At night, there was an accident in Chang'an City, almost all the people of the Tingwei Mansion were sent out, and the patrol soldiers and horses mobilized two thousand armor soldiers to assist the Tingwei Mansion in various parts of the city to search and arrest, and the people did not know what was going on, and Chang'an City was so big that most of the people did not even know that something had happened.

The city gate opened soon after dawn, and the dignity of Chang'an City was that it would not close all the city gates during the day because some Bohai scouts sneaked in, so this gave Mu Zhaotong an opportunity.

Mu Zhaotong knows Daning too well, knows the Ning people too well, and knows the emperor too well, and knows too much about the dignity of the emperor and the dignity of Chang'an.

The carriage is specially made, the bottom of the carriage is double-decker, and there is a mezzanine under the seats in the carriage to hide two people, although it is squeezed some, but it is nothing for the thin figure of Mu Zhaotong and his wife.

The carriage underwent a very strict examination at the gate of the city, and there were only some books in the carriage that were to be transported out of the city to Fangcheng County, all of which had been unpacked and inspected, so there was no problem, and the carriage left slowly.

According to the plan, the carriage will enter Fangcheng County before dark, the people arranged by Cao Anqing are already waiting there, and the inn has been decided, no one will know that the bachelor who once leaned towards the government and the opposition will hide here.

But the carriage stopped thirty miles after leaving the city, and the coachman helped Mu Zhaotong and his wife out of the car, and the two hobbled old men took advantage of the fact that no one was there and got off the road and into the woods.

There was a group of people waiting in the woods, and these people were not Cao Anqing's people.

Mu Zhaotong and his wife walked separately, and a team of people escorted his wife away, while Mu Zhaotong stood in the woods and watched his wife go away, raised his hand and waved.

"Don't turn back one step at a time, what else do we have to give up at our age, let's go, let's go, the rest will be handed over to me, my son's hatred, I will report it quietly and steadily, I will send you to a place where you can sleep in peace, you have been getting more and more sleepy recently."

He let out a long breath, turned around, and the remaining two guards set him up and swept out towards the other side of the woods, and there was an ox cart parked on the south side of the woods, and the ox cart was loaded with a cart of hay, Mu Zhaotong got into the forage, and there was a space created in it, and although he was a little depressed and panicked after getting in, there was nothing he could not bear now.

The ox cart staggered forward, not in a hurry, and did not go on the main road, but followed the country road into the village not far away.

This village is called Thirty Mile Fort, the village is not big, there are only about 100 households, at this time the land has not yet frozen, and it is impossible to cultivate, so the villagers are very idle, chatting at the door, or getting together for a few drinks, the weather is still so cold, except for the occasional child running out, who will wander on the street.

The ox cart entered the yard of a farmhouse, and the two guards looked at the left and right and saw that there was no one on the left and right, and then took Mu Zhaotong out, Mu Zhaotong picked the grass dipped in his body after entering the yard, and when he looked up, he saw the middle-aged man standing at the door of the house smiling.

"Mr. Xun Zhi."

Mu Zhaotong clenched his fists: "Long up." ”

Xun Zhi quickly came down from the steps, and said with his fists as he walked: "The student has admired the elder pavilion for a long time, and he has always wanted to find a chance to meet the elder pavilion, but it is always a bad time. ”

Mu Zhaotong laughed: "Mr. Xun Zhi is too polite, in fact, you and I have met before, but we have never spoken, at that time you taught the prince to read and write in the palace, and I saw it from afar when I entered the palace." ”

Xun Zhi said with a smile: "I missed it at that time, but fortunately, God treats students well, and I finally have to see the elder of the pavilion." ”

The two of them helped each other into the house, this farmhouse doesn't look very dilapidated, but it is also old, the original residents of the village moved to a new home to live, this courtyard was rented by Xun Zhi, the village is not Chang'an City, there is no need to go to Chang'an Mansion to report to rent a house.

After Mu Zhaotong sat down, Xun Zhi hurriedly poured tea for him: "Calculating that the time Pavilion Lao is coming, so I made tea in advance, and I heard that Pavilion Lao used to like to drink Pu'er the most, so I deliberately found a few cakes of ripe tea that have been decades old." ”

Mu Zhaotong shook his head: "It's good to drink white water, when you are old, Pu'er will not sleep well after drinking." ”

Xun Zhi hurriedly changed a cup and poured hot water for Mu Zhaotong, and Mu Zhaotong held the quilt to warm his hands: "I just didn't expect that it was me and Mr. Xun Zhi who came together in the end." ”

Xun Zhi didn't think of it either.

In the past, he looked down on Mu Zhaotong so much, in his opinion, Mu Zhaotong really played a good hand of cards, but when Cao Anqing came into contact with Xun Zhi and said Mu Zhaotong's plan, he thought about it carefully from Mu Zhaotong's point of view, only to find that Mu Zhaotong was actually not as unbearable as he thought, and the old man who had been locked up in the Eight Alleys for the rest of his life was still able to control the prince tightly, how could he be a useless person?

"Elder Ge."

Xun Zhi asked humbly: "How long does Elder Ge think the prince can hold out?" ”

"Look at Your Majesty's mood."

Mu Zhaotong smiled: "Do you really think that the crown prince is very important?" Do you really think that our Emperor Majesty will pass on the throne to him? ”

Xun Zhi has always had this question, so he bowed his head and said, "Please give me advice." ”

Mu Zhaotong took a sip of water, the rush along the way was fine, the weather at the end of the month was indeed too difficult for him, the old man was most afraid of the cold, and the fear of the cold was like death.

After a sip of water, his chest and abdomen were warmer, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Actually, you can already see that Your Majesty is too conceited, he has always said that the prince is a talent for keeping things, and he can rest assured that he will hand over Daning to the prince in the future, but does Daning need to be a talent for keeping it?" There is no need, and it is not now, for hundreds of years since the founding of Daning, which emperor and His Majesty have not been pioneering and enterprising but blindly conformist? ”

Xun Zhi asked: "That's the second prince?" ”

"Yes."

Mu Zhaotong nodded: "If there is no second prince before, it is still possible for the prince to ascend the throne in the future, after the second prince has no hope for the prince to ascend the throne, Your Majesty did it just to appease the hearts of the courtiers, but also to make the prince feel more down-to-earth, with His Majesty's age, it will not be a problem to be in charge of Daning for more than ten years, after more than ten years, the prince will be in his thirties, and the second prince is just twenty years old, perhaps, His Majesty does not plan to let the prince live until that time." ”

Xun Zhi's face changed: "Your Majesty's heart is afraid that it is not so ruthless, after all, it is his own flesh and blood." ”

"That's what I said."

Mu Zhaotong said: "You and I both know that Your Majesty is actually not a ruthless person, if it were, the queen would not have been a demon for twenty years, and I would not be locked up in the Eight Alleys to copy books, we have already been killed by His Majesty, but what are we doing?" Isn't what we're doing just asking His Majesty to kill the crown prince? ”

Xun Zhi came to his senses.

"Elder Ge, did you go to great lengths to come out just to kill a prince?"

"Nope."

Mu Zhaotong put down the water glass and was silent for a long time before replying: "I came out with all my might, not to kill the prince, but to make Your Majesty sad, the pain of losing your son, Your Majesty should also taste it." ”

For Xun Zhi, this is one thing, but for

Mu Zhaotong said that these are two things.

Xun Zhi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then the elder came to me to kill the prince?" ”

"Not really."

Mu Zhaotong said: "With your talent, it's too wasteful to follow the prince to do things, I just want to pull you out, although I hate Your Majesty, but I have to say that Your Majesty is the strongest emperor in Daning for hundreds of years, and I don't have the heart to rebel, let me personally dig up a piece of Daning's foundation I can't do, I am Ningchen, no matter how much I hate Your Majesty, I am also Ningchen." ”

Xun Zhi was solemn: "Thank you, Elder Ge." ”

"You still have a chance in the future, I will pull you out of the crown prince now, you follow me to learn more, and you will not be old enough to do anything after more than ten years, besides, after you leave the prince, I can design to let you come into contact with the second prince, but your face is ......"

Xun Zhi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Elder Ge has bothered, but there is no turning back." ”

"Alas......"

Mu Zhaotong sighed: "I'll talk about this later, you leave the prince's side first, follow him, and sooner or later you will die." ”

Xun Zhi snorted: "Thank you, Elder Ge." ”

Mu Zhaotong got up: "My old body is really a little unbearable, go sleep for a while, I'm really sorry." ”

The inspector hurriedly got up: "Pavilion Elder go to rest, I'm waiting for Pavilion Elder here." ”

Mu Zhaotong walked a few steps to the inner room and turned around: "There is one thing I have always wondered, why did you choose the queen in the first place with your talent?" If you have been in the office seriously, it has been 20 years, I am afraid that you have already entered the cabinet, and the worst is the secondary. ”

How did Xun Zhi answer?

replied that I was also pressed by you when I entered the cabinet, and I wanted to be the first assistant instead of the second assistant?

He could only smile bitterly.

"Mr. Xun Zhi, your goal should be lowered, if it could be lower back then, it would not be the situation it is now."

After Mu Zhaotong said this, he entered the back room, leaving Xun Zhi to sit alone in the living room in a daze, his regret is that only now do he know how good he was at the beginning, how naïve and ridiculous he was, Mu Zhaotong's sentence just now has obviously seen through his mind, only after he has really contacted it, he understands that Mu Zhaotong in his heart and the real Mu Zhaotong are not a person.

He sat there and drank his tea until it was gone.

Someone came in from outside the courtyard, it was a small Taoist, who looked to be in his twenties, and looked at Xun Zhi after entering the door: "Where is the old man?" ”

Xun pointed to the back room: "I'm resting." ”

"Oh."

Xiaodaoren sat down by himself, ignored Xun Zhi, and sat like that.

When I saw this little Taoist, Xun Zhi thought of the queen again, many years ago, I heard that there was a big incident in the palace of Liuwang, the queen stole Concubine Zhen's child, and since then he no longer entered the Taoist temple but changed to Zen Buddhism, chanting the Buddha every day, His Majesty has lost his temper several times because of this incident, and even let people smash the queen's meditation hall.

His Majesty also said that the Dao Sect belongs to Daning's own family, who will protect me if I don't protect it?

So, who would have thought that the queen's Tianzi family was in the Taoist temple?

She is so disgusted with Taoists, even the emperor is convinced.

Small means, the queen has few opponents, she just loses in the big picture.

These Xun Zhi have known for a long time, and he has said it more than once, but when he knew that the people of the Tianzi family were in the Chang'an Taoist Temple, he really realized the horror of the queen, once a woman is ruthless, she will do anything.

She spent more than 20 years chanting sutras and reciting Buddha, just to cover her Tianzi department.

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