The old wife was puzzled and said: "No matter how unpredictable the king's heart is, the emperor will not be wrong to treat the old ministers well." Since ancient times, Ming Jun has been assisted by capable ministers like Xianggong, and it has become a good story for the ages. In addition to the Chang family of Kaiping Wangfu in this capital, it is our Li family, the Korean government. Although our Li family did not have a princess and princess, we were fortunate to be married to Princess Lin'an, which is the real benefit. ”

Li Shanchang frowned and said: "With Princess Lin'an as a backer, our Li family can withstand the wind and waves, and I am afraid that others will cause branches and burn myself." ”

The old wife comforted and said: "The children are very obedient, there is no Meng Lang's generation, those who have the ability to become officials in the future, and those who do not have the ability to study at home to be a rich idler." I have also explained to my relatives, restrain the clansmen well, if there are any traitors and criminals, they will be expelled from the family, and the name will be removed from the family tree, and the prince will be guilty of the same crime as the common people, and we will not harbor and condone those who do evil. It's not enough for the minister to worry about the country and the people all day long, and he will worry about family affairs again. ”

Li Shanchang smiled, "Okay, okay, I'll just say casually, it's not too early, it's time to prepare to go to the court, you can accompany me to breakfast." ”

The old wife is strict in governing the family, of course Li Shanchang knows. He had a ghost in his heart, thinking about the nightmare just now, and the person he was talking about was actually referring to Xu Miaoyi.

Today's Li family is the same as the Xie family back then, there have been no unfilial children in the family, and if the Li family has a disaster, it will not be within the wall. But when dealing with the Xie family, Li Shanchang still found a loophole, did a fake show, planted a blame, and destroyed the Xie family.

No matter how tightly the sheepfold is built, it can't really stop the wolves from attacking.

Xu Miaoyi is undoubtedly a little wolf cub who has been killed and sharpened in the wilderness, and these descendants of the Li family are not her opponents......

Li Shanchang buried these worries deep in his heart, and had breakfast with his old wife as if nothing happened, and halfway through the meal, his henchmen hurriedly came, "Xiangye, there is an urgent report." ”

Li Shanchang's heart sank, put down his chopsticks, and said calmly to his old wife: "You continue to eat, I'll go to the court." ”

The old wife nodded and instructed the maid, "Add new charcoal to Xiangye's hand stove and make a pot of ginseng tea." ”

Li Shanchang changed into a red court dress and boarded a large sedan chair carried by sixteen people, which was like a small house that could be moved, spacious and comfortable.

The long and majestic honor guard of the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty drove out of the Korean government, the sky was not yet bright, the snow covered the capital, the endless sleet seemed to freeze the air, the armor and weapons of the escort cavalry were frozen, and under the cold snow, everywhere was a chilling murderous atmosphere.

Li Shanchang remembered the nightmare just now, his pupils shrank, he closed the window, and he held the warm hand stove to his chest, "So, Miss Xu, who copied the scriptures for her mother in Bao'en Temple, is an impostor?" ”

In the sedan chair, a person knelt in the shadows, bowed his head and said, "The subordinates are incompetent, and I didn't find out that person was a stand-in earlier." The subordinates saw that the Buddhist scriptures sent out from the meditation room every day were in the handwriting of Miss Xu, so they were careless. ”

Li Shanchang rubbed his forehead, "You're not incompetent, you're damned." If Huang Yan was still there, he would have discovered the mystery a long time ago. ”

The man kowtowed and said, "Subordinates should be damned!" ”

Li Shanchang said: "Her biggest backer now is King Yan, if you want to find out her whereabouts, you have to keep an eye on King Yan, what is the movement over there in King Yan's mansion?" ”

The man said: "Since Fengyang came back from disaster relief, King Yan carried the black cauldron for the prince, and the emperor dismissed all his errands, and he has been idle at home, and there is no action. ”

Li Shanchang asked: "Yesterday's royal sacrifice of Laba, how did King Yan behave?" ”

When the man heard this, he trembled and said, "Yesterday, King Yan said that he was sick and did not participate in the sacrifice. ”

Li Shanchang was furious, "Bastard! He said that he was sick and sick? How can it be so coincidental! One is missing and the other is sick, and there is clearly a fraud! ”

The man said in a low voice: "I haven't gotten the news that the one in Bao'en Temple is an imposter yesterday, so my subordinates didn't think about it, and my subordinates knew that they were wrong, so I went to check the whereabouts of King Yan." ”

Li Shanchang said word by word: "This time, don't let go of any of them." ”

The man looked up suddenly, "Even the King of Yan ......"

Li Shanchang sneered: "King Yan? What Yan Wang? Didn't King Yan recuperate in the palace of the capital? Even the emperor and queen gave medicinal materials to go to the Yan Wang's mansion, how could there be two Yan kings? The one out there, it has to be fake. ”

The master gave the order to kill, and the man understood, "Yes, the subordinates obey the order." ”

"Wait." Li Shanchang said: "If you fail, you will come to see you." ”

Three days later, Li Shanchang was woken up by his staff in the middle of the night, and in the study, his subordinates with a broken arm knelt in front of Li Shanchang, "The subordinates are incompetent, King Yan and Miss Xu escaped from the encirclement, and they don't know if they live or die!" ”

Looking at Li Shanchang's death-like expression, his subordinates said, "Xiangye, we haven't gained nothing. We didn't catch it, but we got our hands on the most damaging thing. Our people found traces of King Yan and his party in Shaoxing, and for some reason, after a year, they went to the Luanfeng cemetery to dig all night. Judging by the marks on the wheels of the wagons in the mud of the road, there must have been a lot of digging up, and we followed ...... all the way."

Yan Wang and Xu Miaoyi did not find out that they were being followed, but they had always been cautious, and divided the paperwork and ledger in the box into two, half of which they carried with them, and the other half was packed as goods, and entrusted them to the dart master of the dart bureau to transport them to the capital.

The dart master is easier to solve, all of them are killed and buried deeply, and the things are transported to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Another team of men and horses set up an ambush halfway, this time they didn't have to worry about King Yan's life, they simply shot the carriage into a hedgehog cart with a bow/crossbow, but unfortunately King Yan was brave and rushed out of the encirclement with Miss Xu.

Li Shanchang opened the box and looked at the paperwork and account books inside, each of which could kill him immediately, fortunately, fortunately, these things were snatched back!

The subordinates clutched the broken arm that was still bleeding and cried: "The merits and demerits are compensated, begging-"

Li Shanchang swung his sword and cut off the heads of his subordinates, and said coldly: "Burn these things, and in addition, all the people involved in this operation - send them a cup of strychnine on the road." ”

After dealing with all this, it is almost time for the early dynasty, Li Shanchang and his entourage are going to the direction of the palace, the civil and military officials above the four grades of the capital must be in the early court, the general military generals ride horses, the civil officials sit in the sedan chair, every day at dawn, the civil and military officials gather outside the imperial city, and when the official sedan chair of Li Shanchang meets, the military generals dismount, the civil officials get off the sedan chair, all salute and avoid, in order to show respect for the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Shanchang sat in a small house-like sedan chair, listening to the sound of civil and military officials saluting and avoiding, his chaotic mood gradually calmed down, and secretly warned himself: Don't worry, don't panic, I have crossed countless ups and downs, survived countless difficult times, and only today has the status of one person and ten thousand people, how can it be easily ruined in the hands of a little girl?

The palace door opened suddenly, the civil and military officials rushed in, the people of Honglu Temple and Jinyi Wei checked the appearance and cards of the officials in the aisle, so as not to lose the honor in front of the palace, Li Shanchang arrived at the corridor room where he was on duty, and an old eunuch who added charcoal glanced at him, Li Shanchang retreated from everyone and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The old eunuch looked flustered, looked around, and said in a low voice: "Xiangye, King Yan and Miss Xu asked to see the emperor in the middle of the night last night. ”

It's coming so fast! Li Shanchang's body shook for a moment, holding the bookcase to stabilize his body, "Is this true?" Are they really? ”

The old eunuch said: "They are wearing flying fish suits, mixed in Mao Xiang's brocade guards, saying that there is an emergency military situation in the northwest, about the Northern Yuan royal family to seize the throne."

Something. But the faces of these two people, the slaves and maids are all imprinted in their minds, Huang Gonggong died so miserably, they turned into ashes and slaves and maids all recognized them. The lights in the emperor's bedroom have been on from midnight to now, and the slave maid feels that something big should have happened. ”

Li Shanchang asked, "What did they say?" ”

The old eunuch shook his head, "The slave and maid don't know, in the past, when Huang Gonggong was still there, the slave and maid could still serve the emperor closely, but now Huang Gonggong died unjustly in prison, and there is not a single eunuch around the emperor, and the servants are all female officials, and the slaves and maids are reduced to doing such rough work as adding charcoal to the public." ”

Li Shanchang said: "You have done a good job, find a chance to leave the palace as soon as possible, and I will arrange your old age." ”

The old eunuch was grateful and thanked him again and again.

Li Shanchang said secretly, this person knows too much, and he can't keep it...... What should I do now? It's not possible to sit back and wait, so don't you force me to resort to life-saving tricks?

In the end, it is the old fox who has gone through countless dangerous political whirlpools and is still immovable, Li Shanchang's status today is by no means in vain, he quickly calmed down, while thinking of a countermeasure, he opened the hand stove that gradually cooled down, poured out the gray-white charcoal ash that burned out, and used copper tongs to clamp a piece of red-burned red charcoal into it.

The hand stove is as warm as ever, the palm of the hand is warm, and the stiff face is gradually softening, Li Shanchang hugged the hand stove and smiled lightly: Huang Yan is dead, and there are countless Huang Yan behind me. But little girl, if you don't have the backer of King Yan, where should you go......

Today's morning is the same as usual, maybe there is a ghost in his heart, Li Shanchang sometimes feels that the emperor on the dragon chair is staring at him, seeing him like a man's back, and his calm mood fluctuates several times. It was easy to stay up until the end of the early dynasty, and Mao Xiang personally went to Li Shanchang's duty room to invite, "Prime Minister, the emperor summoned him in the imperial study." ”

Mao Xiang is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, a military attaché, rarely do this kind of errands and words, today to invite Li Shanchang, it can be seen that Emperor Hongwu is cautious.

It's finally here! Li Shanchang straightened his crown clothes and made sure that there was nothing wrong with him, so he followed Mao Xiang to the imperial study.

The folds on the imperial case have been piled up into a hill, but Emperor Hongwu did not sit behind the case as usual to review the folds, he sat on the Luohan couch in front of the window, holding black in one hand and white in the other, playing chess with himself.

"You're here." Emperor Hongwu pointed to the chessboard, "Tell me, who wins and who loses in this game?" ”

Li Shanchang stroked his beard and said: "According to Weichen, it is evenly matched, and it is a game of chess. ”

Emperor Hongwu said with a smile: "Aiqing, in any kind of chess game, there must be winners and losers. As long as two chess players refuse to shake hands and make peace, sooner or later they will decide whether to win or lose. 166 Reading Network