"Master Hou, I know you're worried about the risk of not succeeding, but you said that as long as Yan Aigong dies, we will blockade Yanjing and kill Prince Dan, do you say that this Jingwen They want to rebel? Could it be that they still want to overthrow the Yan State and establish themselves as monarchs? Qi Jie looked at Gongsun Cao and said.

When Gongsun Cao heard this, he felt that this was the truth, as long as he killed the crown prince Dan, their Gongsun family would be able to turn over, and the monarch was young, as long as his Gongsun family got rid of the Jing family, wouldn't it be that his Gongsun family could become the first powerful minister of the Yan Kingdom?

Thinking about the pros and cons, Gongsun Cao looked at Qi Jie and said: "The general can rest assured, as long as Yan Aigong's edict comes out, I will definitely act in accordance with Yan Aigong's edict, after all, Yan Aigong is kind to my grandson's family!" ”

After getting Gongsun Cao's answer, Qi Jie was happy in his heart, and he wanted to hurry back to give his sister Qi Yan this good news!

Gongsun Cao entertained Qi Jie at home, and then Qi Jie left Gongsun's house and returned to the palace.

reported what Gongsun Cao promised to Qi Yan, and Qi Yan nodded: "As long as we block Yanjing and kill Prince Dan, this Concubine Ji will not be afraid!" ”

"Brother, when my sister's son ascends to the throne, I will definitely reward you, give you a fiefdom, and make you a free marquis!" Qi Yan said to Qi Jie, she knew that Qi Jiu had always wanted to be a monarch, so Qi Yan said this to Qi Jie, of course, Qi Yan also thought so.

However, Qi Jie said: "Forget the fiefdom, I have figured it out these days, I just need to follow my sister's side, take good care of my sister, and assist my nephew to be a good monarch!" ”

After listening to Qi Jiu's words, Qi Yan clenched her fists and patted Qi Jiu's shoulder a few times, but did not speak, but simply nodded to Qi Jie.

Luoyang.

Qi Xiaobai sent Yue Huigong to Luoyang, the capital of the empire.

At this time, the emperor of the empire was named Emperor Zhou Ren, and during his reign, he promoted the doctrine of Confucianism, loyalty, patriotism, benevolence, righteousness and morality!

can be regarded as living up to his Emperor Ren's imperial title!

Emperor Zhou Ren was seventy-eight years old at this time, but he had only reigned for three years, and in a few days, he would be four years!

Since Emperor Zhou Hui Ji Yuan, the life expectancy of the emperors has generally increased, because their power has also been transferred to the hands of the princes since that time, and they do not have much government affairs, basically go to Luoyang every day for a walk, go shopping, and then count the tributes handed over by the princes every month.

Although the princes paid tribute to the Zhou Empire every month, the tribute was very small, and the Zhou Empire received less than one million silver from the princes of the world last year.

Last year, the Zhou Empire spent all the money saved in the past five years, because the Luoyang Palace was a little dilapidated, and there were still many streets in Luoyang that needed to be updated, so the tribute for five years was basically spent.

But fortunately, after a while, the princes will pay tribute again, which can be regarded as saving the crisis of insufficient funds of the Zhou Empire.

After all, the Zhou Empire still has 50,000 troops, but if this continues, some of these 50,000 troops will have to be cut, after all, the cost of 50,000 troops is very large.

In fact, last year, the prime minister of the empire had already proposed a policy to Emperor Zhou Ren, that is, to turn the imperial army into a reserve, which would greatly reduce expenses.

However, Emperor Zhou Ren refused, no matter what, these 50,000 elites are the last face of the royal family, and they are also the last guarantee of the royal family.

Prime Minister Zhou Dan looked at Emperor Zhou Ren in the Luoyang Palace: "Your Majesty, Duke Huan of Qi has escorted Duke Yue Hui here, I hope you can convict him!" ”

In the whole empire, there were six ministers, three military attachés, three civil officials, and one prime minister among the civilian officials......

said to be the prime minister of the empire, the actual control of this empire is only Luoyang City and a few surrounding places, and this prime minister is more like a master and auxiliary minister under the county guard......

The moment Zhou Dan became the prime minister of the empire, he actually thought about helping the empire restore its former glory, but reality defeated him......

In the past, the actual control area of the empire was not only as large as Luoyang City, but the three heroes of the Central Plains developed too fast, and the national strength was too strong, and from time to time the empire asked for land, and the empire wanted to refuse, but seeing the elite army of the three heroes, he could only compromise this seal, and the empire's land was finally left with Luoyang City.

Fortunately, these three heroes did not dare to claim Luoyang City......

Zhou Dan is proficient in the art of war, he thinks that he is no worse than the world's famous marshals, he once thought of taking these 50,000 troops to expand the territory and beat the three heroes down, but the treasury funds defeated him again.

In addition to the income from tribute, the empire also pays taxes from Luoyang City, and if the empire expands its territory, the first thing to fight is the three heroes, and these three heroes are the countries that pay the most tribute......

This dispelled the idea of recovering the empire step by step, and later could only honestly assist Emperor Zhou Ren to be a qualified monarch and govern this Luoyang City......

Yue Huigong was escorted up, and the envoy of Qi handed Qi Xiaobai's letter to Emperor Zhou Ren.

In fact, Zhou Dan also read this letter, and it was nothing more than saying that Yue Huigong ignored Zhou Li, provoked a war, and let the people of Qi Yue live in a hot and hot life, hoping that His Majesty would deal with him, as for how to deal with it, obey the emperor's arrangement.

"Prime Minister, what do you think is good?" Emperor Zhou Ren looked at Zhou Dan and asked.

Zhou Dan glanced at Yue Huigong: "Your Majesty, although Yue Huigong is guilty, he is also a nobleman, cut off his title, make him a commoner, and reflect on it in prison!" ”

"Then according to the Prime Minister's wishes!" Emperor Zhou Ren said to Yue Huigong.

Yue Huigong had already calculated that if Qi Xiaobai really planned to kill him, he would be killed when he was escorted to Qi State, and he would not be sent here.

Really say that the duke is on the same level as Qi Xiaobai, and Qi Xiaobai has no right to kill? That's all fart, after all, there are many things where the duke kills the duke, the princes attack, the war of destroying the country, how many dukes have been killed by dukes of their own level?

Qi Xiaobai said this, completely fulfilling the alliance under the city, telling the world that he is an honest person and that he abides by the covenant.

In fact, what Zhou Dan thought was the same as what Yue Huigong thought, this Qi Xiaobai sent it, in fact, he didn't plan to kill Yue Huigong, it was nothing more than to get a reputation for respecting the emperor......

Zhou Dan escorted Yue Huigong to the cell: "Don't worry, you will only stay in the cell for a month, and you will come out, and when you want to stay in Luoyang for a position, or go somewhere else, it's up to you!" ”

"The Yue Kingdom died in my hands, 400,000 elites of the Yue Kingdom were killed, and now I am alive in the world, so I will stay here!" Yue Huigong said to Zhou Dan, Yue Huigong didn't know where he could go.

"That's good, you squat in prison for a few days, and I'll arrange an errand for you then!" Zhou Dan said to Yue Huigong.