Your Majesty the Empress, I am really not a traitor!

The next morning, when Qin Ji came to Xia Yuxiao's bedroom, he was told that Xia Yuxiao was resting.

"Where's that Miss Jiang who came yesterday?" Hearing that Xia Yuxiao was still resting, Qin Ji asked about Jiang Shurou incidentally.

"Your Majesty and Ms. Jiang had a very happy conversation yesterday. Yesterday, Ms. Jiang was arranged to sleep here for a night. She should wake up soon."

Sui Longwei at the door said.

In theory, Xia Yuxiao's dormitory does not allow other people to stay overnight, but this rule is not absolute. For example, sometimes close officials like Qin Ji or Jiang Shurou are left to chat until late at night, they will arrange Stay in the bedroom for the time being.

Qin Ji was not surprised by this.Xia Yuxiao kept her chatting until the evening, which meant that Jiang Shurou also aroused her interest.

If Daxia wants to build a government school now, it means that it will open up a new way of cultivating talents.Before that, although the Great Xia had the literary and martial arts exams, these two major exams could at best be regarded as the exams for selecting talents held by the central government.This also led to the fact that most of the people who passed the literary and martial arts examinations were talents from the powerful class-after all, there was no systematic way to cultivate and select talents, and ordinary people and low-level gentry could not find a way even if they wanted to take the literary and martial arts examinations.

And once the official school is built and the systematic training of talents begins, there will inevitably be people in the imperial court who will take this path and play tricks-you know, once you enter the official school, there is a high probability that it will be possible to become an official in the future.In this way, there will definitely be people who hope to attract newcomers to strengthen their own party in advance.

Jiang Shurou is obviously more suitable than appointing officials of the imperial court.First, her ability is definitely not bad; second, there is no stain on her morality; as for the third, her family is indeed well-off, but she has not touched the central power of the imperial court. This position can be regarded as appointing a new person. As long as she is kept in check, the probability of her forming a party will not be too high.

"Let me go in first. I have something important to report to His Majesty. It is related to the military situation in the north."

Qin Ji said.

He had already made preparations before, and now all he had to do was to go through a procedure and talk to Xia Yuxiao, and then he could send the letter and the front-line transfer order directly-the military situation must not be delayed, if Xia Yuxiao can't survive, Then he had to deal with it himself.

"In a hurry?"

"Well, it's very urgent. There must be no delay in matters at the front line." Qin Ji said.

"Then let me go and report to His Majesty."

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"Just for this?"

In the bedroom, Xia Yuxiao changed her regular clothes inside the curtain, then combed her hair, and asked outside.

"This matter involves the progress of the next plan, and I dare not make decisions by myself."

On the one hand, he didn't want to take the blame - after all, it wasn't his own army.On the other hand, this matter is too relevant, and he dare not make a decision alone.

"What you said just now is a plan to be sent out later, right?"

"Yes."

"Good strategy, but I want to modify it a little. The army in the north will not engage the enemy as a whole, and the city defense will defend a little, and then give them three cities."

As Xia Yuxiao said, she turned around and spread out the map of Daxia's mountains and rivers, and drew three cities in the north.

"To the city?"

Qin Ji expressed incomprehension.

The current situation in the northern border is that the army can have a small loss, but try not to lose the city as much as possible, because many cities in the north are specially used to defend against the Saar people. Take the opportunity.

When Xia Yuxiao didn't understand military affairs before, she would choose to let them plan, why did she start micromanaging by herself this time?

"What's your look like?"

Seeing Qin Ji's strange look, Xia Yuxiao frowned.

"Ah, no..."

"I don't know anything about military affairs, but since you want to cooperate with Wuheya, why do you need to use the army to fight head-on? This time when Wuheya and Daxia's army meet, according to your approach, someone in the army will naturally have to sacrifice. Thrall People originally planned to throw the blame on Wuheya, if this meeting resulted in the loss of troops, there will be troubles between the Great Xia army and Wuheya in the future."

After Xia Yuxiao put on her regular clothes, she lifted the curtain and walked out.

It's true that she doesn't understand the military, but this matter has nothing to do with the military.

"What's more," she tidied her cuffs, "we have the most basic precautions against Wuheya. If she suddenly changes her mind halfway and makes preparations in advance, then Qin Ji, we are letting our soldiers Death in vain."

"Anyway, Wuheya just wants a small result. It's not good if there are too many, and it's not good if there are too few. Let's let her get three cities first. There is plenty of time, and I will rush to send the news today and arrange for the city It is enough to evacuate the people, important materials, and weapons and equipment. On the day of the battle, a little resistance and retreat is enough. The three empty cities, she has face, and we will not lose a lot."

The maid next to her took the lip gloss and the mirror, she used the lip gloss to smear her lips a few times, looked at herself in the mirror, and put down the mirror after confirming that her makeup was fine:

"Besides, judging from the situation this time, it's clear that Brother Ban didn't intend to fight us to the end. After all, he just wanted to suppress the border tribes and Wuheya. I'm afraid he wouldn't allocate enough food and grass in advance. Let her take After conquering the three cities, we just wait and see what happens. If she raises food, grass and soldiers from the surrounding tribes after occupying the city, it means that she has changed her mind and wants to really occupy these cities; It shows that she is still acting according to the plan. In short, even if she really wants to occupy these three cities, the reinforcements from the royal court are too late to help her defend."

"Your Majesty, but in that case, if Uheya retreats after taking over the city, it will give the people in the royal court a reason to blame..."

"She led people to occupy the city, and she 'beat away' the defenders. Your royal court didn't provide food and grass and follow-up soldiers, and didn't give her military power. You want people to occupy three empty cities without supplies? Really? If you blame her for doing so, then I guess Wang Ting and his gang are not bad at planning, but simply stupid."

After all, the Wuheya people listened to you and sent troops to raid the city. You, Wang Tingguang, yelled for her to fight, but refused to give her food, grass, military equipment and military power. How dare you blame her for not being able to occupy the city?The Saar people are not very strategic, but they are also militants with abundant martial arts, and they still understand military common sense. They are all demanding of others. Who will dare to fight for the royal family in the future?

For the three cities, most of the city defenses and weapons above were removed, and the food, people, and livestock were transported away, and the rest did not matter.In the worst case, rebuild the damaged ones. The most important thing is that there are people and soldiers.

"Yes, then should I change it now?"

"Change it, other deployments, just do as you said."

After saying this, Xia Yuxiao stretched her waist, grabbed Qin Ji's arm and dragged her into the room.

Qin Ji was so frightened that he shivered, why, did he start dragging him into the house?You have to respect yourself!

"Come in, I'll talk to you about something."

Chapter 69 Executive Deputy Emperor?

"Come, come, let's discuss something. I am very satisfied with the Jiang Shurou you brought here yesterday. What I mean is that it is really inappropriate to suddenly arrange for a civil literati to come and directly take a high position... "

It is true that the emperor can reuse the person he likes, but the promotion must also pay attention to the basic law. Even if it is the official position of Qin Ji, it is his ancestors and his father plus his credit. It is promoted step by step. Hurry up.Arranging a non-governmental scholar all at once, and directly serving as a central official as the head of a department when he enters the court, this is outrageous no matter how you think, I believe most officials will not approve of such a promotion.

"I understand, Your Majesty, you want to use me as a cover first, and let Jiang Shurou handle official and academic affairs in my name, right?"

"Exactly. What do you think?"

"Okay, it's just a few more big seals."

He is quite clear about Jiang Shurou's abilities. Being able to run a school on his own and having a good reputation among the people shows that his academic ability is very strong and he doesn't need to worry about it by himself.

But now that I think about it, I seem to be getting a little bit wrong as a captain.

You let me lead the military, you let me be the nominal leader in education, you let me handle the internal affairs, you let me be the doctor of the imperial history, Suilongwei is also Lingyan and I are in command...

Is this still the captain?

This tm is simply an executive deputy emperor!

"There is another matter that I need to discuss with you."

"Ah."

"The wedding date has been set. During this time, we need to start preparing for related matters. Although most of them are arranged by officials from the Shaofu, there are still some things that need to be decided by the two of us."

While talking, Xia Yuxiao clapped her hands: "Come in."

A group of female officers and several male officials came in, and the female officers held exquisite wooden boxes in their hands.

"Open."

"Yes."

The leading female officer promised, and then all the female officers opened the wooden box.

There were nine dresses lying in it.

"Currently, there are nine sets of wedding dresses personally handled by Yufucheng, with different decorations and styles. This time, Yufucheng also specially made clothes that imitated the western church. Of course, I personally do not recommend choosing this .”

Xia Yuxiao said.

Qin Ji looked at the dress that was said to be modeled after the Western church, and sure enough, it was indeed not a wedding dress suitable for the emperor of Daxia.The lining of the black gauze skirt opened up the back hem, exposing the arms and collarbone at the same time.Obviously this is just a novelty made by the officials in charge of the design, and I probably didn't expect to be selected in the first place.

"I don't recommend this one either."

Since it is the emperor's big wedding, it must be rigorous enough. When it comes to choosing a dress, choose one of the nine sets of dresses. Therefore, this dress that does not represent the style of the Great Xia Emperor is naturally the first. It was a round pass, but Qin Ji and Xia Yuxiao were not very surprised, and this kind of thing is not uncommon.

Qin Ji carefully weighed a dress on his right.

The most distinctive feature of this dress is that it is based on Xia Yuxiao's dragon robe, which tightens the waistline and highlights the curve of her figure. …

It is split.

If you wear it and walk around, then from the side, Qin Ji can guarantee that he can see the side view of His Majesty's thigh at any time.

It stands to reason that such a frivolous design is even less likely to be used as a dress.

But this is where the designer is the most thieves and understands people's hearts the most.

This slit "dragon robe" is actually only worn on the inside, while on the outside, there is a long-sleeved gown with a similar style, which is draped over the inner dragon robe.

The solemn big sleeves conceal the frivolity inside, and only show the grace and luxury of the front of the "modified dragon robe" inside, which not only shows the figure but also looks solemn, which is perfect.

Qin Ji glanced at Xia Yuxiao, then with the attitude of giving it a try:

"How about this one?"

"Ah, this one?" Xia Yuxiao put down the dress in her hand, picked up the one Qin Ji was looking forward to, and then froze for a moment.

Old thief, your thoughts are known to the world.

"How about it?"

"It's good, but do you want to change it a little?"

"I think it's fine not to change."

"...Then I'll give it a try?"

Xia Yuxiao was dubious, and ran to the back to change into this dress.

After a while, he came out with a blushing face.

She tightly grasped the slits that should have been on both sides. From the front, she was indeed very imposing, and the most important thing was that this dress could set off her unattractive figure, which seemed to be pretty good.

but......

"Who is the person who designed this dress?" She turned around and asked the imperial edict next to her.

Naturally, the imperial order did not dare to hide it, so he revealed the name of the person who designed the dress.

"Drag me out and beat him with ten sticks."

The order came out, and there was a shout immediately outside the palace:

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, please calm down! There is still a coat on the outside! The one inside will not be visible when it is not in the bridal chamber. I just care about its use when it comes to the bridal chamber!"

After saying this, veins popped up on Xia Yuxiao's forehead:

"Twenty sticks more!"