Zhao Junsheng adopted Cui Hao's strategy, and the next day he sent an envoy to Jiuquan to canonize Fuqu Wushu and sent a secret letter to Wei Chi Yandong, ordering Wei Chi Yandong to send a secret envoy to Dunhuang to meet Fuqu Tang'er.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, the envoy of the Qianguo State arrived in Guzang, Liangzhou, and Wei Chi Yandong also received a secret decree from Qianjing, convened his confidants to discuss, and after two days of secret deliberation, it was decided to wait for the imperial envoy to announce the decree to Fuqu Wuxuan before sending an envoy to Dunqu Tang'er.

He accepted the canonization of Emperor Zhao Junsheng of the Qianguo State and sent back the captured Qianjun generals, and the two sides officially stopped fighting.

Ten days later, Wei Chi Yandong's envoy secretly arrived in Dunhuang, he brought a large amount of treasure to Fuqu Tang'er, and made a heavy promise, and the envoy bribed him with a three-inch tongue, saying that he would raise an army to kill Fuqu.

It took two months for Tang'er to prepare, and on the third day of the ninth month, he rebelled.

After the news spread, Fuqu was furious, leaving Fuqu Tianzhou to guard Jiuquan, and he and Fuqu Yide led the army to Dunhuang.

When Tang'er learned the news, he personally led 10,000 troops to meet Fuqu Wushu and Fuqu Yide, and the two sides fought outside the city.

Frustrated Qu Tang'er won a victory and was arrogant and complacent, the next day led the army to take the initiative to attack, his soldiers and horses were far away from Dunhuang City, lost the city of each other's horns has been broken, when he led the army to approach the army of Frustrated Qu Wu, Frustrated Qu Wu secretly launched a charge with a condescending momentum, unstoppable.

Fuqu Tang'er hurriedly responded to the battle, and the army was quickly routed, with numerous casualties, and he himself was captured by Fuqu Wuzhi and was soon executed.

Two days later, the defenders of Dunhuang City surrendered, and Fuqu Wushu and Fuqu should occupy Dunhuang City.

Qianjing City.

Zhao Junsheng was busy in the palace liquor shop in civilian clothes, and he ordered the general to build a set of distillation equipment according to his idea, although this thing can be used to distill high-grade liquor, but he is not using it to distill high-grade liquor at this time.

"Alright, put all these roses in there······ Okay, cover the lid tightly, no air leakage! Zhao Junsheng instructed a few little eunuchs.

The fire quickly boiled the water, and the steam ran down the conduit, and then cooled through the condenser tube, and drops of liquid with a rich fragrance kept dripping into a transparent glass jug.

"It smells so good!" Several eunuchs kept snorting.

After half an hour, the liquid dripping from the condenser tube is divided into two layers in the glass jug, and the bottom layer is colorless and transparent, and there is a thick layer of oil suspended on the water, which is the floral essential oil.

Zhao Junsheng used a small spoon to scoop out the rose essential oil suspended in the glass pot one by one, put it in small glass bottles, and then sealed the lid.

"Okay, pour out the residue inside, clean the tube, steam all these flowers according to the method just now, put them in glass bottles one by one, and bring me a bottle after you get it, no one is allowed to keep it privately, understand?" Zhao Junsheng commanded.

The eunuchs said in unison: "The slaves and maids dare not hide it privately!" ”

Hua Mulan is chatting with the wives of several court ministers in the inner palace, life in the palace is boring, she often sends people to summon some ministers and military generals' wives into the palace to chat, this woman is also idlers, and they are happy to enter the palace to talk to the queen and get closer.

Hua Mulan also married the children of several ministers and military generals.

A few women were chatting happily, and a eunuch walked in to report: "Queen Qiqi, Your Majesty is here!" ”

Several women hurriedly stood up when they heard this, Zhao Junsheng had already stepped into the main hall, and they hurriedly bowed: "Courtiers greet Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled and raised his hand: "Get up!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Hua Mulan had already stood up and asked, "Your Majesty has no government affairs to deal with today?" ”

"It's all done!"

Zhao Junsheng smiled and walked to the seat and sat down, and said to a few women: "Your luck is good, I will give the queen a little gift, since you are also here, I will also give you one of you, come!" ”

A eunuch walked in with a tray carrying some exquisite glass bottles, Zhao Junsheng reached out and took out a bottle from the tray and handed it to Mulan: "Mulan, open it and smell it!" ”

Hua Mulan suspiciously took a glass bottle, looked at it and said with a smile: "This glass bottle is quite exquisite, it is worth a lot of money!" ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled: "Could it be that you still want to buy and return the pearls?" ”

"Hey, you mean to say that the contents of this little glass bottle are worth more than it?"

"You just open it and smell it!"

Mulan uncorked the bottle, and before she could reach her nose, she smelled a strong aroma, which was smelled by several women who were standing far away.

"It smells so good!"

"What kind of scent is this? It smells so good! ”

Mulan and several women were intoxicated.

Zhao Junsheng smiled and asked, "Fragrant, right?" ”

"Incense!" Mulan replied with several of the women.

Zhao Junsheng said to Mulan: "This is called perfume, Mulan, I will give you all of these!" ”

Hua Mulan's heart was full of joy, remembering that there were a few women next to her, and remembering that Zhao Junsheng said just now that he would give each of them a bottle, so he said to them: "Your Majesty also said just now, give each of you a bottle, ladies, come and choose a bottle!" ”

The wives were overjoyed, and they all made blessings to Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan: "Thank you, Your Majesty, the queen!" ”

The women did not dare to be too presumptuous, and they did not dare to choose, but each took a bottle from the tray, and they quickly took their leave, and departed happily with the perfume given by the emperor.

Hua Mulan looked at the seven or eight bottles of perfume in the tray with a happy face and asked Zhao Junsheng: "Brother Junsheng, where did these perfumes come from?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "I did it! Last year, I promised to give you a gift that satisfied you, but I have been busy with court affairs and have no time, and I have some free time during this time, so I got these perfumes for you, do you like it? ”

"It's so fragrant, I love it!"

Mulan asked, "How are these perfumes made?" ”

"Want to know?" Zhao Junsheng asked.

"Hmm!"

"Then you come with me!" After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he took Mulan to the brewery in the palace.

Hua Mulan looked at the distillation equipment and wondered, "Perfume is made from this thing?" ”

"Yes, the raw material is flowers!"

Hua Mulan patted her head: "No wonder, I said that the flowers in the Imperial Garden are gone, it turns out that you asked people to pick them all to make perfume!" ”

Zhao Junsheng sneered: "That······ The flowers can grow again, you see this perfume sprinkled on the body all day long! ”

Hua Mulan stretched out her hand and rubbed Zhao Junsheng's arm vigorously, causing Zhao Junsheng to grin in pain.

"Hmph, for the sake of your merit in making perfume, I'll let you go this time, and I have to tell me next time I want to pick flowers from the Imperial Garden!"

"Okay, okay!" Zhao Junsheng hurriedly agreed, and turned his head to look, "Hey, what about the water that was steamed out with the perfume?" It's not going to fall out, is it? ”

A eunuch hurriedly said, "The slave maid saw that the water was very fragrant, and it was in a porcelain bottle!" ”

Zhao Junsheng took a large bottle of perfume from the eunuch's hand and said to Mulan: "Actually, the perfume I gave you should be called flower essential oil, these are perfumes, it is steamed out with essential oils, and the water contains a small amount of essential oils, which is also very fragrant!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said and handed the large porcelain bottle to the eunuch and instructed: "Use the exquisite small porcelain bottle to divide it up, find someone to open a shop in the city to sell this kind of perfume, the price is higher, a small bottle sells for 300 Wen!" ”

Mulan gasped: "······ You're trying to grab money! ”

"You've also done business, don't you know the truth that strange goods can live?"

Zhao Junsheng's rhetorical question made Hua Mulan speechless, and she glanced at him: "That was before, and now we are in this position······ Doesn't that seem right? ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "You think I don't know? After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to abolish the rule that part of the tax should be used to enrich the treasury, and all the money in the treasury would be obtained from the shops and properties operated by the royal family. In addition, there is the tribute of various feudal states, lords, and officials! The royal family does not take a penny of the taxes collected, and all of them are taken from the people and the people! And there's an added benefit to doing so."

"What's the benefit?"

Zhao Junsheng said: "In the past few years, the imperial court spent a lot of money, and the household department often ran out of money, and then the ministers asked me to open the inner treasury to allocate internal funds for emergencies, you also know that those people often take away the internal treasury but do not return it, rather than take it in and take it out, it is better to simply not want a penny, the royal family makes money for their own use, and the ministers will have no reason to ask for the opening of the inner treasury to allocate internal funds in the future!" ”

Hua Mulan said: "Your idea is good, but when the court is really in trouble and needs money, can you still watch and help?" ”

"Help, who said not to help? I can lend the money to the household department, and when the next tax comes up, I will return the principal with interest, and I will give them as much interest as the people, and I will not take advantage of the court! Those people don't have anything to say now, right? ”

Hua Mulan nodded, "It's okay to do this, our royal family is self-reliant and doesn't take advantage of the people!" Leave it to me to deal with the business of the royal family, I feel very bored when I stay in the palace all day, and it's good to do something! ”

"Good!"

At the court meeting on the first day of October.

Cui Hao stood up and reported: "Your Majesty, yesterday I received a note from the general of Liangzhou Town, Chi Yandong, Fuqu Wuzhi defeated Fuqu Tang'er and captured Dunhuang, Fuqu Tang'er was killed, and most of his subordinates surrendered Fuqu Wushi!" ”

When the ministers heard the news, they all began to discuss.

"Why is this frustrated Tang'er so useless? He said that there were 15,000 people in his hands, so why did he not fight so much? ”

"Yes, Fuqu Tang'er was defeated like this, his power was annexed by Fuqu Wushi, and Fuqu Wu's power grew a little stronger.

I'm afraid that sooner or later it will become a big disaster on the frontier! ”

"Your Majesty, I am afraid that this person will be difficult to control in the future, please send troops to annihilate him as soon as possible!"

Zhao Junsheng thought about the work of a cup of tea, and he ordered: "Captain, I order you to be the general of the expedition to the west, and to command 20,000 troops to fight against frustration!" ”

Wei has been idle by Zhao Junsheng for several years since he surrendered to Qianguo, and he has been serving as a virtual military general in Qianjing for several years, and he has no real power. ”