Changle Palace.
"Open the door." Princess Qinbao stood outside the closed gate. Her father actually sent the Royal Guards to guard the gate of Changle Palace.
The Imperial Guards standing on both sides of the gate knelt down on one knee, "Your Highness, please forgive me. No one can enter or leave Changle Palace without the Emperor's will."
Princess Qinbao frowned, looking a little ugly, "Can't I do it too?"
The imperial guard lowered his head in embarrassment.
In the imperial study room.
The emperor was reviewing the memorial, "Has Princess Qinbao entered the palace?"
The eunuch standing aside replied: "Yes, let's go towards Changle Palace. I must be looking for the Queen."
The emperor looked at the bean-sized ink drop on the memorial and said, "I only have this princess. Qinbao is not like the queen. It would be better for them to have less contact in the future."
The personal eunuch lowered his head silently, and mother and daughter were connected. This was not something the emperor could achieve without contact.
As soon as he finished speaking, someone came in to report that Princess Qinbao was outside asking to see her.
Li Jingxing lowered his eyebrows and took another memorial, "Let her come in."
Princess Qinbao's pace was much slower than when she went to Changle Palace. Seeing her coming in, the emperor lowered his head to approve the memorial without looking up at her. Her voice was a little aggrieved: "I left the palace for more than half a month, but I didn't expect that my father didn't miss me at all. "
Li Jingxing, who purposely did not raise his head, stiffened his back. He was clearly here to plead for the queen. If you don't treat her coldly, what can I do? "If my father doesn't miss you, why bother talking about you in front of your second brother."
Princess Qinbao exhaled the tightness in her chest, which was a little troubling, "I want to see my mother. Can my father ask the imperial guards to open the door for my son?"
Li Jingxing put down the pen in his hand and raised his head, "You should already know why your father imprisoned your mother in Changle Palace."
Princess Qinbao's eyes fell on the bluestone tiles on the ground, "I know it, and I don't want to care about it. It's just that I finally entered the palace once, and I have to go back to Prince Che's Mansion in the evening. I have to pay my respects to my mother."
The emperor raised his brows and spoke in a kind voice, "Aren't you ready to return to the palace?"
"I haven't lived enough at Second Sister-in-law's place." Princess Qinbao shook her head persistently.
"You go and see your mother. Come to the Imperial Study Room to have lunch with me." Li Jingxing couldn't help but see Princess Qinbao disappointed. It is natural for children to worry about their parents.
Seeing Princess Qinbao leaving, the expression on the emperor's face was a little uncertain. He lowered his head and stared at the memorial on the table, "It would be good for her to live in Prince Che's Mansion."
The eyes of the personal eunuch standing aside flickered slightly.
When the queen saw Princess Qinbao coming in, she stood up from her chair happily and said, "Bao'er, did your father let you in?"
Princess Qinbao's legs froze when she just stepped into the threshold, and she felt a little disappointed. "My father agreed that I would come to see my mother."
The queen didn't know what she thought of, and the joy on her face gradually disappeared.
Princess Qinbao sat next to the queen and whispered: "Queen Mother, as the lord of the middle palace, all the children of the concubines in the harem must call you queen, and the same goes for the children of Concubine Wei, just like the second brother. "
The Queen couldn't help clenching her hands on her knees, and a dark look flashed in her eyes, "It's different. Prince Che is becoming more and more powerful in the court. Your eldest brother has complained to the Queen several times. If he is the Queen's biological son, why should I worry."
Concubine Wei just relied on her youth and beauty to seduce the emperor. Favor alone was not enough. She also wanted to have a prince and a son based on the son's wealth, which was a foolish dream.
Princess Qinbao held the queen's hands and said, "We are royal children. We are born with endless wealth and glory. Even being an idle king is better than being demoted to a commoner and imprisoned for life like the three emperor brothers. The eldest brother and The queen mother does not need to insist on that position, Qin Bao just wants the family to be safe."
The queen stroked the bun on Princess Qinbao's head and said, "This huge palace is so lonely. I have suffered all my life. If we didn't fight for it, all the bones would have been chewed long ago." If there was not only Princess Qinbao in this harem, How could the emperor be so doting on her?
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The maid came in from outside the house and said, "Your Royal Highness, the Emperor has sent someone to say that lunch has been prepared for you to come over."
The queen took Princess Qinbao's arm and stood up, with a motherly smile on her face, "My mother will be fine. You can go over first. Your father will let me out in a few days."
Princess Qinbao hesitated to speak, and finally swallowed the words on her lips. Things in the world are unpredictable, and people's hearts are unpredictable. How can she change it with just a few words.
Mammy held the queen's hand and said, "If Princess Qinbao goes to plead with the emperor, maybe the empress will be fine."
The queen stared at the gate of Changle Palace that was closed again, with endless desolation in the corners of her mouth, "How could I not know that I can afford to gamble on the emperor's heart, but Bao'er cannot afford to gamble, no matter what the future holds, I will Gongdu hopes she can be as happy as she is now."
After lunch, Princess Qinbao left the palace and leaned against the wall of the carriage, looking at the hem of her skirt in a daze.
After returning to Prince Che's Mansion, Wen Jinhe could easily see the other party's disappointed mood, "I heard that Baifo Temple holds a Buddhist meeting from the ninth to the eleventh of August. I haven't been out for a few days. How about we go and have a look tomorrow?"
Princess Qinbao came back to her senses, nodded and said, "Okay."
The head of the House of Internal Affairs walked toward the Imperial Study Room carrying a beautiful wooden box, "This is the telescope that the Glass House will present as tribute today. I would like to ask my father-in-law to bring it in for the Emperor to take a look at."
After a while, the eunuch came out and said, "Your Majesty, let the steward in."
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs followed excitedly holding the wooden box.
Li Jingxing asked: "Can telescopes be produced in large quantities?"
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs knelt on the ground and replied respectfully: "I heard that it was a success. Princess Che specially asked me to make this for the emperor more delicate, so I brought it over a little later."
Li Jingxing opened the wooden box with some surprise in his eyes.
Inside the box was a telescope carved with ink jade, with dragon patterns on it. It was cold to the touch, "Princess Che is really thoughtful."
He had not been happy for a long time when Bao Minghe, the royal guard, came out to see him.
After asking, I found out that King Che used his military salary to buy two hundred telescopes and transported them to the camp in the eastern suburbs. The Royal Forest Army was the imperial army guarding the imperial city. In order to better protect the emperor, each person had to have one.
Li Jingxing looked at the telescope at hand. Just now, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that a telescope glass shop was going to be sold for 150 taels of silver. There were tens of thousands of people in the imperial army, and each man was assigned one. This meant draining the treasury. No.
"The Royal Guards are large in number, and the palace is not big. Ten of them are enough. You can go to the House of Internal Affairs to pick them up in three days." The Glass Shop is an imperial merchant, and the House of Internal Affairs can purchase one for only a hundred taels of silver.
Bao Minghe's ten telescopes had not yet been received. After the morning meeting on the second day, Li Jingxing received memorials from various generals at the same time, requesting that the army be equipped with telescopes.
It's a good thing, and it has advantages in combat and observing the enemy's situation, but the price is not cheap.
The 30,000 taels spent by Daying in the eastern suburbs did not come from the treasury.
Li Jingxing wrote the same annotation on more than a dozen memorials, approved them, and encouraged the generals to purchase them on their own.
When they opened the memorial, everyone almost burst out with their hard work. If they were rich, how could they write a memorial?
