The queen said lightly: "No matter whether she is a wolf or a sheep, she has meritorious service in the community, and she is committed to the people, Daliang can use her, and your father will trust her." Yuanhua, you are smart, but even I don't worry about you joining the office, let alone others? ”

The eldest princess's face changed.

"During this time, you have not only worshiped the Buddha, but also participated in the Tao, choose one you like, and go to the temple or Taoist temple to cultivate more in the future."

The eldest princess looked up in shock, "Queen Mother? ”

"Mother, this is for your own good."

The eldest princess turned pale, "For my good?" It's for the fourth, right? ”

The queen suddenly squatted in front of her, looked into her eyes, and said in a low voice: "If you were not my own daughter, you think I would meddle in these things?" If you have Lin Qingwan's heart and Zhong Ruying's ability, even if you are a daughter, what if you help you to the throne? ”

The eldest princess looked up and opened her mouth wide in shock.

The queen straightened up and said lightly: "It's a pity, although you are not stupid, you have great selfishness. The fourth child is not smart enough, and even has the problem of soft-heartedness and indecisiveness, but his selfish desires are not heavy, like your father, he does not love treasures, nor is he greedy for beauty, and even the heart of power is provoked by you and Ruying. Such a person may not be very suitable to be an emperor, but he is more suitable than you. ”

The eldest princess turned pale.

"Yuanhua, the queen mother will tell you one last time, Daliang is the country that the ancestors worked hard to build, your father has guarded it for more than 40 years, and he doesn't even dare to get sick, I will never allow anyone to seek personal gain at the expense of its interests, even if you are my daughter."

"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, they are the sons of the eldest princess, their uncle is the emperor, and their grandmother is the queen mother, they are already naturally more advantageous than others, how much convenience do you want to create for them?" The queen said in a low voice: "You have to know that when the moon is full, it will be lost, and when the water is full, you look at the Lin family, don't you understand the rise and fall of the Zhong family in the past hundred years?" ”

"If you give them so much glory and wealth, will they be able to keep it in the future?"

The queen said that, seeing her kneeling on the ground without saying a word, she sighed slightly and turned to leave.

She still has to recruit the four princesses into the palace to speak, and in the future, the palace will always be handed over to the fourth couple, and she is old, who knows how long she can live?

So she doesn't want her daughter's relationship with the fourth child to be too stiff.

She didn't expect Lin Qingwan to be so ruthless, and at the same time she sent a letter to the fourth princess, which directly forced her to suppress the eldest princess first.

She now wanted to know what Lin Qingwan had written in her letter to the Fourth Imperial Princess.

The fourth princess was slightly surprised, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just some words of advice, oh, and said that the guards arranged by His Royal Highness for the fifth brother were too square, and he was annoyed along the way, and the fifth brother didn't like these guards very much, so she wanted to take charge of replacing some people and asking for instructions." ”

"Oh? Nothing else? The queen smiled lightly: "I saw her sending two letters back to the capital in a row, and I thought something big happened in Hongzhou." ”

The fourth princess hesitated, "Her letter is quite long, could it be that I missed it?" Why don't I take it and look at it again? ”

Then he turned and told the maid to go back and fetch the letter.

The queen saw the letter, and saw that it did not write anything about the eldest princess, but only ordered two sentences, but it was also a greeting.

The queen looked at it carefully and found that the ink was the same, and the content and the number of pages were fine, so she returned the letter to the four princesses.

The fourth princess took it with a smile and asked, "Queen Mother, but has there been a change in Hongzhou?" ”

"No, I just suddenly received a letter from her, and the letter was not clearly written, so I was a little panicked, and your father's body couldn't stand the blow."

When it comes to Emperor Liang's body, the four princesses are also a little lost, now that the war on the front line is in full swing, any change in the court is not a good thing, let alone the change of the emperor of a country?

The four princes are now able to handle government affairs independently, but Emperor Liang is still not at ease, he will always sit behind the Qinzheng Hall and watch, and sometimes lie down when he is tired.

But that's it, his spirit is getting worse day by day, and in this case, the pressure on the front line is particularly great.

Especially when Zhong Ruying, Lin Xin and Lu Zhen frequently lost and lost the city, just when the imperial court couldn't help but send a question, the tide of the battle was reversed.

Emperor Chu issued thirteen orders in a row to let Xiang Shan attack, Xiang Shan couldn't resist the pressure and had to pull out the camp to advance, but he was still cautious.

But at this moment, Chen Xiang did not listen to Xiang Shan's orders, led an army on the northern front to attack, entered Lin Xin's urn, and was wiped out.

Except for Chen Xiang and a few cronies, the 80,000 troops were surrounded by the Liang army in the Snake Valley.

After losing the main general and suffering a lot of casualties, the surviving Chu troops all laid down their arms and surrendered.

These people were not slaughtered, but were taken into surrender.

When Xiang Shan got the news, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but when the news came worse than this, several attacking teams had lost the news, and they were obviously ambushed, and their food and grass had not arrived, and there was not much food and grass left in the army.

The subordinate generals always thought that Xiang Shan was robbing the merit, except for his cronies, the rest of the people did not listen to orders.

Especially after the loss of the good and the army, everyone questioned his ability more and more.

When the news came back to the capital of Chu, Emperor Chu was furious, thinking that Xiang Shan, as the ministers of the court said, deliberately stagnated in order to get his heavy responsibilities and control the military power, and even lost to the Liang State, just to sit firmly in the position of generalissimo.

Because everyone knows that once the Liang army is retreated, Emperor Chu will let Xiang Shan return to the wilderness. Only if Liang Shu never retreats, he will be useful.

Emperor Chu really thought so, so he firmly believed in the courtier's speculation, and was extremely angry in his heart, and said: "Order Xiang Shan to attack, if you can't completely repel the Liang army in January, you will be defeated." ”

At this time, he has to win if he doesn't win.

Xiang Shan received the news, gritted his teeth, and finally folded up to ask for grain and grass, and also wrote a secret letter to Ji Yuan, asking what happened to the court, whether there were traitors in front of the emperor, otherwise why did Emperor Chu suddenly interfere in border affairs.

When Emperor Chu received the excerpt, he summoned Song Ji and asked, "How is the grain and grass raised?" ”

"It's very difficult, but it's still rewarding, Your Majesty just rest assured."

"Can you go to the front?"

"It's already on the road, but the road is not very smooth and may be delayed," Song Ji bowed his head and said: "The minister has calculated, the grain and grass sent before should still be able to support for a while, so Your Majesty doesn't have to worry." ”

Emperor Chu snorted coldly and said, "In this case, why did Xiang Shan come to urge grain?" It's as if I won't give them food. ”

Song Ji smiled and said: "General Xiang is famous for his love of nurses and soldiers, probably because he is afraid that the grain and grass will starve them in time." ”

Emperor Chu sneered, "So you're here to embarrass me?" ”

Since the grain and grass had been transported, Emperor Chu naturally wouldn't ask again, and watched Xiang Shan fight for him coldly.

And Song Ji immediately went home after leaving the palace and recruited someone to ask, "Can you buy food?" ”

"Master, this old grain is almost out, not much is bought, and there are so many people fleeing south, there is not much food left in the capital."

"Then we have to buy it, we have delayed it long enough, Xiang Shan's old man has already written to His Majesty, and if it is delayed, there will be trouble, no one will look good."

One of them hesitated: "The little one knows that there is a batch of old grain, but that batch of grain has been left for a long time, and it is supplied to the army, but I am afraid that General Xiang will know about it......"

"What are you afraid of, when is this, it's good to eat," Song Ji said: "Look outside, how many of those who fled have food?" Not by gnawing on leaves? So just eat the undead. ”

Several people looked at each other and retreated, intending to buy the old grain.

Song Ji got inspiration from Ji Yuan, and sold the grain supplied to the army at a high price to the fleeing people, and then went to buy a batch of old grain mixed with new grain to make up for it.

After all, the price of food is high now, and he is a white wolf with empty gloves,

At the beginning, there was new grain mixed with old grain, and later the profits were getting higher and higher, and Song Ji's heart became bigger and bigger, and he became bolder, and began to buy old grain in batches.

What my subordinates just said is not stale grain at all, but a batch of grain that has become moldy and blackened due to improper storage, and this kind of grain is naturally edible, but it may be poisoned if you are not careful.

Xiang Shan was still on the front line at this time, and he didn't know that Song Ji had given him a big gift, and he was frowning and looking at the map.

and his henchmen said: "The Liang army is going to invite you into the urn, and the northern and southern lines have fallen into the hands of the Liang army. ”

"Was it a feint that they had been defeated and retreated before? It's not like it, we have to work hard every time. ”

"That's what they're good at, have you counted their casualties?" Xiang Shandao: "Every time, we have captured the other party's city, but our casualties are far greater than theirs, which means that?" ”

"We are besieging the city, they are defending the city, and the sacrifice will naturally be greater."

"No, they gave up the city too cleanly, once they knew that they couldn't defend it, they would quit, do you think Lu Zhen and Zhong Ruying are such people?" Xiang Shan said: "Lu Zhen doesn't say it, Zhong Ruying is a fierce son, but he would rather live and die with the city than take the initiative to retreat." ”

So he always knew that they were feinting, and he wanted to plan as planned, and then consolidate after capturing the city, and slowly and step by step forward.

At that time, his wings were strong, so naturally he was not in the urn, but he didn't expect the northern and southern fronts to lose so quickly.

Xiang Shan slammed his fist on the table, gritted his teeth and said, "It's hateful that Chen Xiang and the others didn't listen to orders. ”

"It's also that Your Majesty is urging too much, General, Your Majesty has issued thirteen orders in a row, and it is impossible for us to rest in the city all the time."

Xiang Shandao endured it and swallowed back the evil words that came to his mouth.

An important reason why he didn't like Emperor Chu was that this person always liked to point fingers at his battlefield.

But the general is on the front line, the emperor is in the rear, he doesn't know the situation on the front line, and he relies on that idea of news to control the battle situation remotely, does this think that fighting a war is a family, or can anyone be a general?

In short, he was very dissatisfied, but no matter how dissatisfied he was, he had to swallow it at this time, and ordered: "Organize the army, pick out 10,000 elite soldiers, divide the army into two armies, and start to withdraw in a roundabout way." The rest of the people camped and waited for news. ”

At this time, if you rush in again, you will be sent to death, so even if the emperor gives more tokens, he will never take a step forward, and he will save his troops first.