Jiang Ning said casually, "You are really satisfied with this apprentice."

Xie Songzhao's eyebrows and eyes were bent a little, "Naturally. You must remember to protect Wen Gujiangdu."

Jiang Ning drank the tea in one gulp, "Don't worry, a Wen Gujiang is not a problem, Cangyue, I will leave Tao Cheng to you."

Tao Cheng clenched his fists, "Don't worry, Dashuai, I'm here with Lord Dou, and it will never be hurt."

Dou Siyuan smiled and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him, "That man doesn't have injuries on his body, it doesn't hurt to have a little injury, don't be so anxious."

Xie Songzhao was still suffering from the previous wounds, and when he heard this, he said angrily: "Tao Cheng, don't pay attention to him, he is full of horses, you take care of him, and when we go back to Dou Shangshu's family to serve him, we will go to join in the fun." See if the man has any injuries on him."

Dou Siyuan "talked about his father's color change", with a bitter face, "Songzhao, I'm kind, I'm afraid that people will be too nervous." It's good for you to say that my father is ...... Alas, toothache."

Tao Cheng couldn't help but hold his forehead, "My lord, I'm a lieutenant, not an entourage, this little thing to protect you doesn't need to be nervous for me."

Dou Siyuan looked at him and blinked, then looked at Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning held back a smile, "Yes, he is my lieutenant general, and he was the one who immediately captured the general the year before last."

Dou Siyuan gasped, "He...... He is the Tao Moss seal of the general among the three armies?"

Tao Cheng nodded, "Exactly."

Dou Siyuan rubbed his face and arched his hand: "Disrespectful and disrespectful!"

Tao Cheng also arched his hand and said, "Don't dare, don't dare."

Guihong watched the two of them not let go, and said with a smile, "Are you two going to marry Jin Lan righteously?"

Everyone laughed and continued to discuss tomorrow's affairs.

The main hall of Ciying Palace was calm, and Yang Yunkuo did not get angry after reading the letter, but just burned the letter lightly, "Nianyi, what do you see?"

Nian Yi's eyebrows frowned, "Niangniang, the maid thinks that Your Majesty is still ambitious, and it may be a threat to you."

Empress Dowager Yang stroked her sideburns, "The mourning family wishes he was ambitious, so that Chen Guo could be saved."

Nian Yi poured out the boiling tea and cooled it, "Niangniang, his mind is too deep, I'm afraid it won't be easy to get along."

Empress Dowager Yang shook her head, "It's a good thing to have a deep mind, Linzi, a place that eats people and doesn't spit out bones, is a simple person...... Sooner or later, the bones will be broken."

Nian Yi didn't dare to answer, what he said was Gu Zhe'an.

Empress Dowager Yang didn't need her to answer, and said to herself, "He seems to always have a pure heart, such a person should not be born in troubled times, he should be born in prosperous times, even if he does not have the prosperity of Zhenguan, he should also have the prosperity of Wenjing."

Nian Yi said dryly: "King Jin doesn't understand Niangniang's hard work......

Empress Dowager Yang sneered, "You treat me as Gu Changkan? Nothing I've ever done has been for his good, and I know that."

Nian Yi lowered his head, his eyes were on the scarlet charcoal fire, and listened to Empress Dowager Yang slowly reminiscing about the past, "Concubine Yuan, the mourning family really doesn't like her. King Jin, the mourning family really can't look down on it. Indeed, his mother and brother died at my hands, and he deserves to hate me."

"It's a pity he didn't, he hated you, but he also saw what you did." Gu Mingchao stood at the door with a food box, smiling slightly.

Empress Dowager Yang waved her hand casually, "Yes, for the sake of the people of Chen State, he endured it, and even when Linzi was short of grain and grass, he had to give some help. But the mourning family still has no gratitude for him."

Gu Mingchao sat down and opened the food box, "I heard that the Queen Mother didn't have dinner tonight, so Erchen specially went to the imperial dining room to bring pastries. Please take a closer look."

Empress Dowager Yang picked up a boxy white pastry, decorated with osmanthus petals, and frowned, "Osmanthus cake? The mourners never eat this."

Gu Mingchao took a bite at a time, chewed it slowly and tasted it before he spoke, "Everything has a first time, the Queen Mother might as well try it." I didn't eat it before, but I couldn't stop him from eating it in front of me every day, so I tasted it."

Empress Dowager Yang put it down gently, "What the mourning family doesn't like, they will never try. As a king, his preferences are not known."

Gu Mingchao patted the slag on his sleeve

, "Queen Mother, how many years does Chen Guo have? Where is the way out for Chen Guo?"

Empress Dowager Yang pressed the corner of the pastry with her fingertips and crushed it to pieces, "Forty years ago, the world was changing, and how many people thought that the country was about to die, but in the end? Those who attempt to unify will not be able to die, and all countries will still stand. In the Ming Dynasty, before the end, the mourning family will never admit defeat."

Gu Mingchao sneered, "Queen Mother, the people back then were vain, but what about now? The state of Chen is crumbling, the civil strife in the south is not stopping, and the state of Zhou may not be able to dominate the world."

Empress Dowager Yang sneered, "Nanguo? The mourning family thought that Xiao Zhiyi had a successor, but it turned out to be a fool. Emperor Zhang He asked the people below to send troops on their own, but as a result, one or two of them became turtles with shrunken heads, and they rebelled when they turned around."

Gu Mingchao took the osmanthus cake but didn't eat it, "You seem to like to like the skin of the tiger very much."

Empress Dowager Yang tilted her head to look at him, "What do you say?"

Gu Mingchao put down the pastry, "The eight-year grain draft in Chengde is Xiao Zhiyi's handiwork, she intends to use me to provoke the war between Zhou and Chen, and she acts cheaply."

Empress Dowager Yang sighed, "It's a pity, Xie Songzhao pulled you out. This game, it didn't work out."

Gu Mingchao sneered, "It seems that you really wanted to go to war at that time."

Empress Dowager Yang turned her hand to put on the jade ring, "At that time, Gu Changkan had not been hollowed out by the wine, and Chen Guo could withstand a battle."

Gu Mingchao straightened the folds on his sleeves, "It's a pity, Xiao Zhiyi couldn't make a plan, and he sent out Princess Heqin, but Junping is not completely towards the southern country, and this game has fallen to the bottom again."

Empress Dowager Yang smiled, "You have made a lot of progress recently, and you can see the situation of two years ago."

Gu Mingchao laughed, "What I have always been unable to figure out, here, I can see it clearly. There is only one point, Xiao Zhiyi died too early."

Empress Dowager Yang sneered, "She...... If she had a good situation like Zhou Guo, she would have turned this day upside down a long time ago."

Gu Mingchao thought about the strength of the Xie family and sighed, "The Xiao family has fallen too early, and the next generation will not be able to support it at all, so Xiao Zhiyi will reach a cooperation with you."

Empress Dowager Yang bowed, "That's true, it seems that your chess is not in vain. When the mourning family has cleaned up the Zhou Kingdom here, the next step is to target the southern country - the soldiers pressed the border. What do you think are the odds of winning?"

Gu Mingchao shook his head, "There is no chance of winning, you have to deal with the soldiers and horses outside the city first, killing Xie Songzhao and them can't do it, but it will make them want to die with you."

Empress Dowager Yang lightly tapped the armrest with her fingertips, "There are more soldiers in the hands of the mourning family than outside the city."

Gu Mingchao approached her, "Even if you take 10,000 steps back, in the end, you slaughtered all the soldiers and horses outside the city, what about Lin Huchen on the border?" Do you still have the strength to fight a war?"

Empress Dowager Yang's fingertips paused and fell silent.

Gu Mingchao continued, "Moreover, there are soldiers in Shaozhou outside the city. You killed your own people, what should you do if Shaozhou rebels? Chen's border is about to be pushed in again."

Empress Dowager Yang looked at him with heavy eyes, "Then what is your best plan?" Is it easy to get caught? The mourning family has said that until the last moment, the mourning family will never admit defeat. If I admit defeat when I encounter something, then the current Empress Dowager Ciying is someone else."

Gu Mingchao arched his hand and said, "I admire you for this, and I will never give up." The conversation changed and pointed to the weakest point of Empress Dowager Yang, "But now that you have a bad card in your hand, the forbidden army does not dare to fully hand over the trust, there are people from the family inside, and the people of Xiaoxianglou should also pay attention to proportion, because they have a family behind them."

Empress Dowager Yang grabbed the handrail and smiled viciously, "The family has not taken nearly ten years to get rid of this cancer, and the Mourning family is now going to clean them up."

Gu Mingchao was shocked, "Now?!"

Empress Dowager Yang sat up straighter and looked at him with a sneer, "Why, you don't think I'm using them to threaten the children of the family in the forbidden army, right?"

Gu Mingchao's heart set off a storm, this matter is not trivial, Yang Yunkuo actually wants to get rid of the family together...... But how credible are these words?

Gu Mingchao carefully looked at Empress Dowager Yang's expression, "If you don't change this matter of Yin Guan, the family you solve now will recur like weeds in the future."

Empress Dowager Yang sighed, "

The mourning family of the shadow official system has long wanted to change, but where to change? If it really changes, it will not move the interests of the family, but the interests of officials all over the world. What are they doing as officials? Isn't it just a wife and a son?"

Gu Mingchao knew the difficulty of this matter, and it took Zhou Guo forty years to raise the threshold for sealing his wife and son, but he still couldn't put an end to the family's open and secret struggle in the court. Now that the court can't find a poor Chen Guo, to change the official system is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Empress Dowager Yang rubbed her eyebrows, "You better go back and play your chess." The mourners won't let you interfere now."

Gu Mingchao bowed respectfully, "Yes, the retainers retired."

Before the people returned to Tingyuwu, the news that had just been found out by the Empress Dowager Yang had already been divided into truth and falsehood, and it fell into the Bangyue Dock.

Janissake.

Yang Zhonghe sat in the middle of a group of children of the family who were drinking, looking out of place, and the people around him dragged him, "Zhonghe, why don't you drink?"

Yang Zhonghe took the wine, "Now that our mother and wife are under house arrest by the Queen Mother, you don't panic at all?"

The person on the other side smiled, "Alas, the Queen Mother is your aunt, what are you afraid of, family!"

Yang Zhonghe sneered, "The family has long refused to associate with her, and she forgot her mother's family when she ascended to a high position, she is really a white-eyed wolf."

Everyone laughed, "What are you afraid of, I heard my father say that her position as the queen mother will not last long."

Yang Zhonghe's eyes lit up, "What do you say?"

The man lowered his voice and said, "Not only her, but even the regent, when the time comes, it will not be our family's final say."

Yang Zhonghe took a sip of dry wine, "This is the best, the two of them have joined forces to suppress the family for all these years, Lao Tzu has stayed in this forbidden army enough!"

The person next to him refilled the lamp, "No, if it weren't for Gu Changkan's madman to calm her down, she would have fallen a long time ago!"

Yang Zhonghe's mind gradually became confused, and he actually confided two important words, "Tomorrow, tomorrow is her death!"

The person on the other side was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly came over, "Zhonghe, do you have a way?"

Yang Zhonghe shook his head, "How many of the forbidden army are willing to listen to her now? We will kill the past, and then support Gu Mingchao to sit on the throne, in this world, we can be regarded as the master. In the future, I will see who would dare to mention the family law to Lao Tzu!"

Everyone exchanged glances, Yang Zhonghe fell headlong, and the people around him said in disgust, "The amount of wine is really bad."

The man on the other side who had been asking pondered for a moment, "What he said may not be feasible, when he wakes up, we will flatter him first and let him be the first bird."

Everyone nodded their heads, indicating that there was no problem.

The soldiers and horses outside the city have been waiting for days and days, but today they are wandering around lazily, and the soldiers in the city have also relaxed their vigilance and loosened the ranks.

At two o'clock the next day, Xiaoxiang Building, Baibao Zhai, and Bangyuewu successively received the will of the Empress Dowager Yang to go to the main hall for a banquet.

At the same time, the forbidden army of the family who had not been summoned also arrived outside the Ciying Palace. Listening to the rain dock, Gu Mingchao's chess game has come to an end.