Chapter 54: The Empress World

The appearance of Zhan Xin is just an episode in Ning Su's life. Whether he opens Su Hui or returns to the past from that ending, it has nothing to do with Ning Su.

That little emotion quickly passed away with the wind, and she left the Buddha behind and devoted herself to her next plan.

She is too busy, and the implementation of the New Deal is facing various obstacles. For a country and an ancient society with inconvenient transportation, no one can guarantee that the communication of policies can be perfect, which is difficult even for modern society.

In addition to those officials, those who are slick, and like to figure out what they want, the effect of execution is always far from expected.

For example, in terms of taxation, if the female emperor’s tax is 20%, it will become 30% when it is passed out of the imperial court, and it will become 40% when it is passed out of the capital. When it is actually implemented in various regions, every time The taxes paid by each farmer may be higher than 60% to 70% or even as high as 100%.

The emperor received only 20% of the tax, and the rest went into the pockets of officials at various levels. The emperor thought he had relieved the burden on the peasants, but that was not the case.

People's grievances are full of voices. Perhaps the spearhead at the beginning was on the officials, but in the end it would only be directed at the highest ruler of the country. This is how the people's grievances arose.

Ning Su really wants the policy to be directly accessible up and down, but she also understands that this is simply impossible. She can only send trusted officials to visit, investigate and inspect, and deal with the officials who have corpse-positioned vegetarian meals, or Killing chickens and monkeys makes those people hesitate to not act in favor of the yin.

The construction here is in full swing, and Shu Shulan's progress there is also fast.

Yan Xiuran is a very careful person, deceiving everyone in the Yun Dynasty with an impeccable mask, including the former empress, who has no defense against him.

Such a person would still not remove the disguise even in his own mansion, the mask has been integrated with him, and it has long been indistinguishable.

At the beginning, seeing Yan Xiuran's performance in the mansion, Shu Shulan even considered whether he would forge evidence that King Duanyang tried to rebel if he had no intention to rebel.

Shu Shulan is not a good person, in order to achieve her goal, she can do whatever it takes.

Her only concern, on the contrary, was such a method of framing, whether the female emperor could see through it.

Even with modern knowledge, after seeing so many people, she would not dare to treat the ancients as fools.

However, when Shu Shulan was preparing to take action, she found the secret passage in the Duanyang Palace, like a divine help, following the guidance of the underworld, she found evidence of his treason, and even letters of collusion with foreigners.

She spent two months sorting out the evidence, and then quietly entered the palace and stole the letters. Together with the people sent by the Empress to assist her, she divided the soldiers into several routes, disturbing Yan Xiuran’s sight, and then walked out of his. territory.

It's just that Shu Shulan was still found. When she ran away on horseback, she was shot by a stream of arrows and stumbled to avoid the chasers with her injuries.

The hostess broke the arrow feathers, and simply treated the wound to cover up the traces of blood dripping. She was in the town again, so she was suspicious and delayed the pursuit of the soldiers. Finally she hid in a manned room in the inn, in the owner’s house. Hidden with help.

She hid in the owner's motorcade, changing to the appearance of a little maid, and returned to the capital after a lot of hard work.

Without mentioning the twists and turns along the way, when Shu Shulan appeared in front of Ning Su again, she was still dressed as a little maid. She was anxious to hand things over to the empress, but she forgot that she was still in the disguise, if it hadn't been given by the empress. A token, probably cannot enter the palace yet.

She washed away the makeup on her face. The daily rushing and tight nerves made her look a little haggard. Her face was pale and her eyes were black and black. It was almost the most embarrassing moment after she crossed. However, when she saw the empress, Shu Shulan didn't realize it. A smile appeared: "Fortunately, not insulting my life."

"Thanks."

Ning Su flipped through the evidence compiled by the heroine, and King Duanyang hid it deeply, and there were many preparations for rebellion in the early days.

In the letter, he also made deals with foreigners, trying to get the other side to drag the officers and soldiers on the border, which can be said to be malicious.

He only sees the supreme position in his eyes, only his own interests, not the common people of the world, so he will be so disregarded for the people on the border and behave like a traitor.

"Your Majesty, Duanyang Wang Langzi's ambition, don't be angry with your body."

The maid persuaded the empress who should be angry. Shu Shulan looked up. She always felt that she couldn't tell whether she was angry on the empress’s expressionless face. She even felt that the empress knew about it a long time ago. It's just a confirmation.

"Aiqing thinks, what should I do?"

The female emperor kicked the ball to Shu Shulan, and the other side recovered from the stunned expression, but the smile on her face remained unchanged: "Your Majesty, have you already planned it?"

On the morning of the second day, Shu Shulan impeached King Duanyang for intent to rebel and claimed that she already had evidence. The officials were in an uproar. No one believed that King Duanyang, who was glamorous, was intent on rebellion, but all the doubts were in the evidence released by Shu Shulan. disappear.

The female emperor’s confidant produced such detailed evidence, which can only show that no matter whether this matter is true or false, the female emperor will resort to treason and make up her mind to arrest King Duanyang.

The way to deal with it came down quickly, first salute and then soldiers, send people to capture Yan Xiuran first, if the opponent doesn't follow, send soldiers to attack the fief.

In just one early time, the way to deal with Yan Xiuran had been decided.

The news from Yan Xiuran's eyeliner in Beijing, he prepared when the letter was lost, gave a short sneer: You are unkind, don't blame me for being difficult.

King Duanyang’s fief put on a good show, with a decree that smiled without a smile, the prince who had been wronged, and the guards who were emotionally blocking the arrest and the unbelievable people of the fief.

The sentiment was exciting, and everyone did not want to believe that King Duanyang would rebel. They blocked the imperial entrustment to enforce the law. In such a situation, in order to prove his innocence, Yan Xiuran "had to" summon the army in the fief in the name of Qingjun's side. Begin to attack the surrounding towns and attack all the way to the capital.

"it has started."

Hearing the military empress chuckled.

Yan Xiuran's abacus is very good, the sword points to the throne, and he still has to hold a good reputation and show his last resort. If he wins, he will eventually take the throne like this as a last resort.

At that time, everything will be covered up, no one will doubt why there are so many troops in his fief, and the conclusive evidence will be called slander, and only the glorious side will be left in the history books.

But he missed one thing.

"Next, let him see the results of our military training."

Shu Shulan smiled gently, and dropped a piece on the chessboard.

This time, it was completely different from the plot. The empress did not lose popular support, and even had high prestige among the people. Without Shu Shulan's help, Yan Xiuran could not match the scale of the original plot in terms of armaments and soldiers.

He was poorly prepared and rushed to raise troops. This was different from his plan. He had to secretly persuade several other vassals to attack together, trying to use himself as an example, telling them that even if Anxin was weakened, he could not avoid the end of death.

In this way, some vassals were indeed persuaded, following in the footsteps of King Duanyang, they also rebelled, also using the name of Qingjun.

Faced with such a war-torn situation, the empress did not panic. She was confident in the army she had trained in modern ways, not to mention that they had weapons that others could not match.

Soon, with the intention to advance all the way, the vassals who hit directly to the capital were dumbfounded. The female emperor’s army was allocated enough to suppress the rebels in each area. What they did not expect was that the opponent's marching speed was much faster than them. , And the weapons in hand are well-made, completely different from theirs.

It can fire endlessly, has a long range, a strong shield defense, and the firearms battalion that every feudal king will encounter, the gunpowder guns in their hands are simply weaker than their weapons.

What's more terrifying is the soldiers of the army. They have never seen such a tightly managed unit, with orders and prohibitions, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong, making it difficult to counter incitement.

Soon, the vassal alliance was retreating steadily. It was originally attacking the city outside the fief, but within a week of work, it was forced back into the fief.

The female emperor’s army was extremely strictly managed. After she took down the city, she did not burn, kill, or looting. She even rectified and camped on the street. Without disturbing the people or closing the city gates, everyone could leave or come back.

Because they were told before they set off that these fiefs were the territory of the Yun Dynasty, and the people were all citizens of the Yun Dynasty.

Even if they were not the people of the Yun Dynasty, they would not do it. This was the military rule set by the Empress herself.

In the initial stage, she also added the rule that offenders are cut, and those who obey are rewarded. Rewards can be more than plunder, and everyone who tastes the sweetness will naturally not violate.

When a climate develops in the future, this army will be stronger than any other army in this world.

In this way, the strategy of the vassal kings trying to incite the people to resist desperately went bankrupt. The other side sent soldiers to shout every day in front of the battle, denounce the king's rebellious actions, and boiled the broth in front of the battle, which was greedy by the soldiers. It's all green.

Various methods have emerged one after another, suppressing the fighting spirit of the enemy, or as if harassing the enemy to let them consume their will, or attacking the enemy head-on.

The war comes quickly and ends sooner.

Yan Xiuran didn't recover until he was arrested. He couldn't imagine how he was defeated, and how easily he was defeated.

The siege army found the dragon robe and the rebellion contacting the feudal king in his mansion, as well as the new collusion letter with foreigners, leaving the people in the fief who believed in his innocence dumbfounded.

King Duanyang, who had always shown nobility and grace, was rudely imprisoned and transported back to the capital. The remaining clan kings were also captured in their respective territories and transported away in the same way.

With the bumps along the way, they were no longer feudal kings. According to the treatment of prisoners, Yan Xiuran lost a lot of weight in a short time, and his face was full of stubble.

After arriving in the capital, the empress didn't even see them, she went straight to the jail.

The feudal kings who finally gathered complained to each other, especially to Yan Xiuran who persuaded them to rebel.

They walked all the way and found that the prosperity of the capital was unexpected. Even the state capitals around the capital were covered with cement and glass videos. The toys in the children's hands were very new and completely different from their enclaves.

And they heard from the jailers that those vassals who did not participate in the rebellion were fine, although according to the female emperor’s methods of cutting the vassal, their power and fiefdom would gradually shrink, but at least they don’t worry about wealth, unlike now. Ended up as a prisoner.

Yan Xiuran sneered. He cast aside the mask of the gentle gentleman at the beginning, and sarcastically satirized the actions of other brothers who were obviously greedy, but wanted to push everything to himself.

These powerful and powerful in the past are now biting each other, looking like market rascals.

And all the princes did not see the empress until the verdict.

Tomorrow is the time of death. Yan Xiuran lay on the dry wooden bed in the cell. The straw smelled of decay, and there was the sound of mice crawling over.

He still didn't want to understand how he fell to where he is now.

Yan Xiuran fell asleep in a daze. He had a dream. In this dream, he was still lurking at this time. The empress did not have those changes. There was his eyeliner in the court, and he was still the energetic King of Duanyang.

When he entered Beijing to celebrate his birthday, he met Shu Shulan, who was disguised as a man. The other party did not enter the court as an official, but after marrying him, he wholeheartedly planned for him.

At the end of this dream, he mastered all the powers, ascended to the highest position of this dynasty, lived the days of lying on the knees of a drunk beauty, waking up to the power of the world.

However, the dream is a dream after all. After waking up from this excessively real dream, Yan Xiuran laughed wildly and was pressed onto the execution ground by the jailer.

When the head fell to the ground, he saw his dream wife, who looked cold and dressed in official uniform.

It was like the moment he looked at each other in a dragon robe at the end of that dream.

Shu Shulan didn't pay attention to the gaze of a feudal king. After the execution, she hurriedly left and reported the incident to the empress.

Suppressing the rebels is only a test of the army this time. They have a more important purpose. They have to attack the northern barbarians. They must be beaten hard and afraid. They will no longer dare to use Yunchao as a fat sheep. Can surrender.

This time, Shu Shulan asked to join the army, and the empress took a deep look at her, as if to see all her abacus clearly, but in the end she agreed.

The battle with the barbarians lasted for half a year, and there were repeated successes. When the class teacher returned to the court, everyone's face was filled with uncontrollable proud smiles.

They did what all previous ancestors could not do. They hit the barbarian tribe and captured their leader alive. The barbarian bowed their heads and was willing to become a subject.

Reuse trade and assimilation, sooner or later the territory of the barbarians will fall into the territory of the Yun Dynasty.

Shu Shulan's brain quickly calculated.

In this battle, she has made a lot of contributions, coupled with those previous credits, she may become one of the fastest promoted officials in the Yun Dynasty.

However, the current Hai Qinghe Yan Sihai Shengping is not her ultimate goal, and the subsequent promotion and nobility is not her ultimate goal.

Shu Shulan looked at the empress who went out of the city to meet her not far away from the city gate, took a deep breath, got off her horse and knelt down, covering her ambition: "See Your Majesty."

"Aiqing, please."

Holding her arms with one hand, the Empress personally lifted her up.

She still looked like that, without any dissatisfaction because of her rising reputation. Such trust made Shu Shulan very conflicted about whether to implement her own plan.

Now that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the world is peaceful, and the people live and work in peace, isn't it enough in ancient times?

She said this to herself, but Shu Shulan understood that she would choose to implement that plan in the end.

If she was just an ordinary lady, Shu Shulan who grew up in this dynasty, she might have been satisfied with the status quo, but she was not.

She has seen freedom and light, so she cannot tolerate the darkness now.

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