Liu Mingzhi sighed and looked at the bookshelf in a daze, his eyes a little strange.
"Your Majesty, your performance is so wonderful!"
"Husband, can Lian'er come in?"
Liu Mingzhi held his chin and was deep in thought. There was a knock on the door and Qinglian's voice came from outside the door.
"come in!"
"oh!"
Qinglian sullenly walked into the study with her fingers tangled together, twisting her hands and feet like a thief.
"Husband, Lian'er is wrong, please don't be angry, okay?"
"What's wrong?"
"Lian'er should not be alone and put herself in danger, leaving her husband thousands of miles away and still worried about me! All the mistakes are Lian'er's fault. If you are still not happy, punish Lian'er!"
Liu Mingzhi sighed helplessly. This silly girl finally figured out what mistake she had made!
He patted the crook of his leg and said, "Come sit down and talk!"
Qinglian sat obediently in her husband's arms and put her hands around Mr. Liu's neck: "Husband, I was too worried about my mother and lost my mind for a while. I promise that this kind of thing will never happen again in the future.
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Liu Mingzhi looked at the extremely aggrieved Qinglian and raised his hand to hold Qinglian's wrist: "Lian'er, don't act impulsively in the future. Don't think about it if something happens to you. What will Yiyi and the other three siblings do? What should I do as a husband? This
If Commander Qi hadn't gone to Shu with the army and recognized you, you and I would never have the chance to meet each other again in this life, you know? I am worried about your safety while marching to the west for my husband, and I have to focus on the places in the Western Regions.
The country’s body can be described as physically and mentally exhausted!”
"Lian'er is wrong, husband, please don't be angry!"
"Well, what happened is over. What did His Majesty summon you to say to the King of Shu in the palace?"
Qinglian looked around and whispered softly into her husband's ear.
Liu Mingzhi narrowed his eyes slightly and had a slight smile on his lips: "Okay, my husband knows, it seems that the reasoning is the same as my husband's!"
Qinglian looked at Young Master Liu hesitantly: "Husband, I have to agree to your majesty's suggestion. Will this bring you trouble?"
Liu Mingzhi looked up and down at Qinglian, who was becoming more and more charming: "I never thought that my husband, Lian'er, is actually a good knife!"
"Ah? What a good knife?"
"Yes, if you borrow a knife to kill someone, if the Shu government increases the 30% tax on the Miao people, it will definitely increase the tax on other ethnic minorities. However, the tax paid to the Ministry of Household Affairs is only about 10%. You said the remaining 20% will be used
To where?"
"Eat, drink and be merry?"
"Silly girl, the king of the feudal lord is sitting in a land where people's livelihood can't be spent on eating, drinking and having fun. If he wants to give it, someone must dare to collect it. Whether the remaining 20% of the tax reaches the hands of the king of Shu or not, there is something that your majesty dare not ignore.
Suspect!"
"Save up money to store grain and support your troops with self-respect?"
"Yes! This is the reason why the King of Shu went to Dingzhou to become a vassal!"
"But Amu and the others only found out about the rebellion against the concubine later. How could the concubine become His Majesty's sword?"
"Of course I have to ask Yan'er about this!"
"Sister Yan'er? It was sister Yan'er who told me about my mother's rebellion. Husband, who said that sister Yan'er was here?"
"That's not the case! Come, hang out with me. I've gained a lot of weight recently, and my husband's legs are numb from sitting down!"
"I didn't get fat!"
Qinglian retorted unhappily, but immediately stood up from her husband's lap!
Liu Mingzhi locked the door of the study and pulled Qinglian towards the artificial lake in the backyard.
"The rules set by the Emperor Taizu of my dynasty are that the harem and eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics. The rebellion in Shu cannot be reported to the harem at all. Yan'er is not qualified to attend the Qinzheng Hall to listen to politics. How do you think Yan'er could know about Shu?
What about the rebellion of the Miao people?"
"Someone told sister Yan'er on purpose? He just wanted sister Yan'er to tell me!"
"That's right! Someone used Yan'er to reach your ears about the rebellion of Amu and the others, because the fact that you are a Miao woman is not a secret in the capital! In a place like the capital, the eighteenth generation of your ancestors
Some of our ancestors may know better than you!"
Liu Mingzhi smiled bitterly, his tone full of helplessness.
The capital brings together the world's powerful and powerful, and is naturally filled with all kinds of intrigues and intrigues.
"Lian'er, think about it. Even though Yan'er is married to her husband, Yan'er is still Princess Anping, who shares the same title with her country. Who dares to plot against a princess of a country?"
"His Majesty!"
"Alas, combined with what His Majesty said to the elders of the Zongren Mansion, it is not difficult to see that the rebellion in Shu is just a good show arranged by His Majesty!"
"Liu Mingzhi now has an army of 400,000 people, what do you think?"
Qinglian murmured a few words and immediately covered her lips with her hands and looked around: "Your Majesty is worried that the King of Shu will support his troops and respect himself, so he will use my concubine's hand to demote the King of Shu to Dingzhou in your name and leave the fiefdom he has been operating for many years?"
"Lian'er, Amu, Yan'er, my husband is just a pawn. The most important thing is that my husband is only half-twenty this year. His contribution to the Western Expedition has made him the county king. If your majesty, a hundred years later, the prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor.
, how should I be rewarded as a husband? If I cannot be rewarded as a husband, I will die soon!"
"When Your Majesty demoted you to the King of Shu, was he also suppressing your husband's power?"
"Well, Your Majesty has begun to pave the way for the crown prince. Just look at it. In the past two years, there will always be many important officials in the court who will be demoted to other officials for various reasons, including becoming husbands. It is not impossible!"
"Ah? After being demoted, I'm afraid I can't rely on new people to support the operation of the court, right? After all, there are so many things in the court now, such as the Jin Kingdom, the Turks, the voyages to the West, and the recovery of Heshuo and Hetao. The new officials of the Hanlin Academy simply don't have the means and strategies.
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"Let's put it this way, for example, if my husband slaps someone on the street and the other person is afraid of my husband's power but can do nothing about it, what will he do?"
"I feel aggrieved and angry!"
"What will he do if Chengfeng treats the man I beat with kindness after his husband leaves, compensates him with money, and finds him a good job?"
"I'm so grateful!"
Liu Mingzhi shrugged: "Understood?"
"Husband, you are saying that your Majesty demoted the prince and recalled him more, right?"
Liu Mingzhi covered Qinglian's cherry lips and looked around: "Just understand, be careful, the walls have ears!"
"Uh huh huh!"
Qinglian nodded hurriedly, and then Young Master Liu released his hand and continued to move forward slowly!
Qinglian stretched out her right hand, and the little dragon came out gently and wandered around.
After carefully scanning the circle, Qinglian came closer to Liu Mingzhi and said softly: "But there are so many ministers in the court, including prime ministers and assistants, six ministers, and countless princes and princes. Why does your majesty insist on using you and me to suppress the king of Shu?"
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"Two reasons!"
"Um?"
"First, it's just the right time. The Miao people are rebelling. It just so happens that you have already had a foundation with His Majesty. You are half a Miao in name. You are the only one among the hundreds of civil and military officials in the capital who has a Miao identity!"
"Where's the other one?"
"The other thing is, forget it, silly girl, you should just be a good husband and godchild. I'm afraid you won't be able to accept some things if I tell them!"
"Your Majesty has too many thoughts. I have been secretly blaming myself these days. It turns out that everything is your Majesty's plan! It's a pity that I was kept in the dark and didn't realize it!"
"Why don't you say that the Holy Will is unpredictable? But no matter what, your affairs have worried my husband for so long, so why don't you just apologize?"
Qinglian lowered her head in grievance: "I've accepted my husband's punishment no matter how he wants to punish me. Just tell me!"
"Come here with your ears!"
After a moment, Qinglian looked at Young Master Liu with a hot face: "This is too much! You are taking advantage of others' danger!"
"My husband has been having trouble sleeping and eating for a whole year! You can't even do this and you still claim to accept the punishment!"
After a moment, Qinglian nodded hesitantly: "Ying'er agrees with me, and so does I!"
Young Master Liu looked at the koi on the lake with a smile and dropped a handful of fish food, his eyes were extremely lustful... bright!
"You still have to have dreams as a human being, what if you realize them!"