Chapter 60: Survival is still expected to be achieved

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"What does the emperor mean by suppressing Zheng Shan's performance?" Xu Heguang's heart sank.

"The emperor is waiting for the right time to ......" Cui Xiang picked up a letter, "I received a letter from the Prime Minister today again, and the Prime Minister said in the letter that the Star King was very dissatisfied with the official, and the situation was really out of control, all because the official did not restrain Xia Xiang. Now there is an opportunity to atone for his crimes, and after the emperor's southern tour is really decided, he will go to Xingzhou. ”

Li Heng's heart jumped, the Star King failed in his real plan, could it be that he still didn't give up, and he still wanted to attack the emperor? Although he has a good relationship with Xia Xiang, he is not estranged from Cui Xiang, but he doesn't want to completely fall to either side, he also knows very well that Xia Xiang is completely loyal to the emperor, Cui Xiang is obedient to the Star King, he wants to take the middle way, the so-called impartial and non-party, the royal road is swinging.

Of course, he also knows that although the words are good, in fact, he is still sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. However, it is better to see the wind and rudder the villain, he does not join either side to harm the other, he just wants to wait for one side to win, so that he can show his loyalty in time.

Li Heng stood up: "Oops, suddenly the stomach pain is unbearable, Cui Fuzun and Zheng Tongzhi have gone to the official to sue for the crime, and they want to go for convenience." ”

Cui Xiang waved his hand in disgust: "In the future, Li Tuiguan doesn't have to run away, just go out, and this official won't blame you for anything." ”

Li Heng's face turned red, he didn't speak, and turned around and went out.

Xu Heguang looked at Li Heng's background, and said with disdain: "What a villain." ”

"A real villain is better than a hypocrite." Cui Xiang waved his hand disappreciatively, "No wonder His Royal Highness the Star King hasn't sent someone to really make the layout recently, but he originally wanted to transfer the battlefield to Xingzhou." Hou Xianggong also said that the emperor toured the south, and several princes all accompanied him, and it seems that this southward trip will be a grand event. ”

"His Royal Highness the Star King wants to wipe out the emperor and several princes?" Xu Heguang asked in surprise.

"Thinking about it the other way, maybe the emperor also wants to take the opportunity to wipe out the Star King and his forces." Cui Xiang coughed a few more times, "It is rumored in Beijing that the emperor's condition has been very good, and he has been keeping it a secret, because he wants to hit the star king by surprise." In the past, the official didn't believe it very much, but now he believes it more and more. The official also suspects that Xia Xiang is a sharp sword of the emperor. ”

"Xia Xiang? How could it be, he had only met the emperor once, and he had been in Zhending all the time, how could he know what the emperor was thinking? Xu Heguang didn't believe Cui Xiang's speculation, "What's more, Xia Xiang is just a small magistrate, how can he get into the eyes of the emperor?" ”

"Hmph, Xia Xiang is just a small magistrate, but he turned Zhending upside down, isn't it enough? If he becomes the prefect, will the entire Zhending Mansion be covered by him? Cui Xiang said angrily, "Even the Star King is afraid of Xia Xiang, Xu Xiancheng, you must not underestimate Xia Xiang, otherwise you may be played with by him at any time." ”

"Xia Guan never dared to underestimate Xia County's ......" Xu Heguang grinned, this sentence is the truth, if he didn't underestimate Xia Xiang before because Xia Xiang was his top boss, now he doesn't dare to underestimate Xia Xiang because Xia Xiang is really good, and he actually completely destroyed the Star King's good situation in Zhending, "Xia Guan just doesn't understand that even if Xia Xiang can enter the emperor's eye, how can he communicate with the emperor?" ”

"This official has always felt strange about this, and after thinking about it, he finally figured it out." Cui Xiang knocked on his forehead, "Xia Xiang has someone from the emperor by his side......"

"Who?" Cheng Dao was shocked, and a few people quickly flashed in his mind, "Zheng Hao Zheng Tong sentence?" Cao Shujun? Xiao Wu? ”

"Where do you want to go, Cheng Tongzhi, it's Lian Niangzi." Cui Xiang sighed secretly, Cheng Dao is a good fellow, loyal, but unfortunately too stupid, "Although this official has guessed who the person behind Lian Niangzi is, he has never dared to speculate that it is the emperor, and now it can be concluded that the good times have become the first trading house in Daxia in just a few years, which is why the emperor pushed it." And the name of the firm is always good, I am afraid that it is also caused by the emperor, implying the meaning of eternal stability. ”

"If it's really the emperor who is behind him, doesn't it mean that the emperor has long been on guard against the Star King and wants to take down the Star King and his henchmen once and for all?" Xu Heguang only felt a chill behind his back, "Could it be that the emperor has been pretending to be sick for three years?" The emperor's mind is really unfathomable. ”

"Don't forget that today's Sheng's martial arts are not inferior to Taizu Taizong, if it weren't for his sudden illness, how could he let the Star King sit big?" Cui Xiang remembered the scene when he first saw the emperor, and couldn't help but be fascinated for a while, "I think that the emperor was heroic and the young son of heaven, after he ascended the throne, the foreign tribes were ready to move, bullying the emperor when he was young, and wanted to attack Daxia." The emperor was wise and martial, preemptively struck, and sent troops to the east to conquer Goryeo Xiping barbarian, and since then the four seas have surrendered and the world has been unified. The emperor, who was in the prime of life, worked hard to create a glorious era for thousands of years. Unexpectedly, the high-spirited emperor encountered a love change......"

"The emperor has suffered a love change?" It was the first time Xu Heguang heard about the emperor's love change, and he couldn't help but be curious, "The emperor is rich all over the world, what kind of woman does he want to marry in the world?" ”

"The official has also heard rumors about this matter, but he has not seen it in person, so he doesn't know whether it is true or not." Cui Xiang got up and came to the front of the screen, there was a hunting picture on the screen, "It is said that the emperor once went to Xishan to hunt and shot and injured a deer, and the emperor chased after him, but he strayed into the depths of the jungle and got lost." I encountered a white tiger again, and the horse was frightened, and I fell down. After waking up, he was rescued by a woman. The woman told the emperor that this is a blessed land, and mortals can't enter, so I don't know why the emperor came in? Fortunately, I met her, otherwise the emperor would have been eaten by the white tiger. ”

"Immortals?" Xu Heguang couldn't believe it, "Most of it is based on false rumors." ”

"The woman looks like a fairy, with the appearance of a sinking fish and a goose, and the emperor is uncontrollable when he sees it. After more than a few days, the emperor did not find anyone else, only a woman, and this place is rarely visited, although the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, but it is isolated from the world. After the emperor recovered from his injury, he couldn't think about it, but the woman asked the emperor to go back, saying that the people of Daxia needed the emperor. The emperor refused, he just wanted to live here with the woman for the rest of his life. The woman repeatedly persuaded her with good words, and finally had to promise the emperor that she would meet him again in the future, and the emperor was reluctant to leave. The woman told the emperor that this place is called Miyuan. ”

After the emperor left the secret source, he turned around and saw that the woods were still there, where were the houses and women, and he couldn't help but feel stunned. After I went back, I didn't think about politics. A few days later, the emperor returned to Miyuan, and suddenly saw that there was an extra path between the changes in the woods. After spending a few days with the woman, the emperor returned to the palace again. After that, for a year, the emperor had a tryst with the woman every once in a while. Until one day, the emperor could no longer find a woman, lost his soul, was groggy all day long, ignored the government and didn't think about state affairs. Many ministers who heard about the tryst between the emperor and the woman advised the emperor not to think about the demon girl day and night, this woman lives alone in the mountains, and she comes and goes without a trace, she must be a monster. There are also ministers who ask Taoist priests to do the law, wanting to make the demon girl show her original form. As a result, after the Taoist priest went, he couldn't find where the secret source was, so he had to return in vain. ”

Originally, the emperor did not believe in Taoism, but after this incident, he began to be obsessed with the theory of immortals. Ye Muping entered the door and became the emperor's former celebrity. After this incident, the emperor was no longer interested in the three thousand beauties of the palace, and he still has no children to this day. It is said that the emperor was broken by the demon girl, and he will never be able to give birth to a dragon son again. Whether this matter is true or false, there are different opinions, and some people even say that this woman gave birth to a son for the emperor and lived among the people, and the emperor originally wanted to send people to search for the whereabouts of this son, but when he saw that there was news, he suddenly fell ill. Cui Xiang remembered an old incident and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "If the emperor's illness is connected with rumors, it really has some credibility, because someone doesn't want the emperor to find the dragon son and wants to succeed to the throne himself, so he poisoned and wanted to poison the emperor." As a result, the poisoning failed, and a plan was devised again, and it became the current situation step by step. ”

"If the emperor really has a dragon son, according to the calculation of time, there should be a ...... this year," Xu Heguang asked.

"The Year of the Weak Crown." Cui Xiang calculated and said, "It's the same age as Zheng Hao, Li Zhi, and Zheng Mingrui." ”

"And Xia Xiang......" Xu Heguang suddenly thought of something, and stood up suddenly, "Zheng Hao, Li Zhi and Zheng Mingrui are all people with fathers and mothers, only Xia Xiang has a mother and no father, could it be that Xia Xiang is?" ”

Cheng Daotong was also taken aback: "Xia Xiang is really a royal bloodline? ”

Cui Xiang shook his head calmly: "You two don't have to guess randomly, it's hard to say whether the emperor and the demon girl are true or not, maybe it's just a dream of the emperor's Wushan clouds and rain, don't believe it all, Xia Xiang is a dragon son, it's even more nonsense." ”

Song Yu said: "In the past, the king tasted the Gaotang Dynasty, slept day and night, and dreamed of a woman who said: 'Concubine, the daughter of Wushan. For the guests of Gaotang. Wen Jun travels to the Tang Dynasty, and is willing to recommend the pillow seat. The king was fortunate. Go and say: 'The concubine is in the sun of Wushan, the obstruction of the high hills, the morning clouds, and the twilight is the rain. Morning and twilight, under the balcony. 'But look at it as it is. Therefore, it is a temple, called Chaoyun...... Later generations misunderstood its meaning, so it was used to call men and women happy.

"Okay, okay, let's not mention Xia Xiang's matter for the time being, the most important thing at the moment is the emperor's southern tour." Cui Xiang stared out the window, it was early winter at this time, and the cold wind was gusting, "The real situation has been broken, the star king is still unwilling, and he intends to lay out in Xingzhou, but what is the situation in Xingzhou?" The star king didn't say it clearly, it is estimated that he no longer trusts us and starts anew? ”

"It's okay to start from scratch, I'll just try to cooperate when I get there." Xu Heguang said viciously, "I hope that when the time comes, I will not only pull the emperor off the horse, but also kill Xia Xiang together, and never suffer in the future." ”

"If that's the case, let alone Xia Xiang, I'm afraid that several princes are also in danger." Although Cui Xiang hated Xia Xiang, he also knew the severity, "I only hope that His Royal Highness the Star King will make a careful layout and succeed in one fell swoop, don't affect the people, the people are the most innocent, and it is best to just another Xuanwumen change." ”

A few days later, after more than ten days of travel, the emperor's grand motorcade finally arrived in Zhending City.

Early in the morning, the officials and people of Zhending City got up early, splashed the street with clean water, the loess mat road, three steps and one post, and five steps and one sentry. The north gate of Zhending City was opened, and Zheng Shan, Cui Xiang, Cheng Daotong, Wu Yidong, Xia Xiang, Han Meng, Zheng Hao, Li Heng, Xu Heguang, Lu Zhiyue and other civil and military officials lined up on both sides according to the quality of the emperor, waiting for the arrival of the emperor.

Jin Jia and Ye Muping were also in the crowd, and several people stood with Lian Ruohan, Cao Shuli, Xiao Jia, Mantuo, Cao Shujun, and Xiao Wu. Li Zhi, Zheng Mingrui and others stood behind Xu Heguang and Yang Jiang, and their eyes shuttled between Xia Xiang's body.

The rising sun sprinkled ten thousand red rays, illuminating the city gate red. Countless people waited eagerly, waited for a long time, and did not see the slightest movement, the crowd began to be restless, and the voices of discussion came and went.

"It's coming, it's coming." Someone with sharp eyes saw a train slowly approaching on the official road in the distance, and shouted excitedly, "The emperor is here." ”

A big chariot came slowly, in addition to the gold and silver decorations, there are also seven treasures of glaze embellishments on it, very solemn. The guard of honor of four horses and sixty-four is the royal majesty. Against the backdrop of the rising sun, it is incomparably brilliant and solemn.

Xia Xiang said softly: "Cui Fuzun, shall I come forward to greet you?" ”

Cui Xiang shook his head: "No need, wait until the emperor arrives." ”

Xia Xiang asked again: "Why don't you see a few princes?" ”

Cui Xiang said impatiently: "There are many words, just wait patiently, how does this official know where the princes have gone?" ”

Xia Xiang smiled secretly and gently pulled Cui Xiang's sleeve: "Cui Fuzun doesn't know, several princes entered the city last night." ”

"Really?" Cui Xiang was taken aback, and shook his head with a smile, "Xia Xianzun, don't laugh, how can a few princes not walk with the emperor?" Besides, even if several princes enter the city in advance, they will go to the official mansion to sit, how can they go to your county government and not come to the government office? ”

Xia Xiang also smiled: "Cui Fuzun, the lower officials only said that a few princes had entered the city, but did not say that a few princes had come to the county government. Don't hide it from Cui Fuzun, where did the princes go and what they did after entering the city, and the lower officials don't know. ”

Cui Xiang was stunned: "How did you know that several princes have entered the city?" ”

"Xia Guan was walking by the river and accidentally bumped into one of the princes." Xia Xiang didn't make any fuss, and said directly, "It's to see His Royal Highness." Seeing that His Royal Highness told Xia Guan that he, King Qing, and King Yun were all in Zhending City, but he didn't let Xia Guan make a noise, and the three of them just came first, and went around first......"

"Is it really just going around?" Cui Xiang was puzzled in his heart, seeing that King and King Qing were still fellow travelers, and King Yun was an outsider, if it was only King Seeing and King Qing together, it would be normal for the two of them to come and secretly pass some news to Xia Xiang, but there was one more King Yun, which made people confused, "The three princes have noble status, if something goes wrong, you and I can't afford it." Xia Xianzun, why don't you report to this official immediately? ”

"Seeing that the king didn't let him, the lower officials didn't dare to trespass, not to mention that it was last night, the lower officials thought that Cui Fuzun would be able to see a few princes in a few hours anyway, why bother to report again?" Xia Xiang's attitude was sincere, and his tone was humble, "Seeing that the king also deliberately confessed to the lower officials, he did not let the lower officials report to Cui Fuzun." ”