Chapter 50: Zongren's Mansion!

"Father, are you alright?" the man asked, a little worried.

"I didn't ...... Affair. ”

The voice of the figure in the room sounded much weaker, hoarse and tired: "You go and check the messenger, these letters...... It won't be sent by Xia Qing's little girl, there must be someone else. ”

"Yes. ”

The man bowed his head respectfully and responded. Then, his eyes flickered, and he asked in a deep voice, "Father, 'that woman', what should we do?"

"Huh!"

Hearing this, the figure in the room sneered twice, and his voice was extremely cold, with a chill of sword killing: "My Zongren Mansion is responsible for supervising the world, and the remnants of the previous dynasty don't know whether they are alive or dead, and they have become queens when they infiltrate my Great Xia Harem! What do you say!"

"However, Your Majesty's side doesn't seem to be ......" The man lowered his head, revealing a cold aura on his body, and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and said in a deep voice.

Before the man could finish speaking, he heard the figure in the room continue: "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about it......

"Back then, when the first emperor asked the king who should be appointed as the prince, I recommended Your Majesty. However, this king also knows that His Majesty he ...... is a heartless person. ”

Hearing this, the man was silent, and seemed to acquiesce to this sentence.

"Father, there is one more thing. There is news from Qin Tianjian that there have been frequent changes in the heavens recently, and I am afraid that it will not be long before my Great Xia Dynasty will fall into an eventful autumn. ”

The man sighed deeply and continued expressionlessly, with a hint of powerlessness in his tone.

The voice fell, and the room was silent, and after a long time, a voice came out: "Your Majesty and the Third Duke know about this matter?"

"I already know. The man bent down and replied respectfully.

"Huai'er, my time is running out, and the Zongren Mansion will be in your hands in the future, and you have to be good to assist Your Majesty. ”

"Also, tell Your Majesty that aliens can be used, but they cannot be trusted, otherwise, they will be counterattacked!"

"I am Great Xia, and I can't take the old road of the Zhou Dynasty thousands of years ago......"

The voice of the figure in the room was very calm, but the man could see through the wall a pair of flickering eyes in the room, the gaze was like a knife cutting people, like a knife, cutting straight at the bone marrow, making people tremble.

When the man heard this, his face was expressionless, there was no sadness or joy on his face, he bowed down and clasped his fists and said, "Child, remember the teachings of my father. ”

"The Five Decays of Heaven and Man...... Ben Wang ...... After all, it is impossible to break the barrier of this heavenly martial arts...... Li Jiu kills ...... We've been fighting for the rest of our lives...... Eventually...... It's all come to this......"

There was a deep loneliness in the words of the figures in the room, and the last sentence seemed to exhaust all his strength.

......

East Palace, Prince's Mansion, Wude Palace.

Li Yiqi was lying in the wide chair, Han Li and Dong Xiong were also sitting cross-legged, guarding the side, and the three of them were on the side, setting up a pot of carbon fire. The carbon fire was blazing, dispelling the cold air in the main hall. Except for the cracking sound of charcoal being roasted by the fire, the hall was extremely silent, Li Yiqi was warming by roasting the fire in one hand, and holding the "Twelve Strategies" given to him by Lu Gong a month ago in the other, and he was fascinated.

Han Li and Dong Xiong looked at each other several times, both glancing at each other, and finally, Han Li smiled bitterly, got up and asked, "My lord, what is the matter with letting the two of us in?"

"Huh?!"

Li Yiqi was taken aback by this sudden call, and it took a moment to come back to his senses, patted his head, and said with a wry smile: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot about you......"

Hearing this, the two of them were both stunned, and just as they were about to speak, they heard Li Yiqi ask: "Two generals, you were both instructors of recruits at the beginning, have you ever taught the art of war?"

"The Art of War?"

The two glanced at each other, and they both saw a look of surprise in each other's gaze. Han Li lowered his head and replied respectfully, "Taught." ”

Dong Xiong didn't speak, but nodded silently.

Li Yiqi looked at the two of them, his eyes moved slightly, he handed the military book in his hand to the two of them, and asked, "Can the two generals help me solve my doubts?"

Hearing this, the hearts of the two shook slightly, but no one answered.

Seeing this scene, Li Yiqi raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at the two with bright eyes, and said with a smile: "The two generals ......"

However, both of them still kept their heads down, and neither dared to speak.

Li Yiqi was stunned, he knew that these two people were usually silent people, Dong Xiong was silent and basically didn't talk much, Han Li was better, but he basically asked and answered, and never talked much. It's just that this situation is the first time Li Yiqi has encountered it.

"Your Excellency...... Originally...... We took a battalion of recruits to the battlefield for trials, but because of tactical command errors, all the recruits of that battalion were wiped out......" After a long silence, someone finally spoke, and the person who spoke was not Han Li, but Dong Xiong on the side.

Dong Xiong's voice was very hoarse and bitter, and there was a sense of complexity in his tone that was extremely difficult to describe in words.

"I see. ”

Li Yiqi couldn't help but look different, he finally knew what the big mistake these two people had made at the beginning...... No wonder the two of them behaved so strangely before, it turned out that there was a knot here that could not be solved.

"A battalion of recruits...... That's 10,000 people!"

Li Yiqi couldn't help grinning, and sighed in his heart.

Although the two armies fought and casualties were inevitable, if it was a sacrifice caused by the mistake of the commander, it would be equivalent to a vain death, no wonder these two people would say that they were almost unable to gain a foothold in the army. This kind of big mistake is not an exaggeration......

"What's more, those people are just a bunch of recruits...... Compared with veterans, the death of recruits often attracts greater criticism, and it must have taken a lot of trouble for grandpa to suppress this matter. ”

Li Yiqi thought in his heart, hesitated for a while, came back to his senses, still looked at the two with a smile, and said slightly apologetically: "Don't mind the two generals, I didn't know about it beforehand......

"Childe is serious...... the two said in unison, they called Li Yiqi 'Childe' instead of 'adult', obviously still caring about Li Jiu's life-saving grace.

"Here, I don't really understand that some of the ideas in this book of war seem to be very different from those I have heard of before. ”

Li Yiqi smiled, still pointing to a sentence on the "Twelve Strategies", looked at the two of them, and said solemnly: "Please ask the two generals to help me guide me." ”

"My lord, don't embarrass us anymore, when it comes to the art of war, is there anyone stronger than Lord Hou in this world?" Han Li took the book of war, shook his head again and again, and said with a wry smile on his face.

In his opinion, Li Yiqi is entertaining the two of them, Li Jiu is known as the first person in the army, suppressing the southern border of Great Xia for 30 years, no barbarian can take a step beyond the thunder pool, which shows the majesty of his troops.

Li Yiqi let his world's first grandfather not ask for advice, but came to inquire about the two of them who had made a big mistake in the art of war, isn't this deliberately shabby...... Dong Xiong on the side also nodded slowly.

Hearing this, Li Yiqi was stunned for a moment, but soon understood what Han Li meant, and couldn't help but roll his eyes. He looked at Han Li and then at Dong Xiong, and said almost with a smile: "Two generals, it is difficult for me to leave the palace now, how can you let me go to Annan to ask my grandfather......

Hearing this, the two of them reacted, their faces were red, they only thought of the relationship between Li Yiqi and Li Jiu, but they subconsciously ignored the situation that there were only two generals around Li Yiqi. Thinking of this, Han Li also looked at the book "Twelve Strategies" with a straight face, and Dong Xiong also stared at the row of small characters that Li Yiqi had pointed at before.

"This ......"

After looking at it for a while, both of them gasped, and after glancing at each other, they both saw a trace of disbelief in each other's eyes.

"Childe, where did you get this book of war?" Han Li asked with a burning gaze on his face.

"Gift from an elder. Li Yiqi said, his eyebrows raised slightly, and he asked in a condensed voice, "Is there any problem?"

Han Li took a deep breath and said with an indignant expression, "This is simply nonsense, nonsense!"

"What!"

Hearing Han Li's words, Li Yiqi was also taken aback, Dong Xiong saw this, and coughed heavily beside him, Han Li suddenly shivered, and finally came back to his senses, his old face turned red, and he hurriedly said to Li Yiqi: "The last general is excited, forgive me." ”

"It's okay, General Han, please continue. At this time, Li Yiqi straightened up directly from the wide chair and put on a serious look.

Seeing this scene, Han Li breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Li Yiqi really wanted to ask for the art of war, so he no longer hid anything, and said, "Childe, I don't know who wrote this book of war, the way of using soldiers is simply a miracle among strangers. Since ancient times, there is a cloud in the art of war: 'The time is not as good as the place, and the place is not as good as the people', but in this book it is said that the time of the day is the most important, the location is secondary, and the people are the second, which is simply ......"

"Deviant. The taciturn Dong Xiong added on the side.

"You think it's weird, too. ”

Li Yiqi had a smile on his face, he touched the tip of his nose, and muttered in his heart how Lu Gong would give him such a strange military book in the first place. Although he didn't know much about the art of war, he still heard the twelve words 'the time is not as good as the place, and the place is not as good as the people'. And the art of war and tactics written in this book "Twelve Strategies" almost all violate the taboo of marching, and are full of loopholes, which simply completely reverses the content of all the military books written by everyone in the art of war. If it weren't for the fact that this book of war was given to him by Lu Gong, he would have always felt that something was strange, otherwise he would have thrown it away......

Han Li flipped through two more pages, couldn't help but shake his head again and again, handed the book back to Li Yiqi with a wry smile, and said, "Childe, if you want to practice the art of war, the last general suggests that you still read Hou Ye's "Military Politics", or the "Cloud Strategy" written by General Cui Shuangle back then, and the "Sixteen Articles of the Army" by Shen Ao'an, the Marquis of Huaiyin. ”

Li Yiqi took this heavy book of "Twelve Strategies", and was silent, he knew in his heart that the latter two characters mentioned by Han Li were both masters of the art of war of the Great Xia Dynasty who had passed away hundreds of years ago, and both of them were people with outstanding military achievements, and their influence in their era was no less than that of Li Jiu. As for the book "Military Administration", he is very familiar with it, in the Li Mansion, there is a copy in his bedroom, but he has never opened it.

"Two months later, the crown prince will be arranged to train in the army...... Li Yiqi lay back on the wide chair and muttered, as if he was talking to himself, as if he was talking to Han Li and Dong Xiong beside him.

Hearing this, the two glanced at each other, and exchanged words with each other in a whisper, and Han Li opened his mouth and said in a deep voice: "If Gongzi doesn't dislike it, the two of them are willing to follow Gongzi's side." ”

"I am willing to follow by my son's side. Dong Xiong also spoke, and said with a solemn face and a deep voice.

"That's what you're waiting for!"

Li Yiqi's eyes flickered, and he suddenly felt happy in his heart, stood up, saluted the two of them, and said with a straight face: "Thank you two generals, but the two generals misunderstood, you are not following me, but following His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"Yes. ”

"Yes. ”

In this regard, Han Li and Dong Xiong both lowered their heads, they were both fierce generals who rushed to kill on the battlefield, and they were not very good at polite words, so they could only say yes again and again.

The two didn't know that what Li Yiqi said at this time was all in his heart, when it came to the attainments of literature and Taoism, Li Yiqi recognized himself as crushing ninety percent of the Confucian scholars of the Great Xia Dynasty, but when it came to the attainments of the art of war...... As Shui Bo said at the beginning, if he made something wrong on the battlefield, the reputation of the nine generations of the Li family would be ruined by him alone. In two months, Li Yiqi didn't think that he could learn much about the art of war and tactics on paper, and he had experience in the prince's army, so let these two people give him more guidance.

The three of them talked for a while, and the prince Xia Qing also walked in from outside the door at this time, and he was drunk for more than an hour, close to noon, and the prince's face looked much better, but there was still a trace of worry between his eyebrows.

"Your Highness. ”

"Your Highness. ”

Seeing the prince come in, Han Li and Dong Xiong hurriedly got up and signaled to Li Yiqi, Li Yiqi nodded slightly, and then the two returned to stand guard outside the hall.

"What's going on with them?" Prince Xia Qing asked with a smile as he pointed at Han Li and Dong Xiong.

"It was cold, so I asked the two generals to come in to keep warm. Li Yiqi responded with a smile.

Xia Qing didn't have any doubts, greeted him casually, sat back in his seat, looked at Li Yiqi, and asked with a solemn face, "Is there any news of the queen mother?"

Hearing this, Li Yiqi's eyes flickered slightly, as if he was hesitating, and after a while, he nodded lightly and said, "No...... However, it can also be said that there is. ”

"What do you mean?!How is the queen mother?" Xia Qing heard this, his face changed slightly, he stood up, and asked urgently.

"Your Royal Highness, Weichen has ordered a total of six letters to be sent, but so far, the queen has not replied. Weichen guessed that the six letters must have been intercepted, and none of them fell into the hands of the queen. Li Yiqi's midnight-like dark eyes flickered slightly, and he said indifferently.

"Someone intercepted it, so bold!" Xia Qing took a deep breath, although he tried his best to endure it, the anger in his eyes still came out.

"Zongren's Mansion. Li Yiqi's eyes froze slightly, and he coldly spit out three words in his mouth.

Li Yiqi is such a smart person, it is not easy to accurately intercept the intelligence exchanges between the six dark lines between the Prince's Mansion and Kunning Palace in a short period of time, and the forces that can do this step are only one place in this imperial city, and that is the 'Zongren Mansion'!

"Shhhh

Hearing those three words, Xia Qing was stunned for a moment, and then gasped, like a frosted eggplant, and his anger was instantly extinguished.

Others don't know what the Zongren Mansion is, but he does.

On the surface, the Zongren Mansion was the institution that managed the affairs of the royal clan of Great Xia, in charge of the clan register of the clansmen of the Xia Dynasty, compiling jade on time, and recording a series of matters related to the rituals, such as the descendants, names, titles, marriages, nicknames, and burials of the children of the clan. However, in fact, the Zongren Mansion was a place of punishment for the royal family and those who were close to the royal family.

In the capital, the princes and ministers, as long as it involves the three words 'Zongrenfu', all talk about the tiger color change and keep silent.

"Zongren's Mansion...... So what to do......"

No matter how bold Xia Qing was, he was also frightened at this moment.

Although he was sometimes a little willful, he had heard too much about the affairs of the Zongren Mansion in the palace. As the prince of Great Xia, no matter in front of anyone, he can walk sideways, but the Zongren Mansion, he must not enter. That is the natural enemy of their royal children, there is no entry and no exit.

According to legend, the eyes and ears of the Zongren Mansion were all over the imperial city. In that year, Emperor Xia's eldest son had an accident when he was training in the army, and everyone in the world thought that the second prince would ascend to the throne of the prince. But no one expected that the second prince would have a relationship with a palace maid in the summer palace, and the palace maid was discovered by the Zongren Mansion after secretly marrying a bead. Emperor Xia asked the Zongren Mansion to deal with it according to the law, so the second prince was dragged into the cold dark prison of the Zongren Mansion, and finally disappeared forever without seeing anyone alive or dead......

And the key evidence against the second prince is the dozens of letters he secretly exchanged with the palace maid.

Those letters, according to what the palace maid said before she was executed, had been burned after the two of them read it, and they wrote one by one and burned one by one, leaving no traces.

On the day of the sentencing, the Zongren Mansion took out more than a dozen letters by some means, which actually contained exactly the same content when the two communicated, and even the handwriting of the two was the same, so that the palace maid completely collapsed at that time, and the second prince was dumbfounded.

After the matter of the second prince was revealed, the royal disciples of Xia Qing's generation deeply understood the energy and terrifyingness of the Zongren Mansion, such as the strong royal disciples of the third prince who was resolute in the current dynasty, before he ascended the throne, he still needed to bow his head in front of the Zongren Mansion, not to mention Xia Qing.

Although Xia Qing is the crown prince, his mind is firm, and he is too far behind the three princes, and when he heard the three words of Zongrenfu, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time with fear in his heart at this time.

"Your Highness. ”

A hint of helplessness flashed in Li Yiqi's eyes, paused, and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, all the pieces intercepted by the Zongren Mansion are blank papers, and there is nothing on them. ”

Li Yiqi also heard about the second prince's involvement in the harem back then, so he kept an eye on it at that time.

In his opinion, the Zongren Mansion just used an extremely powerful intelligence network to control the correspondence in the palace, and it is likely that every letter sent to the palace, or a letter sent from the palace, can be found in the Zongren Mansion corresponding to the record, and this kind of record, with the tacit consent of several generations of Xia Emperors, may also retain the content of the letterhead. Or, it is possible that the Soren Mansion found some skilful clerks and asked them to imitate the writer's notes, and then completely rubbed the originals......

In fact, there is no big problem with the Zongren Mansion's approach, in order to protect the majesty of the royal family, a certain degree of monitoring is necessary, and in normal times, the Zongren Mansion is basically a shadow institution, unless the evidence is conclusive, otherwise the Zongren Mansion will not easily attack a royal child.

The letters are not mixed with disobedient words, do not violate the laws of the royal family, and the Zongren Mansion has no way to take a royal disciple who abides by the rules.