After the Double Ninth Festival, Ye Yichen set out with his big head to the northwest to suppress the rebellion. Yuan Zi personally ran to see his brother out of the city, and looked very happy when he came back.

Yulan called her over strangely: "Why are you so happy? Aren't you afraid that something will happen to your brother?"

Yuan Zi said: "Brother Erniu followed the prince and made great contributions in the defense of Beijing. Now he is a Qianzong. After fighting this battle with the prince, he will definitely be able to earn a position as a general. By then, I will be a serious official wife.

"Full of leisurely and fascinated expression.

Yulan asked: "Aren't you afraid that they will lose the battle by following the prince? The prince did not bring any soldiers with him this time."

Yuan Zi shouted: "How is it possible? They are just a group of bandits! I have followed the prince for so many years, when has he ever lost a battle!"

Yu Lan rolled her eyes, it turned out that there was another fan of the prince here!

Xiaoyue and Xiaoyu laughed beside them. "Are you still thinking about Brother Erniu? He is already an official with an official position. Can he still marry a girl like you in the future?"

Yuan Zi grew up in a poor family. Although she was very skilled in martial arts, she was simple-minded. She was like a piece of jade in the back house where there was a lot of strife. She never had bad intentions. Therefore, none of the maids around Yu Lan were unscrupulous.

Like her.

Yuan Zi's eyes widened: "How dare he? If he is so ungrateful, I will break his legs when I go back. I even saved his life back then!"

Xiaoyue said: "I see that the manager Xiao Yang in our house is a good person and is quite interesting to you, so you can just marry him!"

"What's so good about that little Yang in charge? He can't lift his shoulders or lift his hands. He looks so weak. My future husband, at least, can't be worse than me in martial arts." Seeing everyone laughing, Yuan Zi finally understood:

"Okay, you damn girl, it turns out that you guys have teamed up to make fun of me, just to see if I don't break your legs!" Everyone left laughing and laughing.

After asking Yuan Zi to stir things up like this, Yulan's originally empty mood because of the prince's departure became much better.

At night, Yulan was embroidering the sachet under the light. Xiaoyue came in with a cup of tea and said distressedly: "Girl, why are you still embroidering? Staying up late to embroider is too hard on the eyes!" Yulan embroidered the entire sachet last time.

For half a month, I drew the pattern myself and embroidered it stitch by stitch. Xiaoyue and Xiaoyu were both embroidery masters, but Yu Lan never asked them to help with a single stitch.

Yulan said: "It's okay. I'll just embroider a few more stitches and then stop. It won't hurt my eyes for a while."

Xiaoyue put down the tea cup and asked: "Who did the girl embroider for this time?" Although Yulan didn't tell them clearly during these days, Xiaoyue and Xiaoyu felt a little bit upset in their hearts. Yulan was gone.

After so many visits to the palace, they all knew who the sachet was given to.

This kind of thing is not recommended in this era, but the two girls have been with Yulan for so long, and they all know her temperament. She is gentle and docile on the surface, but she is actually a very thoughtful person, so the two girls don't know what to do with her.

Dare to persuade her.

Yu Lan smiled and said, "This is for the young prince!"

Xiaoyue asked: "Can't the girl embroider more slowly? Look at your hands, they are full of needle holes again."

Yu Lan said: "I have already promised him. If we don't hurry up, I don't know when I will be able to embroider this sachet and give it to him."

Xiaoyue said: "Then let me help you embroider! I can imitate the girl's stitches, and I can definitely make it invisible to others!"

Yu Lan smiled and patted her hand and said: "Sending goose feathers from a thousand miles away is a light gift but heavy affection! As a prince, the young prince has never seen any good things, and there are no good things in the palace. All he wants is mine.

If this intention is true

I just want a sachet, and there are so many excellent embroiderers in the palace that it would take a matter of minutes to embroider twenty or thirty of them. Since he treats me sincerely, I can't deal with him like this. This is called reciprocating love.

Got it!"

Xiaoyue curled her lips and said, "Girl, you have a lot of truth."

Yulan didn't care about her, and just laughed. Xiaoyue thought for a while and couldn't help but said: "Don't you think the young prince is very kind to you? He can't be..."

Yu Lan quickly interrupted her and said: "You damn girl, what are you talking about? The young prince is only a little older this year, how could he have such dirty thoughts. It's just that we have the same temperament, and I always keep him

He treats me like a biological brother, and he treats me like a sister. Don't say such things casually in the future."

Xiaoyue muttered: "That means you should treat him as a younger brother. Eleven years old is not too young. The nobles in the palace were assigned maids at a very young age. They understand the affairs of men and women at a young age.

There are not many princes and princes in the capital who are eleven or twelve years old who are getting married!"

Yulan tilted her head and thought for a while, eleven or twelve years old? Not even in junior high school, right? Married, are you kidding me? She can treat Ye Yichen as a promising young man and fall in love with him without any pressure, but even Xie Zhiyuan

She found it strange for such an old man, let alone a young prince.

It was also the imprint left on her by her previous life that was too deep.

She waved her hand and shooed people away and said, "You must be overthinking it! Go down and sleep, we don't need anyone to serve you here." Xiaoyue knelt down and agreed to go down. Anyway, she felt that Yulan was too insensitive.

Even she could see the difference in how the young prince treated Yulan, but the reaction of the girl who was always smart in her family was extremely slow this time.

I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain!

Anyway, the girl had to make her own decision on this matter, so Xiaoyue knew that her worries were in vain.

More than ten days later, little Hanzi ran into Ye Minzhao's study happily holding a sachet in his hand: "Look, little prince, this is a gift from Miss Yang Qi. It took a lot of time to embroider it."

Of."

Over the past few days, the young prince has been in a very bad mood. The air pressure in Jingyang Palace has also become extremely low. Xiao Hanzi and Xiao Yuzi have almost lowered their heads to the ground these days. The power of the young prince when he gets angry is really too much.

Too appalling.

On this day, Xiao Hanzi went to Yang's Mansion and finally got back the sachet. He naturally knew the importance of Yulan in the heart of the young prince, so he immediately presented it like a treasure. He only hoped that the young prince would see the sachet.

I can feel better as a result.

The young prince was practicing calligraphy. What he saw was not a famous calligraphy, but a royal letter written by the emperor himself. As he got older, his thoughts gradually became deeper, and he gradually adapted to some things in the palace.

Get up. He used to be a person who couldn't sit still. No matter how much his mother and concubine tried to persuade him, he couldn't sit here and write for several hours, just to get a compliment from his father.

But now he can do it happily. There is a vague desire in his heart that he wants to sit on that high throne, so that he can do everything he wants to do and have everyone he wants.

It is precisely because of this that he worked hard to cooperate with his mother and concubine to please the emperor, and no longer felt that it was a shame. Just like Xiaoyue said, he has grown up.

The young prince excitedly threw down the lake pen in his hand: "What good thing? Bring it to me quickly!"

Little Hanzi carefully presented it with both hands, and the young prince held it in his hands and took a closer look. He saw a small sachet with a Q version of a little tiger embroidered on it. It was vivid and not at all majestic, but very cute and cute.

Xiao Hanzi joked at the side: "Miss Yang Qi is really considerate. She knows that you are a tiger. Look at how vividly the little tiger embroiders."

The young prince caressed it fondly, with a look of joy on his face, and said: "Sister's beauty has never been good. I don't know how much work it will take to repair this sachet. Little Hanzi, hurry up and have a look in my small warehouse. There is something there."

There is nothing good to give to my sister!"

Little Hanzi's face wrinkled up, and he thought to himself: Little Prince, you have almost moved all your small warehouse to this Miss Yang. In this moment, there is no suitable gift in return.

He agreed, bowed and was about to leave, when the young prince suddenly stopped him again. At some point, his expression became gloomy again: "Little Hanzi, tell me, is my tiger more beautiful, or is my tiger more beautiful?"

Does Uncle Sixteen’s pig look good?”

Little Hanzi was stunned by Ye Minzhao's question. During the Chongyang Palace Banquet, he was not qualified to enter the main hall to serve, so naturally he did not see Ye Yichen's sachet. But he had to answer the little prince's question: "

How can a pig compete with a tiger? Of course, my little prince, your tiger is more beautiful!"

The young prince waved his hand tiredly: "Go down!" It would be great if it was just as what little Hanzi said. But he was not a fool, so how could he not know that Yulan gave it to Ye Yichen and to himself, although both

It's a sachet, but it has a completely different meaning?

Since Ye Yichen left, the capital has regained its tranquility. Chen Jia still serves as his royal eunuch, and seems to have tolerated his revenge on Old Master Yang. The Xiao party has been eagerly waiting for the deposed prince to come.

There was no action from the emperor for a long time. Instead, the emperor released the prince from Yuqing Palace and gave him some small and medium errands, which all the Chinese, civil and military officials in the court could not understand.

After the prince left, Qi Shi never sent another message to Yulan. In fact, Yulan didn't like to meet the prince, his concubine. However, after the prince was released, Yuxin called her into Yuqing Palace several times.

Time just slipped through the fingers in a hurry. When Yulan put on his winter clothes, he was shocked to realize that winter had already come, and it had been a full month since the prince left the capital. At that time, transportation was inconvenient, and the news from the northwest was late.

, she just heard that the prince did not fight the war before he arrived in Shaanxi! Instead, he killed the top official in charge of the civil affairs of the province, the chief envoy of Shaanxi, Zhang Tian.

The entire province, from the Chief Envoy, the Inspector Envoy to the County Magistrate and the County Magistrate, were all demoted one level to remain in office. Ye Yichen said that when the chaos was over, he would promote them all back. When the prince left, he asked the emperor for twelve supervisors.

censor

, these censors were all stubborn and hard-core, and they were sent to inspect various parts of Shaanxi. Ye Yichen gave them great power. Once they found an official corrupt, he would directly ask the king's flag to behead him without having to report.

After killing several moths in a row, the officialdom in Shaanxi finally became afraid. The officialdom of the whole province of Shaanxi was wiped out.

After reading the memorial sent by Ye Yichen, the old man couldn't help but sigh: "The chaos in Shaanxi will soon be brought to an end!" Yu Lan also agreed very much in his heart. In fact, these bandits in Shaanxi are just ordinary people.

The reason for rebellion is actually because there is no food to eat. In terms of combat effectiveness, how can it be a real opponent of the government and the army? The difficulty in annihilating the bandits lies in the fact that the local officials are not clear in governance and the officials are forcing the people to rebel. Therefore, the bandits will be more and more suppressed.

many.

Shaanxi's officialdom was broken from top to bottom. No matter how much relief food the court allocated, it was all filled into this bottomless pit. As long as the officialdom is thoroughly clarified and the court's disaster relief food is distributed to the people, then this turmoil will not require the use of troops.

Nature calmed down.

Hearing what the old man said, Yulan felt relieved. In the next few months, good news came frequently in the northwest, but Ye Yichen didn't take the peasant army to heart at all. He sat in Xi'an himself and only sent his generals to chase them everywhere.

In order to fight against the rogue bandits, the entire Shaanxi Province was divided into several defense zones, and generals were assigned to guard them respectively. They also issued a fatal order that the generals in any defense zone were not allowed to allow any rogue bandit in the defense zone to escape into other people's defense zones.

The strategy he adopted was to punish only the chief culprits and leave the rest unscathed. Not only would the leader of the militiamen who surrendered be given an official position, but the rest would also be given food. If you come early, you will be given a share, and if you come late, you may not be given food.

The purpose of the peasant army's rebellion

It was just for a bite of food. Ye Yichen's reputation was too high. Everyone believed that this prince would never keep his word, so there was an endless stream of surrenders. Within a month, he had collected nearly

One hundred thousand peasant army.

As for the most violent and powerful peasant armies, Ye Yichen refused to accept surrender. There was a price to be paid for rebellion. If the court only recruited troops and did not suppress them, wouldn't it make people think that the court was afraid of these peasant armies.

So he sent his most elite troops, led by Big Head and others, to encircle and suppress them everywhere. They killed these bandits until they were in agony.

It turns out that they are not afraid of the loss of soldiers. In the past, as long as a few leaders were alive, even if they were dispersed, they would respond to the call and form a new team at will. But since Ye Yichen came, this phenomenon has completely changed.

Officials no longer dare to commit corruption, and the common people finally have food in their hands. With food, who would put their heads in their belts and follow you in rebellion?

At this time, even the emperor could see that it was only a matter of time before the Shaanxi bandits were wiped out. Ye Yichen's strategies were not novel, but the difficulty was whether such strategies could be implemented meticulously.

When officials come, they will never be able to achieve immediate results like Ye Yichen.

Good news came back one after another, and the emperor was also happy. Every day in the palace was filled with joy. The chaos in the northwest gradually subsided, with only sporadic rebels left, but the emperor still refused to call Ye Yichen back.

In the blink of an eye, the New Year has arrived. Although it is still the mourning period for the Queen Mother, this year the Jurchens were defeated, the northwest was pacified, the Shu Han paid tribute, and countries such as Korea and Ryukyu came to court one after another. It can be said that there were many happy events, and the banquet in the palace was quite lively. The old lady

I started getting sick in the second half of last year, on and off, but I got better and better. At the end of the year, maybe because my mood got better, I finally got better. The family spent the New Year happily.
Chapter completed!