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

Fang Huaiying was moved by her. Indeed, as Yu Zizhen said, Yu Zizhen had been sparing no effort to help ordinary people and wronged people over the years. Just from the few major incidents he knew about, Yu Zizhen had countless people alive, not to mention those minor ones. The people she saved casually were here and there.

He took a deep breath and suppressed his complicated emotions, "Your Majesty and the First Prince. What are you going to tell them?"

Yu Zizhen raised his eyebrows, "What should I tell them?"

Fang Huaiying:? ? ?

"They, Your Majesty."

Yu Zizhen frowned, "Do you want to say that Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Plan of Daqi?"

Fang Huaiying nodded, "If you really do that, I'm worried that they will have a grudge against you."

Yu Zizhen's eyes were complicated, "You touch your conscience and say, do you really think His Majesty is the most respected person in this country?"

Fang Huaiying:

Thinking about the emperor's previous difficult situation, Fang Huaiying really couldn't say that he was the master of Daqi.

He spoke with difficulty, "But I have a good reputation."

Yu Zizhen shrugged, "He has no status now. He, the eldest prince, the second prince, and Xiao Shaoke have all been judged dead by the Lu family."

Although she asked the emperor to give the eldest prince an imperial edict to establish the vassal state, with the level of shamelessness Lu Tong showed, he would definitely not acknowledge the edict. It would be better if the eldest prince did not take out the imperial edict. Once he does, Lu Tong will definitely label him as a forgery of the edict.

When he thought of this, Yu Zizhen couldn't help but sigh, "I underestimated Lu Tong's shamelessness."

Fang Huaiying also sighed, "It doesn't matter to others. I'm just worried that if His Highness can't think about it, you..."

He wants to say, you have such a good relationship with him, if he blames you, will you be very sad?

Yu Zizhen answered with a smile, "Don't worry, he won't blame me. And the same goes for Your Majesty. They are all people with conscience and no ambition."

When she entered the capital as a hostage, she was not only young, but also had few available people around her. She had almost lost everything trying to resettle the victims, but even so, she did her best to help the emperor and the eldest prince.

She is not raising an army to rebel against the emperor, she is just fighting for the throne with the world's heroes. With the temperament and character of those two people, they will definitely not be secretly dissatisfied with her just because she has this intention.

Fang Huaiying thought about it, and he reminded Yu Zizhen: "Then you should tell them in advance that the most important thing in making friends is openness."

Yu Zizhen nodded.

Fang Huaiying added: "Even if you have a clear conscience and His Majesty and His Highness don't mind, there will definitely still be people in this world who will criticize you because of your friendship with His Highness."

They will deliberately ignore that Yu Zizhen was young and isolated, and that Yu Zizhen was limited by his righteousness. It is impossible to raise the flag of rebellion before Lu Tong takes action and "clear the emperor's side". They will only use Yu Zizhen's current strength. Talking about things with ambition, he arbitrarily defined her as a traitor.

Yu Zizhen was mentally prepared for this. She said to Fang Huaiying: "So I need the support of you and Duke Wei. Yu Gong, I don't want the mountains and rivers to be broken and foreigners to invade, so I need Duke Wei to lead his troops to continue guarding the west." Xinjiang, protect the people of Western Xinjiang. In private, you are my friend. I don’t want you to lose your father who really loves you, and I don’t want you to be in a difficult and dangerous situation in Western Xinjiang." Fang Huaiying looked complicated. Sure enough, he was in a difficult situation. Difficult things are not something he can hide even if he wants to.

"I will persuade my father to express his position at the critical moment, but I am not sure he will agree."

Yu Zizhen smiled, "Don't try to persuade me. This is a matter between your father and me. I will talk to him myself."

Fang Huaiying was startled.

Yu Zizhen said: "If you persuade me, others will have more reason to criticize you. If your father's life is not enough, I can also provide at least one-third of the annual supply to the soldiers of Western Xinjiang during our cooperation." military pay, food, and ordnance.”

Fang Huaiying sat up straight and asked, "Seriously?"

Their western Xinjiang is different from southern Xinjiang and northern Xinjiang. Their products are not abundant there. In addition, his father is from a grassroots background and does not have a deep family background to support him. Therefore, whenever the imperial court deducts military pay, food, and ordnance, his father cannot do anything about it. Like the southern and northern borders, with a wave of the hand, the missing part will be filled by the private property of the Duke of Wei.

Year after year, military supplies and wages were a heavy burden on his father's heart.

If Yu Zizhen could really provide them with at least one-third of their annual military pay, rations, and ordnance, his father would definitely be envious and excited.

Yu Zizhen smiled and nodded, "Of course. As long as you don't side with me, I will give you one-third of the guaranteed military supplies and food wages every year. If your father loses the imperial court at the right time because he openly expresses his support for me, I can make up for the part of the military supplies and food payments that I give you every year without any discount."

Fang Huaiying's heart was beating fast. At this moment, he felt that his father would definitely not be able to withstand Yu Zizhen's sugar-coated bullets.

Not to mention the years when the imperial court fell under the control of the Queen Mother, even when the late emperor was still alive, the imperial court did not fully provide military supplies and food to the troops stationed in various places. However, in recent years, some officials of the imperial court have become more and more courageous. The "loss" of military and military supplies is therefore far more exaggerated than when the late emperor was still alive.

But Yu Zizhen just said that she could supply them all without any compromise.

Thinking about his father who often lamented for military supplies and wages, Fang Huaiying suddenly felt that even if he would be criticized for this, he would do his best to persuade his father.

He never wanted to see the soldiers of Western Xinjiang die easily or even die in peace because their weapons, armor, and horses were shoddy, and medicines, food, clothing, wages, and pensions were always in short supply.

Taking a deep breath, he looked directly at Yu Zizhen, "If you only use soldiers from Western Xinjiang to guard the border, instead of deploying personnel to coordinate operations, the effect of our stance will actually be very limited, right?"

Yu Zizhen smiled, "Of course the civil war is limited, but as long as you can defend Western Xinjiang and make the people of Western Xinjiang live a stable life, it will not be considered a loss if I provide you with military supplies, food and wages."

Fang Huaiying cupped his hand and said, "My wise brother is so broad-minded that my foolish brother is far behind."

Yu Zizhen hurriedly returned the favor and said, "Let's not talk in such a formal manner. I still like to be more casual."

The corners of Fang Huaiying's lips rose. Sure enough, Yu Zizhen was still the Yu Zizhen he knew.

After traveling for a while, the two abandoned their carriages and changed their horses, and together with the guards they brought with them, they headed straight for Western Xinjiang.

At this time, in the Duke Wei's Mansion in Western Xinjiang, Duke Wei had not received any news about the changes in the capital. He was sullen, listening to his younger brother complaining to him about this and that.