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Chapter 197 Your Majesty, the Princess Beats the Prince Consort to Death

Zhao Xuanlong, who had successfully taken power, was very happy and planned to grant amnesty to the people to make them happy.

However, he was stopped by Zhao Erya who came to the palace to deliver delicious food to him.

"I think you're getting carried away. Why should you pardon those criminals who killed and looted people? Aren't you afraid of causing social unrest?" Zhao Erya rolled her eyes at him and poured him a glass of water. "If you really want to do something good, why not reduce the taxes in the border town?"

Zhao Xuan frowned at the mention of the border town. He raised his head and drank the water Zhao Erya handed him. He said, "The Iron Fang thieves are still determined. I received news that a small group of Iron Fang cavalry appeared in the northwest border town again in March. They robbed the people and ran away. Our people couldn't catch them!"

When the previous emperor was alive, he once suppressed the Tiefang army. Later, capable generals died one after another, leaving only Changsun Anhe.

However, a few years after Zhao Xuan ascended the throne, Changsun Anhe died of a relapse of his old illness.

With the departure of the most capable general, the remaining ones are ordinary generals with average talents. Now there is a lack of young generals in the court.

It happened that there was a power transfer within the Tiefang faction. Zhao Xuan was worried that the new leader would attack the Xia Dynasty in order to establish his authority. If he won, it would be fine. If he lost, he, Zhao Xuan, would become a sinner of the Xia Kingdom.

Zhao Erya suggested: "Why don't you let me go?" She can fight.

Zhao Xuan was shocked and shook his head and waved his hands to refuse the third attempt: "No, no, it's too dangerous!"

He didn't say anything like women couldn't go to the battlefield, but instead persuaded Zhao Erya from a safety perspective, hoping to dissuade her from this terrible idea.

Zhao Erya had no choice but to comfort him: "Okay, okay, don't worry, drink more water!" After that, she filled another cup.

Let's take it one step at a time. If the situation is not right and there is no one available in the court, she will take over.

Finally, Zhao Xuan reduced taxes in the three northwestern states for three years and ordered the pardon of certain criminals, while everything else remained the same.

After this conversation, Zhao Erya asked Zhao Xuan for five thousand troops and an uninhabited village on the border of the capital, where he would go to train his troops every now and then.

In the original plot, in the spring of the 17th year of Longxing, the Tiefanghui launched a large-scale attack on the western border of the Xia Kingdom. They were like a deserted place and countless people of the Xia Kingdom were killed.

The Xia Kingdom paid a huge price to defeat the Tiefang tribe and even lost a princess as a marriage partner.

This battle severely damaged the Xia Kingdom and also laid the seeds for future foreign wars.

Zhao Erya didn't want to see the suffering of the people, so from now on she had to be prepared to go to the battlefield.

In addition, she asked Zhao Xuan for some older palace maids to form a nursing team.

Today's medical level is backward. If soldiers are injured, if the injuries are minor, it's okay, but if the injuries are serious, there is almost no chance of survival.

Zhao Erya wanted to reduce the death rate of soldiers, so she planned to set up a team of nurses to teach the most basic first aid knowledge and have them follow her to the battlefield in the future.

The team leader of this nursing team is Liu Yunmei.

Liu Yunmei's parents died early, and her child also died. Now she is alone, with no relatives or friends and nowhere to go.

She begged Zhao Erya to take her in, and she was willing to sell herself as a maid in the princess's mansion.

Zhao Erya liked this brave and strong woman very much and kept her.

Of course, they were not slaves, but guests, free to come and go.

After the nursing team was established, Liu Yunmei took the initiative to find her and said that she also wanted to join.

Zhao Erya naturally responded without hesitation.

After a period of study and assessment, Liu Yunmei, who was bold, careful, steady and literate, stood out and successfully became the captain of the nursing team.

Similarly, Zhao Erya found a farm to house these nurses, and imperial doctors from the Imperial Medical Bureau would go there every day to teach them.

The oldest of these palace maids was forty years old and the youngest was twenty-six years old.

Once you enter the palace, it is like entering a deep sea. These palace maids thought they would waste their lives in the palace, but who knew that one day they would be able to walk out of the palace.

Zhao Erya has abolished their slave status, and now they are all guests at the Dongping Princess's Mansion.

This action by the nurse team was unprecedented in the world, and everyone involved was very nervous.

Zhao Erya simply took them for actual combat drills, practicing on the most heinous death row prisoners in the prison.

At the beginning, some of the nurses fainted from fright, some vomited due to nausea, and few of them could stand, let alone treat the wounds.

Zhao Erya gave them desensitization training again and again. For those who really couldn't do it, Zhao Erya arranged them to other places, and the rest gradually got used to it.

Finally, the first nurse who could successfully help the wounded treat their wounds appeared.

Then, the second, the third, the fourth...

When the last person successfully completed the wound bandage alone, Zhao Erya knew that the nursing team was successful.

Many things can be said with just a word or two, but it takes a lot of effort to do them.

Zhao Erya made a schedule for himself, regularly visiting the two farms to inspect the situation. The rest of the time he spent eating, drinking, practicing martial arts, and teaching the servants in the princess's mansion to read and write.

That day, she was comfortably drinking the five-red soup made by Yam, sitting under the eaves listening to the little girls reciting their lessons.

Suddenly, the housekeeper rushed in with a maid.

"Princess!" The little girl knelt on the ground with a plop and kowtowed her head. "Princess, please save our princess!"

Zhao Erya recognized the little girl as Chun Liu, the maidservant of her sister, Princess Huaiyin. She stood up and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"

Chun Liu cried and said, "The prince consort wanted to bring a woman from outside into the palace, but the princess refused. The lady tried to persuade the princess, but the princess retorted a few times. Then the prince consort...he hit the princess!"

Zhao Erya frowned: "Where is the Minister of Rites?"

Princess Huaiyin married Pu Cunzhen, the second son of Pu Lairen, the Minister of Rites. He was said to be a good student and was highly regarded by the late emperor. He was married to Zhao Erfeng, the ninth daughter of the emperor, Princess Huaiyin.

Princess Huaiyin's mother died young, and she was not favored by the late emperor, so she was raised to be gentle and timid.

When the two got married, a lawsuit broke out.

When a princess got married, she didn't have to kneel down and pay homage to her parents like ordinary women. But I don't know what was wrong with Pu Lairen and his wife's brains, they actually asked Princess Huaiyin to pay homage.

Princess Huaiyin was a cowardly person, and she endured it in public.

On the second day after the marriage, the Pu family asked Princess Huaiyin to live in the Pu Mansion to serve her parents-in-law.

Princess Huaiyin endured it again.

As the saying goes, good people are often bullied. Princess Huaiyin's repeated concessions were met with the Pu family's increasing encroachment.

Now, he actually dared to hit the princess!

"The Minister of Rites is away on official business and has not returned yet. That woman is the Madam's niece. The Madam is biased towards the princess..." Zhao Erya understood before Chunliu finished speaking.

She stood up and ordered the housekeeper beside her with a sullen face: "Go call Cheng Zhi, select fifty people, and go with me to the Huaiyin Princess's Mansion!"

After saying that, he took the lead and walked out.