coobybook Chapter 222: Bedroom
Chapter 222: Bedroom
"All, all are up to the Queen Mother."
Li Chengye still only had this to say.
After saying this, he couldn't stay any longer and fled from Fenglai Palace.
Jiang Wanyue took a sip of tea, fanned herself with her hands, and couldn't help turning around to complain to Xing'er.
"Why is he running so fast? I'm not embarrassed at all, but he is."
Xing'er covered her mouth to hold back her laughter.
"Your Highness, the eldest prince is still young and thin-skinned!"
"It's not easy to be a stepmother!" Jiang Wanyue sighed, "Once he gets married, I can let go and he won't have to worry about me anymore."
As she spoke, she sat up straight and calmed herself.
"Tell the six palace maids to go to Taiji Palace in half an hour and tell them that they are the palace maids selected for the eldest prince to serve him in the study. Do you remember that?"
"Don't worry, I have already reminded the people below, and they all know it. Nothing will go wrong." Xing'er put down her hand and replied seriously.
Xing'er quickly went out to make arrangements.
Half an hour later, six palace maids, led by the governess, arrived at Taiji Palace.
The six people lined up in a row and knelt down respectfully.
"This servant pays respects to the eldest prince. May he live a long and healthy life."
Li Chengye felt a little awkward.
This was the first time this had happened to him, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.
How to choose?
Why do I have to choose it myself? Aren’t they all sent to me after I choose them?
He didn't speak, and the six palace maids didn't dare to stand up, all feeling a little nervous.
The governess waited for a long time but her master didn't speak, so she couldn't help but ask.
"Does Your Highness like any of them? If you are not satisfied, I will take them back and choose a few more people you like."
As soon as she said this, Li Chengye keenly noticed that the hand of the palace maid on the far left trembled.
He frowned and pointed at two at random.
"Just the two of them!"
If I only choose one, it would be bad if he or she took advantage of my favor and had other thoughts in the future.
The two he pointed to were exactly the two on the left.
The governess completed her task and was so happy that the wrinkles on her face became more wrinkled with smiles.
Then, she took the remaining four people and left.
The two people who were called out still knelt there with their heads lowered.
Li Chengye cleared his throat.
"What are your two names?"
"Slave Zhaoxia."
"Your servant Wanxia."
It's obvious that this name was given by the nanny.
Li Chengye didn't care and nodded.
"You guys follow Fu Gui to the study first!"
Fu Gui was the chief eunuch beside him.
Right now, standing behind him.
Fu Gui's squinting eyes were shining with brilliance. He glanced back and forth at the two palace maids and took them out.
That night, Li Chengye did not ask any palace maid to sleep with him.
Since the talent has just arrived, we still need to observe him for a few days first.
He has always been a cautious person.
Three days later, Li Chengye called Zhaoxia first.
The next day, I ordered sunset.
Chaoxia and Wanxia are of the same age, and both of them look pretty and elegant, not flamboyant or cold. When Li Chengye first arrived, he couldn't tell the two apart.
But after these two nights, he could quickly tell the difference.
In the blink of an eye, April had passed, and the court had finally decided on the resettlement of the Tujie tribe.
The delegation set out on their return journey, carrying with them the peace treaty of the Great Zhou.
The treaties negotiated by Li Ce and all the officials could be described as harsh.
The first one is that the Tujie Khan is not allowed to exist anymore and can only be crowned king by the Great Zhou.
Article 2: The Great Zhou would send resettlement envoys to Tujie to assist the Tujie king in managing the tribe.
What followed were some detailed regulations on the differentiation and treatment of the Tujie tribe, such as requiring the Tujie nobles to go to the capital to study Chinese, and the division of land among the Tujie tribe, the marriage of nobles, etc.
The reason for setting such a strict treaty is naturally to allow room for compromise during subsequent peace talks.
After all, peace talks require “negotiation”.
But what no one expected was that not long after the Tujie delegation returned, they sent another letter from the new Khan Fu Nian.
It is said that the letter was written by him personally, and it was all in Chinese characters.
In the letter, Fu Nian agreed to several important treaties without hesitation, but he did not agree with the issues of noble marriage and inheritance.
These are all trivial matters and Li Ce doesn't care about them.
What surprised him most was that Fu Nian mentioned again in the letter that he wanted to marry the Princess of Da Zhou.
However, the only difference is that this time he did not mention Li Chengyu, which means that other princesses would also be fine.
At the end of the letter, he also stated that if he could marry a princess of the Great Zhou and become the son-in-law of the Emperor of the Great Zhou, he, Fu Nianyuan, would lead the 28 tribes of Tu and Jie to fight for the Emperor of the Great Zhou in the north and south and help him conquer the Mohe and Goguryeo in the east.
Even though Li Ce had cultivated his state of mind after being the emperor for several years, he was still deeply moved when he saw these words.
He had no doubt at all about the fighting capability of the Tujie people on the grassland.
If Helu had not been old, ambitious, and self-willed, he might not have been able to defeat Tujie this time.
If the Tujie tribe can be controlled, not to mention the Mohe and Goguryeo, even the Khitan, Karluk, Kyrgyz, Dangxiang, Tubo, and Tuyuhun... are not impossible!
Who wouldn’t be moved by this?!
Li Ce immediately summoned several important officials to the palace for discussion.
When the news reached Fenglai Palace, it was already late afternoon.
Jiang Wanyue frowned slightly when she heard the news.
"What on earth is this Fu Nian Khan planning? Is he willing to do all this just for a princess?"
Mi'er fanned her and said casually.
"Why is that impossible? I heard that those foreign tribes have no fixed place to live, and their food is not good. Their women and children have to follow their tribe everywhere. How can they be as gentle and pretty as our women in the Great Zhou? I think this Khan just thinks their women are not pretty enough."
Jiang Wanyue did not respond to her.
How could someone who could gather the rest of the Tujie tribes at this time be someone who only cares about beauty?
There were people in the court who had doubts about this.
For example, Lin Shuyan strongly opposed this matter.
But there were still too few people who opposed it. Most people believed that even if Fu Nian had evil ambitions and plans, as long as he agreed to these treaties, the entire Tujie would be in the hands of the Great Zhou. No matter how capable he was, he would not be able to escape from the control of the Great Zhou.
So, after three days of discussion, Li Ce asked the Ministry of Personnel to draft a contract, selected officials to form an envoy, and went to the border to sign the contract with Tujie.