Farmer of Shu Han

Although the hottest heat has passed, the residual power of the heat is still there.

Quan Cong, who was wearing formal Chinese attire, stood under the palace gate, and after a while, dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

The sun, which had already passed the mid-heaven, shone on the tall palace, casting a huge shadow.

But Quan Cong stood there respectfully, not daring to go to the shadows.

I don't know how long it took, Quan Cong's back, the heavy clothes gradually seeped sweat stains, from small to large, and finally the whole back was wet.

In a certain apse in Taichu Palace, Bingjian was exuding bursts of cool air.

The residual heat outside has not dissipated, but the inside of the hall is cool and pleasant.

On the incense couch, the veil is lightly caged.

There was a strange smell in the hall.

It is the residual smell after the love between a man and a woman, as well as some undissipated scent of spices, mixed together in the air, forming an indescribably obscene scent.

A snow arm stretched out from the gauze tent, slender fingers hooked a piece of gauze, and then retracted, the gauze was slowly pulled into the gauze tent.

Under the hazy gauze, one can see a Miaoman's body sitting up.

But when she first covered her mouth with her hand, a lazy yawn sounded from inside the gauze:

"Ha ha..."

Although he couldn't see the wonderful person inside the gauze tent clearly, just seeing this figure and movement, as well as that seductive yawn, was enough to make people daydream infinitely.

After yawning, the people in the gauze tent put on their gauze clothes.

Then, a straight and snow-white calf stretched out from the gauze, and the instep was stretched tightly, allowing people to clearly see the blue veins under the skin.

The thumb with red nails first tapped lightly on the wooden floor, as if to test the heat and cold of the ground.

Maybe he felt satisfied, and then he continued to put the jade feet down with confidence.

The round thighs wrapped in tulle were then exposed outside the gauze tent, and the wonderful man was about to reveal his true face.

Unexpectedly, a man's voice suddenly came from behind her:

"Where does Aifei want to go?"

At the same time, a big hand wrapped around her slender waist, and with a little effort, she was pulled back into the tent.

"Wow!"

Along with the panting, a charming voice sounded in the gauze tent:

"Your Majesty, the concubine is dead, please forgive me!"

"Hahaha!"

It seemed that the begging for mercy gave Sun Quan great satisfaction, "Since my concubine is tired, please sleep with me for a while."

Mrs. Pan obediently lay down in Sun Quan's arms, her slender hands circled Sun Quan's chest, and said softly:

"Your Majesty, the governor has been waiting outside the palace for a long time. Has Your Majesty not seen you?"

Hearing this, Sun Quan had a displeased look on his face, and snorted:

"Is there anything good to see? Leave him alone!"

In normal times, Mrs. Pan would definitely not bring up this matter again when she saw that Sun Quan was unhappy.

But at this time, she had a bitter look on her face, and continued to persuade:

"Your Majesty has lived in the concubine's bedroom for many days. The ladies in the harem are already very dissatisfied. They only say that the concubine is too greedy and wants to monopolize Your Majesty, so they don't give them some rain and dew."

"If His Majesty doesn't see his foreign ministers now, I'm afraid there will be rumors again inside and outside the palace, saying that the concubine is seducing His Majesty, making His Majesty obsessed with beauty and ignoring state affairs."

As she spoke, Mrs. Pan was about to cry, and her appearance was even more charming.

Sun Quan couldn't help feeling pity, and at the same time angry:

"I am the emperor, the son of heaven! Do you want to spoil someone or do something, and you need to look at other people's faces?"

As he spoke, he let go of Mrs. Pan in his arms, trying to prop himself up.

Unexpectedly, there was a burst of soreness and numbness in his waist, which made Sun Quan almost lose his waist.

Mrs. Pan quickly supported Sun Quan:

"Your Majesty, are you alright?"

Just now, Sun Quan, who was laughing forcefully in front of Mrs. Pan, saying that he was immortal, naturally couldn't admit that he had a bad waist.

If not, wouldn't it be showing cowardice and slapping yourself in the face?

But seeing him hastily supported his body with his arms, forming a sideways and half-lying position:

"Come on!"

The palace man who had been guarding the door hurriedly walked in lightly:

"His Majesty?"

"Go, send someone to tell the governor outside that I'm tired today and want to rest earlier, so he can come back another day."

"Here."

After finishing the order, Sun Quan lay down again and put his arms around Mrs. Pan again:

"Okay, it's all right. Tell me, in the harem, who is talking nonsense?"

Mrs. Pan took the initiative to fall into Sun Quan's arms again, and said softly:

"It's Sister Yuan. Sister Yuan said that in the harem, harmony should be the top priority, and rain and dew should not be presumptuous..."

Hearing Mrs. Pan's words, Sun Quan relaxed and said nonchalantly:

"It turned out to be her. It's okay, you don't have to take it to heart, she is the most old-fashioned and boring."

After a pause, his tone could not help but carry a trace of alienation and disgust:

"She considers herself an ominous person. Before, I thought it was self-effacement. Who would have expected the prince..."

Having said this, Sun Quan snorted and stopped talking.

Mrs. Pan hurriedly said in a panicked tone:

"It's my concubine's fault. I shouldn't have mentioned her before Your Majesty. It just spoiled Your Majesty's interest."

Sun Quan sighed and shook his head slightly:

"It's not your fault. In fact, Yuan's character is still good, but it's a pity..."

He didn't say what was a pity.

Mrs. Pan, who was hiding in Sun Quan's arms, knew what Sun Quan meant by "it's a pity".

Where Sun Quan couldn't see, her eyes flickered, and she finally stopped talking.

Among the wives and concubines in Sun Quan's harem, Mrs. Pan is the youngest.

But her ambition is not small.

The Wu Kingdom has been established for decades, but it has never had a real queen—Ms. Bu was conferred posthumously, and strictly speaking, she is not a real queen.

Seeing that His Majesty is over sixty years old, Da Wu can't stop setting up a queen, right?

In other words, His Majesty can't stop setting up a queen for the rest of his life, can he?

Over the past few days, Madam Pan, who has been cultivating with His Majesty and privately known as the Immortal Companion by His Majesty, has been growing in her ambitions, and she also wants to become a queen.

It's just that she knows that it is not an easy task to achieve her goal.

In her eyes, there are at least two people standing in front of her.

One is the Yuan family and the other is the Wang family.

When Mrs. Bu, who was most favored by Sun Quan, was still alive, Sun Quan wanted to make her his successor.

However, the crown prince Sun Deng and the officials in the court insisted on following the etiquette rules, thinking that the position of queen should belong to the Xu family.

The two sides were at a stalemate and refused to make concessions to each other, resulting in the state of Wu having no harem master.

Until Xu died of illness, I thought that Bu could finally take over.

Unexpectedly, Bu Shi died of illness immediately after Xu Shi.

The dispute between the Queen of Wu ended in the fact that neither of them could get what they wanted.

After both the Xu family and the Bu family died of illness, the huge differences between the monarchs and ministers of Wu, especially Sun Quan and the prince Sun Deng, on the candidate for the queen naturally disappeared.

After Li Li, it was put on the agenda.

The Yuan family, who is famous for his integrity, is the candidate that both the monarch and his ministers of Wu state can recognize.

Prince Sun Deng even went to Mrs. Yuan's palace in person, asking her to agree to be his queen, and even called her mother.

It's a pity that Yuan's is good in everything, but his life is not very good.

She was originally the daughter of Yuan Shu, and when Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, she was a princess.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shu was attacked by all the princes, and finally he was defeated and died of vomiting blood.

Yuan Shi was also captured by Sun Ce and became a prisoner.

It wasn't until Sun Quan became the king of Wei and Wu that Yuan was accepted into the palace and named his wife.

Although virtuous and virtuous are called by people, they have never had children.

Sun Quan repeatedly entrusted Zhuji's sons to her to raise, but she failed to support any of them, and each of them died.

Even Sun Deng once promised to call her his mother, but died of a serious illness soon after, this is a later story.

It is precisely because of this that Yuan Shi felt that he was an ominous person, so he refused to agree to be the empress.

But in any case, the Yuan family was the one who was once wanted by Sun Quan to be the queen.

For Mrs. Pan, who wanted to ascend to the throne, the Yuan family was naturally a potential threat.

So when she said these words to Sun Quan at this time, the purpose was to test Sun Quan's attitude.

Now that she got the answer from Sun Quan herself, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

In other words, there is only one main opponent left for her right now.

That is Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang is much more difficult to deal with than Mrs. Yuan.

In other words, Mrs. Wang's status cannot be easily shaken by Mrs. Pan.

Firstly, Mrs. Wang was also quite favored before she entered the palace.

The second is that she is now the mother of the prince and grandson, and it is natural and legal to ascend to the post.

With other thoughts, Mrs. Pan closed her eyes slightly and fell asleep with Sun Quan.

Just when Sun Quan was falling asleep exhaustedly with his warm and fragrant nephrite in his arms, Quan Cong under the palace gate finally saw the little yellow gate sent by the palace.

"Great Governor, Your Majesty said that I am tired today, so please come again sometime later."

When Quan Cong heard this, he immediately showed disappointment.

He waited from noon until the sun was westward, although he had expected that His Majesty would not summon him today.

But at this time, he was still a little unwilling to hear the words from the palace.

Just looking at the majestic palace wall, Quan Cong could only let out a long sigh in the end, turned and left.

The sun, which was already in the west, shone on his body, casting a long shadow, making him look extremely lonely.

Back at his home, the sun had already set on the top of the mountain.

The dim sunlight fell in the depths of the courtyards of the whole mansion, illuminating a patchwork of gold and shadows.

"Alang is back?"

Princess Quan personally greeted Quan Cong in the vestibule, and stretched out her hand to take off his robe.

The thick and sour smell of sweat emanating from the robe made Princess Quan frowned slightly.

"Ah Lang stood outside the palace all day today?"

"Um."

Quan Cong replied somewhat sleepily, and walked towards the side hall.

Princess Quan handed the robe to the servant, followed her, and continued to ask in a low voice:

"Alang didn't see His Majesty?"

"No."

In the side hall was a chair passed down from the Han Dynasty. Quan Cong sat down, leaned on the back of the chair, closed his eyes tiredly, and shook his head slowly.

Princess Quan poured a cup of tea, handed it to Quan Cong, and sat down beside him:

"Your Majesty always likes to hear overseas rumors, and has always had the habit of sending troops overseas. It's not like Alang doesn't know about it."

"This time, His Majesty wants to send General Nie You and Captain Lu Kai to go to sea again. I'm afraid it's not because of impulse, but because he has already thought about it. It may be difficult for Alang to dissuade His Majesty."

Hearing this, Quan Cong opened his eyes and slapped his thigh hard:

"More than ten years ago, His Majesty sent generals Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi to float thousands of soldiers on the sea under the pretext of plundering overseas populations, in order to seek overseas continents."

"Although I saw Yizhou later, there were only a thousand soldiers who returned to Great Wu, and the number of people plundered was still not enough to make up for the deaths of all the soldiers."

"What's more, now that the general has captured Xiangyang, it's time to attack Hefei with all his strength. I really don't know why His Majesty sent 30,000 people to sea at such a critical moment!"

"This, this... this is not, alas!"

After Quan Cong said this, he couldn't continue.

Up and down the Great Wu, how many troops are there in the whole country?

That is a sailor who can sail overseas!

Why did His Majesty send so many soldiers to sea at this time?

Princess Quan could vaguely guess some of them.

But she can't tell.

Wei Wen and others were ordered to go out to sea to find Qiuyizhou and Danzhou, and finally found Yizhou, which can be said to be meritorious.

But in the end, why was he still killed on the charge of "violating the imperial edict without merit"?

Because the Yizhou they found was not what His Majesty wanted at all.

Not to mention that His Majesty has become more and more obsessed with cultivating immortals over the years.

Sun Quan took Mrs. Pan, known as the "Goddess of Jiangdong", as his fairy companion, and performed double cultivation with her in the palace.

This matter has been circulated in a small circle among the high-level officials of Wu State.

As Mrs. Bu's eldest daughter, Princess Quan naturally knew the news.

"Your Majesty has a reason to do so. A Lang wants to dissuade you, but if His Majesty is unwilling to listen, you can't do it by force."

Quan Cong sighed:

"I'm doing this for the sake of the country, but His Majesty doesn't want to see me, what can I do?"

Seeing her Alang's appearance of worrying about the country and the people, Princess Quan sneered:

"Alang is the only one left in our Great Wu Chaotang? Or is Alang the only one who is a loyal minister who dares to speak out?"

Quan Cong was taken aback when he heard Princess Quan's words:

"What do you mean princess?"

The whole princess said slowly:

"The prime minister (that is, Gu Yong) is old and weak, and has been sick recently, and is often unable to manage affairs. Therefore, His Majesty summoned the general back from Xiangyang to act as the prime minister."

Speaking of which, Princess Quan stared at Quan Cong, and emphasized her tone:

"This generation of prime ministers is not in a hurry, why are you so anxious? Are you afraid that others will not know your loyalty if you go to knock on the gate alone?"

Princess Quan's words were not pleasant, but Quan Cong quickly realized:

"Prime Minister? General?"

Then he immediately shook his head subconsciously:

"Although what the princess said makes sense, if you want me to take the initiative to bow to Lu Boyan, don't even think about it!"

For Shouchun's military merits, the whole family's contribution is lower than others, and Lu Boyan's contribution is among them.

At that time, Quan Cong was the commander in chief of the army in the first battle of Shouchun, but after the battle, he was overwhelmed by others.

Even the head of the whole family was crushed.

For Quan Cong, who was already the governor, this incident was a great shame and humiliation.

This matter has always been firmly in Quan Cong's mind.

Now Princess Quan asked him to find Lu Xun, how could it be possible? !

After saying this, he suddenly remembered again, and looked at Princess Quan with some doubts:

"The princess was quite indignant about Shouchun's military exploits back then, why is she acting so uncharacteristically today?"

A meaningful smile appeared on Princess Quan's face:

"As far as I know, His Majesty is very resolute in sending troops to sea this time. If someone insists on admonishing them, I'm afraid it will make His Majesty unhappy."

She stared at Quan Cong seriously:

"For the sake of the country, Alang must persuade His Majesty, and my concubine will certainly not stop him, but Alang will definitely not be able to persuade him alone. He must unite with all the officials in the court to persuade him."

"Besides, what's the reason for Alang to take the lead alone in such a big matter? It should be the top general who takes the lead. After all, this is his duty. Who made him the acting prime minister now?"

"But, this..."

Subconsciously, Quan Cong felt that what Princess Quan said was not right, but for a while, he couldn't think of what was wrong.

Seeing Quan Cong like this, Princess Quan raised her tone:

"Alang, let me ask you, how does your prestige compare with Lu Boyan in court?"

"It's better."

"Then let me ask you again, how do you compare with Lu Boyan in the army?"

"It's not as good as it is."

"Then with His Majesty, you or Lu Boyan, whose speech is more important?"

"Uh, probably Lu Boyan..."

Princess Quan looked directly at Quan Cong:

"Then why did Alang hesitate?"

Quan Cong was silent for a while, then nodded heavily:

"Since that's the case, then I'll go to Lu Boyan first, let him take the lead no matter what, and dissuade His Majesty from sending troops to sea."