Hebei fell, one defeat after another, and the Liang State did not hear good news for a long time.

When the whole country was in a slump, "good news" came from Jinling City, and one of Emperor Liu Xuan's concubines gave birth to a prince.

This concubine was born as a daughter of the Xiao family, and was named Concubine De, and now she finally gave birth to a prince, but Liu Xuan vomited half a basin of blood and fainted excitedly, Qin Zhong and Qin Gou'er hurriedly took the imperial doctor to treat Liu Xuan for a few days before rescuing Liu Xuan.

Qin Zhong hugged the little prince and showed it to Liu Xuan: "Your Majesty, you have a prince, Concubine De gave birth to a dragon seed!" ”

Liu Xuan looked at Qin Zhong in surprise, Qin Zhong gave Qin Gou'er a look, and Qin Gou'er also stepped forward: "Your Majesty, this is indeed a dragon species, Your Majesty."

Liu Xuan wanted to speak and stopped, Qin Zhong and Qin Gou'er withdrew from the other internal supervisors and guards, closed the door and knelt down next to Liu Xuan.

Qin Zhong cried: "Your Majesty, the minister should die, take every precaution, I didn't expect that something went wrong in the harem, and now I tear my face and your majesty's reputation is completely ruined, if you recognize the identity of this prince, Jiangshan will change his surname."

Qin Gou'er looked at the sleeping baby and gritted his teeth: "Let me bear the sin, I am willing to bear this charge of Ling Chi and murder the prince!" ”

Liu Xuan sighed: "Forget it, this kid is innocent, if the will of heaven does not stop my beam, Liu Jian will be able to control the chaos in the future, if the will of heaven will not stop my beam, it will be in vain to kill as many people as possible."

Qin Zhong's eyes rolled: "They can steal beams and change pillars, and Your Majesty can also imitate the story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!" ”

Liu Xuanfeng read the history books, naturally understood what Qin Zhong meant, and looked at the baby: "Okay! ”

On the first day of the second month of the third year of Yanchang, Zhong Zhiming led the troops back to Jinling. A few days later, a nursery rhyme came out in Jinling City: "The big dragon loses the battle, the old dragon is sick, the world is peaceful, and the little dragon sits in the court."

By the eighth day of the second lunar month, Zhong Zhiming's soldiers and horses had taken over the defense of Jinling City, leaving only the palace Ouchi to be guarded by the yellow-clothed inner guards.

On the tenth day of the first month of February, the ministers sent congratulatory tables one after another, asking Emperor Liu Xuan to change the crown prince. Liu Xuan coughed and refuted the ministers, but at this time, the family had Zhong Zhiming's army to rely on, so they became unscrupulous.

Xiao Shan first reprimanded the emperor for not distinguishing between relatives and relatives and not following the ancestral system, and then bluntly said that the emperor was dying of his life and must be crowned as soon as possible.

Yuan Kang, Xiao Ding, Xie Rui and others also cited scriptures to persecute Liu Xuan.

Liu Xuan knew that they had been planning this for a long time, so he sneered twice: "Very good, I really don't have much time, just like the story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, come here, bring Concubine Xiao De up!" ”

Qin Zhong and Qin Gou'er dragged Concubine Xiao De, who was wearing a cloak, up to the main hall, and Concubine Xiao De looked at Xiao Shan and shouted for help.

Xiao Shan also knew what was going on, so he wanted to save Concubine Xiao De: "Your Majesty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up his son to kill his mother, and was condemned by later generations, why does Your Majesty have to bear this infamy?" Today's ministers are shattered, and they can't let His Majesty do such a cruel thing", he said that he and several ministers were going to pull Concubine Xiao De over.

Liu Xuan didn't know when he had opened his bow and arrow, his right hand was loosened, and an arrow hit Concubine Xiao De, Concubine Xiao Defei fell to the ground and struggled and cried.

The ministers were in an uproar, and Xiao Shan even accused Liu Xuan of being the king of the Emperor.

Liu Xuan laughed wildly: "The court of the king of the Emperor must also be the traitorous ministers such as Fei Zhongshen Gongbao and the Ying Dynasty, and I will bear the sins I have done, and there will be retribution for the sins you have done in the future!" ”

Xiao Shan stabilized his emotions and continued to persecute Liu Xuan: "Your Majesty has killed Concubine Xiao De, then you must change the dragon born by Concubine Xiao De as the crown prince, so as to calm the hearts of the people in the world!" ”

Liu Xuanyi waved his hand: "Re-establishment, according to you, Liu Jian is still King Han, you have prepared a proclamation, I will let Qin Zhong cover the jade seal!" Retreat from the Dynasty"

Xiao Shan, Xiao Ding, Xie Rui, Yuan Kang, Liu Gan and other mountains shouted long live, and proudly walked out of the palace gate.

Li Xiaofei heard two pieces of news on the same day, one was that Liu Jian was deposed as the crown prince, and the other was that he was also a father. Hongrui also gave birth, gave birth to a girl, named Li Youran, wrote a letter to Li Xiaofei and brought it to Chang'an.

Li Xiaofei pinched the letter and jumped as he walked, and shouted when he met people: "I'm a father"

Everyone smiled and congratulated, Li Xiaofei saw a lot of people, and later became so excited that he shouted: "I'm your father" and was almost beaten

Li Xiaofei pinched the letter and found Murong Ling to report the good news, and Murong Ling was also very happy: "Okay, you give birth to a daughter, and in the future, my Xuehua son will marry your daughter, not bad!" ”

Li Xiaofei reacted at this time and punched Murong Ling: "Murong, you are very bad, I have worked hard here for the rest of my life, and it will be yours in the end."

Murong Ling laughed evilly: "Anyway, you fool can't keep it, your family property belongs to me, I will buy you a coffin in the future, it's not good."

The two had a fight and found a remote place to drink.

The two of them were drinking, and two girls on the side of the road ran towards them, their eyes sunken, and they looked like they hadn't eaten for a long time.

Li Xiaofei took out all the Hu cakes he brought and gave them them, and Murong Ling also gave a large piece of meat from Wang Xian's mansion. The two children took the bread and the meat, and continued to stare at their flasks.

Li Xiaofei looked at the wine jug: "You want to drink?" ”

The taller girl said timidly: "My mother gave us another brother, and we want to find some wine for my father."

Murong Ling took the wine jug and handed it to them: "Take it all, let's go and be happy."

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling followed the two girls to a grass hut, the man was sharpening his knife, and the woman was lying on the bed with a baby who was born for a few days. There were a few straw-woven clothes piled up in the straw hut, and a few pig bones and a small bowl of corn were piled up in the corner.

The two girls shook the things in their hands: "Dad, mother, I met two kind uncles who gave us a lot to eat, you can eat quickly"

The man looked at the comer, put the knife down, smiled shyly, and thanked the two of them for his kindness.

Murong Ling noticed that the knife was sharpened extremely smooth and sharp, and Murong Ling patted the man's shoulder: "You come out with us"

The man hesitated, but Murong Ling's hand had already grabbed his wrist and walked outside.

Li Xiaofei saw the two of them go out, and also walked over, passing through several empty rooms, Murong Ling stared at the male host: "Which child are you going to kill when you sharpen your knife?" ”

The man hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "My daughter-in-law just gave birth to a son, and the only food in the family was requisitioned by the imperial court as military food, and the family can't all starve to death, and I can't help it."

Only then did Li Xiaofei react: "You, you actually want to kill your two daughters and eat them, are you still human?" ”

The man kowtowed like garlic: "Sooner or later, my daughter belongs to someone else's family, I have to let my son survive, the two adults forgive their sins, I will sell them, and I won't kill them."

Murong Ling pulled out his long knife: "A person like you who wants to mutilate his own daughter is not worthy of being a father!" ”

Li Xiaofei stood in front of the man: "Murong, I believe that if he wasn't cornered, he wouldn't have done such a thing that was inferior to a beast, killing him today, his wife and children would also be dead." Kill him, we look like we're doing justice, but we're going to starve his family to death."

Murong put away the knife: "Forget it, I will take your two girls away, I will give you 5,000 money, and you will also take your wife and children to escape south, I don't want to see you again"

On the way back with the two girls, Li Xiaofei asked Murong Ling: "Murong, I can't see that you are quite caring, aren't you the most afraid of trouble?" ”

Murong Ling looked at the two sobbing girls in front of him: "I'm in a good mood today, it's just that these two children are very pleasing to the eye!" ”

Li Xiaofei wanted to go back to Luoyang with Murong Ling to see Liu Jian, but he was afraid that he would leave his post without permission and make trouble for Liu Jian, so he wrote a letter together and asked someone to take the letter and the two girls to Luoyang.

Liu Jian's position as the crown prince was abolished, but it was a blessing in disguise, Wang Xian was half dead in Chang'an, so he withdrew Wang Daozhi, and no one monitored Liu Jian. Liu Jian and Xiang Xiaoyu decided to continue to train the palace guards in case of contingencies. Princess Xiao Qian's belly is also getting bigger day by day, and she thinks about giving her child a royal name in the future, but now Liu Jian's position as prince is gone, and Xiao Qian has stopped a lot. However, Liu Jian happily persuaded Xiao Qian all day long: "It's not comfortable to be an emperor, and it's not safe, where can I be a free prince, if I become an emperor, your father and your uncles will call for wind and rain in the imperial court, and when the time comes, according to my temperament, they will definitely give them white knives in and red knives out, why bother?" ”

Xiao Qian thought about it carefully, it is true, no emperor can meet all the requirements of the Xiao family, the Xiao family will always put the interests of the Xiao family first, not the interests of the country first.

Zhu Yaoshi got a lot of money from selling officials, and picked out 6,000 soldiers and horses loyal to him, so he summoned craftsmen to make big ships in Liyang. Everyone thought that Zhu Yaoshi was going to cross to the south, and Hu Gao was also very happy, with Zhu Yaoshi as cannon fodder to contain the Liang army, the Black Flag Khanate would be able to progress more smoothly in the Central Plains. Chen Hongyi was also very happy, as soon as Pharmacist Zhu came, Jinling had to send someone to resist.

Xiao Shan saw that Emperor Liu Xuan had changed the crown prince, and in order to prevent Zhong Zhiming from being bribed by Liu Xuan, he asked Zhong Zhiming to lead an army to stop Zhu Yaoshi from going south.

Zhong Zhiming discussed with his staff, thinking that Pharmacist Zhu was just a greedy person and could be bought, so he decided to recruit Pharmacist Zhu.

Zhu Yaoshi's side actually did not plan to go south, and more than 6,000 people had no chance of winning against Zhong Zhiming and nearly 100,000 people in various prefectures, counties, and counties. In fact, he rushed to build large ships in order to take the sea route to Goryeo and the south to trade, after all, the war between the north and the south was cut off. Take the sea route to Goryeo, one is to open up trade routes, and the other is to contain the Black Flag Khanate with the help of Goryeo reinforcements.

After sending a boatload of goods to the king of the golden turtle of Goryeo, Zhu Yaoshi saw the king of the golden turtle, the king of the golden turtle was ambitious, and he opened his mouth to conquer the world, Zhu Yaoshi expressed his willingness to serve the king of the golden turtle, borrowed 10,000 soldiers and horses from Goryeo, and all the territory he conquered in the future belonged to Goryeo. The Golden Turtle King agreed, but the courtiers around him advised him not to trust Pharmacist Zhu. The matter was delayed for some time, and after Pharmacist Zhu knew what was going on, he gave gifts to the ministers of Goryeo, and it was a matter of course.

In April of the third year of Yanchang, Zhu Yaoshi took 10,000 soldiers and horses from Goryeo to Liyang, and rewarded them with wine and meat every day.

After Zhu Yaoshi opened the sea trade route, Hu Gao and Ju Wuzhi both wanted to seize Liyang and run it themselves, but when they learned that there were 10,000 Goryeo soldiers and horses stationed in Liyang, they no longer acted rashly.