Xie An and Li Shou finally returned to the palace to raise the heart of the palace, since the end of the national funeral, the former son of heaven Li Ji's bones were sent to the imperial tomb for burial, the heart of the palace became the new son of heaven Li Shou's bedroom.

"Is the Anping Mansion ready to be idle?" Lying on the cashmere blanket next to the dragon couch in the Heart Cultivation Palace, Xie An asked weakly.

"How else?" Not far from Xie An, the new Great Zhou Emperor lay on his back on the dragon couch, looked at the beams of the Heart Cultivation Palace, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I came to give it to you, but since the fifth child gave you all his mansions, forget about my original palace......

"Feeling like you can't handle it?" Xie An laughed evilly, and then said with a smile, "Actually, I think it's okay, you can ask the Ministry of Engineering to renovate it, and then give it to me, anyway, I'm not too much......"

Hearing this, Li Shou rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Yes, you are not too much...... said, he paused, and said in a rather heavy tone, "Actually, I don't want to make too many changes to that palace......

"......" seemed to hear something to say, Xie An opened his mouth and looked at Li Shou.

"That mansion, I don't plan to let anyone live in it except you, now you have a better mansion, that palace, I plan to let it be placed like this, usually ask someone to clean it, and be a thought ......"

Xie An nodded silently when he heard this, he knew that Li Shou remembered the deceased Fu Bo.

"I think you can keep it for your son...... It's a bit unreasonable to have only one heir as the king of a country, right? In order to alleviate Li Shou's grief, Xie An deliberately joked with a lighter topic.

Sure enough, as soon as the topic turned to his son, Li Shou's heavy face showed a slight smile, shook his head and said. "Forget it, I don't want to follow in the footsteps of my father and queen......"

"Isn't it?" As if hearing something, Xie An supported his body with his elbows, looked at Li Shou with a strange expression, and said, "You are now the emperor of the Great Zhou, don't you want to ...... I don't want to be that for a while...... Three thousand harem beauties are ...... or something" Speaking of this, he involuntarily licked his lips.

"......" glanced at Xie An speechlessly, and Li Shou said weakly. You think I'm you, huh? I'm satisfied with the queen by my side......"

The queen in Li Shou's mouth refers to the princess Zeng Anle Wang, that is, the biological mother of her son Li Sheng, now. That virtuous and quiet woman has become the queen of the Great Zhou.

"......" Xie An was stunned when he heard this, and gave a thumbs up, sincerely admiring Li Shou's open-mindedness, after all, in a way, Li Shou seemed more desireless than him Xie An.

"Xie An, you should also take care of it." As if noticing Xie An's stunned expression, Li Shou said with a smile, "Now you have three wives: General Liangqiu, Miss Changsun, and the ghost concubine of the dangerous building. If it's like before, the situation is worrying......"

Xie An rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said angrily, "Hey, hey, hey." What's going on with this kind of tone of an elder brother teaching a younger brother? ”

"Isn't it possible?" Li Shou sat up and looked at Xie An condescendingly. Yizheng smiled and said, "Wang...... Ahem, I'm going to be more than a year older than you......"

"Come on!" Xie An scoffed at the new emperor's words.

Seeing this, Li Shou couldn't help laughing, and then said very seriously, "You know, Xie An, I'm actually quite worried that your friendship with me will change because of this......" As he spoke, he looked at Xie An, who was still pouting at him, and smiled with relief, "It's really good ...... this."

Xie An couldn't help but be a little moved when he heard this, and deliberately pouted and said, "Your Majesty is not worried about Long Wei's loss?" ”

"I'm going to mourn early......" stood up and pulled Xie An up from the ground, Li Shou said angrily, "Get up, you are also the secretary of my Great Zhou Criminal Department, the official residence, if you let the palace maid here see the dignified first-class official lying on the ground panting like a dead cow, what kind of system will it be?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty......" dragged a long note, Xie An helplessly pulled Li Shou up and sat on the edge of the dragon couch.

Looking at Xie An and shaking his head helplessly, Li Shou took a slight breath and said melancholy, "Xie An, these days, I always feel like I am in the clouds, I don't know if it's really an illusion" Speaking ......of this, he seemed to suddenly think of something, turned his head and said to Xie An, "I said, don't you really plan to take a table?" I always feel weird by calling you by name......"

"It feels weird, haven't you been screaming for more than a year?" Glancing at Li Shou, Xie An shrugged and said, "It's going to be a weak crown in another year and a half, let's talk about it then......"

Li Shou was stunned when he heard this, and said with a strange expression, "It's not that you have to wait for the gift of the weak crown to take the table word, with your current identity and status, you don't have a table word, it's really not like it...... You can ask Duke Yin and Duke Liang Qiu to pick up a table for you, and Ruan Shangshu, who is your teacher, can also ......"

"Really?" Xie An looked at Li Shou with some surprise.

"Of course," Li Shou nodded, then blinked and said, "In addition, please ask your second lady to be the second lady of the house, don't you always call her aunt?" My aunt and grandmother help you get a table word, and outsiders are also convinced, right? ”

"......" Xie An was speechless when he heard this, glanced at Li Shou angrily, and said, "Don't think that if you kid becomes the emperor, you can have no scruples, annoy Uncle Xie, and let you taste what is called a big fist in a casserole!" ”

Li Shou pursed his lips when he heard this, and said disdainfully, "Come on, others don't understand, I don't know you yet?" - With the fists and feet of your three-legged cat, you are even king...... Ahem, you can't even win! ”

"You can't say that, I've been practicing martial arts with Xiao Wu recently......"

"Really?" Li Shou was shocked when he heard this, looked at Xie An with a strange expression, and said in surprise, "You are willing to take time to practice martial arts, instead of thinking about those ...... all day Tsk, that's a surprise......"

"Hey, Hey, ......"

"Okay, okay, no kidding," waving his hand, Li Shou gradually retracted the smile on his face, and said melancholy, "These days, I still feel a little uncomfortable, I feel that everything around me has become so fast, when you and I swore a heavy oath to kill the prince, you said that death would die, and death is still like that...... Alas! ”

Xie An knew what Li Shou wanted to say, after all, after the death of the crown prince Li Wei. Xie An also asked Li Shou if he wanted to cut off the head of the crown prince Li Wei to pay tribute to Fu Bo, who was killed by him, as the two had sworn at the beginning, but in the end, both Li Shou and Xie An dispelled this idea, because they were moved by the affection of the prince Li Wei for his brother Li Cheng before his death.

"In addition to the king of the four kings, I plan to crown the fifth child as the king of Anling, of course. It's just a false name, no rights, and no fiefdom...... In the end, he reined in at the last minute and abdicated the throne......"

"Li Cheng, ah......" Xie An smiled bitterly. Shaking his head, he said, "He won't necessarily accept ......"

Li Shou was stunned when he heard this, then nodded and said self-deprecatingly, "I know, the fifth child does not recognize me as the emperor of the Great Zhou......"

Seeing Li Shou's look of self-pity, Xie An hurriedly corrected, "It's not that Li Cheng doesn't approve of you. It's that he doesn't approve of anyone other than his own brother [Mourning King] Li Wei to become the emperor of the Great Zhou, even if it's himself! -- The living cannot be compared with the dead, so give up! ”

"I know that." Nodding, Li Shou said bitterly, "It's just that it's not just the fifth......"

Xie An was stunned when he heard this. Then he suddenly understood, and asked tentatively. "Your Highness Eight?"

Li Shou nodded silently, his expression was not very good-looking, obviously, he probably remembered the dispute with the eighth son Li Xian in the Taihe Hall a few days ago, because of the dispute over the third son Li Shen's crown.

"About this...... Actually, I talked to His Royal Highness the Eight Sages King yesterday......"

"Huh?" Li Shou was stunned when he heard this, looked at Xie An suspiciously, and asked, "Did you see the eighth child yesterday?" How is it? ”

He ...... I don't trust me, and I don't trust the imperial court......" As he spoke, Xie An told Li Shou about what happened when he met Li Xian yesterday, only to hear Li Shou's face look surprised, and said in surprise, "The eighth brother actually knows about your brother-in-law Chen Bei?" ”

"More than that," shaking his head, Xie An lowered his voice and said, "At that time, I had the feeling that His Royal Highness Xian seemed to know quite well about the Taiping Army's every move, and it was not surprising that when he was in Jiangnan, he sent people to secretly monitor the Taiping Army's movements......"

"It's no wonder that when I was arguing with me that day, I said that the two of us have different perspectives...... I see, when I was jealous of the fourth child, what he was thinking about was the Taiping Army, a cancer that took root and sprouted within the Great Zhou Dynasty......" Speaking of this, Li Shou turned his head to look at Xie An and said in a low voice, "What did Miss Changsun say about this matter?" ”

Xie An shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, and said in a low voice, "Wait and see what happens, don't be impatient!" -- At present, we do not have an accurate estimate of the strength of the Taiping Army, and it is not the best strategy to startle the snake, and someone needs to probe the details of the Taiping Army first......"

"Isn't that you?" Li Shou said with a chuckle.

"What? I? Xie An was stunned and said suspiciously, "Where did I find out about the Taiping Army?" Don't say that my uncle is no longer in Jijing now, even if he is, do you think he will tell me? ”

"I'm not referring to your eldest brother, I'm referring to Fei Guo! - Don't you forget, he's also a member of the Taiping Army! ”

"Huh?" Xie An was stunned when he heard this, scratched his head under Li Shou's stunned gaze, and said, "You really forgot about it if you didn't mention it, I really forgot ......."

Hearing this, Li Shou's face was even more strange, and he said in disbelief, "Don't tell me, you haven't talked about this matter with that Fei country......

"Well, it seems like that......" Xie An smiled.

"Hey," looking at Xie An helplessly, Li Shou said angrily, "I thought you had subdued this person...... I also named him a four-rank general, and called him the governor of Jizhou soldiers, you ......"

"Don't worry, it's too late to ......," Xie An hurriedly said, "Won't I get married in a few days, when the time comes, I will have a good talk with Fei Guo in private, and try my best to really win this person over to us and others...... This person has always been obscure and nourishing, not showing mountains and waters, but in fact, he is a general's talent, and you can use it in the future! ”

"Early!" Li Shou glanced at Xie An angrily, shook his head helplessly, and then, as if he suddenly thought of something, he lowered his voice and said, "By the way, before that, I'll introduce someone for you!" ”

"Who?"

Looking at the doubts on Xie An's face, Li Shou smiled slightly and said, "You'll know later!" As he spoke, he clapped his palms, and suddenly, he only heard two swishing sounds. Two men dressed in black jumped down from nowhere, clenched their fists on the ground, and knelt in front of Li Shou and Xie An.

According to the signs embroidered on their chests, these two were the members of the Dongling people under the hands of Du Wei Mofei, the commander of the Beizhen Fu Division, Jinyi Weisi.

At present, the Dongling people under Xie An's command are divided into two groups, one group is led by [Barbarian Bone] Di Bu, who is the jailer of the Great Prison Temple, who takes care of Xie An's most filthy and darkest prison in the entire Great Zhou, and the other group is led by [sickle] Mo Fei, which belongs to the Jinyi Wei under the name. He was responsible for monitoring the situation of the entire palace and protecting the new emperor Li Shou.

There are two kinds of Jinyi guards, one is the elite who was transferred from the Northern Army, brightly dressed, and the authority was the same as when Li Cheng, the fifth son of the former emperor, was on duty. The other is the Jinyi Guard's secret sentinel, all of which are served by the original Dongling assassins, monitoring every move of the palace and even Jijing for Li Shou and Xie An, to put it bluntly, it is the assassin spy organization in the hands of Li Shou, the son of heaven.

"Call that guy here!" Li Shou said in a deep voice.

The two brocade-clothed guards nodded and jumped up to the hall beam with two swishs. Disappear.

Looking up at the beams of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Xie An said with a smile, "How about it, the person I lent you is easy to use, right?" ”

Li Shoule is happy. smiled and said, "It's easy to use...... If these people could enter and exit through the main entrance, I would have a higher opinion of them...... You don't know how many times I was scared by them the other day...... Especially that Mo Fei. Did you really tell him that he was the captain of the North Town Fusi right now? ”

"What's wrong?"

"The official of the fifth grade. In the middle of the night, dressed like an assassin, he appeared in my study with a whoosh, and reported to me what had happened in the palace today, and he never thought that I would be scared to death by him sooner or later. ”

Xie An smiled when he heard this, after all, he had been frightened by Mo Fei before, and he understood Li Shou's feelings very much.

"That guy, I have a soft spot for the assassin's black dress, especially the black cloth on his face, next time you can try to ask him to take it down, it's very interesting......" Speaking of this, Xie An couldn't help but laugh.

Once, he once asked Mo Fei to take off the black cloth on his face, because he wanted to see what Mo Fei looked like, but it turned out to be good, Mo Fei, who took off the black cloth on his face, looked nervous and behaved at a loss.

At first, Xie An felt very interesting, but when Mo Fei accidentally broke a few expensive porcelain vase decorations in his house, Xie An, who was very distressed, hurriedly asked this guy to cover himself with a black cloth, after all, if he goes on like this, I don't know how many things will be damaged by this guy.

It is not difficult to guess that Mo Fei, like Chen Bei, has some kind of rare mental illness, Chen Fei can't stay in a small space environment, otherwise his mood will become extremely impulsive, and Mo Fei is just the opposite, he likes to stay in a small space the most, and he is exposed to others without concealment, which will make him feel at a loss.

As for the black cloth on his face, it was not so much an assassin's attire as a prop he used to calm his mood.

Just as Xie An was explaining Mo Fei's personality and psychological symptoms to Li Shou, there was a slight sound of footsteps outside the hall, and then, a man who made Xie An feel familiar walked into the hall and knelt down on one knee towards Li Shou.

"Weichen Gengnan, I've seen Your Majesty! - This must be Lord Xie, right? ”

"Geng Nan?" Looking at the person who knelt down in front of him, Xie An's eyes widened in shock, raised his hand to point at the other party, and said in disbelief, "Are you...... One of the four major enshrinements of the Northern Army, [Suzaku General] Geng Nan?! ”

"Lord Xie still remembers it, and I feel honored to be here!" Geng Nan smiled slightly, a look of obedience.

"......" looked at Geng Nan for a long time in amazement, Xie An took a step back, subconsciously protected Li Shou behind him, and said to Li Shou in a low voice, "What are you calling this guy for?" This guy is ......."

"I know," patting Xie An on the shoulder, Li Shou whispered, "You listen to what he said first......" As he spoke, he raised his hand and said, "Flat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Geng Nan knocked on the ground and thanked him when he heard this, and then stood up, seeing Xie An's face with a look of jealousy, he smiled slightly, and said, "Lord Xie, you can rest assured, right now, there are sixteen people lurking in this palace of Jinyi Guard, even the new head of the Jinyi Guard, one of the four people in Dongling, the sickle Mo Fei, is also there, monitoring his every move, and besides, there is a ...... outside the palace gate."

"Outside the temple gate?" Hearing this, Xie An subconsciously glanced at the door of the Heart Cultivation Palace, but saw that the old eunuch Wang Ying was looking at Geng Nan lightly, and when he noticed Xie An's gaze, he smiled slightly, lowered his head, and said hello.

Could it be that this old eunuch Wang is quite a powerful figure?

Xie An looked up and down at Wang Ying, the old eunuch who was standing outside the hall, to be honest, he really couldn't see anything special about this old attendant who had served Li Ji, the son of the former emperor, for more than 30 years.

At this moment, Li Shou poured a cup of tea and handed it to Xie An, signaling him to be calm and not to be impatient, then poured himself another cup, looked at Geng Nan and said with a smile, "Master Geng, please leave what you said to me a few days ago as it is, and say it again to Master Xie!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Geng Nan clenched his fists to receive the order, then turned his head to look at Xie An, and said with a chuckle, "Then first, let's introduce Geng's identity first......

"Identity? Isn't it enshrined by the Northern Army? Xie An muttered suspiciously.

I don't know if I heard Xie An's whispering, Geng Nan smiled slightly, hugged his fists and bowed, and said, "In Xia Gengnan, he used to be called Geng Ghost, and he was one of the Taiping Army's [Six Divine Generals], [Tianshu Divine General]!" ”

"Six Divine Generals?" Xie An's face was shocked when he heard this, although he had been slightly exposed to some things about the Taiping Army, but he didn't know about the so-called [Six Divine Generals], and now when he heard Geng Nan introduce himself like this, he was naturally shocked in his heart.

Xie An subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Li Shou, seeing that Li Shou nodded quietly, he frowned and asked Geng Nandao, "What are the six god generals?" ”

Geng Nan hugged his fists and said respectfully, "It is the general of the military affairs of the Governor Taiping Army in various places!" -- These six people, including the following, were supervised by the third-generation commander of the Taiping Army, and were ordered to blend into the Great Zhou and gradually control the forces of the Great Zhou, so that in the future, if the Taiping Army made an incident, they would turn against each other and help each other......"

"You're just the six gods?"

"Nope! On the day of the ordination, each of the six gods will be followed by as few as a hundred or as many as a hundred, and they will lurk together in the Great Week...... Oh, Lord Xie can rest assured, he doesn't want to be a thief in the future, and in the early years, he managed to kill all the hundreds of traitors under his hands, changed his name and surname, and fled to Jijing, but he didn't want to be found by the rebels......"

Xie An frowned when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "Do you know the identities of the other five people?" ”

Geng Nan shook his head and said, "The Taiping Army strictly ordered me and other six gods to contact in private, and never revealed the news of the other five people, but according to the following speculation, as long as there are important people, there must be the Taiping Army lurking around them, and the question is only whether they are seriously ......."

"Someone important? Like what? ”

Glancing at Xie An, Geng Nan said in a deep voice, "Fourth Prince Li Mao! The Eighth Prince Li Xian! ”

"......" Xie An and Li Shou trembled when they heard this, and looked at each other silently.