Chapter 2006
Lady 10
Many years later, those who witnessed this scene will never forget it.
Among the civil and military officials, there were exceptionally talented men with outstanding skills in poetry and painting.
Some of them painted this scene, while others wrote poems about it, which have been passed down through the ages.
Seeing this, Liu Mei felt extremely jealous, but she looked down on Liu Qiu.
She believes that women should find a good man to be a good wife and mother, rather than compete with men and do rude things.
Wouldn't it be better to stay at home, obediently serve your husband, and enjoy wealth and luxury?
Why did you have to go and die!
Liu Tong was unaware that she was practically dead in Liu Mei's eyes. She led the Tian Ce Army at breakneck speed and arrived at the border in just a third of the time.
Three days ago, the Northern Desert Kingdom suddenly launched an attack on the border city, and its army of 100,000 men was at the city gates.
The border city's garrison was caught off guard and was no match for the Northern Desert Kingdom's army. They could only close the city gates and hold out for their lives.
However, the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great. With the city gates about to be breached, the soldiers and civilians of the border town would all become victims of the Northern Desert Kingdom's soldiers.
A group of men charged into the northern desert army.
Their spears were like dragons, and with a single shot, they took down a soldier from the Northern Desert Kingdom.
The soldiers of the Northern Desert Kingdom were terrified by these killing gods and fled in panic.
The Tian Ce Army pursued them.
A mere thousand soldiers managed to chase away 100,000 troops from the northern desert.
In the end, only 30,000 soldiers of the Northern Desert Army managed to escape.
Of the remaining 70,000, half were killed by the Tian Ce Army, and the other half were captured by the Tian Ce Army.
The Tian Ce Army drove the prisoners back to the border city.
The soldiers on the city wall were startled, thinking that the Northern Desert Army had returned to continue the siege.
As for the armies that had previously driven the Northern Desert Army to flee, although they were formidable, their numbers were simply too small.
Perhaps they were surrounded by a sea of people and were completely wiped out.
Then, they saw the flag of the Great Xia Kingdom, and a flag that read "Tian Ce"!
Tian Ce Army!
It is said that the army sent by the capital to support them was the Tian Ce Army.
News from the capital revealed that the Tian Ce Army not only numbered only a thousand men, but was also led by a woman, which made all the soldiers want to curse the people in the capital.
If you don't want to support the border region, don't use such a perfunctory approach.
What can a woman do with a thousand men?
As a result, they were proven wrong.
Not only did their thousand men drive away 100,000 enemy troops and kill more than 30,000, but they also captured more than 30,000!
The border town's general personally went out to greet Liu Tong.
Previously, they were dissatisfied that the supreme commander of the border city was to be replaced by this female general, but now they all wholeheartedly acknowledge Liu Tong.
Liu Tong's first battle in the border town won him the hearts of the people and military power of the entire border town.
Liu Tong stayed in the border town for five years.
Over the course of five years, he developed cement and made the city walls of the border town as solid as a rock.
Liu Tong ordered his Tian Ce Army to train the soldiers in the border city, training each soldier to be able to fight ten men, increasing their combat effectiveness by five, seven, or eight times.
The soldiers felt their own power and all longed to go to war as soon as possible.
They wanted to show their enemies their power and kill more people to achieve merit.
Their greatest wish is to join the Tian Ce Army.
However, the Tian Ce Army was very strict in recruiting people. In five years in the border city, they recruited no more than one hundred people in total.
Liu Tong led a group of his men to inspect the granary.
The granaries on the border were rarely full, and the soldiers had never actually had a full meal.
But when Liu Dong arrived, he brought out potatoes and sweet potatoes and had the soldiers cultivate the wasteland and plant sweet potatoes.
At harvest time, the yield exceeding 1,000 jin per mu astonished everyone. The logistics officer in the military camp was overjoyed.
On this day, all the soldiers had a full meal, and their bellies were bloated.
This is the first full meal, but not the last.
From now on, everyone will be able to have enough to eat.
The sweet potatoes are sweet and delicious.
Although potatoes have no flavor, they become delicious when combined with salt and other seasonings.
Now that everyone has enough to eat, they are stronger and more capable.
Everyone was eager and ready for the battle.
Liu Dong sent one-third of the potatoes and sweet potatoes back to the capital.
The Queen was overjoyed to receive the two types of grain and immediately ordered them to be planted on the royal estates.
When the results came out, the Queen led her courtiers to the fields and personally witnessed the harvested grain piled up like mountains.
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"
The courtiers knelt down and shouted "Long live the Emperor!"
They knew how much prestige the Empress would gain with the appearance of these two grains.
In the hearts of the people, the Empress is a living Buddha to all families, and they would never betray her.
Those who believe the Empress is a hen crowing at dawn and opposes her will likely be beaten to death by the people with vegetable leaves.
At this moment, those who had harbored ulterior motives put them aside.
They understood that with the achievement of high grain yields, the Queen was now in an invincible position.
Since Liu Dong had performed such a great service, the Empress naturally had to reward him.
The Marquis of Zhenyuan became the Duke of Zhenyuan, and Lady Zhao, a third-rank official, became a second-rank official.
Zhao is now the person with the highest status in the entire Liu family.
Both Sun and Qian became obedient and dared not provoke Zhao again.
Even if their sons and daughters are outstanding, they can't compare to Zhao's daughter!
Liu Mei has secured her position as the wife of the heir of the Ningguo Mansion, and has given birth to two sons for Li Han. She is living a fairly good life.
Li Han failed to keep his promise of a lifetime of one-on-one love, so he is not a person of lasting affection.
Liu Mei was someone he had gone to great lengths to obtain, and he treated her slightly differently from other women.
However, it was only a short time; less than two years after their marriage, Li Han took a concubine.
Liu Mei wasn't too angry. She had long understood that men were untrustworthy and couldn't possibly stay with one woman for life.
She had already achieved her goal: to marry into a high-ranking family and become the principal wife!
So what else could she possibly be dissatisfied with?
Liu Mei accepted it smoothly.
Only in the dead of night, when I lie alone in bed, I sigh softly.
Liu Tong and Zhu Xiuping returned to Bianjing.
Zhu Xiuping did quite well in the county town; after three years of performance reviews, he received an excellent rating.
Many people were reluctant to cooperate with the new policies promoted by the Empress, but Zhu Xiuping responded actively after being persuaded by Liu Tong, and thus achieved good results.
The Empress was very pleased with this and personally issued an edict to recall the person to the capital, giving him a fifth-rank official position and allowing him to participate in the promotion of the new policies.
Zhu Xiuping thus became the Empress's confidante.
Although the Zhu family did not return the title of heir to Zhu Xiuping, they did accept him back home and used the Marquis's connections to help him advance more smoothly in his official career.
As a result, Liu Tong returned to the Liu family and was accepted back into their household.
Liu Tong gave birth to a son and a daughter for Zhu Xiuping. She shared joys and sorrows with Zhu Xiuping, and there was no third party between them. They truly lived a life of one love and one partner.
This made many ladies and young women extremely envious. (End of Chapter)