From Jianchang to Yangtho Baa City for more than 700 miles, Lu Ning and the caravan walked for more than half a month, exhausting Zhang Dayan, the only ordinary Central Plains merchant, half to death.

Lu Ning could only sigh, this Dali country is much larger than the four islands of Dongying.

Yang Tho Baa City, from the Nanzhao period is the capital of the southwest regime, with Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake as a natural barrier, the east is the blue Erhai Lake, which is also a tourist holy place in later generations, and the west is the Cangshan Mountain Range, which is full of mountains, and the scenery is breathtaking.

Its north and south city walls are also starting from the Cangshan Mountains and stretching east to Erhai Lake.

The city is much more prosperous than Lu Ning thought, there are pagodas and Buddha statues everywhere, singing and dancing crowds, however, it is the architectural style of the pagoda Buddha statues, and it is also the style of the Central Plains, not the closer Tubo, which is closer to the Central Plains from the cultural level, which is also very clear evidence.

There are very few Qi businessmen who can go deep into the realm of Dali and come to Yangtho to do business, but the Tang family has a shop here, and Zhang Dayan has served as a shopkeeper in this shop for many years, and the current shopkeeper Tang is expected to be the son of a less important branch of the Tang family, but in any case, it is obvious that after finding that there is no big risk in doing business here, the Tang family still replaces Zhang Dayan with a person from the family.

After all, if you are an outsider, how much you have earned here, and whether you will be able to fill your own pockets, no one can say.

Lu Ning and his entourage also lived in the Tang family shop, which was crowded.

At this time, the city of Yang Tho was heavily guarded, and the Duan clan was calling the eastern Yunnan tribes to come to the king of Qin, confronting the northern Shanju and Jianchuan tribes who demanded the abdication of the Duan clan.

However, when Lu Ning and others entered the city, Zhang Dayan and Lu Shengnian bribed the soldiers and leaders who defended the city, and they were allowed to enter the city without too much inspection of the goods.

Lu Ning frowned, he waited for a smooth entry into the city, and the tribes that supported the Yang clan could also carry sharp blades into the city, and when the Dali Kingdom rebelled, it was not for nothing that the lord of the country was often killed and imprisoned.

……

Outside the window is the blue Erhai Lake, the breeze blows, and the bamboo house is very cool.

Lu Ning slowly lit the secret letter in his hand, and the ashes that had been burned fell into the small plate.

This is Yongning's handwritten letter, asking about Dali, whether to send the newly trained Da Nei Zhenyi female battalion to help, and it is precisely in the not too bad situation to train them, and said that although Dali is not suitable for camel riding, but the Zhenyi female guards can fight on horseback.

Zhenyi women's battalion, the earliest Yongning saw that Lu Ning didn't like eunuchs, and Ouchi was also a female guard, and he didn't want the female guards to have too high a proportion of different races in the future, so it was a plan that started early, and selected Han women from childhood to use various equipment to train physical strength, plus sufficient nutritional supplies such as meat, speaking of which, the female soldiers trained in this way, and then selected the best among the best, the physical strength is really not necessarily weaker than the men of the current era, of course, the body trained in this way, when it comes to middle age and old age, is afraid of all kinds of diseases, but this is not what Yongning needs to consider.

Later, the Ouchi women's guard plan gradually deviated, but Yongning saw that the royal family's blood was weak, so he was naturally worried, so he selected beautiful people from these Han female guards who had been trained since childhood, and prepared to form a team of close attendants, who could often follow Lu Ning's side.

Later, Lu Ning returned from Dongying, Yongning should have been inspired by the early attack on the women's battalion, and formally organized the Ouchi Zhenyi Women's Battalion, as the emperor can also follow the internal guard when he goes out, and in addition to the early selection of the Han female guards who grew up, they also selected the grassland tribes, the southwest party Uighur Tubo, the southern barbarians, the Dongying Ezo and other strong but beautiful girls and girls into the candidates, of course, some talented young women will also be selected exceptionally, so, four or five years later, after layers of selection, The Righteous Women's Battalion, composed of extremely excellent female guards, gradually took shape.

The total number of about five hundred men, in essence, were camel musketeers, but also individual archers and horses were skillful.

And Yongning's original intention in forming this inner maid guard was actually to see them as machines for giving birth to children.

This female guard is a slave, and the Holy Son of Heaven will not have any name after he is lucky, and so many female slaves can not only solve the problem that the Holy Son of Heaven is an ascetic most of the time, but also greatly increase the probability of giving birth to an heir.

At the beginning, Yongning hid everything from Lu Ning, of course, Lu Ning was not hidden by her, knowing that she was training a beautiful musketeer female guard, and she didn't take it seriously.

It wasn't until before entering Yunnan and leaving Beijing that Yongning talked about going to Dali, and Yongning mentioned this camp of virgin women.

She did not shy away from taboos, and bluntly said that Her Majesty should be happy with them every day, so that she could finally give birth to a prince.

It's just that once these women are pregnant, they have to be dealt with by her.

Basically, it is to give birth to a child, whether it is a man or a woman, and will be separated from his mother as soon as possible.

The boys were taught separately by Yongning, and the girls were sent to some good families for adoption.

In short, there will be no phenomenon that mothers are more expensive than their children and mothers are more expensive than their daughters.

Moreover, after His Majesty really chooses the prince to inherit, the rest of the boys, who choose a few with particularly excellent character, can be awarded to the prince to expand the royal bloodline, and the rest will still be sent to the people.

And they will never know who their biological mother is.

Yongning also vaguely mentioned that he hoped that when the Holy Son of Heaven was happy, the last dragon seed could be implanted in the body of the Han girl.

Listening to Yongning's meaning, even those boys who say that they are sent to the people may be killed.

After all, if the royal family has a bunch of slave girls in the palace, it is really unseemly.

Lu Ning was a little helpless, from ancient times to the present, the heir of the founding emperor is so difficult to give birth to only one person, those emperors who have no children in the middle of the dynasty, after all, there are relatives and children to choose from, and the children of their distant relatives inherit themselves, which really makes people feel a little wrong.

Although he is just in his early thirties, and it is not that he can't give birth to descendants, maybe the subjects haven't thought about it so much, but Yongning and the concubines around him know the trick, so they are naturally anxious about it, and the concubines can only have sex once a year, and the physical constitution is very special, so it is difficult for the concubine to get pregnant, so where is it so easy to give birth to a prince?

Therefore, you can only cast a wide net and expand the harem, but in this way, it will make the harem restless, even if you are as enlightened as Yongning, you don't want to see hundreds or even hundreds of famous concubines in the harem, and those who give birth to heirs will threaten the status of the imperial concubines.

In the end, Yongning came up with such a seemingly absurd but seemingly reasonable solution because of his special circumstances.

At that time, Lu Ning really wanted to tell Yongning, but in fact, he felt that according to his physical fitness and slow metabolism, he could live for a long time, and now that he gave birth to a prince, he may not be able to live past himself, isn't it unprovoked and eventful?

However, in any case, there are a few princes in the palace, which can reassure the subjects and Yongning, if in another ten years, they have no heirs, some loyal ministers are afraid that they will not be able to sit still, and they will risk death to admonish and so on, and they will have to cultivate their own stepchildren from their relatives and so on.

After all, because he is the founding emperor, those distant brothers are not part of the royal family, and once they die violently, this huge empire may be torn apart in an instant.

However, if you have your own will to pass on the throne to your daughter, you don't know your power, will you still survive after death?

This answer is difficult to predict, if he dies violently and Yongning is here, the situation may be better.

Thinking about it, Lu Ning shook his head, thinking about these unanswered questions again.

But Yongning has been forced to be like this, it is conceivable that if there is no heir, in fact, it is also a lot of pressure on the harem concubines, outsiders don't know, the root cause is because of their special physique.

However, the camp of the righteous women entered Yunnan, and it was forgotten.

Although they are all slave soldiers, in Yongning's opinion, it doesn't matter if they are killed or captured, but their minds are not tenacious to this extent.

was pondering wildly, footsteps sounded, but it was Dan Jia and Jiao Guo who pushed the door and walked in.

Among the five "Vietnamese queens", they should be the leaders, and many things are planned and led by them, for example, the plan that they may want to kill themselves and escape, it should be the plan they led the way, and now, it has only slowed down temporarily.

Lu Ning frowned slightly: "There are no rules, you don't knock on the door before you come in, and you don't bow after you enter the house, do you think you are the hostess?!" ”

Along the way, I gradually understood the character of these five barbarian women, Lu Ning was not as tired of them as before, although since the living environment and education since childhood, all their interests are ruthless and unjust, but at least it is more real, for example, after they promised to pay them pocket money on a monthly basis, their attitude towards themselves is obviously much better, and there is no such fierce light in their eyes that they want to kill themselves all the time.

If you have milk, you are a mother, which is actually quite good.

After all, he is definitely the world's first-class daddy.

Danjia and Jiao Guo were both stunned, Jiao Guo glared at the apricot eyes, Dan Jia tugged at her sleeve, and smiled at Lu Ning: "The master, we people from the countryside, are used to it, and please teach the master more in the future." ”

Lu Ning snorted, "Don't you know that you are fierce?" I just see that you are still obedient, too lazy to care about you generally, otherwise, no matter how fierce the five of you are, can you still be more fierce than the hundreds of knives I brought? ”

"Yes, yes." Dan Jia rolled his eyes and asked with a smile: "Master, speaking of those swordsmen, the master's family came to Dali Kingdom, it seems that they have a plan, but do you need the help of the five of us?" ”

Lu Ning snorted coldly, "Don't use my words!" ”

Jiao Guo's swarthy and pretty face was even more unkind, but Dan Jia still smiled sweetly, "Yes, then my five sisters, just serve the master's family well, the master's family loves cleanliness, and the five sisters have always thought that my five sisters are dirty, but here the mountain spring is murmuring, and the five sisters will wash clean and come to accompany the master's house." ”

Lu Ning pursed his lips, knowing that they didn't have any concept of chastity, "Just do your duty as slaves and maids!" ”

When he spoke, he frowned slightly, "Outside, there has been a change." ”

Dan Jiaqi said: "What? ”

Lu Ning waved his hand, "I'll know in a while!" ”

……

Lu Ning's ears naturally couldn't be misheard.

On March 15 of the fifteenth year of Fengtian, civil strife broke out in the city of Yangtho.

The Yang rebels stormed the palace, and in the chaos, Duan Sushun, the lord of Dali, and several of his sons are said to have set themselves on fire.

Soon, there was a proclamation similar to that of Anmin in the Central Plains, and the new Dali ruler Duan Suming ascended the throne and appointed Jianchuan Tanqi Yang Shangyun as the Qingping official, that is, the minister of state.

Duan Suming is the younger brother of Duan Suying, the former son of Dali, and he is not yet twenty years old.