At the end of the banquet, only Zhu Youzhen and Fan Sheng were left in the room, and Zhu Youzhen asked: "You mentioned the medical case earlier, what about the body of the father?" ”

Fan Sheng smiled slightly, and also said in an inaudible voice: "Your Majesty has rarely left the palace since he entered Chang'an, but he is getting stronger and stronger day by day, and His Royal Highness also knows that His Majesty was originally very strong, but now it is more or less problematic." However, except for the impaired mobility, there are no major problems. ”

"That's good, that's good!" Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed. It's not that he is filial, but now his wings haven't really hardened, if his Lao Tzu really has a big problem with his body and burps, with the current situation, it must be his eldest brother Zhu Youyu who is on the throne. Once the boss takes the throne, how can he, the third oldest, be good? Being an idle prince is even cheaper for him.

"But Your Majesty has an old problem, which can't be changed." Fan Sheng restrained his smile and said, "And it is getting more and more intense." ”

"The widow is sick!" Zhu Youzhen smiled: "This is not a big problem, right?" ”

"It's not a big problem, but it also depends on the person." Fan Sheng's voice was almost inaudible.

Obedient and listening, as soon as Fan Sheng said this, Zhu Youzhen immediately realized the mystery inside, "So, my father has touched some people who shouldn't be touched?" That being the case, why not get rid of it quickly? ”

"I can't handle it." Fan Sheng glanced at Zhu Youzhen and said.

"Who is it?"

"The Great Princess!"

With a bang, Zhu Youzhen was so frightened that she fell to the ground.

"How? Ridiculous, nonsense. Jumping up from the ground, Zhu Youzhen's face turned red. The so-called eldest princess is naturally the wife of his eldest brother Zhu Youyu. "Does he know?"

"I don't think we know yet." Fan Shengdao: "Those who know about this, except for the parties involved, should only be the queen now, and the three of them should respect me." Kyung Xiang learned about this through other channels. ”

"Why doesn't the queen mother?"

"The queen has always been afraid of Your Majesty, and now Your Majesty has repeatedly summoned the princess into the palace through the queen." Fan Sheng said: "Your Majesty seems to be very obsessed with such feelings. ”

Zhu Youzhen slammed her fist on the table, but she didn't know what to say.

"That's it, I won't do my business after all."

"Let's wait and see what happens!" Fan Sheng said: "Your Highness doesn't have to worry about the affairs of Chang'an, you have your own respectful arrangement." ”

"Hao Ren is still very honest, right? His business is an important source of income for me. ”

"Don't worry, he has a subordinate official to keep an eye on for His Royal Highness!" Fan Sheng smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness, that Xu Xiang, Chen Fu, Tian Guofeng, I still want to take a look at it." ”

"If you want to see it, you can see it!" Zhu Youzhen didn't care, "But Xu Xiang and Chen Fu are not as stupid as Tian Guofeng, the two of them are shrewd, you don't want to be asympathetic, I don't want them to think that I don't trust them." ”

"It seems that His Royal Highness values these people very much!"

"Xu Xiang is a good hand at governing places, Tian Guofeng is unparalleled in the charge, and Chen Fu's one-handed archery skills are also rare, you know, I am now poor in my hands, and I am even more short of capable people." Zhu Youzhen said.

"Your Royal Highness, don't worry, I will only watch from the sidelines, I won't alarm them, maybe I'll check their past from the side." Fan Sheng said: "This is also for the sake of the plans of the Third Highness. ”

"Of course I do."

Xu Xiang, who Fan Sheng wanted to investigate, is really working hard now. When they were trained in the internal guards, Li Ze, who was still the commander of Wuwei at the time, taught them all the lessons and said some words, which made Xu Xiang remember them vividly.

A successful spy, sometimes, has to fool himself.

Now Xu Xiang is trying to get closer to this direction, and he is serving Zhu Youzhen very seriously. After taking office as the prefect of Tai'an, he almost never lived in the mansion, but rode a horse and ran all the way around Tai'an with his guards.

He did a lot of things.

He killed a lot of people.

He's high-profile, and he's never restrained.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, everything Xu Xiang did was to build a stable base for him, so that he could withdraw a large number of people from Qingzhou in a good manner.

The resettlement of more than 100,000 people is really not an easy task, but in Xu Xiang's hands, it was done unexpectedly. Of course, in order to complete these tasks, in order to allow these more than 100,000 people to live and work in peace and contentment in Tai'an, Xu Xiang slaughtered many landlords and local tyrants in Tai'an.

It's easy to find excuses, which of these people didn't collude with the unlucky Tai'an prefect of the predecessor?

Kill people, confiscate property, and then distribute the vacant land to those who are new to it. Xu Xiang is very proficient in this set, because this set, originally under Li Ze's rule, was already very proficient in assembly line operations. Xu Xiang, it's just a copy.

And Xu Xiang didn't think that this move would arouse the suspicion of others.

The more calm he is, the more people trust him.

Now Tai'an is already quite weather. And his reputation as the prefect of Tai'an has spread far away. It can be said that it is deeply respected by the people of Tai'an. Even those outsiders from Qingzhou and others who were forced to relocate to this Tai'an prefect couldn't find any flaws except for a thumbs up.

When Zhu Youzhen's immigration was the largest, Cao Xuan of the Tianping Army had personally come to visit, Cao Xuan was worried that such a scale of immigration would cause riots and other unforeseen events, and he originally wanted to come over in person to suppress it, but he didn't want to go to Tai'an, but what he saw was an orderly landscape, the local people, the people who moved in, under Xu Xiang's deployment, although there were frictions, but on the whole, it was extremely calm, and the resettlement work was extremely smooth.

This made Cao Xuan very surprised, in the letter to Zhu Youzhen, lamenting that he did have the appearance of destiny, a heavy rain blocked the attack of the Tang army, and bought enough time for Zhu Youzhen, and on the way, he picked up a few mountain bandits, there were actually fierce generals who attacked the city and pulled out the village, and there were capable officials who could govern the place.

However, Xu Xiang encountered a hard bone today. Coincidentally, when he was inspecting the sowing of this year's winter wheat in the field, he actually encountered a powerful man who forcibly seized the people's land under his nose.

Those who dare to do this, of course, are hard stubble, and the leader is the big celebrity in front of Zhu Youzhen, the third highness, and Sun Tonglin's in-laws, the Zhou family. And those who are being robbed also have something to do with Zhou. When they were in Qingzhou, these people were originally tenants of the Zhou family, and when they arrived in Tai'an, they were assigned their own fields, so naturally they didn't have to farm for the Zhou family anymore.

There is a kind of awe for the people of the Zhou family in their bones, even if they are far away from their hometowns, but the poor are still poor, and the strong are still strong, without saying a few words, a few whips down, these ordinary people dare not resist at all except crying.

Xu Xiang immediately became angry.

"Where did you come from, dare to take care of grandpa's affairs." Zhou Hao, who was the leader, looked at Xu Xiang who came over arrogantly, Xu Xiang was wearing civilian clothes today, and there were only a few guards behind him, and the team of dozens of entourages with Zhou Hao was not worth mentioning.

"Dare to be so arrogant in front of this official?" Xu Xiang narrowed his eyes, looked at Zhou Hao, and said coldly.

"This officer? Who are you? "I heard that it was an official, but Zhou Hao was a little polite.

"This official Xu Xiang!"

"Ouch, it turned out to be Xu Fujun!" Zhou Hao laughed, "This is really a big flood that washed away the Nongwang Temple, I am ......"

"I know you are Zhou Hao, the eldest son of the Zhou family!" Xu Xiang snorted coldly and said: "Your Zhou clan moved to Tai'an, according to the rule of one hundred acres per person, your Zhou clan has already divided tens of thousands of acres of land, how can you still dare to drive these peasants and occupy their land, is it an ornament to be Lao Tzu?" ”

didn't say three words, Xu Xiang's gangsterism was already revealed.

Looking at Xu Xiang's appearance, Zhou Hao's face gradually turned cold, Xu Xiang, of course he knew, but he only knew, but his father-in-law was Sun Tonglin, who was a figure that His Royal Highness relied on very much now, a small Tai'an prefect, he really didn't look at it.

"Xu Fujun, you did give the Zhou family tens of thousands of acres of land, but only half of the watered land was irrigated, and the rest were sloping and sandy land, I didn't rob them, I just wanted to exchange them with them." Zhou Hao pointed to a few peasants who were trembling on the side.

"It's a good one, one for another. It is good to use your own slopes and sand to exchange the water that these farmers have sown to water the land, and the abacus is really good! Xu Xiang thought coldly, "Give you a chance, get out of here now." From now on, be honest with me, otherwise, Lao Tzu will make you unable to eat and walk around. ”

"Yo ho, give you a little color, you also opened a dyeing workshop!" Zhou Hao laughed angrily, and with a wave of his hand, a group of powerful servants had already surrounded Xu Xiang and a few others. "A little prefect, dare to argue with me, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will be able to change the prefect of the Third Highness immediately?"

Xu Xiang stared at Zhou Hao who was approaching, suddenly smiled, stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Hao's neck with one hand, and under the dumbfounded gaze of everyone, the prefect, dressed as a scribe, took out a small knife from his waist, and stabbed it on Zhou Hao's thigh with a backhand.

Zhou Hao screamed loudly.

The surrounding servants were frightened and rushed up. Xu Xiang put the knife on Zhou Hao's neck, and said coldly: "Whoever dares to take another step forward, Lao Tzu will let him be reincarnated." Bastard, dare to threaten Lao Tzu, and don't want to think about who Lao Tzu is? ”

It was only at this time that everyone remembered that this prefect had been the leader of the Taishan bandits earlier.

"Xu Ba, go and summon someone!" Xu Xiang roared angrily, and even if a guard walked out, the Zhou servant didn't want to give way, but after Xu Xiang made another knife on Zhou Hao's thigh, Xu Ba left from the crowd with a smile.