Hearing a knock on the door, the master who was flipping through a book "Kaiyuan Ceremony" raised his head, gently put down the book, straightened his clothes, and said calmly: "Come in." ”

The familiar figure pushed the door in and said to Li Gongde: "General Lingzhou see the envoy of the scriptures. ”

Li Gongde's expression was complicated, and after this second-grade member who was known for his flattery and skill, he got up and said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness is good, but it is too late than Li Gongde expected." The reason why I say this is to prove that the matter of the two secret letters is indeed secretly planned by His Royal Highness, and Bei Liang needs such a king of Bei Liang, so there is a saying 'good come'. It's late, it's the kindness of the woman who is dissatisfied with His Royal Highness, and he only handed out a secret letter after Li Gongde, neither immediately turned his face and didn't recognize the person, nor did he immediately open the letter, knowing that the secret letter was the true letter, which means that His Royal Highness has been hesitating in the past few days, even if he mistakenly thinks that Li Gongde has decided to take refuge in the imperial court, he still doesn't want to kill the killer, such His Royal Highness, that is, when he is a Lingzhou general Lingzhou assassin or something, it is more than enough, Ci is not in charge of the army, how to drive the 300,000 male armor of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry in the future?"

Xu Fengnian did not refute. Li Gongde smiled, moved two chairs out, and the two sat opposite each other, and the experience was very different from the usual one The adult looked at this young face that was becoming more and more angular, and sighed softly: "Your Highness, you may want to ask why Li Gongde did this extra thing, since he obviously did not defect to the imperial court and was not lured by Zhang Julu, why did he deliberately hide a 'fake letter'." Very simply, His Royal Highness carefully arranged this time, almost using the fake to test Li Gongde, the head of the civil officials of Beiliang Dao, and Li Gongde also wanted to know whether it was wise for Lu Dao to stay in Beiliang. Your Highness ......"

Speaking of this, Li Gongde stopped talking, different from the previous time in the study, this time it was an old tear from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't stop crying, Li Gongde didn't wipe it, and said slowly: "Your Highness is late, which means that Your Highness is not the troubled hero who can be killed by everyone for his own merits, Li Gongde has regrets in his heart, but he is more grateful, Hanlin was entrusted by me to such a king of Beiliang, that is, one day he really wants to die on the battlefield, even if Li Gongde grits his teeth, he will not have half a complaint." What is not poisonous and not a husband, Li Gongde has been an official for 30 years, and I have never seen a few people who have really lost their conscience, and in the end they will not be punished by evil, even if they are honored before death, they will also harm their descendants. His Royal Highness's methods are gloomy, but he does not lose his kindness and mellowness, just like the general, this is the new Liang King that Li Gongde really wants. Really speaking, His Royal Highness may not believe it, it is not that Li Gongde is cunning and cunning, and he saw through His Highness's plan at a glance, but that Li Gongde has determined that the son of the general will not treat the Li family badly, and he will not be sorry for Hanlin, so he never thought of going to the court to be a bullshit minister, if I go to the capital, Hanlin will not have to break with my father and son, and will not recognize my father for the rest of his life? Li Gongde is already in his fifties, and he has become a powerful temple eunuch, and he has to enter a coffin in a few years. ”

"Your Highness, don't worry, Li Gongde will never talk about the secret letter to Hanlin for the rest of his life. His Royal Highness has a clear conscience about Bei Liang in this matter, and he should not have a gap with Hanlin for this, so Li Gongde pleaded with His Highness, so as not to let Hanlin drill the tip of the horns, Your Highness, then Hanlin can only die at the border pass! If His Royal Highness has a guilty conscience about Li Hanlin alone, Li Gongde also begs His Highness not to say anything about this matter for the sake of Hanlin!"

Li Gongde, who had never knelt down in Xu Fengnian, knelt down slowly, and said in a deep voice: "If Your Highness doesn't agree, Li Gongde will resign as a strategic envoy!"

Xu Fengnian exchanged secret letters with the envoy, and said calmly: "Uncle Li, Xu Fengnian promised you, if you still have the opportunity to tell your descendants the last words on his deathbed in the future, he will promise that as long as there is a day of glory for the Xu family, no matter whether the children of the Li family are loyal to the Xu family in the future, even if they commit the crime of rebellion, they will keep the Li family safe, and the Xu family will never raise a knife to kill people." ”

Li Gongde's body trembled, lowered his head and choked up: "The old minister has thanked His Highness for his great kindness first!"

At the door, Li Yingzhen saw his father kneeling on the ground, and said sharply: "Xu Fengnian! What are you going to do?!"

Li Gongde, who was helped up by His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, shouted: "Zhen'er, don't be rude!"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "Uncle Li, I want to tell you a crime, from today onwards, Xu Beiji will be the assassin of Lingzhou." ”

Li Gongde wiped his face and said with a smile: "This is a big deal, and it is not worth telling His Highness personally." ”

"Also, Hanlin has returned to Youzhou safely. ”

Xu Fengnian said this in a low voice and left, passing by Li Yingzhen. Li Gongde, who was ecstatic in his heart, carefully hid the secret letter, glared at his daughter and said, "I don't know how important it is!"

Li Yingzhen said angrily: "Dad, you are the envoy of Beiliang Dao, you kneel Uncle Xu, you slap Uncle Xu's beard, how can your daughter talk nonsense? But he Xu Fengnian is just a Lingzhou general, and he has not yet been hereditarily replaced by the king of Beiliang, so he wants you to kneel, why does he?

Li Gongde squinted and stared at his daughter, and said with a smile: "Why? Just because His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is turning clouds and rain in Lingzhou, he has already made his father, a master, overstretched and in a hurry. Just because he dared to take Zhong Hongwu's hard bone in the Beiliang Army and be the first to go under the knife, instead of picking up soft persimmons and pinching them to increase the laughing stock!

Li Gongde saw that his daughter was so aggrieved that she burst into tears, she was a little distressed, lowered her voice, approached her, and helped her wipe her tears. You, don't be angry with your father. The stupidest thing a woman in the world does is to be angry. ”

Li Gongde still seemed to feel that his words were too serious, and laughed softly: "Zhen'er, today is a double blessing for the Li family, and I am happier than my father being the envoy of the scriptures, have a drink with my father?"

Li Chengzhen was silent.

The old fox Li Gongde said casually: "Dad recently learned some details about His Royal Highness's going to Beimang, alas, it's a pity that the child in Hanlin is not there, and Dad has no one to tell, or you really can't listen to Daddy's chatter? Otherwise, Dad will be really boring to drink alone." ”

Li Yingzhen snorted.

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Zhou Jianshu's son Zhou Congwen, who was slapped to death by His Royal Highness the Prince, was afraid that his father would suffer misfortune in the general's mansion, and he looked forward to it at the door for half an hour. ”

After the father and son sat down, they waved their hands to disperse a few water spirit slaves who were good at serving, Zhou Jianshu pulled the collar of the official uniform, and Zhou Congwen hurriedly asked: "Dad, what did that person say about this trip to the mansion?" Will our Zhou family be hated?"

Zhou Jianshu frowned, but since there were only father and son whispering in secret at the moment, he didn't bother to go online with his son on the title of His Royal Highness the Prince, and said slowly: "Why are you so breathless, how did Dad tell you in the past, smiling and smiling, calming down, in order to do great things and become a big official." Dad doesn't sell you off, the matter of Wenquan Street, there is no intention to investigate the Lingzhou General's Mansion at all, His Royal Highness has a big plan, and he has no time to intrigue with this group of reckless soldiers. At the banquet, His Royal Highness solemnly introduced Song Yan of Huangnan County and Xu Beitong of Longqing County, respectively, as the jaw-dropping Lingzhou Farewell and Lingzhou Thorn History, which is a good thing and a bad thing.

Zhou Congwen, who is no stranger to officialdom, began to think carefully, was silent for a long time, and said: "The good thing is that my father is the first batch of officials to enter the general's mansion. The bad thing is that His Royal Highness doesn't settle accounts with Dong Yue's old horsemen, then their position is still firm for the time being, and his father has cultivated a network in the Lingzhou military, and in this Lingzhou turmoil, according to his father's instructions, most of the lieutenants have been holding back to be a shrunken turtle, and it seems that they have no chance to take advantage of the situation. I'm afraid that my father will have to make up for them in order to appease them, not to mention hundreds of taels or thousands of taels of silver, this time the New Year received a lot of gifts, but the original gift accounted for seventy or eighty percent, so that our family has not harvested at all. Since my father became an official, he didn't make money during the New Year, but it was the first time. ”

Zhou Jianshu twisted his beard and smiled: "Not bad, not bad." Silver or something, my father has never cared too much, as long as he continues to be an official, what should fall into the bag will not be less. Many fools, even if their families are not thin, but once they see white flowers and money, they are like hungry men seeing pretty girls, eating too poorly, which is tantamount to giving up their roots and going to the end of the world, and they will not go far in the officialdom. ”

Zhou Congwen sneered indignantly: "That Dong Yue riding three people is really ridiculous, that person just said a word, just knelt and cried and beat one by one, these generals who have not read a book are not ashamed." But I finally know that I see the wind and make the rudder, but it's too blunt, and it's far less pyrotechnic than my father. ”

Lord Zhou, who was slapped by his son, became more and more smiling, and the corners of his mouth were hooked, "These horsemen rely on the accumulation of military merits to turn their nostrils to the sky, don't look at my father in the past and they are harmonious, in fact, where can I afford them at all, others don't say it, just talk about that soldier Cao engaged in Huang Zhong, and now I have turned over and over again, and I know that Lu Dao writes the name of the ten or so words, and this old man can manage the political affairs of Lingzhou?" His four sons, a bunch of grandchildren, none of them have a future, bullying men and women, doing all kinds of evil, the key is to do bad things, and do it so blatantly, isn't this stretching his neck to beg the Xu family to cut off his head? ”

Zhou Congwen sneered: "This Lingzhou general is too soft-hearted, if it were me, I would have killed chickens and monkeys in Lingzhou a long time ago, and killed hundreds of people from his generals' families. ”

Zhou Jianshu laughed loudly, then restrained his smile, and said in a deep voice: "During this time, you don't have to show up outside the mansion, Your Highness is about to leave Lingzhou, and then when you go to get together with those generals, remember, you are only allowed to say good things about Your Highness, if anyone refutes you, you will turn your face with them on the spot!"

Zhou Congwen hesitated for a moment and said with a smile: "Just listen to my father, those generals who call me brothers and sisters can still be of some use in the past, but the more they go on, the less valuable they are, and sooner or later they will have to turn their faces against them." ”

Zhou Jianshu looked pleased.

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Dong Mansion, Dong Yueqi, who lost face on Wenquan Street, closed the door to thank guests, Dong Zhen watched her father, who could talk and laugh in front of General Zhong, depressed, put on his clothes and no longer bare his chest and back, but he was always in a daze at the armor of the Yue Cavalry Captain. Dong Zhen persuaded her father to eat several times, but she didn't listen, and the meal had to be heated over and over again.

Dong Zhen, who was still a little stubborn and unwilling to admit her mistakes, cried and knelt at her father's feet.

Dong Hongqiu sighed heavily, and stretched out a right hand covered with calloused scars, even if he slept back then, he had to hold the Beiliang knife with both hands to sleep peacefully. Dong Hongqiu touched his daughter's head and said softly: "Do you think that the six hundred old pawns sent His Royal Highness the Prince out of Beiliang and into the capital, but my father was blind? Do you think that there are rumors in the market that His Royal Highness the Prince of the World has traveled through Beimang alone, and his father will not believe it if he is killed? It's just that his father doesn't want to believe it. Not only Lingzhou, but the entire Beiliang is almost the same as the old generals and military attaches like his father. But my father knelt down today, and he still didn't kneel to the young son, but to kneel to the general, and to kneel to those Beiliang robes who had died in battle. If it weren't for the removal of the armor today, even my father himself would have forgotten how many arrow wounds and scars he had on his body. Do you still remember what your father used to tell you? The reason why my father joined the army and tied his head to the belt of his trousers and fought hard with others, it was not that my father was full of food and support, and my father's ancestors were also officials, and the officials were not small, your grandfather was the imperial history of the Northern Han Dynasty, and your grandfather also served as a county commander, and they were all well-known Qing officials, and later the whole family killed all the bandits who took advantage of the turbulent situation to make trouble, they killed red-eyed, and killed those who saw officials, whether they were good officials or bad officials, as long as they killed those who were officials, they were good people. When he first joined the army, his father just felt that he had joined the Xu family, who had clear rewards and punishments and strict military discipline, and had hope that he would kill more innocent bandits who killed innocent people indiscriminately, which would not only be able to take revenge, but also maybe make the Dong family famous again. There may be some things that my father has never told you, I used to think it was unnecessary, my daughter's family, even the general said that the son should be poor and raise a daughter to be rich, since you have a father who is an official, then you will be born to enjoy a happy life, and your father will not nag you about those words, today's accident, Dad only knew that he was wrong, Dad was still in the family rules when he was young, and when he was a child, he knew that he looked down on those powerful and powerful children, why did he blink an eye, his daughter, became a character that Dad didn't like? You remember Meng Ya, who grew up in our family, is the orphan of your Uncle Meng, who originally ordered a baby kiss, but you don't want to live or die, thinking that he has no fame and no family background, even if his father is treacherous, he will admit it for you. If it weren't for your Uncle Meng blocking the back knife of Xishu Chunshan Pass for your father, I'm afraid it would have been you sending people under the fence for 20 years. Saying this, I don't want to persuade you to marry Meng Ya, but I want to tell you that Uncle Meng, who was born in the market, was not dead for a while, so he often told me that if he became a big official in the future, he must be a good official who does not bully the people, who dares to do evil in his jurisdiction, he sees one and kills another, if the general does not agree, he dares to scold the general, hey, once he bragged with his father's old subordinates, and was caught by the general who inspected the barracks, your Uncle Meng was still a little lieutenant at that time, and he was almost scared to pee his pants, guess what, the general not only taught this little lieutenant with a heart higher than the sky, but also squatted down and chatted with us about family life, said that you Uncle Meng will become an official in the future, and he must be a good official, and the general also said that he was reluctant to scold. Zhen'er, tell me, how did your father become the first bastard he wants to kill as long as your Uncle Meng lives?"

Dong Zhen, who was used to being arrogant and arrogant in Lingzhou, just cried, as if the sky was falling, and she couldn't cry.

Dong Hongqiu walked up to the mottled old armor, his eyes were lonely, and he said in a low voice: "Zhen'er, don't cry." Dad took you to the well-dressed mound, you gave Uncle Meng a few glasses of wine, if Dad remembered correctly, you haven't been there since you were eleven years old. You haven't looked down on Meng Ya all these years, where can he look down on you?"