Zhang Tianshi did not go to the capital first, but escorted the team of Shu smugglers and thieves of well salt back to Beijing first.

No one knew what the criminals of the smuggler of well salt had to travel thousands of miles to Beijing instead of dealing with them on the spot, and only escorted the accomplices back to Beijing. However, Da Chu is very good at catching private salt and private money, and if the situation is very bad, it is also possible to go directly to Dali Temple to be tried in Beijing.

Only Li Mao knew that the team escorted into Beijing was not for the sake of the smuggler salt dealers, but to protect the families of several traitors in the team. "Ghost Face" Ma Xing once proposed to rescue his mother and younger brother to completely submit to the imperial court, and rescuing the families of other Yin Dynasty traitors was also to better rebel in the future.

Ghost Face has been living in the Li family's torture room for so long, but Li Mao has not treated him badly, except that he can't go out of the door of the small room, and his food and housing are not bad. Ghost Face has been killing people and training people to kill people for most of his life, and he has had a peaceful life for more than a month.

And today, it is the day when Ghost Face is accepted into the palace by the guards. The dark spots inside and outside the capital have been pulled out, and his younger brother and mother have been escorted into the capital. The deal was established, and the Emperor needed his information.

Li Mao took leave of absence today, and returned to his house with a jade pendant given to him by Ma Fu and a few plainclothes forbidden soldiers.

The guards who came this time had an old relationship with the Li family, and in order to show respect, they did not follow directly into the torture room to pick up people, but waited outside the torture room for the Li family to take him away.

When Li Mao entered, Ghost Face was practicing boxing. He is in his thirties this year, with knotted muscles, and a punch can kill a strong man, so far Li Mao does not dare to talk to him without talking to him through the prison door.

He's just cowardly. In case he breaks out and kills people, and puts him down with one move, where will he cry when he is old and young?

"Ma Xing. Your brother and your mother have already entered Beijing. Now they are all in the palace. Li Mao took the jade pendant and handed it to him through the door, "This is a token given to us by Ma Fu, you can see if it is his." ”

Ghost Face was already pleasantly surprised when he saw the jade pendant, and when he heard that his mother and younger brother had regained their freedom, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Li Mao.

"Li Guogong, I didn't expect that there would be such a trustworthy magnate in this world. I've been coerced and used for half of my life, and I never thought that there would be a time for my family to be reunited. Li Gong's great kindness, in the next life to form a grass ring to repay! ”

"Don't talk about the afterlife, no one can tell you about the afterlife. You have countless lives and great sins, and I don't approve of sparing you. But His Majesty is a wise man, and he thinks that he wants to give you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions and be a new person. In order to repay the king's kindness, I advise you to say all the things that know the Tao, the turmoil in the country, the most bitter people are the people, you say more now, there will be fewer deaths in the future, and it can be regarded as atonement. ”

Li Maozhi said that this was the last time he saw this "ghost face", so he couldn't help but say more. "There is no sin in your brother, and His Majesty intends to set him and your mother free. I may propose to His Majesty that you recommend your brother to study in the Guozijian, for he deserves preferential treatment after he is a general of the Dangkou. Although you have gone astray and there is no turning back, if your younger brother can continue to study, he may not be able to become a talented person and prosper his family, isn't it much better than rebellion? ”

Both the former emperor and the present emperor highly admired the general Ma Hua. It is really embarrassing that his descendants have reached this point. A generation of heroes first died at the hands of villains, and later generations were coerced and used by their loyal masters to become killing machines, ambition is simply poison, making the conscience of countless people fester.

Ghost Face didn't know that his family could still get this creation, and he kowtowed a few times at the moment, so shocked that Li Mao stepped aside.

"Don't knock again, when you meet the saint, your forehead is full of red marks, how can I explain it?" Li Mao almost didn't jump to his feet, "Ghost Face, I'm kind enough to help you, don't hurt me!" ”

Ghost Face couldn't help but chuckle at once, and then laughed again.

"Ha Lu Ha, Ha Ha

The cell was full of ghostly laughter, he had broken free from the shackles of many years, and he could finally indulge in a smile, even if he was dead now, he could smile at Jiuquan.

Li Mao was a little embarrassed by his laughter, and when he thought about it again, he also felt funny, and shook his head and laughed.

Ghost Face stood up and arched his hand at Li Mao.

"Li Guogong, you are a good person, my whole family has received your great favor this time, and I will tell you a secret." The ghost face looked at the general behind Li Guogong, "Can you let it go?" ”

Li Mao looked at the eyes of the ghost face seriously, and found that there was no deceit, so he asked the generals to wait at the door first, but he was not close to the cage, so he said to the ghost face a few steps away from the iron door:

"What do you have to say? I'm listening. ”

"What is said below is incredible, and you should remember it by heart after you have heard it, and do not pass it on to others. I won't confide in the emperor about this matter, but if other insiders can't stand the punishment or are coerced into telling the matter with their families, Li Guogong should not think that I have revealed it. ”

Li Mao was so embarrassed by Ma Xing's trickery that he shook his head and signaled that the ghost face could speak.

"This matter is related to a secret ......"

In the last years of the Yin Dynasty, the Hu people attacked Luoyang, the royal city fell, and most of the officials and people in Beijing ran away before the Hu army entered Gyeonggi.

Later, the descendants of Emperor Yin Ai were killed cleanly, and the Hu people were regarded as cutting the grass and removing the roots, but there is still one that survives in the world, that is, the five princes who were once succeeded by Emperor Ai to his uncle King Yan.

King Yan had countless wives and concubines, but his wife had no children, and the children born in the concubine were all fools, so he had to write a book to pray for the clan to pass the step-son to become the son. He originally thought that at most one son-in-law would be inherited from among his brothers, but as a result, Emperor Wai passed the fifth prince who was just ten years old to King Yan.

These five princes were born to a concubine who was favored in the past, but this concubine was not from a high background, and knew that her son had no chance to be on the throne, so she moved her mind and gave her son to King Yan as an heir. Although it is extremely difficult for the mother and son to meet again in the future, to become the future King of Yan, the status may not be below the other brothers.

Unexpectedly, under the protection of Yanzhou Iron Cavalry, this fifth prince became the only remaining bloodline of Emperor Mourning.

The loyal ministers and elite generals of the Yin Dynasty later gathered in Yanzhou and Youzhou, and after the counterattack failed, they escaped into the shadows and waited for the opportunity to move.

"When the Great Chu was founded, the descendants of the five princes were sent to the homes of many remnants of the previous dynasty. Zhang Jing of the Zhang family is not a descendant of the five princes, but a descendant of the concubine of the Yan Wang, and the old lady of the Zhang family, Zhang Tingyan, is actually the backbone of the restoration of the Yin Dynasty. ”

Ghost Face's words surprised Li Mao.

"What do you say? My sister-in-law is the queen of the former dynasty Yan Wang? "Li Mao never thought that there would be a phoenix dragon grandson in the family.

Well, that's not the point, the point is whether his sister-in-law knows the Tao herself? Yes, according to what the red lady said, she must know the truth. Who was the one who could coerce her in their house at that time? If she is really the royal family of the previous dynasty, who would dare to coerce her? Could it be that the descendants of the five princes are also hidden in their mansion?

"Not only that, Zhang Tingyan and Zhang Taishi may not be dead." Ghost Face's next words made Li Mao's heart jump even more.

"Zhang Tingyan is a fraud to death. Although I don't know where he is hiding, I have received information that other departments have received orders from him in recent years. Either he cheated to death, or someone received his seal and moved, and it was difficult for the latter to convince others, after all, the whole world knew that Taishi Zhang had died of illness. That can only be cheated to death. ”

“…… Did Zhang Jiazhi say this? Li Mao asked the ghost face.

"I don't know what to do." Ghost Face said honestly. "I used to be ordered by Zhang Jing, no, by Yin Jing. There is more than one descendant of the five princes, and it is not for me to know which families they were sent to. If you can find Zhang Tingyan, you can find these people if you want to come. ”

Ghostface now wants to catch all these people more than the Emperor. Only when they are completely free of threat, can people like them, who have been used for generations, truly feel at ease, not afraid of retaliation and extermination.

Li Mao listened to the words of the ghost face, and the big stone in his heart pressed even tighter. The sister-in-law is a royal family of the former dynasty, so what is Li Rui?

Even in order to keep his nephew, he couldn't let the emperor know the truth.

Li Mao arched his hand and thanked the ghost face sincerely: "Thank you Ma Zhuang for telling me the truth, if this is known by the Holy Lord in advance, my nephew will be in danger." In your opinion, who are the people in the world who still know these secrets? ”

"Zhang Jing committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake that year, and the person in charge of liaison with the Xinguo Mansion was kicked out of the mansion by your wife, and he didn't get a good end after he went back. The old part of the capital was scattered, and I was the only one who remained because I still had the dead soldiers on my hands. In order to protect the descendants of King Yan, they will not expose the identity of the eldest prince of your mansion. There are very few people who know about this matter, and even if they do, they will not confide in it. ”

The ghost face knew what Li Mao was worried about, so he could only let him think in the direction of Hao.

"That's all I say, Li Guogong, please take care."

Li Mao didn't know what kind of thoughts he had in mind to send the ghost face out of the road.

These remnants of the Yin Dynasty were so ruthless, and with one beautiful step, they directly sent a handle to the Xinguo Mansion that was enough to raid the family and exterminate the clan. It's ridiculous that he was still sparing no effort to fight the remnants of the Yin Dynasty before, hoping to bring them to justice and eliminate a catastrophe and invisibly......

But now, as things dig deeper and deeper, the truth of this fact is becoming more and more amazing.

They believed in the virtue and ability of the government of the country, which attracted the Quartet to hear the wind and move.

If it is said that the descendants of the five princes of the Yin Dynasty are hidden in the homes of the remnants of the previous dynasty, then most of the families in the court have held official positions in the Yin Dynasty, after all, the previous dynasty is different from the Great Chu, and the officials at that time were mainly recommended by the family.

If the Holy Lord knew the truth, then maybe the means of dealing with the world clan in the future would not be so gentle, at that time, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were his enemies, and it was possible to send troops to raid the family and exterminate the clan.

Why are these remnants willing to accept these former and future generations, aren't they afraid of causing trouble to their families?

Or is it that the influence of the previous dynasty is so amazing, and after so many years, there are still countless people looking forward to returning to the old days?

Yes, in the previous dynasty, the family controlled the government.

If this immoral "desperate plan" is set up by Zhang Tingyan, it is really terrible.

If a country wants to be in turmoil, it must start with the suspicion of the monarch and the minister.

When the emperor summoned Li Mao into the palace, Li Mao's heart was still up and down.

He is now living in constant fear of the East Window incident.

'Why did the Emperor call me?' Is the smuggler summoned to know the truth of the road? Ghost Face was tricked out by the emperor? The family members of those remnants knew the truth and told the emperor? ’

'Am I going to be taken down as soon as I walk through the door?' ’

'Shall I say goodbye to my family and leave?' Li Rui is in the palace, has he been arrested? ’

All kinds of panicked thoughts emerged in Li Mao's heart, but the imperial envoy was just outside the door, and he had to go out in full gear, perhaps because his face was too solemn, and even the imperial envoy couldn't help but comfort him.

"Master Li, you don't have to worry, when I came out to deliver the decree, the Holy One was in a good mood and didn't look like something was going on. Maybe it's just a call for you. ”

When Li Mao heard this, his emotions could even be seen by this envoy, thinking about how bad his face was? He had to desperately think of something happy and let his emotions slowly adjust.

By the time he stepped into the study of Zichen Palace, he was already able to treat the emperor with a calm mind.

"Weichen Li Mao was ordered to come and see His Majesty."

"Aiqing, please get up." Chu Rui picked up Li Mao and said with high interest: "Ma Fu and Ma Xing revealed a lot of news to me, the remnants of the Yin Dynasty have been in business for a long time and have a deep foundation, but after all, they are not in the light, once they see the light, they will not be far from destruction!" ”

"Your Majesty is wise." Hearing this, Li Mao let go of a big stone in his heart. He knew that the ghost face of the Dao Dao did not say Zhang Jing's part, so he reciprocated the peach, and hoped that the emperor would let Ma Fu go to Guozijian to study and return to a normal life on the grounds that he could not bear to become a sinner after the general Kou.

"I heard that Lao Guogong Li admires the general Ma Hua a lot, but I didn't expect you to care so much about this Ma family." Chu Rui glanced at Li Mao unexpectedly, "Although this move is easy, will it be known by the remnants of the Yin Dynasty, but it will put Ma Fu in danger?" ”

"Your Majesty, the ghost-faced Ma Xing has been submitted, you should not let him chill, otherwise how to let him do something against him in the future? Chen's father really admires General Dangkou, but the minister's move is by no means a love house and Wu (only strange), once Ma Fu enters the Guozijian and stays in the capital, every move is in the eyes of His Majesty, wouldn't it be better? ”

"Your Majesty takes care of Ma Fu, and Ma Xing will be desperately loyal to His Majesty for the sake of his younger brother's future. Such a benevolent act is a world of difference compared with the indiscriminate control methods of the remnants of the Yin Dynasty, who is the Ming monarch and who is the traitor, you can know at a glance. Only in this way can the upper and lower levels of the remnants of the Yin Dynasty be separated from morality and disintegrate from the inside, which is the right reason. ”

On the one hand, you came to submit to the emperor who was not to blame me, and on the other hand, the master who controlled your whole family and forced you to die to die, as long as you have a little brain, you know what to do.

What's more, this emperor may be able to save your entire family. As long as you come to submit secretly, the person who does it will not know it.

As soon as the news of the ghost face spreads, more and more people will turn against it.

Chu Rui groaned slightly for a while, and then knew that what Li Mao said was right. He can naturally control Ma Fu and his mother to threaten Ma Xing to rebel for him, but this move is the way to go, why the ghost face will return to Da Chu is because the Yin Dynasty and his gang are hostages to his relatives. If he did the same, he would be no different from those people, who would want to come out of the fire pit and jump into another fire pit first?

"Li Aiqing's mention of this matter is reasonable, and I will consider it at my discretion."

As soon as Li Mao heard this tone, he knew that the Tao was done, and hurriedly praised the emperor for his wisdom and martial arts, and his broad-mindedness, revealing the heart of a courtier who had to meet the Ming monarch.

It is precisely because he rarely sings praises on weekdays that this sincere praise makes Chu Rui even more happy.

"This matter is pressed first, I came to you for another thing." Chu Rui didn't know that Lu Dao Lu Yuanhao came back to cry and complain that Li Mao had taught him, so he only roughly told him about the Lu family's reclamation and occupation of the lake, and finally said:

"I have ordered the Lu family and the Sun family to immediately dig up the dikes of the polders everywhere and release water through the fields, thinking that the Lu family will not be able to climb up again this time. It just so happened that in order to form an alliance with the Duke of Jin, you let Li Rui and the lady of the Zhang family marry in private, and after thinking about it, I simply let your family and the Lu family stop the affair first, and I can't let them drag down the Xinguo Mansion. ”

"The Chen's family is deeply favored by the emperor, so they naturally listen to His Majesty's orders. It's just that the lady of the Lu family is twelve this year, because she has been married to her nephew since she was a child, and now she is retiring, is the Lu family willing? "No wonder Jiang Daoqi said that the Lu family will definitely withdraw from the marriage as soon as it passes this summer, it turns out that it is not their family that wants to withdraw from the marriage, but the Lu family falls, and this family affair has become a drag on the Xinguo Mansion.

"What's the Lu family not wanting to do? The Lu family has always felt that this family is the former emperor and the Xinguo Mansion that have cheated his family. Lu Yuanhao's careful thinking couldn't escape Chu Rui's eyes. It's nothing more than watching Li Meng die, good chess turns into stinky chess, Li Rui is worthless, and he begins to look down on people.

"I have discussed with the ministers what you suggested a few days ago, and I feel that it is feasible. Tomorrow Zhang Yuanmou and Zhang Tianshi will come to the capital, you go to make a play, and Lu Yuanhao will ask Zhang Tianshi to join the two children's eight characters, and this family affair will be dispersed with the reason that the eight characters are extremely opposed. I won't take a stand on this family matter, and if I don't say anything, it doesn't matter, and the imperial history won't talk about it. ”

"Yes." Li Mao got the order and immediately bent down to accept Chu Rui's order. "It's just Lord Lu?"

Li Mao asked inexplicably.

"He'll come to you himself."

Chu Rui snorted coldly.

As soon as Lu Yuanhao heard his suggestion to persuade him to join the eight characters and withdraw from his family, his expression seemed to be like his daughter was about to marry in, and he wanted to hypocritically show his helplessness.

In contrast, an honest person like Li Mao, who can't even hide his emotions, is much more cute.

Li Mao walked out of the Zichen Palace, and his middle clothes were already half soaked with sweat. He didn't know how he managed to maintain a calm attitude and finish talking to the emperor.

In order not to let the emperor see his back, he went out in the last place and respectfully retreated to the door before turning around.

Obviously, his deference to the emperor was the most satisfying to the saint.

On the second day, Zhang Tianshi arrived in the capital, and the minister of civil and military affairs who believed in Taoism and the head of the Taoist temple in the capital went out of the city for ten miles to greet him. Zhang Xuan, as a close disciple of Zhang Tianshi, even welcomed out of Baili.

Zhang Tianshi took four disciples down the mountain, although he was over sixty years old, but because he was good at health preservation, he still looked like he was in his early forties, and even his beard did not have a trace of silver frost. This alone proves that he is not a pretending demon.

Lu Yuanhao was influenced by his wife Gu, and then became a resident of the Heavenly Master Dao, and he also went to pick it up in person this time.

Zhang Tianshi and his entourage came out of the palace after facing the saint and stayed in the ceremonial hotel of Honglu Temple instead of Qingyun Temple, which shows the emperor's courtesy to him, and the emperor, who has no interest in Buddhism and Taoism for many years, finally showed his inclination towards Taoism.

The news that Lu Yuanhao and Li Mao went to Honglu Temple to visit Zhang Tianshi also spread, and some people speculated that the family affairs set by the two families back then had passed for so many years, but they didn't even have a letter of appointment, I am afraid that they will be combined.

Sure enough, they went to Zhang Tianshi really for the marriage of the children in the family, but this time the result was quite bad, Zhang Tianshi launched the eight characters of these children is not conducive to the two families, if they really become relatives, the two families are afraid that the family will be ruined.

This is already the worst possible approval.

In the midst of everyone's discussions, Lu Yuanhao came to the door with the gifts sent in the past to withdraw from his family, and Mrs. Qiu dissolved the marriage on behalf of Li Rui's parents.

The emperor did not put his beak from beginning to end, and this marriage, which broke the bowls and jars that made countless backyard women popular, finally ended after eight years.

It's just that now Li Rui is no longer the future son who everyone sought after back then, just the eldest grandson of the long house.

In the Shangyang Palace.

Li Rui, who learned the news later, was stunned.

Although his grandmother once said that this Miss Lu was not beautiful, he knew since he was a child that he had a fiancée from a high family, and he had always looked forward to the day when the two would meet in the future.

Now it's just because of the nonsense of the eight-character theory, the marriage set by the first emperor was actually withdrawn like this?

For a while, he had no good impression of this Zhang Tianshi.

"Hey, this is also a helpless thing, no one dares to gamble with the family. Zhang Tianshi personally approved the order, and ordinary people can't enjoy this good thing, he said that if you don't agree, it must be very bad. Don't think about it. Qin Bin patted Li Rui on the shoulder. The daughter of the Lu family, she is also very arrogant when she thinks about it, why is the husband without a wife, let's find a good one.

"You still have our group of friends here, why do you have to be such a little daughter gesture."

Xiong Pinto's sister's blessing was the only one who had seen Lu Jun, but he opened his mouth to persuade him, and felt that since the Lu family didn't like this family business so much, it would be better to retire now, so after opening his mouth, he still closed his mouth.

The eldest prince who came to convey the news didn't know the strangeness of Lu Dao, but he felt that since his father didn't stop it, it meant that this family affair was not suitable for the Li family. As a prince, he is happy to see his companion marry a stronger family, rather than the already very weak Lu family.

As Li Rui's friend, he naturally didn't want Li Rui to be discouraged by this.

"I haven't seen the girl of the Lu family, but this matter is irreparable, so don't think about it. If you want a virtuous and beautiful wife, there are many ladies in this capital who are good candidates. With the prestige and reputation of your house, there is no good daughter to choose from! The eldest prince was only thirteen years old, and he couldn't understand Li Rui's young man's vision, so he had to persuade dryly.

"It's just the lady of the Lu family, if you are really frustrated, I will beg my mother to let my uncle marry your family in the Jin State Mansion. Zhang's family is much higher than the Lu family. ”

"The eldest prince laughed, Miss Lu married me at a low age, not to mention Miss Zhang." Although Li Rui was depressed, after all, he had never been in contact with Miss Lu, and he was only a vague shadow in his heart. Now disappointment is disappointment, and it is very sudden and sudden, but the sadness is not too heavy.

"It's just that after all, so many years of marriage. Ay...... Maybe it's really fateful. Li Rui sighed.

"Come on, come on, Qin Bin, let's go out to practice boxing, and you accompany me to spread out."

"What? I'll accompany you? Last time I fought with you, you almost didn't take my arm off! I don't do it! ”

"You just said, 'We have a group of friends ......'"

"But I didn't say that our group of friends are willing to be beaten by you!"

"What I'm going to do with you, it's just to learn martial arts, watch boxing!"

"Ahh It's okay to hit people without slapping their faces! ”

"I don't know if you're going to flash!"

"I'm stupid if I don't flash!"

"Come again!"

"Help, Great Prince! Li Rui is crazy! ”

The author has something to say: these chapters are heavier, and the next is about to start hahaha. Everyone brought their own tissues to wipe their tears

Small Theatre:

Li Mao: My family has actually become a relative of the emperor......

Author: That's not the point!

Li Mao: Someone in my family actually married the county lord......

Author: That's not the point!

Li Mao: There is also a second-class heirloom in my family......

Author: That's not the point!