After saying this, Gongsun Jian didn't care about the changes in Xie Wu and Zhu Zequan's faces, and said loudly to everyone again: "Therefore, through such a competition, everyone should see that military command is actually a matter of ideological transformation. There is nothing in this world that you can't do, only things you can't think of. Therefore, I ask all the subordinates of this royal palace to strengthen their study. This refers not only to the generals, but also to all civilian officials. Everyone must learn how to broaden their minds and horizons. Don't just limit yourself to the bits and pieces in front of you. We currently have three provinces and eleven prefectures, but this is far from our goal and the end. I need everyone to cheer up and work harder. Only in this way can we go further and become stronger. ”

"Yes, subordinates obey orders. I must obey the words of the prince (lord) and keep working hard to forge ahead. Everyone present bowed and said yes loudly.

At this time, Gongsun Jian was very satisfied. In fact, this is the real purpose of his exercise and competition. Once again, it stimulates everyone's fighting spirit and potential. Twist all the power into a rope, and only then will his team be invincible to achieve his great goals.

ended the competition between the Special Operations Brigade and the Sixth Division, and at the same time taught a lesson to his civil and military ministers. Gongsun Jian was in a particularly happy mood. But then some things gave him some headaches.

Emperor Yue was restored, although he did not explicitly ascend the throne again, but he actually regained control of the Zhou dynasty. is different from Qian Zhuo's previous brutality and his own style of rejecting the noble family in the past. After returning to power this time, Emperor Qian Hong began to adopt a gentle approach, which not only won the support of many ministers in the court, but also temporarily resolved the long-standing contradictions between him and the Xungui family. At the same time, it also absorbed some of the practices of Gongsun Jian's New Deal, and vigorously won over the poor and ordinary people. This also made the situation of Zhou's original internal and external troubles begin to be reversed.

The retreat of the Qi State in the north made the Zhou State temporarily worry-free in the north. Although the south is still in a stalemate with the Southern Han State, the situation is already developing in favor of the Zhou State. The army of more than 100,000 people of the Southern Han Kingdom fought hard for nearly a year, but did not make the slightest progress, so the morale began to decline, and the growing domestic opposition to continue the war also made the internal rule of Liu Mang, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, more and more unstable, and it was only a matter of time before the Southern Han retreated.

In the current situation, it can be said that everything is developing in the direction of favoring the Zhou state. Therefore, at this time, the old Yue Emperor Qian Hong hoped to maintain the current situation, so at this time, he officially announced that he would marry Princess Ningguo to Sun Jian, the prince of Zhou.

Gongsun Jian, who got the news, was both happy and a little annoyed. The upcoming princess of Ning Guo will inevitably become his official wife, but now how should the Feng Wan'er girl in her room be arranged. Although in this time and space, a man's three wives and four concubines are nothing, especially Gongsun Jian's current identity is here. But as a person with modern amnesia, Gongsun Jian couldn't accept it. Fortunately, in the end, the considerate and sensible Feng Wan'er comforted him.

After calming down, Gongsun Jian thought about it carefully, with his current status, he might not have anything to do with his love in the future, but fortunately, his feelings for Feng Wan'er were still real. And for the princess of Ningguo who had only met once, but he still can't forget it, it was somewhat of a guilt. Otherwise, he wouldn't have said that he wanted to take her to see the world.

If you come here, you will be safe, and in the future, you will abide by your duty and only be good to these two women, as for the rest, it will be a completely political marriage, and you will have to eat and drink well.

In the following days, Linshui County, where the Zhou Wangfu is located, will be lively. Almost all of them were excited about the upcoming big wedding of His Royal Highness King Zhou, whom they adored and appreciated. As a result, some people in Linshui County began to spontaneously organize celebrations. Of course, all this was also approved by the magistrate's yamen.

Seeing that the convoy of Princess Ningguo's marriage is about to arrive, Linshui County can be said to be more lively than the New Year. And the little girl Gong Yuwu is also very happy, although she has not seen the princess who is about to become her stepmother, but through Gongsun Jian's description, she still has a good impression of this stepmother, not to mention that Aunt Wan'er, who has a closer relationship with her, will also marry her father on the same day. Therefore, after getting the approval of Gongsun Jian, the rare and generous Gongyu Dance waved his hand and instructed each county to have a public treasury with a ceiling of no more than 1,000 taels of silver to celebrate the wedding of King Zhou. As a result, almost all the county capitals under the rule of King Zhou began to celebrate.

On the day that Princess Ningguo arrived in Linshui County, Gongsun Jian personally led the civil and military ministers out of the city to greet her, which can be regarded as giving Emperor Yue and the princess the greatest face. According to the prescribed etiquette, Gongsun Jian and Qian Mingyue, the princess of Ningguo, saluted each other through the curtain, and then there were special people in charge of the temporary living of the princess after entering the city. And Gong Yu Wu, who has always been lawless, ran out of the crowd, jumped into Qian Mingyue's chariot, and got to know his stepmother for the first time.

I have to say that Gong Yuwu is indeed a likable child, and he soon got along with the gentle Qian Mingyue. He constantly described to his young and beautiful stepmother the various customs and products in Linshui County and the jurisdiction of King Zhou. By the way, he also recommended a lot of rouge gouache produced in his own store, which made Qian Mingyue happy.

After several days of busy work, the wedding ceremony was finally completed. It is worse to tire Gongsun Jian than to lead troops to train and fight. Fortunately, the following days were exceptionally happy. Because Qian Mingyue walked out of the palace and went to the capital for the first time, she was accompanied by the elf Gongyu Wu, and the relationship with Feng Wan'er also got along very well. Therefore, Gongsun Jian's harem did not appear discordant, on the contrary, during this time, Gongsun Jian gave himself a holiday. Accompanying Qian Mingyue and Feng Wan'er, who feel fresh about everything, all day long, are not happy to play around.

At first, Qian Mingyue was still a little reserved, and she was not very open to many things, but after seeing the magic of Gong Yu Dance and Feng Wan'er's open-mindedness, she found that life could still be like this. After that, even without the company of Gongsun Jian, she could walk out of the palace at will and wander around the street at will. This is simply unthinkable compared to her original life.

Especially after getting to know Liu Dayuan's daughter Liu Fanglan, she suddenly became a good best friend with the other party who talked about everything. Under the rule of Gongsun Jian, equality between men and women is no longer an empty talk. Girls can go to school like boys, go out to work, and even go on their own. And Liu Fanglan is one of the best, speaking of which she is a joint venture with Gong Yuwu and Feng Wan'er to open a store, in fact, she is almost alone in charge of the store's business. And Gong Yuwu and Feng Wan'er are only responsible for checking the accounts and dividing dividends and getting money.

Perceiving and coming into contact with a different new life, everything made Qian Mingyue full of freshness, and at the same time felt very excited and interesting. And then when Gongsun Jian found her and asked her to come forward to do things, Qian Mingyue felt an unprecedented glory.

Women's Federation*, which is an organization set up by Gongsun Jian and Qian Mingyue and Feng Wan'er, is a department dedicated to helping those oppressed female compatriots solve problems. Although it is not in the ranks of the government yamen. But if you want to come forward as his princess Qian Mingyue and princess, who would dare not give face?

This result not only gave Qian Mingyue something to do and not have to be kept in captivity like she used to be in the palace, but also gave her a sense of mission and identity. Although Gongsun Jian promoted equality between men and women in his territory, except for a few county capitals such as Linshui County, which was relatively developed, the traditional feudal ideology was still relatively serious. This has also made the development of society seriously constrained. Not everything is something that men can do, and some work really doesn't work without women. Labor-intensive and patient tasks such as weaving and reeling must be performed by women.

Qian Mingyue accepted Gongsun Jian's arrangement with a little apprehension and anxiety, and began to form a women's federation with Feng Wan'er. And the male feather dance, who likes to mix everything, also volunteered to join in. Well, the two princesses and one county lord, especially the addition of the little devil Gongyu Wu, immediately caused an uproar in the entire Zhou Wang's territory.

But fortunately, with Huang Wenyuan's help in secret, the Women's Federation soon got on the right track. At first, there weren't too many things they needed to do, nothing more than developing members and building organizational frameworks, and the next things were relatively simple, that is, to promote the concept of equality between men and women, and at most to help a few women who were bullied by their husbands to come out.

Gongsun Jian habitually arranged things and stopped asking about them, unless there was a problem that could not be cleaned up or was not handled well, then he would personally come forward to deal with it. Watching a few women do a good job, he naturally put his mind at ease and didn't participate too much, at most, he asked a few words in his spare time, and gave guidance and allocation from time to time.

More than two months passed in a blink of an eye, and seeing that the summer harvest was almost coming to an end, Gongsun Jian held a meeting again to discuss the matter of going south to help Qian Tuan, the king of Chu.

Going south to support the king of Chu and help him establish himself was a strategy that Gongsun Jian and the vassals of the Zhou palace had already worked out, so the tone had been set at the beginning of the meeting, and the matter had to be carried out, but how to proceed became the center of the meeting.

According to the opinions of Feng Huaidao and Shi Fangheng, it is best to send someone to persuade the King of Chu to take the initiative to unite with his side. In this way, Gongsun Jian and they can exchange the minimum price for the result they need in the end. Xu Huaizhi and Cao Liang and others thought that it was not just to let the king of Chu join forces with him to fight against the Zhou court, but to take advantage of this opportunity to seize more territory.

"Lord Cao's opinion can't be said to be wrong, but have you ever thought about how much energy we need to put into governing the Seven Prefectures of Central and South China after they are brought under our rule. That is the foundation of the Zhou State, not to mention that the rule of the Zhou royal family and those nobles there is deep-rooted, even some local families and powerful families will not submit to us. What's more, now we only have a total of seven regular field divisions, a garrison division, and an amphibious combat division, plus a rapid support division and a special operations brigade. There are only more than 60,000 people in total, and the defense of the current territory often requires the assistance of militia groups in various prefectures and counties. With such a huge amount of territory, we will have no problem taking it, but how will we defend it in the future? If you can't keep it, then what's the point of taking it? This can only make the contradictions between us and the court of the Zhou State and those nobles more acute. Feng Huaidao analyzed the pros and cons of this matter in one breath, and opposed taking the opportunity to take the Seven Prefectures of Central and Southern China.