After Chongyang, Ye Yichen set off to the northwest to quell the rebellion with a big head. Yuan Zi personally ran to see his brother out of the city, and when he came back, he looked elated.

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 has made great contributions to the defense of Beijing with the prince, and now he is a thousand generals, after following the prince to fight this battle, he will definitely be able to get a general, and I will be a serious official wife at that time." "It's full of leisurely and longing looks.

Yulan asked, "Aren't you afraid that they will follow the prince to defeat the battle, the prince didn't bring a single soldier this time." ”

Yuan Zi shouted, "How is it possible, it's just a group of rogues!" I've been following the prince for so many years, when has he ever lost a battle! ”

Yulan rolled her eyes, it turned out that there was still a prince's brainless fan here!

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

Yuan Zi grew up in a poor family since she was a child, although she has strong martial arts, she has a simple heart, and she is like a piece of jade in this back house where there are many struggles, and she has never had a bad heart, so none of these maids around Yulan don't like her.

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

Xiaoyue said: "I see that Xiao Yang in our house is a good person, and he is very interesting to you, you will marry him just now!" ”

"What's so good about that little Yang steward? The shoulders can't be picked, the hands can't be lifted, and the picture is weak. My future husband, at least his martial arts skills are not worse than mine. Seeing that everyone was laughing, Yuan Zi finally understood: "Wow, dead girl, it turns out that you guys are working together to make fun of me, see that I don't break your legs!" Everyone laughed and laughed, and they dispersed.

Asked Yuan Zi to stir it up like this, Yulan's mood was much better because of the prince's departure.

At night, Yulan is embroidering incense sachets with lights. Xiaoyue came in with a cup of tea, and said distressedly: "Girl, why are you still embroidering?" Staying up late embroidery hurts my eyes too much! "The sachet Yulan embroidered for half a month last time, drawing patterns by himself, embroidering stitches and threads, Xiaoyue and Xiaoyu are all embroidery masters, but Yulan never asked them to help embroider a stitch.

Yulan said: "It's okay, I'll embroider a few more stitches and rest, for a while, I won't break my eyes." ”

Xiaoyue put down the teacup and asked, "Who did the girl embroider for this time?" "Since these days, although Yulan has not told them explicitly, Xiaoyue and Xiaoyu have a faint bit of a score in their hearts, Yulan has been to the palace so many times, and they will know who the sachet is given to.

This kind of thing is not advocated in this era, but the two girls have been with Yulan for so long, and they all know her temperament, she is gentle and obedient on the surface, but she is actually a person with great ideas, so neither of the two girls dares to persuade her.

Yulan smiled: "This is for the little prince!" ”

Xiaoyue asked, "Can't that girl embroider slowly?" Look at your hands, they're all needle eyes again. ”

Yulan said: "I promised him, if I don't catch up with the progress, I don't know when Lu Dao will be able to embroider this sachet and give it to him." ”

Xiaoyue said: "Then I'll help you embroider!" I will imitate the girl's stitches, and I will definitely be able to make it impossible for others to see! ”

Yulan slapped her hand with a smile and said, "Thousands of miles to send goose feathers, the gift is light and affectionate!" As a prince, the little prince has never seen any good things, and there are no good things in the palace, what he wants is just my heart. If you really just want a sachet, there are so many excellent embroiderers in the palace, even embroidering him for twenty or thirty is a matter of minutes. Since he was sincere to me, I could not be perfunctory to him like that. This is called repaying the peach, knowing the way! ”

Xiaoyue pouted and said, "The girl just has a lot of truths." ”

Yulan didn't bother with her, just laughed. Xiaoyue thought about it and couldn't help but say, "Doesn't the girl think that the little prince is very good to the girl?" He's not going to be ......"

Yulan hurriedly interrupted her and said, "You dead girl, what nonsense are you talking about?" The little prince is only a little older this year, how can he have such a dirty idea. It's just that the two of us have the same temper, and I've always treated him like a younger brother, and he also treats me like a sister. You can't just talk about this kind of thing in the future. ”

Xiaoyue muttered, "That is, you treat him as a younger brother." Eleven years old is not too young, the nobles in the palace are all arranged as palace maids at a very young age, and they understand the affairs of men and women at a young age, and it is not for nothing that the first eleven or twelve-year-old prince and younger brother in Beijing are married! ”

Yulan tilted her head and thought about it, eleven or twelve years old? Haven't you been to junior high school yet, have you? Get married, just kidding! She can treat Ye Yichen as a promising young man who can fall in love with him without pressure, but even a man of Xie Zhiyuan's age, she feels weird, let alone the little prince.

is also too deeply imprinted on her in her previous life.

She waved her hand and rushed out: "You must be thinking too much!" Go down and sleep, you don't need anyone to serve you here. Xiaoyue squatted down and promised to go down. Anyway, she felt that Yulan was too insensitive, and even she could see that the little prince treated Yulan differently, but the girl who had always been smart in her family reacted extremely slowly this time.

I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain!

Anyway, the girl has to make her own decision about this matter, and Xiaoyue knows that it is useless to worry about it.

More than ten days later, Xiao Hanzi ran into Ye Minzhao's study happily with a sachet in his hand: "Little prince, look, this is a gift from Miss Yang Qi, and it took a lot of time to embroider it." ”

Since this period of time, the little prince has been in a very bad mood. The air pressure in Jingyang Palace has also become extremely low, and Xiao Hanzi and Xiaozi have almost lowered their heads to the ground in the past few days, and the power of the little prince to start a fire is really terrifying.

On this day, Xiao Hanzi went to Yang's Mansion and finally got this sachet back, he naturally knew the weight of Dao Yulan in the mind of the little prince, and immediately presented it like a treasure, I only hope that the little prince can see this sachet and feel better.

The little prince is practicing calligraphy. He is not a famous poster, but the emperor's handwritten imperial book, he is getting older, his mind is slowly becoming deeper, and he is slowly adapting to some things in the palace. In the past, he was a person who couldn't sit still, and no matter how much his mother persuaded him, it was impossible for him to sit here and write for a few hours, just to get a compliment from his father.

But now he can do it willingly. There was a faint desire in his heart that he wanted to sit on that high dragon chair so that he could do all the things he wanted and all the people he wanted.

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

The little prince excitedly threw down the lake pen in his hand: "What good things?" Show me! ”

Xiao Hanzi carefully presented it with both hands, and the little prince held it in his hand to take a closer look, only to see a small sachet embroidered with a Q version of the little tiger, vivid, not the slightest majesty, but very cute and cute.

Xiao Hanzi joked on the side: "Miss Yang Qi is really caring, you know that you are a tiger, look at how vividly the little tiger embroiders." ”

The little prince couldn't put it down, his face flashed with joy, and said: "Sister's female red has always been bad, I don't know how much work it takes to repair this sachet, Xiao Hanzi hurry up and go to my small warehouse to see if there are any good things suitable for my sister!" ”

Xiao Hanzi's face wrinkled, and he said in his heart: Little Wangye, you are about to move all your small warehouses to this Yang girl, at this moment, where is the appropriate return gift.

He agreed, bowed and was about to retreat, when the little prince suddenly stopped him again. I don't know when his face became gloomy again: "Xiao Hanzi, you say, is this tiger of mine good-looking, or is the pig of the sixteenth uncle good-looking?" ”

Xiao Hanzi was stunned by Ye Minzhao's question. During the banquet in Chongyang Palace, he was not qualified to enter the main hall to wait, so naturally he didn't see Ye Yichen's sachet. It's just that he can't help but answer the little prince's question: "How can a pig be compared with a tiger, of course it's the little prince, your tiger is better-looking!" ”

The little prince waved his hand tiredly: "You go down!" "It would be nice if it was really as Xiao Hanzi said. But he is not a fool, how can he not know that Lu Dao Yulan gave Ye Yichen and himself, although they are all sachets, the meaning is completely different?

Since Ye Yichen left, Jingshi has regained its quietness. Chen Jia is still his eunuch in charge of the imperial horse seal, and he seems to have endured the hatred of Old Lady Yang. And Xiao Dang has been looking forward to it, waiting for the abolition of the crown prince and not seeing the emperor's action for a long time. On the contrary, the emperor released the crown prince from the Yuqing Palace and handed him some errands that were not big or small, so that all the Chinese military officials of the court could not understand it.

After the prince left, Qi never posted to Yulan again, Yulan actually didn't like to meet the princess, the side concubine, but after the prince was released, Yuxin called her into Yuqing Palace several times.

Time slipped away in a hurry between his fingers, and when Yulan changed into winter clothes, he was shocked to realize that winter had come, and it had been a whole month since the prince left Jingshi. At that time, the transportation was inconvenient, and the news in the northwest was late, she just heard that the prince had not fought before he arrived in Shaanxi! The highest governor in charge of the civil affairs of a province, Zhang Tian, the political envoy of Shaanxi, was killed.

The whole province from the political envoys, according to the inspection envoys to the county orders and county officials, all demoted one level to stay in office, Ye Yichen said, when the chaos is peaceful, and then they will all be promoted back. When the prince left, he and the emperor asked for twelve supervising imperial histories, all of which were stubborn and hard-boned, and were sent to inspect all parts of Shaanxi, Ye Yichen gave them great power, once they found that the officials were corrupt and corrupt, they did not need to play directly to ask for the king's order banner to be beheaded.

After killing a few moths in a row, these officials in Shaanxi were finally scared. The officialdom of Shaanxi Province is clear.

The old lady saw the folds sent by Ye Yichen, and couldn't help sighing: "The rebellion in Shaanxi will not be peaceful in a few days!" Yulan also agrees with it very much. In fact, these rogues in Shaanxi are just ordinary people, and the reason why they rebelled was really because they had no food to eat. If we really talk about combat effectiveness, how can we be the real opponents of the official army, and the difficulty in exterminating the rogues lies in the fact that the local officials are not clear about the governance and the officials force the people to rebel, so the rogue will be suppressed more and more.

Shaanxi's officialdom was broken from top to bottom, and all the relief grain allocated by the imperial court was filled into this bottomless pit. As long as the rule of officials is thoroughly clarified and the relief food of the imperial court is distributed to the people, then this turmoil will naturally subside without the use of troops.

Hearing the old lady say this, Yulan also relieved herself. In the next few months, the good news in the northwest was frequent, Ye Yichen did not take the peasant army to heart at all, he himself sat in Xi'an, only sent his generals to pursue the rogue in all directions, and divided the whole Shaanxi into a number of defense areas, respectively sent generals to garrison, and issued a death order, the general of any defense area shall not let any of the rogue in the defense area of the defense area flow into the defense area of others.

His strategy was to punish only the first evil, and the rest not to sin. The leaders of the civilian army who came to surrender could not only get official positions, but also the rest could receive food. Come early and divide early, and if you come late, maybe there will be no food. The purpose of these peasant rebellions was only for a bite to eat. Ye Yichen's reputation is too high, and everyone believes that this prince will definitely not speak, so there is an endless stream of surrenderers for a while. In just one month, he recruited nearly 100,000 peasant troops.

As for the peasant army that was the most ferocious and powerful, Ye Yichen refused to accept surrender. Rebellion also has to pay a price, if the imperial court only recruits peace and does not suppress it, wouldn't it make people feel that the imperial court is afraid of these peasant army. So he sent his most elite troops, led by Big Head and others, to encircle and suppress them everywhere. Kill these rogues to the bitter end.

It turned out that they were not afraid of the loss of soldiers, in the past, as long as a few leaders were alive, even if they were scattered, they would respond to a hundred calls, and they could pull up a new team casually, but since Ye Yichen came, this phenomenon has completely changed. Officials don't dare to embezzle, and the common people finally have food in their hands, and with food, who will pin their heads in their belts and rebel with you?

At this time, even the emperor saw that it was only a matter of time before the Shaanxi Liukou was exterminated. Ye Yichen's strategies are not new, but the difficulty lies in whether such a strategy can be implemented meticulously, and if any official comes over, it will definitely not be possible for Ye Yichen to achieve such immediate results.

The good news came back one after another, and the emperor was also happy, and every day in the palace was jubilant. The chaos in the northwest gradually subsided, and only sporadic thieves remained, but the emperor refused to call Ye Yichen back.

In the blink of an eye, the New Year, although it is still in the mourning period of the Queen Mother, but this year, the Jurchen broke through, pacified the northwest, the Shu Han tribute, and the Goryeo Ryukyu and other countries came to the court, which can be described as a happy event, and the banquet in the palace was quite lively. The old lady began to get sick in the second half of last year, intermittently, and the illness was good. The family had a happy New Year.

It's just that Ye Yichen is not there, and Yulan's heart is always empty.