After Ye Jingchen went to the Northern Frontier, only Ye Jing and his master remained in the Eastern Palace.
He left early and returned late every day, and did not interact with anyone. Therefore, apart from the palace servants who maintained the normal operation of the Eastern Palace, the other palace servants had nothing to do in the Eastern Palace.
Waste is shameful.
Ye Jingchen decided to send the extra palace servants elsewhere, while Fangfei and the others were handed over to Ye Jingshu.
Each month, only two senior palace maids of the Fang generation remain in the Eastern Palace to take care of Ye Jinghe and assist the head eunuch and the head maid in handling affairs. The others leave the palace to work with Ye Jingshu.
Just then, Ye Jingyu and the young mistress of the Ji family had finalized all the arrangements for the Golden Branch and Jade Leaf branch. They needed to transfer a group of experienced staff from the capital to Yongzhou to be in charge of publicity and training. Golden Branch and Jade Leaf needed people just in time.
With Fangfei and the others' professional skills, they would be more than qualified to be female teachers at Fengming Academy.
Once Fangfei and the others experience the vibrant life outside the palace, perhaps they will change their minds and be willing to leave the palace?
He will take some of the Eastern Palace Guards with him to the Northern Frontier. They are both his bodyguards and spies planted by the emperor around him. Even if he doesn't want to take them, the emperor will make him take them.
As for knowing them, all you need to do is follow the same routine and do your own thing as before.
Ye Jingchen instructed Lin Xun to look after them, and that if they encountered any difficulties, Lin Xun should lead the Eastern Palace Guards who remained in the Eastern Palace to handle them.
Since they have already been formally recognized by the emperor and are under his supervision, even if Lin Xun handles the matter, the emperor will not suspect anything further.
Ye Jingchen's straightforwardness in confessing to the emperor was also due to this consideration.
Gathering information always carries the risk of offending people. Now that he's in charge of the capital, he can handle anything that happens in a timely manner. Once he leaves, those people's safety will be compromised.
After all, there are too many high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital. They treat the lives of ordinary people like dirt and are capable of doing anything for their own benefit. Ye Jingchen does not want anything to happen to the person he has carefully cultivated.
Because of his position, he couldn't train many people to begin with, and he would be heartbroken to lose even one!
As for the children he had carefully raised, Ye Jingshu was already favored, and since she was a princess and posed no threat to the throne, the emperor was exceptionally lenient towards her, always taking care of her needs.
She herself is already capable of standing on her own, and clearly understands what she wants to do, what she should do, and how to do it!
Moreover, she wasn't fighting alone; she had a strategist.
Ye Jingyu seems to have an innate sense of the big picture. Although some of her decisions may lack detail due to a lack of experience, they have never gone wrong in the general direction.
Moreover, she is currently engaged to Gu Beichen.
Gu Beichen is not only a good student, but also the heir on whom the Gu family places high hopes.
In terms of cultivating successors, aristocratic families are no less capable than royalty. Gu Beichen is actually very strong in terms of vision and ability to handle affairs. It's just that he is too good at studying, so people always overlook his other abilities.
Ye Jingming is very composed and has a clear plan for his future, so Ye Jingchen doesn't need to worry about him at all.
Ye Jingyan focused her attention on the Golden Branch and Jade Leaf project, intending to go to Yongzhou to take charge of the branch there.
For her to have such an idea, given her personality, is already quite brave.
Although she was a bit timid, there were advantages to being timid. Timid people tend to value their lives more. As long as she brought enough men and she never slacked off in her own martial arts skills, there would be no danger in going to Yongzhou.
Ye Jingyu is now familiar with the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, and with the Minister of Rites personally guiding him, there shouldn't be any problems.
Ye Jingchen's biggest worry was Ye Jinghe.
Even after spending so many years in the Wenhua Hall, Ye Jinghe remained distant from everyone. Apart from his older brother, he had no friends and always kept to himself.
After Ye Jinghe went to the guard camp, he thought he would finally be able to make some friends. But it turned out that he had gained a lot of underlings, but Ye Jinghe still ignored them and just kept training them.
Ye Jinghe's personality is very contradictory. When he's with you, he's considerate and cute, but when you can't see him, he's domineering, cool, and arrogant!
Even more arrogant than Xie Chang'an!
Moreover, this has been the case for so many years, and no amount of guidance can change it!
He was fine while he was watching over Ye Jinghe, but after he went to the Northern Frontier, he was really worried that something might happen to Ye Jinghe!
Ye Jinghe's current rank in the guard battalion is still centurion. The reason he has not been promoted is not because he lacks ability, but because the ranks of captain and lieutenant above centurion require sufficient military merit.
However, the guards had almost no chance to go to the battlefield and could only accumulate military merits by suppressing bandits.
As a result, within a radius of a hundred miles around the imperial city, not to mention mountain bandits and river bandits, even robbers were rare!
Therefore, if you want to accumulate military merits, you can only go to more distant places.
After the emperor's birthday celebration, Ye Jingchen decided to take Ye Jinghe with him to suppress bandits, so that Ye Jinghe could accumulate military merits and be promoted to captain.
Once he became a captain, it meant he had a foothold in the guard camp.
Although Ye Jinghe's goal was to control the Imperial Guard, given the emperor's suspicious nature and Ye Jinghe's indifferent attitude towards the emperor, this was unlikely. The position of Captain was probably the highest official position Ye Jinghe could obtain in the Imperial Guard.
But it doesn't matter, he still has the status of a prince. Even if he is just a captain, the commander will still be wary of him.
Ye Jingchen persuaded the emperor to allow him to secretly lead troops with Ye Jinghe to suppress mountain bandits, under the pretext of testing his learning outcomes.
Of course, for safety's sake, he brought Xie Chang'an with him.
Because he was completely lost once he left the capital, he still needed Xie Chang'an to provide information about the bandits.
Ye Jinghe had more than a thousand men under his command. In order to avoid attracting attention, they would travel through remote mountains and forests, and take the opportunity to train their troops.
Ye Jingchen's journey was not only for Ye Jinghe, but also for himself.
Having studied under the Duke of Zhenguo for three years, with the old Duke imparting all his knowledge, Ye Jingchen felt that his theoretical knowledge was sufficient. However, in the battlefield, theoretical knowledge alone was clearly not enough; practice was the most important thing.
And this is also where Ye Jingchen's problem lies.
He had a deep-seated aversion to the battlefield.
Even though he has survived many assassination attempts and witnessed many bloody scenes over the years, whenever he thinks of war, images of mountains of corpses and rivers of blood will appear in his mind.
He must overcome this, otherwise, even if he goes to the northern frontier, he will only be a burden.
After all, to subdue the Divine Might Army, he had to fight on the battlefield, confront the Northern Barbarians, and lead the Divine Might Army to victory.
Since he had no choice but to do it, he wouldn't allow himself to back down.
He must appear before the Divine Might Army and on the northern frontier battlefield in his best condition and with the most confidence!
War causes bloodshed, but the ultimate goal of war is to eliminate war and to achieve peace!
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