The beauty is delicate and soft, and he madly criticizes the powerful officials for taking her as th

"Because you are too cold in front of others." Pei Xu sneered, "And you often leave me alone in an empty room."

His tone was quite resentful: "And I still don't have any children. My father asked me if there was anything wrong with me."

Zhao Zhen didn't want children. When he heard what he said, he lowered his head and bit his lip and said, "Wait for another year or two. If there is no rush now, I won't find anyone else."

Zhao Zhen is now the regent, so the princess mansion seems crude and unsafe.

Yu Xin persuaded Zhao Zhen to rebuild the princess palace. Zhao Zhen knew that he knew about Qimen Dunjia, so he simply left it to him. Looking at the young man who refused to show his face, he smiled and said: "I will leave you a yard to use when you get married. .”

Yu Xin was not polite and actually left a small courtyard for himself. After the completion of the construction, Pei Xu got lost in his own house for the first time.

"Zhen'er, did that kid do it on purpose?" Pei Xu complained to Zhao Zhen in the middle of the night: "Last time I called him a pretty boy, but he heard me. Today I met him in the house, and he pointed in the wrong direction on purpose."

Zhao Zhen sneered with half-closed eyes, just said "you deserve it" and ignored him.

*

The new emperor of the DPRK was established for the first time, and the eldest princess and the Grand Sima were regents. Although they barely stabilized the DPRK situation, they could not suppress the wars everywhere.

The Great Zhou Dynasty is like a crumbling dangerous building. No one can save it from collapse.

In the past two years, Zhao Zhen and Pei Xu, one was busy sending troops to quell the rebellion, and the other was busy fighting against the eager Beihu.

In the early winter of the second year, Pei Xu personally led his troops north to Liangzhou. Taking advantage of this time, Chao You, the governor of Bingzhou, started an uprising on the grounds that the Qing emperor was sidelining him and killed two envoys from Chang'an one after another.

Zhao Zhen had previously been stationed in Chang'an and sent troops to quell the chaos, but this time it was different. Chao You had previously been regarded as a vassal of the Pei family, and it was particularly difficult to deal with the strong soldiers and horses. Most of the elites who could be used in the court were taken away by Pei Xu.

After a general died on the front line, Zhao Zhen decided to fight in person.

For three months, she worked so hard on the front line that she lost several pounds and became much haggard.

When Chao You died, Zhao Zhen was not happy. The battle could only be described as a tragic victory. Although Bingzhou was taken back, several of Chao You's sons escaped.

Pei Xu led his men to chase him outside the customs. There was another snowstorm in the north at the end of last year, and so far there has been no news from him. Zhao Zhen doesn't even know whether he is dead or alive.

She left some people in Bingzhou to hunt down the remnants, while she returned to Chang'an to stabilize the court.

It was a bumpy journey and she was assassinated several times. The night before leaving Bingzhou, she fell ill like a mountain. She fainted and fell to the ground during the meeting, with a pool of blood flowing from her body.

The female officer next to Zhao Zhen suddenly turned pale. When the female military doctor came, she only said it was a miscarriage.

She is four months old and is a fully formed baby girl.

After the others retreated, the female officer in front of her said puzzledly: "It has been four months, and His Highness has not felt it."

"I knew I was pregnant." Zhao Zhen lowered his eyelashes, "I knew it before I left Beijing."

The news that the eldest princess decided to fight in person gave the frontline soldiers great confidence. If she suddenly didn't go, how would she establish her power in the future?

"Does the consort know?"

Zhao Zhen's calm expression finally changed slightly, "I don't know."

She said to the female officer: "This child came at the wrong time. I can't bear to deal with her. You...find a place with better scenery nearby and bury her. No one can tell anyone what happened today. It will happen tomorrow." Break camp and continue on your way to Chang'an."

The female officer responded and left. When she walked outside the tent, she suddenly heard a suppressed cry coming from inside intermittently.

Thinking of the prince's instructions before leaving, she couldn't help but feel numb. After returning, she wrote several secret letters, hoping that Pei Xu would receive them soon.

*

Zhao Zhen was recuperating and handling official duties at his residence when he suddenly heard a loud noise.

"Consort, the princess said you can't enter the study."

She raised her eyes and saw the man who had not yet taken off his armor. She motioned to the staff around her to leave first.

"Won't you come back at least half a month later?"

Pei Xu's throat moved slightly. He looked at the sick woman in front of him, his phoenix eyes were slightly red, and he whispered: "I heard that you were sick, so I came back."

"What are you talking about?" Zhao Zhen frowned and said, "Although this battle has been won, there is no reason for a general to leave without permission on the way back."

"I miss you."

His throat was tight, and he stared at the face in front of him. He clasped her wrist tightly and suppressed the words "You have nothing to say to me."

Zhao Zhen planned to hide it from everyone, including him.

Pei Xu twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "What did the imperial doctor say?"

"The imperial doctor said it's nothing serious." Zhao Zhen didn't dare to look into his eyes and said casually: "The Chao family will be left to you to deal with. As for the other noble families in Bingzhou, just ask them to cough up some money and food."

Her almond-shaped eyes were lowered, and she did not see the bulging veins on the forehead of the man in front of her. It was obvious that she could not bear these words.

"In the past few years, there have been either natural disasters or wars in various places. Almost all the houses have been empty. The gentry and clans in Bingzhou are extremely closely entwined. When the government stabilizes in the future, they will not be tolerated. But now it is better to stabilize them first."

The Bingzhou gentry encircled their land wantonly and hid the population as private property. After the gentry headed by the Chao family took refuge with the Pei family, they paid more taxes to the court just for the sake of Da Sima. The only advantage of doing so was that in the impregnable fortress of the Da gentry The population of Bingzhou is actually much larger than that of other northern states, and the amount of money and food hoarded is also much greater.

Zhao Zhen mainly wanted to take this opportunity to recruit some young and strong farmers from Bingzhou to enrich the king's army and defend the capital.

The main reason is that Zhao Zhen has been with Prince Zhaoming since he was a child. His elder brother said, "Zhen'er is supported by the people, so he should have a heart to love the people."

As long as the Bingzhou nobles stayed in peace, she was even willing to take a step back for the time being in order to avoid the flames of war.

Pei Xu said in a stiff tone: "Why should we stabilize them? Those nobles in Bingzhou were satisfied with a bone yesterday, but they want meat tomorrow, and bite people if they don't give it. They don't behave like dogs at all. They are just a bunch of beasts, and they still Do you want the court to give you face?"

Zhao Zhen was a little stunned, and looked up to see those bloodshot eyes that were extremely angry.

"Zhen'er, Chao You is the watchdog of the Pei family in Bingzhou. Now the dog is being encouraged to bite his master. If I swallow my anger, I will stick my face in and be beaten."

The man in front of him seemed a little disappointed, his eyes were cold, Zhao Zhen took a deep breath and said: "All the county guards are from local prominent families, and their soldiers are well-trained. They are not the rabble you fight in the south."

Pei Xu chuckled lightly, and his expression returned to his previous gentleness, "Don't worry, Zhen'er, I will handle it well and make you satisfied. You can just rest in peace and recuperate."

Ten days later, Zhao Zhen received a military report on his sick bed. The elite soldiers left behind by Pei Xu changed their route and marched to Bingzhou to attack the nobles who had helped Chao You.

She stared at the words in the military newspaper, and a sweet taste filled her throat.

"Guangwu conquered it in three days, captured the Yanmen County governor alive, surrendered the entire city, and killed them all."

"The clouds could not be suppressed for five days, so we broke the embankments and filled them with water."

……

Pei Xu's men went on a massacre after conquering three cities in Bingzhou for half a month. No one except women, children, and old men in their 60s were spared. He issued a military order that if he wanted to survive, he could trade the heads of local powerful men.

The former well-dressed and well-fed children of the noble family were torn into pieces by the servants scrambling for their lives, and brought to the Pei family's military tent to claim credit.

In troubled times, in order to compete for territory and deter others, massacres were common. Otherwise, the four southern states with frequent riots would not have only half of their population in a few years.

But no one ever thought that Pei Xu, who was the Grand Sima of the dynasty and the consort of the eldest princess, would do this.

The noble families in Bingzhou were frightened by the sudden cruelty of Da Sima, so they voluntarily surrendered and opened the city gates, leaving their money, food, soldiers and horses at Pei's disposal.

Zhao Zhen felt his chest was blocked and said to the shadow guard on the side: "Let Da Sima come over."

A man who had not yet changed out of his official uniform walked in slowly. When he saw that she was awake, he smiled and said, "Why are you looking for me, Zhen'er?"

He looked as usual and said: "I am going to replace Xu Youzhen as the governor of Bingzhou. You should remember that a general from a poor family has no shortcomings except lust."

"The gold and silver presented by the Bingzhou nobles will be sent to the treasury. As for the troops and horses, I have ordered them to be sent to General Zhang."

The Zhang family belongs to Zhao Zhen, and the Huben army under his command is short of men.

Pei Xu looked at the pale face of the woman on the couch and said with concern: "Didn't Zhen'er want soldiers and horses? I've taken care of them. You don't have to worry about them being disobedient in the future."

Before he could say the next sentence, "Just take good care of your health," he heard Zhao Zhen speak.

"Is this your good method?" Zhao Zhen tugged on his clothes, his slender knuckles turned white and trembled so much that they seemed to break at any time, "You kill innocent people indiscriminately, and I actually sleep with someone like you."

She was so angry that her blood surged, her eyes turned white, and she said without hesitation: "You and I have different ways. From now on, you can go back to Pei Mansion and we can make peace."