In the evening, Cining Palace.

After Empress Dowager Zhang exempted her son from asking for peace, she retreated left and right, pulled her son to her side, and asked worriedly:

"My son, what happened today?

How can you get into such trouble with the hundred officials and nobles, as well as the kings of the clan, although you are the emperor, but the world is not the emperor's word, it is better not to get too stiff with the civil and military nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, no matter who it is, it is not appropriate to be the enemy of the world or most people."

Although Empress Dowager Zhang has been an invisible person all these years, and has always abided by the ancestral precepts and not interfered in politics, she just doesn't interfere in politics, which doesn't mean that she doesn't know anything.

"Mother, you don't know how excessive they are.

Today, that old thing surnamed Qi actually wants me to give power to the local government Yin and the local Haoqiang, and let the local government Yin and the local Haoqiang form a private army to fight against the White Lotus Sect by themselves, is he being stupid for me, or when I haven't read the book?

If the local government Yin has military power, what is the difference between it and the Tang Dynasty's Jiedu envoy and the local division in the last years of the Celestial Empire, he is obviously cursing my great cadres to die.

If only the great-grandfather were still there.

I can cut him down on the spot today, and the clan will be wiped out."

In the end, it was in front of his own mother, so it was rare that Emperor Xuanwu didn't do any pretense, but directly vented quite angrily, and his tone was vaguely accusatory.

"That's it, don't be angry.

It's not that you don't know what kind of character those ministers are, and I'm afraid he doesn't really want to do this when he says this, but he just wants to provoke you to compromise quickly and wipe out the White Lotus Sect as soon as possible."

"By the way, now there are rumors outside that you and Princess Jiahe are in a cooperative relationship, and the two of them have made a game together to steal the gold, silver and jewelry in the capital.

Now the two of them are also cooperating with the White Lotus Sect to make a game, wanting to eliminate the local vassal king and Haoqiang.

Although the mourners know that this should not be the case.

However, if the rumors spread too widely, I am afraid that it will not only deal a big blow to your reputation, but may also cause some officials and nobles and clans to turn away from you."

After comforting her son, Empress Dowager Zhang immediately mentioned another thing that she was more worried about.

"What?" Emperor Xuanwu didn't pay much attention to the gossip in the capital, and his main energy was previously focused on those dead officials and the Crying Taimiao clan, so when he heard this rumor, he was first shocked, and then angry:

"Bold, who is so bold as to frame me and orchestrate me, is it really unfavorable for me to be a sword?"

"I don't know, but according to the estimation of the mourning family, there is a high probability that it is a ghost made by civil officials, those generals don't have this brain, maybe they are really in pain, and they are also afraid of the White Lotus Sect, everything they do is just to force you, hurry up and wipe out the White Lotus Sect, and destroy it together with Jiahe.

So that they are satisfied, and the rumors are self-defeating.

Although you are a little aggrieved, you are not your grandfather or great-grandfather after all, you don't have such a high prestige, and you don't have so many loyal subordinates, so sometimes where you should compromise, you still have to compromise and compromise!"

Empress Dowager Zhang, who is taciturn and usually like an invisible person, has no low political consciousness, she knows very well why this situation is happening, and she also knows very well that her son's position at this time is not as stable as imagined, far from the extent that she can do whatever she wants, and kill whoever she wants, so she has to make some compromises.

In order to let her son listen to her words, Empress Dowager Zhang soon continued to persuade in a serious manner:

"You must know that the core of Emperor Wenzhi's failure is not how mediocre he is, but because those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help, and he has offended too many nobles and clans, but even he has only offended the nobles and clans and praised civil officials.

You're not satisfied with all three of them right now.

That is, because it is not you who is doing these things, but the White Lotus Sect, and the local vassal kings do not have 100,000 or 200,000 troops available as in the past.

But now they're starting to suspect that you're the one behind the scenes, whether you're or not, as long as they think you are, then they're likely to take you for it

Become the culprit and deal with you like you did with Emperor Wenzhi.

Even if you can't get the vassal king to rebel.

But there are certainly other means.

So you still listen to your mother's advice, don't think about what snipe and clam are fighting again, the fisherman has profited, and some things don't need to be done in one step, you can stop it."

In the more than ten years that the first emperor was in charge of the country, Empress Dowager Zhang helped a lot, and in many aspects, including the understanding of the government and politics, and the understanding of the checks and balances of civil and military officials, was not worse than the first emperor at all, but Emperor Xuanwu was slightly weaker.

Not thinking well enough!

Or to say that the strength of civil and military officials is underestimated.

Empress Dowager Zhang, who was afraid that something would happen to her son, could only be more straightforward at this time and continue to persuade her son to stop.

At this time, Emperor Xuanwu's face was naturally very bad, but the poor face here was not angry with his mother, but mainly because he was angry with hundreds of civil and military officials, and he roared for a long time:

"Could it be that they still dare to kill the king?"

Empress Dowager Zhang didn't speak this time, but after a few seconds of silence, she nodded approvingly.

Then, Emperor Xuanwu's face became even more ugly.

After a long time, he sighed:

"Queen Mother, I'm afraid you need to take care of the harem in the future, and you must ensure the safety of the palace, especially the safety of food, and there can be no mistakes.

Alas, I originally wanted to take this opportunity to completely solve the problem of the vassal king, as well as solve the problem of most of the land annexation, if successful, at least I can continue the national fortune of the first Jiazi, but now it seems that it should only be regarded as barely half of the success, at most half of the national fortune of Jiazi.

That's it......

Although it is a pity, Emperor Xuanwu obviously does not want to fight with the civil and military officials, so he can only compromise at this time.

Then, of course, he discussed some details with his mother, and then left Cining Palace, and the next morning, he took the lead in issuing an order to belittle Wanping Hou.

It's kind of an expression of his attitude.

Seeing this, the officials immediately understood that this was a compromise on the part of the emperor, so of course they unceremoniously expressed their thoughts and explained their opinions.

And after arguing for more than an hour, this came to a result that all forces could barely recognize.

That is, to dispatch the three armies separately.

Don't care about any local affairs, just pursue and exterminate the White Lotus Sect, it is bound to completely exterminate the White Lotus Sect in various places, and kill the White Lotus Virgin, Princess Jiahe, and the so-called daughter country must also be exterminated together.

As for Wanping Hou, he was directly escorted into Beijing.

Countless impeachment recitals await him.

Good guy, let him suppress the bandits all the way, but the bandits didn't kill them, but ate a lot of money.

I don't know how to divide the points to everyone, eat alone.

If he is not impeached, who will he impeach?

At the same time, Qu Jie, who had opened countless hangings for himself all the way, was obviously impossible not to know about the capital.

But she really didn't want this land that had just been peaceful to start a war again, if it weren't for the sake of gaining enough population to build a daughter country she had created overseas, she might not even cooperate with the White Lotus Sect.

So Qu Jie, who received the news.

Of course, he immediately notified his subordinates and the followers of the White Lotus Sect and told them to retreat immediately.

Withdraw from the Great Cadre State.

and set up a maritime defense line on the periphery of the first island he developed to prevent them from attacking the daughter country.

Therefore, when the three people of the imperial court led a total of more than 300,000 troops to reach the county capital where the White Lotus Sect was finally raging, Qu Jie and the others had already fled.

And the army of the imperial court was in addition to incompetent rage.

In fact, there is no good way.

At most, I could only send someone back to Beijing to report to the city, and at the same time hurriedly followed the retreat trajectory of the White Lotus Sect, and you chased me and fled without catching up at all, and in the end I could only look at the coastline near Nanwan Island and sigh, and at the same time temporarily station, I also asked for the support of the imperial navy.

No way, they are all land soldiers, and even a large part of the soldiers

They don't know how to water, and at the same time, in addition to being able to recruit some small fishing boats from the surrounding area, they don't have big boats available at all, so they can't rely on small fishing boats to fight the daughter country that doesn't know where overseas, it's not to exterminate the remnants of the White Lotus Sect, but to lead troops to the ocean to die!

So I had to stay where I was and wait for reinforcements.

And Emperor Xuanwu's side actually doesn't matter, if you want to fight, you can fight, anyway, through the recent sale of those ownerless real estate, the treasury income is very high, plus there are still a large number of people affected by the White Lotus Sect taken away, it costs a lot less money every year for disaster relief, and now the treasury is quite abundant, and those officials insist on exterminating the White Lotus Sect.

So Emperor Xuanwu also went with them, asking the water army to allocate the water army, asking for silver to allocate silver, winning because he was well guided, and if he lost, he gave what he wanted and lost, obviously the generals were incompetent and the officials were incompetent.

However, even if Emperor Xuanwu was quite cooperative, the court officials did not make trouble, because there were many fixed processes to follow, and when the navy finally arrived near Nanwan Island, it was already a month later, and when it was time for the official attack, it was even more stormy season.

How would you describe this season?

It's Qu Jie who didn't do anything at all, those who didn't know much about the ocean situation, and who had only fought in inland lakes or rivers, chose to go to sea on a sunny day without any defense, and then encountered a storm before they could find the location of Qu Jie's daughter country.

Not only were the ships heavily damaged.

The casualties were also extremely heavy.

By the time they returned to the shore and counted the numbers, nearly 30,000 soldiers were missing.

Fifty-six ships were damaged.

This is completely damaged, irreparable or sank directly in the ocean, and there are countless ships that are seriously damaged, slightly damaged, none of them come back intact, not to mention the loss of other materials and weapons, etc., which cannot be measured.

On the contrary, Qu Jie and the others found that there were still many people alive on the ocean, so they quickly dispatched an emergency boat and rescued more than 10,000 people in total through various operations such as salvage.

After all, they are enemies, and even if they have a life-saving grace, they may not recognize it, so it is better to lock it up for the time being, and carefully investigate or educate them.

Time goes back to more than a month ago.

Although the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus and the elders of the White Lotus Sect felt that Qu Jie was a little alarmist, and were confident that they were not afraid of the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, because Qu Jie was giving orders in the capacity of the Holy Mother of the White Lotus, the other high-level officials were not only willing to listen to the order, but they were also very curious about what the daughter country created by the Holy Mother of the White Lotus looked like.

So, in the end, they still can't twist their arms and thighs, and fewer people are better than not more people, so they have to agree.

And with the large group withdrew to Nam Wan Island.

Transfer to a sea boat and head to Jiahe Island.

Jiahe Island is the first large island captured by Qu Jie, which is not only the current capital of the daughter country, but also the best developed island among all the islands under Qu Jie, which is enough to serve as a model house or a benchmark island.

All immigrants need to receive a certain amount of education, master some skills, and understand the local rules and laws on this island before they can go to other islands to reclaim wasteland, destroy wild people, or do other things.

The people of the White Lotus Sect are no exception.

Not only is the treatment no exception, but their attitude after coming to this island is not much different from those displaced people who have just come, one by one they are basically stunned and surprised, just like Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden.

"What's that smoking black smoke over there? Is it a youkai? Is the black smoke demonic energy, and how can there be people in it?

Oh my God, that thing is cutting rice......

"Could this be the legendary sea of rice, each ear of rice has so big grains, and the yield must be extremely high, if my father and mother could also grow such high-yield rice seeds back then, my eldest sister and second sister would not have to be sold."

"What's that high? Sorghum?"

"This road is so smooth and wide, I feel that even the official road is not as good as this road, it is worthy of the country founded by Our Lady, it is really extraordinary!"

Just what they saw and heard on the road was enough to surprise those high-ranking members of the White Lotus Sect, not to mention what they saw after entering the city, all the people's clothes basically had no patches, their faces were ruddy and shiny, all kinds of small stalls were rich in food, and all kinds of delicacies were emerging in endlessly!

It can be said that they were quite shocked along the way, and it was also a way for their faith to become more and more pious.

Many people are even more convinced that Princess Jiahe is the Holy Mother of Linfan, and she really wants to lead them to open up and create a new kingdom of God on earth and create a new vacuum hometown in the mortal world.

Even the White Lotus Holy Maiden was puzzled.

I doubt that Qu Jie will really be the Holy Mother of the White Lotus......

Otherwise, how could a princess be so capable?

In the next half a month, Qu Jie did not summon the White Lotus Holy Maiden and them, but just asked them to wander around within the actual control of the daughter country, learn about the people's livelihood, and memorize some local rules and laws, until half a month later, it was determined that they should have visited most of the places they could visit, and they also had a more detailed understanding of this side, and Qu Jie summoned them.

At Jiahe Palace, they were summoned to the temple.

To discuss a further cooperation plan, to be more precise, it can be counted as a plan to annex the White Lotus Sect.