The couple in the last days traveled to ancient times, farming and storing grain and meat in the war

Ji Wei's injuries were even more severe, but fortunately, as long as he took good care of himself, he wouldn't die. But he really couldn't move anymore. If he continued bleeding, he would definitely die.

Xiao Yan looked at Ji Wei in the big tent, and before he could say a few words, the person sent by Jiang Ningning to deliver the imperial edict arrived.

Ji Wei said, "It's too late. You've already deserted your post. I even gave you the Tiger Tally and deployed the army before I received the order. Fortunately, you've made great contributions. When the time comes, our merits and demerits will surely offset each other, and neither you nor I will be blamed."

This means that the golden medal of immunity from death is not needed yet.

Xiao Yan nodded and said nothing.

Xiao Yan did not tell Ji Wei for the time being that the people in the two cities had almost been massacred by Bei Tan.

Those Beitan people were truly cruel and ruthless. After they captured the two cities, they massacred all the people inside, young and old, leaving very few alive.

After a few days, Ji Wei recovered a little and was able to get up and walk around. Only then did he hear that the people in the two cities had already been massacred.

Ji Wei ignored the obstruction and rode towards the two cities.

The soldiers were still carrying out the bodies of the civilians for proper burial. Even many newborn babies had died...

Ji Wei burst into tears.

He also buried these people personally.

Finally, he swore an oath in front of the graves of these people: "Don't worry, your souls! As long as I, Ji Wei, live one day, I will find a way to flatten Beitan and avenge you!"

Ji Wei immediately wrote a letter to Emperor Li, requesting an army of 400,000 to defeat Beitan.

Xiao Yan has cleaned up the military camp in the past few days. Even those who colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country were arrested and many of them were beheaded.

At this moment, the remaining generals and soldiers were all good, so naturally they were all gnashing their teeth and wished they could eat Bei Tan alive.

The people in the north also hated Bei Tan to the extreme.

Emperor Li received news of great victories one after another within two days, and he was shocked.

I also felt even more uneasy.

Xiao Yan had actually recovered the border in just two days in the north. This was something that no previous generation of Great Yan War God had been able to do.

Undoubtedly, Xiao Yan became the new god of war of Dayan.

Everyone in Dayan praises him.

What if Xiao Yan rebelled at this time? He has money and troops...

Emperor Li didn't dare to imagine the consequences.

He could only hastily say that the merits and demerits offset each other, and he did not dare to give Xiao Yan more power, nor did he dare to promote Xiao Yan to a higher position.

Emperor Li could not sleep from then on.

On this day, Emperor Li received a memorial from Ji Wei requesting to pacify Beitan. He became even more uneasy and how could he agree?

Now that Ji Wei is still seriously injured, if he is ordered to conquer Beitan, Xiao Yan will definitely be appointed as the commander. Xiao Yan already has the tiger talisman that can mobilize 200,000 troops. How can he increase it to 400,000?

If Xiao Yan really flattened Beitan, his reputation would be greatly enhanced. At that time, wouldn't he, the emperor, be even more uneasy?

Therefore, Emperor Li ignored the court officials' pleas to crush Beitan and insisted on his own way, saying that since the north was stable again, he allowed Xiao Yan to return to Yuzhou as the prefect and returned the military power and tiger talisman to Ji Wei.

It is said that Yuzhou cannot remain without a prefect.

Ji Wei wrote to the emperor again and again with tears in his eyes, but the emperor still refused to listen.

Even when other states heard that the north had been massacred and countless people had died, not even children were spared, they all wrote letters to the emperor, requesting to raise an army to defeat Beitan.

People from all over the country also went to the government office every day, demanding that Beitan be razed to the ground.

Emperor Li still refused to listen.

From then on, Emperor Li completely lost the support of the people.

It especially chilled the hearts of the people in the north.

Those who had originally believed that Emperor Li was a wise ruler because of Xiao Yan's success in the imperial examinations were naturally extremely disappointed and felt disheartened.

It turns out that in the eyes of these emperors, the life and death of the people means nothing at all.

The following year, Jiang Ningning was twenty years old. Seeing that there were many more children in the clan, Jiang Ningning also wanted one.

Then she didn't take any precautions, and soon, Jiang Ningning became pregnant.

Still two.

Xiao Yan had thought his wife would have to give birth twice to have two children. After all, he and his wife had already agreed in their previous life that they would have two children. Naturally, he was surprised.

Sun, Jiang Shengcai, Tian, and Xiao Fushan were also very happy.

Especially Sun and Jiang Shengcai, they were very worried because Jiang Ningning and Xiao Yan had been married for two years but still hadn't gotten pregnant.

They were worried that it would take many years for her to have a child, just like Sun. Even though Jiang Ningning told them that she and Xiao Yan had taken precautions, Sun and Jiang Shengcai didn't believe it and were still worried.

Now I am not worried anymore.

That year, on the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, Jiang Ningning gave birth to two sons.

Because they are fraternal twins, the two children do not look that much alike. One looks more like Xiao Yan, and the other looks more like Jiang Ningning.

Jiang Ningning and Xiao Yan named their eldest son Xiao Yi, and their second son took his mother's surname and was named Jiang Xuan.

Since Tian and Xiao Fushan also strongly agreed to it, Sun and Jiang Shengcai naturally became jealous again.

The Xiao family and the Jiang family are now as close as one family, so naturally they made an exception and included both children in the family tree regardless of their surnames.

The following year, when Xiao Yi and Jiang Xuan were having their hundred-day banquet, a rebellion broke out in the west of Dayan.

Emperor Li was furious and summoned Ji Wei back to the capital, appointing him as the General Pingxi to quell the rebellion.

But at this time, the Beitan Kingdom, seeing that Ji Wei was no longer guarding the border, raised another army of 300,000 and invaded the border of Dayan, and the situation in the north was extremely critical again.

Faced with internal strife and external worries, he could not split Ji Wei into two men, nor did he want to let Xiao Yan take charge again. However, no one else could resist this external enemy, and Emperor Li could not sleep at night.

In addition, at this time, because Beitan Kingdom had committed border crimes again, people inside and outside the government were eager to flatten Beitan and submitted new memorials...

Many people even started to rebel because of this incident...

Emperor Li was under pressure, and he really had no other choice, otherwise his reign would probably end this year. He could only issue an edict to promote Xiao Yan as the Grand Marshal of the Expedition to Tan, to resist the foreign enemies in the north while conquering Bei Tan.

He didn't know when he would be able to come back and couldn't hold two positions at the same time, so before Xiao Yan went to the battle, he recommended Xu Ji as the prefect of Yuzhou.

Xu Ji had already passed the imperial examination last year, and Emperor Li still needed Xiao Yan to fight for Dayan, so it was naturally impossible for him to disobey Xiao Yan at this time.

From then on, Xu Ji became the prefect of Yuzhou.

Xiao Yan fought outside for only one year before he conquered Beitan.

In this year, Ji Wei put down the rebellion in the west, and then another rebellion broke out in the east, and Emperor Li sent him to the east to put down the rebellion again.

However, because Xiao Yan razed Beitan to the ground and returned victoriously, the rebels in the east knew that Xiao Yan was Ji Wei's apprentice, so they immediately quieted down and Ji Wei no longer needed to pacify them.

Beitan is about the same size as Dayan. Xiao Yan expanded Dayan's territory to twice its original size. His military achievements were too great, so Emperor Li could not just give him a reward and send him off. So he made Xiao Yan a king of a different surname and granted him the land of Yuzhou.

Yuzhou is now the number one state in Dayan, and the prosperity of various places in the state is even catching up with the imperial capital.