Crown Prince of Zhao's residence, the Prince of Zhao's favorite concubine carefully held out a box, the box is carved with rosewood, the box is wrapped in layers of brocade and silk things.
"Crown Prince, I have purchased a treasure." The favorite concubine put the box in front of Prince Xuan of Zhao. The Crown Prince of Zhao was twenty-four or twenty-five years old, tall, sturdy and good-looking.
"Oh, what treasures has your daughter acquired?" Zhao Xuan pulled your favorite concubine into his arms with one hand and sipped the wine in the glass with the other.
"This is a precious mirror, so you can see your face, hair and skin clearly." Your daughter laughed in Zhao Xuan's arms, and the glass in Zhao Xuan's hand was also bought by her with a lot of money. Your daughter was Zhao Xuan's favorite beauty, who loved luxurious and beautiful things.
"Treasure Mirror?" Zhao Xuan frowned and his arm around his favored concubine loosened slightly.
"Prince, please look?" Your daughter didn't notice the change in Zhao Xuan's expression, but still offered the treasure joyfully.
Your daughter Ji opened the layers of brocade and took out a palm-sized mirror from it and handed it to Zhao Xuan.
"How much did this treasure cost?" Zhao Xuan raised the mirror in front of himself, and the man in the mirror had eyebrows like brushed paint and eyes like cold stars.
"It was originally 20,000 gold, but because that Chu merchant was familiar with the concubine, he only asked for 15,000 gold." Your daughter's Ji then realized that Zhao Xuan's face did not look hesitant and answered cautiously.
"Buy fewer luxuries in the future." There was a sulk in Zhao Xuan's heart as he put the mirror back into the rosewood box and got up from the soft collapse to stand up straight.
"Yes!" Your daughter hurriedly followed down the couch, bending over and crouching low.
Zhao Xuan did not turn back to pity the half-kneeling favorite concubine, striding out of your daughter's exquisite courtyard and going straight back to the Crown Prince's residence.
It was only when Zhao Xuan's figure disappeared that your daughter's maid dared to enter the room to assist her master.
"What is wrong with the Crown Prince? Madam only bought a small piece of mirror, the mirror that the Crown Princess bought two months ago was twice as big as Madam's, and also paid the merchant 10,000 gold more than Madam. The Crown Prince was extremely fond of it when he saw it instead of being angry, the Crown Prince is biased."
"No more chewing on the tongue!" Your daughter Ji had tears in her eyes, and although she scolded her maid, her heart was actually thinking the same thing as her maid's.
Two months ago, the Crown Princess from the motherland merchants spent 25,000 gold purchased a mirror, this mirror can be illuminated by the human hair, in the Crown Prince's residence sensation, attracted Zhao Xuan in the Crown Princess place even a few nights, half a month ago, the House of Chinese medicine practitioners diagnosed the Crown Princess is pregnant, counting the time, it is the purchase of a mirror of the days pregnant.
Two years ago, the king of Zhao will gradually hand over the power to the crown prince, Zhao Xuan named Crown Prince, actually already in charge of the power of the king. A year ago, Zhao Xuan married the sister of the king of Yan as the Crown Princess, Yan Ji female identity noble, dignified look, Zhao Xuan is very respectful, and now snatched before the House of favorites pregnant, is in the House of the establishment of their own position as mistress of the house. Your daughter is Zhao Xuan's favorite beauty, the first time the Crown Princess looked at her, she looked like she was smiling, which made your daughter's spine shiver.
Your daughter thinks that the Crown Princess got pregnant by the mirror, and the mirror is a good-luck charm, and she wants to purchase a mirror with a quality higher than that of the Crown Princess in order to improve her luck. When she learns that the mirror in the hands of Chu Shang is higher in clarity than that of the mirror the Crown Princess purchased from her motherland, she purchases the mirror without any hesitation and does not expect to upset Zhao Xuan by offering her treasures to him instead.
Zhao Xuan returned to his Crown Prince's residence and ordered his attendants to summon Zhao's Wenzai and Wuzai.
"Serve tea soup to Wenzai and Wuzai." Zhao Wenzai was a veteran minister of King Zhao, while Zhao Wuzai was a young general that Zhao Xuan had just promoted.
Zhao Xuan was polite to his vassal.
"Thank you, Crown Prince!" The two courtiers knelt down and sat on the futon at the bottom of Zhao Xuan.
"I don't know where this exquisite utensil was made, it's really beautiful." Jo Moojae held up the glass cup holding the tea soup in his hand in admiration.
Zhao Xuan couldn't help but let out a long sigh when he heard Wu Zai praising the tea utensils, "This year, the whole territory's farmland is in large areas of poor harvests, but the royal court's use of luxury up and down the country has not been reduced, Xuan is very worried."
"Not bad, if the royal court up and down continue to be so uncontrolled, it will do great harm to the country, the crown prince should prohibit the princes and ministers from purchasing." Once Zhao Wuzai heard this, he felt that Zhao Xuan was right to be worried, his country was in a great disaster, the nobles should scale down their expenses, and even more so, the money should flow outward less.
"Cough!" Wen Zai coughed twice in a low voice, the most extravagant use of the state of Zhao was not someone else, but the King of Zhao, after the King of Zhao entrusted the heavy responsibility of the state to his son, he began to thoroughly enjoy life, pursuing gourmet and exquisite things. "This cannot be done recklessly, the crown prince can think of a proper way."
Zhao Xuan glanced towards Zhao Wenzai and slightly praised him, in the end, he is a veteran minister, he is steady and comprehensive in his thoughts, if he could have directly ordered that the royal court would not be allowed to purchase foreign luxury goods up and down the court, Zhao Xuan would have long since gone down.
"What method is there to think of if it's not forbidden?" Zhao Wuzhai hated the fact that this old man, Wenzhai, was always selling out.
"You can start with the merchants." Jo Manzai suggested slowly.
"Haha! Not bad, just start with the merchants!" Zhao Xuan's reaction was quite fast, as soon as Wenzai's words fell, he laughed out loud, Zhao Xuan was deeply impressed that Zhao Wenzai was worthy of being a pillar of Zhao, not only did his suggestion not offend the King of Zhao and the nobles of Zhao, but it could also fundamentally stifle the outflow of money from Zhao.
Zhao Xuan thought of a way to deal with the luxury goods and stopped discussing the matter at that moment, instead discussing Wu with the two important ministers.
"The informants in the Kingdom of Wu have sent back news that 10,000 troops from Ulsan have defeated the army of the Royal Court of Wu, and all 50,000 men of the Royal Court have been wiped out." Zhao Xuan's face looked rather unhappy as he mouthed this news.
Zhao is in a severe drought this year, and there is a poor grain harvest. After hearing that his cousin Prince Zhao was recruited by Yi Ji to be hacked to death in the palace, Zhao Xuan's first thought is that he has the name of the division, and that he can take the opportunity to help his cousin avenge his death by launching an army against Wu, so that he can take over a few of Wu's cities openly and honestly and destroy Wei on his return to the army.
Wei was sandwiched between Zhao and Wu, and since Zhao and Wu were equal in power, neither of the two countries allowed the other to move against Wei to prevent the other from being threatened when they bordered their own borders. Now that the chaotic Wu would not have the strength left to stop Zhao, it was a good time for Zhao to encroach on the land.
Just when Zhao Xuan was about to tighten his belt and discuss with Wei about using the road to use force against Wu, the secret agreement between Crown Prince Zhao and the King of Zhao was found out by Ri Ji and spread all over the world, so Zhao not only had no reason to use force against Wu, but also gave people the image of having malicious intentions. Zhao Xuan is afraid that his insistence on using military force against Wu will provoke other countries to be wary, so he has to keep his troops in place. After Zheng Yuming raised the flag of Gong Zi Ming, Zhao Xuan had no more reason to send troops.
"Is the Falling Goose Governor of Ulsan really King Wu's third son, Ming?" Zhao Wuzai was curious about Zheng Yuming, the famous scholar of Xu Guo, Wang Jie, exited from Wu Guo during the Harvest Festival, and the first place he traveled was Zhao Guo, Wang Jie was full of praise for Zheng Yuming, and he also had a lot of praise for Chu Chaohui.
Zhao Wenzai stroked his beard and nodded: "I guess it's true, Wu's old general Ying's clan with their Huben have all defected over, the identity of Governor Lanyan's son should not be false."
In Zhao Wenzai's impression, the Ying clan was the most loyal to Wu. If Zheng Yuming didn't have royal blood, the Hussar General wouldn't have stayed there at all.
"The identity should be a thousand percent true, because King Wu's Shuhou defected there with the people of his fiefdom, and if the Lok Yan Zhiwei is not of the King Wu's clan bloodline, how could the Western Marquis not have gone to the defection." The Western Marquis defection to Ulsan and the Ulsan Dao Kou's great victory were both news that Zhao Xuan had only received, and neither Zhao Wenzai nor Zhao Wuzai knew about it.
"Crown Prince, this Gongzi Ming seems to have a lot of strength in his hands, the next Lord of Wu is probably him." Zhao Wuzhai admired the fact that Ulsan had achieved a great victory with few against the enemy.
"It's hard to say anything until the last minute." Jo Manzai still stroked his beard and spoke slowly.
"Not bad, can't jump to conclusions until the last moment." Zhao Xuan stared at the map on the desk and contemplated, Ripple Ji still had strength in her hands, and had the tall and sturdy Kang City to fall back on, who the final victor of the Wu Kingdom would be could not be finalized now.
Zhao Xuan hoped that the war in Wu would not be lopsided, nor would it end too soon, and that it would be best to fight to a standstill, so that when Wu's vitality was greatly wounded, Zhao could rush to annex Wei before Wu recovered, even if he could not snatch Wu's cities and towns.
While the Prince of Zhao was salivating over Wu and Wei, Ri Ji was entertaining two noblewomen in the king's palace.
"The two ladies have more meals." Ripple Ji was dressed in a deep black dress inlaid with gold silk, graceful and elegant, her face full of smiles, in front of her sat the two proper ladies of Nan Sima and Dong Sima.
"Thank you, Empress Dowager Wang, for your kindness!" Mrs. Nan Sima and Mrs. Dong Sima bowed respectfully and thanked her.
"The two generals are defending the country at the border and have worked exceptionally hard, the Great King is going to send someone forward to offer his condolences, the two ladies can write a letter from home for the condolence messenger to take with them." Yi Ji's face was smiling, but in her heart she was cursing Dong Sima and Nan Sima.
The 50,000-strong army that had crusaded against Ulsan was wiped out, leaving the royal capital with only 10,000 soldiers and 20,000 auxiliary soldiers. The safety of the royal capital, Kangseong, was at stake. After Ulsan's great victory, the watchful bannermen immediately flagged to the side of Zheng Yuming, Ripple Ji was unable to get soldiers from the bannermen, and the auxiliary soldiers could not be replenished as they could not pull in any strong soldiers around Dacheng. Ripple Ji has no choice but to ask the Lord of Tang to retreat, so that the border Huben back to the capital to protect, do not want the Lord of Tang to pretend to retreat, such as the border of the withdrawal of the Wu army, immediately led the invasion of the army, the army goal is aimed at the East China Sea coast of the State of Wu. It turns out that the lord of Tang is afraid of Ripple's defeat, their own basket, want to take advantage of the civil war in Wu, the first to take advantage of their own first occupied the East China Sea coast and then say.
East Sima and South Sima was originally prepared to two do not help each other, after the Ulsan victory, the scales in the hearts of the two Sima inclined to Zheng Yuming here, after receiving the order of Ripple Ji to move the division, in the way of relatives are in the king's capital, ostensibly to comply with the order to withdraw the army, but back to the division to march but dilly-dallying, go one step, rest two, half a month's journey resolutely to go for six months and a load. After learning of the invasion of Tang's army, the two Secretaries of Departments immediately stopped dawdling and quickly went to intercept the invaders with their armies while sending back the war report to the royal capital.
"This..." Dong Sima and Mrs. Nan Sima looked at each other in dismay, they had channels to pass messages to their husbands, they didn't need Ripple Ji to be so attentive.
But the maidservant had already spread paper and ink in front of them, and the two Mrs. Sima could only write some homely words stiffly.
"Men, take the two ladies to the side palace to rest." Satisfied, Ri Ji picked up the family letter and blew on the undried ink on the letterhead.
All the family members of the two Secretaries have been brought to the palace for house arrest, and this letter that went along with the consoling attendants is an ultimatum to the two Secretaries, and I believe that the Eastern Secretaries and the Southern Secretaries should understand what is meant behind it after seeing their own wives' handwritten letters.
If the two Secretaries did not want to end up like the Northern Secretaries who had exterminated their families, I believe they would have moved their divisions immediately with their armies.