Chapter 735
Chapter 735
However, the Empress Dowager's stomach hasn't moved. The courtiers are still worried. Linglong sits on the Dragon chair and sneers at them, urging them to get married and giving birth. These people are more strict than empress dowager ren'an. It depends on whether she is happy or not. It's no use for others to be anxious and flustered.
Twelve years after the empress succeeded to the throne, the Grand Canal, which took eight years, was finally completed, with a total length of nearly 3000 kilometers, running through the grand calendar, completely connecting the North-South transportation, the river transportation developed rapidly, and the people's lives changed with each passing day.
The completion of the project so quickly is closely related to the improvement and innovation of various instruments under the guidance of the Ministry of works. On the day when the Grand Canal began to sail, the female emperor came in person, and the people knelt down and shouted long live. The atmosphere at the scene was warm to the top!
In recent years, the barbarians have become more and more rampant. Seeing the prosperity of the border, the days of nomadism are getting harder and harder day by day, especially in winter. Seeing that the Dali people wear light and thin but not cold, and can eat antique soup around the oven, these beast like barbarians can't sit still at last!
At first, they just made a small fuss and occasionally robbed something. There were not many people sent. They robbed and ran away, but they didn't hurt people's lives. Border officers and soldiers couldn't send people to chase directly for a windproof suit or a bag of seeds. Later, the barbarians became more and more worried. They couldn't solve the secret recipe of what they robbed by themselves, just like those seeds, All kinds of food can grow on the land of Dali, but nothing can grow on their grassland!
There are also windproof clothes that are very popular at the border from officers and soldiers to the people. The cloth is strange. Even if they are cut with a knife, they don't know how to make them. They rob or rob, but there are no Dali people. They don't know how to use them at all.
So, after another robbery, they not only took the goods, but also a businessman!
This is a hornet's nest!
Qin Zheng was so angry that he immediately lit a wolf smoke and sounded a war drum to declare war. He said that if the barbarians did not return the captured Dali people unharmed in one day, they would shovel the grassland flat!
But these barbarians, who grew up drinking blood, would not be called "barbarians" by Dali people if they knew etiquette, righteousness and shame. They not only didn't listen to Qin Zheng's warning, but tore up the merchant's body overnight and discarded it on the border!
In this way, not only Qin Zheng but also the female emperor will be angry.
Linglong doesn't care about the life and death of these ordinary people, but now she is the female emperor of Dali. What do those barbarians mean by doing so? How dare they move the people she covers?
It's a personal expedition!
But the Empress Dowager ren'an and Hu Xiuhe almost fainted!
Qin Xiao and Lu Yu are supportive. The latter agrees with whatever the female emperor makes. The former is a real female emperor licking the dog. Although Qin Xiao looks calm, steady and unsmiling, in fact, every time she sees Linglong's eyes, there are stars shining, and Linglong's riding and shooting skills are very excellent. When she asked Qin Xiao to teach, Qin Xiao was shocked. All the men of the Qin family have talent in martial arts. For example, Qin Xiao practices children's skills and lays a very good foundation. Although the female emperor is a monk halfway, In terms of talent, it's not bad!
And with his escort, there will be no accident.
Before she left, Linglong handed over the affairs of the court to Hu Xiuhe and Lu Yu. Her attitude towards Lu Yu always made Qin Xiao feel very strange. If her majesty trusted Lu Yu, Lu Yu didn't know many things. But if her majesty didn't believe Lu Yu, he could also be entrusted with such a great event as supervising the country.
However, Qin Xiao was always silent and would never ask these questions.
The Grand Canal has been completed and the waterway is smooth. It takes only seven days to reach the border. Qin Zheng was very surprised. He never thought that the female emperor would come to the battlefield in person. They haven't seen each other for several years. The little girl who was a little girl in those years is now slender and tall, and her momentum is still dignified.
Although your majesty said she would fight in person, who dares to let her go to the battlefield? Qin Xiao is always around!
However, the barbarians saw a woman in silver and white armor on the upper floor of bianguan city from a distance. They laughed unclearly. They were fascinated by Dali women, because compared with the tough and brave grassland women, Dali women were so delicate and docile that they tore them up after playing with them. It was the favorite thing for warriors on horseback.
"What bird language do you say?"
Anyway, Linglong didn't understand a word. She motioned Qin Xiao to bring the bow, which was used by Qin Xiao on weekdays. It weighed more than ten kilograms. The delicate girl couldn't pull it. Linglong took it in her hand as if she were playing with it. The barbarian headed had a large strange totem on his face. It was called a foam flying around. He laughed as he said it, as if Linglong had become their bag.
"Qin Xiao, do you think my arrow can go through his throat?"
Qin Xiao said, "it will inevitably dirty your Majesty's hands. Let the minister come?"
Linglong smiled: "I don't know why, I always feel that I can do anything and achieve everything I want. This arrow will pass through his troublesome mouth and tell him what to say and what not to say."
After saying that, it was a bow and arrow shot out with a strong wind! The arrow broke into the air and happened to pierce the barbarian's throat when he turned his head and laughed!
The man shook on the horse's back, then fell rigidly, and the smile on his face didn't even disappear.
Linglong returned the bow to Qin Xiao and skimmed the corners of his mouth, "garbage."
There was a moment of silence on the city tower, and a burst of howling broke out in an instant. The soldiers in charge of the previous scolding were like beating chicken blood and scolding in Savage language. Even Qin Zheng in the pioneer team looked back at the city tower in surprise and disbelief - he saw with his own eyes that the arrow that killed the barbarian leader was not his eldest son Qin Xiao, but the female emperor!
Dali's army is as powerful as a rainbow, and the barbarians are headless. They are not the opponents of the Qin family's army. Now they are retreating. Only the disabled soldiers and defeated generals are left. They fled into the dangerous swamp and jungle. There are dangers everywhere. Even the barbarians are not familiar with it. Qin Zheng didn't ask anyone to chase him anymore. He only made people guard the entrance and exit. There is no water in it. He wanted to see how long the escaped fish can last.
Facts proved that they only lasted less than three days. When they escaped, there were more than 100 people. Three days later, there were only more than 20 people alive. Qin Zheng didn't stay. With Linglong's consent, he pulled the more than 20 barbarians to the execution platform at the entrance of the vegetable market at the border pass, raised the knife and killed them.
How many border people have been harmed by these barbarians over the years. It's cheap for them to have such a simple head!
At this point, Linglong finally ate roasted whole sheep and cheese on the grassland. After the barbarian killed the family, she played all the way back to the capital. Qin Xiao always guarded the side. Qin Zheng stayed at the border all his life and didn't want to go back to Beijing. Moreover, he had nothing to do. He couldn't get those literary things. It's better to stay at the border and eat meat and drink!
Since the land of Qi was taken back, Linglong sent Qin Zhan as the commander of Qi province. There are many mines in Qi Province, but the ancient smelting technology is backward, the cold weapons are easy to break, and the blacksmiths are also very scarce. The biggest task of Qin Zhan as the commander is to develop light weapons that cut iron like mud. Of course, among the six golden fingers given to them by Linglong, it seems that the work department is the favorite of the female emperor. The most insignificant Work Department officials in the past now walk with wind!
However, high salaries correspond to high-intensity work. The Ministry of work can't accommodate people fishing in troubled waters. In exquisite words, everyone in the Ministry of work is a technical house and only wants to engage in technology.
It's impossible to fish for oil and water. It's impossible in this life.
Sixteen years after the empress succeeded to the throne, the fourth imperial examination, a new women's scientific examination project was set up.
After 16 years of experience, even if some people think that the women's scientific examination is the best in the world, they dare not say it with high sounding. The woman sitting on the Dragon chair is a woman. Do you have the ability to speak in front of her? If she doesn't peel off the next layer of skin, it's all your luck!
In the same year, the first group of female officials officially entered the political center and became the confidants of the female emperor. The male officials only had a strong sense of crisis from contempt, doubt and surprise at the beginning. According to the posture of female officials working so hard, will they be squeezed out one day?
Competition is the driving force. In the early years, those old men were almost old. These scientific examinations were exquisite and deliberately selected those who were open-minded and tolerant. New trends of thought always need to be promoted by new people. This is her. One year is equivalent to the tenth year of the ordinary emperor. With her own strength, she has pushed forward the development of the great dynasties for hundreds of years!
The only thing that worried the courtiers was that the empress had seven out of twenty this year, which was the age when Emperor Xiaozong had a daughter under his knee, but there was no news about the empress's stomach. Was it not easy for the emperor's husband and servant?
Lu Yu has become a top official. No one knows better than him how many great things the little lady emperor on the Dragon chair has done - no, she can't be called the little lady emperor.
It's just that she's still very young. At the age of 27, she's not much different from a teenage girl.
Lu Yu is unmarried so far. It seems to outsiders that he, Qin Xiao and Hu Xiuhe can be called the three red men around the female emperor. Only Lu Yu himself knows that he can only be a knife in the female emperor's hand forever. He wants blood and cold. He can maintain such a holy favor only by standing on the opposite side of everyone.
What he pursues is only the dispensable ambiguity of the female emperor.
Lu Yu is proud by nature. It is impossible for him to enter the Linglong harem. He wants to be the most special one in her life. If not, he should also leave his own trace, which can not be erased by anyone.
He had already surrendered, but he didn't know it.
Many times he felt that the female emperor understood his feelings, and many times he felt that she did not understand. He looked forward to her understanding, but he didn't want her to understand. He always felt that this affection was so faintly hidden, which was better than saying it in a big way - yes, who would believe that Lord Lu Yu would also be moved? He is cruel and ruthless. The city is deep and has countless intrigues. He should be alone in his life. This is the best.
The world is rising, the sea is yanheqing, and the female emperor is making trouble again.
She is a restless person. Tell her to be honest and stay in the palace for decades? Oh, you'd better not even think about it.
The female emperor sneaked out of the palace until the next morning, the ministers waited left and right, and couldn't wait for the one on the Dragon chair.
Hu Xiuhe shook the dust calmly and let Lu Yu walk around in front of him. He didn't lift his eyelids. He said slowly, "Your Majesty has an order to make Lord Lu supervise the country."
How can Lu Yu not be angry!
He worked hard for her day and night. He sang Black faces to her day by day and asked her to be a good person. He did all the things that offended people. Although the imperial court has been calm these years, there are always some people who want to fish in troubled waters. People who came to assassinate Lu Yu can circle around the great dynasties! But just then, the empress slipped away!
Even if you slip away, why don't you keep Qin Xiao? Why take Qin Xiao away?!
Hu Daban's expression was calm: "general Qin has excellent martial arts. Naturally, he should accompany his majesty. Otherwise, what should he do in case of danger? And the slave is old, and the palace can't live without the slave. The Empress Dowager also needs the slave's hand. Don't you just leave Lord Lu? "
Lu Yu is in his early 40s and has worked hard to grow white hair.
He couldn't tell the agitation and anger in his heart. It was his own secret. After a while, he took several deep breaths to calm down and asked Hu Xiuhe: "... Did your majesty ever say when to come back?"
Hu Xiuhe said with a smile, "it won't be long."
As soon as Lu Yu was relieved, Hu Xiuhe said, "it's only a year and a half."
... Lu Yu thinks his hair is all white!
The most terrible thing is that he unknowingly has a servility. He has a little habit in addition to anger and despair.
It turns out that people can really forget their ambitions, forget what kind of heroic vows they have made, and even look at their demands calmly.
Lu Yu is unwilling to share with others. He is willing to be a virtuous minister and live forever with the female emperor.
Lu Yu was not close to the female emperor all his life. When she came back a year later, he would still keep the court intact. She brought a little girl of unknown origin back, and he immediately stood on her side, and even took the initiative to ask to be the grand Fu of the little imperial daughter. Twenty years later, when the Empress Dowager ren'an died, the imperial daughter could be alone. When the female emperor left with Qin Xiao Hu Xiuhe, he could even stay quietly to help the new female emperor continue to create the prosperous era of the great calendar.
In his life, he lived himself into a knife.
Now the female emperor left him to the new female emperor, and he had no complaints.
If you ask why, if you ask where his ambition has gone, if you ask him if he still remembers his ambition - Lu Yu thinks, he remembers, but those wolves that can no longer make him excited and tamed will not attack their master even if they take off the chain.
Even if it will eventually be discarded.
Will die alone and have nothing.
landbeastnovel