Yes, Li Mobai knows Shen Cizhong's true identity, and he knows that there is an interesting soul in her body, so she is not the original Shen Ciwei at all, and she is not Shen Cizhong's sister at all.

The two of them are just strangers who have only met for the first time today.

[She won't be greedy and handsome, and she deliberately wants to take advantage, right? ] 】

Li Mobai made up for a while, and he was half angry.

He deliberately cleared his throat and said in a deep voice: "Such a clever thing, even a storyteller can't write it." After some twists and turns, you two brothers and sisters were able to meet today, and I am also happy for Concubine Rong. Come, I will give you a drink. ”

He raised his wine glass to Shen Cizhong, and then said to Shen Cizhong: "Concubine Rong, you also replace wine with water, and toast King Xiliang with a glass." ”

Shen Ciwu didn't understand what Li Mobai meant, "Oh, no need for the emperor, what am I polite to my brother?" ”

"He is the king of Xiliang first, and then your younger brother." Li Mobai's tone was a little heavier, and when Shen Ciwu heard this tone, as soon as he saw his expression, he immediately guessed that he was jealous again.

She slipped back to Li Mobai's side, picked up the sour plum soup in the cup and clinked glasses with Shen Cizhong in the air, and drank it all.

As soon as she finished drinking, she was anxious to return to Shen Cizhong's side, "Brother, tell me about your years of life."

"Concubine Rong." Li Mobai grabbed her arm and didn't allow her to leave her seat, "You are pregnant, you are running back and forth like this, what if you fall or flash your waist?" You sit well, if you want to ask the king of Xiliang, ask here, he is not a deaf man, he can hear. ”

Shen Ci smiled embarrassedly, leaned into Li Mobai's ear and whispered, "Your Majesty!" He's my brother, and you're going to be jealous if I'm close to my own brother? ”

Li Mobai also whispered back to her, "Where am I jealous?" I'm here for your safety. ”

After that, he said to Shen Cizhong openly: "Since you are the brother of Concubine Rong and the person who helped the Qi Dynasty to calm down the foreign strife, I will allow you to stay in the palace for a few days." The boundary of the island in the middle of the lake is also elegant, but the place is a little off, can the king of Xiliang mind? ”

Island in the middle of the lake?

Shen Ciwei knew that place, that was the place where the first emperor punished the guilty concubines in the past.

It is located in the middle of Lake Miko, and you can get in and out by boat.

In the past, the first emperor sent the concubines who had committed serious crimes but were not easy to break into the cold palace to that place, and they were not allowed to bring the palace people who served them closely, leaving them to fend for themselves on that island.

During the reign of the first emperor, the concubines who died on that island were five or six. Since then, rumors of a haunting have spread around the island in the middle of the lake.

When the palace people went to the empty island to clean up by boat, they saw the ghost in red floating by, and they were so frightened that everyone was stupid.

At this point, the island in the middle of the lake was left empty.

Li Mobai has been on the throne for five years, and no one has been to that place.

He arranged for Shen Cizhong to live in such a place, wasn't he clearly embarrassing people?

Shen Ciwei was a little unhappy, and whispered: "Your Majesty, if you let my brother live in a place where birds don't shit, it's better to let him go out of the palace and live in an inn outside the palace." Regardless of whether he is my younger brother or not, he is also the new king of Xiliang, and he is the person who has made contributions to our Qi Dynasty. The emperor's hospitality is somewhat inappropriate, right? ”

Li Mobai ignored Shen Ci's worries, and just looked at Shen Cizhong with a smile, "How?" But don't want to? ”

Shen Cizhong waved his hand and replied: "Everything is arranged by Emperor Qi." ”

Later, during the banquet, Li Mobai couldn't eat two bites and asked Shen Ciwu, "Is your body unwell?" Do you want to go back first? ”

Shen Ci was worried and angry, she didn't want to go back, "The concubine is in good health, so don't bother the emperor!" ”

In this way, Li Mobai no longer paid attention to her, and only blindly talked and laughed with Shen Cizhong.

The two of them threw away Shen Ci and didn't talk about it, and they were still very speculative when they talked about other topics.

The views of the two people on many political levels such as governing the country, unifying the army, defending against the enemy, and Annei are very similar, Shen Ciwei didn't understand this, and just blindly looked at Shen Cizhong with adoring eyes.

A fool who can sit with the emperor and talk about national affairs in just two or three years of kung fu, where is this fool? It's clearly a genius.

Li Mobai caught a glimpse of Shen Ci's worried expression, and the vinegar jar in his heart turned over again.

[How can this be reasonable!] It was clear that I was talking with him, and many of my opinions were also said by me first, and he was just echoing them! Why did you look at him like that, and not at me!? I'm so angry! 】

Shen Cizhong said: "Actually, I want to see Emperor Qi in person this time, and I also want to discuss something with Emperor Qi." ”

Li Mobai bowed his head and said, "You say." ”

Shen Cizhong: "Now that Nanban and Shurong are already at the end of their strong crossbows, under the suppression and leadership of the Qi army, they will soon lose their territory and become part of the Qi Dynasty." This time the world is unified, only Xiliang is still an external country for the Qi Dynasty. But the unification of the world is already a general trend, and Xiliang exists independently of the Qi Dynasty, and it is really not a wise choice for the country and the people. Therefore, I want to make Xiliang also a vassal state of the Qi Dynasty and change the country to a county, what is Emperor Qi's intentions? ”

Shen Cizhong's words simply mean that he wants to give a piece of fat as big as Xiliang to Li Mobai.

Although Xiliang has a small land area, it is very rich in materials and is a treasure land of feng shui.

Everyone else is thinking about how to defend the country under their hands, even if the national strength is not strong, but it is always their own territory.

But he was good, he was only halfway through the meal, and he was going to send such a large piece of fat to Li Mobai's bowl.

Li Mobai said: "Have you thought clearly? I am not ungrateful, and I have no intention of attacking Xiliang. Although you are a citizen of the Qi Dynasty, you are also entrusted by the first king of Xiliang. You gave Xiliang to the Qi Dynasty like this, how will your people spit on you, how will the civil and military officials expose the uprising, and you have figured out how to face it? ”

Shen Cizhong said with a smile: "What are the civil and military officials and the people most concerned about? It is nothing more than whether they can eat enough, whether they can save money in their hands, and whether they can live a better life. The annual tax and silver paid by Xiliang to the Qi Dynasty accounted for one-third of Xiliang's total output.

If they were now returned to the Qi Dynasty and became a county alone, these taxes and tributes would be exempted, and they would be taken for the people and given back to the people, and their days would not be much richer now?

Why not be happy for them to have their pockets filled with silver, to move from their former grass huts to brick houses, and to have their day's work reduced from five hours to three and a half hours? And Xiliang belongs to the Qi Dynasty, it is a matter of time or time. Emperor Qi can guarantee that he will not attack Xiliang, but in the next ten years, twenty years, or after Emperor Qi is a hundred years later, will Xiliang still be able to survive independently?

If they are attacked and obeyed, like today's Nanban and Shurong, the people are in dire straits, why do they suffer? ”

(End of chapter)