The queen bullies me every day

Chapter 235 Explosives Ascend Together

Liu Yue leaned down and picked up the stillborn fetus from the imperial doctor's arms. The baby smelled of blood from Zhao Sijin's mother's body. Liu Yue didn't dare to look at him more, holding back tears and said to Zhao Sijin : "Empress, the wedding pit in the backyard has been dug, please take one last look at the child."

Zhao Sijin didn't look up, her gaze was fixed on the boy lying beside her pillow.

She carefully covered him with the quilt, and lightly instructed Liu Yue: "You should take out the dirty things and throw them away. I won't look at them."

Liu Yue made a promise, and rushed into the rain with the stillborn baby in her arms.

After she left, Zhao Sijin bit the corner of the quilt tightly in his mouth, crying until he couldn't make a sound.

In the next few days, Youdu seemed unusually calm, as if they didn't know that Dazhao had sent troops to the Southwest Second Realm, and the day when the troops arrived at the Southwest Second Realm, it was the time when Dazhao was about to regain Youdu.

Fearing that something might happen, each of the two regions in the southwest sent [-] soldiers and horses to travel day and night, and finally all of them arrived outside the city where the people lived in Youdu in the two regions of the southwest after five days.

In the early morning of this day, Xuan Jue led a group of Dazhao officials who were above the second rank and drove straight into the Candle Yin Hall.

There was no surprise on the faces of the crowd regarding his arrival.

Xuan Jue gave them enough face, and didn't go directly to the stage to sit on Jiang Mubai's dragon seat.

Standing under the stage, facing the fiery gazes of the ministers, he said with no fear on his face, "There is no master in Youdu today, the country is in turmoil, the locust plague in the south will not be eradicated for a long time, and the rain in the west will continue. Good, I am afraid that the country's taxes will be difficult to settle. The people of Youdu live in our land of Dazhao, and I do not want to see them suffer. Therefore, I am pardoned and don't need to pay taxes for this year. Not only for this year, but for years to come. Then pay heavy taxes to the court of Dazhao, just like the common people of Dazhao, just pay a share of the tax." He paused, his eyes glanced sharply at the courtiers, "Do you have any objection to this move?"

Du Zhongran led the officials to worship him, and nodded with a smile, "Emperor Zhao understands righteousness, and he is the nobleman of our Youdu. Youdu is in the midst of fire and water, with internal and external troubles, so Emperor Zhao's help instead of taking advantage of the fire, the ministers will naturally remember Emperor Zhao's kindness will never be forgotten."

Ke Min, who was the minister of the bodyguards of Dazhao at that time, suddenly laughed, interrupted Du Zhongran, and said, "Old man, why are you pretending to be stupid? Emperor Zhao didn't collect the tax money and rent money from the people in Youdu, and treated them like the people of Dazhao. Treat me, do you think it was me who burned a lot of money, and Bai She gave you favors? You are all exhausted, what are you still struggling for? The emperor came here today to point out a clear way to rescue you, and you still don’t want to thank you Grace?"

Du Zhongran asked knowingly, "Ming Road? What is Ming Road?"

"Naturally, Youdu belongs to me, Dazhao. From now on, Youdu will cease to exist. You and other officials will stay in their original positions, and your salary will not be reduced. As for whether you can serve in Dazhao's court, it depends on the emperor's holy will. .”

Ke Min's words were extremely blatant, and she conveyed Xuan Jue's intentions to the courtiers of Youdu without any deviousness.

I thought they would be in an uproar, and even yelled and cursed, but the silent silence in the Candle Yin Hall at this moment made people a little confused.

Du Zhongran didn't even look at Ke Min, and turned to Xuan Jue and asked: "All the things that Emperor Zhao said just now are all caused by 'you have no master', but if you have a master, so what should you say?"

Xuan Jue stroked the embroidered pattern of the dragon robe, and said in a steady voice: "The child in Youhou's womb is only seven months old now, and it will take at least two months for her to give birth. Master Du thinks that the current civil strife in Youdu, can you tell me?" Have you survived these two months unharmed?"

"Emperor Zhao is here."

A light female voice came from the direction of the bedroom of the Candle Yin Hall, floating in everyone's ears.

Hearing this, all courtiers in Youdu knelt down and said in unison: "Your Excellency welcomes the Empress Dowager Fengjia."

Four maids lifted the veil connecting the sleeping hall to the main hall, and saw Zhao Sijin wearing a plain white phoenix robe, holding a baby in a candle dragon swaddle in her arms.

And her lower abdomen is already flat, completely impervious.

Including Xuan Jue, all Dazhao courtiers were dumbfounded.

Zhao Sijin always had a warm smile on her face. Surrounded by several court ladies, she held the baby and sat on the dragon throne, waved her long sleeves and said: "All my loves, you are welcome! .”

The hall was full of rustling noises from court clothes rubbing against each other, Xuan Jue's gaze was fixed on the baby in Zhao Sijin's arms.Zhao Sijin looked down at the child in his arms, leaned over and kissed him lightly on the forehead, "Look, Emperor Zhao, is this child born beautiful?"

"Your child?" Xuan Jue sneered and said, "It's really an anecdote in the world that you can give birth to a child even after seven months of pregnancy!"

Zhao Sijin smiled, "Compared to my birth in July, it is more rare for the queen to be pregnant for sixteen months."

Ke Min said: "This baby can't even crawl, how can he take on the important task of the king of a country? Could it be that the empress is going to learn from the heroine Wu Zhao and listen to politics behind the curtain!?"

Zhao Sijin hugged the child in her arms to the maids, and told them to take it down to the care of the wet nurse, and after explaining this to Ke Min, he said to Ke Min: "What you said is a state matter of my Youdu, and you are not allowed to comment on it." .”

"It's not up to you, a woman, to let the old man speak out." Ke Min added a bit of teasing in her tone, "To tell you the truth, the Zhao army has already approached the second border of the Southwest, if you refuse to hand over the political power and surrender today I, Dazhao, the emperor's order, the people of Youdu in the southwestern two regions will suffer."

Zhao Sijin looked at Xuan Jue with her chin in her hand, and asked softly: "Is it all Zhaodi's good plan?"

Xuan Jue was silent for a while, then nodded and said: "I hope the emperor can understand that I did this for the benefit of the people of Youdu."

"Really? Is there no selfishness of Emperor Zhao at all?"

Ke Min is impatient, too lazy to watch Xuan Jue talking nonsense with Zhao Sijin, so he said in a choked voice: "Don't gossip here, be sensible and quickly hand over the Chuanguo Yuxi and Bingfu to the emperor, you will live a glorious life, Dazhao I can help you protect yourself."

"What if I refuse?" Zhao Sijin said calmly and calmly, "I have always preferred jade fragments to tiles. Emperor Zhao, guess what, these few days ago the court knew about Dazhao's movements but remained silent like this , because of what?"

Xuan Jue stood up straight, but still did not answer Zhao Sijin's words.Kemin spat out of thin air, and scolded: "You bitch, don't play tricks on me!"

Zhao Sijin leaned back, sat firmly on the dragon chair, and said slowly: "To tell you the truth, there are tens of thousands of gunpowder buried under the Second Southwest Realm. If Emperor Zhao ordered you to wave When the army enters the country, the soldiers and guards of Youdu will ignite the gunpowder. Not to mention the two southwestern borders will be razed to the ground, and none of your 20 elite soldiers will survive."

(End of this chapter)