"The young woman pays homage to the emperor and to the concubine Tian." In fact, when she met concubine Tian, ​​Shiyu knew who the person was.

The emperor had met the emperor once at the Fumenglou family dinner, but she didn't have much impression of it, but she had seen Concubine Tian many times. Who else could be there except for the current emperor?

When I was polite and ritual, I felt a little nervous.

"Get up."

The emperor glanced at her a few times.

The old man above has gray hair and doesn't look like an old man in his sixties. Because he is too old, he has divine light except for his eyes. He looks like an old man in his seventies or eighties, probably because he has worked too much.

As the poem listened, he spoke without any tone, with little ups and downs. The unintentional people listened to be kind, while the intent people listened to be scared. As for her...

Shiyu thought she was half-hearted. He had nothing to ask for about the old man, but she was also afraid that he would not admit himself.

However, this fear does not originate from the Nine Five Lords in front of him, but... it is that guy.

He is the grandson of the emperor and the queen, and he is only a member of the country. What if the emperor, as a grandfather, doesn't recognize her?

After so many days and moons, so many accompanying each other day, so many trusts, sharing weal and woe...

Shiyu is almost unimaginable. If he is gone by her, how can she continue her life? She never thought that there would be such a day before. She was so independent, self-reliant, proud, and believed in herself. She blamed him for giving herself support...

"Are you afraid of me?" the emperor said, "Whoever is such a scheming woman should not be afraid. Maybe you are not right in your mind, so you are worried?"

The people around her were inhaling, and she felt worried eyes, and she didn't have to look at them.

Shiyu's heart tightened slightly: "The folk girl is indeed afraid, but... she is not afraid of the emperor."

"Aren't you afraid of me? Then what are you afraid of?" The emperor's words turned three times cold.

"Your Majesty, Shiyu is still young, and it is inevitable that he will say the wrong thing..." Concubine Tian interrupted, and Degong and others were worried about looking over, and winked at her.

Shiyu understood their kindness, but she was her, just like that guy gently stroked her back at night and whispered in her ear: "What I like is you, unique, no matter right or wrong, no matter whether you are right or wrong, beautiful and indifferent, your heart is as strong as a rose with thorns. Under the king's power, you can still control yourself before the domineering person..."

The poem took a deep breath, and the heart kept echoing, and looked up with a straight voice and said, "The people in the palace are from the prince's house, and they are naturally afraid of the prince, and they are afraid of being sorry for his trust."

"You are afraid of him, why do you describe timidity in front of me?"

"The emperor is the prince's biological grandfather, and his blood is thicker than water." Shiyu said calmly.

After hearing this, the emperor did not continue to question, and his face calmed down, "Yes, he is both chaste and serves the Lord, serves the Lord with no other intentions, and is well-educated and well-versed, and knows the general situation, but there is only one thing wrong."

Hearing this, Shiyu felt nervous and lowered her head and didn't say anything.

"The wrong thing is that since you are a member of the royal family, you will not be able to call yourself a woman in the future. Although it depends on your fortune whether you can enter the royal ancestral temple. I cannot say that you are a member of the royal family now, but after entering the Tian Family, you will be different from the common people after all. You must understand your identity, do you know?"

After the words came to an end, Shiyu finally breathed a sigh of relief and nodded quickly.

"I'm not grateful to Your Majesty." Concubine Tian reminded her.

Shiyu quickly knelt down and thanked her.

The emperor looked serious and said to her solemnly: "But you must also remember that I believe not you, but Sin Chew. Since he dares to hand over the power of the mansion to you as a female, I believe in his vision. But there are good things for women with less wisdom, and I will watch it slowly."

.........

After the back hall finished speaking, accompanied by Degong and the royal family, the emperor watched the blockbuster Wangfu New District in the back mountain, and was excited to see the hydraulic workshop and graphite furnace. He even touched the tall water wheels himself, and asked curiously how these big wheels were carried and what were their uses.

Shiyu answered the emperor from time to time, and it was obvious that he was very happy. Although he was old, he was always very interested and almost walked around the entire back mountain.

Only the most important steel mill in the royal palace did not go, because there was fireworks soaring into the sky and dust filled the sky, and the winter still emitted a pungent smell.

Then the guy repeatedly told her to avoid going to those places.

Because the high-temperature gas at the mouth of the graphite crucible is chronic toxic, workers who have already had cool labor have begun to have symptoms of constant coughing. The only thing the royal family can do is to compensate each of them at the end of each year, and there is no other way.

Actually, the prince had known this for a long time and knew that it was harmful to people, but the steelmaking process could not stop...

He said that if there is not enough steel in a few years, life will be devastated.

Because she wanted to deal with the threat from the Jin Kingdom and the Mongolian Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom knew that the Jin Kingdom was still confronting the Liao Kingdom at this time, and the victory and defeat were not completely decided. I don’t know why he decided that the Jin Kingdom was going to deal with.

As for Mongolia, she had never heard of it. After deliberately inquiring, she heard some news from the merchants who returned north. Some nomadic tribes were scattered in the northwest of the Liao Kingdom. Under the rule of the Liao Kingdom, those people were called Mongols, but they were simply dispersed and were not enough to form a country.

Does the prince think they will build a kingdom while in chaos and then go south?

In short, she didn't understand, but couldn't stop. She knew it was a harm to others, but maybe... it was to save people. She believed in him and didn't need any reason.

......

In the afternoon, the sky was still gray. The emperor returned to the palace accompanied by everyone. Yan Chai in the kitchen had been busy for a day. He had never received the emperor. He took out all the skills of the housekeeper and prepared sixty-six dishes in one afternoon, which was difficult for him.

Because Yan Chai was originally from a military leader, there was no such thing as the military's food, but the imperial chef in the palace could make hundreds of dishes at any time, which he could not do.

Fortunately, the emperor and Concubine Tian didn't care. The ones who accompanied them to have dinner were De Gong, Tang Zhouwei, Ji Chunsheng, and she, because she is the current supervisor of the royal palace.

Even so, outsiders and the emperor were not allowed to sit at the same table. After Duke De's reminder, she arranged for the servants to bring another small table from the main hall and sit for several ministers to accompany him. The emperor and Concubine Tian sat alone on the big table. Finally, they set up two tables to make up one table at the emperor's will, but in the end, there was a gap between them, which was not considered contrary to the ancestral system.

However, at the dinner table, the emperor talked about something that shocked everyone, that was... he was going north!

"Your Majesty, it's not good for the dragon's body in the cold winter." Duke De reacted and put down his chopsticks and said.

"Yes, yes, Wang Xiang is right. The emperor must take care of the dragon body, which is the blessing of the people of our country of Jing." Tang Zhouwei hurriedly followed.

The emperor also put down his chopsticks and waved his hand: "Don't worry, the twelfth lunar month of this year will be closed in January. All major and small matters in the court will be temporarily handed over to Wang Aiqing until the New Year. I am going to go on the waterway, and the waterway is not bumpy, and I am not afraid of fatigue. Besides, I have not left Beijing for many years, so I will go and have a look this time."

"The emperor left the capital, but was afraid that the court would be in turmoil..." Duke De still wanted to speak but stopped.

Shiyu quietly put down her chopsticks, did not eat or make any sounds. She knew that even as the head of the royal palace, she could not make any words.

"So I am going to visit her in a private manner, go quietly, and come back quietly, and then come to the palace." The emperor said and looked at her, Shi Yu was stunned.

"I want to borrow the ship from the royal palace to go north. As soon as the royal ship goes out of Kaiyuan, everyone knows that I want to go north. At that time, many more things will inevitably happen. The ship from the royal palace to Jiangzhou frequently. I can hide my eyes and ears if I borrow it to go north."

Shiyu nodded quickly: "As for orders, I'll make arrangements now."

The emperor waved his hand, "It's not necessary to arrange it separately. It's not good to be too arrogant. Since it's a private visit, it's necessary to have a private visit."

.........

"What did you say!" Wei Yubai was very anxious. She originally wanted to ride a fast horse and take her personal soldiers south to find King Pingnan, explain the situation here to him, and make arrangements.

As a result, she prepared the forage early in the morning and fed the horses. She was about to set off after lunch, but personal soldiers came to report that Yang Hu took hundreds of elite Yang soldiers under her command out of the city to hunt down the black bandits!

She immediately became uneasy. Yang Hu was simply foolish!

Her Wei family and the Yang family are family friends, across the Taihang Mountains, the Yang family is in the west and the Liao Kingdom has been confronting for many years, and the Wei family is in the east and the Liao Kingdom has been confronting for many years. By their generation, Yang Wenguang and Wei Chaoren often handed each other letters and took their families to visit, because only when the two families cooperated can they jointly resist the Liao Kingdom in the north.

If Guanbei is defeated, the Liao people will walk south from Guanbei Road and cross Taihang Mountains, and the Yang family army will be attacked on both sides.

Similarly, if Taiyuan is lost, the Liao Kingdom will move south from the west and cross Taihang Mountain east, and the Wei family will be attacked on both sides.

Therefore, the two families have had many interactions since childhood and have known each other early. Yang Hu has been interested in her since she was a child. His father also asked her politely how she promised her to the eldest son of the Yang family several times, but Wei Yubai refused.

Not only because her father values ​​her, she understands that her father also has some other considerations, that is, to imitate the Yang family and strengthen contact with the imperial family.

For those of them, the foreign ministers in the frontier, it is very important that some people in the court speak for them. The Yang family has such a status today, largely because the Yang family and the Tian family had a marriage. Now the grandfather of the head of the Yang family once married the princess of the Tian family, so the emperor has always been more at ease with the Yang family.

The father of their Wei family hoped that she could marry into the Tian family, so that the emperor would have fewer concerns about the Wei family.

It is precisely because of this that he shunned his marriage with Yang Hu.

Personally, Wei Yubai also dislikes Yang Hu very much. Since childhood, Yang Hu has been showing her many responsibilities. She also understands the other party's meaning, but she rejects them all.

To put it bluntly, although a person like Yang Hu is a general, he has a general's appearance and no one in the general.

From childhood to adulthood, she has always had this kind of opinion about this brother who is a few years older than her.

This time, he showed it to the fullest. More than 2,000 Black Mountain bandits had powerful crossbows that they got from somewhere and were familiar with the terrain. The local government had no choice but to take people to chase him!

He thought this was the courage of a general, but he didn't know that this was the will of an ordinary man. He was for a momentary power, but he had thought about the lives of his soldiers! He would never be called the courage of his soldiers when they joked about their lives!

Throughout history, no general who has left a great reputation and can conquer warlike generals, but are not supported by soldiers.

He is so short-sighted that he thinks he is commendable, but he is actually extremely foolish!

Wei Yubai was furious and had to mobilize his personal soldiers. In addition, the local defenders recruited warriors, and gathered about twenty people to gather, hurriedly chasing eastward, hoping to get them back in time.

She didn't care about Yang Hu's life or death, but the hundreds of Yang family soldiers who came with him were all veterans of war. They defended the border for the country for so many years, and had finally survived all kinds of battles and finally survived. They shouldn't be ruined by the ignorance of the commander.

At noon, she took twenty-four people out of the city and then chased eastward. She recruited two local hunters in the team, and they were familiar with the road.

Because it had snowed last night, the snow covered the horse's hooves and their group had no idea where Yang Hu and his party had gone, so they could only follow the east road.

When it was almost dark in the afternoon, the towering Taihang Mountains ahead were already towering, running across the north and south, rushing straight to the sky, like a tall gray giant blocking the eastward road, the terrain began to steep, and the mountains were like knives and axes. The hunters in the team dared not walk again, because they would be the territory of the Black Mountain bandits.

Wei Yubai had no choice but to stop. At this moment, she saw a large group of black crows hovering like a black cloud, whimpering under the gray sky in the distance.

She is knowledgeable in Guanbei. She has seen this scene and suddenly has a bad premonition...

Wei Yubai raised her hand and asked everyone to stop. She was confident in her equestrian skills, so she drove forward alone. If the situation was wrong, she would run back.

As the horse kept moving forward, the vision behind the small hill gradually opened up. Slowly, she saw clearly...

A hundred steps away, at the foot of the hillside, beside the road, under the dead branches and old trees, there are piles of heads, forming a small hill, and there are a few branches hanging next to it swaying in the wind. Under the tree are inserted, there are strips of torn into cloth, but you can vaguely see the crimson flag with the word "Yang" and slightly swept by the cold wind.

Her heart instantly sank, her nose sore, and she almost wanted to cry. She didn't know whether she was sad or afraid. She wanted to go over and collect the body of the warrior, but reason repeatedly warned her not to go over. There are too many such things outside the border, and she used her partner's corpse to attract people who collected the body, and then ambushed...

There was a vast white road on both sides and there was nothing to see. She turned her horse's head with tears in her eyes and shouted: "Run quickly! Run back, the faster the better!"

After she finished speaking, the accompanying soldiers reacted and whipped the horse under her crotch hard and ran back.

Sure enough, Wei Yubai's horse ran a few steps, and hundreds of people came out of the snow on both sides of the avenue behind him, chasing them and shooting arrows. However, the distance between hundreds of steps was not strong, and there was no horse. The distance was quickly pulled apart, and the bandits could not catch up at all.

They ran all the way for several hours until it was completely dark and they stopped when they saw the lights in the distance. There were already no bandits behind them, and everyone was still in shock.

Everyone was glad that they had survived death, but Wei Yubai started crying in a low voice. There were at least hundreds of veterans at the pile of heads, hundreds of wars. If they were not dead, they might have killed many foreign enemies and finally died at the hands of several bandits. In this kind of winter, they would eventually become the food in the belly of wild beasts...

Just because of the ignorance and ignorance of the general, so many loyal and brave soldiers were ruined. No matter how powerful they are, how can they deal with thousands of bandits who are familiar with the terrain and have strong crossbows in their hands! If the bandits are familiar with the terrain, they can start to take action first. If they have strong crossbows in their hands, their armor will be useless!
Chapter completed!