Text Chapter 16 Hou Mansion
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August 28 is a good day, and it is also the day when the three princes leave the palace and go to the palace.
Han Qian rushed to Fengxiang Street east of the palace with Feng Yi and Kong Xirong early in the morning.
The streets were quiet, the soldiers had not cleared the streets, and the pedestrians were still shuttling around, not realizing that today was different from the past.
It seems that the palace does not want to make a big deal about the matter of the three princes.
The Linjiang Marquis Mansion, where the third prince Yang Yuanpu was rewarded, is located on Fengxiang Street, only three or four hundred steps away from the Wangjiang Gate of the Imperial Palace.
Although the third prince Yang Yuanpu is still young and will not hold public office, and there are no positions such as long history and chief bookkeeper in the palace, under Guo Rong, there are special personnel in charge of chariots, ceremonies, meals, medicine, and sleeping attendants; In addition, there were one hundred and twenty loyal soldiers personally selected by Emperor Tianyou from the guards to form the Hou Mansion Guard Battalion.
Han Qian and the others rushed to the Linjiang Hou Mansion, most of the guards, chamberlains, and palace maids who had served the three princes since childhood, and the two hundred people had already lived in the Hou Mansion.
The Hou Mansion also cleaned up here, the yard was full of flowers and green trees, although the hot summer days had not passed, the yard was very cool.
However, Chen De, the commander of the guard battalion, and Guo Rong, the internal history of the Hou Mansion, that is, the head of the Hou Mansion, and Yang Yuanpu, the third prince of the main lord who had just been canonized by the Marquis of Linjiang, had not yet appeared.
Unless the third prince Yang Yuanpu has a call, otherwise, Han Qian and the others can't casually break into the backyard or the garrison of the guard camp, but the front yard of the Hou Mansion is as big as three entrances and four spans, and it is very open.
In the center of the vestibule is the main hall for banquets and guests, and at the east end is the study house for teaching and reading, and in the middle is a small amusement garden the size of an acre of land.
In the shallow pond hidden under the shade of the willows, more than a dozen koi fish are swimming happily.
Twenty or thirty of the Tsing Yi attendants and palace maids who came out of the palace and served in the Hou Mansion were packing up in the main hall and academy in the front garden, preparing to welcome the main lord to the palace.
The courtyard at the west head is the house where the guests and servants wait; The guards who are usually on duty in the front yard also stay there more, nothing happens, and they don't come out and walk around at will.
Han Qian, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong were all accompanied by domestic soldiers and slaves, and Han Qian would specially bring Zhao Kuo and Fan Dahei, who only came to the city yesterday, and Lin Haizheng, another domestic soldier who was just in his early twenties, with him in the future.
Zhao Kuo and they couldn't walk around casually after entering the Hou Mansion, and at this time, they were being questioned and examined by the guard battalion in the courtyard to ensure that their identities were innocent and appeared next to the third prince Yang Yuanpu, and there would be no problems.
And the one hundred and twenty people in the guard battalion, even if they are all elite cavalry, they are only counted as a battalion of soldiers in the military system of the Chu State, but under Chen De, there is also an assistant in the army, which is Emperor Tianyou to ensure that there are military generals around the Hou Mansion and the Marquis of Linjiang at all times.
Han Qian stood in the courtyard in front of the study, looking at a lake stone next to the pond that was taller than a person's head, with exquisite holes, and a hibiscus flower was in full bloom, competing with more than a dozen flowers and plants that Han Qian couldn't name, which seemed to indicate that this house contained infinite killing opportunities.
"What are you thinking?" Feng Yi pulled Kong Xirong over and asked.
"We came over, we have been waiting for an hour, and we don't know when His Highness will leave the palace, how long will we wait here?" Han Qian said complainingly.
"Then wait, or what else?"
Feng Yi was also bored, and when he thought of something, he lowered his voice and said to Han Qian,
"The Linjiang Marquis Mansion is full of people assigned by the Anning Palace inside and out, in front of them, we must not be too close to the three princes, but Chen De, the commander of the guard battalion, is one of the few maiden family members of the princess and the princess who has been appointed in the court, and I heard that it was the concubine who ran to the emperor and cried and begged for a long time before she was able to protect the safety of the three princes. However, according to my uncle-in-law, Chen De is a greedy and gambling coward, and if something really happens, I am afraid that he cannot be expected to dare to sacrifice his life to protect the third prince......"
"What can happen to Your Highness?" Han Qian said disappreciatively.
"......" Feng Yi smiled and didn't say anything more.
Han Qian believed that Feng Yi must have received a lot of warnings at home, and secretly pondered his words, thinking that Feng Wenlan guessed that there might be a bloody disaster around the third prince Yang Yuanpu at this time, which showed that his understanding of the situation, or the one in the Anning Palace, was obviously much more sober than his father.
However, even if the trajectory of history does not change, the one in the Anning Palace will wait until the death of Emperor Tianyou in the fourth year before he will make a move on Yang Yuanpu, and Han Qian is more interested in who the other candidate to replace Zhou Kun is.
Han Qian was just about to ask Feng Yi if he had heard any news, when he heard the sound of horses' hooves like a torrential rain coming from the long street outside, and he stayed in front of the palace gate, thinking that this person who had been sent to the third prince by the Red Mansion in the evening had finally appeared?
"Feng Yi, you all arrived first!"
Han Qian and Feng Yi followed the sound and looked out, and saw a young man in brocade with a tall horse, who was almost the same age as him and Feng Yi, and walked in with a long knife on his waist.
Han Qian and the others went to the Hou Mansion to accompany them, in addition to accompanying the three princes to study, they also had to accompany the three princes to practice riding and archery, and they were also members of the guard battalion, and they were awarded the rank of Seventh Rank Commander Wu Cavalry Captain, so Han Qian and Zhao Kuo and Fan Dahei, who were designated to follow him, could carry swords and bows into the Hou Mansion.
If something really happens, they naturally have the duty to protect the prince.
The young man's eyes were shining, and his eyes looked at Han Qian with some sharp eyes, and asked:
"You should be Han Qian, right?"
"I thought it was who replaced Zhou Kun, it turned out to be Li Chong, your father Xinchanghou and your Li family have a lot of wrists, why do you still let you do this chore?" Feng Yi shrugged, his words were not very friendly to the new young man, obviously not all the way before.
The half-brother of Li Yu, the king of eastern Zhejiang, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang?
Han Qian was no longer familiar with the princes and ministers in Jinling City, and he was also familiar with Li Yu, the king of Zhedong County, who was listed among the six famous generals in Chu State with Xu Mingzhen and others, and who had led his troops to capture Liangzhejiang and annexed the fourteen states of Yue to Chu, as well as his younger brother Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang.
Han Qian racked his brains, and he didn't expect that the son of Xinchang Marquis Li Pu would be the person who the late Red Mansion had tried his best to send to the third prince Yang Yuanpu.
Could it be that Xinchang Hou Li Pu colluded with the Late Red Mansion, or that Xinchang Hou Li Pu was the mysterious master behind the Late Red Mansion?
The Li family, where the Marquis of Xinchang Li Pu is located, was originally a big clan in Hongzhou, followed Emperor Tianyou to create the foundation of the Chu State, and many people came out of the court to worship the prime minister, among which Li Yu and Li Pu brothers are the most famous.
In particular, Li Yu and Xu Mingzhen, as one of the six famous generals of the Chu Dynasty, once served as the envoy of Yuezhou Jiedu after the capture of the two Zhejiang, and controlled the military and political power in eastern Zhejiang.
In the sixth year of Tianyou, Liang Taizu personally led hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack Shouzhou, and Emperor Tianyou transferred Li Yu and Li Pu brothers to lead troops into Chuzhou to threaten the flank of the Liang army.
When the Liang army withdrew from the siege, Emperor Tianyou transferred Li Yu to serve as the deputy envoy of the privy council and the secretary of the military department, and did not want to let Li Yu return to eastern Zhejiang, in fact, he had the intention of preventing Li Yu from being good at the place.
Li Yu was also knowledgeable, and after receiving the emperor's decree, he handed over the military power to the deputy marshal at that time, and also served as the defense envoy of Chuzhou, and he led his brother Li Pu, the general Zhang Ji and others to Jinling to take over.
In the seventh year of Tianyou, Li Yu resigned from the post of secretary of the military department and deputy privy envoy on the grounds of injury and illness, and asked to return to his hometown to recuperate.
Emperor Tianyou canonized Li Yu as the king of eastern Zhejiang, and allowed him to return to his hometown Hongzhou to recuperate, and left Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, to serve as the squire of the military department.
Han Qian didn't think there was anything wrong with Li Yu, if Li Yu had colluded with the Late Red Mansion, he would not have handed over the military power so easily.
The problem is Lipp!
Because the military power of the DPRK and China is controlled by the Privy Council, the Southern Ya, and the Northern Military Division, the military department has long been marginalized.
For Li Pu, who once held hundreds of thousands of troops with his brother and divided the region, it was really normal to be resentful.
And the late Red Mansion has a very deep plan, and it is normal to have people like Xinchang Hou Li Pu involved.
"I don't care how you deceived your wife's trust, and you were even arranged to come to Yang Yuanpu's waste, but you have to remember one thing, in the Linjiang Hou Mansion, without my orders, you dare to act rashly and harm me, be careful that I want your life!"
Feng Yi and Kong Xirong went to other courtyards for business, Li Chong came to Han Qian's side to talk at this time, and saw a shallow smile on the corner of his mouth, others thought that he was getting closer to Han Qian, and they couldn't see the murderous aura hidden in his eyes.
"You don't even know why Madame arranged me next to the third prince, so you dare to say such a thing, maybe it's too bold, right?" Han Qian turned around, stared at Li Chong's bluffing eyes, and asked with a smile.
It's okay that Li Chong didn't threaten, but he threatened at the exit, and immediately told him to see through Li Chong's details.
Li Chong should not know much about the real secrets behind his father Li Pu and the Late Red Mansion, otherwise, he suddenly appeared in the chess game as a chess piece, and the Late Red Mansion would not fail to explain the ins and outs to Li Chong.
At the same time, this further shows that Xinchang Hou Li Pu is not the real master of the Late Red Mansion, either an accomplice, or just a chess piece in the hands of the Late Red Mansion.
It was normal for Han Qian to think so, if Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang, was the master behind the scenes of the Late Red Mansion, rather than a chess piece mastered and used by the Late Red Mansion, there was no need for Li Pu to hide too much from his son.
Since Li Chong was not more important than himself in this game of chess, how could Han Qian take him seriously?
Li Chong was slightly stunned, his eyes flashed with a hint of anger, he didn't know why his wife would arrange Han Qian, who was unlearned and unskilled, to the side of the third prince, and he didn't expect that Han Qian, who was like a waste, would dare to resist him?
"It's okay if you want me to cooperate with you to get things done, and I don't want to fight with you about anything, but you have to tell me your plan first, otherwise, how can I know that I won't get in the way of your plan?" Han Qian continued.
Emperor Tianyou has three sons, the crown prince Yang Yuanwu and the king of letters Yang Yuanyan are all adults, and they have also given birth to children, whether the mysterious master behind the scenes of the late Red Mansion wants to overthrow the Chu State, or steal the authority of the Chu State, it is not possible to directly kidnap Yang Yuanpu, the Marquis of Linjiang, or assassinate Yang Yuanpu.
The biggest possibility is that the crown prince Yang Yuanwu and the king of letters Yang Yuanyan both had accidents, and Yang Yuanpu, who was finally able to ascend the throne, fell into their hands......
Or, if Yang Yuanpu can take 10,000 steps back, if he can catch up with Emperor Tianyou before he dies, he will eventually fall under their control, it can't be regarded as a bad choice!
Following Yang Yuanpu to the feudal region is not a bad choice for Han Qian.
It's just that Han Qian doesn't know the specific plan behind the scenes of the Late Red Mansion at all, and he doesn't know how many chances they have of success in doing so.
"......" faced with Han Qian's seemingly reasonable and inducing problem, Li Chong raised his eyebrows, disdainful of working with a waste like Han Qian.
Han Qian hated it so much, thinking that he would definitely find an opportunity to clean up this grandson in the future.