The cannon fodder just wants to survive until the end

The emperor looked at the original owner and thought that this was after all his beloved princess. He also thought that the original owner was born at a time when civil unrest was quelled. The emperor always felt that the original owner was a child of good fortune.

Moreover, the head of the Ji family, Prime Minister Ji, already has many disciples, and his eldest son holds an important position at a young age. Now his second son is also going to enter the court, and he is also a capable one. This is indeed intimidating. Marrying a princess to him can also ruin one of the Ji family's sons (this dynasty stipulates that the prince consort is not allowed to serve as an official in the court), and can also allow the princess to monitor the Ji family.

Thinking of this, the emperor approved the original owner's request and issued an edict to grant the original owner and Ji Ling a marriage.

The original owner couldn't believe it the moment she received the imperial decree granting marriage. She didn't expect that she could really marry the person she loved. The original owner suspected that she was dreaming and pinched herself, the pain made her tears come out.

The original owner couldn't hold back any longer and burst out laughing.

The emperor casually appointed an unmarried royal girl of marriageable age as a princess and sent her to marry the State of Zhao. However, what the emperor did not expect was that the royal girl he appointed and the eldest son of the Ji family, Ji Chen, had promised to spend their lives together. Ji Chen was planning to propose marriage after the Zhao delegation left.

Unexpectedly, the emperor actually granted the original owner's marriage to the Ji family. Ji Chen regretted even more why he didn't propose marriage earlier. However, after the imperial decree, the matter was a foregone conclusion and could not be changed. Ji Chen could only watch his sweetheart marry to the barbarian land of Zhao State in the north.

The seeds of hatred were planted in Ji Chen's heart, and Ji Ling was also unhappy. His ambition was to be a good official who served the country and the people. He wanted to purge the corrupt officials in Jingguo. He did not want to be a noble but powerless prince consort.

But since things have come to this, and there is no way to disobey the order, one can only accept this fact. The only one who is happy about this arranged marriage is the original owner.

The newly-crowned princess set out on her journey to marry a foreign prince in tears. Ji Chen personally watched the delegation and the princess leave the capital. Ji Ling was depressed and drank to drown his sorrows, getting drunk for his lost future. The original owner was happily preparing to marry Ji Ling. Everything was so dramatic.

When the original princess's mansion was completed, the original owner was going to marry Ji Ling. She sat in the sedan chair full of anticipation, and walked into the hall with Ji Ling, bowed to heaven and earth, and entered the bridal chamber. The original owner was full of expectations with every step she took.

Ji Ling was different. He became more desperate with every step he took. In the end, Ji Ling had accepted the reality.

Ji Ling was a typical young man from an aristocratic family, with all the manners of a young man from an aristocratic family. He didn't intend to treat the original owner badly, but just treated the original owner with respect.

The original owner was even more dazzled by Ji Ling's demeanor, but at the same time he was sad that Ji Ling didn't like him.

The original owner's father was indeed incompetent. In the second year after the original owner married Ji Ling, the emperor listened to the words of a fraudulent Taoist priest and became obsessed with seeking immortality.

Everyone knows that an emperor seeking immortality and asking for advice means the end of the country.

The emperor began to suspend court and devote himself to seeking immortality. It happened that Jingguo was very unstable that year. Floods and droughts, these two natural disasters struck Jingguo at the same time. Officials wrote letters one after another, requesting to open granaries and distribute relief grain.

However, the emperor had long stopped attending court, and he dealt with matters by having people submit memorials, which would then be delivered to him by a special person, and he would then handle the matter.

However, this time he was even more obsessed with refining the elixir, and he had not dealt with the memorial after it was sent to him. By the time he saw it, the suffering people had already begun to organize themselves spontaneously to capture the county government offices in various prefectures and cities and open the warehouses.

The emperor was furious when he saw the report that the people had occupied the government office, and he sent troops to suppress the rebellion. The people in the entire disaster-stricken area were living in misery. What was even more terrifying was that the people in the flood-stricken areas suffered an epidemic because they were not properly resettled after the disaster.

The victims carrying the disease fled to various places. When the officials in some places found out about this, they strictly prohibited the victims from entering the city and stopped them outside the city.

When the emperor heard that a group of disaster victims were about to reach the capital, he ordered that the victims should be beheaded on the spot. As soon as the order was issued, everyone in the court tried to dissuade him. However, the emperor was the kind of person who would never listen to advice. He insisted on doing it on his own way. In the end, Prime Minister Ji, who could not stand this, summoned doctors with a large sum of money and sent them to the disaster-stricken areas to treat the people.

The emperor's edict also circulated in various disaster areas, and Ji Xiang's good name spread among the refugees.

Ji Chen's rebellious heart began to grow. At this time, news came that the princess who was married to the state of Zhao was not used to the climate there. She was sick all the time after arriving in Zhao State and finally died of illness in a foreign country. Ji Chen was completely disappointed with this country. A kind of ambition arose in his heart. He persuaded Ji Ling to gain the trust of the original owner and use the original owner to cover up the actions of the Ji family.

The original owner had liked Ji Ling, and when she married Ji Ling, her father gave her a token, which could mobilize a thousand imperial guards in the palace. His original intention was that once the original owner discovered that the Ji family had rebellious intentions, she would immediately use the token to summon a thousand imperial guards to surround the Ji Mansion and capture the entire Ji family.

Ji Chen knew the existence of this token, and he asked Ji Ling to trick it out of the original owner. The original owner felt something was wrong, but his trust in Ji Ling prevailed, and the original owner suppressed the doubts in his heart.

The Ji family was the head of the aristocratic families in the capital, and Ji Xiang was the head of the civil servants. He had a strong appeal among the powerful and the bureaucrats. In addition, he had won the hearts of the people by treating refugees. It could be said that, except for the lack of military support, the Ji family already had the conditions for rebellion.

It is said that a civil servant rebellion will not succeed in three years. The lack of military power is the biggest weakness of the Ji family. At this time, the Ji family thought of the original owner's maternal family.

The original owner's mother was a favored concubine, but not everyone could be one. In addition to being beautiful and speaking and acting in accordance with the emperor's wishes, another important thing was that her family background must be worthy of being favored.

The original mother was born in the Xinyang Marquis' Mansion. When her mother entered the palace, Xinyang Marquis was in charge of the 100,000 Lingnan troops. In fact, the original mother entered the palace also as a hostage.

Two years before the original owner's mother died, the Marquis of Xinyang had returned the military token, retired to the capital due to illness and became a rich and idle man. Now the original owner's uncle is only a deputy general in the Lingnan Army, and his influence on the Lingnan Army is not as great as that of a general.

Only for this reason did the emperor feel relieved. In fact, the old Marquis of Xinyang had spent his entire life studying in the Lingnan Army. To the generals of the Lingnan Army, they would listen to the old Marquis of Xinyang first, and then to the military order. The original uncle was not as good as his father in this respect, and his prestige in the army was still inferior to that of the main general.

However, what the emperor did not know was that the current commander of the Lingnan Army had no relationship with the Xinyang Marquis Mansion on the surface and was a pure minister. In fact, the original owner's mother had helped the commander when he was down and out, and had been taking care of the Xinyang Marquis Mansion over the years, and occasionally communicated with the original owner's mother.

Otherwise, with the ability of this commander, the original owner's uncle might have been marginalized long ago, and even the connections of the old Marquis of Xinyang would not have been of much use.

Before the original mother died, she gave the original owner a token of contact with the commander-in-chief, telling her that if she had any difficulties, she could use this token to ask the commander-in-chief to do three things for her unconditionally.