After rebirth, I made the princes cry

As a naughty lady, Yingshu is not only good at swimming, she has even tried to drill a hole in a small boat to see how big the hole should be to cause the boat to sink.

As for swimming underwater, she had personally experimented with how to use a reed tube to breathe, how thick the reed tube should be, and how long she should dive before revealing her head to breathe. She was even able to successfully deceive Xuanying and avoid his "search", which showed that she was very experienced.

"At that time, the prince decided to go on a diplomatic mission, and we didn't know how many dangerous situations he would face. I thought that even if I couldn't learn other self-defense skills for the time being, it was still necessary to teach him how to swim. And when selecting the palace maids to accompany him, whether they could swim was also a question that had to be taken into consideration." Yingshu said.

But Red Peach and White Plum are not good at water, so this is beyond her control.

Even though Hong Tao and Bai Li were temporarily incorporated into the Flying Eagle Division because of Madam Wei, they had not received any special training from the Flying Eagle Division after all, and it seemed that they would need to swim to escape, which was unpredictable. In fact, let alone the Palace Lord, even Ying Dan, Si Shui and even Ling Shang Gong were not good at swimming and would definitely not be able to swim across the turbulent Ba River. But if they fell into the water, they would not drown immediately, especially in artificial lakes and pools such as Chunbo Pool in Yanhui Garden. It would not be difficult to use reed tubes to dive into the water for a short time to deceive the search team.

When Madam Wei was a child, she could cross the Wei River by paddling a sheepskin raft. Her swimming ability was comparable to Yingshu, so it was natural for her to hide.

She felt from Yingshu's plan that the core of the plan was actually centered around "everyone's escape."

Although I felt touched, I still had to remind him: "Deputy Envoy Zuo, casualties are inevitable in war."

"Our current enemy is not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but only a few hundred people. Therefore, no matter whether my design is perfect or not, it must be arranged in a way that no one is killed or injured." Ying Shu said: "I don't care about the enemy's life or death, but I hope that our people can escape safely."

She doesn't want to abandon any of the people who have been through thick and thin with her. She knows that all plans will face various changes during implementation and may not go as planned. However, she cannot give up on making the plan perfect just because of the possible setbacks.

She might not dare to entrust her life and death to others, but she is willing to be someone that others can trust with their backs and backbone. Therefore, even if Sikong Yuehu has left the battlefield, she will not be shaken by this change.

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As the weather got colder, in the Empress Dowager's Hall in the Weiyang Palace, the autumn-scented brocade quilts replaced the dusk mountain purple, and many of the jade and white porcelain ornaments were stored in the inner storehouse. Winter hadn't really come yet, but the peony screen had already been put up, the warm jade fragrance was thick, the golden sable felt blanket had been spread on the couch, and she was leaning on a soft pillow filled with fine goose feathers. The smiling Empress Dowager Yao's face did not turn rosy, and the fat accumulated on her neck made her face look long and fat.

During this period, her mood gradually improved, but because the weather was not so good, she ate more and moved less, and she often felt uncomfortable. But on this day, she originally felt numb in her limbs, but just because she heard good news, she put on a smile on her face, collapsed on the couch, and chattered to Jiang Li.

"Thanks to my constant pressure, Your Majesty finally stopped. Although the execution of the Xuan family and the Wang family did not convince Northern Zhao to withdraw its troops, it did shake the morale of the Sanchuan King's army. The soldiers felt that there was no need to attack anymore and were looking forward to withdrawing. Your second brother went out to meet the enemy and won another victory. As the weather gets colder, not only will Tongguan be difficult to capture, but Northern Zhao's vanguard will also suffer more casualties. They will soon be unable to hold on."

Jiang Lina really wanted to tell the Queen Mother: Xuan and Wang were not executed at all, they are just treating you like a fool!

But she thought that if she revealed such a secret, not only would she fail to kill the enemy, but her lover would also be implicated. If Jiang Tai was really forced into a corner, she might be sent to Dongyu to be humiliated and die. Jiang Lina pinched her hips and lowered her head, pretending to be a fool among fools.

Then I heard the fool's mother continue to mutter: "Wu is not so stupid. She knows to use this opportunity to eliminate Wei. But will Your Majesty really believe that Wei was ill? If you don't believe it, Wu will not have a good ending when the autumn comes. The empress will have to be a woman from the Ao tribe. I also thought that you are determined to remarry, so you still have to win over the Tu tribe. Although Dalang is Wu's son, when the concubine of Dongdang enters the palace, you can record Dalang under his name. Although Dalang cannot become the crown prince, he is the eldest son after all, and he must have a prince title."

Jiang Lina turned away and rolled her eyes.

What can be accomplished by relying on the Yiao tribe? Yiao tribe, Yiao tribe, where is the Yiao tribe now? Only the Queen Mother does not recognize it. The Yiao tribe has become the Yao tribe. Jiang replaced Huyan. How can the Yiao tribe still maintain the Qiang surname? Besides, why should the women of the Yao clan be the mother of the country? In the future, the title of the queen must be lower than that of the concubine and the princess.

Since the country is ruled by the Jiang family, how can we allow women outside the Jiang family to show off their power? !

Queen Mother Yao had chattered to her heart's content before she gave the soft couch to Jiang Lina for a nap. She "moved" to a more comfortable and gorgeous bed curtain, ready to have a good rest. She had often felt tired recently and had trouble sleeping well at night, all because she was worried about the war. Now that the situation has finally been stabilized, she urgently needs a few good night's sleep to aid her recovery.

The Queen Mother hadn't fallen asleep yet when the palace was in chaos.

The atmosphere was actually quite familiar. Just as when Jiang Tai forced the emperor to abdicate, there was chaos. Many palace servants fled in panic. Queen Mother Yao and Jiang Lina supported each other. When they heard that Wu Ziwei was dead and Queen Wu was a hostage, Queen Mother Yao opened her swollen, terrified eyes wide, but heard Jiang Lina ask in surprise: "Did the Beijing guards break into the palace? Great!"

Queen Mother Yao immediately thought it was great, thinking that it was Jiang Tai who had instructed Jiang Yan and ordered Jiang Baiji that since the crisis in Tongguan had been resolved, Jiang Tai must have made up his mind to take the opportunity to wipe out all the "rebels". From then on, neither the Wu clan nor the Wen clan had to worry about it. The Northern Han Dynasty became a shared territory of the Jiang and Yiao clans!

"Prince Zhenhuang has been beheaded!" The eunuch wailed in a shrill voice, "I don't know what happened outside the palace, I only know that it was General Jiang who assassinated General Wu first, and the rebel army rushed in through the south gate. Many people said that they saw Ran Zhugu..."

It was like a bolt from the blue.

It was indeed a familiar atmosphere, but now Queen Mother Yao had become the former Jiang Xiongying. She was panicked and furious as usual: "Why did Ran Zhugu appear in Weiyang Palace?!"

In the capital, her own son, Jie, was in charge of 50,000 imperial guards. Ran Zhugu was clearly outside the Wuguan Pass, so how could he fly into the Weiyang Palace? !

The 50,000 guards of the capital, because Jiang Tai mobilized all his personal soldiers except the Hanyang tribe, actually there were 30,000 of them, all of whom were members of the Ran clan and neutral subordinates. The Ran clan and its relatives mobilized 50,000 brave soldiers from the vassal states, and cooperated with at least 10,000 troops in Chang'an City. They seized the initiative in a swift manner. At that time, Jiang Yan was living a life of debauchery in the Weiyang Palace, the "safest" place, and Jiang Baiji was controlled before the city gate was broken.

It was too easy for Ran Zhugu to convince Jiang Baiji.

Jiang Baiji is not Queen Mother Yao and her daughter. When he saw Ran Zhugu "falling from the sky", he realized that something had changed in Wuguan. However, as the regent general, he did not receive any news of changes in Wuguan. This shows that Jiang Gaofan, who was guarding Wuguan, had originally colluded with Ran Zhugu. Jiang Tai was stabbed in the back, and he was bound to fail, and it was irreversible.

Choosing between life and death is actually a very simple thing.

Jiang Tai has already lost his base camp, and there is no way Jiang Cang would abandon Tongguan and turn around to fight to the death with Ran Zhugu. Even if Jiang Cang has such courage, the "miscellaneous army" he leads will never be able to fight against Ran. The personal soldiers of the Ran clan possess the strongest combat effectiveness of the Qiang tribe, and have already captured the capital, cutting off Jiang Tai's retreat!

Jiang Tai led his loyal soldiers and left Tongguan for Xiaoguan. When he learned that something had happened in the capital, how could he not have expected that the defeat was irreversible? Ran Zhugu had clearly conspired with Dongyu through Jiang Gaofan. Jiang Tai had been "ambushed from all sides" and could only embark on the road of exile again to save his own life and property. Moreover, for Jiang Baiji and others, only by surrendering to Ran Zhugu could they continue to hold Tongguan firmly and keep the country from collapsing completely.

They don't even have to bear the charge of treason.

Because Jiang Tai murdered his father and the king, he usurped the throne. Ran Zhugu started a rebellion on behalf of the original crown prince Jiang Mo and asked Dongyu for help to restore order. Who can say that he did not maintain the orthodoxy? !

Jiang Lina was "invited" out of the Queen Mother's Palace by Princess Ran.

Looking at Jiang Lina who was huddled into a ball, Princess Ran found it ridiculous. She still had some respect for Queen Wu who refused to surrender even in death. Although she used her as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the Wu clan, Princess Ran really did not want to humiliate Queen Wu any further. And as for Jiang Lina, letting her live would only be a waste of food. Princess Ran felt that killing Jiang Lina would simply dirty her hands.

"You're courting your own destruction." Princess Ran turned away in anger.

She knew that Jiang Mo would not execute Jiang Lina. Although this woman was useless, she was a princess of the Jiang family after all. The disaster of the feud had already been revealed. Killing relatives indiscriminately would only make the situation worse. Even Jiang Tai knew how to "appease", so Jiang Mo and her children survived. Jiang Yan had already been executed, and Jiang Lina, who had no power to fight back, would not actually waste much food.

Jiang Lina will not live long anyway, because she has committed too many sins and made many enemies.

There was no need for her to die in this coup.

"Will you let my child live?" Queen Wu asked Princess Ran.

Princess Ran looked at the gloomy sky. It was about a year ago that she was sure that she and her child would survive. Wu stood in front of her at that time, just as she was now, with a condescending attitude.

With clean clothes and food, she became a prisoner but didn't look like a prisoner.

"If I could kill you, I would definitely not be merciful," Wu said.

Now, Princess Ran told Wu her answer: "Among the seven countries, we are actually trying to survive in the cracks. I don't want to die, so I will spare your lives. Your and my positions are nothing more than determined by the positions of men. But Jiang Tai and Jiang Mo, I don't think they are actually in a life-or-death relationship."

As long as Jiang Tai is alive, there is no need for Wu to die.

But there was one person that Princess Ran had a strong desire to kill. Before she went to see Queen Mother Yao, she asked Concubine Wen, "Mother, do you want to see Yao off?"

"I won't go." Mrs. Wen sat in front of the window in a black smock, her eyebrows becoming more and more indifferent. Looking deep into her eyes, she couldn't see any sadness or joy. Sometimes she would sit quietly like this for several hours, not praying for the future, and seemingly not reminiscing about the past: "People don't need to say goodbye to each other, especially those who you never want to meet again."

Princess Ran had to make this trip: "I won't let Your Highness do it."

"You are too crazy about love, but your life is interesting."

Some people are like dead wood all their lives.

"Yao and I are actually the same kind of people." Wen said. She lowered her eyes and looked at the dull color of the coat on her body, as if looking at a dark soul. She couldn't say whether she felt regret or remorse, unwilling or sad. In fact, many years ago, as if since she could remember, she had been numb. She didn't even love herself, and gave up thinking about hope and joy. She never felt that she was a winner, and she never fell in love with anything or anyone. She even didn't cherish herself. She didn't do anything she wanted to do, but decided whether she should or shouldn't do it. She never knew the difference between good and evil, or the boundary between sadness and joy.

She even hated her daughter-in-law who always respected her.

As a human being, Ran has flesh and blood, seven emotions and six desires, and is a most normal and ordinary person. However, what makes her disgusted and resentful is that Jiang Mo is very similar to her in some aspects. Unfortunately, Jiang Mo is still influenced by Jiang Xiongying. In fact, many people don’t know that Jiang Xiongying is a compassionate person.

Therefore, Yao and her three sons were able to survive.

If she was really able to decide many things, many people would have died long ago. However, she didn't necessarily want these people to die, so she couldn't say that she had any regrets now.

Yao didn't know that her old rival Wen lived such a "desireless" life. She was still shocked that she suddenly became a prisoner. She never thought that Jiang Gaofan had betrayed her. Since Jiang Tai agreed to Jiang Gaofan to negotiate peace with Dayu, Jiang Tai stepped into a trap. Jiang Tai spent so many years enduring the shame of being exiled, and finally conquered those scattered Qiang people who were unwilling to follow Tai Xiongying and most of the Ran, Wen, Wu and other clans, and built his own iron-blooded guards. He deceived Jiang Xiongying and Ran Zhugu, persuaded Jiang Baiji and others to cooperate inside and outside, and Jiang Tai fought an extremely beautiful comeback and regained the throne that should have belonged to him.

Ran Zhugu and Ran Qiji, father and son, were clearly transferred outside Wuguan. Although they still had tens of thousands of soldiers in the foreign land, without a chief general to lead them, how could this group of scattered foreign soldiers capture the capital so easily? She didn't even hear the sound of horns and drums in the Weiyang Palace!

Indeed, if Ran Zhugu and his son had not been released into Wuguan by the crucial insider Jiang Gaofan, and he had not appeared outside the city of Chang'an, the 10,000 troops in the city could not have become the insider and first controlled Jiang Baiji and assassinated Bai Xing. The 30,000 Hanyang troops were leaderless and in chaos, and could not withstand the double-pronged attack from inside and outside the city. They simply abandoned the city and fled straight to Tongguan. They thought that Jiang Tai was still in Tongguan. As long as Jiang Tai was there, the two armies could join forces and the situation could be saved. However, Jiang Tai had already fled to Xiaoguan. Jiang Yan heard that Chang'an had been lost, and he was completely desperate. Only 20,000 troops were willing to follow Jiang Yan to Sanguan. At this time, Tongguan was already guarded by Ran Zhugu himself.

This was also because the general of Northern Zhao, King Sanchuan, was unaware that Northern Han had experienced civil strife again, otherwise he would have ordered an all-out attack on Tongguan. But even though Northern Zhao had missed the opportunity, Ran Zhugu did not dare to be careless at all. Tongguan must be defended, and he also had to integrate his troops to pursue Jiang Tai and Jiang Cang, striving to drive them out of Xiaoguan in order to truly pacify the domestic situation in Northern Han. Now Ran Zhugu could no longer take care of Hanzhong, which was like an empty city, but he had to distract himself to send the envoy of Henan out of Wuguan first in exchange for Jiang Mo, the hostage.

The country cannot be left without a leader. Only by welcoming Jiang Mo back as soon as possible can we calm the unstable hearts of the various tribes.

Of course, the Weiyang Palace had to be taken over by Princess Ran. The 3,000 palace guards left by Jiang Tai had been defeated and captured. No one could rescue Queen Mother Yao, who was doomed to die.