My Fantastic Chef Wife

370. Rebellion from the North

Translator: Kickassjo

Ye Xiaoxian took off the golden necklace on her neck and put it on Jin Xiaoyu’s neck.

Jin Xiaoyu was wrapped in everyone’s blessings and was particularly excited.

After the ceremony, she and Tarico sat on their horses and returned to Tarico’s yurt together, which was regarded as the consumation of the two in Tianshan tribe.

……

In the afternoon, just like the any previous Feast of Sacrifice, a musical performance was arranged.

Some of those girls who performed before were married such as Tarico’s neighbor and some had passed away such as tribal leader’s daughter. There were many new faces for the performance.

Among them, there were some people form Zhongyuan Area.

This fully demonstrated the contribution that Tarico and Squire Liu made for the Tianshan tribe.

They had been working hard to bring everyone together and lead people to obtain wealth, as a result of which the tribe was united.

In the current Tianshan tribe, no one suffered from hunger. They could make money by raising goats, planting cotton and fruit and with money in their pockets, people were less agitated.

Some orphans had also received help from Tarico and were no longer worried about starvation or being bullied.

Now that Ye Xiaoxian was back, Ye Xiaoxian decided to teach others her recipe of dried beef. When she had money in the future, she also planned to build some public facilities in the tribe, such as playground for the children and some modern-like equipment.

Ye Xiaoxian reinstated her previous job in the tribe. Xiao Baoshan sometimes worked in the tribe and sometimes worked in the town.

Xiao Baoshan was mainly to meet the Sixth King and the Seventh King.

Even though they were far away from Capital City and now living a peaceful life, he sensed that the danger would not disspipated so soon. They couldn’t sit tight and wait for their death, so they had to be prepared and put up the defenses.

As soon as the Sixth King and the Seventh King knew Xiao Baoshan was back, they called him over right away.

As they discussed about the matter in Capital City, after knowing their escape and State Preceptor’s plan, Li Chengyi frowned and said, “It seems that something is going to happen in the North.”

Li Chengru also analyzed, “Unless Yan Ziyan goes back the Capital City obediantly and accepts their arrangement, and his soldiers can obey, the North is bound to repel.”

Li Chengyi said, “I’m sure that Yan Ziyan isn’t that stupid. He should know that once he returns to the Capital City, he will lose his life.”

Li Chengru clenched his fists and sighed, “I really didn’t expect Third Brother would be such a weak emperor. It was not yet a big deal for his cowardice before he became the emperor but now that he has all the power in his hands, why haven’t him taken State Preceptor out of the picture? Why is he still being manipulated by State Preceptor?”

Xiao Baoshan who has been quiet for a while said at this moment, “It is because his throne was obtained by schemes, he will always be anxious that he would lose it one day and he won’t be able to trust anyone, except for those officials who had helped him with schemes.”

The group went silent for a moment.

Li Chengru said, “You’re right. He has been in the muddy water for too long. He will think this might all just be a dream when he comes to clear water.”

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As they said, after Xiao Baoshan and Li Chengyi met, bad news came from the North that Yan Ziyan had defected!

Yan Ziyan guarded the northern desert and Heihe City forbidding the people in the city to communicate with the outside world. The people in the two cities no longer paid taxes to the Capital City and began to provide for themselves. At the same time, they expanded their military strength and called himself “King of the North”.

How could the imperial court tolerate this? So they sent an army to attack Yan Ziyan.

This was a justified battle in imperial court, but since their army was lack of war experience, although they have a large army with enough weaponry, they were still beaten by the Yan Ziyan’s army and lost a lot of food and weaponry.

Li Chengkun and State Preceptor almost fainted from anger in the palace.

State Preceptor was so furious that he argued with Empress Dowager angrily, blaming her for letting Xiao Baoshan go.

Empress Dowager ignored him and felt that everything she did was right.

State Preceptor had no choice but to send a messenger out to get Xiao Baoshan and Qian Qi back.

He thought that the reason Xiao Baoshan was unwilling to kill Yan Ziyan in the past was because of the lack of justification, but now that Yan Ziyan has repelled and was endangering the Qi Dynasty, Xiao Baoshan and Qian Qi would have to go back.

However, Xiao Baoshan and Qian Qi already knew about State Preceptor’s plan.

If they went to war this time and didn’t win, they would die in the North.

If they won, they would outshine the Emperor and die in Capital City or being captive in Capital City. The Emperor used them when he needed them but when he didn’t, he would just send someone insignificant over.

Even the most loyal warrier would need to be principled at this time.

Xiao Baoshan kept the messenger in Baoning City and didn’t allow him to go back and report to the Emperor.

In Capital City, State Preceptor and Li Chengkun waited for the messengers for a long time, so they knew that Xiao Baoshan was not willing to go out to battle again.

They could only send others to attack Yan Ziyan on their behalf.

Who could have known that not only did Yan Ziyan won again, he also managed to invade the Linglong County.

From now on, Yan Ziyan had three cities in the North, northern desert, Heihe City, and Linglong County.

If this continued,Yan Ziyan would march into the Capital City.

The Emperor and State Preceptor didn’t know whether they would lose Capital City should this continued.

Therefore, after the Emperor and State Preceptor had a discussion, they sent an ambassador to talk to Yan Ziyan and planning to award him as ‘Guardian of the North’ and let him rule the North.

It was not until now that the situation on the North stabilized.

The Emperor and State Preceptor lost more than they gained. Giving them the land was a helpless action for peace, but there was nothing they could do but to wait for the right time.

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However, the Emperor and State Preceptor barely have the time to rest when bad news came again.

Yan Ziyan refused to surrender but after he won the war, he even got awarded and so the generals from all over the nation followed suit. Even the East and the South repelled.

The East was guarded by General Zhang Xinyi. There were a lot of gangsters along the coast so they have a group of brave and strong soldiers. Persuaded by his subordinates, Zhang Xinyi also announced independence.

Then there was Qi Lin from the South, who was sent here by Capital City to take over after Xiao Baoshan reclaimed Qing He County. It was not known where the young man got the nerve to announce independence as well.

The Great Qi Dynasty split apart and collapsed in a moment.

Li Chengkun and the Emperor were very anxious, but there was no one in the Capital City who could come up with a solution.

At this point, who would dare to make a suggestion? What if it was far from satisfactory to State Preceptor and ended up like Master Xun?

They had no choice but to award Zhang Xinyi from the east and Qi Lin from the south as guardians for the peace.

This matter became the talk of the people and people all felt that the Great Qi Dynasty might be over.

……

After Xiao Baoshan and the others found out about this news, they practiced the formations even harder.

Now the West seemed peaceful enough and since it was ruled by His Royal Highness, it would not repel.

However, in the eyes of the outsiders, there were no soldiers on the West so anyone who wanted to be king could easily take the city as long as they marched into Baoning City. The land in the West was easy to take.

Their first step was to protect themselves.

Ye Xiaoxian was aware of the current situation and Xiao Baoshan told her that they had secretly trained soldiers.