Inside the prison. Mengyao casually chopped down the two guards and broke into a cell inside.
Liu Yijin was chatting with Erzhuzi and Gouzi. When he saw Mengyao wearing black clothes and carrying a bow on his back, he barged in. He couldn't help but slap his forehead with a look of helplessness on his face: "Okay, a few more people will come, let's The whole Liu family is reunited here."
Mengyao laughed angrily: "You are really heartless. I came here to save you."
Liu Yijin sighed: "I think you are the smartest in the Liu family, but I didn't expect you to do such a reckless thing."
"Can't you see that this is the empress's plan?"
"Of course I can tell, but so what, you are my man."
Erzhu and Gouzi, who had just stood up, were both startled, and couldn't help but look at the two of them strangely.
"Ahem, this is not the place to talk. Since you can come here safely, it seems that everyone outside has been lured away."
Mengyao briefly told what happened to Qingluan, and Liu Yijin sighed: "After all, it fell into the hands of His Majesty."
"Sir, since Qingluan can lure the guards away, the only ones left outside are just some ordinary wolf guards. When the time comes, Gouzi and I will escort you away."
Er Zhuzi stepped forward anxiously, pulled Liu Yijin and walked out.
Just as he walked out of the cell door, he saw that the corridor was already surrounded by wolf guards.
Erzhuzi and Gouzi yelled and were about to rush forward, but Liu Yijin held them down one by one: "You are unarmed. If you go up, you are seeking death."
Liu Yijin looked at the general standing at the front: "Let's go, take me to see His Majesty."
The general turned slightly sideways: "Sir, please!"
Liu Yijin turned around and glanced at Mengyao and the others: "Don't make things difficult for these three people. If anything happens, I will naturally make it clear to Your Majesty."
"Don't worry, sir. Your Majesty has already given instructions. Except for you, everyone else will leave the Supervision Department."
"Sir." Mengyao's face was full of concern.
Liu Yijin waved his hand: "Go back and tell Wang Ying and Xiang'er that I'm fine."
"But..." Mengyao hesitated.
The general said hurriedly: "Don't worry, Miss Mengyao, Lan Yu'er is already waiting in the carriage outside. Your Majesty has ordered me to escort the two girls back home."
Liu Yijin walked out of the cell and looked up at the slightly dazzling sunlight. He felt like he had been in a dream for the past two days.
As for why the empress treated him like this, although he still didn't know the empress's arrangements, at least for now, everyone in the Liu family should be safe.
In the main hall of the Supervision Department, the empress laid the black and white chess pieces on the chessboard leisurely.
Liu Yijin walked in calmly, without kneeling down or saying hello, but stood there silently.
"Why, are you complaining about me in your heart?"
"Don't dare!" Liu Yijin said calmly.
"Oh, you boy still has a temper." The empress casually placed a black chess piece on it: "This is a rudimentary chess piece. I have been studying it for a long time and can't figure out the idea. Come and take a look."
He really has the heart of an emperor. He sent himself to prison without asking any questions, but now he lets himself go and play chess like a perfectly fine person.
Seeing that Liu Yijin didn't move, the empress smiled lightly and said, "What? Are you still angry?"
Liu Yijin took a deep breath: "Wei Chen doesn't dare."
Liu Yijin stepped forward and looked at the black and white chess pieces on the chessboard. He couldn't help but feel that one was bigger than the other.
"Why, you can't solve it?" The empress glanced at Liu Yijin indifferently: "This chess game is very famous. There are so many scholars in Daqian Imperial Academy, but less than three people can solve it."
Liu Yijin sneered: "Such a simple chess game can be easily solved."
The empress was stunned: "Liu Yijin, if you can untie it, I will agree to one condition."
"real?"
"You have no joke!"
Liu Yijin stretched out his hand and overturned the chessboard to the ground. The black and white chess pieces scattered with a clatter.
"Liu Yijin!" The empress' eyes were cold: "Too arrogant!"
Liu Yijin said calmly: "Your Majesty just asked me to solve the chess, and he didn't say which side he wanted to win? Isn't my speed and efficiency in solving chess good?"
The empress glanced at Liu Yijin, took a deep breath and said, "Is it to solve the chess problem or to relieve the anger?"
Liu Yijin chuckled: "Your Majesty, I do despise you a little."
The empress was stunned and couldn't help laughing angrily: "Oh? Just because I sealed your Liu Mansion for no reason?"
Liu Yijin smiled and shook his head: "If I had said this yesterday, I would still be a little angry, but now, I just despise His Majesty's vision."
The empress narrowed her eyes slightly: "Liu Yijin, you are so brave!"
Liu Yijin simply sat on the chair and looked at the empress standing aside: "The superiors do not think about the overall situation but only think about the gains and losses of one or two chess pieces. Isn't this narrow-minded? It's nice to say that you have a problem with your vision. That’s it.”
The empress suppressed her anger: "What if it's something unpleasant?"
"That's a character flaw."
"Bold!" The empress said with a stern look on her pretty face: "Liu Yijin, you are really getting bolder and bolder now. Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
"Whatever, anyway, I have been a human being for two lifetimes."
The empress was stunned and laughed angrily: "Having two lives? Do you think you are a sage?"
Seeing that the excitement was almost over, Liu Yijin sighed slightly: "The empress of a generation, the leader of a large cadre, is actually picking up the wisdom of others, and is complacent about seeing the chess game of her predecessors unable to solve?"
"I really lost my identity."
Liu Yijin sighed: "In front of you are thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, Uighurs, Daxia, and Southern Barbarians, not the Daqian Dynasty before the northern border and north of the Southern Barbarians!"
"The great ancestor founded Daqian, and the late emperor brought peace to the four directions. Daqian can lay a foundation for eternity? As an empress of a generation, she cannot stabilize the country internally or expand territory externally. She is just stuck on a small chessboard and is complacent?"
The empress' face turned red when Liu Yijin said this: "Liu Yijin, you are really becoming more and more courageous."
"I'm full of courage." Liu Yijin was already angry, but now that he found the opportunity, he poured out his anger: "I, Liu Yijin, have worked hard to clean up Maitreya Buddhism for you. Have you asked for anything?"
"You gave me the chief of the Supervision Department, and you gave me the command of the Imperial City Guard Corps. I didn't ask for it."
"Didn't you also say when you awarded Lan Yu'er that she is from my Liu family? It's better now, because the Uyghurs don't listen to you, and you vent your anger on a woman. Why should a woman embarrass a woman?"
"Aren't you just doubting me?" Liu Yijin became angrier as he spoke: "This time I would like to thank the prime minister and King Su. If they had said a kind word for me, I probably wouldn't have ended up like this today."
When the empress was told what she was thinking, her face turned red and she coughed lightly: "Liu Yijin, then why do you think I released you again now?"
Liu Yijin glanced at the empress: "There are only two situations, Maitreya Buddhism, or the Northern Territory?"
The empress took a deep breath. The only person in the court who could guess her thoughts was the little long-term worker in front of her. This guy was fickle in doing things, but he had a delicate heart.
"Then you say, is it Maitreya Buddhism or the Northern Territory?"
"Your Majesty, doesn't this game of chess explain the situation?" Liu Yijin smiled faintly: "Maitreya Buddhism has found out the level of the elders, and you used the Uighur incident to send me to prison. That explains what the elders of Maitreya Buddhism are. He Fangsheng, you should be inseparable in your mind, it’s just a question of whether you want to close the net or not.”
The empress was convinced: "You are right, keep talking."
"Gone."
The empress stared blankly at Liu Yijin, who had his hands spread out and an indifferent expression on his face: "Liu Yijin, are you kidding me?"
"Your Majesty, tell me the conditions."
Liu Yijin said with an indifferent expression: "That's all I am anyway. If you think Liu Yijin can still be used, just make an offer first and then I'll bargain. If it's suitable, I'll do it. If it's not suitable, you can Lock me up.”
The empress' face became gloomy with anger: "Do you really think I dare not touch you?"
"At least not yet, since you still need me to involve other people."
The Empress snorted: "The Supervision Department and the Imperial City Guard Corps have been merged and reorganized, and you will be in charge. I have transferred 100,000 troops from the Twelve Official Camps, and you will be in charge. We will go north to the border in three days."
Liu Yijin smacked his lips and said, "I'll think about it."
"consider?"
The empress looked at Liu Yijin's stinky face and said, "You have to push even further."
"There's nothing I can do about it. Your Majesty doesn't know what it's like to be in the prison of the Inspectorate. I'm physically and mentally exhausted. Without a hundred thousand taels of silver to recuperate my body, I won't be able to recover at all."
"Okay, okay, just wait for me!"
The empress returned to the palace happily. Seeing this, Gong Qingqiu knew that he had not gained anything from Liu Yijin, so he smiled and said: "Sister, the emperor's technique will not work on him."
"This guy is just a piece of shit! He's a scoundrel! He wants one hundred thousand taels of silver from me to support his health!"
Gong Qingqiu was stunned: "One hundred thousand taels is not much."
"Not much?" the empress snorted: "Even he dares to blackmail me. I think he doesn't want to live anymore."
Gong Qingqiu felt extremely comfortable when he saw that his sister was deflated.
Seeing this, the empress waved her hand impatiently: "Okay, you can go out too."
"That's not possible. I'm still in the grounding period. Without His Majesty's will, I can't go anywhere."
"You!" The empress casually wrote a precise word on the white paper and threw it over: "Take it, get out immediately!"
Gong Qingqiu stood up in a hurry and said a blessing: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
The empress sat on the chair, closed her eyes and meditated, tapping her fingers lightly on the table.
"Your Majesty." A delicate voice rang in my ears: "There is news from the Uighurs."
"explain."
"The Uighur royal family was worried that Daqian's troops would not be enough to protect them, so they secretly instructed the people in Yaowang Valley to contact Daxia. This time, all the people in Yaowang Valley surrendered because of one person."
"This person is the master of Yaowang Valley and Lan Yuer's master, Mei Ting, who is known as the Living Guanyin."
A cold light flashed in the eyes of the empress: "The power of the Uighur cavalry cannot be compared to that of the border troops of the Daqian Dynasty. If this power is used by Daxia, the situation in the world will change."
"Is there any news from Uncle Nine Emperors?"
Linglong handed over a secret letter: "Your Majesty, please read it."
The empress slowly unfolded the secret letter, her beautiful eyebrows knitting together: "How credible is this matter?"
"Ninety percent."
The empress's eyes showed cold murderous intent: "It seems that my uncle Nine Emperors is also a little impatient."
"Your Majesty, is the Ninth Prince really related to Maitreya Buddhism?"
"Who knows." The empress tapped her fingers lightly on the table: "Uncle Daqian Nine Emperors, who was the most powerful person who competed with me for the throne back then, it is natural for him to be unwilling to remain calm."
"It's just that I didn't expect that Uighurs would also have contact with him."
"Your Majesty, it would be inappropriate for us to attack the Ninth Prince at this time."
"Tell the secret guards to ignore it for the time being as long as the Ninth Prince's people don't leave the imperial capital again."
After Linglong withdrew, the empress was silent for a while, then turned and went to the harem, because there was one thing she had to convince the Queen Mother.
