A tree of peach blossoms pressing the prime minister

Chapter 165 What chips do you have

The emperor nodded, everyone laughed, the singing and dancing continued, and the banquet continued.Jiang Taohua breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed Shen Zaiye's hand and pinched it.

"What?" Shen Zaye lowered his eyes.

"Can't you just let him go for the sake of his lack of intelligence?" Tao Hua frowned, "Wouldn't it be nice to treat him as an ordinary envoy?"

"What are you talking about?" Shen Zaiye smiled: "Why didn't I let him go?"

Taohua gritted her teeth, glanced at Li Jin, who was not in a stable mood, and then at Emperor Mingde, who was sitting on the throne with deep eyes, and asked in a low voice: "My lord dare to assure me that you and Your Majesty are not moving towards Zhao Guo." What do you think?"

"How could it be?" Shen Zaiye picked up the chopsticks to pick up food for her: "Just eat well."

Usually when he dared not look her in the eyes, it was when he lied.Taohua's heart sank heavily, and she couldn't do anything, she could only watch Li Jin drinking and chatting with Nian Liguo, the doctor next to him.

"Your Majesty of our country has been in poor health recently, and has already handed over all important matters to the eldest daughter of the emperor." He said: "Daughters in this world may not be inferior to men. The eldest daughter of the emperor in our country is very remarkable, and women do not give up to men."

Nian Liguo is an old man in his mid-fifties, but his eyes are exceptionally shrewd. Looking at him, he smiled and said, "That's true. It's really remarkable that a mere woman can support a big country."

Yang Wanqing frowned, and subconsciously tugged at Li Jin's clothes, feeling that he was talking too much.However, Li Jin was drunk and grateful for the kindness of Emperor Mingde for borrowing food. For a while, he confided his heart to the courtiers of the Great Wei. Although he didn't say any important secrets, he had a thorough understanding of the basic national conditions.

Jiang Taohua couldn't stand it anymore, she stood up and said to Shen Zaiye, "Can I go down and rest for a while?"

Shen Zaiye nodded, and asked the emperor to resign for her. The emperor accepted and said with a smile: "The banquet is half over, so Mrs. Jiang will go to the side hall of Concubine Lan to rest. I will accompany the envoys to visit the imperial garden in the afternoon."

"Yes." Tao Hua agreed, and stepped back respectfully.

When Li Jin saw it, he immediately wanted to get up, but was pushed down by Yang Wanqing.

"The minister and the princess have not seen each other for a long time, and they are both daughters' families, so we should talk about ourselves." She got up and said, "The minister will also leave first."

"Okay." Emperor Mingde nodded: "Prime Minister Li just stay here with me."

Li Jin had no choice but to continue to sit down and talk to people, but his eyes kept drifting outside the door, so that Shen Zaiye suddenly became a little curious.

Seeing his performance like this, it seems that he has not completely abandoned Jiang Taohua, but is very worried about it.If so, why did you make that choice in the first place?

Leaving the main hall, Tao Hua supported the palace wall next to her and took a few breaths, her expression extremely serious.Yang Wanqing followed, looked at her and called out, "Second Princess."

Turning around, Taohua frowned and said, "I just came out to tell you that neither the emperor nor the prime minister of the Wei Dynasty is a fuel-efficient lamp. You should hold Li Jin, and don't let him jump when he sees a pit, it will drag down the entire Zhao country !"

Yang Wanqing was taken aback, then approached her and said, "Although what the prime minister said is inappropriate, it's not that serious, is it?"

Why not?Taohua shook her head: "You don't know, if you give Shen Zaiye a spider's thread, he can follow it to find the silk-spinning spider, not to mention that Li Jin's mind has been clearly confused, and he is easily deceived!"

Yang Wanqing was silent, thought carefully, and beckoned to the cronies next to him, whispered a few times, and asked him to pass on the message.

"I thought that the princess would not think about Zhao country anymore when she married Wei." She raised her eyes and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that you still have the heart of protecting the country in your heart."

Rolling her eyes angrily, Jiang Taohua said: "That is the place where I grew up, and it is my mother country. Even if it is in the hands of others, I will still want to protect it. Master Yang's words are unavoidable. What's more What's more, isn't my life still in your hands?"

Yang Wanqing laughed, with a complex expression on his heroic face, he reached out and took out a small jade bottle: "This is the antidote."

Taohua stretched out her hand and wanted to take it, but Yang Wanqing hid it unexpectedly, looked at her seriously and said, "The antidote can be given, but Second Princess, you have to always remember that you are from the country of Zhao. Zhao Guo does things."

With sarcasm in his eyes, Tao Hua looked at her and said: "Master Yang is not an unreasonable person, let me ask you, how long do you think Zhao Guo can last with the current state?"

"..." Yang Wanqing was silent and lowered his eyes.

It's not that she doesn't know that neither the eldest daughter of the emperor nor Prime Minister Li is good at political affairs.I'm afraid there are only two or three years left of the century-old foundation of the ancestors.

"If you really think about Zhao Guo, you might as well help the third prince." Taohua said in a low voice, "You know better than anyone else that Chang Jue is brave and resourceful. He can lead troops to fight and become emperor..."

"Second princess." Yang Wanqing pursed her lips and interrupted her words: "The camps are different, and there are some matters that I can't do anything about."

With dim eyes, Taohua leaned against the palace wall and sighed, looking at the somewhat sallow sky, said calmly: "If the camp is different, loyal ministers will be punished, and villains will be trusted. In the end, the country will be overthrown, and it will not be the people who will suffer?"

However, how can the superiors consider the common people?They think more about their own interests and status. Even if the country is crumbling, they still want to live their lives in luxury.As for how the people in the world will be in dire straits in the future, it has nothing to do with them.

Yang Wanqing reached out and handed her the antidote, and said in a low voice, "We can't make decisions about many things, so let's just resign ourselves to fate."

"Resign yourself to fate?" Taohua raised her eyebrows: "This is not like Mr. Yang's style. I remember that you have remonstrated with your father more than once, and all you said were good opinions that were different from those of the courtiers."

"That's just the past." Yang Wanqing smiled wryly: "Didn't the second princess say that just now? People's tastes will change. In fact, not only tastes, but people also change. How much blood was once cold in the cold wind for a long time , it will also be cold. Now I just want to live this life in peace, and I have no ambition to serve the country."

How sad is such a country that can force a loyal minister to lose his will to serve the country?

Taohua shook her head, stretched out her hand to take the antidote, calculated that it was almost time, and took two pills first.After taking it, I counted the medicines left in the bottle, and there were really only ten pills, no more, no less.

"The empress is really on guard against me."

Glancing at her, Yang Wanqing said: "That's because you have the ability, even if you are pushed into the mud, you still have the strength to stand up again. She is afraid of you, so she guards against you like this."

"What else am I afraid of now?" Tao Hua looked down at herself: "She is far away in a foreign country, her body is poisonous, and her life is in her hands. She is a dignified queen, so she is too lacking in confidence."

With deep meaning in his eyes, Yang Wanqing said, "You still have Li Jin."

ha?Glancing at her in shock, Taohua took three steps to the side, frowned and said, "Can we not mention this person? We can still have a good chat."

"I wanted to tell you some things earlier in the morning, but he wouldn't allow me to say them." Yang Wanqing smiled: "But seeing that you are a married woman and living a happy life, I feel a little unworthy for him, so why don't you just say it directly Bar."

"Wait." Taohua narrowed her eyes, looked at her seriously for a while, and said, "I have nothing to do with him anymore, it's been so many years, you won't tell me now that he treated me like that back then , it’s actually for my own good, right?”

"No." Yang Wanqing shook his head: "He really deserved it at first, and he didn't want to be dragged down by you, so he chose to stand by the eldest daughter of the emperor."

"Oh." Relieved, Tao Hua patted her chest: "Then what else is there to say?"

The Yang family and the Li family are family friends, and Yang Wanqing watched Li Jin grow up. Although he was not a few years older than him, she inevitably regarded herself as an older sister, so she felt a little distressed when she saw such a scene today.Looking at Taohua's attitude again, Dang even said unhappily:

"Although he was wrong at the beginning, he regretted it soon, and often helped you and Chang Jue secretly. Knowing that you have been hit by Xinhou's seductive Gu, he tried his best to find a solution for you. He helped with the matter of marrying Da Wei. Even if you don't appreciate him, at least you don't have to hold grudges against him anymore."

There is such a thing?Taohua smiled, squinted at Yang Wanqing and said: "According to what you said, I killed someone at first, but after I killed him, I regretted it, and even helped him bury his body. The person who was killed can't bear grudges against me. Thank you in return?"

Yang Wanqing paused: "You can't say that..."

"Do you know? Everyone has relatives and estrangements." Taohua chuckled and said, "You are accusing me now, but you are just standing in Li Jin's position and feeling sorry for him, so you think I should forgive him. No one would listen to such words , your heart was biased from the very beginning, so what qualifications do you have to argue between the two of you who is right and who is wrong?"

"You have seen Li Jin's difficulty, but have you ever thought about me? I was the one who was betrayed in the first place, and I was the one who was almost killed by the people closest to me. In the end, he regretted it and made up for it. When I am one or two, I have to be grateful to him and forgive him for what he has done? The resentment was given by him, and he did not ask me what I thought, and the grace was also given by him, and he did not ask me what I thought. Now, where are you Come here to correct my thoughts for him?"

This long passage made Yang Wanqing speechless, after staring blankly at Taohua for a while, he sighed and said: "You really deserve to be Qianbaimei's apprentice, just like him, people are helpless."

"Thank you." Taohua shrugged and said with a smile: "If my master can still see Li Jin, he will definitely have his hands and feet destroyed. I am a disciple who is soft-hearted after all."

"Second princess." Yang Wanqing felt a little uncomfortable: "You hate Li Jin so much, why don't you make things difficult for yourself?"

"Swallowing so much of the past to forgive him is what makes it difficult for me." Taohua said seriously: "I don't think of him normally, so it's okay, it's just that I feel a little uncomfortable these days. You don't have to More to say, after all, this is the grievance between me and him."

Unable to tell her, Yang Wanqing chose to give up, looked down at the medicine in her hand and said, "Take care of yourself."

Taohua nodded, and told her again: "You should let Li Jin pay more attention to state affairs. Although the sun has set, it would be good if you can leave more afterglow."

"I understand." Yang Wanqing cupped his hands and continued back to the main hall with the others.

Jiang Taohua breathed a sigh of relief, and squatted beside the flower bed to think.When she left, Zhao Guo's troops were running low, and he didn't dare to speak out to the outside world, and only made a strong defense on the border.However, how long can this little trick be kept from Emperor Ming De?
The civil strife in the Wei Dynasty has been calmed down. Although the position of crown prince is vacant, there is no one else to sit in it except the king of the South.

Thinking about it differently, if she were Emperor Mingde, what would she do to Zhao Guo?
The answer is obvious, explore the truth and take the opportunity to attack.From the behavior of Emperor Mingde today, we can also see some clues that Zhao Guo may be in danger.

At the end of the luncheon, Li Jin was very drunk and was arranged to rest in the palace.When Shen Zaiye came out and saw her, he frowned slightly: "You've been squatting outside?"

"The concubine is waiting for the master." Taohua greeted her with a smile, raised her face and begged for praise: "Is the concubine doing well today?"

"Barely." Shen Zaye led her out, and said calmly: "From the prime minister of your country of Zhao, I can also know why the country of Zhao has become what it is today."

Feeling a little displeased, Taohua pursed her lips and said, "No matter what, Zhao is my concubine's mother country."

"I know." With a sidelong glance at her, Shen Zaiye smiled slightly: "You are really sharp."

No one else at the scene could see anything, but she noticed the emperor's thoughts, which is really remarkable.

"What are you going to do?" Taohua forced a smile and asked.

Shen Zaiye looked up at the road ahead, and said calmly: "The emperor is the one who decides this matter, not me."

"But you can influence the emperor's opinion." Taohua pulled his arm and said, "The three pillars of the world today stand on top of each other and check and balance each other, so there has been no war for many years. Now if the Great Wei sends troops to attack Zhao State first, it is inevitable that Wu State will take advantage of it." As for entering, hasn’t the emperor considered it?”

"The state of Wu is still in civil strife." Shen Zaiye said, "I'm afraid I won't have the energy to go out."

"That's not certain." Tao Hua said: "I heard that the first prince of the Wu Kingdom is also ambitious? When a snipe and a clam compete, it's not worth the fisherman's profit."

After a pause, Shen Zaiye suddenly turned to look at her: "How do you know the eldest prince of Wu?"

"I heard about it." Taohua curled her lips: "Don't the royal families of the three countries know each other? Although I don't know the details, you can still hear the news, right?"

Squinting slightly, Shen Zaiye stared at a certain place on the ground and thought for a while, then suddenly looked at her and said, "Jiang Taohua, what is your purpose for coming to Dawei?"

What?Startled, Taohua stepped back again and again, waved her hands and said, "Master, don't think too much about it, this concubine is just here to make a living."

"Simply making a living, would you send so much money to your brother to support the army?" With a slight smile, Shen Zaiye shook his head: "What's the point of you lying to me? Why don't you just make it clear."

(End of this chapter)