Transmigrated into a farmer's lucky charm, all the villains in the family panicked.

Yun Qiaoqiao frowned at Xiao Yunqi: "What? Am I not good enough?"

"Then let's have a fight and see!"

Xiao Yunqi quickly waved her hand: "No, no, no, I mean, you are, after all, a woman..."

Huang Ziyang also said, "Yeah, yeah..."

Before they could finish speaking, Yun Qiaoqiao's face turned cold.

"What, you look down on women!"

Xiao Yunqi was both amused and exasperated: "That's not what I meant. I was just worried that the military might not accept me."

Zheng Chuntang nodded: "I'm afraid they won't even be able to get through the main gate!"

Yun Qiaoqiao wasn't afraid of that at all. "Looking like this, who could tell I'm a woman!"

Xiao Yunqi, Huang Ziyang, Zheng Chuntang and the others looked at her and nodded.

"It really doesn't seem like you can tell."

What Yun Qiaoqiao didn't say was that her younger sister had secretly contacted His Highness the Crown Prince and given her a secret decree, so that the generals leading the army would not prevent her from entering the camp just because she was a woman.

However, there is a condition: you have to earn your merits through your own abilities.

Therefore, she was not afraid of revealing her gender; she simply dressed as a man, which made things more convenient in the military camp.

Huang Ziyang stroked his chin and said to Xiao Yunqi:

"Qiaoqiao has gone to defend our country, what's the point of us staying in the capital? Why don't we go too!"

Xiao Yunqi slammed her hand on the table and stood up: "Yeah! You're right! I was thinking of going too."

He had long wanted to gain experience in the military, but he had never had the opportunity. This might be his chance.

Zheng Chuntang looked at them and said, "Then... I'll go too. It'll be even more boring for me to stay in the capital alone if you all go."

"Besides, the four of us together can help each other on the battlefield."

He paused after speaking, then changed the subject, his voice lowering, "But I guess my family won't agree, right? If my dad knew I wanted to join the army, he'd break my legs."

That's true.

Xiao Yunqi, Huang Ziyang, and Zheng Chuntang were all born of the eldest son and were greatly favored at home.

They proposed going to the battlefield, and no one would agree to that.

Yun Qiaoqiao didn't say anything.

Anyway, she was determined to go, and no one could stop her.

Huang Ziyang's eyes flickered.

"Since you want to go, let's not tell our families."

"I went there secretly, and by the time my father found out, I was already in the military camp. He couldn't very well go to the camp and drag me back, could he? That would be disrupting military affairs and cost him his head."

"But what if I come back like this? My dad hits me really hard. Last time he hit me with a ruler, my butt was bruised for days."

Xiao Yunqi rolled her eyes: "Since it's a battlefield, how can you not get injured and bleed? If you're not afraid of swords and spears, why would you be afraid of being beaten?"

"Besides, if you can achieve military merit and come back, would your father still have the heart to beat you? He'd be overjoyed, and might even throw you a victory celebration."

Upon hearing this, Huang Ziyang lowered his head and thought for a moment. If he could really earn military merit on the battlefield, his father would not only not beat him, but would probably write a special entry for him in the family genealogy.

He took a deep breath, raised his head, and his eyes were much more determined than before: "Alright, if you go, I'll go too. We brothers will advance and retreat together."

Xiao Yunqi and Zheng Chuntang both nodded.

And so the four of them made a deal.

They immediately dispersed, secretly returning home to prepare their belongings. Their plan was to set off two days later, the day before the main army's departure, to avoid being discovered...

In the private room next door, Yan Shijin was quietly drinking tea.

Mo Ning rushed in and whispered what she had just heard.

Yan Shijin paused, his hand holding the teacup still.

"Oh, Xiao Yunqi, Huang Ziyang, and Zheng Chuntang are going too?"

Mo Ning nodded: "Master, should I inform these officials?"

Yan Shijin thought for a moment and shook his head.

"They are all teenagers, and they need to be responsible for their own actions."

Mo Ning frowned: "But I'm afraid that if they run away, their families will cause trouble for the Yun family!"

"They...they'll think that the Fourth Miss seduced them..."

When Yun Qiaoqiao went to the Dark Guard Camp for training, it was Mo Ning who brought her in. He had also given Yun Qiaoqiao martial arts instruction, so naturally he felt a sense of sisterly affection for her and didn't want her to be implicated.

Yan Shijin said, "Then you should clean up the mess and not let those families know."

Mo Ning nodded, "Yes, Master, I will take care of it right away."

Yan Shijin walked to the window and looked downstairs. He saw that the first floor of the teahouse was full of people, all talking about attacking the Great Yan Kingdom.

Eunuch Li whispered, "Master, I truly didn't expect that Miss Yun would be so clever at only five years old."

"They just wrote a few stories and had storytellers tell them in teahouses and taverns, and these people got so excited that they wanted to tear the Great Yan envoys apart alive."

Yan Shijin's lips curled up: "Yes, Shengsheng is indeed very smart."

She said this is called using stories to guide public opinion, first unifying public anger onto a single target, making everyone feel that this battle is inevitable and must be fought, and uniting against external forces.

Thinking of this, the smile on his lips deepened even further.

When the emperor decided to attack the Great Yan, more than half of the ministers in the court opposed it.

The reason is understandable.

The new emperor has only been on the throne for a short time, and several neighboring countries are watching with covetous eyes. If we send troops to attack Great Yan at this time, and it gets into a protracted war, and other countries take advantage of the situation to invade, Great Xuan will be attacked from both sides.

But Yun Shengsheng gave him some advice.

The first step is to use storytelling, folk tales, and street gossip to make the evil deeds of the Great Yan Dynasty known to everyone, to unite everyone's anger into one force, and to make sending troops a popular choice.

The second step was to give the ministers a heads-up, letting them know that the new emperor was not just an emperor with a throne but no real wealth.

The emperor had plenty of money, plenty of grain, and plenty of soldiers.

Once these strengths are revealed, what can the opposing ministers say?

The source of this confidence can be traced back to Yun Shengsheng's earlier days.

Yan Shijin recalled the idea of ​​that little girl who was not even three years old two years ago.

They occupied Fengling Mountain, where the three counties meet, and used the mountain to grow grain and support the army, while opening restaurants at the foot of the mountain to gather intelligence and make money.

At the time, he just thought the idea was outrageously bold.

But now?

The seeds planted on the mountain were purchased by Yun Shengsheng from foreigners. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn were all high-yield and durable crops. In just two years, the granaries were already full of grain.

The Sihai Bafang Restaurant, which entertained merchants and officials from all over the country, was ostensibly a place for welcoming and sending off guests, but in reality, it was an intelligence hub and a commercial transit station.

They made a fortune every day just by buying and selling goods from the north and south.

Those refugees who had suffered from famine were secretly gathered into the bandit strongholds in the nearby mountains. They continued to expand their reach, eliminating all the banditry in several surrounding counties. A large amount of land and people were used to cultivate the land while secretly training troops. After two years, they had 200,000 elite soldiers, a strong and well-equipped force.

After these trump cards were revealed, even the ministers who had opposed them changed their minds...