The people sent out to poison came back empty-handed and reported back, causing their master to be furious.
They were busy scolding their servants for their poor performance, but they didn't know that their malice towards Yu Zizhen had been conveyed to Yu Zizhen himself by the baby voice system.
Yu Zizhen was also very clear about this. She wrote down every person involved in the tattling that was reported by her ear in her little notebook for punishing evildoers and eliminating evil.
After sending the beggars away, Jiang Yunshan came over to report to Yu Zizhen, "Sir, those warriors who accidentally ate croton powder want to see you."
Yu Zizhen nodded and said, "Let's do it tomorrow. Bring them to the Zhenbei Palace."
With the system as her gospel, Yu Zizhen had long known that those warriors wanted to see her. She even knew that in addition to expressing her gratitude, those people actually wanted her to help them uphold justice.
But unfortunately, Yu Zizhen really couldn't help them in this matter.
So the next day, when the other party thanked her and asked her to seek justice for them, Yu Zizhen could only tell them with regret, "As soon as you got into trouble, the innkeeper had someone report it to the police, but the Jingzhao Prefecture couldn't find anything."
No matter how corrupt the court is in private, how dark the officialdom is, and how officials abuse their power for personal gain, everyone still has to hold up a fig leaf in public.
This is also why those suspects would rather drug their children's competitors than directly call a black cat a white cat during the martial arts selection process.
Similarly, even if Yu Zizhen wanted to seek justice for these victims, she could not just rely on the system to convict anyone. She had to provide witnesses and evidence first.
A young and energetic man looked unwilling, "So is this matter just going to be left unresolved? Did we suffer all this in vain?"
Before Yu Zizhen could say anything, the young man's senior brother had already raised his foot to kick his junior brother, "How dare you talk to the prince?!"
He held the young man's head, and the two of them apologized to Yu Zizhen together.
Yu Zizhen said she didn't mind, "It's inevitable that young people are a little naive, but you are definitely going to suffer this loss."
Everyone: ...A child who is less than ten years old calls a boy of seventeen or eighteen a "young man". This scene is really incongruous no matter how you look at it.
The eldest brother cleared his throat to dispel the strange feeling in his heart, "I understand. There is no evidence. If we insist on biting someone, then it won't be that they are harming us, but we will be the ones slandering them."
There is no such thing as so much logic in the things in this world. They were accidentally tricked by others, and those people did it cleanly without leaving any evidence. What can they do even if they are unwilling?
Even if they risked their lives to cause a scene, the ones who would suffer in the end would not be the guys behind the scenes, but the victims themselves who were unfamiliar with the place.
Most people can understand the truth, and the few who can't, such as the young and energetic young man, have their companions who break it down and explain it to them.
After weighing the pros and cons, everyone finally decided to swallow the loss in silence.
But knowing what to do intellectually does not mean that they can accept it calmly and without any ripples emotionally.
They all came from modest backgrounds. The cost of training martial arts over the years, as well as the journey to the capital, had already drained their savings. Now, with this outcome, they would soon have to return home in disgrace. Thinking of the possible reactions of their families, everyone's moods simultaneously darkened.
Yu Zizhen noticed their changing expressions and offered an olive branch. "If you don't mind, why not join my army and serve me? It may not be as glorious as serving as an official in the imperial court, but it will be enough to support your family."
As everyone suddenly looked up with shocked expressions, Yu Zizhen glanced at Jiang Yunshan, indicating that he should explain his personal treatment in detail to everyone.
Jiang Yunshan stepped forward with a smile, and then read out to everyone the salary system and promotion mechanism that Yu Zizhen had already established.
The more they listened, the more excited they became. People who needed to support their families had no right to act so willfully, especially since the one recruiting them was a noble like the Prince of Zhenbei.
The twelve people divided into several small groups and whispered to each other for a while, then they all knelt on one knee to express their loyalty and submission to Yu Zizhen.
Yu Zizhen smiled and asked someone to help them up, then took out the employment plan she had prepared long ago and asked Jiang Yunshan to place them according to the plan.
Everyone's positions were not the same. Except for two people who were picked out by her and kept by her side as guards, the others were placed in other places by her.
In the next few years, they will, in their respective positions, privately train Yu Zizhen's own private armed forces.
Of course, they have not yet gained Yu Zizhen's trust, and they don't know the specific content of the mission.
They had to wait until they arrived at their respective places and Yu Zizhen had already deployed people there in advance before he would tell them the specific content of their tasks.
After investigating Yu Zizhen, Chen Hushan had the same idea, but was a step too late. He was frustrated and regretful for not being able to recruit such a talented person. But soon, he was filled with fighting spirit. "From now on, I will never let Yu Zizhen, a guy who looks simple but is treacherous, get ahead of me again!"
After the military examination, Yu Zizhen received an invitation to a flower-viewing banquet from Princess Anqing's mansion.
This time, Princess Anqing hosted a flower-viewing banquet in order to choose a wife for her eldest son. Her eldest son was left to her by a lover many years ago. Now she has long forgotten what the lover looked like, but Princess Anqing has always been very fond of her eldest son.
Before he came of age, Princess Anqing persuaded the Empress Dowager to grant him the title of Prince, which was an unprecedented honor in the history of the Qi Dynasty.
There were always many people who wanted to add icing on the cake or even curry favor with the powerful. On the day of the banquet, almost all officials, nobles, and royal relatives above the third rank in the capital sent their female relatives to show their support for Princess Anqing.
These people may not all want to marry their daughters to the son of the moody and domineering Princess Anqing, but even if they don't want to, they dare not prevent their families from attending the banquet at Princess Anqing's mansion.
Those who are more confident will let the girls of appropriate age in the family claim to be sick and only send the female elders in the family as representatives to attend the flower viewing banquet. Those who are not so confident will have no choice but to bite the bullet and bring their own children along.
However, they were not so lacking in confidence that they were not actually very worried that their children would be chosen. After all, there were many families who wanted to climb the high branch of Princess Anqing, and the girls from those families would definitely be relatively proactive under the instructions of the adults at home.
By then, those other people's children will compete with each other for attention, while their own children will try their best to reduce their presence...
With this idea in mind, those families who lacked confidence obediently brought their children to the banquet.
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