Duanmuxu was the eldest son, both the legitimate son and the eldest son. When he ascended the throne, even the most rigid official could not say a single word "no".
The enthronement ceremony was quickly prepared. Empress Xu had ordered the people in the palace's dressmaking room to make the dragon robe as early as a month ago.
Everyone knew that the emperor was like that before, and I was afraid that he would never get better again. Apart from the emperor, the queen had the greatest authority in the entire palace. The queen mother had not cared about her son for more than ten years. After learning that her son was ill, she only visited him once and then stopped.
Come over again.
She had been doing nothing for many years, and the queen was a virtuous person, so she didn't need to worry about the affairs of the harem, so she simply spent her time in the Buddhist hall.
However, she only found out about the ridiculous things her son had done recently. After all, there had been a lot of commotion in the palace recently. Although she didn't go into too much detail, there were some rumors.
Seeing her son like this, she secretly summoned Marquis Zhongyong. Of course, Marquis Zhongyong also heard the rumors. Although he was angry, he couldn't show it. He was the emperor after all, and he didn't want his family to suffer with him.
The Queen Mother summoned him in order to let Jiang die of illness before the emperor. The old Queen Mother was also a human spirit. Of course she knew that Zhongyong Hou was unhappy, so she directly let people spread the news that Jiang had eloped with her lover and was thrown into a mass grave after his death.
She did this just to appease the queen's anger, maintain the Duanmu family's empire, and enable her to have the honor to meet the late emperor after her death.
The old queen mother felt that she had been virtuous and virtuous throughout her life, and the late emperor also worked hard to govern and keep himself clean. Why did he give birth to such a son?
Duanmuxu returned to the capital, and the fifth prince directly handed over to Liu Jinqiao and the others. Together with them, in the past six months, he has seen their strength and intelligence, which is completely beyond what he has seen in these years.
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In this way, Duanmuxu felt relieved and handed over the place of Changping to his younger brother, his future sister-in-law, and his in-laws.
Although Liu Jinqiao did not admit that he was the fifteenth prince, it was true that he had the unicorn jade pendant and that he had found his destined person. Therefore, even if he was unwilling to admit it, Duanmuxu could not just let him go.
They were all locked up directly with their official positions.
It only took Yang Jinwen and the others half a year to end the stalemate with King Yu for more than two years.
Yang Jinwen was a little annoyed. Why was he tricked by Duanmuxu on this trip? After the battle here, he still had to clean up the battlefield. After cleaning up the battlefield, he had to clean up the remaining soldiers, and then he had to return to Beijing to resume his duties. This time
I don't know how long it will take to get back to Yangjia Village after repeated delays.
The parents at home don't know how worried they will be until they return.
Duanmuxu did not directly let his younger brother take charge of military orders. Instead, he asked the older Yang Jinwen to lead the army. Liu Jinqiao became the deputy general, Yang Xiuwen was the military doctor, and Yang Yuling became the assistant of her second brother. All of them were arranged
Clearly.
Yang Yuling still disguised herself as a man, sharing a tent with her second brother at night, and nothing went wrong for more than half a year.
After cleaning up King Yu, they began to clean up the mess left by King Yu, from Ping Province to Changping. Originally, if they were just ordinary generals and lieutenants, they wouldn't have to work so hard, but after King Chu Duanmuxu came to the throne, they
An imperial edict was issued to them, asking them to clean up the mess along the way and report the situation in real time.
Duanmuxu knew that this road must have been very miserable because of the disaster caused by King Yu, otherwise there would not have been so many refugees in the capital. He has been appeased a lot, and there is still a steady stream of refugees pouring into the capital.
Xu Guozhang took out some silver coins from his private treasury to give to the refugees, and sent them food and silver coins to send them all the way back to their hometowns. Someone was already rectifying the city along the way, and I believed they would be able to go home after they returned.
They can clean up the traces of war, but they can't clean up natural disasters. After all, there is a large area of land in Binh Province that is suffering from drought. It is caused by weather, not man-made, so they can't clean it up.
However, it is still possible to rely on their knowledge and wisdom to help them find water sources. However, in this weather, if it does not rain, no matter how much water sources are available, they will be used up. What will happen then?
After they took care of King Yu, they found that King Yu's granary was empty. Even King Yu himself only drank porridge. But fighting is a laborious job. You can't get the weapons in your hands by just drinking porridge. However, if you increase taxes, it will be impossible.
They couldn't harvest much, but they still had a lot of food to survive until now, which they grabbed regardless of the safety of the people.
After Liu Jinqiao and the others walked around, they discovered that almost every ten houses in King Yu's fiefdom were empty. The whole city was in a state of death. The streets were depressed and every shop was closed. The situation was much more serious than they imagined.
Countless people had died of starvation before, and some were even beaten to death because their food was robbed.
King Yu's crimes were really too numerous to list. Yang Jinwen came up with a more reliable way for Duanmuxu to let the original people return to their original homes. They would be tax-free for the next three years and the seeds would be provided free of charge by the county government.
If more people in the village die, then the fields of those families who have no relatives will be distributed fairly by the village chief through negotiation.
Yang Jinwen distributed all the weapons collected from King Yu that could be used, and sent all the broken and useless ones to the designated blacksmith shop to be made into a handful of farm tools.
The drawings Yang Jinwen drew were all modern, lightweight and easy-to-use new agricultural tools, which not only saved a lot of pig iron, but also improved efficiency.
Liu Jinqiao saw all this and kept it in mind. When the time comes, he will have to take credit from Duanmuxu.
Due to drought, the land in this area has hardened. The original wooden sledges were used to plow the land. The oxen were very strenuous and sometimes could not plow. Yang Jinwen drew a few more iron rakes to plow out, and asked people to put water before plowing the land.
, soaked the ground for two days, and taught the villagers to split larger bamboos in half and remove the partitions in the middle. In this way, only a few bamboos are needed to connect the big end to the small end and easily drain the water from the mountain.
Lead it down the mountain.
They stopped and walked along the way. It originally only took a month to return home, but they walked for almost a year. In some places, there was no one at all, the land was barren, and the houses collapsed. After confirming
After there are no people, they will build a wall at the entrance of the village and put up a sign to explain the situation here.
If someone comes back or wants to move into these deserted villages, the county magistrate will have to ask someone to come over and tear off the seal before this wall can be demolished.
It was the first time for the Yang Jinwen brothers and sisters to truly witness a disaster. Whether it was drought or war, the people who suffered the most were the common people. How had they experienced this in modern times? When they first passed those villages, they all felt a little panicked.
Yang Yuling even felt that some places were similar to the haunted houses filmed on TV.