85_85279Although Li Jinglong didn't care about political affairs on weekdays, a few simple words now made the situation of Zhu Di and other vassal kings clear. I understood that he had a point, so I had to sigh a few times. "It's a shame that you have been walking around in front of the emperor a lot recently, asking about the news of the princes, and sending it back to the prince to rest assured."

"It's natural." Li Jinglong was also helpless.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang died for less than a month, and the government and the opposition did not know the newly appointed emperor Zhu Yunwen very well, so it can be said that he was a little mysterious. In addition, as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang died, he began to announce to the Manchu Dynasty with practical actions: The period when the vassal kings were in power in the past has passed, and now the emperor has the final say.

Therefore, from the capital and even the prefectures and counties, they have not yet come into contact with this young new emperor, and they have already stored a sense of awe.

It's just that everyone doesn't know what Zhu Yunwen's real thoughts are. In Zhu Yuanzhang's time, he was the face of the impregnable country, but for him, it was an embattled situation. These vassal kings are all good sons of Zhu Yuanzhang, but they can't be Zhu Yunwen's good uncles.

Now Zhu Yunwen is facing a total of twenty-four uncle vassal kings and a cousin vassal king, these vassal kings have their own palaces and armies, and each of them has an army of fifty or sixty thousand people. These armies are sharp blades against foreign enemies in Zhu Yuanzhang's hands, and they are anti-him weapons in front of Zhu Yunwen.

Among the twenty-five vassal kings, nine others are even more different, because they are tasked with guarding the border, and their forces have developed more strongly under Zhu Yuanzhang's acquiescence, from the northeast to the northwest are the kings of Liao, Ning, Yan, Gu, Dai, Jin, Qin, Qing and Su.

These are now in Zhu Yunwen's eyes, all of them are thorns in the flesh, and if they are not eradicated, the Daming Jiangshan Sheji and his own crown will be in dire straits one day.

On this day, I was sitting in the Huamanlou, chatting with Yueniang, Li Jinglong suddenly rushed to the palace, I saw that his face was flushed, as if he was in a hurry, so I followed him outside and asked him why, Li Jinglong was full of worries, and said, "The emperor summoned me to the palace today, do you guess what?"

I shook my head, "How can I guess what you are doing in court?" ”

Li Jinglong seemed to have eaten Coptis chinensis, and said in misery, "The emperor sent me to arrest King Zhou." ”

I was taken aback, "Why is that?" What did King Zhou do? ”

"There is nothing to do, saying that the new emperor ascended the throne, and the king of Zhou made a lot of nonsense in the palace of the king of Zhou, dissatisfied with the new emperor. Now the emperor ordered that the king of Zhou's family be brought back to the capital to be questioned. Li Jinglong looked at me pitifully, "How can I explain this matter to King Yan?" ”

I understand Li Jinglong's difficulties, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, is Zhu Di's half-brother, and Zhu Yunwen was the first to attack him, in fact, he wanted to cut off Zhu Di's wings. "The new emperor ordered, can you still resist the decree?" Although I looked at the long street that had been silent, I said lightly.

Li Jinglong said, "You mean, I can only go and do what the emperor wants?" ”

"You don't have any other choice."

Li Jinglong was silent, and only after a long time did he say, "If I anger Long Yan like this in the future, my three children still hope that you ......."

I stomped my foot again and again, "Bah, don't talk nonsense, your path is going down, don't involve the three children." ”

Within half a month, Li Jinglong took his men and horses back from Henan to bring back the Zhou Wang's family, and Zhu Yunwen listened to Qi Tai's Jianyì, and directly demoted the Zhou King to a commoner and sent him to southern Yunnan, where he was not allowed to leave southern Yunnan for eternity. Li Jinglong was very sad about this, and felt shameless to face Zhu Di again, so I had to comfort him that Zhu Di would definitely be able to distinguish right from wrong.

It was only three days after King Zhou's family was sent out of the city, and Li Jinglong came to me again, this time his expression was much more urgent than when Zhu Yunwen sent him to arrest King Zhou, and I was also startled, "What's wrong?" ”

"The emperor put all the three princes of Yan Wangfu under house arrest!" Li Jinglong said hurriedly. I breathed a sigh of relief, this matter had long been expected by me, but I couldn't say more to him at this time, "Don't worry, the prince doesn't know about this matter yet." ”

"How can you not be in a hurry! King Zhou was demoted to a commoner, I didn't expect the emperor to do things so ruthlessly! It's only been three days, and he ordered the three sons of Yan Wangfu to be placed under house arrest, isn't this intention obvious? Wouldn't the next one to do it be King Yan? ”

When he said this, I was also shocked, "Where are the sons of the world under house arrest?" ”

When Li Jinglong heard me ask, his face was even more ugly, and he scolded with swear words in his mouth, "This will make me unable to say good things!" Relatives do this part, and their faces are torn! My uncle took a look at my sister's children! ”

I couldn't help but be shocked, "Xu Gongzi's mansion?!" ”

"Not really!" Li Jinglong said angrily.

In the next few days, I was anxious day by day, and after waiting for a few days, I didn't get the news that the three princes of Yanwangfu had been released, so I finally let go of all my suspicions and rushed to Xu's mansion.

I haven't seen Xu Huizu for a long time, and he has never looked for me in the future, I always thought that he almost died because of Jiuniang's secret report that I was sent to prison, I was embarrassed to see me, in order to avoid his embarrassment, I also avoided never going to him. Now that I'm at his house, I know that the reason is not so simple.

He was reluctant to get married that day, and in the past few years, Xu is Jiuniang has been enveloped in many ways, Xu is Xu Huizu has no woman to take care of him for a long time, and he is easy to be impressed, and now he and Jiuniang have a very strong relationship. When I arrived at Xu's Mansion, they and his wife came to receive me together, but I had nothing to say to Xu Huizu, and I didn't have a chance.

Jiu Niang's eyes have been staring at me since they saw me, they added a child at the beginning of this year, I heard about it, but I didn't come to congratulate me.

"Miss An is here today, but what do you have to order?"

Jiu Niang was so polite, I had to say, "I heard that the virtuous couple has a new young master, and they have not come to visit, and they have to ......be free today."

"Jiu Niang, you go to the nurse's room and bring the child to Aunt Helian to see." Without waiting for my words to finish, Xu Huizu smiled gently at Jiu Niang, Jiu Niang didn't expect her husband to think of such a way to break her away, looked at me, and had to smile reluctantly, "Okay, the child just drank milk, and I don't know if he slept or not." With that, he took a maid and walked out.

Xu Huizu saw that there was no one in the house, so he said, "You are here for a few princes, right?" ”

Seeing that he was so straightforward, I also got straight to the point, "Does Gongzi Xu want to help the emperor coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes?" ”

Xu Huizu's expression was a little nervous, and he looked out, "Helian, you can talk about this metaphor here with me, but you should be cautious when you go out!" The Son of Heaven is already sitting on the throne of the emperor, and I am holding only a few sons hostage. ”

"You also admit that you are hijacking?"

Xu Huizu was asked by me, his face turned red, "Those are my nephews, can I treat them badly?" In my case, I am also free to move. ”

"Then let me ask, can a few princes step out of the Xu Mansion?"

Xu Huizu was silent for a long time before he said, "I don't have a way to order the emperor." Don't think I'm intentional, even I'm still thinking about how to tell my sister. You have been close to Li Jinglong in the past few years, don't you know that he also ran the king of Zhou? He and I are both under the command of others, and we cannot do it ourselves. ”

"I didn't expect you to become so fast." I looked at him a little sadly, and could no longer say anything, as if I could not find any help from him, so I got up and took my leave, "Madame Ling has some prejudices against me, so I will not stay with you for long, lest you two quarrel for me behind closed doors." ”

When Xu Huizu heard my words, his face was even more ugly, "Helian...... The incident in the past was something that Jiu Niang did wrong. I'll accompany you for her. ”

I turned around and smiled at him, "The past has done a lot about it. ”

Out of Xu Huizu's courtyard, I walked out. Not long after I was leaving, I suddenly heard someone calling me behind me, and when I looked back, it was Zhu Gaoxu! I hurriedly walked up to him, "Shizi, are you okay here?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu's face was full of anger, "A person who has lost his freedom, can he still say a good word?" ”

I looked around, but there was no one, so I hurriedly pulled him aside and said in a low voice, "Shizi, don't worry, I came here for your business, you tell me, where do you live, I will come to you at night." ”

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he pointed to a small courtyard in the distance, "That's it, Mr. must think of a way to save me, even if there is really no way, please also tell my father the situation of our three brothers, and ask him to come and save us." ”

I nodded, "Go back quickly, don't get noticed." ”

Zhu Gaoxu is a smart person, hearing me say this, he dodged and left, I went straight to the gate of Xu's mansion, silently remembered the road inside, and turned around outside the mansion before returning to Huamanlou. Xu Huizu's words are true, he just put the three sons in his own mansion, as if he took his sister's three children on vacation, and he really did not restrict the children's freedom in the Xu Mansion, but the problem is that he can't control it outside the Xu Mansion.

Outside the courtyard of the Xu Mansion, at each checkpoint, there were newly established Jinyi guards and the Imperial Forest Army walking around, obviously guarding the three Zhu Gaoxu brothers. Zhu Yunwen didn't want to do things perfectly, he just looked at them, and he didn't detract from their lives, and he couldn't get any infamy.

I thought about ideas all night, but in the end I didn't think of any good ideas, so I had to fight hard to see what the providence was.

I know Jin Yiwei's routine very well, but I don't know that now that the commander has changed, they still don't act according to the previous rules, no matter what, I always have to rescue those children, which can be regarded as repaying Zhu Di's life-saving grace.

In the middle of the night, I was dressed in black, wandering around the Xu Mansion, and sure enough, when the Jinyi Guard was changing shifts, I spotted a loophole, got into the Xu Mansion, and slowly found Zhu Gaoxu's location