Shen Leng was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head.

"I can't do it."

The emperor looked at Shen Leng's painful face, and wanted to say something with a tough attitude, but suddenly he came to his senses, he just said that Shen Leng should not easily change his original intention, but now he is not forcing Shen Leng to change?

If Shen Leng could really make such a choice to abandon him, would it still be Shen Leng?

"Let's go back."

The emperor shook his head: "Go and prepare for war." ”

"Yes."

Shen Leng lowered his head, then turned to leave.

The emperor glanced back at Shen Leng, it was the back of a slender and sturdy young man, his broad shoulders could already hold the sky, but at the moment when the emperor looked at Shen Leng, he seemed to see Shen Leng's shoulders trembling slightly, in a trance, the person he saw in the emperor's eyes changed, the tall young man turned into a little boy in rags, walking over with his back to the crowd, a group of adults talking and laughing passed by the little boy, the little boy's shoulders trembled slightly, suddenly stopped, took a deep breath, Then he gave himself a smile and continued to stride forward.

The emperor's eyes were in a trance again, and in the distance, Shen Leng stopped, his body slowly straightened, it was he taking a deep breath, maybe he also gave himself a smile and told himself not to give up.

The emperor withdrew his gaze from Shen Leng with difficulty, and looked at the mottled and old wooden building in front of him, no matter how old this wooden building is, it will only be a hundred years, and it will be a hundred years.

The pillars on both sides outside the main entrance of the wooden building are engraved with couplets, and it is no longer possible to see what the word is, but it can be seen that it is not the word of Ningren.

The emperor stretched out his finger and pointed: "Cross out the words." ”

Dai Fangzhou, who had been standing in the distance, hurriedly brought the guards over and crossed out the words on the pillar with a horizontal knife.

The emperor glanced at Dai Fangzhou: "Are you afraid?" ”

Dai Fangzhou shook his head, and was still laughing, he was not afraid, he was really not afraid.

"Where Your Majesty is, where the slave and maid belong, what is there to fear from the slave and maid."

The emperor also laughed: "Don't brag, how can anyone not be afraid of death." ”

"The slave maid is afraid of death, what he is afraid of is that he can't die by His Majesty's side, when His Majesty asked the slave maid to serve in the imperial study, the slave maid swore that as long as the slave maid still has a breath, he will serve His Majesty well, otherwise he will feel guilty when he swallows his breath, the slave and the maid think, eighty percent is the blessing of eighteen lifetimes to work in the imperial study to serve His Majesty, the slave is not a perfect person, but the slave is the most proud."

The emperor laughed: "Silly. ”

Dai Fangzhou said: "The slave is not stupid, the slave is smart." ”

"Tell me, then, where is your cleverness?"

"Slaves and maids are smart and smart, as long as they don't leave Your Majesty's side, by Your Majesty's grace, they will definitely live a long life."

The emperor laughed: "You are becoming more and more able to speak, let's go, let's go, follow me to the city wall, the army of the black warriors will arrive in three days at the latest, and you can't move around on the city wall at will, I will tell you the origin of this ancient city." ”

"Okay."

Dai Fangzhou laughed, like a young man.

For a person like him, the palace is home, and for a person like him, His Majesty is not there, and the palace is not a home.

Chang'an City.

Han Zhaozhi sat in the study and pondered, perhaps in a daze, looking at the table motionlessly, but there was nothing on the table, all the files had been processed and put aside, and the place where he was staring was empty.

The window was open, blowing the curtain, Han Zhaozhi asked people to change the thick curtains, the curtains were light and thin, and they were replaced with such curtains because people are not light, Shang Jiu said that you have locked yourself in a dark room for too long, like a lonely ghost.

Han Zhaozhi has always wanted to turn himself into a lonely soul and a wild ghost, that kind of Du Tingwei will be scary, as long as he is in the Tingwei Mansion, he doesn't need friends and doesn't need to express enthusiasm, he has to be a lonely soul and wild ghost that everyone is afraid of, but later he found out that people are not afraid of lonely souls and wild ghosts, people are afraid of evil people.

The wicked, gods and demons are afraid.

What does a wicked person look like? The wicked can't tell the difference, and the people can't even tell the bad guys, let alone the wicked?

Bad people and evil people are two levels, most of the bad people are hideous, and the wicked people may be well-dressed.

Qianban Fang Bailu walked in from the outside, he had been used to the brightness in the room for a long time, he thought that Lord Han would also make the room bright because of his bright mood, but later Fang Bailu found out that Lord Han made the room brighter and brighter because his heart was getting more and more gloomy.

"My lord, I've found a lot."

Han Zhaozhi's eyes were in a trance, as if he had just come back to his senses.

"Tell me."

"My lord, recently my subordinates have sent people to stare at the prince of the East Palace to accompany Lin Dongting, Wang Yayan, the commander of the East Palace guard, Wu Dong, the general of the left guard of the East Palace, Li Sicheng, the general of the right guard, and others, at present, the most frequent person who goes out is the prince to accompany him, Lin Dongting is the only son of Lin Yaoxian, a member of the Cabinet University, Lin Yaoxian has been in the cabinet for eleven years, so his subordinates not only let people stare at Lin Dongting, but also stare at Lin Dongting's family, and the second assistant has been going out very frequently recently, but the people who come and go have no intersection, and there are many people in contact, There were also many people sent out by his subordinates, and nothing was discovered at first. ”

Fang Bailu continued: "These people don't seem to know each other, and there is no contact in life, people are not at the same level, too many are too complicated, it is difficult to identify, and then the subordinates asked people to make a map, and draw the routes that everyone who is staring at, every day, and everyone who is staring at them to see if there is any overlap in their routes on this day." ”

"For five or six days, my subordinates found a place that was very suspicious."

Fang Bailu put the few pieces of paper in his hand on the table and laid them out one by one, and the paper was full of dense lines, because each piece of paper was not a person's walking route, but a lot of people's, so it seemed very chaotic, but this kind of chaos was not difficult to see the problem, because if they had an intersection, there would inevitably be a point.

Several sheets of paper, all with a dot that coincides.

"Yuanwang Township Restaurant."

Fang Bailu said: "They have either passed by, or entered, they have all been here, and it is difficult to find if they don't overlap the lines." ”

Han Zhaozhi got up: "Go and see this Yuanwangxiang Restaurant, and change your clothes." ”

Fang Bailu lowered his head: "Yes!" ”

At the same time, Yuanwang Township Restaurant.

Su Qifan sat on a chair and drank tea, looking calm and relaxed, but Cao Anqing, who was sitting opposite him, seemed a little uneasy.

"Grandpa Cao's appearance today doesn't seem to be very stable."

Su Qifan put down the teacup and glanced at Cao Anqing: "What are you afraid of?" ”

"Lately, I've felt like someone is staring at me."

Cao Anqing said: "Major events cannot be delayed any longer, and decisions must be made as soon as possible." ”

Su Qifan shook his head: "Since a big thing is a big thing, how can it be done hastily?" Your people went to Pingyue Road and haven't sent back the news, Kang Wei didn't come back, he rashly killed Lai Cheng, and the prince couldn't control the situation. ”

At this moment, he seems to be a real prince, he and Cao Anqing think differently, naturally they have different ideas, Cao Anqing just wants to let the prince usurp the throne as soon as possible, in this way, can the emperor still save the prince's life when he returns from northern Xinjiang? He just wants the prince to die, with infamy on his back.

Su Qifan thought differently, he needed to become the prince's cronies, he didn't simply want the prince to usurp the throne, what he thought was that the prince had to usurp the throne and had to kill Li Chengtang, with the prince's ability, it was estimated that it would be difficult, or he had to rely on him, as long as Li Chengtang died in northern Xinjiang, the prince would not be a usurper.

He can rightfully return to the court in Daning, and he returns to the court as a close confidant of the prince, can't he still enter the cabinet?

The crown prince became emperor, and he became a cabinet scholar.

When he took the initiative to contact Cao Anqing, he had already begun to plan this, and the crown prince would inevitably reuse him when he ascended the throne, as long as he entered the cabinet...... He has one more choice in his life, either to become the deepest and highest chess piece planted by the Heiwu Empire in Daning, or to cut off all the contacts on the Heiwu side with one sword, and to be a powerful minister of Daning in a down-to-earth manner.

Even if he returns to Heiwu, will he become a high-ranking official at the level of a cabinet scholar?

No, never, the Black Warriors look down on the Bohai people in their bones, in the eyes of the Black Warriors, the Bohai people are a group of slaves, a group of inferior people, not even people, they are Bohai spies working hard for the Black Warriors, but what can they get? After going back, it is only a small reward of silver, and they have to be grateful to Dade and return to the life of the black martial arts, and these people who have made great contributions to the black martial arts are also inferior in front of those ordinary black martial arts people.

The Bohai people are inferior people in Heiwu, and they can't change it.

The Black Warriors called the Bohai people the Eastern Barbarians, and the people of the Black Mountain Khanate became the Western Barbarians, but in fact, those people in the Black Mountain Khanate could still be reused in the Black Warrior Court, but none of the Bohai people could be reused.

How good it is to be a powerful minister in Daning.

Here, but Daning!

So Su Qifan really wants to help the prince do things, and do things seriously.

"Wait?"

Cao Anqing stood up violently: "If you wait any longer, Han Zhaozhi will definitely find something, don't underestimate this person, his nose is more sensitive than a dog, once he bites him, who can escape?" ”

"Why is Grandpa Cao impetuous?"

Su Qifan took another sip of tea: "It seems difficult to kill Lai Cheng, but it is never difficult to kill people, how to deal with the aftermath after killing, Lai Cheng is dead, what should the cabinet do?" His Royal Highness ascended the throne, what we want is not a messy court and a messy world, we can deceive the second assistant Lin Yaoxian and say that Lai Cheng will make him the first assistant after his death, but you and I both know that Kang Wei is the most suitable person, and when Lin Yaoxian finishes everything he can do for us, this person will also die. ”

He looked at Cao Anqing and said seriously: "Kang Wei can't go to Chang'an, and Lai Chengcheng can't die." ”

Cao Anqing knew that this person was uncontrollable, and he still had to use his own means.

He sighed: "You have the final say. ”

After saying that, he went downstairs and left.

Su Qifan waited for Cao Anqing to leave and beckoned: "Send someone to keep an eye on Cao Anqing, this person is wrong, he doesn't really want to seek the world for the prince...... I have to go out in advance and come back soon, Lin Dongting and Wu Dong will be here in a while, they are trying to win over the generals left behind by the forbidden army, and they may come here to talk. ”

Su Qifan got up and moved: "Guard the back door, once something happens, send people away from the back door." ”

The back door he said wasn't really the back door.

At this time, a carriage stopped at the gate of the Yuanwang Township Restaurant, Fang Bailu, who was dressed in casual clothes, got out of the car and looked around, Han Zhaozhi got down from the carriage and looked up at the signboard of the Yuanwang Township Restaurant.

"Cheesy."

He gave a comment.

On the third floor, Su Qifan habitually walked to the window and looked down before going downstairs, and his face changed.