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Strictly speaking, there are not many people in Yan Xuelan's hands.

There are a lot of people in the Eldest Princess's Mansion, but more of them are people who are ordered to protect Yan Xuelan, and most of the time their actions on weekdays are out of their own duties.

Don't ask why Yan Xuelan didn't try to recruit these people, if it was someone who could easily be sworn by money or some small favors, how could he be sent to protect the royal family.

In the hearts of these people, His Majesty's orders of Emperor Yan are their pursuits, and they will abide by and carry out His Majesty's orders. There won't be too much personal emotion.

Otherwise, why was the competition between the eldest prince and the second prince so fierce in the previous life, and the families and the sects stood behind them.

That's the fundamental reason.

If you don't go to foreign aid or cultivate yourself, the power in the hands of these princes and princesses is not very strong.

As for why it was done, it is already a tacit secret shared by the five major powers in the Central Plains.

In the end, the original Da Zhou didn't fight because of the prince's succession, and the big Thursday was torn apart, so that others could take advantage of it.

How could the five countries that stepped on the corpse of the Great Zhou not be cautious in this regard.

And this can also be regarded as a kind of exercise for your own children.

Let them learn how to control their subordinates, how to develop their forces, and how to deal with and deal with all kinds of unexpected affairs.

Born in the royal family, these people seem to enjoy glory and wealth on the surface, but secretly there are countless dirty deeds, if they don't experience wind and rain, they are just a delicate flower, and a little turmoil may be cool.

That would harm their children, so it is better to let them face the reality early and grow up early.

Therefore, many people from the Northern Yan Imperial Family, including Yan Xuelan, expanded their power with the help of their relatives.

The eldest prince and the second prince began to grow slowly with the help of the family behind their mother and concubine.

And Yan Xuelan is different, her mother has already passed away, no matter how much Emperor Yan loves her, she can't violate the rules.

Without the support of her mother, it is difficult for Yan Xuelan to recruit people.

I have built a good relationship with a few friends who were companions at the beginning. For example, Tie Yunshuang and Su Tianyu.

One is the Tie family of the Iron Cavalry, and the other is the Su family who is not low above the Beiyan court. And these two are the pride of the generation of the two families, and they can already influence the family's decision-making to some extent.

Of course, not only that, Yan Xuelan has an excellent relationship with Xie Hanyi and Zao Wou-Ki and other worship halls because of her own personality.

It's just that Yan Xuelan didn't know about the external dangers before, and she couldn't predict what would happen in the future, and the throne wouldn't fall on her head anyway, so she was negligent in martial arts.

As a result, he gave up his good yang body and didn't use it, and when the war broke out later, he began to pay attention to it, although he was more than capable of saving himself, but he was no longer able to save the country, and the time was too short.

Now that Yan Xuelan has returned, she naturally has the heart to practice martial arts.

The previous impression of Yan Xuelan's eldest prince and second prince was still good, no matter what, this sister would not pose a threat to them.

But now it's different.

In the past two years, Yan Xuelan began to use her own Yang Yan Body to cultivate a lot of secret techniques of royal martial arts. And because she has a good relationship with the people in the worship hall, she has also learned a lot of housekeeping skills from those offerings.

There is no way, Yan Xuelan's charm is too great, and with Zhao Wuji's care, it can be said that her cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds. All kinds of pills, medicinal decoctions that replenish the body can be said to be as much as there are.

The last time Chen Zheng saw her, Yan Xuelan was only in the Luck Realm, but now, Yan Xuelan was already at the peak of Zhou Tian Realm, and she was only half a foot away from reaching the Tongmai Realm and becoming a rising star in the martial arts.

Of course, if it's just like this, it won't make the eldest prince and the second prince have an opinion on her, no matter how strong the strength is, it's just one person, even if it is a martial artist who enters the Dao realm, he has to kneel to the ground under the group beating, and in the realm above the Dao, it is impossible for such a character to come out and show up once in many years, so although this is a world of high martial arts, the specific strength is not determined by one person alone.

Yan Xuelan is also expanding her manpower while practicing martial arts. The first is to let Su Tianyu and Tie Yunshuang be responsible for recruiting some capable people. Especially some small seedlings that have not yet grown up are best received in advance and let them grow slowly.

Although those Tianjiao figures in the previous life had no previous experience and may not shine in a short period of time, Yan Xuelan believes that gold will always shine.

The talent of these Tianjiao celebrities in their previous lives is not low, and they will definitely show it in the future.

In this way, Tie Yunshuang and Su Tianyu started from two aspects. Tie Yunshuang is mainly responsible for finding those good seedlings in the army, while Su Tianyu is using the identity of the embroidered internal guard and the current action team of the Military Intelligence Department to contact some talents who are still lurking in the civilian population and have not yet been discovered.

For example, Shen Kuo, who is now following Chen Zheng, as well as Sun Qiang, Liao Kai and the like, will not be ordinary people in the future, but now their cultivation is not high, and their backgrounds are not good, if they want to climb up, it is very difficult, and when there are no major changes, if they want to climb up, they can only slowly mix their qualifications.

But when war happens, they will slowly show their talents.

There are many similar people like this, all of whom were recruited by Su Tianyu by trying all kinds of methods, and now a large part of them are members of the action team of Group A, including some elite generals in the third squad.

Of course, Su Tianyu is also responsible for recruiting Chen Zheng over.

originally wanted to help, but what I didn't expect was that Chen Zheng also had his own opportunity, which is really gratifying.

In addition to these. Yan Xuelan also let her maid Xie Rongqi train batches of elite female guards.

In the past two years, the training has not stopped at all.

Trained 3,000 female soldiers with a solid foundation in martial arts, Yan Xuelan is rich and wealthy, and the treatment of these female soldiers is excellent.

Almost all of the women recruited were from poor families.

Some were trafficked by their families, some came out to beg for a living, some were orphans, and even widows whose husbands died in battles with the steppe people.

Compared with those squeamish ladies, these women are more patient, more tenacious, and can complete the training task excellently, not afraid of hardship, not afraid of tiredness.

Even these female soldiers can use the medicated bath, every day after waking up after a whole day of training, the muscles are sore, as long as they soak in the medicated bath, the pain is immediately eliminated, full of strength, and the next day is alive and vigorous.

Three meals a day are meat, and there are also a lot of supplements to replenish qi and blood.

The arms that used to be like firewood sticks are now muscles full of strength.

Now this Luan Fengwei who is in charge of Xie Rongqi is now all cultivators above the realm of luck, and their cultivation is still growing rapidly, it seems that there is a special secret method, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

Then Yan Xuelan recruited Mr. Baili again, including several students taught by Mr. Baili, and took them away.

Directly ask Mr. Baili to serve as the chief bookkeeper of the eldest princess's mansion. Giving advice to Yan Xuelan, the rest of the students served as clerks in the Eldest Princess's Mansion and sought common development together.

Mr. Baili was moved by Yan Xuelan's kindness to his wife and her ambitions. Originally, he lived in seclusion because he felt that there was not much room for himself outside.

His ability may not be able to enter the eyes of His Majesty Emperor Yan. After all, His Majesty Emperor Yan is wise and martial, and there are countless staff behind him, and there are people outside the world, but Mr. Baili has always kept this in mind.

But what if he was to assist the important ministers of the court? Sorry, there is no interest, the knowledge and talent he learned is to be sold to the emperor's family, how can he be a retainer in some officials' families, this is not his ambition.

So we have to wait for the next generation.

However, the eldest prince and the second prince are not Ming Jun in the eyes of Mr. Baili.

People with aspirations don't run out to serve as soon as their heads are hot. They will also choose the right lord for them.

Only when the two of them live in harmony can they make a great cause, if the two are suspicious and deviate from morality, the final outcome will not be good.

It was against this background of discouragement that Mr. Baili prepared to live in seclusion.

But what she didn't expect was that soon Yan Xuelan found Mr. Baili and asked him to go out of the mountain.

Mr. Baili scoffed at this. He knew that Yan Xuelan had a lot of weight in the heart of His Majesty Emperor Yan, but she had no chance to be in that position.

How about helping a canary yourself?

But soon Mr. Baili was really fragrant.

Although Yan Xuelan is a woman, because of the experience of her previous life, her experience is not ordinarily rich, and Yan Xuelan knows everything about the general trend of the world that has not yet happened.

Because these things are history for her.

In addition, after the great changes in Northern Yan in the previous life, Yan Xuelan not only had to work hard to cultivate, but also had to personally participate in many major military and political affairs, so naturally she had a lot of insights, and it was not comparable to the eldest prince and the second prince who had rich theoretical knowledge but insufficient practical ability.

In the face of Mr. Baili's various inquiries, Yan Xuelan answered fluently. The analysis of the situation in the world is even more breathtaking. He really didn't expect that this imperial flower of Northern Yan would have such insight.

And Yan Xuelan's momentum in conversation made Mr. Baili vaguely see a majestic woman in a dragon robe.

A bold idea popped into his mind.

What kind of prince will Xiangning have? Even among the martial artists who have entered the Dao realm, there are many women.

It is not that there are no women among the vassals of various countries, so why can't there be an empress.

Although Yan Xuelan did not say her ambitions directly between the lines.

But from the analysis of the Tao at that end, let Mr. Baili know the ambition in Yan Xuelan's heart.

On the contrary, he let himself burn with a raging fighting spirit.

Such a challenging thing and such a tense excitement made Mr. Baili feel that his heart was going to be secluded.

So they went out to help. Give advice to Yan Xuelan.

Then there was some planning and arrangement.

However, the amplitude of this action is a bit large, and it is difficult to hide it from those who have a heart, so it has attracted the jealousy of the eldest prince and the second prince. They couldn't figure out how their girl had suddenly become interested in these things.

They don't think that their sister has moved other hearts, but once their sister has a power, there will be another variable on the road to seizing the throne in the future.

Whether to co-opt or suppress or ignore is a very important issue.

Now that Yan Xuelan wants to successfully recruit a group of people who can be used, and she also has to be innocent, she can listen to Yan Xuelan's orders. You need to start somewhere else.

For example, bandits and bandits.

Many of these people are homeless, and not all of them are extremely evil. And such people are found all over Beiyan, and they can't be wiped out casually.

For example, the eighteen thieves of Yanyun are the top of these people in Beiyan, and there are countless other bandits.

Of course, this does not mean that the life of Beiyan is not good, and many people have to settle down for a living.

Of course, there are such people, they will all because of some accidents, such as offending the powerful, or killing people for some reasons, so they have to sneak out and fall into the grass.

Of course, there are some thieves who are not for their own survival, but the seeds sent out by some forces, one is used to find out the news, and the other is used to obtain gold, silver and resources for their own forces.

For example, robbing a passing caravan, and even sometimes using it to harass and assassinate some hostile forces, are very effective.

Of course, this can only be done secretly, and once things get bigger, the fate of these bandits can only be abandoned and there will be no other effect.

Most of them are hidden in the deep mountains and valleys, the small ones are only about a hundred, and the many can be tens of thousands, although there are some old and weak existences in them.

But as people who rob homes and houses, they all have a certain physical foundation, otherwise their physical strength is not good, and if they can't rob or even escape, they will be cold.

If these people can be recovered, they are all the number one soldiers, and they can be trained with a little training.

As for the candidates to train them, Yan Xuelan already has a suitable candidate in her heart, and it is definitely suitable.

In the past few days, when Chen Zheng was fusing the Golden Silk Gu Worm to practice, Yan Xuelan had slowly transferred all the manpower in her hands. Including three thousand Luan Fengwei, and an old acquaintance of Chen Zheng, it is Cheng Dieyi.

After eating and drinking in Yan Xuelan's mansion for so long, it was finally time for the event. I want to talk with more like-minded people about "Jianghu Otherworldly", " ", talk about life, find a confidant~