It stands to reason that everyone belongs to the same noble children, and the age difference is similar, Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong are really a little unreasonable to ask Li Zongcheng who came to visit like this. But actually, there's a reason for that.

Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong suspected that Li Zongcheng's father, Li Yangong's purpose of going north this time was only one of them, and another reason was that there had always been a bit of a ...... between the nobles of the Jingnan family and the nobles of the founding department Not to mention that the contradiction is very big, at least the well water does not interfere with the river water, and there is very little movement between the two sides.

Even the Xu family, which is also a descendant of Xu Da, has a rather cold relationship between the first line of Wei Guogong in Nanjing and the first line of Dingguo Gong in Beijing.

Finally, there is a key problem that Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong look down on Li Tingzhu, who took shit and luckily got the title of Marquis of Linhuai - that is, Li Zongcheng's grandfather.

This matter is like this: Li Tingzhu is a descendant of Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao, which stands to reason that the ancestor is the Duke of Guo, but when it came to the Jiajing Dynasty, the title was renewed, but only the Marquis. And even this Linhuai Marquis, it was originally not his turn at all. At the beginning of the eleventh year of Jiajing, it was his cousin Li Xing who was named the Marquis of Linhuai, but this marquis was greedy for enjoyment, happy and sad, and died two years later, and even left no heirs, and the title fell on Li Tingzhu's father Li Yi.

Li Yi also died in two years, 21-year-old Li Tingzhu inherited the title of Marquis of Linhuai, three years later only 24 years old, he hung the general Pingban to seal out of Zhenhuguang, 34-year-old commander Caojiang, led the water division to fight against the Japanese Kou, served as the governor of Caoyun in Huai'an, and later served as the governor of the Nanjing Chinese Army.

In the Ming Dynasty, which paid attention to blood relatives, Li Tingzhu was "picked up" because of his father's title, so he, the Marquis of Linhuai, was not treated by the top nobles in many cases. Although Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong are still young, their family backgrounds are obviously top nobles, plus one of them is the eldest grandson of the Duke of Chengguo, and the other is the eldest son of the British Princess, of course, they don't look down on the current Linhuai Marquis family by the way, not to mention that their families are all at the level of the Duke of Guo, and the Li family is just a marquis.

Maybe in the eyes of ordinary people, whether it is the grandfather of the country or the lord of the marquis, they are all high-ranking big people, but in fact, the big people are also divided into three, six, nine and so on.

To put it mildly, Ying Tianxun according to the imperial history, the theoretical seven-grade civil officials are more important than Nanjing, and the lord Linhuai Marquis is worthy of the attention of the two princes.

Therefore, at this moment, under the aggressiveness of Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, although he is young but very self-aware, Li Zongcheng can only explain in a low voice: "Two brothers, my father's visit to Beijing really has nothing to do with these things in Beijing, he actually ......."

When Li Zongcheng said this, he sighed, and said in his heart that there was no way, this matter could only be said directly - anyway, the two of them were only concerned about the affairs of Jingshi, and there should be no interest in the affairs of Nanjing.

So he continued: "Actually, it was because I saw a newspaper from the imperial court a few days ago that the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate had prepared to conduct a detailed investigation on the matter of Wei Guogong, so I canceled the plan to go to Guanzhong and went north to Beijing." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong looked at each other again, and Zhu Yingzhen asked, "Wei Guogong?" What's the matter with him? ”

This sentence is very exposed, he doesn't even know what happened to Wei Guogong, it seems that he is really just focusing on the Jingshi, as for the outside...... I can't care about it anyway, so let them go.

Li Zongcheng had no choice but to talk about the affairs of Wei Guogong Xu Pengju's family, and then emphasized: "This matter in Wei Guogong's family, in fact, all the lords in Nanjing are all clear, and no one does not know, but Wei Guogong's family has always been the head of Nanjing's lords, and the lords of each family will not meddle in their affairs easily. ”

At this time, Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong understood, and Zhang Yuangong said: "So the purpose of your father's visit is to observe the movements of the imperial court and see if the imperial court really wants to take the Wei State Public Sword, so as to determine the attitude of your Linhuai Marquis family towards this matter?" ”

Li Zongcheng smiled and nodded.

"Wait." Zhu Yingzhen waved his hand, stared at Li Zongcheng and said, "Brother Zongcheng, I don't think this matter is so simple, right?" Whether the imperial court wants to move the Duke of Wei, the relationship between this matter and your Linhuai Marquis Mansion, I don't think it's very big, right? After all, according to the most serious calculation, this matter has been investigated by the imperial court, and we have to investigate it thoroughly, but so what? Great is to deprive Xu Pengju of the title, but it is impossible for the Duke of Wei to be cut off because of this matter, and the imperial court will inevitably continue to find one of his sons to inherit the title - does it have anything to do with your Linhuai Marquis Mansion? Could it be that when the imperial court verified, it still had to ask the Marquis of Linhuai if he knew about it? ”

Li Zongcheng glanced at Zhu Yingzhen with some surprise, and said in his heart: This guy's reaction is not slow, but how can I explain it?

But before he could explain, Zhu Yingzhen had already guessed the answer when he saw him silent, smiled, and said: "I think, Linhuai Marquis or Lingzun probably thinks like this: There is such a big scandal in the family of Wei Guogong, although it is impossible to remove the knight, but Xu Pengju himself will inevitably be punished, he, the Nanjing garrison minister, wears many hats, is one of the three giants of Nanjing, if he is severely punished by the imperial court, no matter how he says, he will have to get rid of a few positions, these positions were originally placed in the house of Wei Guogong, no one dares to think about it, but Wei Guogong himself played with an accident, That's different...... In the eyes of your Linhuai Marquis Mansion, these positions are all fragrant buns. Isn't that right, Brother Zongcheng? ”

Li Zongcheng was also a little annoyed in his heart at this time, if you guess this kind of thing, just guess it, just put it in your heart, do you have to slap me in the face if you say it directly?

Therefore he refused to reply.

And over there, Zhang Yuangong thought of another thing along Zhu Yingzhen's train of thought, and suddenly said: "Brother Yingzhen really knows the subtleties, as soon as you say this, I suddenly remembered, just now Brother Zongcheng said that you didn't get the invitation letter from Gao Shiyu, I hope the two of us can do a favor...... I think, Brother Zongcheng, you're afraid it's not just to see the demeanor of this prince's companion, right? ”

He narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Li Zongcheng and said, "The reason why something happened in Wei Guogong's house is that the source is that the former Wolf Mountain general soldier surnamed Liu is the chief soldier, and this general soldier seems to have had a little friendship with Gao Shiyu. And now, I have heard that the imperial court has intended to let him go back to the mountain...... There may not be no shadow of the Gao family here, as for which 'high', it should go without saying. Then, Brother Zongcheng, as soon as you arrived in Beijing, you hurriedly wanted to get to know Gao Shiyu, if Brother Ying Zhen and I can't see it, wouldn't it be in vain to be born in the Guogong Mansion? ”