Chapter 929: Foresight
"Lord Wang, as far as the lower officials know, the princess of King Shangba Zhi has been buried in the sea of fire, and this person is fake nine times out of ten." When Li Yuntian was surprised, Zhang Ren, who was standing aside, couldn't help but remind, "Lord Wang, be careful." ”
"What evidence does she have?" Li Yuntian pondered for a moment, and quietly asked the military attache who came to make a report.
"Lord, according to her, she has in her hand the holy decree given by the first emperor to the Ryukyu royal family with the surname 'Shang'." Hearing this, the military attache replied loudly, "But she said that the Holy Decree of the First Emperor is a big matter and must be handed over to the prince by hand." ”
"Lord, be careful of deception, you just swept away the widows in Vaulting Horse Harbor and an inexplicable princess popped up, this is too much of a coincidence." Convinced that the princess of Shangbazhi was dead, Zhang Ren solemnly bowed down and admonished that this was the time for him to show his loyalty.
"Go and check the authenticity of the decree." Li Yuntian felt that what Zhang Ren said made some sense, so after thinking about it, he said to Zhang Ren that Zhang Ren was an official of the Ministry of Rites, and he was ordered to come to the Ryukyu Kingdom this time, and he must have checked the relevant information in the Ministry of Rites, and knew that Emperor Xuande gave the surname to the Ryukyu royal family back then.
It is worth mentioning that the reason why Zhang Ren checked those materials was definitely not to understand the history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, but to wait for the errand to come back to reply to Shangguan's inquiries, and if the cabinet elders or auxiliary ministers asked him something about the Ryukyus, he would always have to answer it, otherwise it would cause big trouble.
"Xiaguan will go." When Zhang Ren heard this, he bowed his hand to Li Yuntian and hurriedly followed the official who reported the news.
After the two left, Li Yuntian got up and paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, for some reason he had a hunch that the princess was true, otherwise he would never come to see him alone.
In fact, it is easy to determine the identity of the other party, as long as you find a high-ranking official of the Ryukyu Kingdom, you can know the authenticity of the identity of this "princess", so if someone pretends to be someone, it is undoubtedly to send her to death.
What makes Li Yuntian feel a little tricky is not the authenticity of the identity of the "princess", but how to deal with the complicated situation of the Ryukyu Kingdom in the future:
If he remembered correctly, the princess of King Shangbazhi and the crown prince were buried in the sea of fire, and if the princess of Shangbazhi was not dead, then the crown prince must still be alive, so that the Ryukyu Kingdom formed the shape of a double dragon to seize the heir, which made him, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, in a dilemma.
Obviously, the son of King Shangpazhi is the legitimate heir to the throne of the Ryukyus, but King Shangyuan has already won the support of a large number of civil and military officials, and is actually governing the Ryukyus as the king of the Ryukyus, so it is more troublesome for either of them to succeed to the throne.
"Xianggong, if the prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom is still alive, then we will have to be passive." Seeing Li Yuntian frowning back and forth in the room, Lei Ting, who was standing on the side, knew that he was thinking about how to deal with the situation that the prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom was still alive, so he pondered for a while and said, "Yu public or private, we shouldn't see her!" ”
The "she" in Lei Ting's mouth naturally refers to the princess of King Shangbazhi who came to visit, as long as Li Yuntian does not recognize her identity, then King Shangyuan is equivalent to sitting on the throne of the king of the Ryukyus.
"King Shangbazhi is the king of Ryukyu who was named by the first emperor, and his son is the crown prince of Ryukyu recognized by the Ming Dynasty.
Li Yuntian pondered for a while when he heard this, and then shook his head at Lei Ting, "The matter of the princess coming to find the princess will definitely be known by King Shang Yuan soon, if we don't recognize her identity, then she and the prince will definitely die." ”
"Although things are a little tricky, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and we always have a way to solve it." Saying that, Li Yuntian smiled at Lei Ting, "Maybe this is a good thing, let those vassal states know that the Ming Dynasty is moral." ”
"Xianggong, you're thinking really far." Lei Ting nodded thoughtfully when she heard this, and then smiled at Li Yuntian, if Li Yuntian can handle this matter well, it will definitely spread the merchants of those countries who pass through Shuri Port to the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, which will virtually enhance the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty and make those vassal states realize that the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty is not just a simple decoration.
"Lord, after the inspection of the lower officials, it is indeed an edict given by the first emperor to the king of Ryukyu back then." Not long after, Zhang Ren walked in quickly, bowed down and said to Li Yuntian, "That being said, for the sake of insurance, Xia Guan feels that he should find a high-ranking official of the Ryukyu Kingdom to come and identify him." ”
"No need, since she has the edict of the first emperor, it must not be fake." Li Yuntian waved his hand and said in a deep voice to the guards standing at the door, "Please Princess the King of the Ryukyus." ”
Seeing this, Zhang Ren knew that Li Yuntian had something to discuss with the Ryukyu princess, so he bowed to Li Yuntian and retreated, and just a few steps out of the door, he happened to meet Lin Xin, who came to Li Yuntian with a fruit bowl to deliver fruit.
"Miss Lin, I didn't know Taishan before I went down, and I was offended, and I hope that Miss Haihan, you don't care about it because of your adult."
Zhang Ren didn't recognize Lin Xin who had changed into a military uniform at first, and when Lin Xin approached, he realized that the handsome soldier in front of him was Lin Xin, so he hurriedly stepped forward to block Lin Xin's way, and bowed to Lin Xin with a smile on his face.
"Lord Zhang, the little girl has forgotten the past, I heard that Lord Zhang takes great care of her father, and the little woman is here to thank her." Lin Xin's eyes flashed with a look of disgust, but then she returned to normalcy and bowed to Zhang Ren with a smile.
"Miss Lin is so angry, she's just talking about her heart, talking about her heart." Zhang Ren immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and hurriedly replied politely.
"Lord Zhang, if there is nothing to do, the little woman will send fruit to the prince." Lin Xin didn't want to entangle with Zhang Ren, so she lifted the fruit plate in her hand to him and said with a smile.
"Please, please, don't delay business." Zhang Ren hurriedly dodged a way, and with a smile on his face, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please.
Lin Xin smiled and nodded to Zhang Ren, and walked away quickly, and the smile on her face froze in an instant after she staggered with Zhang Ren.
Speaking of which, Lin Xin and Zhang Ren can be said to be old acquaintances, Zhang Ren came to Ryukyu soon after he met Lin Xin by chance, never thought that Ryukyu such a small place would have such a beautiful beauty, so he tried every possible way to kiss Fangze.
Although Lin Xin is also the young lady of the local big clan in Ryukyu, Zhang Ren is a tolerance sent by the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the Lin family is even King Shangyuan can't afford to provoke.
Zhang Ren naturally does not give up on Lin Xin, he stalks her, anyway, he doesn't mind spending all his time in Ryukyu on Lin Xin, and he is very persistent and energetic in chasing women.
If it weren't for Lin Xin's death, I'm afraid Zhang Ren would have succeeded, just when Lin Xin was extremely distressed about this, Li Yuntian's arrival gave her a chance, and King Shang Yuan selected her from the famous nobles in Shuri Castle to sleep with Li Yuntian.
Although Lin Xin was reluctant in her heart, she had no choice this time, Li Yuntian was the prince of the Ming Dynasty, far from being comparable to the petty officials like Zhang Ren, so she didn't dare to disobey the order, and she had to honestly get on the Ming Yang number, which avoided Zhang Ren's entanglement.
Therefore, Lin Xin does not have the slightest good impression of Zhang Ren, and there is still a trace of hatred in her heart, but she is not the kind of ignorant woman, she naturally knows the sinister of the world and knows what is false and wronged.
"This little girl, one step to the sky." Looking at Lin Xin's slender back, Zhang Ren swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some reluctance, although he couldn't wait to put Lin Xin to sleep, but now Lin Xin is the woman next to Li Yuntian, even if he gives him a bear heart and leopard gall, he doesn't dare to provoke Lin Xin again, otherwise he won't know how he will die in the future.
"By the way, have you ever seen the princess of King Shangbazhi?" Lin Xin put the fruit plate on the table in the room and bowed to Li Yuntian, who was whispering to Lei Ting, and was about to leave, Li Yuntian thought of something after seeing her, and couldn't help asking.
"Hmm." Lin Xin stopped when she heard this, she didn't know what Li Yuntian meant, so she opened her mouth and said in a deep voice, "Speaking of the princess, she is still a lowly cousin, and she often went to the palace to play when she was a child. ”
"That's good, you stay first." When Li Yuntian heard this, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he opened his mouth to give Lin Xin, and if Lin Xin pointed out it, his heart would be more secure, so as not to cause any chaos.
"Yes." Lin Xin couldn't help but feel a little strange in her heart when she heard this, she didn't know why Li Yuntian wanted to keep her, so she bowed down and said to Li Yuntian.
"Lord Wang, people have brought it." Soon after, a military attache of the Navy Division led in a middle-aged woman in shabby clothes, who was shabby in clothes but had a very good temperament, holding something wrapped in yellow cloth in both hands.
"Wang ...... Princess! After seeing the middle-aged woman's appearance clearly, Lin Xin's face suddenly showed a look of shock, and she was stunned.
From Lin Xin's reaction, Li Yuntian could already confirm the identity of the middle-aged woman, so he looked at her quietly, and from the calm look of the middle-aged woman, he finally understood why she was able to escape the fire, and it could be seen that the middle-aged woman was a very calm woman, and she must have reserved a way to retreat in advance.
"Lord Wang, the princess of the Ryukyu Kingdom has seen the prince." The middle-aged woman was the princess Ma of King Shangba Zhi, and when she saw Li Yuntian, she knelt on the ground with her legs bent, lifted the yellow cloth wrapped in her hand above her head with both hands, and said with a sad and indignant face, "Lord, the Ryukyu Kingdom rebelled against Jinyuan and conspired to kill the prince and the princes, please let the prince be the master of the prince." ”
"Are you really the Ryukyu Kingdom Concubine Ma?" Li Yuntian looked at Ma Shi quietly, "This king heard that the concubine and the prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom have died in a fire. ”
Like the Ming Dynasty, because King Shangba Zhi has died, the official title of the Ma family according to the etiquette system is no longer the princess but the concubine, which is the same as the queen mother of the Ming Dynasty.
"Princess!" At this time, Lin Xin, who was standing on the side, could no longer hold back the shock in her heart, and hurriedly got up and knelt in front of Ma's body, and said with a look of surprise, "Princess Niangniang, you are still alive." ”
"Lord, her humble position can prove that she is the princess of my country." Saying that, Lin Xin hurriedly turned to Li Yuntian and said in a coquettish voice.
"Xin'er, you...... Why are you here? Ma Shi had also recognized Lin Xin at this time, and her face was also full of shock, she didn't know that Lin Xin was sent to Li Yuntian to sleep, so she was naturally surprised that Lin Xin was here.
It seems that the show is about to begin! Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Yuntian couldn't help but cheer up, Ma's appearance would definitely turn the political situation of the Ryukyu Kingdom upside down.