Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

Chuanhai, Chaoping County, the prefect's office.

The north wind had been howling for days, and a chilly drizzle had been falling. Wu Changlin was the only one left in the lobby, sitting by the stove and sipping tea, enjoying a very happy life.

He is not only the eldest son of the Wu family in Jiangdong, but also the elder brother-in-law of the Emperor of Wei. He holds the lucrative post in Sichuan and Hai. The port of Chaoping County alone makes a fortune every day, bringing huge income to the Maritime Customs. People all over the world want to curry favor with him. In addition, with the intention of Your Majesty, he also holds the local military power.

In Chuanhai, he is almost like a local emperor.

Wu Changlin was in such a good mood.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and the footsteps outside sounded hurried, and it was obvious that the people were very cold.

Wu Changlin's confidant, Wu Qingzhi, a relative he brought from the Wu family, pushed the door open and walked in with a memorial in his hand. After entering, he did not bother to warm his red, frozen hands, but handed the memorial to Wu Changlin and said excitedly: "Young Patriarch, this is an official document from the court, signed by Geng Jianguo himself, to transfer the young patriarch to the capital. Young Patriarch, you have been promoted."

After saying that, he stamped his feet and then gathered around the fire to warm himself.

Wu Changlin frowned and quickly opened the document to read it.

Geng Songfu first praised Wu Changlin's achievements in Sichuan and Hai, and used all kinds of beautiful words to praise Wu Changlin.

Finally, in order to commend his achievements, Wu Changlin was transferred to Beijing and appointed as the Left Vice-Censor-in-Chief, a fourth-rank official.

Although the prefect is also a fourth-rank official.

But one was a local official and the other was a Beijing official, so it could be said that they were promoted.

"Young Patriarch, what's wrong?" Seeing Wu Changlin's gloomy face, Wu Qingzhi restrained the joy on his face and asked.

"I've already told you to call your position by your title when you're outside." Wu Changlin shouted coldly.

"It's just me and the young patriarch here."

"Ok?"

Wu Changlin glared at Wu Qingzhi, causing the latter to swallow back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Wu Changlin put away the document and threw it aside, saying, "This is not a promotion at all, it's clearly a promotion in name only, a demotion in reality. The Censor seems to be able to monitor all officials and report directly to the emperor, but he is not as powerful as the prefect.

In Sichuan and Hai, I am the boss, but once I come to Beijing, I have to rely on others for support."

"What are you talking about, sir? The head of the family is the Minister of War, and my sister is the Queen. Even if we go to Beijing, who would dare to put on airs in front of you, sir?" Wu Qingzhi said with a smile.

"Alas, you don't understand Lord Geng's intention." Wu Changlin sighed. He has been in this position for almost three years. It is completely reasonable and in accordance with procedures for Geng Songfu to transfer him to Beijing.

"What's the purpose?" Wu Qingzhi didn't understand.

"Lord Geng is worried that I will become too powerful in Chuanhai. My father is the Minister of War, my sister is the current empress, my nephew is the crown prince, my family is a prominent family in Jiangdong, and I am serving as a prefect in a foreign country, with quite outstanding political achievements. No one will be at ease with me." Wu Changlin hadn't said anything else. He heard that there was a Jiangdong Party in the capital, which had a large number of members and was very involved.

As for these relatives by marriage, Your Majesty can still suppress them because he is young.

If Your Majesty is old, the Crown Prince is not old enough.

Tsk tsk, I just can’t even think about it.

"This..." Wu Qingzhi thought, and felt that the court's worry was indeed correct, especially since the head of the family was still leading troops outside.

"Sir, why don't you ask the Queen to not transfer you to the capital?" Wu Qingzhi said.

"Stupid." Wu Changlin scolded lightly: "If the court is just worried about this and wants to prevent trouble before it happens, then if you go to intercede now, it will be equivalent to confirming the matter. Do you want to bring trouble to the family as well?"

Wu Qingzhi lowered his head and said, "Your Excellency is right."

"Well, I'll have to stand guard for the last time. It's good to go back to Beijing. At least my mother and sister are in the capital and we can be reunited often." Wu Changlin said this, but he couldn't hide his disappointment in his heart. He felt that the court didn't trust him enough.

After a long moment of melancholy, Wu Changlin asked, "By the way, has today's court bulletin arrived?"

"It should have arrived. I'll go get it right away." Wu Qingzhi said.

Wu Changlin waved his hand: "Go quickly and come back soon."

Soon, Wu Qingzhi came back with the official report, his face full of excitement.

Wu Changlin's eyebrows twitched. What was going on? He put down the document he had picked up and looked at it again, and asked, "What happened?"

"Sir, good news, great news. Jin Xia is completely dead." Wu Qingzhi said excitedly.

Wu Changlin was stunned: "Didn't the court report announce the surrender of Jinxia before? What about the complete demise now?"

He took the official report from Wu Qingzhi, opened it and started reading. In an instant, he sat up straight, picked up the teapot, filled the cup with tea, and prepared to read it carefully.

It turned out that when Jinxia surrendered, it was only the monarch of Jinxia who led all the officials to surrender. There was still resistance force in Jinxia, ​​and they were preparing to move south.

Your Majesty discovered Jinxia's conspiracy and completely eliminated this resistance force in Jinxia in the Datong Pass area.

"Okay." Wu Changlin shouted "Okay", putting aside his previous disappointment for the time being. This was so exciting.

Putting down the newspaper, Wu Changlin stood up and paced back and forth in the hall.

Wu Qingzhi asked in confusion: "Sir, do you want to go back to the mansion to rest?"

Wu Changlin stopped and said in a serious tone: "Send someone immediately to inform the four counties of Chuanhai, and ask each county to write an article to praise the merits of the Wei generals in defeating the Jinxia barbarians."

As he spoke, Wu Changlin picked up the official newspaper and walked out: "Prepare the sedan chair. How can we not share this exciting news with the Nangong family? Hahahaha."

Wu Changlin laughed loudly, looked up to the sky and went out.

Wu Qingzhi hurriedly followed, held an umbrella for Wu Changlin, and called the servant to pass on what Wu Changlin had instructed.

……

Fengzhou, Menghe County.

Although this county was granted to Menghe Duke Chu Yi by Chen Mo, it was under the jurisdiction of the Wei Dynasty after all. Therefore, the reports sent down by the Tongzhengsi were also sent to Menghe County.

At noon, Menghe Duke Chu Yi was having lunch with the former Emperor Emeritus of the Song Dynasty, also known as Emperor Xuanhe, his father Chu Nan, and his wife Wu Xian.

The father and son were brothers in distress, and both of their queens were stolen by others.

The women who follow me now are all arranged by others.

"Father, the Jinxia nation has been completely destroyed this time." Chu Yi handed the report to Chu Nan.

Chen Mo allowed Chu Yi and others to enjoy the emperor's courtesy in Menghe County, and all the taxes in this county did not have to be paid, but belonged to the Chu family.

Chu Nan's eyebrows moved, and he immediately took the report and read it. After a moment, he sighed and said, "The Emperor of Wei is even more powerful than Emperor Taizu."

When Chu Yi heard this, he did not refute it. After all, the great achievements made by the current Emperor of Wei were not achieved by the original Emperor Taizu.

As for its own strength
The Emperor of Wei is still young. If he continues like this, he will sooner or later be able to enter the first-grade celestial realm.

"Although I don't want to admit it, the Emperor of Wei is indeed stronger than Emperor Taizu." Chu Yi said.

Chu Nan shook his head. What he said just now was not what Chu Yi understood.

Chu Yi was a puppet emperor supported by Lu Sheng.

After all, Chu Nan had been the emperor with real power for a period of time. There were some royal secrets that Chu Yi didn't know, but he did.

That is Jin Xia has a magical treasure.

This is a secret passed down orally by emperors of the Song Dynasty. Emperor Taizu was not forced to seek peace with Jin Xia because of domestic instability.

It was that Emperor Taizu was injured by Jin Xia's magic treasure and had to retreat. Few people knew about this.

On the Song side, those who knew that Emperor Taizu was injured were killed by Emperor Taizu.

Later, before his death, Emperor Taizu told his successor that if the Song Dynasty did not have overwhelming strength, it should not go to war with the Jin Dynasty.

Afterwards, Emperor Taizu's successor told this story to his own successor, and it was passed down from generation to generation.

This is also the reason why, although the Song Dynasty was stronger than Jin and Xia for two or three hundred years, it did not send large-scale military forces against Jin and Xia except during the reign of Emperor Taizu.

After all, after Emperor Taizu, several people who reached the level of celestial being appeared in the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, when we learned that Wei had suddenly attacked Jinxia, ​​it was when the Emperor of Wei led the army in person.

Chu Nan was waiting to see the joke. He would be even happier if the Emperor of Wei was killed by Jin Xia's magic treasure.

But the result was that the Wei army won, and won a great victory, and the Jin Xia Dynasty was destroyed.

Although Chu Nan didn't know what Jin Xia's magic treasure was, Emperor Taizu had to retreat injured, but Chen Mo won. Isn't he stronger than Emperor Taizu?

Just then, a servant who looked like a eunuch came over.

"Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor, the Emperor of Wei requests an audience," said the servant.

There's no need for Chu Yi and the others to spread anything.

After a while, Chen Mo came over with Nalan Yiren and several soldiers.

Seeing that the soldiers were still armed, Chu Nan and Chu Yi did not react, but Wu Xian stepped forward, stood in front of Chu Yi, and said coldly: "What are you doing here? The throne has been abdicated to you, and we have all moved to Menghe County. Do you still want to kill us all?"

"Xian'er." Chu Yi was stunned. He didn't expect that Wu Xian, as a daughter of the Wu family, would defend him so much.

Chen Mo was also stunned. After remembering that this woman was Wu Xian, he looked at Chu Yi with a bit of envy. He didn't expect that even though he had reached this point, there was still a woman who treated him like this.

As a wife, Wu Xian is absolutely qualified for Chu Yi.

"It's Madam Chu." Chen Mo smiled and said, "I just returned from Jinxia and passed by here. I have something I want to ask you two."

Chen Mo looked at Chu Nan and Chu Yi.

Since Tuoba Zhi said that Emperor Wu used the magic treasure to seriously injure Emperor Taizu of Song.

Is it possible that Emperor Taizu of Song also recorded this incident to warn his descendants?

Therefore, Chen Mo wanted to get more information about the "Blood God Seal" from Chu Nan and the others.

Chu Nan could guess why Chen Mo came.

Chu Yi was very confused as to what he could possibly ask the Emperor of Wei for advice.

But he couldn't refuse this kind of thing, so he said, "Please."

Sure enough, Chu Nan did know about the Jinxia Immortal Treasure, but he only knew about it and knew that the Jinxia Immortal Treasure was very powerful, and that was all.

So Chen Mo didn't get any useful information, it only proved that what Tuoba Zhi said was true.

Before leaving, Chen Mo glanced at Wu Xian and said to Chu Yi, "She is very good. Treat her well and don't blame her for your hatred towards me."

After saying that, Chen Mo left.

"Father, what does he mean by this?" Chu Yi looked at Chu Nan in a daze.

Chu Nan said in a serious tone: "It's time for you two to have a child."

……

Outside the Meng Mansion.

"I thought that in addition to asking about the fairy treasure, you also planned to use this incident to blame them. After all, if they report this matter, we can be prepared." Nalan Yiren stopped and looked at Chen Mo.

"After all, the Wei Dynasty inherited the Song Dynasty. Now that some things have been resolved, there is no need to kill them all." Chen Mo shook his head, got on the carriage, and then turned back to Nalan Yiren and said, "Yiren, do you want to ride in a carriage with me?"

Nalan Yiren glared at Chen Mo and walked towards the carriage behind.

If I really were to ride in the same carriage with him in that enclosed space, I'm afraid he would take off all my clothes as soon as I got in.

Chen Mo shook his head and smiled. After getting on the carriage, he lifted the curtain and said, "Let's go back to Beijing."

"drive."

In the carriage, after Chen Mo sat down, he patted Wan Yan Ya's hips and said, "Continue."

Wanyan Ya blinked her big eyes, her charm revealed. She glanced at Yuzhu who was peeling fruit beside her with a nonchalant look. She came to Chen Mo, knelt down, and raised her hand to untie her belt.

"hiss"

Jinxia’s matter is over. From now on, I can finally enjoy myself to the fullest.

The journey was smooth and non-stop.

When Chen Mo returned to the capital, it was already the end of January.

The outskirts of Tianchuan City were already crowded with people, waiting to welcome Chen Mo and the Wei army's triumphant return.

On both sides of the official road in the suburbs, there were crowds of people.

I'm not afraid of the cold, as the weather is just warming up now.

And this was not organized by the imperial court. The imperial court just leaked the news and the people in the city spontaneously organized themselves.

Jin Xia has a blood feud with the people of Zhongzhou.

Now that the benefactor who destroyed Jinxia has returned, we must cheer and thank him.

Wang Yu, the historical recorder, was also there. When Chen Mo's dragon arrived at the outskirts of the city, he immediately picked up his pen and started taking notes.

On January 30th of the third year of Zhenghe, the emperor returned victoriously from his expedition against Jinxia. The people cheered, the streets were empty, and it was a prosperous time.

Wait until Chen Mo arrives at the palace.

Wang Yu's third sister, Wang Xiu, the female historian who recorded daily records, took notes and introduced Wanyan Ya to Wu Mi and the others.

On January 30th of the third year of Zhenghe, the emperor returned triumphantly and brought Jinxia Khatun Wanyan into the palace.

When Chen Mo proposed to confer the title of Concubine Ya on Wanyan Ya.

After the previous sentence, Wang Xiu added "It is planned to make Wanyan a concubine and add her to the harem."

Chen Mo did not chat with Wu Mi and the others for too long, nor did he return to the palace to rest. He went straight to Yue Ruyan's bedroom.

From Wu Mi, Chen Mo learned that Yue Ruyan had given birth to a boy, whose nickname was Rong'er, and whose full name would be chosen when Chen Mo returned.

When Chen Mo arrived, Yue Ruyan was feeding her child. That was why she did not come out to greet Chen Mo when he entered the palace.

After seeing Chen Mo coming in, Yue Ruyan's face lit up with joy, then her face turned red and she turned around and said, "Why did you just barge in? Get out now."

Chen Mo refused and walked forward, hugged Yue Ruyan's slender waist, pinched the baby's face, and said with a smile: "It's not like you haven't seen it before. By the way, why do you call him Rong'er?"

(End of this chapter)