Murong Yu was forced to go to Liangshan this time. Originally, Yan Shihuan wanted Murong Yu to be the first to attack Zhao Yanhuan's hometown, Qipai Village, after the rebellion.
After Zhao Yanhuan's continuous construction, the current Qipai Village is said to be a village, but in fact it has expanded to be larger than a state capital, and it is not a problem to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.
Zhao Yanhuan's eldest aunt Zhuang has completely transformed into a strong woman. She sits in charge of Qipai Village by herself and develops Qipai Village very well.
Later, Zhao Yanhuan became Nan Zejun, and the Zhuang family began to expand Qipai Village. The people they recruited no longer needed to hide in Zhuangzi's village, but lived in Qipai Village legitimately.
With the cement and brick factory specially sent by Zhao Yanhuan, Zhuang was able to transform Qipai Village with ease. Today, Qipai Village has a majestic and tall city wall, a wide road inside that can run four carriages side by side, neatly built houses, and schools blooming everywhere.
Zhuang also trained soldiers according to the methods left by Zhao Yanhuan. Although she could not lead soldiers, there were good students in the art of war in the school who passed Zhao Yanhuan's assessment and became officers and could manage these soldiers.
There are 100,000 soldiers in Qipai Village alone. The soldiers who are well fed and trained through hard work are so powerful that even the elite soldiers of the imperial court cannot match them.
It was simply wishful thinking for Yan Shihuan to think that he could defeat Qipai Village like this with the help of soldiers gathered by Murong Yu who had become sallow and skinny due to long-term lack of food and clothing.
Yan Shihuan was a typical big-sighted but short-sighted person. She only saw that if Qipai Village could be captured, it would be a strong fortress that could stand firm in the face of external attacks.
But Yan Shihuan forgot that she was the one from the outside world now, and she couldn't chew the hard bones in Qipai Village. If she tried hard, it would not only break her teeth, but also kill her.
Fortunately, both Murong Yu and Yanchang could see clearly that not only Qipai Village itself was too strong to bite, but even if it made Zhao Yanhuan angry, they couldn't resist it.
Yan Shihuan didn't understand Murong Yu and Yan Chang's weak behavior, and couldn't help but angrily complained about them.
"Dad, Brother Yu, how can you two be so cowardly? As long as we capture Qipai Village, we have a stronghold. Do we need to be afraid of Zhao Yanhuan? Qipai Village is as strong as a fortress. We can attack and retreat. It's so good. The place must be captured, can you be a little more bloody?"
Murong Yu and Yan Chang sat next to each other in the same posture, both having headaches. Yan Shihuan was still reluctant to let go. The first person who couldn't bear it was not Murong Yu, but Yan Chang.
Yanchang slammed the teacup on his side to the ground, and shouted loudly: "That's enough!" Yanshihuan was so frightened that his body trembled.
Yanchang stared at Yanshihuan with red eyes: "Attacking Qipai Village? What to use? Why to fight? Can we defeat these old, weak and remnant soldiers just by recruiting them?"
Seeing Yan Shihuan who was a little frightened by his sudden anger, Yanchang raised his hand to wipe his face and sighed deeply tiredly.
He regretted it so much now that he should not have been soft-hearted for a moment. After listening to Yan Shihuan's nonsense, he actually wanted to rely on Murong Yu to get a share of the troubled times and help him recruit troops.
He is just a small businessman and doesn't have much ability. In troubled times, the best choice is to find a reliable force to survive until the peaceful age. But now that all the money he made is gone, he has reached a dead end.
Seeing that Yan Shihuan still didn't understand why, Yanchang sighed and had to break it apart and crush it into pieces to explain to her.
"Huan'er, you also said that Qipai Village can advance, attack, retreat or defend. How are we going to fight? How to fight? It's not like you don't know how brave the soldiers in Qipai Village are, not to mention that the opponent is backed by a fortress. How can we defeat Qipai Village?"
"Ten thousand steps back, even if we are lucky enough to get Qipai Village, there is still Zhao Yanhuan who is difficult to offend. How is Qipai Village better than Yimiao Prefecture? Then Zhao Yanhuan's attack on Yimiao Prefecture was useless for three days. If we attack her lair and she comes to kill us, can we stop her?"
"Let's not talk about this. We don't have time to attack Qipai Village now. The 200,000 troops from the imperial court to suppress the rebellion are already coming to attack us. They will arrive in less than two days. Huan'er, we are already at the end of our rope. !”
After saying the last words, Yanchang grabbed his hair and cried bitterly. What should he do? It doesn't matter if he dies. What should he do with his wife, two sons, and a dozen grandchildren at home?
Yan Shihuan was frightened by Yan Chang crying and breaking down. After a long while, he said in disbelief: "Why, how could this happen?"
By now, Yan Shihuan was finally a little scared. She woke up from her queen's dream, looked at Yan Chang, then looked at Murong Yu, looking at him pleadingly.
"Brother Yu, my father lied to me, right? We just started to rebel, and the good times haven't begun yet. How could it be possible, could it be..."
Yan Shihuan had been meeting for a long time, but she didn't have the courage to say the words "desperate". It seemed that if she really said it, it would mean that all her dreams were shattered.
Murong Yu gave Yan Shihuan a serious look. It was not that he was not angry with Yan Shihuan for being useless and causing trouble, or that he was not resentful that Yan Shihuan had brought him to such a desperate situation.
But Murong Yu knew that he was alone, and his current situation was all due to Yanchang's investment. Now that he was in a desperate situation, if he broke up with Yanchang again, his situation would be even more miserable.
But Murong Yu really didn't have the energy to continue to comfort Yan Shihuan, so he chose to remain silent, and his silence undoubtedly confirmed the answer that Yan Shihuan didn't want to face.
Yan Shihuan fell to the ground, his face pale. It took him a long time to look at Yan Chang and Murong Yu, then he stumbled and said, "Dad, brother Yu, I, what should we do next?"
Yan Shihuan's question was filled with confusion. She didn't understand why Murong Yu, who was able to conquer the world in his previous life, became like this in this life.
Before Yan Shihuan could react to the shock of reality, a soldier ran in embarrassedly and fell to his knees with a plop.
"Report, general, the imperial court's counter-rebellion troops have arrived in Beizhou and are attacking us."
"How did you arrive so fast!!"
When Zhao Yanhuan received news about Yan Shihuan and Murong Yu again, Murong Yu and Yan Shihuan had been defeated by the imperial army's counter-rebellion force, and the entire Yan family, including Murong Yu and his nephew Murong Changkong, were beheaded.
Zhao Yanhuan was at a loss for a moment. She didn't expect that the male protagonist and the reborn female partner died before they officially entered the stage of fighting for hegemony. She felt that they died too quickly.
However, Zhao Yanhuan didn't pay much attention to the two of them, because Murong Yu started the rebellion. After Murong Yu was surrendered by the court, rebels from all over the country started fighting.
Zhao Yanhuan also felt that the time had come, and asked her uncles Zhao Yibao and Luan Bao to quickly transport all the gold and silver treasures in Dong Guan's private treasury to pay for the army. She was going to officially rebel.
Over the years, with Zhao Yanhuan's hard work and Dong Guan's own crazy money-making, the gold and silver in Dong Guan's private treasury has reached as much as five or six national treasuries, not counting those precious calligraphy and paintings.
Peng Zufeng and Yu Zi from the capital were called back by Zhao Yanhuan. Yu Zi had been very good in business over the years. Zhao Yanhuan asked her to go to the Ministry of Commerce to serve as Su Bingzhong's deputy. Peng Zufeng, Lu Yifan, and Wan Qi were in charge of internal affairs.
Yan Hua did not need Zhao Yanhuan to retrieve him. He had 50,000 elite soldiers sent by Zhao Yanhuan to protect him and directly captured Yi'an Prefecture. Zhuang, who was far away in Qipai Village, also quickly took action and captured all the surrounding counties. Take it.
Zhao Yanhuan was afraid that the two of them would suffer, so he simply fought all the way and conquered three prefectures in succession. The territory completely connected Qipai Village and Yi'an Prefecture.
Zhao Yanhuan's soldiers were sharpened to an incomparable edge. Under the leadership of Luan Hu, Luan Xiong, Luan Bao, Zhao Hua'er, and Peng Xuan who was forcibly thrown out by Li Qing to fight, they were overwhelming all the way, almost crushing them.
Li Qing also led the nurses and doctors he had trained long ago to roam the battlefield, responsible for treating wounded soldiers.
In recent years, Li Qing has vigorously researched surgical drugs, and has a very rich inventory of excellent hemostatic drugs and anti-inflammatory drugs, ensuring that every wounded soldier can use them.
The soldiers were raised well by Zhao Yanhuan, and they were not afraid of death. They were willing to shed blood on the battlefield for Zhao Yanhuan, their lord, so that they could repay Zhao Yanhuan's deep friendship for them.
After discovering that he could be revived even after being injured on the battlefield, which was almost certain to be fatal in his mind, he no longer had any worries. He started fighting like a wild beast out of its cage, extremely ferocious.
Over time, this bad reputation was spread, causing the enemies to become timid before they encountered Zhao Yanhuan. They became even more timid when they saw Zhao Yanhuan's strong, sharp weapons and fearless soldiers.
His courage was shattered even before he started fighting. It was naturally impossible to win the battle. Zhao Yanhuan personally went into battle and swept the entire world with almost overwhelming force. However, in just four years, Zhao Yanhuan completely pacified the world.
Because when Zhao Yanhuan went to war, he had to clean up the local aristocratic families wherever he went. By the time Zhao Yanhuan ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Zhao Yanhuan had basically wiped out all the aristocratic families in the world, leaving only a few families with good reputations and never oppressing the people. family.
The people Zhao Yanhuan promoted were all poor people who became officials after studying in school. He only supported the liquidation of the aristocratic family with both hands and had no objection. After all, the aristocratic family and them were enemies who stole cakes. Naturally, the fewer enemies, the better. , it is best to exterminate it.
Since Zhao Yanhuan prioritized women from the beginning, there were a large number of women in her army and officials. When she became emperor, women had established a firm foothold and successfully obtained equal rights with men.
Zhao Yanhuan took the opportunity to issue the law of monogamy, which stipulated that both men and women could marry each other. Men could marry women or women could marry men. Boys would take their father's surname, and girls would take their mother's surname.
In this way, girls are almost the continuation of women's bloodline families, and it can also prevent women from being brainwashed by men and follow them to favor boys over girls, and reduce the possibility of female infanticide.
Of course, Zhao Yanhuan's preferential treatment of women hurt men's lungs and caused some men to resist, but Zhao Yanhuan was the founding empress of the country, and her methods were iron-blooded.
She did not hesitate to dismiss some of the male officials who objected and killed a radical male opponent, and the matter was put to rest.
Mainly because Zhao Yanhuan's ruthless tactics reminded the hot-blooded men of those arrogant and aristocratic families that even the emperor looked down upon. They had inherited a millennium and dared to claim to be an iron-clad dynasty. However, they were almost completely wiped out by Zhao Yanhuan's killings.
The aristocratic family that was so illustrious and prosperous, and which made the imperial power bow its head, now only a few are left, and they are all suppressed to the point of being unable to raise their heads. In today's officialdom, not even a small official comes from aristocratic family.
They asked themselves that since their necks were not as strong as those of the aristocratic family, and their strength was not as strong as those of the aristocratic family, it was better not to confront the empress who was the reincarnation of the Living King of Hell.
Isn't it just about improving a woman's status? On the bright side, even if the family can't give birth to a son in the future, they don't have to worry about cutting off the bloodline and incense inheritance. It's quite good.
By consoling themselves with such self-deception, men have successfully "thought away" and no longer object to women being officials, studying and traveling outside like men, and giving up forcing women to return home to support their husbands and raise children.
The chaotic issue of improving women's status came to an end. Zhao Yanhuan then canonized his mother Li Qing as the Supreme Empress. One mother and daughter ran the country, and the other opened a medical school, vigorously developed medicine and improved the survival rate of the people.
Both Li Qing and Zhao Yanhuan lived long lives. Li Qing lived to be 108 years old before passing away in his sleep. The day after Li Qing left, Zhao Yanhuan, who was deeply shocked by the loss of his mother, passed away.
Zhao Yanhuan's great-granddaughter Empress Minghua followed the wishes of Zhao Yanhuan and Li Qing and held a simple funeral. However, countless people across the country heard about the death of Zhao Yanhuan and Li Qing and spontaneously rushed to the empress's funeral for the two concubines.
The people along the road cried loudly, and some even wanted to commit suicide to bury the two empresses, but were stopped in time by the guards.
But there were too many people who wanted to commit suicide and be buried. Empress Minghua had to personally come forward to dissuade them. She bluntly said that Zhao Yanhuan and Li Qing both loved the lives of the people. If you died for them, wouldn't it make the two empresses sad.
In this way, those people who wanted to bury Zhao Yanhuan and Li Qing were dissuaded. In a sense, their funerals were not only not simple, but grand and grand.
There has never been an emperor who was mourned by the whole people when he died. Zhao Yanhuan did it, and so did Li Qing, the supreme empress who had never been on the throne for a day.
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As the funeral was held, in the space of the "Book of Destiny" that no one could see, the souls of Li Qing and Zhao Yanhuan floated in front of the "Book of Destiny" with their eyes closed.
Li Qing's transparent soul was sucked in by the golden "Book of Destiny".
After the "Book of Destiny" sucked away Li Qing, it emitted another golden light and hit Zhao Yanhuan's soul, which was ethereal and seemed to be dispersed at any time.
Zhao Yanhuan's soul flickered for a moment, as if it was a little stronger, but soon turned into an ethereal shape that seemed to be dispersed at any time.
"Book of Destiny" emitted another golden light, and this time a vortex of rotating nebulae appeared in the space. Zhao Yanhuan's soul was sucked away by the vortex and disappeared in an instant.
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On the large playground during the freshmen's military training, Jiang Yanhuan felt her head suddenly become dizzy. She shook her head and became even more dizzy. Soon, Jiang Yanhuan's body softened and she fell to the ground.
Before falling into coma, Jiang Yanhuan seemed to hear his good friend Zhuang Hui shouting: "Instructor, Jiang Yanhuan fainted, instructor! Jiang Yanhuan needs to go to the infirmary, she can't continue the military training!"
