After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

After more than half a month of intensive care, Shang Gong Wu's illness was finally cured before winter came.

Every day, I can put on airs and give advice to the group of small palace people, and I can stand beside the king with a food box and chatter.

Shanggong Wu's disease, from the emperor down to the little maids and eunuchs who are on duty under Wu's subordinates in the palace are all worried.

Everyone didn't realize it at first, but felt that Mrs. Wu was always worrying too much.

Until this time Wu's illness lasted for more than half a month.

The king lacked the soup to soothe the nerves and nourish the stomach every night, and he really didn't sleep as peacefully at night as in the past.

The small palace people are free of restraint, and even the court clothes are in a hurry when they get up in the morning.

Outside the palace, the concubine Jin came to visit the palace in person when she got the news, and rewarded many high-quality tonics, as well as brocade silks and satins of various colors.He also told her to take care of herself as she got older.

Shanggong Wu and Taifei Jin are about the same age, and because of proper maintenance, Jin Taifei seems to be more than ten years younger than Shanggong Wu.

After Shanggong Wu's recovery, the king, the prince, the Taifu, and the three masters in the palace seemed to have changed their tempers.

Yu Cheng is no longer picky about food, no matter what Shang Gong Wu does, he will eat it honestly.

King Gu Xiu seldom stayed up all night. If they were really busy with government affairs, the pair of monarchs and ministers would rather quietly move the memorial to the bed and close the bed curtain to deal with it secretly, rather than argue with Wu again.

This made the always nagging Wu family suddenly at a loss. For a while, he began to suspect that his life might not be long, and he didn't dare to disturb the emperor, so he had to go to the Imperial Hospital secretly to find Pei Yiheng, the young apprentice of Su Miracle Physician, to give it to him. Diagnosing the pulse, I finally gave up after getting the conclusion that I am in good health and can live to at least 90 years old if nothing else happens.

***

Yongding eight years, the day of the winter solstice.

The 14-year-old little princess Meng Tong of Baekje Kingdom came ashore from Jizhou, Hebei Province with a fleet of only [-] people led by Prime Minister Yan Zhen of Baekje Kingdom, and arrived at the capital Bianjing with the assistance of local officials.

That morning, the little princess who had come thousands of miles away and the old prime minister with a gray beard knelt down in front of Gu Xiu, the king of the state, with sorrowful faces.

Although the Great Zhou was strong and powerful, it was to show the goodwill of the state. As long as the foreign royal family was not a prisoner of war, they did not have to bow down when they met the King of the Great Zhou.

Especially in such a big court meeting, there are very few foreign royal families who directly kneel down like this.

The officials of Honglu Temple who accompanied the two into the hall stretched out their hands to support them twice, but the two were still unable to kneel.

On the resplendent throne, King Gu Xiu said in a deep voice through the crown: "Princess Meng Tong, Prime Minister Yan Zhen, since you have already arrived in the territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom, if you have any appeals, just speak up, there is no need to do so."

"In September of this year, the neighbor Goguryeo suddenly joined hands with Silla. The two countries sent troops to invade our capital, kill our people, and occupy our imperial city. Now my king and queen have been killed, and the veterans are desperate to bring this team of relatives. The soldiers escorted the princess here. Now I just ask His Majesty the Great Zhou Imperial City to read the good relationship with the Great Zhou in our country for many years, to show compassion for our orphans, and to protect our small country from such a catastrophe." The gray-haired old prime minister lifted He bowed his head and kowtowed three times to Gu Xiu very solemnly.

The little princess who had just experienced the ruin of the country and her family was also crying with red eyes, and there were strings of tears like gemstone beads hanging on her pale face.

It turned out that the old Goguryeo king passed away at the beginning of last year, and his son Mo Zhili became the king. In order to seize the treaty port connecting Baekje and Dazhou, he did not hesitate to encourage the neighboring country Silla to attack Baekje with new firearms purchased from Dazhou.

From the king to the common people of the Baekje Kingdom, fishing in the coastal waters has been used to make a living for generations. After the opening of the Daeju, the fish caught in the coastal waters were also sold, and the people became rich.

Goguryeo has always been like this. In the early years, for Jiang’s little land, he even went to war with Da Zhou by beheading the envoy of the Great Zhou. The new King of Goryeo, Mo Zhili, was defeated by Gu Xiu in this battle. , Before entering Beijing to accept the surrender, he "voluntarily" kowtowed more than [-] heads to reassure the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty who died in that battle.

Now, it is the country of Goguryeo again, which is once again provoking troubles for Baekje, a trading port that has been opened for less than four years, and even its king wants to invade it.

Strictly speaking, Goryeo, Silla, Baekje, and Nanzhao are all vassal states signed by Dazhou at the beginning of the founding of the country. It was only because Silla and Baekje were far away from the inland that Dazhou did not control them.

As the upper state, Great Zhou had the right to intervene in the mediation and quell the war between the vassal states.

At the court meeting, Gu Xiu first ordered that the little princess Meng Tong and the prime minister Yan Zhen be placed in the posthouse in Honglu Temple, so that they can live in peace for the time being.

After the morning court, Gu Xiu hurriedly changed his clothes, and at the lunch table, he discussed with Han Mochu about the wars in Goryeo, Silla, and Baekje.

"Zi Ran thinks I should fight or make peace with Baekje?" Gu Xiu held a bowl of pigeon soup in his hand and scooped up a pigeon egg.

"Let's fight." Han Mochu smiled and replied without hesitation.

"War?" Gu Xiu hadn't chewed the pigeon egg in his mouth when he gasped in surprise at Han Mochu's crisp, unhesitating attitude. Half of the pigeon egg choked in his throat, triggering He coughed uncontrollably for a while: "Cough cough cough cough..."

"Your Majesty knows that when the battle against Goguryeo was over when His Majesty was King of War, he held his breath. Now that the princess of Baekje has come all the way to join her, kneeling at the court and weeping, Her Majesty's anger is still suppressed." Stay?" Han Mochu put his hand on Gu Xiu's back and patted him lightly twice to help him calm down: "I have already said, don't talk when you eat or sleep, and don't talk when you're drinking pigeon soup."

Gu Xiu took a sip of tea, smoothed down the pigeon eggs in his throat, raised his eyebrows and looked at Han Mochu: "Silla Baekje is surrounded by the sea, and Koryo is in a land near the river. This time we must have a naval battle. Can Ziran be confident that he will win the Great Zhou's weakness?"

"When it comes to using troops, I have never been as courageous as your Majesty. General Yunhui is the god of war in my great Zhou. As her own son, how can you ask me whether you can win a complete victory? In fact, whether to fight or not is only up to your majesty." In the meantime, His Majesty knew better than his ministers that in any matter of war, there is never a complete victory before the battle. Even if a mayfly shakes a tree, it is not impossible to lose the battle. En Houyi will support those men from the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they will naturally be able to use them when it is time to fight. Those men should have thought from the moment they joined the army that there would be a day when they would sacrifice their lives for the country and serve the country. Your Majesty is a wise king. It must be someone who is willing to risk his life for His Majesty."

"The wars in the past were all about defending the country or expanding the territory. After all, Baekje is a foreign country. Let my Da Zhou man sacrifice his life for the foreigners. As the emperor, I don't want to see them doing it for the foreigners. Sacrifice." Gu Xiu picked up the handkerchief and wiped the soup stains from the corner of his mouth.

"As long as Your Majesty is willing, Goryeo, Baekje, and Silla can all be classified as the land of the Zhou Dynasty like the Nanzhao, and the soldiers are fighting for the expansion of the territory." Han Mochu raised his eyebrows lightly: "Could it be that your Majesty has seen it?" Princess Baekje was born beautiful, so she can't bear to draw the land for herself?"

"Zi Ran knows how deep the Hanyuan Hall is. I sat in the hall today and didn't even see the princess's eyebrows and nose clearly." Gu Xiu knew that Han Mochu was playing tricks, but he still answered seriously.

"Your Majesty thinks so too." Han Mochu seemed to get up from the table contentedly: "But it doesn't matter if Your Majesty sees it clearly. How could Your Majesty have been staring at this face of this minister since he was a child, how could he still think that other people are good-looking? Although my Majesty is young now She is a bit older, but she can still be regarded as one of the best beauties in Dazhou."

Han Mochu's eyes turned, and Gu Xiu's thoughts soon became like a wilderness under the warm sun in spring, with grass growing and warblers flying, and mountain flowers blooming.

It is easy for him to sink to the bottom, unable to extricate himself.

***

Regarding the matter of Baekje, Gu Xiu did not directly order the Ministry of War to send an order to the local government to go to war, but put this matter on the agenda in the previous court to discuss with the former court ministers and workers.

For some reason, regarding this matter, the civil and military attitudes of the Manchu Dynasty were surprisingly consistent.

Go to war, go to war at any cost.

Even the old-fashioned censors in Menxia province have unified their caliber, saying that Silla, Baekje, and Goryeo, the three vassal states, should all be under the jurisdiction of the state of the Great Zhou. Now that these two places are in turmoil, the Great Zhou cannot hinder them. Yu Bangjiao ignored it.

Gu Xiu attributed this incident to the fact that Princess Baekje cried so pitifully that day.

Coupled with the fact that the state treasury of the Great Zhou is now full, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are naturally willing to have one more chance to show the prestige of the Great Zhou state.

In the end, King Gu Xiuxian ordered the border guards to escort the envoys in his capacity as a superior state, and directly issued an order for a truce to Goguryeo and Silla, urging the three parties to stop the fighting, and to return all the Baekje land that was previously robbed. All should be compensated with gold and silver.

Silla, Baekje, and Goryeo will also sign an armistice treaty. If there is someone who provokes, Dazhou Shangbang will definitely come forward to deal with it.

In the eighth year of Yongding, the day of heavy snow.

King Mo Zhili of Goryeo tore up Shangbang's national decree in public and formally declared war on Dazhou.

The Linjiang Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty dispatched more than [-] naval warfare ships to meet the battle, and the two sides fought in the Pingshawan area of ​​Baekje.

In the first two battles, good news came back. However, after the twelfth lunar month, the strong wind at sea suddenly became extremely harsh. The Zhaojin armor used by Da Zhou was not resistant to sea wind, and this group of sailors was inexperienced in naval battles.

Although the Great Zhou army was well prepared for battle, the battle situation was once at a stalemate.

Just when the Linjiang Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty was trying to break the situation, it was located in the far sea. The covetous Fusang Kingdom took the opportunity to raise troops, and joined forces with Silla and Goryeo to attack the Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In order to avoid excessive casualties, Gu Xiu had to order again to withdraw the Linjiang navy to the inland of Dazhou first.

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