"Your Majesty, the wise and mighty Emperor, I, your humble servant, together with my father, followed by the Crown Prince and Prince Zhou, have wiped out the locusts in the northwest (manually showing off).
You don't know how rampant the locusts are. They not only eat crops, plants, vegetables and fruits, but also dare to bite people's faces! Do they want to eat the flesh of our Qin people?
This was intolerable, the prince said that they must be captured alive and used as food.
We have caught so many locusts that it makes my scalp tingle!
In order to get to the northwest earlier to help the people, the prince rolled up his trousers and walked over mountains and hills.
It takes a strong and healthy person 8 days to cross the mountains, but it only takes us 6 days. Isn’t that amazing?
In fact, the guilty daughter and her father were also very tired. Prince Zhou helped the guilty daughter carry the locust-killing tools all the way and was almost bitten to death by mosquitoes.
So, what is your majesty going to reward me with? I am looking forward to your majesty's reward, so that I can show off to others and blind their eyes."
Xiaomei's photo of the locust plague was also printed out. It was so good that it looked like a serious fine brush painting, lifelike and detailed.
Xie Yanyan stuffed the letter and the painting into a large envelope, left it unsealed, and handed it to the prince.
Without stopping, he yawned and said, "Brothers, I won't eat breakfast. I'll take another nap."
People in ancient times went to bed early and got up early, sleeping at the hour of Xu and getting up at the hour of Mao. She finished all these tasks just after dawn.
As soon as she left, the prince wanted to see what she had written.
But it is so immoral to peek at someone else's letter. Besides, the letter was written to the emperor, so how could he be qualified to read it?
But what did she write? Why such a big letter?
Dong Liu understood what the prince was thinking when he saw him holding Xie Yanyan's letter in silence, but he would not instigate the prince to open His Majesty's letter.
Finally, the prince suppressed his curiosity, sealed the letter, and handed it to Dong Liu: "Miss Xie's letter, together with Lord Yu and my letter, should be sent to the emperor 800 miles away as an emergency."
Eight hundred miles to rush! Eight hundred miles to rush!
A roll of yellow dust rolled up, and the horses galloped past. The cities along the way shouted: "Eight hundred miles, hurry up!" The prince's northwest locust control was a great success, and no locust escaped.
The prince successfully controlled the locusts and prepared to return to Kyoto immediately. Xie Yanyan and Xie Anfeng also completed the task of controlling the locusts and would continue their journey of exile.
"Miss Xie, I am going back to Kyoto. Is there anything else you need me to do for you?" asked the prince.
Xie Yanyan thought for a moment and said, "If Your Majesty wants to pardon me, I hope that only the eight of us in my family will be pardoned, and forget about the others."
"Okay, then only pardon General Xie's family." The prince had heard about the filthiness of the Marquis' Mansion, and his father did not want to pardon someone like Xie Jinrong.
Zhou Shaoyu ran away from his fiefdom directly because of the locust control matter, and his two-month vacation was ruined. He also had to go back to Kyoto with the prince.
Xie Yanyan had no intention of interfering in royal affairs. This period in history was even more chaotic than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and she was powerless to stop it.
However, it was time to say goodbye, and Zhou Shaoyu kept looking at her, unable to hide the reluctance in his eyes.
Xie Yanyan couldn't describe the feeling. Thinking of Xie Xiangxiang's true feelings, he knew that their journey back to Beijing would be full of thorns.
Unable to bear it, Xie Yanyan said to Zhou Shaoyu, "That woman is not the staff of King Xi, but Xie Xiangxiang. The two maids beside her are one ordinary maidservant and the other a martial arts master. I overheard them saying that the one who came to treat the locusts was not King Xi, but his substitute, named Xi Twelve."
Zhou Shaoyu nodded: "Prince Xi used a substitute, I know."
It turned out that he knew everything, and she thought she was the only one who knew it.
"Does the prince know?"
"He knows that, too."
Xie Yanyan was surprised: "He knew that Xi Twelve was King Xi's substitute, but he didn't kill him? He kept him for the New Year?"
Zhou Shaoyu was amused by her words "keep it for the New Year" and said, "Prince Xi came to treat the locust plague, but he sent a fake one. This is deceiving the king! But it was not Xi Twelve who deceived the king, but Prince Xi. Killing him would eliminate the living evidence of Prince Xi's deceiving the king. Besides, if Xi Twelve is killed at the disaster relief site, others will not be able to tell whether he is the real Prince Xi or not, and the prince will be known as a murderer of his brothers and sisters."
Xie Yanyan: Headache!
"Xi Twelve was secretly killed last night!" Zhou Shaoyu told her in a low voice with a smile, "The prince has returned to the court, so he must also return to his fiefdom. Is he going to stay here for the New Year?! Anyway, I am a playboy, and the death of his master must not be my fault."
Xie Yanyan: Persimmon, can I trust you?
"Prince Xi sneaked into Kyoto, and it is unknown what happened in Kyoto. But Prince Xi and Wang Zhen will definitely do their best to stop the prince from returning to the capital. I am afraid that the journey will not be peaceful. You should not go back to Kyoto with him. There must be a lot of people protecting the prince, but you only have Zhou Jin."
"You care about me?"
"If you don't want to listen, forget it."
Zhou Shaoyu smiled beautifully and said seriously: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
No one knew what he talked about with the prince, but the prince agreed that he could protect Xie Yanyan and her daughter back to Lingnan, and His Royal Highness the Prince also made careful arrangements for the return trip.
A cunning rabbit has three burrows. King Xi is not the only one who knows how to do this. The Crown Prince is even better.
Before leaving, the prince told Xie Yanyan to relax, play in Chang'an for a few days, and if he had any problems, he could take his jade pendant to the authorities.
Chu Xiwang did not leave immediately. He fulfilled his promise and brought 100,000 dan of rice from other places for disaster relief. Yushanhe specially asked people to post a notice on the bulletin wall to praise his good deed.
After the prince and his entourage left, Xie Xiangxiang felt extremely depressed. She had thought that Wang Zhen's method would easily defeat the prince, but she didn't expect him to lose so miserably.
However, Xie Xiangxiang took off her veil and smiled faintly: "Prince, Xie Yanyan, you don't know? The good show has just begun!"
The prince will surely face a life-threatening situation if he goes there. Can he return to Kyoto alive? Xuan!
"Exterminating the locusts is just a cover for the prince to secretly return to Kyoto." Xie Xiangxiang encouraged everyone, "What we really need to do is to restore agricultural production after the disaster and win the hearts of the people in the entire west for the prince."
Wang Zhen said that the prince was the heir to the throne, and if he did not return to court for a long time, it would inevitably cause unrest in the court. He asked them to delay the prince in the matter of exterminating the locusts as long as possible.
However, they did not expect Xie Yanyan to be so unexpected. She used some unknown means to wipe out all the locusts in one day, disrupting their overall plan.
"Madam Xiang, how many seeds should we send to the disaster victims? What kind of seeds should we send?" The guards in the palace knew that King Xi asked them to send seeds to the disaster areas, but King Xi only told Madam Xiang how to send them.
"Rice and wheat. The seeds were delivered directly to the 10 counties west of Jingchuan County, especially Jingshan County."
Those counties were border counties bordering Former Qin and Liang State, Western Rong, and Northern Di.
Wang Zhen arranged for King Xi to make friends with Liang, Xirong, and Beidi in private, and Jingshan County and other counties had to support him in every step.
As for grain seeds, General He, the highest military commander in the entire northwest, has already contacted the neighboring Beidi and is determined to get them at all costs.
When Xi Shier came, he brought a letter to Governor He: If the matter is done, Governor He will be named King of the Northwest, and his title will be hereditary.
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