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Wu Wangsheng, who was originally lively and active, went to the Tang Dynasty to tour the north. After seeing a lot of human misery, he became a little quieter on the return trip.After Jiang Gui announced that King Tian was pregnant, Wang Sheng was so happy that he returned to normal. Besides walking around in front of Queen Tian's bed, he kept touching Queen Tian's very flat stomach, which disturbed Queen Tian so much that she couldn't rest well.

Jiang Gui, who came in with the tonic, saw the lesson with a straight face. The content of the lesson was all about how to take care of pregnant women and how to get along with pregnant women on a daily basis.Wu Wangsheng listened very carefully, and couldn't remember it once, and stopped him from leaving Jiang Gui and repeated it several times before letting him go. Wu Wangsheng was serious and asked for advice with his heart.

When Zheng Yuming learned that Queen Tian was pregnant, a big stone fell in his heart.During his lifetime, Xihou did not want his descendants to have concubines, and because of the different status of concubines, he was treated as a last wish. Xihou's last wish made Queen Tian not have to share her husband with other women.

Wu Wangsheng and his wife had been married for more than three years and had no children. Zheng Yuming was worried. He was afraid that one of Wu Wangsheng and his wife would be infertile.

If Queen Tian has been infertile, Wu Wangsheng will have to accept concubine after the age of [-], and the family of future concubines must be carefully selected. Apart from her own appearance, the concubine Jia Shu's natal family should not be powerful and have no ambitions like Queen Tian's family.

If Wu Wangsheng was infertile, Zheng Yuming's head would become bigger.The best solution for that situation is Wu Wangsheng's adoptive offspring of the royal family.The situation of Wu's royal family has been investigated by Chu Chaohui, and none of them can satisfy Zheng Yuming.

Now that Queen Tian is pregnant, Zheng Yuming is of course relieved to have solved both troubles in one fell swoop.

Both Wen Wei Po and Nan Bao had reporters following the northern tour team all the time. With Zheng Yuming's tacit consent, the news of Queen Tian's pregnancy quickly made the headlines of the two major newspapers, and the news spread throughout the country of Wu along with the newspapers.Thinking about selling his family's daughter-in-law to the nobleman Wu Wangsheng, all thoughts were put out.People everywhere know that the royal family has an heir, and now that the royal court system has been continued, the hearts of the people are more stable.

Probably God likes the child in Queen Tian's belly very much. This year's cold snap did not come very early this year. It was not until the end of October that the cold air from the north swept across the whole of Great Qin, and the princes of Great Qin were shrouded in low temperature.The cold snap came late this year, but it was severe, and the average winter temperature was the lowest ever.

The extremely cold winter made the people of the vassal states of Daqin suffer, and the people of Wu State had a stable and secure life, and the cold current brought them little harm.The people of the Tang State that had just been annexed were protected by Wu Guoli, and the people of the people lived in this cold winter more peacefully than in previous years.

Before the cold wave hit Tang, Ma Ren had led the local garrison and Tang county officials to distribute relief food to the people.Cotton clothes and coarse cotton cloth transported from Nanbu are owed home by the people on credit according to the number of registered households.It turned out that the nobles in the Tang Dynasty prohibited common people from cutting down mountains and forests, and they were all open to the villagers. They allowed the common people to cut down branches and go home to cook for warmth.People were recruited from all over the country to build water conservancy and roads, so that people in Tang Dynasty could survive by exchanging labor for wages.Because of this series of measures to benefit the people, the people in Tang Dynasty survived this extremely cold winter safely.

Because Zhao Xuan pays attention to people's livelihood, the people in the areas that have not been affected by the army can live a decent life. Not many people died of cold currents, and the people in the northwest county survived the robbery. Most of the people there have survived the severe winter.

Except for the Wu, Tang and Zhao regions, the people of other vassal states in the Great Qin Dynasty were in a miserable situation.The states of Chu and Chen were located in the south, and were less affected by the cold current. The people did not freeze to death, but many died of starvation due to drought and poor harvests.

The vassal states in the northwest were robbed by the Rong people, and most of the people who survived there had nothing. The inaction of the kings and nobles of the vassal states caused these surviving people to die in batches due to cold and hunger in winter.The three major factors of disasters, drought, and severe winter have led to a sharp decline in the population of the central and western regions of the Great Qin Dynasty. The originally densely populated areas have become uninhabited for hundreds of miles.

In the three years of Wu Wangsheng's major events, in addition to the annexation of Tang State by Wu State, the Rong people went south to rob, and the death of Zhao Guoguo.After Zhao Xuan's father Lengkong invaded Zhao Wangdu, he became ill and died in the early morning of mid-November at the age of 56.

As soon as Zheng Yuming got the news of King Zhao's death, he asked Wang Jie, a good writer, to help him edit a letter of condolence with sincere words and deep condolences, and sent envoys to pay homage to King Zhao, and asked two major newspapers to report it.

The mourning envoy from the State of Wu rushed to the State of Zhao first, and Zhao Xuan was very moved after reading the letter of condolence written by Zheng Yuming himself.A month later, the envoy of condolences from the Yan Kingdom came late, and Zhao Xuan, who had just succeeded to the throne, categorically rejected the suggestion of his brother-in-law King Yan to form an alliance with Tie Sijiao.

Zheng Yuming achieved great results in attracting the State of Zhao, and he also achieved great results in sending envoys to the surrounding vassal states.The envoys of the state of Wu lobbied hard for the royal family of the princes, and the merchants of the state of Wu moved up and down, explaining that the king of Tang was to blame for himself, and promoting the benevolence and kindness of the king of the state of Wu and the son of Ming.The monarchs of many vassal states dispelled their doubts about Wu, and even the three kingdoms of Qi, Lu and Yan had just formed an alliance, and the alliance relationship began to become unstable.

"Your Majesty, if the King of Tang hadn't sent assassins to assassinate Young Master Ming himself, how could the State of Wu attack Tang?" the uncle of King Lu said to his nephew.

"But Wu's soldiers and horses are too brave, so I'm afraid of what happens!" The alliance between Lu and Qi was not the King of Lu's own will.

"My lord, in fact, our country has formed an alliance with the wrong country. Wu's soldiers are brave, and our country should form an alliance with Wu's."

"If you form an alliance with the state of Wu, if you are swallowed by the state of Wu, no prince will help you!" King Lu shook his head.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, Mr. Wu Guoming is benevolent and righteous. He is the most benevolent and righteous gentleman in the Great Qin Dynasty. How could a gentleman with such character be that ambitious hero? Mr. Wu Guoming will definitely not do unjust acts of annexing neighboring countries. This time, Zhao Guo suffered from the disaster. If Mr. Ming had ambitions, he would be happy to see Zhao Guo weakened, but Mr. Ming helped Zhao Wanshi with only food. Wu Guo was willing to give food and other materials to Mr. Zhao Xuan for nothing, because the two countries have Covenant!"

Uncle Lu Wang regretted that if after Kuiji assassinated Zheng Yuming, the State of Lu would immediately form an alliance with the State of Wu to attack the Tang Dynasty, even if no soldiers were killed, the State of Wu would definitely treat the State of Lu as favorably as it did to the State of Zhao.In this way, the State of Lu can also seek generous assistance from the State of Wu on the grounds that the people are in disaster.

Uncle King Lu secretly calculated that if the state of Wu donated ten thousand stones of grain to the state of Lu, his family would resell it and resell it, and he would surely earn 50 to [-] gold. Now the grain in the state of Lu is more than twice as expensive as that in the state of Wu.

After listening to his uncle's analysis, King Lu slapped his thigh in annoyance. "Why didn't uncle propose it earlier in the royal court?"

"The minister also figured out the truth after careful consideration."

Uncle Lu Wang had a bitter face. He was frightened by the call from the old officials of the Tang State. He was afraid that the State of Wu would annex the National Assembly of Lu and take away his fiefdom and manor. country thigh.It is also a matter of the past few years that the state of Wu is strong. It is not that the state of Wu destroyed the Tang Dynasty in a flash. Uncle King Lu still thought that the state of Wu was a weak and strong country when his son Guang father was in power.Not only Uncle Lu Wang thinks so of Wu Guo Guoli, but also the entire family of Lu Wang.

"Now our country has just formed an alliance with Qi Yan, how can we make an alliance with Wu State again?" King Lu regretted it. Now that Du Lu State is on the opposite side of Wu State, the Three Kingdoms Covenant is to fight against Wu State.

Shaking hands with Qi's deadly rival has always made Lu King aggrieved. Now Lu Wang thinks that if he chose to form an alliance with Wu, he might be able to use Wu's power to defeat Qi!

"Your Majesty, our country has formed an alliance with Qilu, and has not explicitly proposed to fight against Wu!" Uncle King Lu reminded.

"Haha, that's right. The Lu Qiyan alliance is a friendly covenant, and has nothing to do with Wu. Lu can also form an alliance with Wu for the sake of friendship." King Lu stroked his beard happily.

"Your Majesty, I would like to go on an envoy to the State of Wu to discuss the covenant with Young Master Ming." Uncle Lu Wang volunteered to recommend himself. He learned from Wei Shuqing, a businessman in the State of Wu, that next year the State of Wu would increase the export of salt. Taking the opportunity of going to Wu State as an envoy, he won most of the quota of Wu State's export of salt to Lu State.The price of table salt from the state of Wu can be doubled when it is transported to the state of Lu, and the price can be doubled when it is transported to the state of Yan, which is even more profitable than reselling grain.

"Good, so I will thank Uncle!" Lu Wang immediately nodded in agreement, and then added another sentence. "My uncle is going to Wu Guo as an envoy, don't say anything, wait for Wu Guo to agree to the covenant, and then inform the royal court."

The state of Wu agreed to make an alliance with the state of Lu, and the state of Lu did not have to worry about accusations from the states of Qi and Yan.If the State of Wu does not agree to the covenant, the State of Lu will not admit that it had an alliance with the State of Wu, and the Qilu-Yan Iron Triangle Covenant can still be maintained.

Uncle Lu Wang understood: "Promise! I will live up to the king's high expectations!"

In mid-December, Wu and Lu made a covenant and signed an agreement of mutual assistance and friendship.When the news spread, Zhao Xuan sneered. He had long expected that the Iron Triangle Alliance would exist in name only.After the king of the state of Qi knew about it, he scolded the king of the state of Lu for not being able to do anything. While scolding, he sent a mission to the state of Wu to repair the relationship with the state of Wu.After the King of Yan learned of what the Kings of Qi and Lu had done, the Palace of Yan became furious and scolded the Kings of Qi and Lu for their villainous behavior.

In the first month of the fourth year of Wu Wangsheng, the edict of the Emperor of Qin arrived in Wu State, acquiescing to Wu State's annexation of Tang.So far, the threat of Wu State has been eliminated among the vassal states.

After King Zhao passed away, Zhao Xuan took the throne of King Zhao without any suspense.After Zhao Xuan inherited the throne, the entire Prince's Mansion moved into the palace, but he didn't immediately designate the Crown Princess as Queen. At the end of January next year, Zhao Xuan presented the Queen's Gold Book to the Crown Princess.

"Tomorrow I will go to the ancestral temple for a great sacrifice, which of these two sets of crown dresses is better?" Princess Zhao asked her personal maid who was bringing two sets of dresses to her as a dowry from Yan Kingdom.

"Madam is beautiful, both sets are very suitable for Madam." The maid's face was full of melancholy. Princess Zhao was busy preparing the clothes and jewelry she would wear tomorrow, so she didn't notice the expression on the maid's face.

"Hmph! I am the matchmaker of His Royal Highness who is marrying. Some time ago, His Royal Highness was only busy with national funerals and government affairs, so he was late to seal the book. It's ridiculous that Ai Ji thought that she had the possibility of being in the top position, so the mansion posted a message to slander the queen." Princess Zhao said to herself. After being awarded the gold book by Zhao Xuan, the whole person glowed with glory.

The maid hesitated to speak, but later felt that it might be a concubine's trick, so the palace spread the rumor that Zhao Xuan wanted to set up another queen: "That's right, Madam is the concubine daughter of King Yan, and she has a eldest son, how could Madam not Promoted to the second place!"

In an exquisite palace on the west side of the Zhao Palace, the maid Ai Ji is persuading the master.

"His Royal Highness likes the young master, Madam has the young master by her side, what are you afraid of that shrew doing!"

Ai Ji wiped her tears: "That shrew of the Yan Kingdom deliberately refused to let me. Although His Highness loves the young master, but for more than a month, His Highness rarely came to the West Pavilion. Without His Highness's favor, sooner or later that shrew will send her down."

Years ago, Zhao Xuan had to observe filial piety and couldn't get close to him. After the Chinese New Year, after the filial piety period, Zhao Xuan still didn't spend the night in Concubine Ji's courtyard.

Ai Ji's maid was silent, Yan Wangji was very jealous, and always punished her concubine while Zhao Xuan was not in the mansion.

Now the shrew is the lord of the palace, and the Maid Maid is worried about the lord. For a while, there was only a slight sobbing in the room.

"I would rather Your Highness marry the talented girl Huo who came to Wu Kingdom." Ai Ji said softly.

"Madam be careful!" Ai Ji's maid hurriedly walked to the door, only to find that there was no one in front of the door, so she went back to the room in peace. "His Royal Highness sent someone to Wu to propose marriage this time. It is very secretive. It is embarrassing for His Highness to reject the proposal. Madam must not spread it to the outside world!"

Ai Ji blurted out her complaints and immediately regretted it. Zhao Xuan sent someone to Wu Guo at the beginning of the first month to marry his son Ming to adopt the talented girl Huo Sihua, but Zheng Yuming refused on the grounds that Huo Sihua was his adopted daughter and Zhao Xuan was not in the same generation.Zhao Xuan sent someone to Wu to ask for marriage in a very secret way, and Ai Ji only found out after bribing Zhao Xuan's study boy with a lot of money.

Ai Ji saw that her confidant maid had observed that the surrounding environment was safe, so she let go of her hand covering her mouth and gloated in a low voice. "The shrew of the Yan Kingdom thought her position was unassailable. If Mr. Ming let go, the talented girl Huo would be the mistress of King Zhao's palace. The shrew has already been bored by His Highness before she knows it!"

Zhao Xuan felt that it was not virtuous for him to marry the daughter of the King of Yan. On the one hand, he wanted to get closer to Zheng Yuming, and on the other hand, he learned that Huo Sihua not only helped Zheng Yuming manage the affairs of the Prime Minister's Office, but also was Zheng Yuming's assistant in transcribing official documents, which was very reasonable. ability.

One of Huo Sihua's older brothers is the head of one side of the county, and the other is Dawei Qing, a promising general in the state of Wu. If they can marry this girl, both Huo Sizhong and Wei Qing will have to look at the state of Zhao differently.

Zheng Yuming looks young, and looks five or six years older than Huo Sihua. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui have never explained to the outside world. What is the adoption relationship between the Huo brothers and sisters, Wei Qing and them? Zheng Chu's adopted sister and younger brother.That's what Zhao Xuan thought when he sent someone to Wu to propose marriage to him.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui adopted the three of them at the beginning just to support them, they had no intention of treating them as adopted children, nor did they consider them younger siblings.After getting along for a long time and careful training, the relationship between Zheng Chu and the three of them has become like family members. The two of them regard the three of them as juniors psychologically, but their appearance is too young and not suitable for the older generation. The relationship between them is positioned as family members and talents to cultivate.

Zhao Xuan secretly sent an envoy to marry Huo Sihua, he did not hesitate to offend the country of Yan, and treated him as Zhao's heir. From Zhao's envoy's point of view, his king already had a high opinion of Huo Sihua. At best, Huo Sihua was just a commoner. Opportunity is one step ahead.

Zhao Xuan has a majestic appearance, extraordinary ability, and great bearing, but in the eyes of Zheng Yuming, he is not a good match for Huo Sihua. Zhao Xuan is too calculating, and Zheng Yuming does not agree with Zhao Xuan's behavior of treating marriage as a political transaction.

Zheng Yuming was quite surprised that Zhao Xuan sent an envoy to propose marriage to Huo Sihua.Zheng Yuming asked for Huo Sihua's opinion before refusing.

Huo Sihua never thought that he had the idea of ​​leaving the side of the two benefactors. When he learned of Zhao Xuan's marriage proposal, he cried and begged Zheng Yuming not to drive her away, and asked her not to think about marriage before the age of 20.

In order to honorably refuse Zhao Xuan's marriage proposal, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui officially recognized the Huo brothers and sisters and Wei Qing as adopted children. Wei Qing, who had always dreamed of becoming the adopted son of Zheng and Chu, finally got his wish.