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Concubine Zhen's happy look was seen by Xiao Wenxuan, and he smiled and said, "But you don't have to be happy too early, this Fei family is not easy to get along, and King Qi's marriage will have to wait for a while." ”

"As long as this princess can be the daughter of the Fei family, it will be worth waiting for a few more years, but Your Majesty will choose a better one for Ming'er in the Fei family."

"Of course, at least she has to be the daughter of the head of the Fei family to be worthy of my son, although Xiao Ming was not a lot before, but the prodigal son did not change his money, and now he has to be worthy of his Fei family."

Concubine Zhen nodded, "It's just the emperor, where is this Empress Zhao ......?"

"You don't have to worry about this, the crown princess is the daughter of Fiji, and the king of Qi also took the daughter of the Fei family, but it can also be said that the relationship is further, and the queen will not stop it."

"Now, the concubine will be at ease." Concubine Zhen said.

After talking about Xiao Ming's marriage, Xiao Wenxuan said at this time: "By the way, what about the glass that King Qi sent to me?" ”

"Here it is." Concubine Zhen led Xiao Wenxuan to the inner room, where nine crystal clear glass goblets were placed in a delicate wooden box.

When Xiao Wenxuan saw it, he showed a look of surprise, he leaned over and picked up a goblet and looked at it carefully, "Pure as water, warm as jade, this glass is really produced by Qingzhou Workshop?" ”

"This is still fake, many businessmen have flocked to Qingzhou these days, for this glass." Concubine Zhen said.

"This King of Qi, I didn't give him silver taels to squander before, but now it seems that the one million taels I gave him is estimated to be unattractive to him now, but it's okay to be a businessman, and he can't delay the government affairs of the fiefdom, after all, this catastrophe is coming soon." Xiao Wenxuan frowned.

"Calamity?" Concubine Zhen suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"This year, the grassland barbarians suddenly banned the sale of war horses to the Great Chongqing Kingdom, I got the news, this year the barbarians seem to want to cross Cangzhou and continue to go south, last year's grassland snow made the barbarians suffer heavy losses, they want to get this southern place of birds and flowers."

Concubine Zhen covered her mouth in surprise, "Your Highness, if that's the case, what can I do?" ”

"At the beginning, Gaozu set the rules of dividing the feudal kingdom in order to let the princes divide the feudal kingdom, the upper is the country, and the lower is the people, the king of Qi is the prince and the vassal king, this Cangzhou land must be guarded by him, otherwise what is the use of me giving him the position of vassal king?"

"But the emperor, this Qingzhou was ravaged by barbarians three years ago, and now it has not recovered its former situation, what does the king of Qi take to guard it now?" Concubine Zhen loves her son, and she knows the danger of this barbarian.

Now there are four vassal kings guarding the north, one is King Zhao who guards Liangzhou, one is King Liang who guards Lingzhou, the third is King Yong, the royal family prince who guards Jizhou, and the fourth is King Qi who guards Cangzhou.

In the north, these four feudal kings respectively guarded the barbarians into the Central Plains of the key places, among which the fief of the king of Zhao was famous for the Xuanjia cavalry, and the barbarians were on a par in the repeated wars, winning and losing each other, and behind the king of Zhao was Chang'an, where the son of heaven of the Great Yu Kingdom was.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Wenxuan attaches so much importance to King Zhao.

And King Liang's black feather iron guard is also famous, and King Zhao's tactics of cavalry against cavalry are different, King Liang built Wu Bao in the fief and the barbarian border, and stationed Wu Bao with black feather iron guards, each other is a horn, these years have been broken by the barbarians several Wu Fort, but the fief is still safe.

King Yong of Jizhou is Xiao Wenxuan's youngest brother, and the east side of his fief is Xiao Ming's fief.

However, relying on the fire pipe and the bow and crossbow, King Yong repelled the attacks of the barbarians several times, after all, it was a royal family, and the reason for this was that every time Xiao Wenxuan would send the Praetorian Guards to support, the fire barrel of the Chang'an Instrument Division, and the bow and crossbow were also allocated to King Yong in large quantities.

Compared with these three vassal kings, it is obvious that Xiao Ming is the worst, Qingzhou is very remote compared to Chang'an, and it is too late to rescue when the barbarians attack.

Moreover, the incident three years ago greatly damaged Qingzhou's vitality, people's livelihood withered, and the Qingzhou army was gone.

Thinking of this, how could Concubine Zhen not worry.

Concubine Zhen's words made Xiao Wenxuan frown, "You also underestimate your son too much, now the silver earned by King Qi in the past half a year is enough to make up for the loss three years ago, and he is now reorganizing the Qingzhou army, not only with a very strange armor, but also restoring the military system similar to the government military system, now the number of troops in his fiefdom is still 20,000, you and I are too underestimate his ability, and now that he has incorporated the local powerful troops, I think his soldiers must have at least 30,000 people this time." ”

"So much?" Concubine Zhen herself couldn't believe that Xiao Ming had reorganized the Qingzhou Army in such a short period of time, and the number had recovered half of the heyday of the Qingzhou Army.

A weird smile appeared at the corner of Xiao Wenxuan's mouth, "Is this still fake?" This kid also enveloped Pang Yukun, the elder Shi I sent to him, but he thought that I didn't know anything, and he was still too naïve. ”

"This kid, what is going on in this world The emperor doesn't know, it's just that the emperor, although the king of Qi is not good, he will not be bold enough to disobey the emperor." Concubine Zhen's heart jumped a few times, and she said in her heart that this King Qi is really reckless, how can the emperor dare to dig into the corner.

Xiao Wenxuan saw Concubine Zhen's worried look, and suddenly smiled: "It's okay, this Pang Yukun I already hate it, just let him stay in Qingzhou, it is estimated that he also knows that he can't go back to Chang'an, this elm pimple is enlightened." ”

"Then the emperor means that Cangzhou will let the King of Qi guard it himself this time?" Concubine Zhen asked tentatively.

"Exactly, he has lost all the royal face three years ago, if he can't hold Cangzhou this time, he will die there, if he can keep it, he will be of some use in the future, no matter who ascends the throne, he will still be expected to guard the north, otherwise he is still a dead word, and if he keeps it, I will not want to give up this face, and I will send the daughter of the Fei family to him."

Concubine Zhen felt a cramp in her heart, she understood that Xiao Wenxuan was not targeting Xiao Ming, even if the prince came to guard Cangzhou, Xiao Wenxuan's attitude would still be like this.

The prince escaped from the battle, this is a royal shame, it will make the world laugh, she finally understood why Xiao Wenxuan said that Xiao Ming's marriage had to wait.

How could a Fei family with four generations and three dukes be willing to marry their daughter to a fief and people who left their fiefs and fled back to Chang'an.

She finally understood why Xiao Wenxuan repeatedly said at that time that she would rather Xiao Ming die than see him in Chang'an.

Looking in the direction of Qingzhou, Concubine Zhen said in her heart: "Ming'er, you must fight this time, and from now on, the success or failure depends on this move." ”