Jun Muxi had long heard the rumors of the Gebu hexagram, and for hundreds of years, there was always news about the great hexagram master of Gebu and entered the Eastern Qin, and even the folk of the Eastern Qin Dynasty could occasionally hear some legends about the hexagram master.

It's just that after a long time, this kind of great hexagram master with a very high status is bound to be taboo by the king, especially whenever the king makes a decision, if the hexagram master shakes his head, then all the plans will be in vain, and the king will naturally feel shameless. They will think, "What is the use of me if I listen to you in everything?" Wouldn't it be better to directly let the diviner be the king?

In the history of Gebu, there is really a situation where the hexagram master completely dominates the government and the emperor, and the emperor has completely become the puppet of the hexagram master, just showing his face to the court, all decisions are made by the hexagram master, and the whole country is controlled by the hexagram master.

After a long time, they ushered in a rebellion, so the later monarchs had their own ideas, and when they selected the great hexagram master, they would not only take the level of hexagram as the only criterion, but also look at the loyalty of the national teacher to the king.

For example, there are some things, even if the hexagram shows that it is impossible, as long as the king wants to do it, then the great diviner has to rack his brains to figure out how to do it for the king, instead of just shaking his head and saying no.

Gebu is now the great hexagram master like this, he and Chun Yuao are a group, the two complement each other, rely on each other, and have been well and harmonious for more than ten years. No matter what Chun Yuao wants to do, the great hexagram master will not disobey his wishes, and will do everything possible to avoid the hexagram for him, in short, he must let him get things done.

But only in the matter of killing Chun Yunuo, the great diviner tried all his methods, and finally shook his head impatiently.

If you can't kill, you can't kill, the hexagram shows that once Chun Yunuo dies in the current monarch, it will inevitably attract thunder and retaliation, and the monarch will be blown up with thunder, and the bones will be gone, and the earth of Gebu will also be covered with corpses, and there will be no grass.

Chun Yuao knew that the hexagram master was his own person, and he would never deceive him on Chun Yunuo's matter, and he didn't dare to risk being blown up by thunder, so the former prince on death row survived like this.

This is the news that Jun Muxi found out in Man Yuanfang, and it was a relative of a big official in Beijing who leaked the news.

Of course, it is impossible to determine a message by listening to the words of one person, and about the matter of the Great Hexagram Master of Gobu, and the fact that Chun Yunuo is not dead, he has at least three sets of benefactors' words to determine the authenticity of the news.

In addition, there is a mysterious thing in the palace, which is about the pride of the monarch.

The news he received was that the current monarch of the country of Gebu could not give birth to children at all, and all the children under his knees were not his own, but were born by the chosen "form fathers" one by one. It is said that the monarch's proud body was injured in the process of seizing the heir, maybe it was an accident, or it may be a plot, in short, the throne was seized, but in fact he was a eunuch.

Of course, this incident is just a legend, and no one can know so clearly about such a secret thing as a monarch, and still be able to leave the palace alive and leave Kyoto, and then drink and spread it everywhere.

In fact, there were already some legends about the fact that the king of Gobu was a crippled body in the early years, especially in the first years of his accession to the throne.

However, his harem is becoming more and more substantial, and children are also born one after another, and gradually no one believes that he can't give birth, and some people even say that the rumors of the year were released by the former prince, in order to destroy the current monarch and avenge the heir.

More than ten years have passed, and it is no longer clear which is right and which is wrong, and although the rumors about the monarch's pride and inability to have children are not as big as they were ten years ago, the news that may be heard is also clear-sighted.

Some people say that the children now are born in lies, and the monarch will secretly choose some "form fathers" and let these people replace him to spoil the concubines in the harem, so that the concubines can be conceived and then give birth to children smoothly.

As a physical father, once the child is born, he will be executed, because the king will not allow the child's biological father to still be alive in the world, otherwise once the matter is revealed, whose family is the throne?

Therefore, the lifespan of the form father is very short, and once he is selected to enter the palace, he can live for less than two years at most. Of course, if his favored concubine never conceived, he would stay until the third year. But once three years have elapsed and the concubine still cannot be conceived, then the father will be regarded as useless and will still be put to death.

It is said that the first thing is to look like the current monarch, and only after satisfying this point can we look at the physical condition and personal ability of that person.

After all, the child born still has to look like the monarch, otherwise the child has a variety of appearances, and it will definitely mess up the dynasty.

For so many years, the royal family has never stopped searching for men among the people, nor has it stopped beauty pageants from entering the palace. There is nothing to say about the beauty entering the palace, it is like this in any country, and women will be tolerant of it. But the arrest of the man is easy to cause disputes, even if it is a secret arrest, but it can't stand the same thing all these years, and gradually there are still rumors of it.

The Gebu harem is also very chaotic, and the women who have not entered the palace all want to enter the palace and want to be a master. But after entering the palace, the women all wanted to die, because they found that it was not the king who was going to serve at all, but someone who looked like the king from somewhere. And some of those people are basically mountain village husbands, and their every move is rude, and they don't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, and they even toss them to death with a kind of revenge mentality.

The monarch doesn't care, these fathers are going to die sooner or later, and it is understandable to be quick before they die. Anyway, he doesn't care about the life or death of his concubines, what women have, he only cares if he can give birth to a child who looks like him.

So some concubines chose to commit suicide, and some even died while pregnant with children. Chun Yuao punished many big families in his early years, all because the daughter of the family who was sent to the palace committed suicide with pregnancy and killed the royal heir.

Under such a shock, no one dares to commit suicide, or even if they want to commit suicide, they will wait until the child is born. After all, all the monarch wants is a child, and as long as the child is born, he doesn't care whether the woman is dead or alive.

Of course, if you can grit your teeth and give birth to all the children, not many people will think about life anymore. After all, their mission has been completed, and as long as they honestly guard their children in the harem in the future, they will be stable. If she gave birth to a boy, she may inherit the throne in the future, then she can become the queen mother and turn over from then on.

There is also an accident, that is, there is a relationship between the concubine and the father, so that some people plan to escape together, and some people are martyred after the father is executed. In short, for more than ten years, all kinds of things have happened, and when these news were found out, Jun Muxi only felt that compared with this song cloth, the harem of Eastern Qin was too stable, and the lives of their princes and concubines were really good. Compared to Gebu, Dongqin is simply a paradise.

Outside the curtain, under the small building full of gardens, there were already people who stopped to look up. Although there is a curtain, although it is not clear what the person standing by the window looks like, everyone knows that the innermost room on the second floor of Man Yuanfang lives Gongzixi, who is a very good-looking son, so that he can see that the sun and the moon can't compete with him for glory. As long as Gongzi goes west to that place, even the gods can't help but bow their heads and feel ashamed.

Therefore, under this window, there would be a lot of people, men, women, and children standing every day, all thinking that if Gongzi lifted the curtain and looked outside, they would be able to see him. Or you don't need to lift the curtain, it's worth just looking at Gongzixi's figure through the window. And right now, Jun Muxi was standing by the window, and there was already a screaming sound from below, and he frowned when he heard it, but he still didn't move, still standing in place.

Sometimes hiding is not a good thing, but it is generous for people to look at it a few more times, and it is less likely to arouse suspicion.

It's just that he's not used to days like this, he just stays here and waits for someone.

The arm is slightly raised, and the fingers touch the curtain. The screams below became louder and louder, and people thought that Gongzixi was going to open the curtain, and squeezed forward desperately one by one, for fear that he would not be able to see clearly if he stood far away.

But the curtain didn't open, he just pulled it with his fingers one by one, and said softly: "Ah Ran, how long will it take you to come to Gebu?" What you want to inquire about, the fourth brother has inquired for you. ”

The boat from Zhangjiazhen finally docked at the wharf outside Lancheng, and the boatman sounded the gong to announce the end of the previous voyage, and also reminded the people waiting on the Lancheng wharf that the returning ship was about to leave in two days, and if there was going to go from Lancheng to Zhangjiazhen, you could pay the money to book a room first, or you could wait until two days later to try your luck, maybe there were still vacant seats.

The people on the boat disembarked one after another, and the boatmen lined up in two rows on the shore to help people carry something, or pull people who were unsteady on their feet, and at the same time waved goodbye to people.

Just those who have small people find that there seem to be fewer people when they get off the boat. In particular, the boatman Pingzi, who had been waiting for the lady who had given him the bracelet to get off the ship, wanted to thank the lady again. Because just now he secretly showed the bracelet to someone who knows how to do it, and the price quoted by the other party was much higher than the boat fare, and he was very happy.

But he waited and waited and waited without waiting for the lady to get off the ship, not only did the lady not get off the boat, but also the lady's maid, and the lame old man and his attendant in the opposite cabin did not get off the boat.

He felt strange, and rushed into the cabin to knock on the door, but there was no movement for a long time.

In a hurry, he pushed the door open, only to find that the room was empty......