But she couldn't help but think of her senior brother. Where did he go?
Seeing Yu Jiao was absent-minded, Yu Qizhe said calmly: "It's time to change the medicine for my injury."
Yu Jiao quickly washed her hands and took the medicine box. She then told Yu Qizhe about the prepared medicine packages and asked him to take them to the government office to distribute to the injured Lingnan soldiers.
When she stretched out her arms to bandage the wound, Yu Qizhe hugged her waist, put his face against her chest, and sighed: "Don't be surprised that people say you should marry a virtuous wife. Our Jiaojiao is my virtuous wife."
Yu Jiao smiled and did not push him away. The two of them hugged each other quietly for a while. Yu Jiao told him about Bai Lu being hunted in Linjiang Prefecture.
Yu Qizhe's forehead twitched slightly, and he said helplessly: "It seems that I have to stay for a while longer."
Just as Yu Qizhe said, they stayed in Jiaxing for nearly another month before they temporarily dealt with all the matters. The officials of Linjiang Prefecture also colluded with the pirates of Jiaxing Prefecture. However, the reason why the Linjiang Guards wanted to hunt down Bai Lu was almost the same as what the prefect of Linjiang Prefecture said.
The soldiers of the garrisons mainly came from military households. According to regulations, military households were hereditary, and the court had strict management over them. It was very difficult to remove them from the military register, unless the family had no descendants, or someone in the family became a high-ranking official, or the emperor granted an imperial decree to exempt them. Otherwise, they could not be removed from the military register.
These military households had to send one male to serve as a soldier in the garrison, called "zhengjun", and the other sons in the family were called "yuding" or "junyu". Generally, when a regular soldier went to a garrison, the family had to have at least one yuding accompany him. When there was no war, the soldiers in the garrison had to return home to farm and support themselves.
Generally, when a regular soldier died, the able-bodied man in the household would be used to replace him. As a result, the soldiers in the garrison lived in poverty and many of them deserted.
However, the reason why Linjiang Wei Zhenfu hunted down Bai Lu was because the officials of the Linjiang Prefecture garrison occupied a large amount of military farmland and used soldiers as private servants to cultivate the land. He was unwilling to lend troops because there were too many deserters in the garrison, and he was afraid that the occupation of military farmland would be exposed.
After finding out the truth, Gu Yun arrested the criminals directly and escorted them to Beijing together with the pirate leader, so their team returning to Beijing was very large.
Yu Jiao's proposal was conveyed to the women on the island by Gu Yun. Most of these women were willing to leave Jiaxing, change their appearance and start a new life in a place where no one knew them.
Yu Jiao traveled with these women along the way. Many of them had hidden diseases, so Yu Jiao prescribed some prescriptions for them to nourish their bodies. When they were in Jinan Prefecture, Yu Jiao asked Yun Xiao and others to escort these women to Qingzhou.
It is not impossible to bring these women with her to Beijing and then settle them in Qingzhou, but if so many bandits and officials are escorted on this trip, when the news of Jiaxing spreads, these women will inevitably be criticized after they arrive in Beijing.
She asked Yunxiao to escort Changkui to find Chen Yu, just to let these women avoid such criticism.
It was never their fault, it's just the way the world is. This is all Yu Jiao can do to reduce some of the harm to them.
She wrote a letter to Chen Yu, asking him to help settle these women first. After she returned to Beijing to meet the emperor, she would make time to discuss with him about opening a rouge workshop.
When they were almost reaching the capital, it started to drizzle. Yu Qizhe reined in his horse and came outside the carriage, handing a cloak to Yu Jiao through the curtain.
The capital city is in the north, and its climate is not as warm as Jiaxing's. It is already late autumn, and there is a thick layer of fallen leaves on the road.
Yu Jiao took the cloak, leaned her head out slightly, and seeing that he was riding on a horse with no protection, she handed the cloak back.
"Your wounds haven't healed yet, you can wear them, I have clothes."
Seeing a hint of stubbornness in her moist almond eyes, Yu Qizhe stretched out his hand, placed his warm palm on the back of her hand, looked at her and smiled, "I'm not cold, your hands are cold, put it on."
As he said this, he stuffed the cloak back into the carriage.
Yu Jiao was helpless as she looked towards the city gate that was already visible to the naked eye. The gate was tall, simple and solemn. Even in the deep rain, it still demonstrated the majesty and momentum of the ancient dynasty.
After the carriage entered the city, Gu Yun led a team to escort the prisoners to the Ministry of Justice Prison, while the rest of the Lingnan Army stayed stationed outside the city and could only enter the city after receiving the order from the emperor.
Yu Jiao and Yu Qizhe were unable to return to Wanfuqiao Hutong, so they were invited to the imperial palace by the eunuch from the palace.
Liu Ziqi was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, which exuded great power. This was the first time Yu Jiao saw him wearing a dragon robe after he ascended the throne. He had lost his former gentleness and restraint, and the emperor's majesty was so powerful that no one dared to look directly at him.
But as soon as he spoke, Yu Jiao felt that he was no different from the big brother of the past.
"You're finally back." Liu Ziqi exempted the two from the formalities and waved his hand for the palace servants to leave. Only the three of them were left in the entire hall.
Liu Ziqi looked Yu Jiao up and down and said in a gentle voice, "You've lost weight. It's my fault. The court is busy and I've wronged you." He chose the lesser of two evils. After knowing that Yu Jiao's life was safe, he wanted to stabilize the court first.
He has changed after all. Being an emperor requires weighing many things.
Yu Jiao: "It's okay, Your Majesty, don't think too much about it." She paused. Yu Qizhe had already reported Cheng Ying's affairs in a memorial in Jiaxing. He concealed the things about the other world, but she didn't know what Liu Ziqi thought. After all, the whole world belongs to the king.
"I have decided to make Pingyang your fiefdom. If you have any place you like, you can tell me." Liu Zi was looking forward to Yu Jiao. She had suffered a lot in the past, but in the future she would be the most honorable princess of Tai Yan. He would give her all the love that his aunt failed to give to Su Jian.
Yu Jiao hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, I don't want any fiefdom."
Liu Ziqi said: "You can just call me elder brother like before. Why don't you want a fief? Even if there is a fief, I will only keep you in the capital and will not let you go to the fief."
"I want to use my fiefdom in exchange for Big Brother's promise to me." Yu Jiao said, "Can you stop pursuing Cheng Ying's guilt?"
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