Chapter 288 The Princess's Choice

The green smoke of the Jiulong Jinhui incense burner curled, and the curtain made of jade beads was silent behind the scenes. The eldest princess of Liu sat alone and burned incense and tasted tea.

Her eyes glanced over the gradually quiet streets outside the palace. Lizhu sighed, as if to exhale all the turbidity in her lungs. After a breath, the tired color between her eyebrows did not dissipate, but became thicker and stronger.

Just three years have passed since the Snake Demon Rebellion, the State of Liu is still recuperating, but the people's national strength has not fully recovered. In order to enable the people to live and work in peace and work in peace and reproduce the old scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, Lizhu has boldly revised the political law. The agricultural tax was changed from the original fifteen tax to thirty tax one. The family took turns to pay tribute to raise the army in exchange for the "merit card of merit". During the autumn harvest, it sent troops from all over the country to help collect grain, and so on. Although it violates the interests of some nobles of the family, the glass beads are tough and the means are not good, so there are few people who disobey. With less tax, if you want to maintain the original expenses inside and outside the court, such as military expenses, food and salaries, you can only reduce the use of the palace. In the past three years, more than half of the people in the Liu Palace have been reduced, and the treasures collected in past dynasties have also been sold a lot. Even so, it is still a little tight. Fortunately, everything in the palace is managed by Lizhu, but it can make do with it.

The situation in China is getting better day by day. It only took the government and the field to look at the original doubts and praise virtues. Everyone said that if Lizhu is a man, it must be a rare wise king in the history of Liu.

Just as the romantic situation in the south of the Yangtze River was about to reappear, the state of Liu was hit hard again. First of all, Changmen was intimidated. Fortunately, the man secretly helped to ease the drought, but then he fell into the trap of Changmen and ran away. Lizhu had the intention to redress him, but it was the Lord of the world today. In addition, there was a chaotic army coming from the south, and the state affairs were tense, so he had to give up. Unexpectedly, the "riot people" were far more than Lizhu thought. After ten battles and ten defeats, the old general Fang was paralyzed and in the end, he was defeated and died. The morale of the Liu army has dropped greatly, and it is not appropriate to send troops on an expedition. Even if Lizhu wants to fight against the "riot people", the generals of Manchu are either old or young, and there are no generals who can use, so they have to gather foreign troops to guard the south of Liu. In this way, even if it can't disperse those "riot people", they can still keep a stable frontier. Who would have thought that the Kuang Emperor Kuang, who has always been pretending to be deaf and stupid, suddenly tore off his disguise and issued three orders in a row. One of them actually said that the two countries of Liu and Wei have owed gold for a long time, and the king did not listen to the propaganda, and the three kingdoms of Guannan and the State of Wu could ask for it.

Lizhu thought left and right, but she couldn't guess what the intention of Emperor Kuang's move was. It is reasonable for Emperor Kuang to secretly form an alliance with the king of Liu, and it was reasonable to take into account the old feelings. However, Lizhu secretly sent a secret letter to ask Emperor Kuang to open her kindness, in exchange for a piece of paper, on which was painted with a naked beauty. The scene in the painting was not somewhere else but Situ in those years. House. How could Lizhu not see Emperor Kuang's obscene thoughts? She was ashamed and annoyed, but had no choice but to transfer her army to the north and monitor the State of Wu. Although the State of Wei was an alliance, the State of Wei had to face the three countries of Guannan, and the situation was not much better than that of Liu.

Although there are only tens of thousands of troops sent from the south and the north at the same time, the military of the State of Liu is not strong, and its vitality has not been restored. The government and the opposition have long been stretched out, and the military expenditure, food and salary have been squeezed out from the teeth. The courtiers sighed, and the family complained repeatedly. In addition to external troubles, Liu also has internal worries.

The "Day of Breaking the Sky" demon is coming to Da Kuang. The people of all countries are ignorant. They just feel that there are more evil things around them, and there are few people who really know about it. However, how can the people in charge of various countries not know?

We should not only deal with frequent demons, but also closely monitor the riots of the market, so as to avoid the spread of the arrival of demons. Which prince is not brain-wracking, let alone the Liu Kingdom, which is drifting now. When Li Yu captured the dragon soul and went to Beijing to attack and kill Lu Sikong, he took away the strong man in Liujing for most of the day and did not return. He folded to the north. How can Tianpin monks have it? Three years ago, the failure directly led to the emptiness of the current Liu royal family. They can only rely on the royal iron guard and Taoist charms to kill demons and maintain the stability in Beijing. As for those wall grass-like families, Lizhu does not have much hope.

Today, Liuguo is in the biggest crisis in hundreds of years. If you don't pay attention, the country will collapse, but Lizhu is not without a choice.

Withdrawing his eyes, the glass beads tightened his collar and took a deep breath, and his eyes fell on the white paper pressed under the incense burner.

The white paper is divided by sprinkled incense ash, with a name written on each side.

The name on the left is a little strange to Lizhu, but it is like thunder to people all over the world.

It was still the brother's pilgrimage of that era. Before Lizhu opened the two kits, she saw the man with a painting halberd when she went to the back yard of Lu Sikong Mansion to give gifts. At that time, he was wearing black armor and a steel helmet. Lizhu couldn't see his face clearly, but today, many years later, Lizhu can still clearly recall the way he looked at himself. At the beginning, it was as cold as snow, and it melted quickly at the moment it fell on the glass beads, as if the ice and snow met the torch, and the sharpness was still the same, but there was a wisp of waves that should not belong to that man. Later, at the banquet with Lu Sikong, the man did not appear, and Lu Sikong did not unconsciously imagine before Lizhu came, which made Lizhu put down her heart that had been hanging. Lizhu also doubted whether Lu Sikong's greed for beauty as rumored would have something to do with that person, but at that time, what Lizhu had in her heart was someone else, and there were still two. Naturally, she forgot it.

Later, Lizhu turned around Liujing like a walking corpse with an empty heart, but she didn't expect to receive a secret letter from that person next year...

"If you don't meet Zuo Li, maybe you will be really moved at that time."

With an indifferent smile, Lizhu shook her head, withdrew her eyes from the confused green smoke, picked up the pen and painted the three words.

Although the two of them had letters from one south and one north, there were only a few letters that year. A few letters from the north were only a few dozen words, but they deeply stung Lizhu. Maybe the heart of Lizhu who returned from Beijing could not accommodate any man.

Ten thousand steps back, even if there are no such entanglements between Lizhu and that person, Lizhu can't put down her big hatred to help him just by killing Li Yu.

At night, the sandalwood is about to run out, and the green smoke covers the name on the right, which is also three words. A month ago, it was like thunder, but gradually withdrew from the discussion of people in the world due to the ups and turns of the month.

Lizhu stared at the three words for a long time until the sandalwood burned out, and her hands were still frozen in the air.

He is a Liu man and has been a general in Liujing. His relationship with Lizhu is a little strange, and he is also a "life-saving benefactor" that Xuan'er has been thinking about. It is reasonable that Lizhu should have nothing to hesitate about. She only needs to explain to him the difficulties of a few months ago and be able to use him again. With him in the State of Liu, the military heart is solid, the people in the south are in chaos, and the state of Wu in the north is rejected. There is basically not much difficulty. Eastern Chu took the lead in setting up the army, and Qin Qi followed closely. He was called King Qin, but everyone could see the thoughts of the Three Kingdoms. At the same time, demons were rampant. The world was so chaotic that Emperor Kuang could not take care of the "traitors" of Liu Kingdom.

But...

Taking a deep breath, the glass beads stabilized their hearts, and their towering and plump chests could not stop undulating.

When the pen fell, she wrote the word "no innocent" on the paper and drew a circle to circle "no evil" with the original name, and a trace of self-deprecating appeared on the corners of her mouth.

For him, Lizhu can know more than most people in the world.

Crazy dragon general, young and highly-talent, brave and crazy... This is the world's evaluation of him, but Lizhu knows that it is a big mistake.

Such a person turned upside down under the eyes of himself and the people in the whole capital three years ago, left and right about the situation, and was still calm, not arrogant or arrogant, hiding everyone in the drum. Even the glass beads were not sure until three years later... If he is re-enabled, will there be another situation of the left two people in the past... To lead the wolf into the house?

Princess Lizhu hesitated for a long time, and she was worried from evening to late at night.

She only thought that she had seen the teenager clearly, but she couldn't understand how wishful it was at this time.

"Gigg... Auntie, you're hiding here!"

There was a childish laughter in her ear. Lizhu looked at it and saw the pink little princess jumping over with a package in her arms.

"It's so late, Yilong, why don't you sleep? Which maid is on duty tonight, unexpectedly..."

In the middle of the conversation, Lizhu stopped abruptly, but forgot that most of the maids of honor had been dismissed. Today, she planned to send Yilong to Lanyue in person, but she was distracted in this attic and stayed until now.

"Yilong, what are you holding in your hand?"

With a low cough, Lizhu blushed and asked Princess Yilong, looking at the package.

Opening the package, Yilong picked up the wooden box and waved it towards the glass beads. He was reluctant to leave his face and said coquettishly, "Auntie, you ask the palace people to tidy up the rags. There is this box in it. If Yilong likes it, just give it to Yilong."

"Don't talk nonsense. Those are not rags, but things that aunt keeps for others. Well, this seems to be a shrine..."

Lizhu looked at the palm-big shrine with two eyes, hesitated, and did not ask Yilong back.

A few months ago, Moyun Building was destroyed by an arrow rain. The man who lived in the building fled thousands of miles. Lizhu ordered people to put all the things in the building and put them in a side hall in the palace, but it happened to be next to the small courtyard that Yilong often passed by. Therefore, he was often patronized by Yilong. A few months ago, he fell in love with a flower seed, but today he found a shrine... ... It seems that this shrine is not coming back. He won't mind if he thinks about it. It can also be considered that he is predestined with Yilong.

Looking at the little princess who jumped away, Lizhu seemed to think of something, and her eyes gradually became complicated. Xu Jiu sighed softly and got up and left.

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(In the middle of the writing, I was pulled out by my buddies to save the scene, and it was late. Tomorrow's first update is estimated to be postponed to about 1 p.m.)