When Lin Nan arrived, the meeting had been held for nearly two hours, and at this moment, the specific military deployment was discussed for a while, Lin Nan listened casually, and the meeting ended. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Then he ordered someone to bring some snacks, and the old emperor did not immediately accompany Lin Nan to see his mother, but waved away all the people, and still ordered people to guard the door, and not let anyone enter the door, it seemed that he wanted to have a private chat with Lin Nan.

Father picked up a piece of pastry, handed it to Lin Nan, and said slowly: "Ze'er, now there are only you and me, father and son, so you can tell the truth."

Lin Nan blinked when he heard this, and did not speak, and then his father said again: "I asked you about the artillery just now, just to block the mouths of the ministers, do you think that your father and you don't have a good heart, hehe, I already know, you have no idea about the craftsmen and the heavenly books you just said, and I also know that those so-called heavenly books are written by the emperor himself, and I have not asked Mr. Kong."

Lin Nan smiled when he heard this: "Father, you know everything, and you still ask me what to do, are you afraid that the queen mother will know?"

"You are my most painful child, I have always pampered you, it is a great thing, my father will definitely be on your side, although the queen mother is also the most important thing for me." The old emperor said a little sadly, and then continued: "If she doesn't know how to do it, now artillery, bicycles, mahjong and other strange utensils are in front of her, I think the queen mother has already guessed that it was you who did it, I am not blaming you now, just curious, why did you invent so many strange things, you have not been out of the palace, who taught you?" With that, he sat down, probably ready to accept the unthinkable.

Lin Nan thought about it and chose a statement that he thought was the most acceptable, and said to his father: "Father, in fact, these artifacts, Erchen has really seen them in ancient books, but that book can no longer be found now." Lin Nan didn't tell him the truth, not because he didn't believe him, but because he was afraid that he wouldn't believe in himself, would he believe him if he said that he was from another plane?

"However, there is no such artifact in the legend, so who could have written this book?" My father became more and more confused.

When Lin Nan heard him ask, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Maybe it's some immortal, but in fact, Erchen doesn't know."

"That's it, that's it, I'll just stop asking you." At this time, when the old emperor heard this, he could only wave his hand helplessly, and then continued: "Okay, don't mention it, let's go visit your mother first, she looks forward to your return, I don't know how many tears she has shed, although she usually loves to gamble, but she still cares about you very much." The old emperor stood up, took Lin Nan's hand and went out.

"Yes." Lin Nan smiled at his father, and then ordered his mother's bedroom to be placed, Lin Nan remembered that the family could be reunited safely, and his heart was warm.

After getting Liu Yuxi's information, my mother was waiting at the door of the dormitory early, and when she saw Lin Nan and the old emperor arriving together, her eager face was suddenly swept away, and she hurriedly gave a salute to the old emperor, and then pulled Lin Nan into her arms.

Lin Nan's nose was sour again, and he couldn't think of the comforting words he thought of, but he just said vigorously: "The child is not filial, which makes the mother worried." It's a little false, but it's also a little true, and Lin Nan can't tell what Lin Nan feels about this old mother now.

The old emperor was still cheerful, and said: "Ai Fei, it is a happy thing for the emperor to go home today, don't cry and cry, come on, ask the imperial kitchen to send the dishes over, I will have a dinner here today, Ai Fei, I remember that I gave you two jars of Yujian Spring a few years ago, and I was originally going to drink with you on the tenth birthday of the fifth emperor, but I can ask someone to take it out, and today is just to wash the dust for the emperor."

"Okay, please wait." When the mother heard this, she smiled and went to get the wine, and then came back after a while and said, "The emperor only has one altar, and the other jar seems to have been drunk."

"Okay, one altar is one altar, concubine, we have to listen to the interesting stories of the emperor in the south tonight." The old emperor didn't care.

The next night, Lin Nan came to tell about the time in the south, poor Lin Nan looked at the table full of delicacies, and couldn't spare his mouth to eat a few bites, the old man said with interest "What happened later", so that Lin Nan could only hold back a lot of saliva, and kept talking, Lin Nan didn't want to spoil him, hang his appetite, it seems that Xia Yi inherited the old emperor, and he has been unwilling to stop when he hears interesting things.

Lin Nan said all the way, it can be regarded as wonderful, when it came to almost being injured by gunpowder, the mother concubine was still worried and screamed, and said that Zhucheng was going to attack secretly, even the old emperor had a solemn face, and slapped the table, it seemed that he was angry, and when it came to helping the fat man unify the cities, the old man couldn't help but interject: "Emperor, listen to your words, that fat general forgets his righteousness when he sees profit, and the wolf is ambitious, why not secretly help the rebels, so that they will fight endlessly, and there will be no peace, wouldn't it be better"

"The old emperor Shengming, the strategists under his ministers discussed for several days before they came to the conclusion that the peaceful reunification of the southern country is beneficial to our dynasty." Lin Nan thought about it and replied.

"Oh," the old man stroked his hair and hurriedly asked, "Then I said to hear it."

"There are many reasons for this." This is not a show, mainly because Lin Nan is too smart, so he thinks a lot.

Lin Nan thought for a while and continued: "First, although the southern country is an ally of our dynasty, it is a subject country, and it pays tribute every year, how can I see its internal turmoil and ignore it. ”

"Second, the southern country is not far from our dynasty, if its internal turmoil and the people are not able to make a living, there will be a crowd of thieves, and the southern people are accustomed to living at sea, and they are ferocious, and they will harass our coastal states and counties over time, and the sea is vast, and the coastline is extremely long, and it is difficult to clear it, and it will become a major disaster along the coast." Speaking of this, it is to avoid war, and the old emperor Lin Nan understands.

"Third, although the southern country is narrow and lacks resources, the island is densely volcanic, rich in sulfur, one of the raw materials for gunpowder, which is exactly what our dynasty needs, its forests are dense and timber is abundant.

"Fourth, if the sons want to refine the compounds in the future, they need to destroy a large number of trees, and some of them are themselves highly poisonous, which is very dangerous, and the sons want to move them to the south and use the southerners to produce them, so as to avoid the disaster of no reason." Speaking of this, Lin Nan had some evil intentions in his heart.

"Fifth, my father has forgotten that there are still several countries on the east coast of the ocean, although the culture of the country is weak, but it is extremely warlike, the art of iron smelting is better than that of our dynasty, and its ship can also come to our dynasty by luck, and it is necessary to prevent it, the son heard that the father ordered the man-made sea ship, which has not been obtained for several years, and the craftsman is really more than capable and insufficient, if he comes to attack from the east in the future, the southern country is my first barrier, which can let the southern people first make a temptation, and consume their food, grass and morale." Anyway, the idea in Lin Nan's heart is to let Nanguo be cannon fodder.

"Sixth, the national strength of the southern country is low, and we can dump all the discarded things that I have renewed in the future to exchange for useful things such as grain and timber, and I can also promote Buddhism to them, domesticate their barbaric folk customs, and make them forever ministers of the Great Shang Dynasty."

Lin Nan thought for a moment. Finally, he concluded: "Father, you must know that a strong dog is better than a servant who is about to die."

The mother heard it in a fog, and she didn't have to think about it to know that she didn't understand what Lin Nan said at all, but the old emperor was obviously stunned by Lin Nan's reasoning, and looked at Lin Nan with a look of praise. Obviously, he didn't expect Lin Nan to have such an idea, let alone any unheard of words such as compounds and dumping, but he still understood the meaning, and then he raised his head and took a sip of wine, and sighed: "Ze'er is thoughtful, and the old emperor is ashamed of himself, but it seems that Ze'er has an enmity with the southern country, so ruthless, but anyway, it seems that the old emperor really didn't spoil you, hehe!" After saying that, we tacitly laughed.

Mother understood this sentence, laughed loudly, and said: "The emperor is really good at laughing, how could he have an enmity with that small country in his previous life, the emperor praised you, and he didn't thank your father."

Originally, it was like a friend with the old emperor, but he still had to pretend in front of his mother, so when he heard this, Lin Nan hurriedly said: "Thank you for your praise, but the ambition of the wolf son of the southern country, if you don't do it right, will definitely harm our big business people in the future and be a big trouble for us!" The old emperor naturally understood what Lin Nan meant, so he took another sip of wine.

However, seeing his mother's increasingly confused appearance, Lin Nan and the old emperor glanced at each other and couldn't help laughing.

"Your Majesty, the noble concubine, someone from outside the palace sent a letter, saying that there is news of the uncle of the country." Just at this moment a eunuch had just come in through the door, and after kneeling, he held a letter high above his head and presented it.

Lin Nan took the letter first, and couldn't wait to open it to read, the letter was written by the Taiji real person of the Huawu Academy, the ink had not dried, and it was obviously sent to the palace in a hurry not long after it was written, Lin Nan took a rough look, his face changed greatly, his mother looked at Lin Nan like this, she was more worried than Lin Nan, the smile just now suddenly froze, and asked in a trembling voice: "Ze'er, could it be that your brother-in-law has something wrong?"

"Father, mother, my brother-in-law has an accident." Lin Nan presented the letter to the old emperor: "The letter said that the people sent to look for it found that six of my uncle's entourage had been killed, and the body was found by the locals yesterday in a remote place in the mountains outside the eastern capital, and my brother-in-law did not know his whereabouts." Now that the old emperor knows about this, Lin Nan doesn't need to use his own power, Lin Nan thinks his father will deal with it.

As soon as Lin Nan finished speaking, his mother's face turned pale, tears immediately welled up in her eyes, and she couldn't say anything when the words came to her mouth.

Lin Nan calmed down, thought for a while, walked to her side, took a handkerchief, wiped her tears, and comforted: "Mother, don't be sad first, the letter said that the body was not found, presumably the uncle is not dead, if the uncle also suffers an accident, it will be buried in one place, and most of the uncles are not worried about their lives." Lin Nan turned to the old emperor and continued: "Father, those entourages are all guards with superb martial arts in Suzhou, and it is difficult for dozens of ordinary people to resist, it seems that there are either extremely large number of bandits, or there are more powerful masters to make a move, if it is a bandit, they must gather in the mountains, just send someone to encircle and suppress, if it is the latter, it must be for the uncle, I don't know what kind of enemy the uncle has offended, and even the uncle dares to hijack." It's easy for Lin Nan to check this, but the matter fell in the ears of the old emperor, and now Lin Nan is not in the limelight.

Hearing this, the mother sobered up a little, knelt down beside the old emperor, hugged his legs, choked and said, "Your Majesty, you have to be the master of the concubines."

"Bang!" With a bang, the old emperor slapped the letter on the table, and said angrily, "Bold, this morning the court's criminal department waiter also told me that the people in the world are simple, and there are only one or two major cases in the rest of the country this year, except for the Sichuan riots, there are only one or two major cases in the rest of the world, saying that there is no need to worry when resisting foreign enemies, I don't think that I will know that the uncle of the United Nations was robbed at night, or near the eastern capital, and they have all arrived at the side of the service, come here, go and call the Shangshu and the waiter of the criminal department to the imperial study to wait, Concubine Ai, rest assured, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly and send the uncle back well." Seeing this, Lin Nan also saw the old emperor's angry look, it seems that the person who moved the uncle this time can't escape, even if he escapes, Lin Nan won't let it go. However, this matter will have to wait until the old emperor settles it.

The eunuch who delivered the letter responded with a "command" and ran out in a hurry, it seems that someone is going to be unlucky tonight.

The three of us were all frowning, each thinking about our own thoughts, and for a moment no one spoke in the room, except for the intermittent sobbing of our mother.

The old emperor couldn't sit still at first, so he got up and paced back and forth in the room a few times. threw down a sentence: "Ze'er, you are here to take care of your mother, I will go to the imperial study now." Then he walked straight out.

Lin Nan knew that the old emperor was worried about the potential danger of being close to the capital, and there would be changes in wartime, so he was in a hurry to clear it.

Lin Nan comforted his mother for a long time, saying that his uncle Jiren has his own blessing, so he didn't have to worry too much, and his father also agreed, so there shouldn't be too much of a problem in the future, seeing that her expression still hadn't changed, Lin Nan changed the topic and talked about the situation at home when he was in Suzhou. The grandmother's improved condition and some knowledge finally persuaded her, it was very late, and Lin Nan didn't have time to discuss with the Demon Emperor, so he fell asleep first.

The next day, Lin Nan got up early in the morning, and asked his mother to say goodbye, and even the cold ice Dao was too late to practice, so he went directly to find someone to inquire about the news, Lin Nan wanted to understand what the old emperor was going to do, and after disappearing and passing back, Lin Nan learned that the old emperor had not ended the morning today, so Lin Nan went to the workshop first, since yesterday I heard that my brother-in-law had an accident, there are a lot more guards today, in addition to the original guards, a small team of forbidden troops has been added, but Lin Nan knows that these people are transferred by the old emperor, it seems that the old emperor is angry, and the efficiency of the officials below is greatly accelerated, The security of the imperial family has begun to be strengthened, and to be honest, sometimes Lin Nan's orders are more effective than those of the old emperor.