Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 156 The past is all over...

A period of time passed, and the ruins of the palace had almost been cleared.

The garden is also officially under construction.

Ever since the news spread that Su Yuan was going to build a public garden on the ruins of the imperial palace, the whole capital was very sensational.The common people did not believe it at first, and some scholars also said that Su Yuan was sensationalizing, but when the plan was completed and migrant workers were publicly recruited, they had nothing to say.

The common people are naturally very happy. Since ancient times, only a very small number of princes and nobles can go to those royal gardens. Perhaps only when the dynasty changes, will a group of rebellious soldiers composed of common people be able to go in and see what it looks like.

In peaceful times, it is impossible for the common people to enter this kind of place for a lifetime.But now that Su Yuan wants to build a garden that everyone can go to, people will naturally applaud.

In the evening, the construction site has already rested, and the workers go back to rest and start work tomorrow.

Su Yuan had some free time and wanted to check on the progress, but saw Zhou Shu standing in front of a newly built stone wall in a daze.

He walked over, and when he heard footsteps, Zhou Shu turned his head, saw that it was Su Yuan, and gave him a slight nod.

"What are you doing here?" Su Yuan asked.

Zhou Shu's expression was a little complicated, she raised her hand and pressed on the wall brick: "This... used to be my mother's residence."

"……Oh."

Su Yuan had heard about Zhou Shu's mother.

He still listened to what Lu Wuyou said, because Lu Wuyou had been collecting information about the royal family before, and Su Yuan only knew that Zhou Shu's mother seemed to have died of madness.

But from Zhou Shu's lack of affection for Emperor Qingxiang, it can be seen that there may be something inside.

"Is your mother's death related to others?" Su Yuan asked after thinking about it.

He now regards Zhou Shu as one of his own, just like Lu Wuyou.

If Lu Wuyou had any troubles, he would definitely ask.Now that Zhou Shu is feeling sad here, he certainly can't ignore it.

Zhou Shu looked at the wall, turned his back to Su Yuan and said, "Mother... was actually driven crazy. Mother was favored by the emperor back then, which made another concubine jealous. In order to slander her mother, that concubine deliberately Spread rumors, say..."

"what?"

Zhou Shu was silent for a while and said: "It is said that my mother has an affair with the guards in the palace who carry swords."

Su Yuan was surprised when he heard the words: "Would old Qingxiang believe such rumors? Isn't it true that only eunuchs and court ladies can enter the harem?"

About the harem concubine having an affair with the guards, this kind of "lace news" has been reported in almost all dynasties, but the degree of truth is not very high.Because many dynasties expressly forbid guards from entering the harem, and offenders will be punished with death.

It doesn't make sense to say that the guards sneaked into the harem secretly.The harem is so big, even if the guards who have never been inside sneaked in, it would be good if they didn't get lost.Besides, in this isolation situation, the concubine and the guards could hardly see each other, and they couldn't even see each other. It would be too difficult to have an affair.

"He is suspicious by nature, and he becomes suspicious when he hears some rumors." Zhou Shu was referring to Emperor Qingxiang.

"After the rumors spread, he kept questioning my mother and even abused her violently. He beat up many guards half to death, brought my mother to them, and forced her to identify who it was." Zhou Shu's tone was full of resentment, " This was originally created out of nothing, how could my mother admit it? In the end, he asked the palace maids to interrogate her and not allow her to sleep for several days, so my mother went crazy..."

Zhou Shu's shoulders trembled slightly, and his voice became lower and lower.

Su Yuan hesitated for a moment, but he still walked forward and lightly raised his hand to press her shoulder: "It's okay, it's all over. Now that Emperor Qingxiang died, you can be regarded as revenge. Where's the concubine who spread rumors? "

"...After my mother went mad, he was afraid, so he let someone poison my mother with slow medicine. As for the concubine, after he found out that she was spreading rumors, she was so frightened that she hung herself with a rope."

Su Yuan nodded, he didn't know what to say, the two just stood there for a while.

After a while, Zhou Shu turned around first, with a faint smile on his face: "It's much more reassuring to say it, thank you."

"Let's not be polite." Seeing her laughing, Su Yuan heaved a sigh of relief, "Haven't you had dinner yet? Let's go and have something together."

"it is good."

When the two returned to their residence, the butler Yang Zhen had already prepared dinner.

"Your Highness, you are back!"

Xiaoqing and Xiaoyue shouted sweetly.

Yang Zhen came from Taiyuan, so the two maids Zhou Shu naturally followed.

They had been thinking about Zhou Shu when they were in Taiyuan, and they were eager to come over after hearing that the capital was defeated.But it is still dangerous for the two women to go on the road by themselves, and they can only follow Yang Zhen when he leaves.

Zhou Shu sat down at the moment, and when he heard the two addressing each other, he said, "Didn't I tell you, just call me Miss from now on."

She has not regarded herself as a princess since she went to Taiyuan, especially now that Su Yuan captured the capital, she treats everyone else as a member of the Bei'an Army, instead of holding the title of Princess of the Great Zhou.

"Understood, I won't make a mistake next time..." The two maids quickly admitted their mistake.They have been corrected several times, if they don't correct it, it will really make Zhou Shu angry, and they will definitely be in trouble.

"Hehe, eat quickly, the food will be cold in a while." Yang Zhen said.

Several people sat around a small table and had a simple but not simple dinner.Su Yuan is actually not very hungry. His current progress in Bigu Gong practice has already allowed him to initially eat once every two days.

But he still insists on having one dinner every day, which has nothing to do with being greedy, but that he still wants to keep some of his normal habits.After all, it is impossible for him to be like Zhen Miao, who really eats the wind and drinks the dew, and does not eat the fireworks of the world.

While eating, a few people chatted.

When talking about the new imperial court established by Zhou Cheng in Yunzhou, Zhou Shu said: "Zhou Cheng's personality is similar to Qing Xiang's. He is very vengeful but also very concerned about gains and losses. Before he is sure, he will not dare to send troops to the Northern Expedition."

"Northern Expedition? He just thought, where did the soldiers come from?" Su Yuan said with a smile, "Even though Emperor Qingxiang can summon all the states to serve the king, but at that time, I guess the pastors of each state did not expect that the capital would really fall. They They are all worried that Qingxiang will retaliate and punish them if others go there and don't go by themselves."

"But now that Zhou Cheng, a bereaved dog, has brought a group of ministers who are also bereaved dogs to the south, who will listen to him? It is impossible for him to mobilize troops from the eight states in the south of the Yangtze River for the northern expedition with a single sentence."

Zhou Shu nodded and agreed, "You make a lot of sense."

Xiaoqing and Xiaoyue didn't know much about this aspect, but they couldn't help but want to intervene.

Xiao Qing said: "If the emperor in the south doesn't go north, will the prince become the emperor in the north?" She scratched her head and wondered, "In this way, there will be two emperors in the north and the south."

"Before the whole country is unified, I will not be the emperor." Su Yuan said.

Zhou Shu glanced at him: "After reunification, will you do it?"

"..."

Su Yuan didn't answer this question because he didn't think about what role he would play after the unification.But what he can be sure of is that he will not delegate power easily.

(End of this chapter)