Xia Qian has been on the front line after the war since he was appointed five years ago, responsible for pacification, rectification and transformation.

He moved from the west to the north, then to the east, and then to the south, but before he reached the south, he joined Nie Qingwan in the east.

The western and northern parts of the country and the eastern and southern parts of the country were all renamed by name, and now they are all called by name.

The officials of the two sides met in Dongqian County, this year Nie Qingwan was eighteen years old, Yin Xuan was fifteen years old, because the small country was all overturned, and now every inch of land is all the world of Da Yin, so Nie Qingwan did not lead troops.

Of course, in order to prevent some people from secretly doing evil, or secretly committing assassination and murder, some soldiers were symbolically brought in, but very few, and the six generals did not return to China, and all of them accompanied her to do the reconstruction work of pacification.

The group all came to Dongji County.

Dongqian County is adjacent to Scoop Prefecture in the east and Boshan Mountain in the west, which is a good place for heaven and earth, and Nie Qingwan stopped here for a long time, as long as three months.

In March, she took Yin Xuan and Feng Chang, as well as Nie Xifeng, Nie Buwei, Yin Tianye, and Chen Wen to the east to scoop up the state, and went west to the mountains, and wandered around various places around her, collecting a lot of rare treasures.

Then he marched north, west, and walked through every inch of the place where the soldiers of Da Yin fought or spilled blood or sacrificed, during this period, Xia Qian followed her.

This is the first time Xia Qian has followed her since her appointment, and his heart can be described as excited.

After another six months, the Queen Mother led her group back to China.

When they returned to China, the soldiers who had been recuperating in Ding'an County also went with them, and two months later, the group arrived in front of Huaicheng, the capital of the Great Yin Emperor.

On the day of arrival, the snow was falling, and it was still the same late night when it entered the city, not disturbing a single person or household, but the originally dark night was as bright as day.

The city gate was wide open, from the city gate to the inside and out, on both sides of the street, kneeling full of people, who were not afraid of the cold, not afraid of the cold winter, not afraid of the flying snow, all kneeling there in silence, carrying a lamp, to light the way home for their queen mother.

On this night, thousands of households, from villages to towns to imperial capitals, thousands of people knelt there, lit a lamp, and welcomed their soldiers home.

Nie Qingwan sat in the carriage, Ren Ji drove the horse, she didn't let Yin Xuan accompany her, but let him ride outside.

Yin Xuan led the way, Feng Chang and Chen Wen followed, Nie Xifeng and Nie Buwei were on both sides, Yin Tianye was next to Yin Xuan, Xia Qian was riding behind, and the group saw the people kneeling on both sides of the road, and saw the lights lit up, all of them were stunned.

The carriage stopped immediately.

As soon as the carriage stopped, Nie Qingwan raised her face and asked through the door and window, "What's wrong?" ”

Before Ren Ji could answer, Nie Xifeng, who was standing by the window on horseback, tilted his body and said to her, "You can come out and see." ”

Nie Qingwan raised her eyebrows and knocked on the door of the carriage, and Ren Ji immediately opened the door.

Nie Qingwan put on a fox fur and got out of the carriage.

When I came out, I saw mountains and seas of people kneeling on both sides of the street with lanterns in hand, snow falling, red candles flickering, like prayers in heaven.

Nie Qingwan's eyes turned red for no reason.

She looked up, looking at the snowflakes falling from the sky, closed her eyes, she could feel the cold wetness, was this a tear?

Is it the tears of so many souls buried in the dust, or the tears of her people, or her tears?

She is bent on fulfilling her last wish for Emperor Yinzu, she is bent on supporting the strongest king of Great Yin, and she is bent on liberation.

Therefore, she did not hesitate to destroy all small countries, whether they were innocent or deserved, she destroyed them.

She had not killed anyone, but her hands were stained with blood and she was covered in sins.

She hadn't thought there was anything wrong with it before, so what was wrong? The weak have always been the stones under the feet of the strong, but since the death of my aunt.

Aunt......

Nie Qingwan's eyes became redder and redder, what was won back in the war was an inch of land, glory, but what could be lost was home, country, and relatives.

But what she fought was also for her family, for her country, and for her relatives.

This seems to be nothing to blame, Nie Qingwan comforted herself so much, lowered her head again, reached out and wiped her face, wiping off the snowflakes on her face, as well as the water after the snowflakes melted.

Ren Ji looked at her worriedly.

Yin Xuan looked at her worriedly.

Feng Chang, Chen Wenqi, Yin Tianye, Nie Xifeng, and Nie Buwei looked at her with concern.

Even Xia Qian couldn't help but look at her.

They don't understand why the Queen Mother cried when she was so good, was she moved by the lanterns of the people.

But that's not crying, that's just snow.

But her eyes were red.

Yin Xuan stared at her and slowly tightened the reins in his hand.

Nie Qing pulled the fox fur and called Ren Ji to help her down.

Ren Ji snorted, carefully helped her, and helped her out of the carriage.

And as soon as she got off the carriage, Yin Xuan also turned over and dismounted, Feng Chang and Chen Wenqi, as well as Nie Xifeng, Nie Buwei, Yin Tianye, and Xia Qian also turned over and dismounted, and the soldiers behind also turned over and dismounted.

Everyone stood in the snow in unison, staring at the people on either side.

The people did not say a word, but knelt there in silence, with lanterns in hand, like the most devout believers in heaven and earth, greeting their Lord.

Nie Qingwan raised her steps and walked towards the city gate step by step.

Yin Xuan paused and followed.

Feng Chang and Chen Wenqi, Yin Tianye, Nie Xifeng, Nie Buwei, and Xia Qian also followed.

The soldiers in the back followed.

This night, the wind and snow blowing, the Queen Mother returned to the country, the people knelt on the ground and carried lanterns to greet her, offering her the most respectful respect, and it was also from this night that the Queen Mother was called a god by the people, a god who could not be shaken.

This year, Nie Qingwan was eighteen years old, from entering the palace at the age of seven, to being the queen mother at the age of ten, and then to being eighteen years old, destroying all small countries and unifying the Great Yin Realm.

After that day, her Ci'en Palace was also renamed by the people and ministers and enshrined as the Purple Gold Palace.

The plaque of the Palace of Mercy and Grace was replaced, and on the day that the plaque of the Zijin Palace was hung up, all the ministers went to pay their respects.

Yin De also came, he stood quietly in front of the plaque of the Zijin Palace and was silent for a long time, and then walked in with his feet up, and saw the woman sitting in front of the phoenix seat, he knelt down to worship for the first time.

The moment he knelt down, all the ministers or officials standing on both sides of the hall, even Yin Xuan and Ren Ji, couldn't help but be stunned.

Who is Yinde? He is the highest person in the Yin royal family, and he also represents the glory and status of the entire Yin royal family, his knees, except for kneeling to Emperor Yin Zu, have probably never knelt again, but now, he is kneeling in front of the eighteen-year-old queen mother.

And this time he knelt, did he kneel only on his knees? No, he still kneels with a heart of surrender.

From this moment on, he was willing to serve her as the queen mother and was willing to respect her.

Nie Qingwan sat there, surprised by Yin De's sudden kneeling behavior as soon as she came up, but soon she smiled, she got down from the phoenix chair, walked in front of Yin De, and bent down to help him up.

Yin De is now almost sixty years old, but he is in good spirits, walks like the wind, his body is very well maintained, and he wears a python robe on his body, which is even more noble and extraordinary.

When Nie Qingwan bent down to help him, he looked up at her like that.

The queen mother in front of her has grown up, she has really grown up, the eighteen-year-old girl is slender, rich and graceful, her eyebrows and eyes are moving, and her smile and smile not only bewitched Yin Xuan's heart, but probably bewitched the hearts of men all over the world.

Except for Nie Xifeng and Nie Buwei, these descendants of the Nie family, others, Chen Wenqi, Yin Tianye, Feng Chang, and even the deputy generals and Da Yin soldiers below, none of them were silently thinking about the Queen Mother in their hearts.

It's just that some people read it deeply, and some people read it lightly.

is the courtiers and officials, every time they see the queen mother, they are all admiring and humble.

Today's Yinde, after abandoning all prejudices and prejudices in his heart, looked at the face in front of him, looked at the face in front of him and was rich and noble, and he was faintly moved.

But he knew that the person in front of him was the Queen Mother.

She is the wife of the former emperor, and no one can offend.

After Nie Qingwan helped Yin De up, she said with a smile: "King De is old, so he doesn't need to go to such great lengths to kneel in the palace. ”

As he spoke, he called Ren Ji again and asked him to move a chair over and sit for Yin De.

Ren Ji hurriedly responded, and immediately went down to move the chair.

The chair was moved over, Yin De didn't sit, stood there, looked at the Queen Mother in front of him, and smiled rarely, and his tone was gentle and humble: "In the past, the minister was offended by the Queen Mother, but now the Queen Mother doesn't care, the minister is really ashamed, if the minister doesn't kneel, he won't have the face to stand on the Jinluan Palace in the future, and the Queen Mother didn't care about my previous misdeeds, right?" ”

Nie Qingwan said: "I haven't thought about it all along. ”

Yin De said: "That's good. ”

Nie Qingwan said, "King De sits down and talks." ”

Then she asked Ren Ji to move the chair and moved two, one for Xia Qian to sit on, and one for Nie Wujing to sit on.

After the three of them sat down one after another, Nie Qingwan returned to the phoenix chair.

All the officials are here, and she won't go to the Jinluan Palace, so she will seal the six generals here, give the tiger talisman, and seal Yinde as the king of Yin Zhong, and set up three dukes and one secretary, the three dukes are the first, and the secretary is the second.

The six generals are naturally Yin Xuan, Feng Chang, Yin Tianye, Nie Xifeng, Nie Buwei, Chen Wen, and the three princes are naturally Yin De, Nie Wujing, Xia Qian, and Yiqing is also the minister, but second to the third prince, who is it? It is Chen Hai, the head of the Chen family.

The six generals and tiger talismans were actually given to the six generals before the expedition, otherwise it would be difficult for them to transfer troops, and at this time, it was re-sealed to give them glory, unlike all the previous rulers, Nie Qingwan did not withdraw the military power after the war, but gave them this tiger talisman in charge of the army.

The six generals knelt on the ground to receive grace, and the tenor voice of the internal force shook the entire Zijin Palace.

The officials watched this scene with tears in their eyes.

On the day of the new completion of the Zijin Palace, the divine power of the Queen Mother spread to the first corner of the vast land of Dayin, and also penetrated into everyone's heart, and since then it has taken root and sprouted, and it is difficult to pull it out.

After the New Year, Yin Xuan is sixteen years old, the war has ended, and officials from all over the country are also making arrangements in place one after another, although it is a big difficulty to recover and govern after the war, but Nie Qingwan believes that the officials of Da Yin, of course, if there is a problem, there are still so many people in the capital of the Great Yin Emperor and the Jinluan Palace, and they are not afraid that they will not be able to solve it.

There was no emperor before, and the prince had been fighting abroad for a long time, and Yin De was presiding over the court in the Jinluan Palace, and now that the prince has returned, that is, the prince is presiding over the court.

But Yin Xuan had no experience and was still studying in the early stage, so for a while, Nie Qingwan also followed him to the Jinluan Palace.

In the past, some people might have talked about her and criticized her for listening to politics, but now there is no more.

Of course, Nie Qingwan doesn't go every day, because if she wants to go to Jinluan Palace, she has to get up very early, and she can't get up so early every day.

It is easy to fight the country, but it is not easy to govern the country, so Nie Qingwan does not plan to let Yin Xuan ascend the throne so early, she wants to wait for him to really have the talent, responsibility and ability of an emperor before making him the emperor.

And to let a man learn to be responsible, the first thing is to let him get married, govern the family and the country, only with a family can there be a country, and if you understand the meaning of home, then you will understand the importance of the country.

In Nie Qingwan's view, getting married is of great significance to Yin Xuan, and it is very necessary.

In particular, Yin Xuan is already sixteen years old and can get married, Nie Qingwan thought that when Yin Xuan ascended the throne as emperor at the age of twenty, there would be a group of wives and concubines, and a group of children, and he would know how to be a good emperor.

Therefore, after all the major affairs of the family and the country were handed over to Yin Xuan, all her energy was put into finding the crown princess and the crown princess for Yin Xuan.

In fact, I have been looking for a long time, four years ago, Nie Qingwan chose Huo Chunxiao, the daughter of Huo Jie, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, as the crown princess, Wen Tianxi, the daughter of Wen Hui'an, as the prince's side concubine, and Han Sui, the daughter of the Han family.

In the past few years, I have been fighting outside, and I don't know what these three girls have become now, and the time to come back is short, and I came back in the middle of winter, and I caught up with the New Year, I was really busy.

In the past, she was busy dealing with people outside, and she really didn't have the mood and time to hold a banquet in the palace, but now that she has a lot of mood and time, Nie Qingwan called Tuoba Mingyan and asked her to preside over a March flower viewing party, and invited all the women from the famous Shigui family in Dayin.

Since Nie Yin's death, Nie Qingwan has not put any female officials by her side, and all the affairs of her back these days have been taken care of by Ren Ji.

Ren Ji can do these things, but it is still a little difficult for him to handle the banquet.

Nie Qingwan didn't pass on other female officials, so she let Tuoba Mingyan do it.

Tuoba Mingyan was very happy to be able to perform, as soon as she heard that Nie Qingwan had handed over such a major matter to her, she hurriedly smiled and responded, and immediately started to handle it after she went back, calling a lot of eunuchs and palace maids to help, and it was to post it, and to buy a garden and so on.

When she was busy there, Nie Qingwan was not idle here, she asked Ren Ji to find a painter and paint the portraits of the women who came on the day of the flower viewing banquet, and show them to Yin Xuan when the time came.

After hearing this, Ren Ji smiled and went down to find someone.

When he came back, he said to Nie Qingwan: "There is a royal painter in the palace, and the slave has already conveyed the order of the queen mother to him, and he is also preparing." ”

Nie Qingwan smiled: "Well, I just don't know what kind of woman Yin Xuan likes, I remember that when he was in Ding'an County, he was very close to some girls." ”

Ren Ji rolled his eyes and whispered: "The slave seems to have heard some rumors at that time, but then His Highness ignored those people, and I don't like it." ”

Nie Qingwan said: "The people of Ding'an County, even if he likes it, it is impossible to point it to him, his crown princess and side concubine must be a famous family in the Great Yin Empire." ”

Ren Ji snorted and responded, "That's the case." ”

Nie Qingwan glanced out the window at the sky and asked Ren Ji, "Yin Xuan is still in the imperial study now?" ”

Ren Ji said: "Always, there have been a lot of excerpts in various places recently, especially those new counties, almost every day there are all kinds of excerpts presented, His Royal Highness has to deal with a lot of things every day, and the three dukes and several generals are also there." ”

Nie Qingwan originally only went to Yin Xuan's imperial study, and she also wanted to go there, but when she heard that the third prince and several generals were also there, she didn't go.

She has given him full authority to let things go, she can help him with ideas when no one is around, and she doesn't join in the fun when there is someone, lest he be afraid or give him the feeling that he is a puppet.

Nie Qingwan said, "Let him be busy, you go out for a walk with me." ”

Ren Ji asked, "Where does the Queen Mother want to go?" ”

Nie Qingwan paused and said softly, "Go back to Nie's house, I'll go see my aunt." ”

Nie Yin was burned to death in Bayi that day, and there were no bones left, and when the fire ended, the place where she died was scorched black, and there were no ashes, but Nie Qingwan still held a handful of charred ashes, put them in the urn, and brought them back to Nie's house.

Today, Nie Yin's ashes are placed in the ancestral hall of the Nie family.

At the mention of Nie Yin, Ren Ji's mouth was closed, and he didn't dare to respond anymore.

He hurriedly stepped forward, supported Nie Qingwan, and walked towards the door.

It's just that as soon as she walked to the door, Nie Qingwan paused again, and said to him: "Call a palace maid to come in, I will change my clothes, and I will spend the evening at Nie's house, you send someone to inform Yin Xuan, so that he doesn't have to come over for dinner today." ”

Ren Ji paused, immediately hummed again, hurriedly went down to call the palace maid, and sent someone to the imperial study to inform Yin Xuan.

By the time Yin Xuan received the notice, Nie Qingwan had already left the palace.

He still had something to do there, when he heard the palace people spread the word that the queen mother had returned to Nie's house and would not come back at night, so that he didn't have to go to Zijin Palace for dinner, he hummed without any reaction, waved his hand and let the palace people go, but when the discussion was over and the ministers were gone, he sat in the dragon chair in a distraction.

What was going on in his heart, even he didn't know.

He just didn't know what to do for a while, and he dispersed in the morning, looking for her with great anticipation, but she didn't wake up.

He didn't accompany her to breakfast, thinking that he could accompany her at noon, and she went back to Nie's house.

And he didn't come back at night, which meant that he wouldn't see her for a day.

Yin Xuan sighed, took the wolf hair, and sketched on the folded book indiscriminately.

Nie Qingwan didn't come back for one night this time, and she didn't come back for three nights.

Once she leaves the palace, she is like a loose horse.

It turned out that there was still a responsibility to imprison her, and she had to go back to the palace, but now, her responsibility seems to have been completed, except for Yin Xuan, who has not yet married and has not yet ascended the throne and called the emperor, she has done everything that the queen mother should do.

Now, all the major affairs of the country have been handed over to Yin Xuan, and she really has nothing to do.

She didn't want to go back to the palace, so she stayed at home all the time, and she didn't go back until the day of the flower viewing feast.

Yin Xuan endured it at first and didn't look for her, but that day when he heard Chen Wen chop his eyebrows and say that she went to Chen's house, and stayed with Chen Wen for a day, named his knife, gave his small courtyard a name, and personally inscribed a plaque on his small courtyard, Yin Xuan couldn't sit still.