Empress Liu was sternly scolding several ministers kneeling in front of her, including Zhang Ban.

The few people were timid, and suddenly heard the news behind them. When they turned around, they saw the eunuch leading Xie Changgeng to come, they all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Xie Changgengkuo walked in and knelt down to Empress Liu.

Empress Liu saw him saluting him. After finishing, she was abnormal and did not immediately call him calm down. She said, "Xie Qing, you have worked hard and made great contributions. Your Majesty asked me two days ago how to reward me this time. I don't know how to answer Your Majesty."

After the words came to an end, Zhang Ban and the others knew what she meant and looked at them secretly.

Xie Changgeng still knelt on the ground, but slowly stood up.

He looked as usual, and he met the two gazes that Empress Liu cast, and responded: "I dare not take it. If I lose Pucheng, Longguan will be lost. Therefore, I will make my own decisions. I am here to take the blame."

The hall was silent. Zhang Ban put his breath and dared not look up. After a moment, the hum of Empress Liu came from his ears.

"I have known that Changsha has ulterior motives. If Zhang Ban had not mistaken me before, this hidden danger would have been eliminated. The people of the Mu family would have been so arrogant today!"

Zhang Ban hurriedly shouted for justice: "The people of the Mu family have always been honest on the surface, but they are confused by the strange ministers. They were blinded at the beginning. They spoke for them before, and every word was considered for the overall situation at that time, and they had no selfishness! For example, if the King of Qi, if the matter had not been exposed this time and all the civil and military officials in the court would have thought that he was the person behind the rebellious kings?"

Empress Liu's face was gloomy and ordered several people to go out. Xie Changgeng was left in the hall and kneeled down.

"You should punish you for sending troops to Pucheng without authorization! In view of your loyalty and courage, this time, I will pardon you. If there is another next time, I will definitely forgive you!"

Xie Changgeng said: "Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother."

Empress Liu still did not ask him to get up, stared at him, and continued, "When King Lu of Pingyang was in the beginning of the rebellion, I learned that Changsha and the envoys of the rebellious king had had some contacts before. At that time, the thief of the King of Qi came forward to protect him, and I trusted him for a while. Now the King of Qi proved that he was the rebellious leader, so Changsha naturally could not escape the relationship and would be in harmony with the rebellious king. I want to cut off the title of King Mu and pacify Changsha. Do you have any words?"

Xie Changgeng said: "I have nothing to say."

Queen Liu glanced at Eunuch Yang behind her.

The eunuch stepped forward.

"Since this is the case, the Jiedushi should cut off relations with Changsha and the Xiumu family daughter. In this way, the people of the world will know that the Jiedushi's loyalty to the court is divided into two parts with the rebels, and the clear and turbid."

Xie Changgeng said: "I have done this. Before entering the capital, I sent my divorce letter to Changsha. From now on, I have no relationship with the Mu family of Changsha."

Empress Liu's expression finally calmed down, she showed a smile, and nodded: "My dearest, I really live up to what I hope."

She looked at Eunuch Yang again.

The eunuch smiled and said, "The Empress Dowager is very kind to the Jiedushi. Since she left the Mu family in Changsha, she was afraid that no one would serve the old lady in front of her. She had the sister of the uncle, Princess Anyang, who was both talented and beautiful. The Empress Dowager wanted to marry the Jiedushi, so that the princess would be filial to the old lady as the Jiedushi. Why don't you thank me quickly?"

Xie Changgeng's eyes did not blink.

"I have no blessing to accept the princess's golden branches and jade leaves. My mother is an old woman from the countryside, and she cannot afford to be the princess. Please ask the queen mother to take back her grace, and I will accept it."

After he finished speaking, there was a silence in the hall.

Empress Liu had just revealed Ji Yan's face and sank again.

Eunuch Yang was also caught off guard.

Although Empress Liu was very dissatisfied with Xie Changgeng's self-decision to send troops to Pucheng, the King of Qi colluded with many vassal kings to fight together. The person who could really count in the court was Xie Changgeng. So Empress Liu beat him first and then gave him kindness. Unexpectedly, he refused so directly. This was a slap in the face to Empress Liu.

Eunuch Yang hurriedly said, "Jingduan, you can only establish a career by managing your family. This is the queen mother's kindness. You thank me!"

Xie Changgeng said calmly: "The Queen Mother will not worry about such a small matter in my private court. In the face of chaos, the Queen Mother rushed to the capital. I guess there must be other important things. I will listen carefully."

Empress Liu was silent for a moment, suppressed the offended anger that surged in her eyes, and reluctantly said, "Forget it, what you are worried about is the same. The country is troubled, and it will be not too late to talk about it in the future."

She paused.

"I summoned you to suppress the rebellion. You should know the situation now. Hedong, Henan, and Shannan, many places have fallen into the hands of rebels. In the Hexi area, you should let go, enter the pass first, help the court to quell the rebellion and regain the lands. How much help is needed, just speak, and I will respond to everything!"

"I cannot leave Hexi for a long time. The northern cavalry will attack at any time. If it comes, it will be a big battle. My first priority now is to protect Hexi."

"The lost Jizhou, Chuzhou and other places in the pass are already connected to the fiefs of the vassal kings, so the empress dowager does not need to be too worried."

Xie Changgeng took out a fold and handed it on.

"In this compromise, I have listed the people available to the court now. In addition, I will also select capable generals from the Hexi Army to enter the pass to quell the rebellion. Everyone will be listed one by one."

"The vassal kings who participated in the rebellion seem to be large and powerful. In fact, except for King Pingyang of Qi, the rest of King Lu, King Runan of Zhao of Lu, have limited troops and horses. They have fought each other for many years and consumed most of them internally. Now they are participating in the rebellion, just to follow the flow, and to be strong from the outside and work at the middle, and they are vulnerable. Before I return to Hexi, I will defeat the rebels of King Pingyang, and the remaining King Qi is alone, and I can't support it. As long as the court follows my deployment, it will be enough to support it, and it will not allow the rebels to approach the capital. When I finish the matter in Hexi, I will return to the pass."

"No!" Empress Liu shook her head decisively.

"You don't follow my order?" she said, her voice sharply.

"Hexi is a place outside the pass, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation. Even if it is lost, it can be recaptured in the future. Hedong and Henan are related to the court and the country. How can we not distinguish between the seriousness and put the cart before the horse?"

"You don't have to say much. Let's lead the troops and fight the rebellion with all your might. Let's discuss anything else in the future!"

Xie Changgeng had been kneeling all the time, but suddenly he raised his eyes and stood up slowly from the ground.

He stood up straight, looked at Empress Liu, who was staring at his eyes gradually widening in the opposite seat, and said, "The Empress Dowager summoned me to ask about my affairs, so this is a countermeasure for me. If the Empress Dowager does not agree, I will take back my advice."

His eyes were too long, and after saying that, he went straight forward to get the letter that had been transferred to the case by the eunuch.

"Forget it, you can do your best to follow your countermeasures. If you can completely eliminate the disasters of the vassal chaos for the court, you will have made great achievements and the construction of the inscription will not be worthy of your contribution."

Empress Liu suppressed the sudden chill in her heart, and smiled again on her face and said.

Xie Changgeng looked at her, without commenting on it, and the anger between his eyebrows gradually faded away, he smiled, and slowly put down the note.

"Empress Dowager Xie. In this way, Rong Chen surrendered and summoned someone to discuss matters first."

He regained his respectful attitude, took a few steps back, bowed to Empress Liu, and retreated.

Queen Liu stared at the departing figure ahead with her eyes, and her palms were almost bleeding from the nails. I remembered a moment ago, the minister's murderous face with a murderous eyebrows could not control it and trembled.

The ghosts and monsters who lost their confinement came out of the ground without any scruples, trampling on the noble in a noble way.

She understood that from now on, everything will be different from before.

Could this be the sign that the dynasty is about to be exhausted?

When the figure disappeared, she waved her sleeves suddenly and swept the things in front of the table to the ground.

"The person sent to Xie County has not responded yet?" She turned her head and asked gritted her teeth.

Eunuch Yang had already knelt on the ground and said hurriedly: "I will urge you now, Queen Mother, don't worry! Our people have already gone out and will surely succeed!"

...

The letter was delivered with a fast horse, and was sent to Changsha before Mu Fulan arrived.

When Lu handed over the letter Xiu Jue, his expression was complicated.

Changsha has been declared the rebellion of the King of Qi by the court. Xie Changgeng, an important official of the court, retired his wife and cut off relations with the rebellion, which is known to everyone in the world. This move is justified and there is no point in criticizing it.

The younger sister-in-law didn't even take a look and then put it away.

Lu looked at Mu Fulan's calm face, which was invisible, and remembered the scene when she took her to secretly hide behind the curtain of the tent when she was thirteen years old.

When she saw the young man, her eyes seemed to be shining with stars, and there was a beautiful blush of joy and shyness floating on the girl's face.

Everything seemed like yesterday.

Mu Fulan put away the paper, held the sister-in-law with emotion, and asked her to sit down, and said with a smile: "It's best to be kind and be kind. Sister-in-law doesn't have to worry about me. I'm fine. Sister-in-law is at ease, just wait for Brother Wang to return to triumphantly."

Just the previous month, Jiang Rong sent troops to attack the land of the three clans. The three clans were defeated and turned to Changsha again.

At that time, Changsha was secretly expanding its troops and practicing skillfully. After receiving a letter from Mu Fulan from Hexi that she was about to return, Mu Xuanqing sent Yuan Handing to pick her up, and he personally led the troops to fight for help, and was the only one who was the tester.

Just a few days ago, good news came from the south.

Mu Xuanqing defeated Jiang Rong. With the help of the Sanshi soldiers, he was pursuing the victory and vowed to completely eliminate Jiang Rong, and ordered the Sanmiao land to surrender to Changsha and pacify the south from then on.

Lu smiled and nodded, hoping that her husband would return safely soon.

In May of this year, a month after Mu Fulan returned to Changsha, good news came that made the people of Changsha happy.

Their young king led his army and quelled the Sanmiao Rebellion. The people of the San clan were convinced, and the head men led the clans and came to Yuecheng with many tributes.

First, the life-saving grace of the old master last year, and now the battle to quell the chaos, the three families vowed to serve the Mu family, and they would never have the same intention.

Two months later, in July of the year, good news came again.

The army of Changsha, in Shishou, Huarong and Fuzhou, defeated the war launched by the nearby governor who was the name of helping the court to quell the rebellion, but actually wanted to take advantage of the chaos to seize territory. Especially in the battle of Fuzhou, the governor of Fuzhou dispatched 30,000 troops and came in full force. He thought he was almost sure to win, but he did not expect that the troops of Changsha were endless and brave and good at fighting, but were defeated and fled in panic.

During the Battle of Fuzhou, not only did the people of Changsha be proud, but the name of Changsha was also spread and was eye-catching.

In August, in the fourth month of Mu Fulan's return, a special visitor came to Changsha.

Zhao Xitai, the son of the King of Qi, led the envoy and brought many precious gifts to Yuecheng in person to propose to Mu Fulan, the daughter of the Mu family.
Chapter completed!