Girl, there's something wrong with you

The news that there were traces of demon activities north of Jingkou, as well as Sima Bebu's application to return to Jingkou early, quickly spread back to Taicheng.

In the cabinet, Wang Maohong wanted to reject it and made other conditions to keep him in the southern city. The reason was that the war situation was not yet clear and it was not suitable for personnel transfer at this time.

To put it bluntly, I hope a certain Iron Man can stay and continue to help fight against the Liyang Army.

However, Yu Zhongshu put forward a different opinion: the Jingkou Beifu Army was just established, and if there was no Sima from other departments to take charge, it might not be able to resist the invasion of demons. In addition, Jingkou has long accepted northern refugees and has too many people. If all of them are turned into monsters, it may endanger the stability of the Cavalry Army's future.

Wang Maohong actually understood what he meant, and all the talk was just a trick. The main reason was that he didn't want Cheng Jinyang to make too great a contribution in the war, lest he had to be promoted again.

The Taicheng cabinet has always been divided on how to treat Cheng Jinyang.

First of all, it has become the unanimous consensus of all the prime ministers to use his ability to attack the Liyang Army.

However, if you want others to work hard, you have to make exchanges for their interests. Of course, this is also an iron law in politics.

The aristocratic faction, headed by Wang Maohong, hopes to improve his political status, including the previous vigorous push to let him guard Jingkou and recruit troops.

Yu Zhongshu is more conservative and is not very willing to let him go further in his official career. He would rather use the eldest princess's marriage in exchange.

After all, the Cheng family of the divine capital dates back to ancient times and is of the same lineage as the Sima family. It is still inextricably linked to the royal family - its attributes overlap to a certain extent with the current cousin Yu family.

The Yu family was able to take sole control of power with the support of the Queen Mother Yu. In the future, when the young emperor becomes an adult and wants to take charge, he might change hands and support the Cheng family to compete with the Yu family. This possibility is not entirely impossible.

On the other hand, if Cheng Jinyang becomes the eldest princess's consort, then on the one hand, the two families will naturally become married, and the Iron Giant Soldier will be my nephew and son-in-law; on the other hand, they will become potential political enemies in the future, and now I have preemptively turned them into "My family".

There was basically nothing wrong with Yu Yuangui's idea, but his approach was obviously a bit too hasty... Wang Maohong sighed and had no objection.

Even if the other party won't listen to you if you object, and will still suspect you of having ulterior motives, it's better to remain silent.

So Taicheng left Cheng Jinyang's application unpublished, which meant that he acquiesced. Of course, the cabinet gentlemen would definitely not admit it openly.

After Cheng Jinyang sent out the official letter, he would take the girls back to Jingkou.

The reason is exactly the same as the one given to the court: The enemy has changed, so return to Jingkou quickly to save the situation!

Wang Wanrou didn't say anything, but Xing Yunzhi felt something was wrong and asked:

"A demon appears north of Jingkou? If it's a small area, wouldn't it be better to just let Tian Luo destroy it? If it's a large-scale invasion, wouldn't it be more appropriate to let the Xiaoqi Army handle it?"

"You don't know something about this." Cheng Jinyang replied, "The entrance to Jingkou has been initially decided, but it will only take a few months. Even a small-scale demon invasion will inevitably cause people to panic."

"Furthermore, we have incorporated refugee gangs to clean up the business environment in Jingkou, but this only happened last month. Once this matter cannot be resolved as soon as possible, it will affect the confidence of the investment market, and it will be difficult to increase GDP in the future."

"Really?" Azhi didn't doubt him either. After all, she knew that Cheng Jinyang used Jingkou as his base to run his business. "But what is this orange fart?"

"It's not orange land, it's land accumulation." Cheng Jinyang quickly explained, "It's one of the economic indicators. The more prosperous commercial activities, the higher the land price will be."

He deceived Ah Zhi with some nonsense, and when he saw that Miss Wang had no reaction, he secretly felt relieved.

To return to Jingkou, you must first take the land route to Jiankang, and then take a boat eastward.

Back in Jiankang City, Cheng Jinyang quickly called his cousins ​​and said secretly:

"The No. 1 Fire Plan will be launched ahead of schedule!"

"Ah?" Cheng Yuexian and Cheng Huaiyan were slightly startled, and then they immediately understood.

Even before the war started, everyone knew that the demons might follow the Liyang Army and attack south, so they launched the No. 1 Fire Plan: to secretly send potential clan members and clan assets to Lin'an City in batches.

Now that the Liyang War has not yet ended, Cheng Jinyang said that the plan has been advanced. Doesn't this mean that the demon's march south has been advanced?

So the three of them worked together and quickly packed all the remaining clan members and property into "Tian Luo", sold them into "military supplies", and prepared to send them all to Jingkou.

As for some outsiders, servants, agents, etc., they all talked to each other one by one, sent back those who were sent back, and dismissed those who were sent away.

These actions were so hasty that those who knew about it went back and said that the Cheng family in the divine capital was going to move their entire family to Jingkou and transform from a "Jiankang noble family" to a "vassal family". Those who didn't know thought that the Cheng family in the divine capital was because they did not have fifth-grade specialties. The capable ones were expelled from the ranks of the gentry and thus went bankrupt and closed down!

As a resident of the Fanyang Lu family, Lu Qingyun was naturally the first person to be notified and sent back.

When she first heard that the Cheng family was going to move, she was slightly startled, and then she realized:

Isn't that just right? I can finally go back to my family!

To be fair, she had no ill feelings towards Mr. Cheng. The conflict and rift some time ago was also started by her brother. After explaining it to Cheng Yuexian later, both parties just laughed it off.

But Zheng Qiupei, who came with her, somehow suddenly hooked up with the patriarch Cheng Jinyang one day, and made various snacks and delivered them to the patriarch's office every day.

This made Lu Qingyun feel a little instinctively disgusted. After all, the family asked her to come here for testing, not to please anyone.

She knows Sister Xiaopei's character best. She is too polite and never treats outsiders as outsiders. But you, Cheng Jinyang, must be a little self-aware. Don't you refuse politely to the attentive service of girls with the fifth surname? Just accept it like this?

After much deliberation, I still have no opinion of the Cheng family in the capital city, and my impression of Cheng Jinyang has dropped further.

Furthermore, when chatting with other people in the clan, I heard that Cheng Jinyang and several eldest ladies from aristocratic families were unclear, so Lu Qingyun even stayed away from him.

After being polite to Cheng Yuexian, Lu Qingyun went out and called home to explain the situation: It's not that I don't want to stay anymore, it's that they want to run away!

The next second, instructions from the family came:

Don't come back yet, stay over there! If necessary, go to Jingkou with them!

Lu Qingyun:?

Wait a minute, wait a minute, am I being sold by my family? Did you sacrifice me to the Cheng family in the capital city of God?

What does it mean to go to Jingkou with them? They all explained so politely that they wanted to send me away, and now you are forcing me to stay and follow the Cheng family in the capital of God?

As a girl with the fifth surname, I, Lu Qingyun, don’t want to lose face?