Born short-lived

It is impossible for the empress not to give the prince any face at all. Since he raised objections to the marriage between King Beizhao and the Jiang clan in public that day at the Jinluan Hall, the matter has been postponed silently.After all, the Jiang clan is considered to be half of the "divine clan", and they figured out Zhou Zirong's unsuitable marriage for the time being. Naturally, they can't ruin their family's reputation. In addition, the summer festival is not yet over, so even others have no way to comment.

It's just that some news came back from the East China Sea in recent days, and the Beizhao Prince's Palace tried their best to suppress it, for fear of causing disturbances all over the city.

The earth-shattering long-range cannon that Zhou Zirong dropped in Sha'an before was expensive, and it was definitely not something that a few trucks of small yellow croakers could forget. After several days of calm, this "account" finally found an enemy.

The East China Sea Psychic Seaship borrowed the signboards of several major commercial firms and disguised itself as a merchant fleet to infiltrate the island not far from the east of Sha'an, which is adjacent to Huaxu in the south and near Sha'an in the west. Go to the eastern part of Sha'an to explore the terrain, and wait until Zhou Zirong's East China Sea Command sends a signal, and finally everything is settled with one shot.

Although this "sky thunder" crushed Sha'an's military spirit, it also aroused public anger on the island.

People from Donglu once named this island "Tiankui", but the people on this island never bothered to have contact with outsiders. The name "Tiankui" was shelved for thousands of years. accept.

But the people of Tiankui Island are only willing to deal with reputable private firms, not those with even a little relationship with the government.

Let alone a warship.

The islanders on the island rioted collectively that night, using hammer torches from all over the island, they smashed and burned one of their psychic fleets moored by the harbor.

In order to deceive others, except for dismantling the long-range cannon and hiding it in the bottom cabin, they didn't bring any other spiritual weapons.Not many people came by themselves, and they couldn't use long-range bombardment to bombard the island, just like no one would be stupid enough to bombard ants at their feet with a sky-high cannon.

——The point is that they don't even have 800 people, and there are only a few dozen people in total. The mob like a herd of mad cows is surrounded by the port, and they are helpless.

A group of people stalemate for a whole day, Yuan Li managed to rush out with some people on the remaining psychic ships, but his adjutant and dozens of people accompanying him were detained on Tiankui Island.

This matter spread all the way back to the capital from the East China Sea, although the news did not leak to the public, but after the empress learned about it, she still sent a thunderstorm and was furious.

In fact, it’s not surprising that she was so angry that she jumped up and down. Even if she wanted to show off to all the officials, she had to do it properly—from the beginning when the Queen secretly sent military expenses and oral instructions to the East China Sea, she knew that although this matter was immediate, it could be achieved. The building is about to collapse, but it is bound to cause a commotion.

Who will carry this blame?

At the beginning, the queen thought about it, but still felt that only Zhou Zirong could take on this great task.

After Dong Sheng learned of this, he rushed to King Beizhao's capital mansion overnight, and rushed into the gate of the mansion. When he saw Zhou Zirong who came out to greet him in a robe, he scolded, "You're crazy, I think you're crazy!" You are crazy!"

Zhou Zirong had no temper, and greeted him with a smile on his face, and said, "Hey, what's wrong with you? You're so angry?"

"Don't play dumb!" Dong Sheng turned pale with anger, and pointed at Zhou Zirong's finger tremblingly, "Instead of caring about me getting angry, you might as well care about His Majesty's wrath of the emperor!"

Zhou Zirong comforted him calmly: "Calm down first, let's go into the room and say..."

Dong Sheng avoided the hand he was about to reach out to grab his shoulder, and smiled angrily: "Do you know why Your Majesty is angry?"

Seeing that Zhou Zirong didn't speak, Dong Sheng became even more angry. He gritted his teeth and said, "You...how can you send someone to Tiankui?! The troublemakers on that island...it's not just Tiankui involved this time, Now Sha'an also knows that you are the chief culprit who caused their defeat, and now Tiankui is in charge of important people, do you think they will give it or not? Huh?"

"Also, for those few commercial firms, you caused blood on their signboards and caused commotion, and they are writing a joint statement to come to the capital to knock... a dozen commercial firms, half of the merchants in Huaxu - they want to Sue your imperial certificate!"

Zhou Zirong listened to him quietly, then raised his hand and gently picked up a strand of Dong Sheng's forehead hair scattered in front of his face, and pinned it behind his ear carefully.

Dong Sheng froze for a moment.

Zhou Zirong smiled. He didn't mean to be angry at all. Instead, he seemed a little happy. He just listened to him gently and authentically; Work yours."

He knew that it was Dong Sheng who cared about chaos.

Dong Sheng's anger collided with Zhou Zirong's soft flower, and suddenly he had nowhere to focus, and it immediately melted away.He also knew that Zhou Zirong would not make such a decision on his own, and he couldn't be blamed for this matter anyway, it was just that he was out of anger—but right now he couldn't even get angry.

He raised his eyes to see Zhou Zirong's smiling face, and felt a trace of guilt silently.

Dong Sheng was silent for a while, sighed, and said in a muffled voice: "Go in, think about how to save your dog's life."

Zhou Zirong responded, followed obediently from behind, and said with a pleasant smile: "The dog's life of the minister belongs to His Highness, and His Highness will never let the minister die."

These words floated into Dong Sheng's ears, Dong Sheng's soles slipped suddenly, and he turned his face and said angrily: "Stop being so talkative!"

Since the empress only issued a verbal order at the beginning, it proves that the empress will definitely not admit that something happened, anyway, there is no imperial decree as proof.

Now they have to figure out what to do for themselves.

In the early morning of the second day, as soon as Dong Sheng left Beizhao Prince's Mansion, he heard someone galloping forward on a fast horse and stopped in front of him.

"Your Highness!"

Dong Sheng didn't sleep well all night, just when he was angry, he raised the curtain irritably, and said impatiently: "What's wrong?"

The person who came was the servant of the Eastern Palace, with a bitter face, thinking about how to speak, he hesitated for a while, before Dong Sheng got angry, he hurriedly said: "Your Highness, Miss Li is in front of the Shenwu Gate... she said she must See Your Highness."

Dong Sheng asked incredulously, "Who?"

"Master Li's granddaughter...Miss Li Mingying, she said that if she doesn't see His Highness, she will die in front of the Shenwu Gate, and Ladu can't pull her away."

Dong Sheng: "..."

Dong Sheng thought with a headache, this strange thing happens every year, and this year there are a lot of them—how can this be sung.

When the prince drove to the Shenwu Gate, it was tightly blocked by onlookers and guards, and discussions were raging.

"Prince arrives—"

As soon as everyone heard this sound, they all looked back at the same time, cast a strange look, and then silently made way for the cars to pass by.

As soon as the human wall got out of the way, Dong Sheng heard the noise coming from the innermost part.

A shrill female voice shouted high-pitched: "Li Shi Mingying, I have a grievance to sue!"

Dong Sheng leaned in the car and sighed. He really didn't want to deal with such a bad thing, but since everyone called them by name, he couldn't ignore them completely, so he bravely opened the front curtain and looked outside. took a look.

I saw a white and clean girl wearing a goose-yellow gauze dress kneeling in front of his carriage, her appearance was rather pretty, and the accessories on her body were also very expensive, one could tell that she was from a wealthy family.

But before he came, there must have been some tugging, the girl's bun was a little messy, and there were still a few red marks on her neck.

Dong Sheng sneered, and said, "What grievance do you want to sue? Roaring in front of the palace, how many heads do you have to chop off?"

These few days Li Chongwen happened to be on business in the suburbs of Beijing, and there was no one in charge at home, and the people who came to persuade him were only some servants, and what they said probably didn't carry any weight in the ears of the young lady.

At this time, the Li family all knelt together in front of Dong Sheng, begging for forgiveness.

On the other hand, Li Mingying has a heart bigger than the sky, and she still bowed to Dong Sheng without changing her face and heartbeat, and said loudly: "Your Highness, Mingying thinks that although he is not the queen of princes and generals, he is also the queen of important officials and officials. He has studied poetry, books, etiquette and justice, read hundreds of schools, and practiced piano, chess, calligraphy and painting with his mother since he was a child. Although his appearance is not overwhelming, he is also upright. How could it not be higher than all the noble ladies in today's capital——Why did His Highness refute the marriage bestowed by His Majesty in front of all the officials, and abandon Mingying like a pair of shoes in front of the world——His Highness ruined Mingying's life for no reason Reputation, Mingying wants to ask His Highness for an explanation today!"

Dong Sheng seemed to have heard something extremely ridiculous: "Why, it's not considered a damage to the reputation of a girl to act violently in front of the gate of the palace? Since you are born extraordinary, how can you take it lightly?"

"Mingying is not stalking, but knocking! People and officials have grievances. If they involve important officials of the court, the emperor's relatives, or even the royal family, they can knock at the Shenwu Gate-this is the law set by the late emperor. How could His Highness not know? "

"There is another reason for Gu's resignation from His Majesty's imperial conferment of marriage. You can find out by asking your grandfather—if you don't ask the reason, you will come to my Shenwu Gate to seek death and life, and regard the majesty of the court as nothing. Even if Gu sent someone to beat you to death today Here, it’s not considered indiscriminate killing.”

"But people in the world don't care about His Highness's reasons. His Highness is famous outside, and everyone in the world will think that Mingying has offended His Highness."

"Girl trouble yourself, how can you blame Gu's head - get up and go back to the palace, if she wants to die, let her die."

Dong Sheng stopped looking at her, flicked his sleeves and sat back in the car, the wheels started rolling again, and drove past the frozen Li Mingying mercilessly.

However, not too far away, there was a bigger commotion behind them, and when Dong Sheng was thinking about what was going on, he saw a person rushing over.

"what happened again?"

The man wept and said: "Your Highness...Your Highness,...Mingying...Miss Mingying killed herself!"

[The author has something to say: Mid-autumn candy distribution is over, let's continue cutting. 】