Three days later, Ruan Ningxiang took up the post of Imperial Guards Division, a third-rank general.

She has 20,000 soldiers and horses under her command. Of these 20,000 soldiers and horses, there are less than a thousand bandit soldiers who followed her back from northern Xinjiang.

The rest were recruits recruited by Chu Yu. They received three months of training at the hands of the Sixth Prince's imperial army, and were now under Ruan Ningxiang's banner.

This can be regarded as a team that Chu Yu secretly recruited for himself.

Chu Yu also has a team, which is the 100,000 soldiers who supported Northern Xinjiang. Now there are more than 80,000 left. In addition to the 5,000 soldiers and horses that Shen Lichuan sent to Ruan Ningxiang to guard Yanhui City, the total number is 90,000. soldiers.

Now Ruan Ningxiang has given full authority to Xiao Wu.

At the same time, Ake, who had changed his identity, joined the army again, under Xiao Wu's banner.

This is the first step in Chu Yu's plan to slowly disintegrate the Shen family army's power.

Song Ji still stayed there as a businessman and would secretly deliver some news.

The main responsibility of the Imperial Guard is to cooperate with the imperial guards to guard the gates of the capital, and is directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor.

The imperial army guarding the capital is the sixth prince Chu Ci, and the deputy general beside him is named Lin Xiao.

The Tianyu Kingdom became a vassal state of Da Chu, which required soldiers to guard it. The emperor allocated 20,000 of the 30,000 forbidden troops of the sixth prince, and General Xiao Shen would bring them back to the northern border in the future.

At the same time, another Imperial Guard Division was set up.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that by doing this, the emperor secretly divided some of the responsibilities of the sixth prince.

This part of the power was under the personal control of the emperor.

Now there are two teams under the emperor's personal control, one is the Royal Forest Army under Chu Tingyu, and the other is the Imperial Guard under Ruan Ningxiang.

The Royal Guards are mainly responsible for the safety of the emperor and guarding the palace.

The Imperial Guard is mainly responsible for the security of the capital, mainly guarding the city gates and patrolling the streets.

This is another reason why both the Sixth Prince and the Crown Prince want to win over Ruan Ningxiang.

On the first day Ruan Ningxiang took office, Sixth Prince Chu Ci and Shen Lichuan came over in person. Chu Ci told Lin Xiao to take Ruan Ningxiang to familiarize herself with the responsibilities here.

At the corner when he was about to climb the city wall, Shen Lichuan secretly grabbed Ruan Ningxiang.

Ruan Ningxiang turned around, "What's wrong?"

Shen Lichuan dressed up deliberately today. His hair was tied with jade, and he wore a navy brocade embroidered with dark patterns. He tied a sachet and a jade pendant around his waist. He looked a little less majestic and more like a young man from an aristocratic family. Luxurious and handsome.

Shen Lichuan took out a sandalwood box with embossed patterns from his wide sleeves and stuffed it into Ruan Ningxiang's hand, "My sister asked me to bring it to you."

"What?"

Ruan Ningxiang opened the exquisite wooden box and took a look. It was a set of very beautiful white jade jewelry.

"It's too valuable, I can't take it." Ruan Ningxiang hurriedly closed the box again, returned it to Shen Lichuan, turned around and strode after the sixth prince on the tower.

Shen Lichuan stared at the wooden box in his arms, and the smile on his face slowly solidified. Did he dislike it, or was he embarrassed to accept it because it was expensive?

The sixth prince looked down along the city wall, "Tosukawa, what are you doing down there?"

Shen Lichuan slowly came back to his senses, put away the wooden box, and climbed onto the city gate wall in a few steps, "Brother-in-law."

"Why are you worried?"

The Sixth Prince Chu Ci has been distracted recently by the secret division of military power by the emperor, and does not know about the matter between him and Ruan Ningxiang.

Shen Lichuan glanced at Ruan Ningxiang subconsciously, and Ruan Ningxiang turned around uncomfortably and moved her gaze towards the city.

A tall sweet-scented osmanthus tree planted at the foot of the city wall was covered with small yellow flowers, and one of its branches peeked over the top of the wall.

When the wind blows, a few petals in the faint floral fragrance slowly float in the wind.

The guard who passed under the city gate with a sealing knife hanging on his waist drifted into the crowd of people who were going in and out of the city gate, and finally disappeared.

Suddenly, Ruan Ningxiang saw a group of powerful people among the people who kept avoiding them.

She raised her finger and pointed: "The prince is here."

Several people followed and looked over, not only the prince, but also the eleventh prince Chu Lan, the Minister of War Shen Zezhong, the minister of war Shen Lixing and the ninth prince Chu Yu.

There was also a team of royal guards accompanying the prince.

Ruan Ningxiang and others saw the prince and walked down from the high city wall.

Now Ruan Ningxiang is a high-ranking general, and the etiquette he performs is no longer the etiquette of his daughter's family.

Like Lin Xiao, she fisted and called, "Prince."

When she raised her head, her eyes glanced at Chu Yu. Chu Yu was accompanied by Shen Lixing. Ruan Ningxiang did not dare to look at him any longer.

The prince, who was wearing a wild dragon robe, had a stern face, and his sweeping eagle eyes showed majesty.

"Brother Eleven has never had a regular position, but now he comes to the Imperial Guard to work with General Ruan as a minister and assist General Ruan in his work."

As soon as these words came out, Chu Ci's expression turned not very good. The prince deliberately placed his own people in this defense.

"Wouldn't it be wronging the eleventh brother to let him claim the position of assistant?" the sixth prince said.

Chu Lan was originally unhappy because of this matter, but as soon as Chu Ci's words came out, the repressed unwillingness in his heart became even stronger.

The prince held a folding fan in his hand and said sharply: "What the sixth brother said is a bit sowing discord. Back then, the sixth brother served as the minister of the Ministry of War for more than three years, and was later transferred to the Forbidden Army. He sat on this Is there a position of commander of the Imperial Guards in the capital?"

Although his words are good, Chu Yu took the position of commander of the imperial army mainly because he was his father-in-law.

General Shen died in battle, and his father promoted him to the post of commander of the Imperial Army in order to appease the Shen family's military morale.

At the same time, this is also the reason why Shen Tokawa was forced to go to the battlefield at a young age.

The Sixth Prince Chu Ci's usually gentle face showed a hint of anger, "Why does the Eleventh Prince want to take the post of General Ruan's Imperial Guard in the future?"

The prince smiled instead of getting angry, "Now that the eleventh brother has just taken up the position of assistant, the sixth brother may be a little too concerned."

The prince changed the subject and turned to Shen Lichuan, who was next to the sixth prince, "General Shen, he should be twenty-five or six this year. Now that Northern Xinjiang is at peace, the sixth brother did not say that he would consider him for General Shen." A lifelong event."

"I won't bother the prince." Shen Lichuan spoke in a distant voice and glanced at Ruan Ningxiang subconsciously.

The autumn wind blows gently, and the gentle sunshine passes through the leaves, casting shadows of light waves.

Ruan Ningxiang stretched out her hand to tuck the broken hair behind her ears, and turned her gaze to the side, only to meet the gaze of the Eleventh Prince.

The eleventh prince looked at her. Although he looked a little different, if he really let her hang around him, would he have gained face in front of the sixth prince and the prince in the future?

The eleventh prince Chu Lan, who had always been looked down upon, had a vague desire deep in his heart to conquer this woman and show it to them.

Ruan Ningxiang didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, but looked at Chu Yu behind him.

Chu Yu pursed his thin lips slightly, with a cold and ascetic look. But the moment he looked at her, the warm sunshine shone through the branches and leaves, and fell on his ink-like eyes, which seemed to be broken by light waves. Asceticism and deep affection melted into each other. A collision of ice and fire.

Ruan Ningxiang blushed, lowered her head and looked at her toes with her heart beating rapidly.

In Shen Lichuan's eyes, he thought Ruan Ningxiang was shy and a little embarrassed.

Shen Lichuan's deep voice couldn't help but become a little gentle, "I already have someone in my heart."

"Oh?" asked the Sixth Prince, "I don't know whose daughter she is. I've never heard of you talking about her."
Chapter completed!