Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

Defang let go of his hands and smiled, "Your Majesty must have a foresight to plan the battle. It seems that Emperor Taizu's long-cherished wish is about to come true."

Baili rubbed his ears, "My lord, after the land of Yanyun is pacified, will the imperial court attack north again?"

"Probably not. It is not easy to hold the northern border. The officers, soldiers and common people need to recuperate, so that all people in the world can live a stable life. This is what I, Song Dynasty, want to do."

"But Liao and Dangxiang are always going to fight."

"There are two kinds of desire for force, one is driven by poverty, and the other is excessive selfish desire."

"Which one is the Liao Kingdom and the Dangxiang?"

"They have both, so they always want to capture the rich and prosperous places in the Central Plains and enslave thousands of people."

"My lord, I heard that nobles from the Liao Kingdom, Dangxiang, and Tubo can kill slaves at will, and some of them... even skin them..."

"Well, that's true. In relatively barbaric places, slaves are not considered human beings to those nobles. The wives and children of slaves have also been slaves for generations, no different from livestock, so... hey... If the Central Plains is If they occupy it, I don’t know how many people will suffer.”

"Then if a servant like Xiao is captured by them, wouldn't he be worse than a servant."

Defang looked at Baili and said, "There will be no such thing. No matter what price I pay, I will never let the people fall into that situation, let alone let the Central Plains become a purgatory on earth."

"Yeah!" Baili nodded, and said seriously, "My lord, you are right! I am not afraid of Fanbang wolves!"

Defang looked at Baili and blinked his eyes, then turned his head and leaned against the barrel, closed his eyes and smiled and said, "Stupid"

Baili pursed his lips and touched his head, shrugged his shoulders with a smile, and helped Defang continue to scrub. The trousers looked down, and suddenly saw something, so they bent over to look at the knees, "What is this?"

Baili raised his head and replied, "Your Majesty embroidered this, but I gave it to the little one today, saying that you changed it after taking a bath today."

"Oh? Madame embroidered it?" Defang looked at the corner of her trousers, and there was a word "Fang" embroidered with red thread on it. Defang smiled and touched the embroidered word, "It's so beautiful."

"Ke'er said that the empress also embroidered for the three little highnesses and the little princess."

"What about the lady herself?"

"That... my lord, this... I don't know..."

"That's right..." Defang took the underwear and trousers and put them on, "Okay, let's go back to the house."

Back in the dormitory, Ke'er was helping Concubine Di comb and dry her hair, Defang asked, "Ke'er, have you finished combing for your mother?"

"Go back to the prince, hurry up, that's all right."

"Then let me come." Defang took the towel and wooden comb, "Go down and have a rest."

Ke'er looked at Concubine Di, Concubine Di nodded, "Go and rest."

"Yes" Ke'er saluted and exited the dormitory, Defang dried Concubine Di's hair and combed her hair, then pulled her to sit beside the bed, "Ma'am, today is so beautiful."

Concubine Di smiled, "Didn't it look good before?"

"It's beautiful, it looks even better today." Defang leaned closer to Concubine Di and smelled it, "Well, it smells so good."

"So many petals can't be fragrant. It seems that the prince really wants to turn his concubines into peonies."

"Madam is just that?" Defang stood up with a smile, took off her underwear first, Concubine Di said, "My lord, what are you doing?"

Defang didn't answer, and wanted to take off her trousers again. Concubine Di hurriedly held Defang's wrist, "My lord, what are you doing?"