After General Yan left, General Shen thought that Old Yan was too straightforward and his words just now were disrespectful to the emperor, so he should help him make amends.

So Shen Quan said to Su Fengyi:

"Old Yan is a native of Xuanfu. The people of Xuanfu are tough and sturdy. Old Yan is also a rough man. He speaks without thinking. It is not his intention. Your Highness, please do not blame him."

Su Fengyi smiled and said:

"As the saying goes, a loving father can only make his son filial, and a friendly brother can only make his younger brother respectful. It is human nature that General Yan is outspoken.

The reason why General Shen publicized my military achievements so loudly today was precisely for this matter.

General Shen has put so much effort into this, how can I not appreciate it?"

Su Fengyi said that fathers are kind and sons are filial, brothers are friendly and younger brothers are respectful. Following these two sentences, there is also "the king is benevolent and the ministers are loyal."

Only when the king is benevolent can the ministers be loyal.

Although General Shen was released from prison safely, the harm caused by the Shen family's imprisonment is far from over.

General Shen was known to everyone as one of the most loyal ministers in the world. Such a loyal minister with outstanding military achievements and diligently guarding the border was actually sentenced to death. I wonder how many loyal people were disappointed.

The nine important border towns, especially the other eight border troops, must have felt the same way about what happened to General Shen. I'm afraid everyone is in danger, and everyone is worried that they will be the next one.

Military power is to serve imperial power. If the military power becomes resentful of imperial power, becomes alienated from it, and becomes disobedient, it only takes a moment for the military to turn into a rebel.

The imprisonment of General Shen damaged the prestige of imperial power in front of military power. However, as the victim of this incident, Shen Quan had to restore this prestige with his own hands.

If the emperor really has the ability to fight a war, leading the army in person would indeed be a great opportunity to rebuild the emperor's prestige. As long as the emperor can win the battle himself, everything else is a small matter.

After Empress Jiang passed away, Taizu killed many heroes who had made great contributions to the founding of the country in his later years, but no one dared to disobey or rebel, thanks to Taizu's prestige in the army and the court.

But the emperor can't do that. He doesn't have that ability.

Shen Quan looked around and saw that apart from the emperor, this prestige could only, and only could, fall on one other person.

This is also the reason why Shen Quan did not persuade the princess to go back, but went with her to pursue the remnants of the Northern Tartars even though he knew it was dangerous.

The eldest princess had the wisdom and judgment of the late emperor and the bravery of Taizu. She also lived and died together with the soldiers and killed the enemy leader.

At this moment, there is no better way in the world to empathize with the generals and establish the royal prestige in front of them than to live and die together.

There was no one else except her.

So even though Shen Quan knew that the small amount of military merit money was not worth mentioning to the princess, he still wrote down the princess's achievements in black and white in front of everyone, writing it clearly and plainly.

Tomorrow he will publicize the eldest princess's achievements again, writing about them in great detail and making sure everyone in the world knows about them.

When the northern barbarians invaded, the eldest princess, following the emperor's order, went to Xuanfu, beheaded the enemy leader, and wiped out all the enemies.

After tomorrow, everyone in the world will praise the emperor's wisdom and the princess's reputation.

Just like in modern times, if you want to suppress a hot search by using another hot search, in order to warm up the hearts of the border troops who have been chilled by the royal family, you must use the passion and pride of the royal family.

Shen Quan had never told anyone else about his good intentions, but as soon as he heard the eldest princess' words about fatherly love and filial piety, he knew that she understood it all.

Since she understood everything, Shen Quan didn't need to say more. He just said:

"The celebration banquet is still some time away, and it will take General Yan a while to find the emperor, so Your Highness should take a rest first."

Su Fengyi has been running around these days and has been to the battlefield, so her clothes are stained with the blood of the enemy. Regardless of the critical situation before, now that the enemy has finally been pacified, she naturally cannot wear this bloody clothes to the celebration banquet.

And most importantly, this set of clothes belonged to the emperor, and there were dragons embroidered on the clothes with gold thread. It would not be suitable for her to wear it again, for fear that someone with ulterior motives would tear it apart and cause trouble.

So Su Fengyi said:

"Thank you, General, for finding me some clothes."

……

There were no female members in the general's mansion, so they needed to find a set of wearable clothes for the princess. General Shen had nowhere to borrow them, so he had to buy them.

At this time, all the clothing stores in the city had already closed, so General Shen knocked on the door of Nishang Pavilion, the largest silk shop in the city.

Before, General Shen was imprisoned, and the new General Sun came to Xuanfu. Not only did many soldiers mutinied and escape from the camp, but even the merchants and common people in the city could not make a living, and many of them had to move their families away.

I dare not say anything about General Sun's companions. When it comes to extorting money, he is more ruthless than scraping bones with a knife. Even a stone can be squeezed to produce two taels of oil, let alone wealthy merchants.

Whenever General Sun took a fancy to someone's property, he would accuse them of false charges, put them in jail and confiscate their property. Who wouldn't be afraid?

When the shop assistant in charge of guarding the store came running over in a hurry, Manager Li, the owner of Nishang Pavilion, was happily drinking wine and singing songs.

A few days ago, Shopkeeper Li was ready to give up his family business, close the store, and take his family back to his hometown to avoid disaster, but then, hey, General Shen came back!

General Shen is back!

General Sun was beheaded!

The northern barbarians were driven away!

Shopkeeper Li heard three pieces of good news in a row and was so happy that he set off three strings of firecrackers to celebrate the preservation of his family business.

So when he heard the clerk who was on night watch in the store say that General Shen went to the shop to buy clothes for his women, Shopkeeper Li jumped up immediately, stopped drinking, stopped singing, and even didn't have time to put on his shoes, and ran excitedly to his own shop.

When he went out, he bumped into his neighbor Old Zhang, who had bought a big fat fish and was about to go home to cook it, but the fish was knocked away by Manager Li.

Old Zhang asked:

"Manager Li, where are you going? Why are you in such a hurry?!"

Shopkeeper Li, with one foot wearing a shoe and the other wearing only a sock, turned around to bow and apologize to Old Zhang while running down the street, shouting:

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, General Shen came to my shop to buy clothes for his women, and I have to hurry!"

As soon as Shopkeeper Li said this, everyone on the street fell silent, and then the whole street became boiling.

General Shen actually took his women to buy clothes!

General Shen, female relatives, I never thought that one day these two words would be connected together!

Old Zhang didn't even bother to pick up the fish, and followed Shopkeeper Li to run to see the strange thing, shouting as he ran:

"Manager Li, wait for me, take me to have a look!"

So the Li family passed it on to the Zhang family, the Zhang family passed it on to the Wang family, the east of the city passed it on to the west of the city, and the south of the city passed it on to the north of the city.

The people in the city put down what they were doing and rushed to Nishang Pavilion to watch the bizarre event of General Shen taking the girls to buy clothes.

The news reached the military camp, and several young men who were killing pigs were so fascinated by the strange thing that they loosened their hands. The pig, which was originally pinned down, jumped up and broke free, grunting and running away.

So Su Fengyi sat on the second floor of Nishang Pavilion, waiting for the owner of the house to come, when she saw that all the windows across the street were suddenly opened, and the windows were crowded with people.

On the street, Shopkeeper Li was running in front, followed by a group of people behind him, like they were running a marathon, a huge group of people were heading towards Nishang Pavilion.

What's more, two big fat pigs suddenly appeared from nowhere, followed by a group of people who were catching pigs on the street.

General Shen looked at the messy street with a dark face and was about to apologize.

But Su Fengyi looked out the window and smiled:

"I have never been here before, but I didn't know the customs of Xuanfu were so interesting."

This smile was charming and coquettish like a girl in the boudoir, and was very different from the eldest princess in the past. General Shen was so fascinated by it that he blurted out:

"Your Highness, in fact, you have been here before. Your Highness was born in Xuanfu, in the Shen family."

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