Qiu Si didn't know what happened specifically, and didn't want to give him much advice. He just said, "Master Leng didn't do well. The princess will punish him severely when he comes back."
"Right now, all affairs in the country need to be decided by the princess. Please take care of yourself, princess."
Qi Jianlan closed her eyes, let out a long sigh and said, "Leng Zhi can't come back."
Qiu Si was startled when she heard this, and looked up at her in shock. However, she quickly realized that she was out of character and quickly lowered her head.
Qi Jianlan had no intention of punishing Qiu Si for her misconduct. She said slowly: "You are also surprised, right?"
Qiu Si said softly: "Master Leng is extremely resourceful and acts appropriately. He is also protected by General Qu. Normally, nothing will happen."
General Qu refers to Wu Ming.
Wuming is not an ordinary bodyguard, but a young general from the Qi State with great martial arts skills.
This time he went to the First City with Leng Zhi, not only for training, but also for other purposes.
Qi Jianlan wanted to annex the First City this time. In addition to sending people to cause trouble in the First City, she also sent an army to respond outside.
As long as Leng Zhi gets the blueprint of the entire first city's formation, activates the first city's self-destruction formation, and then sends out the message.
The army lurking on the Benma River on the border of Qi State will be activated immediately, and then attack the first city and capture it.
For this action, Qi Jianlan planned for a long time and made very thorough preparations.
She originally thought that even if she didn't succeed this time, it would still severely damage the vitality of the First City.
But she didn't expect that the combination of the witty Leng Zhi, General Qu, and the paralyzing Qi Xingmeng would not only fail, but they would all be trapped in the first city.
Now Leng Zhi and General Qu died in the first city, but the idiot Qi Xingmeng survived.
All of this was beyond Qi Jianlan's expectations, which made her angry and a little unbelievable.
Qi Jianlan said in a deep voice: "You are right. Normally, nothing will happen. After all, we still have Dayan's cooperation."
"But the people of Dayan are not easy to make money. Yesterday's alliance can be disintegrated today."
"I was too careless and trusted them gullibly."
The alliance she and Emperor Cheng Ming had formed over the years was quite strong, but she didn't expect that Dayan would completely turn against her when she encountered the smelting skills of the First City.
Over the years, she has always tried her best.
Everything within the Qi State is under her control.
Over the years, she has only felt out of control twice, once when she went to Dayan to get married, and the other time is now.
Whether she wanted to admit it or not, she had to admit that there were too many variables in the First City this time, and many things were beyond her expectations.
The current situation is the most unfavorable situation for her.
Although she now controls the court of Qi State, many ministers in the court are opposed to her, and she suppresses them with force and means.
If this trip to the first city goes well, her control over the country will be even stronger.
Now that something like this has happened in the First City, Leng Zhi and General Qu are both dead, which will become an excuse for the royalist ministers to attack her.
The originally stable situation will become very unfavorable to her.
She couldn't help but cough again, and this time she couldn't stop coughing at all.
Seeing her like this, Qiu Si hurriedly found a pill for her, and she slowly recovered after taking it.
Qi Jianlan let out a long sigh and asked, "How many more of these pills are there?"
Qiu Si replied: "There are only Shilaiwan."
Qi Jianlan bought this kind of pill from Ye Xuanmen's shop at a huge price. It is said that it was made by the ghost doctor himself.
They put a lot of effort into buying them, but now they are almost finished. When they go to buy them again, they are told that they are no longer available.
Qi Jianlan frowned slightly: "Has the Imperial Hospital developed it?"
Qiu Si shook his head: "The hospital has carefully studied it. He has analyzed the ingredients of the medicine in it, but the ratio of the medicine has not been found yet."
"Princess, don't worry. I believe that as long as you give Yuanzheng a little more time, he will be able to develop it."
Qi Jianlan said quietly: "There are not many people in the world who can understand the ghost doctor's prescription."
"I'm afraid I'll have to find a ghost doctor to cure my illness."
Qiu Si whispered: "I heard that the ghost doctor is Cheng Lixue, the mountain chief of Dayan Imperial Academy."
"It's not him." Qi Jianlan said with certainty: "If Cheng Lixue was a ghost doctor, Emperor Cheng Ming would have asked him to heal him if he had been seriously injured like that."
"But Emperor Cheng Ming did not find Cheng Lixue, so Cheng Lixue should not be a ghost doctor."
Qiu Si's eyes were a little confused: "Who is the ghost doctor if he's not Cheng Lixue?"
Qi Jianlan had a guess about the candidate for the ghost doctor, but felt that it was unlikely to be that person.
After all, that person looked too young and didn't look like a doctor at all.
And if that person was really a ghost doctor, it would be fine if he didn't kill her, and he wouldn't be able to cure her.
Qi Jianlan said slowly: "It doesn't matter who the ghost doctor is. Just keep an eye on the director and ask him to prepare the medicine as soon as possible."
"Although my health is not very good, I can still hold on."
She values power, and it took a lot of effort to reach her current status, so how can she be willing to let it go?
I don’t want to die if I can live.
Qiu Si hurriedly said: "Princess, don't worry, I will keep an eye on the principal."
Qi Jianlan nodded lightly and looked down at the letter in her hand.
When she looked at it again this time, her mood was calmer than before, and she was able to see some problems from it.
The letter mentioned Ning Guzhou three times and Lu Yingxiu five times. Things she had planned carefully for several years seemed to have been destroyed in the hands of these two people.
"Lu Yingxiu." Qi Jianlan murmured: "I don't know when such a powerful princess came out of Dingbei Palace."
After she finished speaking, she ordered: "Come here, go check on Lu Yingxiu who has returned to Qian Dingbei Palace. I want all her information."
A man came out of the corner, responded, and quickly retreated.
Qi Jianlan looked at Ning Guzhou's name in the letter and chuckled: "Ning Guzhou, you also went to the First City."
"Over the years, the things you have done really surprise me."
When she was in Dayan four years ago, she felt that Ning Guzhou was the best among all the princes in Dayan.
At first, she originally thought that with Emperor Cheng Ming's consent, she could marry Ning Guzhou and realize her plan.
It is a pity that Ning Guzhou dared to resist the decree for Tang Miaoxin, and even gave up his position as the crown prince of Dayan.
When she was recovering from a serious injury, she sighed when she heard Ning Guzhou leading his troops to Qinzhou, thinking that his life was basically ruined and he would not achieve great achievements.
In the following years, she frequently heard about what Ning Guzhou had done in Qinzhou, and she knew that she had underestimated him.