The Duke of Lu, a large family who was one of the founding heroes of Daliang, has been stationed in the northwest for generations.
Holding the golden order of Emperor Taizu, the founder of the country, he could refuse the new emperor's imperial edict, not participate in party strife, and could not return to the court unless the country was destroyed.
The place where they are stationed is not Yuyang City, but the border fortress a hundred miles away from Yuyang City. It is full of wind and sand and has sparse vegetation. It is incomparable to Yuyang City, and Yuyang City is the largest one outside the Great Wall.
A city, further to the northwest, most places are deserted. Across the desert are tribes outside the Great Wall. There are thirteen large tribes, not counting the small tribes and sand bandits.
Because the outside of the Great Wall was barren, they would always harass the Daliang border in order to rob supplies. Before the founding of Daliang, they even went to the Yuyang territory, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil.
After overseeing the country in Daliang, Emperor Taizu ordered his most trusted Duke of Lu to garrison here. The place was bitterly cold and destined to suffer, but Emperor Taizu gave Duke Lu supreme rights from the beginning.
In the two hundred years since the founding of the country, dozens of emperors have changed, but no one has ever been able to shake this place.
The Duke of Lu only had an army of 200,000 at the beginning, and now it has grown to about 700,000. But as he said, the emperor is not allowed to seize military power, and he is not allowed to return to the dynasty unless the country is destroyed. The Duke of Lu's family, for several generations, is waiting.
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Outside the northwest, all barbarians are barbarians and cannot be tamed. This is not an empty statement. Over the past two thousand years, whenever barbarians break through this restriction and enter the Central Plains, it will inevitably be the end of a country.
Everyone can win the throne of Daliang, but no one will move the northwest defense line. Otherwise, the world will be in chaos and the country will be overthrown, and he will be a sinner for the ages.
The Cheng family of the Duke of Lu's house, Cheng Yan, the eldest son of the Duke of Lu, was of this generation.
Ye Wanwan did know him and received his kindness, but to her it was a long, long time ago. The gap between them was not fourteen years, but a cycle of life and death.
Ye Wanwan always entered the palace when she was young. Because Concubine Ying sent her son to Queen Leng's knees, the Ye family has been ridiculed, saying that the Ye family has no shame for the throne, and the prince can give away others, or buy and sell by force.
Simply a bummer.
At that time, the Ye family was ridiculed by the civil and military officials of the dynasty, as well as the royal family and nobles, and Ye Wanwan, the legitimate daughter of the Ye family who was often taken by the British concubine, was naturally not immune.
All the children of the royal family disliked her, and the daughters of ministers did not make friends with her. They all hated her, despised her, and ridiculed her.
At that time, the old King Qi's family was also in Beijing. Zhao Huayin often brought a group of noble girls to bully her, and he was happy every time when he bullied her until she cried.
When other people saw her crying, they took pleasure in it and tried every means to bully her and tease her.
It is no exaggeration to say that Ye Wanwan was hated by everyone when she was a child, because the Ye family loved vanity and because the British concubine forced the queen to adopt her child for the sake of the throne.
On the contrary, Leng Yunqing and Leng Yunfang were the most noble beings among the nobles. The Leng family was powerful and their aunt was the queen. Some people bullied Ye Wanwan in order to win over them.
Ye Shaoyang also went too far for Ye Wanwan at that time, standing up to protect her, but he was only two years older than her, how could he protect her? Besides, Ye Shaoyang encountered no less bullying than she did.
Later, Ye Wanwan met Cheng Yan. At that time, he accompanied the Duke's wife back to Beijing to visit the family. During that time, he was always in and out of the palace. When he saw Ye Wanwan being bullied, he would stand up to protect him.
'Don't be so sentimental. I'm not helping you. I just don't want to see them bullying people like this. I hate them when I see them.'
'Hey, don't cry. Those who didn't know better would have thought that I was bullying you.'
'If I don't hit women, if you cry again, I will beat you.'
'Okay, don't cry. I'll lend you my shoulder to lean on.'
'Little crybaby, are you being bullied again? Who is it? I'll help you beat him up.'
'Here, do you want to eat the candied haws on a stick?'
'What's so good about your princely cousin that makes you wait eagerly to grow up and marry him? He doesn't even like you even if you look at him.'
'Little crybaby, I'm leaving. I'm going back to the northwest. You won't be able to see me anymore.'
'If you miss me, you can write to me, little crybaby...'
That year, Ye Wanwan was ten years old and Cheng Yan was fourteen. Cheng Yan and the others only went back for three months before they had to leave. They were separated for fourteen years and never went back again.
In Ye Wanwan's world, the brother she met when she was young has long since disappeared without a trace.
Even after being sheltered for three months, she still had to face the wind, frost, rain and snow alone. Later, the emperor suddenly died, the prince ascended the throne, the Ye family was transformed, and she danced to the top of the city, finally breaking free from the shadow of excess.
But this does not mean that she has a good life. She has been indoctrinated by her aunt since she was a child that she will be the wife of the prince's cousin in the future. She doesn't know how much she likes Zhao Yi, but she has always believed in becoming an outstanding woman and learning from the best.
According to the rules, becoming her cousin's perfect wife is her only destiny.
Vanity, blindness, and paranoia were something she despised when she thought about it now. She was incredibly stupid. But in fact, she had no choice at that time. She was in such an environment and had the concepts instilled by her aunt and people around her.
The authorities are obsessed with her, and she can't help herself with what she does, and her thoughts are not necessarily her own.
She worked hard to become what they thought was a qualified candidate, a woman worthy of the prince's cousin. Finally, she waited until the prince ascended the throne and became the emperor, and when he married, she married... Leng Yunqing,
The indescribably precious daughter of the Leng family.
She settled for the next best thing and became a noble concubine, but she never imagined that it would become the beginning of her own nightmare. From the beginning to the end, she was a pawn. Even though it seemed that she was protected and pampered by the Queen Mother, she was actually just a piece of cake.
It was not enough for the thrown chess pieces to suffer in this hell on earth, they had to die in Zhao Yi's hands.
After experiencing so much, how could Ye Wanwan still remember Cheng Yan, whom she met by chance when she was young, and how could she still have the heart to miss her past relationship?
Since her rebirth, Ye Wanwan has never thought of it once. Now, thanks to Cheng Yan, all the past events have flooded into her heart again, tearing her mind apart again and dripping with blood.
Let her clearly understand once again how ridiculous and pathetic her life was.