As for what was happening in the capital recently, other than the fact that the ninth princess was deprived of her princess title and driven out of the capital together with the ninth prince-in-law, no one else could think of anything.
The fifth prince-in-law was scolded by his majesty, the eighth princess and eight princes-in-law got into a fight, the eldest prince and the second prince actually fought in the street when they disagreed.
It was shocking that these princesses, who were not dignified, were actually kicked out of the capital.
And the reason turned out to be disloyalty and unfilial piety.
You know, throughout the ages, if parents say that their children are unfilial, that person will have to hold his head high for the rest of his life and will be insulted wherever he goes.
Even if the parents go to the government, they can be convicted.
The greatest majesty in the world said that his own daughter was unfaithful and unfilial. This incident was enough for the people of the capital to remember for ten years.
"The Ninth Princess is wronged. If it's someone else, forget it. If she is asked to make peace with Li Qu, who would be willing to do so."
"I heard that the main reason why His Majesty is so angry is that the Ninth Prince Consort spread this royal secret in order to rescue the Ninth Princess, which made His Majesty furious."
When the people talked about it, they all felt that the Ninth Prince Consort and the Ninth Princess were quite unjust.
In their Feng country, women have always followed their husbands when they get married. They have to marry someone else, divorce and remarry. This makes no sense anywhere.
"Although the Ninth Prince Consort is losing face to His Majesty, if he were in my place, I would do the same thing."
"After all, the Kingdom of Sun went too far that day and insisted on marrying a married princess. If they hadn't come here, naturally there wouldn't have been so many troubles."
The common people discussed it, and there was no big fluctuation in their hearts.
After all, no matter how unjust the princess's consort was, His Majesty was the one who made the decision, and they did not dare to discuss it too much.
The courtiers knew more and thought more.
When the father of the second-rank official of the Fifth Prince Consort returned home, he said to his mummified young son:
"It seems that you are not as courageous as Ji Changze."
Against the emperor, Ji Changze was able to manipulate the people's power and force the emperor to give up sending the ninth princess to get married.
In the past, they had underestimated this inconspicuous Ninth Prince Consort.
After raising the fifth prince for so many days, he was still languid. Xianglan had been taking care of him. After knowing that he had been injured somewhere after this experience and that he might never have another child in this life, his original attentiveness was also downgraded. .
By the time the fifth prince-in-law found out, she was already serving as someone else's wife.
If he is still well and in good health, this incident will at most make him feel a little green on the head.
But his body was broken.
As a man, and a powerful man in ancient times, the Fifth Prince Consort could not accept it.
At this time, Xianglan also directly came to a conversion target.
His sensitive self-esteem was stabbed, and his condition, which was just fine, worsened again.
The fifth prince-in-law's mother was so angry that she wanted to go to Xianglan to settle the score, but was stopped by the fifth prince-in-law's father.
"If you don't want this matter to cause a commotion in the city, and others will know that our son will not be able to have any more children, then just go ahead and make a fuss!"
Only then did the mother of the Fifth Prince Consort tolerate her anger for the time being.
It's just that her son has suffered such a big loss, and it's impossible for her to let Xianglan go.
It's hard to make a fuss now.
But in the future, when no one talks about her son's injury anymore, she will never let him go.
The fifth prince-in-law's father didn't pay attention to this.
The younger son was killed like this and will no longer be humane. Naturally, the marriage to the princess will not continue.
If he tolerates this, how will other people view their family
He asked the fifth prince-in-law: "Do you still feel like you are spending time with the princess in the future?"
The fifth prince-in-law didn’t think at all:
"If my son wants to continue living the same life as before, it would be better for me to die now."
"good!"
With his son's words, his father went to work.
Before the Tianzhou Kingdom's mission left, they captured the city of Feng Kingdom. Feng Kingdom wanted them to spit out the meat in their mouths, and there would be a price to pay.
Some people in the palace began to say that the fifth princess had been living in the palace since she had a quarrel with the fifth prince-in-law. She also said that she had no fate with the prince-in-law.
Now that there is such a commotion in Tianzhou Kingdom, the princess herself expressed her willingness to reconcile and marry Tianzhou Kingdom.
The news spread quickly. Before Concubine Yang heard about it, the father-in-law of the Fifth Prince Consort had already found the emperor and said that since the princess had this idea, the couple couldn't get along anyway, and the minister's son would not serve the princess. .
In this case, they were willing to comply with the princess's wishes and give up the position of her husband to the king of Tianzhou Kingdom.
By the way, I encouraged you again.
Your Majesty, I really didn’t expect that with so many princesses in your palace, it would be the most squeamish fifth princess who asked for her hand in marriage.
The princess is really like your majesty, caring about the country and the people.
Bah bah bah, bah bah bah.
In short, he just took this matter and blew a rainbow fart at the emperor.
The emperor may not know his thoughts.
But he didn't bother to think about it.
The Tianzhou Kingdom held his land, and he could do something like force the ninth princess to get married, so naturally he didn't have much love for the fifth princess.
He treats his daughters like pets.
If he thinks you're good, he'll rub his head with a smile.
If you think you can't do it, just abandon it.
If the fifth princess is willing to get married, that would be great.
No matter how hard Concubine Yang worked, she was only raised as the daughter of a minor official. When she entered the palace and was lucky enough to give birth to the eldest prince, she secured her position without much hardship.
How could she compete with the Fifth Prince Consort's father, an old fox who had been involved in the court for many years.
By the time she found out about the rumor, the emperor had already issued a decree to have the fifth princess and the Tianju Kingdom.
This news was no less than a thunderbolt for Concubine Yang.
How could her daughter, who had been pampered since she was a child, marry into such a remote place as Tianzhou Kingdom, and the other party was still a bad old man.
The fifth princess also cried and fussed after hearing this.
She shouted that she was already married, but the fifth prince-in-law turned around and sent a letter to Li, saying that the princess was willing to marry to Li in order to serve the country, and they admired her very much.
Since the princess has lived in the palace for so many days and has made her attitude clear, they are not shy. For the sake of the country, they are willing to sacrifice the five princes-in-law to let him reconcile.
This series of operations caught Concubine Yang and her daughter off guard. Only then did they realize that the fall of the Fifth Prince Consort's family to the Second Prince was only the beginning.
From the beginning, they had no intention of allowing the fifth princess and the fifth prince-in-law to continue their previous marriage.
Concubine Yang went to see the emperor, but was praised by the emperor.
Said that she and her daughter were loyal and patriotic, and were willing to sacrifice themselves for the country, etc.
Even the eldest prince's reputation in the court was much higher because he had such a sister who asked for his hand in marriage.
He was originally angry that the Fifth Prince Consort's family had arranged for them to join him, but after he discovered that his sister's marriage was of great benefit to him, he gradually began to think that this was not a bad idea.
He even went to persuade Concubine Yang in turn.
"Although Tianzhou Kingdom is far away, it is very powerful. My sister is not wronged by marrying her."
Concubine Yang never expected that her son would actually say these words. She couldn't believe it:
"That's your biological sister. How could you let her marry so far away? Moreover, there are no official wives in Tianzhou Kingdom. If your sister gets married, she will have to be on an equal footing with a group of women!"
The eldest prince didn't take it seriously: "Concubine, your vision is too narrow. Even if the Tianzhou Kingdom has no official wife, it doesn't matter. When we marry the princess of the Feng Kingdom, they dare to treat her badly. Besides, my sister's temperament doesn't seem like she will suffer a disadvantage. .”
"Besides, it doesn't matter how far it is. No matter how far it is, she will still be a king's woman when she gets married. Can she be treated badly in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation?"
Concubine Yang almost felt sorry for her daughter: "How can she be used to eating and living? Besides, your sister has a tough temper. That's because we support her. When she gets married to Tianzhou Kingdom, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, she will be wronged. , who will support her?"
The eldest prince tried to persuade Concubine Yang for a long time but failed to persuade her. He was really impatient and said:
"You don't want to do this, and you don't want to do that either. If you had known this, why did you stop me when my father wanted to marry Jiang Xinyan to Tianzhou Kingdom? If you hadn't stopped Jiang Xinyan from marrying her, then what would you have done? Is there anything else about my sister?"
"It's okay now. We were tricked by the Cheng family. Everyone in the court knows that the fifth princess asked for a marriage. We can't talk about it at this time. How will she live in the capital in the future? How many people will I laugh at in the future?"
In his words, he was simply blaming Concubine Yang openly.
Concubine Yang was dumbfounded by her son's training, with a look of disbelief on her face:
"You actually blame me?"
"If it weren't for you brothers and sisters, would I risk making His Majesty angry by persuading you?!"
What does he know!
That Jiang Xinyan is destined to be a queen!
When she takes the throne, she and her children will be threatened.
As soon as she knew that His Majesty wanted to marry her to the king of Tianzhou Kingdom, Concubine Yang stopped her until her death.
When I was stopped, I was still secretly thankful that fate was indeed powerful.
Before, when Jiang Xinyan was not married, His Majesty wanted to give her a hand in marriage.
Now that she is married, His Majesty actually wants to send her to get married.
If she hadn't stopped him quickly, Jiang Xinyan would have been forced to follow that countryman Ji Changze all his life. When she took the position of queen, she didn't know how to deal with them.
The eldest prince did not understand Concubine Yang.
The Second Prince's side has been very lively recently. The two of them were competing in the ring, and he was eager to consolidate his position.
Just sacrificing a sister, nothing more.
After he ascended the throne, Tianzhou Kingdom saw that her brother was the emperor, so they naturally did not dare to neglect him.
The conversation with Concubine Yang failed, and the eldest prince walked away with an angry look on his face.
When Concubine Yang entered the back hall tiredly, she heard the sound of things being smashed inside before she had even taken two steps.
The maid carefully came over, knelt down, and whispered:
"The fifth princess is breaking things to vent her anger."
Concubine Yang went in to persuade her, but when her daughter saw her, her face became even more angry:
"How can my mother and concubine be so cruel!! For my brother!! She actually sacrificed me to get married!! Now my brother is so proud in the court and everyone praises me, what about me?! Do I deserve to get married?!"
Concubine Yang knew at a glance that she had heard that the eldest prince also advocated marriage and had misunderstood.
She hurriedly wanted to explain, but the fifth princess couldn't listen at all.
"If you say this is not true, then go and ask your father to take back his life! Jiang Xinyan, that bastard born of a wretched maid, wanted to get married, but you were able to persuade your father to change his mind! Now the one who is being sent to get married is... Your biological daughter!! Why are you mute!! Go and ask my father not to send me to get married!!"
"Who wants to marry the king of Tianzhou Kingdom!! An old man who can be my grandfather!! I would rather die than marry him!!!"
There was so much excitement in Concubine Yang's palace that Concubine Yang, who had always been happy with the spring breeze, suffered from headaches. It was said that she even suffered from headaches.
It was quite cold in the cold palace.
The mother of the Ninth Princess, Wang Cainu, has been relegated to the cold palace since her daughter was deprived of her title of princess that day.
She actually thinks this is good.
Wang Cainu always felt that the most wrong thing she had done in her life was to become a palace maid.
It’s okay to have been bullied all my life. After my daughter was born, she was treated coldly as a baby. She was bullied by her sisters when she was just learning to speak. When she grew up to be a cardamom girl, she didn’t dare to make a wrong step.
Even after she got married, she had to be affected by her mother, and she would be called into the palace to scold her from time to time.
This is fine now.
Wang Cainu sat on her knees on a worn futon, peeling beans and thinking.
Although the child no longer has the title of princess, the consort loves her and treats her well, and is willing to fight against the emperor for her sake.
Even if the two of them were kicked out of the capital and could only live as civilians for the rest of their lives, that would be good.
At least in the future, no one will call her to the palace to bully her.
After Wang Cainu peeled the beans, she closed her eyes and thought:
May the gods and Buddhas in the sky bless my daughter with safety and good health.
Bless my son-in-law to be single-minded throughout his life.
***
When Wang Cainu was talking about it, Ji Changze was lying in the haystack and looking down.
Next to him, a girl dressed as a man was also lying on her stomach and asked him: "Sir! Are you sure it's okay for us to dress like this?!"
Ji Changze turned to look at her.
There were layers of color on her face, and she was wearing taupe clothes.
"Don't worry, it will definitely work!"
Ji Changze is quite confident:
"The colors on our bodies are now more integrated with the colors of the landscape here. Even if we are closer, let alone being so far away, those people below can't see us."
The girl nodded, although she still felt it was a bit unreliable, but thinking about it since the young master rescued them, it seemed that every unreliable decision proved to be very reliable in the end, so she continued to lie down.
Around them, there were a group of colorfully painted people lying on their stomachs.
These are all Ji Changze's legions.
Hey, it's a legion, but it's actually a bit shabby.
Because of what the emperor did, Ji Changze had to plan ahead temporarily and should have deployed at least 30,000 soldiers.
Now there are only three hundred...
To be honest, after Ji Changze settled Jiang Xinyan, he came to his military base and saw more than 300 people standing sparsely. He felt a little helpless.
But it doesn't matter.
Ji Changze said to the girl: "Don't look at the small number of people we have now, but there will be more people in the future."
The girl touched the straw on her head:
"This is secondary, but Master, do we really want to rob the next group of people? They don't look like they have any money."
Ji Changze looked down.
Over there, a long line of people was walking towards them.
These people have clear characteristics. They are all in ragged clothes and look haggard. They walk like zombies. They are swaying all the way here. They are full of old age. Those who don't know it think they have just crawled out of the grave.
No matter how the girl looks at it, she thinks that these people are just ordinary refugees and there is nothing to rob.
But they still knew what Ji Changze was doing.
He may be a bit of a dog, and would say "damage" to his opponents and even his own people.
But he never hurt ordinary people.
So the girl didn't think about the aspect of "Ji Changze is so crazy that he even robs refugees."
But my mind wandered to "Could it be that the identity of these refugees is just a disguise, and they are actually members of the imperial court?"
This reflects Ji Changze's management skills.
Three hundred people, although few, but every one of them was loyal to him.
Moreover, the equipment they carry, the martial arts they practice every day, and the fact that they eat meat every day to fill their stomachs, all of them are strong and healthy.
It is no exaggeration to say that if these 300 people were to fight against 1,000 people from Feng Kingdom, they would be at the upper hand.
Of course, Ji Changze's words have always been considered bragging.
The idiot Huber doesn't think this is bragging.
He had a more elegant way of putting it:
"Young Master must be trying to boost morale. You are always like this. Every word you say is useful."
Ji Changze, who was actually telling the truth:…
Forget it, when they actually fight in the future, they will know that what they said is true.
A soldier with a ruddy complexion and a strong body who is well-equipped and well-fed faces a skinny soldier with tattered clothes and blunt weapons. Even if there is a difference in numbers, they can still be pulled back.
While they were ambushing and chatting here, over there, the refugees finally came into everyone's circle.
Naturally, the reason why this girl can lie down next to Ji Changze is not because she is very talkative.
From the moment the first round of refugees showed their heads, she had been counting them.
After counting, she immediately said to Ji Changze:
"Sir, I think it's a bit confusing."
Ji Changze stared at the refugees below with shining eyes. Unexpectedly, he might have thought that they were not refugees who looked poor, but a pile of gold.
"Why are you hanging? It looks fine to me."
"No, sir, we are only three hundred people. Do you know how many people there are down there? At least seven thousand, seven thousand!!"
The girl was desperate: "How could three hundred of us successfully rob seven thousand people?"
"Don't panic, don't be anxious, have more confidence in yourself."
Ji Changze still looked calm: "How do you know you can't do something if you haven't tried it?"
Girl: “…”
If this wasn't the master she was loyal to, she would really want to hit him.
Ji Changze saw her speechless face, so he stopped teasing Menzi.
There was nothing they could do. In order to lay an ambush, they had been lying here since dawn in the morning. They were not very tired. After all, they only had to leave people to observe. It would not affect other people's eating, drinking and sleeping.
Mainly just boring.
When he was at his military base, which was large but with few people, he could at least watch everyone training. When he got bored, he used a sand table to find a few officers to practice fighting.
But we can't make such a big noise here.
If he doesn't have some fun, Ji Changze will almost fall asleep.
"Don't worry, it's not a big problem."
The girl stopped asking any more questions.
Anyone who has been around Ji Changze for a long time knows that as long as he says "it's not a big problem", no matter how difficult the dilemma may seem, he can get through it safely and smoothly.
"Prepare!"
Ji Changze raised the crutch in his hand.
Yes, it was the crutch he made out of tree branches when he was bored.
Then with a heavy wave——
“Rush!!!!”
Before the refugees even reacted, the haystacks on the top of the mountain suddenly turned into well-equipped people with weapons.
They were immediately surrounded.
Well, three hundred surrounded seven thousand.
Very good and strong.
The refugees were stunned when they saw what was going on.
If I had to describe the expressions on their faces, it would probably be "We are so miserable and you still want to rob us? Are you a human being?"
"Everyone!! Don't panic, we are just a friendly robbery, please cooperate."
Ji Changze took the lead and stood up.
He wasn't afraid of people seeing what he looked like. Anyway, his face was so colorful that no one could tell anything.
The refugees looked desolate, like quails, and no one dared to say a word.
A young voice suddenly emerged from the crowd:
"They only have a few hundred people, and there are thousands of us. Let's all come together! We will definitely win!!"
Yo ho!
Ji Changze became interested.
"Although we only have a few hundred people, we have strength in our bodies and weapons in our hands. You guys can't stand firm, and you still want to defeat us?"
"So what! You will always run out of strength! As long as we go together, you will definitely not be able to hold on in the end!"
A little man squeezed out, his face full of fighting spirit: "Folks!! We can't just stand and wait to die! Let's all charge together! They can't beat us!!"
Then he was held down by his father.
"Sir, please don't argue with the child. This child is only ten years old and is a little bolder. He didn't mean to collide with the adults."
"fine."
Ji Changze chuckled: "I'm brave enough to understand."
The little man's face was full of anger: "Dad! How can you be so spineless! How can you bow your head! There are so many of us, so we are afraid of him!"
Ji Changze clapped his hands: "Everyone, we are robbing, but what we are robbing is not money, but people."
"I need people under my command. They will provide food and accommodation, one tael a month, and one meal of meat in three days, with the rice open. If you are interested, sign up here. If you are not interested... I don't care if you are not interested. Anyway, we are robbing, so I don't care." If you don’t do it voluntarily, you have to leave me, young, old, male, female, and even newborn babies.”
"Okay, you can line up according to age."
The refugees' eyes immediately opened up.
Young and strong people can still understand it, but the elderly and children also want it
A mother hugged her dying baby tightly, with hope in her eyes.
Is there such a good thing in the world?
She opened her mouth: "I wish..."
"I do, I do, I do!!!"
The little man who looked humiliated just now rushed out:
"You guys go ahead and rob me. I'm easy to rob, and I don't eat enough. I only have one father in the family."
"We promise not to resist!!"
They provide food, housing and monthly payments, and they are also willing to take in the elderly and children.
Such a rare person who is taken advantage of cannot be called a fool.
Ji Changze put down his crutches with satisfaction.
Isn’t there someone here