After returning to Kaifeng, Chai Rong's condition was still good and bad, and he never fully recovered. From the beginning of September to the end of October of the lunar calendar, the imperial doctors who treated Chai Rong changed again and again, and tried one prescription after another, but none of the imperial doctors or a pair of prescriptions could cure the disease, treating both the symptoms and the root cause. Faced with this situation, not only the ministers of the court and the central government were anxious, but also the concubines were also restless. Especially Queen Fu, who is the master, regardless of her own physical well-being, stays by Chai Rong's side almost day and night, serving him in his daily life and taking medicinal meals. For this reason, Lin Xiaoyu, who was well aware of his physical condition, did not persuade him a lot, and shared the burden of serving him as much as possible.

said that it was shared, but the problem was that at this time, Lin Xiaoyu herself was already five or six months pregnant-this is also one of the reasons why Lin Xiaoyu did not accompany Chai Rong this time-even if she thought that she was in good physical condition and didn't care about doing more, how could Empress Fu let a pregnant woman with a big belly follow her to serve Chai Rong. In addition, Chai Rong is also an emperor who doesn't like women very much, and the number of concubines in the palace is very small, so Queen Fu is still the most hardworking and busy one among the concubines after all. As a result, Chai Rong's illness has not yet recovered, and Queen Fu, who has been relatively weak since she contracted the disease on the southern expedition a few years ago, has been so tired that she has fallen ill. As a result, the emperor's side of the dragon body is not safe, and the queen's side is not in harmony, and the medical officers of the Imperial Medical Department, who were already busy, simply wanted to cry without tears.

The imperial doctors in the palace were busy and anxious about the illness of the emperor of the Great Zhou, and the shili outside the palace who were in the court and the opposition were also planning and planning for their future. One night in the tenth lunar month of the seventh year of Xiande, in a heavily guarded secret room deep in Zhang Yongde's mansion, Zhang Yongde, Zhang Fei, Zhang Yan, father and son, were sitting or standing, discussing the most confidential matters to them.

Zhang Yongde, who was sitting in the center, didn't seem to be in a hurry to tell his righteous son and righteous daughter about things, he tasted tea with a teacup for a while, and then muttered for a long time, and then said: "According to my father's eyeliner in the palace, because of the concern for Queen Fu, who had relapsed from her old illness because of taking care of herself, the official family, who had a slight improvement in health, was a little heavier than at the beginning of the month, and he has been bedridden for nearly half a month. Judging from the fact that the official family has not been to the court for many days, what this eyeliner said is true.

When the official family was young, the family was in a difficult situation, and when he was young, he was not allowed to go out to do business to support the family, and he ran around all the year round, eating and sleeping in the open. As for the adoption of Taizu as an adopted son, although he is no longer busy with life, he is also flawless and recuperating. At the beginning of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he had to assist Taizu in pacifying the Quartet, and after he ascended to the pole, he also had to work on state affairs and fight in the south and the north, without stopping for a moment, so his health has been poor. Therefore, my father thought that the official family's illness this time was only afraid that it would be difficult to treat and that time was running out. Once something happens to the official family, it will be a situation in which the young lord succeeds to the throne and the lord and the young country is suspicious. As a result, there will be turmoil in the court, and this is also the time for our father and son to show their skills and realize their great causes.

It's just that such a situation is a good opportunity for you, my father and son, and it is also a good opportunity for other people with great ambitions in the DPRK and China. As the saying goes, 'the first strike is strong, and the second strike suffers'. You and I, father and son, must plan and arrange in advance, preemptively attack others before they make a move, so that the opponent will either put away his ambition and surrender to me, or be caught off guard and controlled by me. In order to do this, it is necessary to spread a wide range of eyeliner and set up multiple secret agents in the court and various potential opponents, record every move, word and deed of the opponent, and feed back to you, my father and son from time to time. In this way, we can take the lead and seize the opportunity. The 'Feiyan Hall' under the two brothers and sisters is the perfect candidate to achieve this goal. …,

It should be said that after the planning and arrangement of the two brothers and sisters in the past few years, the 'Feiyan Hall' has been installed and arranged in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty and in various states and counties. The Great Zhou Dynasty went up to the important ministers of the imperial court and down to the gentry and clans, and it can be said that they were all under the surveillance and control of the 'Feiyan Hall'. Now, the only place that makes my father feel at ease is the 'Qingyuan' brothers who have only sprung up in the past two years, sitting on the sixteen states of the Beiping Army, and not long ago, they have just ordered the puppet Han to die and take over one of the eight states.

Although the 'Qingyuan' brothers have always regarded the Great Zhou as Zhengshuo, after the suppression of the puppet Han, they escorted the puppet emperor Liu Jun and a number of puppet Han ministers who refused to recognize the Great Zhou as Zhengshuo to the capital, and handed them over to the official family and the imperial court. However, it can be seen from the fact that he deceived the imperial court during the Battle of Youyun, forcibly demanded the Beiping Army after the Battle of Youyun, and hindered it during the expedition to the Northern Han Dynasty, that he was inseparable from the imperial court from the beginning, and did not put the imperial court in his eyes at all, and would never change anything because the imperial court changed masters. Moreover, judging from the strength that he has now, it is said that he is going south to the Central Plains, even if it is to pacify the whole world and restore the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it is not difficult, and it is really not to be underestimated.

Although for some unknown reason, although the 'Qingyuan' brothers have such strong strength and have no reverence for the imperial court, they have always only operated outside the territory actually controlled by the Great Zhou, and have not pointed the finger at the official family and the imperial court. But as the saying goes, 'the heart of defense is indispensable', and if you want to do great things for your father, such as the 'Qingyuan' brothers, or the powerful Shili of the Beiping Army, you must not guard against it and pay attention to it. Moreover, the concubine Lin Xian in the palace was also married to the 'Qingyuan' brothers before entering the palace, and she had the status of brothers and sisters. And with the husband and wife relationship between Concubine Lin Xian and the official family, the sisterhood with Empress Fu, and the family relationship with the prince Zongxun, if someone wants to have any plans against her late husband's Jiangshan Sheji, disrespect her sisters, and disrespect her husband's son-in-law, I am afraid that she will not let it go and turn a deaf ear.

At that time, the only thing that Concubine Lin Xian, who has no soldiers in her hands, can rely on and can be used as a helping hand must be her former brothers and sisters. Once Concubine Lin Xian really asked for help from her brothers and sisters in the Beiping Army, or the 'Qingyuan' brothers sent troops south in the name of protecting the safety of their siblings, her father must know in advance whether and when she would send troops, army movements, strategies and tactics, etc., so that he could plan in advance, or induce them to give up going south; Or dispatch troops, arrange troops, and use clever tactics to deal with this tiger and wolf army, so that it will retreat in the face of difficulties and no longer interfere in the disputes in the court.

For my father to call your brother and sister today, he wants you to do three things. First, intensify the monitoring and investigation of the ministers of the court and the military generals who are most likely to pose a threat to the great cause of the father, so that they can effectively control the courtiers and eliminate the opponents when the father rises up; Second, it is necessary to intensify the monitoring and investigation of the imperial palace, especially the official family and Concubine Lin Xian, so that when there is any unexpected situation in the palace, if there is any mistake in the official family, and when Concubine Lin Xianfei has any contact with the 'Qingyuan' brothers of the Beiping Army, the news can be transmitted to her father in a timely manner, so that the necessary arrangements can be made; third, it is necessary to do everything possible to restore the activities of the 'Feiyantang' in the 16 prefectures of the Beiping Army, especially in Beiping City, and try to insert eyeliners and secret agents among the various yamen and generals of the Beiping Army, so that they can keep track of the Beiping Army at any time when there is an incident for their fatherThe movements of the 'Qingyuan' brothers, so as to take precautions. ”