Chapter 506 Drafting and Peace Talks!
Hongling looked at the bland Shen Ninghua, only to feel that the Empress is not anxious, she, the courtesan, is anxious to die, “Your Highness, but, after all, that is the draft ah, showgirls come from all classes of officials in the court, many more tricky than TuSuQingLi and BuLongLong, you are not rejecting it, accepting it is also not, when the time comes, once it is not handled well, there will be a lot of officials uploading impeachment against you, at that time …”
Shen Ninghua nodded, “Well, what you said is extremely reasonable.”
Hongling saw that she had finally listened in, and hurriedly continued, “At that time, how much more the Emperor wants to protect you in his heart, in the face of the pressure of all the officials in the court, whether he can hold out or not is a question.”
“I just came over and I heard you, a girl, babbling nonsense!” Baili Junyi came in from the doorway, glaring at Hongling with dissatisfaction, the pressure on his body rushing over to cover her without hesitation.
Shen Ninghua smiled, seeing Hongling’s blushing face, she waved her hand and let her go down, “Hongling is also worried about me, a piece of good will, what are you doing to make things difficult for her?”
“I’m still not afraid that you’ll be moved by her words.” Baili Junyi stepped forward and circled Shen Ninghua into his arms, since experiencing the last memory loss, this is now his favorite action, always feel like kissing and rubbing against Shen Ninghua’s side in order to feel at ease, “Ninghua, it’s one thing for me to promise to start a draft, but don’t worry, I won’t let any woman enter the harem.”
The draft is not just for him to choose concubines, but also for the clan to give marriage, this matchmaker he likes to be.
Shen Ninghua relaxed her body against his chest, a trace of gentleness flashed under her eyes, “Well, I know. Just, what Hongling said is also good, if no one is elected to the palace, I am afraid that those officials …”
Baili Jun Yi eyes cold awn a flash, a decisive color diffused, “They feel dissatisfied, then simply resign from the official position to go home to retire, my great state of the dynastic hall, only need to really down-to-earth for the people to do the work of the officials, do not need to stare at my harem all day pulling the skirt to climb up the villain!”
Shen Ninghua’s eyes widened slightly, and her heart stirred slightly, “Could it be that you intend to lay off all the opposing officials?”
“All not so much, there is a use in keeping some of these men, but there is always a need to cull some of them. These people are already old, their minds have long been ossified and corrupted, just like the current Daan Kingdom. Although it looks glorious, it is actually on the verge of decay, in order to revitalize it, one can only endure the pain of cutting away the rotting flesh, although it hurts, it can cure the disease!”
Shen Ninghua turned her head and looked at Baili Junyi’s determined expression, only to feel her heart filled with shock and admiration, “Good, no matter how difficult the process is, I will accompany you.”
Baili Junyi smiled gently and rubbed her forehead affectionately, “Uh-huh!”
Will bring the three children over, the family kissed with lunch. After the meal, was about to rest for a while, Hongling sent the northwestern border report.
During this recent period of time, the Northwest has sort of stabilized, but Baili Junyi still hasn’t ordered the withdrawal of the army, and even Ye Yi hasn’t been transferred back, and secretly, he is still constantly transporting food and herbs to the border through the Huajun Pharmaceutical Company, and he is always ready for a war.
Seeing the content on the report, Baili Junyi frowned: ”The Great Yue Country has suddenly started to mobilize its troops? This is strange, isn’t the army of the Great Yue Country under the control of Bu Jinglan and Bu Yonghan? They’re too busy fighting for power and taking over the throne, how could they suddenly mobilize troops at the border?”
Shen Ninghua also saw the content on it and was quite puzzled, “Could there be any change in the army of the Great Yue?”
“The biggest change would be Empress Jin, it’s just that, isn’t she under house arrest …,” said Baili Junyi, narrowing his eyes furiously, “Could it be that Empress Jin has gotten away and has regained control of the military? ”
“It’s not without this possibility, Empress Jin was able to secretly hold power for many years in the Great Yue State, how could she not have some means of protection, let Ye Yi and the others observe closely, ten thousand don’t make a mistake.”
“Well, since there is movement at the border, then Prince Yi’s side should also move, they came to Kyoto not a short period of time, and dealt with it earlier to free up their hands to clean up those officials.”
On the following day, Baili Junyi sent out an oracle, declaring Prince Yi and many officials to enter the palace to discuss the matter of peace talks between the two countries.”
Step Linglong heard this news heart extremely happy, even the physical weakness are ignored, went to the Kun Yu Palace to seek Shen Ninghua asked to go out of the palace.
Shen Ninghua was quite a bit surprised to hear her request, “Princess Linglong wants to go out of the palace, but is there something in the palace that has slowed you down and made you feel uncomfortable?”
“No, everything in the palace is excellent, it’s just that originally I lived in the palace in order to accompany the Empress Dowager, but this body of mine is not contending, but even has been sick, and in turn, the laboring Empress for me to bother, Linglong heart is extremely over-excited, it’s really not good to continue to live on in the palace.”
Shen Ninghua gave her a meaningful glance, smiled and pacified, “The princess’s body has not been well, moreover, it is not appropriate to move back and forth, it is better to recuperate in the palace, this palace will send a few more eunuchs over to help you properly recuperate your body.”
Step Linglong raised her eyes and looked at Shen Ninghua, several times to push back did not see her loose, can not help but feel a burst of frustration, she has been in the palace these days to inquire clearly, unless the eunuch doctor to open a list, there is no way to access to the medicinal herbs, and even if the eunuch doctor to open a list, but also need to be a number of procedures to verify, and finally the medicinal herbs to her hands when it has already been boiled into a soup, but these medicinal soups are not the right ah, she is not at all by the poisoned! She was not poisoned at all, her body was weak, but was suddenly dispersed of her internal energy, the loss was too severe.
She simply couldn’t find a way to recover her inner strength in the palace, so she could only go outside the palace to think of a way, but Shen Ningshi wouldn’t let her out of the palace anyhow.
After sending off Bu Linglong, Hongling walked over to Shen Ninghua’s side, “Your Highness, if it wasn’t for your delicate mind discovering the clues, no one would have imagined that this Princess Linglong, when she came into the palace, was actually a deeply hidden expert.”
“I can only say that step Linglong’s luck is too bad, she hides all her martial arts skills to enter the palace, the purpose is certainly not pure. At first, in order to make the Tusu family and Prince Yi face each other, the Emperor designed to secretly use medicine on Bu Linglong, that medicine on ordinary people is just weakness and dizziness for a few days, but on people with martial arts, it will forcefully dissipate the internal force, and even make the body unable to recover for a long time. One can only say that she was too unlucky.”
“It’s just that the slave girl investigated for a few days and found that no one seems to know that Princess Linglong knows martial arts, not even her biological father, Prince Yi.”
Shen Ninghua frowned, “This makes it even more worthy of deeper investigation …”
While Bu Linglong tries to find a way to leave the palace, Prince Yi is secretly trying to keep her in the harem.
Originally, according to his intention, after seeing Bu Linglong, the emperor should be intoxicated, and then take the initiative to ask for her to be his consort, but after rumors spread for a while that the emperor favored her, there was suddenly no movement. This makes him a bit anxious to scratch his ears, and can not say directly will step Linglong give him, lest lower Linglong’s status, can only hold back and wait for the right time:
“Your Majesty, this king has come on behalf of the Great Yue Country, and is sincere in wanting to make friendship with your country, so that in the future the two countries won’t fight each other for a hundred years, and can save many of their people from the pain of war.”
Baili Jun Yi measured in the hands of the Great Yue country’s national book, the color in his eyes is unfathomable, “I originally thought that the Great Yue country must be full of sincerity, but now it seems that, for fear that is not the case.”
Prince Yi was startled: ”Your Majesty why do you say this? Our two countries have been fighting for several months, each with their own successes and failures, and although the Great Yue State had previously encroached on several cities in Da An State, they have now returned all of them, and have also promised to send millions of silver to represent reparations, so how can we say that there is a lack of sincerity?”
Baili Junyi closed the state book in his hand, his long and slender fingers gently snapped on the desktop, without the slightest intention of answering his words.
A side of the Da Lisi Secretary stood out, sullen face began to refute, “Prince Yi how can be so forgetful, at first, my country is in the snowstorm, the domestic situation is critical, the great Yue country without the slightest morality directly sent troops, resulting in the death of my country’s soldiers, the people were killed and injured countless. Later, it is even more reckless to threaten, to my country to abolish the queen before willing to withdraw troops, and even interfere in my country’s throne inheritance, now, only take a district million taels of silver to say that they are full of sincerity?”
Prince Yi sat motionless in his seat, not caring about his accusations, “When the troops were first sent out because some bandits entered the territory of the Great Yue Kingdom and went on a looting spree, I, the Great Yue Kingdom, was also forced to do so.”
“Hehe, bandits? Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops just to deal with a few stray bandits, and going to the middle of my Great An Kingdom’s city to fight bandits?”
“Back then, that band of bandits was too rampant, and the Great Yue Kingdom was forced to do so. Now that there is a truce, there is no point in mentioning this, now, it is better to discuss how to talk about peace, isn’t it?”
The Secretary of the Da Lisi still had a wooden face without a trace of expression: ”Since Prince Yi has talked about peace talks, then let’s properly distinguish and discern. Firstly, when the Great Yue Country insolently sent troops in the first place, then it has to compensate for all the damages caused to the Great An Country as a result. Secondly, the Great Yue Country has disrespected our Empress Mother, my Great An Country is a state of etiquette, and the Great Yue Country’s domestic inheritance has not been finalized nowadays, so let’s not abolish the Empress, just that, the Second Imperial Concubine who has escaped from my Great An Country has to be sent back ….”
Prince Yi, even with his amazing patience, couldn’t help but darken his face, and without waiting for him to finish, he interrupted, “This is impossible!” Compensating for all the damages and sending Bu Yonghan back? This was simply too deceitful.
“Your Majesty, your guess was correct, the Great Yue State really does not have any sincerity towards this peace talk.”
Prince Yi choked on his chest with a breath, “Your Majesty, it is not that I, the Great Yue Kingdom, am insincere, but this lord’s request is too much.”
Baili Jun Yi rubbed the corner of his forehead, “It seems that there are too many differences between our two countries, since this is the case, let’s have a good debate or two, this South Study Room will be lent to you all, I still have many folders that I have not approved, so I will go back to the back hall to read the zhangzhi, Wuping, command the Imperial Catering Room to prepare the lunch for Prince Yi and all of you love ministers.”
“Yes!”
Prince Yi was dumbfounded by what he heard, they are here to debate and talk, Baili Junyi directly go back to deal with the zhangzhang, what kind of rule is this? Other officials are not surprised, the emperor likes to let them brainstorm, before being left behind many times, now not accustomed to also accustomed to, the Imperial Cuisine is still good, eat and drink enough to properly and the Great Vietnam’s emissaries to break clear!