As the old saying goes, "A woman follows her husband wherever he goes, whether he's a chicken or a dog..."
If a couple has a particularly good relationship, the woman's values tend to align with the man's...
Men have a sense of national responsibility, and so do women!
If a man is a wicked person, a woman's character will also be affected!
Of course... this is on the premise that the couple has a very good relationship!
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Although, at the beginning, Dugu Yan and Jiang Ming's feelings for each other were not "real"!
There's nothing we can do about it; after all, they're a "second marriage"...
Dugu Yan had a husband before, and Jiang Ming also had several wives. Dugu Yan was not among them.
Moreover, there is also a formidable rival, Changsun Yuenu, who opposes her every day and is involved in palace intrigue!
If you had to say she loved Jiang Ming back then, it was because of his status and the benefits and advantages he could bring her in the future!
However, as time went by... three years later, Dugu Yan's love for Jiang Ming had completely evolved!
Women of this era are completely different from women of modern times...
Men of this era believed that it was normal for a real man to have three wives and four concubines!
Women think so too!
Especially the women of the grasslands!
In the Great Gan Empire, a man's love for a woman, if limited to simply being caring and fulfilling her emotional needs, might win her true affection!
However, on the grasslands... if a man only knows how to pamper his wife, but cannot produce any impressive abilities or achievements, the woman will still look down on him!
Actually, there are commonalities in this kind of thing... In the Great Gan Empire, there are also women who only look at this, but they definitely don't value it as much as the women on the grasslands!
Jiang Ming's abilities are beyond doubt. He is the most outstanding, the most brilliant, and the greatest man in this world and in this era!
Being able to bear children for such a man... made Dugu Yan feel it was her greatest honor!
Jiang Ming's values also deeply influenced Dugu Yan!
Although Jiang Ming is sometimes ruthless and decisive, and likes to make clean decisions... his ideal is to bring true peace and lasting stability to the world!
The world has suffered from chaos for far too long!
This year you hit me, tomorrow I hit him, the day after tomorrow he hits you, and the day after that... several families are fighting each other, and the common people have been in a state of chaos for two or three hundred years!
Many children have never seen their fathers, because their fathers died on the battlefield...
Many elderly parents only remember what their children looked like when they were young...
Because after his grandson was born, his son died on the battlefield!
As a result, the lives of ordinary people were simply unbearable, as if living was just a way to suffer!
Jiang Ming wanted to end all of this and bring order to the world!
Furthermore, from the perspective of institutional development and underlying logic, the foundation for ending mutual struggles is gradually being laid!
Let every place in the world be inseparable from everyone else, so that people will no longer fight!
Currently... although rebels have emerged, some national policies have backfired!
But Dugu Yan believed that this was only temporary!
It is not an inevitable trend of history...
Unlike Changsun Yuenu and the other wives and concubines, Dugu Yan liked to talk to Jiang Ming about military and national affairs, and about the construction of systems. These things were exactly to Jiang Ming's liking, so the couple talked about them a lot.
Unlike the other wives who like to talk about trivial matters and romantic affairs every day, Dugu Yan naturally chats with Jiang Ming less often than he does!
It can be said that Dugu Yan was not only Jiang Ming's wife and concubine, but also his good student, good comrade, and good subordinate...
Dugu Yan's feelings for Jiang Ming were by no means a simple romantic love... The two formed a shared belief and values.
Jiang Ming was a god in Dugu Yan's eyes, her mentor, and the source of nourishment and refuge for her soul...
Therefore, Dugu Yan wiped out the Northern Xiongnu army this time!
Revenge for Jiang Ming wasn't the most important thing to her; she wanted to fulfill her husband's ideals and mission...
Preserve the entire territory of Da Gan and let the Da Gan Empire continue to prosper!
What is a strong woman? What is a weak woman?
A young woman is willing to die for her husband, willing to do anything for him...
But what about strong, independent women?
Do they know what their husbands want? What are their ideals?
They are willing to continue fighting for their husbands' ideals... to inherit their husbands' mantle and fulfill their husbands' mission!
In fact, in Jiang Ming's previous life, Empress Lü and Consort Yu were two completely different figures.
Upon seeing "the Overlord's spirit is gone," Yu Ji immediately exclaimed, "What is the point of my lowly life? You're finished! I'll die with you! I'll go first!"
This is the limit of what she can do!
But Empress Lü was different!
When Liu Bang started his career, he led a group of old, weak and disabled soldiers and suffered repeated defeats... He was ridiculed by the feudal lords, who thought that his methods were as unorthodox as could be and that his tactics were as unorthodox as could be. However, Empress Lü remained steadfast in her belief that Liu Bang would win!
On one occasion, Liu Bang suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Qin army, and his troops scattered. Liu Bang even advised his wife to go home and farm, saying, "Let's not rebel anymore..."
Empress Lü tore the red cloth off the quilt she and Liu Bang had used for their wedding, found a tree branch, made it into a flag, and rallied the scattered soldiers, the old, the weak, and the disabled, telling them that her husband was the son of the Red Emperor, and that following him would surely lead to a better future. She urged them not to lose faith, not to go home, and that they still had a chance and would definitely succeed!
This move became a laughing stock for everyone at the time, even more ridiculous than a toad trying to eat swan meat!
But... it is this woman who has made the ethnicity section of the ID cards of the vast majority of people now read "Han"!
That's the charm of a strong, independent woman!
And Dugu Yan... is precisely that kind of strong woman!
She composed herself, prepared for the worst, and led nearly 200,000 troops in a fierce pursuit of Sahehan's defeated Northern Xiongnu army!
She wasn't blinded by anger; on the contrary, she was calmer than ever before!
Because what she was thinking about now was not how to avenge her husband, but... how to eliminate this threat forever, to completely eradicate the Northern Xiongnu people who "returned" and repeatedly threatened the safety of the Great Gan Dynasty!
This time, if we don't kill them all, it will be too late when they come back with 400,000 men!
Sahehan never expected... that the army of the Gan people would actually come after them!
In fact, everything was just as Zhao Yong had feared; Sahehan had already made contingency plans!
That is, if the battle at the front goes badly, then retreat to an ambush site dozens of miles away...
Even with limited troops, as long as the enemy dares to follow, there is a chance to turn the tide!
Dugu Yan led her army at breakneck speed and finally caught up with the Xiongnu army, encountering them in a dense forest...
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