Seventh Master, Madam didn't go back to the mansion today.

"Report! Quanqiuguan battle report!" The guard outside the gate held up a bloody battle report and hurried into the hall to hand it over.Looking at the blood-soaked battle report, the emperor's heart tightened.

"Report to the Empress Dowager, Quanqiu Pass has been completely breached, King Ling Xiao fought alone and was seriously injured, the enemy army is now marching towards the palace!"

"What!!" The emperor let go of his hand, and the cup fell to the ground and shattered.

The queen mother was also panicked. According to the distance, before tonight, the barbarians would be able to fight into the palace with soldiers and horses. At that time, the emperor and queen mother would be dead.

"Report!!" Another guard came outside the door.

"Someone raised a pole outside the city to revolt, calling it the "Taiping Heavenly Dynasty", and burned down the embassy of the German State, saying that the Daning State was unreliable, and the enemy troops had entered the city. They must defend themselves against foreign enemies and establish themselves as kings!" the guards reported. road.

The emperor fell down on the dragon chair, his face was pale, and his heart was dead silent: this Daning Kingdom has become like this under his rule.

Qi Yuxiao's eyes were lost, and she murmured: "Could it be that I am going to become the king of subjugation?"

"Hmph, not yet! Emperor, hurry up and organize your important items, and take the queen with you, we are going to flee west!" Xi and the queen mother slapped the table and said in a confident voice.

"Queen! No! We can't run away at this critical moment. What will the people in the city do? It will cause chaos in the world!!" Emperor Qizhen urged eagerly.

"If you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood. You can't care about so much right now! You should hurry up and get ready!"

The Empress Dowager's eyes were firm, and she ordered the palace people to get busy in an orderly manner, as if she had expected this day long ago.

But in her old man's order, she didn't say to bring Concubine Zhen, and the emperor was even more at a loss.

Qi Yuxiao walked to Concubine Zhen's Palace in grief. At this time, the palace was in chaos, Concubine Zhen still looked like she didn't know anything, and asked, "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so ugly?"

Concubine Zhen just wanted to pour a glass of water for the emperor, but the emperor gently pressed her hand down.

"My concubine, Daning Kingdom is about to end. The Hu people have broken through Quanqiu Pass, and they are about to attack the city of Shengjing. There are rebels outside the city who want to establish themselves as kings, and the world will soon be in chaos."

"What!! How could this happen!" Concubine Zhen was shocked.

The emperor raised his head to look at her, his eyes were full of sorrow: "The queen mother ordered us to pack up and salute and flee westward, but I don't want to leave. If I leave, what will the people of this holy capital do?"

"Your Majesty! You are the king of a country, and you can't escape at this time. You have to stay and sit in the holy capital! Negotiations with the enemy may have a chance!" Concubine Zhen clasped the emperor's hand and begged on her knees.

"But...the queen mother...she won't listen to me." The emperor said with downcast eyes.

Concubine Zhen didn't speak, just frowned and looked at the ground.

In the afternoon, Concubine Zhen ran to find the Queen Mother alone. At this time, the Yaohua Palace was in chaos, and the maids and eunuchs were all packing the things needed for the Queen Mother.

Concubine Zhen saw the chaos, but said calmly: "Did you just escape like this? What about the people of Daning?"

Concubine Zhen didn't pay her respects, she stood in the hall in plain clothes, against the light, she looked a bit independent and cold.

The queen mother didn't bother to scold her at this time, she just glanced at her and continued to work on her own affairs.

Unexpectedly, Concubine Zhen came forward boldly, pressed the queen mother's busy hand, then knelt down and said, "Queen mother, you can't go, and the emperor can't go. At this critical time, the emperor has to stay and sit in the holy capital. You can keep the Daning Kingdom!"

"You're crazy!! What time is this! We're just going to die here!! You should hurry up and get your clothes ready!" the queen mother gritted her teeth.

"Haven't you been refusing to delegate power to the emperor for decades? You care so much about this supreme right, why are you willing to give up this throne and run away in embarrassment like a bereaved dog!"

The queen mother was angry, and put down the package in her hand: "Presumptuous!" Pointing at her face, the queen mother said, "You are just a concubine in the harem, how dare you talk about government affairs! Don't you know that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics!!"

"Oh." Concubine Zhen smiled disappointedly, "The harem is not allowed to participate in politics? What about you? Are you allowed to listen to politics behind the curtain!!"

"Slap!!" The Queen Mother slapped Concubine Zhen severely, "Pull this bitch out of the Ai family and beat him up 20 times! When the Ai family is dead! How dare you put Ai family's face on the ground and step on it! Strip off her concubine's clothing, strip off her imperial staff!! Let everyone see the end of humiliating Ai's family! Dechun, pass on the decree, and reduce the concubine Zhen to a concubine!"

The queen mother became very angry, and no one dared to tell her face to face that she "listened to politics behind the curtain", which was something she had always tabooed.

When the emperor heard the news, he hurried to the Yaohua Palace, but at this moment a messenger came to report the news, saying that the Hu people had sent someone to negotiate with the emperor of Daning Kingdom.

The emperor paused, both left and right were important matters.The personal eunuch who was serving at the side persuaded: "Your Majesty, state affairs are important! This is a good opportunity, we can't neglect the enemy's face like this!!"

The emperor looked at Yaohua Palace full of reluctance, but he still sent eunuchs to dissuade the queen mother, and hurried to meet the messenger himself.

"See His Majesty the Emperor of Daning Kingdom." The Hu people saluted according to the rules of their nation.Even the well-behaved demeanor couldn't conceal the cunning in his eyes.

Qi Yuxiao didn't want to see him very much, but she couldn't receive him politely: "The messenger please sit down, your leader sent you here, but there is something important to discuss."

"Our leader said that he is willing to negotiate peace with Daning. As long as Daning is willing to divide the west of the Chilian Gula Mountains in the northwest of Daning to our country and pay 20 taels of silver in compensation, we will withdraw our troops."

"Hmph!" Qi Yuxiao patted the table, "Don't even think about it!! We will never cede the land!"

The Hu messenger smiled disdainfully, with contempt in his eyes: "Then, Your Majesty, I am afraid that you have been sitting on this dragon chair for a while. You should think about it carefully. Is it worthwhile to lose the whole Daning Kingdom or give us half of the land?" ?Hahaha!"

Just when this letter made Se look up to the sky and laugh, the slave next to him came to report and pressed close to the emperor's ear: "Your Majesty, Lord Qi has spoken and said that his injuries are all right. Moreover, there is a sudden epidemic among the enemy troops and they cannot continue to attack. They are in a stalemate with our Daning army near Quanqiu Pass!"

When Qi Yuxiao heard the news about Qi Yutao, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at the arrogant messenger again, and said with a sneer in her heart: "God help me... no wonder they will come to negotiate peace with us... ...We don't have to be afraid of them, he must have agreed to his request while we were flustered."

Qi Yuxiao stood up calmly: "We don't agree to your conditions. Go back and tell your leader that if he has the energy to continue fighting, we, Daning, will stay with us to the end."

"Hmph!!" The messenger was choked, glanced at the eunuch who reported the message, and left angrily.

At night, stars were dotted outside the window, but Gu Yue Country was very quiet.

Song Yitao settled the accounts in the room, calculating how much the Wei family had earned during this period.Looking at the last number, Song Yitao's crow's feet are about to appear.

"Hahaha! Oh! We are so happy! We have made so much money in two months!"

"The eldest young master earns the most by working hard. The second young master earns a lot even though he is a fool, but he is a talent for accounting. The third young master is also very talented in business and earns a lot of money. We earned 13 in two months. It's two! The power plant can be developed soon!" Song Yitao is gearing up.

"Yes, yes! The Wei family is getting better little by little! Your method is good - the joint-stock system! Now the whole Wei family is working hard to make money so that they can live a better life. Solve it, we also sued them for blackmail and got 5 taels of compensation, I think the young master of the Jia family is going to regret it now!!" Song Yunqing laughed loudly.

"He is squatting in the prison now. But he is indeed pitiful. He didn't want to hurt anyone, but the second wife of the Jia family and his son killed the grandma with poison in order to obtain the property of the Jia family. The way is to cure the person's body."

"The second grandma is married! The second young master is not his own. I think these two people have long been trying to invade the Jia family's property! Oh, they have lured wolves into the house! This big family is really scary!!" Song Yunqing shook Shake your head.

Song Yitao looked at him with a smile, and said teasingly: "Hey, you don't want to leave now, do you? Just stay! Anyway, you, like me, don't have a home."

Song Yunqing got along with Song Yitao during this time and appreciated her insight very much. Although he didn't know why Song Yitao kept calling him grandpa, he already regarded her as his family.