Now that there is a younger third prince in the palace, the representatives of the aristocratic families headed by Fan Ting feel that they can completely rely on this third prince who is still a baby.
Anyway, the emperor is in his prime now, so there is no need to rush to choose a crown prince.
The ratio was two to one, and the officials of Yang Zhengde's faction were outnumbered and ultimately defeated helplessly.
Yang Zhengde and others were very angry, but Xiao Yuanjin himself had nothing to be disappointed about.
Yang Shixian pleaded guilty on behalf of his grandfather. Xiao Yuanjin smiled and signaled his trusted eunuch to help Yang Shixian up. "Don't blame yourself, old man. This is not your fault at all."
After a pause, he added, "Actually, I knew this would be the result."
But after all, this was his father's painstaking effort, and he couldn't just reject it and do nothing.
Yu Zizhen comforted him, "They will regret it."
She spoke with certainty, but Xiao Yuanjin thought she was just comforting himself.
Yang Shixian felt the same way. He felt that no matter how you looked at it, the ones who should be upset were the ones who had suffered a setback. However, Yu Zizhen was trying to comfort Xiao Yuanjin, and Yang Shixian couldn't be too blunt with her about the actual situation.
After Yang Shixian left, Yu Zizhen quietly told Xiao Yuanjin, "Don't worry, I have asked my people to organize civilian armed forces to fight against those bandits on their own."
Her people have not been foolishly focusing on farming these years. The talents they have recruited are not only good at farming, land cultivation, weaving, and carving...
In addition to these seemingly harmless general skills, they also mastered "dangerous" skills such as ironworking, bow and arrow manufacturing, and warhorse breeding.
Talents who know these things are hard to come by, but the corruption and darkness in the officialdom of Da Qi are not limited to this small area of the capital.
As the saying goes, if you use the hoe well, there is no wall that cannot be dug down. Yu Zizhen's subordinates followed the same spirit of poaching, and used various means to dig out those talents who mastered "dangerous" skills according to local conditions.
As long as they can find a few of these people, they can quickly train more skilled or even experts through the master-apprentice model.
Although raising war horses and making weapons is very expensive, Yu Zizhen can make a fortune by taking an unconventional approach, and he also has several subordinates who are good at making money.
In addition, the valuables in the corrupt officials' families that Yu Zizhen had looted were not just gold, silver and banknotes.
She had given away the gold, silver and banknotes to help the disaster victims, and the remaining jewelry, jade, antique calligraphy and paintings, silk, medicinal herbs and furs, writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, wooden ornaments, etc. were basically handed over to her trusted subordinates to sell.
With a steady stream of financial support, the weapons and equipment of the private soldiers under Yu Zizhen's command are truly no less advanced than those of the regular army of Da Qi.
With the original book's plot and the system's cannon fodder rescue missions providing her with relevant information in advance, Yu Zizhen naturally knew that the pirates and Japanese pirates on the southeast coast would come ashore and cause trouble.
She once again pretended to have a dream and told the news to Jiang Yunshan and other trusted subordinates in advance.
With her previous prophetic dream about drought and locust plague, Jiang Yunshan and others were already convinced that she could predict major events in advance.
In accordance with Yu Zizhen's request, Jiang Yunshan personally led people to the southeast coast to carry out preliminary arrangements.
Yu Zizhen's subordinates, who openly opened martial arts schools, escort agencies, did business, performed on the streets, farmed in the countryside... were quickly organized by Jiang Yunshan and Lu Mingxuan to form several elite teams.
These people are elite troops who have received several years of training. Their personal combat power is just like the personal combat power of pirates and Japanese pirates compared to that of ordinary unarmed civilians. They are not in the same league at all.
Even if they cannot wear armor and ride horses, as long as they have the advantage in numbers, are proficient in some military formations, and can absolutely enforce discipline, they can be invincible against pirates and Japanese pirates who rely solely on brutal methods of burning, killing, and looting.
With their elusiveness, they dealt with the sea pirates and Japanese pirates on the southeast coast. The sea pirates and Japanese pirates suffered heavy losses as soon as they came ashore. If the coastline of the southeast coast was not too long and the court's navy was as dead as dead, Yu Zizhen's subordinates could even make sure that the sea pirates and Japanese pirates would never return every time.
Fortunately, although the court's navy would only waste military pay if they were alive, there were many brave and courageous people among the people along the coast.
The teams composed of Yu Zizhen's private soldiers recruit new members almost every day.
At the beginning, the people who joined only wanted to defend their homes and to avenge their relatives who had died unfortunately. Although they had put life and death aside, they never expected to gain any material benefits from it.
However, to their surprise, not only did they receive comprehensive and systematic training in the team, but their predecessors would also first let them take charge of relatively less dangerous tasks, step by step to train their courage and experience in fighting the enemy.
Before they went out, they had anticipated that with their fighting strength, very few of them would be able to come back alive. As a result, a month later, not only did they all come back, but they also brought back the food and pork distributed to them by the captain.
They felt like they were in a dream, confused but extremely happy. Their relatives and neighbors were even more excited.
Everyone who saw them had an expression of disbelief. They couldn't believe that not a single one of them was missing, and no one was missing any limbs. They couldn't believe that they actually brought back food and meat.
Coastal fishermen depend on the weather for their livelihood, and their lives are already difficult. Now there are pirates and Japanese pirates causing trouble near the coastline. They often suffer unnecessary casualties when going out to sea to fish, so many people dare not go out to sea at all.
Everyone was worried about this. The young and middle-aged people who had risked their lives to participate in the elimination of pirates and Japanese pirates actually brought back the food intact. Who wouldn't be tempted?
Soon, those who first joined Yu Zizhen's private army were surrounded by their relatives and neighbors.
They didn't know that the team they joined was Yu Zizhen's private army. They only knew that their captain and brothers were very good. Not only were they extremely brave when killing the enemy and always protected them, but they also took good care of them, the new members, in terms of food and clothing.
The fishermen who gathered around them to inquire about the situation only then realized that the benefits these guys had gained during this period were not just what they saw with their eyes.
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