Empress Mi Benji

Chapter 74
In the high gate compound, carved buildings and jade buildings, everyone who was beaming at first became silent because of the return of the second lady.

The low pressure of the father and daughter swept the entire Li mansion. They didn't meet each other, and they didn't ask for an invitation. Anyway, the two of them were angry.

"Second sister, just give in to daddy, he loves you so much, he will forgive you!" Li Chengzhi persuaded Li Rusi, saying that if the two of them continue to fight like this, the impact will not be good at all.

Push the maids away. From yesterday to today, Li Rusi hadn't greeted Li Pingyuan when she came back.

"What do you know?" Li Rusi held a book, leisurely, and even recited the words and sentences on it softly.

It seemed that the conflict with Li Pingyuan was rumored by outsiders, and she was not as angry as Li Pingyuan.

"I'm not as smart as your second sister, but it's really wrong for you to do this. Dad just can't let go, just give him a face." Li Chengzhi tried to persuade Li Rusi, because he knew where Li Pingyuan was. It's easier to be beaten. Li Rusi here, for the sake of her image as a lady, Li Rusi generally doesn't hit people unless she can't help it.

"Then you pay me a husband who doesn't dislike me." Li Rusi sneered, and knocked Li Chengzhi on the head with a book, but it didn't work. Li Chengzhi felt a great humiliation, and when he saw Li Rusi's fist, he still became in silence.

"My sister is already an old woman. If she doesn't marry again, her life will be over. It's hard to find a man who doesn't dislike her. You still stop it, because you don't want me to marry?" Li Rusi said coldly.

"But you can't be him as a concubine. Isn't Ping wife just a nicer concubine? Second sister, you are an official or the daughter of a general. If you marry someone else as a concubine, do you think your father's face will be decent?" Xiaozhi With emotion and reason, this is his most humane and sophisticated time.

"..."

"Second Sister, did I say something wrong? Even if he and his wife are separated, how can I let you be his second wife!" Li Chengzhi was afraid to speak when he saw Li Rusi's silence.

"No, what you said is quite right, it doesn't sound like what you said!" Li Rusi smiled and continued the leisurely posture just now.

"No, Second Sister, listen to a piece of persuasion. He doesn't want to marry you as his wife, which means he doesn't love you either. Second Sister, why are you having conflicts with your father because of him?" Li Chengzhi became anxious, and looked at Li Rusi I don't want to pay attention to his appearance, I am in a hurry.

"I was the one who designed him for this whole thing. It would be strange for him to like me, let alone love. It was hard to coax him into the house by virtue of his status as a lifesaver. If you scare him away with this attitude , I only ask you."

Li Rusi's almond eyes narrowed slightly, and Li Chengzhi became honest all of a sudden, because he was familiar with the second sister's character and knew that this was the prelude to the second sister's anger.

"I just don't want you and dad to have conflicts because of him. Sister, I have no opinion on who you marry." Li Chengzhi said sincerely, retracting his preface.

"That's why you don't understand, mother doesn't panic, what are you in a hurry for, and don't rush to persuade daddy, this kind of atmosphere is suitable for everyone's status now, if it is eased or frozen, it will be a bit inappropriate." The pages of the book half hint at the current state.

Before the father and daughter met, they had already created this situation together and accepted it frankly. Maybe Li Pingyuan really didn't want to lose face.

But Li Rusi succumbed, and naturally the marriage with Zhuang Xun would end without a problem. Only such a stalemate is the most mysterious. Everyone knows Li Pingyuan's anger and Li Rusi's persistence.

Waiting for a breaker to break the deadlock made Li Pingyuan unwilling, and he had no choice but to agree, allowing Li Rusi's persistence to succeed.

Let everyone know that Li Pingyuan was very angry that his daughter married someone else as a flat wife, but out of love for his daughter, he had no choice but to agree.

Instead of making people feel happy, and finally married the eldest girl in the family, this kind of mentality is the best way to keep Li Pingyuan's old face and satisfy Li Rusi's good husband-in-law.

Li's mother, Zhu Shi, already understood that if this situation was allowed to escalate, it was Li Chengzhi who didn't understand the situation and came to persuade Li Rusi.

The one who broke the game could only be Zhuang Xun, and Li Rusi was satisfied with him. He said that when he came to propose marriage, he would come to propose marriage. The look of being able to accept the fact.

Seeing that Li Chengzhi had confessed, Li Rusi was in a better mood. This brainless brother said some reasonable things today, although it didn't fit the atmosphere at the moment.

"Second Sister, what kind of man do you want to get together? You are the daughter of a great general." Li Chengzhi was still a little unwilling. Imagine his sister marrying someone else to be a child, and his blood pressure would rise, not to mention the two sides The status is still very different.

"Look down on my future husband, and you don't look at yourself. You are still a guerrilla general now. Zhuang Lang is already a leader alone." Li Rusi said, hitting Li Chengzhi.

"It won't be anymore soon. At least he must be a general of Zhennan. This time, I led the troops to retake Chengdieguan." Li Chengzhi said proudly.

"You beat the Tai Tuo and Yushi's son, and you still want to be promoted? If you don't beat you up, it's a sign of your father's outstanding military exploits." Li Rusi took Li Chengzhi's short words bluntly.

"But it's really cool. If I have this kind of military exploits in exchange for beating people next time, I will change it!" Speaking of these beating deeds, Li Chengzhi said rather complacently.

"You, you still want to compare with my future husband and son-in-law. His temperament is tens of millions worse." Li Rusi regretted comparing Zhuang Xun with him. Only by changing their identities can they match each other's personalities.

"Oh, it's just luck. I became the inspector and censor before I made any achievements. I see Yu Guo is going to end." Li Chengzhi was not convinced, and Zhuang Xun's experience was not enough to convince people.

What he said was right, Yu country was about to end, that's why there was such a special case, just imagine, in a normal country, such a situation of rapid promotion would not happen.

The greatest favor may be that Zhuang Xun received the Jiedu Youshi, and then went to the local area to practice for a few years, learn the ways of the world, and exercise his ability to be an official, let's talk about it.

But the king of Yu knew that the state of Yu was about to end. These sons didn't say anything else, they looked like a king, not a person, and he wondered if he had done too many sins to be able to make peace with him. Hedonistic self is so similar.

It was because of the turmoil in the country that he thought of giving Zhuang Xun the power to protect himself in troubled times. Hebei and Jiannan both have the ability to watch the fire from the other side, which can be regarded as King Yu's care and maintenance for those recognized by the national teacher.

"You're not bad luck. If you are with our father, otherwise, with your communication skills, you can get a guerrilla general and have the opportunity to serve as an ambush to cut off the back of the country?" If you want to talk about luck, Li Rusi will not be sleepy. .

Zhuang Xun's ability to live up to now is considered to have brushed shoulders with death twice. If he didn't have himself, the consequences would be unimaginable. In comparison, his younger brother was protected all the way.

"It can be the same. If you want to put it this way, he is still the illegitimate son of King Yu. I can't beat him. He is normal." Li Chengzhi said stubbornly.

"If he's the illegitimate son of King Yu, I'm still a princess. Being a prince's side concubine doesn't seem to humiliate me." Li Rusi followed Li Chengzhi's words and refuted him with a smile.

"It's not him, it's not a prince, it's just that he was appointed as an official, and the speed is a little bit unusual." Li Chengzhi was embarrassed and forced to explain.

"Would you like to listen to what you said? He is an illegitimate child who is promoted soon. When discussing an illegitimate child, you say that he is just promoted at an unusual speed. Besides, do you think the elder sister is humiliating her by being a concubine? Do you humiliate our family?" Li Rusi challenged See the loopholes in Li Chengzhi's words.

"This, this... It's okay for you to be a prince compared to Zhuang Xun, how can you compare him to an emperor..." Li Chengzhi stuttered, Li Rusi dared to say that, but luckily there was no maid.

"Not now, the future is not certain. The state of Yu is about to enter the turmoil of seizing the throne. Why not fight for the throne of the state of Yu when Zhuang Lang occupies a land!" Li Rusi put down the book in his hand.

"You, do you really regard him as King Yu's illegitimate son?" Li Chengzhi couldn't accept it for a while, and his mind hadn't turned around yet.

"So what if it is, so what if it's not. If the husband I marry doesn't meet my status, then let him meet it, because she is my husband, Li Rusi. If Zhuang Lang is Yu Jun, he will laugh at me as a concubine today." They are nothing more than flies." Li Rusi made no secret of her ambition in front of her younger brother.

"I want to tell daddy!" Li Chengzhi felt Li Rusi's determination, and his face straightened.

"Daddy can't stop me. Even if I don't agree, I will go with Zhuang Lang. No one can change it." Li Rusi has already made the most important decision in life, and she will not regret it. From Zhuang Xun and He Zheng During the conversation, which is basically not hidden from her, I can faintly feel Zhuang Xun's ambition.

"Who said I want Dad to stop you! I'm going to persuade Dad to agree to come down, so I don't want to use his status as a general to help brother-in-law? After all, Jiannan Road is already a bad place now."

"?" Why did you call out your brother-in-law? I haven't married yet.

Compared with the dialogue between the siblings of the Li family, the dispute in court seemed much crueler. There was no national interest, only personal feelings.

Obtaining Hebei Dao has no meaning to these aristocratic families. The land of Hebei Dao is not fertile, and it is far worse than Jiannan Dao. As for the pressure of defending You Country, they don't consider it, and wouldn't it be better to rotten land?Just going to the enclosure.

Naturally, officials representing various families all supported the capture of Jiannan Road, completely forgetting their previous attitudes of opposing the war.

Harvesting the spoils is plausible now, and they have even discussed who should be sent to manage Jiannan Road.

Of course, the prime minister, who had already been instructed by the emperor, stood still and observed which officials wanted Jiannan Road most firmly.

Some of the people who want Hebei Road come from counties close to Hebei Road, and secondly, they really think that taking Hebei Road can stabilize the status quo of the country and strengthen the national defense line.

There are currently three factions in the court, the first is the family headed by the prime minister, which is closer to the royal family, the second is the family of the King Qinghe faction, and the third is the military faction. Since the political ecology of Chengguo is relatively peaceful, the three This faction often has me in you and you in me.

King Qinghe is now the younger brother of King Cheng. He failed to fight for the throne before, but he is still very powerful.

The counter-intuitive thing is that it is impossible to get rid of the root of the high position that everyone wants, because it is said that the world is ruled by the royal family, but in fact it is ruled by the family. King Qinghe is probably the emperor's backup option, and also the family. The important person who restrained the emperor, and King Qinghe himself was not an idiot, naturally accumulated a group of supporters and had a certain right to speak in the court.

"I like Hebei better. I have never had a chance to get Hebei before, and I don't want to conflict with Yu State. However, this is the long-cherished wish of this dynasty. All the north of the Jizhou River will be included in the national territory, and the disaster to the east of Sheshui will be eliminated. There is no need for two lines Take precautions, although it seems that Yu Guo is no longer able to do so, seizing Hebei is a long-term strategy for stability." The prime minister interrupted the discussion among the officials to express his own point of view.

"The lower official also agrees with the prime minister's point of view. Jiannan Road is the place where the four wars took place, and it is at the handover of the Three Kingdoms. Although Youguo's vitality has been greatly damaged, it is still eyeing it. Taking Jiannan will only waste the country's power. If our country takes over, we will send troops to guard Youguo, and the food will be transported across the river and across Jiannan Mountain every day, and the loss will be unimaginable." As soon as the prime minister made his statement, officials from the same faction immediately came out to support him.

"The lower officials also agree. Didn't Chen Yushi refer to General Li's book before, accusing him of consuming domestic food and wasting national power in vain. Is it inappropriate to backtrack now?"

"Today is different from the past. Besides, there is a danger of Ling Pass. A [-] garrison can defend Youguo. As long as the land in Jiannan has a population, it will soon be self-sufficient. Didn't You Shangshu say before that the loss of food transported by the river is low? ?" Chen Yushi naturally couldn't bear the other party's accusations.

"Compared to land, this is the case, but do we need it now? You country's troubles have been solved, so naturally we can't look at it from the situation during the war. Now we have to wait for Jiannan Road to recover, and we can't do it in ten years. The money and food consumed in these ten years, Taxation on Jiannan Road for 50 years is not enough to make up for it.” You Shangshu is the Minister of the Ministry of Households, so the data are detailed and seem to be true.

"The strategic position of Jiannan Dao is not comparable to that of Hebei Dao. At present, the chaos in Yu Kingdom is emerging, the princes are vying for the throne, and the domestic instability of You Kingdom is the opportunity for us to become a country. Jiannan Dao is like a The left side of the sword strikes You country, and the right side cuts Yu country." A general said, not sure whether he was really out of strategic considerations or out of self-interest.

"Okay, since we can't argue, let the ladies in the palace make a decision." The prime minister didn't say a word, and if the dispute couldn't be resolved, he would finally ask the emperor for a referee.

But when the emperor went to practice Taoism, this function and responsibility fell into the hands of the queen, but like the emperor, the queen's decision had to take into account all parties, taking into account the opinions of the two noble concubines.

When the prime minister uttered these words, it meant that taking Hebei Road had become a set tone.

Now Concubine Li is also concentrating on cultivating Taoism, and her external words are trying to attract the emperor's favor. Naturally, the empress's weight in the harem has suppressed another Concubine Lin, who is the daughter of the prime minister.

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