Sad notice, I have been working overtime for several days in a row, and I will work overtime tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so I really don't have time to write an article, this article is posted, and it will be suspended for two days on the weekend, and I will post it on Monday, hoping that I will have time to write by then.

In the twenty-fifth year of Dayong Wude, in June, the emperor lost his virtue as the prince and ordered Taizong to sacrifice in Chang'an.

――"Yongshi Taizong Benji"

Yongwang Li Zhen thought like a tide in his heart, how could he not know that the master of Fengyi was courting him, and it was also the last showdown with him, although he knew very well that if he got the support of the master of Fengyi, his position would be nine out of ten, but thinking about it, he could not be willing to be an emperor, if this compromise, it would inevitably be necessary to let Fengyimen infiltrate into his own power, and it would be difficult for him to inspire reform, if the master of Fengyi proposed to accept his daughter as an apprentice, he could naturally refuse in person, but the master of Fengyi wanted to accept Roulan as a disciple, Although the master of Fengyi Sect is already their primary enemy, it cannot be denied that Fan Huiyao is still one of the three great masters, and it is likely to be in the chief position, such a person wants to accept Roulan as a disciple, this is Roulan's honor, if he flatly refuses, what will Jiang Zhe think, thinking of this, he raised his eyes to look at Jiang Zhe.

My heart is also turning over the river, let Roulan worship her as a teacher, don't think about it, I and Roulan's biological parents want her to live happily, I just hope to be able to let her have no worries about food and clothing, marry a wishful husband, white-headed to old age, even I am not ready to let Roulan marry into a rich family, lest those three wives and four concubines, the pretentious son of a wealthy family delay her, how can she learn what sword, in the future, let Xiao Shunzi teach Roulan some light kung fu to defend herself, of course, if she really likes to practice martial arts, I will admit it, But she will never be allowed to worship the female tyrant, but the master of Fengyi is obviously asking His Royal Highness King Yong for peace, if I flatly refuse, will King Yong be dissatisfied.

King Yong and I looked at each other with worries, but it was rare that there was no consensus, I smiled bitterly in my heart, the master of Fengyi really made an extraordinary move, and a simple sentence made us advance and retreat, and the monarch and the minister were centrifuged.

At this time, my side suddenly remembered Xiao Shunzi's voice and said: "Don't ......" The words were interrupted before they were finished, I looked up, the Fengyi Sect Master's eyes were faintly mocking, and the eyes were even more visible to Xiao Shunzi sweating profusely, looking ashamed and angry. I knew in my heart that it must be the rumors that Xiaoshunzi was isolated by the master of Fengyi, but I always knew that Xiaoshunzi was really above me for observing words and improvisation, and as soon as my wisdom was opened, I had figured out the difficulties of King Yong, so I raised my voice and said: "The door master is loved, Zhe should be thankful on behalf of the little girl, but the little girl has been lonely since she was a child, and our father and daughter depend on each other for their lives, and we are really reluctant to separate, not to mention that the little woman is stubborn and unbearable to learn the sword. ”

Sure enough, as soon as I finished speaking, I heard the voice of King Yong.

A faint gloom flashed in the eyes of the master of Fengyi, and he said: "This seat looks at Jiang Sima's poems in a unique style, I can't imagine that people are also so pedantic, I don't like to see women get ahead, right?" ”

I said respectfully: "The master of the door has misunderstood, Zhe does not have this intention, but is a person who is superior, and the effort must be a hundred times that of people, Zhe only wishes that his children are mediocre in qualifications, do not seek to be prominent in the princes, only seek to be happy under the knees, do not seek high merit in the world, only seek to cultivate and read heirlooms, when the country is in trouble, when the country is in trouble, when the country is safe, when the people are obedient to the society." ”

A mockery flashed in the eyes of the Fengyi Sect Master, and he said: "If everyone is like this, who else can help Sheji, Jiang Sima is too alone." ”

I smiled slightly: "The so-called times create heroes, there are countless people with great ambitions and ambitions in the world, but if there are no ordinary people, who can control the world, if everyone wants to be a hero, then wouldn't it be a great chaos in the world, although I am unfortunate, in a troubled world, I have to fall into deep fetters, but I will never agree with my children are as painstaking as me." ”

The master of Fengyi Sect was silent for a moment and said, "The Tao is not the same, His Royal Highness King Yong, I don't know what you think?" ”

This person is known to everyone what she meant, King Yong smiled faintly, and said: "Xiao Wang also thinks that Roulan is not suitable for learning martial arts, if the door master can see His Royal Highness the Prince, please greet Xiao Wang on behalf of Xiao Wang, just say that Xiao Wang must go to the book to protect each other, and please ask His Royal Highness the Prince to calm down and take a good rest." ”

The master of Fengyi Sect sighed slightly, we were all in a mess, but I felt that her sigh was full of compassion and pity. But Li Zhen and I were unmoved, and when the Fengyi Sect Master saw this, he said coldly: "Your Highness, the crown prince is your eldest brother, and now he is in trouble, I don't know if His Highness is going to fall into the well, or wait and see?" ”

She asked, King Yong smiled bitterly in his heart, although he and the prince are already immortal, but how can this matter be said in public, words are like the wind, no matter what, the prince is his king, is his eldest brother, in private can naturally regard the prince as a mortal enemy, but in front of so many people, if he says it himself, I am afraid that it will not be long before it reaches the ears of his father, that is, no one in the palace eats inside and outside, and the master of Fengyi will not keep it secret, but if he says that he is waiting to see what happens, then no matter what, I can't launch a big attack on the prince this time. When he was in a dilemma, the master of Fengyi Sect smiled faintly and said: "The prince fell in love with His Majesty because of the Hubu case and the Splendid Alliance case, I don't know what His Royal Highness King Yong thinks, this matter, presumably His Royal Highness King Yong is very clear." ”

Li Zhen raised his eyebrows, although he didn't know much about these two things, but he knew very well who instigated them, and he didn't expect these things to be kept secret, but if the Fengyi Sect Master spoke without evidence, it would be no wonder that he was rude. He said lightly: "Who in the world doesn't know these two things, but because of obscenity, they don't dare to say it clearly." ”

The Fengyi Sect Master smiled coldly, with a hint of mockery in her laughter, she said slowly: "If you talk about evidence, this seat naturally has nothing to do, but Your Highness should understand that if this matter spreads, I am afraid that the evidence will be there." ”

Li Zhen frowned, he naturally knew that if Li Yuan became suspicious and investigated carefully, although he could not find actual evidence, it was still possible to obtain some circumstantial evidence, which would be very unfavorable to himself, but he bowed his head like this, he was unwilling, the anger in his heart became more and more fierce, and his eyes looked at the master of Fengyi Sect like a sharp sword.

At this time, I said confidently: "Don't worry, my Royal Highness just doesn't want to show merit, in fact, His Royal Highness has been ready to play this book, many years of brotherhood, several years of righteousness of kings and ministers, His Royal Highness King Yong is a believer, if he is not benevolent to the righteous, he will never do anything to fight." ”

The master of Fengyi Sect listened to Jiang Zhe's words, but he didn't care, and said with a smile: "Then this seat will thank His Royal Highness King Yongwang on behalf of the prince, the time is not early, this seat has to go to see a few old people, so I will leave, if there is a fate, we will naturally meet again." After that, her gaze fell into the distance, and there was a cloth-clothed monk at some point, and she greeted her with a slight gaze, but she didn't see how to act, and her figure disappeared like light smoke. At this time, the people of us present were really relieved.

Li Zhen smiled bitterly: "This king suddenly feels that the pressure has doubled, and the master of the Fengyi Sect has gone out in person, there is no hope this time." ”

I said lightly: "Your Highness, don't worry, this time it is not necessary to achieve the goal immediately." Then he looked at Xiao Shunzi and asked with concern, "Are you okay?" ”

Xiao Shunzi's eyes were a little embarrassed, and she said, "I'm not her opponent?" ”

I laughed when I heard this: "What nonsense are you talking about, how old are you, what do you compare to other grandmaster-level masters, and Master Cizhen said that you have a bright future, can you be so sad if you miss for a while?" ”

Xiao Shunzi's face softened a lot, silent, I saw that he had returned to normal, so I put my mind at ease, at this time Master Cizhen had disappeared, and a strange person was a strange person. Li Zhen glanced at me with a smile and said, "Okay, Suiyun, don't hide it anymore, tell me if you have any plans." ”

I was about to answer, when Chang En, the chief steward in the distance, hurriedly ran over and said, "Your Highness, there is a will in the palace. ”

At this time, we didn't care about speaking, and first hugged King Yong to the front hall, and the red-clothed messenger took the edict of Huang Aya, and said loudly: "I ordered King Yong to hold Chang'an to accompany the prince on behalf of him, and he admired this." ”

King Yong's heart was ecstatic, but he was silent, stepped forward to take the edict, and after thanking him, he asked: "May I ask Qincha, can this king enter the palace to thank him." ”

The eunuch said sharply: "Your Majesty has set off in advance to drive the Huangling, and ordered His Royal Highness to discuss the matter of the festival with Wei Xiang and Zheng Shizhong, but as far as our family knows, although the time is a little hasty, but fasting is still unavoidable, Your Majesty has issued an order for His Royal Highness to go to the palace immediately, and the slave maid thinks that Zheng Shizhong will arrive soon." ”

Before he finished speaking, someone had already reported: "Your Highness, Zheng Shizhong has come by order and asks His Highness to follow him into the palace to fast." ”

Li Zhen said in a deep voice: "Please wait for Zheng Shizhong, this king will enter the palace with him after changing his clothes." Sending away the messenger, Li Zhen said with some concern: "Suiyun, do you say there will be fraud." ”

My eyes flashed and said: "Your Highness, although it stands to reason that there is no problem, but His Royal Highness entered the palace alone, and the ministers and others could not rest assured, Xiao Shunzi's martial arts are not bad, let him accompany His Royal Highness into the palace together, and he will not say anything if he wants to come to Zheng Shizhong?" ”

Xiao Shunzi's face turned pale and blurted out: "Childe, your safety ......"

I folded the fan in my hand and said lightly: "Please give an order to Your Highness, until Your Highness returns to the house, the affairs in the house will be presided over by Zhe." ”

Li Zhen immediately said: "The gold medal is in your hand, that is, this king is in person, whoever dares not to listen to your orders, you can cut it immediately, Xiao Shunzi, this time this king is going to borrow you, rest assured, Master Cizhen is in the house, and he will definitely protect Suiyun's safety." ”

Xiao Shunzi glanced at me and said, "Li Shun obeys the order, please rest assured that His Royal Highness and Gongzi will personally take action, and Xiao Shunzi will also sacrifice his life to protect His Highness's safety." ”

I saw that everyone's faces were serious, and I chuckled: "You don't have to worry so much, we don't have any rebellious behavior, it's just to prevent someone from jumping off the wall in a hurry, and since the master of Fengyi is here, he won't let go at this time, after all, this Dayong still has the emperor and the clan." ”

Everyone was a little relieved, when King Yong went to the front to see Zheng Shizhong, Zheng Fang really did not express any surprise to Xiao Shunzi's entourage, King Yong was so cautious It is also a matter of course, and soon invited King Yong into the palace, fasting and bathing, instructing etiquette, King Yong is not idle for a moment. He is busy here, but he makes the hearts of the prince and his family anxious. Everyone knows that the prince and King Yong are mortal enemies, one eliminates the other, at the beginning of last year, the prince on behalf of the saint to sacrifice to the temple, since then, King Yong has died down, and even busy consolidating his power in Youzhou, now King Yong replaces the prince to accompany the sacrifice, so the symbol is self-explanatory. The people of the prince's family naturally talked about it, and the backbone of it refused to let go.

But Li Yuan is a generation of overlords after all, there will not think of this problem, this time to leave Beijing, he will hand over the forbidden army in Beijing to Qin Qing, Li Hanyou is a member of the prince's family, naturally he will not let King Yong harm the prince, and although Qin Qing is young and reckless, General Qin is not ambiguous, leaving his own cronies and deputy general Qin Yong to supervise Qin Qing, in this way, the prince does not want to take the opportunity to harm King Yong, besides, Wei Xiang and Zheng Shizhong are the leaders of Wenchen, with them in charge, it is naturally foolproof. For safety, Zheng Shizhong personally managed the palace of King Yong's fasting, and the Jin'an Palace, where the prince was under house arrest, was proposed by Wei Guan and sent his son Wei Ying to take care of it. There is no need to get caught up in this political storm.

In this case, the arrangement of the two sides is very important, not only can not alarm the Wenchen military generals left by Emperor Yongdi to guard Chang'an, but also need to maintain the situation, and cannot let their own lord overthrow, so the prince's mansion and Yongwangfu jointly asked Chang'an to be under martial law, Wei Guan can only agree, and after that, Qin Qing quickly detained the suspected unknown people and drove them out of Chang'an, and Yongwangfu did not show weakness, Yongwang's subordinate Sanjie, Guan Xiu was responsible for the internal affairs of Yongwang's mansion, and Gou Lian was responsible for coordinating with Wei Guan and others, Dong Zhi took Jing Chi to return to the guards stationed outside Chang'an City, and the whole army was ready to fight, while Sima Xiong took the guards of the Yongwang Mansion to listen to orders at any time. And Jiang Zhejiang Suiyun, who commanded all this, never left the cold garden, and Master Cizhen never left him, although Pei Yun lost the absolute control of the northern camp of the forbidden army, but after all, he still controlled most of the forces, with him in charge, Xiahou Yuanfeng could not mobilize this part of the forbidden army at will, and could only call the Ouchi guards as much as possible, so that the forces of the two sides were staggered, and no one dared to make the first move, not to mention that everyone knew that the master of Fengyi had arrived in Chang'an.

However, in the wind and waves, there is one person who is leisurely, that is me, although I stay in the cold garden every day, careful not to go out, but I have not done anything big, I read the information every day and file it, and let them plan all kinds of contingency measures, I am only responsible for giving a few orders. It's strange to say, my irresponsible behavior can be said to be effective in calming everyone's minds, and it seems that I usually give them too good an impression that they unconsciously believe me.

In fact, there is no need to be in a hurry, for me, the only goal this time is to see the power of the prince, I know very well, this is not an opportunity once and for all, if Emperor Yongdi was really completely disappointed in the prince, he would have been abolished a long time ago, instead of detaining him, this time Emperor Yongdi wants to test King Yong, if this time we are anxious to eradicate the prince, it will inevitably make Emperor Yongdi think that His Royal Highness is vicious, if he is unprepared, it will make Emperor Yongdi feel that we are too pretentious, so I am so tight on the outside and loose on the inside, Not only to deter the prince's power, so that they dare not take the opportunity to change, but also to let Emperor Yong understand that His Royal Highness has no intention of rebellion, besides, the prince's position is already in jeopardy, if we add fuel to the fire, we are afraid that it will cause Emperor Yong's sympathy and mercy, as long as we are impartial, then Fengyi's practice of jumping up and down for the prince can be seen at a glance, and no kindness can be suppressed for a lifetime, this time the master of Fengyi can rely on the past kindness to persuade Emperor Yongdi to restore the prince's honor, then next time, besides, the prince has lost the hearts of the people, Although the power is huge, it is already a paper tiger, so my goal this time is just to get through it safely, and the next step is to start planning the real plan to win the heir.

But when I was leisurely, I got a news that I didn't expect, it was just a small thing, but it made me regret a little, today the crown princess arranged the funeral of her cronies Xiuchun, and Xiuchun hanged herself, and it is said that she was several months pregnant before her death. This news made me very regretful, originally I didn't care about Xia Jinyi's private affairs, but this woman died of martyrdom, I didn't kill Boren, Boren died because of me, sighed, and decided to send a message to Xia Jinyi, let him know that there is a woman who loves him so much, but it's a pity that the child who was not born.

At the same time, in the Ouchi Palace, Li Zhen was concentrating on reciting the scriptures, Xiao Shunzi, who was sitting in the corner of the room and practicing silently, opened his eyes, and a trace of admiration flashed in his eyes, although he followed Jiang Zhe to join King Yong, but he has always been hostile to King Yong, one reason is that King Yong once wanted to kill Jiang Zhe that day, and the other reason is because Jiang Zhe was not only almost assassinated to death in order to serve King Yong, but also forcibly supported his sick body to plan for him. So although he was very grateful to King Yong's love for Jiang Zhe, Xiao Shunzi was still reluctant to pay attention to King Yong. But today, Xiao Shunzi really admires this prince.

Xiao Shunzi is not an idiot, he knows his ability and status, and he is willing to be Jiang Zhe's slave, but this does not mean that he does not understand his worth, ask himself, if he is King Yong, he will definitely not be able to help recruiting such a master, even if he does not expect his full loyalty, it is worth the money to get his favor, he also thought about being alone in the palace with King Yong this time, King Yong may use some means to recruit himself, but to his surprise, from beginning to end, King Yong just concentrated on learning etiquette and chanting, Although he was polite to himself, he did not have the slightest intention of buying. Xiao Shunzi has been in King Yong's Mansion for many years, and has seen King Yong's treatment of people more than once, in all fairness, if King Yong uses it on him, it will be difficult for him to treat it as usual, but King Yong has not said a word of additional words to him.

Xiao Shunzi understands that this is not that King Yong looks down on him, but that in King Yong's heart, he is a person who abides by loyalty, and this kind of respect makes Xiao Shunzi really accept King Yong as the lord of Jiang Zhe.

For Li Zhen, it is not that he has not thought about buying Xiao Shunzi, after all, such a martial arts master is really worth staying by his side, but King Yong is not a person who is sure to hold the world's heroes in his hands, in his opinion, Xiao Shunzi is loyal to Jiang Zhe, so as long as he catches Jiang Zhe, he doesn't have to worry about Xiao Shunzi's problem, and besides, such an elegant and elegant person, how can he humiliate him by bribery. At this time, Li Zhen definitely didn't expect that Xiao Shunzi would finally eliminate his hostility towards him because of this.