"Alright, it's almost there!" Ling Quan wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said exhaustedly, "Let's see if there are any fish that have slipped through the net." ”

"Plus the people we caught in the city, just right for this "Marching Chronicles"." Zhao Gongzi flipped through the roster recorded by Xu Jianjun and sneered, "My heart is quite fine, but I just stood on the wrong position." Say, who sent you? ”

"Humph!" Xu Jianjun writhed in a daze, the medicinal properties of last night had not passed, and he was still extremely uncomfortable at the moment.

"It's Uncle Ning, right? Hehuang's side is about to start a war with the Jin soldiers, but they really want to kill me? Zhao Gongzi said.

Uncle Ning coveted the throne and secretly recruited troops, but his strength was still not as good as his father's.

My father has been sick in the past few years, and the rest of the princes are still young, so get rid of me and let my father lose his ideal heir. When his father is terminally ill, he can sit on the throne justifiably.

It's a good calculation.

However, what really worries Zhao Gongzi is that he ran away secretly, and it stands to reason that my father doesn't know my whereabouts. How did Uncle Ning know?

There should be fine work in the palace, and the martial arts are very strong. At the very least, I can hide from the forbidden army that my father planted beside me.

However, since there is such a person, taking the risk of breaking into the palace, maybe he can succeed in assassinating my father and the emperor, and then get rid of me, isn't it easy?

Why are you chasing after me?

Zhao Gongzi thought hard, and in a blink of an eye, the sky was already bright, the wet mist gradually rose, and a touch of morning glow hung at the end of the lake.

In the distance, almost at the end of the woodland, a figure stood on an old pine tree towering into the clouds, staring blankly at the shore of the lake.

But under the old Panasonic, there were some slight footprints on the wet muddy ground, like scratches left by a rabbit that had lost its gravity jumping on the mud ground......

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In Bianliang City, the people who get up early set up all kinds of breakfast shops, and the caravans come and go through this prosperous capital.

In the Zichen Hall in the north of the Daqing Palace, hundreds of purple-robed officials stood respectfully on both sides of the Bianjing Imperial Palace, quietly waiting for the start of the court meeting.

But waiting left and right, and there was no trace of the official family when the sun was about to rise, and the minister closest to the dragon chair poked the white-bearded old man behind him, and said, "Didn't you be summoned by the official family yesterday?" Is the official dragon still sick? ”

"This ......."

"You mean!"

"Wang Shugong, I'...... I didn't see the official family yesterday! (PS: Wang Shugong refers to Wang Anshi, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, because he was once named the Duke of Shu, so in the officialdom, the officials at the bottom often call him Wang Shugong.) ）

"Then you didn't ask the Imperial Doctor?" Wang Anshi refuted loudly.

"I....... I ......." The white-bearded minister was so nervous that he couldn't speak, and a thin cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Just when Wang Anshi was about to go to the emperor's bedroom to investigate, an old eunuch stood in front of the hundred officials with a yellow scroll. (In the Song Dynasty, there was no eunuch, and at that time it was called Zhongren, and in order to facilitate the reader's reading, eunuchs were used here to refer to them.) ）

"The official family is ill and unable to get up, so today's morning court is canceled."

Wang Anshi was just about to ask the old eunuch, but he glared at him fiercely, "The official family also said that Wang Shugong does not need to come to visit the official family if he continues to implement the new law." ”

With that, the old eunuch immediately walked out of the temple gate.

In a short time, it had become a debate meeting, and hundreds of officials were expressing their opinions on whether the new law should be implemented.

Wang Anshi sent the old eunuch away, and he couldn't stop feeling melancholy in his heart, it was another war, and it was a change in the law, and the official family was physically and mentally exhausted......

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In a small garden in the Lingfu Pavilion of the Imperial Palace, two middle-aged men were playing chess unhurriedly.

"You don't go to the early dynasty to discuss the new law, or discuss the front-line war with the ministers, but ask me to play chess with you, you are really ......."

"Brother Ning, you said that we have been playing chess for so many years, but why can't we tell the winner for so long?"

"Eat!" Ning Wang Ye dropped a sunspot engraved with the word eagle and entered the chessboard.

"We have been pretending to fight for so many years, just to expand our power in the rivers and lakes to lure that person out, but you say, it's been so long, why hasn't that person shown up?"

"Eat!" Ning Wang Ye dropped another chess piece and said, "What do you think of the official?" ”

"Are we too ostentatious?" The official smiled bitterly, "But do you know that a game of chess that we carefully planned was disturbed by a child." ”

Prince Ning froze suddenly, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Who is it?" Could it be the people around the prince? ”

"Who knows? It's just that we have been planning for so long, and all of a sudden it is a mess, you say, are we doing something? ”

"I'm afraid you've got an idea, right?" Prince Ning asked, "No wonder the first emperor made you the crown prince, compared to you, I am still too tender after all." ”

"People often see what they want to see, big things can be focused on for years or even about to be settled, but small things, few people can not ignore it, or they can't see it." The official said.

"So you're going to get that kid away?" Ning Wang Ye hung a chess piece, staring at the chessboard but not falling the chess piece.

"On the contrary....... the official picked up a small grain of sand from the ground, put it on top of a white chess piece, and smiled slowly, "It should be like this." ”

After a long time, Lord Ning put the sunspot back into the bowl containing the chess pieces.

"You're a ........ ruthless"

"But that's all I can do......."

"After all, that guy has clever means!"

………………

When the child was served, after waiting for the housekeeper to rest, the queen mother called the eunuch beside the official family and asked, "What did the official family say to Ning'er in the garden today?" ”

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, they are all border wars, these days have made the official family hard, while discussing the new law, while starting a war with Western Xia, the root of the disease has fallen." The eunuch said.

"Really?" The queen mother put down the teacup and instructed the maidservant on the side to take out a plate of silver and give it to the eunuch.

"Father-in-law Zhou, thank you for your hard work, these are rewards for you, report to me every day about the situation of the official family, I naturally can't treat you badly." The Queen Mother's eyes suddenly became sinister, "But, if you let me know what you are doing secretly behind my back, you can ......."

"Got it, Queen Mother." Zhou Gonggong replied.

"Let's go down!"

"No!"

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Gonggong Zhou returned to his residence, and after confirming that there was no one around, he turned out a game of chess from under the bed, and the chess game played by the official family and Prince Ning in the morning kept flashing in his mind.

Zhou Gonggong looked at this chess game that had been restored by himself, suddenly sneered, and then walked to a small cupboard in the hall, and said hoarsely to a spirit card: "Niangniang!" The official family is guarded by the miscellaneous family! ”

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Late at night, the official climbed out of the futon, sat on the bed, and said out the window, "Go! Clever points! ”

The wind blew the leaves rustling, and the official looked at the moonlight coming through the window, and said in a daze: "This game of chess is really difficult to play.......