The queen is alluring

Chapter 358

Eunuch Zhao was obsequious and dared not mention a single word, and Maner was so obedient that he even lost his usual playfulness, just kept his head down and didn't speak, but in his spare time, he always stirred the kit on his waist from time to time, People often think about something.

The Southern Qi sent letters one by one, but everything was stable. After the Khitans and Huns withdrew respectively, there was no movement. Perhaps the heavy loss of troops and the depletion of food and grass prevented them from resuming chaos.But the state of Chu is so quiet that it makes people feel frightened, because after Chu Huan received a letter from Yun Qing politely refusing to offer the princess of Chu state to the top, the envoy said that the king of Chu was expressionless and didn't know whether he was happy or angry. He just received the envoy for a short stay for a day, and sent someone to send him back, not to mention saying anything.

What exactly Chu Huan was thinking, Yun Qing didn't know, but it was this quietness that made her feel terrified, because Chu Huan's temperament was similar to hers, so the more she knew herself, the more wary she was of this man.

Three days later, the specific situation of Nanqi was counted by the officials sent back to the court. Yun Qing was shocked after seeing it.It turns out that after Qi Rongdi became emperor, the state of Qi began to plunder the people, tax them heavily, and even asked the people to dedicate all the iron and bronze wares in their homes to the palace. Then, in order to make weapons, the state of Qi hired tens of thousands of people Opening mountains to search for ore, but because of the shortage of the treasury, the people returned empty-handed after a year of busy work. For a while, countless people starved to death, and the people mourned everywhere. However, no one dared to rebel because of the tyranny of Qi Rongdi.

Today, the people in the Qi State are displaced, even the most prosperous emperor in the past is full of desolation, riddled with holes, the people are wandering around, the fertile land is abandoned, and because of the battle with Khitan and Xuanye, a large number of strong men are captured and exiled into the army , causing the people to live in dire straits, and now that the war has been lost, the strong men died, some were injured, and some were separated from Qi Rongdi's escape, so those widows and women could only cry all day long, and the entire Zhongnan Mountain was shrouded in smog.

After reading the statistics, Yang Fei stepped into Ling Xiao's belt to stand by, saying that the emperor asked Yun Qing to go to the study to discuss matters.Yun Qing knew that it must be a matter of reorganizing the Southern Qi, so he followed without thinking and stepped into the study.

In the study room, there was no one else, only the Prime Minister Wang Yanping and several courtiers and counselors.Ling Yexuan stood in the study room with his sword-brows furrowed. Seeing Yun Qing approaching, he said in a deep voice, "Queen Zhezi of Qi State should have seen it too. I am now selecting capable people from the court to govern Qi State so as to change the people. With the current situation in dire straits, I don't know what the queen wants?"

Yun Qing smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty is benevolent, it should be like this. Qi State is currently experiencing famine and chaos. The emperor's top priority is to select officials to deliver relief food and grass. This will not only win the hearts of the people when they are stationed in Qi State, but more The soldiers who were taken away by Qi Rongdi can be recalled at an appropriate time, as long as those soldiers can come back alive, it will be easy to find Qi Rongdi's hiding place."

Wang Yanping and several other veteran officials nodded in admiration, but Ling Yexuan didn't say anything. Obviously, this was not the real purpose of his seeking Yun Qing, and this sentence was just a foreshadowing.

Yun Qing also saw something from Ling Yexuan's slightly hidden eyes. Her eyes were dark, and she wanted to find out something, but she heard that Ling Yexuan said again: "What the queen said is very true, but the queen thinks, who should be sent to go?" More suitable? This person must be selected from the court and the royal family. After all, it is not easy to govern the current chaotic situation in Southern Qi, so this person must not only have the ability to govern the country, but also have prestige."

"What the emperor said is that the concubine thought that officials could be selected from the Confucian ministers who were captives in the Southern Qi Dynasty. Because they were born in Southern Qi, they should have a good understanding of the situation in Qi. I don't know if there is another candidate in the emperor's mind?" Yun Qing said to the point, with a faint smile.

Ling Yexuan was plotting against her, Yun Qing could feel it, because his restless eyes showed the confusion in his heart at the moment, and because he mentioned the royal family just now.

Is there anyone else in Xuanye Kingdom's royal family?The late emperor's brother and the old emperor's uncle passed away long ago, and the remaining daughter also rested in that grassland. Now the only remaining bloodline in the imperial palace is Ling Yexuan and Ling Yeyun, but, Ling Yeyun has been bedridden for seven years...

Ling Yexuan looked at the smile on Yun Qing's lips, squinted his eyes, and then said suddenly upset: "Prime Minister Wang, you go down to select those officials first, as for who to send to govern, let me think about it for two days , you all go down now."

"Yes, I will leave." Wang and others hastily exited the study.

Yun Qing's gaze sank slightly, and he turned to look at Ling Yexuan, the smile on his lips remained the same, but his voice was a little colder: "The emperor wants to send King Shou?"

Ling Yexuan was shocked, and then faced Shang Yunqing's cold eyes, raised his sword eyebrows, and said with a bit of anger: "So what?"

"Since this matter is decided by the emperor, why bother to involve the concubines?" Yun Qing asked back.

"Is the queen guilty?" Ling Yexuan sneered, as if he had been worried for so long just to mock her.

Yun Qing raised her eyebrows, angry from her heart, then turned and left the imperial study room, but before taking two steps, she was hugged by Ling Yexuan who was walking like the wind, and he tried to pull her back. With obvious anger, he said coldly: "You can't see me sending him away, can you? You can't bear him?"

"Unreasonable" Yun Qing struggled, not wanting to pay attention to this suspicious man, but no matter how much he kicked, he couldn't shake him.Turning around suddenly, the amber eyes met him with anger, but he was surprised to see sadness flashing across his eyes.

Immediately stopped the violent movements, Yun Qing looked at him deeply, but Ling Yexuan covered her eyes, and then a low and hoarse voice filled with pain slowly rang out: "Wan'er, I'm sorry, this is I thought of the only way to make myself feel at ease, I want to send King Shou away, far away, because you won't be able to see him..."

In the silent air, there was a heavy sigh, but he didn't know if it was hers or his...

The new year has passed, and the year's spring, autumn, summer and summer passed like this. Because of the empress dowager's funeral, there was only one family banquet in the harem until the Lantern Festival.Yun Qing originally planned to entertain the harem concubines in the Lingxiao Palace, but when the date arrived, Ling Yexuan suddenly changed the venue to Jianzhang Palace.

Jianzhang Palace has been blocked for several months. After no one cleaned and managed it, the smell of dust was blown away when the door was opened. The originally resplendent walls and scarlet carpet, as well as the various shapes of auspicious animal totems on the white marble steps It was covered with a thick layer of spider webs, as if it had been silent for hundreds of years.

(End of this chapter)