Chapter 99： Emperor Jing

Xie Zhi is actually a woman, should I tell Li Zichou?

Yang Dejin thought for a long time at home, and finally decided to take a trip to the palace.

Anyway, the person involved didn't mention confidentiality—although it's a bit irresponsible to say so, the other party is Li Zishou, someone Yang Dejin can absolutely trust.

And after knowing some hidden settings, and re-interpreting the plot, there may be new discoveries, so now she needs to have an in-depth discussion with Li Zichou.

As for Xie Zhi, if she knew that the emperor had found out about the secret she had worked so hard to hide for so many years, she would be so angry that she would tie herself up and hang herself upside down on the city wall.

Thinking of this, Yang Dejin couldn't help but shudder.

Sorry, my lord.

"Child pay?"

Li Zichou: "Here you come? No one else, sit down."

Seeing that there was no one in the propaganda room except Li Zishou, Yang Dejin slipped in from the window in peace.

"Zixou, the defense of your bedroom is too lax, and you haven't seen anyone."

Li Zi gave her a blank look, and continued with the work in hand: "Is there a possibility that I knew you were coming, so I sent you away on purpose?"

"So that's how it is." Yang Dejin suddenly realized, and smiled, "What are you doing?"

Yang Dejin caught a glimpse of what Li Zichou was holding in his hand, drawing and drawing on the rice paper, and she took a closer look: "Hey! Zichou, you want to change your career as a designer?"

Li Zichou sighed: "What kind of designer? I'm designing clothes for military students."

Yang Dejin sat down: "Military Academy, Nanshan Military Academy? Has it been built there?"

Li Zichou nodded: "Most of the construction has been completed, and the enrollment has begun."

Yang Dejin: "It's so fast, but is it too late for you to design the school uniform now?"

Li Zichou: "The first batch of students are trial recruits, and the number will not be too many. I am not worried about weaving. I just haven't figured out what material to use for this school uniform."

After a pause, Li Zichou said again: "Actually, it's not considered a school uniform, it's just training clothes, which must be strong and resistant to dirt."

Yang Dejin looked at the design draft on the rice paper: "The jacket and trousers are completely modern, so avant-garde?"

"Huh! Refer to the style of the Army's training uniforms, and highlight a function." Li Zichou raised his eyebrows proudly, "It's just that the materials are too difficult to find, and no fabric can control my design."

Yang Dejin: "Without considering the limiting factors, what material did you originally want to make?"

"Polyamide fiber."

Yang Dejin: "?" Synthetic fibers? !

Yang Dejin: "...otherwise, you can just pretend to be a painter?"

Li Zichou said very distressed: "That is the most ideal material, or at least it should be durable and durable, just like denim."

"Denim...?" Yang Dejin seemed to have an idea, "How about making it with canvas?"

"canvas?"

Li Zichou had seen canvas shoes and a canvas bag before, but it was the first time he had seen canvas clothes made of canvas.

Yang Dejin: "Yes, it is the canvas that is used to make sails, and sometimes it is also used to make tents. Denim is derived from it."

Li Zichou: "Well...but that kind of fabric is very hard, right?"

"Not only is it very hard, but it is also very heavy, but it is wear-resistant, isn't it?" Yang Dejin said, "After all, we know nothing about weaving, so we can only provide one style at most, and leave the improvement of comfort to professional people? "

Li Zichou thought about it, yes, there are so many female weavers in the palace, as well as the skilled craftsmen of the Shangyi Department, they must know better than a layman like himself, so let them reform it!

Thinking of this, Li Zichou threw away the charcoal pencil in his hand and washed his hands.

Yang Dejin: "..." It's so fast.

"Speaking of which, why do you want me?" Li Zichou asked while washing his hands.

"Ah...this..." Even though there was no one in the announcement room, Yang Dejin looked around like a thief, "I have something important to say."

Li Zichou: "Why, what did Xie Zhi tell you again?"

"Ah??" Yang Dejin was stunned, "How do you know it's about Xie Zhi?"

Li Zichou glanced at her: "Is this difficult to guess?"

There are only a few people Yang Dejin has close contact with. Isn't Xie Zhi the most important one?

"Well, it is indeed about Xie Zhi." Yang Dejin continued, "But this matter is a secret among secrets, you must not tell others."

Seeing her mysterious look, Li Zichou just twitched the corners of his mouth: "Okay, what's the matter, tell me quickly."

"Okay." Yang Dejin paused and said concisely, "Xie Zhi is a woman."

Li Zifu's hands trembled, almost knocking over the copper basin.

"What did you say?" Li Zichou didn't even have time to pull out a handkerchief, he just wiped the water on his clothes, walked up to Yang Dejin and sat down, "Isn't Xie Zhi a man?"

Yang Dejin: "It's written like this in the original book, but I saw that she is indeed a woman."

Li Zichou frowned, recalling Xie Zhi's appearance: "He...is indeed indistinguishable from male and female, but...female? Can the Butterfly Effect change the gender of a character?"

"It's not the butterfly effect." Yang Dejin shook his head, "Do you remember I mentioned that in the original novel, Xie Zhi has a secret that even Bai Qingyang doesn't know?"

"Secret..." Li Zichou suddenly realized, "So it was referring to her female identity?!"

Yang Dejin: "Well, it probably is. I asked her, and she said that I was the only living person who knew her real body."

Li Zishou: "She killed everyone else who broke her identity??!"

Yang Dejin: "That's not what it means! Except for me, only Prime Minister Bai, who has passed away, knows."

Li Zichou: "Oh, that's it." She was startled.

I thought Xie Zhi was such a dangerous person...

"Woman..." Li Zichou said, "Then I know why she is so withdrawn in court."

Yang Dejin: "Because she wants to hide her identity."

Li Zichou: "However, it's a great luck that you saw her body by mistake."

"..."

"?"

"Uh…"

"...You don't want to tell me that this matter is not as simple as I thought?"

It should be said that she is a bad friend, as long as Yang Dejin makes a erratic eye movement, Li Zichou will know that she has something to hide.

Yang Dejin had no choice but to tell the truth: "Actually, she also knows my identity."

"..."

"It's her fault! It's all her fault that she didn't knock on the door and broke in while I was taking a shower!"

"Then you show your real bodies to each other to show friendship?" What kind of old-fashioned plot is this?

"Yes."

"It's your size!"

Why don't you lock the door when you take a shower? ! If anyone else bumps into it, it's going to be a big trouble!

Li Zichou was about to reprimand Yang Dejin, when he turned a corner in his thinking, and suddenly thought of something: So Yang Dejin still hasn't got rid of the title of straight female wrench!

Why did you provoke another ignorant woman? ? ! Yang Dejin, you sinful woman! !

"Hey wait, Xie Zhi knows you're a woman, so what's her reaction?"

"Well, she didn't react at all." Yang Dejin didn't say that she had revealed her secrets a long time ago, otherwise Li Zifu would be **** off, "We have a showdown with each other, so both of us can rest assured."

"Then you turned around and told me the secret?"

"...This, this is not because I believe you, I approve of your confidentiality work."

Li Zichou snorted, accepting the reason: "Xie Zhi has been in the court for so long, and it's amazing that he can remain undetected."

Yang Dejin echoed: "Yes, she is Bai Qingyang's great hero. She was able to become an official from the third rank within four years. She has outstanding abilities and methods. This problem must not trouble her, but it is too hard."

"Wait, four years?" Li Zichou suddenly realized something was wrong, "When did Xie Zhi become an official? How old is she?"

Yang Dejin blinked: "Didn't I tell you? She was recommended to the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment four years ago, in the few days after the accident in the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"As for how old she is... um..." Yang Dejin recalled the original work, and calculated, "About twenty-three?"

"Younger than I thought..." Li Zichou's eyes twitched, "But if you don't stand in line, don't cling, can you become an official from the third rank within four years..."

Yang Dejin: "You also think it's weird, don't you? There must be someone in the imperial court secretly helping Xie Zhi."

Li Zichou: "Do you know who it is?"

Yang Dejin shook his head wearily: "I don't know, but it should be the same person who recommended her to the imperial court. As for that person's real identity, even Xie Zhi himself doesn't know."

Li Zishou: "This is strange. With such a strict procedure, the elector should be a person of high prestige. Who can bring Xie Zhi into the Xuanzheng Hall without the eyes of the late Emperor?"

Yang Dejin frowned tightly, searching every inch of the original content in her mind.

The first emperor's posthumous title was Jing, and later generations called Dasheng Jingdi, or Jingchang Emperor.

When Emperor Jing was in power, because he was born weak and almost not close to women, he only married two queens successively.

Emperor Jing hated sensuality, and marrying the queen was already his biggest concession to his courtiers. The monarch's various precautions and the lack of concubines and concubines have also eliminated the possibility of some families filling the harem with people. Even the candidate for the queen is a woman with a clean family background and a simple background.

Therefore, Emperor Jing's court maintained a good balance, and there was no situation where a dominant clan controlled the government. He managed his court very well.

—To sum up, under such circumstances, it is almost impossible for someone to have the ability to recommend Xie Zhi and promote her all the way without attracting Emperor Jing's attention. In his court, there is no such thing as covering the sky people.

That's why Bai Qingyang could only hold back, contact all parties secretly, and carefully infiltrate the former court.

Only by slowly gathering power can she accumulate a lot of power.

Li Zichou: "These are all novel settings?"

"It's the background of the beginning of the story, because the original book is about the heroine's strategy, so I must explain it clearly." Yang Dejin said, "So, even if it is Prime Minister Bai Xun, he can't pave the way for Xie Zhi. What's more, Xie Zhi died before he took office."

Li Zichou: "If the minister can't do it, what about the relatives of the emperor?"

Yang Dejin: "As I said just now, although the two empresses are women from good families, they are not from aristocratic families, and they have little right to speak in the court.

"The queens gave birth to some heirs, but they may have inherited their father's weak physique, sickness, death, and few who grew up safely.

"By the way, you are the descendant of the eldest grandson empress, the only princess who is safe and sound, without any mistakes, and has grown up to adulthood. Your other brothers and sisters are all dead."

Li Zishou: "..."

The author has something to say:

Yang Dejin: Your other brothers and sisters died.

Li Zishou: Very aggressive, who got hit by AOE?

Yang Dejin: ...