After I was reborn, I became the queen mother by fortune telling

Chapter 248 I Want to Attack Ningqiu Kingdom

Jiang Yu took the plum blossoms and sniffed them lightly.

A refreshing fragrance made her intoxicated.

"Ginger beauty likes plum blossoms?"

Just as Jiang Yu was about to nod, she suddenly came to her senses and quickly changed her words: "This concubine has never seen plum blossoms in Yangzhou, and this is the first time this concubine has seen plum blossoms."

"If you like it, ask them to plant some in your palace later. This is good, and there will be flowers to enjoy all year round."

"There don't seem to be any flowers in spring yet. Let the concubine think about what flowers to plant..."

Jiang Yu was playing with flower branches, thinking about whether to plant peaches or apricots, but she heard Mu Qingyuan say: "I want to attack Ningqiu country." Jiang Guiren
Jiang Yu was startled, and the flower branch almost slipped from her fingers.

Her heart beat violently.

The dream that was all over the sky returned to her mind in an instant.

"We can't agree on the border demarcation with Ningqiu's envoy after all."

"However, half of the people in the court now agree to divide the national boundaries according to Ningqiu's opinion. The reason is the same as that of the Queen Mother. Even the prime minister..."

"If the envoy returns without success, this matter cannot be delayed indefinitely. Short-term pain is worse than long-term pain. If I want to send troops, I will not only settle the border issue, but also—"

Mu Qingyuan stretched out his hand, took the flower branch in Jiang Yu's hand, and vaguely drew a picture in the air.

Jiang Yu didn't realize what he was drawing at first, but after drawing it a few times, she suddenly understood!
"This is..." Her lips trembled slightly with excitement.

She thought of the big map she saw on the floor of the study, the corner of Yangzhou sticking out.

Now this corner belongs to Ningqiu country.

Mu Qingyuan returned the flower branch to her, and continued: "I want to know, if Jiang Meiren only sees herself as an ordinary Yangzhou citizen, what will she think of my plan to send troops? Residents on the border may lose their homes, and may also be affected by the disaster.”

Jiang Yu thought for a while, and said word by word: "The people of Yangzhou dream of taking back the land belonging to the Great Xia Kingdom."

"Aren't you afraid that the flames of war will burn your land and house?"

"What's the use of land and houses if there's no lasting peace?"

Mu Qingyuan's piercing eyes looked at the weak girl holding flowers in front of him, and he felt more and more that she was not simple.

"Is this your idea alone, or—?"

"The concubine talks to the emperor as an ordinary citizen of Yangzhou. The concubine dare not say [-]%, [-]%. The old people are looking forward to Master Wang regaining the lost land, so longing that their hair turns gray, and some old people are still talking about this matter before they die."

"I see." Mu Qingyuan nodded, turned his eyes to the distance, and muttered to himself, "But, who should I send..."

Jiang Yu was taken aback, wouldn't he want to be conquered by the royal driver like in his previous life again?
You know, this is a road of no return.

"Which general is the emperor going to use?" She couldn't help asking.

Mu Qingyuan glanced at her in surprise: "Could it be that Jiang Meiren even knows the names of the generals of this dynasty?"

Jiang Yu did know.

In her previous life, as the empress dowager who listened to the government behind the curtain, as long as she was not a general guarding the border, she would come to Beijing to meet the new emperor and the new empress dowager.

However, Jiang Yu could only pretend at this time.

"The concubine doesn't know. The concubine is just thinking that the emperor must choose the best general."

"The best?" Mu Qingyuan laughed, "Are you referring to me?"

Oops!

Jiang Yu repeatedly complained.

Unexpectedly, Mu Qingyuan didn't think of this at all, it was his suggestion that gave him a new idea.

Jiang Yu really wanted to slap herself.

"The emperor is a myriad of things in the palace, and there are countless things to be busy every day. If you go to the other end, what should you do here? The emperor is the master of genius, so he must take care of everything." Jiang Yu said "advancing by retreating" .

"Understood." Mu Qingyuan pondered for a moment, "There is some reason for your worry, let me think about it again."

The snow fell harder and harder, and some flakes of snow drifted into the pavilion along the wind, and fell on Jiang Yu and Mu Qingyuan.

Mu Qingyuan patted the snowflakes on Jiang Yu's body.

A plum blossom petal floated over and landed on Jiang Yu's hair bun.

Mu Qingyuan lowered his head slightly, brushed his fingers lightly, and the petal had already reached his palm.

He stared at it calmly for a while, but instead of throwing away the petals, he put them away.

"Go back." He said lightly.

They walked back to the gate of Mingxi Palace on the thin snow, but Eunuch Gao and the others didn't go in to hide, they stomped their feet under the tree in the cold.

Mu Qingyuan watched her go in, watched her figure disappear into the yard, then turned around and said to Gao Gonggong: "Go, go back!"

Eunuch Gao also tried to make a suggestion: "Your Majesty, won't you stay in Mingxi Palace today? It's snowing heavily, it's cold, and the ground is slippery. Plus today is New Year's Eve."

Mu Qingyuan raised her eyebrows: "Gao Yi, it's the end of the year, and you still talk so much."

Eunuch Gao sighed aggrievedly, why the emperor couldn't understand all his painstaking efforts.

There is no other way but to go back to Chaoyang Palace, the emperor's bedroom.

According to the rule of this dynasty, the officials do not have to go to the court for the first five days of the Spring Festival. If there is something to do, they can go to the palace alone to report.

On the afternoon of the third day of junior high school, after lunch, the empress dowager and the high-ranking concubines in the harem would leave for the Yunwu Temple in the suburbs of Beijing, where they would chant scriptures and watch the night.

The Yunwu Temple is built on the Yunwu Mountain. The mountain is a bit high. It takes an hour to climb from the foot of the mountain to the top without stopping.

Yunwu Temple is regarded as a royal temple, but it also allows people to go in to burn incense and worship Buddha, but it is not open to the public from the first day to the fifth day of the new year, and only receives people in the palace.

This year, apart from the Queen Mother and the Emperor, the only ones who went to Yunwu Temple were Concubine De, Beauty Jiang, and Princess Yaoqin who lived in the harem.

Concubine Gui and Concubine Qiong both said that they were still ill and asked for leave once.

Concubine De, on the other hand, has always devoted herself to worshiping the Buddha. When she heard that she was going to a place like a temple, she would insist on going even if there was a knife in the sky.

Jiang Yu and Mu Qingyuan said that they would bring Yang Ruojia with them.

Mu Qingyuan immediately agreed, and he also remembered his promise to Jiang Yu.

There is a nun's nunnery behind the Yunwu Temple, and there are four or five nuns in it. The current presiding officer is a low-ranking concubine in the late emperor's harem. After the late emperor died, he came here to become a monk.

A group of them left the palace gate in carriages, horse-drawn carts and ox carts, and headed for the countryside.

The trip went smoothly, and when we got to the foot of the mountain, the person who picked up the sliding pole hired by the person who hit the front station had also arrived.

Jiang Yu shook her head: "The concubine wants to go up by herself."

Mu Qingyuan's eyes flashed: "Don't cry if you can't walk halfway."

"When I can't walk, the concubine will sit on the slider." Jiang Yu pouted her mouth slightly.

(End of this chapter)