In the late autumn of this year, the two brothers of Ihyangin both embarked on a journey. Ge Qiao is also gone, and Panlong Mountain is very close; Wu You has traveled thousands of miles here. Everyone was a little reluctant and a little excited. The journey of thousands of miles begins with a single step, and those in the past were just preparations. Now someone has finally taken the first step.

Seeing that it was November, good news came from the palace that Xie Guiren had already given birth to the seventh son of the emperor. The Dingcheng Marquis Mansion gave a very generous gift to the Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Yu was inexplicable, so he called Jia Cong to come over and ask: "Are you making trouble again?" ”

Jia Cong was stunned for a long time, trying to recall what he had said to Xie Whale that day, and he really couldn't remember anything to do with the seventh son of the emperor, and frowned: "When I first returned to Beijing, Xie Whale came to ask me to help me think about where his third brother went. It's just that I didn't help with that, but I heard from Brother Xianwang that I did him and the saint each a favor. Helping the saint is probably to overturn Lord Zhou by mistake. There is really no dry relationship with the Xie family. ”

Jia Yu looked at the gift list and said annoyedly: "If they sent such a generous gift, wouldn't they have to work hard to return them?" ”

Jia Cong said: "What's more, if you love it, you can send it." Dad, take it all, whatever he wants. ”

Jia Yu glared at him and said, "What do you know?" Accepting such a heavy gift from others for no reason has become someone currying favor with us for the Seventh Prince. Since our family has accepted it, didn't we promise to help the Seven Princes? ”

Jia Cong snorted: "The gift was given by him, why did we promise anything?" If we say what we promised, show evidence! The unspoken rules are not recognized! ”

Jia Yu said: "Who cares if you recognize it or not, others are afraid that they will mistakenly think that we recognize it." ”

Jia Cong smiled: "Dad, don't worry, no, not soon." ”

Jia Yu is also a person who likes to be cheap, and when he heard him be generous, he really didn't give the city marquis mansion a return gift.

Because Jia Yu had no dealings with the princes, but Jia Cong Monkey King met Zhu Zi of the Manchu Dynasty for a while, and within two days, someone came to find out what they had helped the Xie family, how to attract people to give such a big gift, and the carriage and horses that gave the gift were mighty and long. Jia Cong said: "I asked my father about it, and he said that our two families have ordinary dealings, probably because the Xie family got the wrong letter and Xie was the wrong person." We didn't ask them to send it, they sent it themselves. Hahaha...... "There are rules for coming and going between Beijing, who has ever seen a second son like Jia Yu?" Others laughed when they heard it. Some people who were worried inquired about it, and sure enough, the two of them didn't have much friendship, so they were relieved.

On this day, Jia Cong was idlely muttering, "I don't know if Brother Feng may come back a year ago", suddenly someone sent a letter, and someone flew into the city and went straight to the palace, pulling the guards guarding the door to just say "King Xian fell into the hands of thieves" and fainted, it was Feng Ziying! Jia Cong was frightened and stood up: "Hurry up!" Go to Lin's house. ”

The three brothers hurried to the Lin Mansion, and waited until the moon was over the treetops and Lin Hai before returning, full of exhaustion. I wasn't surprised to see a few disciples, I just sat down and rested for a while, drank a cup of tea, and said with a wry smile: "Don't look at me, how can you hairy children know about the major affairs of the court at will." ”

Jia Cong said: "You only said that Xu Hong is not dead. Lin Hai glanced at him, and he said again, "Since Second Brother Yang said that he had been ordered to assassinate you, we have guessed that he has a bad heart. ”

Lin Hai paused for a moment and said, "It's dead." ”

Jia Cong frowned and said: "The trees are falling and scattered, Xu Hong is dead, who will lead the others?" His son? ”

Lin Hai nodded and said, "Xu Hong's second son, Xu Su." ”

Jia Huan sighed: "Did his eldest son agree?" Or have you already had a fight at home? ”

Lin Hai shook his head and said, "I don't know." Feng Ziying and King Xian are not all the way......" He suddenly stopped his mouth and waved his hand, "You don't ask nonsense. ”

Jia Cong said: "Here we go again." We are all your students, Zi said, do disciples obey their work? ”

Lin Haidao: "There are too many secrets in it, and it is inconvenient to tell you." ”

Jia Cong saw that the old man was stubborn, so he had to say: "We don't want to know the secret, is Brother Xianwang alive?" Do they want to take him out of anger and slaughter the sacrifice, or do they want to take him as a hostage and negotiate with the court? Or did he find out the real evidence of the other person? Will the Xu family kill the witnesses in order to get rid of them? ”

Seeing that they were asking more and more, Lin Hai simply waved them away: "Don't inquire about that much, it's none of your business." Then he refused to say anything more.

The next day, Jia Cong went to Feng's house to inquire again, Feng Ziying rested all night and eased up a little, her face was still ugly, but she refused to give him half a word. and went to the prince's place, I learned a little more.

It turned out that Xu Hong, the general soldier of Jiangxi, was obsessed with a widow who went to Jiangxi from Beijing to sell tea a few days ago. In the evening of the same day, he threw off his entourage and had a private meeting with the widow on the lake alone, and then anchored on the island in the middle of the lake. The attendants watched from afar, thinking that they had done a good thing, so they only found a fisherman's house by the lake to spend the night. I thought I would see them and my new aunt on the boat the next day, but I didn't want to wait until noon to see no one. At first they laughed and talked about "* the bitter short", but when it was getting late and no one returned, Fang was a little suspicious, and hurriedly called the fishermen to get a boat to rock them - but there was no one on the boat. They searched everywhere, but they did not see Xu Hong or the widow. It wasn't until three days later that Xu Hong's body floated out of the lake and was killed by a knife in the chest. No need to ask, it must have been the widow who did it.

The Xu family then closed Yuzhang City and searched the city. Coincidentally, Situ Pan went to Jiangxi to investigate Xu Hong's rebellion, but no one knew about it; He went to Beijing again, which became more and more eye-catching. Although the Xu family did not find the widow who sold tea, they did find him.

Feng Ziying, who was originally in another inn, also fooled the search. Someone on the side of the street was shouting, "Take the spy", he stretched out his head to see that it was Situ Pan, and was surprised, so he wanted to inquire, and someone reported that there was a person from Yijing here who was very suspicious. Fearing that he himself would fall into the hands of others, he fled in hasten.

Jia Cong told his military advisers about this, and everyone was full of doubts. Gong Kun glanced at Liu Feng.

Liu Fengnai said: "This matter is extremely strange. The first thing, how noble is the body of the virtuous king's daughter, why should I go to Jiangxi to visit? He is not without capable people. The second thing, the widow is obviously the shopkeeper of Qin Sangu Qin in the west of the city. She and King Xian were all the way. Do they want to collect evidence of Xu Hong so that they can openly investigate him, or do they want to stab him to death directly as a rebel and thief, and then slowly deal with his shrimp soldiers and crab generals? Since Qin Sangu made a move, it is obvious that there is no need for evidence. Then King Xian, Feng Ziying, and Qin Sangu should flee together. In addition, since Qin Sangu has escaped, where are the people? Jiangxi is so far away from the capital, King Xian fell into the hands of traitors, Feng Ziying should ask the officials of the neighboring provinces for help, why did he come all the way back to Beijing? ”

Jia Huan said: "About Qin Sangu stayed in the south and asked for help from the neighboring provinces. ”

Liu Feng said: "Qin Sangu is a woman after all, and her identity outside is still a widow in the market. Although Feng Ziying obviously has no important official position on his face, his son is Feng Tang. Qin Sangu returned to Beijing to report the news, and Feng Ziying asked for help, so it was appropriate. ”

Wu Xiaoxi said: "Most of the local officials in the south are in the hands of the kings, and they may not be willing to rescue the virtuous king with their hearts. In her early years, Qin Sangu used the name of a bodyguard to escort Lord Lin Hai back to Yangzhou, and walked all the way with Tan Ying, the current Yangzhou Salt Patrol Emperor, who was also a saint's confidant. Xu was they who went to Tan Ying for help. ”

Mi'er frowned and said, "It's awkward." What Xiaoxi said sounded like an excuse to me, too reluctant. ”

Liu Feng couldn't help but hit the case: "Yes, it's an excuse!" He hurriedly said to everyone, "I thought about it for a long time, but I really couldn't find a reason to keep Qin Sangu in Jiangnan and send Feng Ziying to Beijing." What Xiaoxi said just now is an excuse, and it was not easy to find out. I'm afraid that it is not so simple for King Xian to be caught. ”

Gong Kun stood up, walked around the room a few times, and suddenly asked: "Third master, last time you said that you went to the mansion of the sixth prince to talk, and there was a gap between the sage and the virtuous king?" ”

Jia Cong nodded: "I don't know which prince's handwriting, I look at the appearance of the sixth prince horizontally, there should be one." ”

Gong Kunxi said: "There is really a gap. The Nine Princes are as careful as a hair, and they must be aware of it and begin to protect themselves. It's just that he has never had his own power and wholeheartedly assisted the saint to get to his current status; He wanted to protect himself, so he had to start from scratch. It takes time to start from scratch, how many years can the old saint live? He only started at this time, and he couldn't catch up with the prince next to him. Only black eats black is the fastest. This time when he went back to Jiangxi, he went to seek those things in Xu Hong's hands. ”

The crowd gasped.

"Xu Hong has money and private soldiers, and there are not a few. I don't know how he can swallow it privately. Gong Kun was so happy that he walked around the room, "Situ Pan, I already saw that he was ambitious!" ”

Jia Cong glanced at him: "Do you two know each other?" ”

Gong Kun was stunned: "I don't know!" ”

Jia Huan also glanced at him: "Obviously, I know." ”

Gong Kun said: "I really don't know. Nai waved his hand, "Don't talk about irrelevant things." Judging from this matter, Feng Ziying doesn't care, Qin Sangu has probably been pried away from the sage by him! ”

Jia Cong couldn't help but "oops": "I knew he would pry, why don't I pry!" ”

Gong Kun said: "You don't have anything in your hands, and you want to pry people from the hands of the saints for no reason?" She and Liu Xianglian are not the same thing. Situ Pan has been in charge of the spies in the hands of the saint for many years, and he is her old boss. ”

Jia Cong wilted and held his cheeks: "That's it, we can also cooperate with Situ Pan to win over a person who can be wooed." ”

And then a few more days passed. There was a lot of discussion about who to send to save King Xian and how to save him, but he couldn't come up with a useful way.

Lin Hai and Situ Pan had a very close personal relationship, and he couldn't wait any longer, so he said to the sage: "I have to ask someone to find out what the Xu family wants." ”

The sage sighed, "I'm also waiting for the letter. ”

A few days later, seeing that the New Year is coming, there is finally news coming. The Xu family, headed by Xu Hong's second son Xu Su, was already reversed, and took the life of the virtuous king Situ Pan to ask the court for a ransom of one million taels. Naturally, the saint could not agree, and consulted with the old saint on how to respond.

The old sage thought that Xu Hong was just dying in a romantic affair, and he would have no objection; It must have been Situ Pan who did something inappropriate and scared the Xu family, so people rebelled. So he ordered to find a proper person to recruit the Xu family and the generals of Jiangxi. The sage held the account book given by Lin Hai and argued for a long time, but the old sage couldn't hear half a word. Lin Hai repeatedly begged the sage to try to save the virtuous king, and the sage sighed: "I have cited many people, but the old man will not agree. They don't dare to look at Lao Jiu, and look at it after the New Year. As soon as Lin Hai stepped out of the Daming Palace, his whole heart was cold.

The virtuous king was held in the hands of the traitor, and the court was safe. Someone secretly said in the teahouse restaurant: "Who said that King Xian is the pillar of the country? It's no different without him. ”

The mansions of the princes in Beijing have been purchased for New Year's affairs, and the exchange of drama and wine is very lively. This year, the items given to Rongguo Mansion in the palace are also as exquisite as in previous years, among which there is an ornament from Jingdezhen, which is said to be a blue-and-white dinosaur imitated according to the pattern of the Ming Dynasty. Jia Cong laughed when he saw it, and actually made the fake into a tribute, and he didn't know how to meet Jiangning's mother-in-law hundreds of years later.

Since the virtuous king is not there, there are many people in their house. However, Lin Hai and Jia Cong's master and apprentice often went for a walk and said a few words of comfort to Situ Pan's son. Jia Cong saw that although the prince Situ Yue was silent, his eyebrows were tightly locked, and he knew that Situ Pan was the kind of master who even hid from his own people. Because when Lin Hai went to Gong, he whispered in the ear of the prince: "The prince will inevitably turn evil into good fortune and become auspicious in trouble." I am not saying this to comfort you, but to sue you. The prince had already heard the rumors of Jia Cong's "good wealth boy", and when he heard him say so categorically, he couldn't help but raise his eyes in surprise. Jia Cong put his finger on his lips and "shh Shizi nodded repeatedly.

It was not until the fifteenth day of the first month that it was agreed that Shi Laofu, the left emperor of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court, was ordered to go to Jiangxi to recruit Xu Su to rescue King Xian, and the Shenwu general Feng Tang led the Imperial Forest Army to escort him all the way.

Jia Cong's eyes suddenly remembered Lao Fu and that old face, and he didn't know what to say, so he said to Jia Yu: "Is the saint trying to pit King Xian to death?" ”

Jia Yu said: "Lao Fuhe is just a disguise, what matters is Feng Tang." ”

Jia Cong sighed: "The saint can't be counted on at all, if Brother Xianwang wants to get out, he can only save himself." ”

Thinking that this matter was eighty percent of Situ Pan's own trick, Jia Cong couldn't suppress the joy of watching the excitement. I really don't know how he plans to get Xu Hong's men and horses.

He returned to Lixiangyuan lightly, and called someone to get more snacks to wait for Lao Fu and Feng Tang to come back to listen to the commentary, and a holy decree came down.

Because he was afraid that he was old, inarticulate, and a little pedantic, he could not bear this responsibility, so he asked the sage for someone to help him. This person is loyal to the saint, and can speak exquisitely, is a subordinate he greatly appreciated when he was a scholar in the household department, and is now transferred to the deputy envoy of the general envoy Jia Lian. The saint didn't recognize Jia Lian, but Jia Lian's 800,000 taels of silver were really pleasing to people, so he agreed.

Poor Jia Lian just got off the yamen, and when he returned to his courtyard, he only hugged Jia Xiaomeng for a moment before he was called out to receive the order, and he didn't know when he would come back. Jia Cong, the bear child of the Red Mansion

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Chapter 152 of the text.

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