The moonlight is not very good, but because the moonlight is dim, the stars are extraordinarily large. A milky way hung in the sky, and from the clouds, it sprinkled silver light on the entire earth. In the wind of the summer night, wrapped in the extraordinarily comfortable coolness of zero people, the wind blows the eaves, and the strings of bells play moving notes.

In this beautiful summer night, at the Carrier Hall of An Luxing Palace, Zhu Houxi recognized Yang Chengzu as his family for the first time. In his capacity, this kind of words were not said casually, but represented a kind of recognition, a kind of certainty, that the future king of Anlu had recognized this relationship between his sister and his friend in an informal setting.

In a trance, Yang Chengzu almost thought that Zhu Xiuchang would suddenly appear, and then touched his and Shizi's hair, and then said: Everyone must be good friends. But in an instant, he came to his senses, and he said with some trepidation: "Chitose, the minister knows that he is guilty, please Chitose." ”

"What kind of sin is this?" Zhu Houxi sat down without mind, and handed the flask over, "Let's drink together." ”

"Wu Jinghe is a bastard, and this is something I knew about when I was very young. My father's mind is in the pursuit of immortality, and although he is very good to me, there are not many times when they meet. My mother is very good to me, but she wants me to be successful, and always hopes that I will become a saint in the mouth of Ji Shan, and there are more things that I can't do in front of my mother. The ones who are really close to me are my two sisters, especially the eldest sister. She has a bit of a manly nature, including when I encounter some troubles, she will help me out, like a big tree, sheltering me from the wind and rain. Later, she became married, and then I learned that she was not happy at all. ”

"Although my sister tried her best to pretend to be happy in front of us, even I could see that her happiness and happiness were all pretended to be for us. She doesn't want us to be sad and sad because of her, so we try to pretend that everything is fine, but this kind of thing can't be hidden. The person she likes refuses to marry her, and she doesn't like the person she marries, and later Wu Jinghe became more and more confused, and he made a lot of trouble in Anlu. I have come to the house a few times, but my father always said that my family also has a reason to lose in this matter, so let him have a few points. That's it, he is becoming more and more arrogant in Anlu, and the face of our palace is about to be lost by him. Now that he is dead, Sister Ah has not been able to extricate himself, and it is impossible for the female dependents of the emperor's family to remarry. I originally thought that Sister Ah would be so lonely all her life, trying to live, and then trying hard to pretend to be nothing to show us. ”

"She does business, runs shops, manages the grange. On the one hand, she really doesn't worry about those subordinates, and on the other hand, she also wants to find something for herself to do. The mother concubine said that if she was not allowed to do those things, she would really be lonely to death. Now, she can finally stop being lonely, I'm very happy, but you must be kind to your sister, if you make your eldest sister sad, Lone will not let you go. ”

"Obey."

The two have established this relationship, and the distance between each other has been shortened a lot, from the basis of friends, to relatives, and many words are more convenient to say.

Zhu Houxi said: "I heard that Banzai wants to transfer you back to his side to do things?" I will not let people go, I will do my best to keep you, whether I succeed or fail, I will always try. Actually, since I became a vassal king, I haven't really done anything, so let's start with this. ”

"It's a good thing that you want to do things, but you're still young, you don't know how many things you can do, and you don't have to rush to do it." Yang Chengzu said with relief: "Long live the matter of transferring me, I have already delayed it." Then, there is the war in Nanchang, and what is more important than the war is the distribution of interests after the war and the reshuffle of the entire southeast officialdom as I said before. Even the Son of Heaven doesn't have the energy to think about me anymore when faced with so many important things, so we still have enough time. When it's all over, maybe things take a different turn. ”

"I hope so, Brother Yang thinks, how will this war in Nanchang end? Several Ji Shan miscalculated the battle situation last time and felt faceless. Recently, I have collected Tang newspapers, and inquired about news from the front line, saying how the imperial army was assembled, how to prepare, and how many people in the city defected. Come to think of it, it should be over soon. ”

"They say pretty much the same, in fact, that's right, they don't lack talent, they just lack some pragmatic attitude. Isn't it easy to see the end by carefully investigating like this, studying deeply, and thinking from a practical point of view, rather than from the perspective of any way? Ning Fan is finished, and the reason why he hasn't started it now is just to talk about the price. How long Nanchang can support it does not depend on how many materials it has in reserve, nor on how well its city defense is repaired, but only on when everyone negotiates the price. How many locals want, how much the imperial court produces, and how to adjust the military exploits within the imperial court, so that who can be credited and who will not be credited. After these are negotiated, Nanchang can be conquered. ”

Zhu Houxi said: "I also understand these, but there is a question, I can't ask, and they won't tell me the answer if I ask, only from the eldest brother, I can ask the truth." What will Banzai do to Ning Fan? At the beginning, the rebellion of King Anhua was sent to Beijing to be beheaded, did Ning Fan also have to be beheaded in Beijing? I heard that he was known as a virtuous king and had dealings with the Chinese Wuduo of the dynasty, will anyone say something for him? When Ji Shanmen talked about this matter, he also felt that his lawsuit would probably be heard for a long time, and maybe there would be other variables. ”

"It's unlikely, Ning Fan is different from King Anhua, his problem is that he knows too much of civil and military affairs, and he knows too many things. If he is allowed to go to the capital and talk nonsense casually, I don't know how many loyal ministers and Qing officials have their reputations damaged, and for everyone's reputation, he is destined to die in the south. In fact, not only him, but also his descendants and future generations, most of them will not live, lest someone will speak out about these things in the future. Ning Fan's branch is afraid that it will be exterminated. ”

"Except for the country? Probably, he made too much trouble, and he should have thought that it was today's result. Fortunately, I have a capable person like you by my side, otherwise, the palace would have been lost that day, and my feudal kingdom would have been gone. ”

"Then you should study harder, so as to live up to me to keep your feudal country, and be a virtuous king in the future, so that the people will admire and be praised by scholars, just like the king of Shu, how good should it be?"

Zhu Houxi shook his head, "I used to really want to be a virtuous king, but after I met my eldest brother, I didn't want to." I read the biography of Jingzhong written by my eldest brother, and everyone likes Yue Fei in it, but I thought, if I want to do it, I will be the emperor in it. Whether you are a loyal handsome man, or the reincarnation of a great peng, you can kill if you want to. With the power of life and death in his hands, and the cadres are arbitrary, they will not embark on this situation in vain. So what I really want to do now is to be a true self, not a virtuous king. I don't know if King Ning also thought so when he raised his troops, he can finally be himself. ”