Imperial.

Eagle Tower.

This is the place where Jinyiwei sends and receives eagle letters from all over the world, and the pigeon tower opposite is close to the late foot.

A falcon chased frantically through the air, hunting a carrier pigeon, which stumbled and flapped its wings and landed in the eagle tower, fluttering and dodging.

Jin Yiwei commanded Mao Xiang, his face was calm, and he stood in front of the building with his hands behind his back.

Not far from him, the prince Zhu Biao's subordinate Jiang Xuan, who was standing respectfully, watching the falcon hovering in the distance, ready to come down to catch the carrier pigeon.

"Jiang Xuan, you say, why did the Holy Lord build the Pigeon Tower and the Eagle Tower together?"

Falcon eats carrier pigeons.

Meat eaters despise.

How can you mix with a vegetarian pigeon?

Jiang Zhen said respectfully: "Command, the Holy One naturally has the Holy Considerations. ”

Mao Xiao smiled bitterly, and his dark face showed a trace of unbearability, because the falcon had already caught the carrier pigeon, and actually plucked the carrier pigeon alive and began to tear it up......

He stretched out his hand, leaned on the railing in front of him, looked at the majestic Forbidden City in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "The prince asked you to do this, you just do it, you don't need to report it to me." ”

Jiang Xuan said again: "Commander, you are the commander of Jinyiwei." ”

Mao Xiang grinned bitterly again.

He took a deep breath and returned to his original expressionless appearance, as the king of Hades and the second king of the Ming court, the two of them held most of the secrets of the Ming Dynasty, but at this moment they were fighting here, especially Mao Xiang, these days he keenly felt that because he had a very close past with Hu Weiyong, now the saint is already a little suspicious of him.

During these days, the Holy Lord ordered him to start investigating the spies in the palace and secretly dealt with a group of people.

Especially the cooks, nurses, old mothers, and some internal servants who were sent into the palace by Zhang Shicheng and other old people such as Zhang Qi before.

There are also many people who have been installed by the nobles and ministers of foreign courts...... More or less, it has something to do with him Maoxiang.

He said in a low voice: "Jiang Xuan, I know that you are bent on replacing my position, but you should know that my position as the commander of the Jinyi Guard is just a tiger, a civil official and a nobleman, and these days because of the betrayal of national bonds and the collection of shares to engage in the emperor's private partnership, I hate me to the core. ”

"They wish I had died sooner."

"I'm actually a pigeon, but I was put in the Eagle Tower by the Holy One."

"The reason why the civil officials and nobles dare not touch me is because I can still pass on the message, and the Holy One is the one who feeds them, if I am not favored one day, I will be eaten alive by the eagle like this carrier pigeon."

When Jiang Zhen heard this, he lowered his head and said in fear: "Thank you for the command." ”

Mao Xiang said: "It's good if you understand." ”

"The old man of the Lu family beside the crown princess, I have ordered someone to bring it, you can take it away."

Jiang Zhen smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "Thank you for your help." ”

As he spoke, he bowed down and slowly retreated.

After he left, Mao Xiang looked at the sky outside with a strange expression, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

Who wouldn't want to climb up?

But how can you climb up and get down?

At this time, a brocade guard bowed over and sent a message on the ground.

"This is reported by Hua Wei, the son of Hou Huayun of Dongqiu County, Yan Shen Guogong Deng Zhen, Huai'an Hou's son Huazhong, and Jiang Guogong's son Wu Gao, whose words are extreme, and he is dissatisfied with Juntian's policy, and seems to be suspected of murdering Cao Guogong."

Mao Xiang was shocked.

He took the information and looked at it, his eyes twinkled.

Mao Xiang is also an old man in Huaixi, and he has always had feelings for Huaixi Xungui.

Today's news is really more shocking than the other.

First of all, the crown prince Zhu Biao ordered Jiang Zhen to quit the palace with all the old people who brought the crown princess Lu into the palace, and two old women were directly executed in secret, which almost clearly showed that the prince suspected the old man of the Lu family brought into the palace by the crown princess Lu family.

The second is that Huaixi Xungui himself has a gap within himself, and Shen Guogong Deng Zhen and others are dissatisfied with the land reform of Juntian, and they actually want to be unfavorable to Cao Guogong......

He took a deep breath and frowned, and couldn't help but think of the concerned figure of Zhu Xiongying, the eldest grandson of the emperor, in his mind......

……

Wuyi Lane, this is the inner city of Nanjing, not far from the imperial city, the alley is full of dignitaries and nobles, at this moment, in a wing room in the Li Mansion of the Korean Duke of the Ming Dynasty, Li Shanchang is sitting on the Taishi chair and soaking his feet.

His emaciated cheeks were expressionless, and he reached out to stroke his beard.

In the room, there was only the sound of the plump maid's hand flipping in the basin of water.

"Shen Guogong Deng Zhen, and that Huazhong are still kneeling outside the door?"

Li Shanchang asked in a low voice.

His voice was low, and when he spoke, it was not as silent as before, and his eyes were exposed, like an old dog, waiting for an opportunity to bite.

After coming out of the Chunfeng Tower, Shen Guogong Deng Zhen took Central China to visit Li Shanchang.

Although Shen Guogong Deng Zhen has a grand reputation in today's second generation of honors, he is the grandson-in-law of Li Shanchang, and if he wants to see Li Shanchang, he has to kneel on the ground and ask to see him.

Not to mention, he also took Huazhong, the son of Hou Huayunlong of Huai'an......

The plump maid said: "Master, you are still outside the door." ”

Li Shanchang stretched out his hand, picked up a book from the table next to him, and said softly: "Ziying, what do you think of Shenguo Gong Deng Zhen?" ”

The plump maid known as Ziying hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "Shenguo Gong Deng Zhen, there are means, but the strategy is insufficient, and some flaws must be compared, and the city government is slightly shallow. ”

Li Shanchang squinted, there was a trace of coldness on his face, and then he showed a little helplessness, flipped through the scroll, and said: "It's not enough to be in the city, Deng Zhen is what I grew up looking at, although he has a majestic appearance of Deng Yue, in fact, he has a small belly and chicken intestines, and it is better to call flaws, and it is difficult to call it small, and it is not a person who has achieved things, although he has some wisdom, but he has no foresight, if he encounters a master's trick and hits his weakness, he will do unwise moves." ”

"And he is greedy for money, and whoever touches his money, his flesh will be in pain, and he will not hear that people die for money, and birds die for food?"

"This time he came to beg me, mostly because the occupied Juntuntian and Guantian were divided by Cao Guogong, and he wanted to come to me to intercede, but this matter is what I, Li Shanchang, can do the Lord's ......"

"It's a good thing to let him kneel for a while longer and frustrate his morale, and the jade can't be made if he doesn't cut it."

Li Shanchang said, stretched out his hand and pinched the plump and beautiful jade hand of Ziying, put her jade hand in his hand and kneaded it for a moment, and sighed: "At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, I was also talented and became famous at a young age, when the Yuan court opened the imperial examination, I and Liu Bowen, who were sincere uncles, were originally students in the same department, and before participating in the imperial examination, I only felt that the world's talents were just so ......."

"Later, Liu Bowen won the imperial examination of the former Yuan, but I was nowhere to be listed, I lived in Hanshan Temple to write letters on behalf of the people to make a living, and by the way, I helped those monks to lend money and collect rent.

"Deng Zhen thinks that he has inherited Shen Guogong, and his younger brothers and sisters are all powerful, so he can be empty-eyed?"

"He was actually dissatisfied with Cao Guogong, and he also had a dispute with Li Jinglong, he really thought that Cao Guogong didn't dare to take him?"

The plump and beautiful maid Ziying endured the touch of Li Shanchang's salty pig hand, but there was an expression of enjoyment on her face, her posture was twisted, she approached Li Shanchang, and said, "Why did the official sigh about the old things? ”

Li Shanchang grabbed the plump and beautiful woman Ziying again, took her into his arms, stretched out his hand to wrap it around her waist and abdomen, sniffed the unique virgin fragrance on her body with the wing of his nose, and only opened his eyes slightly after a while, and said: "When people are old, they miss the old." ”

"I'm old, and my Li family is also old......"

Li Shan's long hand suddenly became heavy.

The plump and beautiful maid Ziying's body trembled, and the white trembling that was exposed by the placket made Elder Li Shan's bones also hot, he reached out and pinched Ziying's neck, pinching her face and ears, and then Li Shanchang stretched out his nose with satisfaction, greedily sniffing the fragrance on Ziying's long black hair, and his thin cheeks were full of vitality again.

It has to be said that power is the greatest aphrodisiac.

During this time, the Son of Heaven paid more and more attention to Li Shanchang, although he was scolded very badly, but as his authority became bigger and bigger, his mental outlook changed, and he had a little bit of the demeanor when he was in charge of the left and finally dominated the world with the world.

"My Li family's nephews in the next life, all of them are unusable, my brother Li Cunyi, after all, are old bones, in the future, if my Li family wants to prosper, we need a wise man to sit in charge, all these years, you have been by my side, I think you should learn from me into a few strategies, and in the future, I will personally give you a marriage and let you enter my Li family."

Li Shanchang suddenly let go of his hand, and the plump and beautiful woman Ziying, who was originally a kung fu master, fell on Li Shanchang's chest at once, panting lightly, his chest rose and fell, and there was no difference in spring for a while.

The plump and beautiful maid Ziying's face couldn't hide the joy, her eyes lit up, and she gasped: "Many, thank you for the cultivation of the officials." ”

Li Shanchang stretched out his hand and sniffed the residual dark fragrance on his hand, and waved his hand: "Let Shen Guogong and Huazhong come in." ”

In the darkness outside, there was already a warrior guard dressed in black who couldn't see his face clearly, stepped out, pushed open the door and ordered Shen Guogong Deng Zhen and Huazhong to come into the house.

Although Deng Zhen's knees were a little sore, his rough face was not tired at all, but looked very excited.

He patted his knee and glanced at Huazhong beside him, a smile on the corner of his mouth.

As long as Huazhong sees Li Shanchang's face, he will have a way to pull Huazhong over and let him do something for himself......

Hua Zhong had been kneeling on the ground for a long time at the moment, his clothes were also wet, and the powder on his face was made bells and whistles by the rain, and he was embarrassed, he got up tremblingly, glanced at Shen Guogong Deng Zhen, and peeked at Li Shanchang, lowered his head and walked into the back room.

"Meet the Korean ......"

Hua Zhong said tremblingly.

Deng Zhen grinned and said, "Meet my grandfather!" ”

He married Li Shanchang's granddaughter, and Li Shanchang can naturally be called relatives.

Li Shanchang sat on the bed expressionlessly and did not speak.

"Han Gong, please also make the decision for my Hua family, my Hua family's hundreds of acres of military land have been given by Cao Guogong's order Li Jinglong, the grievances of my father's death, leaving me helpless, Han Gong, you can't watch our old people in Huaixi starve to death on the streets, this Li Jinglong is really hateful, everything is towards the generals in the north, and the military fields of the southern generals such as us are arbitrarily distributed, and the generals in the north are too selfish regardless of whether they are selfish......"

Before he could say anything, he was raised by Li Shanchang's eyebrows, and his eyes stared at him coldly: "There is no need to say more." ”

Huazhong was so frightened that he trembled again, knelt on the ground, and didn't dare to raise his head.

Li Shanchang took a cup of tea from Ziying's hand, took a sip lightly, and said: "Your father Huai'an Hou left you more than 500 hectares of fertile land, you are addicted to gambling, you took the field to gamble, lost hundreds of hectares, and still raised more than a dozen women outside, took your father's meritorious tenants, and sold the land and property of the grave keepers, and forced them to sell their sons and daughters to pay off your debts, and forced the tenants and grave keepers to hang themselves!" You also took advantage of your connections to embezzle hundreds of acres of military land in the guard station to pay off gambling debts, but is there such a thing? ”

Huazhong was trembling again, his eyes widening with horror.

But Shen Guogong Deng Zhen was happy in his heart, and he couldn't help but smile on his rough face.

Li Shanchang said again: "Back then, your father and I were one of the twenty-four horsemen who swore to follow the upper position, sharing weal and woe in Haozhou, and later attacking the city together, he and I also had a fateful friendship, if it weren't for his old love, these things you committed would have been taken by Jinyiwei to ask for beheading!" ”

Hua Zhong went limped and fell to the ground.

Yes, he is very dissatisfied with the Juntian land reform in the Ming Dynasty, the main reason is that he is addicted to gambling, and he gambled on the meritorious fields given by the Son of Heaven by his family, and he also owes a lot of gambling debts, so he is very opposed to the Juntian land reform...... This group of Huaixi nobles are addicted to gambling, in fact, there is no way, many of them were born and died on the battlefield back then, and their heads were pinned to the waistband of their trousers.

In this way, they numb themselves and the next time they go into battle, they will be fearless......

This is one of the reasons why many of the founding feats of the country quickly corrupted after the Taiping.

"You still dare to be dissatisfied with Cao Guogong in front of the public today, do you know that if this word spreads, not only will you have a catastrophe in Huazhong, but your Hua family may face the disaster of annihilation!"

Hua Zhong was stunned for a moment, he trembled, his lips turned white, and tears welled up in his eyes: "Korean Gong save me, Korean Gong save me......"

Li Shanchang frowned.

He shook his head lightly: "I'm really disappointed in you, you first go to the Son of Heaven's 'Shangzhiwei' to follow the patrol guards to learn to raise dogs, look at the fine dogs in the palace who are on the guard of smuggling and hunting, how do Mongolian mastiffs be dogs, learn to be dogs, I will help you point out a clear way, your Hua family's greedy military tuntian, you not only have to hand it over, but also take the initiative to hand it over, you have to help Cao Guogong and Li Jinglong wave their flags and shout, and talk more about the benefits of land reform in Juntian, it is best to be valued by Li Jinglong!" ”

"In this way, your Hua family still has a life, at least in the future, if you die, the Hua family's incense can't be broken."

"But the friendship between your father Huai Anhou and my Li Shanchang has also been broken."

Hua Zhong raised his head and wanted to say something, but he was trembling by Li Shanchang's cold and shining eyes, he couldn't help crying, and stepped forward and knelt in front of Li Shanchang's bed, sobbing like a woman.

"Han Gong, don't, I, I'm a marquis, how can I, how can I raise dogs?"

Hua Zhong cried and pleaded.

Li Shanchang's face was cold, revealing an expression of hatred that iron could not become steel, and the plump and beautiful maid Ziying beside him also showed a look of disdain.

Shen Guogong Deng Zhen teased his beard, squinted his eyes and laughed in a low voice, looking extremely happy, he secretly glanced at Li Shanchang, squinted his eyes and muttered in a low voice: "Okay, sure enough, it is Li Hangong's superb means......

"Drag him out."

Li Shanchang snorted coldly, and the black-clothed guard beside him stepped forward, like an eagle catching a chicken, grabbed a puddle of muddy Huazhong and dragged it out.

Wait until they're out.

Only Shen Guogong Deng Zhen, Li Shanchang, and the maid Ziying were left in the house.

"It's still my grandfather, you have superb means, and the town admires it!"

Deng Zhen slapped his ass and complimented Li Shanchang with a smile.

Li Shanchang sneered, took a sip of tea, stared down at the tea bowl and said, "Deng Zhen, let's say, is it that your Deng family's military tuntian in Kaifeng and other places was targeted by Cao Guogong and them?" ”

Deng Zhen was taken aback.

A trace of embarrassment flashed on his rough face, and he smiled: "Let's be careful, it's a joke in front of my grandfather, yes, you also know, my Deng family has some good land in Henan, this Henan is not on the nine sides, there are many good fields, and now Juntian land reform, this place is the top priority, I have greeted Li Jinglong many times, but this son does not enter firewood, rice, oil and salt, I must give my Deng family's good land in Henan evenly, and distribute it to those tenant farmers!" ”

"Our father is desperately trying to fight the world for the upper position, isn't the picture just to seal his wife and son, and leave a few pieces of fertile land for future generations to cultivate, he Li Jinglong has nothing to say to others, all of them are my Deng family, my Deng Zhen is indeed not convinced!"

Li Shanchang stroked the tea foam with his hand expressionlessly.

He smiled: "So you brought Huazhong here to ask me to come forward and ask Cao Guogong for a favor for you?" Or are you going to do something to give me Li Shanchang to surrender? ”

"Cao Guogong is selfless, I don't know that I, Li Shanchang, will not be arbitrary, although I am the prime minister of Zuo, I am actually a roast pig on the stove, when to slaughter, when to put the knife in the mouth, the fire is clear, but you nephews in later generations, all of you don't understand, self-righteous ......"

Deng Zhen's mouth opened, rubbed his nose, gritted his teeth, and his beard trembled: "Grandfather, it's not that we don't understand, but we live too clearly. ”

"Since it's in your mouth, there's no reason to spit it out again, our Deng family didn't have anything before, no matter how bad it is, it's nothing, we just want more fields, what's wrong with that?"

"Not to mention, the commanders of the guards in Beiping, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and other places, which one is not greedy for a few acres of land?"

"Since this Juntian can't be fair to everyone, then we should also consider the descendants of our meritorious veterans, my father suffered so hard and sweated back then, is it in exchange for the fact that he Li Jinglong treated Juntian differently today!?"

"I'm afraid you don't know, Li Jinglong himself has not occupied the fields in the north, and Cao Guogong also knows about this, if Li Jinglong himself spits out his fields in the north, I, Deng Zhen, don't say half a, and immediately spit out the occupied good land!"

"If you can't do it......"

Deng Zhen snorted coldly, and his face full of horizontal flesh showed ruthlessness.

"Don't blame us for jumping off the wall!"

Li Shanchang was silent for a while.

He took a sip of tea and said in a low voice: "I know about this matter, I have pointed out a clear way to Huazhong, although you are my grandson-in-law, but after all, you are not my Li family." ”

"It's late at night, let's send off the guests."

Li Shanchang said, waved his hand, and ordered Shen Guogong Deng Zhen to go out.

Deng Zhen's eyes were happy, the corners of his mouth were hooked, he grinned, his eyes flashed, and he gave up.

The plump and beautiful woman Ziying twisted her waist and stuck to Li Shanchang's body, this Li Shanchang likes the beautiful maid and the pretty scholar to warm the bed, but he does not move the beautiful maid, so that this plump and beautiful maid Ziying is still a virgin, but it is becoming more and more mature.

The door was closed, and immediately, Li Shanchang took the waist of this plump and beautiful woman Ziying again, lay on the bed with his clothes closed, wrapped his black hair around Ziying's fingertips, buried his head in her ear, and whispered: "Ziying, it has been six years since the superior sent you to install you by my side, right?" ”

Hearing this, Ziying's plump body trembled slightly, but Li Shanchang grabbed her hair in his hand, played with it carefully, sniffed it, squinted and said, "In the past six years, I, Li Shanchang, have asked myself how good I am to you......"

"I suddenly felt that it would be a blessing in disguise to include you in my Li family."

"These days, there are more and more decentralization from the top, and my position is getting higher and higher, I have a tacit understanding with the top, he gives me benefits, and I want to seek benefits for the top."

"Now the Ming Dynasty's land reform, there are some hidden worries, the landlords are dissatisfied, the bottom of the good family is benefited, but most of the nobles and civil officials are landlords, the upper position is now very lacking in ears and eyes, I have long known that the national security division is the emperor's grandson Zhu Xiongying in the mastery, just now after Deng Zhen finished speaking, I suddenly changed my mind."

"I will personally recommend you to the superior and send you to the palace to be the personal maid of Zhu Xiongying, the eldest grandson of the emperor."

"You are a spy selected by the superior to stare at me, he can naturally be trusted, over the years, I Li Shanchang's spies and secret agents, you know everything well, so you all call up to assist the Zuo National Security Division, I Li Shanchang has been in the upper position for decades, even if I didn't make immortal contributions to the Ming Dynasty, I also have some credit and hard work, this face, the upper position will still give me."

"Juntian land reform is a good policy, but you can't be too anxious, and I am too far from the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, there is a hidden danger of separation, if you want the Ming country to be rich and strong, at least it will take decades of accumulation, by that time, it is already the world of the emperor's grandson Zhu Xiongying, you have been by the emperor's grandson for a long time, remember to give me a few words of good words to the Li family when the time comes."

"I don't want my Li family to be rich and noble for generations, I only want my Li Shanchang to enjoy my old age and enjoy the joy of family......"

The plump and beautiful maid Ziying buried her head deeply, burying her head in Li Shanchang, a person can endure his lust and not attack the stunning stunner around him, and he can also act for six years while knowing the identity of the other party, what a deep thought......

Li Shanchang stretched out his hand to hold her hair, and sighed in a low voice: "In the end, the tired bird returns, and you and I have a beginning and ......an end."