Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 578 Changed

 In the Qinzheng Hall, Li Ling drew up a list of generals to conquer the feudal king.

 He appointed Zhou Jin as the commander, Hu Dahai as the vanguard, and Pei Yunqian as the deputy general. After the first month, he went west to conquer King Li.

There are fifteen vassal kings in Da Qi. Since Zhao Xuan took the lead in the petition to withdraw the vassal state, seven vassal princes also immediately submitted the memorial. After Li Ling issued the edict, four more vassal princes followed the edict, and the remaining four vassal princes But he had other ideas. Although he didn't expressly resist the decree, he didn't obey it either.

 This is dissatisfaction.

The vassal king is dominating one side and is used to the free life of the local emperor. Now he is going to have his neck stuck, so naturally he is not willing to do so.

Jingshu sat beside her husband, looking at Li Ling's plan, and asked, "How long will it take for this battle to be settled?"

Li Ling put down his imperial pen and replied: "The reason why King Li dared to resist the decree was because of the Gaoshan Kingdom. I have long known that he has secretly colluded with the Gaoshan Kingdom over the years."

"There is also King Yuzhang, who is also colluding with King Li. As for King Jing, he and King Li are sons and daughters. This man is a coward. He must have been persuaded by King Li to dare not respect the will. As for this entrenched king, King Xuan of Shu relied on the fact that Shu was steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack, so he dared to be confident."

Jingshu said worriedly: "Even if King Jing of Li and King Yuzhang join forces, they only have more than a hundred thousand troops, which is not enough to cause trouble. I'm just afraid that the Gaoshan Kingdom will take advantage of the chaos to intervene."

Li Ling looked at his wife and said with a smile: "The Gaoshan Kingdom will take the opportunity to invade the border. They came just in time. I have long wanted to deal with them."

"After the three kings are pacified, I will find a way to recover the Shu area without any effort."

 The news that the emperor mobilized his troops and generals and decided to put down the three kings spread throughout the capital within a few days.

Zhao Xuan heard about this when he was drinking with friends in a restaurant. He couldn't sit still immediately, said goodbye to his friends and hurried home. It happened that Mrs. Xie also heard about this that day. She saw her husband He looked panicked and said helplessly: "This has been expected for a long time, and we didn't resist the order. Why are you panicking?"

Zhao Xuan poured a cup of tea: "I just didn't expect it to be so soon. This, it's less than a month. His Majesty is going to send troops. I heard that he will raise 300,000 troops. Oh, 300,000 troops. This is going to happen." They flattened the three kings’ fiefdoms.”

Mr. Xie leaned firmly on the soft couch and said with a smile: "That's impossible. The shore of the land is not the royal land, and the vassal land is also the emperor's."

"Oh, it's already this time, and you still have the heart to joke." Zhao Xuan sat down in front of his wife, looked at Xie and said, "Tell me, after His Majesty has dealt with the three kings, will he deal with us again?"

 “Isn’t it said that emperors are ruthless?”

 Zhao Xuan has been in power since he was born, Emperor Ming. Emperor Ming was weak and used gentle methods both internally and externally. Now that he suddenly saw Li Ling's violent methods, Zhao Xuan couldn't help but panic.

Xie Shi glared at her husband: "No, don't scare yourself."

Zhao Xuan was still worried and said: "Do you think we should make another trick and voluntarily hand over the jurisdiction of the vassal area? The other vassal kings have already handed it over."

Xie said: "Sooner or later, we will have to hand it over, but there is no need to worry. We are not the ones who took the lead in announcing the withdrawal of the vassal state. Just rest assured, the emperor will not embarrass us for a while."

Hearing what his wife said, Zhao Xuan felt a little at ease.

He changed the topic again, and while he was talking to his wife, Taoyao came in to serve ginseng tea to Xie, and Zhao Xuan's eyes couldn't help but be glued to the beauty.

After Taoyao went down, Xie asked him: "Have you fallen in love with this girl?"

Taoyao is a beauty, not something ordinary men can resist.

Although Zhao Xuan likes beauty, he is not completely confused about it. He quickly replied: "She is indeed beautiful, but I just took a second look at her. Madam, don't think too much."

Xie Shi smiled and said, "What's the matter? Meng and I are both pregnant now, and there's no one else around you. It's normal to buy someone for you."

While the couple were talking, Meng sent someone to ask Zhao Xuan to come over again. This time it was not a stomachache, but dizziness.

 Zhao Xuan was not as happy as usual, but it still passed.

When Meng met Zhao Xuan, she complained: "You stay with her whenever you have time. If I don't invite you, you won't remember our mother and son." Zhao Xuan frowned and replied: "Since you were pregnant, I've been staying with you eight out of ten days, and you still refuse to be satisfied?"

When Meng saw that Zhao Xuan was displeased, she felt puzzled and couldn't help but ask: "Did she say something to you? Are you acting strangely these days?"

Zhao Xuan sneered and said with dismay: "What can she say? Madam is not like an ordinary woman. She is thoughtful and never talks about such trivial things in my ears."

Hearing this, Meng fell silent.

 After a long while, I shed tears again.

Zhao Xuan saw that she was crying. He walked to her side and said, "Don't always think too much. Don't you still know how much I feel about you?"

Meng rushed into his arms and cried, "I'm just afraid, I'm afraid you'll change your mind."

Zhao Xuan said calmly: "I can't." After saying that, he took off his clothes and said: "Go to sleep, I'm tired."

The candles went out and the room fell into darkness, but Meng could not sleep.

Zhao Xuan has been very unusual recently, which makes Mengshi feel very uneasy and uneasy.

 Midnight is deep, and most people have fallen asleep, but in an elegant boudoir in Gaomenliu Mansion, candlelight is still lit.

 Liu Dongqing is writing at his desk.

She frowned slightly and looked attentive. It wasn't until her stepmother Jiang came in that Dong Qing stopped holding the wolf hair in her hand.

She raised her eyes, and a gentle smile appeared on her face like a hibiscus: "Mother, it's so late, why haven't you rested yet?"

Ms. Jiang smiled and said, "You also know it's very late?" As she said that, she lowered her eyes to look at the words Dong Qing was writing and praised: "Good words!"

He then said: "Your calligraphy is really amazing. You have practiced it so well. Why are you working so hard?"

Dong Qing stared at the words on the desk and murmured: "Mother is so complimentary. Of course there is someone who can write better than me."

Jiang said angrily: "You are from a daughter's family, and you don't want to take the exam for fame, so why are you working so hard?"

He then advised: "You will be getting married in a few days. Now you should focus on this."

Dong Qing smiled faintly: "My mother has already taken care of all the wedding matters, so what else does my daughter need to worry about?"

Although this daughter is not her biological daughter, she is beautiful, intelligent, well-educated, and has the support of the queen. She is about to marry into a high-ranking family, so the Jiang family does not dare to neglect her in the slightest.

Ms. Jiang smiled and said, "I took a close look at the wedding dress you ordered me to send you today."

 Dong Qing asked: "Does mother think it's okay?"

Ms. Jiang replied: "Of course it's appropriate, but you didn't embroider this yourself, right?"

 In order to show women's feminine skills, women nowadays embroider their own wedding dresses when they get married.

Dong Qing said: "Mom has good eyesight. This wedding dress was indeed embroidered by Lian'er for me, but the phoenix eyes were indeed made by myself."

Jiang said angrily: "The eldest son of the Duke is the dream girl of thousands of girls in the capital. How many people will be jealous of you marrying him, but having a child like you is not good at all." Heart."

 (End of this chapter)