My companion is a bit fierce

Rong Jue felt that his friendship with Li Hongbao was undergoing a huge test.

What happened last night, apart from the fact that I underestimated the enemy and was suppressed by Qi Lan at first, the rest was... passable.But can this kind of thing be said casually? !

"Ah Jue, what's wrong with you?" Eyes widened, Li Hongbao ran around Rong Jue chattering, "Have you been wronged in some way?"

He lowered his voice and approached Rong Jue: "Does Your Majesty think you are bad... Tell me, don't be afraid, turn around to me... I..." He thought for a long time, but he couldn't think of any means to threaten Qi Lan. Stamped his feet, "At worst, I'll resign and go home!"

"...No need." Rong Jue twitched the corner of his mouth, "You are overthinking, Your Majesty treats me... very well."

"Is that so?" Li Hongbao asked again, very suspicious.

"Yes, that's it." Rong Jue didn't want to continue this topic anymore, and turned to another matter, "Since I came back, it seems that I haven't seen Wang Mingda. Where did he go? You won't really be scared by you Are you leaving?"

Speaking of this, Li Hongbao became a little unhappy. Without Wang Mingda, he lost a lot of fun: "It would be great if this is the case. He went to Jiangnan."

Wang Mingda went to the south of the Yangtze River for experience, starting from a small official.Prime Minister Wang doesn't speak easily in court now, but as long as he is in court, Wang Mingda will come back sooner or later.What's more, Wang Mingda has always followed Qi Lan's footsteps, and Qi Lan will not treat him badly.

In the prosperous south of the Yangtze River, more than half of Daqi's treasury income depends on it.Qi Lan sent Wang Mingda there with the intention of investigating.

Li Hongbao said: "Speaking of which, his term of office is indeed coming to an end. At the beginning, he went with that fellow Feng Xiujie, and he will come back soon after thinking about it."

Prime Minister Wang is old, and as the latest generation of the Wang family, Wang Mingda must return to the central government as soon as possible.

After so many years, Li Hongbao and Wang Mingda are still not good at dealing with each other.But they quarreled and quarreled, but nothing else was involved.

Listening to Li Hongbao's beaming description of the official scene, and the embarrassment of Wang Mingda when he was in the south of the Yangtze River, Rong Jue smiled slowly, nodded slightly and did not answer.

Even if Li Hongbao didn't say anything, Rong Jue could roughly guess the attitude of the courtiers towards him, and only Li Hongbao was afraid that he would notice, and told him openly and secretly that these were normal disputes in the officialdom, so he should not take it to heart.

Rong Jue: "I know all of this. Speaking of which, what about that Liu Shilang, I have to thank him properly."

Unexpectedly, Rong Jue would turn here suddenly, Li Hongbao was stunned, and when he saw that Rong Jue had got up and was about to leave, he quickly chased after him: "Don't worry about it, Liu Shilang is very upright, he doesn't accept bribes!"

"How do you know?" Rong Jue turned around.

"Of course it's because I gave it to you." Li Hongbao waved his hand, "Liu Shilang, you are truly a model of integrity!"

Nodding his head, Rong Jue said he knew that Liu Shilang was born in the army and served in the Ministry of War. He also had a lot of experience in the battle of Mobei this time.

As for bribery... Rong Jue cast a sidelong glance at Li Hongbao: "We're having a banquet and don't give anything away. Is this still called bribery?"

"It makes sense, you are smarter, Ah Jue."

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As promised to Rong Jue, Qi Lan really imposed trade restrictions on Manjin, and at the same time ordered that additional checkpoints be set up at the junction of Daqi and Manjin to strengthen patrols and checks.This is obviously wary of barbarian gold.

Manjin's property was poor, and after being rectified by Qi Lan, the old manjin king wrote again and cried, lamenting that the rebels who attacked Ningguan without authorization had nothing to do with him, and at the same time thanked Rong Jue for sending troops to help him put down the rebels.

"It's like this every time, won't you get tired of Man Jin's set?" Rong Jue threw Man Jin King's bag on the ground.

This Manjin King really made a good gesture, not only personally wrote a letter of pleading guilty, but also sent envoys to send a lot of gifts.

Qi Lan was also very helpless, King Man Jin refused to admit that he was responsible for entering Ningguan, and even pulled out a lot of evidence. He couldn't press his head and force him to confess his guilt.No, they have already voluntarily pleaded guilty.

With a cold snort, he glanced at the gift list attached to the brochure, and Rong Jue said: "The barbarian gold is here, what should your majesty do?"

"Of course it's to make them feel better." Qi Lan replied with a smile, "Didn't you think that the Xiongnu and Manjin colluded to kill the old King Rong? This time, let's let him know how powerful it is."

The most important thing for foreign envoys to visit is of course to show the bearing of a great country, to show off its mighty national power, and finally to bluff and intimidate, to set the cause of Rong Xu's death.

Rong Jue didn't like Man Jin very much, but for a while he had nothing to do with Man Jin, so he had to let him hang out again.

"If Man Jin really did something to the old King Rong..." Qi Lan said slowly, not wanting to miss the look on Rong Jue's face, "When we recover, we will send troops to Man Jin!"

Rong Jue was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect Qi Lan to say such words.

"You, do you think you are a blue face when you are angry at the crown?"

"It doesn't count." Qi Lan rolled his eyes, "Obviously it's the relationship between the monarch and his ministers."

"..." Rong Jue was silent for a while, "Why didn't I realize you were so shameless before."

"It doesn't matter, you still have a lot of time to understand in the future."

"..."

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Manjin is still in the future, and Dingjing will be busy with another matter.

—— Draft.

Thanks to Li Hongbao's well-informed information, Rong Jue also learned about the situation of many courtiers' girls.

"By the way, what's the use of telling me so much? I don't want to choose a concubine." Rong Jue asked after breaking some pastries for Xiao Bai.

Stretching out his hand to caress Xiaobai, Li Hongbao added another meal to Xiaobai: "I don't know either. Wang Mingda told me these things, and he asked me to tell you."

"Isn't Wang Mingda not here?"

"Probably because he cares about Dingjing and the important affairs of Dingjing." Li Hongbao calculated, "But counting the days, he should be arriving soon... I don't know if it's because of..."

His voice suddenly dropped, and he stopped talking.

For what?

Li Hongbao's expression was lonely, lacking in interest, and he was not very happy to tease Xiaobai, and he didn't know that his finger was accidentally pecked by Xiaobai.

Li Hongbao is not a person who can hide things very well, Rong Jue didn't wait long to hear him explain: "A Jue, do you think it's too late for me to lose weight now?"

"Losing weight?" Li Hongbao is also growing now, not as round as before, although occasionally when he runs, he can still see his flesh quivering.

"If you eat less, you will naturally lose weight." Rong Jue and Li Hongbao took the initiative to explain the reason.

Li Hongbao had already said earlier that Wang Mingda would return to Dingjing with Feng Xiujie.In this draft, in addition to choosing a wife for the clan's children, it also meant choosing a son-in-law for Qi Jialing.

"I heard that the Wang family is also interested in Princess Shang..." Li Hongbao looked a little unnatural, "Princess is...but Prince Gong's own sister, what does the Wang family think?"

Rong Jue listened to him quietly.

The Li family began to decline slowly during the reign of Emperor Tongxi, while the Wang family has maintained its heyday.In the past, the Wang family and the Li family supported Qi Lan together, while the Feng family belonged to Qi Bo Qi Jialing's faction.

Now that Qi Bo is named Prince Gong, Qi Jialing is about to get married.

If Wang Mingda really went to marry Qi Jialing, Li Hongbao would feel betrayed - he was still an enemy of the Feng family before.

"If I'm like this, the princess will definitely look down on me." Li Hongbao also understood, and after saying a few words, he lay down on the table and stopped talking.

"The Feng family will come back, is it Feng Xiujie?"

Feng Xiuran had gone to Ningguan before, and returned to Dingjing after withdrawing his troops, so Feng Xiujie was the only one left.

Rong Jue said: "The Wang family will not honor the princess." Among other things, how could someone like Wang Mingda fall in love with Qi Jialing.

As for Qi Jialing, she couldn't marry to the Wang family. Concubine Feng was still there, and the grievances between the Feng family and the Wang family were endless.

Qi Lan has tried his best to arrange the best for his younger siblings. Now that the Wang family is powerful, and the Feng family still has a talent like Feng Xiuran, he will not let the two families get in touch.

——Qi Jialing can only choose someone from the Feng family.

Li Hongbao said angrily: "Since this is the case, what else would he say to me that the princess is beautiful and beautiful, and that if you marry her, you can enjoy endless glory and wealth!"

The Wang family will not lack these.Rong Jue was silent, Li Hongbao was really easy to deceive sometimes.

After enlightening Li Hongbao a few words, seeing that he was still a little angry, Rong Jue said: "This time when I went to Beijing, I also accompanied many generals, all of them are very skilled, if you feel uncomfortable, we will beat him up again. "

"Ah Jue!" Li Hongbao hugged Rong Jue, "You are the best!"

After all, the draft was launched vigorously.

Li Hongbao and his companion Rong Jue acted as if they were staying out of the matter, watching the disputes and entanglements of various families together.

"It's a pity that Your Majesty didn't choose a concubine this time, otherwise it would have been more intense and beautiful." Li Hongbao sighed.

"You really want to see it?" Rong Jue asked suddenly.

For some reason, Li Hongbao suddenly felt colder.Could it be that there are fewer clothes to wear?Impossible, it's almost summer now.

Li Hongbao thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he had to say something else: "I heard that His Majesty still attaches great importance to this draft, but for some reason, he just disagrees with the selection of concubines. Tell me, does he have some hidden illness?"

"..." Rong Jue felt a pain in the corner of his mouth, how did Li Hongbao come to this conclusion?

This should be considered a palace secret.Qi Lan didn't pass it on outside the draft...does he know?

"Don't spread the word, His Majesty, he is very good!"

But no, as long as there is a chance, he will eat him again, and he will not waste this little spring.

"But, Ah Jue, why are you so sure about this?"

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