Jin Yan stayed with the eldest princess in Yuntai Mountain for three months.
From the desolation of ice and snow to the recovery of all things, spring and flowers blooming, when I returned, the sky in the capital had also changed.
When he heard that people from the capital had arrived, Jin Yan thought he was his elder brother. When he ran out, he realized that the person who came was actually Xie Yan.
It's been a month since we last saw each other.
Xie Yan just got off the horse. With a smile in his eyes, he said proudly: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, please ask me to bring the eldest princess and you back safely."
Jin Yan was surprised, "Dad appointed it? What have you done?"
Xie Yan coaxed: "I won't be able to explain clearly for a while. I'll explain it to you slowly later."
Jin Yan suddenly lost interest, "Look back, another day, next time I will definitely... Your seventh prince is also a person who has read books, why can't you give a decent reason?"
As soon as he finished speaking, He Jin couldn't help laughing.
Xie Yan coughed but did not defend himself.
The things he did made him recognized by Gu Yong and the eldest princess, but Jin Yan must not know about it.
I can hide it for a day!
Afterwards, Xie Yan went to meet the eldest princess.
They still talked behind closed doors, and even Jin Yan didn't know what they said.
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As soon as he entered the capital, Jin Yan experienced what "the wind and the crane are shaking".
"My brother went to Yuntai Mountain half a month ago. He said the capital was calm. Why do I feel like a storm is coming?" Jin Yan said, looking at the familiar street scene.
Xie Yan showed a placating look and said warmly: "Some unexpected situations happened a few days ago. The martial law has just been lifted... but everything will return to normal soon."
He would give Jin Yan a capital city that was calm and brightly lit like daylight.
Another half month later, during the spring hunting, Emperor Jianping was assassinated, the prince rebelled, and the third prince used the name of Qingjun to extract confessions, and was finally arrested.
Only then did Jin Yan understand what Xie Yan meant when he said, "Everything will return to normal."
The prince and the third prince both thought that they were the oriole, and waited complacently for the fruits of the gunman's victory. Little did they know that all their plans were under the control of the "oriole".
Even the chess game was set up by "Yi Que".
As a result, the third prince was demoted to a commoner and imprisoned for life.
The prince was given poisonous wine, and a blind and paralyzed young man and a crazy woman who kept shouting "I want to go back in time" appeared in the dungeon of an abandoned official residence.
The queen hanged herself to apologize.
The imperial concubine was thrown into the cold palace.
All those who participated in the rebellion had their homes confiscated and their families exterminated.
By the time this "beheading plan" came to an end, it was already April when all the flowers had fallen.
It snowed heavily for three days and three nights.
The capital, which had just gone through a major blood change, and the smell of blood could even be smelled in the air, turned white and clean overnight.
It was at this time that Xie Yan entered the court.
As soon as he appeared on the scene, he started the road of reform in a bold way.
The first is agriculture.
From Jin Yan's greenhouse technology, the synthesis of manure to promote crop growth, to the agricultural tools she and Mohist heirs designed and improved, without exception, they were all promoted in the most appropriate way according to the different geographical climates of various places.
Gu Jinhe no longer wanted to work in the Hanlin Academy. After Xie Yan began to reform, he immediately applied to Emperor Jianping for a foreign assignment, and it was in Youzhou that he went.
Like him is Shen Yu.
After the prince's rebellion failed, Duke Cheng'en's mansion, which was deeply involved with the East Palace, could not escape death. However, Shen Yu saved the prince with merit and used his merits to offset the consequences, and managed to save the family of Duke Cheng'en.
He applied to guard the border and went to Youzhou with his mother Song and his sister Shen Wan who was betrothed to his general Xu Jin.
After that, Xie Yan successively launched reforms in the military, commerce, scientific research and industry.
Different training plans are carried out for different military branches, and the best soldiers are selected from all over to form a black-armored army that can be invincible against a hundred enemies.
The helmets, masks, armor, boots, iron bows and arrows equipped by the Black Armor Army are all made by Jin Yan.
The trigger for the imperial examination reform meeting was also Jin Yan.
One day, when she went to a restaurant with some friends, she happened to see a new imperial examination candidate speaking nonsense in the restaurant, criticizing the treacherous behavior of Prime Minister Gu Yong.
Naturally, Jin Yan couldn't just sit back and watch others slander his father.
She quoted scriptures and convinced people with her reasoning. The whole audience was speechless and dumbfounded in her brilliant argument.
Especially what Jin Yan said: "Those who live in a dead body and whose moral character is not worthy of their duties should die to apologize if they still have some sense of conscience. Now that all of them are living in this world, it is really a waste of resources. It is better to give opportunities to real people." "People who will ask for orders for the people" was the most widely spread, and even frightened several guilty people to death.
After Emperor Jianping heard about it, he praised Jin Yan for his unique insights. If Jin Yan were a man, he would definitely be able to accomplish great things.
Jin Yan said that women can also do great things that are earth-shaking.
Later, he made a bet with Emperor Jianping that if women could pass the various examinations like men, they would give women all over the world a chance to take scientific examinations and become officials.
Emperor Jianping only thought that Jin Yan was very competitive and agreed, but later Jin Yan supported one female champion after another who was not inferior to the men.
After the reform of the imperial examination began, batch after batch of children from poor families entered the court. After discovering the shortcomings of the problem, they chose to go outside, put themselves in the shoes of the people, and adapted measures to local conditions to seek benefits for the people.
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Three years later.
Xie Yan was named crown prince.
The imperial edict to canonize the crown prince and the edict to make Jinyan the crown prince were issued on the same day.
The former prince was dead, the third prince was also imprisoned, and the remaining princes had no intention of becoming a big king. Therefore, the position of prince fell to Xie Yan, who had been dormant for many years. There was no suspense at all.
What surprised everyone was the choice of Crown Princess.
After all the twists and turns, Jin Yan became the crown princess again.
Suddenly, many people who had previously said that Xie Yan was thoughtful and pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger also said that Xie Yan had already climbed up to Gu Yong and the eldest princess, and then relied on their support to ascend to the position of crown prince.
As for Xie Yan's own abilities and achievements, no one has ever mentioned them.
Another target of their attack was the Gu family and the eldest princess's mansion.
Gu Yong has a high and powerful position. The eldest princess and the eldest princess have extremely high status in the clan and can respond to hundreds of calls. Duke Ding holds great power. Gu Jinhe is a role model for scholars...
The Crown Princess’s maternal clan is so powerful and terrifying, there is no guarantee that there will be no disasters from her relatives in the future!
There is even a catchy tune circulating in Beijing:
"The Gu family has the final say who will be the crown prince."
"The prince of flowing water, the prince of iron."
"The first step to ascending the throne is to be the son-in-law of the Gu family."
As soon as the song came out, Gu Yong and Xie Yan took action at the same time and quickly found out the person behind it.
The tunes on the street disappeared in an instant, but the voice of doubt never disappeared.
No one believed that Emperor Jianping was really not suspicious of the Gu family and the eldest princess.
No one believed that Gu Yong really had no intention of rebellion.
No one believed the oath that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made during his wedding, "I will only love Jin Yan in this life. Anyone who violates this oath will suffer a bad death."
But many years passed after that.
The Gu family is still at the top of the power center in the capital, and Gu Yong is still firmly in the position of prime minister.
The two emperors before and after handed over many reforms in the DPRK and China to the hands of Gu Yong and his son, who fully supervised the implementation of the New Deal.
As for the harem of Xie Yan, who was later known as Emperor Xuanwu, there was only one queen, Gu Jinyan, from the beginning to the end.
The only person he loves and is loyal to is his wife Jin Yan.
The only people he prefers to pamper and protect are his and Jin Yan's children.
A lifetime of promises, unswerving determination.
