If you want to run, you can't run away, Yu Qian hesitated and entered the east side room. Fortunately, I've already eaten here twice, and now I'm familiar with it.

The room was silent, no one spoke, and no one moved. When I looked inside, I saw Xiao Lingxi sitting on the soft couch with a smile, holding a book in his hand, and he was fascinated.

Yu Qian had no choice but to walk closer, and bowed with a bitter face: "Wechen has seen Concubine Xiao. ”

When Xiao Lingxi heard this, he raised his head in surprise, and hurriedly clarified: "Yu Shangshu, don't scream, I don't like the emperor, let alone the emperor's woman." ”

This time, Yu Qian was surprised, there were still people in broad daylight, saying that they didn't like the emperor. For ordinary people, this sentence is enough to move the head.

Xiao Lingxi didn't care, just smiled and gave up his seat: "It's cold down there, Yu Shangshu came to the couch to sit." Today's Hongmen banquet is not so delicious, Yu Shangshu will drink a glass of wine to warm up his body first.

The princess is writing with the prince, and she will come over in a while, so she asked me to accompany Yu Shangshu to chat for a while. ”

Yu Qian asked curiously, "Is it the princess who received me?" ”

Xiao Lingxi smiled: "Yes, but if Yu Shangshu is unwilling to talk to the princess, you can also choose freely: the emperor, Concubine Xuanyi, Princess Qi, there are a total of these three people in the palace who are qualified to talk to you, you can choose one, I will call for you."

But I advise you, let's choose Princess Qi. Because these people, no matter who comes, say exactly the same thing. Princess Qi is at least good-looking, eye-catching, and pays attention to her image, and will not shrew the street.

If the emperor or concubine were to come over, the banquet would be completely decent, and you don't blame me for not warning me in advance. ”

When Yu Qian heard this, he hurriedly bowed his hand: "Then let's talk to the princess, how is today's matter, and ask Miss Lingxi to give you a mention or two." ”

Xiao Lingxi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The main topic of today's banquet is that Princess Qi represents the entire palace, including the emperor and the concubine, and bows her head to the ministers represented by Yu Shangshu, begging for your life, and begs for your life. ”

Yu Qian was shocked when he heard this: "Isn't this accusing us of being disobedient, wronged, why does the emperor treat us like this." ”

Xiao Lingxi complained: "Okay, Yu Shangshu, although you are all two scholars who are rich and rich, in terms of learning, the emperor will definitely not be able to compare with you." But if you think the emperor is a fool because of this, it will be too much.

As far as your little abacus, not to mention the emperor, even I, a lowly little woman, can see it. When the Tumubao Incident just happened, you planned to put the then King Yu on the throne and let him take the blame.

But what if the battle is won and the emperor is welcomed back? The servants will wait for another ten or eight years, when the prince grows up, and then let the princess or side concubine of the palace send the emperor away with a bowl of medicine and let the prince ascend the throne. In this way, the throne will return to the line of the emperor.

But you have imagined this world so beautifully, how can the new emperor obediently wait for you to feed him medicine.

This is the main topic of today's Hongmen banquet, if you refuse to promise to ensure the emperor's safety, then the emperor can only fight for it himself. ”

Yu Qian was in a cold sweat when he heard this, he had been in the officialdom for nearly thirty years, and this was the first time he had heard it with his own ears, and someone had brought the poisoning of the emperor to the table.

Xiao Lingxi continued: "Yu Shangshu understands, why does Your Majesty have to get rid of the Yuwang Mansion completely, I used to think that he was absurd and had a problem with his brain.

I was fine in the house, I pondered blindly when I was free, and then I figured out that the palace of the Emperor was full of cronies installed by the Queen Mother and the Emperor Taishang, and even the Princess of the Emperor was personally elected by the Queen Mother.

It's no wonder that the emperor was scared like that, if the nobles of the harem and the important ministers of the foreign dynasty were combined, and then gave an order to the princesses of the palace, a bowl of medicine would send the emperor away, which was easier than eating and drinking. ”

Yu Qian's back was almost soaked with cold sweat, and it was obvious that although the words came out of Xiao Lingxi's mouth, in fact, every sentence represented the emperor's heart, which was already a heart-wrenching statement.

It turned out that the emperor's suspicion of the ministers had long reached the point where he couldn't help but want to kill. Fortunately, now that the nobles and vassal kings are unwilling to be loyal to the new emperor, the emperor can be as forbearant as he is now.

Seeing that Yu Qian still didn't speak, Xiao Lingxi's tone of speech changed, and he began to make up for it: "Although I, like you ministers, don't like the emperor, but the emperor really admires the construction of his harem."

He completely kicked out all the original women, and then replaced them with a group of orphan girls who had no mother and no home, and from the root, it eliminated the possibility of others being placed in advance, and also eliminated the possibility of others going to win over the concubine's family afterwards.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor invented the harem slavery system, and divided these orphan girls, sending away the high-minded, arrogant, cold-hearted, and stubborn.

We have a total of ten sisters, and in the end, those who can't lower their stature and can't let go of their self-esteem like me account for seventy percent and are all sent away. The remaining three, willing to put down all their self-esteem and willingly enslave the emperor, were made princesses.

The emperor's power, and what I admire the most, is that the small group of women he left behind are extremely servile and have a deep attachment to the emperor. They have reached a master-slave contract with the emperor to live and die, and you can't buy them. ”

When Yu Qian heard this, he hurriedly replied: "Whether it is Weichen or other ministers, they have no intention of interfering in the harem, and they definitely have no intention of killing the king, and they also ask the girl to know it." ”

Xiao Lingxi smiled: "Okay, okay, I believe you are all loyal to the emperor, but what's the use of you letting me know it, I'm going to be sent out soon." However, I can have three sentences for Yu Shangshu. ”

"Dare to ask the girl to give advice, Weichen will remember it in his heart, and he will never dare to be ungrateful."

"The first sentence, the emperor has an excellent advantage, that is, he treats people and things, always clearly marked the price, Tong Su is not bullied, Zhou Yu is yellow, willing to fight and willing to suffer. Take our sisters as an example, what needs to be paid and what can be obtained to be his woman, he can clearly and clearly explain.

If you can accept it, you will stay, and if you can't accept it, you will leave. It stands to reason that the ten of us were originally slaves, and the emperor held our slave contract in his hand, and he could do whatever he wanted to us. But he still gave us the seven people who wanted to go free, and each of us gave us gold, silver and jewelry that we could not spend for a lifetime.

The three sisters who stayed behind, saying that they were slaves, were actually crowned princesses, and the scenery was infinite, and they hated to eat gold, silver, and jade every day, and they were about to be spoiled to the sky.

It is the same to extrapolate this truth to your ministers, as long as you are loyal to the king, and the emperor is both trustworthy and emotional, he will be good to you. The emperor can even tolerate Jing Yuanbo, the emperor's closest confidant, how can he not tolerate you. The emperor is like this, and you still insist on feeding the emperor medicine, then the two sides can only fight each other. ”

The conversation in the east room is very heavy, but in the west room it is the complete opposite. Zhu Qiyu sat on the soft couch and invited He Yi and Huang Pu to sit on the left and right.

Huang Pu met Jun for the first time and was quite restrained. Zhu Qiyu took the initiative to start the topic: "Chengji, Xingyi recommended you to me, saying that you are upright and honest, and you are quite talented in governing the world."

It is said that the lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, and the lord is humiliated by the death, I am now so worried that I can't sleep because of the things in Shanxi. ”

Huang Pu replied: "Your Majesty is asking about Shanxi's current military, or about Shanxi's future governance?" ”

"Let's talk about how to govern Shanxi after the war is over. As far as I know, a large number of soldiers in Shanxi's guard posts have fled, and the most conservative thing is that if half of the people in each guard post run away, then there are few who run.

There is also the Great Wall defense line outside, which is useless. The Warat army was able to enter Shanxi and set up an ambush without knowing it, and succeeded several times in a row, annihilating hundreds of thousands of our troops. In the future, how to build the defense line of the Great Wall can be impregnable.

There are also a group of civil and military officials in Shanxi, who eat inside and out, resell ordnance, and fund grain and grass to Mongolia. In the case of the invasion of Warat, the troops were self-respecting and did not contribute to the work.

There are so many questions that I can't go on and on. Tell me how to get this? ”

Huang Pu replied: "Weichen has an idea, in fact, he can split Shanxi into three, and divide Xuanfu and Huailai into Beizhili, so as to strengthen the imperial court's control over these two strategic places.

Set up a new capital division outside the Great Wall, and reset Kaipingwei and Dongshengwei. The outer part of the Great Wall of Shanxi was turned into a military administration area like Liaodong.

For the remaining part of Shanxi, Datong is the center as a logistics base to support Kaipingwei and Dongshengwei.

Then, between Xuanfu and Huailai, another section of the Great Wall was built to form three lines of defense: the Outer Great Wall, the Xuanhuai Great Wall, and the Inner Great Wall, so as to avoid the tragedy of the Tumubao again. ”