In the spring of the sixth year of Chengde, until after the Qingming Festival, there was still no Panliao army pressed the border, so the city of Jinyang was even more jubilant, everyone believed that the crisis had passed, and their days would be richer and more stable day by day, and they no longer had to worry about food and clothing.

The spy reports about Yingzhou and Northern Liao continued to arrive at the Jin Palace, He Ye began to sharpen his knives, and planned to lead the army to counterattack with high spirits, but Eleven Niang discussed with Lu Li - the king of Northern Liao really listened to the advice of Northern Liao Xiao, and began to send officials to Hebei Daozhou County to take over the governance, which caused more and more panic among the remnants of Hebei Province, after all, the clouds of Mingzhou being slaughtered have not yet dissipated, and this terrible and terrifying order comes from the Northern Liao court, if Northern Liao takes over governance, who knows if there will be another slaughter of the city?

Therefore, the number of remnants who have fled to Taiyuan for refuge will inevitably increase, and how to resettle them is indeed a difficult problem.

"Not only the remnants, but also many people have moved here to take refuge when they hear about the good governance of Taiyuan, and if this continues, sooner or later someone will attack the princess for bribing the people's hearts and minds." Lu Li reminded.

Eleven Niang felt a headache: "It's not that I don't realize this problem, but it's really unbearable to keep these homeless people out of Taiyuan Mansion." ”

Not long ago, she toured the suburbs, passed through Zhiyuanmen, and saw many ragged and skinny homeless people, when she asked where she came from, it turned out to be Lingnan, and then listened carefully to their grievances - although the former governor of Guangzhou, Liu Tan, was beheaded for the crime of embezzlement and embezzlement under the false tax change order, but after the queen mother knew that Lingnan Prefecture and County were not as poor as she thought, she really ordered the exemption of the previous preferential government, which made the people have to bear heavier taxes than when Liu Tan was in office, which was simply miserable, and since the order of the Guang Gong kiln was issued, Lingnan is no exception, many people are forced to serve by the government and work to death.

"Lao Er's three sons all died in the kiln, and they didn't even look at the bones, and if they don't go into exile, this only son will definitely have no way to live!" An old man with gray sideburns, black and thin, pulling a young son who was even thinner than him, looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old, and when asked, he turned out to be eighteen years old.

They were in a village, even the chief was forced to flee, climbed the mountains and waded all the way, and there were less than ten people left, and the old man cried bitterly: "If it weren't for the chief, we would be extremely poor, but we couldn't escape from Taiyuan, and we starved to death a few times on the way. ”

In such a situation, Mo said that Eleven Niang couldn't bear to refuse, and the city gate guards heard tears rippling when they heard it.

"At present, we can only take one step at a time." Shi Niang said: "Fortunately, it takes a lot of manpower to rebuild Yunzhou, and Taiyuan Mansion is now a developed commercial market, and the town is in urgent need of expansion, so it is not too worrying about accommodating shelter to invest in the people, and furthermore, if His Royal Highness can really recapture several states and counties in Hebei Province this year, he can naturally divert some of the people." ”

"The matter of the tenants in the house, can it be clear who instructed it?" Lu Li said with concern.

It has been several months since the incident, and there has been no news from the Qingnu side, but Shi Niang already has a suspicious candidate in her heart, and said with a smile: "Except for the Empress Dowager Wei, the people who care so much about the actual relationship between me and His Royal Highness are none other than those two people, in fact, it is really uncertain and unimportant, the past few months have been calm, which shows that this behind-the-scenes commander is cautious on the one hand, and he is not sure that he will frame me to be punished by the Queen Mother." ”

What Eleven Niang didn't expect was that she just said this, Bailing Village, Taigu County, in the grange where Luo Jiulang once lived, there was such a couple, the man was dressed as a scribe, the woman was gentle and virtuous, the man claimed to be a scholar who came to Huzhou to study far away, and the woman of course traveled with her husband, passing through Taigu, and planned to stay for a few days, so she went to the grange to stay.

The woman pestered the young slave to speak, praising her for her extraordinary bearing, unlike ordinary peasants, and talking about her knowledge in Jinyang City, a lot of praise for the princess, once Fu Yuan heard it, immediately wanted to nag, just said: "I was originally the princess of the princess ......" was persuaded by the young slave to go back to the house, the woman became more and more curious, but the young slave refused to say more, and did not admit that she was an old servant of the Jin Palace.

It's just this one thing, the young slave Xunkong told the steward in Zhuangzi, and the steward used the excuse to go back to the master's house, but actually notified the palace to arrange to visit people in the town and pay attention to the couple.

It turned out that the princess let the Qingnu family live in Bailing Village, just to put a long line to catch squid, and suspected that Na Lan'er was actually opening a gap from the line of Fu Yuan's deceased daughter, and the behind-the-scenes instructions were quite wise, and the eyeliner was arranged too much and too closely, which might startle the "squid", so let Qingnu secretly pay attention to it, and deliberately did not let Fu Yuan have more contact with outsiders.

It wasn't until the scouts were in place that the young slave "ate a bad stomach" and was sent to the town for medical treatment by her anxious husband, leaving Fu Yuan at home to take care of her two grandchildren.

So the woman who stayed there finally found an opportunity, pulled Fu Yuan to inquire a lot, listened to her patiently how the princess was ruthless, and finally asked if the relationship with the king of Jin was harmonious.

Fu Yuan didn't know so much, and continued to chatter: "Of course, on the surface, they are respectful and like guests, but if His Royal Highness really loves the princess, where would he agree to let Liu Yuan preside over the house affairs, and also found an excuse, saying that the princess was going to be distracted by government affairs, and she couldn't be busy, so the princess couldn't refute it, so she had to rein in Qin Ruren, and finally thinned a few rights of Liu Yuanren, and even the princess wanted to deal with Yuan Ji, and she had to design to let Yuan Ji offend Liu Yuanren first, not that I said, if it goes on like this, one day the Queen Mother will have a good one, and the King of Jin will have to favor his concubine and kill his wife, Without the help of us old people, Mrs. Tai would not defend the princess, and she would have suffered in the future. ”

The woman didn't hear anything useful, and she felt that this old woman was old and confused, and she dared to say something bad to curse the Queen Mother, and Princess Jin was such a cautious person, she would never tell her any secrets, otherwise, I was afraid that they would not be allowed to come to this grange, what was the difficulty of killing a few servants?

By the time the young slaves "recovered from their illness and returned home", the two had already left.

Eleven Niang only got the confirmed news from Chang'an in August, that day He Ye just rushed back from the battlefield, ready to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, although it was broad daylight, but Xiao Biesheng was newly married, His Royal Highness was pestering the princess to plan to do this and that, the window was knocked, Ah Lu trembled outside and reported: "Qin Ruren asked to see, saying that it was for the banquet, and it seems unreasonable for the princess to refuse." ”

He Ye gritted his teeth, and made another note for Qin Ji in the account book in his heart.

As soon as Qin Ji left, Bai Yu sent the secret report, and Eleven Niang entered the house and patted His Royal Highness, who was disheveled and still lying on the couch: "Guess, who is behind Lan'er?" ”

His Royal Highness the King of Jin was not satisfied, his brain obviously stopped turning, and he said weakly: "Who is it?" ”

"Xu Dashizi."

Seeing He Ye's uncertain look, Eleven Niang explained: "Xu Xiuneng, Your Highness won't even forget this person, right?" He's always had bad intentions toward you. ”

"When did Xu Xiuneng become the prince?" He Ye felt strange: "The empty title of the British Duke can't be hereditary, even if it is hereditary, Xu Xiu can have an eldest son on the head, and it won't be his turn." ”

"The Duke of England cannot be hereditary, but in order to commend Xu Xiu's meritorious service in filling the treasury, the Queen Mother specially entitles Xu Xiuneng to the title."

"When did this happen, and why haven't I heard about it?"

Shi Niang thought for a while: "It's been a long time, I don't think this is a big deal, and I forgot to inform Your Highness." ”

"It's not a big deal." He Ye half-sat up, frowning there with his chest exposed: "The princess must have figured out why the Queen Mother gave this order?" ”

"Pathfinder Stone." Shi Niang said: "If she wants to completely control the government, and even manipulate the throne to seize power, the first step is to hereditary the title that cannot be hereditary, and let the second son inherit the title." ”

"I think Webster wants to ascend the throne and become emperor himself!" He Ye sneered: "On that occasion, when Xie Ying was chatting with me, she mentioned that there was a country overseas, and there was a woman who was called the emperor, and she wanted to hint at me at that time, maybe Wei also had this ambition, but right now, it is hard to guarantee that she will not encourage Wei to become emperor." ”

"I don't rule it out." Eleven Niang said: "In fact, it is far from a certain country overseas, that is, Silla, there were not two queens, when Emperor Taizong, the queen of Silla also sent an envoy to the Great Zhou, it is said that the Silla royal family was cut off, so the princess succeeded to the throne, the queen was unmarried for life, after her death, the throne was passed to her cousin, and before the first queen, there was a favorite concubine who controlled the government, and the seizure of the throne of Silla was between these two women. ”

"Then the princess still thinks it doesn't matter?" He Ye said with a smile.

"How important is the Queen Mother's ambition?" Eleven Niang also smiled: "Anyway, whether she is called the emperor or not, His Royal Highness will rebel, right?" ”