Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 226 Pulling
In Huainan City, Su Qingwan and Yun Zhizhou were carefully planning the affairs of the city.

The defense of Huainan City urgently needed to be strengthened. Su Qingwan suddenly had an idea and decided to use her identity as the eldest daughter of the Xie family to expand her business. She recruited a lot of people, not only focusing on the construction of the city defense, but also taking into account the business layout and people's livelihood affairs, and she did a good job.

She even specially invited local farmers to discuss spring farming matters together, and contributed both money and manpower, taking over almost all the affairs of Huainan City.

Qingyun, Luzhu and Qingqing, these women who used to be martial maids, have now become Su Qingwan's right-hand men and play a key role in various affairs.

As Nianqing had not yet returned home, Chenfeng took on the responsibility of recruiting more guards for the palace. Most of these newly recruited guards were stationed in the outer courtyard. As time went on, the entire Huainan Palace gradually took on the grandeur that a first-class prince's palace should have.

Although Su Qingwan is busy all day long, she also knows how to take a break from her busy schedule and enjoy life to the fullest.

She was keen on tasting all kinds of delicacies in Huainan. In just half a month, her figure became rounder. Seeing this, Qingyun and Luzhu felt a sense of accomplishment. Whenever they had some free time, they would take Su Qingwan to explore more delicacies in the city. The three of them would find fun in the world of food together.

In recent years, Huainan City has been short of manpower, bullies who cause trouble and disturb the people in the city are rampant, and all kinds of unfair things happen from time to time.

Fortunately, after the government office expanded its staff, the number of patrol teams on the streets increased significantly. At first, there were still some bullies who didn't know how to restrain themselves and made trouble. Whenever this happened, Su Qingwan would be fair and decisive in making judgments.

Gradually, the public security in the city improved greatly. Seeing this, many young men also enthusiastically joined the government office, hoping to contribute to maintaining order in the city.

Chen Feng also got an official position in the government office, responsible for training new soldiers and contributing to the stability of Huainan City.

Thanks to the efforts of Su Qingwan and others, Huainan City gradually became prosperous.

At the same time, the news that the little princess of Huainan had returned to Huainan spread like wildfire and reached Lu Jing's desk in Kyoto.

Lu Jing was not surprised by this. He knew that it was natural for Su Qingwan to return to Huainan to pay tribute to her ancestors after Huainan was rehabilitated. He was certain that as long as the Huainan Palace remained in the fiefdom, Su Qingwan would never be able to completely escape his control. Over the years, he had endured countless days and nights of lovesickness, and he had the patience to continue waiting.

He secretly swore in his heart, Su Qingwan, no matter you are the eldest sister-in-law or the little princess of Huainan, don't even think about escaping from his grasp!

Yun Zhizhou also submitted a memorial to the court, stating that the Huainan Palace had welcomed back its owner, hoping that the court would restore all the regulations of the Huainan Palace in the fiefdom and let the Huainan area return to the jurisdiction of the Huainan King. This memorial caused an uproar in the court, and the ministers argued endlessly about the matter.

In the court, voices of opposition arose one after another.

Some ministers believed that since the little princess of Huainan was a girl and there were no male descendants in her family, it was not in accordance with the rules to restore her fiefdom. Should she be given a princess? Others questioned that more than a decade had passed and the Huainan lineage was almost extinct. According to legend, the little princess of Huainan had already died in the Yangxin Palace. It was not known whether the sudden appearance of a little princess was true or false. Perhaps the old people of the Huainan Palace were greedy for wealth and glory and wanted to seize the wealth of the fiefdom by taking advantage of the opportunity of redress.

According to common sense, the possibility of this matter being passed in the court is very slim, especially the military generals from the Huainan lineage, who should have been the most resolute opponents.

Ningyuan Hou and General Chen were both generals from the lineage of the King of Huainan. The civil officials thought that they would strongly oppose the proposal to restore the fiefdom of the King of Huainan in the court. But who would have thought that in the court, these two generals were as quiet as quails, and did not say a word from beginning to end.

The daily behavior of these generals is quite interesting. Now that the world is at peace and the Xilin peace talks are progressing very smoothly, most of them choose to retire and enjoy their wealth and prosperity.

However, in state affairs, they particularly liked to oppose Lu Jing. Take the simplest corruption case discussed in the morning court for example. They could argue with the officials of the Lu family for a whole hour, no matter how big or small, as if they were determined to make trouble for the regent Lu Jing. But strangely, in the Huainan incident, Lu Jing chose to remain silent, and this group of military generals who usually loved to stir up trouble also strangely followed suit and remained silent, and the atmosphere in the court became a little subtle.

Not long after the news of the return of the young princess of the Huainan prince to the palace reached the capital, new news came from Huainan, saying that the eldest son of the former Huainan prince was still alive and had now requested an imperial decree to be crowned king and wanted to take over the Huainan fiefdom. This news was like a heavy bomb, instantly leaving the originally noisy civil servants speechless.

The little princess was a girl, so they still had reasons to block the restoration of the fiefdom. But now that the prince had a bloodline and was the eldest son, they had no idea how to block it. So, someone else stood up and questioned, how could the prince and the eldest princess have a son when they were engaged but had not yet married? For a time, the civil officials were all talking, and they shared the same hatred and wrote to the emperor, asking him to punish Huainan and withdraw the fiefdom.

Among them, officials from Zhongzhou resisted most fiercely.

After all, in the past ten years or so, half of Huainan, a rich land, belonged to the southwest and the other half to Zhongzhou. If Huainan now welcomes its true master, Zhongzhou will inevitably lose this piece of "fat meat", so they are naturally unwilling and strongly oppose it.

But at the moment, no one in the court knew what the current situation in Huainan was, and whether the Huainan Palace had really welcomed back its master, everything was still unknown.

Ningyuan Hou stepped forward and volunteered, "Your Highness, Princess, I have long been friends with the Huainan Palace, and my wife has always wanted to go back to Huainan to visit her relatives. I beg you to hurry to Huainan and find out the truth. Whether the matter of the Huainan Palace is true or not, I will know it after I go there. If the prince really has a son alive, I am confident that I can recognize him at a glance!"

The princess looked calm and composed, nodded slightly, and said calmly: "Okay. Your Majesty, what do you think?"

Lu Jing secretly cursed the princess, Ningyuan Marquis and others in his heart, but his face remained calm and he said in a calm tone: "The matter of Huainan's fiefdom is a serious matter. Ningyuan Marquis has a history with the Huainan Palace. If we go there rashly, I'm afraid it will be inappropriate."

Upon hearing this, the princess couldn't help but frown slightly.

She really didn't expect that Lu Jing would oppose Ningyuan Hou's going to Huainan. In her opinion, for Xiaowu's sake, Lu Jing should not oppose this matter anyway. Moreover, now that the power in the southwest has become stronger, the court must support new forces on the border to balance them. If Nian Qing can take over Huainan, he is the most appropriate candidate because he is of Huainan blood and also has royal blood.

"Then what do you think should be done?" The princess looked directly at Lu Jing and asked.

"Since Huainan has welcomed back the old master and is determined to restore the power of the Huainan fiefdom, then please ask the little princess to bring the prince to the capital to meet the emperor." Lu Jing's tone was indifferent, but his eyes revealed a hint of unquestionable meaning. He couldn't leave the capital, but he had a way to make Su Qingwan take the initiative to return to him.

By the time the imperial edict arrived in Huainan, it was already the end of April and the weather was getting hotter. Su Qingwan had been running around for business and trade between Huainan and Xilin for days, and her body was overwhelmed. She fell ill from exhaustion and could only rest in bed in the house.

As soon as the imperial edict entered the city gate, the news quickly reached the ears of the guards of the palace. Su Qingwan heard it, and despite her sick body, she got up and prepared to receive the edict. She unfolded the imperial edict and recognized the handwriting on it at a glance. The pen strokes were strong and powerful, and it was exactly Lu Jing's handwriting.

He wanted her to come to the capital, and the wording of the imperial edict was not polite at all.

Su Qingwan's lips curled up slightly, revealing a meaningful smile. Just from this imperial edict, she could clearly sense Lu Jing's suppressed anger.

He must still be feeling aggrieved about her pretending to be the eldest sister-in-law, and must still be wondering whether she is the real eldest sister-in-law or there is some other hidden story.

"My princess is weak and cannot bear the hardship of such a long journey. I am afraid that I cannot go to the capital. If the Regent wants to discuss the affairs of Huainan, why not come in person?"