Shengcheng is the capital of the former Nansheng Kingdom, and a luxurious royal palace occupies most of the Shengcheng.

The surname of the king of the Gan Nan Sheng Kingdom is Ji, so the Ji family is also called the Nan Sheng Ji family.

And the tenth prince Lu Yan's mother, Ji Yan, is from the Nansheng Ji clan. The dignity of his status can be said to be second only to those members of the royal family of the Lu clan.

A few decades ago, the monarch of the Nansheng Kingdom had the final say.

Even if it is who is in the previous dynasty, after dominating the world and ascending the throne and becoming the emperor. It was only changed to Nansheng County that Nansheng Kingdom was changed to Nansheng County, and the monarch of the original Nansheng Kingdom was named the vassal king of Nansheng Land.

The last monarch of Nan Sheng Kingdom was Ji Xuan's grandfather, Ji Xuan.

Ji Ji was named a king with a different surname by the founding king of the previous dynasty, and still lived in the palace where he originally lived, but the palace was changed to a palace.

The soldiers of the forbidden army who originally guarded the palace of King Nansheng were changed to Ji Jiajun after the founding king of the previous dynasty ascended the throne.

The supreme commander of the Ji family army is still the king of Nansheng, Ji Xuan.

The founding monarch of the previous dynasty was not bad to Ji Xu, and he traveled south several times, lived in the palace, and brought many rare treasures to Ji Xu.

Ji Ji received a gift, and he also returned a generous gift to the founding monarch of the previous dynasty.

It's just that it didn't take long for the founding monarch of the previous dynasty to die on the way to the east.

The second prince ordered someone to falsely pass on the holy decree and became the new king. And after sitting on the throne of the emperor, he not only killed all his other brothers and sisters, but also reused traitors, and always did some tyrannical things, which caused public indignation.

The Nansheng area has been rich since ancient times, known as the "land of fish and rice", "the granary of the world" and "paradise on earth". Here the beautiful women are like clouds, talented people come out in large numbers, businessmen gather, the scenery is picturesque, and people will not want to return.

During the reign of the founding monarch of the previous dynasty, they all treated the people of the land of Nansheng very favorably, because the people of the land of Nansheng, under the leadership of Ji Xuan, voluntarily supported the founding monarch of the previous dynasty to be the emperor.

But the people of Nansheng County, including Ji Ji, would not have thought that as soon as the second monarch of the previous dynasty sat on the emperor's throne, he would ask them for gold and silver, craftsmen, and even so as to expand the palace for the new monarch.

The new monarch of the previous dynasty decided to expand the palace after listening to the advice of the traitorous ministers, saying that it was more comfortable for the emperor to live more spaciously.

After receiving the holy decree, the vassal kings of other counties gathered craftsmen one after another, gathered some gold and silver goods, and quickly sent them to the imperial city with their craftsmen and goods to support.

I am afraid that if I miss the construction period, I will be beheaded.

Some of the craftsmen were captured by the soldiers, and some fled, resisted, and even committed suicide along the way. When they arrived at the imperial city, the number of craftsmen was not enough, and the generals who sent them over would still be punished.

After some feudal kings were punished, they could only let people arrest the craftsmen, and then collect gold and silver property, and send people to send them to the emperor.

But only King Jing of Jing County, located near the imperial city, Lu Ye, that is, Lu Yan's grandfather, and Nansheng King Ji Ji, who was in the south of the imperial city, did not send anyone to send property to the emperor, and second, did not send anyone to send craftsmen to the emperor.

The second monarch of the previous dynasty waited for a month, and he didn't wait for the two to give away people or goods. He sent a general to lead millions of elite soldiers to the south to capture the old thief of Nansheng Wang Ji back to the imperial city and behead him!

Even if Ji Ji is no longer the king, he still has a lot of customers in the house. Among those doormen, there were people from the Imperial City.

One of the disciples learned in advance that the emperor was going to send someone to arrest King Nansheng, so he told the news to King Nansheng truthfully.

After hearing this, King Nansheng immediately led some of the elite soldiers he had cultivated all the way north to "welcome" the elite soldiers sent by the emperor.

When Ji Ji led the army to resist, Lu Ye led the army south and helped Ji Ji and them in time. In that war, Ji Ji and Lu Ye won a big victory.

The feudal kings of other places, although they sent people to the imperial city to send craftsmen and goods, but they were also very good at the new king's ba. Politics has long been resentful.

This time, they saw King Nansheng leading the rebellion, and King Jing followed. At this critical time, they also have to consider whether to help the emperor suppress the "traitors", or help King Nan Sheng and them to attack the imperial city together and crusade against the tyrants who don't treat them as human beings?

Many vassal kings responded positively and went to help King Nan Sheng and King Jing.

In less than two months, people from all over the country rose up one after another, and even some craftsmen who had been arrested before to repair the palace for the second monarch followed the uprising. At that time, King Nan Sheng and King Jing led the army together to attack the imperial city and fought all the way to the palace.

The second monarch of the previous dynasty, after seeing that formation, realized that his general momentum had gone, and he was unable to return to the sky. But he was still making a last-ditch effort to escape.

The traitorous minister who proposed for the second monarch before, only to see that the monarch was going to run, that is, he wanted him to clean up the mess alone, and he didn't follow it. So he stabbed the monarch to death in the main hall with a sword, thinking that the presence of his cronies in the palace would allow him to sit on the emperor's throne while he was in chaos.

Just as the traitor was about to ascend the throne of the emperor, King Nan Sheng and King Jing led a group of soldiers and rushed into the main hall. They heeded the advice of the soldiers and hanged the traitor alive in the main hall.

On the same day, King Nansheng fulfilled his promise, and at the beginning of his rebellion, the person who came to his aid in time was King Jing. Therefore, after defeating the tyrant, he will support King Jing as emperor.

After King Jing became emperor, he should treat him and his fellow villagers in Nansheng County well.

King Jing agreed to all of King Nansheng's requests, and also told King Nansheng, "Uncle Ji, don't forget, when my father was still alive, he told you that our two families are going to marry. ”

"I can't forget, and I won't forget." King Nan Sheng smiled happily and said.

It was in that situation that Lu Yan's grandfather Lu Ye, with the help of Lu Yan's mother's grandfather, ascended the throne and became emperor. Lu Ye is the founding of the Dajing Dynasty

The King.

Lu Ye sent someone to escort Ji Ji back to Nansheng County and named him the king of Nansheng.

Most of Ji Ji's sons and daughters stayed in the Imperial City, taking some of the soldiers of the Ji family army to contribute to the newly built Dajing Imperial City.

A few years later, Lu Ye took his queen, and the queen carried the prince Lu Lin, to the Ji Mansion and once again requested marriage.

Although Ji Yan's father was reluctant to give up his daughter, he was forced to do some pressure and had to agree.

Ji Yan married into the palace and became the crown princess, realizing the wish of the parents of the Lu and Ji families to marry. After the crown prince ascended the throne, Ji Yan was named queen.

Within a few years, Ji Yan's father was assassinated by someone sent by the emperor. To the outside world, General Ji unfortunately died of poisoned arrows when he was fighting.

A few months later, Ji Yan gave birth to the prince in the palace, that is, the tenth prince Lu Yan, but died mysteriously before the tenth prince was full moon.

Bai Jiaojiao only heard Princess Jingbei say that the county lord in the Ji Mansion who now lives in Shengcheng, the county lord of Lingyan, is the daughter of Ji Yan's uncle, that is, Ji Yan's biological cousin.

Empress Dowager Bai and Princess Jingbei both told Bai Jiaojiao that when the emperor was young, he fell in love with the queen's cousin, the lord of Lingyan.

Speaking of which, this Lingyan county lord and emperor can be regarded as childhood sweethearts.

Not long after the birth of the county lord of Yeongyan, her father was killed in battle, and her mother also died of illness. It was Lu Yan's grandfather who made Lu Yan's biological grandmother adopt the county lord of Lingyan and named her Lu Yingying.

After Lu Yan's biological grandmother died, the emperor asked the Empress Dowager Bai to continue to raise the county lord of Lingyan.

At that time, Lord Lingyan and Zhou Shiling's mother Hua Yue'er, as well as Xiao Yan's father, were all raised by Empress Dowager Bai. Several of them grew up together and got along well.

After Lu Yan's father grew up, he liked both the gentle and lovely Lord Lingyan and the intelligent Hua Yue'er. Several times he tested the minds of those two people in private, because he liked them, so he wanted to marry.

But Hua Yue'er and the others seemed to have discussed, and on the same day, they all politely rejected Lu Yan's father. And there is only one reason for their refusal, they are unwilling to be side concubines.

Lu Yan's father has a marriage contract with Lu Yan's mother, and it can be said that people all over the world know about it. He already has a princess of the main palace that his father chose for him.

How could you change the princess casually?

What's more, people didn't make any mistakes.

Princess Jingbei said to Bai Jiaojiao before Bai Jiaojiao came to Shengjun: "When you arrive in Shengcheng, don't worry about asking the county lord Lingyan to help you." Because a few years ago, the eldest prince wanted to occupy the land of the Ji Mansion and expand the palace, which made the county lord Lingyan have a deep hatred for the eldest son of the emperor and even for the emperor. ”

After that incident, she didn't even say that she sent someone, "You must know that Lord Lingyan is a generous person, and it is impossible not to give a gift before the New Year." ”

"I asked you to take the jade pendant she gave me with me, and I also wanted her to see that we are confidants and friends and fellow villagers, so that I can help you......"

Bai Jiaojiao nodded knowingly, indicating that she remembered.

Daeyong Dynasty, Shengjun.

Bai Jiaojiao carried the piece of jade pendant given to her by Princess Jingbei, walked through the bustling ancient streets, and came to the gate of Jifu by the Gansheng River.

As Empress Dowager Bai and Princess Jingbei said, the Ji Mansion is indeed quite big. If it weren't for the streets of Shengcheng, which had been expanded after the establishment of the Dajing Dynasty, I was afraid that Ji Mansion would really be able to occupy most of the city.

She rode a horse along the way, and she met a lot of pedestrians on the way, and she did find the place where Ji Fu was located without asking anyone.

Because in the whole Shengcheng, there is only such a luxurious mansion. Even the palace that the emperor built for the emperor's eldest son before was less than one-tenth of the size of this Ji Mansion.

After the emperor's eldest son returned to the palace, the mansion was idle. Bai Jiaojiao passed near the mansion before and saw that there were several guards standing at the door of the mansion.

Bai Jiaojiao had heard Princess Jingbei say before that the eldest son of the emperor felt very aggrieved when he saw that his palace was not as big as Ji's mansion. He wanted to occupy the Ji family's land and expand his palace.

But he didn't think that the Lingyan County Lord who lives in the Ji Mansion now is not a master who is easy to talk to. Directly asked the eldest son of the emperor, as soon as he arrived in Shengjun as the vassal king, he would forcibly requisition her land to expand the palace.

How is this different from the practice of a certain monarch in the previous dynasty?

As soon as the eldest son of the emperor heard that, he took his sword and wanted to kill the lord of Lingyan. The previous dynasty was a short-lived dynasty, and the founding monarch was a very accomplished man, but he died after two generations, and the reason was the second monarch.

Now, Lord Lingyan is taking him with that ba. Compared with Jun, it can be seen that he is cursing him. Even if he can be a crown prince in the future, he may not be able to be the king of a country. Fortunately, Shi Ye was in Shengjun at the time, and after hearing about the incident, he promptly asked someone to write a letter to the emperor and tell him about it.

The emperor recalled the eldest son of the emperor back to the palace and disciplined him strictly.

"If Shi Ye doesn't dissuade him, I'm afraid that the Lord of Lingyan will fight back in that situation. Her martial arts are very high, and there are also people around her who protect her, and the eldest son of the emperor will not be able to kill her if he starts with her. Princess Jingbei pursed her lips and said, "You must know that that matter, Lord Lingyan has been right from beginning to end." But after the emperor's eldest son went to Shengcheng, he provoked the lord of Lingyan first. ”

Bai Jiaojiao nodded slightly.

If she were the lord of Lingyan, I was afraid that she would also fight back. You must know that the uncle of the county lord of Lingyan, that is, Lu Yan's maternal grandfather, and the cousin of the county lord of Lingyan, that is, Lu Yan's queen mother, were all indirectly killed by the emperor.