June is about to enter, and the weather has become increasingly sultry. The non-stop cheerful cicada chirping during the day has finally stopped, and the slightly cute frog croaking has taken over immediately. Whether you like it or not, the music has started to play.
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Concubine Li's palace is close to Taiping Lake. Taiping Lake was dug out by Hu Hai two years ago. It is said that the lake is actually only a few dozen feet in diameter. Most of the time, the lake is actually used by Hu Hai to bathe. There is no swimming in Daqin.
Faced with the surprised looks of the concubines, Hu Hai could only excuse himself by taking a bath.
A corridor no more than ten feet long rises across both sides of the small lake. In the center of the small lake is a small but exquisitely shaped pavilion. Four palace lanterns are hung on the four pillars of the pavilion, illuminated by misty orange lights.
, the water of the lake sways, competing with the stars in the sky.
There is a huge circular lattice object placed on the round table in the middle of the pavilion. On it are placed hundreds of finger-sized crystal clear jade beads in six colors that sparkle with strange lights.
The checkers played by children in later generations was plagiarized by Hu Hai and used to entertain the ladies in the harem.
At this moment, the six girls, Li Fei, Yu Ji, Long Jiao, Long Mei, Zou Yanyue, and Long Xue, were having a great time surrounding the provocation that would definitely fetch a sky-high price in future generations.
On the left side of the pavilion, Hu Hai and Li Yan were lazily leaning on soft chairs, while the most considerate Long Bing stood behind Hu Hai and carefully massaged Hu Hai's head.
Among the girls, we can't say that Long Bing is the one who loves Hu Hai the most, but Long Bing is definitely the gentlest and the one who loves Hu Hai the most.
Although Cuiniang and Luzhu are already the ninth concubine, they still cannot change their cautious temperament. Hu Hai and Li Yan are here. Naturally, they will not come close to each other, but stand on either side of Li Fei and others.
I started serving tea and water.
Naturally, the girls would not let the two of them serve. After talking for a long time, the two girls just refused to sit down and play together. Of course, the checkers could only be played by six people. In the end, it was Hu Hai who spoke, and the two girls followed Li Fei and the six girls obediently.
When we were together, although we no longer had the task of serving tea and water, we did not sit down after all.
Due to their humble background, and the fact that the two girls were indeed one level lower than Li Fei and others in terms of rank, Long Bing and Long Xue also gave birth to a son and daughter for Hu Hai a few years ago.
All these things created a natural gap between Cuiniang and Luzhu, who were finally named the ninth concubine, and the other concubines in the harem. Hu Hai had no good solution for this. He could only hope that with the passage of time,
, let the two of them truly integrate into the harem.
There was not a single maid serving in the small pavilion, only Hu Hai and the concubines in the harem.
To put it bluntly, this is the best time in the past ten years that all the concubines from Hu Hai's harem have come together. If you add Su You who is accompanying Su Wan in the Su Mansion, Hu Hai's family can be considered truly gathered together.
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Of course, although everyone knows that Concubine Zhuang, one of the four concubines, must be left to Su You, they don't know why the emperor has not issued an order to canonize Concubine Su You as Concubine Zhuang until now.
Up to now, Hu Hai has not only a large number of children, but also has four sons, three daughters and a total of seven heirs.
In February of the third year of the Second World War, Long Jiao gave birth to a son, Ying Lekang. Long Mei gave birth to a daughter, Ying Wenyin; in September of the third year of the Second World War, Li Yu gave birth to a son, Ying Jingxi, in October, Li Fei gave birth to a son, Ying Youning, and in October, Yu Ji gave birth to a daughter, Ying Chuchu;
In November of the ninth year of the Second World War, Long Bing gave birth to a son, Ying Jingjia, and Long Xue gave birth to a daughter, Ying Qinqin.
Except for Ying Jingjia and Ying Qinqin, who are only half a year old, the rest, Ying Lekang, Ying Wenyin, Ying Jingxi, Ying Youning, and Ying Chuchu, are already seven years old and have reached the age where they can make soy sauce.
Three years ago, in the seventh year of the Second Emperor's reign, Hu Hai issued a decree to confer Ying Jingxi as King De, Ying Youning as Prince Zhuang, and Ying Chuchu as Princess Jing'an.
As for Ying Jingjia, the son of Long Bing and Long Xue, Ying Qinqin is still young, but has not yet been canonized.
The five eldest children were all doing homework in the emperor's study under the leadership of Ying Lekang. The youngest Ying Jingjia and Ying Qinqin were also taken care of by the palace nurses, but no one came to disturb Hu Hai.
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Looking at the pavilion full of warblers and swallows, Hu Hai had a lot of thoughts in his heart. These are his women, the women he loves.
If there is anyone I owe in this world, then the nine girls in this pavilion are definitely the first.
Nearly ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, but their most splendid years have been spent in the palace waiting for them day after day. Year after year, their beautiful years are also passing away year by year. But they are not
He was always coming and going in a hurry for national and world affairs, but his communication with any of the women became less and less.
Is this really the life I want? Is this really the life a few women want?
Hu Hai was a little confused for a moment.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?"
"Huh?" Li Yan's voice came from afar, but it pulled Hu Hai out of his thoughts.
"Your Majesty, have you summoned my sisters to Tingyu Pavilion today for something?"
Li Yan didn't seem to notice Hu Hai's strangeness and glanced at the women surrounding the checkers beside him and said softly.
This is a question that all the girls have been holding in their minds. After all, these girls were summoned by Hu Hai, and it has never happened before that all the concubines in the harem are gathered together.
Therefore, although Concubine Li and the other girls seemed to be playing checkers, in fact their thoughts were all on Hu Hai. When they heard Li Ji asked, Concubine Li and others quickly put down their chess pieces and listened attentively.
"Who said we can't gather all the concubines together if nothing happens?" Hu Hai turned his head and looked at the concubines and concubines with their ears pricked up, and said with a smile.
Li Yan didn't say anything, he just looked at Hu Hai quietly with his beautiful eyes as bright as morning stars.
Obviously Li Yan didn't believe Hu Hai's words at all.
Being stared at by Li Yan, Hu Hai showed no sign of weakness and stared back at Li Yan without blinking.
quite a while.
"Okay. You win." Hu Hai withdrew his eyes and said helplessly, "I do have something to talk to my beloved concubines."
When Li Yan saw Hu Hai defeated, a flowery smile instantly bloomed on her pretty face, like a hundred flowers in bloom. Although she knew that Hu Hai deliberately didn't want to fight with her, she still felt sweet in her heart.
"In the near future, I will issue an edict to the world to formally inspect the counties in the western frontier of our Great Qin."
"ah?"
"Crack!"
As soon as Hu Hai finished speaking, the women sitting around the round table all let out low voices. The jade beads in Yu Ji's hands fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
The news about Hu Hai was really exciting to the girls.
Of the previous inspections, which one did not take at least half a year? This is still fast. This time the western inspection of the counties in Western Xinjiang, needless to think, Hu Hai, the newly established Western Region County of Da Qin, will definitely have to go through this.
Xiyu County is more than a thousand miles away from Xianyang. Calculating this, if we go slowly, it may take more than a year for Hu Hai to rush back to Xianyang. If he goes quickly, he may have to wait until the next year.
In other words, I will not be able to see my husband for the next six or seven months? How can I not frighten the women?
Although Li Yan was not as pale as the other girls, his pretty face was also a little pale after hearing Hu Hai talk about the Western Tour. After looking at Hu Hai for a long time, Li Yan finally just sighed quietly and lowered his head in silence.
She knew that since Hu Hai said this at this time, it was obvious that the Cabinet Office had reached a unified opinion on the emperor's western tour. Unless Hu Hai himself changed his mind, no one could change the matter of the western tour.
Li Yan didn't know if her daughters could make Hu Hai change his mind. Although she wanted to, she didn't dare to make any attempts.
Once some words were spoken, it was okay if Hu Hai agreed; once they refused, there would be more or less rifts between both parties. It took several years to completely dissipate the previous disagreements between her and Hu Hai, and Li Yan didn't want to do it again.
Branches outside the node.
Even if she no longer wanted to do so, as an emperor and a queen, she knew that some things were beyond her control. Unless Hu Hai was an unprincipled and ignorant king like before.
However, if he is really such a foolish king, I am afraid that he will not get his own body until now, right?
Besides, this plan is to suddenly patrol the west. Obviously, the counties in Western Xinjiang must have something to do and need my husband, the Holy Emperor, to go there. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that my husband went there deliberately.
For example, for Princess Loulan, who is said to have become Queen Iya.
Of course, even if Li Yan knew these words, he would not say them. That is not what a smart woman should do. It is not what she, the majestic Empress of Qin, should say.
But, why do I feel so painful in my heart?
"Li Xin's Western Expedition is of great importance to our Great Qin, and the Western Region County is the foundation of our Great Qin's Western Expedition Army of more than 100,000 troops. In the future, if the army wants to enter Navayana and other countries, the Western Region County is the only way. Iya
The country has been captured by Du Teng's army, and Heibingtai has written that all the tribes in the Western Region County are now ready to take action."
Rarely, Hu Hai explained the reason for his trip to the Western Regions to Li Yan and his daughters.
However, Hu Hai still had some words left unsaid. The Kingdom of Iya was indeed captured by Du Teng's 40,000 troops. Even with the help of Hong Tianlei, the three armies of the White Tiger Army still encountered strong resistance from the Kingdom of Iya at the beginning, resulting in casualties.
Not small. Faced with the power of the sky-shattering thunder that destroyed the world, Iya never chose to surrender.
Finally, under the orders of an angry Du Teng, the White Tiger Army, which was divided into three groups, threw all the Thunderbolts they carried with them into the three cities of the Eya Kingdom, which were at the horns of each other.
Under the power of the thunderous thunder, three small cities in the basin were reduced to ruins, including the royal city where Iya was. However, the White Tiger Army cleaning up the battlefield did not find many corpses in the kingdom of Iya, and even more
Don't talk about Iya herself.
Great Qin has never gotten accurate data on how many people there are in the Eya Kingdom. The three small cities at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains originally had little contact with other countries in the Western Regions. After Eya took over, the extremely xenophobic aliens in those three cities
It's impossible to mix in at all.
The disappearance of Eya and the unknown number of aliens from the Eya Kingdom has laid a time bomb for the Qin Dynasty. Now the Black Ice Platform, the Dragon Guard Mansion and the White Tiger Army are all looking for any traces of the disappeared aliens from the Eya Kingdom.
, but still got nothing.
The search for Iya and her people yielded no results, but Heibingtai unexpectedly discovered an anti-Qin alliance that had been hiding in the dark and was organized by nobles from various countries in the Western Regions with the intention of restoring the country.
After all, I was able to find them, thanks to Iya. If the White Tiger Army hadn't discovered some parchment letters that they didn't have time to destroy when they attacked the Kingdom of Iya, I don't think these people would have exposed themselves so quickly.
Obviously, the stalemate between Eya and Great Qin gave these people hope, so they contacted Eya.
Although Li Xin's report of the Pingyi Army's massacre and looting of Dieluo City had not yet been sent to Xianyang, Hei Bingtai had already reported detailed military information and processes to Hu Hai's desk seven days ago.
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During the process of external expansion, Hu Hai had long expected that something like this would happen. After all, the huge pressure on the battlefield required some ways for the soldiers to release themselves.
It's just that Hu Hai didn't expect that such a massacre of the city would happen so quickly.
Li Xin obviously did not expect that such a massacre of the city by the Pingyi army would have an impact on Qin's subsequent Central Asian strategy. A murderous country, no matter how powerful it is, can only temporarily occupy it when it is strong.
A place that cannot be occupied permanently.
Because the massacre will only arouse greater resistance. It will only make the people of Central Asian countries fear Great Qin, and then unite to fight against Great Qin.
This is completely inconsistent with Hu Hai's original strategy.
The strong force sent to the Fanyana Kingdom was only needed by Great Qin to show its strength in the Central Asian countries. If necessary, it would not hurt to destroy it. After all, the Fanyana Kingdom first sent troops to rob Great Qin's merchants and wanted to attack Great Qin.
Strictly speaking, the other countries also exploited the Qin merchants, but they were not as blatant as Fanyana. I think the countries in Central Asia also have great hatred for those damn slave owners in various countries. It is just because it is temporary.
No one dared to resist.
When the slaves of various countries can no longer stand the exploitation and raise flags to resist those countries, it will be the best time for Great Qin to use troops against those countries. At that time, Great Qin will be their saints who rescue those slaves from water and fire, and then give them gifts under the light of the Holy Emperor.
The home where they live peacefully.
It is not too difficult to seize the Vanyana Kingdom as a specimen and incorporate dozens of Central Asian countries into the territory of the Qin Dynasty without any bloodshed. After all, for those ordinary slaves, it does not matter who is the master, as long as they can survive.
If Great Qin's Western Expeditionary Corps continues to massacre cities like Dieluo City, it will inevitably cause panic among the people of Vanyana, and will also arouse the people of Central Asia to be wary of Great Qin.
Therefore, after receiving the news about the massacre of the city by the Pingyi Army, Hu Hai ordered Hei Bingtai to deliver his oral instructions to Li Xin as quickly as possible that night.
All the injured in Dieluo City were killed on the spot, and the remaining survivors were immediately escorted by the 20,000 Donghu cavalry who broke into Dieluo City and sent to the territory of Xiyu County. If there were not enough people, they were sent to Xiyu County by the cavalry who broke into Dieluo City.
The people of Chengdieluo City.
After being escorted into Xiyu County, the 20,000 Donghu cavalry did not need to return.
Hu Hai reprimanded Li Xin for the first time in an unprecedented harsh tone, and strictly ordered the Western Expeditionary Army not to massacre cities, burn, kill, and loot civilians again.
All kinds of things forced Hu Hai to put the Western Inspection on the agenda in advance.
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