After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

People from the aristocratic families headed by Fan Ting, unlike Yu Zizhen, who came from a family of military generals, are considered "one of their own" from the same lineage as the generals of the world. In many cases, they can even easily harvest military generals just by relying on their own status and convenience. A certain level of trust and goodwill.

They are naturally at odds with the people in the army. Once something happens, they have no way to turn around and join forces with the other party to fight the enemy.

Fortunately, Fan Zhongming also knew Yu Zizhen, and Yu Zizhen was really willing to help most of the Fan family escape from the capital.

Although Yu Zizhen asked him for a lot of reward, in Fan Zhongming's view, 60% of the family wealth was obviously not comparable to the dozens of lives in their family.

It was night, and without disturbing the soldiers outside Fan Mansion, a group of Yu Zizhen's subordinates observed the wind direction in advance, and used the help of the wind and the cover of the night to give them a large amount of medicinal powder.

The soldiers who had inhaled the powder quickly fell asleep. The Fan family, who had already prepared simple luggage, quietly left the Fan Mansion under the leadership of Fan Zhongming, and were quickly transported in batches to the city gate by Yu Zizhen's people.

As for Fan Ting and his eldest son, they insisted on not leaving, and Yu Zizhen naturally would not bother to persuade them.

Everyone has their own choice, and everyone has their own destiny. At most, after their death, she would help them restrain and bury their bodies for Fan Zhongming's sake.

As for the rest of the Fan family, including Fan Zhongming, they had no problem getting out of the city safely with a large number of road guides wholesaled by Yu Zizhen.

It is worth mentioning that Fan Ting brought two-thirds of his family's bodyguards with him to Fan Zhongming, as well as those close servants who served his wife, children and grandchildren, and the third who stayed with his father and son in the Fan Mansion. A guard's family.

Currently, the only people left in Fan Mansion are Fan Ting and his son, about one-third of Fan Mansion's guards, and ordinary servants who don't know anything yet.

In fact, Yu Zizhen didn't mind taking out those servants. She felt that even if Fan Zhongming and others didn't have the ability to take them all back to their hometown, it would still be okay to let them go free after taking them out, right?

However, her proposal was directly rejected by Fan Zhongming. In his words, if these servants left Fan's Mansion with them, the soldiers responsible for guarding Fan's Mansion outside would soon notice something was wrong.

If they went into the house to check, they might not be able to leave.

Perhaps because he saw Yu Zizhen's bad expression, he rarely explained to Yu Zizhen, "They are just servants. Even if something happens to my grandfather and father, they will not be held accountable together."

Daqi's slaves were similar to objects, and they were also a type of property of their masters. Even if their masters were beheaded, they would not die with them, but would be taken to the market to be resold.

Although there is a high probability that they will be separated from their family members because they are resold, and they will never have the opportunity to see them again in this life, at least the lives of most people can be saved.

Yu Zizhen also knew this, and she had to admit that Fan Zhongming's concerns were actually very reasonable.

For the sake of his family, he wanted to use his slaves as smoke bombs for a while. Given the current background of the times, Yu Zizhen really had no objection.

But even so, Yu Zizhen was still depressed because of this. And because of this depression, even though she knew that Fan Zhongming was leaving, she did not send Fan Zhongming away thinking about the friendship between classmates in the past few years. After only Fan Ting and his son were left in the Fan family, Fan Ting's eldest son was summoned by the Jingzhao Mansion more and more frequently as time went by.

At the same time, rumors gradually spread that the Queen Mother was in poor health and might die soon.

Anyone with a keen sense of smell will feel the tension and danger of the coming storm from the various changes during this period. Under Yang Shixian's private advice, many officials in Yang Zhengde's line either resigned from their posts during this period, or simply left with their official posts.

Lu Tong was busy dealing with Fan Ting's group and did not make things difficult for them. Most of these people left very smoothly. There were only a few people who Lu Tong did not intend to let go even if he resigned. Yu Zizhen Then they all asked their subordinates to sell favors to them.

At this critical moment, of course Yu Zizhen cannot reveal her true identity, but in the future, she can rely on the life-saving grace she received today to seek help from these officials who were supposed to be the mainstays of the imperial court.

Her life-saving grace was not just for these officials. When her subordinates rescued people, they also saved these officials and their families.

With so much life-saving grace, no matter how thick-skinned they are, they still have to return it to her. Otherwise, don't blame her for taking the initiative to get this kindness back with interest.

Those officials who were recorded in the notebook had no idea whether they were fast or slow, and they would always be found by Yu Zizhen, who would also confidently ask them to work for him in order to repay the kindness of saving their lives.

At this time, Yu Zizhen did not just focus on saving those in Yang Zhengde's family. When the situation was so tense, she still went to the palace on time every day with Fang Huaiying and Chen Hushan to be their companion.

People who didn't know it saw it and talked about their strong nerves behind their backs.

What those people don't know is that in fact, Yu Zizhen and Fang Huaiying never spent a day in vain.

Xiao Yuanjin discussed the matter proposed by Yu Zizhen with the emperor, and the father and son finally decided to listen to her and take the risk of digging a tunnel in the eldest prince's palace.

No one knows how Yu Zizhen brought the tools in, and how he destroyed the excavated earth and rocks. The eldest prince and his two confidants only followed the drawings she gave him every day, when Yu Zizhen came to the eldest prince's side. During lunch break and make-up classes, we hid under the big bed in the eldest prince's dormitory and dug in the soil together.

They dug for at least three hours every day, and the intensity of their work made them collectively lose weight in just a few days. However, in this troubled time, their gradual weight loss did not arouse anyone's suspicion.

Everyone who can enter this palace knows that the Queen Mother is seriously ill and the Emperor's good days are basically over. As long as the Queen Mother dies, the Emperor and the eldest prince whom he desperately protects will definitely end up with a disgraceful death. The way of death and a decent external rhetoric was to end his life directly.

I didn't see Chen Hushan, who was always the quickest to see opportunities. Although he had been coming to the palace to take classes every day these days, he never followed Fang Huaiying and Yu Zizhen to the eldest prince's palace again.