The legitimate daughter becomes cannon fodder? Rebirth to overthrow the system's fatality

The next morning, before dawn, Chu Heng got up.

He carefully turned over and got out of bed, afraid of waking up Cheng Jiuyuan.

After he put on his clothes, he kissed Cheng Jiuyuan on the face before turning and leaving.

Cheng Jiuyuan opened her eyes, turned over with a smile on her lips and continued to sleep.

After the court was dismissed, Chu Heng went to the imperial study to review memorials.

The previous memorials were piled up into several piles. Chu Heng looked through several books and found that apart from the memorials for greeting, the others were just trivial matters.

Chu Heng sighed, no wonder emperors of every dynasty died early.

What is the cabinet minister doing? Piling up all these memorials here?

Chu Heng asked the eunuchs to move all the memorials to the cabinet, and have the cabinet review them and submit only those that required a decision by him, the emperor.

The eunuch hurried in and presented a letter: "Your Majesty, this is from Northern Qi."

Chu Heng took the letter but did not open it immediately.

He looked at the letter and curled his lips, with a hint of sneer at the corner of his mouth.

Without even looking at it, this letter was either an explanation for why Northern Qi had not sent an envoy to Dongling, or a provocation.

After thinking about it, Chu Heng opened the letter, and in a moment, he tore it to pieces.

His thin lips were pressed into a straight line and his eyes were as cold as ice.

What an obvious thought!

Qi Zhen knew very well his attitude towards the marriage again. Everyone in the world knew it. If it weren't for protecting Chu Wan, he probably wouldn't have come back from Liping so quickly.

Qi Zhen really wanted to start a war between the two countries!

He is not Chu Ze, and Dong Ling is not the Dong Ling from more than ten years ago.

"Your Majesty?" Seeing that he was angry, the eunuch called out cautiously and stepped forward to clean up the debris.

"It's time for lunch, let's go to Fengyi Palace."

"Yes."

Ever since Chu Heng and Cheng Jiuyuan moved into the palace, they had been living and eating in Fengyi Palace, and Chu Ze's bedroom had become useless.

When Chu Heng returned to Fengyi Palace, Cheng Jiuyuan was a little surprised: "Why did you come back so early? Is it too easy for you to be the emperor?"

The palace maid serving the dishes looked horrified, but soon lowered her head.

This queen is really bold.

They have never performed formalities in front of the emperor. Even ordinary couples from noble families are not so casual.

The palace maids and eunuchs in Fengyi Palace seemed to have been used to it. It seemed that the Emperor doted on the Queen more than the rumors said.

No wonder he even had to attend the coronation ceremony with the Queen.

Chu Heng washed his hands and sat down at the table.

"I threw some useless memorials to the cabinet to deal with, and suddenly I had more free time."

"Your Majesty, would you please ask me to ask the imperial kitchen to send some more dishes?" asked the palace servant who served the meal.

At the beginning, there was no news that the Emperor would come, so the arrangements were all what the Empress liked.

Chu Heng didn't answer, Cheng Jiuyuan said: "No need, there's so much, even two more people can't finish it."

The palace maid looked at Chu Heng, and Chu Heng waved his hand: "Go down."

"Yes."

The two of them didn't like to be served by others when they were changing clothes or eating. Chu Heng personally served a bowl of soup to Cheng Jiuyuan and placed it in front of her. The Mujin sisters who were waiting in the distance were already accustomed to it. If other palace servants saw this scene, they would probably be shocked.

The couple did not follow the rule of not talking while eating or sleeping when dining. Chu Heng suddenly said, "We guessed correctly. Qi Zhen might not be able to sit still."

Cheng Jiuyuan paused while drinking soup: "What?"

"He wrote a letter and sent it to me. What do you think the letter said?"

"What do you mean? A provocation?"

"It's more than a provocation, it's a declaration of war. He brought up the old matter again and asked to send Yongle to Northern Qi."

Cheng Jiuyuan's eyes turned slightly cold, "Then we should be on guard."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it. Let's not talk about this anymore, let's talk about something interesting. Guess what's the most common content in the memorial on the imperial desk?"

“Naturally, it’s a big thing happening everywhere.”

Chu Heng smiled and shook his head: "No, apart from the memorials to pay respects, most of them are trivial matters. For example, the memorial to Gusu Zhuang Yumian was very long and eloquent, but if you look closely, it's all about a chicken."

Cheng Jiuyuan raised her head curiously: "A chicken?"

"He said that Gusu has been peaceful recently, and this is the biggest case. It is said that Li and Wang were fighting over a chicken, and both claimed that the chicken was theirs. This beast cannot speak, so guess what Zhuang Yumian did?"

"how?"

"He asked the two what they had fed the chicken in the morning. One said corn, and the other said rice bran. Zhuang Yumian had the chicken killed and found that the chicken's stomach was filled with rice bran. He could tell who was lying by just one glance."

Cheng Jiuyuan smiled and said, "Interesting, Master Zhuang is indeed a great judge."

"And the Qingzhou County Magistrate, the memorial he submitted was about an affair. If you take away half of the memorials that were about greetings and some of the trivial matters, there wouldn't be much else. You say my father reads these all day long, and at first he was just having fun, but after reading them for more than ten years, wouldn't he be tired?"

"This just shows that the country is stable and the people live and work in peace and contentment, which is very good."

Chu Heng nodded: "You are right."

After the two finished their lunch, Cheng Jiuyuan started to set about opening girls' schools in various places, while Chu Heng summoned all the important officials to the imperial study.

Although he seemed confident about Northern Qi, he still took it very seriously.

The door of the imperial study was not opened until the moon rose above the branches.

At the morning court on the second day, the court officials were shocked by the news.

First of all, Pei Xuan became the youngest prime minister since the founding of the dynasty. The top military scholar Feng Yu was named General Huwei and rushed to Liping to take charge of more than 30,000 Jingsai troops.

In fact, everyone had guessed this a long time ago.

Pei Xuan and Feng Yu, one civil and one military, were the people left by Emperor Zhaolie for the new emperor.

There is no need to say much about Pei Xuan. He was extremely talented. He resigned from his official position and followed the new emperor to Liping. Needless to say, he was loyal.

Feng Yu is both civil and military, and is an expert at marching and fighting. He has always been under the command of his adoptive father Lin Xiao.

Both of them were very capable, but Emperor Zhaolie did not promote them. He was just waiting for the new emperor to come in person, so that these two would be more loyal to the new emperor.

Next, he ordered the six ministries to make corresponding preparations. In particular, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Works all looked unhappy after hearing Chu Heng's words.

This is completely a state of preparation for war!

Your Majesty is going to start a war right after ascending the throne?

After everyone left, he left a few trusted aides in the imperial study.

Archer Feng Yu: "Your Majesty, if Northern Qi wants to start a war, they will go east from Yunling Pass. It will take me at least seven or eight days to get to Liping. If Northern Qi launches a surprise attack during this period, I'm afraid..."

"The news of the rejection of the marriage has not yet been reported to Northern Qi. I have already ordered the Jingsai Army to rush to Yunling at any time, at most half a day. Yunling's 30,000 city defense troops should not have any problem in half a day."

Chu Heng looked at Jiang Xiubai again: "You will set off immediately to return to Yancheng and bring the Black Armor Army to provide support."

"Yes! I will never let the people of Northern Qi set foot in my Dongling!" Jiang Xiubai bowed.

Chu Heng looked at Feng Yu and Jiang Xiubai and said, "You two should leave immediately. Go ahead."

"I resign!"

After the two left, Chu Heng, Pei Xuan, Mu Zhuo and others began to discuss the preparation of food, weapons, etc.

"If we start a war this time, we must scare Northern Qi, otherwise he will really think that Dongling is easy to bully."

"I'm afraid this battle will take a long time, so we must have enough food and fodder, especially the winter clothes for the soldiers. We must also start preparing them."

"Leave the food and winter clothes to the Pei family." Pei Xuan said.

This is Chu Heng’s first battle since ascending the throne, he must win!

He also wanted to let the people in the court see that the queen had a reliable Pei family behind her!

The crowd dispersed again late at night.

Inside the Northern Qi Imperial Palace, Qi Zhen had just finished discussing with his trusted ministers.

"This time, I will definitely take over Dongling!"

"Your Majesty will go down in history!"

"The greatest emperor of all time is none other than the Emperor!"

Qi Zhen curled his lips and said, "No need to wait for Dong Ling's reply. The army will set out tomorrow and catch them off guard!"