In the imperial study room of the Imperial Palace in the capital, Bai Ziyu and Qianzong sat opposite, but their faces were very ugly. Qianzong looked like he had been working hard for many days, his eyes were full of red bloodshots, and his temples were a little white, as if he had aged a lot. Bai Ziyu is not much better, although he does not suffer as much as he suffers from fighting with Yun Yuhong everywhere, but the torment in his heart is not better than the fatigue of his body, and his face is pale, and he has lost a lot of weight.

The two monarchs and ministers were relatively silent for a long time, and then Bai Ziyu broke the silence.

"Your Majesty, if you really can't do it, let's add Enke again, these people are now in a group and making such a fuss, once they gain momentum, they will be able to pay it back. No matter how hard it is, we can endure it. Bai Ziyu said solemnly.

Qianzong sighed and said: "But you also have to think about Hong'er, you also saw the excerpt that Jiang Rui came from the army two days ago, he asked the court for people, soldiers, and food, but now there are so many, if we can't meet their requirements, I'm afraid the front line will be even more difficult." ”

It turned out that the reason why the two of them were so difficult was because the aristocratic families in Beijing were hugging each other again, taking advantage of the current war to ask for benefits from Qianzong, and many people still wanted to make a comeback. Today's life in the capital is not easy, originally Moyun plus Yuxue's family nobles are a lot, and they were sent down by Yunyuhong, and they were quiet for a while, but now they have come to the Shijia Wang family who did not migrate with Ruifeng, and it is even more lively all of a sudden, and the people in Beijing laughed and said that they fell a flower pot on the street and smashed ten people, eight of whom were nobles.

These nobles of the family are no better than Yun Yuhong when they were in Beijing, no one suppressed them, they began to be unscrupulous, and the children of the family called friends every day and caused trouble everywhere. The old and new families colluded with each other to form different small groups. Relying on their strong manpower and finance, quite a few began to try to monopolize some military supplies and prepare to make a lot of war money. And Qianzong was really a failure in doing things decisively, when these people were just tempting at first, they didn't curb this kind of sign in time, so that it was out of control later, and Bai Ziyu was not there at that time, and there was no one close to him to remind him, so under his unintentional indulgence, the situation was out of control again.

If Yun Yuhong was in Beijing at that time, she would definitely sigh with emotion, why there are so many tyrants in history, and the reason why they are like this is not completely unreasonable. Sometimes there is a contest between kings and ministers, or the king is strong and the minister is weak, and the result is that the king is autocratic, or the king is weak and the minister is strong, and that is the beginning of troubled times.

And now the situation is that there is already chaos, take Jiang Ruizhen's excerpt as an example, such an important document has been sent for ten years before it was placed in front of Qianzong's case, Qianzong lost his temper and asked why this is so, and the people in the military department said that there were too many official duties and insufficient manpower, so they could not deal with it in time. Bai Ziyu asked angrily, the Ministry of War only sent two people to Ruifeng by him, why were they so busy, and then the Ministry of War Shangshu found various reasons, and then fell on one sentence: Please ask the emperor to make up for the Ministry of War.

The next thing that the ministers were interested in was not Jiang Ruizhen's excerpts, but how to add the personnel of the military department, who could be qualified for this work, etc., which made Qianzong and Bai Ziyu so angry that their faces were so black that they were dripping ink. Originally, some people in the court who were close to Qianzong or Bai Ziyu's support did not speak, which made Bai Ziyu very puzzled.

In the end, the two learned that Yun Yuhong sent the little prince to Jiang Rui's array, and asked Lord Ning to send 100,000 elite soldiers from Yuxue, so the matter could be considered a satisfactory solution. And Bai Ziyu blocked the way for most of the courtiers to recommend talents, and hurriedly ended the court meeting.

In the end, under the understanding of Zhang Sangongzi, I realized that these old and new nobles were very skillful, and they had formed an alliance of forces in secret, and they had developed very rapidly in this year, and other upright courtiers suffered a lot in their hands, of course, some of them have been co-opted by them, and some ministers who are unwilling to form a party with them, they have either flanked or directly reminded Qianzong before, but they have not succeeded, but they have been retaliated against, and now they dare to be angry and dare not speak, and he himself, now he can't please him, Qianzong is afraid that he may not be able to protect him, and although Bai Ziyu is a master under one person and above ten thousand, but the Bai family has declined behind him, and his power is limited, so he can't let him fully cooperate, he thinks that it will be safer to wait until the day when the ghost king returns to Beijing.

Of course, Zhang Sangongzi said it implicitly, but the meaning was still reached, and after speaking, he retreated, leaving Bai Ziyu and Qianzong looking at each other, but they were speechless. Qianzong blamed himself, and Bai Ziyu persuaded: "No, this matter is not the emperor's fault, the Moyun dynasty has always had an unstable foundation, and the five great families and the four major military marquis have controlled the court for a long time, making it difficult for the court atmosphere to recover." The Ghost King was only suppressed when he was there. In addition, the prince sent all the Ruifeng aristocratic families who couldn't handle it to the capital, and he also wrote a lot of recommended excerpts, so he was relaxed there, and there would naturally be chaos here. Now we can only hold on, and if we can't do it, we can only use some extraordinary means. "They can't count on Hong'er for everything, the front-line war is already difficult, and no matter how troublesome things are here, he has to find a way to solve them himself.

And at the gate of the capital, a carriage drove in before closing the gate. The coachman asked, "Madam, are you going back to the General's Mansion?" ”

A deep female voice came out, "No, let's go to the Ruifeng Hou Mansion." ”

Listening to the voice, the tenth princess came to the capital, but the first thing she did when she came back was not to see what her home was like, but to her own mother's house.

The Ruifeng Marquis Mansion is the current residence of the Duanmu royal family. Although it is the Hou Mansion, it is actually a large mansion near the south of the city, which was originally some farmland, and the Duanmu family bought it and built their own mansion after they came. Of course, this was nothing, but no one expected that a Hou Mansion could be built so big, covering an area of almost a small village, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small palace.

Along the way, the ten princesses' eyebrows were furrowed tightly, not to mention the large area here, and it was built very magnificently, as a king of the dead country, this is too ostentatious. No wonder the crybaby asked her to go back to Beijing immediately, these people don't know what trouble they caused her.

After entering the mansion, the old imperial uncle that the tenth princess wanted to see did not come out, but the person who came out was his father, the current Ruifeng Hou. The tenth princess was surprised: "Father... Dear, my father's health is already well?"

Rui Fenghou sneered: "Of course I've been fine for a long time, but Uncle Huang is sick." Why, don't you want your father to get better? ”

The tenth princess thought for a while, and also sneered: "Of course I hope that my father is well." It's just that father, now that the Ruifeng country has died, that's a fact, and it can't be changed anymore, since you have come to Moyun, you can take our family to live here safely, and forget all the things in the past, otherwise I'm afraid we will all be wiped out. ”

"Hmph, in the end, it's the daughter who got married, and you only think about your husband's family, are you still the princess of my royal family?"

"I'm not a princess anymore. Father, I just came to tell you to restrain the clansmen, don't have anything to do with other people in the capital, and try to be as low-key as possible. If we can't get out of anything once we have something to do with it, our clan will not have a way to live. That's all I say, so you know for yourselves. After the tenth princess finished speaking, she wanted to go out, but she heard Ruimuhou shouting: "Slow, since you came in, don't leave, you came back just in time, so that I can come in handy." ”

The tenth princess knew that it was not good when she heard it, and just wanted to move, but she saw more than a dozen secret guards surrounded by him, these were his father's dead soldiers, all of them were strong in martial arts. It didn't take long for the tenth princess to be captured by several people.

Rui Muhou smiled: "Come on, go and deliver the letter, just say that the tenth princess is back, and she also brought back the news and gifts of the ghost king." As long as he misses his mother, he will go. ”

The master said anxiously: "What do you want to do, don't you want to deal with anyone?" It's too late to give up, or everyone will be finished. ”

Rui Muhou smiled: "You will soon know what I want to do." As for the rest, you don't care, if I do it properly, the world of this ink cloud will be mine, don't worry, you will still be my tenth princess at that time. ”

One of the guards stunned the Ten Princesses with a sword, and the other swept out.

Bai Ziyu returned to the Ghost King's Mansion It was almost the third watch, and as soon as he walked in the mansion, the housekeeper greeted him, and then he couldn't stop looking behind Bai Ziyu.

Bai Ziyu asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

The housekeeper said: "Isn't Xiangye with the eldest son?" Didn't Xiangye send someone to say that General Sun's wife came back today, and helped the ghost king bring a lot of gifts to several sons, so that the eldest prince could go over and take them down? I thought..."

"What, you say it again, I'll send someone?" Bai Ziyu's face changed immediately.

The housekeeper also said that things were not good, and told the matter again, Bai Ziyu immediately turned around and walked out, and did not forget to explain: "Quick, someone from the police station went to find the eldest son." ”

The night in Beijing suddenly became lively, the guards in the palace, the arrest of the yamen, the defenders of the capital, etc., surrounded the capital to a water pavilion, and then began to search from house to house, tossing a whole night and a day, and then all the people withdrew.

In the Ghost King's Mansion, Bai Ziyu was in a chair, he hadn't closed his eyes for two days, and his originally pale face was even more gray. Lele disappeared, no one knew where he went, no one passed the book or offered to threaten him, and no one could say whether Lele was alive or dead, Lele suddenly disappeared, and the wife of the crybaby who tricked him out also disappeared without a trace after entering Beijing. After a long time, Bai Ziyu came to the table, wrote a few words with a pen, asked people to tie the carrier pigeon, and opened the window to release the carrier pigeon, looking at the white shadow in the distance, Bai Ziyu's mind was still recalling those words: Lele is missing, take precautions early.