The queen turned and left, and after a while she brought another painting.

Adou sat up straight, looked at the painting, and said "eh" involuntarily:

"This painting is not from the early years..."

"It's exactly the painting from when His Majesty asked that Immortal Li for a test in his early years."

Queen Zhang spread out the painting and carefully put it in front of Adou, and said:

"I have had nothing to do recently. I feel that there is hope for the great prosperity of the Han Dynasty. I also think of the critical situation when Your Majesty first came to the throne. I have something in mind, so I took out this painting again."

Adou's eyes fell on the painting, then looked at the queen, a little confused:

"Didn't the Prime Minister already solve this painting?"

The queen sat next to Adou and shook her head gently:

"The Prime Minister is certainly extremely talented, but he has been busy with state affairs and military affairs in those years, but he only solved them in a hurry. I am afraid he has long forgotten this matter."

As she spoke, she gently nodded at the half-length beauty, "I may be ignorant and short-sighted, but as the saying goes, a fool will always succeed after a lot of considerations. Why don't Your Majesty listen to my thoughts?"

"Then tell me?"

Adou moved closer to the painting and said with great interest.

"Your Majesty, this two-water-one-horse man is definitely Feng, so there is no need to say more."

Adou nodded in agreement.

Anyone who thinks this doesn't represent Feng Lian-jin? The emperor of the Han family is the first one not to believe it.

"What I suspect is that this half-length beauty is not the Jiang the Prime Minister mentioned, but someone else."

"Oh?"

Adou was a little surprised, "If it's not Jiang, who could it be?"

Both Jiang Boyue and Feng Mingwen were personally taught the art of war by the Prime Minister, and both of them were valued by the Prime Minister.

Everyone who knows this painting thinks that this half-length beauty must be Jiang Wei.

Unexpectedly, the queen had another explanation today. How could this not surprise Adou?

The queen didn't say a word, but dipped in tea and wrote a word on the desk.

When Adou saw that word, he couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice: "Guan?!"

He raised his head and looked at the queen in disbelief.

The Queen also lowered her voice: "Your Majesty, half a beauty can also be said to be half a beauty."

"Sanniang of the Guan family and Silang of the Guan family are the same person. On the inside, they are extremely beautiful, but on the outside, they are generals of the Han Dynasty. Can they be called half-length beauties?"

Upon hearing this, A Dou suddenly stood up and looked steadily at the void in front of him.

"Half beauty, half beauty," he took two steps back and forth, "woman disguised as a man, half beauty? Is this the solution?"

Thinking of General Zhendong's illustrious military exploits, Adou couldn't help but swallowed again.

It seems that it can be explained?

"Your Majesty, if the half-length beauty is really Guan Zhendong, then Feng Mingwen can really be said to be Your Majesty's Wei Huo (i.e. Wei Qinghuo Qubing)."

When Adou heard the Queen's words, he couldn't help but grin, and then shook his head:

"It's too early to tell. After all, Feng Guan is a female generation. Let's see."

The queen said angrily:

"Does Your Majesty look down on women? Don't forget that Feng Mingwen often said that women can hold up half the sky even if women are not inferior to men!"

Adou said quickly:

"How could I have such thoughts? The Queen has helped me a lot over the years. How dare I look down on women?"

At this point, Adou sighed again, "It is extremely rare for the Queen to move to Gui Palace and still ignore the past grievances and call Feng Mingwen and Feng Guanshi my Weihuo."

"When I have the opportunity, I will definitely talk to Feng Mingwen about this matter so as to clear up the misunderstanding between you."

The corner of the queen's mouth curled up slightly, and then she said slowly:

"As long as the friendship between Feng Mingwen and Your Majesty is maintained, it doesn't matter what happens to me here. Your Majesty doesn't need to worry."

Then he changed the topic seemingly casually:

"Speaking of Feng Mingwen, he is now the Grand Sima, and he also records the affairs of the Secretariat. Why did His Majesty say that when he first came in, he had been arguing for most of the day when he went to court?"

"Then Feng Mingwen has a high prestige in the court, so why can't he still suppress those people? Could it be that there is some disagreement between the general and the commander-in-chief?"

Having said so much before, Adou seems to have relaxed and is finally in the mood to talk about matters in the DPRK:

"Queen, you guessed wrong this time. The general is on the side of Da Sima this time."

The queen keenly captured the message:

"Oh, not the general? Who else in the court is so bold and dares to disobey the commander-in-chief and the general?"

"You will never guess this person, Queen." Adou followed the topic unknowingly and said, "The person who raised objections to Da Sima in the court was General Zhenbei."

"General Zhenbei?" The queen thought for a moment and knew who it was, "Pei Qian, Pei Wenxing?"

"Exactly!"

After receiving Adou's affirmative answer, the queen's eyes suddenly widened. She seemed to be a little unconvinced that Pei Qian would be so bold:

"How dare he be so bold?"

Pei Qian is a descendant.

"But I wonder if he has any objections to Da Sima?"

"Of course it's a party matter."

"A matter of joining the party?"

"Yes." Adou nodded, unconsciously and habitually reporting today's court meeting to the queen, "Pei Wenxing reported that Shi Zhongrong, the governor of Shangdang, was too harsh in his rule."

"Not only did they search hard for places, but they even used tricks to force many officials to have their families destroyed. Pei Wenxing said that now in Shangdang, Shi Zhongrong is known as a skinned vicious dog."

"Skinned dog?"

The queen laughed as well.

Shi Bao was already known as the "evil dog" when he was appointed as the general of Dian Nong and patrolled the Yanhai in Hedong.

Now this reputation has spread to the court.

"If I remember correctly, Shi Zhongrong was recommended by the Grand Sima as the Shangdang Prefect, right?"

The incident of going to the party can be regarded as one of the events that had the greatest impact on Queen Zhang.

Naturally, she remembers things about going to the Party very clearly.

"That's right." Adou nodded, "Pei Wenxing hopes that Da Sima can relax the Shangdang's harsh rule, so as to prevent public resentment from spreading and causing trouble again."

When the queen heard this, a cold look flashed in her eyes, and she shook her head:

"The wealthy family of Shangdang dared to collude with thieves to cause chaos. With the temperament of Grand Sima, how could he give up so easily? He recommended Shi Zhongrong as the prefect of Shangdang just to turn the place upside down."

"Exactly, Grand Sima also had this idea. He only said that if a thief is not punished, he will not be able to warn others who come after him."

Adou said with some distress, "But what Pei Wenxing said is somewhat reasonable. In order to implement the New Deal as soon as possible, Shi Zhongrong's methods were too harsh, which would inevitably hurt some peaceful people."

Any reform has to be paid by someone.

In addition to conservative families, it cannot be ruled out that the people below may be too radical for the sake of political achievements and harm some families who should not be involved.

No one in the court had mentioned it before, and everyone pretended not to have seen it.

Anyway, the price is for the overall good.

As long as I'm not the price.

But as the Shangdang incident continued to ferment, someone finally came forward to raise this issue.

"Then how did Da Sima react?"

"Da Sima was not angry. Instead, he seemed to appreciate Pei Qian and proposed a solution."

I appreciate it very much?
Chapter completed!