This person's bottom line is constantly being lowered!
Holy Kingdom!
Lin Ru's eyes were filled with coldness!
The carriage swayed and rattled until it reached the border.
Through this war, Lin Ru once again made a name for herself.
Moreover, she made a great haul on her trip to Kyoto, bringing back all of their family's wealth.
Whoever takes over the mess in Kyoto will lack the funds to continue causing trouble.
Moreover, many people took advantage of the chaos to come to Mianzhou!
We're preparing to settle down here.
Lin Ru instructed her people to carefully screen the candidates and not to let any random people in.
Then it was the same old routine.
Give them a job and a piece of land. As long as they work hard, they can build a new home in this place.
But if they don't have a job, they'll be sent back immediately; there's no way they'll just coast along and wait to die.
They don't accept unemployed people here.
This weeded out many idle people. She wasn't a great philanthropist; giving these people a piece of land was already an act of kindness on her part.
Are we supposed to keep raising them indefinitely?
So at first, the refugees complained a lot, thinking that they could eat and stay warm once they escaped to this place.
I had nothing to worry about, but when I arrived at this place, I found myself having to work while exhausted.
Although they have enough to eat and wear, they don't have a place to live, and they have to rebuild their houses through their own efforts!
Shouldn't the government normally help them rebuild their houses?
They tried to resist, but those who were just waiting to die and for relief supplies quickly disappeared from this place and were sent back to the war-torn land!
When they die, they probably won't even have a complete corpse.
Then these people learned to behave themselves.
Lin Ru was very satisfied with the obedience of the remaining people.
Only these people deserve her help.
When Xu Yixuan returned to Yuzhou, he was immediately berated by the Marquis of Zhenbei.
But when he learned that Lin Ru was willing to give up the capital, a place that was crucial to their survival, his expression softened slightly.
"Are you sure that little vixen won't fight for the capital?"
"She has the advantage of being in the right place now, and she has already made a name for herself in Kyoto. Why would she give up such a good location in Kyoto?"
"So they're going to take Chenzhou instead!?"
"What about the rest of the territory?"
"Not even trying?"
Why is that?
Xu Yixuan felt somewhat displeased as his uncle kept calling her a "little vixen"!
"Because Miss Lin wants to coexist peacefully with us."
"So we get all the rest of the territory; she only wants Chenzhou!"
"That way we'll be evenly matched."
"You don't need to worry about being swallowed up every day."
"Since Miss Lin has agreed, we won't resort to any more underhanded tactics. She's not that kind of person."
"And without Miss Lin, I wouldn't be where I am today."
“Uncle, you know that he saved my life, and when I went back to the capital, the Marquis of Zhenxi wanted to give me some nefarious drugs, but it was because of Miss Lin that my life was saved.”
"Please don't always look at Miss Lin with prejudice. I think it's not easy for a woman to have achieved what she has today."
Marquis Zhenbei never expected that this little vixen would actually want to negotiate peace with him and share the world!
She had already killed the Marquis of Zhenxi, and could have gone even further and taken the entire world for herself.
He had heard that the so-called divine artifact was extremely powerful. If the two sides were to fight, his side would have absolutely no chance of winning. Why would this little demoness stop here?
Actually, this time they didn't have to bring his silly nephew along at all!
As a result, he not only saved his foolish nephew's life, but also brought him out of that cannibalistic Kyoto.
And my silly nephew kept calling her Miss Lin, and when he heard me call her Little Demoness, he even showed a look of disapproval on his face!
His words were all in support of Miss Lin.
Could it be that these two are in love?
"Yixuan! Um! Your uncle has something to ask you. Do you and this Miss Lin have romantic feelings for each other?"
"You don't actually like this Miss Lin, do you?"
"Actually, your uncle has always been very open-minded. He would never force you to marry someone you don't like, nor would he use you for any kind of transaction!"
"Why did you have to like this Miss Lin of all people? Do you want to spend the rest of your life as a son-in-law who marries into your wife's family?"
"Then what do you expect your uncle to do?"
"However, this Miss Lin is indeed quite good, and one could entrust one's life to her, after all, her betrothal gift is rather generous."
"If you really want to marry into my family, I don't even know what I should give back as dowry."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yixuan's face immediately turned red.
He said somewhat embarrassedly, "Uncle, what nonsense are you talking about here?"
"What dowry, what betrothal gifts? Who said I was going to marry into the family?"
"My relationship with Miss Lin is purely platonic."
"Miss Lin did this for the sake of all the people in the world, not because you think so."
The Marquis of Zhenbei looked at his silly nephew's blushing face.
He sighed inwardly.
It's true what they say, once kids grow up, you can't keep them!
"Look at your face, it's completely red, and you're still talking to me about a gentleman's friendship!"
"If you really have that ambition, you should work even harder. After all, Miss Lin is now the ruler of a country, while you are just a junior general."
"After we conquer the remaining two places, I will make you a king of a different surname!"
"This is also a way of mentioning your status."
"At that time, I should be able to barely match her."
Xu Yixuan's face turned even redder!
"Uncle! Please stop talking."
"Although I think Miss Lin is really nice, she doesn't seem to be interested in me."
"And even after things are pacified, you don't need to bestow upon me any title of king of a different surname."
"This will make people gossip about it in the future."
"And it's not fair to my cousins either!"
"I'll just be my own little general."
The Marquis of Zhenbei looked at his thoughtful and sensible nephew!
My heart aches!
"If your mother were still alive, she would be very proud of you."
"She will definitely like Miss Lin too."
"After all, she loved reading when she was young and always asked why women couldn't participate in the imperial examinations and why women couldn't serve as officials in the court."
"This led to your grandfather confiscating all the books she was reading and replacing them with 'Admonitions for Women' and 'Women's Virtues'!"
"If she had known that there was a place where a woman was the emperor and that women could also serve as officials in the court, she certainly would not have given up her studies, and perhaps she would not have ended up like that."
Xu Yixuan thought of his mother.
I felt incredibly sad!
She is indeed kind and beautiful, just like Miss Lin!
If my mother were alive today, she would probably really want to live in Mianzhou.
After all, there are no restrictions on women there now!
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