Originally, Yu Zizhen had no intention of entrusting her personal safety to others. She didn't intend to reuse or trust any of the guards from the Zhenbei Palace. She preferred to use people she had trained and recruited herself.
Furthermore, the loyalty of those who originally guarded the royal palace in the capital to the Prince of Zhenbei and his wife was obviously not as strong as those who came from the northern border. In addition, they were used to being lazy, so it was easier to play tricks under their noses than in front of the guards from the northern border. Therefore, Yu Zizhen accepted Mr. Jiang's arrangement without any emotion.
But he could accept them following him, but if they made mistakes, Yu Zizhen would never let them get away with it.
She would still have to punish them if they deserved it. Even if Yu Zizhen didn't really need a few people to follow her and support her as the prince of the palace, she wouldn't have made any training plans and given them another chance.
She looked at the two guards who had remained silent. "What about you? Can't you do it, too?"
The two exchanged glances, then bowed together and replied without hesitation, "Subordinates will do their best."
Yu Zizhen was very satisfied. "Then I won't deduct your monthly salary this time. Next time, you can just go back to serve Mr. Jiang like these people. You don't have to follow me anymore."
Those people were a little panicked at first. From what Yu Zizhen said, they thought Yu Zizhen was going to drive them out of the palace, but they didn't expect that Yu Zizhen would just return them to Mr. Jiang.
After realizing this, they were no longer panicked, and even felt that going back to Mr. Jiang was more promising than following Yu Zizhen, the nominal prince but actually a hostage.
However, they soon realized that their ideas were too naive.
They felt that they just failed to react for a moment, so they were unable to control the carriage in time, or chase and capture the person who attacked secretly. It was not a big mistake.
Of course, the main reason they were so confident was that nothing happened to Yu Zizhen.
In their opinion, Mr. Jiang was at most just like Yu Zizhen, deducting some of their monthly wages or punishing them by making them do something.
However, what they didn't expect was that Mr. Jiang, like Yu Zizhen, was completely unable to tolerate their disrespectful attitude of not only not reflecting on themselves but even fooling the young master.
He was indeed somewhat dissatisfied with Yu Zizhen's disobedience to discipline, but Yu Zizhen's dual identities as "Crown Prince" and "hostage" meant that Yu Zizhen must be very important on the surface and loved by the King of Zhenbei and his wife.
Therefore, Mr. Jiang must never allow other people in the mansion to develop the bad habit of looking down on Yu Zizhen.
Those guards, like their family members, had their indentures held by the Zhenbei Palace. Mr. Jiang saw that they were of no use, so he simply packed up all of them and their family members who were just living off the land and sent them to the northern border, either to open up wasteland or to guard the frontier.
It just so happens that he can take this opportunity to transfer a group of more useful people to the capital.
Mr. Jiang's decision, which was not a punishment but was better than a punishment, frightened the original servants and guards of the Prince of Chengbei's Mansion in Beijing.
The other guards of the palace who had been secretly complaining about the two men being exhausted like dogs every day because the training plan given by Yu Zizhen was too inhumane, never dared to secretly complain about how heavy the training tasks Yu Zizhen gave to the two men were after they watched those men being sent away and felt regretful.
The sense of crisis made them actively abandon their previous dangerous idea of muddling through. They shamelessly chose a representative to find Yu Zizhen and asked her if they could also train with the two guards.
Yu Zizhen didn't care, "If you want to practice, just practice with us."
So from then on, the original guards of the royal palace in the capital, like the female guards and servants around Yu Zizhen, all started to work enthusiastically.
Under the leadership of the two guards, they trained diligently and tirelessly, and were extremely focused when performing their duties.
Of course, that’s a story for later.
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The day after the Dragon Boat Festival, Yu Zizhen, who had already asked for leave from his master in advance, took Yaoguang and Yuheng out of the palace early in the morning.
Not to mention having breakfast, she even took leave for her daily morning exercises.
Master Bai is not a talkative or curious person. When Madam Zhang informed him that Yu Zizhen would not come for morning exercise this morning, he just nodded and continued to teach others.
Mr. Jiang was very curious and wanted to restrain Yu Zizhen, but he was busy until very late last night. When he woke up, Yu Zizhen had been gone for almost an hour and a half. Even if he had a pair of super hearing now, he would not have had time to find out what had happened.
So, what on earth was Yu Zizhen doing?
This story started a few days ago when Yu Zizhen finished a day's study and was about to lie down to rest when the system suddenly issued a cannon fodder rescue mission.
The cannon fodder this time is Lu Huaiyi's family, who originally worked in the Five Military Commandery.
Lu Huaiyi was born into a family of military generals. Although his ancestors had never produced any great and famous generals, nor had they made any great military achievements that would allow the court to award the Lu family with a title, the blood they shed and the lives they lost for the stability of Da Qi were real.
But it was such a family that was deliberately framed and accused by the Lu family because of the current dark officialdom and because the Lu family wanted to gain more military power in the Five Military Commandery. In the end, they ended up with a tragic ending of "property confiscated, adult males exiled to southern Xinjiang, and women and children sold into slavery by the government."
In the original book, in order to wipe out the Lu family, the Lu family not only ordered people to buy away the women and children of the Lu family, but also secretly instructed the yamen runners in charge of escorting them to poison Lu Huaiyi and his two sons on the road, causing them to die directly on the way of exile, with no chance of recovery.
Unlike the previous doctor from the Ministry of Revenue named Li, he was framed by his second eldest brother and his superiors just because he offended his second eldest brother, and he almost became a scapegoat.
Yu Zizhen helped him get rid of his immediate superior, and subtly revealed what his second brother had done to Doctor Li. Doctor Li became alert, and his safety was naturally guaranteed.
But General Lu Huaiyi is different. As long as he holds the position of deputy governor of the Left Army Governor's Office, the Lu family, who want to gain more military power in the Five Army Governor's Office, will not give up framing him.
The most crucial thing is that the Lu family is not as rough as Minister Han. Not only did they secretly prepare an impeccable chain of evidence for Lu Huaiyi, but they also acted quickly when the other party was completely unprepared. After adding fuel to the fire, Lu Huaiyi's guilt was directly confirmed.
As for Lu Huaiyi's family, they were directly imprisoned by the Dali Temple after the incident. They had no time or opportunity to find evidence to clear Lu Huaiyi's suspicion.
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