Liu Qi was so frightened that he shook his head, his eyes were full of horror, he was stunned for a while, and he didn't know how to answer.

Zong Zhengjin said coldly again: "It doesn't matter if you don't say it, but this princess wants to tell you that as long as I want to, there is nothing that cannot be found." Tang Yi!"

"Yes." Tang Yi stepped forward, holding a booklet in his hand.

"Read everything you find."

"Yes!" After receiving the order, Tang Yi opened the pamphlet and read it word by word: "Liu Qi, the distant cousin of Wang Shunming, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, left Zhujia County for Yunzhou a month ago, and at the same time, Wang Shangshu's second son, Wang Ziling, went to Yunzhou for disaster relief as an accompanying official. The two met secretly in the same county of Yunzhou. ”

After Tang Yi finished reading, Liu Qi was already paralyzed on the ground in fright, his face was pale, and his eyes were not only panic but panic. The people outside were confused, but the few people inside were clear, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Works? That's Prime Minister Xu's brother-in-law, Emperor Xu's maternal uncle, Wang Xu is not separated, it seems that this plague is another poisonous plan by the Xu family to frame Princess Jinyang.

"What else do you have to say?" Zong Zhengjin's eyes can no longer be described as cold, even if it is three feet of ice, it is not as piercing as her eyes.

Liu Qi lowered his head, he didn't know what he was thinking, and after a while, he just heard him speak: "Princess, the poisoning was all done by me, not anyone else's business, I went to Yunzhou to see Cousin Wang just to catch up on the past." Please punish me, princess. ”

Hearing him say this, Zong Zhengjin couldn't help laughing, that laughter sounded to Liu Qi more like a demonic fire in hell, which was about to burn his body and skin.

"Do you really think that the Wang family can protect your wife and children?" Zong Zhengjin suddenly said lightly. Liu Qi raised his head suddenly, with a look of disbelief, and asked in a trembling voice with some excitement, "Princess, what do you mean?"

Zong Zhengjin looked at him coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Yangzhou is my territory, and this princess said that if you dare to spread wild in my territory, you must be prepared to bear the infinite anger of this princess." When she said this, she exuded a cold anger. She admitted that she didn't inherit the softness of her mother and father's kindness at all, but she belonged to a ruthless person, no one offended her, she didn't offend anyone, if someone offended her, she would pay it back a hundred times.

When Liu Qi heard this, he didn't understand, but he still couldn't believe that his wife and children would be in the hands of the princess. Tang Yi saw his hesitation and glanced at his subordinates, and the guard took out something from his arms and handed it to Liu Qi. Liu Qi fixed his eyes and saw that it was the silver lock that his son was wearing, and the pillar in his heart immediately collapsed.

He hurriedly crawled in front of Zong Zhengjin and begged for mercy: "Princess, princess spare my life, this is a mistake I made, please don't punish my wife and children."

"Princess Ben has said, as long as you tell the truth." Zhao Qing handed the freshly brewed tea to her, and Zong Zhengjin leaned back in his chair and took a few sips casually.

Liu Qi's eyes trembled, and he lowered his head and remained silent. After a long time, when everyone was waiting impatiently, he finally made up his mind and said slowly: "I said, I said everything......"

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"Brother Tang, thank you for your hard work." Zong Zhengjin took Wang Yi's confession and looked satisfied. Tang Yi arched his hand and said, "Princess, this is the credit of the brothers of the Jinyang Army."

"Well, the Jinyang Army did so well in their first battle, I'm very pleased, you must reward them well."

"With your words, no matter how tired the brothers are, it is worth it." Tang Yi looked at her smile, the tiredness of the past few days seemed to disappear in one fell swoop, and his eyes showed tenderness that even he didn't notice.

"Brother Yi." A very discordant voice broke the silence, and the disgust in Tang Yi's eyes flashed, and he turned his head to see Shen Yunlong looking at him with a smile on his face.

When Zong Zhengjin saw Shen Yunlong's appearance, he couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Okay, I'm going to hand over this confession to the imperial court, you guys talk slowly, I'll go first." As he spoke, he beckoned to Zhao Qing and Dongping, then turned around and walked out of the house.

"Princess......" Tang Yi still wanted to catch up, but was stopped by Shen Yunlong. Brother Yi, I haven't seen you in a few days. Her voice showed the delicacy of her daughter's family, but Tang Yi was bored, and he said lightly: "I still have something to deal with, let's go first." Without waiting for her to respond, he turned and hurried away.

"Brother Yi, why are you going, I'll go too!" Shen Yunlong didn't care whether he wanted it or not, and chased after him excitedly.

That night, Liu Qi's confession was sent to the royal capital by 800 miles in an expedited manner, and arrived at the palace at noon the next day.

The Xu family vigorously argued and pleaded for the Wang family. At this moment, Yi Chu said leisurely: "The people of Yangzhou are watching this matter, and the people of the world are also listening, if the punishment cannot convince the people, then the king will lose his trust in the people, which is not good for the country." As a result, the punishment of the Wang family rose to the big issue of stability in Yi Chu's words. The Xu family didn't dare to protect it even if they wanted to, after all, they didn't dare to commit such a rebellious crime as shaking the stability of the country.

Therefore, in the end, Zong Zhenghao sentenced Liu Qi to death, Prince Ling sent to the frontier, and he could not return without an edict, and Wang Shangshu was demoted two levels in a row and became a squire with no real power. The Wang family failed miserably in this plague, but the Xu family blamed Princess Jinyang for this incident, and their hatred for her became deeper and deeper.

Zong Zhengjin learned of the verdict three days later, and two letters came along with the verdict. One was written by her father, and between the lines was a sign of care for her. Zong Zhengjin looked at the letter, the corners of her mouth rose shallowly, in the past few years, she knew that her father and Yi Chu had correspondence, but they didn't say it, and she didn't ask. And this time, her father wrote to her, which made her feel the long-lost family affection, and even the resentment towards her father was a little less.

After receiving her father's letter, Zong Zhengjin turned to look at another letter, the word "Yi Chu" on the envelope pierced her heart like a needle, bringing a burst of sting, she didn't dare to expect Yi Chu to write superfluous words of concern. Sure enough, after opening the letter, there was only one sentence on the paper in a vigorous and powerful handwriting: "You did a good job." He will always be this sentence.

Zong Zhengjin's red lips were light, and there was a trace of loss and unwillingness in her eyes, she wanted to throw away the letter, but her hand did not obey the call, and finally put the letter into her small box. "Zong Zhengjin, you're so unproductive." She blamed herself angrily, as if she hated iron but not steel. It turned out that no matter how much time passed, she still couldn't get rid of Yi Chu's attraction to her.

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Since the south has experienced two major disasters such as floods and plagues, everything is in ruins. Yangzhou, under the leadership of Princess Jinyang, became the state capital with the least losses. As a result, Yangju became the first of the ten southern states and the third richest capital after Wangdu and Luozhou. And the southern Kyushu is all respected by Yangzhou, and Princess Jinyang is the governor of the ten states. So until this time, Princess Jinyang had become a household name in the south.

However, while the south was busy recovering its economy, there was a war in Beicang. The Qinghui Kingdom in the northwest provoked a war for no reason and wanted to invade the northwest of Beicang.

In September of the twentieth year of Tianyou, the enemy invaded the border, and Emperor Tianyou ordered the general Qin Yandong to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Qinghui, and in October, the two sides officially went to war. It's just that no one expected that the war in the northwest would last for half a year, and the military strength of the two sides was comparable, and Qinghui didn't have the slightest intention of retreating, and the treasury of Beicang was already tight.

In March of the twenty-first year of Tianyou, Yi Chu, the division of the Northern Cangguo State, was ordered to rush to the northwest battlefield, he led the disciples of Xuanji Pavilion to arrange the army, and in just seven days, Qinghui lost two cities in a row and could not form an army. The Beicang army took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the enemy army fled in the desert. I thought that the war in the northwest should be over, but who knew that just as the Beicang army was preparing to return to the DPRK, a thunderbolt smashed into the entire Beicang on a sunny day.

It turned out that Qinghui Guo had long known that the northwest was not easy to capture, so he attacked the east and the west, and while containing Beicang in the northwest, he quietly transferred the main army to the weaker south. On the sixth day after the end of the war in the northwest, a large number of Qinghui troops suddenly appeared in the south, and Fuzhou lost three counties in a row overnight, which caught the imperial court by surprise and made the south panic again.

Qin Yandong's 100,000-strong army was only 60,000 left, and it was impossible to reach Fuzhou for a while, and the other southern state capitals were short of troops, so self-protection was a problem. Emperor Tianyou could only send the general Murong Yu to lead 60,000 troops to Fuzhou again, and try to engage the enemy as quickly as possible.

"Princess, do you think Qinghui will come to Yangzhou soon?" Since hearing the news of the fall of the three counties in Fuzhou, Nanxu has been restless. Yangzhou is not far from Fuzhou, if they come to Yangzhou, what will they do?

Zong Zhengjin's brows were furrowed, she looked at the several pieces of information on the table, her fingers tapping on the table intentionally or unintentionally, but her heart was full of anxiety.

"Princess, why did this Qinghui Army get to the south all of a sudden?" Compared with Nanxu's uneasiness, Zhao Qing was more puzzled in his heart, how could the enemy army who had just fled in the northwest arrive in Fuzhou in an instant?

"Hmph, who else can there be besides Nan Yan's secret help?" Zong Zhengjin was furious when he mentioned this, Nanyan, as a neighbor to the south of Beicang, actually betrayed his word and secretly assisted Qinghui in attacking Beicang. If it weren't for Jinyangjun finding out about this, they would have been stupidly kept in the dark!

"Huh? So what to do? The imperial army didn't have time to rush over. "Dongping also began to panic, and even Nanyan was involved, wouldn't it be that soon to hit Yangzhou?

Zong Zhengjin held his forehead and closed his eyes tightly. After a while, she suddenly opened her eyes again and asked, "How long can Fuzhou hold out?"

"Commander Tang has already said in the morning, five days at most." Zhao Qing replied with a heavy face, in five days, the army of the imperial court would not be able to arrive at all.

"Five days." Zong Zhengjin repeated it, there were only five days, and Murong Yu's army would take at least ten days to arrive, did she want to watch Fuzhou fall?

"Zhao Qing, ...... Tang Yi"

"Princess, Mr. Yi's flying pigeon biography." A guard hurriedly walked in and interrupted what Zong Zhengjin was about to say.

"Yi Chu? Present it quickly. Zong Zhengjin looked excited, Yi Chu sent a message at this time, presumably about this war, could it be that he had a countermeasure?

The guard handed it over. Zong Zhengjin hurriedly opened the letter, looked at it, looked at it, Zong Zhengjin's face changed, and his frowning brows slowly relaxed.

"Zhao Qing, notify the six county guards and immediately come to the princess's mansion." Zong Zhengjin gave the first order. Zhao Qing didn't doubt him, and quickly went out to inform.

"Dongping, go and call Commander Tang and Miss Shen over." "Yes!" Dongping knew that Mr. Yi must have told the princess about the countermeasures to deal with the war, and now he was looking for Commander Tang, and Bacheng was for this, thinking about it, Dongping's pace accelerated a little.

"Princess, what should I do?" Seeing that they all had something to do, Nan Xu couldn't wait to do something.

Zong Zhengjin glanced at her and said slowly: "You go to Bai Ze County to invite General Xie over, and say that I have something important to discuss with him."

"Okay, slave and maid, let's go." Nan Xu got the order and immediately ran out.

After Zong Zhengjin gave the order, he breathed a sigh of relief, Yi Chu's letter was really timely, and with his affirmation, then she would dare to do it even more.