Your Majesty, she doesn't want to flip the brand

The next day, Ye Ningxuan woke up one step ahead of Zhou Xingzhi due to her good work and rest habits.As soon as she opened her eyes, Zhou Xingzhi's magnified profile appeared in front of Ye Ningxuan, causing her to take a deep breath in fright.

After realizing that she was hugging Zhou Xingzhi like an octopus, Ye Ningxuan's face began to flush slightly, and she carefully put her hands and feet back in place, lying flat on the bed, returning to the most standard sleeping position.

After about a quarter of an hour, Zhou Xingzhi slowly woke up.

Hey, no one hugs me anymore?This was Zhou Xingzhi's first reaction; turning to look at Ye Ningxuan was Zhou Xingzhi's second reaction; Ye Ningxuan was pretending to sleep, so her identity should not have been exposed, this was Zhou Xingzhi's first reaction.

"Your Majesty, it's time to get up. Are you awake?" Before Zhou Xingzhi could do anything to Ye Ningxuan, Wei Zhong's voice and knocking sounded outside the door.

Zhou Xingzhi stretched out his hand and pinched the center of his eyebrows, "Come in."

"Your Majesty, are you going to wake up?" After hearing Zhou Xingzhi's voice, Ye Ningxuan opened her eyes in a daze, as if she had just woken up.

"Well, it's time for the morning court." Zhou Xingzhi put one hand on the bed and sat up with half-closed eyes. "Will the empress want to have breakfast together later? Today's small court meeting should not take much time."

The Zhou Dynasty implemented the system of large and small court meetings. The large court meeting was held every ten days. There were many officials participating, and it often took half a day to complete.As for the other nine days, it is the time of the small court meeting, and one of them is a holiday.Those who participated were all officials of the fifth grade or above in the capital. After a brief report, they went to work in the yamen, usually in about half an hour.

"Okay, thank you, Your Majesty." Ye Ningxuan said, planning to get up and help Zhou Xingzhi get dressed, so that she had fulfilled her duty as a queen.

"The queen waited hard last night for me to come back, so sleep a little longer in the morning." Zhou Xingzhi saw Ye Ningxuan's intention and hurriedly stopped her.

Zhou Xingzhi has not forgotten that he is a woman disguised as a man, and it is inevitable that there will be some intimate contact when wearing clothes. If the queen helps, maybe some minor problems will be seen.

"Well, thank you, Your Majesty." Ye Ningxuan's favorability towards Zhou Xingzhi increased a little, and she felt that Zhou Xingzhi was a gentle and reasonable emperor.

After throwing off the quilt and getting off the bed, Zhou Xing walked a few steps outside and saw a lot of palace servants who were going to wait for her to wash.

"Your Majesty, this servant will help you get dressed." The leading maid said.

Zhou Xingzhi glanced at her, and relevant information appeared in his mind.Luyuan, who is 19 years older than me, has been in charge of my basic necessities since I can remember. She is the mother and concubine who passed away early. She is very reliable, and the original body also respects her very much.

"Okay, I'll trouble Luyuan." Zhou Xingzhi thanked him politely.

"This is all a servant's job. Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, so don't say such things next time." Lu Yuan said with a serious face, but his eyes were full of tenderness.It can be said that Zhou Xingzhi was the one who took care of the eldest, and to put it in a disrespectful word, she completely loved him as a child.

There are not many ministers participating in the Xiaochaohui, and there is nothing important to discuss today. After reporting the work status of each post as usual, the Xiaochaohui will be dismissed.

When it was time to go down to court, Zhou Xingzhi couldn't help but yawned.The matter of being hugged by Ye Ningxuan last night affected her sleep, and she barely fell asleep until the middle of the night. She only slept for six hours.

A little sleepy, I have to take a nap today, Zhou Xingzhi closed his eyes and leaned on the dragon chariot to doze off, muttering to himself, this time he must sleep alone.

"Your Majesty, there seems to be someone waiting for you in front of you." Wei Zhong said softly, "Looking at her figure, she seems to be Concubine Li."

"Huh? Concubine Li?" Zhou Xingzhi lazily opened his eyes, squinted slightly and looked into the distance, "What is she doing here?"

She remembered that besides the queen, she seemed to have four other concubines.These four entered the palace one day after the queen, and they were concubines without a title.Concubine Li is one of them.

Seeing this, Wei Zhong immediately asked a young eunuch to check the situation, and then reported the situation, "Your Majesty, Concubine Li seems to have prepared something for you, do you want to stop and take a look?"

"Well, then stop and take a look." Zhou Xingzhi leaned back in his chair, and waited until Long Nian approached Concubine Li before he set his eyes on her.

"My concubine sees Your Majesty." Concubine Li, also known as Li Zhaoyun, bowed her knees and saluted.

"Mianli, do you have something to give me?" After getting closer, Zhou Xingzhi also had a little impression of Concubine Li.I have seen him three times since entering the palace, and they were all here to deliver food.

"Your Majesty, this is the nourishing soup stewed by my concubine. Your Majesty has worked hard in court, so you can drink some to nourish your body." Li Zhaoyun said softly.

Li Zhaoyun's voice is very gentle, and she speaks softly, which sounds quite comfortable to Zhou Xingzhi, but...

Zhou Xingzhi glanced at Li Zhaoyun's face. At first glance, Li Zhaoyun looked very good-looking, with exquisite facial features, but after looking at it for a long time, he felt that it was a bit unharmonious, as if it was a bit deliberate.

"It's hard work for my concubine." Zhou Xingzhi showed a slight smile on his face, "Has my concubine eaten breakfast?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. I have already eaten." Li Zhaoyun blushed, looking a little shy.

"Your Majesty, you obviously..." The maid on the side retorted.

"Okay, now is not the time for you to talk too much." Li Zhaoyun scolded in a low voice, interrupting the maid.

Um?Zhou Xingzhi became a little interested, and sat up a little bit upright, "Did Concubine Ai have breakfast?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, my mother started making soup early in the morning and did not eat any meals. This servant dares to ask Your Majesty to tell you about my mother and let her eat. If this happens every day, my mother's body will not be able to bear it." The maid behind her knelt on the ground He fell to the ground, looking like he was waiting for punishment.

"Oh? Concubine Ai doesn't eat breakfast every day?" Zhou Xingzhi frowned slightly, "Concubine Ai, it's okay not to eat breakfast, you can't ruin your body for the sake of my body."

"I remember it, I will have breakfast when I get back." Li Zhaoyun said with her head down.

"En." Zhou Xingzhi nodded, then glanced at Wei Zhong, motioning him to continue walking.

Seeing that Zhou Xingzhi left without saying anything, Li Zhaoyun tightened her grip on the handkerchief, lowered her head and watched Zhou Xingzhi's team leave submissively.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." After Zhou Xingzhi's figure completely left, the maid who was kneeling on the ground also stood up again, looking at Li Zhaoyun worriedly.

"It's okay, Your Majesty hasn't had much contact with me. When I and Your Majesty grow closer, Your Majesty will take pity on me." The gentleness on Li Zhaoyun's face gradually faded, and her eyes were filled with ambition. .

Now that she has entered the palace and became a concubine, she has to start planning for herself. It is one thing to serve that lord, but she also has to be prepared for that lord to fail.

"Your Majesty, what Concubine Li sent..." Seeing that he was about to arrive at the queen's bedroom, Wei Zhong couldn't help asking.

"Oh, you can dispose of it as you like." Zhou Xingzhi said, thinking about the cause of death of the original owner, he added, "Let the imperial doctor see if there is any problem with the things before disposing of them."

"The servant complies with the order." Wei Zhong responded, feeling happy again.His majesty is becoming more and more like an emperor, and he will not be tempted by beauty.After all, His Majesty directly tasted the items sent by Concubine Li in the previous two times, and did not let him check if there was any problem.

What Wei Zhong didn't know was that Zhou Xingzhi had already changed the core. It was okay for Li Zhaoyun to fool the original owner just now, but it was far from fooling her.This low-level move is too backward in Zhou Xingzhi's opinion, and she can be completely immune before she is ten years old.

When the dragon chariot came near Fengyi Palace, Zhou Xingzhi ordered them to stop, got off the dragon chariot by himself, and walked the last ten meters.

To Zhou Xingzhi, this move was just a matter of little effort, but to Ye Ningxuan, it was a sign that the queen was valued, and it could increase the queen's authority in the palace.

"See Your Majesty." Ye Ningxuan deliberately chose to wait for Zhou Xingzhi in the yard, making sure that she could see it as soon as she entered the door.

"The queen is free of courtesy. Didn't I say that there is no need to worry so much between you and me?" After comparing with the pretentious Li Zhaoyun, Zhou Xingzhi looked at Ye Ningxuan with more kind eyes.

"Your Majesty, is the morning going well?" Ye Ningxuan and Zhou Xingzhi sat down next to each other, and picked up some vegetables and put them in her bowl.

"Well, it's okay, I just reported some daily affairs, nothing important." Zhou Xingzhi recalled.

"Your Majesty, I heard that Prince Jia has resigned from the Prince Regent's affairs?" Ye Ningxuan asked.

Zhou Xingzhi nodded, this is not news that needs to be concealed, "Yesterday and the imperial decree was promulgated, and the Zhou Dynasty no longer has the post of regent."

Ye Ningxuan hesitated for a while, "Your Majesty, I don't know if I should say something."

"The queen just says it." Zhou Xingzhi said.

Ye Ningxuan is the legitimate daughter of Prime Minister Ye, and Prime Minister Ye is a royalist party who supports her own government in the court.Based on this inference, Ye Ningxuan should be on her side, and she can cooperate with her sometimes.

"Your Majesty, when I was still in the mansion, I occasionally heard news of conscription on the border, saying that it was to defend against the Huns in the north." Ye Ningxuan observed Zhou Xingzhi's face while talking.Although the Zhou Dynasty did not have a rule that the harem should not interfere in politics, as an emperor, he generally would not like people next to his bed to interfere in political affairs.

"Prince Jia is recruiting troops?" Zhou Xingzhi slowed down, "The expansion of the army's recruitment is not a trivial matter, and Prince Jia should have reported it." Of course, it's hard to say who will report to and who will handle it.

"I once heard this from my father. In the first year of Qihe, when His Majesty first came to the throne, a small group of Huns invaded the border, so Prince Jia proposed to add a battalion to the border and expand the recruitment by about 5000 people." Ye Ningxuan said and glanced at Zhou Xingzhi. After seeing her expression of listening carefully, he continued.

"According to the regulations at the time, it only took about a month to recruit new soldiers. But in fact, it took three months to recruit new soldiers. The generals of the new battalion are also Prince Jia's cronies." Ye Ningxuan stopped here, and what she said before has already It contains a lot of information, and it also involves the most sensitive military power. I don't know how Zhou Xingzhi will react.

After hearing Ye Ningxuan's words, Zhou Xingzhi put down his chopsticks and fell into deep thought.

It is now the spring of the fourth year of Qihe, and Zhou Xingzhi has no impression of the news that Ye Ningxuan revealed.After all, when he first came to the throne, the original owner was always nervous about whether his identity would be exposed, and he basically didn't pay much attention to what happened in the first year.

By the way, what happened later that made the original owner feel relieved?

Zhou Xingzhi frowned slightly, and she realized that she had overlooked a very important message.The people who serve her basic necessities are all people who know her identity, and the total number is not small.If so many people in the palace would know her identity, as the former ruler of the palace, would the Queen Mother also know her identity?

After seeing Zhou Xingzhi's serious expression on his face, Ye Ningxuan felt a little uncertain.Is Your Majesty angry?Is it because of the news I revealed, or because I revealed the news?

"Your Majesty?" Ye Ningxuan called out.

"Sorry, I was distracted just now." Zhou Xingzhi withdrew his thoughts, "Has the queen heard any news? For example, how many people has Prince Jia recruited now?"

Ye Ningxuan shook her head, "I don't know about this, I only know that the food and salaries allocated by the imperial court are only enough to feed a battalion of soldiers."

"Thank you Queen for reminding me, I will remember it." Zhou Xingzhi thanked solemnly, "If you have any news about Queen, you can contact me at any time."

There are too few things left by the original owner, so she has to find a chance to make up for it.

"Your Majesty is busy with state affairs, why don't I sort out the relevant news and give it to Your Majesty in the form of a book?" Ye Ningxuan said.

Zhou Xingzhi thought about it for a while, and his control over the palace was limited, "There are many people in the palace, and the queen's actions may be spread."

"Then..." Ye Ningxuan hesitated to speak, she had a solution, but it would be strange if she brought it up.

Zhou Xingzhi quickly calculated the gains and losses. Obtaining useful information is more important than the risk of being discovered by the queen, "If the queen doesn't mind, I'm going to disturb you for a few nights."

In the worst case, she will make a sacrifice and ask Xiaoguang to arrange Ye Ningxuan to have a deep sleep after hearing the news.

Just hug the pillow, and you won't lose a piece of meat!