Reclining on the seat, the sunlight outside the window made Xiao Ming's eyes squint slightly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Instinctively, he instinctively thought that this time the British would inevitably play another dishonorable role, and that the country that might most likely benefit was the Wa State.

After all, a-stirring stick is a-stirring stick, and creating national contradictions has always been what Britain is good at, and in contemporary times, as the former British Empire, before the collapse of this worldwide colony, Britain deliberately left a lot of hidden dangers of regional conflicts around the world.

For example, in contemporary India, the plan of separate governance between India and Pakistan was good, but he left behind a Kashmir region, which led to several conflicts between India and Pakistan.

At the same time, Britain separately demarcated the McMahon Line in southern Tibet and assigned a large area of Chinese territory to India, which is the origin of the current territorial dispute between China and India.

In the Middle East, Britain turned Kuwait from a province of Iraq into a British protectorate, and the two countries later became independent, but they still gave Iraq a pretext to start the Gulf War.

The most important thing is that Britain, as an island country outside the European continent, has long pursued a policy of "glorious isolation"; in order to prevent the rise of a powerful power on the European continent and its struggle for hegemony, Britain will put on a small shoe for France today and beat Germany tomorrow, so as to make Europe unstable.

Although the contradictions between the countries of the European continent themselves are the main factor, they cannot escape the relationship with Britain's fanning of the flames.

Xiao Ming naturally dislikes such a country with the aura of a-stirring stick from his heart, of course, other countries on the European continent are not good birds, and they have always looked at other races with discrimination.

Putting down the twists and turns, Xiao Ming fell into deep thought, this time the British battleship's shelling of the Dreadnought was no less than an act of war, he was not a Cixi who would rather have a friend than a domestic slave, nor would he measure China's material resources and form a friendship with the country.

Since he came to this world, he is destined to end the West's rampant hegemony in the world, but now that the border troubles of the Great Chongqing State have not been resolved, and the Goryeo and Wa countries are eyeing each other, he has no energy to clean up these foreign visitors.

But it was impossible to keep him angry, so he took up his pen and replied on the note: "As soon as the British ship is found, sink it immediately." “

After writing, Xiao Ming handed over the fold to Qian Dafu and asked him to hand it over to the post station to send back to Qingzhou.

Qian Dafu had just left, when Pang Yukun came in a hurry, and when he arrived at the imperial study, he said to Xiao Ming, "Your Majesty, General Niu Ben is back." ”

Xiao Ming was overjoyed when he heard this, most of the troops in this war were withdrawn, and this Qingzhou was basically no different from an empty city, and Xiao Ming was also a little uneasy about this.

Now that the army is back, he is relieved.

After a pause, Pang Yukun continued: "Your Majesty, this time General Niu Ben brought King Zhao's father and son, Empress Zhao and the Thirteen Princes back to Qingzhou together. “

When he said this, Pang Yukun stared at Xiao Ming, after all, this matter was a little sensitive.

"Empress Zhao and the Thirteen Princes?" Xiao Ming suddenly sighed, "You guys are really going to leave me with problems. ”

After that, Xiao Ming walked out of the imperial study and walked towards the council hall, since Niu Ben had brought people back, he naturally had to deal with it.

When they arrived at the council hall, Niu Ben and others were already waiting.

Xiao Ming sat down on the dragon chair and said: "General Niu Ben is tired, sticking to Juyong Pass and conquering Chang'an is a great achievement, and I will definitely be rewarded this time." ”

Lu Fei, Qi Guangyi, Bai Mu and other generals smiled when they heard this, while Niu Ben was calm, he said: "Your Majesty, this time the general's merits are mixed, and I am ashamed of the emperor and dare not accept the merits." ”

Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment, he once accused Niu Ben of delaying the war and delaying the capture of Gyeongju, and at this time, Niu Ben must have said this because of this incident.

However, for Xiao Ming, there is another meaning in Niu Ben's words, that is, he is worried about the high merit and the master.

The current Niu Ben is no longer the Niu Ben of the past, after the work of the mine, the current Niu Ben has worn off his sharpness, and now what he wants most is probably to be able to spend the rest of his life in peace.

Therefore, in Xiao Ming's opinion, Niu Ben deliberately made some small mistakes this time and left them to Xiao Ming to achieve the goal of not continuing to be official.

After all, the current Niu Ben is almost impossible to seal.

At this time, Xiao Ming glanced at Pang Yukun, Pang Yukun nodded to Xiao Ming, obviously he meant to let Xiao Ming offset his merits this time and no longer canonize Niu Ben.

He nodded and said: "Even so, General Niu Ben has more merit than demerit, just to block the mouth of the officials, I will not be canonized separately, this time I will reward three thousand taels of silver." “

Niu Ben breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he hurriedly said, "Emperor Xie Longen." “

After pondering for a while, Xiao Ming asked, "Where are King Zhao's father and son now?" , where are Empress Zhao and the Thirteen Princes? “

"Back to the emperor, King Zhao's father and son have been sent to Qingzhou Prison, and Queen Zhao and the Thirteen Princes are both rebellious and have also been sent to Qingzhou Prison."

Fiji was also in the palace, he was a little anxious, and said: "Ridiculous, how can this Empress Zhao and the thirteen princes be put in prison, Empress Zhao is nominally the emperor's mother, don't you let the people of the world point at the backbone of the emperor?" “

Pang Yukun frowned, this filial piety is the foundation of the ministers and kings of all dynasties, this time Niu Ben did handle it a little inappropriately, he said: "Your Majesty, Queen Zhao cannot be guilty of the same crime as King Zhao." ”

When he came, he was thinking about the problem of Empress Zhao, he has been in this world for five years, he naturally knows the importance of filial piety, and because of this, he said that Niu Ben left him a big problem.

After a pause, he said, "Elder Feige, you immediately go to the Qingzhou Prison to bring out Empress Zhao and the third prince, and find a house for her to settle temporarily." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Fiji nodded and turned to go out.

Seeing Fiji leaving, Pang Yukun said bluntly: "The emperor is ready to deal with Empress Zhao and the thirteen princes. ”

"Even if Empress Zhao didn't let the Thirteen Princes ascend the throne, but she indirectly killed the first emperor after all, I can only demote her and the Thirteen Princes to commoners, what do you think?"

"The minister also thinks so, but the emperor, even so he can't let Empress Zhao and the thirteen princes leave Qingzhou, so as not to let someone take advantage of it in the future." Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming understood what Pang Yukun meant, and in the future, maybe someone would use the names of Empress Zhao and the Thirteen Princes to rebel, after all, the Great Yu Kingdom was currently only in the hands of the north.

"I understand your thoughts, so I am ready to behead King Zhao's father and son in Dongshi, so as to set an example and let some people with bad intentions see the end of rebellion."

Pang Yukun smiled, and he said seemingly unintentionally: "The emperor actually wants to show the prince of Chu, besides, isn't the emperor really ready to take back the military power from King Yong?" “