Chapter 581 Miss, You're Under Contract Again

This day is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Su Mingzhe's concubines were all busy returning home for reunions or entertaining their relatives who came to Beijing to visit them.

Su Mingzhe was bored and alone, so he simply carried a box of gifts and went to the depths of the imperial prison.

“There is a beauty in the north. Unparalleled and independent.

Regardless of the city, consider the country.

I would rather not know that a beautiful woman can overthrow a city or a country, as it is hard to find a beautiful woman again."

After the song was over, from the depths of the dark prison, there was the sound of chains shaking, and a clear female voice shouted:
"Who's yelling?"

"My name is Su Mingzhe, nice to meet Saint Duoduo."

Su Mingzhe carried the gift box and went down to the depths of the dungeon, where he saw Ku He, Lang Tao and Hai Tang Duo Duo, who had been imprisoned for nearly a year.

"What saint? She is just a prisoner now."

Haitang Duoduo snorted lightly, and when she saw Su Mingzhe wearing a white robe and red armor, she immediately lost interest in talking.

In Nanqing, the black robe represents the Inspection Office and the royal family.

The red robe represents the army and the family of military honors.

The white robe represents eunuchs and the eunuch party.

Although Haitang Duoduo is the descendant of Tianyi Dao, she is like a normal person and has deep discrimination against eunuchs and eunuch party.

Su Mingzhe was not here to see Haitang Duoduo, and he did not care about her rude behavior. He put down the gift box casually, opened it, revealing the colorful mooncakes inside, and placed them in front of Kuhe, Langtao, and Haitang Duoduo.

Then he came to Master Ku He again, squatted down and said with a smile:
"Master Ku He, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. His Majesty ordered me to come and visit you."

"Thank you for your Majesty's concern."

It has been almost a year since Ku He and his two disciples were arrested.

Nan Qing neither killed nor released nor tortured the three of them, but simply detained them deep in the dungeon of the imperial prison.

Because there was no place to take a shower, the three of them began to stink.

Su Mingzhe held his breath and was silent for a while before he brought up the old topic again and advised:

"Master, His Majesty has a message asking you if you have thought it through. Now the war between the two countries is imminent. As long as you are willing to write a letter to your little emperor and ask him to surrender to avoid the loss of lives, I, Daqing, am willing to preserve the Northern Qi ancestral temple so that your Northern Qi will continue to worship."

After hearing Su Mingzhe's words, Ku He opened his eyes, looked at him leisurely, and said in a calm tone:

"My Lord, there is no need to say more. Although Ku He is a foreigner, he will never forget his old master. Please go back."

"Okay, I'll leave now, but please consider it again, Master, for the sake of all living beings in the world."

Su Mingzhe was about to turn around and leave, but unexpectedly, Haitang Duoduo in the cell next to him snorted again:
"If you really want to consider the lives of all living beings in the world, why don't you persuade your little emperor not to provoke a border war?"

Su Mingzhe didn't want to answer Haitang Duoduo's words. After all, the smell deep in the dungeon was not pleasant. However, he remembered that this saint was also a heroine in the TV series, so he opened his mouth and said:

"Miss Duoduo, the general trend of the world is that after a long period of unity, there will be division, and after a long period of division, there will be unity. The trend of the unification of Southern Qing and Northern Qi can be said to be an unstoppable trend of the times. Even if we Qing people do not take advantage of our national strength to launch a northern expedition this time, when you Northern Qi becomes powerful in the future, I am afraid you will also think of going south to annex Daqing, right?"

Su Mingzhe's words sounded a bit like a rogue.

However, Haitang Duoduo really couldn't refute it.

Because what Su Mingzhe said was the truth.

Then, Su Mingzhe laughed again:
"As the saying goes, if you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences. Now my Daqing is flourishing in literature and martial arts. This time, the Northern Expedition will definitely win the country in one battle. Miss Duoduo, tell me, what reason does my Daqing have to let you go?"

Su Mingzhe said, and gave Ku He one last piece of advice:
"Master Ku He, please think about it for a while. If you wait until our Qing army is at the gates of the city and then think about surrendering, it will be too late."

After leaving the imperial prison.

Su Mingzhe thought about it, then turned invisible and came to a dimly lit manor.

This is the royal villa where Li Yunrui lived after being "expelled" from the palace.

Ever since Li Yunrui moved here, Su Mingzhe often came here to have a tryst with her.

Perhaps it was because of the sweetness nourished by love that Li Yunrui felt "happy here and not longing for the motherland". Even during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he did not think of returning to the palace to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager.

When Su Mingzhe arrived, Li Yunrui was wearing a pink mandarin duck bellyband inside and a thin gauze dress outside. She was standing in the dormitory and dancing gracefully.

After seeing Su Mingzhe, Li Yunrui not only did not stop dancing, but danced even more vigorously.

The two hanging silk belts cannot be painted, and the delicate figure is the lightest and most graceful.

Her soft breasts embrace the moon in the sky, and her delicate hands tap the ice on the water.

After a while, Su Mingzhe asked Li Yunrui to sing a beautiful song.

The singing was clear and crisp at first, like the sound of flowing water in a brook.

Then it was like rivers converging together, with a loud sound but no sound.

Eventually everything calmed down.

Several days passed in a flash.

After more than half a month's journey, the Northern Qi delegation finally arrived at the capital of Nanqing.

Before Zhuang Mohan entered the city gate, hundreds of students from Nanqing ran out of the city to greet him.

Like a moon surrounded by stars, Zhuang Mohan arrived at the gate of the Northern Qi Embassy under the protection of the tiger guards.

In order to welcome Zhuang Mohan, Su Mingzhe ordered the Northern Qi Embassy, ​​which had been sealed for ten months, to be cleaned up again.

In order to show their sincerity, Nanqing even released the imprisoned assassin Haitang Duoduo, and she and the head of the Imperial Prison, Su Mingzhe, were responsible for protecting Zhuang Mohan.

"Haitang Duoduo, greetings to Mr. Zhuang." "Su Mingzhe, greetings to Mr. Zhuang."

Su Mingzhe and Haitang Duoduo stood at the gate of the embassy, ​​welcoming the Northern Qi delegation to stay inside.

The chief envoy of this mission is Zhuang Mohan.

But the person in charge of the negotiations was the deputy envoy, Marquis Chang'an.

Marquis Chang'an is the elder brother of Wei Yun, the Grand Empress Dowager of Northern Qi. He is also an important official of Northern Qi. Now he is a general leading troops on the frontier.

Because this negotiation was related to the vital interests of Queen Dowager Wei and the young emperor.

Queen Mother Wei was worried about asking other people to come, so she had to transfer her eldest brother over.

Su Mingzhe sat with him for a while and then said goodbye and left.

There are fifty tiger guards defending here.

Without the Grand Master coming out, no one can harm Zhuang Mohan and his group.

Chang'an Hou originally pretended to be calm and composed, but when he saw Su Mingzhe voluntarily leave, he immediately waved his hand and ordered his men to close the door. He did not bother to hide his anxiety and asked Haitang Duoduo:

"Saintess, how is the Imperial Master now?"

"My master is imprisoned in the dungeon."

Haitang Duoduo recounted how her master had brought her and Langtao to assassinate the Emperor of Nanqing last year, but they were surrounded by the three great masters and thrown into the imperial prison:
"Although the three of us were imprisoned in the depths of the imperial prison in Nanqing, we were not tortured or bullied. However, the king and ministers of Nanqing have always wanted Master to persuade the Queen Mother and His Majesty to give up resistance and surrender the whole country, but Master has always disagreed. Now that you are here, the king and ministers of Nanqing may want to show off their military power, so they released me to meet you."

"Does Nanqing really have three great masters?"

When Marquis Chang'an heard the long-rumored news, he suddenly felt weak all over and sat back on his chair.

After a long while, the Marquis of Chang'an looked a little dazed and asked:

"Saintess, you said that Nanqing has a strong military force and three great masters. Do we in Northern Qi still have hope this time?"

Haitang Duoduo frowned when asked:

"We have a hundred years of national fortune in Qi. As long as we are united, even if Nanqing has three great masters, what can it do?"

After hearing Haitang Duoduo's words, although Chang'an Hou did not say anything, his eyes showed some disapproval.

The Marquis of Chang'an was not one of those civil officials in the court. He was a general who led troops and knew how much influence a high-level martial arts expert could have on the war situation.

This needs to be mentioned here.

The two brothers, Chang'an Hou and Changning Hou, were both students of Zhuang Mohan and belonged to the Confucian school that advocated "benevolence".

In addition, he had been to the battlefield and seen corpses everywhere, so the Marquis of Chang'an particularly hated war.

"We still have to find a way to achieve peace."

In the blink of an eye.

It's September.

The Deputy Envoy of the Northern Qi delegation, Chang'an Hou, and the Minister of Negotiation sent by Southern Qing, Xin Qiwu, have been negotiating for nearly half a month.

Both of them argued for the content of the negotiation and refused to give in.

The bottom line of the Northern Qi delegation was not to lose an inch of territory.

However, there are some things that can be negotiated, that is, the young emperor can pay tribute to the Qing Kingdom and even send his daughter as a bride.

Nan Qing's requirements were relatively simple and crude.

Su Mingzhe just wanted to incorporate Northern Qi into the territory of Qing Kingdom.

As for the issues that could be negotiated, it was to allow Northern Qi to retain Shangjing City as the location of the ancestral temple so that incense would continue to burn.

The gap between the bottom lines of both sides was too big, so the negotiations naturally came to a deadlock.

Since the Northern Qi delegation moved into the embassy, ​​Su Mingzhe came to check on them three times a day.

When I am bored, I will go to the Liujing River to play.

Recently, a new courtesan named Si Lili came to Zuixianfang.

Su Mingzhe fell in love with this beauty from Northern Qi at first sight, and then spent 12,000 taels of silver to keep her for a month.

Every night, the two of them went boating at night, happy as gods.

That night, Si Lili had been in Kyoto for a month.

Su Mingzhe's monthly subscription has expired.

Si Lili had secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally she didn't have to suffer every day.

As a result, she had not been sitting in the attic for a while when she saw the guards and maids running up in a hurry, anxiously saying, "Miss, that Lord Su has taken you in again!"

"What? He took me in again?"

When Si Lili heard the news, she instantly felt a buzzing in her ears.

If an ordinary courtesan saw a man who was so infatuated with her, she would wish to redeem herself immediately and follow him for the rest of her life.

However, at this time, Si Lili could only be so moved that her eyes turned red:

"This bastard, it's not over yet, is it?"

"Miss, what should we do now?"

The maid was also helpless, as they were spies sent to Nanqing by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Now, Si Lili has been subscribed to Su Mingzhe for a month, so where can they go to get information?
(End of this chapter)