if you want to recover the lost territory, it's difficult, you want to expand the territory......" Ge Chengming shook his head: "It's even more difficult." ”

"How?" Su Miqi said.

"Now that the lord and faction are in power in the government of Southern Chen, Emperor Chen is a cowardly and indecisive character, bent on cutting land and seeking peace, and does not have the courage to conquer the world." Thinking of the current situation in the Nanchen Imperial Court, Ge Chengming was also gloomy for a while. In fact, he tested Chen Qian with words and suggested that he usurp power and seize the throne, Chen Qian was originally a direct royal family, and it was justified to inherit the throne as the emperor's younger brother, but although Chen Qian was resourceful and long-term, he always cared about brotherhood and didn't want to do anything to his brother.

"Then won't it be ...... in the future," Su Mi said urgently.

"Yes, whether it is delayed for a long time or for a short time, I am afraid that in the future, it will definitely be Qi to unify the world." Ge Chengming sighed.

"Sir, that's too early, isn't it?" Su Mi said: "Emperor Qi Wu is just like Emperor Liang Wu. Do you know that Qi is not a flash in the pan like Liang State, prosperous and declining? ”

Su Mi is talking about the old things in the Liang Kingdom.

A hundred years ago, Liang produced a Ming monarch, less than 30 years old to unify the north, and hidden the unification of the world, the heyday, the world Kyushu, Liang occupied its sixth, north defeat Hu Liao, south to the Yangtze River, can be described as unparalleled in the world. However, a generation of heroes Emperor Wu of Liang died in the prime of life, which led to the momentum of the country's rise, and then the emperors of all dynasties were inactive, the national strength plummeted, and the grand hegemony was wiped out, and later it was replaced by the destruction of the later Qi State.

And the interesting thing is that the life of the previous generation of emperors of Qi is like Emperor Wu of Liang, fighting and killing, destroying countless countries, but he also died when he was less than fifty years old, and the temple number behind him is also Emperor Wu, a Emperor Wu of Liang, and Emperor Wu of Qi.

Ge Chengming shook his head and said: "The situation of the Liang State was very different from the Qi State back then, when Emperor Wu of Liang died, he was on the battlefield, and he did not even designate a successor, which caused the princes to compete for the throne, the generals rebelled, and the national strength plummeted. But usually, he handles national politics smoothly, can handle current affairs, is right to the problem, and is not lacking in talent and ambition, which can be described as above average in terms of qualifications for the king. What's more......" Ge Chengming paused and said, "Now there is a Ni Yuan in the Qi Kingdom." ”

He couldn't help but think of Qi Hao, the Prince of Yu he saw a few days ago, who was also a rare talent, Ge Chengming was disheartened for a while, whether it was Xiang Fu or Qi Hao, Daqi is now full of talents, and the state is stable, but I am afraid that it is really destiny.

He chose to serve the country back then, firstly, because of the confidant relationship with Gu Qingting, and secondly, at that time, although the Qi country was strong, but its advantages were not obvious, he still chose to stay in the country, and now he has lived in Qijing in the past few years, seeing the increasingly prosperous and stable Qi country, and then thinking of the situation that the only one in the Southern Chen Dynasty that can be compared with the Qi country in terms of national strength, the villain in the South Chen Dynasty is in charge, and his heart is heavy, whether it is Gu Qingting or Chen Qian, they are his lords and friends, He really didn't want Chen Qian to encounter something like Gu Qingting again.

Hearing his words, Su Mi was also upset. Dull silence.

The room fell into silence for a while, and after a while, Ge Chengming broke the silence with words, "The world is impermanent, maybe when the wind and clouds change, the general trend of the world will change again, and mortals such as me don't have to think too much about it at this time, as long as we do our best and obey the destiny of heaven." The old man knew that the second lady wanted to avenge her father, but the road ahead was rough and the palace was sinister. Miss has a shallow foundation, so she must be cautious, and now she has to keep her head down, and don't easily show her clues. ”

Su Mi nodded.

"Soon after, I may also return to Nanchen, so I want to hand over the forces here to the care of Yan Chen, now we are in the espionage system of Qi State, our original people who defend the country have become a family of their own, daily operation of tea and cloth, integrated into the business travel system of Daqi, in the future will also be a big help for the second miss, I hope the second miss will take care of it." Ge Chengming lightly tapped the brush with cinnabar paint and said.

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Su Mi turned over lazily, and the sound full of vitality came from outside, Xiao Luzi had just hung up the golden lantern, and it was not festive enough, and he wanted to choose a few more novel and unique palace lanterns to hang on. is arguing with Mihong, I don't know which ones to choose, one shouts "more than every year", and the other is called "Hongfu Qitian......

"Is the world irreversible?" Su Mi leaned on the head of the bed and whispered softly.