The tall man's kneeling suddenly made the fat man's heart sink, and he pulled the other party up from the ground, and said again and again: "What are you doing! Don't keep talking about frustration, okay? We have been in the southern Xinjiang for many strong winds and rains, do we still care about this little setback? Whether it is the loss of power of His Royal Highness King Ning or the decline of the Spring and Autumn Academy, it has nothing to do with us, what are we afraid of!"

Hearing this, Ye Jiang couldn't help but show a wry smile from the corner of his lips, he shook his head and sighed, "I hope so." ”

The fat man immediately comforted him: "Big brother, relax, His Royal Highness King Ning is by no means an extraordinary person, he acts in a square way, knows how to advance and retreat, and he has won the trust of His Majesty, I think that in a short period of time, His Majesty will never really treat him well, not to mention the Spring and Autumn Academy, even if it has been hit hard in recent days, but after all, it is still my Dajin First Academy, and the foundation is still there, how can it collapse overnight?"

In fact, the fat man's words were indeed very reasonable, but Ye Jiang's worries were more profound than he imagined, because it involved a very secret past.

There is no doubt that to this day, the person who can connect the Marquis of Weining, His Royal Highness King Ning, and the Spring and Autumn Academy is called Xia Sheng.

And what worries Ye Jiang the most is that Xia Sheng is inextricably linked to that unspeakable past!

Does Your Majesty already know about this matter?

If he knew, then how could Xia Sheng become the crown prince and the prince, and the official worshiped the prince and sacrificed wine? Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the current emperor really favored Xia Sheng.

But if His Majesty didn't know, why did he suddenly have so much indifference to His Royal Highness King Ning after the end of the Spring Witch Competition, or after the Battle of the Golden Yuan Secret Realm?

Even at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, there was no yellow croaker that His Royal Highness King Ning loved to eat since childhood?

The fat man said, whether it is the loss of power of the Nine Emperor Princes or the decline of the Spring and Autumn Academy, it has nothing to do with the Weining Marquis Mansion, and there is indeed no problem with these words, but what Ye Jiang is really worried about is the source of these changes!

If that source is Xia Sheng, then this matter will be troublesome.

It is not simply because Xia Sheng is the little aunt of the Weining Marquis Mansion, so the emperor's suspicion of Xia Sheng will turn into a suppression of the Ye Mansion, and more importantly, Ye Jiang, like Xia Sheng, has a lot to do with the past sixteen years ago!

Otherwise, how did Daddy Xia get acquainted with the dignified Weininghou as a chef in Wanfulou? How could Ye Jiang marry his beloved daughter to Xia Sheng just because of Daddy Xia's words?

This past has never been recorded in history, and very few people even know about it.

People have only vaguely heard that in the capital of Luoyang sixteen years ago, there was a case of rebellion, but I don't know why, although this case is called "rebellion", it is not known to ordinary people, and it is not as noisy as the change of Chengtianmen, and even the Shangshu of the Criminal Department does not know who was involved in it, what the specific process is, and how to deal with the criminals in the end.

Everything is very secret, as if someone has deliberately erased traces from history, leaving no ripples.

But if you really have the heart to investigate, people may find that there are actually many seemingly inconspicuous but alarming things that happened sixteen years ago.

For example, a concubine died in the palace, a forbidden army guard, and an imperial chef are missing.

Xu Guogong's son died in that year.

Qin's family's house, Qin Yan's father, Qin Zhan, died that year.

The hatred between Shantang and the Marquis of Weining, and the personal grudge between Qin Xiaohua and Ye Jiang were also formed in that year.

The most important thing is......

Xia Sheng is exactly 16 years old this year.

Since then, Xu Guogong is still Xu Guogong, his position as the town **** boss is unshakable, the Qin family is still the richest family in the Dajin Dynasty, Qin Xiaohua's official position in the household department has not been cut by half a point, and the old lady of the Ye family is still the old prime minister who is good and good, and the Weining Hou Mansion is safe.

It's like nothing has happened.

But Ye Jiang knows better than anyone that this matter can be regarded as if it has not happened, but there is only one person who will not do it.

Emperor of the dynasty.

As early as a few months ago, Ye Jiang learned from the fat man's mouth that two students of the Spring and Autumn Academy had left the Jinyuan Secret Realm ahead of schedule, but they had not returned to Buju Mountain, but they had not seen anyone alive or dead.

Originally, it was just a trivial matter, but when Ye Jiang heard the names of those two people, this matter became not so simple.

Because they were two lonely ghosts that had disappeared for more than a hundred years.

They are the sworn brothers of the former crown prince Zhao Rui.

He is also a student of Spring and Autumn Academy.

Most importantly, they are related to the Chengtianmen Change.

The change of Chengtianmen is related to the rebellion case 16 years ago.

Coincidentally, the Thorn Army under Ye Jiang's Imperial Court is also inextricably linked to these two cases!

Therefore, with Ye Jiang's incomparably keen political sense, he immediately had an insight into the emperor's plan to settle accounts after the autumn, and then the snub of His Royal Highness King Ning, as well as the chaos staged in the Spring and Autumn Academy, only further confirmed Ye Jiang's speculation.

This time, he ventured into Beijing, and he was ready to step down as the commander of the Thorn Army!

Of course, Ye Jiang had never said these words to others, even his most trusted subordinates, and his closest family members, after all, many things involved royal secrets, and even more about the promises he made to the Qin family and the Xu family.

Loyalty and righteousness are the most important qualities of Ye Jiang.

The oppressive atmosphere in the imperial study lasted for more than an hour, and only then did Gonggong Zhao walk in with Emperor Jin in his arms.

Seeing this, the four people in the room immediately knelt on the ground and saluted, and Ye Jiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Because the emperor was willing to summon him in the new Chinese New Year's Eve, this in itself was a good sign.

Maybe it's because the wine at this year's Chinese New Year's Eve banquet is stronger than in previous years, or maybe it's because the emperor is happy tonight, so he drinks a few more glasses, in short, when Emperor Jin walked into the imperial study, his cheeks were stained with a faint flush, and the wine on his body was also a little thick.

Gonggong Zhao helped Emperor Jin to sit on the main seat, and then brought a hot decanting soup, and brought a wool blanket to gently put between Emperor Jin's knees, and then retreated behind the chair that showed the greatest power in the world.

From beginning to end, Emperor Jin did not ask Ye Jiang and the four to get up without courtesy.

Tonight's Emperor Jin did not wear a crown of beads, did not wear a dragon robe, and there was no domineering look in his expression, he held the sobering soup in his hand, and took a small sip shallowly, probably feeling a little hot, so he couldn't help frowning, and then asked Ye Jiang coldly: "I want to know, to this day, Ye Qing's thorn army is still my thorn army?"

As soon as the words fell, before Ye Jiang could answer, the fat man kneeling on the side already felt cold sweat......

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