Several people were talking in the inner room.
The anxious voice of the palace maid came from outside: "Madam Prince, please allow me to inform you before you go in..."
"Snapped!"
A crisp slap sounded in the outer room.
Then, the bead curtain rolled, and a woman wearing gold and silver walked in.
"The newly promoted maid next to the queen has no manners at all. Such a servant should be beaten to death with a stick and thrown out." After the county prince's wife came in, not only did she not salute, but she also looked a little arrogant. She raised her eyebrows Hair Silk said, "We had distinguished guests yesterday, so I can't ask you more questions. Today I came here to ask the queen about Tinggu."
Tinggu, the nun who was drowned on the road by the queen's order.
When she ordered Tinggu's execution, the queen expected that King Yali would send someone to investigate.
She had already prepared her words and said: "I remember that at the beginning of the year, there were several slaves in Prince Yali's palace who committed crimes and were sentenced to death by the madam. In the same way, Tinggu offended my dignity, please tell me Isn’t it an exaggeration to live a life worthy of death?”
The wife of the county prince did not expect that the queen would be so stubborn, and said in a cold voice: "Tinggu is the cousin of the county prince's nanny. The queen did this without caring about the prince's face."
"Did I hear wrongly?" Cheng Wanwan suddenly said, "When the mother of a country deals with a slave, she still has to look at the face of a county prince?"
Only then did the princess's wife notice that there was someone else in the inner room. She knew this woman. Mrs. Sui from Dayu. Because she was proficient in the Assab language, she came with the courtiers of Dayu on a mission.
Talking about these trivial things in front of the people of Dayu seems to affect the exchanges between the two countries.
Mrs. Yali smiled: "Mrs. Sui did hear wrong. What I meant was that the queen should leave such trivial matters to Prince Yali to see who dares to offend the queen's dignity in the future."
She took a step forward, approached the queen's ear, and lowered her voice, "For now, I will just assume that the four little maids outside killed Tinggu. I also ask the queen to deal with those four maids as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will wait for the Dayu Kingdom." Once people leave, things won’t be that simple.”
After saying that, she turned around and left the inner room.
The queen's face was ashen, and she suppressed her emotions tightly so as not to lose her composure.
"Mother, please don't get angry." The prince said in a gentle voice, "These days will be over soon. Just bear with it any longer."
Cheng Wanwan sighed, not knowing what to say.
It was indeed aggrieved for the queen to act like this, and even an outsider would feel extremely angry if she saw her.
She handed over a cup of tea: "The queen has some tea to calm down her anger. I will take the prince to meet with the advisers of Dayu Kingdom first."
The queen held the tea cup and said with a forced smile: "Okay, the hard work paid off."
The people of Dayu Kingdom were placed in the palace, in a side hall on the west side. The ministers lived in the main hall, and the entourage lived in the side rooms.
The people serving in the courtyard were all the maids and attendants brought by the ministers, but those guarding the door of the side hall were Assab's palace servants.
These gatekeepers are the spies of Prince Yali at first glance.
"I have met the prince." Shen Dongming walked to the door of the side hall to greet him, and said respectfully, "I drank Assab's wine yesterday, and I still can't recall it. This wine is extremely strong. I, the country of Dayu, cannot brew it. Is it right?" Can you talk to the prince about the brewing method of this strong drink?"
Cheng Wanwan translated these words, the voice was not loud enough for the palace gatekeepers to hear.
The prince nodded: "The royal family has a brewery. I have stayed in the brewery for several months and I know a little bit about it. I asked someone to send some different spirits over and chatted with Master Shen while drinking."
Shen Dongming laughed: "Very good, very good."
The prince turned around and ordered the servants at the palace gate.
The palace attendants didn't feel anything unusual and went to move the wine obediently.
More than a dozen jars of strong liquor were moved into the main hall, and several ministers and princes from Dayu Kingdom sat down and drank together in the hall.
After a quarter of an hour, the people inside drank too much and acted out of control. The servants of Dayu Kingdom quickly closed the door of the hall.
Although the door was closed, the sound of drinking and having fun could still be heard.
The few palace servants guarding the door shook their heads. His Highness the Prince never drank, but in order to win over the people of Dayu, he went to all lengths.
However, with Prince Yali around, the prince's tricks were simply not enough.
In the main hall, someone was indeed drinking, but they were replaced by guards from Dayu Kingdom.
And a group of ministers entered the inner room.
Everyone sat on the floor around a low table. On the table was the list written by Prince Cheng, which was translated into Dayu language by Cheng Wanwan.
The two counselors sent by the emperor, one is Lord Yang and the other is Lord Bi. Many years ago, they were just the emperor's staff. Because they put forward very good suggestions during the seizure of the throne, after the emperor ascended the throne, these two counselors The two were directly promoted to official positions, and now they are in the second rank and are important ministers in the court.
Master Yang held the list with a very solemn look on his face: "The people of King Yali are basically first- and second-rank officials. All the important positions in the government are controlled by King Yali. It may be difficult to reverse the situation."
Shen Dongming said: "Although the king's seven confidants are also second- and third-grade courtiers, they are only in charge of farmland and water conservancy matters and do not have any real power. In other words, they cannot help at all."
"No, no." Mr. Bi stroked his beard, "On the surface, there are indeed many people from King Yali, but in fact, the connection between these people and King Yali is not close. King Yali The king and the king are from the same family, so just in case, he did not promote any blood relatives, and the members of the wife's family were all useless, and Prince Yali did not promote him either... Without blood ties, these people only have collusion with interests, and those who can be bribed with interests can naturally use interests to divide them."
Mr. Yang nodded: "In this way, this matter is actually not difficult... These adults just have the word greed written on their faces. It is relatively easy to win over, and these three adults If you like beauty, you should be able to use beauty traps to instigate rebellion. There are also counter-insurgency schemes, empty city schemes, serial schemes, and then try killing people with borrowed knives, catching thieves behind closed doors, and taking advantage of fire..."
The ministers of Dayu Kingdom were discussing with great interest.
The prince listened to the translation by the chamberlain beside him, and the more he listened, the more dumbfounded he became.
He felt that he had read a lot of books, but when he saw him today, he realized that he had read less and had never heard of so many strategies.
He quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote it down carefully.
"The purpose of our coming here is to regain the military power. Even if we can win over all the civil servants, we still can't wrest the military power from King Yali." Mr. Bi thought for a while and said, "The ministers in the upper court have ways to defeat these followers. How should we divide the military personnel who have been in charge of Prince Yali for more than ten years?"
Everyone thought seriously.
They are all civil servants, not very familiar with the military system, and they can't think of any good ideas for a while.
Seeing that no one spoke, Prince Victor opened his mouth and said: "Among the military, the person most trusted by King Alex is Military Advisor Milia."
Master Bi immediately circled the name, and there was some basic information about Milia's military advisor on the paper.
