The leaves on the trees turn from green to deep, the spring rain fades away, the red flowers disperse their colors, and time passes by spring. In late March, willow catkins are still flying on the Qinhuai River, but summer has indeed come. Ning Yi and Tan'er and his family boarded the boat outside Jiangning City and boarded the waterway back to the capital.

After returning to Jiangning for a month, Ning Yi and Tan'er didn't have much to do. Apart from worshiping their family members who died in the incident last year, the rest was the only thing left to send gifts to the Kang Prince's Mansion. They went to the door to do it immediately. However, Xiao Pei was not in Jiangning for the time before the marriage, so Ning Yi did not see this female disciple who was about to get married.

The little princess is about to get married, that is, she is already an adult. King Kang did not neglect the guest teacher Ning Yi, who seems to be just a nominee. He came out to receive Ning Yi, accepted Qin Siyuan's calligraphy and paintings and a large number of gifts sent by the Su family. He did not say too much about Zhou Pei's whereabouts. Then Ning Yi went to visit Kang Xian and understood the specific matters.

At this time, the Wu Dynasty clan relatives had never had much freedom, only a few people, barely an exception. The royal family industry under the name of Princess Zhou Xuan of Cheng Kingdom was spread all over the world at this time, which was enough to affect the political situation to some extent. Now Zhou Xuan and Kang Xian are both old and are also the time to choose successors.

Although they have a few children, no one can match Zhou Pei when it comes to economics and digital sensitivity. Therefore, when Zhou Pei showed some interest in this regard, Zhou Xuan decided to hand over some of the matter to her. During this period, Zhou Xuan decided to go to various imperial villages and brought Zhou Pei with her. As soon as she let her understand the specific matters, she came to let the managers come to recognize people. Zhou Pei was talented and interested in this matter, so Kang Xian talked about it casually to Ning Yi.

Whether it was a good thing or not, Zhou Pei found his position. On the other hand, although the little prince Zhou Junwu's gewu club was not favored, it had more or less a certain scale. In the past, he had found a group of his friends to do it casually. After Ning Yi talked with him last year, he began to search for craftsmen everywhere, starting with kites, gradually increasing the size and firmness of the kites, and choosing more ideal materials. By this year, kites that can carry items have become larger and larger. On the other hand, the work of enlarging Kongming lanterns is also underway.

Such a Gewu Club was just a small fuss at the beginning, and the Kang Prince's Mansion only turned a blind eye, but after the scale expanded, the money problem was inevitably put on the table. Zhou Junwu was a conscious person. From a few months on, he had been understanding the source of income of the royal family and trying to include some income-rich shops in his name.

The little prince expressed his intention to make money and power, and he also adhered to the right path. He did not blackmail a group of friends or wanted other royal children to only have money but no consequences. Kangxian used this as a symbol of his progress. He talked to Zhou Yong. Zhou Yong was also quite happy. The property of the Kang Prince's Mansion is not as good as the Princess Mansion of Chengguo, but he could also make trouble. So recently, Xiao Junwu extorted several money-making shops from several housekeepers in the palace and held them in his hands, using the store income to supplement the Gewu Club, and lived his small life stumbled and tightly.

After Ning Yi came back, Junwu happily showed off his achievements to him and took Ning Yi over to see it. He remembered what Ning Yi said about giving craftsmen status, and never treated the recruited craftsmen. He even treated him a little too politely. Ning Yi also gave him some opinions and opinions, so that he still had to optimize the reward and punishment mechanism, be efficient, and not be good to everyone. By the way, he taught him some experience in doing business.

As for what the final result of this Gewu Society can achieve, Ning Yi is not willing to worry about it. A hot air balloon with low safety may be possible, but even if it is himself, it is unlikely that he will build an airplane. The important thing is that Junwu will find his future survival experience in these things. Therefore, he is a little nervous about Junwu. Ning Yi has given special advice that saving is OK, but a lot of normal social interactions are still needed. Fortunately, Junwu is also from an excellent education and understands this very well. He is not harsh in dealing with other royal aristocratic children. He is just deducting all his usual snacks, watching operas and other projects. Ning Yi looked at it and felt that this little prince was a little pitiful.

"Come to your sister in the future." Ning Yi patted his shoulder and said.

Jun Wu nodded naturally: "Well, sure."

In addition to the walking around after returning home, Ning Yi usually only gave lectures at Yushan Academy and no longer ran. At this time, Jiangning was completely a breath of singing and dancing. Without the fanaticism of Bianliang, it always contained the elegance of Jiangnan. The Qinhuai River was lit every night, and literati made great achievements in the world, celebrating the prosperity of the country and the smooth progress of the Northern Expedition. Some people came to look for Ning Yi to attend the meeting, and Ning Yi refused one by one.

Of course, sometimes the time comes, and it is not just these people who come to the door. As the richest man in Jiangning, Puyang Yi, the son of the Puyang family, has visited the door several times, and sometimes one or two people will also bring one or two people. The Puyang family has some official relationships and the salt and tea business also accounts for part of it. Although it may not be famous in Bianliang, it is probably the family that can be involved in the accounts not long ago. He came to find Ning Yi and Su Tan'er, so he naturally did not provide detailed descriptions here.

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It was already May of that year when the royal girl named Zhou Pei returned to Jiangning.

When the girl learned that the teacher had returned and left Jiang Ningxuan, she went to the warehouse to read the gifts from the Su family one by one, and then she did not show any strange thoughts. The auspicious day for marriage was on the sixth day of the sixth month of this year, and everything was proceeding step by step.

Not many people know the little bit of the girl's heart, including her younger brother Jun Wu, who was close to her, who never knew the small relationship she had in her youth. The girl finally decided to bury everything. She privately talked to Junma Qu Zonghui on the eve of the wedding. No one knew what she had specifically talked about. Only know that after this time, the wedding was held as scheduled. The two equally outstanding became a respectable and enviable young couple.

The stars change day by day. In the tide of time, the fate of one or two people cannot be the focus of attention. In the summer of this year, drought and flood disasters occur frequently. The Yellow River and Huai River flood, and heavy rains are caused. Some places in the south are in a hot heat, and the rice grains are not harvested.

At the same time, the situation of the Northern Expedition is still developing and changing.

In the past six months, although the Wu Dynasty has been singing and dancing to celebrate the success of the Northern Expedition, literati and poets are all excited. They wrote articles to praise this prosperous era that was hard to see for hundreds of years. However, north of Yanmen Pass, the situation is beginning to become tense, and this tension comes from several aspects.

In the alliance between the Wu Dynasty and the Jin people, it was agreed that after joining forces to attack Liao, the Wu Dynasty would divide the originally lost 16 states of Yanyun. Now that Yanjing has overcome it, the sixteen states of Yanyun have changed hands. The negotiations on the return of the sixteen states have become quite difficult since last year.

For the civil officials of the Wu Dynasty who participated in the negotiations, the Jin people at this time were no longer the humble uprising group. They forgot that the martial artists had always restrained the Liao people and became arrogant due to a series of victories. For the Jin people, the Wu Dynasty's slowness in the Northern Expedition, including their long-standing defeat, had gradually changed from confusion to contempt. Although the core part of the Jin people, such as Wanyan Xiyin and others, still respected the Wu Dynasty's heritage, most people began to stop taking the court in the south seriously.

Of course, the number of Jurchens was not large. After quickly swallowing most of the Liao Kingdom, they had slowed down slightly and began to enjoy the investment at hand - there was no need for them to fight the Wu Dynasty. However, when the Wu Dynasty came to ask for the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, they could not give it to him.

Such delays made most of the officials in the Wu Dynasty who supported the Northern Expedition anxious. At the end of last year, Tong Guan and others made the decision to buy back Yanjing and six states such as Zhuo, Yi, Tan, Shun, Jing and Ji on the condition of increasing the monies. At this time, the flattery and rewards in the court were still continuing, but the subsequent negotiations were already deadlocked.

In the remaining states, the Jurchens were too lazy to give it to them. Even the Jurchens now have a saying: you can't beat the Liao people, so they paid tribute to them later. Now we might as well set up a fight on the border. If we win, you will add more annual monies. If you can win, how about winning the annual monies?

In order to maintain the victory, Tong Guan and others had raised more than 50 million yuan of property and began to gradually buy the city from the Jurchens. At the same time, they announced to the south: "This is what we have won." On the one hand, it was the "winning" of Tong Guan and others, and on the other hand, it was the Jurchens' backfire. Emperor Zhou Zhe began to issue orders in the capital, and he said unhappily that he should be "tougher" against the Jurchens. This made people who work in the north feel embarrassed.

But the real difficulty was not the senior officials Tong Guan, who still had money, or they could continue to buy it. Now Guo Yaoshi and others stationed in the north have really had friction with the Jurchens. The reason for the friction was the agreement before the delivery of the six states.

In order to take back the credit first, the agreement signed by Tong Guan and others with the Jin people agreed not only the million-dollar monies that the Wu Dynasty wanted to give to the Jin people. In addition, Tong Guan promised that while delivering the six states, the Jin people could plunder all the children, officials, gentry and wealthy families in the six states. Tong Guan didn't care whether there was anyone in the place where the delivery came. As long as the place was obtained, the credit would be achieved.

He understood Dong Xiaochou and others' helplessness. He also knew that he had the helplessness of killing Dong Xiaochou and others with his own hands. When they knelt in front of Xiao Gan and others as heroes, when Xiao Gan and others praised their merits, he still felt fear.

The one above was tigers, and they were not even dogs, and perhaps they could only be considered cockroaches. The other party could easily talk about whether they wanted to kill all tens of thousands of people. They could also easily leave their lives for tens of thousands of people to express their kindness. When others felt lucky, they only felt scared when they saw Xiao Gan's graceful figure.

The tiger stretched out its claws, fiddled with the cockroach in front of it lazily, yawned, and let it go.

After several times, he only felt scared when he saw Xiao Gan.

This idea was not strong enough. Knowing that the Jin people and the martial people joined forces to attack Liao, Xiao Gan and others had already begun to distrust the army in the non-Liao people system, because of the rebellious history of the rebellion of the rebellious army. That time, Xiao Gan, who had let the rebellious army go once, was indeed going to attack him and others. Only Guo Yaoshi was the most agile. He suddenly reacted and encouraged everyone to surrender to the Wu Chao first. Later it was proved that this decision was indeed correct.

That day, Guo Yaoshi suddenly discovered that he could not be a cockroach or a dog, but could be an individual.

He then planned the battle to capture Yanjing. However, the Wu Dynasty colleagues were too stupid. Xiao Gan returned and crushed him like a nightmare. He had thought of fighting hard on the battlefield. However, the rapid defeat of the Wu Dynasty army disrupted his thoughts. In the end, there was no chance to fight to the death. He could only escape in a panic under the control of a very few brothers.

Apart from his swearing in the camp, he did not complain to the military. He could only continue to expand the army and arrest the troops, and accumulate strength. He used his position to plunder a lot of money. On the one hand, he settled his brothers, and on the other hand, he gave gifts to the officials of the Wu Dynasty everywhere, because the officials of the Wu Dynasty liked this.

If everyone likes it, he can ask for support such as food, grass, weapons, and so on, which can make everyone turn a blind eye to his arrest. He also knows that some dissatisfied civil servants have handed him a memorial to the court, and he will send more money to the other party. After the expansion of the Eternal Winning Army, some brothers have begun to become arrogant. In the friction with the Jin people, he first came forward and pressed everyone's dissatisfaction: "If you have no victory, you don't count anything, just endure it all!"

This time Xiao Gan went south, he secretly endured for a long time and was under pressure from all parties. First, he asked Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren and others to test the quality of the other party, and then quietly waited for the opportunity until this time...

Clouds flow and the sky is bright. In this summer sunshine, the fiery red flag looks like the blazing flames condensed by the Great Liao Empire. Under that banner, there is that mountain-like hero, who is now pressing towards this side on the battlefield where tens of thousands of people confront each other.

Guo Yaoshi rode quietly on the horse, looking at the other side like a rock. Only the horse under him seemed to feel uneasy and moved slightly. He reached out and patted its neck, and said something silently in his heart, but the expression on his face was just more cold and calm.

The murderous aura has spread.

In the Yellow River in the south, every spring, carp climbs Longmen Mountain against the current, and the sky fire burns its tail and turns into a dragon.
Chapter completed!