By April, the weather had completely warmed, and the spring in Luoyang was good, but after all, Han Jian was busy and had no time to go out for a walk. After all, he is a stranger in Luoyang, and he can't take care of many things, under this premise, whenever he has time, he still chooses to accompany his family more, especially after Han Song's arrival in Luoyang.

Han Song's family came from Jiangdu, and it seemed that he was ignoring the government affairs in Jiangdu, and wanted to come over to reunite with Han Jian's family. In fact, Han Song's family also had the intention of coming to supervise Han Jian, after Han Jian officially took over the Dongwang Mansion, he did a lot of great things, and while these things made some achievements, they also made the Dongwang Mansion the target of the public. These aunts of Han Jian are afraid that he will do something again and break the pattern that the court is temporarily stable.

After being busy for a while, Han Jian found that his busyness was just finding something for himself to do, and he could ignore many things first, put them down and deal with them later. However, there is usually only a thin line between diligence and laziness, and he knows that if he slacks off, the East Palace's mansion will be a mess. After all, he was young and did not have much prestige, and it was by relying on his control of the army and an almost authoritarian control that the Dongwang Mansion seemed to be in harmony. If he comes out to stand up to the beam, many people below will rebel, and there is no need for people from the court to come and instigate.

April 12, a day of light rain. Han Jian went out very late, and after arriving at the military station, he also had some leisure and read some battle reports from the front. The six-way soldiers and horses sent by Su Tingxia had different speeds, but most of them had been restrained by the side of the Northern Palace, and they could not march temporarily.

After experiencing the unstable coordination in the early stages of the war, the Northern Palaces also began to gather troops and horses in April, and stationed several solid fortresses along the way from Beichuan to the south, so as to hinder the continuation of Su Tingxia's troops northward.

Whether it is Su Tingxia or Han Jian. It is clear that the soldiers and horses under Su Tingxia's hands are too messy, and they have little experience in battle, so they are not suitable for long-term battles, so they can either quickly cut through the chaos and capture Beichuan in one fell swoop, or they can only seek to withdraw their troops. In general, Su Tingxia's purpose of this march has been achieved. The Beichuan soldiers and horses were weakened in momentum, and they could not raise troops to go south, so they were already able to maintain the stability of Luoyang. At this time, it is also the best time to summon Su Tingxia back.

But something went wrong.

The problem is not big or small. From the beginning of Su Tingxia's march, although he constantly submitted battle reports on the front line in the form of secret letters from the military, this kind of war reports also decreased with the increase of time. In other words, Su Tingxia deliberately distanced himself from the Eastern Wangfu and the imperial court. This makes people think that Su Tingxia went out with 20,000 soldiers and horses from the time he sent out the army. Up to now, there are nearly 100,000 combat soldiers and horses under his hands, which can be said to be in full fledgling. This means to be self-reliant.

At the regular military meeting near noon, some generals raised this point, and seemed to have a lot of criticism about Su Tingxia's recent expression. However, now, although the momentum of Su Tingxia's march has been temporarily suppressed, the generals and strategists of the Eastern Prince's Mansion probably know that this person may become an important figure in the military of the Eastern Prince's Mansion in the future, and the military position will be above him, and no one dares to really criticize anything. Just made some appropriate reminders to Han Jian. It seems to be very loyal to the king.

"In the past two days, the front line has been relatively stable. If there's nothing to do, just disperse first. Han Jian ended this meeting at the right time, and he had to take advantage of the noon to enter the palace once.

After Han Song's arrival in Luoyang, Han Jian became like a "good boy", he had to go home every time it was dark, and the time he could accompany Yang Rui was only noon. No matter how wary Han Song and the others were. I didn't expect that Han Jian would take advantage of the noon time to enter the palace to report to Yang Rui to have a private meeting with Yang Rui. At this time, Han Jian and Yang Rui's "adultery" was also hot.

However, as soon as Han Jian walked out of the door, he stopped, he felt as if he had forgotten something, and after thinking about it carefully, he remembered Ning Xiuyan's side. The last time he went, he had mentioned some things, as if they were about some people from the Ning family who were going to join the army.

These things were probably when Ning Xiuyan returned to her parents' house, and the people of the Ning family specially asked her mother to convey them to her, and then she told Han Jian. In general, it was the people of the Ning family who wanted to use the big tree of Han Jian to open a gap from both the court and the military and infiltrate people.

Originally, Han Jian was not ready to accept this. He didn't know why he thought of this, maybe it was because he felt that there were no worthwhile generals around him these days, Lin Zhan was not there, Su Tingxia was not there, and Zhang Xing, who was once close to him, was now sent back to Jiangdu. None of these people around him have the talent of a general, at least in his opinion, they are all a little mediocre.

He is not ready to use the Ning family, but it does not mean that he cannot use others. After thinking about it, the best way to recruit talents is actually the imperial examination, liberal arts and martial arts, which were still very fixed in the Taiping years of the Wei Dynasty, but because of the recession of the imperial court in the past two years, even these things have been abandoned. There were also ministers who mentioned to Yang Rui the matter of resuming the imperial examination, but Yang Rui directly postponed it.

When I entered the palace, it was past noon, and the rain still did not stop. Han Jian arrived at Ye'an Pavilion first, but learned that Yang Rui had already entered the dormitory. Yang Rui knew that he would come, so he left a message after all, and asked him to go directly to the dormitory after entering the palace.

Han Jian walked out of Ye'an Pavilion, the rain was heavier again, originally he didn't hold an umbrella, but at this time he had to take the umbrella handed by the little eunuch and walk in the direction of the palace with the umbrella. But before he arrived at the inner garden, he saw someone coming out with an umbrella, it seemed to be a palace maid, but it didn't look like it, because there were still people behind him.

Han Jian stopped, the water vapor was a little hazy, and when Han Jian felt that the woman holding the umbrella in the distance was a little familiar, the person had already looked at Han Jian's side, and finally the woman also smiled and walked over.

"The little lady greets Your Highness." But it was Yang Xiuxiu, the lord of Anping County.

When Yang Xiuxiu returned to Luoyang, he didn't know, and he didn't even know that Yang Xiuxiu came to the palace. Han Jian thought to himself, probably because he was still too busy these days and ignored what was happening around him.

"The county lord is gracious." Han Jian said, "You and I have the same official title, why do you have to be so gifted?" ”

"Your Highness is really good at laughing, the little girl is just a courtesy, but you say it's a big gift, do you want to take advantage of the little girl?" When Yang Xiuxiu said this, she suddenly pursed her lips and smiled, as if she was amused by her own jokes, but she didn't realize how rude her smile was.

Han Jian naturally didn't want to talk too much nonsense with Yang Xiuxiu on etiquette, he was more concerned about why Yang Xiuxiu wanted to enter the palace.

"I don't know why the county lord entered the palace?" Han Jian asked.

"This is for His Royal Highness the King of the East. The little woman's original home in the capital, I don't know which bastards occupied it, the little woman wants to get it back, she has to go to the government to register and make a register, and she has to ask for gifts, isn't this a sincere pastime? Who doesn't know that it was originally the palace of Anping County. Does this still require the little woman to go around looking for someone to verify? What's even more infuriating is that none of those who are officials give the little woman a thin face, and they are angry with their official appearance. The little woman had to come to ask for help from Majesty, after all, it was a family, and Majesty had to help the little girl a little, didn't she? ”

has lived in Jiangdu for more than a year, Yang Xiuxiu also speaks with a bit of Jiangdu accent, and I don't know that I think it is a woman from Zhong Lingyuxiu in Jiangnan. But as soon as she opened her mouth to reason, she revealed her inner image.

"Then can His Majesty help the county lord?" Han Jian smiled and asked casually.

"Don't mention it." Yang Xiuxiu said, "I came to the palace, but I didn't see His Majesty." Alas, it may be that His Majesty is unwell, and even if the little woman comes here, she can only send someone in to pass it on. I haven't received a reply yet, so I have to go back and wait for news. His Royal Highness the East King came down to see His Majesty. Majesty Xià must be meeting, the little woman is soft-spoken, Majesty Xià will not be willing to meet. ”

As he spoke, he seemed to be very disappointed, and he looked discouraged, and went to the palace gate.

Han Jian naturally had no reason to catch up and say anything. Shook his head helplessly and went to the door of the inner garden. Anyway, he is familiar with the road, he has been here many times, and even the road is already very familiar, and he doesn't need outsiders to report it.

Go to the entrance of the dormitory. Hui'er stood respectfully, and when she saw Han Jian hurriedly saluting, she was very respectful.

"Your Majesty ordered, the king of the east will come and invite in." Hui'er said coquettishly.

"Hmm."

Han Jian nodded and went inside, but saw Yang Rui sitting barefoot on the bed, leaning on the quilt behind him and reading a book. Seeing Han Jian, Yang Rui smiled, jumped directly from the bed, and went to Han Jian like a little girl.

"Here, I'll show you something good." Yang Rui said, pulled Han Jian to the bed, and handed the book to Han Jian's eyes. Han Jian looked at it and couldn't help but smile dumbly. But it's a picture hidden in the palace, something similar to a spring picture.

"Rui'er, do you still like to watch these?" Han Jian asked with a smile.

"Take it and take a look." Yang Rui smiled wisely on his face and said, "This is all for the palace people to see, but it is not something that ordinary palace maids can see, they are all things that those concubines in the palace have always had to see and learn. ”

Han Jian couldn't help but smile.

Although Yang Rui is also a king, she is a woman after all. There were female officials in the palace who were responsible for teaching the concubines the rules or something, which naturally included how to serve the king, but when it came to Yang Rui, this set would not work. When Yang Rui saw these things, he felt that novelty was also natural.

"Why did you come in so late today?" Yang Rui saw Han Jian sitting at the table drinking tea, and couldn't help asking, "Just now, the county lord of Anping sent someone to pass the word, saying that he wanted to come to ask for a meeting, but I refused." This girl doesn't know each other, she looks like someone owes her, I didn't like her very much before, I arranged family affairs for her but always pushed back, and now I am back in Luoyang, and I have to work hard for her affairs? There are no doors. Well, where is that? ”

"I saw it when I came in." Han Jian said, "But it's not good for you to see you like this." After all, there are not many people in the Luoyang royal family now. ”

"What? Cheer up for my Yang family, it seems that my husband is really a fat person. But I still want to warn you, stay away from that little girl, although the little girl is a little vulgar, but she is long and beautiful, and she is young, which is much better than the appearance of the concubine. Yang Rui said, but he was also looking at Han Jian, wanting to find something from Han Jian's eyes.

How could Han Jian not know that Yang Rui was testing himself?

But speaking of which, it's just a joke, Yang Rui won't think that Han Jian will be interesting to Yang Xiuxiu, a large family in the Anping County Palace, married Yang Xiuxiu, so he naturally has to be in charge of this family. And Yang Xiuxiu is arrogant, and she will definitely not be willing to be subservient, in Yang Rui's opinion, even if Han Jian is willing to want it, then Yang Xiuxiu will not "fall willingly" with Han Jian.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that you are also the person who is "willing to fall".

"There are some things, can you help or help." Han Jian said, "This is also to show the emperor's grace. If even the county lord of Anping can't get the protection of the imperial court, how can he have the luxury of asking other people in the royal family to return to his heart? ”

"What the husband said also has some truth. But these things are too annoying, so it's better to leave them to your husband to deal with. Come to the palace today. Don't take advantage of the time, more ...... Take a break? ”

Yang Rui was at this time when her heart was rippling, how could she listen to Han Jian tell her this?

When Yang Rui was about to do it himself, Han Jian sighed that he was still the "concubine" who came to accompany the king, but when he got to the bed, the situation was different. Yang Rui can be regarded as having "practiced" today. After reading those books from the trail, it seems that he has learned a few hands, and he regards Han Jian as a king.

The clouds cleared and the rain dispersed, and Han Jian was already a little tired. Although he has rested well in the past few days, he still has too many things to do, and he can't worry about it when he rests. At this time, he lingered with Yang Rui. On the contrary, he put aside the worries around him for the time being.

The concubine was a little tired, so she went to sleep first. The husband will leave in a while, and there is no need to wake up the concubine. Yang Rui said, turning sideways and falling asleep.

Han Jian could see that Yang Rui had not been resting well recently. There are too many things in the imperial court, and Yang Rui can't take a break if he wants to.

Han Jian just lay down for a while and didn't fall asleep. When he put on his clothes, he said hello to Yang Rui and said that he was leaving. Yang Rui didn't respond, thinking that he was already asleep. He came out of the palace alone, after all, he could not stay in the palace for too long, lest other gossip spread the matter.

Out of the inner garden of the palace, Han Jian walked directly in the direction of the main gate and arrived at the main entrance. I saw Yang Xiuxiu's flower umbrella from a distance, which means that Yang Xiuxiu has not left yet.

"His Royal Highness the East King has come out." Yang Xiuxiu stroked her chest and said, "I thought that the East King was left behind by His Majesty and didn't leave." The little girl was worried for a long time, thinking that she wouldn't see His Highness come out today. ”

Han Jian glanced at Yang Xiuxiu, what was she hinting at?

“…… Your Highness, I don't know if I can help a group of little women? Yang Xiuxiu looked pitiful and said, "The little girl's family has returned to Luoyang now, but they are being bullied everywhere, and it is very miserable." If it weren't for the help of His Royal Highness the East King, he might have starved to death on the streets. ”

It's this set again.

Han Jianxin said that he couldn't be fooled this time.

When Yang Xiuxiu and his family arrived in Jiangdu, they were also desperate and asked him for help, and Han Jian only knew how miserable a county king's mansion could be when he saw this family. The name of the Anping County Royal Mansion is saved, but after such a back and forth and two tosses, there is indeed nothing left.

According to the rules of the imperial court, the land that was once given by Yang Yu to those ministers who helped him ascend the throne was rewarded, and the original owner could go to the government to apply for some vouchers, but someone needed to guarantee or even a tenant to come out to testify, and some complicated procedures were required, and all the money that was purchased at a low price was returned. It is equivalent to invalidating the previous transaction.

Many of these old Luoyang nobles who left Jiangdu have lost their position, and they have the ability to go back but have no ability to come back, so they settled in Jiangdu, anyway, there is not much left in Luoyang, it is better to take root in Jiangdu. However, Yang Xiuxiu knew that if she wanted to maintain the name of the Anping County Palace, she had to be close to the political center, that is, if she wanted to return to Luoyang, she would fight for her life and move her family back. She thought that the relationship with the Eastern Wangfu was not bad, and the whole court would give her a few thin noodles, and when she came back, she would not only be able to get back the land that was not much for a long time, but also get some rewards. But after I came back, I realized that it was better to stay in Jiangdu.

In Jiangdu, at least she has a house and a land, and she has a "serious job", which is to be her handyman foreman in the Jiangdu official office. Don't look at this foreman who doesn't seem to have any status, but the money he earns is enough to support his family. But her job was abandoned and she came here, not to mention work, even if she came to the farmhouse and couldn't get it back, and the family could only temporarily live in the official yamen of the imperial court to temporarily settle the "migratory refugees" in the same situation, and live with those people of all religions and nine streams, which made her very unhappy.

"The county lord starved to death on the streets?" Han Jian smiled and said, "This is not unusual. The princess didn't have a good life at the beginning, and she could settle down in Jiang, so why did she have to go back to Luoyang? ”

Yang Xiuxiu looked at Han Jian and sighed in her heart, why aren't you keen to help yourself this time?

"Can't the king of the east lend a helping hand?" Yang Xiuxiu asked.

"This king is going to leave the palace and go to the military station, and there are still a lot of official affairs at hand, so I will leave." Han Jian arched his hand.

Although Yang Xiuxiu is down, she is the identity of the county lord after all, and it stands to reason that Han Jian and Yang Xiuxiu are equal in status in the court. This county lord can even enter the palace gate, but he can't enter his own door, because her door has been burglarized. And the one who occupies her door is Ning Yuan, who is now very powerful in the imperial court.

It's not that Ning Yuan was domineering and arrogant and forcibly occupied the Anping County Palace, mainly because the Anping County Palace changed hands many times after Yang Xiuxiu's family moved to Jiangdu. After all, this is once a royal land, and many people like it and buy it, but when they look back, they find that it is simply flashy, and it is only very dilapidated inside. It's not as good as the house of the average rich and noble. Therefore, most of the people who bought it were sold cheaply, and in the end, Ning Yuan took the house away, but it was also left for the people from the side branches of the Ning family to live.

Now that Ning Yuan is in power, many people don't want to offend, which also makes Yang Xiuxiu hit a wall everywhere. The various yamen were very perfunctory about this, saying that because they couldn't prove it, they couldn't get support, and the house still had to be owned by the Ning family. This made Yang Xiuxiu quite helpless, if she wasn't forced to do this, she wouldn't have come to the palace for help.

"The East King is slow" Yang Xiuxiu said a little angrily, "Could it be that just because Ning Shangshu has a better relationship with the East King, the East King will sit back and watch the suffering of the little girl's family and watch coldly, so let our family live on the streets?" ”

Han Jian looked at Yang Xiuxiu, it wasn't Yang Xiuxiu who said, and he didn't remember that the Anping County Mansion was occupied by Ning Yuan.

Yang Xiuxiu seemed to be deliberately reminding him that he should distinguish between public and private, and he couldn't be biased everywhere just because Ning Yuan gave him a daughter.

Han Jian said: "The words of the county lord, this king doesn't understand very well. However, if it is really difficult for the county lord to survive in Luoyang, he will return to Jiangdu, believing that Jiangdu's farm house is still there, so why do you have to continue in Luoyang? ”

Yang Xiuxiu's face showed some angry looks, but she also waved her hand and said: "The East King is really easy to speak, but I want to tell the East King that the field house in Jiangdu was sold by the little woman, just to make up enough to return to Luoyang." ”

Han Jian sighed, and said in his heart that Yang Xiuxiu was too capable of tossing.

When she went to Jiangdu, she was a family thousands of miles away, such a big family, all women and children, it was not easy to settle down in Jiangdu, and she had to run back to Luoyang. Could it be that she thinks that in the future, the Anping County Mansion will return to its former glory?

"Then there is nothing the king can do." Han Jian said, spread his hands, and turned away.

Yang Xiuxiu was unwilling to give up, and was about to step forward to chase, but was stopped by the guards around Han Jian.

"Dongwang is slow, the little woman still has something to say, please let the little girl finish this last sentence, okay?" Yang Xiuxiu was also in a hurry, seeing that Han Jian was leaving, and he was stopped by the guards again, he couldn't help shouting in a hurry.

Han Jian stopped, didn't look back, just raised his hand, and the guards who were blocking Yang Xiuxiu had already moved out of the way.

Han Jian only raised a finger in the end, reminding Yang Xiuxiu that it was just "one sentence".

"The little girl is willing to sell herself as a slave in exchange for the original property of the Anping County Palace, I wonder if His Royal Highness the East King can accept it?" Yang Xiuxiu said this sentence in a very solemn place like the palace gate, in front of Han Jian and many guards around him.

As she spoke, the guards were watching her.

Everyone here naturally knows Yang Xiuxiu's identity, if it is an ordinary woman, it is not uncommon to sell herself as a slave, after all, there will always be starvation to death when the year is bad, and it is common to sell children and daughters. But after all, Yang Xiuxiu is the once glorious county lord of Anping, and now, he also retains the title of the county lord.

Han Jian turned his head sideways and glanced at Yang Xiuxiu with slanted eyes.

He knows very well that Yang Xiuxiu is "scheming", and he doesn't say this kind of thing out of sincerity, he must want him to be "soft-hearted", even if he accepts it, it seems that there is no loss for Yang Xiuxiu. After all, Han Jian didn't dare to take her, the lord of Anping, as a slave in front of the entire world.

If you come to find it in private, it can show that Yang Xiuxiu is sincere, but it is not.

"Since the county lord has this intention, this king also thinks it is appropriate. However, the king was busy with official affairs, so he bothered the county lord to write the deed of sale and send it to the military station in person. The king will receive it. (To be continued......)