Yun Chang would not ask such inexplicable questions on purpose, Luo Qingyan raised his eyebrows, and carefully looked at the contents of the box.
"It's all cloth and jewelry. You know, what I'm not good at is identifying these things. These things are all similar to me. I don't even know the materials used. Understand."
Luo said lightly, his eyes slightly paused.
Luo lightly looked at a corner of the box, frowning slightly, as if trying to identify something, after a long while, he bent down and took out a hairpin from the box: "Is this a tourmaline?"
Seeing that he had picked up such a thing, Yun Shang slightly hooked the corner of her mouth, and only nodded lightly: "It's tourmaline, red tourmaline, and it's the most precious purplish red."
After Yunshang finished speaking, she said in a low voice: "The empress dowager said that the things she prepared for the concubines in this box are the most local specialties in the places she went to."
Luo Qingyan turned the hairpin in his hand: "Tourmaline, especially the purple tourmaline, also known as baby face, in the entire Xia Kingdom, there is only one place that produces it."
Yun Chang nodded: "Nanyang."
Yunshang squatted down again, fiddled with the box, and quickly picked up things from it: "This necklace is made of bloodstone. The bloodstone in Xian'an is the most famous. This fabric is called green cicada wings. Produced in Jinxi. This rouge is called Biluoyan, something that can only be found in Zhangmo County. This is Phoenix Fire, from Zang'an... "
Yun Shang counted them one by one, then raised her head to look at Luo Qingyan.
Neither of them spoke, Luo Qingyan closed his eyes slightly, and after pondering for a moment, he quickly walked to the imperial case and took out the map of Xia Guo.
Yunshang followed him to the imperial case, and saw Luo Qingyan pick up the ink brush, and quickly drew a circle on the map. This circle contained almost all the place names that Yunshang had just read out.
Yun Shang nodded: "It's similar to the route that the concubine drew in his mind. From this box, we can get the approximate route of the Supreme Emperor and the Empress Dowager leaving the palace this time."
Yunshang pursed her lips: "Xia Kingdom is not small, and the scenery everywhere has its own characteristics. There are many places to go. Why did the Supreme Emperor and the Queen Mother choose such a road? The places in Liucang, Siyang, Nanyang are obviously very chaotic, But they didn’t spare any of them.”
Yun Chang looked up at Luo and said softly: "Although the Supreme Emperor has abdicated, he is not completely ignorant of the political affairs of the Xia Kingdom. I feel that the Supreme Emperor will choose such a path. He must have his purpose. Knowing what he discovered, or what he wants to do... Would you like to ask the Supreme Emperor?"
Luo Qingyan pondered for a moment, then nodded: "I know about this matter, I have time to go to the Supreme Emperor's place for a while."
Yun Chang nodded. She found out that these were accidental. Seeing that Luo Qingyan responded, she took the tourmaline hairpin from Luo Qingyan's hand with a smile and put it on top of her head: "Does it look good?"
"You look good in anything you wear."
Yun Shang glanced at Luo Qingyan: "Your Majesty's praise today has no soul at all."
Luo Qingyan couldn't help laughing: "Before I praised you for having a lot of soul, you said that I learned from Liu Wen'an to be smooth-tongued, so let me stay away from Liu Wen'an. Now I'm speaking the truth, just words It's not that gorgeous, but you said that my praise has no soul... "
Yun Chang raised her eyebrows: "Don't you know, Your Majesty, a woman's heart is a sea needle?"
"Yes." Luo Qingyan smiled even more intensely in his eyes: "It's a sea needle. It seems that I have to ask someone to weave it into a net with the finest fabric, so I can catch your sea needle anytime."
Yun Chang glared at Luo Qingyan, ignoring him.
Luo Qingyan went back to the Taiji Hall to accompany Yunshang for dinner, and after dinner, he returned to the Hall of Discussion to deal with political affairs.
Luo Qingyan had just left for a while when the dark guards came.
"The subordinates have made a careful investigation in the city today. His Majesty issued two decrees in succession today, and the common people reacted greatly."
Yun Chang nodded, it should be big, after all, these two laws are closely related to their lives.
"About the fact that the gates of Jincheng are half-opened, there are quite a few complaints inside and outside the city. There are also a lot of rumors, saying that His Majesty just ascended the throne last year, and held a ceremony to sacrifice to heaven, but that's not the case... "
"Because of this, there have been some rumors and gossips inside and outside the city. It is said that something big is about to happen in the city, and that His Majesty closed the city gates to prevent people from entering in order to deal with traitors and traitors."
When Yunshang heard about this matter before, she had already guessed that this decree would definitely cause quite a stir, so she just nodded lightly when she heard the words: "Today is just the beginning, many people..."
Especially Xia Houjing and the others...
"I haven't reacted yet. Waiting for them to react, I'm afraid the rumors inside and outside the city will spread wildly. Just pay more attention."
After Yunshang finished speaking, she asked the question she was most concerned about: "Today, the city gate implements a decree that only exits but not enters. How many people leave the city?"
The dark guard shook his head: "Not much, much less than usual."
After the dark guard finished speaking, he added in a low voice: "And this subordinate made a special trip to check the exit records of the four city gates in the past year, and found that in the past few months, for some reason, the number of people entering the city has increased sharply. The number of people in the city has plummeted."
Yun Chang was startled and frowned, but she was not surprised.
This is normal.
Because Xia Houjing kept releasing people into the city and killing people in the city, instead, people who replaced the original common people were more active in the city, and in order to prevent accidents, they would naturally reduce the number of times they went out of the city .
Yun Shang pursed her lips: "Do you remember the specific data?"
The dark guard nodded, and took out a piece of paper from his sleeve: "After seeing this at the time, I felt that this matter was really strange. I was afraid that the empress would ask about it, and if I couldn't answer it, I simply gave the specific details. The number of people entering and leaving the city was recorded."
Yun Chang nodded and took it.
The dark guard reported again: "There are quite a few discussions inside and outside the city about the second decree promulgated by His Majesty, but this decree is praised more than other voices."
"But… "
Yun Shang raised her eyebrows: "But what?"
"However, my subordinate felt that these two decrees, the decree that all the people are soldiers, should make the people more excited, but after walking around the city, I found that the people discussing this matter did not imagine so many."
"Besides, today is the first day of enrolment for the enactment of the All People's Military Act. My subordinates went to see that there were very few people who signed up in the city, but there were many people who signed up in the nearby towns and counties."