Chapter 245 Bater's Request for Help
Jinsui was very disappointed with the large-scale resignation of female officials. She really hoped that the female official system could mature and provide a way out for women who love to study and have ambitions.
Unexpectedly, the noble ladies used it as a means to get close to the emperor. Seeing that being a female official not only prevented them from getting close to the emperor, but also led to the extermination of their clan, they gave up one after another and went home to get married.
Yingniang naturally saw that the queen was in a bad mood, and she childishly comforted Jinsui: "When I grow up, I must be a female official who can share the queen's worries and do things for the people of the world.
Not only me, but all the girls in the military district think so, and we all understand the good intentions of the queen. "
Jin Sui was very pleased, rubbed Ying Niang's forehead and said with a smile: "Okay, then I will wait for you to grow up.
It is better for these female officials to be selected from the common people. They cherish their hard-earned official positions more. This batch of female officials was recruited directly from the daughters of powerful officials because Your Majesty was too impatient. He did not expect such a big thing to happen. "
"What's the big deal?" Gu Changxiao just heard Jinsui's words when he returned to the palace from court.
Jin Sui shook his head and smiled, "Nothing much. I heard that the first military ship will be put to sea for sea trials soon. Has the date been confirmed? Your Majesty, are you going to attend the ceremony?"
How could Gu Changxiao not know what she just said! He stepped forward, held her hand and comforted her, "I know that some gossip has reached your ears, and you have always been soft-hearted..."
Liu Yun shuddered. Your Majesty, is there something wrong with your perception? My senior sister has always been soft-hearted? Have you forgotten how she killed people when she was the King of Li? Of course, your majesty has killed many people, but it may be that when you compare your senior sister with himself, it does seem that your senior sister is much softer.
"You are the queen and you are pregnant. Please don't worry about those insignificant people. I will tell you the truth. In fact, this kind of situation has happened once before in Chang'an.
I killed many people that time to deter those who were ready to make a move. I didn't expect that after moving the capital to the border town, they actually forgot how much I hated this kind of behavior and dared to be so rampant! Think about it, today they can send a woman to my study, tomorrow they can send an assassin into the harem, and the safety of you and your children cannot be guaranteed! This kind of thing must not be tolerated! The only way is to shock them with killing! Killing a thousand people is still not enough to kill the dirty thoughts of those demons and monsters, so I will kill ten thousand people!
Our harem is not the harem in Chang'an, which is a cold place with only power but no warmth. Our harem is a home! Our children will grow up here in the future, and I will never let there be any danger here..."
Jin Sui put her hand over his mouth, looked at him sincerely and said, "Your Majesty, there is no need to explain. I understand everything. And I agree with your approach. If it were me, I would do the same thing!"
Gu Changxiao hugged her and said, "That's good. People in the world can call me cruel, I don't care! I just want people to recognize my kindness."
Just at this moment, the fetus in Jinsui's belly kicked, and because the two were too close, Gu Changxiao also felt it.
He hurriedly touched the fetus's little feet with his hands, a little overwhelmed: "Sui Sui, he is blessing me!"
Jin Sui smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please talk to the child and let him remember his father's voice."
The emperor, who had never wavered in killing in the previous dynasty, was now so nervous that his throat rolled. After a long while, he tentatively said to Jin Sui's stomach:
"Did you hear that, baby? I am your father."
Jin Sui covered her mouth and chuckled, stroking her belly and saying, "I am the queen mother."
"Be good and don't kick, or your mother will feel hurt."
Jin Sui smiled and said, "It won't hurt, it's quite interesting."
After the child started to move, his belly grew bigger day by day. Gu Changxiao had a new hobby. Every day after court, he would talk to the child while he lay close to Jinsui's belly.
At night, he would lie on her belly and listen to the baby's heartbeat. Jinsui talked to him about prenatal education. He heard that music is good for the child's development. The next day, a palace band came and performed live.
However, the music they played were all ancient songs, which were not suitable for children. So Jinsui taught Yingniang some popular children's songs, and Yingniang composed music with them.
For a while, classic children's songs such as "The Insect Flying", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Two Tigers" were heard in the palace.
These songs spread very quickly. They were catchy and had lively music. Children could sing them after hearing them twice. They soon spread throughout the capital and then the rest of the country.
In the seventh month of pregnancy, the first batch of navy, the first warship and the old-style sea vessel entered the sea, and the maritime exercise officially began.
Jinsui gave Hanxing a flag signal manual, which enabled our navy to grow rapidly.
During this period, an envoy from the Northern Frontier brought a piece of good news, that is, their King Bater officially got married and invited friendly countries to attend the wedding banquet.
Gu Changxiao was still thinking about which imperial envoy to send. Of course, it would be best to send Liuyun. This was also what Princess Toya requested. He hoped that Master Liuyun could go to the Northern Frontier Royal Court again.
But Liuyun didn't want to go, he said the queen was about to give birth, he could only feel at ease if he personally protected the queen. Gu Changxiao agreed with this, so he discussed with Cheng Yu and sent an imperial envoy to go.
While the court was still discussing it, Bater sent a new envoy. This time he came in a hurry and was in a hurry. He also brought valuable gifts and a letter of request written by Bater himself.
It turned out that there was a civil strife in the northern border, and several generals with heavy troops rebelled during Bater's wedding. Bater was trapped in the royal court, and Princess Toya rushed to rescue him, but due to insufficient troops, the royal court was about to fall.
Everyone knew that unless it was absolutely necessary, Bater would never ask Daxia for help. Just like when Gu Changxiao fought with Prince Yu, he never thought of borrowing Bater's troops.
Borrowing military forces from neighboring countries to quell civil unrest can easily lead to a situation where it is easier to ask for troops than to send them, and the civil war may turn into a war between two countries.
The court was arguing fiercely over whether to lend troops to Bater.
Supporters believe that since King Bater ascended the throne, we have made peace with Northern Xinjiang. If we do not rescue him, after he is killed, another king of Northern Xinjiang will ascend the throne and will most likely start a war with Daxia again.
Our main force now is fighting Japan, and we also have a large army fighting the Hu people. It is best not to fight with the northern border again.
The opposition believes that civil unrest in northern Xinjiang is more beneficial to us. The more chaotic it is, the better. Why should we get involved if we just sit on the other side of the river and watch the fight between tigers?
Jin Sui was also an opponent at the beginning. She didn't want our soldiers to die in the northern border. She would be heartbroken even if one died.
Besides, she felt that Bater and Toya were hiding their strength and simply wanted to use Daxia's gunpowder to destroy the enemy.
Because so many people opposed it, there was constant debate in the court. The envoys from the northern border were extremely anxious and immediately sent a letter to the royal court.
When the third group of envoys arrived, they brought a letter from Bater, stating that he was willing to cede three cities to Daxia as a reward as long as Daxia helped him quell the civil strife.
The three cities were exactly the Hetao Plain. This greatly stimulated the civil and military officials in the court. You have to know how many conflicts we had with the northern barbarians throughout the dynasties in order to seize the Hetao Plain!
They had tried to take it back once, but lost it again soon after. As for Daxia, from its founding till now, it had only taken back the Sixteen Prefectures in Yan area, but had never taken back the Hetao region.
If it could be snatched back, it would be a great achievement that would allow him to be enthroned at Mount Tai. No emperor could resist such a temptation.
Gu Changxiao was the same. He said to Jinsui excitedly:
"No matter whether Bater keeps his promise or not, I must obtain the Hetao Plain! This way we will have more fertile pastures, and training a million cavalry will not be a problem!"
Jinsui looked at the map and was puzzled: "Hetao is just as important to Northern Xinjiang, why is Bater willing to cede these three cities to Daxia?"
Unexpectedly, Liuyun solved their puzzlement: "The one who rebelled this time is the prince in charge of Hetao. His troops are the strongest."
It seems that during his time in the Northern Frontier, although Liuyun was thinking about becoming an immortal every day, he also heard some news.
Now it is understandable. Even if Bater killed the prince and obtained Hetao, the people and herdsmen of Hetao would not submit to him. It would be better to exchange Hetao for the help of Daxia.
Jin Sui was very satisfied with the deal from the perspective of the Queen of Daxia, but when she thought about how she had helped Toya and Bater seize the throne, she felt a little upset.
Although Battelle is not so bad that he can't even paste mud on the wall, he is still too bad! There are frequent internal conflicts in the northern border, and now he has to rely on ceding land to seek foreign aid!
If this was my brother, I would have killed him long ago. I would be better than him as the empress! Toya is really too soft-hearted.
If Bater knew that Jinsui evaluated him like this, he would definitely be in tears. Why has there always been internal strife in the Northern Frontier?
Was it Gu Changxiao and Yan Jiu who secretly instigated this? Bater agreed to trade with Daxia and gave Yan Jiu trade privileges. The herdsmen and tribes in the northern border did become rich, but it also gave them the strength to rebel.
Gu Changxiao and Yan Jiu immediately agreed on a series of provocative actions against the Northern Frontier. One wanted to instability in the enemy country so as to avoid border wars.
One is to make money. The more chaotic the Northern Frontier is, the easier it will be for Yan Jiu to control the economy of the Northern Frontier.
Before Jinsui, he had considered that after the destruction of Japan, a national war would sooner or later break out with the northern border.
Now it seems that this will not happen. As long as Bater is alive and Yan Jiu is secretly manipulating the deaths of a group of people in the Northern Frontier, within ten years, the Northern Frontier's national strength will be too weak to fight against Daxia.
And we have entered the era of hot weapons, while they are still using scimitars and war horses.
However, Bater has been paying attention to the Black Tiger's pursuit of the Hu people. Maybe he can show him a way out. You can't touch the behemoth of Daxia. Your cavalry should run to the west! The voice of King Bater who opposed the reinforcements completely disappeared in the court, because he gave too much!
With the three cities of Hetao incorporated into the territory of Daxia, our Great Wall can be pushed outward by 300 miles to establish a new border line, and Daxia's territory will become the largest in history.
Although the land is in hand, it will take a long time for the governance to be completely Sinicized. But as long as the land is in hand, nothing else will be a problem! The Ministry of Military Industry is the most excited, because they have a lot of new weapons that can be tested in this battle. His Majesty is now fully developing the navy and building supporting weapons for warships.
As a result, the new catapult they improved was useless except for being installed on the city walls. The catapult was too heavy and it was not even included in the queue when the weapons were delivered to General Black Tiger last time.
This time it happens to be used on the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang. Is there anything more exciting than using the enemy's battlefield to try out our weapons?
Gu Changxiao quickly decided on the candidates for generals to be sent, namely General Huang and Liuyun.
That's right, our little Liuyun still has to make this trip, because he is most familiar with the northern border. There is another person who also wants to go, and it was his own request.
It was Yan Shiyi. His reason was speechless because Yan Jiu and Yan Twelve Niang had both been to the Northern Frontier Royal Court, but he was the only one who had not been there, and he was very unwilling to accept this.
There happened to be civil unrest in the Northern Frontier, and many Yan family caravans were affected. He, as the acting head of the family, went there to rectify the situation and gave confidence to the caravan members.
Gu Changxiao agreed, but he gave Yan Shiyi another task, which was to sign a contract with Bater to dig an oil mine.
Although we have found oil mines in the northwest, neither the storage capacity nor the environment is as good as those in northern Xinjiang. People in northern Xinjiang still don't know the importance of oil.
We offer them a low price to mine the minerals, saving manpower and financial resources. It just takes some time to transport them back, but that's not a problem.
In this way, when Jinsui was eight months pregnant, the issue of rushing to help the northern border, which had been debated throughout the capital, was finalized.
General Huang, Liuyun and Yan Shiyi, with an army of 50,000 and a large number of new weapons such as gunpowder and catapults, rushed to the royal court of the Northern Frontier.
The imperial court was already planning to send officials and garrisons to take over the three cities in Hetao. Once General Huang sent back a signal of victory, the map of the Great Xia Kingdom could be redrawn.
Before leaving, Jin Sui specifically asked Liu Yun: "You have made great contributions this time, His Majesty will definitely make you a general, and you can return to secular life. It is not easy to be a Taoist priest."
She still felt that the child was dwelling on a dead end, just like some scholars in later generations who plunged into philosophy and were confused.
What young man would give up his bright future and insist on becoming a Taoist priest?
Liuyun was very sad: "Sister, do you think that I don't have the understanding and the heart to achieve the Tao? I will never be able to truly achieve the Tao?"
Jinsui: ...
Enlightenment? Dao heart? Attainment? Do you have any of that?
She was afraid that it would hurt her child and prevent him from concentrating on killing the enemy on the battlefield, so she had to change her words: "I just think you are more useful as a general than a Taoist priest! How can I explain this enlightenment? Personal cultivation is one method, but there is also the method of cultivating merits and virtues!
"When you are a general, you help the people. That is a great merit! It is easier for you to attain enlightenment than practicing on your own!"
These words made Liuyun's eyes light up, and also solved the doubts he had long had. Why did senior sister not become a fairy but a queen? It turned out that she was practicing the method of merit cultivation!
Taoist Ling is also like this. Why do we need to help disaster victims, build hospitals, and adopt orphans? This is also a way to cultivate merit!
He immediately said happily: "Thank you for clearing up my doubts, I know what to do now. Don't worry, I will definitely not let you down!"
Jin Sui: ...What do I expect? What do you understand? Regardless of what this stubborn child thinks, Jin Sui gave him, Yan Shiyi, and General Huang a set of close-fitting armor each. She made it with space materials, which is comparable to bulletproof vests.
She also gave them some space medicine, and let them take away all the energy bars accumulated during this period. She decided to turn the energy bars into a ritual.
That is, it is only for the soldiers on the expedition, and it is considered a specialty prepared by the queen for the soldiers. This time, there is also a hot air balloon army accompanying them, ready to perform miracles in the royal court.
Jinsui felt that they did not seem to be going to rescue Bater, but rather to the northern border to show off our Great Xia's new weapons.
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