They are all concubines, so of course they choose the future emperor.

Prince Jing saw that this was not a solution, and after thinking for a long time, he decided to leave more people behind when the time comes.

There was a fixed number of guards in the prince's palace, usually less than three hundred, but Prince Jing's situation was special. When he returned to Beijing, he brought five hundred of his old subordinates with him. Later, when they handed over their military power, these old subordinates were disbanded by the emperor and stuffed into the barracks in the southern suburbs of Beijing.

Later, the emperor dispelled his suspicion of Prince Jing and returned these people to Prince Jing.

Therefore, on the surface, Prince Jing's Mansion only had 300 guards, but in reality, Prince Jing could command 800 people.

The capital city is the most important city of the entire dynasty, and there are 130,000 troops stationed there.

Among them, 30,000 were guarding the imperial palace, namely the imperial guards led by Zhu Zhiwen.

The Imperial Guards is just a general term. In fact, the Imperial Guards are divided into six guards, namely the Left and Right Jinwu Guards, the Left and Right Yulin Guards and the Left and Right Xiaoqi Guards.

Their duty was to guard the palace and protect the emperor.

As for the Inner Guards, there were not many of them and they were the emperor’s personal force. They were not good at fighting and were mostly talented people who mainly dealt with some “difficult and complicated cases”.

The 30,000 imperial guards guarded the imperial palace, while the 100,000 troops guarded the entire capital city and the surrounding important towns.

They were not called "Guardians" but "Army". The three branches in the south were the closest to the capital, namely the Shen Ce Army, the Shen Ji Army, and the Shen Wei Army.

Prince Jing had a good relationship with General Yuchi of the Shence Army, and most of his former subordinates were under General Yuchi's command.

Of course, he couldn't mobilize the Shence Army as he didn't have the tiger talisman, but it wasn't difficult for him to privately ask General Yuchi to borrow one or two hundred men.

After all, Prince Jing is now valued by the Emperor and is in charge of the Ministry of War. Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the food and military pay that were just distributed recently. If it weren’t for Prince Jing, could it have been distributed so quickly?

Since ancient times, hasn’t being an official meant that you make things convenient for me and I make things convenient for you?

So when faced with Prince Jing's request to borrow people, General Yuchi agreed very readily.

These two hundred people took leave from the army and went to the capital in the name of visiting relatives.

The two hundred people changed their clothes and entered the city gate without attracting anyone's attention.

Tens of thousands of people come and go in the capital every day, and with the Wanshou Festival approaching, the coming and going becomes even greater and more frequent.

As soon as the people arrived, Prince Jing told Jiang Wanyue about this.

"Can you rest assured now?"

Jiang Wanyue felt a little relieved.

Two hundred people, veterans in the army, should be able to protect themselves no matter what, right?

Time passes little by little.

When people are in a hurry, they tend to feel that time passes very slowly.

There are still two days left until the Wanshou Festival.

That night, Jiang Wanyue couldn't sleep again. Her mind was full of random thoughts and she felt inexplicably uneasy.

Xiuchun felt distressed and anxious, but there was nothing she could do. After much thought, she went to Jiang's house early the next morning and asked the lady to come and take charge.

When Shen heard that her daughter had not slept all night, she rushed over immediately.

As soon as she arrived, she held Jiang Wanyue's hand and coaxed her for a while, and actually coaxed her to fall asleep.

Xiuchun breathed a sigh of relief.

"If I had known this, I would have asked my wife to come here sooner."

Shen patted Jiang Wanyue's back gently, just like she did when she coaxed her to sleep when she was a child.

"Giving birth is like stepping half a step into the gates of hell for a woman. She is scared but she is too stubborn to say anything. Hey...Xiuchun, you should have called me earlier."

Xiuchun felt a little ashamed.

"It was my fault for not thinking it through. The young lady kept saying that she was fine, so I believed her and didn't notice that she was uneasy."

"It's not your fault. After all, you haven't experienced it either."

Shen gently withdrew her hand, tucked the quilt in, and then stood up.

"Call those four maids to the front."

Shen's face was serious.

Xiuchun didn't understand this, but the four maids had delivered countless babies, so how could they not understand this? But none of them thought of a solution.

Shen was very unhappy.

She found a way to ask her parents for help and sent someone to the palace. Wasn't it just to take care of her daughter?

The results of it?

The four maids arrived soon.

The four people stood in pairs and saluted towards Shen respectively.

As soon as Shen saw the expressions on the faces of the four of them, she guessed what was going on.

Apparently there were too many people, and they were only thinking about fighting and had forgotten about their business.

She sat upright in the flower hall with a stern face. The aura of the mistress of the house immediately suppressed the four maids so much that they dared not breathe.

Shen first looked at the two people she had sent.

"I asked you to come here to serve the master. How come none of you noticed that the master was not feeling well? If something unexpected happened when the birth is imminent, can you bear the consequences?"

The two maids knelt down with a thud. They didn't dare to argue and just kowtowed to admit their mistakes.

"Go stand outside for two hours, come one by one, don't miss anything."

The other two maids were secretly delighted.

But unexpectedly, Shen turned to them immediately afterwards.

"What? You think you are in the palace, so no one dares to punish you?"

The two maids looked at each other and knelt down as well.

"The slaves dare not."

"Don't dare? I think you dare to do it. Do you feel that you used to serve the ladies in the palace, but now you have to serve the concubines in the palace, which is unfair? If you look down on my daughter of the Jiang family, please go back. Why condescend to stay here?"

The two men turned pale at these words and said they didn't dare.

Shen gave all four of them a beating and punishment. At this time, Jiang Wanyue in the room had just woken up.

When I looked at the time, it was almost noon.

After sleeping for a morning, Jiang Wanyue felt much better.

At lunch, she pulled Shen to eat together.

Shen looked at the dazzling array of dishes on the table, half of which were fish and shrimp, and couldn't help but smile.

"I've never seen anyone who loves fish and shrimp as much as you do."

Jiang Wanyue defended herself.

"It's not that the baby in my belly wants to eat it, I can't help it."

Shen's smile widened.

"Since the child wants to eat it, you can relax. Even if there is no palace, our family can afford these things."

Jiang Wanyue immediately put down the chopsticks she had just picked up.

"But isn't that sea fish very troublesome and expensive? Although Dad has some connections in the Ministry of Revenue, we still have to be careful."

Shen waved her hand.

"You don't need to remind me of this. Don't you know what kind of person your father is? Sea fish was hard to buy before, but recently there are many more fish merchants in the capital. It is said that someone prepared a surprise gift for the emperor's birthday. We can be said to have benefited from that great man. The price of sea fish in the capital has become much cheaper."

Jiang Wanyue was very surprised when she heard this.

"Who is so generous? Which senior official in the court is it?"

"I don't know! Many people are guessing, but there is no definite news. Your father said that maybe a prince did this to please the emperor. Well, let's not talk about this anymore. Don't you like to eat? This fish looks fresh. Come on."

Shen picked up a piece of fish cheek and put it in her daughter's bowl.

Jiang Wanyue didn't ask any more questions. The little guy in her belly was unhappy and started kicking people.

She picked up the chopsticks and started eating in silence.

After the meal, the little one in her stomach stopped making noises. Jiang Wanyue, supported by two maids, walked slowly in the yard to digest the food.

But she couldn't help thinking about what her mother said.

Who could it be?

Such a grand gesture is indeed not something that an official from the imperial court would do.

Which prince is it?

It’s definitely not Prince Jing.

The birthday gifts for Prince Jing's Mansion had already been prepared, and Prince Jing was not the type to seek attention.

King Qi?

That doesn't seem likely. The Prince of Qi has just been reprimanded by the Emperor, and he is also being watched by Prince Jing's men. It would be too easy for him to be criticized if he did this.

The other princes... maybe it's possible.

As Jiang Wanyue was thinking, she unknowingly walked to the gate of the courtyard.

Suddenly, a burst of rapid footsteps came.

Jiang Wanyue raised her head and looked over.

The next moment, a familiar figure appeared outside the door.