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Princess Southwest is the most beautiful woman in the world, bar none.

And no one living in this land knows how much King Jing loves his princess. He loves her so much that he doesn't want to look at other women, and he loves her so much that he is willing to die. As long as the princess is there, his eyes will only focus on her.

At the same time, the princess is also a legend, a true goddess. She is not afraid of failure again and again. She successfully grows rice with full grains in the southwest, which is the most unfavorable place for planting, with wind and rain all year round, so that thousands of people no longer have to suffer from hunger.

"Ah! Sister...I...I didn't do anything...just...haha...help...exercise my muscles..." Zhao Yongzhen, who has grown into a tall young man, blushed and smiled stupidly. He touched the base of his red ears and pushed his waist-high little man behind him. His intention to protect each other was very obvious.

"You haven't done anything, why are you feeling guilty? You're not a liar by nature, and you stutter when you lie. You can only be an upright official in this life, and you can't be a flattering minister." How did this temperament become like this? When I was a child, I was so naughty that it gave me a headache.

"Sister, why should I be a sycophant? My brother-in-law is already a vassal king. It's too late for him to please me. Why should I flatter him? Who doesn't know that Prince Jing of the Southwest values ​​my gentle and beautiful eldest sister most... Ah! Sister, please be gentle and don't pinch my ears. It hurts... I'm not young anymore..." The eldest sister's temperament became more and more rude.

"Hmph! You also know that you are not young anymore, and there is no straw in your head. You talk about being gentle and generous, but you must be cursing in your heart: 'Where did this wild woman come from? She is both fierce and vicious. Whose son is unlucky to marry her.'" When she met these ancient people who did not change their past, she couldn't do it without plagiarism.

Looking at his younger brother who looked childish but was actually able to stand up to the world, Zhao Ruojin felt proud in his heart. In the first year after he came to Southwest China, he got seriously ill and almost couldn't be saved. He became weak after recovery and it took him two years to recover.

If he died in the southwest, she would never be able to forgive herself for the rest of her life. It was she who asked him to come to help her conquer the almost uninhabitable land in the southwest.

"It's unfair! Sister, even if you give me nine courages, I don't dare to criticize you. Brother, I cherish this hard-earned life very much. Don't harm me! My brother-in-law will kill me first." Prince Jing was famous for his love for his wife, and he loved her to no end.

The poor brother-in-law has lived under the power of his sister for a long time.

"Hey! Stop acting, you're a grown man... Shangguan Qingyang, Shangguan Qingxu, where do you want to go? It's so unloyal to abandon your uncle who is protecting you." Didn't she see her brother making a secret gesture?I want the two little guys to go first.

A little boy with a tiger-like head poked his head out from behind Zhao Yongzhen with a wilted expression. Another little boy with a flattering smile ran out from behind the big tree that the three of them were hugging, laughing and joking as if he had done something great.

Jiao Bu Li Meng, Meng Bu Li Jiao, if one is there, the other will be the same. The two boys are playing wildly and are almost like little savages, but their skin is as white as if they had just been fished out of a milk bath. They are as beautiful as delicate and white, like dolls in New Year paintings.

"Mother——"

With a soft cry, Zhao Ruojin felt so soft that she almost melted away. She wished she could pick them up and kiss them again, but she still had a straight face as she taught her son.

Shangguan Qingyang and Shangguan Qingxu are seven years old this year. They are twins like her and Zhao Ruoyu. They look exactly the same. She almost had a hemorrhage when she gave birth to her son, which frightened Shangguan Jing to death once and never allowed her to have a second child.

He was afraid of losing her, so afraid that he would rather not have children than to keep his wife alive. She was his lifelong attachment, and he couldn't live without her.

"Children should be naughty for good health. It's just a matter of climbing a tree. Which child has never done this before? Look how scared you are of them. Fortunately, grandpa is not here, otherwise he would have been scolded." A voice as soft as the spring breeze rose softly, making people feel as refreshing as drinking a glass of cold water in the summer, and the heat was gone.

"Uncle——" The cannonball-like figure ran towards the visitor with the cheers, and even the nervous Zhao Yongzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

Not long after Prince Jing and his wife left the capital that year, the battle for the throne among the princes subsided for a while, but then a greater conflict broke out. The eldest prince died of a persistent fever, and the long-standing battle for the throne changed.

Three years later, Marquis Xingwu, who had always maintained a neutral stance, took 300,000 Zhao troops to the northwest for military exercises. On the pretext of conducting military exercises, he raided the dens of bandits and thieves in the northwest, killing tens of thousands of people. He then chased the Xiyi barbarians who attacked the border town all the way to the ancient city of Zhan in the southwest, and then stopped leaving.

In the same year, the good news came out that Princess Jing was pregnant. Mrs. Xu happily packed her luggage and took a group of people to the southwest to visit her daughter and son-in-law. Along with them were Mr. Zhao and the youngest son of the Zhao family. The group gathered together more than 20 large cars as if moving, and loaded all the valuables in the house into the car.

Then, instead of leaving, the whole family settled in the southwest.

Dachu was becoming more and more chaotic due to the dispute between princes, and wars were everywhere. There were fights here and there, and the situation of factions became more and more serious.

In the end, even military pay could not be paid, because the princes went to various ministries to make money to enrich themselves, regardless of the suffering of the people.

By the fifth year, the Zhao family army was completely under the command of King Jing of the Southwest. Their food and military pay were provided by the princess, who supported an army with her own strength.

"Brother, when did you come back? Don't you need to train in the military camp?" You two little bastards, my mother will settle accounts with you later.

Now that they have a supporter, the two boys are not afraid of their mother's evil face. The quirky one holds his uncle's hand and makes faces at his mother.

"Dad is here, don't worry. The wolf tribe in the north is ready to move again. Next month I plan to bring 30,000 soldiers and horses to have a look." First, shock the enemy, fight two games, and then destroy them without fear. Once the big Chu is in chaos, these small border countries will become restless.

Zhao Yongzhan married Su Ling, the direct witch of Duke Ding's palace, nine years ago. Wu Suling's maiden family and Duke Ding also came to settle in the southwest to avoid the chaos in the court.

But Wu Suling, who had given birth to three sons, was particularly keen on the daughters of "other people".

"Be careful, be careful about everything, don't chase the poor, and bring a few more thunder and fire bombs to defend yourself." Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected.

The thunder bomb is an improved version of a small bomb. Zhao Ruojin, who had been hiding it for many years, finally took out the gunpowder formula and tried to make it. It took him half a year to successfully develop it.

In fact, her original intention was not to use it for battlefield killing, but to blow up the miasma-filled swamps. She pushed forward mile by mile, turning the land that was originally unsuitable for farming into fertile land, and then taught the people how to plant it, starting with the simplest soybeans.

The swamps that have been silted for many years are quite fertile, and there is almost no unexpected bumper harvest for short-term crops. After planting soybeans for two consecutive years, the soil quality has also changed, so Zhao Ruojin decided to try planting the dowry seeds she brought - rice.

The harvest in the first year was unsatisfactory and there was not enough water, so she came up with the idea to introduce living water into the swamp that was originally full of black water, and then planted water lilies, lotus and other plants that can purify the water, turning it into a lake that can drink and store water for people to use.

Sure enough, in the second year, the rice production more than doubled, and the people also invested in rice planting. Large swamps became good farmland for cultivation, and the people had food to eat.

By analogy, rice was promoted to every piece of land in the southwest. In just a few years, the southwest, which was originally the most barren land, became the most fertile granary in Dachu. You can see the bending-down and full ears of rice everywhere. The official roads paved with bluestones are planted with fruit trees on both sides. The fruits are large and plump, and anyone passing by can pick them to quench their thirst.

But the most prosperous thing is not the endless rice fields, but the medicinal gardens and spice gardens that match the southwest climate. They are planted along the humid and sunny low-lying areas. Some of them are rare medicinal materials transplanted from the jungle. One garden after another has become a concentration of medicinal materials and spices. They are picked, prepared and sold for traders from afar.

Jade is also a profitable industry. Just a few carved jade products can feed an army, which shows how profitable it is.

Zhao Ruojin, who has given full play to her golden fingers, is not only capable of this. She has established a southwest fur purchasing center. Instead of transporting entire trucks to Dachu for sale, she has processed them into leather jackets, leather hats, leather boots, leather gloves, leather scarves... any leather products she can think of.