The winter of the fifth year of Tianyou in Dongning coincided with the fifth year of the monarch Nangong Yu's accession to the throne.

In the past five years, the weather in Dongning has been good. Although the people in the world do not have surplus food, they still have enough food to eat if they are careful. It is rare to starve to death on the roadside. Although it can't compare with the prosperity of Daning more than [-] years ago, compared with the chaos of the last years of the Daning Dynasty, today's life can be regarded as a peaceful world.

Although the Dongning Kingdom is considered to be peaceful now, it does not disparage internal worries, and this internal worry is nothing more than a family matter in a small way, but because it is a royal matter, it is also a major event that can affect the country.

The cause of this has to be talked about ten years ago.

Ten years ago, Shang Nangong Yu was still a sixteenth prince whose future was uncertain. At that time, he married Xizhu, the little princess of the Pingbei royal family, as his concubine. The little princess of the Beiwang family had a relationship once, Feng Mingshi, who had always been an excellent matchmaker, praised the little princess after meeting the little princess: "The little princess of the Jun family is really unparalleled in style, resourcefulness and talent. It is also!"

It is because of the four characters of "Nvzhongqingxiang" that the little princess of Pingbei has become a famous woman in the world. Even after the Empress Dowager Zhang heard of her fame, she specially sent an order to bring the little princess into the palace. .

The next day, the late emperor ordered Pingbeihou to be summoned. After a half an hour's detailed discussion between the monarch and his subjects, the person who returned to the mansion with Pingbeihou was the marriage letter that the late emperor bestowed on behalf of the sixteenth prince, Nan Gongyu.

In this way, the [-]-year-old princess of Pingbei married the sixteenth prince who was two years older than her. After that, the prince of Dongning lost power, and the princes competed for the heir. Then Nangong Yu, who was the sixteenth prince at that time, was married. Successor to the crown prince, the princess of Pingbei will become the crown prince.

Five years later, the first emperor passed away, and the crown prince Nangong Yu ascended the throne. The first thing the new emperor did after ascending the throne was to spread his imperial edict to the world and confer the title of the mother of the country—the new empress was not the princess concubine Pingbei Xiaojun, but the number one princess in Dongning. The daughter of the Zhang family!She is also the niece of Empress Dowager Zhang!

The Zhang family is the number one hero in Dongning. In the turmoil more than 20 years ago, if the Zhang family hadn't fully supported him, the late emperor, who was a branch of the former Daning dynasty royal family, would have never been able to occupy half of Dongning's country today. Therefore, the new emperor is bound to continue to honor and favor the Zhang family when he succeeds to the throne.

Losing the position of mother of the country, the little princess of Pingbei was canonized as the imperial concubine who was second only to the empress in the palace, ranking above the four concubines Mei, Lan, Xian, and De, and living in Chang'an Palace... Such a canonization is very important for the former crown princess. Speaking of it, it is not regarded as an honor, but it is not regarded as being treated poorly either. If the little princess of Pingbei can be more generous, this day will be able to live on.

It's a pity that the little princess of Pingbei is not a generous person. In the following five years, I don't know how many troubles have been caused overtly and secretly-raising villains, training secret guards, removing queens, killing concubines, etc. Harm Zhongliang...

All these things, one by one, are more or less, explicitly or secretly, related to this imperial concubine, so this imperial concubine has another title - traitorous concubine!

Yes, that's right!This former crown princess, now Dongning imperial concubine, has thus become a traitorous concubine that people have heard of!

Speaking of the traitorous concubine Jun Xizhu, almost everyone in the entire Dongning Kingdom knows about it. If you ask anyone on the street, you can count her dozens of crimes. Moreover, these crimes It's enough to kill people!

However, even so, this traitorous concubine is still alive, living well, and living a more wonderful life than anyone else-in the past five years, she first got rid of the queen Zhang, and then designed a living trap to kill the new queen. There are more than 680 mouths, and there is even a saying that even the cause of Queen Mother Zhang's death has a lot to do with it.

Later, the traitorous concubine Jun Xizhu killed many favored concubines under various names, and framed a large number of loyal ministers and generals. Afterwards, she arranged all the official positions that were vacated by her as her minions, but in just two short days... In a few years, the power of the entire Dongning government has been divided in half by her, either explicitly or secretly.

Because of this, the court was divided into two factions, one was the traitorous concubine party, and the other was the loyal emperor party.

Once the dynasty was divided into two factions, Nangong Yu's imperial power fell apart. Many times his government orders were issued from Dazheng Palace before they were intercepted by Chang'an Palace, or two government orders were handed down from two places at the same time, and then the ministers of the court and ministers were separated. Act according to the master.

Fortunately, although the traitorous concubine is treacherous, she still has some knowledge in major affairs of the country and the country. She knows how to push back the old policies and rectify the new guidelines. It also requires the reorganization of the armed forces and the promotion of people from poor families all over the world.

It is a pity that most of her propositions have been stranded. In the eyes of the royalists, it is good to push back the old policies and rectify the new ones, but there must be a limit. Dongning has always had a developed industry and commerce. In terms of craftsmanship, it ranks first in Southern Chu, Western Shu, Northern Qi and other countries. The annual tax revenue of the treasury is several times higher than that of other countries. When the country has no food, it only needs to take out porcelain, weaving Silk, whether it is food from Southern Chu, weapons from Western Shu, or horses from Northern Qi, they can all be exchanged easily, so why bother to focus on your own weaknesses to develop agriculture?

As for the entire army, although it is necessary, there is no need to rush for a while. After the war that lasted for seven years, what the devastated Dongning country needs most is to recuperate. The people of the world have just lived a few years. In the days of peace and stability, the national power has not yet recovered to one-twelfth of the former Daning Dynasty. If the three armies are to be rectified at this time, the financial and material resources that will be spent will definitely empty the treasury and waste the energy of the past ten years. For nothing.

More importantly, these new propositions of the traitorous concubine violated the interests of the entire Dongning aristocratic family-promoting the world's poor families with lofty ideals?Isn't this weakening the family's strength in disguise?Which noble family would agree with you?

Because of this, the originally balanced two factions began to discord because of their different political views. The loyal imperial party tried every means to frame the traitorous concubine in order to abolish her and take back the power in her hands , but under the counterattack of the traitorous concubine forces, the aristocratic family loyal to the imperial party had to give up this plan temporarily, because the Queen Zhang's family, the former first family in Dongning, was their fate...

The traitorous concubine and the nobles of the aristocratic family met each other like this, but no one could do anything to each other for a while, so they could only use each other's tricks in secret. Today you kill my minions, and tomorrow I will kill your subordinates... It's just a pain. Emperor Nangong Yu, he originally conferred the title of Empress Zhang in order to win over the aristocrats of the family and help him secure the throne, but now that he is being tortured by the traitorous concubine, all his hard work has been wiped out.

During the day, the aristocrats of the aristocratic family forced him to abolish the concubine under the banner of the loyal emperor Qingjun. They slept until midnight and were often woken up by the concubines in the harem, crying about how the treacherous concubine bullied and abused them. Later, Nangong In a fit of rage, Yu simply asked someone to add a bed to the Dazheng Palace. Since then, she has never stepped into any concubine's palace.

Nangong Yu and the traitor Xizhu have been married for several years, and no one in the world can clearly see how their relationship is. They only know that they have nothing to do, and even the four concubines and eight concubines in the harem have not heard from each other.

As a result, there is one more crime on the treacherous concubine - jealousy!It is because she has nothing to do by herself, so she secretly uses methods to make all the concubines unable to conceive the dragon seed.

The aristocratic family loyal to the imperial party used this reason to make a fuss, only hoping to kill, cripple and step down this traitorous concubine.

In this way, the days slipped away in the struggle between the treacherous concubine and the loyal imperial party, and in the blink of an eye, it was the spring of the sixth year of Tianyou. Dongning, which has always had good weather and weather, had no rain for two consecutive months this year, and there was a hint of a drought.

Emperor Nangong Yu knew the seriousness of the matter, so he ordered people to bring a large number of gold, silver, porcelain and silk items to Nanchu in exchange for food and grass.

Two months later, the drought hit, and the people of Dongning had no water to drink, and all the crops in the fields died of drought. However, in the past two months, Dongning, which was originally underdeveloped in agriculture, had more and more starvation deaths, and the situation was bleak.

At the same time, it was news that Nanchu refused to exchange grain, and Dongning, which had lived in peace for more than ten years, fell into dire straits.

Nangong Yu hurriedly ordered the various regions to open granaries to release grain. The aristocratic families loyal to the imperial party took this opportunity to make a fortune. It's only one or two out of ten.

Another month later, all granaries across the country have been emptied. God seems to be joking with Dongning, and there is still no rain. At this moment, the loyalists are starting to regret, regretting their opposition to the traitorous concubine two years ago The policy of developing agriculture, because the family is prosperous and the population is large, the food storage will not last long.

God bless the early autumn of the sixth year, it was the harvest season, but Dongning, which hadn’t rained for half a year, was starving and dying everywhere. Looking at its formation, it is obvious that it has the intention of taking advantage of the drought to loot.

Today, Nangong Yu's head turned gray overnight. The aristocrats of Dongning's loyal imperial party formed a private discussion for three days, and finally reached a result - they all played together, and invited Nangong Yu to set foot in Chang'an Palace, but asked The little princess of Pingbei, who once had a "female middle minister", may have a good strategy to save the country.

At this time, the imperial loyalists selectively forgot that Jun Xizhu was a traitorous concubine, and at the same time remembered that she was the little princess of the Pingbei Jun family who was once hailed by the famous scholar Feng Yuanhua as a "female middle minister".

——This is the second time Nangong Yu has set foot in Chang'an Palace in the past six years since he ascended the throne. The first time was the day when he issued an edict to confer the traitorous concubine as imperial concubine.

The treacherous concubine Jun Xizhu watched the emperor step into the Chang'an Palace accompanied by a large group of court ladies and eunuchs. She was dressed in snow-white clothes and sat on the couch behind the bead curtain, looking at the young Dongning Emperor with a smile on her lips. With a sneer, she said, "Nangong Yu, Dongning Kingdom is over..."

The author has something to say: Hey~~~Look over here, everyone look over here, there is a new hole here, please water, please irrigate...

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