Letting such a small number of people face the brave and warlike barbarians would be like sending them to their deaths.

Jiuge did not indulge them and spread the news of the injustice she had suffered, causing an uproar in the capital city again.

Many of the generals who went to Xiyue together had connections with high-ranking officials in the capital. How could their families bear it if these people died?

So all the ministers knelt down in the court and asked Xiao Yue for an explanation.

"Winter is coming soon. The supplies and winter clothing your majesty has given to the soldiers are even thinner than those for summer. Your majesty, they are fighting on the battlefield for the country. You must not let the soldiers down."

How come everything has been dug up? Xiao Yue was furious. "We haven't even started the war yet and you're already clamoring for this and that. Why don't you just empty the treasury?"

The ministers were all disappointed, "But Your Majesty, they shouldn't have fought this war."

Xiao Yue was overwhelmed. "You are all a bunch of useless people. Can you please stop using a woman as an excuse? Do you think they would not invade Dai because of a woman? You are all a bunch of good-for-nothings. What qualifications do you have to point fingers at me?"

The ministers were angry but dared not speak out, but Xiao Yue did not dare to target them too obviously, and still asked the Ministry of Revenue to distribute the supplies.

As soon as Jiuge got the food, she received three urgent imperial edicts from Xiao Yue, asking her to disappear from the capital as soon as possible.

Although Jiuge left, those rumors were still spreading everywhere in the capital, saying that the emperor and the imperial concubine had a personal grudge against her, and that they deliberately sent Jiuge to her death.

Song Lihua also wanted to take advantage of Jiuge's absence to whitewash herself. She donated money to the temple, gave porridge to beggars, and tried to win over the families of ministers.

But not many people believed her. If she had not married off, how could their families go to the battlefield? How could these people be kind to her?

Song Lihua naturally felt the people's rejection of her, but she didn't care. "What qualifications do a bunch of lowly people have to point fingers at me?"

She is now a royal concubine who is second only to the emperor and above everyone else. Who else could be nobler than her? It is a great blessing for her to talk to them, but these people are so shameless.

Since she couldn't get any good deal from the ministers, she and Xiao Yue set out to deal with Jiuge.

They all remembered how Jiuge had humiliated them. When Jiuge's army was less than halfway through its journey, they cut off its food supply.

When Jiuge saw that the logistics could not keep up, she did not rush for food. Instead, she wrote letters to the capital when the soldiers felt hungry.

Of course, Xiao Yue and Song Lihua would definitely not care.

The imperial court refused to provide food, the soldiers became physically exhausted, and began to feel tired of the war.

"There is no food, and we can't even eat enough. How can we fight this war?"

"That's right. We won't starve to death before the war even starts."

Jiuge also stood up with a haggard face and said to them: "I'm sorry, brothers, please wait a little longer. I have written more than a dozen letters to the emperor, and they will definitely send food over."

The soldiers felt helpless seeing her like that. If the general was like this, they were probably doomed too.

There were also some rumors in the military camp, "Hey, you don't know, we don't need to fight this war, it's all because of that witch concubine, if she had gone, would we have to suffer so much?"

"That's right. She was a vicious woman before she got married. I heard that she even drugged the general to harm her, and he beat her up badly. Do you think she would take revenge on us and deliberately persuade us not to give us food?"

"Well... the one who offended her was the general. She can't just abandon so many soldiers."

"You are too naive. They didn't raise any food for us before the general set out. They only gave us some food when the news got out. This trip is dangerous for us."

"This evil concubine, is she trying to kill us? We didn't even have to come this time. We fought for her, but she still treated us like this. The emperor is really blind to let such a person become a concubine. She is unworthy of the position. She is a disaster."

The soldiers had many complaints against Xiao Yue and Song Lihua.

Seeing that food was getting less and less and the soldiers could only drink soup, Jiuge sent another letter to the capital.

But this time she asked the soldiers to write letters as well. "If you have anything to say, I will have someone send it back to your hometown. If you want to send something or have your family send it over, I can arrange for people to help you do it. You don't need to pay."

At that time, information was not well developed and sending letters was not convenient. The soldiers had been fighting outside all year round and missed their families so much that they were sick. Now that they had this advantage, they all wanted to write.

Jiuge asked those who could read to help the soldiers write, causing a commotion in the camp.

But they all looked very happy, and many of them were grateful to Jiuge, "General, you are such a good person. When my mother sends me the sesame cakes she made, I will let you taste them first."

"And mine, mine, the wine my father brews is also amazing, I'll let you all taste it."

When talking about their hometowns, the soldiers had endless things to say.

Jiuge sighed, she walked slowly into the tent, but fell down at the door.

"General! What's wrong with you?!"

A group of people gathered around, and Jiuge's deputy general Sui Huan quickly supported her. She said to everyone, "You guys go, the general is hungry, she shared all the food with us, we will be fine when she wakes up."

"General! General!"

The group of people were in tears. They didn't expect that their general would faint from hunger.

"The court is a bunch of hypocrites, they don't care about our lives."

"General, we've written so many letters but they still won't send us any food. Are they really trying to drive us to death?"

"Stupid emperor! Evil concubine! It's not worth fighting for people like them."

Feeling the resentment of the soldiers, Jiuge curled up a smile, and things would be much easier from now on.

……

Beijing.

Xiao Yue and Song Lihua were looking at Jiuge's almost begging letter, and they were smug, "Bitch! It's useless for you to beg us now."

Xiao Yue sneered and said, "This is just the beginning. She will beg us for more later."

The two men ignored Jiuge's pleas and threw her letters aside.

But what they didn't know was that in the most prosperous place in the capital, a post station carriage suddenly overturned, and all the letters in the carriage were scattered.

The groom shouted, "Oh my God! Help me! These are all letters from the soldiers at the front. If I can't deliver them to their families, I'll be finished."

When they heard that it was a letter from the front line, the crowd helped to pick up the letters. Someone even asked: "Hey, where are these being sent? Is there any for my family?"

"Of course there are. I heard that General Chang Le sent letters home to everyone, and yours must have been one of them."

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