As June approaches, the weather has become increasingly muggy. The cheerful cicada chirping that never stopped during the day finally stopped, but the slightly cute frog croaking immediately took over, and whether you liked it or not, the music started to play.
Concubine Li¡¯s palace is adjacent to Taiping Lake, which was dug out by Hu Hai two years ago. It is said that the lake is actually only a few dozen feet in diameter. Most of the time, this lake is actually used by Hu Hai to bathe. Da Qin had no concept of swimming, so Hu Hai could only excuse himself by taking a bath when facing the surprised looks from the concubines.
A corridor no more than ten feet long rises from the waves across both sides of the small lake. In the center of the small lake is a small but exquisitely shaped pavilion. Four palace lanterns were hung on the four pillars of the pavilion. Under the misty orange light, the lake swayed and competed with the stars in the sky.
There is a huge circular lattice object placed on the round table in the middle of the pavilion. On it are placed hundreds of finger-sized crystal clear jade beads in six colors that sparkle with strange lights.
The checkers played by children in later generations was plagiarized by Hu Hai and used to entertain the girls in the harem.
At this moment, the six girls, Li Fei, Yu Ji, Long Jiao, Long Mei, Zou Yanyue, and Long Xue, were having a great time surrounding the provocation that would definitely fetch a sky-high price in future generations.
On the left side of the pavilion, Hu Hai and Li Yan were lazily leaning on soft chairs, while the most considerate Long Bing stood behind Hu Hai and carefully massaged Hu Hai's head.
Among the girls, one cannot say that Long Bing is the one who loves Hu Hai the most, but Long Bing is definitely the gentlest and most distressed for Hu Hai.
Although Cuiniang and Luzhu are already the ninth concubine, they still cannot change their cautious nature. Hu Hai and Li Yan are here. Naturally, the two of them would not come over. Instead, they stood on either side of Li Fei and others and started serving tea and water.
Naturally, the girls would not let the two of them serve. After talking for a long time, the two girls just refused to sit down and play together. Of course, checkers can only be played by six people. It was Hu Hai who spoke in the end, and the two girls obediently got together with Li Fei's six girls. Although they no longer had the task of serving tea and water, they did not sit down after all.
All these factors created a natural gap between Cuiniang and Luzhu, who were finally named the ninth concubine, and the other concubines in the harem. To this. Hu Hai didn't have any good solution. We can only hope that as time goes by, the two of them can truly integrate into the harem.
There was not a single serving maid in the small pavilion, only Hu Hai and the concubines in the harem.
After all, this has happened in the past ten years. This is the best time for all the concubines in Hu Hai's harem to arrive. If you add Su You who is accompanying Su Wan in Su's mansion. The Hu Hai family is truly gathered together.
certainly. Although everyone knew that Concubine Zhuang, one of the four concubines, was definitely left to Su You, they still didn't know why the emperor had not issued an order to confer Su You as Concubine Zhuang until now.
Up to now, Hu Hai did not have many children, but he already had four sons, three daughters and a total of seven heirs.
In February of the third year of the Second World War, Long Jiao gave birth to a son, Ying Lekang. Long Mei gave birth to a daughter, Ying Wenyin; in September of the third year of the Second World War, Li Ji gave birth to a son, Ying Jingxi; in October, Concubine Li gave birth to a son, Ying Youning; and Yu Ji gave birth to a daughter, Ying Chuchu; in November of the ninth year of the Second World War, Long Bing gave birth to a son, Ying Jing. Jia, Long Xue gave birth to a daughter, Ying Qinqin.
Except for Ying Jingjia and Ying Qinqin, who are only half a year old, the rest, Ying Lekang, Ying Wenyin, Ying Jingxi, Ying Youning, and Ying Chuchu, are all seven years old and are old enough to be good at making soy sauce.
Three years ago, in the seventh year of the Second Emperor's reign, Hu Hai issued a decree and canonized Ying Jingxi as King De, Ying Youning as Prince Zhuang, and Ying Chuchu as Princess Jing'an.
As for Ying Jingjia and Ying Qinqin, the children of Long Bing and Long Xue, they are still young and have not been canonized yet.
The five eldest children are currently doing their homework in the emperor's study under the leadership of Ying Lekang. The youngest Ying Jingjia and Ying Qinqin were also taken care of by the nanny in the palace, but no one bothered Hu Hai.
Looking at the orioles and swallows filling the pavilion, Hu Hai had a lot of thoughts in his heart. These are my women, the women I love.
If you say you owe someone in this world, then the nine girls in this pavilion are definitely the first.
Nearly ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, but their most glorious years were spent in the palace waiting for them day after day. Year by year, their beautiful years are also passing by year by year. But I always come and go in a hurry for national affairs and world affairs, and my communication with any of the women is getting less and less.
Is this really the life you want? Is this really the life these women want?
Hu Hai was a little confused for a moment.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?"
"Huh?" Li Ji's voice? came from afar, but it pulled Hu Hai out of his thoughts.
"Your Majesty, is there something wrong with summoning my sisters to Tingyuting today?"
Li Yan didn't seem to notice Hu Hai's strangeness and glanced at the women surrounding the checkers beside him and said softly.
This is the question that all the girls have been holding in their hearts. After all, these women were all summoned by Hu Hai, but it had never happened before that all the concubines in the harem were gathered together.
Therefore, although Li Fei and the other girls seemed to be playing checkers, in fact their thoughts were all on Hu Hai. Upon hearing Li Yan's question, Li Fei and others quickly put down their chess pieces and listened.
"Who said we can't summon all the concubines to get together if nothing happens?" Hu Hai turned his head and looked at the concubines and concubines with their ears pricked up, and said with a smile.
Li Yan didn¡¯t say anything, he just looked at Hu Hai quietly with his beautiful eyes as bright as morning stars.
Obviously, Li Yan didn¡¯t believe Hu Hai¡¯s words at all.
Being stared at by Li Yan, Hu Hai showed no sign of weakness and stared back at Li Yan without blinking.
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"Okay. You win." Hu Hai withdrew his eyes and said helplessly, "I do have something to talk to my concubines."
When Li Yan saw Hu Hai defeated, a flower-like smile bloomed on his pretty face, like a hundred flowers in bloom. Although she knew that Hu Hai deliberately did not want to argue with her, she still felt sweet in her heart.
"In the near future, I will issue an edict to the world to formally inspect the counties in the western frontier of our Great Qin."
"ah?"
"Click!"
As soon as Hu Hai finished speaking, the women sitting around the round table all let out low voices. The jade bead in Yu Ji's hand fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
The news about Hu Hai was really exciting to the girls.
Which of the previous inspections did not take at least half a year? This is still fast. During this western tour of the counties in the Western Frontier, there is no need to think that Hu Hai, the newly established Western Region County of Da Qin, will definitely have a hard time.
Xiyu County is more than a thousand miles away from Xianyang. Calculated in this way, if we go back slowly, it may take more than a year for Hu Hai to rush back to Xianyang. If it's fast, I'm afraid it will have to wait until the year before.
In other words, I won¡¯t be able to see my husband for the next six or seven months? How could the girls not be frightened?
Although Li Yan was not as pale as the other girls, his pretty face was also a little pale after hearing Hu Hai talk about the Western Inspection. After looking at Hu Hai for a long time, Li Ji finally just sighed. He bowed his head and said nothing.
she knows. Since Hu Hai said this at this time, it is obvious that the Cabinet Office has reached a unified opinion on the emperor's western tour. Unless Hu Hai changed his mind, no one could change the Western Inspection.
Li Yan didn¡¯t know if his daughters could make Hu Hai change his mind. Although she wanted to, she didn't dare to make any attempt.
Once something is said out loud. It's okay if Hu Hai agrees; if he refuses. Then both sides will more or less have some cracks. It took several years. Only then did the previous disagreement between her and Hu Hai disappear completely, and Li Yan didn't want to cause any more trouble.
No matter how much she doesn¡¯t want to, as an emperor. As a queen, she knows that some things are beyond her control. Unless Hu Hai is a ignorant and ignorant king like before.
However, if he is really such a foolish king, I am afraid that he will not get his own body until now, right?
??Besides, this plan is to suddenly patrol the west. Obviously, the counties in Western Xinjiang must have something to do and need their husband, the Holy Emperor, to go there. Of course, it does not rule out that my husband went there on purpose.
For example, for Princess Loulan, who is said to have become Queen Iya.
Of course, even if Li Ji knew these words, he would not say them out loud. That's not what a smart woman should do. It was not something she, the majestic Empress of Qin, should say.
But, why do I feel so painful in my heart?
"Li Xin's Western Expedition is of great importance to our Great Qin, and the Western Region County is the foundation of our Great Qin's Western Expedition Army of more than 100,000 troops. In the future, if the army wants to enter Navayana and other countries, the Western Region County is the only way. Iya The country has been captured by Du Teng's army, and the various tribes in the Western Region County are now ready to take action despite the letter from Heibingtai."
Rarely, Hu Hai explained the reason for his trip to the Western Regions to Li Yan and the other girls.
However, Hu Hai still had some words left unsaid. The Kingdom of Iya was indeed captured by Du Teng's 40,000 troops. Even with the help of Hong Tianlei, the three armies of the White Tiger Army still encountered strong resistance from the Kingdom of Iya at the beginning, resulting in casualties. Not small. Faced with the power of the thunderous thunder to destroy the world, Iya never chose to surrender.
Finally, under the orders of Du Teng, who was angry, the troops were divided into three groups.The White Tiger Army threw all the Thunderbolts they carried with them into the three cities of the Eya Kingdom that were at the horns of each other.
Under the power of the thunder, three small cities in the basin were reduced to ruins, including the royal city where Eya was. However, the White Tiger Army who cleaned the battlefield did not find many corpses in the country of Iya, let alone Iya herself.
Da Qin has never gotten accurate data on how many people there are in the Eya Kingdom. The three small cities at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains had little contact with other countries in the Western Regions. After Iya took over, the extremely exclusive foreign races in the three cities could not mix in at all.
The disappearance of Eya and the unknown number of aliens from the Eya Kingdom can be regarded as a time bomb planted for Da Qin. Now Black Ice Platform, Longwei Mansion, and the White Tiger Army are all looking around for any possible traces of the missing aliens from the Eya Kingdom, but they still haven't found anything.
The search for Eya and her people yielded no results, but Heibingtai unexpectedly discovered an anti-Qin alliance that had been hiding in the dark and was organized by nobles from various countries in the Western Regions with the intention of restoring the country.
¡°In the final analysis, I was able to discover them, thanks to Iya. If the White Tiger Army hadn't discovered some parchment letters that they didn't have time to destroy when they attacked the Eya Kingdom, I don't think these people would have exposed themselves so quickly.
Obviously, the stalemate between Eya and Great Qin gave these people hope, so they contacted Eya.
Although Li Xin's report of the Pingyi Army's massacre and looting of Dieluo City had not yet been sent to Xianyang, Heibingtai had already reported detailed military information and processes to Hu Hai's desk seven days ago. above.
In the process of external expansion, Hu Hai had long expected such a thing to happen. After all, the huge pressure on the battlefield requires some ways to relieve the soldiers.
It¡¯s just that Hu Hai didn¡¯t expect that such a massacre of the city would happen so quickly.
Li Xin obviously did not expect that the Pingyi army massacred the city in this way, and what impact it would have on Qin's subsequent Central Asian strategy. A murderous country, no matter how powerful it is, can only temporarily occupy a certain place when it is strong, but cannot occupy it permanently.
Because massacre will only arouse greater resistance. It will only make the people of Central Asian countries fear Great Qin, and then unite to fight against Great Qin.
This is completely inconsistent with Hu Hai¡¯s original strategy.
??The strong force sent to the Brahmanyana Kingdom is just what Qin needs to show its strength in the Central Asian countries. If necessary, there is no harm in destroying them. After all, the Fanyana Kingdom first sent troops to plunder the merchants of Da Qin and wanted to attack Da Qin.
Strictly speaking, other countries exploited the merchants of Great Qin in the same way, but they were not as blatant as Fanyana. For those damn slave owners in various countries, I think the countries in Central Asia also have great hatred at this moment. It's just because no one dares to resist for the time being.
"When the slaves of various countries can no longer stand the exploitation and raise flags to resist those countries, it will be the best time for Qin to use troops against those countries. At that time, Da Qin was their homeland where the saints rescued those slaves from water and fire, and then gave them a peaceful life under the light of the Holy Emperor.
It is not too difficult to seize the Fanyana Kingdom as a specimen and incorporate dozens of Central Asian countries into the Qin territory without any bloodshed. After all, for those ordinary slaves, it didn't matter who the master was, as long as they could survive.
"If the Western Expedition of Great Qin continues to massacre cities like the Dieluo City, it will inevitably cause panic among the people of Vanyana, and will also arouse the people of various Central Asian countries to be wary of Great Qin.
So after receiving the news about the massacre of the city by the Pingyi Army, Hu Hai ordered Hei Bingtai to deliver his oral instructions to Li Xin as quickly as possible that night.
All the injured in Dieluo City were killed on the spot, and the remaining survivors were immediately escorted by the 20,000 Donghu cavalry who broke into Dieluo City and sent to the territory of Xiyu County. If there were not enough people, they were sent to Xiyu County by the cavalry who broke into Dieluo City. The people of Chengdieluo City.
After the 20,000 Donghu cavalry were escorted into Xiyu County, they did not need to return.
Hu Hai reprimanded Li Xin for the first time in an unprecedented harsh tone, and strictly ordered the Western Expeditionary Army not to massacre cities, burn, kill, and loot civilians again.
Various things forced Hu Hai to put the Western Inspection on the agenda in advance.
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