In the evening, the Lee House.

In the living room, Li Hongyu and Qin Yue, Naren Tuoya, Rou'er and Chen Ting and others sat around eating a reunion dinner, everyone talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was warm and harmonious.

Two years have passed since Li Hongyu left the capital in the blink of an eye, and Qin Yue, Naren Tuoya, and Rou'er naturally miss Li Hongyu very much, and Li Hongyu also misses them a lot.

In the past two years, Qin Yue and Rou'er have taken care of the internal and external affairs of the Li Mansion in an orderly manner, and Naren Tuoya also went to the grassland to contact the tribes on the grassland to expand Li Hongyu's influence on the grassland.

Li Hongyu was extremely glad about this, if it weren't for these virtuous helpers, he would probably be busy now, Qin Yue and the others swept away his worries.

Because Qin Yue and the others were very kind and caring to Chen Ting, this made Chen Ting quickly integrate into the big family of the Li Mansion and feel the warmth of the long-lost home.

Although Chen Ting will return to Xingang to take charge of the Xuanwei Division in the future, as the second concubine of Li Hongyu's "Ming Media is marrying", Qin Yue naturally wants to prepare a room for her to live in the Li Mansion to highlight Chen Ting's identity and status in the Li Mansion.

Early the next morning, Li Hongyu went to find Zhao Xin, today is the day of the imperial court's rest, and the yamen of all sizes in the capital are not working.

Among all the people in the capital, the person Li Hongyu is most worried about in his heart, naturally Zhao Xin, because he didn't have the opportunity to get along with Zhao Xin yesterday, so he got up early today and wanted to see Zhao Xin as soon as possible to relieve the pain of lovesickness.

The subordinates of the Zhao Mansion naturally didn't dare to slack off when they saw Li Hongyu coming, and hurriedly invited him to the reception hall, and then walked quickly to report to Zhao Xin.

Li Hongyu slowly tasted the fragrant tea brought by the maid, and waited for Zhao Xin's arrival with suppressed excitement, after experiencing the life and death disaster in Siam, he missed Zhao Xin very much.

However, when Zhao Xin walked into the hall, Li Hongyu, who looked excited, couldn't help but be slightly stunned, because Zhao Xin didn't come alone, she was also holding a young and beautiful woman, and the relationship between the two looked very intimate.

"Brother Li, let me introduce you, this is the concubine room I accepted at the beginning of the year."

Seeing Li Hongyu's stunned expression, Zhao Xin smiled and introduced the young and beautiful woman beside him, and then pointed to Li Hongyu and said to the beautiful woman, "This is the famous Zuo Chunfang Li University." ”

"The little girl has seen Scholar Lee." The beautiful woman glanced at Li Hongyu curiously, and then stepped forward and bowed to Li Hongyu excitedly.

With a pop, the tea in Li Hongyu's mouth squirted out, if he hadn't twisted his head to the side, then the tea would have been sprayed on the beautiful woman's body.

cough cough cough ......

Then, Li Hongyu put down the teacup in his hand and coughed violently, never expecting that Zhao Xin would choose to find a woman to hide her woman's identity, which made Li Hongyu feel so surprised that he couldn't control his emotions and choked on water.

"Are you alright?" How did Zhao Xin know that Li Hongyu already knew that she was a daughter, and when she saw this, she hurriedly stepped forward and patted him on the back with concern.

"It's fine." Li Hongyu coughed and waved his hands, looking at Zhao Xin's eyes full of pity.

After the initial consternation, he quickly realized Zhao Xin's painstaking efforts to do this, although Zhao Xin had "married" Zhu Wanting, all the two needed was a name to cover up their identities, and they didn't usually live together.

According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the princess and the county lord lived in their respective mansions after getting married, while the concubines and guests were not allowed to meet without being summoned, which was the case for Zhu Wanting and Zhao Xin.

Because Zhao Xin was an official of the imperial court and a person relied on by the Emperor of the Apocalypse, it was impossible for him to live in Xiangyang City, which allowed Zhu Wanting to stay in the capital, anyway, Princess Shouning's Mansion had a room.

In order to fulfill her duties as a wife, Zhu Wanting came to Zhao Mansion for two nights every month, which made Zhao Xin have to "marry" a concubine room for herself to cover up, after all, Zhao Mansion also needs a woman to take care of it, which can be described as well-intentioned.

"Brother Zhao, I don't know what to call my brother and sister?" Li Hongyu coughed for a while before stopping, glanced at the beautiful woman, and asked Zhao Xin with a smile.

"Her name is Xiang'er." Zhao Xin smiled slightly and replied, she thought that she had hidden Li Hongyu, and she felt a little proud in her heart, and there was a faint inexplicable sadness.

"Miss Xiang'er, when we meet for the first time, this is for you." Li Hongyu took off the hanging jade pendant from his waist and handed it to Xiang'er with a smile.

Xiang'er knew that Li Hongyu's things must be extremely precious, so she didn't know whether to accept them or not, so she couldn't help but look at Zhao Xin.

"Since it was given to you by a scholar, then you can accept it." Zhao Xin smiled and nodded, she knew that this was Li Hongyu's heart.

"Scholar Xie." Xiang'er smiled when she heard this, and thanked Li Hongyu for her blessings.

"Brother Li, let's go, go to my study to talk." After greeting Li Hongyu for a few words, Zhao Xin stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please, and led Li Hongyu to the study in the backyard, the two had some confidential matters to discuss, and it was inconvenient for outsiders to know.

Back house, study.

"Brother Li, I heard that you were injured by Hongmaoyi with a musket in Siam, and almost lost your life, this incident can give us a wake-up call, as our Ming Dynasty's important minister, you should be less of a pioneer in the future, once something happens, the consequences will be unimaginable, no one can replace you!"

After Xiang'er served the steaming tea, Zhao Xin told Li Hongyu with a concerned look that she had learned from Li Hongyu's entourage about what Li Hongyu had experienced when he went to sea this time, especially the shooting in Siam, which almost killed Li Hongyu.

"If it weren't for the desperate situation of life and death, I wouldn't be able to think of the preparation of penicillin, which is a holy medicine for wounds, which can save many people's lives, and it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise." Li Hongyu smiled disappreciatively when he heard this, with penicillin, he could save many people's lives in the future.

"Is this penicillin really that powerful?" Seeing that Li Hongyu seemed to have a lot of respect for penicillin, Zhao Xin couldn't help but ask curiously, she had never heard of this kind of miracle medicine in the Western Regions.

"Hmm." Li Hongyu nodded when he heard this, looking confident, but he didn't know how to explain to Zhao Xin why this medicine was so magical.

"That's good." Zhao Xin naturally believed Li Hongyu, she didn't break the casserole and ask to the end, but Yu Feng turned around and mentioned another thing with a serious expression, "Brother Li, what do you think of this Liangjing Jingcha?" ”

"Watching the fire from the other side." Li Hongyu groaned slightly when he heard this, and slowly spit out four words in his mouth.

"Brother Li, do you want to sit back and watch Donglin's people control the government?" Zhao Xin was stunned, and asked suspiciously, this seems to be a little unfavorable to Li Hongyu, who was born in the Chu Party, and he will definitely be constrained by the Donglin Party in the officialdom in the future.

"Brother Zhao, do you say that the emperor likes Donglin's people?" Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, he didn't answer Zhao Xin's question, but asked quietly.

"The people of Donglin have been against the emperor in the court, how can the emperor like them?"

Zhao Xin shook his head when he heard this, and then looked at Li Hongyu with some surprise, "Brother Li, you said that this was done intentionally by the emperor?" ”

The selection of Jingcha was determined by the emperor, and neither the Donglin Party nor the Qichu and Zhejiang parties could intervene in this matter, because this matter was related to the majesty of the imperial power, and whoever spoke too much would undoubtedly backfire, which made the Emperor of the Apocalypse feel disgusted and thought it was a provocation to him.

Although Emperor Tianqi usually did not show it, as a close minister of Emperor Tianqi, Zhao Xin knew very well that this young son of heaven was forbearing, secretly waiting for the opportunity to strengthen the monarch's power.

Since the beginning of the Apocalypse, the influence of the Donglin Party in the court has become greater and greater, making the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang struggling to support, Zhao Xin originally thought that the Emperor of the Apocalypse would be like the Wanli Emperor, and use this Jingcha to fight the Donglin Party, which is also the opinion of most officials in the court.

However, Emperor Tianqi made an unexpected decision and handed over the power of Jingcha to the Donglin Party, wouldn't this make the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang have a catastrophe?

Therefore, Zhao Xin could not guess Emperor Apocalypse's intention to do this, so that the power of the Donglin Party would be even stronger, and there would be no faction above the court that could restrain them, which would be extremely unfavorable to the imperial power.

"There is a good saying, if you want to destroy your enemy, you must first make it crazy."

Li Hongyu had already realized the intention of the Emperor of the Apocalypse to hand over the power of Jingcha to the Donglin Party, so he smiled bitterly and said to Zhao Xin helplessly, "The emperor is not Wanli Ye, he is young and vigorous, and the people of Donglin are aggressive, so he wants to clean up Donglin." ”

"Brother Li, do you mean that the emperor is going to deal a heavy hand to Donglin's people?"

Zhao Xin was taken aback when she heard this, she didn't think that Li Hongyu was alarmist, but that Emperor Apocalypse's behavior was really a bit abnormal, and his attitude towards the Donglin Party was almost conniving, which was completely unreasonable.

It's just that Zhao Xin doesn't think that the Emperor of the Apocalypse will be ruthless to the Donglin Party, at most like the Wanli Emperor, to suppress it to maintain the balance of power in the court.

"The shop is big and oppresses customers, the customer is bullying the store, the emperor is a young man who ascends the throne, he has been constrained by the people of Donglin all these years, and there is already resentment in his heart, and the people of Donglin want to limit the imperial power, how can the emperor tolerate them?"

Li Hongyu nodded when he heard this, and said helplessly, "The previous party struggle was just about fighting for power in the court, but now Donglin wants to weaken the imperial power, this kind of thing is a big taboo!" ”

"By the way, I have asked the emperor yesterday to prepare to go to North Korea in a few days, not only to knock North Korea, but also to build a defense line on the Yalu River, so that the rear of Jiannu will not be stable." As he spoke, Li Hongyu remembered something and told Zhao Xin in a deep voice.

"It seems that the emperor is indeed going to deal a heavy hand to the people of Donglin."

Zhao Xin suddenly showed a look of surprise when she heard this, and muttered in her mouth, she didn't expect that the Emperor of the Apocalypse would agree to Li Hongyu to go to North Korea, which clearly wanted Li Hongyu to leave the capital, a place of right and wrong, to avoid Li Hongyu, who also had a relationship with the Donglin Party, from getting involved.

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