"Shi Miyuan is dead." Ye Qing looked at Li Fengniang calmly and said.

Li Fengniang looked at Ye Qing in disbelief. The white piece of Go in her hand instantly fell on the chessboard, disrupting a corner of the "Road" she had just won.

"Die?" Li Fengniang glanced at the broken chess game. This game should have been the one she wanted to beat Ye Qing again: "How did you die? Does Kuo'er know? Why are you so anxious to execute him?"

"It was Shi Miyuan who was executed by Zhao Kuo at Dali Temple yesterday, Jia She made a move." Ye Qing lowered his head and changed to the black piece on the chessboard. Li Fengniang glanced at him indifferently and asked in surprise: "Why?"

Ye Qing stopped the movements in his hand, looked up at Li Fengniang and said calmly: "Since it was Shi Miyuan who was voluntarily executed by Zhao Kuo, then... you should know the reason?"

Li Fengniang looked at Ye Qing's eyes quietly, then silently lowered her head, feeling a little uncomfortable with this fact, but she also knew that if she was from Zhao Kuo's perspective, Shi Miyuan might have to die.

"In the past few years, these rumors have never been heard. Even I... didn't notice that Shi Miyuan already knew you and me..." Li Fengniang said in a daze.

"Shi Miyuan didn't know that... Zhao Kuo told Shi Miyuan himself at the last moment of his execution in order to retaliate against Shi Miyuan's arbitrary behavior in the court. Therefore, after Shi Miyuan knew this secret, it means that his death has come." Ye Qing threw down the black son in his hand, sighed slightly and then said: "The reason I told you this is not to let you know that Shi Miyuan is dead, but to the execution of Zhao Kuo, you can see how much Zhao Kuo cares about the throne. Obviously, he doesn't want anyone or anything to stop him from continuing to be the king of the Song Dynasty. After executing Shi Miyuan, Zhao Kuo proposed to personally expedition at Fengboting, which also shows that Zhao Kuo really wanted to become a capable king. Even if he could not match the Han and Tang Dynasties, he should at least have both civil and military affairs and be able to surpass others in the future."

Li Fengniang was surprisingly calm at this moment. She was not angry because Ye Qing once again raised the topic of Zhao Kuo's intention to go to war. Instead, she sighed slightly and began to clean up the broken situation on the chessboard. After a while, she said, "Do you Ye Qing really want to help Kuo'er?"

"I still have a lot of things to do, and I don't have time and energy to usurp the throne." Ye Qing looked at Li Fengniang's charming eyes frankly and continued: "The Jin Dynasty has not reached the end of the country's destruction, and the Mongolians have not yet walked out of the Tianshan Mountains. The matter of Tubo is still unresolved. In the court... There are many government offices and idle officials, especially government affairs in the court. Although it is not imminent, we cannot allow useless government offices and idle officials to continue to survive with the salary of the court. After Qi and Luodian were taken down by Zhao Kuo, they obviously also need officials to assist local officials who have supported through the so-called imperial examinations, so this is an opportunity to sort out the court and simplify the government." Li Fengniang listened quietly as she spoke, and then said in a slight silence, "So, you are actually making plans for the next step? Can you know about this matter? "

"Yes, I'm trying Yan Keji to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys and let other idle officials know that the court will never have any room for compatibility and bargaining in this matter. By streamlining the yamen and lengthy officials, the foundation for the entire Song Dynasty to truly come alive or be reborn in the fire." Ye Qing's expression seemed extremely serious.

Li Fengniang frowned slightly, thought for a while and said, "Since those shops are related to Shi Miyuan, and to let other officials see the determination of the court to cut the officials and the government office,..." Li Fengniang shook her head hesitantly and sighed, "But Yan Keji is the father-in-law after all. In this way, wouldn't others think that the royal family is too ruthless? Why don't you just win the royal palace..."

Before Li Fengniang could finish speaking, Ye Qing shook his head and smiled, saying, "The Prince Xin Mansion is now for Yan Keji, will he dare to ask for it?"

"Why?" Li Fengniang frowned, thinking that Ye Qing still wanted to occupy the house.

"How many people have died in the Xinwang Mansion? Who dares to think that the Xinwang Mansion is a Feng Shui treasure land? I'm afraid Yan Keji is too late to hide." Ye Qing said: "The affairs of the court are often unruly. If Zhao Kuo really wants to change the Song Dynasty from top to bottom before, it will be a peaceful and peaceful situation."

"What about Xie Shenfu?" Li Fengniang asked inadvertently.

"Xie Shenfu is too old, it's time to resign from office and retire." Ye Qing said without any hesitation: "This is not deliberately targeting Xie Shenfu, nor is it to please Xie Daoqing. Xie Shenfu's resignation does not mean that the court is deliberately suppressing him. It is just because he is too old, and the court needs more young blood to help Zhao Kuo govern the government."

"So you are just targeting Xie Shenfu, not including Xie Shenfu's two sons who betrayed in Shaoxing and Jiaxing?" Li Fengniang's tone gradually became a little unkind. Of course, this was not because of Xie Shenfu's two sons, but because of Ye Qing's move, obviously leaving him a way out for him to bring Xie Daoqing into the Yan Prince's Mansion!

"Have you mentioned this matter to Kuo'er?" Li Fengniang was still a little dissatisfied with Ye Qing and Xie Daoqing, but she couldn't care so much now, let alone... even if she wanted to stop it, how could Ye Qing listen to her?

"I mentioned more about the southwest expedition. As for the court affairs, I don't have the chance to raise them all. But tomorrow I will give Zhao Kuo a memorial first, and then..." Ye Qing looked at Li Fengniang meaningfully, paused and continued: "In a few days, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival. This year, even if Zhao Kuo wants to expedition the west as soon as possible, even if everything is ready, he will have to wait until next year and next day before he can actually go to the battle..."

"Mid-Autumn Festival?" Li Fengniang looked at Ye Qing with a smile: "Do you hope I will also help you persuade Zhao Kuo about the restructuring of the court?"

Ye Qing shook his head and said, "I hope you can put some pressure on the queen, regarding Yan Keji's affairs. As for the restructuring of the court, Zhao Kuo asked me when he was in the Xinwang Mansion, so there was no big problem, including the establishment of the Imperial Guard."

"Imperial Guard?" Li Fengniang asked again, but looking at Ye Qing's eyes, she immediately understood why Ye Qing told her about the Imperial Guard.

After thinking for a while, Li Fengniang finally sighed and said, "Are the Palace Front Division, the Guard Division, and the Imperial City Division collectively called the Imperial Guard?"

"I will choose the candidates for the front of the palace, guards, the Imperial City Division, and the generals. After Zhao Kuozheng returned to the southwest, he would probably have some confidants. Then he would adjust it." Ye Qing nodded and said.

"Since that's the case, I have no objection, and you don't need to ask about my opinion on this matter." Li Fengniang stood up and pushed open the window. A slightly refreshing breeze with the fragrance of flowers came to her face. She greedily took a deep breath of the fragrance of flowers, and her towering chest was rising and falling. Her charming and enchanting look looked very tempting: "Why don't you want Ye Gucheng and Ye Wuque to go south?"

"The north is more training, and life in the south is too comfortable." Ye Qing looked at Li Fengniang's silhouette and was a little dazed.

"No matter what, I believe you are really thinking about Kuo'er. But if Kuo'er proposes in the future...I hope you can let them make their own decisions, what?" Li Fengniang turned around and smiled slightly.

"It seems that it is quite stunning." Ye Qing looked up and down and said.

"Why can anyone see the beauty of this palace just by wanting to see it?" Li Fengniang raised her chin proudly and continued, "Ku'er is not a king who only has the throne in his eyes. He also has feelings and righteousness. Over the years, I, the queen of mother, have known him the best. Now that I have known some things, with Ku'er's personality, I may still hope to see Gucheng, Wuque and their brothers when it is right."

"Maybe it's not sure that in the future, you are going north." Ye Qing suddenly showed an unfathomable smile.

Li Fengniang curled her lips disdainfully. Judging from the current situation of the Song Dynasty, it was hard for her to believe that one day she would go north, or even... move the capital to Yanjing. At this moment, all this seemed so illusory and had no sense of reality at all.

Of course, Li Fengniang also knew that Ye Qing valued Yanjing, and also knew that in addition to the digging of a canal directly to Yanjing, Yanjing City was also newly built, and it is said that a large area would be left for the construction of the palace in the future.

When Ye Qing and Li Fengniang started chatting leisurely in the Cinning Hall, Zhao Kuo in the Qinzheng Hall was very busy and dizzy. Not to mention holding the rifle and going to the schoolyard for fun, even the Queen Yan had to return to his palace because of King Qing, King Wu, and several other censors, including the Minister of Justice, and the Minister of the Dali Temple.

Since King Qing returned to Lin'an, Zhao Kuo also discovered that there were more memorials on the table day by day, and most of them were memorials impeached officials sent to the north. I don't know if it was because of King Qing's return or Shi Miyuan's death that triggered this series of actions. In short, in the past two days, the court censors also began to boldly submit memorials to impeach Shi Miyuan and others, or began to make a cut with Shi Miyuan's gangs.

In short, when Zhao Kuo was starting to get dizzy, Ye Qing was now living in Lin'an City. Since the palace came out, he went straight to Xie Shenfu's mansion, and then asked Xie Daoqing to start traveling around Lin'an City.

Now, Xie Shenfu is not sure whether he is intentionally hiding from Ye Qing, or that every time Ye Qing goes to find Xie Daoqing, he happens to be out of the mansion. In short, since last time, Ye Qing has never met Xie Shenfu by chance in front of the mansion of Xie's mansion again.

The Prince of Xin'an Zhao Shicheng and Tang Wan were shocked by Ye Qingyouhu's invitation. After the incident of the Prince's Mansion, the couple was worried.

After all, they had not seen Ye Qing during this period. Even though they took the initiative to visit the mansion several times, Ye Qing was not in the mansion.

Today, Ye Qing suddenly invited the couple to visit West Lake, which really scared them. After all, I heard that King Shu and his son had never come out again since they were sent to the palace that day, and now there is no way to know whether they are alive or dead.
Chapter completed!