Zongfu, the full name of the "Ji Clan Dazong Zhengyuan", referred to as the Zongren Mansion, is the institution of the Great Wei Ji Clan to manage the affairs of the royal clan.

Its functions include taking charge of the clan register of the nine clans of the Son of Heaven, writing the imperial genealogy on time, and recording the descendants, names, titles, hereditary titles, dates of death, marriages, and burials of the children of the clan.

In addition, he is also in charge of sending and receiving documents, managing the internal affairs of the clan, educating the children of the clan, and even banning the clansmen who commit crimes.

In a word, the clan government manages everything in the Ji clan, and here, even if it is Wei Tianzi, it may not be of much use.

"Here we are."

Under the guidance of Zhao Hongmin, the carriage slowly stopped in front of the main courtyard of the Zongfu.

"I really don't want to come here......

Zhao Hongrun got out of the carriage as he said and stood in front of this sect mansion, to be precise, a complex of buildings.

In fact, Zongfu does not just refer to a mansion, it should be called a collection of palaces and military camps, located on the northeast side of Daliang City, covering an area that is said to be equivalent to half of the imperial palace.

What's more worth mentioning is that this building is the only place in Daliang City that is not under the jurisdiction of the 'Three Guards', because here, there is a direct army directly under the Zongfu, the Yulin Army, or called the Zongwei.

"Well, it's still the same......"

Zongwei Shen Yu and Lu Mu also got out of the carriage and followed behind Zhao Hongrun.

Before they were sent to Zhao Hongrun to serve as the prince Zongwei, the Zongfu was their home, in fact, even now, the Zongfu is still adopting the orphans of those Great Wei military families, instilling in them loyalty to the Ji clan and the Great Wei from an early age, and teaching them knowledge and martial arts, and cultivating them into the most loyal warriors.

Therefore. If you want to ask which is the most loyal army in the Great Wei country, it is by no means the "Sixth Garrison Battalion" such as the Junshui Battalion, nor the "Three Guards" such as the Guards, the Praetorian Guards, and the Lang Guards, but the Zongwei Yulin Army!

"Follow me."

Zhao Hongmin guided Zhao Hongrun, Shen Yu, Lu Mu, and Mi Jiang into the main courtyard of the sect.

"Hey, aren't there guards here?"

When he stepped into the main gate of the Zongfu, Mi Jiang, who felt surprised, asked Shen Yudao beside him softly. Because she was puzzled to find that the defenses inside and outside the mansion did not seem to be perfect.

"Huh." Hearing Mi Jiang's inquiry, Shen Yu and Lu Mu smiled treacherously: Does the Zongfu still need guards?

Just when Mi Jiang was surprised, she vaguely heard the cry of "drink".

And when they walked through the main courtyard and walked along the corridor to the inner courtyard, Mi Jiang suddenly saw that in the open space that can be called a military barracks, thousands of young men were carrying out strict drills.

It's only the beginning of April, and the weather still can't be called warm. But the group of young men were naked, sweating profusely, and even from a distance, they could vaguely see the slightest heat emanating from the surface of their bodies.

"Ha ——!"

"Drink ——!"

Those Yulin Erlang waved the sticks in their hands rigidly with one move at a time, and the force of wielding the sticks seemed to be full of strength with every blow. Tiger and tiger.

At this time, a man in charge of directing the drill shouted: "Stop! …… The two battled each other. ”

As soon as the words fell. The neatly arranged Yulin soldiers in the school field immediately stopped waving their sticks, threw their sticks away, and faced their companions in the adjacent column, and put on a posture of attacking one by one.

It was really a fist-to-flesh fight, and even Qi Jiang witnessed a feather forest general and his companion who was fighting with him carry a back fall on the shoulder, although it was far away. But the ginger can still feel it: it will definitely hurt.

But what surprised her was that the Yulin Army, who was slammed to the ground, immediately got up after shaking his head and launched a counterattack against his companions.

"Tolerate pain, adapt to pain." Shen Yu whispered.

"What?" Mi Jiang looked at Shen Yu suspiciously.

Shen Yu shrugged his shoulders and explained with a smile: "I am one of the commandments of the Zong Wei. ”

Mi Jiang was slightly stunned when he heard this. Because she felt that the soldiers in the distance were different from the ordinary Wei soldiers, their fighting spirit was stronger and stronger, just like ...... Shen Yu and Lu Mu are the ones who are Zongwei.

As if he had guessed Mi Jiang's thoughts, Lu Mu explained with a smile: "We also came out of here...... Before being sent to His Highness, the Zongfu was the home of these orphans such as us. ”

Qi Jiang pondered for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Because you are the best among them?" ”

"The top ten in the Zongfu martial arts test that year!" Lu Mu said with some pride and pride.

"The same is true of the guards around His Royal Highness the Prince." Shen Yu added with a smile on the side.

"......" Mi Jiang glanced at Shen Yu and Lu Mu, and then at the Yulin Erlang in the playground.

Because their sisters had fought with Shen Yu and others in the past, therefore, she was very aware of the skills of Shen Yu and others, and it was no exaggeration to say that if she didn't use some special abilities, such as Gu poison, medicine powder, or that sword dance, it would be really difficult to defeat a sect guard like Shen Yu and others.

Thinking back to Cui Xiaoxuan, who was in the water pavilion on one side, facing the guards of Zhao Chengxiu, the prince of the original Yang King, Shen Yu and Lu Mu were only two people, and they easily knocked down more than a dozen people on the other side, and that kind of force was by no means simple.

However, in this sect, are there nearly a thousand guys like Shen Yu and Lu Mu?

At this moment, Mi Jiang realized that this Great Wei Ji Clan's Zongfu didn't need any guards to guard it at all, this was the base camp of the Zongwei Yulin Army!

"Your Highness, they have gone far, let's hurry up." Shen Yu whispered.

"......" Qi Jiang nodded, and followed them to catch up with Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongmin, who were already walking in the distance.

At this time, Zhao Hongrun was continuing to go deep into the inner courtyard of the sect under the guidance of Zhao Hongmin.

As he walked, he was surprised to find that the route they had taken today was not the same as the last time he had been locked up in the sect for seven days.

So he asked tentatively, "This road doesn't seem to lead to the little black house?" ”

"Little dark house?" Zhao Hongmin, who was leading the way in front, turned his head when he heard the words and asked puzzledly, "What is that?" ”

"I mean...... 'meditation room'. Zhao Hongrun shrugged and said.

By "meditation room", he meant a building with excellent sound insulation, which had no windows, and if you removed the light from the pea-sized oil lamp, it would be a dark place.

According to the Ji clan precepts, all the children of the Ji clan who are at fault must be admonished here.

Or rather, punishment.

The form of punishment was to sit in the empty, silent, and dark room, face the wall, and stipulate that there should be no sound, no sleepiness, and even the additional punishment of beating the shoulder and back with a stick.

As for food, there is only one bowl of rice and a glass of water per day.

But then again, in that kind of place, even the delicacies of the mountains and the sea can't be eaten.

Although Zongfu is called a kind of self-cultivation exercise, Zhao Hongrun evaluated it as an extremely cruel torture and punishment of body and mind.

There is no doubt that any child of the Ji clan who has undergone this kind of torture will definitely not want to get close to this place again in his lifetime.

"Meditation room?" Zhao Hongmin was stunned, and then smiled and said with relief: "No, no, I won't go to the meditation room today." ”

"Huh, that's the best ......" Although Zhao Hongrun also knew that the clan would not throw him directly into the small black house because he had a dispute with Zhao Chengxiu, the son of the Yuanyang King of the same clan, but he was still greatly relieved to hear the news.

"That is to say...... Record the fallacy and I'll be gone? Zhao Hongrun said tentatively.

Zhao Hongmin nodded with a slight smile and added, "But before that, someone wants to see you." ”

"Who?" Zhao Hongrun asked subconsciously.

At this moment, the two of them passed through a round gate, and saw that in front of the flowerbed inside the round gate, there was a middle-aged man dressed in royal clothes, with his hands behind his back and facing the flowerbed.

I saw that the middle-aged man turned his head after hearing the footsteps, so that Zhao Hongrun could see the other party's appearance at a glance.

This person is the current Zongzheng of the Zongfu, and he is also Zhao Hongmin's biological father and Zhao Hongrun's second uncle, Zhao Yuanyan.

"Father." Zhao Hongmin walked a few steps, respectfully bowed his hand, and said softly: "The child has brought Hongrun." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Yuanyan nodded slowly, his face was still old-fashioned and serious, and he didn't show any warmth because of the eldest son in front of him, and said lightly: "You retreat." ”

"Yes, father." Zhao Hongmin arched his hand again, retreated respectfully along the way he came, and before leaving, he gave Zhao Hongrun a look.

"It's self-sufficient...... What?'

As if he understood his cousin's eyes, Zhao Hongrun smiled bitterly twice in his heart, and respectfully stepped forward to salute the second uncle: "Hongrun, meet the second uncle." ”

Don't look at Zhao Hongrun's courage to disobey Wei Tianzi at the beginning, it is because Wei Tianzi is more open-minded by nature, but the second uncle Zhao Yuanyan in front of him is different, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, the other party is simply the embodiment of the words old-fashioned and serious.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhao Hongrun has never seen this second uncle smile, as if he has a straight face all year round, and his eyes are enough to scare the eyes of a large number of Ji children to death with his eyes just by opening them.

"Hongrun."

"My nephew is here."

"This time, you did a good job and defeated Nan Chu, and my Great Wei no longer grovels to Nan Chu in the past, and you have half of the credit."

"The second uncle praised it falsely." Of course, Zhao Hongrun understood who the 'other half of the credit' belonged to, and said with a straight face: "My nephew just did what he had to do, and in terms of sacrifice, he was far inferior to the sixth brother." ”

The sixth brother in his mouth refers to Zhao Hongzhao, the Rui King who is far away in Qi at the moment and has single-handedly promoted the alliance of Qi and Wei.

"Hongzhao, there is his credit, you, and you also have your credit...... Zhao Yuanyan nodded, and immediately, he slowly turned around, looked at the flower garden, and asked in a deep voice: "Your cousin Hongmin, did he tell you?" As for the reason why the princes of those fiefdoms entered my great beam......"

"Got it." Zhao Hongrun said in a low voice: "Those princes want to get a piece of the pie in the batch of materials that my nephew brought from the Chu State. ”

Zhao Yuanyan glanced at Zhao Hongrun when he heard this, and asked, "What do you think about this?" ”

I saw Zhao Hongrun smile slightly, and spit out two words categorically.

"Delusional!" (To be continued.) )