phoenix knot

The imperial court tried its best to turn the tide and pacify the northern border. All the soldiers who participated in the war were rewarded for their merits. Chang Qinghe was awarded the title of General Huaiyuan for his meritorious service in guarding Liaodong.

Dong Yiming asked himself to be stationed in Beiping to make preliminary preparations for moving the capital, and Chang Qinghe allocated all the three thousand elite soldiers under his command to her. In addition to the original more than 1000 soldiers, these soldiers can be regarded as Liang Guanjing's troops.

In the barracks of the Beiping Guards, Chang Qinghe took Li Mingtang and several Commanders of the Guards, Lord Qianhu, etc. to eat and practice together.

"So, the emperor is still planning to move the capital?" Chang Qinghe asked Liang Guanjing.

Liang Guanjing said: "If you don't move the capital, there will never be peace in the north. The emperor will have to make some sacrifices for the world. It's just that most of the civil servants in the Manchu Dynasty are from the south of the Yangtze River. If they move, they will drag their families and leave their hometowns. They are not very willing. The emperor is still appeasing. In addition, the streets and the imperial city of Xinjing have to be repaired, and the official roads into Beijing have not yet been transported by water, so it will take three to five years to do these things."

Chang Qinghe said: "It's easy to say, the establishment of Xinjing has never been a waste of people and money due to war."

Liang Guanjing also reminded everyone that it is not appropriate to publicize the move of the capital for the time being, lest there be too much protest from the court. Everyone hummed and laughed to express their understanding of the emperor's difficulties, and went to drink separately.

After returning to the camp to rest in the mansion, Xiyu came to help Liang Guanjing lie down.

Liang Guanjing asked: "Did the letter I wrote yesterday be delivered?"

Xiyu said: "If you send it back from the station as an army report, the emperor will receive it within five days."

Liang Guanjing said: "Don't you ask me what I plan to do next?"

Xiyu said: "The empress always has her own reasons for doing things, the slaves don't need to ask."

Liang Guanjing looked at herself in the mirror and felt that she had grown old overnight, although she was actually only in her 20s, "If Lianxiang was around, she would always ask questions. I don't even have a decent counselor around me, and those people outside can't He was cited as a confidant, Chang Qinghe, who was very cunning, he kept saying that he was in love with the third brother, but in the end he poisoned and murdered him first. The Mongols are implicated. Songcheng is gone, and the whereabouts of the third brother are unknown. I see that he is also well fed and sleeps well, and he has no intention of mourning. This person cannot be used over here.”

While helping her comb her hair, Xiyu said, "The empress wants to hear my opinion?"

Liang Guanjing nodded: "It's not easy to listen to you, so let's talk about it."

Xiyu said: "If you really want to achieve great things, this person can still be used. He keeps saying that he is loyal to the emperor and patriotic. I don't think he cares if the emperor is you or the emperor. He used to be under King Kang's command. It was also for the sake of repaying the favor. Later, since King Kang died, the favor was repaid, and he did not owe anyone. He kept arguing with the third master, and it was more or less out of anger. Otherwise, it would be easier to be flexible. He is just like you, yes I am afraid that the third master will become entangled with the Mongols and get burned, but my heart is still towards the third master. As for the whereabouts of the third master, how do you know if he cried when he was hiding under the covers? Aren’t you doing well in front of people these days? of?"

Liang Guanjing smiled wryly, "Okay. At first I had some hope, but after so many days, Lianxiang hasn't come back, so I knew there was more to come. In my heart..." Enduring the cramping, she turned around Come, "In yesterday's letter, I told Han Chengjue everything about Songcheng, including Mingyue and his child's unfortunate death. He knew that I was in Beiping, and I guess he will join me in a few days, and the imperial conquest. I leave you to do it." One thing is to find Emperor Huiwen and take him to Shandong. Ling Shishi has already left for Shandong and handed the next secret letter to Chen Chunhe. When Han Chengjue is outside the pass, I will seize his military power and return to the court. .Chen Chunhe welcomes Emperor Hui Wen to Beijing, and it is best for Emperor Hui Wen to give way to me in front of civil and military officials. The name is true. I don’t need to clean up those pedantic literati in the court. I will lobby more at that time, and it will be good if I can fight without bloodshed If Emperor Huiwen is greedy for imperial power and disregards the loss of life, then I can only fight against Chen Chunhe in the capital."

Xiyu was not very surprised by her plan, as if she was talking about what to have for breakfast tomorrow, "Although Old General Liang no longer holds military power, he still has a high prestige in the court. Are you sure he can support you?"

"If he doesn't support it, let him return home." Liang Guanjing wiped some sesame oil on his face and sighed, "The wind in the north is really dry without a drop of water. It's going to break."

"I've never seen you love beauty so much before." Xiyu muttered in a low voice.

"In the past, when she looked at me, I knew whether I was beautiful or not. Besides, she was taking care of me. When it was hot, there was sour plum drink and mung bean soup, and when it was cold, there was ginger tea and balm to moisturize the face. I lay there She came to help me put it on. The sun is poisonous and she feels sorry for me when I get tanned, and she boils a potion for me to apply. Although it is dark and dark, my face will not be tanned. Wouldn't it be nice to take good care of myself? I'll see you in the underworld someday, I'm so old, I'm afraid she won't recognize me and despise me."

Xiyu said: "It's because the slaves didn't take good care of her, and Miss Mingyue didn't do her best."

Liang Guanjing said: "I don't blame you, I know you have done your best." Throwing down the sesame oil box, Liang Guanjing was about to go to bed, "Also, I arranged the place where Emperor Huiwen lived in seclusion. He must be wary of me and may have moved it privately." Teng has found another place. If you can't find him, there is no need to say anything. Let's go to Beijing first, and Chen Chunhe will come forward to look around and put up a list to welcome Emperor Hui Wen to the capital. What can I say, anyway, Han Chengjue's son doesn't even want to become the throne, but it's just that it will last forever, and it's always difficult for me as a woman to become emperor."

Xiyu responded, and just after blowing out the candles, a guard outside reported that a beautiful woman was asking for an audience outside the barracks, and she called herself Su.

Liang Guanjing jumped out of bed almost immediately, and finally rushed to the front hall, where there was Su Mingyue's shadow, the woman in white was looking at the map of the Northland gates on the wall, when she heard the movement, she turned around and smiled sweetly. Is it Qianshanxue?

Liang Guanjing was so disappointed that she wished to punch her out. After all, she was a weak woman, so she waved her hand weakly to a guard, "Go, call Ling Shishi, and tell him that his sweetheart personally Came to the door."

After saying that, she turned around and left, Qian Shanxue wanted to entangle her, but was stopped by Xiyu.

On the second day, Liang Guanjing got up early to practice kung fu, and found that Qian Shanxue had not left, but walked gracefully through the courtyard and came to her room.Liang Guanjing took a sip of tea and sprayed it all over the floor.

"Why are you still here?"

Qian Shanxue said: "Since you said I was Ling Shishi's sweetheart, how could he have the heart to drive me away?"

Liang Guanjing said: "He arranged for you to live here?"

Qian Shanxue smiled: "Yes, but men and women can't get married, he didn't dare to arrange for me to live with him, so he arranged for me to live in this courtyard, just to accompany the empress."

Liang Guanjing gritted his teeth, "Let the queen empress live under the same roof with a kiln sister, he is so brave!"

Qian Shanxue said: "Then I can't live in the same house with him."

Liang Guanjing said: "You can still go, get out of here."

Qian Shanxue asked, "Where can I go?"

Liang Guanjing said: "Go wherever you like."

Qian Shanxue was still smiling at first, but at this moment she was extremely embarrassed and forced to hold on to her smile. Tears glistened in her eyes, "Master Thirteen is missing now, who should I go to? I am also useless. I can’t carry my hands, I can’t do embroidery well, I was force-fed safflower soup when I was young, I can’t even give birth to a child, which house wants me? There is no way out anyway, I have to go back to the kiln and recite poems against others Playing the piano and blowing the flute, I can only play things that these kiln sisters can do. I know that the queen empress has golden branches and jade leaves, and she has a noble status, so she looks down on kao sisters, okay, I'll go now, and I won't be here to hinder your eyes."

Saying that she was blessed, she really went out.

Liang Guanjing waved, "Come back and call Ling Shishi over here. It's better to hit the sun than to choose a date. I think you two will get married today. My brothers and I will drink your wedding wine together."

Qian Shanxue sneered, "No need, as a lowly person, I'm not worthy of Lord Baihu."

Liang Guanjing said: "It's always okay to be a concubine."

Qian Shanxue gritted her teeth, "It's still not good."

Liang Guanjing said: "Why not?"

Qian Shanxue said: "Because I don't like him, if I live in the same room with him, I'm afraid I can't help but kill him with one knife, and you won't lose one of your generals?"

Liang Guanjing's eyes widened, thinking that this woman was simply crazy.Just as he was talking, Ling Shishi was called, and Liang Guanjing couldn't help rubbing his forehead when he thought of the young man lying in a pool of blood on the night of the bridal chamber.

"What did you guys talk about last night?" Liang Guanjing turned around and asked Ling Shishi, "Why did you let her live with me?"

Ling Shishi didn't understand it at first, he only thought of Qian Shanxue as the person on the cusp of his heart, and naturally he was very kind, but it took him a long time to understand that Liang Guanjing actually detested Qian Shanxue's lowly background.

Liang Guanjing also suddenly realized that because Ling Shishi already had a look of injury, fear and disappointment on her face, she naturally couldn't lose Ling Shishi's loyalty, so she just raised her forehead, thought of a way in an instant, and wiped her face with a smile, "I mean, since she came to look for you, you can just take her back to your room and stuff her here."

Ling Shishi blushed, "This... I'm afraid it's not right."

Liang Guanjing thought to himself, did he really think that Qian Shanxue couldn't save face? "But you can ask Miss Qianshan Snow, I just asked her to marry you, but she is not willing."

Ling Shishi immediately looked at Qian Shanxue with a puzzled face, and Qian Shanxue knelt down delicately and weakly, tears came as soon as she said it, "I was broken when I was young, and the old bustard in the brothel gave me that night." I forcibly fed safflower soup, and I will never be able to have children in this life. The fourteenth master is young and promising, how dare I be wishful thinking, even if I am a concubine, I will have nothing to do, and I will be disgusted when I get old and fading. I It is a body that has been ridden by thousands of people and straddled by thousands of people. From now on, I don’t want to serve men anymore. I just want to stay with the empress and do some rough work of serving tea, handing water, mending and scrubbing. If the empress thinks my body is dirty , that concubine..." At this point, she suddenly drew out the dagger and was about to stab her in the chest.

Liang Guanjing rolled his eyes there, Xiyu also remained motionless, how could Ling Shishi bear a beautiful and charming woman crying so much, she rushed forward and snatched the dagger, accidentally cut her palm.

Liang Guanjing secretly scolded Ling Shishi for being stupid and incompetent, for not being able to think when seeing a beauty.

Qian Shanxue could not die in the first case, and she would hit the wall in the second death. Naturally, she still could not die. She continued to cry, "That day the empress came to ask for someone in Chunfu, and the concubine was ordered by the high official Mu to embarrass the empress. I knew that at that time Offended the empress. But the concubine is also involuntary! Mr. Mu rescued the concubine from fire and water, and he didn't want me to promise with my body. I can't repay the concubine. Naturally, I will do what he says."

Ling Shishi was clumsy with his tongue and didn't know how to persuade him, so he only begged Liang Guanjing with his eyes.

Liang Guanjing is riding a tiger. If she refuses to follow her today, what will she do in Ling Shishi's eyes?If it was a Mongolian bandit who was kneeling now, he would be able to kill him with one blow, but a beauty like Qian Shanxue couldn't be killed with one blow.

Liang Guanjing couldn't help it because of her crying, and even reflected on whether she had really gone too far. She didn't dislike her background in a brothel, but the main reason was that the two of them locked up in the room in Chunfu that night and made such a fuss.That being the case, as long as Quan pretends that that incident never happened, and he himself is a straightforward person, Liang Guanjing stepped forward to help Qian Shanxue, and his tone softened, "How can I have the heart to force you to death, you stay here for now. "

Qian Shanxue hurriedly knelt down again, kowtowed to thank her, and the empress couldn't stop shouting for a thousand years.