The towering city tower stands in the morning light. Chenzhou Gate is bustling early in the morning, and the beacons in Huainan cannot affect the market in Tokyo too much. The entire city's vegetables, meat and various supplies rely on trafficking in nearby and nearby villages, and there are also merchants coming and going in and out of Tokyo.

At this time, an old eunuch wearing a bull-headed and robe came to Chenzhou Gate. When he arrived at the city gate, he could only dismount and wait for the crowd to pass through the city gate slowly. There would be a lot of people in the morning. Inside and outside the city gate, there were two rows of soldiers wearing armored and holding sharp-wielding soldiers. As long as they thought they were suspicious, they would be more troublesome. Others would be more troublesome. They could pay taxes to officials according to the number of goods they carried.

An old eunuch Cao Tai, who has gray hair and hair on his face, looks like a eunuch no matter how he looks like a eunuch. No soldier is willing to pay attention to a eunuch, and everyone pretends not to see it.

When the queen returned to Tokyo with her honor a few days ago, the eunuch who often walked around the queen didn't see anyone along the way, so he must have taken photos to do something else. But as a eunuch in the palace, he would not go out for too long and would definitely return to Tokyo soon.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Cao Tai suddenly heard someone calling him: "Eunuch Cao."

Cao Tai turned around and saw that it was Jing Niang and the little Taoist nun Qingxu, who had seen him in Chenzhou and was very familiar with Qingxu. He hurriedly walked over with his horse, and Jingniang said again: "Have the queen's body been better recently?"

"The family went to Shouzhou, and I only found out when I rushed back." Cao Tai said with a kind look on his face.

Jing Niang didn't say much, and said directly: "Guo Duzhi asked me to take Qingxu with Eunuch Cao to the palace and show the queen."

"That's good." Cao Tai said, but he pondered for a moment, looked around and whispered, "If you have anything you want to offer to the Queen, you can hand it over to the Zajia first... You have to search your body when you enter the palace, which is the rule." He emphasized, "Even ministers who have made great contributions in their lives must search your body when they enter the outer hall. If there are any weapons, this kind of search is relatively simple; but if someone enters the inner hall, they search very carefully, and they are afraid that people outside will bring poison into the palace. Zajia will not be searched, and there are several doors that are controlled by Zajia."

Cao Tai is so smart and experienced old eunuch. He met him halfway through the journey as soon as he came back. They suddenly took the initiative to ask for a visit to the queen. Cao Tai could think that it was not that simple with his toes.

Unexpectedly, Jing Niang shook her head calmly and said, "There is nothing."

Cao Tai then stopped asking more questions and asked them to get on the horse and follow him north.

When they reached the north gate of Da Nei, Jingniang and Qingxu were taken to a house by eunuchs, and then a dozen palace ladies came in to close the door and pulled a curtain in the house. One of the older ones said, "Take off all the clothes, don't leave any one left. There is also the hairpin on the head and all the ornaments on the body."

Qingxu covered his chest with his hands and looked at the middle-aged woman who was talking innocently and shyly.

But this pitiful expression did not touch the palace lady. The palace lady snorted coldly: "Don't pretend! I have seen many beautiful girls every year, and I have seen all the ladies of all time. They are all women to see what's so great about it... Your breasts are so small, Heisei, do you think I'm interested in watching them?"

After hearing this, Qingxu suddenly looked angry.

The other people next to them had already started searching for their bags and grabbed a handful of yellow rune paper from Qingxu's cloth bag. The palace maid flipped through it casually, and it was full of ghostly talismans, so it threw it aside. Another palace maid was holding Jing Niang's hairpin and looking at the direction of the light to see if there was any mechanism.

...When they were examined, Qingxu followed Jing Niang out in depressed mood. The eunuch Cao Tai showed a slack smile on his face when he saw this.

The group of three people silently entered the Zide Hall through the back door. There were several rooms outside the Queen's bedroom, with the palace maids and eunuchs on duty. Cao Tai first asked Jing Niang and others to sit in a room and wait, and ran in to report.

Fu Shi was lying lazily on a side of a collapsed reading book. There were some palace maids next to her, some were slapping her legs and some were gently hammering her legs and waist. Cao Tai stepped forward and knelt at her feet, saying respectfully: "Report to Empress, I'm back from Huainan."

When Fu saw Cao Tai, she sat up, raised her hand and waved her hand gently, and the people around her quickly bent down and went backwards.

"Get up and talk."

"I thank you." Cao Tai held the hem of his robe, climbed up from the ground, bowed, "Jing Niang and Qingxu have entered the palace. I met the official family and Wang Pu again."

Cao Tai said things in a few words, paused first, and heard the queen not asking questions, then continued: "The official family only asked the queen to reward Guodu with some property. The official family said that Huainan needs good generals, and after the war, he would recount his previous achievements... The current situation in Huainan is that Shouzhou has not yet been captured, and the royal army (the army of Zhou Dynasty) has already arrived in Qingliu Pass and has just occupied Chuzhou. Zhao Kuangyin, the capital in front of the palace, performed the best in each of the battles and was highly appreciated by the officials.

First, Li Gu's vanguard's troops crossed the Huai River in Zhengyang, advanced to Shouzhou and defeated the Southern Tang army that had left the city to form a formation; but tens of thousands of reinforcements from Southern Tang attacked Zhengyang, and Li Gu was afraid of being attacked by the enemy from both sides, so he retreated from Shouzhou to guard the floating bridge. Later, the officials thought that Li Gu had missed the opportunity to fight and handed over the military power to Li Chongjin..."

When Fu heard this, her eyebrows raised slightly. She remembered that when she was still on the way to Chenzhou, she heard that the official family used Li Gu as the striker and wanted to make suggestions to change Li Chongjin; but because of other considerations, she didn't say anything. Unexpectedly, the official family still used Li Chongjin.

Cao Tai continued: "The Tang army in Zhengyang was defeated and more than 10,000 people died. Later, the officials believed that Shouzhou went south, and ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the Iron Cavalry to capture the downstream Tang army's water and land garrison stronghold Tushan; Zhao Kuangyin lured the Tang army at Wokou and defeated 10,000 Tang troops.

After the great victory of Wokou, the official immediately ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the Iron Cavalry to attack Qingliu Pass. The Southern Tang Dynasty garrison Huangfu Hui led his army into Chuzhou City. Later, he left the city to fight, but was killed by Zhao Kuangyin alone. The king's army took advantage of the situation to occupy Chuzhou. Zhao Kuangyin sealed the wealth and goods in the city and handed over to the official family."

Fu thought to himself: Shao Ge'er did not take property when he attacked Hou Shu, but actually grabbed the prisoners and asked Shu Kingdom for help, and did a very despicable job; but Zhao Kuangyin grabbed it, but he still returned to the treasury. Compared with the two, it was really a verdict. Zhao Kuangyin's ambition was definitely higher than Shao Ge'er... But she still likes people like Shao Ge'er more.

Cao Tai finished reporting it in a short while. He always picked the important things and said concisely. But he stood there without moving. Fu said again: "After a stick of incense, let Qingxu and others come in to see me."

"Here." Cao Tai then bowed and retreated.

Fu held his head with his pink fist and thought for a while. He was sure in his heart: In the eyes of the officials, the generals who can fight are more important than anything else, and Li Chongjin can control the military power of the front troops.

After a serious illness, Fu felt that she understood the emperor more clearly. Perhaps a woman really had to see a man without any feelings before she could truly understand him.

Sooner or later, the world will be unified, but no one can explain how long this process will take. Fu could feel that the emperor was very anxious. He did not want to leave such great achievements to those who later generations, and wanted to accomplish all the major things of civil and military achievements by himself.

He was also very wise, abandoning all prejudices, and doing everything in order to protect the combat power of the Zhou army, in order to open up the territory and annex the world. Everyone's future is based on whether they can fight and establish military achievements. The emperor gave his ministers an accurate thought: as long as they can fight, everything is easy to say. Only in this way can the Zhou army soldiers be eager to fight and be full of morale.

Therefore, Fu thought that Shao Ge'er said something unreasonable in Chenzhou last time, but it doesn't matter. As long as he can perform well in the battlefield in Huainan, just as good as in the Battle of Shu, then the emperor will not care about him; and Shao Ge'er is a person who has made contributions in the Battle of Gaoping. If the officials think he is a good general, everything will be easy to say.

Not long after, two women, one tall and one short, walked into the palace. It was Jing Niang and Qingxu.

But Qingxu did not come forward and was left far away. Jingniang walked up to pay homage with a stack of yellow paper. Fu looked at her with a smile, glanced at Qingxu who was left behind, and said, "Plain."

Jing Niang looked up at Fu. Fu remained silent and thought to herself: This woman is more courageous than a man.

Jingniang looked at the many books piled up on the cabinet next to her again. Fu also had one at hand. She pointed to the pile of books and said, "Please give it to the queen."

Fu thought she was very strange. It was a pure feeling, and it was different from other people's behavior when they met the queen, at least without a single word of redundant words. Fu kept calm and looked at what she wanted to do and nodded slightly.

Jingniang found a record of the grandfather from the pile of books, then walked to the queen, but put the book aside. She pulled out another piece from the talisman paper and pointed to the symbol drawn on it: "This is one...two...three..."

Fu suddenly felt something interesting and nodded again.

Then Jing Niang pointed to one of them again: "From top to bottom, there are three numbers. The first one is the number of pages, the second one is the number of lines, and the third one is the word." After saying that, he looked at the book just now, found a word, and said, "其."

Fu suddenly realized and his eyes lit up slightly.

Jingniang said again: "Why should I write these ten symbols down?"

Fu shook her head and said, "Remember."

It was Jing Niang who was surprised and couldn't help but say, "I just said it once..." Fu smiled and said, "Remember. In the palace, no one dared to let me say it again."

Jing Niang got closer and whispered: "Guo Duzhi said that just in case, he would report to the queen if there was anything important in the future. In an emergency, he would send Qingxu into the inner alchemy method of the Empress of the Palace. If there are four numbers in the third place in these yellow papers, this one would be a report."

Fu asked: "Do you have four numbers of paper in your hand?"

Jing Niang shook her head: "No, today I was ordered to tell the queen this method."

Fu nodded, thought for a while and said, "On the second and sixteenth day of every month, Cao Tai will go to Dongshi to buy some items for me. If he has anything to say, I will send someone to Dongshi to Dongshi to find Cao Tai in the next two days."

Cao Tai went to buy things for the queen, which was actually a reward errand, because the things bought from a special trip were usually at least several times more expensive, and she agreed to the behavior.

"Qingxu." Fu smiled and waved to the little Taoist nun in the distance, her love and compassion were beyond words.
Chapter completed!