Chapter 298: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (47)
Chapter 298: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (47)
Chapter 298 The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (Part 47)
In this continent, there are three countries with large territories, namely Ji, Qi and Liang, and the three countries are adjacent to each other.
Relatively speaking, Ji State was located to the south, Liang State to the east, and Qi State to the west. The northern territory was divided between Liang and Qi, resulting in colder winters. Ji State had a warmer climate, allowing crops to mature more quickly, but was also more susceptible to disasters such as miasma and locust plagues, and witchcraft was prevalent.
There were many small countries scattered around the Three Kingdoms, and the territories of most of them were not even the size of a county in Liang State.
These small countries each submitted to one of the Three Kingdoms and were tributary states.
After the efforts of several generations of emperors, Daliang has become the most powerful country on this continent.
In the past few days, Liang Sheng has received many envoys. The envoys from small countries were easy to deal with and were all very respectful.
As for the two countries of Ji and Qi, they were smiling but hiding daggers in their hearts. They appeared respectful on the surface, but what they were planning behind the scenes was only known to themselves.
Emperor Liang particularly disliked the envoys from Qi.
Qi and Liang had been in constant conflict for hundreds of years. When Liang was weak, once it was defeated, it had to either cede cities or offer marriages to Qi, and each marriage would bring a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin to Qi.
Qi was not a country that ate raw meat and drank blood, and it did not have the custom of the younger brother succeeding the elder brother. The princesses who were married off to foreign countries had a neither good nor bad life. Some smart princesses could have a good beginning and a good end, but some princesses could only wither quickly under the oppression of the Qi Palace.
The emperors of Liang in recent generations were all wise and brave. They built up Liang into a powerful country step by step and did not send princesses to marry. Even if Qi wanted to marry its princess to Liang, the emperor of Liang did not agree.
Of course, this is also related to Liang Sheng's great-great-grandfather. The princess of Qi who was sent to marry was an ambitious female politician. She controlled a large number of Qi royal spies and made the harem of Liang chaotic. The emperor of Liang at that time almost had no descendants.
Since then, there has been no princess from Qi State marrying into Liang State.
In short, the relationship between Qi and Liang was complicated, and there was rarely peace on the border.
Emperor Liang thought about Qi's conspiracy and his eyes darkened.
The old emperor of Qi was cunning and secretly drugged him and Cui Li, trying to poison them to death.
Liang Sheng thought that if he discovered it too late, Li'er would also be poisoned and she would be pregnant. Even if the poison was cured, their prince would not be able to be saved.
Looking at the envoys from Qi State who were smiling and congratulating him below, he put away his expressionless imperial majesty and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The Qi envoy's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the Liang emperor was trying to plot against him secretly?
He felt a headache when he thought about how the Emperor of Qi asked him to stir up disputes between Ji and Liang before leaving.
The Emperor of Qi thinks too highly of him.
It was unknown what the Emperor of Qi had done to anger the Emperor of Liang, and the border of Liang was under martial law several times more frequently. They came from the border and were searched several times back and forth.
Liang Sheng did have bad intentions. Since the State of Qi had given him the Pillow Red, a secret medicine that was said to have been lost by the royal family of Qi, they would also want to see it, right?
I hope the Emperor of Qi has good luck and can discover in advance that he has been poisoned, so that he doesn't take the medicine three times and die silently.
but……
Haha, the Emperor of Qi is old, and he has no less than ten adult princes and princesses. He is quite fertile. These princes have no other abilities, neither civil nor military, but they are first-class in fighting for power.
I just wonder how the Emperor of Qi would feel if he knew that it was his own son who gave him the pillow red?
Emperor Liang glanced at the envoys from the Ji and Qi states who were preparing to present beauties, and flatly rejected their offers.
The gold, silver and treasures were collected without error, and the beauty was returned.
Did they think that Emperor Liang was a tyrant who loved beauty? Did they want to use a honey trap?
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