Gu Zhao caught up on her sleep, and when Qin Youzhen and the elders finished their discussion, she appeared in front of everyone in high spirits.

"Your Majesty, Qi Jieyu wishes to see you." As soon as lunch was set in the imperial kitchen, the young eunuch came in to report.

Hearing the words "Qi Jieyu", Qin Youzhen turned around subconsciously and glanced at Gu Zhao standing in the distance.

He was thinking about how to get Gu Zhao to agree to be his queen, in exchange for He Zheng's support for him, and to ensure the security of the border. Only in this way could he take back King Li's military power without any worries, and remove Yuan Zhimei's reliance...

Pressing down the inexplicable guilt in his heart, Qin Youzhen asked expressionlessly, "If she doesn't keep filial piety for the late emperor in the harem, why did she come to the front court?"

After he ascended the throne, the female family members of the East Palace naturally became more prosperous and moved into the harem.

However, on the one hand, because of the need to observe filial piety, and on the other hand, because of nightmares every night, Qin Youzhen basically never met his women.

I just followed my own impressions and old practices and promoted Qi Chenghui, who had the highest status, to the rank of Jieyu of the third rank, and the others were granted the title of beauties according to the ceremony, and each of them was arranged according to the rules of the hierarchy.

Qin Youzhen was a little unhappy in his heart. He thought that the Qi family would keep to themselves, so he gave her the highest position in the harem. Who knew that she would dare to run out of the harem? It was so outrageous.

The young eunuch answered tremblingly, "Qi Jieyu said she was sending a tonic soup to His Majesty."

Qin Youzhen's eyebrows suddenly wrinkled into a ball, "Nonsense!"

His voice was a bit loud, and Gu Zhao immediately raised his head and looked over, wondering what happened.

Qin Youzhen originally wanted to drive Qi Jieyu away directly, but when he saw Gu Zhao's expression, he changed his mind - if he acted too ruthlessly, Gu Zhao might misunderstand that he was cold and rude to women, and would not agree to marry him.

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Thinking of this, Qin Youzhen relaxed his expression and said lightly, "Ask her to come in."

Qi Jieyu personally carried the food box and walked in with a dignified smile.

"I have met your Majesty."

Qin Youzhen raised his chin to her and said, "Sit down."

Qi Jieyu put the food box on the table, opened the lid, and took out a small bowl: "Your Majesty, you have been working hard these days, and I can't help you much. I can only cook Cordyceps and pigeon soup myself and give it to you."

Replenish your body."

Gu Zhao met Qi Jieyu and found nothing suspicious. He didn't want to watch the couple talking, so he consciously turned his head to the side.

Qin Youzhen had been paying attention to Gu Zhao's reaction with his peripheral vision. When he saw Gu Zhao's movements, a smile appeared on his lips.

In fact, he asked Qi Jieyu to come in because he wanted to see if Gu Zhao would care at all.

Lin Xuerong was like this at the beginning. Whenever he mentioned seeing his woman, he would get jealous and act coquettishly and get into trouble with him.

Now it seems that although Gu Zhao is not jealous yet, he is not unconcerned either.

Qi Jieyu saw the smile at the corner of Qin Youzhen's mouth, and the smile on her face widened. She gently sat next to Qin Youzhen, "Your Majesty, I know you are very busy, but no matter how busy you are, you must take care of your dragon body.

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With that said, she picked up the spoon and wanted to share the soup and vegetables with Qin Youzhen.

Qin Youzhen's smile faded, "I understand, you can go back."

Go back, go back, go...

Qi Jieyu's smile froze, but she did not dare to go against Qin Youzhen's wishes. She could only stand up reluctantly and saluted Qin Youzhen, "I leave you."

Gu Zhao turned around again and carefully observed Qi Jieyu's movements.

Yuan Zhimei has been in the palace for twenty years, and no one knows where her tentacles have reached. Gu Zhao would not be surprised if Qi Jieyu was controlled and influenced by some method she used.

It wasn't until Qi Jieyu left without any abnormality that Gu Zhao looked back.

The corners of Qin Youzhen's mouth curled up in a small arc again.

Gu Zhao was not on duty in the afternoon, but he could not leave the palace casually and could only rest in his room.

In the evening, the internal news report of the Control He Division was delivered to Gu Zhao.

All the Yun merchants in Shangjing City had their homes confiscated and were imprisoned. This news did not go beyond Gu Zhao's expectation;

The imperial court also issued a decree, ordering all the eight major merchants in Yunzhou to confiscate their property and investigate their crimes in collusion with Ma Rong and Dong Hao.

Gu Zhao nodded, "Yes."

In the previous life, without these cloud merchants opening the way, Donghao's invasion would not have been so smooth.

However, when he saw Yan Guan impeaching King Li and Shen Ge Lao ordered to investigate the truth, Gu Zhao couldn't help but frowned, "How could this happen?"

Master Dian should have handed her report to Qin Youzhen. The bankruptcy of Baihang and the massacre at Fan's Manor were caused by the collusion between Donghao and certain forces in the court, trying to frame King Li, sow discord, and make Bei'an destroy the Great Wall. .

She wrote this conclusion very clearly, and the witnesses and physical evidence were clear. There was absolutely nothing worthy of further investigation.

Why didn't Qin Youzhen come up with the truth to refute those officials, and instead asked Shen Ge to investigate the truth?

This kind of investigation, first of all, implies that King Li may be a suspect; but King Li himself has never done any of these things - the two sides will inevitably conflict, and with King Li's character of killing people in anger, big trouble will definitely occur!

Gu Zhao stood up abruptly, but realized that he was just an official of the Control Bureau and had no right to advise the emperor on important court affairs.

She sighed, sat down again, and felt her temples twitching wildly. She could only press her temples hard, feeling extremely weak.

Ever since she returned to this world, she has been working hard to prevent the tragedy of her previous life from happening again.

But why does it seem that every time there is progress, there seems to be some force against her, pushing the situation back to the original direction?

Gu Zhao really didn't understand what Qin Youzhen was thinking.
Chapter completed!