At this time, there are more than two months before the last day festival, and from Wudang Mountain to the imperial capital Fengling, if you are in a hurry, you can get there in more than half a month, seeing that the time is more than enough, Mu Qiuhuang is not in a hurry, and after leaving Wudang Mountain with a group of people, it is to stop and play in the mountains and rivers along the way.

For Mu Qiuhuang's decision, Ling Hu Ji did not object, anyway, his duty is just to follow Mu Qiuhuang to protect his safety, as for when to go to the imperial capital? Or whether Mu Qiuhuang will go to the imperial capital or not? These are actually not important in the eyes of Ling Hu Ji, that is, as an eagle dog, you must have the consciousness of being an eagle dog, and the most important point of being an eagle dog is not ability but loyalty, there is no doubt that Ling Hu Ji's loyalty definitely belongs to Mu Qingen.

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"Where do the two roads lead ahead?" Mu Qiuhuang sat on the tall horse and pointed to a fork in the road in front of him and asked.

Hearing this, Ling Hu Ji glanced at the rear, and a soldier hurriedly drove forward to report: "The one to the left of these two roads leads to Jianzhang City, and the right is Guanjia Avenue, which will take about three days to travel from the next city. ”

After hearing this, Mu Qiuhuang tilted his head and asked, "Jianzhang City?" Isn't that the territory of the Marquis of Haihun? ”

"What the young master said is extremely true, in the final analysis, the reason why the Liujing River in our Northern Yuyun Prefecture can be famous is thanks to the Marquis of Haihun!" Ling Hu Ji pursed his lips and laughed, obviously a little contemptuous of this Haihun Marquis who knows how to enjoy himself.

Mu Qiuhuang nodded and said, "I heard that this Haihun Marquis imitated our Liujing River and built a small Liujing River in his fiefdom, I don't know if he is building a chapter city here?" ”

"The small Liujing River imitated by the Marquis of Haihun is in Qingyang! This Jianzhang City only belongs to a third-class small city in the fiefdom of the Marquis of Haihun, the Marquis of Haihun indulges in lust, and he doesn't look down on such a place, this place seems to be given to his tenth son, right? Ling Hu said to Mu Qiuhuang like a few treasures.

Hearing this, Mu Qiuhuang had lost interest in this Jianzhang City, but was full of curiosity about Haihun Hou, and asked, "The tenth son?" ”

Seeing Mu Qiuhuang asking, Ling Hu Ji grinned, and said: "The young master doesn't know yet, this Haihun Marquis is the weakest one in terms of comprehensive strength among the nine princes, but if it is about the number of sons, then the other eight princes can't catch up together, after all, this Haihun Marquis dares to claim to have five hundred fake sons?" ”

"Five hundred? What's going on? How I haven't heard of it. Mu Qiuhuang's face was full of doubts.

Ling Hu Ji took Mu Qiuhuang's curiosity into his eyes, and explained to Mu Qiuhuang with a sneer: "The young master has been in the barracks for many years, and it is normal for him to not know what is going on outside. In fact, in addition to the father-in-law and the Marquis of Dongche, the Marquis of Xilie, and the Marquis of Nanzhao, these four princes are more normal, and the remaining five princes all have hobbies that make people laugh. ”

"Oh?" Mu Qiuhuang said suspiciously: "I really don't know about this, but when it comes to this, Brother Linghu won't change the day, just tell me about it now!" ”

"Okay, then let's give the young master a rough talk first, but are these rumors true or false? It remains to be verified. Ling Hu Ji smiled.

"Brother Linghu, don't hook my mind anymore, let's get to the point quickly!"

Seeing that Mu Qiuhuang was a little impatient, Ling Hu Yu hurriedly cleared his throat and said: "I don't know who made up a limerick poem, this poem says this: 'There are nine marquis in the Great Youguo, four marquis are true and five marquis are fake, Pinghou is light and good Longyang, Jinhou is greedy for money and set up donation officials, everyone in Qihou's fiefdom is gambling, and there are five hundred fake sons of Hun Hou, and the most mediocre Yunjiu Marquis." ”

After reading the limerick poem, Ling Hu Ji explained one by one: "This Xuanping Marquis doesn't like beauty, except for having a wife, he has never accepted a concubine, but he loves to break his sleeves and peach all day long, I heard that he hasn't even touched that wife, and his three sons are still born to him by his younger brother."

And the Marquis of Pingjin is a thorough miser, the status of the great secluded is respectful, originally arranged by scholars, farmers, workers, and merchants, but in this fief of the Marquis of Pingjin is just the opposite, under his leadership, the status of the merchant is the most respected, I heard that in his fief as long as you have money you can do whatever you want, even if you commit a capital crime, you can spend money to buy your life. This is nothing, the most popular is 'donate official', if you want to be an official in his fiefdom, it is not to look at the ability to look at the financial resources, that is to say, as long as you donate a certain amount of gold and silver to the Marquis of Pingjin, you can become an official, the size of the official position is determined according to the amount of gold and silver, except for the position of the Hou Ye is not sold, everything else can be sold.

Wei Qihou is somewhat similar to this Pingjin Marquis, in his fiefdom, each city has an official casino, and he himself is also very fond of gambling, it is rumored that he once gambled with his wife and concubine in the boudoir for seven days and seven nights without taking care of political affairs, but also in order to make his casino gather popularity, and postponed the curfew for a whole hour.

This Haihun Marquis is known as the five hundred false sons, which is also true. He does have many sons, in addition to the ten sons born to the wives and concubines in the Hou Mansion, there are countless outside, as for why fake sons? It is because in addition to the ten sons born to his wife and concubine in his prince's mansion have names and surnames, there are so many sons born to him outside that he can't even remember their names. However, this Haihun Marquis is also a single, as long as the woman who gave birth to a child for him can tell the time and place of the Spring Festival with him, then whether the child is his or not, he will accept it all...... That's right, after all, his Haihun Marquis family has a big business, and it can be seen from the fact that he spent 100,000 gold for half a month in the Liujing River in Beiyu. ”

"Ahh Mu Qiuhuang was already dumbfounded when he heard Ling Hu Ji finish speaking at this time.

However, after a short period of digestion of this information, Mu Qiuhuang had a little different thoughts about these princes in his heart.

Xuanping Hou is just right, this Pingjin Hou and Wei Qihou are greedy for money and a good gamble, but I am afraid that things are far from being as simple as the legend, these two things have a commonality, that is, to gather wealth, this Pingjin Hou and Wei Qihou no matter what their reputation, I am afraid that the two of them have already accumulated countless gold, silver and jewelry in the Houfu treasury, once the world is in chaos, then there are soldiers have the right to speak, and what to recruit and raise soldiers, that is only to take money, that is to say, no matter when the most indispensable is gold and silver, as the saying goes, 'money can make ghosts grind',' The three armies have not moved, the grain and grass go first', these are indispensable to deal with money and silver, and the war is the most expensive to spend money and silver, and the last thing to fight is financial resources...... As for this Haihun Hou, although five hundred fake sons don't sound good, these five hundred people are all genuine people! Once there is a relationship between father and son, whether it is true or not, I am afraid that they will be more loyal to Haihun Hou than ordinary subordinates, and those who can be accepted as righteous sons by Haihun Hou must not be mediocre, just look at Mu Qingen's six righteous sons, among these five hundred righteous sons, Mu Qiuhuang did not believe it, and could not find one or two people who could be compared with Mu Qingen's six righteous sons......

Damn, these seem to be mediocre, but in fact, they are all elites, full of cunning and cunning, those who grasp money and those who collect talents collect talents...... And while achieving their own goals, they can also show weakness to the enemy...... As for fame, it stinks and stinks, how much can it be worth? In the end, doesn't the history books have to be written by the victors?

Mu Qiuhuang thought about it and was extremely frightened, and deeply felt that these princes were really not simple.

Looking at Ling Huji, who was mocking those princes, Mu Qiuhuang couldn't understand it, even he could see such a simple thing, why Linghu Ji could only see the surface, and even despised these princes?

In fact, how did Mu Qiuhuang know that he could see this, because the education he had received since he was a child was different.

Since he grew up, in addition to having those scheming old scholars in the Hou Mansion to teach him, Mu Qingen will personally teach him by word and deed...... To put it bluntly, it is "not in his position, not in his politics", ordinary people are learning to become literary and martial arts and sell themselves to the emperor's family, and those who are already in the emperor's family need to learn how to control people and use talents, and how to make these people who have learned literature and martial arts willingly serve them.

For example, if he is greedy for money and lustful, and you want to use his words, you just need to give him a lot of interest. He is greedy for life and afraid of death, and you coerce and entic; If he is talented in some way but has a stupid brain, then you only need to be smarter than him to make him work for you, if he is as smart as you are, and is not greedy for money, not lustful, and talented without any defects, if you want to use him, you can only grasp his weakness and make him afraid of you...... In a word, depending on the position of the station, the height of what you see is naturally different; Seeing different heights, it is natural to have different ideas.

Some things are actually born with it, just like the kind of words that Mu Qiuhuang said when he joked with Gu Chenyuan, the infatuated sword immortal, he was reincarnated well...... Therefore, his starting point is destined to surpass the vast majority of people, and the Sword Immortal is powerful enough! Heaven Realm master, one of the four great sword immortals, but what? Just because he injured his Qi Sea, a dignified sword immortal was not slaughtered by someone...... The Nine Emperors of the Sword were unruly all his life, but he was willing to accept him as an apprentice, aside from his extraordinary talent, if it weren't for the fact that he was the eldest son of Mu Qingen, the Marquis of Beiyu, if he was born in an ordinary family, even if he was really talented, he was afraid that he would be found out a lot, and even his talent in this life might be annihilated...... Sometimes! I really can't find a reason for this thing?

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Mu Qiuhuang retracted his thoughts and asked Ling Huji, "What about the last sentence?" How to explain the most mediocre cloud dove? ”

Ling Hu Ji laughed and mocked him: "Speaking of this Yun Jiu Hou is really as said in the limerick poem, he is mediocre and mediocre in his fiefdom, he learned from the Marquis of Pingjin in his fiefdom, learned from Wei Qihou to set up gambling, and learned from Haihun Marquis to make a son, except for the bad Longyang, the rest of the hobbies, he is not bad, and it is precisely because he has learned a lot, so he has not reached the limit everywhere, and finally fell into a most 'mediocre' evaluation. ”

Seeing that Ling Hu Ji was still full of disdain when he talked about Yun Jiuhou, Mu Qiuhuang couldn't help but be a little disappointed, looked at Ling Hu Ji with a calm face, and said in his heart: "No wonder you are a Hou Ye, but you can only be a general?" ”

In Mu Qiuhuang's opinion, this cloud dove marquis is simply a master, it seems that people are imitating one by one, but in fact, people are going to its groove to extract its essence, okay? If it is really as mediocre as Ling Huyu said, why not learn from Xuanping Hou to break his sleeves and divide peaches?

Looking at Ling Hu, who was still sneering, Mu Qiuhuang sighed and told him: "Brother Lao Linghu asked people to write down their detailed deeds one by one to me, especially the Marquis of Yunjiu. ”

Ling Hu Ji laughed and said: "Young master, in fact, there is nothing, their deeds are just what I told you, but you are right, young master, if you compile a book, it must be very exciting, maybe it can be sold for a lot of money?" ”

When Mu Qiuhuang saw Ling Huji's appearance, he didn't bother to explain to him, and he laughed with him and talked about it casually

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"There are two roads ahead of the young master, which one shall we take?" Ling Huji asked.

"Let's go left! Let's go to Jianzhang City for a walk. Mu Qiuhuang said casually.

"Well, it just so happens that there is not much grain and grass in the army, and I will arrange for fifty people to purchase grain and grass, and the rest will be camped in the same place, after all, this belongs to the territory of the Marquis of Haihun, if we rashly bring the army into the city, I am afraid that it will cause unnecessary disputes." Ling Hu Ji reported to Mu Qiuhuang.

"Okay, it's good to let Brother Fox call the shots." Mu Qiuhuang nodded in response.

Seeing that Ling Hujie was arranged in an orderly manner at this time, and thinking about it thoroughly, Mu Qiuhuang couldn't help but glance at Ling Hujie deeply, wanting to see if the ridicule he had just made to those Hou Ye was true or false?

After a while, Mu Qiuhuang suddenly shook his head self-deprecatingly, and said with a smile in his heart: "I really don't have to worry about eating radishes salty...... Since my father dares to use them with confidence, then they can naturally use them with confidence......"