In the Jin Palace, the left three prime ministers were eating Hu Cake Roll and barbecue while telling the King of Jin about his various experiences in the Western Regions, and the King of Jin was like a young man listening to a book and listening to it obsessively with a Hu Cake.

It's just the two of them, and the eunuchs and maids next to them are all frolicking by themselves, and they don't pay attention to these two at all.

It's not that I'm not afraid of King Jin and Zuo Sanxiang, but it has become a habit in the past few decades, and Zuo Sanxiang's eyebrows are dancing vividly, and King Jin is fascinated when he listens to it.

All the things that Zuo Sanxiang said in other places add up to what he said in a year in the Jin Palace, and the King of Jin can listen to Zuo Sanxiang tell some anecdotes and folk tales for decades.

And this time it is even more different, it is the real experience of the Western Expedition, I used to listen to this teacher sell himself and boast, although King Jin did not say it, he always had some doubts in his heart.

Others reminded more than once that Zuo Sanxiang is the second Zhao Kuo, and this word reached Zuo Sanxiang's ears, but Zuo Sanxiang laughed, "What's the matter with the second Zhao Kuo, as long as you don't meet Bai Qi, others are not Zhao Kuo's opponents at all!" ”

And this time, Zuo Sanxiang suddenly became a famous general comparable to Wei Qinghuo's illness, with real achievements and meritorious achievements, so that other subordinate officials today have taken leave to go home.

King Jin also knew that these people were ashamed to see Zuo Sanxiang, Zuo Sanxiang had really become a generation of famous generals after more than ten years, and these colleagues who looked down on Zuo Sanxiang could only rely on the signboard of King Jin to live.

After Zuo Sanxiang finished talking about how to eliminate the bandits in Yumen Pass, King Jin pushed the bowl of green vegetable and tofu soup in front of him, "Mr. Zuo, the soup is getting cold, let's drink the soup first, by the way, other people in this house are afraid that they will be embarrassed to see Mr. Zuo, and they are all on leave today, but they always have to meet, and please ask Mr. Zuo to be merciful when the time comes!" ”

Zuo Sanxiang wiped his mouth, "It's me who was too excited for a while, I'm really arrogant and conceited in the past few years, and I've offended many people, but fortunately, I have the blessing of His Royal Highness King Jin!" Since they are under the same Jin King's door, Zuo someone's mouth will be restrained from today onwards. His Royal Highness King Jin is highly intelligent, kind-hearted, always thinking about others, and is too benevolent. However, since Zuo was called Mr. by His Royal Highness, Zuo still reminded His Highness that in the position of His Highness, it is not a good thing to have too much kindness, and it is not a good thing to always consider others without thinking about himself. You must know that this world is sinister! ”

"Sir, when you first told the story of you and Miss Yueru, you didn't say that! Haha, I know the painstaking efforts of Mr., but I think I can fight for it by fair and honest means, so I will fight for it. I don't want to hurt others, but I also have the heart to defend others! I also know that the people in the East Palace are eyeing Mr. and this king, and Mr. Now he has made great achievements. On the surface, the Jin Wangfu is gaining momentum, but in fact, the tree is a big wind, but it is not good! ”

Zuo Sanxiang smiled, "King Jin can have such a scheming city in the year of the weak crown, it's really amazing, I was still in my twenties, and I was still fighting with swords to break through the rivers and lakes!" Sure enough, a new generation is better than the old. Zuo's way out is actually not important, the emperor can use it, if he can't use it, he will abandon it, and it doesn't hurt to kill me if he can't use it. But now it's been seventeen years, and I haven't cut the domain, and the emperor won't abandon my knife for the time being! ”

King Jin raised his head with a surprised expression, "Sir, are you saying that my father wants to use you to balance or even suppress the family?" ”

Zuo Sanxiang stretched out his two fingers and pointed left and right, and King Jin immediately waved his hand to make everyone else retreat.

"That's right, in the first year of Hongde, the power of the family was too great, and the emperor could rely on Li Xiaofei, who had no one in the old department of the South China Sea, and Cui Guangyuan was killed overnight and his whereabouts have been unknown since then. Therefore, the matter of cutting down the feudal domain and rectifying military affairs throughout the country will be stopped! But now seventeen years have passed, the emperor's Jin Liangwei has become the climate, and the family is no longer monolithic, and Li Xiaofei's return has attracted the attention of the family. I think the emperor is about to make a move! ”

"Didn't Li Xiaofei go to sea? He has only been back for half a year, what impact can he have? ”

"King Jin knows that Li Xiaofei has left more than half of the old parts scattered all over Daliang, and these people are not ordinary people. In order to keep an eye on them, the families are bound to be distracted, and the emperor is manipulating the battle between the East Palace and the Jin Palace, which is actually decomposing the power of the family. Only the Wang family and the Xiao family did not stand in line, because they occupied the greatest wealth and status. The Xiao family's royal family originally had a grudge, but they were able to temporarily put it down in order to fight against the emperor, and they did not get involved in the battle between the East Palace and the Jin Palace. I think the first thing the emperor wants to eradicate is the Wang family, because of the king

The family also controls the four elites of the Great Liang, and there are many children of the Wang family who can fight well, which has already posed a huge threat to the imperial power! ”

"But the Xiao family will not sit idly by, and the Wang family will not stand still! Isn't that too risky? ”

"The emperor is nearly seventy years old, and the crown prince and His Royal Highness are both people with soft temperaments, and the emperor will not leave the problem to future generations. So there will be action in the next two years, I think the emperor is waiting for Li Xiaofei's return. Only after Li Xiaofei comes back, can he have a greater chance of winning! ”

"Wasn't Li Xiaofei driven away by his father? And it is rumored that his father is going to kill him several times, and his father is afraid of this person! ”

"How holy is the emperor, where can he really not distinguish between loyalty and treachery? It's just to paralyze the family, so I have to do it as a last resort! ”

King Jin stopped talking for a while, and after a long time he looked around before he spoke, "Mr. Zuo, why do you have to say it?" But if you hadn't said it, even I wouldn't have seen it! ”

Zuo Sanxiang ate the last piece of Hu Biscuit and wiped his hands, "I know that the palace has their eyeliner, but there is no need to hide it now." After all, the one who should turn his face must turn his face, some things must be bloody, and strategy alone is not enough! Before Li Xiaofei comes back, I will be the target of the public to buy time! ”

"Mr. Zuo, if you retire now, with your martial arts and talents, you can enjoy the rest of your life in peace, don't you regret it?"

"If I had chosen to back down, I wouldn't have entered the palace in the first place, people are born to die, and they are all dead anyway, so why care about the way of death? My name is three phases, there is no self, no one is like no being, there is no sentient being, in fact, there is another phase, that is, the lifeless phase. Although the turtle is long-lived, there is still a time, life is short for decades, why bother to live and cower? ”

"Maybe it's because people are different, although I was born in the center of the whirlpool, but now I'm in my twenties, I still don't want to fight with people, although I have a chance in that position, but I'm not interested! Maybe being a literati and ink writer who drinks and writes poems on outings is more suitable for me! ”

"Isn't King Jin interested in the princess either? When I entered the house just now, I heard someone in the inner hall calling the princess, and Zuo wanted to congratulate King Jin on getting married! ”

King Jin shook his head, "They are all coming for the princess and even the future queen, full of scheming city government, every time I see the two of them, I feel that I see two ministers, not women." If it weren't for my father's sake, I might have taken the initiative to ask to go to a remote place to be a vassal king! ”

"King Jin, as a master and friend, Zuo respects you. But you were born into the royal family, and some things are out of your own hands. You have no intention of taking the throne, but the people around you are staring at this position, even if it is tied, they will tie you to this position. And even if you don't fight, the prince's side won't take your affection, you are brothers and rivals. The attitude of the subordinate officials of the East Palace towards the Jin Palace, presumably the King of Jin has also been taught. You are indeed much nobler than a person like Zuo who is obsessed with fame, but this world will not be friendly to you because of your nobility. In the future, the crown prince will be the emperor, how can you deal with yourself? ”

"Brother Prince, I have the same temperament, and he won't kill me! Mr. Zuo is too worried! And wasn't the fight between us deliberately created by my father to distract the family? ”

"True and false, false and true, the emperor is considering the problem from his point of view, no matter who succeeds to the throne between you and the crown prince, they are the emperor's sons, as long as the emperor is not changed, the emperor will win. But the prince's side is different, His Royal Highness the King of Jin wins, and the prince's child will have no chance to be on the throne in the future, and because the King of Jin has a soft temperament, he may not listen to the minister's instigation to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. On the other hand, precisely because the prince is also a person with a weak temperament, he is easy to be swayed by others. If the crown prince is resolute and strong, and inherits the throne with the mentality of a strong man, he will treat His Royal Highness King Jin with a high profile! And after a prince with a weak temperament and perennial threats from his younger brother ascends the throne, will he be suspicious of his younger brother and will he eradicate his younger brother? ”

King Jin looked around again and sighed, "Does it have to be this ending?" ”

"If you want to rewrite the ending, you can only take your fate into your own hands! Either the king of Jin will fight for the throne and protect the crown prince from fratricide! Either the King of Jin will kill the family after entangling the power of the family, and he will take the initiative to give up the battle with the East Palace! ”

"There's no third way?"

"Absolutely not, and the two roads that Zuo said are also dancing on the edge of the abyss, and if you are not careful, you will be crushed! You don't kill ruthlessly

people, others will kill your friends and subordinates, and in the end, they will kill you! This is the truth of the world! ”

"If I insist on backing down and quitting this Shura field now, what will you do?"

Zuo Sanxiang smiled, "His Royal Highness the King of Jin is so smart that he would say such a stupid thing!" The title of King Jin can be deposed, but your status as a prince and the blood on your body can't! If you have no power or power, you will only be used as a tool and a puppet! When the time comes, not only will the prince not be able to tolerate you, or the emperor will also remove you as a hidden danger! When you have the strength to fight against the East Palace, you are the emperor's pawn and sword, but if you want to be alone, you will betray the emperor! ”

"Why bother to be born in the emperor's family! But even if I die now, I don't want to stay in this palace any longer! Mr. Zuo, you and I are a master and apprentice, can't you help me? ”

As he spoke, King Jin knelt down for Zuo Sanxiang.

Zuo San almost fell off the stool, and hurriedly came to help King Jin, "His Royal Highness King Jin, you are making such a big gift to torture Zuo!" Zuo Mou didn't dare to be! If His Royal Highness the King of Jin really doesn't want to stay in the palace, Zuo has an idea, but I think His Royal Highness the King of Jin will not agree! ”

"Mr. Zuo, you said that as long as you can keep me from staying in the palace, I can do anything!"

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, cute boating on the river to see the spring breeze willows on both sides, listen to the waves of the big river, and then gather the crowd to drink and chant poems?"

Mr. Zuo said with a smile, if I can do this, then I will wake up laughing in my dreams! I have been pretending to be simple and steady all these years, and I never dared to show my thoughts in front of my father and others. I only told the truth to Mr., and Mr. deliberately made fun of me! ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin is too underestimated Zuo, this morning's court meeting, the emperor has hinted that he intends to send someone to inspect the Caohe transshipment, the emperor is not at ease with the officials of the family, I have no foundation like this and I am afraid that it will not be able to do well, so I will inevitably send a prince to host it and let experienced people co-organize! Looking around the court, except for His Royal Highness King Jin and Liu Jingchuan and my left-hand trio, there is nothing better! ”

"Looks like the gentleman is still going to pull me into the whirlpool!"

"As long as His Royal Highness King Jin is alive for one day, he will not be able to get out of this whirlpool, this is your fate. But His Royal Highness the King of Jin can change the whole process, I and Liu Jingchuan will do it, and His Royal Highness the King of Jin can go boating, drinking, writing poems and songs! However, if His Royal Highness the King of Jin is unwilling, he will treat Zuo as if he didn't say it! ”

"Yes!"

Ten days later, the court meeting, around the reward of the left three ministers, the courtiers agreed that the left three ministers can be crowned marquis, but the official position can only be the three products of the Shaofu, the reason is that the left three ministers cost a huge amount of national money, the merits and demerits are offset, and the official position cannot be promoted.

Everyone knew that this was the rise of the light and the descent of the dark, and the emperor nodded, "You are fair in your comments, and I am very relieved!" Since you can be a marquis, then you can be named Jingzhong Marquis! Cihou Mansion has a hundred hectares of fertile land, 100 silk and satin horses, and 10,000 yuan! It is a little aggrieved to be a young man, but at present, the matter of Caohe transshipment and inspection proposed by the ministers is just short of people to do. Let my son, King Jin, take this newly sealed Hou Ye and Liu Jingchuan, who everyone recognizes as capable of doing this inspection, to do it! ”

The ministers did not expect the emperor to come to this hand, and Liu Jingchuan's appointment procedures to Liangzhou were almost completed.

"Your Majesty, Liu Jingchuan has been appointed as the assassin of Liangzhou, such a change may not be conducive to many affairs in Liangzhou!" Wen Yanru was the first to jump out and object

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this Liu Jingchuan will also have complaints in his heart!" I'm afraid that this sentence is vicious, and Chen Yu seems to have complained about the emperor with just such a sentence.

"Your Majesty, this inspection of the Cao River transshipment still needs to be transferred from all over the country, if you go in a hurry, I am afraid that it will be in vain."

After listening patiently, the emperor got up and said lightly, "The manpower is transferred by the King of Jin, and I will also send Jin Liangwei to assist, if my son returns in vain, I will remove him from the throne and be demoted to a commoner!" ”

This statement is meaningful, Xiao Xian and Wang Fu saw the murderous intent in the emperor's eyes, and it seems that the emperor is ready to make a move.

Pei Yun and the others were also very nervous, this time they were not only standing in line, if the King of Jin fell, as the uncle of the King of Jin, the Pei family would also lose power, they were afraid that the Xiao family and the Wang family were forces, but this time they had to use all their strength.