Lian Zining's speed to the north was not fast, and when he arrived in Taiyuan, it was already the end of May. After staying in Taiyuan for two days, he met with the seriously ill King of Jin, and also met with Han Qianye, a thousand households garrisoned by Jinyi Guard, in the post house. Judging from the situation learned from Jinyiwei's side, the King of Jin has been dying for a short time, and the prince Zhu Jixi does not interfere much in the military and political affairs of Shanxi except for taking care of the King of Jin.

Although the king of Jin was seriously ill, he still held on to see Lian Zining, but most of the conversation was answered by the prince Zhu Jixi, because the king of Jin was too weak, and finally the king of Jin entrusted Lian Zining to submit a recital, asking to hand over the three guards to the court, Lian Zining was shocked and refused to submit it on his behalf, suggesting that the king of Jin play directly.

When Lian Zining left Taiyuan, looking back at the towering Taiyuan city wall, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, although the King of Jin is the brother of Xingzong Zhu Biao, but the monarch and the minister are different, the King of Qin and the King of Jin all relied on themselves to be the prince, and acted mischiefly, and finally was disposed of by Zhu Yuanzhang, and was protected by Zhu Biao, both of them then died depressed, especially the King of Jin, who indulged in wine and ignored military and political affairs, so his body quickly collapsed, and now it is on the verge of dying, seeing the appearance of the King of Jin's flesh and blood, in addition to feeling that the heavenly family has no family affection, what else can be said?

Lian Zining looked east, and that direction was Beiping. King Qin's Xi'an, King Jin's Taiyuan are both the land of Longxing, and now the two vassal kings have accepted their fate and given up all delusions, although the process is a little ruthless, but it is indeed beneficial to the country. Although Beiping was the capital of Jin and Yuan, only An Lushan started from there, and An Lushan finally seemed to be the self-proclaimed Emperor of Great Yan.

Lian Zining rode north, but his mind flew to Jingshi. After Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he basically continued the old system of Hongwu, and did not make any major adjustments, the emperor continued to attach importance to the army, set up Wuyingdian University Scholars and Staff Offices, expanded martial arts, and recruited veterans into martial arts to teach. Now the emperor has transferred Song Sheng from the northwest to Suiyuan, and also transferred He Fu, Gu Cheng, and Geng Bingwen back to Beijing, resulting in increasingly tense situations in the southwest and northwest. All of this made those courtiers who earnestly hoped for the change of the imperial court very dissatisfied, and thinking of this, Lian Zining couldn't help but be a little worried......

Daning.

Now Daning's army has about 80,000, of which 40,000 were brought from Henan by Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, and the rest are the troops originally stationed in Daning, led by Wang Bi, but the nominal commander is still the king of Zhou.

After the defeat in Mobei, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and ordered King Ning to move to Yunnan, but his concubines and children did not leave Daning, maybe Zhu Yuanzhang did not really want to depose King Ning, and thought about moving him back after a while. It's a pity that with the passing of Emperor Hongwu, it seems that everything is irretrievable.

Wang Bi had only one temporary residence in the city, and his office was in the Yamen of the Commander's Command. However, as the king of Zhou, he could not be so hasty, fortunately, there was a larger mansion in the east of the city, and the king of Yan had lived in Daning before, and the king of Zhou chose it as the temporary palace of the king of Zhou.

There is a courtyard in the back house of King Zhou's mansion, which is very tightly guarded, and the door is full of Zhou Wang's cronies, no one is allowed to enter or leave without a warrant from King Zhou, and King Zhou will stay in it for a period of time almost every day. From the outside, you can occasionally hear the sound of women singing and silk and bamboo, and most of the people who hear it think that it is the outer room of King Zhou, so they naturally dare not disturb.

This evening, King Zhou walked into this courtyard in a hurry, and the courtyard was deserted, and there was no one in sight. King Zhou didn't care, went straight through the main hall, came to the back house, knocked lightly on the door, and waited for the people inside to respond, before pushing the door in.

The furnishings in the room were very simple, only a bed, a table and a few chairs, there was a teapot on the table, it was still steaming, and there was a person sitting at the table, this person was very strangely dressed, with a hat on his head, and a black scarf drooping from the edge of the hat, so even the king of Zhou could not see his face and expression clearly.

When he saw King Zhou coming in, he nodded slightly, as if nodding. King Zhou sat down, took out a letter from his bosom, handed it over, and the hat man took the letter, took out a piece of paper from it, put it on the table, leaned forward, and read it.

After reading it, the hatsman pushed the letter back, but did not speak.

Zhu Lu read the letter again, then threw it into the brazier and burned it, then turned around and said in a low voice: "Sir, what do you think?" ”

The hatper smiled, his laughter was hoarse and old, and it could be seen that he was not young: "Lord Wang, it seems that you have been doing well in Kaifeng over the years, and Jinyiwei is not your opponent." ”

"Hehe, Kaifeng is the king's territory, there are only a few Jinyi guards, and they are in the light, my people are in the dark, as long as they have action, my side can know immediately."

"Yes, Jinyiwei is just a superficial scenery, if there is no power from the emperor, it is actually a bunch of bedbugs." The hat man gritted his teeth a little.

"Yes, this Feng Xingjian is really arrogant enough, I really think that no one dares to deal with him, but what makes this king even more amused is that in order to make Lian Zining believe his words, he also wrote and directed a trick to track down and get rid of. It's a pity that he didn't expect that this king's people kept staring at them with binoculars from a high place, so what he did, this king knew immediately. ”

"Telescopes? It's a good thing, but it's a pity that most of the equipment is in the border army, where did you get it? ”

"Hehe, as long as you are willing to pay, what else can't you get?" Zhu Hu flicked his fingers and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, this is still something made up by my good nephew, but I'm afraid he didn't expect that this thing would be used on his Jinyiwei, hahaha!" Speaking of this, Zhu Hu laughed in a low voice.

The black yarn in front of the hat man was windless and automatic, and he seemed to be a little emotional, but he didn't speak. It wasn't until Zhu Hu stopped that he said: "I'm afraid I already know about the prince today, I don't know what the prince has planned?" ”

Zhu Hu seemed to be a little unspeakable, and said, "What does Mr. think?" ”

"This depends on how Imasami plans to deal with your son's secret report, although I don't know the specific content of the secret report yet, but I can let the Metropolitan Procuratorate Zuodu Yushi Lian Zining personally interrogate, which not only shows that Imasami is cautious, but also shows that Isami attaches great importance to your son's secret."

"Yes, what does Mr. think the emperor will do?"

"In fact, there are not many choices today, one is to announce your entry into Beijing, and then you are a caged bird and meat on the anvil; One is to transfer troops to arrest you, but fortunately you are in Daning, if you are in Kaifeng, I am afraid that there will be no way to return to heaven. ”

"Yes, this king didn't want to come here yet, but he didn't expect to come here, but there was an unexpected turnaround."

The hat man was silent for a while, and said: "It is unlikely that the troops will be transferred today, because it will force the opposing border soldiers, so he is most likely to transfer you to Beijing." ”

"What if the king is sick?"

"Then," the hat man pondered for a while, and said, "Then he will secretly order Wang Bi to arrest the prince." ”

The voice of the hat man was not loud, but Zhu Hu almost jumped up, looked around, and said, "Wang Bi? No, he's still in our hands. No, he also came to see the king this afternoon, saying that there were Mongolian cavalry outside the city of Daning, and the king promised him to go to the capital tomorrow to command the yamen to discuss the matter. Is this to arrest this king? Has he already received a holy decree? ”

"This is impossible, your son sent the letter over in an urgent manner for six hundred miles, and Lian Zining's report must be slower than yours, I'm afraid it has just been sent to Jingshi. If you give Wang Bi a secret decree today, then you still have ten to fifteen days? ”

"How do you know?"

This secret decree was either brought in an unobtrusive way, or it was brought with someone else on business. For example, the emperor may hand over the holy decree to Lian Zining, and when he comes to inspect, he will secretly announce the decree to Wang Bi. ”

"Oh," Zhu Lu breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled, "If this nephew of mine pins his hopes on Wang Bi, I'm afraid he will be surprised." ”

"......" The hat man was silent for a while, and said: "Wang Bi is a bold person on the surface, but he is quite scheming. By the way, did the prince convince Wang Bi? ”

Zhu Lu paused for a moment, gently tapped the table with his fingers, sighed, and said: "Not yet, this kind of thing is unfounded, everyone who knows it has been wiped out, Wang Bi may not spit because of this." ”

"This is a bit difficult to do, if it really doesn't work, you can only get rid of him before Lian Zining comes." After a moment, the hatsman asserted.

"It's only like this, but it's a pity that Wang Bi is not so easy to kill."

"That's true, this Wang Bi, I have to think about it......"

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