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

In the imperial city, as soon as Emperor Qizhen had his breakfast, someone came to report the important news of the frontier defense. The prince was kneeling on the ground and bowing his head to listen to the training.

Emperor Qizhen glanced at his biological father on the ground, and walked past him: "The queen mother."

Prince Rong hurriedly paid his respects: "Your Majesty, Wanan."

"Mother, have you heard about the breach of Quanqiu Pass?"

"Hmph! Ask Prince Rong yourself!! Xi and the Queen Mother rolled their eyes at the people on the ground.

"Please forgive me, the empress dowager. It is the fault of the old minister. The old minister's inspection led to the theft of the seal. Many of my subordinates received orders to adjust and reduce the number of troops, which led to the barbarians taking the opportunity to go south and break through the Quanqiu Pass."

"Hmph! Quanqiu Pass is my Daning natural danger. It is only two days away from the holy capital. Once it is broken, you can shoot straight into the Central Plains! It will not be far from the day when the thieves forced the palace!!" The queen mother became angry. , broke the teacup in his hand, and the ceramic slag splashed on Prince Rong's face, scratching his skin.

"The empress dowager calm down!! The veteran is willing to personally lead the troops to fight against the enemy and protect the empress dowager and the emperor!"

"This battle is only allowed to succeed, not to fail! If you lose, Daning Kingdom will also lose!" The Empress Dowager trained, and even glanced at the emperor's expression.

"Yes, I will live up to my mission, I will resign." Prince Rong was terrified, but he didn't dare to resist in the slightest.

After Prince Rong stepped down, Lord Rong walked in from the outside. Lord Rong is the Queen Mother's confidant and the leader of the queen's party. Naturally, he would come to discuss such a big matter with the Queen Mother.

"My honor, Rong Lu, pays respects to the Queen Mother and the Emperor." Lord Rong saluted.

"How is the arrangement of the things I ordered you?" The Queen Mother was still indifferent, without any emotion in her tone.

"Back to the Empress Dowager. In the Southwest War and the Nanyue War, the casualties will be very serious. Now that there is another war at Quanqiuguan, the treasury is tight, and there is an urgent shortage of manpower. According to my opinion, taxes should be increased to fill the treasury, and in the The folks actively recruited corvees to build the southwestern border defense and Quanqiu Pass, and ordered King Ling Xiao to step up military training."

Emperor Qizhen became anxious when he heard this: "No! Mother! This is too taxing for the people and money. The current tax is already very high, and the people are under too much pressure. They only ordered the conscription a while ago, and now they have to conscript corvée. I'm afraid the people will Complaints abound!"

"Then what do you think?! Do you have a solution? The Quanqiu Pass is close at hand. Does the emperor want the barbarians to surround the palace and occupy Daning? At that time, our mother and I will not even have a place to stay! !"

"Just do what Rong Lu said!" The queen mother gave orders directly, no longer caring about the emperor.

Emperor Qizhen tightly gripped the armrest, anxious.

The imperial edict has been received in Lingxiao County Prince's Mansion, Xiao Qiye changed into armor and battle uniform in the room, and prepared to take the army and father to Quanqiuguan to help the battle, Jiang Wanzhen helped him pack his luggage.

While busy getting dressed, Little Seventh Master said: "You are pregnant, don't be too busy, and rest at home. I will go to Quanqiuguan with my father to help."

Jiang Wanzhen touched her belly and said, "My lord, you have to take care of yourself. The concubine and the baby in my belly are waiting for you to come back."

Qi Yutao put her shoulders on her shoulders and gave a slight smile, but he didn't realize that when he smiled, he seemed to be the same as before, but his eyes no longer had the same light as before.

"My lord." Jiang Wanzhen had tears of reluctance in her eyes, "Our baby hasn't been named yet...My lord, do you have any ideas?"

"You decide. You have read a lot of books, so you will definitely choose a good name." Xiao Qiye said lightly.

Jiang Wanzhen stepped forward: "My child is from the Bo generation. Let's call him Bojia, how about it?"

"Okay." Qi Yutao responded and went out.

The cloak on the back fluttered in the wind, Xiao Qiye walked in the wind majesticly, with a long sword on his waist, walked through the corner of the corridor, Xiao Qiye turned his head inadvertently, and saw a maid walking past carrying something back view.Only glanced at her side face, Xiao Qiye's pupils trembled, and he shouted in shock: "Taotao??"

Qi Yutao wanted to chase after her to find her, but just happened to be blocked by a servant in front of him who was paying her respects, and when he looked up again, there was no one there.

"Could it be that I was wrong..." Qi Yutao murmured, the light in his eyes went out again.

The princess of the county stood on the turret with the support of the maid, and wanted to watch the prince leave, but happened to see the abnormal reaction of the prince in the distance, and then looked at the back of Jin Xiaolan who walked behind the rockery, and frowned: "He still hasn't forgotten her. ..."

In Zhuman City, Song Yitao was doing accounts in the room with her legs crossed. She matched herself with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

"The Jia family is still arguing with us..." Song Yitao clicked his tongue in disgust.

"Isn't that right? They didn't recognize the autopsy results, and insisted that our third young master beat us, and insisted on us paying compensation." Song Yunqing was also a little helpless.

"Let's make a fuss, the autopsy report is there, it really has nothing to do with our third young master." Song Yitao pondered.

"In this way, go to that Jia's house to investigate secretly. I am thinking that the person who is familiar with the young master Jia's itinerary and poisoned his meals must be someone from their house. It's frightening to think about it carefully. Killing one's own people and then using the death of one's own family members to extort money from other houses?? What kind of hatred and resentment..."

"Okay. It's been very hot these two days, how about I ask someone to bring you a bowl of mung bean soup?" Song Yunqing said.

Song Yitao looked at the green plants outside the window, and remembered the summer with Xiao Qiye, when it was so hot that he couldn't eat, he would always make watermelon meat for himself.

Song Yitao smiled subconsciously, her voice softened a lot: "What's the date today?"

"The third day of May. What's the matter?" Song Yunqing replied.

"The third day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, today is Xiao Qiye's birthday!" Song Yitao stood up in a "babble" and then sat down slowly, "Is his birthday none of my business... His wife must be with him he."

In the mansion, Odagiri Isagawa was secretly discussing his plan with his subordinates.

"You did a good job. God helped me in this war in Daning Kingdom. Did you do everything you were asked to do?"

"Yes, everything has been done, and people have been ordered to publicize the reform. There has been a polarized situation in the Daning Kingdom. Those who support the reform are all members of the imperial party, and they are incompatible with the queen party."

"Hahaha! Alright, we want to disintegrate them ideologically, politically, and militarily one by one. Now that the dissemination of ideas has been effective, and in addition to the recent breach of Quanqiu Pass in Daning Kingdom, they have increased taxes and expropriated corvees. There will be civil strife in Ningguo soon. At that time, we will not be far from our goal." Odagiri Ichikawa sneered, for his plan, it can be said that he has a certain chance of winning.

"My lord, you are not far away from returning home, you need to speed up the process."

"Well. Fortunately, I spent a lot of time lobbying the corrupt officials in Daning Kingdom. They have agreed to replace the military plaster with ya tablets brought from us and give them to the soldiers of Daning Kingdom. It won't be long. Daning's army will be vulnerable."

"Oh! These idiots, they thought they had earned it! We gave them a sum of money plus ya tablets in exchange for their high-quality plasters to be transported to our country for our country's soldiers to use on the battlefield. It means that we buy their precious ones at a low price medicinal materials, they exchanged their lives for our ya tablets."

"Hmph... Daning Kingdom is about to be defeated." Odagiri Yichuan looked at the map on the wall and smiled coldly.