The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

"We're not done with this!" Li Chengxian threatened with a stern expression, the resentment in her eyes almost solidifying.

Finally, he covered his face and rolled out of the pavilion in embarrassment with the female relatives of the Changping Marquis Mansion.

Looking at the retreating figures of a group of female relatives, Concubine Xian explained: "These female relatives following the eldest princess are all from the Changping Marquis Mansion. The first two among them are her daughter-in-law, and the one wearing plain clothes is her. Her youngest daughter-in-law, the little boy who was killed by refugees on the way to escape the desert last time was her legitimate second son."

Xia Jing suddenly remembered that a man died in the Changping Marquis Mansion on the way to escape. She must have been the daughter-in-law's child. Otherwise, he would not have been dressed so plainly when he came to the palace to pay respects at such a young age.

With such a strong and overbearing mother-in-law, I wonder what life is like for these two daughters-in-law under her control?
"It's just." Concubine Xian glanced at the retreating figure and said worriedly: "If the eldest princess runs to complain to the emperor, what if the emperor blames him? Does the empress have any countermeasures? After all, this eldest princess has grown up since childhood. , the emperor never touched her."

Xia Jing smiled calmly: "It doesn't matter!"

The reason why I hadn't laid a finger on her before was because there was no interest involved, and since the emperor had such a daughter, she would naturally receive a lot of attention and love.

Now the eldest princess is several years older than her. Such an old lady cannot be said to be cute. It would only hurt her eyes to cry in front of the emperor.

Moreover, the most important thing is that she is not the emperor's only daughter now. The harem concubine has the only second princess in her name. She is at the age of innocence. The baby's toothless smile is extremely lethal. The emperor wants to pamper her. You should also favor this one.

Concubine Xian saw the relaxed expression on her face, and immediately thought that this master was not someone to be trifled with, and the emperor might not dare to come to her to argue.

Her tense mood relaxed and she said with a smile: "It seems that I am worried for nothing. Your Majesty didn't say that we need to weed. I happen to have nothing to do today. Why don't we do the weeding together and let everyone feel the hard work and food?" It’s hard-won.”

"Okay, you better understand my good intentions!" Xia Jing readily agreed. She was very satisfied with Concubine Xian's knowledge.At least he won't be like those idiots who always come to her to gain a sense of presence.

The beauties who had been standing in the back without any sense of presence suddenly looked miserable when they heard that weeding still had to be done.

Although Li Jingfu was a dandy, he still had a strong determination to fulfill his destiny. However, he still had fewer women, compared to the men of this era.

Now that he has become the ninth emperor, he has only gained a few beauties. He is not like some emperors who once they ascended the throne, they will reward the harem or announce the draft to the world.

Scumbags are also scumbags, but there is a difference in what level of scumbag they are.

Most of the three palaces and sixteen gardens were vacant, which resulted in most of the palaces in the Western Harem becoming deserted.

During the reign of Emperor Huiyuan, both the national treasury and the emperor's private treasury were empty, resulting in many palaces in the harem not being repaired in time.

Now all the nobles in the palace followed Xia Jing to the West Harem Palace. The palace was still deserted, but the courtyard became popular and prosperous. The crops planted were growing well, but there were a lot of weeds growing beside it.

Xia Jing rolled up her sleeves and said to the beauties standing nearby in a daze: "Why are you dazed? Get to work quickly. Remember, don't treat my crops as weeds!"

Concubine Xian had lived in the palace for decades and was very good at observing faces. When she saw Xia Jing rolling up her sleeves, she rolled up her sleeves quickly and asked with a smile: "Your Majesty, I know how to do this job, and I know where the crops are." What a weed."

Xia Jing looked at the beauties making slow movements. After hearing her words, she looked at her in surprise: "You know how to do it?"

Concubine Xian nodded: "I have been used to working at home since I was a child, and it was only when I came to the palace that life began to get easier."

Xia Jing knew that Concubine Xian's family was considered a wealthy family in their small town, but she didn't expect that the family would have no shortage of money and would let their daughter do farm work.

Now it seems that the Wang family is not a family that values ​​girls.

Xia Jing asked Hongmei to teach everyone how to work, at least to teach them how to recognize crops and weeds. "Hongmei, take them to work in the sweet potato garden, and remember not to let them pull up the sweet potato seedlings."

Concubine Xian had taken good care of herself over the years and was quite decent at doing farm work, which really impressed Xia Jing.

"Mother, I heard that you want to open another cotton and linen textile factory in the suburbs of Beijing?"

Xia Jing raised her head and glanced at Xian Fei, then lowered her head and quickly pulled out the grass. After pulling out the small ridge, she stood up straight and said, "This is the plan. Why do you ask about this today?"

Concubine Xian smiled a little sheepishly: "I've actually wanted to tell you about this for a long time, but I saw that you were too busy a while ago so I didn't dare to bother you. I just wanted to ask you about the recruitment of your new textile factory. what kind of person?"

After hearing what she said, Xia Jing asked: "Both men and women are required. It is better to have skills. Does Concubine Xian want to recommend someone to me? Or does anyone in your family want to work?"

Concubine Xian hesitated for a while, then asked tentatively: "What do you think if I go to work in a textile factory?"

These words were like thunder. Xia Jing was so shocked that she couldn't care about the work at hand. She straightened up and looked at her expression, "You said you were going?"

"Yes!" The words had already been spoken, and Concubine Xian found it easy to say the next words.

So she smiled with relief: "I have learned spinning and weaving since I was a child. Although I haven't touched a spinning machine or loom for decades, I still have the basics. I can be considered a semi-skilled worker."

Xia Jing is naturally happy to have skilled workers come to work in her textile factory, but...
"You are not young anymore. Whether you are in the palace or the royal palace these years, you have lived a pampered life. You have clothes to put on your hands and food to open your mouth. Now that you are out working, can you bear the hardships of work?"

"When you work outside, what interests you is enjoyment and the process of working. If it's something you're not good at, it's torture and even harder." A bitter smile appeared on Concubine Xian's face.

"Speaking of which, everything in this palace is exquisite, whether it is life or residence. I just see you busy every day. The more you live, the more energetic you are. I think these things are also of interest to you. I just want to have what I want to do like you. It can be done so that life will not be lifeless every day.”

And she thought about it for a long time and found that she had only learned spinning and weaving since she was a child.

In this palace, she was like a bird in a golden cage, without any freedom, and her life was too dull.

Watching Xia Jing busy every day, I would be lying if I said I wasn't envious.

Besides, now that she is old and beautiful, she cannot serve anyone with her beauty, so why should she spend her days in the palace counting grains of rice every day.

It's better to follow the example of the Queen and find something to do that you like, so that you won't go crazy out of boredom.

After hearing what she said, Xia Jing agreed in her heart, but she did not agree immediately. Instead, she asked: "You go to work in the textile factory, what about the little princess in your palace? How do you arrange for her?"

Concubine Xian has raised a child for almost a year and it is impossible to give it away.So how can she maintain a balance between work and children?

"The little princess has no interest relationship with anyone else. It's good to have nannies and maids to take care of her in the palace. Besides, I can take care of her all the time except for work."

If he is a prince and has interests in everyone, he may still have concerns about leaving the child alone to the nuns and maids to take care of the concubine, fearing that his personal safety will be endangered.If there is no conflict of interest between a baby girl and the princes, it is impossible for anyone to harm her.Xia Jing nodded. If Concubine Xian was willing to go out to work, she could hand over the management of the cotton and linen textile factory to her and let her try out as the factory director.

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Let’s talk about Li Chengxian who rushed out of the pavilion.

Today I was embarrassed in front of my daughter-in-law and the other female family members of the Changping Marquis Mansion. I felt extremely ashamed and angry, and walked forward angrily.

"Mom, why aren't you leaving?" The eldest daughter-in-law asked suspiciously when she saw Li Chengxian standing still and looking at the passage leading to the front.

Li Chengxian turned around, feeling extremely entangled in her heart, and finally bit her lip and said, "You can't tell your father about the Queen Mother slapping me today, otherwise it will affect the relationship between the King Father and the Queen Mother."

As she spoke, she warned the women and maids following her: "You can only keep this matter in your stomach. If there is any news outside, I will definitely not spare you!"

At this time, Li Chengxian's personal maid asked: "Princess, you just want to get your dowry back. Your Majesty humiliates you like this. Do you really not want to tell the Emperor about this?"

Li Chengxian looked like she was bearing the humiliation and shook her head aggrievedly: "No, I can't affect the relationship between my father and my mother because I am a married woman. If I cause them to be at odds with each other, I will have trouble sleeping and eating!"

"This"

The maid looked at the other female relatives. For a moment, everyone looked at each other, wondering what kind of medicine the eldest princess was selling in her gourd.

Li Chengxian said in a low spirit: "Let's go, let's get out of the palace before our father finds out!"

After saying that, she took the lead and walked towards the left door.

The female relatives of Marquis Changping could only follow him away in confusion.

After everyone left, a eunuch walked out from the wall of the passage leading to the front court. If Xia Jing came here, she would have recognized this eunuch as the eunuch on duty at Qinzheng Hall.

In other words, this eunuch is under Anu's charge. If the eunuch hears these words, they will definitely reach Anu's ears, and if Anu knows, it means that Li Jingfu also knows.

The eunuch on duty looked at the retreating figure thoughtfully, then shook his fly whisk and turned to leave.

It's just that Li Chengxian missed Anu's caution. After he learned the news, he did not report it to the emperor immediately. Instead, he first sent someone to investigate the cause and effect of the matter, and finally told the emperor what happened in the Imperial Garden. .

Afterwards, when she returned to the Changping Marquis Mansion, Li Chengxian waited and waited but did not receive the news about the emperor's punishment of Xia Jing. This is a story for later.
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The defense system of Dayu's army was divided into five levels, namely towns, roads, guards, posts, and forts.

The garrison we usually mention actually has a fort below it, and Goguryeo in the Liaodong Peninsula also followed Dayu's defense system divisions.

Naturally, the Jurchens further east also roughly followed this system.

Sha Yuliang led to cavalry across Goguryeo and headed east. The Jurchens did not expect that this time Dayu would go deep into Liaodong alone and attack their home base.

The Jurchens' unexpected surprise allowed Dayu's cavalry to sweep all the way to Fushun Pass, the frontier of the Dongning Guard, and had their first contact battle with the Jurchens' main force along the Fan River.

In the border town of Liaodong, Dayu's army often clashed with the Jurchens, and it was captured by the Jurchens in the Huiyuan period.

After the Jurchens captured it, due to the scarcity of Jurchens, the number of troops guarding each fort was probably less than 100, which was far different from the thousands of people who guarded it before Dayu.

However, Dayu's court was corrupt, his army was corrupt, and corruption was common, which resulted in a greatly reduced military force. Or in the late Huiyuan period, Dayu's border troops were probably only a little stronger than the military force of ordinary people.

In this way, even if there were hundreds of Jurchens guarding a fort, Dayu's army would not dare to directly recover the lost territory.

Dayu's soldiers and horses did not dare to cross Liaodong, which also caused the Jurchens' defense to be lax. This gave Sha Yuliang a golden opportunity for the Eastern Expedition.

"General, this is an ordinary citizen of the Dongning Guard. He has lived in Liaodong since he was a child, and is now a slave of the Jurchens. I heard from him that the number of troops stationed in the Dongning Guard is less than 3000, and the number of Yunu soldiers is about five Thousands, the Jurchen guard general led about people to Beidi’s Ulianghamu camp west of the Liaohe River in the past two days, and now the Dongning Acropolis is empty.”

After hearing Ye Bushou's report, Sha Yuliang turned his eyes to the people following Ye Bushou.

The so-called slave soldiers of Dayu are the people of Dayu in Liaodong. They were captured by the Jurchens and then sent to the army. In fact, they were the front soldiers of the Jurchens on the battlefield, the so-called cannon fodder.

The skinny old man standing in front of him, because he did not have the physical strength to go to the battlefield, could only make the best use of his resources. He was enslaved by the Jurchens to the farm to plant crops for them.

When Sha Yuliang's sharp eyes stared at him and he could no longer hold his nerve, the old man heard his question: "Do you know how many Jurchen troops are stationed here?"

The old man nodded hurriedly: "I know roughly, the Jurchens have about a thousand soldiers, and the rest are all slaves."

Sha Yuliang was quite satisfied with his answer and asked again: "You must have been living here for generations. Do you know anyone trustworthy among the slaves in the guard house?"

"Yes!" The old man answered firmly this time, "My two sons were captured by the Jurchens and are in the guard camp."

"Oh?" Sha Yuliang became interested now. The old man's answer surprised him, and his tone softened, "Are you willing to contact your sons and let them be our internal agents to help us take down Dongning Guard in one fell swoop?"

The old man has been enslaved by foreigners for many years. Now he has finally been looking forward to Dayu's cavalry. How could he be unwilling?

He was eager for Dayu's army to pacify Liaodong as soon as possible and give them a bright future.

"I am willing, very willing!"

Sha Yuliang was satisfied and glanced at his own soldier. The soldier took out a 50-tael silver ingot from his arms and gave it to the old man.

"I won't let you work in vain, general. This is your reward. If you can help us capture the Dongning Guard in one fell swoop, I will reward you with a thousand taels of silver!"

When the old man heard about the thousand taels of silver, his whole body trembled with excitement, "Me, I, I will do my best! For these thousand taels of silver, we, father and son, will definitely help you capture Dongning Guard!"

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