Looking for you in reincarnation

At the beginning of the establishment of the new dynasty, in addition to the somewhat turbulent situation, the people in many states lived in hardship and needed to recuperate, so they temporarily stopped fighting with neighboring countries and did not engage in war for five years.

Si He and Yue Fuli were in Kyoto. When he was handling state affairs in the imperial study, she sat at the desk beside him as before, continuing to practice making talismans, or reading books, or occasionally helping to deal with some trivial matters in the palace.

As for drawing talismans, even though she was already very skilled at it, she still drew them day after day when she had free time, simply because she wanted to lay a solid foundation for talisman making, so that it would penetrate deep into her bones.

In this world, any skill will become an instinctive ability of a person after years of study and practice.

Just like a butcher who slaughters pigs and sells meat, a butcher with decades of experience can accurately cut the required weight of meat with just one glance and one knife, and the slight difference is almost small enough to be negligible.

This is the same as a butcher with several years or even more than ten years of experience, unless the gap in understanding is too big.

Moreover, as she now has an extra pure energy in her body, when the energy gradually increases in the future, it may have other magical uses for making talismans.

So she practiced diligently even the simplest talismans.

Momo and Wuwu stayed in the back garden of the palace or the summer palace in the suburbs of Beijing. There was a large lake there, with beautiful environment and wide terrain, which was quite suitable for them.

As for the Jizhou area, which was the territory of the Yue family, Yue Fuli had no intention of "recovering" it on the surface, and the territory there was still under the jurisdiction of the Yue family.

However, he sent a lot of garrisons to weaken the Yue family's power in Jizhou and handed the real power to his younger brother Yue Fuqi.

Originally, as a father, Yue Nantian planned to control his son with filial piety, but he suddenly fell ill and was bedridden.

The Yue family was completely under the control of Yue Fuqi. After Yue Tian's death, Yue Fuqi became the king of the Eastern Han Dynasty of this generation.

The other children of the Yue family can only survive under his power. Even Yue Hejiang, who is a legitimate son, has a hard life. In the past, they had power and money, but now they have no power, no soldiers, and the money is only paid according to their positions. They simply cannot make ends meet.

They can only helplessly cut their expenses again and again and live a low-key life.

The principle of "the victor is the king and the loser is the bandit" is also quite applicable to the Yue family, because they used to be competitors of the Yue Fuli brothers and had done many tricks in private.

Now that Yue Fuli has gained power and become the ruler of a country, he has not settled accounts with them because of the Yue family.

Therefore, only Yue Fuqi became the only prince of the Taiping Dynasty, while the other members of the Yue family only had a nice title, royal relatives.

A royal relative in name only.

Time flies, and five years seem to have passed in the blink of an eye.

After years of recuperation and development, the Taiping Dynasty has gradually stabilized under Yue Fuli's diligent governance, and is beginning to show signs of a peaceful and prosperous era.

However, Si He had no children so far, and there was increasing criticism in the court. Many court officials advised Yue Fuli to take in more concubines. After all, as the king of a country, if he had no children, the situation would eventually become unstable.

However, Si He's physical condition was just as Chen Sangsang had said, she was infertile.

Therefore, Yue Fuli put the pressure on Yue Fuqi and told the court officials that he would choose the best one among his brother Yue Fuqi's children and adopt him as the crown prince.

This seemed absurd to many people, but no one could persuade Yue Fuli. His strong attitude made the court officials dare not say much.

This decision caused a lot of speculation among the court officials in private, but Yue Fuqi was his biological brother after all, so adopting a child was not a big problem.

As a result, many people's eyes were immediately focused on Yue Fuqi, as if wolves saw delicious meat, and they all wanted to take a bite and get the best piece of meat.

Yue Fuqi felt helpless about this.

But he also heard that there was something wrong with Si He's health because of the illness left by Yu Xie in her early years, so she could not have children.

He had no choice but to obey his brother's decision.

He took some girls from some aristocratic families as concubines, but did not marry a wife because the current situation was not suitable for marriage.

After all, if the child born to the wife in the future is not good enough and cannot become the candidate for the crown prince, how should the wife deal with it?

You must know that this is the candidate for the crown prince, not the prince. The chosen child will inherit the throne and become the king of a country in the future.

Although the child is adopted, the identity of the biological mother cannot be changed. The fact that a mother is honored by her son still has a certain weight, and the status of the child's maternal family will also change greatly.

Therefore, many daughters of noble families were willing to lower their status and become concubines of Yue Fuqi.

But now with Yue Fuqi's status as the only prince in the entire Taiping Dynasty, even if they just become his concubines, it would not be considered as lowering their status. The most important thing is that the temptation behind it is too great.

If their own children are chosen to be the crown prince, then there is a high probability that the position of the crown prince will fall on their children. Then their status will be second only to the current queen, and their position will be extraordinary.

As a result, Yue Fuqi's backyard has never been peaceful since then, and the fierce competition in private is no less than that in the harem of the previous dynasty.

While undercurrents were surging in Yue Fuqi's backyard, the Beisha Kingdom began to become restless again. Perhaps it was because in recent years, they had trained many powerful Taoists and refined some terrifying weapons.

Therefore, before the Beisha Kingdom launched a war, Yue Fuli led his army to fight.

Over the years, they have naturally trained many people who can control evil spirits, and the number of evil creatures raised in secret has also increased a lot, and the twelve ghost babies in the dark guard camp have become much more powerful.

Among these people who were trained to control evil spirits, there was one girl who was particularly outstanding. She was Erya, the little girl who was rescued by Si He.

After so many years, she is now twenty years old, and her skills are among the best among the new batch of ghost baby candidates.

Generally speaking, evil creatures like ghost babies change their owners every ten years or so. This is mainly to reduce the risk of the owner being harmed by evil spirits.

But now, as the ghost baby gradually becomes stronger and stronger, the time is shortened depending on the situation.

Gao Zi gave the ghost baby she raised to Erya to raise, and Gao You gave the ghost baby to a newly selected person in the Dark Guard Camp.

Although the ghost baby looks scary, it is very powerful and is most suitable for sneak attacks and assassinations, so it is very suitable for the Dark Guard Camp.

Especially the leader of the ghost babies, the one with two souls is the most powerful, and it can successfully complete many difficult tasks.