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Lin Yan, Cui Xian, Concubine Hu Shufei and others sat around the stove to keep warm, gossiping with each other.

There was no palace banquet this year, and everyone in the palace was idle, so they all gathered in Changkun Palace to chat together.

Today's harem has gradually calmed down, and there have been no new concubines entering the palace for many years, and there are only a few palace concubines. Like Cui Xianfei and Hu Shufei, the position of the fourth concubine has come to an end, and it is impossible to be the queen no matter how much she fights, plus the children are older, the one who should marry the princess marries the princess, and the one who should marry marries the princess, and she is already old, and she has stopped thinking about competing for favor.

As for the low-ranking concubines, they have no children and no confidence, and they are not young anymore, and after being ignored by the emperor for many years, they all live their own peaceful lives.

For a while, the harem was exceptionally harmonious. Even if there are occasional young and beautiful palace maids scratching their heads and posing, hoping to have a chance encounter with the emperor, it is harmless.

Sitting around the stove at this time, Concubine Hu Shufei couldn't help but talk about the Gan family, and said: "I heard that the Gan family has been copied, and the emperor chose the year before, and he hasn't let the family go for many years, which shows how much I hate the Gan family." ”

Concubine Cui Xian patted the dust on her sleeves, and said in a faint voice: "Since Gan Kang can do something to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country, sell the defense map of the southwest to southern Xinjiang, and cause the loss of the war in the southwest, then he should bear such consequences." Thinking about the lost territory in the southwest, it is not an exaggeration to punish the nine clans of the Gan family. ”

Half of the credit for the defeat in the southwest is due to Gan Kang. The emperor probably didn't worry about Gan Kang, so he transferred Gan Kang from this important place in the southwest to Jiangxi.

But what he didn't expect was that Gan Kang sold the southwest defense map to Miao Jiang before he was transferred.

Gan Kang has been the emperor of the soil in the southwest for more than 20 years, and has risen from a small soldier all the way to Guichengwei to command the notice, Guichengwei to command the envoy, and finally to Guangxi to command the envoy. He still has some skills in fighting, and he has also made large and small military achievements over the years, but he can't be a man.

Looking at the things that Princess Hui has made in King Hui's Mansion over the years, you can see the character of Gan Kang and his wife.

Gan Kang was dissatisfied with the emperor's transfer of him, and sold the defense map to Miao Jiang, and about to lose the war at that time, he took the initiative to ask Ying to save the war, which could not only add a layer of military merit to himself, but also take the opportunity to transfer back to Guangxi to command the envoy. Maybe he also wants to follow the example of the Cui family and take the opportunity to get a knighthood.

It's a pity that he was insatiable, and in the end he could only end up in prison in his old age.

Concubine Hu Shu smiled when she heard this, and said, "Sister, don't say it, I think the emperor really has plans to punish the nine clans of the Gan family." He said: "But Gan Kang was born in a small family, and there are few people in the nine clans. ”

Wang Zhaorong said at this time: "The concubine thinks that the most pitiful person should be General Jiang. ”

Hu Shufei said at this time: "I think Jiang Zhiming is stupid, he lost the battle, at most he was guilty alone, and he committed suicide on the battlefield, but it affected his wife and children at home." ”

Daliang's law decreed that the generals were defeated and punished for desertion, which harmed the whole family.

Wang Zhaorong sighed: "The concubine is sympathetic to Lord Jiang's wife and several little sons, Mrs. Jiang and the concubine's mother have some friendship, when she came to the concubine's house when she was a child, she also gave the concubine a bracelet, she is a very gentle and kind elder." ”

Lin Yan smiled when she heard this, and said, "Okay, women can't interfere in politics, let's talk less about these things." Saying that, he asked Mu Zhi to serve snacks and fruits, and said, "Let's eat some snacks and fruits." ”

Concubine Hu Shufei smiled when she heard this, and said, "Women can't do politics, so let's talk about women's affairs, it's all right." The concubine heard that Princess Hui has been running for her mother's family recently. Although it is said that the misfortune is not enough to marry a daughter, and King Hui did not show that he wanted to divorce the princess, but Princess Hui's life in the palace is indeed not good. Even the affairs of the New Year in King Hui's Mansion this year were handled by the two side concubines. King Hui handed over the eldest son to the care of the two side concubines on the grounds that Princess Hui had no leisure to discipline the children, and now the back house of King Hui's mansion is in charge of the two side concubines......"

Lin Yan didn't say anything, just took a sip of tea.

After Lin Ying arrived in southwest Guangxi, he did not immediately launch a counterattack on Miaojiang.

First, the defense and platoon were re-arranged, and when the New Year was in February, Lin Ying led 70,000 soldiers and horses, and the troops were divided into three routes, two of which were unexpected to encircle and suppress Miao Jiang's troops in Guicheng, and the other way directly attacked the royal court of Miao Jiang and hit the rear of Miao Jiang. The Miaojiang army was defeated one after another, and was forced back to the land of Miaojiang, and then fled all the way to Annam.

Daliang regained the territory lost in Guangxi.

Lin Ying did not stop the war, took advantage of the victory to pursue, continued to attack the remaining army of Miao Jiang, leveled the territory of Miao Jiang, and fought until Annan, and occupied part of the eastern part of Annan.

The regent of Miaojiang was defeated and killed, before which the king of Miaojiang was killed by the princess of Miaojiang, and the princess of Miaojiang, Ning Yu and her son, were captured alive by Lin Ying.

After that, Annan submitted a peace request, asking for an end to the war, and Annan was willing to pay tribute to the Great Liang every year.

As a result, the war in the southwest of the Great Liang was temporarily suspended, and the Miao Xinjiang was returned to the territory of the Great Liang, and its original territory was returned to the Guangxi Chengxuan Political Division, and the Annan Kingdom became a vassal state of the Great Liang.

At this time, the time had slipped to June of the twentieth year of Hee.

After Lin Ying took care of the handover matters, he escorted Ning Yu and his son Teng Gan back to Beijing in August.

The Zhuang family was in Changkun Palace, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Lin Yan: "Thank God, this battle is finally over. In the past, every time your father went out to fight, I had to be scared, and I thought that I could finally stop worrying about him when I was transferred back to the capital, but I didn't expect another war in the southwest. Good thing all is safe! ”

Lin Yan smiled: "For more than half a year, I have listened to my mother talk to my father every day, and now my mother can finally rest assured?" ”

Zhuang said: "When he really resigns and is at home, I can let go of this heart." ”

Saying that, he thought of something, and said, "I heard that Ning Yu was also escorted back to the capital together. He said with hatred: "This scourge should be brought back for everyone to see, and the fate of betraying their own country." ”

Lin Yan rubbed the pattern on the tea bowl in her hand and did not speak.

Since the death of the eldest princess of Jing'an, the mansion of the eldest princess of Jing'an has been worse day by day, and after the incident of Ning Yu, the people of the Hang family have become more and more reluctant to go out. Even the concubine took the initiative to give the emperor a fold, saying that he would sever the father-daughter relationship with Ning Yu and ask the emperor to severely punish Ning Yu.

The Zhuang family also sighed a word or two to Ning Yu, and then let go, then looked left and right, and then mentioned the little prince Huan, and asked, "What about the six princes?" When I entered the palace during this time, why couldn't I see him? ”

Lin Yan replied to her: "Follow the prince out of the palace." ”

Zhuang nodded when he listened, and then sighed thoughtfully: "It's a good thing that the six princes and the prince have a deep brotherhood. (To be continued.) )