I am a cat in the palace

All the information that was transmitted to the Imperial Capital said that the Yanwei Army had suffered heavy casualties, and that they might not even be able to survive this winter.

But now?Actually?

The Yanwei army not only defeated the Yu army, but also achieved almost the largest scale of land expansion since the founding of the Great Xia, taking over four border states and fifteen cities of the Yu State.And what about the Yanwei Army itself, which was rumored to have suffered heavy casualties and was almost powerless to fight again?

According to the latest information received, although the three-year war did lose a lot of soldiers, but now they have started to recruit a large number of soldiers, and it seems that the original organizational system will be restored soon.

"Where did they get so much money?" Concubine Duan, who had been the empress dowager for three or four years, turned blue when she saw the new military report from the Ministry of War.

In the past three or four years, they have relied on the support of several vassal kings and collected half of the country's tax money. The consumption of maintaining an army of 10,000+ for year-round combat is somewhat stretched.

Of course, as the emperor in name, the treasury has many other expenses besides the war. Water transportation, agriculture, industry and commerce have to be spent on everything, not to mention that there is a little emperor who likes to build music halls everywhere.

But even so, the national treasury should always be richer than the Yanwei Army. In recent years, they have hardly allocated a dime to the Yanwei Army. It is possible to send money to relieve disasters every year, not only to appease the people, but also to support the war. Not only did they win the 50 Yu army, but now they still have the energy to turn around and go to the capital. Soldier?

But after hearing the Yanwei army's call for rebellion, they will soon go south. The most nervous thing is not the treacherous concubine, but Duan Zhenghong, the most powerful town official in the court.

Duan Zhenghong wasn't too nervous when he was fighting against the second prince and King Shun. He could see clearly that although there was a Nanyun army behind the second prince, the Nanyun army corresponded to Liang Guo. Even if they fought with the second prince, it was impossible to dispatch all of them, at least half of them had to be stationed at the border, and those who followed the second prince were less than a hundred thousand.

Moreover, Xia Qiang and Liang Wei were weak. Since the establishment of the dynasty, the Liang Dynasty has always paid tribute obediently to seek peace, and rarely used force to deal with occasional conflicts. There has been no fierce battle in Nanyun Pass for decades. No matter how strong the Nanyun Army is, its combat power is limited. As far as he knows, there are still many establishments that have a lot of empty pay.

The second prince's own troops are not strong, and in the past two years against their king's army, they mainly relied on the 20 troops in the hands of King Shun.

However, the 20 army in the hands of King Shun is not monolithic. King Shun is just a vassal king. There are a lot of seeds of ulterior motives mixed in the head, including the secret support of other vassal kings, as well as private soldiers of speculative families.

As long as these people find that the situation is slightly wrong, they can immediately throw King Shun away, and instantly wipe out the 20 troops.

It's a pity that those young soldiers under him are of no use, and they can't cross the Canglan River until now, which makes those speculators think that the king's army is weak, and those exiles still have a chance to come back.

but--

These thoughts of winning are all for the second prince and King Shun.

When he heard that the Yanwei army was going south to seek rebellion, the white jade cup in his hand fell to the ground and smashed to pieces, because at that moment his hands trembled involuntarily.

"Back then, I should have caught the third one first." Concubine Duan rubbed her forehead, her eyes were closed, but her eyelids were trembling rapidly, she couldn't restrain the fear in her heart, the prestige of the Yanwei Army was too terrifying, Even if the Nanyun army had killed under the city wall at this moment, she felt that it would not be as terrifying as hearing that the Yanwei army was going down the Canglan River.

"Didn't you catch it? Who knew that the old man gave the secret guard to the third child so early. Didn't he hide in the imperial edict of Changyun Guan that he would pass the throne to the second child?" Jian Gui clenched his left fist heavily Hitting the right palm, he said bitterly.

"It is precisely because he wants to pass the throne to the second child that the secret guard is handed over to the third child. The old man usually dotes on the third child so much, but he is very worried that the second child will harm the third child after his death."

After Duan Zhenghong finished speaking coldly, he turned his head and asked his valet impatiently: "Where's Your Majesty? Have you invited me? Why haven't you come yet?"

"Back to the general, please, please, but His Majesty is busy in the Shuifei Empress Palace at the moment, and said that he will come back later."

I'm busy in the concubine's palace, what can I be busy with?All fools know it.

The valet who was being questioned was sweating coldly, and quietly covered his lower abdomen while speaking, for fear that Duan Zhenghong would be unhappy and kick him over after hearing this. His predecessor was kicked to death by Duan Zhenghong's sudden kick.

"Bastard!" Fortunately, it was not Duan Zhenghong who got mad first this time, but the empress dowager, "Does that bitch Shui Yueer know how to be ashamed? Aijia and Duke Zhen Guo called the emperor to come over, how dare she dare?" Stop it, the Ai family sees that she is tired of work! Take the order of the Ai family, let the emperor come over immediately, and beat that Shui Yueer to death!"

The cold sweat on the servant's forehead grew even more, and the empress dowager was almost bewildered by beating the emperor's concubine to death at every turn.

The emperor stays on the bed, does the concubine dare not to wait on her, but the queen dowager never cares about the emperor, she just strikes at the concubine, if the emperor cares, that's fine, but the key is that the emperor doesn't care at all, if this one is beaten to death during the day, he will come back immediately at night For another, almost all high-ranking officials in Beijing and China are in danger now, and no one is willing to send their daughters into the palace again.

In the past, several officials whose daughters died resigned angrily, and even went directly to the second prince's camp, but the queen mother and the emperor didn't even have the slightest intention of introspection, and they still went their own way, completely refusing to kill those women. see it.

As for the problem of filling the harem, no officials were willing to send girls into the palace, and the emperor actually sent people to buy them from the people, or if they liked them when they left the palace, they would just snatch them back, making it almost impossible to see young girls on the streets of the capital. trail.

And it was probably because of the heavy murder, even if he worked day and night like the new emperor, there was still no good news from any woman in the palace, or she was beaten to death before she had time to show her happy pulse.

All in all, the new emperor is still the same as the two wandering second and third princes, with no male and half female children.

The servant thought viciously, let the few in the harem continue to do evil like this, and then there is no need for others to grab the throne. After they are extinct, the throne will naturally belong to others.

"Fatty, tomorrow is going to war, why don't you follow Ling Wuzheng to patrol the camp, what are you doing running back to your room?" Daxian yawned unabashedly, looking inexplicably at the purpose of grabbing him off the roof Shang Xin hugged into the room.

"I have something to do." As soon as Shang Xin returned to the room, she turned around and locked the door.

Seeing him, Daxian's eyes widened instantly, and he jumped out of Shang Xin's arms, shrunk and hid under the table.

"You, what do you want to do? I'm a cat now, I can't stand you...Wow, meow meow!!"

"What can't stand me?" Shangxin angrily and funny pulled Daxian out from under the table, rubbed his head hard, and patted him again, "Look at you sitting on the roof all day in a daze , I don’t know what I’ve been thinking all day long!”

Daxian suddenly felt that he had been wronged, he was acting suspiciously, but it seemed that he was just thinking wildly all day long.

"Then what are you doing with the bolt door in broad daylight?"

"There's something important, but I'm afraid you'll get angry and run away, so I'll close the door first." Shang Ting said very sincerely and seriously, directly blowing up Daxian's hair.

"What on earth are you going to do?" Daxian asked, taking a half step back quietly, while squinting at the window that had just been pasted with new window paper.

"If there is a way to restore you to your human body, would you like it?" Shang Xin took out a wooden box from his arms while talking.

Daxian became more vigilant when he heard the words, "What's inside?"

Intuition made Daxian feel that he would not like the things in the box.