Lin Xiaoshu looked very ashamed, obviously unprepared, and suddenly Han Jian mentioned marriage, she seemed a little at a loss. In the Dongwangfu system, she is already an indispensable person, and after the absence of her, Han Jian also feels that he is a lot busy, if Lin Xiaoshu is by his side to help, he can at least save too much heart. Even if Lin Xiaoshu is no longer the girl who sells tea for a living on the street, she can make those evil officials tremble in front of people, but in front of Han Jian, she is still just a girl who likes to make trouble with others as she did at the beginning.

At this time, she didn't need any answer, in fact, she didn't know how to answer, so she simply let Han Jian hold her hand, and walked through the courtyard together.

As soon as Han Jian told Han Song about Lin Xiaoshu, Han Song's face immediately showed a smile, she really admired Lin Xiaoshu too much, in her opinion, the best way to subdue a woman with extraordinary abilities like Lin Xiaoshu was to make her a member of the East Prince's Mansion, only in this way would she do things for the East Prince's Mansion wholeheartedly.

"Jian'er, when are you going to get married? Or wait for General Lin to return from the north? Han Songshi was in front of Lin Xiaoshu, but he still said it very directly, "You can settle the matter first, and then you can do it in a few days." Anyway, it's up to you. ”

Han Jian glanced at Lin Xiaoshu and asked with a smile, "What do you think, Xiaoshu?" ”

Lin Xiaoshu naturally had no idea, but he lowered his head and shook his head slightly, which probably meant that the whole listening place was ±, and he didn't make an opinion at all.

Han Jian said: "Let's do it, that is, Xiao Shu has no relatives around him now, but he can still make up for it after the marriage, and when the time comes, the victory of the soldier and the marriage can be regarded as double happiness." ”

Han Songshi smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, then Erniang will handle it for you first." This time, the marriage is going to be lively. ”

With that, Han Songshi walked away and wanted to go into the inner courtyard to discuss with Han Cuishi and the others. She couldn't make up her mind about such a big thing herself. Her enthusiasm still has the meaning of "favoring one over the other", compared to Fa Yi or even Song Suqing, she is more enthusiastic about Han Jian's attitude towards marrying Lin Xiaoshu.

"Xiao Shu, you are recovering from a serious illness, so you should rest more. There's not much to worry about right now, so you don't have to worry about it. Han Jian said while holding Lin Xiaoshu's shoulder.

Lin Xiaoshu shook his head resolutely and said, "I haven't done anything for many days." A lot of things are rusty. It's not the way to go long, I guess...... Do more. ”

Han Jian smiled and nodded, he still appreciated Lin Xiaoshu's enthusiasm for his work, and when Lin Xiaoshu fully managed the logistics and supply of the East Palace, it would be husband and wife at that time.

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After a few days, Han Song's family basically finished preparing for the marriage. And the marriage is also going on in an orderly manner, with three books and six ceremonies, Lin Xiaoshu passed the door as if she was a concubine, and she did not slack off at all.

However, Yang Rui didn't seem very happy. She knows a little about Lin Xiaoshu, knowing that this is the most critical part of the logistics system of the East Palace, and now that Lin Xiaoshu wants to enter the door of the East Palace, Han Jian has not even discussed it with her before, which makes her angry for a few days.

After Han Jian and Yang Rui's marriage was announced, they kept talking about the big wedding, but it was still far away. Now Han Jian wants to marry Lin Xiaoshu in advance, so that people in the world feel that the Dongwang Mansion does not take the emperor in their eyes. For the gossip of the outside world. Han Jian didn't care, it was extremely difficult to completely erase people's voices. With his open-minded thinking, since he has done it, he is not afraid of what people say, and he will not erase public opinion.

In the past few days, Han Jian was most concerned about the progress of the war in the north. The report of the war came back from the north almost several times a day.

Lin Zhan's troops besieged Beichuan City this time, and the soldiers and horses were mainly the original Lin Zhan's old troops, with more than 30,000 horses, plus some local troops and stragglers. The total number of soldiers and horses is between fifty and sixty thousand. The defenders in Beichuan City were only as many as 10,000 people, and the army's morale was broken, and this battle was a success on paper. But in fact, it is not so easy to conquer Beichuan City.

Originally, Han Jian's plan was to open a breakthrough from some guards and officials in Beichuan City, and it was best to take the city without a fight, and Han Jian had already asked Lin Zhan to send envoys into the city to send a letter of persuasion to Yang Ke, the king of Xiaobei. But it didn't have much effect, and Yang Ke ignored the court's persuasion. A war is unfolding.

In the first few days, the siege was only tentative, and more importantly, the imperial court cut off the grain and supply lines of Beichuan City, making Beichuan City an isolated city. For the time being, I don't know how long the grain and grass in Beichuan City can last, but Han Jian doesn't want to drag it out, if he really waits for the city to have no soldiers and no food to capture the city, then it may take a long time, I'm afraid that the war in the north can drag down the Dongwang Mansion. Han Jian just wants a quick solution.

The meeting in Luoyang City is also held every day, mainly to discuss the allocation of grain, grass and soldiers and horses, before the large-scale siege of the north is launched, the lack of grain and grass is not a few, and it is impossible to raise it for a while. Turning back also involves the issue of military merit and rewards, which is a large amount of expense, which needs to be prepared in advance.

The Spring Festival is a time for family fun, but Han Jian is a little dizzy and busy, but fortunately, Lin Xiaoshu is from the side, so he doesn't get tired. However, for a few days, he only had two or three hours of sleep every day, and the rest of the time he had to keep an eye on the battle report and make some arrangements at any time. But after all, the battle line is a little too far, and there is a feeling that the whip is out of reach.

After stepping out of Jiangdu from the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Palace, Han Jian basically only commanded from behind the scenes, and did not go to the front line, and the front-line battle command was basically in charge of Zhang Xing and Lin Zhan and others, and Han Jian was also considering whether to personally lead the troops in the battle of the palace pass. Perhaps this is the only way to avoid being impatient when the war breaks out, after all, the decisions he made will take two or three days to reach the front line, and many things have been delayed, and even do not coincide with the situation on the front line.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, there is finally the latest progress on the front line. Gu Nantong, the southern defender of Beichuan City, and others jointly proposed to Yang Ke, the king of Xiaobei, to surrender to the imperial court, but Yang Ke was beheaded for disturbing the monarchy, which inspired a mutiny. Immediately, Lin Zhan's soldiers and horses attacked the outer city of Beichuan South City.

Originally, the guards in the city only wanted to persuade the surrender rather than admonishing the soldiers, but after Yang Ke killed the killer, the guards in the city began to centrifugal, and many people began to secretly write to Lin Zhan's army, in addition to the intention of self-protection after the end of the war, there was also the meaning of ventilating the news.

After the fall of Kitagawa Castle South. A large amount of grain and grass was seized, and there was a shortage of materials in Beichuan City. However, Lin Zhan's troops deliberately slowed down the pace and did not immediately continue to storm the inner city, but Yang Ke already sensed that the general situation was gone, and even killed a few more generals who were suspected by him.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, after a few days of stalemate, Yang Ke finally couldn't help but decide to surrender. It was the same night. Before Yang Ke could personally go out of the city to welcome the imperial army into the city, the people had already been killed by the rebels, and there was a mutiny in the city. There was still no result on the 14th, but at this time someone also opened the gate of the inner city, and surprisingly, Lin Zhan's department did not enter the inner city, but only watched the fire from the other side and waited for the civil strife in the city to end.

By the morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the riots in the city had basically subsided, and some of the guards and local generals went out of the city to surrender. At the same time, Yang Ke's head was handed over.

The battle of Beichuan City, which had been stalemate for more than half a year, came to an end here, and the news that Beichuan City was breached in the afternoon of the same day was transmitted to Luoyang, and for a time the people in the government and the opposition were encouraged, and many people took advantage of the Shangyuan Festival to enter the palace to congratulate Yang Rui, and there were many people in the East Wangfu to congratulate.

Under the city of Beichuan, it means that the north is south of Beiguan, except for Guanzhong, which has been owned by the imperial court. Most of the territory in the north was nominally returned to the imperial court, but after all, the military power was in the hands of the Eastern Palace. In other words, Dongwangfu has now become half the master of the world.

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The Spring Festival palace banquet was canceled, but it was the Shangyuan Festival. Because of the victory of the war in the north, Yang Rui specially prepared a banquet to entertain the ministers that night, and at the same time announced the news of the victory in the north to the world.

Because the banquet was prepared in a hurry, there were not many drinks and dishes prepared in the palace, and some of them still needed to be supplied by the East Palace, and after Han Jian entered the palace after receiving the people who went to the East Palace. I realized that the banquet had already begun, and I didn't wait for him to arrive.

"Your Highness, the old minister is here to greet you." As soon as he arrived at the gate of the palace, a person came up with a blind light, but it was Ning Yuan, who should have entered the palace early to attend the banquet.

At this time, Ning Yuan seemed to have deliberately put aside his relationship with the imperial court. As a minister of the imperial court, he was already a vassal of the East Palace, and he didn't even enter the palace gate, but waited for Han Jian to arrive at the palace gate and go in together.

"Why didn't Ning Shangshu enter?" Han Jian didn't stop, and asked as he walked.

"The old minister learned that the trouble in the North Wangfu has been lifted, and he is here to wait for the East King and congratulate him." Ning Yuan said after him.

Han Jian smiled and said, "You don't need to congratulate, if you want to congratulate, you should congratulate Your Majesty." You, the official secretary, are not here, and His Majesty's banquet is missing an important guest after all. ”

Ning Yuan's face showed inexplicable nervousness, he had already learned that the banquet in the palace had begun, this time Yang Rui invited all the generals of the imperial court faction, he was naturally among the invitees, but he also knew that Han Jian, who was the king of the east, had not yet entered the palace, and the banquet had begun, which made him feel that something was wrong, if there was really any conflict, he obviously wanted to stand on the side of the east palace.

"Your Highness, it's better not to rush to the Wenwu Palace." Ning Yuan suddenly reminded.

"Oh? What does Ning Shangshu mean by this? Han Jian stopped and looked at Ning Yuan.

"I'm afraid that someone will be unfavorable to His Highness."

Ning Yuan's words were a little vague, and he didn't say who it was, but the meaning was already obvious, someone wanted to take the opportunity to assassinate Han Jian. After thinking about it for a while, Han Jian knew the general meaning of Ning Yuan's words, these people who were going to be unfavorable to him should be people from the imperial court faction, and as the initiator of today's banquet, Yang Rui was naturally the most suspicious.

"Before Ning Shangshu speaks, it is best to have evidence, otherwise others will not be convinced."

Han Jian said this, but he was still puzzled, it was true that in such a festival and the victory in the war, it was easy for him to slack off, and if it was said that assassinating him was a golden opportunity. He won't bring too many people into the palace, although the palace guards are all under his control, but today at the banquet, the crowd is very chaotic, and the people invited are all people from the court faction, if these people join forces to kill him, he will be invincible with two fists and four hands, and it will be very dangerous.

Ning Yuan said: "The old minister has heard a little that some people with evil intentions have always wanted to be unfavorable to Your Highness. This time His Majesty invited the courtiers, but did not wait for His Highness to go, can't it explain the problem? ”

"You mean, Your Majesty also knows about this?" Han Jian squinted at Ning Yuan.

The old minister didn't dare to say this, but according to the old minister, His Majesty intended to protect His Highness, otherwise why not wait for His Highness to go before having a banquet? But the old minister can't say it well...... Who can understand this shape now? ”

No matter how Han Jian said it, he didn't want to believe that Yang Rui was going to kill him, but in fact, he really deserved to die, at least he thought it was from Yang Rui's standpoint.

If he dies and the Dongwang Mansion is merged with the imperial court, then Yang Rui's internal worries will be gone, and he can regain control of the military and political power of the imperial court, and even more stable power than when she was at the peak of her reign.

But doing so will also produce civil strife, and it all depends on whether she can quell the mutiny caused by the loss of Han Jian in the Eastern Prince's Mansion in a short period of time, especially in the face of the revenge of Han Song and others against her.

"Do you know who it is?" Han Jian didn't continue to walk, the things he was thinking about were too complicated, and he didn't want to continue thinking about many things, so he asked directly.

"The old minister has not yet found out, so he ...... You can only persuade His Royal Highness the King of the East not to go to the Wenwu Hall here. ”

Han Jian nodded slightly, turned around to the gate of the palace, and explained a few words to the guards, and the guards left in a hurry, and when Ning Yuan felt that Han Jian was going to do something, not long after, the guards who went to give the order came back, but this time more than 200 soldiers in armor and fully armed soldiers were transferred over.

"Transfer the palace guards of the three guards and go to the Wenwu Hall with this king." Han Jian said to the palace guards' star officer again.

Ning Yuan was a little nervous and said, "Why is Your Highness like this...... Even...... It's not appropriate. ”

He had already realized what Han Jian was going to do, since it was he who reported that someone was unfavorable to Han Jian, Han Jian simply led his troops in, but doing so was tantamount to a mutiny. It will end very badly next, and I am afraid that it will end when Yang Rui abdicates until Han Jian ascends the throne as emperor.

"What does Ning Shangshu think is wrong?" Han Jian asked rhetorically.

"This ...... This ......"

Ning Yuan couldn't answer at all, it stands to reason that Han Jian now has military power, and he has full control over Luoyang, and the north has driven out the Xianbei people to level the Northern Palace, and it is not an exaggeration to ascend the throne as the emperor, and he himself chose to stand on the position of the Eastern Palace. But when Han Jian really wanted to usurp the throne, he was a little frightened, he didn't want to be a sinner, although it was reasonable to say that he was already a sinner.

"Ning Shangshu is too careful." Han Jian patted Ning Yuan on the shoulder with a smile and said, "This king sent some people into the palace together, but he didn't mean to force the palace. I just want to protect everything, if someone really dares to mistreat this king, it is good to have a response. If the banquet is peaceful, will this king still remove his child's mother from the throne? (To be continued......)