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After the southern working group arrived in the Lianghu area, the plague in the south was initially controlled.

However, the southern region has generally entered the flood season, with heavy rains falling in various places, making flood control tasks arduous.

The Southern Working Group is supervising flood season safety prevention work in various places, especially the repair and consolidation of water conservancy projects.

Disaster relief is being organized to provide relief to people in areas where floods have occurred. This includes giving food and medicine to the refugees and providing temporary shelter. Organize an orderly migration northward to Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and other provinces.

Li Beichen was not stingy with his kind words and praised Prime Minister Meng for his high loyalty and ability to plan for peace and stability. He not only made great contributions in quelling the rebellion of King Pingxi, but also made great contributions in solving the flood problem in the south.

It is planned to create a first-class hereditary marquis, Marquis of Changping, and grant him a palace in the capital and six concubines. His legitimate daughter entered the palace on a lucky day in the fifth month and was named Jieyu for the first time.

Meng Qing, the concubine, was specially approved to join the Supervisory Council from the rank of Seventh-Rank Supervisory Censor, and was sent to Huguang Road for supervision and inspection. He set off at 10:00 the next day.

The emperor's kindness was so great that Meng Lianlian hurriedly kowtowed and expressed his humility.

Although he had expected that as long as he did not rebel and according to the plan, he got the list of people deployed by King Pingxi in the capital and handed it over to the regent, the emperor would definitely give him a large reward in order to win people's hearts. He will also comply with the agreement and let the concubine Meng Ran escape from the Tianxianglou geisha murder case.

I also expected that the emperor would call his legitimate daughter Meng Jia into the palace, but I didn't expect that the emperor would directly give her the title of Jieyu, and then she would be promoted to the concubine position by two levels. I am afraid that after sleeping with her, she will be Zhaoyi, and if she is pregnant with another child, she will be the concubine. Taifu Zhen's daughter was pregnant with a dragon heir, but she had just been named Jieyu.

What's more, he didn't expect that the emperor would send his incompetent son to the Inspectorate, where he would be given a formal establishment, assigned posts and grades. As a newcomer to the workplace, you usually have to start from the ninth rank, which is not low from the seventh rank. There are very few people who can be taken by the officials in charge to patrol local areas as soon as they take office.

The previous agreement between the two was to keep Meng Ran next to the emperor as a hostage, and the positions of Meng Xiang and Meng Qing remained unchanged.

As an old fox, Meng Xiang naturally understood the emperor's intention of changing detention to appointment.

This is not only a favor to Prime Minister Meng, but also reflects the emperor's great favor for their Meng family. It is also to pinch his lifeline and lay a minefield for him.

After all, Meng Ran is different from Meng Qing. He has no real talent but is very ambitious. If a big mistake is made, it will directly implicate him. If you make a small mistake, you will become a pigtail in the hands of the emperor.

More importantly, the department where he serves is the Supervisory Yuan, which oversees corruption and dereliction of duty by officials at all levels. The decision was made by senior officials who accompanied Meng Ran, but the officials below would all regard him as Prime Minister Meng's overwhelming power and taking the opportunity to eliminate Prime Minister Chen's gang. In fact, they were used by the emperor to eliminate the remnants of the rebel parties.

The award for Prime Minister Meng will be formally announced in the court and harem the next day.

He also ordered the Ministry of Rites to select two girls of suitable age from the royal family and marry them before the court the next morning. Tomorrow, a ceremony will be held to welcome Ye Sizha to declare his position as a Tatar Khan, and a marriage and canonization ceremony will be held at the same time.

Such a hurry was to avoid long nights and many dreams. After all, Mengqibak, supported by Prime Minister Chen, had withdrawn his troops back to the grassland.

In addition, I will choose a good and auspicious day to marry Xie Zhili of the Xie family and Li Changan of the Queen Mother's family within the month. Xie Zhili was first granted the title of concubine, and Li Changan was granted the title of Jieyu.

An auspicious day was chosen in June to hold the concubine ceremony of Jiang Yuebai and Xie Zhili.

The Ministry of Rites took the opportunity to inquire about Concubine Chun's funeral. Li Beichen felt sad. Jiang Jinxiu's innocent and bright smile appeared in his mind, and he was silent for a moment.

The final decision was made by the Ministry of Rites and Qin Tianjian to discuss and the auspicious date for the funeral would be three days later, at which time the emperor would personally see him off.

After Li Beichen dealt with some routine matters, he dismissed the ministers, leaving his younger brother Li Beihong to speak alone.

He didn't talk about his younger brother's future arrangements just now. Li Beichen just wanted to respect his younger brother's own ideas.

After this battle, Li Beichen trusted and relied more and more on his younger brother.

Without his younger brother, he stabilized the rear and defeated King Pingxi's rebellion. Then you will be attacked from both sides, and you may be defeated on the battlefield, or your country will be destroyed, or your family will be destroyed, or you may be replaced. Once ordinary people experience the feeling of having supreme power, it is difficult not to be greedy. In history, there were not many regents who sought power and usurped the throne.

However, his younger brother was able to hand over his power openly, and Li Beichen was happy and grateful from the bottom of his heart.

At this time, they had left the mourning hall and were drinking tea in a small room in the side hall.

Li Beichen took a sip of hot tea and was nourished by the sweet tea in his mouth. His soul finally returned to its place and he said warmly,

"I'm lucky to have you as my brother. Otherwise, I don't know what would have happened. You have worked hard these days."

Li Beihong was a little distracted just now. He was stunned for a moment and replied respectfully, "Brother Emperor is so complimentary. Brother Emperor is the true chosen son. He will naturally be protected by heaven and earth and supported by his subjects."

Because he was frail and sick, he personally experienced some supernatural and mysterious things. In order to pray for his health and safety, the Queen Mother burned incense, prayed to Buddha, chanted sutras and went on a vegetarian diet. Therefore, he has no doubt about the fate of gods and ghosts.

And the dream shared by the whole city made him believe that there are gods in this world, and the emperor's brother is the chosen one.

Therefore, these words are Li Beihong's heartfelt words.

Li Beichen looked at his younger brother, "You have changed. You are much more reserved with me."

Li Beihong took a sip of tea, his expression was calm and a bit vicissitudes of life, "After experiencing so many things, you will naturally change."

His words and deeds were calm and steady, completely different from before.

Li Beichen's mind flashed with many fragments of what happened in the past few days, and he let out a dull "hmm". There was also a layer of sadness in his high-spirited brows.

He raised his eyes and looked at his younger brother's bearded face that had matured for several years, and said slowly, "I have news about Princess Jin."

Li Beihong's eyes were filled with tears. He looked up at the emperor and asked in a trembling voice, "How is the princess?"

In fact, he already knew the news about Princess Jin and chose to pretend not to know.

Li Beichen felt his brother's sadness and sighed deeply.

"She was given to the Great Khan Huanhuanqie'er. After the battle between the two armies, they checked the personnel and found that the princess was missing. It was said that she was taken away by Huanhuanqie'er's legitimate second son. Portraits have been drawn in various towns. When I put up notices to look for her, of course I didn’t use my identity as a princess, I used my identity as a courtier’s daughter.”

Li Beihong lowered his head, holding the tea cup with pale fingers, and said nothing. He held back the tears in his eyes, feeling a little ashamed of himself for being so sensitive and fragile.

Li Beichen looked at his brother's gloomy and sad face, and instead of rushing to comfort him, he was very quiet. In my heart, I was also angry and sad about what happened to Prince Jin's Mansion, and I also felt sorry for the fate of Princess Jin's beauty.

After a while, Li Beichen made a loud promise to his brother:

"I will definitely avenge you. I will find a way to catch Chen Xiang and crush him to ashes. As for the Tatars, we can't act too hastily and need to take care of them slowly. But don't worry, brother, I will definitely not let Huan Huan Qieer Better off."

Li Beihong drank tea and remained silent. This is not the first time that the emperor has expressed his stance like this. He believed in the emperor's determination and would do this both in public and private matters.

After a long time, Li Beihong stood up, walked to the emperor, knelt down solemnly, lowered his eyes and said respectfully:

"Thank you, the emperor, for making the decision for me. I just want to go to the fiefdom as soon as possible. I can't stay in the Jin Palace for a moment. I beg the emperor for permission."