Guo Qiang looked at Li Yuan and bit her lip, saying, "Your Highness, please allow me to report this. Your Majesty will need women to reproduce for generations to come. I only wish to bear a child for Your Majesty and will not compete with the Queen for your favor. Please allow me a place."
She looked weak and pitiful, which made Li Yuan seem particularly unreasonable. Lin Su reached out and shook Li Yuan's clenched hand, saying with a smile, "Why does the Queen have to be angry with such a little girl..."
When he said that, Guo Qiang's eyes lit up.
"She gave up her good job as the Prime Minister's daughter and insisted on becoming a palace maid. It just so happens that the Fragrance Bureau is short of a maid to clean toilets." Lin Su turned to Guo Qiang and said with a smile, "The young lady loves me. I don't think she will back down because of this matter. Only those who endure hardships can become the best."
The prime minister's only daughter went to clean the toilet. The women who had not yet left all changed their expressions, but they also seemed to be enjoying the show.
If the emperor doesn't like you, just step down. Even if you are the prime minister's daughter, if you want to climb up the tree and become a phoenix, it depends on whether His Majesty is willing.
Guo Qiang stood there in a daze, looking pale and disheveled, "Your Majesty..."
"You make your own choice. Do you want to go back and be the daughter of your prime minister, or stay within these palace walls and be a maid cleaning toilets?" Lin Su stood up and pulled Li Yuan along. "Queen, hurry up and leave. We agreed to leave the palace today. If you don't leave now, it will be dark soon."
Li Yuan naturally stood up with him. Now His Majesty wants farmers to plant winter wheat and build greenhouses, which is exactly what they want to see today. However, when he said this at this time, he did not leave Guo Qiang with the slightest face.
But he liked the way this man was gentle only to him, and ruthless and indifferent to everyone else: "Your Majesty, please go slower. The hem of my dress is too long."
"Then I'll carry you away?" Lin Su asked with a smile.
It's not that he doesn't want to give people face, but he just has no good feelings towards those who give him a way out and instead take advantage of him.
He saw through the woman's ambition at a glance. Her longing for the young queen was real, and her secret hatred for the young queen was also real. Such a woman must not be allowed to stay in the palace. Someone must even be sent to look after her, lest she cause any trouble out of idleness.
"Someone's watching." Li Yuan lifted the hem of his clothes and said, "I'll walk slowly."
"Then hug me when we're somewhere private?" Lin Su asked softly.
Li Yuan did not refute this time.
The emperor and empress walked together, and it was obvious that they were inseparable in their love. Although the woman who left was envious, she also hoped that she could find a husband in the future and live in harmony with him like them. Only Guo Qiang knelt there and did not respond for a long time.
When the procession had all left, a palace attendant came forward and asked, "Young lady, do you plan to stay in the palace or leave?"
Guo Qiang raised her eyes to look at him, and said in a voice that seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth: "Leave the palace."
Cleaning toilets in the palace had no future, only oppression and humiliation. However, being the daughter of the prime minister allowed her to do many things.
The palace servant watched the carriage leave, shrugged, and went back. If this woman had stayed, he would have looked up to her. Now she was backing down, unable to endure even hardship. How could she still want to fight His Majesty? She couldn't even beat the Queen.
Everything was fine on the farm that Lin Su was experimenting with. Even in this autumn harvest season, the new seedlings in the shed were lush and green.
"If there really were two crops a year, the people of the world would certainly have enough food and clothing." Li Yuan said with a smile, "Your Majesty is very ingenious, and I am far behind."
"The Queen has her own wisdom. There's no need to compare yourself to me in everything." Lin Su looked at the new seedlings and said, "When this one grows up, I'll send it to the palace for you to taste first, okay?"
"Very good." Li Yuan said with a smile.
Agriculture and sericulture were matters of great importance to the nation, and they concerned not only Lin Su but also Li Yuan. Every few days, the guards there would send him reports on the situation. Li Yuan didn't understand agriculture and sericulture, having previously assumed that a scholar should learn poetry, literature, etiquette, and the art of riding, archery, and martial arts. Now, following Lin Su's side, he realized that these skills were only used to conquer the world. To protect it, one must understand the affairs of the world.
He looked and asked questions when he didn't understand. At first, when he listened to Lin Su discussing politics with the ministers, he had many doubts and felt that what he knew was quite superficial. But now he found that he could already keep up with those people's thinking.
Whenever Lin Su and I make a decision on something, we usually write it down on paper first and then compare it. It was not possible before, but now many of our methods and decisions coincide with each other.
"If my queen is well trained, she will be an emperor who is no less capable than me." Lin Su said, looking at the papers with almost identical answers.
"A great teacher produces a great student." Li Yuan looked at him and smiled. "Only a great teacher like Your Majesty can teach a good student."
An emperor who destroyed his country would only teach people to indulge in sensual pleasures. How could he possibly teach people to become a wise emperor?
When he praised others, he really meant it as a compliment to others. Compared to his initial shyness and courtesy, he is now becoming more and more like a red apple.
[This is called a couple portrait.] 06 While eating dog food, you can also savor some new flavors from it.
Lin Su raised his eyebrows but said nothing.
Under the rule of Emperor Qi Chen, the people really had never suffered from any war. The king's power was granted by God, and there were heavenly soldiers and generals descending from the sky from the Li royal palace. The people felt that the current emperor was a ruler sent by God.
But since when, there has been another voice among the people, that is, the current queen had her fortune predicted by a high monk from the south, who claimed that whoever gets Li Yuan will get the world.
It is not reasonable that the current Emperor Qi Chen can pacify the world so easily. It is precisely because of the Queen's help that it was really easy for him to pacify the Southern Kingdom and the Li Kingdom. Even the Xiao Kingdom surrendered with a letter of surrender at the wedding of the Emperor and Queen.
"Now that you talk about it, it seems like it really is like divine help from heaven that Your Majesty has conquered the world after snatching the Queen away."
"You mean that His Majesty's tax reductions were also assisted by the Queen?"
"The Queen is truly beautiful, like a fairy from heaven. If someone could catch a glimpse of her and make His Majesty snatch her away, she must be extremely favored. What's the big deal about a tax reduction?"
"In this palace, the empress's mother is called the Empress Dowager, and the empress's nephews are all adopted by Your Majesty as sons. Which emperor in ancient times has done such a thing?"
"Perhaps the whole world is in the hands of others."
There are already a lot of rumors among the people, but I don’t know when this kind of talk suddenly became popular.
Lin Su remained calm when he saw these words, but even his silence was enough to make the court officials who were discussing the matter feel uneasy.
"My dear ministers, what is the purpose of spreading such rumors?" Lin Su raised his eyes and asked.
An emperor is majestic without being angry. Although Lin Su is young, his aura is not something that the civil officials can easily ignore or resist.
"Your Majesty, these rumors are only circulating in the capital, but they're causing panic among the people, making them worry about the legitimate position of the empire. Some of the imperial comments on previous memorials weren't entirely yours, and Duke Kangguo once enjoyed favors from the current empress. If this continues, I'm afraid it will cause unrest in the country and unrest among the people," a minister said. "Your Majesty, please nip this in the bud to prevent a catastrophe."
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