Liu Mingzhi sighed and looked at the bookshelf in a daze, his eyes a little strange.
"Your Majesty, your performance was so wonderful!"
"Husband, can Lian'er come in?"
Liu Mingzhi held his chin and was deep in thought. There was a knock on the door and Qinglian's voice came from outside the door.
"come in!"
"oh!"
Qinglian sullenly walked into the study with her fingers tangled together, twisting her hands and feet like a thief.
"Husband, Lian'er is wrong, please don't be angry, okay?"
"What's wrong?"
"Lian'er shouldn't be alone and put herself in danger, letting her husband be thousands of miles away and still worrying about me! All the mistakes are Lian'er's fault. If you are still not happy, punish Lian'er!"
Liu Mingzhi sighed helplessly. This silly girl finally figured out what mistake she had made!
He patted the crook of his leg and said, "Come sit down and talk!"
Qinglian sat obediently in her husband's arms and put her hands around Mr. Liu's neck: "Husband, I was too worried about my mother and lost my mind for a while. I promise that this kind of thing will never happen again in the future. !”
Liu Mingzhi looked at the extremely aggrieved Qinglian and raised his hand to hold Qinglian's wrist: "Lian'er, don't act impulsively in the future. Don't think about it. If something happens to you, what will happen to Yiyi, the three siblings? What will you do to your husband? This If Commander Qi hadn't gone to Shu with the army and recognized you, you and I would never have the chance to meet again in this life. Do you know? As my husband is marching to the west, I am worried about your safety and have to focus on the Western Regions. The country’s body can be described as physically and mentally exhausted!”
"Lian'er is wrong, husband, please don't be angry!"
"Alas...it's over as it is. What did His Majesty summon you to say to the King of Shu in the palace?"
Qinglian looked around and whispered softly into her husband's ear.
Liu Mingzhi's eyes narrowed slightly and there was a faint smile on his lips: "Okay, my husband knows. It seems that the reasoning is the same as my husband's!"
Qinglian looked at Young Master Liu hesitantly: "Husband, I have to agree to your Majesty's suggestion. Will this bring you trouble?"
Liu Mingzhi looked up and down at Qinglian, who was becoming more and more charming: "Tsk, tsk... I never expected that my husband, Lian'er, is actually a good knife!"
"Ah? What a good knife?"
"Yes, if you use a borrowed knife to kill people, the Shu government will definitely increase the taxes of other ethnic minorities if it collects 30% of the Miao people's taxes. However, the taxes paid to the Ministry of Household Affairs are only about 10%. You said that the remaining 20% will be used To where?"
"Eat, drink and be merry?"
"Silly girl, the vassal king is sitting in a land where the people's livelihood can't be spent on eating, drinking and having fun. If he wants to give it, someone must dare to collect it. Whether the remaining 20% of the tax reaches the king of Shu or not, there is something that your majesty dare not ignore. Suspect!"
"Save up money to store grain, and support your troops with self-respect?"
"Yes! This is the reason why the King of Shu went to Dingzhou to become a vassal!"
"But Amu and the others only found out about the rebellion against the concubine later. How could the concubine become His Majesty's sword?"
"Of course I have to ask Yan'er about this!"
"Sister Yan'er? It was sister Yan'er who told me about my mother's rebellion. Husband, who said that sister Yan'er was..."
"That's not the case! Come, hang out with me husband, I've gained a lot of weight recently, my husband's legs are numb from sitting down!"
"I didn't get fat!"
Qinglian retorted unhappily, but immediately stood up from her husband's lap!
Liu Mingzhi locked the door of the study and pulled Qinglian towards the artificial lake in the backyard.
"The rules set by the Emperor Taizu's order are that the harem and eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics. The rebellion in Shu cannot be spread to the harem at all. Yan'er is not qualified to attend the Qinzheng Hall to listen to politics. How do you think Yan'er could know about Shu? What about the rebellion of the Miao people?"
"Someone told sister Yan'er on purpose? He just wanted sister Yan'er to tell me!"
"That's right! Someone used Yan'er to reach your ears about the rebellion of Amu and the others, because the fact that you are a Miao woman is not a secret in the capital! In a place like the capital, the eighteenth generation of your ancestors Some of our ancestors may know better than you!"
Liu Mingzhi smiled bitterly, his tone full of helplessness.
The capital brings together the world's dignitaries, and is naturally filled with all kinds of intrigues and intrigues.
"Lian'er, think about it. Even though Yan'er is married to her husband, Yan'er will always be the Princess of Anping with the same title as the country. Who dares to scheme against the princess of a country?"
"His Majesty!"
"Alas... Combined with what His Majesty said to the elders of the Zongren Mansion, it is not difficult to see that the rebellion in Shu is just a good show arranged by His Majesty!"
"Liu Mingzhi now has an army of 400,000 people. What do you want..."
Qinglian murmured a few words and immediately covered her lips with her hands and looked around: "Your Majesty is worried that the King of Shu will support his troops and respect himself. In your name, he will use my concubine's hand to demote the King of Shu to Dingzhou and leave the fiefdom he has been operating for many years?"
"Lian'er, Amu, Yan'er, my husband is just a pawn. The most important thing is that my husband is only half-twenty this year. His contribution to the Western Expedition has made him the king of the county. If your majesty, a hundred years later, the prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, , How should I be rewarded as a husband? If I can’t be rewarded as a husband, I will die soon!”
"When Your Majesty demoted you to the King of Shu, was he also suppressing your husband's power?"
"Alas... His Majesty has begun to pave the way for the prince. Just look at it. In the past two years, there will always be many important officials in the court who will be demoted to other officials in various pretexts, including as husbands. impossible!"
"Ah? After being demoted, I'm afraid that the newcomers won't be able to support the operation of the court, right? After all, there are so many things in the court now, such as the Jin Kingdom, the Turks, the voyages to the West, and the recovery of Heshuo and Hetao. The new officials of the Hanlin Academy simply don't have the means and strategies. !”
"Let's put it this way, for example, if my husband slaps someone on the street and the other person is afraid of my husband's power but can do nothing about it, what will he do?"
"I feel aggrieved and angry!"
"What will he do if Chengfeng treats the man I beat with kindness after his husband leaves, compensates him with money, and finds him a good job?"
"I'm so grateful!"
Liu Mingzhi shrugged: "Understood?"
"Husband, you are saying that your Majesty has demoted the crown prince and recalled more... Well..."
Liu Mingzhi covered Qinglian's cherry lips and looked around: "Just understand, be careful, the walls have ears!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Qinglian nodded hurriedly, and then Young Master Liu released his hand and continued to move forward slowly!
Qinglian stretched out her right hand, and the little dragon came out gently and wandered around.
After carefully scanning the circle, Qinglian came closer to Liu Mingzhi and said softly: "But there are so many ministers in the court, including prime ministers and assistants, six ministers, and countless princes and princes. Why does your majesty insist on using you and me to suppress the king of Shu?" ?”
"Two reasons!"
"Um?"
"First, it's just the right time. The Miao people are rebelling. You have already had a foundation with His Majesty. You are nominally half a Miao. Among the hundreds of civil and military officials in the capital, you are the only one who has a Miao identity!"
"Where's the other one?"
"The other thing is...forget it, silly girl, you should just be a good husband and teach your children. I'm afraid you won't be able to accept some things if I tell them!"
"Your Majesty has too many thoughts. I have been secretly blaming myself these days. It turns out that everything is your Majesty's plan! It's a pity that I was kept in the dark and didn't realize it!"
"Why don't you say that the Holy Will is unpredictable? But no matter what, your affairs have worried my husband for so long, so why not just apologize?"
Qinglian lowered her head in grievance: "I've accepted my husband's punishment no matter how he wants to punish me. Just tell me!"
"Come here with your ears!"
After a moment, Qinglian looked at Young Master Liu with a hot face: "This is too much! You are taking advantage of others' danger!"
"My husband has been having trouble sleeping and eating for a whole year! You can't even do this and you still claim to accept the punishment!"
After a moment, Qinglian nodded hesitantly: "Ying'er agrees...I agree...I agree too!"
Young Master Liu looked at the koi on the lake with a smile and dropped a handful of fish food, his eyes were extremely lustful...bright!
"As a human being, you still have to have dreams. What if you realize them!"
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