Palace scheming: Empress Leng Palace

Chapter 268

The lotus leaves are infinite, and the lotus flowers are different.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is not far away, and the heat is still there. Only the cool breeze by the rippling Bixin Lake makes people feel comfortable physically and mentally.


Yun Qing ordered people to slightly renovate the former Cuiwei Palace, and built a beautiful pavilion in the shape of a lotus flower in the center of the lake, surrounded by white jade fences in the shape of petals, and the top of the pavilion is like a huge Like lotus leaves, it perfectly covers the entire lotus pavilion.

Looking from a distance, it seems that it is the most beautiful lotus flower, always blooming in the center of the lake so charmingly!

After many days of busyness and tension, the situation has not eased up, but the fighting has become even more intense.Xuanyuanze has been exhausted since he recovered from his illness, discussing politics and discussing countermeasures day and night, almost all his time and energy are spent on reassuring the people and comforting the army, and he has lost a lot of weight because of this.


Every time Yun Qing saw him busy in the imperial study until late at night without turning off the lights, her heart would not stop aching.

The pressure of internal and external troubles is now deeply felt by myself, it is so heavy.The locust plague is not far away, the court is in turmoil, border wars continue, and the war against the Japanese kingdom is already too difficult to ride, but Fenglai sends a battle report, saying that Fenglai has officially launched a war against Tianque.


Encountered from both sides, so besieged on all sides, rumors of storms all over the city proliferated, and many ministers were worried and panicked. At one time, even the harem was shrouded in the shadow of wind and rain, and everyone lived cautiously and fearfully.


During this period of time, while Yun Qing settled down in the harem, he would often go to the imperial study to accompany Xuanyuan Ze to deal with the memorials, and listen to him discuss state affairs with several of his highly regarded courtiers.


Occasionally, at Xuanyuanze's request, she would also express some of her own opinions in front of Li Qinglan, Lan Tianyu, Zhong Nianlou and others.Although everyone's impression of her at the beginning was just a beautiful and virtuous queen who was favored by the emperor, but every time Yun Qing made a seemingly random suggestion, everyone would be surprised to find that the queen's wisdom and strategy were beyond everyone's reach. under.


For example, not long ago, during the locust plague incident, facing the people's ignorance of the emperor, some people secretly fabricated rumors that the emperor did not sympathize with the suffering of the people.To say that the emperor is fatuous and incompetent and arbitrarily waged war with the Japanese country and caused a peaceful situation among the countries is really a great feat. He regards the life and death of the people as nothing, and puts the people in dire straits.


After Yun Qing listened to everyone's remarks, he just said lightly: At this moment, the court should recruit a large number of middle-aged men from the disaster-stricken areas to join the army, and give their families a relatively generous amount of money to subsidize their families. The families of ordinary people can be exempted from half of the tax every year!All the young courtiers couldn't help but sigh at the good plan.


Because this plan not only prevents those middle-aged men in the disaster area from causing riots due to food shortages, but also allows some profiteers and officials who stockpile grain to take the opportunity to sell grain, which also reduces the tax burden of some families.

After careful discussion again, everyone felt that this was the only way to do it now.


At the time of the initial implementation, although some people hesitated at the beginning, in the days when there was not enough to eat, it was more appropriate to get the food from the fights and grabs than to be distributed by the state in a safe and secure manner.

Although some people shouted that the court wanted the people to die, and it was the emperor's trick to ask the people to die for him because he was afraid of death, but some people who had been oppressed by life for a long time still had the instinct to survive and were willing to join the conscript For soldiers.


There was also a group of passionate patriots who heard that the emperor was recruiting a large number of soldiers, and they also signed up one after another. At that time, in addition to the disaster area, many people from other areas also came to sign up to join the army, which comforted Xuanyuan Ze, who was originally worried about the shortage of troops.


However, as the saying goes: Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while.

Although the imperial court has recruited 20 soldiers in a short period of time, many ministers in the imperial court are still talking about the emperor's recruitment of this kind of people with no foundation to join the army. They all say that these people only know how to carry hoes and shovels for many years Farming under the scorching loess sun, asking them to hold guns and arrows is not the same as asking them to die?

Calling the emperor as the king of benevolence and righteousness, how can he be confused for a while and harm the country and the world!

In this regard, Xuanyuanze was not discouraged. While ordering Yun Xiao, the new minister of the Ministry of War, to temporarily place the recruits at the foot of Tiancheng for training, he issued an imperial decree to call on the world's heroes to participate in the recent martial arts competition held by the imperial court.


This plan was also proposed by Yun Qing. She believed that all soldiers were recruited from among the common people. The difference between a soldier and the common people was that one had been trained and the other had never been trained.

As for whether he is a good soldier, it does not depend on whether he understands the art of war, but mainly depends on whether he has a patriotic heart.


If you don't know the art of war, you can practice; if you don't know how to strategize, you can deploy military divisions; if you don't know how to fight, you can obey the orders of the generals and charge into battle.What they lack now is a good general, a wise adviser, and a successful emperor who can develop them into a group of passionate fighters.


In this special period when the enemy is present, the court can best instill the concept of patriotism in them. For their relatives, for the country, in order not to be invaded by the enemy, and to be reunited with their relatives forever, they can only use all their strength to protect their families. Weiguo, to fight against foreign enemies!


And as an emperor, this noble emperor who has always been high in the eyes of the people, if he personally stimulates the fighting spirit of this group of people with corresponding words and actions, then it will definitely save a lot of time to train this group of stragglers!

In this way, Xuanyuanze became even busier. After he was busy, he went to the school field, and after he was busy with the school field, he was busy with the martial arts field... In short, if a person can become a spinning top, then Xuanyuanze is like this recently. State, busy, tired, worry, multiple troubles bother him, Yun Qing is really worried that if there are too many things, he will be forced to collapse!

Therefore, during this period of time, she would occasionally take Xuanyuanze, who has been busy all the time, with her to Cuiwei Palace to enjoy the lake breeze, look at the lotus flowers in the green lake, and chat about the political situation together. Relax the tense look and give yourself a moment of leisure.


(End of this chapter)