"Yes." Bai Jinyu's face was illuminated by the palace lanterns in the hall. She knew that once this word was said, there would be no way back.

The queen shook her eyes, jumped up to look forward to her eyebrows, and couldn't wait to say, "What's the solution?"

Bai Jinyu swallowed slowly between her neck and took off from the queen's hand. She looked around the women in the hall and said, "Can the Queen ask all the ladies to get up first? What I want to say below is not suitable to say to people who look like this."

The queen followed Bai Jinyu's gaze and the concubines on the ground were kneeling or sitting, showing their decadence.

"Sisters, you must have heard what Princess Jin said, just calm down quickly!"

Hearing this, dozens of women looked at each other. At first, they took the lead, and the rest stood up one after another. The last one was Concubine Wu's turn. She was a little reluctant, but finally, under the persuasion of the concubine beside her, she stood up crookedly.

Yingying and Yanyan stood up, and there were five or six rows. Bai Jinyu apologized to the queen with a slight look, turned around and walked in front of everyone.

She looked at the hairpin in front of her and tried to say as plainly as possible: "Just as the empresses were worried just now, the emperor encountered a difficulty this time. We were separated by a three-foot-thick wall in the daytime, and we could hear the sound of weapons connecting! Before the reinforcements arrived, the power of our enemies was very different, which is indeed the fact." She silently said, affirming: "Yes, the defeat may be tomorrow!"

Although every concubine had a bad premonition, when Bai Jinyu said the truth so surely, everyone still suddenly picked it up in their hearts.

Bai Jinyu relaxed the corners of her mouth and said, "But what I said was, 'maybe'! Because the emperor has not only the soldiers around him at this moment, but also us!"

"us?"

“What can we do?”

"Do you also want us to put on armor and make up the numbers?

...

A murmuring discussion.

After the discussion subsided, Bai Jinyu said, "Of course, it's not that the ladies go to fight and kill the enemy!"

"What are we going to do?"

Bai Jinyu said: "Our reinforcements will arrive in Chang'an in one day, and it is said that there are 70,000 people. In other words, as long as our army can delay another one, the emperor will be able to turn defeat into victory! The enemy is also very clear about this, so he went all out to besiege the emperor's army in an attempt to decide the victory tomorrow."

The queen immediately said, "Lihua, do you have a way to delay time?"

Bai Jinyu looked at each other and said, "For the army in action, the most important thing is food and grass. Fighting depends on people, no matter how many soldiers there are or how strong the weapons are, people will not last for a few days without food and grass. Therefore, if something happens to the other party's granary, the other party will definitely draw troops back to rescue them, so that the emperor and the King of Jin can get a breather!"

After Bai Jinyu finished speaking, the concubines were not optimistic.

“How do we know where the granary is?”

"This concubine knows that my father was the magistrate of Chang'an County. I know that there was a ready-made grain warehouse in the south of the city. If they had stored grain, it would have existed in that place!"

"It's useless to know the place. How can something happen to the granary?"

The concubines said one thing and another, and finally one question was left: How can they make something happen to their granary of weak women?

However, Bai Jinyu has already thought about this question.

She said firmly: "We go and burn their granary!"

Everyone was silent.

After a while, the queen said, "Burn? But how can we get close to their granary?"

Concubine Wu was also very rare to have the same opinion as the queen: "Not to mention that the emperor is now besieged, even if he is not besieged, the place where the other party is strictly guarding is not something we can enter just if we want!"

"No, we can get in!" Bai Jinyu corrected firmly.

Concubine Wu was stunned, and the queen and concubines also held their breath instantly. They knew that what Bai Jinyu wanted to say next would be very critical.

The queen carefully stepped forward and asked, "How can we get in!"

Bai Jinyu looked into the queen's eyes with a burning look and said word by word: "Dig a tunnel and crawl over!"

Her voice did not deliberately increase, but in the ears of the concubines, there is probably no sound in the world that is louder than it!

Bai Jinyu said calmly: "Now, please ask the queen and the empresses of each palace to gather everyone outside the Yinghua Hall. I want to find a few people who are familiar with the terrain of Chang'an, and choose some strong people. Start from the palace and dig an authentic tunnel to the grain warehouse in the south of the city!"

Only two or three sentences were said before and after, but it was like a storm, thunderous, earth-shaking, deafening, and shocking.

After a moment of silence, Concubine Wu said, "Dig now?"

Bai Jinyu said: "Yes! Dig now!"

Concubine Wu swallowed nervously and said, "Is it too late?"

Bai Jinyu said: "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Everyone exclaimed in unison.

Bai Jinyu nodded heavily: "I don't know. But this is the only way I have thought of at the moment. We either sit and wait for death unless there is no choice! We have to give it a try before we know it if we don't have time!"

Immediately, a series of whispers appeared among the concubines. It was obvious that these nobles from daughters had never faced such things, had never done such gambling, and had never done such things that were so stupid that they did not remember the consequences. They were hesitant and fearful.

"Why don't you go back to each palace and summon people of all kinds to meet outside Yinghua Palace?"

In a low voice, the queen's solemn voice rose from the ground.

The queen has always been gentle and at most she would speak sternly to Concubine Wu, but today she beat and scolded her, and even took the airs of the Lord of the Six Palaces. The concubines, including the eunuchs and palace maids in the hall, had never seen the queen's face like this today, and were shocked and motionless.

The queen took a deep breath and further emphasized the tone: "This is the imperial edict!"

After she finished speaking, a eunuch woke up and rushed to the front of the concubines, saying loudly: "Empress Xuan's decree, the concubines of each palace return to the palace to summon everyone is equivalent to waiting outside Yinghua Palace!"

With such an order, Bai Jinyu's proposal immediately turned into a rigid order. Dozens of concubines immediately knelt down and shouted: "Abide by the Queen's imperial edict!"

The concubines dispersed quickly, but in just a cup of tea, thousands of palace servants gathered on the vast and magnificent imperial platform outside Yinghua Hall.

The night fog became heavier and the lights in Daxing Palace were like stars in the sky, gathering into a galaxy.

Bai Jinyu first asked people who were familiar with the terrain of Chang'an to recommend themselves and found three locals who were born and raised in the south of the city. Then, she picked up the lamp and looked at all the men and selected more than fifty strong eunuchs.
Chapter completed!