This battle, under the pretext of Princess Zhaoyang, kicked off half a month later. At that time, the Xu family army was still on the road, but urgent reports from the frontier were constantly being sent to the emperor.
The emperor looked at the memorials one after another, and looked at the people kneeling in the hall with cold eyes: "...Look at what you said at the beginning that peace is the most important thing. You are such a person who values peace. I send you People going to Northern Xinjiang are still on the way, and urgent reports one after another have been sent to the capital! While you are still trying to compromise and sell your children to maintain peace, people have already put a knife on you. It’s on my neck!”
The ministers kneeling in the hall lowered their heads and did not dare to say a word.
The emperor looked at the dark place where people knelt on the ground, but no one could be trusted. Finally, he was so angry that he threw away the memorial in his hand.
It happened that the queen passed by and knew that the emperor was losing his temper, so she hurriedly stepped forward to persuade the emperor to stop him. The emperor had lost his temper at first, but now the queen appeared and gave him a step to go down, so he naturally climbed down the steps. He drove these ministers out of the imperial study and sat there alone, sulking.
In fact, because the emperor sent Xie Su Yu to the border, the queen was inevitably distressed because she was Xie Su Yu's mother, so she didn't pay much attention to the emperor for half a month.
The emperor naturally knew why the queen was angry, but he naturally had his own plans in his heart, so he suffered it silently. He stayed in his palace for half a month without going there. Harem.
The Queen came here today because she heard the news that her natal nephew was also trapped in the imperial study room. This nephew was the most promising in the Queen's maternal family, and the Queen would also pay more attention to this. Fan, then came to help them out of trouble.
The emperor sat there alone and sulked, frowning tightly. The queen originally wanted to leave, but when she was leaving, she accidentally saw the emperor's expression. In the end, she couldn't bear it and left like this. She walked back to Next to the emperor: "Your Majesty is so worried. What happened?"
"Marquis Ningyuan and the others are still on their way to Northern Xinjiang, and there are already three reports about the border emergency!" The emperor closed his eyes to cover up the despair in his eyes, "The national treasury is tight, the military pay is difficult, and there is no one in the huge court. It’s ridiculous that people can think of ways to solve it!”
The queen looked at the emperor for a long time, and then said: "It is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. After years of fighting, taxes cannot keep up with the cost of the war. Your Majesty insists on letting them come up with ideas. What can they do? Is it possible that your Majesty wants to put these things below?" All the ministers’ homes have been confiscated!”
The emperor looked at the queen: "Do you also think that I shouldn't fight this battle?"
The queen looked at the emperor and smiled bitterly at the end: "Didn't your majesty say that? Before the people of Ningyuan arrived at the border, news of an emergency at the border came up. It was never your majesty who wanted to fight, but the desperate Northern Xinjiang!"
The emperor sneered: "They are in civil strife, but they attack the territory of my country. It is really ridiculous. If I don't fight back, my country will soon become a place that everyone can trample on!"
The queen looked at the emperor for a long time, and finally smiled: "Your Majesty has really not changed at all!"
"Huh?" The emperor was a little surprised, "What?"
"Your Majesty was like this when he was young. He would rather be broken into pieces than destroyed. He has always valued the dignity of a country. It is precisely because of this that Your Majesty can do things like the emperor guarding the country!" The queen looked at the emperor and seemed to remember the past. thing, smiled slightly.
"Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it!" The emperor lowered his eyes, "In the eyes of many people, I am an emperor who only knows how to fight and doesn't care much about people's livelihood. But I know very well that I can only defeat them all. If you are afraid and beat me to surrender, then my people can truly live and work in peace and contentment. I would rather be a brave and brainless emperor in their minds, but if the world is peaceful when I am in power, future emperors can take care of people's livelihood. !”
The queen didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, the queen walked to the emperor, stretched out her hand and gently smoothed the emperor's frown, and said softly: "Right and wrong are like mirrors in the hearts of the people. Your Majesty is in their eyes." In my heart, I have always been a diligent and wise king!"
The emperor raised his eyes and looked at the queen: "The queen doesn't blame me for sending Ran'er away!"
As soon as Xie Suyu was mentioned, the queen's expression suddenly changed, and then she suddenly took her hand back: "These are two different things, who should be blamed or who should be blamed!"
The emperor quickly grabbed the queen's hand: "Ran'er is my son. He always wants to go to the frontier to make a career. He can't always stay in the capital. My son is no coward who can't go to the battlefield!" "
The queen looked at the emperor coldly: "What about your majesty's prince? Where are your majesty's princes? Your majesty has so many sons, but I only have one son. Your majesty doesn't want to send anyone away. He insists on sending Ran'er away. , why, maybe His Majesty’s other sons are all good men, but my concubine’s son is just a coward!”
The emperor was speechless by the queen's words. After a while, he finally said: "Of course I have my own plans..."
"Then your Majesty, just follow this plan and criticize me carefully here!" The Queen said a word and left without looking back.
The emperor wanted to persuade him to stay, but he couldn't say anything to persuade him to stay. After all, he was indeed sending the only legitimate son of the queen among many princes to a remote and dangerous place in northern Xinjiang.
Although Xie Suyu is only responsible for transporting military rations in the army, and it is only in the rear area, which is already the safest place in the war, but once a tragic battle occurs, everything will be involved in this. In war, there is naturally no so-called front and rear.
Xie Suyu was the only son beside the queen. After giving birth to Xie Suyu, the queen's health was not as good as before. Later, she gave birth to Zhengyang. From then on, a son and a daughter became a good name, and the queen never had any more children. Pregnancy and childbirth.
The emperor's behavior is equivalent to pushing the queen's only son into a pit of fire, and going to this pit of fire together is also his daughter's husband and father-in-law. If this battle goes well, it will be nothing, but if it does not go well, he will not only have He might lose his only son, or even make his daughter a widow at a young age.
It would be fine if only one person left, but this time two of them left, his son, his son-in-law, and even his son's best friend. To put it bluntly, he wanted to kill them all at once!
