After her rebirth, the empress received a tragic and beautiful script.

Chapter 252 Breaking the situation

"Yu Xiu, I have read your memorial. Was this your idea alone?" Ye Qinghuai went straight to the point without any greetings, and used a nickname in a friendly manner, as if he was not the one who told him to get out.

Lin Yuxiu seemed to have lost his memory as he walked into the Wenxuan Hall as usual. The official hat he had taken off in the afternoon was now firmly worn on his head.

"Your Majesty, I went to discuss this with Liu Jinhuai, the director of the Military Affairs Department, and Yu Hongxue, a scholar of the Taiqing Pavilion. Liu Jinhuai is the supervisor of the Western Rong map in the latest version of the Dajing map, and he knows the terrain of Western Rong best. Hongxue's biological mother's family is the largest Ying merchant Qiao family. Their family has a main trade line leading to the Moon City in Western Rong. The main goods purchased locally are Hetian jade raw stones, but the mining methods of Western Rong are very simple, basically only manual picking, which is incomparable to our dynasty. The Qiao family once tried to develop the Hetian jade mine in Western Rong, but it was suspended due to tense border relations and excessive investment. I think we can let the rebels in Qing County join the army to march west. If the land of Yingzhou cannot support them, perhaps the Hetian jade of Western Rong can support these people."

This was exactly the suggestion he wrote in the memorial, to let these rebels make amends for their crimes, march west to the Western Rong, fight to support the war, and obtain food from the enemy.

Ye Qinghuai nodded thoughtfully, then beckoned Lin Yuxiu to her desk: "Your idea and mine coincide, but I'm not interested in jade. Take a look, this is some information I found."

Lin Yuxiu walked forward and found that Ye Qinghuai was also looking up geographical and trade information of Western Rong.

"Look here, 'Ten miles north of Shuimo Village, there is a lot of white gold on the sunny side of the mountain, and a lot of stone on the shady side.' There is also a record in this book "Travels in Northern Xinjiang": 'When you reach Mang Mountain, there is a village called Shuimo. There are black stones in the mountain that can be used for writing. It is difficult to burn them, so they are called stone.' There may be a lot of coal here, but the locals don't know what it is used for."

Ye Qinghuai moved the two books aside, revealing the map underneath. She pointed to a place on it and said to Lin Yuxiu, "This place is only about 200 miles away from Ye County in Yingzhou. There is already a Tea Horse Road here. It only needs to be widened so that transportation will be very convenient. As long as we can take this place, the coal here can feed many people."

Lin Yuxiu didn't expect Ye Qinghuai to have this idea. He thought for a moment and said, "Coal is indeed a more important resource, but isn't it a bit hasty to formulate a strategy based only on these unverifiable texts?"

Ye Qinghuai was silent for a moment. She had this idea not only because of the records in these local chronicles and travel notes, but more importantly, in the previous life, Lu Yanchen's rebels had formed an alliance with Xirong. Ye Qinghuai still remembered that the cornerstone of their alliance was the coal mines in Xirong. This was originally a trivial matter, but today she suddenly remembered that in her impression in this life, she seemed to have never heard of the fact that Xirong was rich in coal mines. So she searched the literature and found that Xirong rarely used coal. It seems that in the previous life, it is very likely that Lu Yanchen's rebels discovered coal mines in Xirong, so one side had resources and the other side had technology, and the two sides reached a cooperation.

"Whether it's true or not, I think it's worth a try."

Lin Yuxiu didn't know why the emperor was so persistent, but seeing that she looked very determined, he didn't want to persuade her any further.

"The biggest risk in this matter is whether the Western Army can quickly repel the Western Rong cavalry and take over this place. There are 100,000 rioters in Qing County this time, and even if only 20,000 young men join the army, it will still be a huge expense for the Ministry of War. If Lu Yanchen cannot quickly integrate this army and take down the Western Rong, I'm afraid that food and grass will be in short supply before we can take over Shuimogou." Ye Qinghuai said.

"Your Majesty, I think this matter is of great importance and needs to be discussed carefully with the front line. We cannot just talk about it on paper and wishful thinking." Lin Yuxiu said.

Ye Qinghuai nodded and said, "That's right, so I plan to leave the court for another three days due to illness and go to Qing County quietly."

Lin Yuxiu raised his head and looked at the emperor in amazement.

The Vice Minister of Justice, who had always been eloquent, was speechless for the first time in front of the emperor.
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On February 19, a team of twelve people galloped on horseback on the post road, heading northwest.

The leading messenger was wearing light armor and carrying a triangular flag with yellow characters on a red background on his back. Embroidered on the flag was the word "御", which meant the urgent delivery of the imperial edict.

It was none other than the imperial guard Yuan Renting.

The eleven people behind him were all wearing cloaks and hats. The two riders closest to the team were Ye Qinghuai and Shen Guidi, and the other nine were the elite of the imperial guards. This trip out was not easy.

Before going out, Ye Qinghuai called Aunt Fanghua, Li Baoquan and Zhao Yinshi together.

When she said she wanted to leave the palace for three days, she was unanimously opposed by several people as expected.

It was indeed worrying that the emperor suddenly took such a dangerous action without an heir or crown prince. Aunt Fanghua was especially worried, she even started crying.

"This matter concerns the fate of the Great Jing Kingdom, so I have no choice but to go there in person. I will leave the inner court to you. The court is in turmoil right now. If the news of my leaving the palace gets out, I'm afraid there will be a storm. I promise you that on February 22, I will return intact and appear in Jingshou Palace in good condition."

She explained again and again, and finally made several people accept it reluctantly.

Before leaving, she met Tao Yuan for the last time and gave him an imperial gold medal.

She only said one sentence to Tao Yuan: "In three days, I will come to you to retrieve this gold medal. But if I fail to come back, you can use this gold medal to do anything and kill anyone."

Tao Yuan was a smart man. He did not ask any more questions. He just accepted the order and knelt down to salute, saying, "Your Majesty is blessed by heaven. You will be successful in everything you do. I will wait for your return to the capital."
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February 20th was the emperor's third consecutive day of recess.

Early in the morning, a man who looked like a servant entered from the side door of the Chen Mansion. Following the guidance of the servant, he went all the way to the study and met Chen Yuansi.

"Lord, there is news from the palace that His Majesty did not return to the palace last night."

Chen Yuansi was flipping through a book in front of the bookshelf. When he heard the visitor's words, he didn't even raise his eyes and said, "Your Majesty has been working hard recently. Could it be that you are staying in the library or somewhere else again?"

"The palace said that there was no sign of His Majesty in the entire harem last night, and the imperial guards have also stepped up patrols in the palace."

After listening to this, Chen Yuansi pondered for a moment, put down the book in his hand, and raised his eyes thoughtfully.

"Sir, should I ask them to keep a closer eye on him? Maybe His Majesty fell in love with a girl outside the palace last night and returned to the palace today. This has happened before."

Chen Yuansi snorted coldly: "Then you underestimate His Majesty. Our Majesty is not the type who likes to sleep with prostitutes."

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, but he quickly dismissed it.

"Even if the emperor is gone, what good will it be?" he murmured to himself.