The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 952: Baoju
Chapter 952: Precious Horse
Li Zhijie’s palms tightened, and sweat covered them. Only at this moment did he guess… Perhaps when Bai Qingyan captured the capital and announced a change of dynasty, but did not deal with the royal family of the Jin Dynasty, he had already begun paving the way for today’s reduction of the power of the vassal states.
She didn’t touch the Jin Dynasty royal family members, in order to make the princes think that she was afraid of the Grand Princess and enter the capital without worry…
What Bai Qingyan is calculating is the human heart.
Bai Qingyan even knew that Prince Baishui was planning a rebellion, and he even condoned it on purpose, in order to legitimately reduce the power of the princes at the lowest cost!
After this incident, who in the world would not praise Bai Qingyan for her kindness? She even kept the royal relatives of the previous dynasty, but who would have known… the royal relatives of the previous dynasty were so ignorant that they wanted to put on airs in front of Bai Qingyan and even rebel. Bai Qingyan had no choice but to deal with the royal family of the previous dynasty when she could no longer tolerate it.
Yun Tianao was still being held down by Wei Zhong in the hall. Bai Qingyan looked at Yun Tianao, whose eyes were red and whose expression was humiliated, and said, “Wei Zhong…let him go. Please, King Yan, take good care of your people in Xiliang. This is the Xuanming Hall of my Great Zhou. It is sacred and cannot be defiled by blood.”
“Yes!” Li Zhijie pulled Yun Tianao back, gave him a warning look, and forced Yun Tianao to sit down. Then he pretended to be at a loss and continued to talk to Bai Qing, “Your Majesty, the rebellion of Prince Baishui is the family affair of the Great Zhou… There is no reason for Xiliang to interfere. Your Majesty’s words about lending the assassin to Prince Baishui are really wronged by this foreign minister! Please understand, Your Majesty!”
“Really?” Bai Qingyan tapped his fingers on the table. “Princess Li Tianfu of Xiliang once sent assassins to Shuoyang with the intention of assassinating me. I arranged for her to go to the new recruit camp to teach the new recruits. Unfortunately, the assassin who ambushed with Prince Baishui in Qiankun Palace today used this move in a desperate situation.”
Li Zhijie’s heart skipped a beat, and he said hurriedly, “I am terrified, but I really don’t know about this! The people I brought with me are all registered. Your Majesty can send someone to check carefully. I have no complaints!”
“No one was killed alive. You don’t admit it… Let’s put this matter aside for now. I’ll ask you again…” Bai Qingyan was still as slow as ever, looking at Li Zhijie, “In April, King Yan came to Da Zhou secretly and met King Bai Shui at the temple on May 16. I wonder what they talked about?”
Li Zhijie tightened his grip on the iron bone fracture fan. A flash of lightning seemed to flash through his mind, and he suddenly felt a chill on his spine. His whereabouts… the Great Zhou actually knew it so accurately!
Could it be that… there is a traitor around him? !
“Your Majesty, on May 16, it was still the old dynasty of Jin. Prince Baishui rebelled because of the emperor’s alchemy. Xiliang was willing to lend a helping hand to Prince Baishui because they knew that Jin was doomed. They thought that if they helped Prince Baishui ascend the throne, they could take back the cities of Youhua Road, Qiushan Pass, Tonggu Mountain, etc. that had been ceded to Jin!”
“Later, the Jin Dynasty changed its course and became the Great Zhou Dynasty. Xiliang knew it could not compete with Your Majesty, so it gave up the idea of cooperating with King Baishui. That’s when it decided to cede 18 cities and send Yun Poxing’s eldest grandson to ask for peace with the Great Zhou Dynasty!” Li Zhijie raised his head and looked at Bai Qingyan calmly, “If Your Majesty doesn’t believe it, you can call King Baishui back to confront the foreign ministers.”
What Li Zhijie said was reasonable and there was nothing wrong with it.
Bai Qingyan’s lips curled slightly as he looked at Li Zhijie with a half-smile.
By bringing up this matter at this time, Bai Qingyan did not intend to embarrass Li Zhijie with this matter, but just wanted to plant a seed of doubt in Li Zhijie’s heart. The date of his meeting with King Baishui was known so accurately by Da Zhou, Li Zhijie would definitely suspect that there were spies in Xiliang, or even around him.
What if Jintong was suspected of being a spy for the Great Zhou and was imprisoned because of delivering the news about Li Zhijie? If Xiliang really wants to investigate, they should reconsider starting from Li Zhijie’s side.
It can at least buy some time for Bai Jintong.
After listening to Li Zhijie’s explanation, Bai Qingyan was silent for a while, then smiled and said: “King Yan doesn’t need to be too nervous. It was just that on May 16, my second brother-in-law accompanied my second aunt to the temple to burn incense, and happened to run into the secret meeting between King Baishui and King Yan. Today… I asked a question.”
Bai Qingyan’s features were kind, as if the harsh words just now did not exist.
Qin Lang also straightened his back slightly and bowed to Li Zhijie.
Li Zhijie quickly returned the greeting.
“As for the matter of the alliance, it is just as Lord Liu said… Great Zhou will accept the eighteen cities for the time being. As for how to make the alliance, Lord Liu will discuss it in detail with King Yan later.” Bai Qingyan said slowly.
“I obey your command!” After Liu Rushi saluted Bai Qingyan, he bowed politely to Li Zhijie. There was nothing wrong with his etiquette.
Before Li Zhijie could return the greeting to Liu Rushi, he heard a hoarse and vicissitudes voice in Xuanming Hall: “Xiliang wants to make an alliance with the Great Zhou. We, the Rongdi people, are here… to make an alliance with the Queen of the Great Zhou.”
Dong’s palms tightened, tightly grasping her clothes…
How could her A-Yu’s voice sound like this? !
Before entering the palace, Dong secretly glanced at Ayu who was wearing a mask. She knew…the ghost-faced prince of Rongdi was Ayu, but Ayu couldn’t go home now!
So, from the time she entered the hall until now… Dong didn’t even dare to glance in Ayu’s direction. She was afraid that she would reveal her flaws and delay Ayu.
But when she suddenly heard her son’s voice become like this, and didn’t know how much he had suffered, how could she, as a mother, not be heartbroken?
Bai Qingyan gently held the edge of the table, suppressed his worry about Bai Jintong, adjusted his sitting posture, and asked with a smile: “How does Rongdi plan to form an alliance with the Great Zhou?”
The Rongdi envoy stood up and bowed in the direction of Bai Qingyan: “Rongdi is willing to present the Great Zhou with 100,000 precious horses and is willing to form a friendly alliance with the Great Zhou. My king knows that the Queen of the Great Zhou had a three-year agreement with the General Yun Poxing of Xiliang. We are willing to join forces with the Great Zhou to destroy Xiliang and divide Xiliang equally. If the Great Zhou is willing to send troops to join forces with Rongdi to destroy Xiliang, Rongdi is willing to give the Great Zhou another 100,000 precious horses.”
When the Rongdi envoy said this, Li Zhijie’s face became even uglier: “Rongdi is so arrogant!”
Ayu knew that Da Zhou was short of horses, so he sent them to Da Zhou in this open and aboveboard manner.
“In addition, I have a gift for the Empress of the Great Zhou to congratulate her on her ascension to the throne!” Bai Qingyu spoke and handed the brocade box on the table to the eunuch behind him.
The young eunuch respectfully took the brocade box, bent his waist, raised his hands above his head, and walked in small steps to the bottom of the high steps of the imperial throne.
Wei Zhong took the brocade box and handed it to Bai Qingyan, whose mind was full of thoughts about Jin Tong being arrested, and opened it for Bai Qingyan…
The moment he saw the pigeon blood gem in the brocade box, a sour feeling attacked Bai Qingyan’s heart and lungs.
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