[Rebirth] Chronicle of the Two Capitals

The two countries have diplomatic relations, if they cooperate, they will make peace, and if they don't, they will fight.

But fighting is not a child's play. Once the army is raised, food, horses, ordnance, and even the collection of strong men will become the burden of the Li people. In addition, the repairs or additions of engineering facilities in various parts of Kyushu have not stopped, and corvee will also be required.In this way, the rations were handed over to the imperial court, and the male family members went out of the countryside from the army, while the female family members stayed at home, and the burden of supporting the family became much heavier. If there was a famine, the adults would live on their own and sell their sons to feed their children. There is also no shortage.

The Jin Dynasty and the Frankie Kingdom went to war. If the civil war persisted for three to five years, the lives of the people would only become more and more difficult day by day. After years and months, they were driven into a hurry, and they would definitely have the determination to fight to the death and revolt. .Two fists can't beat four hands, internal and external troubles, there are few old cases of not destroying the country and destroying the family.

It stands to reason that only an emperor who has experienced the hardships of farming can sympathize with the sufferings of the people. Tang Yu has never stepped out of the palace since he took the throne. She should have never thought of this.But her experience in the orphanage before she was adopted in her previous life has been firmly engraved in her heart. She has always known that in the same life, there are always some people who have a harder and harder life than others.

Frankie's envoy's proposal cannot be agreed, but this battle is not just a fight.

All the ministers waited for a long time, but they didn't hear the emperor's words. When they looked at each other, they only heard Tang Yan asking: "Before the Frankie Kingdom had little contact with our dynasty, don't talk about the ministers, I'm afraid Xue Qing is right. Doesn't he know much about it?"

Xue Jie is in charge of Honghe Temple, and Honghe Temple is in charge of diplomacy, but Tang Yu's question really made him stupid.Most of the diplomacy of the Jin Dynasty favored inland countries. Due to the sea ban for many years, there were indeed very few contacts with countries along the coastline.

Xue Jie was at a loss for words, and froze in place, not knowing how to answer.

A minister came out, and his tone was full of contempt: "You can tell when you see the envoy's appearance, the appearance of a small country is nothing more than that! What are you afraid of?"

The envoy sent by Frankie Kingdom was short and ugly.When the officials heard the words, they all laughed.

Tang Xi smiled lightly, and persuaded the minister who was born as a general with a few words: "General Bo went north to fight against the army, and the enemy saw her as a girl, so they despised her. What happened?"

As a result, Xirong Khan Amur was beheaded by Bo Yu with a halberd, and his head was in a different place.

Judging people by their appearance is really one-sided.

The minister knew that he was in the wrong, so he had to bow to the throne, and stepped back for the time being.

Le Mao, Minister of the Ministry of War, said: "The sea has been banned for many years. I don't know the enemy, and the enemy doesn't know me. Besides, if Frankie has the strength, how can he spend this time to ask for the right of residence? He doesn't know etiquette, why should he need it?" Treat him with courtesy, why not send troops and beat him!"

"Le Qing's words are wrong." Tang Yu took out a volume from the imperial case, handed it to Chi Zai, and ordered him to give it to Le Mao.After Le Mao had read it, she winked again, and Chi Zai circulated the scroll to all the officials in the hall.

After reading the volume, everyone's expression changed slightly, and they all looked at Tang Yu in unison.

Le Mao came back to his senses and couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, this book..."

Chi Zai presented the scroll again, Tang Yu held it in his hand, flipped through it casually, and said with a smile: "Yue Qing said that the enemy doesn't know me, but I don't know that the Frankies visited the Central Plains during the reign of Sejong. People praised Fu Min'an in the Central Plains, and wrote travel notes. Tang Jili's reputation was so prosperous that it was also heard in Britain. He came to the Central Plains, offered to the late emperor to ring the bell, stayed in the Qin Tianjian, and accepted several apprentices to teach In order to facilitate this, he translated the travel notes written by the Frankies. I was very interested in Western culture when I was a child, and my mother doted on me. If there was anything Tang Jili could fetch for me to see, she would fetch it all, so this Although there is only one book, I have read it."

When mentioning the Empress Dowager, Tang Yu's eyes softened a bit, and there was a warm smile on his lips. He gently stroked the slightly cold and rough cover of the volume with his palm. The softer his eyes, the deeper his smile. Unbelievably gentle.

It seems that at this moment, she is not some Ninth Five-Year Supreme, but an ordinary citizen who is away from home, misses his wife and remembers the past.

Tang Jili has served in Qin Tianjian for dozens of years. In other words, Frankie's Central Plains travel notes have been stored in Yanjing for dozens of years.The reason is probably that the Central Plains people look down on the small country of Fanyi from the bottom of their hearts. If they don't look down on them, how can they take the time to understand it?

Although he was aware of this in his heart, it was difficult to admit it, and the hall fell into silence for a while.

In the end, it was Su Xie, the right prime minister, who broke the silence: "Military affairs are not the specialty of the minister. Let me just say one or two things—the enemy knows me, and I don't know the enemy. You can take this opportunity to understand, you don’t need to go deep, just find out some details. Don’t want to fight fiercely at that time, but no one even knows the name of the enemy general.”

All the ministers thought about it, and nodded their heads.

The idea is good, but the Frankie is not a fool, let you find out about him?If you want to fish, you need bait, and it’s not enough if it’s too small.

Tang Xi frowned slightly, and after a moment of contemplation, she had no results. She raised her eyes casually, but caught a glimpse of a servant in green clothes hovering outside the hall, looking into the hall on tiptoe, with an anxious expression on her face.Seeing the slightly familiar face, Tang Yu couldn't help but look closely, and after a while, her pupils suddenly widened, and before Chi could react and summon the servants to enter the palace, Tang Xi took the lead and rushed out.

In the blink of an eye, the emperor, who was still sitting on the throne just now, came in front of him, and the servant waiting outside the palace couldn't help being startled, came back to his senses and hurriedly saluted first.This servant is a palace servant serving the Empress Dowager. Seeing that his eye circles were red and his head was sweating profusely, Tang Yu's heart sank even further. He held his hand tightly and asked in a trembling voice, "Why are you here? It's the Empress Dowager." What? What's wrong with her? What's wrong?"

She is no longer as stable and calm as before, and the emperor technique she learned never taught her how to hide her concern for a person—or, love, has never been able to hide.

The servant knelt on the ground, not daring to raise his head, sobbing, "The Empress Dowager...the Empress Dowager took the medicine...but fainted...Your Highness, please don't tell you...it was Eunuch Xu who sent the slaves to say..."

What the waiter said later, Tang Yu couldn't hear clearly, and even the second half of the sentence was blown away by the wind and could be heard indistinctly. The word "fainting" was like a sharp needle piercing her eardrum, causing her tinnitus to ring from pain, and she couldn't listen to other words.She shook off the hand that was holding the servant and strode forward.At first, he was still walking, but after a few steps, he ran wildly.

She wanted to see her earlier, she wanted to see her as soon as possible, she had never been like this for a moment, fortunately the Empress Dowager had moved from the Central Palace to the Changle Hall, otherwise she would have to go through a long street, go through a few corridors, and walk up It takes several shots to enter the main hall.But when entering the main hall, there is a screen, she has to go around the screen, what else is there besides the screen?

If she was delayed for a moment, what would be waiting for her outside the screen... what would it be?

Tang Xi didn't dare to think about it, but he couldn't force himself not to think about it. Those terrible thoughts were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and they were like small hands grabbing her heart to play with, making her breathless in pain.

There are palace people waiting outside Changle Hall, and they kneel down to welcome them.

Tang Yi ignored it and rushed straight forward. When he crossed the threshold, his legs suddenly became weak and he was almost tripped.Liandong hurriedly supported her steadily, and said in astonishment: "Your Majesty?" Xu Jiujiu sent his servants to report, although she knew about it, she was still frightened by Tang Yu's appearance.

Her complexion is pale, her temples are disheveled, there are tears in the corners of her eyes, and her solemn and rigorous crown dress is also uneven. Her eyes, beyond the honeysuckle in front of her, are staring at a certain place, especially terribly focused.As if she came for someone, if that person is not there, her soul will disappear in an instant.

Tang Yi only borrowed Lian Dong's strength to barely stand still, and then rushed forward in a stumbling manner.

Beside the empress dowager's bed, the imperial physician was kneeling on the ground, and could not help trembling when he heard the sound of foot bells. Now that the emperor was in front of him, the imperial physician became more flustered and kowtowed.

No one spoke in the hall, only the clear sound of kowtowing clearly showed everyone's uneasy heart.

After a moment of silence, Tang Yu stood in front of the empress dowager's bed with his back to the imperial physician, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter? Whose medicine did she drink? How is her health?" Hearing Tang Yi's calm tone, the imperial physician breathed a sigh of relief. , was about to speak, but heard a thunderous outburst, and was almost frightened——

"Bang!" Tang Yu directly pulled something from the side and threw it on the ground, and shouted to the imperial physician, "You didn't come here for a pulse diagnosis, why are you kowtow?!"

The imperial physician managed to avoid the broken porcelain scattered all over the place, and when he cowered and raised his head again, he was startled: "Your Majesty!"

Shicai didn't know how flustered the palace was, and even the broken teacups were left behind and no one cleaned them up.

Liandong stepped forward quickly, without caring about his superiority or inferiority, he squeezed Tang Yu's wrist tightly, and asked her to open her palm, but Tang Yu just followed his words dumbly. She lowered her head and saw her hand was bloody and even embedded with broken porcelain, It didn't hurt.He just looked coldly at the imperial physician who was about to treat her, and said sharply, "I asked you to check the pulse!"

The imperial physician was startled, and Fang Xuan went to the couch to diagnose the empress dowager's pulse.

The pulse condition has already been diagnosed, and the emperor is not at ease, so he will do it again in front of her.

Diagnosed the pulse, did not dare to delay for a moment, the imperial doctor replied while treating the wound: "His Royal Highness's pulse condition is now stable, fainted after taking the medicine, it is actually caused by the conflict of the medicine."

"Conflict of medicinal properties? Why is there a conflict of medicinal properties?" Tang Yu sat on his knees in front of the couch, staring at the queen mother intently, not only did not give an inch of his gaze to the imperial physician, he did not even take his own injuries to heart.

The imperial physician pondered for a while, and said: "The nature of medicinal materials is mutual generation and mutual restraint. Your Highness recently tried medicines and took them. Although the ministers tried their best to avoid them, they also tried the medicines themselves, but after all, their physiques are different, and there is no residual poison in their bodies, so..."

"Didn't I say that I'm here to test the medicine?" Tang Yu finally looked at the imperial physician, but this time his eyes were cold and suspicious, "It's not the first time she fainted, is it?"

If it's the first time, shouldn't Lonicera's reaction be so flat, instead, it should be caring and paying attention to me everywhere?

Tang Xi's eyes flicked over Lonicera, and with just one glance, there was a daunting chill.

Liandong hastily knelt down to express his feelings: "Your Highness has fainted several times before, and His Majesty is not allowed to know. I dare not hide it, but I can't bear to go against His Highness's will, and hesitate again and again. Today, His Highness fainted after taking medicine. He didn't even finish his instructions, and it was already more serious than the previous few times. After discussing with Xu Jiujiu, I thought that since His Highness didn't give any instructions this time, even if you inform His Majesty, it would not be regarded as disobeying His Highness."

As he spoke, Lian Dong burst into tears: "I am already deceiving the emperor, even if I risk my life, I should speak out. Your Highness takes medicine, but the medicine has little effect, but acupuncture and moxibustion are somewhat useful, but only at the beginning. After a few times, there was no improvement. His Highness was afraid that His Majesty would be disappointed and sad, so he pretended not to know. If there was a new medicine coming in, he always said it was good, but he hoped it would be better. No matter how hard it was, he would take it, but what would be the use? The vain money has raised some doctors recruited by the people for nothing, and they have tried their best to toss people with prescriptions, so it would be better to let them out of the palace."

Hearing these words, the imperial doctor's face turned pale, and he couldn't help scolding in a low voice: "Presumptuous! Talking nonsense in front of His Majesty!"

Liandong wiped away her tears, and said in a choked voice: "What nonsense? Haven't you heard of your majesty's busy work, and never heard of the imperial doctor being a slave? What are the medical officers of the imperial hospital and the doctors of the people discussing in private? Can't cure it?" Alright, afraid of losing my head, I hanged myself with new prescriptions one after another. When His Royal Highness found out, he only summoned you and reprimanded them a little bit, asking you to manage them and not let His Majesty know about it. Is there such a thing? "

Before Liandong finished speaking, the imperial physician knelt down, lowered his head, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

Tang Yu was still kneeling in front of the couch, she seemed to have heard the dispute between the two, but also seemed not to have heard it.It's just that the wound on the hand seemed to be screaming at this moment, along the limbs, and went straight to the bottom of the heart, and the whole heart felt like a needle.She raised her eyes and looked at the thinning woman in front of her. She had kept her by her side and couldn't get any closer, but why was she still able to hide it from her?

Since she was a child, she seemed to have seen through her own thoughts, and there was nowhere to escape.

The palace people who were full of the palace were dispersed at some time, the dusk merged and the sky gradually darkened.

The lights in the hall flickered, lengthening and shortening the thin and lonely figure on the ground.

This is the case until the lights fade out and it will be dawn.

Palace people file in, cut lantern flowers, change candle wicks, and pour lamp oil—the lighting in ancient palaces is not as good as modern ones. Even in the daytime, if you need to see things clearly, you still need to light candles.

I didn't close my eyes all night.

Tang Yu remembered that the imperial physician had said that the queen mother would wake up today, but she had been waiting by the couch for some time.

Right now, it is "today".

A ray of light came from nowhere, so dazzling that Tang Yu couldn't help covering his face with his hands, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Just at this moment, the finger that she had been holding so tightly moved slightly, pulling her heart, and then raised it to her throat.

Tang Yu looked at the queen mother, pursing his lips nervously.

After a while, there was no response, Tang Yu lowered his head in a little loss, but suddenly a soft voice came from his ear: "Xiaoqi."

The tone was not questioning, surprised, or complaining, as if she was sure that there was only one person who would be by her side at this moment.

Tang Yu said happily: "It's me, Auntie, it's me!" She raised her head, hoping to meet the empress dowager's eyes.

The Empress Dowager opened her eyes, but looked straight in front of her eyes, showing a little daze, and after a while, she looked to the left and right, and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Qi, is it..." She thought about it for a while, but she had no confidence at all. Doubtful, "Is it dark?"

Tang Yu froze on the spot, the smile that emerged from joy suddenly froze on the corners of her lips, she didn't know how to answer, the faint light cast from a distance still cast a shadow under her eyes.

Silently, she closed her eyes, as if it was really night, and said shyly: "Yes, A Niang. It's... dark."

The author has something to say: silently complaining, the number of words in the pages is wrong, I only want to write 4000 words, why there are more than [-]... No wonder I wrote it now...

The last update before the new year, let me make a wish——

High-yield like a sow in the coming year! (Everyone squatting at the bottom of the pit: You should finish it first...

Happy New Year everyone, it doesn’t matter if the protagonist is not happy, as long as we are happy (I feel like I’m going to be mercilessly beaten, whipped, and in a small black house_(:з」∠)_

ps After reading the 2016 Lily Book List on Weibo, I want to ask, is it true that many people don’t like to read ancient books?Why don't you like to watch it.Of course, as an author, I also don't like to write about ancient times, because it is really tiring to write well...