Chapter 578: Emperor Qing leaves and conquers the East to destroy Dongyi
‘Emperor Qing’ doesn’t want to be a successor, not because Emperor Qing’s woman looks old.
It can be said that the women who can be attracted by Emperor Qing all have excellent temperament and appearance, and their figures are well controlled, just like peaches.
Moreover, among these concubines, only two or three are around forty years old.
Most of the concubines of Emperor Qing were in their twenties and thirties, just mature, and they were at the age where they were full of charm but did not lose their girlish heart.
However, Su Mingzhe does not have the heart to be moral, and he will feel very tired if he takes over so many tasks at once.
Besides, more than a hundred beauties have just entered the harem, and I have only tasted two of them.
For a while, my own concubines were too busy, so how could I have time to comfort Emperor Qing's concubines?
After hesitating again and again, Su Mingzhe's sense of responsibility came to his mind:
"These concubines were forced to become widows because they killed Emperor Qing. I can't let them continue to be widows."
Su Mingzhe finally decided to be a responsible man.
Having made up his mind, 'Emperor Qing' left the palace with his concubine who was willing to go with him on the grounds that 'there is no day in the sky'.
It happened that Li Chengze rebelled, and his newly expanded Pingnan Palace was still vacant and suitable for 'Emperor Qing' to live in.
On that day, 'Emperor Qing' moved to Pingnan Prince's Mansion. Except for the original queen, all the other concubines followed him and moved into Pingnan Prince's Mansion.
The original concubine Yi Gui, who was Liu Ruyu's cousin, and the current concubine Gui, also moved in.
Originally, the former Queen and now the Queen Mother wanted to remain somewhat reserved.
However, this kind of reserve only lasted for one day.
On the second day.
The Queen Mother heard that the concubine who had been placed under house arrest, the mother of Li Chengze, and the original concubine Shu had also been taken to the palace. In order to prevent 'Emperor Qing' from letting King Pingnan go, she made excuses to give 'Emperor Qing'
Please say hello, and by the way, we will discuss the marriage of our 'son', and we will also move into Prince Pingnan's Mansion.
'Emperor Qing' naturally understands the thoughts of these women, but he has also been thinking about his 'Queen' for a long time.
Now that she took the initiative to deliver it to her door, 'Emperor Qing' naturally enjoyed it.
However, after enjoying it, ‘Emperor Qing’ began to regret again:
"I am greedy and happy for a while. When I go to Yanfu Palace to say hello in the future, I will probably be extremely embarrassed."
In any case, with the bonds of these women, 'Emperor Qing' originally planned to leave in a few days.
The time to finally leave was delayed again and again.
In particular, Li Chengze's mother used all the talents she had learned in her youth in order to get Emperor Qing to forgive her son.
'Emperor Qing' felt that if he did not forgive Li Chengze, he would be sorry for Concubine Shu's hard work.
Until late November, Su Mingzhe and Fan Ruoruo held the Queen's Canonization Ceremony.
'Emperor Qing' looked at Concubine Shu and granted him a general amnesty.
Even Li Chengze was spared the death penalty and was named 'Yonglebo', but was sent to a fiefdom and placed under house arrest.
At this time, Li Chengze did not seek life or drink poison, but went to the fiefdom obediently and accepted house arrest.
After Su Mingzhe and Fan Ruoruo got married, he asked her to take over the inner treasury.
But at this moment, 'Emperor Qing' gritted his steel teeth and left the gentle countryside of Kyoto City with great perseverance.
"At best, I can just come back once a year from now on. It's really not necessary. I can enjoy all the tenderness once."
The departure of 'Emperor Qing' made the atmosphere in Kyoto city much more relaxed.
However, this relaxed atmosphere did not last long.
Early December.
After more than a month of preparation, Nanqing assembled an army of 300,000 troops.
Outside the south city gate, on a mound, Su Mingzhe was present in person and held a general worship ceremony.
General Ye Wan took the command seal from Su Mingzhe, beat his chest and swore:
"Your Majesty, if I don't wipe out Dongyi and its surrounding vassals in this Eastern Expedition, I swear not to return."
"Of course I believe that the general will succeed immediately!"
Su Mingzhe waved his hand, and eighteen ascetic monks in black robes stood behind him:
"These are the Qingmiao envoys, and their cultivation level is above the ninth level. I hope Commander Ye will lead them to pacify Dongyi City as soon as possible and return safely."
Dongyi City without Sigu Sword is like a tiger without claws.
Although Dongyi City is still a huge behemoth in comparison, it can be said that it has no resistance at all when faced with the war of annihilation launched by Nanqing.
In early December, the Nanqing Army set out along the waterway.
In mid-December, Nanqing began to arrive at the border of Song Dynasty.
The Song State was a small vassal state attached to Dongyi City.
Knowing that Sigu Jian had been killed, the Song army defected on the spot and became the vanguard of Nanqing's Eastern Expedition.
Subsequently, several small countries such as Zhao, Lu, and Wu also surrendered.
Occasionally, a few vassal and small countries, with the support of Dongyi City, wanted to resist, but in the face of Nanqing's powerful offensive, they basically could not hold out for three days and would be destroyed.
As a small country that surrendered directly, Nanqing allowed members of the royal family to retain the ancestral temple.
However, as long as they resisted the Eastern Expedition, even if such a small vassal country surrendered later, members of their royal family would still be escorted to the capital city of Nanqing to accept Su Mingzhe's trial.
The New Year has passed in a blink of an eye.
By late February.
Nanqing's Eastern Expedition army finally arrived at the gates of Dongyi City.
At the time of departure, the Eastern Expedition Army numbered 300,000.
Now, the vanguard army that has absorbed the small states of Dongyi City has not decreased but increased in number, reaching a huge number of 400,000.
You know, Dongyi City only has a population of one million.
Now 400,000 soldiers and horses surrounded Dongyi City, and all the disciples of Gu Jian were also panicked.
Among them, Li Bohua, the second disciple of Sigu Jian, saw that his elder brother Yun Zhilan had been silent and couldn't help but urge:
"Senior Brother, Nanqing has been attacked at our doorstep. It's hard to defend the isolated city. We'd better go out and fight the Nanqing people!"
"Fighting at all costs? Fighting for what?" Yun Zhilan raised his head, and his cold eyes shocked the restless junior brothers.
Sigu Jian had more than a dozen disciples. When he went to assassinate the new emperor of Qing Dynasty, he took four of them with him, but all of them were captured.
Now there are only seven disciples left in Dongyi City.
Yun Zhilan knew very well that even if he had to fight tooth and nail, he was not fighting on the battlefield now:
"The Nanqing Eastern Expedition Army has more than twenty ninth-level masters, and there is also a great master hidden in the army. What we have to do now is not to fight desperately, but to preserve our strength. Second Junior Brother, you lead everyone to evacuate
, I will go to Kaicheng and surrender. The green hills will be left, so I won’t have to worry about having no firewood..."
Yun Zhilan can be regarded as Si Gu Jian's top disciple. It can be said that he is a martial arts expert with a very tough and tenacious mind.
Faced with the two options of fighting in vain and preserving strength and waiting for an opportunity to take revenge.
He very wisely chose to conserve his strength.
When Li Bohua heard that Yun Zhilan was about to surrender, he quickly stopped him and said:
"Senior Brother, your martial arts are the highest, and you are most likely to break through to the Grand Master level. Otherwise, I'd better surrender!"
Anyone who surrenders to Nanqing will be under house arrest and treated like a loser for the rest of his life.
Li Bohua really wants to replace Yun Zhilan.
Yun Zhilan looked at his second junior brother and could understand his thoughts, but...
"You cannot represent Dongyi City."
Early March.
Ye Wan led the Eastern Expedition and completely pacified Dongyi City and more than a dozen of its affiliated vassal states.
The news spread back to Nanqing, and the whole country celebrated.
That night, Su Mingzhe was so happy that he stayed at Ye Ling'er's Zhongcui Palace.
It has been almost five months since Ye Ling'er entered the palace in October. In more than 140 days, she has been called to bed ten times.
On average, cards will be turned over once every half a month.
Perhaps compared to those beauties and talented people, she has been turned over more times.
However, this kind of thing requires comparison to know the real situation.
After Fan Ruoruo settled in Yaohua Palace, Su Mingzhe would stay at Yaohua Palace for more than ten days in a month.
There are still seven or eight days left, and I will stay at Lin Wan'er's Changchun Palace.
The reason why Su Mingzhe spent so little time looking for Lin Wan'er was not because he had little affection for Lin Wan'er, but because Lin Wan'er was delicate and frail.
Every time Su Mingzhe went there, Lin Waner had to rest for a few days to recover.
Apart from going to Fan Ruoruo and Lin Wan'er's residence, there are still about ten days left in the month.
In these ten days, Su Mingzhe was able to get wet with both rain and dew, and look at the names of other concubines, beauties, and talents.
Let me explain it again here.
Su Mingzhe found Fan Ruoruo and Lin Waner and stayed in their palace.
When looking for concubines, beauties, and talented people, Su Mingzhe always summoned them to Tai Chi Palace to sleep with them.
Comparing the treatment, one can see that Su Mingzhe treated Ye Ling'er as an ordinary concubine.
Su Mingzhe is staying at Zhongcui Palace tonight, which is the first time he has made an exception.
This is just to thank Ye Wan, this 'brother-in-law' for working hard outside.
After Ye Ling'er knew that the emperor was coming to Zhongcui Palace, she specially prepared a table of wine and food.
Ye Ling'er used wine to cheer up. In addition, she is a seventh-level master and has strong physical endurance.
This night, Su Mingzhe came here to take advantage of the excitement and returned home exhausted.
On the second day.
Su Mingzhe gave Ye Ling'er a reward and asked her to go home to Ning and visit her parents.
On the other side, the imperial court sent civil and military officials to Dongyi City and its affiliated princes and small states to begin the 'naturalization management'.
Ye Wan led the Eastern Expedition army and stationed it in Dongyi City for more than a month.
By mid-April.
Only then did the Eastern Expeditionary Army have to be ordered to return to the court.
Su Mingzhe clearly rewarded Ye Wan, and made Ye Wan the Duke of the Song Dynasty. He was considered a very popular minister.
Other meritorious officials in the army were also rewarded.
The map of the new world's powerful forces had already been drawn up by this time.
Originally the world was divided into three parts, with Northern Qi occupying the largest area and having the largest population.
Nanqing has strong national power and prosperous martial arts;
Dongyi City has a prosperous economy, especially maritime trade, which generates tens of millions of taels of silver every year.
Because all three families have great masters, although there are conflicts at the borders, they are relatively stable and everyone can interact peacefully.
Now, Nanqing conquered Dongyi in one fell swoop, and began to overwhelm Northern Qi in terms of population, area, economy, and military.
In addition, Ku He, the great master of the Northern Qi Dynasty, was captured.
People in Nanqing were all discussing when the Northern Expeditionary Army would go out and destroy Northern Qi.
This issue is actually discussed by more than just Nanqing people.
The people of the Northern Qi Dynasty also began to tremble in fear, fearing that one day they would wake up and Nan Qing's army would press on the border, and they would become the subjects of their country's subjugation.
However, everyone is discussing it.
There were even many military-honored generals who asked for battle one after another.
Su Mingzhe could only let Fan Jian, the father-in-law, be a bad guy.
Fan Jian was also very cooperative and complained directly at the meeting:
"Your Majesty, the treasury has already spent more than half of the reward for the 300,000 troops. Xia Xun is about to arrive. Si Tianjian reported that the weather is abnormal this year and the embankments on both sides of the river need to be strengthened. In addition, the governor of Kyoto came to report that it is now a busy period.
At that time, in order to stabilize domestic food prices, Changping warehouses across the country had already spent more than half of their expenses and were in urgent need of money to fill up..."
Fan Jian kept talking until his mouth went dry, and he concluded with one sentence:
"...Your Majesty, the national treasury is really unable to support the army's Northern Expedition this year."