A few months later, there was a new development in the war between the East and the West, which had dragged on and on.

In the autumn of that year, Ji Xu, the general of Yuce, recaptured the Yinque City in Jiangbei from Yuwenzheng, and burned down a large number of residential temples in Jiangbei. At this time, Yu Wenzheng took the original Ming Zhan to Yinque City to worship and sweep the ancestral mausoleum of the original dynasty. Ji Xu broke through overnight, and Yu Wenzheng pursued. Ji Xu set up a large array, according to Ningcheng in the north and Mangshan in the south, and fought with Yuwen Zheng's army.

The fighting lasted until the summer of this year, and the two sides were still fighting with high morale and fighting fiercely.

In a scuffle, Yuwen Zheng was seriously injured, and the war horse was frightened and thrown to the ground, and the Dongyuan army chased after him, scattering left and right, seeing that Yuwen Zheng was about to be captured by the Dongyuan army, the governor Zhao Mu turned over and dismounted, and threw Yuwen Zheng to the ground with a wave of the long whip, pretending to scold: "You foolish soldier, where did your general run to, why did you stay here?" ”

The Dongyuan soldiers who were chasing the siege flipped their hooves and flashed their palms, and after listening to Zhao Mu's tone, they decided that Yu Wenzheng, who was lying on the ground at the moment, was not a big official, and they all turned their heads and dispersed to chase and kill more valuable targets. Zhao Mu helped Yu Wenzheng to get on the horse and fled. Yu Wenzheng's life was saved at the thrilling moment.

At this time, the rear army of Xiyuan was large, the army was revived, and turned around to meet Ji Xu's army, which was defeated and fled north. The general of the palace, Gao was arrogant, striving for a victory, and still led troops across the horse after Ji Xu withdrew. The Xiyuan army mobilized the most elite Juntian cavalry to besiege Gaoye, causing its entire army to be wiped out, and finally had to stand out on a single horse and run to the southern city of Zhu County.

When Gao Ye fled to the southern city of Nagisa County, it happened that the guard general was a cousin of Yu Ce, Yu Jing, who had an affair with Gao Ye, and when the war was at the head, he closed the city gate and kept Gao Ye out of the city.

Gao Ye followed Yuce Yuma Pingchuan when he was young, and after life and death, the poor generation of heroes Long lay in the shallows, and looked up to the city to ask for a rope, but no one answered. Seeing that the Xiyuan army was coming, he had to flee to a ruined temple outside the city to hide. At this time, the chasing soldiers of the Xiyuan Brigade arrived, and saw the fireworks floating out of the temple, and immediately ten thousand arrows were fired, and Gao Ye was hit by countless arrows, knowing that his life was not guaranteed, so he simply rushed to meet him, and was finally pierced by ten thousand arrows, and died without turning a blind eye.

At this time, Yu Ce was anxious because of the war, and when he heard the news of Gao Ye's death, he was so sad that he set up a staff of 200 military sticks to posthumously present Gao Ye with the titles of Great Sima and Tai Lieutenant.

The war was in full swing, Yu Wenzheng and Yuce were embarrassed to fight, and the other lost a general, which can be described as the longest and most troublesome war since joining the army. Unwilling to retreat, unable to advance, both seem to have made up their minds to exhaust each other to exhaustion.

After Yu Ce lost the general Gao Ye, he was determined to take revenge, so he led the main army to the Bian Qu camp where Yu Wenzheng was located, vowing to fight to the death. When it rained heavily, the reeds were dense and muddy, and the soldiers could not use all their strength to fight, but Yuce insisted on marching, and the two sides continued to fight in the reeds and mud for seven days and nights, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser.

It wasn't until the seventh day that Yuce accidentally fell off his horse by the spear of Zhao Mu, the governor of western Sichuan, in the chaotic army, and fortunately the Wuwei general Lan Sa shot Zhao Mu in a hundred steps through Yang, so he rescued Yuce under Zhao Mu's gun and broke through. After Yuce returned to the camp, he had to withdraw his troops.

The war is raging, the two sides are already empty of the treasury, the capital saved by the earlier recuperation has long been exhausted, and the survival of the people in the war is even more dire. In the summer, the south of both countries suffered a catastrophic flood, inundating thousands of acres of fertile land, and countless people were killed and injured. Before the relief supplies squeezed out of the war arrived, a huge locust plague swept in, and the people were so miserable that they changed their children one after another, and in some areas even killed each other, feeding on human flesh. The two original countries of the East and West were shaken and unable to fight again.

This catastrophe subsided the war, but the disaster did not subside until the spring of the following year. Over the years, he has risen step by step, and there are countless followers around him, and there are not a few people who are corrupt and pervert the law. Originally, this is the unchanging truth of the past dynasties, although Yuce himself is strictly thrifty, but in order to envelop his subordinates and cronies, it is natural for some people to be pampered and arrogant and greedy, not to mention how much of the disaster relief food that has been sown to various places has been deducted, and I am afraid that even they themselves do not know what they have privately collected in these years.

Now that the people's grievances are boiling, and there is no money to spend, in order to protect the great cause, Yuce has to let these people spit out everything that should be vomited.

Due to the situation, it is impossible for Yu Ce to ignore the friendship between these followers and him, so he simply handed over the matter to Yutian, saying that he was sick and closed the door, and watched his son show his ambitions.

Compared with his father, Yutian is slightly inferior in terms of intelligence, but his bearing is not bad at all, and his iron face is even more selfless than Yuce. As a result, a mighty wind of anti-corruption quickly swept the entire Dongyuan officialdom.

The family is much greedy, and naturally hides it deeply, some of them have a solid family background, I'm afraid they don't know how much money they have, especially these heroes and famous generals are born and died with their fathers, and many of them have watched themselves grow up, Yutian is not afraid of offending them, but if you blatantly check it, it's okay, isn't it cold to the hearts of these heroes?

Flipping through the list of embezzlers who were obviously corrupt but had no evidence to accuse him, Yutian, who acted neatly, was a little worried for the first time.

Bored to come to the garden, at the moment the irritable Yutian had no intention of throwing a few concubines who passed by unintentionally, seeing that Yutian seemed to be in a bad mood, several concubines were also clever people, and hurriedly hid far away.

"Xi'er, where have you been?" Turning around the corridor and bumping into Yu Yangxi, Yu Tian asked.

Seeing that it was his father, Yu Yangxi hurriedly saluted and said, "The child just went to his mother to ask for peace back, and a few days ago promised the queen mother to go into the palace from time to time to accompany her to relieve her boredom, and just asked the next person to prepare a carriage and horse to prepare to enter the palace." ”

"Since it was your aunt who asked you to enter the palace, Xi'er will accompany your aunt well in the future." Yu Tian nodded, seeing Yu Yangxi's well-behaved and sensible appearance, he remembered for a while the Deng family who died in childbirth, although in addition to the children of him and the eldest princess of Qingyang, he basically treated the other children in the house equally, but for Yu Yangxi, who lost his mother at birth, he inevitably loved him a little more, especially this child was sensible and precocious, and his appearance was the most outstanding of all his children, and his heart was a little more painful. Leaning over to pick up Yu Yangxi, Yu Tian said gently: "Father hasn't accompanied Xi'er for a long time, let's send Xi'er out of the house today." ”

Yu Yangxi was not overly flattered, although Yu Tian often didn't take care of him, but he didn't forget him, although he had failed his mother, Yu Tian was still a loving father in Yu Yangxi's heart, and smiled obediently and said hello, letting Yu Tian walk out of the house with him.

Yutian glanced at the jade fan in the maid's hand strangely as she walked, "What is Xi'er doing in the palace with the handle of the jade fan?" ”

"Back to my father, I picked it up at the palace gate when I left the palace a few days ago, and the two carriages that walked in front of the children's car at that time seemed to be from Donghou Mansion and Li Zhongcheng Mansion, and my son didn't know which one fell, so I thought I would bring it into the palace and hand it over to my aunt, so that someone would have to find it."

"Xi'er really thought thoughtfully," Outside the mansion gate, Yutian put Yu Yangxi down, his phoenix eyes drooped, and his gaze was tightly locked on the fan pendant, "Xi'er, who did you just say that this fan fell?" ”

"Donghou Mansion or Li Zhongcheng Mansion."

"In that case, you don't have to bother your aunt, your father will help you find out and return it." Touching Yu Yangxi's little head, Yu Tianlang laughed, "Xi'er has really done a great thing." ”

Yu Yangxi didn't understand how he did a good deed just by picking up something? Blankly waved goodbye to his father and stepped into the carriage.

With the jade pendant on his fingertips, Yutian smiled evilly, ordered someone to pass on a few capable subordinates, and rode away from the princess's mansion.

That night, the Donghou Mansion was raided, and more than 35,700 taels of stolen silver were seized.

Of course, the key to Yutian's seizure of Donghou's corruption is this jade pendant.

The southwestern border is adjacent to the original dynasty of the country is Wanshao, has always been dependent on the original dynasty, every year of tribute is especially happy to the local treasure blood jade as tribute, the jade pendant that fell into the hands of Yutian is one of them.

There are a total of eight of this kind of fan pendants, and Yuce returned from the battle to reward seven of them to the generals under his command, which does not include the people of Donghou Mansion and Li Zhongcheng Mansion, and the only remaining one should also be confiscated into the treasury.

Lu Zhengyu has always eaten, drunk and merry, he is an unsuccessful loser, and he will only follow Yutian's cousin Ming Nanfeng all day long to show off his might, and if he gets good things, he naturally wants to honor Ming Nanfeng. Ming Jiafu and other heavens, what kind of treasure has Ming Nanfeng not seen, how can a jade pendant be rare, and where the thing comes from, he is also a little measured, how can he let himself be dirty? Without even looking at it, he threw it at Lu Zhengyu. Shi Donghou Shizi happened to be on the side, and he fell in love with the jade pendant at a glance, and Lu Zhengyu naturally offered it with both hands to please him.

On the first day of the new year, Donghou Shizi happened to enter the palace, and when he left the palace, he accidentally left the jade fan, and was picked up by Yu Yangxi and fell into the hands of Yutian.

At first, Yutian only planned to punish the big commandment, after all, Donghou was loyal to Yuce, and he was not too uprooted, but he didn't know that the search of Donghou Mansion turned into a raid in one night, and many stolen goods and the account books provided by Mrs. Donghou did not say anything, and Yutian found a lot of evidence of private giving and accepting and corruption between Donghou Mansion and other officials. What was originally a small punishment and a big admonition for disaster relief quickly turned into a storm of corruption, and everyone in the wealthy clan of Dongyuan was in danger.

When the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no fugitives. Yutian is not an unmeasured person, and after quickly raising food and wages for disaster relief, and also deterring some of the greedy and insufficient, he immediately reined in his own front. The existence of corrupt officials and the state will always go hand in hand, and his excessively strict will only go too far, and even more will touch his father's great cause.

Rao is so, after three months, Yutian is still with its thunderous means to clean up the dark smoke of the Dongyuan officialdom, raise more than one million taels of disaster relief food, Qingliu for its reputation, the people for its encouragement, all praise: the Jade King's great cause has a successor!

Looking at his son's good achievements, Yuce's satisfaction does not need to be said.