Traveling through books to ancient times, I provoke the love of villains and powerful ministers

With the tasks arranged by Qi Qingxi, Qi Yunhui became busy every day, leaving early and returning late.

Also busy were the courtiers in the court.

Although the generals Li Qiming sent to the northwest had real abilities, their behavior followed their masters and they liked fighting among themselves.

According to the news from the northwest, those generals were well aware of Li Qiming's intention of sending them to the northwest.

In order to monopolize power in the northwest, the first thing a few people did when they arrived in the northwest was not to mobilize troops and generals to resist foreign enemies. Instead, they were eager to win people's hearts everywhere and entertained the soldiers of each battalion all day long.

Such an operation delayed the best opportunity to fight, and the Tatar troops attacked several cities in a row, and the Yu army was defeated one after another.

House seemingly endless rain.

That's all for the northwest. Guo Biao, the Marquis of Pingnan in the southwest, actually exposed his ambition at this time and gathered troops in the southwest. He said that the emperor was bewitched by demons and was addicted to elixirs, and the prince was also unfit for purpose and trapped Dayu in danger. He I want to ask for orders from the emperor on behalf of the people.

There are also Japanese countries that have not dared to invade for many years. This time, as if it was agreed upon, they burned, killed and looted along the southeast coast at the same time.

Fortunately, Wajin Kingdom was stabilized by Shen Zheng, otherwise they would have been besieged on all sides.

In the past, the Tatar tribe in the northwest gave Li Qiming a headache, not to mention that now he faced three enemies, and all the enemies were strong.

Li Qiming's calculations are completely useless when used against foreign enemies. After all, they don't have to worry about his identity as the prince, and they are targeting him as the prince.

Even though he had reached such a situation, Li Qiming was still worried about party strife and did not want to let Marquis Ning Guo lead troops to defend against the enemy. Even Zhao Jingwan's father, Marquis Changxing, was worried about staying at home.

Gu Yu also specially obtained a copy of the current military defense map of various places from Wu Bin, the Minister of War. As expected, the garrison generals of various military towns in Dayu were all Li Qiming's men.

And when there were not enough generals, Li Qiming actually asked civilian officials under his faction to serve as generals.

Qi Qingxi was shocked when he heard this. It didn't mean that civil servants couldn't go into battle to defend against the enemy.

Throughout the past dynasties, there are countless civil servants who went into battle to defend their families and country.

However, Qi Qingxi knew many of the people on the list, and some of them were even Jinshi from the same ranking as Yunming. They had only served as officials for two or three years, and they had no experience in fighting enemies.

At most, these civil servants have read a few military books. Asking them to guard important towns to defend against powerful enemies is nothing more than talking on paper.

Gu Yu and other court officials repeatedly proposed to change the general, but Li Qiming rejected them one by one.

All the courtiers were helpless and thought about asking Emperor Qitai to come out to take charge of the overall situation, but who knew that they could not even see Emperor Qitai now. Some courtiers with integrity even knelt outside the Meridian Gate for a whole day and night, but they could not get him. Emperor Qitai took action.

Dayu is now facing internal and external troubles, but Emperor Qitai, who has always been diligent and caring for the people, actually doesn't even show his face, not even Princess An Ning, the daughter he loves very much, can't see his face.

"Is it possible that something happened to the Emperor?" Qi Qingxi looked suspicious.

Gu Yu smiled and shook his head and said: "The emperor is in good health now, but it was the Taoist who told the emperor that he needed to be sincere and respectful in order to produce the best elixir."

Qi Qingxi sneered, it was nonsense. If there really was a pill for immortality, wouldn't the world be full of human spirits?

But there are not many emperors who believe in the art of immortality like Emperor Qitai.

But she had never heard of any emperor who would practice alchemy like Emperor Qitai and then stop caring about worldly affairs.

She even suspected that someone had bribed the Taoist priest to deliberately prevent Emperor Qitai from coming out.

Unexpectedly, her idea was confirmed by Gu Yu.

"The Emperor will suddenly have such a Taoist practicing the art of immortality beside him. Naturally, the work of our Crown Prince is indispensable."

Qi Qingxi thought it was true, but then she was a little shocked: "Li Qiming can actually think of such... an idea?"

Qi Qingxi didn't know how to describe it for a moment.

Based on her understanding of Li Qiming, he might poison the emperor for the throne, or even directly force him into the palace.

However, if he dares to do this, he may be opposed by more than just Pingnan Marquis Guo Biao.

Besides, he is like this now. He only used a Taoist to trap Emperor Qitai to the point of monopolizing power, but it was hard for anyone to fault him.

It's not that she looks down on Li Qiming. With Li Qiming's temperament, she would never come up with such an idea.

"Of course it wasn't Li Qiming's idea."

"Who is that?"

Qi Qingxi thought of the counselors in the East Palace now. Chen Wenze was less and less valued by Li Qiming because he had not contributed much in several plans to help Li Qiming become the prince.

Of course, this was Chen Wenze's deliberate move to stay away from Li Qiming.

But apart from Chen Wenze, what other counselor in the East Palace could come up with such a plan...

Qi Qingxi suddenly thought of someone: "Bai Qingxiao?"

Gu Yu nodded: "It's him. He can now be regarded as a popular person around the prince."

Qi Qingxi really couldn't figure out why Bai Qingxiao wanted to help Li Qiming. If it was for fame and fortune, he would be able to gain it over time with his talent.

To take shortcuts?

Even if Li Qiming becomes the emperor, he will still have to abide by the regulations and show actual results if he wants to join the cabinet after becoming an official in the court. At most, the emperor will have a little more trust in him.

Qi Qingxi was thinking about Bai Qingxiao's intentions, but Gu Yu revealed something that shocked her beyond words.

"A concubine of the Prince of the East Palace died suddenly last night."

Qi Qingxi came back to her senses after hearing Gu Yu's words. She suddenly thought of the prince's concubine who was very similar to her in the mouth of Princess Lin Jing.

She looked at Gu Yu in surprise: "Could it be that one and me..."

Gu Yu hummed softly: "That's it."

When Gu Yu first learned about the existence of such a person, he sent someone to investigate.

Li Qiming got Xi'er's portrait from nowhere, and secretly asked his men to look for similar women based on the portrait, and they actually found such a woman.

It is said that the woman was originally a married woman. When she heard that she was going to serve a nobleman in the capital, she immediately abandoned her husband and son and left without looking back.

Although this woman has bad character, the real culprit is Li Qiming. He will not attack a weak woman, but he will never let go of someone who dares to covet his wife like this.

Unexpectedly, he didn't intend to attack the woman, but someone couldn't hold himself back.

When he first got the news, he thought that the concubine died because of the intrigues of people in the back house.

Especially the extremely jealous concubine Qi in the East Palace. This concubine who was well hidden by Li Qiming was finally discovered by the concubine Qi, and then died tragically in the hands of the concubine Qi.

Until this morning, another news came from the East Palace.