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Chapter 421 New Nanshu City
"Charbonne is indeed a good candidate."

Emperor Changxing nodded in agreement.

"However, the five major legions of the empire jointly guard the long frontier. Every general of the legion is of great importance. We must have more choices, and then select the best ones."

"How about this, dear friends, go back and consider a few more candidates first, and then submit them for discussion."

"I'm not feeling well today, I'm going to retreat!"

After speaking, he raised his sleeves, turned around and left in a hurry, leaving a group of court officials looking at each other in blank dismay.

The court was gone, but the palace gate was opened soon after it was closed.

The adult princes entered the palace one after another, and returned to the palace after a while.

Jin Wangfu.

Chen Xiulan shook her head and walked into the main hall of her house, complaining as she walked, "Why is it so hot in this damn weather?"

"My lord," Princess Jin gave him a sideways glance in a strange tone, "Didn't my father say that I was unwell in the early court? Why did you call you into the palace so urgently?"

"It's nothing." Chen Xiulan sat down and slowly tasted the good tea that the maids had just brought.

Ugh.

After a long while, he let out a long sigh.

"The tea made by General Wei is the best to drink. It's a pity that he is in Baekje now, so it's hard for me to have a good time."

Ok?
Princess Jin stared at him dissatisfied.

Chen Xiulan shivered, and said with a sneer, "Princess, don't be annoyed, this king is about to explain the details."

"hurry up."

"Yes Yes Yes!"

Chen Xiuzhu nodded wildly.

"Some time ago, the battle report of the fortress has been sent back. Now the whole Yunchui hates the Yanhui Legion and Tian Hongyan to the bone. Father, for some reason, temporarily suppressed the recall of Tian Hongyan, and had to do it in other places." make a compromise.”

"No, the purpose of calling our brothers into the palace is to pick someone to lead a team to support Dingxi County."

boom.

Princess Jin slapped the table beside her angrily.

"During the war, Tian Hongyan, as the leading general, neglected his duties, but the evidence is conclusive. He deserves to die. What was the emperor thinking, and why did he suppress the call to recall him? It's really unreasonable..."

cough cough.

The big maid beside her, Lanzhi, turned pale with fright, and hurriedly interrupted the master's complaint with her voice pressed down.

"Princess, be careful with your words."

"Be careful what you say," Princess Jin sat up straight, looking around with her beautiful eyes, "This is Prince Jin's mansion. This princess wants to see who dares to chew their tongues..."

Still, she swallowed the rest of the sentence and turned to stare angrily at her husband.

"Then the person who will lead the team to the west will not be you, the prince?"

Thinking back to the prince's experience in the frontier, most of the other princes frowned and were reluctant to go out.

Only Chen Xiulan and Chen Xiuzhu were two outliers among them, one and two couldn't wait to leave Xingji City as soon as possible.

As for the reason, Chen Xiuzhu needless to say, Chen Xiulan wanted to stay away from his violent princess.

"Of course not my king."

Chen Xiulan straightened her face and hurriedly waved her hands.

"My concubine is pregnant now, and the world is not as big as our children. How can I stay away so easily? Princess, don't worry, even if the emperor orders me to force me, this king will never go."

"The big deal is that we don't want to be this prince."

Humph.

Princess Jin's complexion finally looked better, "Who did the emperor choose?"

"Who was chosen?"

Hey.

Chen Xiulan's smile was full of disdain for her brothers.

"Everyone doesn't want to go. Even if the identities of the fourth, fifth and sixth are still mere princes, they don't want to go."

"These are all mindless. They don't even think about it. Now the people in the four counties of Laigu can live and work in peace and contentment, and the Xiliang people in Dingxi have also been driven out. There will never be any more accidents during this trip. It can be said that they are going to You can come back after turning around to the west.”

"If they took the initiative to take over the task, they might be promoted to the county king or even the prince after returning from the west, no better than a broken prince..."

Concubine Jin stared, "Stop rambling, and get down to business."

Uh.

Chen Xiulan hesitated, wiped off his sweat and returned to the topic.

"No one wants to go, so the emperor had no choice but to use the old method of drawing lots. Whoever is drawn will go."

"It turned out that the sixth child won the prize. It is estimated that he will lead the team to set off within three to five days."

Call ~
Princess Jin let out a long sigh of relief, "Whoever he is, as long as it's not the prince, you're fine."

After finishing speaking, she subconsciously comforted her stomach, and after realizing it, she raised her head and looked towards the south.

"I don't know how Panpan is doing now. Her labor period is coming soon."

Guangxin County.

The original north-south post road has been widened a lot, and there is an endless stream of caravans and pedestrians along the way.

blah blah blah.

Two horses, one black and one red, galloped towards them, crossed the long caravan in an instant, and disappeared in the south like the wind.

Nanshu suburb.

appeal.

Ren Ning and the two got off their horses and looked at the scene in front of them in surprise.

At this time, Nanshu City has changed, much bigger than when they left.

Not far away, the new city wall was being built, and countless people came in and out with tools and stones and wood, all in a hurry.

At this time, the original large woods have turned into neat villages one after another, completely surrounded by the newly built city wall.

There are all kinds of houses, some are made of wood, some are built of stone, and some are even made of bamboo.

There are many old people sitting under the eaves, shaking their fans leisurely one by one.Beside them are full of children who are laughing and joking, and they look like they are happy with each other.

Even when some children saw Zhui Feng and Ben Lei, two high-spirited, tall horses, they were not afraid of life, and surrounded them curiously.

"Old Ren, did we go the wrong way?" Lei Er looked left and right, a little suspicious of his eyesight.

This prosperous scene is not like Nanshu City in their memory where there are more mosquitoes than people.

Ren Ning smiled, looked around, and led Zhuifeng to a house not far away.

"Ma'am, the two of us are passing merchants. Because we were in a hurry, we drank all the water. I wonder if we can make an excuse to drink water?"

"If you want water, of course you can. Water is the most abundant thing in Nanshu City." The gray-haired owner chuckled, "Young man sit down first, and the old lady will go and beat you."

Ren Ning and Lei Er looked at each other.

They have also traveled south and north, and the old lady's accent can tell that she is from Hanoi to Jiuyuan County in the middle of Yunchui.

"Ma'am, your accent doesn't look like a local." Lei Er asked happily.

"Yes." The old lady nodded, "Our family of four are all from Huayang County."

As she spoke, she went into the house and took out a clean bucket.

The three walked around the house, and there was a small well in front of them.

The mouth of the well is paved with bluestone, and the well is full of clear water, which makes people feel extremely cool at first glance.

Ren Ning quickly stretched out his hand, "It turns out that the well is next to the house. Auntie, let's do it ourselves."

"That's fine. I'm old, and I'm used to being unfaithful."

The old lady was not reluctant, and handed over the bucket, but she was talking about her own story.

"The two little brothers don't know something. A few years ago we couldn't stay in our hometown, so we took our family out to beg. At that time, our family went to Huayang County Mansion, Sulan City, and finally Xingji City, the imperial capital. "

Ugh.

She had a look of unbearable looking back.

"Those days were really difficult. Either I couldn't eat a mouthful of porridge for a few days or I was chilled by the heavy rain... The old woman dared not recall how we survived at that time."

"Later, I heard that as long as you work hard here in Guangxin County, someone will distribute land and houses to the people. Our family was really desperate, so we came here half-believingly."

Speaking of which, she happily patted her thigh.

"It turned out to be true. The heavens have eyes."

(End of this chapter)