Seeing that after the tea was served, Lu Mengen did not speak, and the crown prince asked, "What is the matter with Uncle Linfen?"

The king of Linfen County looked at the crown prince carefully, sighed again and again in his heart, and when he asked, he saved his mind and said busily: "Yesterday, a girl went to Yingtianfu to beat the drum and voice her grievances, and she should have been punished according to the law. ”

Naturally, no one interrupted him, but he couldn't help but feel that he had no score, and the civil lawsuit went straight to the East Palace early in the morning.

King Linfen's words changed: "However, this woman is holding the edict of the East Palace, and there are many suspicions, and Xiao Wang does not dare to be arbitrary, so he came to consult the prince before." ”

The master who came with him hurriedly submitted the order.

The crown prince took it and looked at it, his expression inexplicable.

He Basi peeked at it, knew the clues, and secretly said that the little girl was so bold that she dared to move the prince's document of pardoning her crimes to Yingtianfu to bluff people, this time she falsely passed the will, it was really a capital crime, and she was about to speak, only to hear the crown prince ask: "Is it the one who was released from the palace a few days ago?"

Hebal Silian claimed to be.

The crown prince didn't look at him, was silent for a while, and said to the king of Linfen County: "It is indeed my handwritten message, but I don't know what she is asking for." After a pause, he said, "Where is the present person?" ”

He Basi swallowed back the words that came to his lips, and he really felt strange, according to him, even if the prince could fall in love with that woman as a warm bedwoman, he had no feelings, and it was impossible to tolerate her false will, so he couldn't help but look at Shangguanyou.

Shangguan You also knew about this, and was thinking about whether the crown prince would be so conniving and illegal because of that woman's merit in saving Ah Hu, but he saw that his face was confused. It was a puzzled look that I had never seen before. The prince of Linfen County is also an outsider in the eyes of Lu Mengen and Shangguan You, and the prince recognizes it. He would never talk too much, holding the teacup and bowing his head to drink tea.

The king of Linfen County said with a smile: "It turned out that Xiao Wang was too worried, so he ordered someone to bring it." With that, he took off the jade plaque and handed it to the master.

The master bowed down to take it and ran to the outside of the East Palace to give the order.

After a few people drank tea, Lu Mengen said: "Your Highness, the minister has something important to discuss today. ”

The crown prince gestured to him with a slight sideways look.

The king of Linfen County listened stupidly, and had no intention of leaving.

Lu Mengen glanced at the King of Linfen with a little disgust. did not shy away from it, "Today in the court, there is a matter of the placement of the 200,000 troops who have entered the customs. ”

"How?"

"The Ministry of War said that it could not pay that much military salary. Soldiers were advised to disarm and return to the field. However, there are many foreign clans in our army, and unlike the original military households of the imperial court, there is land to plant after returning home, and the minister proposed to exchange the same strength for the defense of the guards in Gyeonggi, coastal and southern Xinjiang provinces. To disarm, it is also necessary to disarm the local garrison. Where is our turn to be the Western Army!"

Lu Meng'en spoke clearly, and began to get excited when he raised his head, "There are all kinds of benefits to doing this, first, in addition to the important towns in the Central Plains that remain behind, the 200,000 troops are stranded in Gyeonggi, and the supplies are just enough, and now the four seas are peaceful." In the future, it is inevitable that the swords and guns will be returned to the warehouse, and the horses will be released in Nanshan, and it will be a difficult problem for the soldiers to marry. Although we have laid down so many boundaries, in the end the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the foreigners are put back, with less food and clothing, they will inevitably invade the border, they are brave and good at fighting, but they have nothing to do with the sea in the east and the hundred seedlings in the southern Xinjiang, and they are just right to guard the coast and southern Xinjiang; moreover, the 160,000 squad troops who defend Gyeonggi used to be the central capital, Shandong, Henan, Fourth, the three major battalions in Kyoto, the new commander of the Shenji Battalion, Na Xiang, the 3,000 battalion bald solitude, and the fifth military battalion Yan Dejin, all came out of the current Shangqian Mansion, and their prestige was insufficient. ”

When the king of Linfen County heard the last sentence, he almost choked, and it was easy to cover it up, and he thought that if the crown prince's 200,000 troops replaced the squad army, and pressed on Gyeonggi all year round, the emperor couldn't sleep even more, so he smiled and said: "I heard that many people in the northwest are not good at traveling, and the Beijing division is located in the south of the Yangtze River, with many rivers and lakes. ”

Lu Mengen still had a smiling face, but his tone was no longer pleasant, "The prince is in a remote corner, but he doesn't know that there is a lake called the 'West Sea' in the ancient Qi Kingdom, where the waters are vast and the smoke is pouring, and it is the base of the Chinese and Western expeditionary forces in the desert and the Hanhai. It is the small lake area, there are also reeds and lotus fragrance, nine bends and eighteen bends, it can be said that it is plugged in the south of the Yangtze River. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince read the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" and was deeply touched when he read the burning of Chibi, so he ordered the three armies to practice water warfare. ”

Lu Mengen's tone is arrogant, the king of Linfen County is very angry, if you want to refute, there is a big difference between the inland lake and the sea after all, and it can naturally be refuted, but this person has a heavy army, arrogant and domineering, and he has never put the Beijing division and hundreds of officials in his eyes, he can only turn to attack the crown prince, "This matter has a lot to do, and the prince still needs to consider the meaning of the royal brother." ”

The old god Lu Mengen was there, and he ignored the advice of the king of Linfen County.

The crown prince said: "I will consider this matter carefully, since you have already played, you must finally be ordered by your father." ”

Lu Mengen's face was not good-looking, it was originally because he was rejected by the imperial party in the court and came to the East Palace to find a place, but who knew that the prince did not support his family.

The king of Linfen County breathed a sigh of relief, and felt very embarrassed, his heart was really caught up with the troubled waters, since he offended Lu Mengen, it was naturally better to enter the palace to invite the imperial brother for a merit, so he resigned, "Prince, the matter of the Ling family is not big, and it also involves the prince of Lu, when the exile was pardoned, although the case was not investigated again, in the end, the will of the first emperor was requested, if you ask clearly, how to deal with it, you might as well send someone to inform Xiao Wang, there is no disobedience." ”

Sending away the king of Linfen County, Lu Mengen was especially angry, "The king who eats dry rice in the court pays homage to the prime minister, and the corpse is a vegetarian meal, obviously a layman, but he likes to point fingers, which is really hateful." ”

In the past, the talkative Shangguan You has always kept silent, Lu Mengen is the eldest son of Lu Nengkui, and his relationship with the crown prince is extraordinary, and it can even be said that it exceeds the father-son relationship of Emperor Yongshao, so he does not shy away from speaking, and the crown prince is also used to him like this, thinking that he is intimate and loyal, and outsiders are really difficult to beak.

However, the king of Linfen County is Uncle Wang, he speaks politely and has a modest attitude, it is difficult to give a bad impression, and the crown prince did not obviously follow Lu Meng'en's words.

From Shangguanyou's point of view, Lu Mengen's strategy is quite feasible, the princelings have controlled the border defense in the west and north, and then deeply manipulate the guards in Gyeonggi and the southern coastal frontier, then Emperor Yongshao on the throne is a real puppet, and he can't jump at all. Even between father and son, there are not a few people who have killed each other for the throne in history, and it is not a bad thing to control your fate in your own hands.

However, although the soldiers regarded the crown prince as the god of war and worshiped them fanatically, according to the Han people's point of view, after waving the army into the customs, the Wenchen supervision army sent to the Western Expeditionary Army basically became an ornament, and Lu Meng'en commanded the three armies on behalf of the crown prince, no matter how intimate he was, the power he held was really greater, although there were a group of loyal lieutenant generals, and the left and right armies also had other leaders, but they were afraid of being deceived by him, and it was not bad to contain him with the imperial party. Shangguan You pondered here, and suddenly changed the topic: "Your Highness is about to get married, can Lu Guogong prepare a congratulatory gift?" )