The palace sedan chair stopped at Nanhua Gate, and Jiang Chen was led into the palace by the eunuch. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The vermilion palace wall winds straight down, the palace corridor is deep, there is no end in sight, the light gray marble paves the ground, the glazed tiles decorate the eaves of the pavilion, the whole palace looks majestic and magnificent, but it is more solemn and depressing.

It's still the way it used to be, the way he remembers.

This was the path he took when he was sent out of the palace at the age of six, when his mother was framed by a traitor and had to commit suicide in order to save him, and then he swore that he would come back, and he would come back and end it all with his own hands!

The corners of Jiang Chen's mouth lifted a rather cold arc, looking at this palace deeply, the vast palace: From today on, it is the beginning of the real bloody rain.

The eunuch led Jiang Chen all the way to the Yongle Hall where the Queen Mother lived, at this time there were already more than a dozen vassal kings and royal relatives waiting in front of the palace gate, and the leader was a man about twenty-five years old, wearing a double dragon laurel crown, wearing a black python robe, and a man engraved with the word "Yue" glazed jade pendant around his waist, he was quite tall, and his temperament was arrogant, although his eyebrows were handsome, but his eyes always exuded a compelling arrogance. It is the prince of Tianyong Kingdom, the queen's sister-in-law, Jiang Yue. It is also the mastermind behind the plot to assassinate Jiang Chen at the foot of the vast mountain.

Standing side by side with the prince is the hottest at the moment, the son of Concubine De, who is almost as powerful as the prince, Jiang Shang, the king of the south, he is wearing a red court dress, wearing an eight-treasure glazed jade crown, tall and strong, with a soft face, elegant bearing, and a virtuous and peaceful faction.

Nanwang Jiang Shang has been deeply liked by the emperor since he was a child, and he has both talent and learning, wisdom and bravery, different from the prince's arrogance and coldness, he has always been benevolent and filial piety, and quite talented, known as the "virtuous king" reputation, so the emperor has kept him in the court, and his relatives are important ministers in the court, his grandfather served as the second rank of the military department of the squire, his uncle served as the commander of the third rank of the imperial forest army, he himself is also the second grade of the Ministry of Justice, Kyoto Nine Gates, and the president of the Central Council. Therefore, his power in the court can be described as overwhelming, second only to the crown prince of the current dynasty.

Under it is the son of Xu Meiren, Huai Wang Jiang Ming, about twenty-three years old, because of the appearance and temperament of the most like the emperor, so it is the most popular among all the princes, his fief is closest to Kyoto, and is second only to the imperial capital of the first-class big city - Mingcheng, in addition to the prince, after the king of the south, the highest status of the princes.

When everyone saw Jiang Chen coming, most of them looked at him blankly, but only the above three people all looked at him with a cold face.

Jiang Chen was divided out of the palace at the age of six, and he was the youngest feudal king in history. Although nominally a feud, in reality he was not so much deported, because he was held to a fief by the Praetorian Guard. And there is only one maid baby Ning who is traveling with you. His fief is called Yecheng, which is thousands of miles away from the imperial capital, although it is also a city, but the economy is not as good as the suburbs of Shenjing, which can be described as a poor countryside, poor mountains and bad waters.

The Praetorian Guards escorted Jiang Chen to his destination and then returned, and after fifteen years, Jiang Chen's situation was unattended, so most of the royal family did not know that there was such a person as Jiang Chen.

If it weren't for the emperor's fiftieth birthday more than a month ago, Jiang Chen suddenly sent someone to pay a tribute of 100,000 taels of gold to celebrate His Majesty's birthday as a vassal king, and everyone forgot that there was also this prince, who was shocked by heaven since birth, and was praised by hundreds of officials as an emperor, and was crowned king at the age of six.

The emperor finally remembered Jiang Chen, and was shocked by his sudden extravagant spending, he sent someone to investigate Jiang Chen's situation in Yecheng, and it was this investigation that made him quite frightened.

Today's Yecheng has become a first-class city after the imperial capital. And Yecheng handed over as much as 50,000 taels of official silver every year, according to the accounts, Yecheng's per capita income a year is as high as 50,000 taels, far exceeding the 20 taels of Dijing. It is praised by the outside world as the real "Golden Cave", and it is a big city worthy of the name of rich and oily.

And Jiang Chen, as the lord of a city there, is naturally unparalleled in money and wealth.

What is commendable is that Yecheng's annual criminal rate is also the lowest in the country. Whether it is the economy or people's livelihood, it is far more than other big cities.

From the surface of various data, Jiang Chen managed Yecheng very well, so it is no wonder that he was able to pay him a tribute of 100,000 taels at once.

Such an achievement, such a skill, has made him ignore it so far.

The emperor also saw a clue from this: it seems that someone in the court deliberately asked him to ignore Jiang Chen, and the purpose is self-evident, not wanting such a talented and strategic person to stand in his way.

However, making the best use of things is the emperor's consistent style.

Since then, the emperor has the idea of recruiting Jiang Chen back to the imperial capital, but he is suffering from no time, and a month later, the queen mother's condition suddenly deteriorated, and he finally had the opportunity to summon Jiang Chen to Beijing.

In the face of everyone's doubts, Jiang Chen didn't say anything, his eyes stayed on the glazed jade pendant tied around the prince's waist, and a gloomy flash flashed in his eyes, the prince, the king of the south, and even the king of Huai all showed hostility towards Jiang Chen.

Needless to say, the crown prince has suppressed Jiang Chen's intelligence for so many years, causing the emperor to know nothing about Jiang Chen, but the prince himself is very aware of Jiang Chen's details, and there is such an extremely dangerous person, so he naturally wants to get rid of him quickly.

Jiang Shang, the king of the south, has a lot of eyeliner in the court, although he didn't know anything about Jiang Chen in the past, but since Jiang Chen's amazing behavior at the birthday banquet, he also secretly investigated this person, and inadvertently discovered a secret matter fifteen years ago, a "palace rebellion" jointly planned by the queen, her mother, and Xu Meiren and other important ministers in the court, the purpose is to get rid of the concubine and Jiang Chen.

That time did shake the government and the opposition, but in the end he still failed to kill Jiang Chen.

This time Jiang Chen made a comeback with great fanfare, and he had to be wary of whether he had a heart of revenge.

As for Jiang Ming, the king of Huai, the reason why he didn't like Jiang Chen was simple and clear, just because the emperor who had always liked him compared Jiang Chen with him for the first time, so as to show his various incompetences and inaction, so that he who had always been arrogant was naturally not angry, so before others arrived in the capital, he had already hated Jiang Chen.

The three extremely tall princes all showed isolation to Jiang Chen at the same time, which made the royal family relatives who didn't know Jiang Chen a little confused, but they were extremely smart and avoided Jiang Chen, for fear that one would be regarded as the same party as Jiang Chen by the prince and others if he was not careful.

There was only one extremely beautiful woman in the field who was still standing in place, looking at Jiang Chen without hesitation.

She is wearing a palace dress, green willow eyebrows, apricot eyes with spring, as clever as a qiong nose, lips with cinnabar, white skin and beautiful appearance, slender figure, what is even more rare is that elegant and virtuous, indifferent and noble temperament, gratuitous makes people's hearts warm, even if there is a great anger, it is estimated that it will disappear immediately.

This woman's name is Shen Bichen, the adopted granddaughter of Shen Xingzhou, a scholar of the cabinet, and the niece of the queen.

Shen Bichen didn't know Jiang Chen, and today's first meeting made her have a different understanding of her previous cognition, and among the people she had seen in the past, no one could compare with her. Shen Bichen couldn't help but look at it a few more times, Jiang Chen seemed to be aware of it, and his eyes fell on her.

Shen Bichen only felt that the narrow phoenix eyes were full of brilliance, she was flustered, his indifferent expression at this time was completely different from the others, she forgot to salute for a while, and when she reacted, Jiang Chen had already turned her head.

At this time, a eunuch came out of the Yongle Hall and announced that the imperial doctor had completed the diagnosis and treatment, and everyone could enter the hall to accompany them.

At that moment, there was no one to wander, so he closed his breath and entered the temple in turn.