After running around all day, Zhao Jin was exhausted. After midnight, she lay down and prepared to rest.
It is not easy to have such a clean and warm bed among enemy troops.
Yan Rong guarded her, tucked her in, and said, "It doesn't matter if you blame me. But don't be brave, you are not someone who can endure hardship."
"Who are you looking down on?" Zhao Jin was angry.
After a while, she looked at Yan Rong and couldn't help but complain in a low voice: "It seems that he is very nice to me, why don't he go to accompany the rebel."
"Yes, I slept with the rebel and saved your life."
Zhao Jin suddenly became angry and said: "Everything about dad and everything about me has been robbed..."
Yan Rong said leisurely: "Everything of the Zhao family was stolen from the Chai family of the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Li family of the Southern Tang Dynasty."
Zhao Jin was silent.
Yan Rong smoothed the ends of his hair and said: "I'm not your father's, I'm my own. Li Xia made me fall in love. I followed him because I liked him, not him who snatched it from someone."
These remarks were obviously different from those of Yan Rong in the past. Zhao Jin could not understand and was stunned for a while...and then fell asleep.
Yan Rong looked at her for a while before getting up and leaving.
As Zhao Jin said, she still had to accompany the rebel Li Xia.
"My concubine was too willful. She let that stupid girl bump into His Majesty. Don't blame her, okay?"
That night, the two of them whispered, and Yan Rong looked a little worried.
"It's okay if you want to take care of her." Li Xia said, "Just don't let her see me."
"Does Your Majesty hate her?"
Li Xia was silent for a while, as if thinking. After a while, he said: "It's too noisy."
Yan Rong smiled and said, "It's too noisy."
Li Xia then took her in his arms and gently stroked her back, saying: "This time I saw another side of you. In addition to being charming, it turns out that you also have such a side that values love and justice."
"Humph, I just realized that people value love and righteousness..."
Lin'an.
On New Year's Eve, thousands of houses in the city were brightly lit, but the palace was a little deserted... except for Furong Pavilion.
The candles in Ciyuan Hall were extinguished early, and Quanjiu was still sick and huddled in a thick quilt.
She has become increasingly sleepy recently.
In other words, she likes her own imaginary dreams.
When I closed my eyes and was about to fall asleep, I finally dreamed of the feeling of being embraced by a strong man again.
While Quanjiu was half asleep and half awake, she was consciously guiding her dreams.
She knew that there was a woman who had done everything she dreamed about before, Yan Rong. And all she had to do was replace that old woman Yan Rong...
Fish and dragons danced all night, and when I woke up the next day, it was the New Year, and there were grand ceremonies for several days in a row.
Quan Jiu, wearing a phoenix crown and a hazel robe, looked at her mother's dignified appearance in the bronze mirror. She felt ashamed of her dream mirror and scolded herself for not knowing what she was thinking about all day long.
But when I saw my husband who was like a marionette at the ceremony, I felt much less guilty.
At night, she was still thinking about those things before falling asleep.
She drove it deliberately, and the details in the dream became more and more detailed.
"I promise you..."
Quan Jiu is already well prepared and plans to arrange for his family brothers to be responsible for peace talks with Li Xia and take the opportunity to gain power.
However, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Cao Xi came back and the answer he brought surprised her.
6.....
"What did you say?"
"The traitor said, let the saint... stop taking yourself too seriously..."
Quan Jiu was stunned for a long time.
A sense of humiliation made the spine of her back numb until it reached her tailbone.
"Sage, if you listen to what the traitor means, this slave should be saying that he wants to fight with the ministers on national affairs. It is probably because the saint is a woman and he is meddling..."
"There is no peace talk." Quan Jiu suddenly said.
She has an extremely dignified appearance and demeanor, but when she becomes angry, her eyes look a little crazy.
"The Song Dynasty will not recognize the throne of this traitor. The Song Dynasty will mobilize troops to put down the rebellion."
"Saint?" Cao Xi became confused after hearing these powerful words.
"Where is the official family?"
Cao Xi thought to himself, where else could the official family be? Playing in the harem...
"Official family, official family..."
Several soft calls sounded, vaguely reminding and fearful.
Zhao Chu took off the black cloth from his eyes, turned around and took two steps back subconsciously.
"Oh, the emperor...the queen is here."
"Everyone get down."
Quan Jiu only gave one instruction, and all the beauties in the palace fell silent and retreated.
Zhao Chun sat upright and was about to ask the queen what was wrong, when he suddenly heard something that made him change his color in shock.
"How about asking the officials to go on a personal expedition to put down Li Ni's rebellion?"
"ha?!"
When Quan Jiu looked at Zhao Ju, she neither looked at a king nor her husband. She said with a look that hates iron and steel: "Li Ni has no sincerity in peace talks at all. He surrounded Huangzhou with troops and did not get along with Chen Yizhong."
See, since we can’t negotiate peace with them, we should raise our troops to attack them.”
When she said this, her tone was calm and her expression was firm, quite domineering.
At least he is more domineering than Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen was so frightened that he swallowed his saliva and even forgot to shake his head.
"But...I don't dare..."
"The battle will be commanded by Jia Pingzhanggong. He is unwilling to go out for the war, just because he is worried that someone will make suggestions to the officials that will be detrimental to him. Now that Li Ni is at the end of his power, as long as the officials agree to personally fight, the rebellion will be put down!"
As Quan Jiu said this, she thought of her recent shameful expectations and felt even more resentful.
Only her husband's personal campaign to quell the rebellion can calm the ups and downs in her heart.
Zhao Chen was so frightened by her that his face turned pale.
"How...how can I go to fight? No, no, no, it's too dangerous..."
"Jia Pingzhang's advice was to ask the officials to personally conquer the country. Now that peace cannot be achieved, do the officials still have a way out?"
"no no……"
Quan Jiu suddenly took a step forward, looked directly into Zhao Chen's eyes, and said, "I am your wife, and I will not harm you."
Zhao Chen was even more panicked, wringing his fingers and feeling very entangled.
Previously, Duke Jia Pingzhang had mentioned that the emperor would go on a personal expedition, but his attitude was not tough. After Zhao Fu expressed his unwillingness, he did not force him again. At this time, Quan Jiu was extremely determined.
Zhao Zhan did not dare to refuse and thought that both the Queen and the Prime Minister thought that he should lead the expedition in person. Moreover, the Prime Minister also said that if he agreed to Li Ni's conditions, the country would be destroyed in the future. Then...
"Would that be dangerous?"
"No." Quan Jiu assured: "Even if the imperial commander only reaches Anqing Mansion, the local garrison will never dare to delay any longer. Everyone will fight hard and the rebellion will be established."
"real?"
"Really." Quan Jiu said: "Please ask the officials to summon Jia Pingzhang to the palace immediately to discuss raising troops to quell the rebellion..."
It was not until late at night that Jia Sidao returned to the mansion from the palace city. Seeing that it was rare for him to stay in the palace until this hour, his guests were all waiting in the hall, and when they saw him coming back, they rushed to greet him.
"Mr. Ping Zhang, something big happened?"
"But the situation in Huangzhou has changed again?"
6.....
Jia Sidao waved his hand and said: "Today the Privy Council received news that Li Ni had conquered Xisai Mountain."
Weng Yinglong was stunned when he heard this, pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "This is bad news, but it may not be..."
"It may not be good news." Jia Sidao shook his head and said: "At least the Song Dynasty no longer worried about Lu Wenhuan joining Li Ni."
While speaking, he still frowned and added: "But if Li Ni really goes down the river and breaks Lin'an, there is no need to worry about Lu Wenhuan joining him."
Liao Yingzhong couldn't help but think that at this time, Mr. Ping Zhang was still so funny.
Afterwards, Jia Si chuckled lightly.
"But it's not because of this that the officials summoned me to the palace today."
Several diners then began to speculate.
"Could it be that Duke Pingzhang had a cricket fight with the officials?"
It sounds ridiculous.
But the current Lin'an culture is even more ridiculous than this, so I dare to guess like this.
Seeing that no one could guess, Jia Sidao waved his hand and said: "The official family has decided to go on the expedition in person."
6.....
"This...Ping Zhanggong finally convinced the officials?"
Even Jia Sidao was speechless for a moment.
After a long while, Liao Yingzhong shook her head and said, "The students can't understand."
"The wind blows from all the queens."
"The emperor is so weak that even the harem wants to interfere in politics?"
Jia Sidao smiled and whispered to himself: "She is not qualified to play at the table yet."
Liao Yingzhong raised her hands and asked, "Does Ping Zhanggong plan to defeat Li Ni in a battle?"
Weng Yinglong twisted his beard and pondered for a while, then said: "If Pingzhang can really go out to fight, he will be very sure of defeating Li Ni in one battle."
Jia Sidao took a deep breath and said slowly: "I will consider the Tiantai Mountain side again. Have the people been found?"
"This..." Liao Yingzhong said hesitantly: "Judging from all the signs, it is very likely that he was trapped in Huangzhou with the mission."
"Tsk." Jia Sidao smacked his mouth in great displeasure and ordered, "Send someone to pick him up."
"yes."
Liao Yingzhong saluted and realized that Jia Sidao did not want to fight this battle.
Lu Wende is dead and Ezhou is lost. The timing of this battle is not good. If we negotiate peace first, there will be a better opportunity in the future...
Jia Sidao stroked his forehead, turned back to the bedroom, sat down in front of the desk with restless thoughts, and spread out the map.
"Meow."
A snow-white lion cat jumped down from the beam, jumped on the table gently and skillfully, and lay down on the map, refusing to move again.
Jia Sidao pulled it for a while but didn't pull it, too lazy to pull it again.
He leaned on the back of the chair, stroking the lion cat, and thinking...
If this battle is fought.
Xisai Mountain has been lost, and Li Ni has money and food to supplement it, but I'm afraid he won't be able to win anytime soon.
And if this battle is not fought, negotiate a peace first and let Li Ni retreat. With Lu Wenhuan's anger, Li Ni will not be allowed to have such a chance in the future...
After thinking about it for a long time, Jia Sidao said to himself: "I want to fight whenever I want. I can convince the officials, so why should Quanjiu be troubled?"
Once you make a decision, your thoughts will flow smoothly.
Jia Sidao gently scratched the lion cat's chin and sighed: "It's less than a tug, it's a little tug, we are the only ones celebrating the New Year together."
The lion cat narrowed his eyes, stretched out his paws, and pushed. The valuable inkstone next to the desk was immediately pushed to the ground and fell into pieces with a "bang" sound.
Jia Sidao then smiled bitterly and murmured: "Okay, okay, okay, I can't control you, okay?"
The lion cat didn't understand what he was talking about and barked hard at him again.