Eagle-eyed and wolf-watching

Chapter 1595 Kill the chicken and show it to the monkey!

After watching Ye Mingsheng walk out of her courtyard, Chen Rouer, who had been shy just now, immediately changed her expression, and her cold eyes were fixed on the little palace maid who couldn't help laughing when she heard Ye Mingsheng talking about turtle stewed with chicken.

Feeling the chill in Chen Rouer's eyes, the little maid's pretty face immediately showed a trace of fear. Thinking of Chen Rouer's past methods, the little maid was even more terrified. Perhaps in order to seek leniency, the little maid also mustered up the courage to walk in front of Chen Rouer, then knelt down and begged for mercy in a trembling voice;
"My lady, I was wrong! I shouldn't have lost my composure in front of you, please be magnanimous and forgive me!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Rouer glanced at the little palace maid kneeling at her feet, and then asked calmly:
"Your name is Zhu Yingying, right?"

"To answer your Majesty, my name is Zhu Yingying!"

Chen Rouer reached out her hand and lifted up Zhu Yingying's chin, looking at her face and said:

"I just discovered today that you are so beautiful!"

Although Chen Rouer didn't seem to want to punish her at this time, the more Chen Rouer acted like this, the more unsure Zhu Yingying felt. Under the influence of fear, she tried to please him:

"Your Majesty, you are so beautiful that the moon and flowers can be ashamed of themselves. I am just a village girl!"

As soon as Zhu Yingying finished speaking, Chen Rouer, who had looked calm just now, slapped her hard in the face.

"You know you are a country girl, yet you still dare to seduce His Majesty? You really don't know how to live or die..."

Although she was a little dazed by Chen Rouer's slap, when she heard Chen Rouer say that, Zhu Yingying didn't care about the burning pain on her face. She hugged Chen Rouer's thigh tightly and begged for mercy with tears streaming down her face:
"How dare I seduce His Majesty! Your Majesty, please understand that I just couldn't help myself!"

"Couldn't help it? You couldn't help it this time, so next time you can't help it, will you climb onto His Majesty's bed?"

Although she was cursing Zhu Yingying, Chen Rouer's eyes were looking at the beautiful young woman who came in.

Chen Rouer has always been conflicted about Mei Niang, the girl sent by her parents. On the one hand, Mei Niang is really capable, and she can handle everything she asks her to do very well, which makes her very satisfied. Moreover, she can also give her advice and suggestions. With her advice and suggestions, she has obviously received more favor from the emperor during this period.

Although this Mei Niang had helped her a lot and had never done anything beyond the rules and had always been very well-behaved, Chen Rouer's intuition told her that this Mei Niang's heart was not as well-behaved as she appeared to be, and that she was not someone who only wanted to assist her!

And the most important thing is that this Mei Niang S is very proficient in how to deal with men!

Thinking of this, Chen Rouer couldn't help but recall the fierce battle last night. She had never thought that Ye Mingsheng, who was nearly forty years old, still had such strong fighting power!

She was so defeated that she could only look for reinforcements. With the help of Mei Niang, a fresh force, she barely retreated...

Recalling how Mei Niang acted last night, Chen Rouer's eyes became more and more tangled, but after a moment, the Concubine Rou of Daqian came up with a plan and immediately ordered:

"Mei Niang!"

Hearing Chen Rouer's call, Mei Niang also walked over respectfully and responded:

"My lady, what do you want me to do?"

Chen Rouer smiled and pointed at Zhu Yingying who was crying at her feet and said:
"Mei Niang, this bitch is so shameless that she dared to seduce His Majesty. I will naturally punish her severely, but she is too shameless. No wonder her last name is Zhu. She is really a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water!"

"My hands hurt when I hit her, so you can punish her, Mei Niang!"

"Twenty slaps! Hit her hard! This bitch is the most shameless. If you hit her lightly, she won't feel anything. Only when you hit her hard will she feel the pain!"

When Zhu Yingying heard that Chen Rouer was going to hit her twenty times, her fear reached its peak. She quickly begged for mercy again:
"My queen, I know I was wrong! I won't do it again! Please forgive me!"

Zhu Yingying's plea for mercy did not win Chen Rouer's mercy. The daughter of a wealthy family smiled and said:

"Zhu Yingying, I've already given you a lenient sentence! If you dare to cry again, I'll have someone drag you out, take off your pants and beat you with a stick. What do you think? Do you want those eunuchs to see you?"

Hearing Chen Rouer say such vicious words with a smile, Zhu Yingying was so scared that she quickly covered her mouth with her hands, not daring to make any sound at all...

Seeing this, Chen Rouer nodded in satisfaction, then sat on the chair, picked up the teacup and took a sip, then smiled and instructed Mei Niang:

"Let's get started, Mei Niang!"

Although she was shocked and angry about what Chen Rouer did, she had no choice but to obey orders as she was under her roof. Looking at the flower-like girl Zhu Yingying in front of her, Mei Niang's eyes were full of pity. She knew that Chen Rouer was killing a chicken to scare the monkeys today!

Zhu Yingying was the result of a fire in the city gate that affected others, and ended up like this!
After giving Zhu Yingying an apologetic look, Mei Niang raised her hand and hit her hard.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp sound, Zhu Yingying's tender cheeks suddenly turned red. Zhu Yingying instinctively wanted to shout, but when she thought of Chen Rouer's threat to her just now, Zhu Yingying could only grit her teeth and dared not make any sound at all! Based on her understanding of Chen Rouer, Chen Rouer was definitely not joking, she would really do that!
And if she was really seen naked by that group of eunuchs, then she, Zhu Yingying, would have no face to live in this world!
As Zhu Yingying gritted her teeth, Mei Niang slapped her in the face one after another. After twenty slaps, Zhu Yingying's face was already red and swollen. Mei Niang turned around and reported to Chen Rouer:

"My queen has given me twenty slaps!"

Chen Rouer picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea leisurely, and then said leisurely:
"Has that pighead learned his lesson?"

Although she felt she was wronged, Zhu Yingying no longer had the courage to speak out for herself after being brutally treated by Chen Rouer. She could only follow Chen Rouer's words and say:
"My Queen, I've learned my lesson! I won't dare to do it again!"

"Humph! You never dare to do that again? You don't stand a chance!"

"Send this pig-head to the laundry department and let her wash clothes and clean toilets for the rest of her life!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Yingying's expression changed immediately, and she immediately begged:

"My lady, please don't send me to the laundry. Let me stay with you. I will work like a slave to repay your kindness!"

"It's too late! I can make you bitches stand up, but I can also step on you!"

Although these words were spoken to Zhu Yingying, Chen Rouer was looking at Mei Niang.

As soon as Chen Rouer finished speaking, two eunuchs walked into the room and dragged the crying Zhu Yingying out of the room like cargo. Under this situation, Mei Niang felt mixed emotions, and the only thing she could do now was to stand respectfully to express her submission to Chen Rouer...

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The next day, the Imperial Study
At three quarters past three in the morning, Ye Mingsheng yawned and walked into his imperial study. Yesterday, due to Chen Rouer's disturbance, he arrived at the imperial study at 3:00 p.m. and started a meeting with Cui Shao, Gu Sansi, Zhang Juning and others at 1:00 p.m.

After a half-hour meeting, Ye Mingsheng began to make up for the memorials that he had not dealt with in the morning. He worked until the hour of Xu. However, even so, Ye Mingsheng did not finish all the memorials that he had not dealt with yesterday morning. So this morning, Ye Mingsheng came a little earlier, thinking of dealing with all the outstanding memorials this morning.

There were not many important things in the morning's memorials. The more important thing was that the Youyan Provincial Government, the Qilu Provincial Government, and the Jiyu Provincial Government were all starting various actions to try to alleviate the impact of the drought on local grain production!
It is worth being happy that there have been several rains in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Qi recently. Although the rains are not heavy and are only regional, and have little effect on alleviating the drought, it is better than nothing after all, and it is somewhat exciting news!

In addition to this, there is news from the navy. In the navy’s planned home port of Tao Port in Qilu, the first phase of construction is almost completed, and the training of naval officers and soldiers has also achieved some results. General Zhang Baili, who is in charge of the navy, invites His Majesty to go to Tao Port for an inspection!
Seeing Zhang Baili's invitation, Ye Mingsheng was also somewhat tempted...

The Daqian Navy is the most important part of Ye Mingsheng's overseas strategy. Ye Mingsheng has invested a lot of effort in this. Even when Daqian's finances are not so abundant, Ye Mingsheng still increases the navy's funding year after year to help the navy grow better!

Having invested so much in the navy, although Ye Mingsheng does not require the navy to engage in combat now, he still wants to see with his own eyes what the navy looks like now.

Ye Mingsheng was also very concerned about the construction of Tao Port. Although Tao Port was the home port of the Daqian Navy, when planning the construction of Tao Port, Ye Mingsheng's plan for Tao Port was not just a military port, but a dual-use military and civilian port!

In addition to being the home port of the Daqian Navy, Ye Mingsheng also hopes that Tao Port can become one of the most important seaports in the north of Daqian and promote the development of overseas trade in the north!

In Ye Mingsheng's opinion, Daqian's overseas trade is very unbalanced, even very distorted. Currently, more than 80% of Daqian's overseas trade is completed by the Jiangnan region. In Ye Mingsheng's opinion, this behavior of one region dominating the market is unhealthy.

Ye Mingsheng hopes to see a more balanced development of overseas trade between the north and south of Daqian, rather than walking on one leg like a lame man as it is now...
As the old saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. So if you want to develop shipping, a good port is also very important!

At Ye Mingsheng's request, the Ministry of Revenue, Qilu Provincial Government, Youyan Provincial Government, Liaoyang Provincial Government, and other relevant departments have been looking for places along the northern coastline that could become excellent ports. Five locations have been found so far, but due to limited funds, only one Tao Port is currently under construction.

Taking all these into consideration, Ye Mingsheng really hopes that he can arrive at Taogang again as soon as possible to see the changes in Taogang.

Although he had the idea of ​​going to Taogang for inspection, Ye Mingsheng might have to wait for a while!
After all, Ye Mingsheng has never left Youyan since the end of the southern tour, so if he wants to inspect Taogang, Ye Mingsheng cannot just go to Taogang. He must visit all the places along the way. Youyan, Hebei, Henan, Qi and Lu are all the areas most affected by the drought.

Ye Mingsheng also wanted to go and see whether the provincial governments, prefectures, counties, and towns in these places were doing enough in drought relief work, but Ye Mingsheng changed his mind and thought that these places were busy fighting drought, and if he went there, it would be just causing trouble.

When the time comes, even if I order the provincial governors, prefects, and county magistrates not to worry about me and to use all their energy to fight drought, these officials, big and small, will not really ignore me, the emperor...
So in order to allow these officials to focus all their energy on drought relief, Ye Mingsheng shelved his inspection plan. He thought that when the drought was over, he would conduct inspections along the way to see what the situation was like in various places.

So now Ye Mingsheng replied to Zhang Baili in the memorial, asking him to manage the army well and that he would go to Taogang for inspection when he had time.

As Ye Mingsheng reviewed memorial after memorial, it was noon and it was time for Ye Mingsheng to have lunch!
Because he had eaten too much meat and fish in the past few days, Ye Mingsheng planned to eat something simple and light today. He would simply eat some noodles, shredded potatoes, celery, peanuts, and mixed bean curd sticks.
After dinner, Ye Mingsheng went to the garden for a walk to digest the food, then returned to the imperial study. Ye Mingsheng took a nap in the side room for half an incense stick of time.

At 1:00 pm, Ye Mingsheng resumed his work. At this moment, Ye Cheng walked into the room and reported to Ye Mingsheng:

"Your Majesty, the Cuman envoy Akkin and the Roman envoy Alexi have arrived!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Mingsheng remembered that during the meeting yesterday, Su Yi reported to him about the envoys from the two countries, saying that they had been left alone for a long time. The two men were very sincere in asking to see Ye Mingsheng, so Ye Mingsheng agreed without hesitation!
However, he did not expect them to arrive so quickly. Since they were here, Ye Mingsheng would meet them and see what they had to say. Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng met Ye Cheng's gaze and nodded, and Ye Cheng also walked out immediately.

A moment later, a blond, blue-eyed, tall Roman man and a stocky grassland man walked into the imperial study.

(End of this chapter)