"We're not done here!" Li Chengxian threatened inwardly, and the resentment in her eyes was about to condense into substance.

Finally, he covered his face and rolled out of the pavilion with the ladies of the Marquis of Changping Mansion in embarrassment.

Looking at the distant backs of a group of female dependents, Concubine Xian explained: "These female dependents who followed the eldest princess were all from the Changping Marquis Mansion, the first two of them were her daughters-in-law, and the one in plain clothes was her little daughter-in-law, and the little boy who was killed by the homeless people on the way to escape from the famine last time was her second son. ”

Xia Jing suddenly remembered that a man died in the Marquis Mansion of Changping on the way to escape from the wilderness, thinking that it should be the child of this little daughter-in-law, otherwise, she would not have dressed so plainly when she came to the palace to ask for peace at a young age.

has such a strong and arrogant mother-in-law, and I don't know what it is like for these two daughters-in-law to live under the hands of their mother-in-law?

"Just." Concubine Xian glanced at the distant back, and said worriedly: "If the eldest princess runs to complain to the emperor, what if the emperor blames him?" Does the mother have a way to deal with it? After all, this eldest princess has grown up since she was a child, and the emperor has never moved a finger from her. ”

Xia Jing smiled indifferently: "It's okay!" ”

I haven't moved her fingers before, because there is no interest involved, and the emperor is such a girl under his knees, so she will naturally pay more attention and be favored.

Now this eldest princess is a few years older than her, such a half-old has nothing to do with cuteness, and crying in front of the emperor will only spicy eyes.

Moreover, the most important thing is that she is not the only daughter of the emperor now, there are only two princesses under the name of the harem concubine, it is the age of innocence, the baby's toothless smile, the lethality is great, and the emperor should also pet this one.

Concubine Xian saw the relaxed look on her face, and immediately thought that this was not a master to be messed with, and the emperor might not dare to come to her for a theory.

Her tense mood relaxed, and said with a smile: "It seems that the concubine is worried, Niangniang didn't say that she wanted to remove the grass, and I happened to be fine today, so it is better to remove the grass together, and let everyone feel the hard work of labor and the hard-won food." ”

"Okay, you still understand my good intentions!" Xia Jing responded happily, and she was very satisfied with Concubine Xian's knowledge. At least not like those idiots, who always come to her to brush up on their presence.

A few beauties who had been standing behind had no sense of existence, and when they heard that they still had to remove the grass, their faces were suddenly sad.

Li Jingfu is still strong in his life, although he is stubborn, but there are still fewer women who have really brought it back, of course, compared to men in this era.

Now that he has become the Ninety-Five, he has only added a few beauties, and he is not like some emperors, once he ascends the throne, he will reward the harem or announce the world's draft.

A scumbag is also a scumbag, but there is still a difference in which level the scumbag reaches.

Most of the three palaces and sixteen gardens are vacant, which leads to the desertion of most of the palaces in the Western Harem.

During the period of Emperor Huiyuan, both the treasury and the emperor's private treasury were empty, resulting in many palaces in the harem not being repaired in time.

Now the nobles in the palace followed Xia Jing to the West Harem, the palace is still deserted, but the courtyard is popular, thriving, and the crops planted are growing well, but there are a lot of weeds growing next to it.

Xia Jing rolled up her sleeves and said to the beauties who were still standing next to her in a daze: "What's the shock, hurry up and work hard, remember, don't use my crops as weeds to pull out!" ”

Concubine Xian has lived in the palace for decades, and she is the best at observing her face, seeing Xia Jing rolling up her sleeves, she also rolled up her sleeves quickly, and asked with a smile: "Niangniang, this living concubine can do it, and she also knows which crops are weeds." ”

Xia Jing looked at the beauties who were struggling in their movements, listened to her words, and looked at her in surprise: "What will you do?" ”

Concubine Xian nodded: "I have been used to working at home since I was a child, that is, I started to live better when I came to the palace." ”

Xia Jing knew that Concubine Xian's family was a small rich family in their town, but she didn't expect that there was no shortage of money in the family, and she would let her daughter do farm work.

Now it seems that the Wang family is not a family that values girls.

Xia Jing asked Hongmei to teach everyone how to work, at least the crops and weeds should be taught to recognize them clearly. "Hongmei, you take them to work in the sweet potato flower garden, remember not to let them pull out the sweet potato seedlings."

Concubine Xian has been well-maintained over the years, and she is quite decent when she does farm work, which really impresses Xia Jing.

"Niangniang, I heard that you want to open another cotton and linen textile factory in the suburbs of Beijing?"

Xia Jing glanced up at Concubine Xian, lowered her head and quickly pulled the grass, and waited until she finished pulling this small ridge before she stood up straight and said, "There is this plan, why did you ask about this today?" ”

Concubine Xian smiled a little embarrassedly: "Actually, I wanted to tell you about this for a long time, but I didn't dare to disturb you when I saw that you were too busy some time ago." I just wanted to ask you what kind of people are going to be hired for your new textile mill? ”

Xia Jing listened to her words and asked, "Both men and women want it, it's better to have skills." Concubine Xian, this is trying to recommend someone to me? Or who in your family wants to come out and work? ”

Concubine Xian hesitated for a while, but still asked tentatively: "If I go to work in a textile factory, what do you think?" ”

These words were like thunder, so shocked that Xia Jing couldn't care about the work in hand, straightened her waist, and looked at her expression, "You said you went?" ”

"Yes!" The words have already been spoken, and the latter words are not difficult for Concubine Xian to say.

So she smiled with relief: "I have learned spinning and weaving since I was a child, although I have not touched a spinning machine or loom for decades, but I have a foundation in it, and I am considered a half-skilled worker." ”

There are skilled workers to work in their own textile factories, Xia Jing is naturally happy, just.

"You are not young, whether you are in the palace or the palace all these years, life can be regarded as pampered, clothes to stretch out, food to open your mouth. Now that you come out to work again, can you endure the hardships of work? ”

"Working outside the home, what I am interested in is to enjoy and enjoy the process of work. If it's something you're not good at, that's torture, and it's harder. Concubine Xian had a bitter smile on her face.

"Speaking of which, in this palace everywhere exquisite, whether it is life or residence, just watching you busy every day, people live more and more energetic, think about these things are also of interest to you. I just want to have what I want to do like you, and my life will not be dead every day. ”

And she thought about it for a long time and found that she had only learned to spin and weave best since she was a child.

In this palace, she is like a bird in a golden cage, without a little freedom, and her life is too dull.

Watching Xia Jing busy every day, it is false to say that she is not envious in her heart.

Besides, now that she is old and decrepit, Israel can't do it, so why spend her days counting the grains of rice in this palace.

It's better to learn from the queen and find something you like to do, so that you won't be bored and want to go crazy.

Xia Jing listened to her words and agreed in her heart, but she didn't agree immediately, but asked, "You go to work in the textile factory, what about the little princess in your palace?" How do you arrange her? ”

Concubine Xian has raised a child for almost a year, and it is impossible to give it away. So what can she do to maintain a balance between work and children?

"The little princess has no interests with other people, it's good to have a grandmother and a palace maid to take care of her in the palace, and besides, I can usually take care of her except for work."

If he is a prince and has interests with everyone, he may still have concerns about leaving the child alone to his grandmother and palace maid to take care of the virtuous concubine, for fear of endangering his personal safety. A baby girl has no conflict of interest with the princes, and it is impossible for someone to harm her.

Xia Jing bowed her head, if Concubine Xian was willing to go out to work, she could hand over the management of the cotton and linen textile branch to her and let her try to be the factory director.

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Let's go back to Li Chengxian who rushed out of the pavilion.

Today, I lost face in front of my daughter-in-law and other ladies of the Marquis of Changping, and I was extremely ashamed in my heart, and I walked forward angrily.

"Mother, why don't you leave?" The eldest daughter-in-law saw Li Chengxian standing still, looked at the passage leading to the front court, and asked suspiciously.

Li Chengxian turned around, her heart was very entangled, and finally bit her lip and said: "I can't tell my father about the queen mother's slap of me today, otherwise it will affect the relationship between my father and the queen mother." ”

As she spoke, she warned the ladies and maids who followed her: "You can only rot in your stomach about this, if there is any rumor outside, I will definitely not spare you!" ”

At this time, Li Chengxian's personal maid asked: "Princess, you just want to get back your dowry, and the mother humiliates you so much, don't you really tell the emperor about this?" ”

Li Chengxian looked humiliated and burdened, and shook her head aggrievedly: "No, I can't affect the relationship between my father and mother because I am a married daughter, if I make them not harmonious, I will have trouble sleeping!" ”

"This"

The maid looked at the other female dependents, and everyone looked at each other for a while, wondering what kind of medicine was sold in the eldest princess's gourd.

Li Chengxian said in high spirits: "Let's go, let's leave the palace before our father finds out!" ”

With that, she took the lead in the direction of the left-hand door.

The ladies of the Marquis of Changping could only leave in confusion.

When everyone left, a eunuch came out next to a wall of the passage leading to the previous dynasty, and if Xia Jing came here, she would definitely recognize this eunuch as a eunuch on duty in the Qinzheng Palace.

In other words, this eunuch is under the control of Anu, and the eunuch will definitely reach Anu's ears when he hears these words, and if Anu knows, it means that Li Jingfu also knows.

The eunuch on duty looked at the distant back thoughtfully, then shook off the dust and turned to leave.

It's just that Li Chengxian missed Anu's caution, and after he learned the news, he didn't immediately report it to the emperor, but first sent someone to investigate the cause and effect of the matter, and finally told the emperor what happened in the imperial garden.

Afterwards, when he returned to the Marquis of Changping's mansion, Li Chengxian waited left and right and did not wait for the news that the emperor punished Xia Jing, which is a later story.

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The defense system of the Dayu army is divided into five levels, which are towns, roads, guards, institutes, and forts.

The guards mentioned in ordinary times actually have forts below, and Goguryeo on the Liaodong Peninsula also follows the division of Dayu's defense system.

Naturally, the Jurchens further east also roughly followed this system.

Sha Yuliang led 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry across Goguryeo and went all the way to the east, and the Jurchens did not expect that this time Dayu would go deep into Liaodong alone and smash their lair.

The Jurchens' surprise allowed the Dayu Iron Cavalry to sweep all the way to Fushun Pass, the frontier of Dongningwei, and had the first contact battle with the Jurchen's main force along the Fan River.

In the border city of eastern Liao, the Yu army and the Jurchens often clashed, and were captured by the Jurchens in the Huiyuan period.

After the Jurchens conquered, due to the scarcity of the Jurchen people, the strength of each fort was probably less than 100 people, which was far from the thousands of people before Dayu.

And Dayu's court was corrupt, the army was eroded, and corruption became commonplace, resulting in a great reduction in the armed forces, or in the late Huiyuan period, Dayu's border army was probably only a little stronger than the force of ordinary people.

In this way, Rao is Jurchen people with 100 people guarding a fort, and the Dayu army did not dare to go directly to recover the lost territory.

Dayu's soldiers and horses did not dare to cross Liaodong, which also caused the Jurchens to relax their garrison, which gave Sha Yuliang a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Eastern Expedition team.

"General, this is an ordinary person in Dongningwei, who has lived in Liaodong since he was a child, and is now a slave of the Jurchens. I heard him say that the troops stationed in Dongning Wei are about less than 2,000, and the soldiers of Dayu are about 5,000, and the Jurchen guards led about 3,000 people to the Wuliang Hamu camp set up in the west of the Liao River in Beidi, and now the Dongning Acropolis is empty. ”

After listening to the report of Ye Bu Hui, Sha Yuliang's gaze turned to the person who followed Ye Bu Hui.

The so-called Dayu slave soldiers are the people of Dayu in Liaodong, who were captured by the Jurchens and filled the army, in fact, they are the pawns on the Jurchen battlefield, the so-called cannon fodder.

And the skinny old man standing in front of him, just because he didn't have the physical strength to go to the battlefield, he could only make the best use of his things, and was enslaved by the Jurchens to the farm and planted for him.

When he was stared at by Sha Yuliang's fierce gaze, the old man heard his question: "Do you know how many Jurchen troops are stationed here?" ”

The old man nodded hurriedly: "I know a rough idea, about 1,000 Jurchen troops, and the others are all slaves." ”

Sha Yuliang was quite satisfied with his answer, and asked, "You should be trusted people who have lived here for generations, and among the slaves in the guard, you can know them?" ”

"Yes!" This time, the old man replied categorically, "My two sons were captured by the Jurchens and were in the military camp of the guardhouse. ”

"Oh?" At this time, Sha Yuliang was interested, and the old man's answer surprised him, and his tone softened, "Are you willing to contact your son and let them be our internal response and help us win Dongningwei in one fell swoop?" ”

The old man has been enslaved by foreigners for many years, and now he is finally looking forward to Dayu's iron horse, how can he not be willing?

He hoped that the Dayu army would level Liaodong as soon as possible and give them a bright future.

"Lao Er is willing, very willing!"

Sha Yuliang was satisfied, and looked at his own soldiers, who willingly took out a silver ingot of fifty taels from his arms and stuffed it to the old man.

"General Ben won't let you work in vain, this is your reward, if you can help us take Dongningwei in one fell swoop, I will reward you with a thousand taels of silver!"

When the old man heard that he was a thousand taels of silver, his whole body trembled with excitement, "I, I, I'll do my best!" For the sake of this thousand taels of silver, our father and son will definitely help you capture it, Dongningwei! ”

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