Yang Guan's face was gloomy, and his tone was full of joking: "Your Highness ordered me to come and receive your order, Eunuch Zhang!"
Yang Guan had seen this eunuch Zhang before when he was with Empress Dowager Cui Mi. He had often taken advantage of his power to embezzle things from the palace.
"How dare you! Why doesn't His Royal Highness the Prince of Zhenbei kneel down to receive the imperial edict? Instead, he asks a filthy thing like you to receive the imperial edict? Are you worthy, you dog?"
This eunuch was cursing Yang Guan, but his eyes were clearly looking at Ji Wan.
Ji Wan's expression remained normal, not affected at all.
Yang Guan's already bad expression turned even more murderous: "Is Eunuch Zhang blind? His Highness has clearly knelt down to receive the order."
After saying this, Yang Guan didn't care about the weapons that the imperial guards had already raised. He suddenly took two steps forward and waved his hand easily, knocking the imperial guards who were ready to move away.
When Eunuch Zhang saw that the imperial guards protecting him were all beaten to the ground by a single blow, his eyes widened with fear, and he fell to his knees with a thud.
"Your Highness, the Prince of Zhenbei, please spare my life, spare my life!" Eunuch Zhang was shaking like a sieve.
It's an immortal! It's immortal magic! No wonder Ji Wan, who came out of the cold palace, can stand on her own!
The dust raised by the imperial guards fell on Ji Wan's nose, causing her to frown, and then she covered her nose with her hand and sneezed.
Cui Min and Liang Yan also took a few steps back in disgust.
Yang Guan had already taken the imperial edict from the trembling hand of Eunuch Zhang, and then said softly: "His Majesty asked you to deliver the imperial edict, which means you are risking your life. Why are you still so serious?
"Hmm? How can a rootless thing like you bear the kneeling of my Lord? Are you worthy?"
These were the words Eunuch Zhang had asked Yang Guan just now, and now they were returned to him exactly as they were.
After saying that, Yang Guan used some spiritual power and pushed the man out without hesitation.
Eunuch Zhang's already unstable legs became even weaker, and he was pushed back several steps before falling to the ground.
Turning around, Yang Guan handed the imperial edict to Ji Wan.
Ji Wan took it and glanced at the imperial guards who had fainted.
He lowered his head and looked at the imperial edict.
"Tsk, Ji Qin doesn't know anything except using the imperial edict to order me to attack the Northern Rong Kingdom."
Liang Yan and Cui Min put their heads together, took the imperial edict from Ji Wan's hand, and remained silent for a while after reading it.
Cui Min said in a gloomy tone: "Your Highness, do you know the generals available to Cui? Apart from General Lou, who else can compete with him?"
The topic changed quickly.
However, Ji Wan glanced at Cui Min and asked doubtfully, "Who can come out of the building and hear it again?
I heard that he is a first-rank General of the Cavalry. Who else could he be in the court besides Qiu Zhen, the General of the Second Emperor's side?"
Cui Min handed the imperial edict back to Yang Guan and said leisurely, "Except for Qiu Zhen, who serves under the Second Prince, there is indeed no one who can match him. But Your Highness, please do not forget the Second Princess's fiancé—Cui Xia, son of the Cui family."
Ji Wan frowned. In her previous memories, she could only remember who bullied her.
As for the situation in the court, all the retainers had only a vague understanding of it, and naturally they did not remember it as clearly as Cui Min.
"What is this person's identity?"
Cui Min smiled faintly: "This man is the governor of Qiandao Prefecture and the second son of the Duke of Zhenguo, Cui Renjie."
Ji Wan's eyes rolled, and he understood what Cui Min was trying to say. He raised his lips and smiled, "What he meant was, if I don't obey your order, Qiandao State will send people to attack me?"
Liang Yan's smile deepened: "Your Highness's soldiers are not vegetarians."
Shrugging his shoulders, Ji Wan turned around with a strange smile on his face and said solemnly to the two counselors, "We still have half a year to recuperate. I want to recruit some female soldiers!"
“???”
The topic jumped so quickly that Liang Yan almost couldn't keep up. Is there any inevitable connection between the two?
What is the connection between Cuixia and the women’s barracks?
"Well, with Xiao Ling's space here, half a year is enough time to train a group of female soldiers. By then, I can make a full effort..."
This has nothing to do with recruiting soldiers. More than 100,000 soldiers cannot conquer the Thousand Islands State. Do we have to recruit more female soldiers?
Your Highness is truly... Sima Zhao's intentions are known to everyone.
It was obvious that they just wanted to use the battle of Thousand Islands to improve the status of the women in the fiefdom and the female barracks!
Liang Yan complained in his heart, but he couldn't help but think about the budget. How could he make the new soldiers spend less money... ?
Yes, that's right. Pei Xiang is gone, and the responsibility of managing Ji Wan's financial power falls on Liang Yan.
Cui Min thought with some worry that his own soldiers had never experienced actual combat in the water.
"Your Highness, do you want to take over the entire Qiandao Province? Wasn't Zhengyang City the only city you targeted?"
Qiandaozhou is a coastal island of Donglin Country. Except for a few major cities, most of the other islands are scattered, with rampant pirates and difficult to manage.
Your Highness’s idea... is really not good news, and didn’t Your Highness originally want only Zhengyang City to solve the salt and iron problem?
How could he change his mind so quickly? He deeply suspected that His Highness had other motives in wanting to attack the Thousand Islands State!
Ji Wan felt guilty and pretended to be busy. He turned his head away and said, ignoring Cui Min's suspicious eyes, "Well, the main thing is to take over Qiandaozhou. Then my journey south will be much smoother."
Cui Min and Liang Yan then fell silent, understanding what Ji Wan meant.
Your Highness is now in the northernmost part of Donglin Kingdom, but relatively speaking, it is in the northeast corner of the entire mortal world.
Although the best way to take over the Donglin Kingdom is to go straight east and fight all the way to the royal capital.
But His Highness is obviously greedy, wanting to be able to attack the Donglin Kingdom and head straight to the south.
It means that people are within the borders of Donglin State and can send troops at any time without having to cross thousands of mountains and rivers to attack Nanxia State.
In other words, the direction of attack that Ji Wan and his advisors had decided on was to attack the Thousand Islands State and then head eastwards towards the capital.
But now His Highness wants to take the route starting from Qiandao State, so that he can attack Donglin Kingdom later and directly take a boat to attack Nanxia Kingdom!
Seeing that the two counselors wanted to say something, Ji Wan interrupted them temporarily: "Today is a day off for both gentlemen. Since it is a day off, then go and have a good rest.
Tomorrow, when you all arrive at the Government Office, we'll discuss this! With more people, I can gather more opinions.
at the moment……"
Ji Wan paused, turned to look at Yang Guan and said, "I'll let you deal with this Eunuch Zhang, Yang Guan.
The rest will be thrown directly into the prisoner-of-war camp to mine after they wake up."
“Here!”
Yang Guan answered quickly. When Eunuch Zhang withheld money from His Highness and Madam Xiling, why didn't he think that His Highness would end up like this?
Anyone who bullies His Highness deserves to die!
Mei Niang and Tong Xin only learned the news that the female barracks was recruiting soldiers the next day.
Mei Niang was wearing a bright red dress today, and she looked like a bright little sun. She came to the Government Affairs Hall early in the morning.
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