After four ordinary days, Yancheng, which is in the period of national mourning, is as calm as ever. Although this lacks the flavor of the New Year, the reunion and stable atmosphere still make people feel reassured.

In the streets and alleys, some playful children still sneak out to play despite the admonition of their elders. The vendors, who had nothing to do, also opened their shops in advance to welcome the first business of the new year.

There weren't many people on the streets, but there were a little more than the previous days.

In contrast, the palace is crowded. It's not that no one visits Sima Liang, but that there is a special person coming today, and people who are not strong enough naturally dare not visit.

"It's a little tight. Isn't it fat again. ”

Sima Liang in the main house, under the service of Bao'er and Xiaobei, was wearing clothes. Ever since he put on his belt, he felt panicked. In the past few days, he has been quite relaxed, and he has not worn a very tight belt. As soon as I put on my usual clothes, I felt a little uncomfortable.

"No, it's only been a few days. How can you get fat so fast. "As a pillow person, Bao'er still has a lot to say.

"yes, I'm not used to it. The slave and maid will loosen you up. Little Bessie loosened Sima Liang's belt.

Call.

"It feels like you're lying to me." Sima Liang touched his slightly bulging belly, not quite believing the words of the two women.

Bao'er and Xiaobei glanced at each other and did not refute again.

After getting dressed, Sima Liang washed up. Stretching, he pulled the door open.

"It's a nice weather." Sima Liang looked at the rising sun and smiled.

In the past few days of the New Year, God is very face-saving, and it is all good weather. However, after listening to Bao'er, this kind of weather will be accompanied by a period of bad weather. In this regard, Sima Liang will be skeptical.

"I don't know if Uncle Wang has arrived, but I haven't seen this Uncle Wang for many years." Sima Liang muttered to himself.

The one who is coming to the palace today is the king of Dingnan, Sima Chang. This imperial uncle is Sima Liang's second uncle, and his fief is in the southwest. The other party's fiefdom is more partial, and he is not the lord who likes to wander around. Basically, all year round, there will be no fiefdom. Only during the Chinese New Year, I will go to Zhongdu for a short stay.

Even if he came to Sima Liang's side this time, he didn't visit suddenly. In previous years, after the other party went to Zhongdu, he would take the canal to Ningcheng and see King Ning. Then go around and go back to your fiefdom.

Originally, it was estimated that this year would be the same, but the sudden death of King Koning led to a change in the itinerary. So this visit is mainly to Sima Liang's Yancheng. Then I went to Ningcheng to see the prince of Ning.

Although he came to see himself, Sima Liang was actually not worried about what King Dingnan would talk about with him, what he shouldn't say. After all, the other party can go to Zhongdu for the New Year, and his attitude has been made clear, that is, he supports the second prince to succeed to the throne.

According to Sima Liang's attitude now, the two are now on the same side. Nothing could go wrong.

"According to the estimation of the time of the report, it should be almost there, go and wait in front." Sima Liang put on his cloak and walked out of the back house.

The weather was not too cold, but walking from the back house to the front hall still made Sima Liang feel a little cold. He rubbed his hands together and sat down by the fire.

"Hello prince, warm your hands." A young man with a soft voice walked over and handed over a loaded hand stove.

"You're a little Nobuko, aren't you, that's good. Help me go to the door to have a look, and if Uncle Huang comes, notify me as soon as possible. Sima Liang took the stove and gave a few orders.

"It's the prince."

"Such a small palace person, what a sin."

Watching the young man leave, Sima Liang sighed. This young man is the youngest of the palace people brought out of Sima Liang's palace. So he was kind of impressed.

Before the Chinese New Year, Sima Liang explained to the third son, and it seemed that the other party was implementing the matter of handing over the service.

Because Sima Liang clearly said that he would not add palace people in the future. So when Xiao Shunzi left the palace, he deliberately brought a few young palace people. In order to have a few more people who can use it in the future.

In this regard, Sima Liang has objected, but there is no way to arrange people. Not to mention these palace people, they are very happy to leave the palace. He couldn't stop the other party from following.

The warm feeling made Sima Liang, who had just gotten up, begin to be confused. The main thing is that he tossed a little half a night yesterday, so he didn't sleep well.

His eyelids became heavier and heavier, and Sima Liang finally slept in his seat. After resting for a while without dreaming, he was woken up by the little eunuch.

"Lord Wang, Lord Dingnan has arrived."

"Got it, I'll go right away." Sima Liang yawned and wiped his face. Hurry outside.

Thanks to their own people coming to greet them, the people who come to inform will be earlier. In this way, when Sima Liang arrived at the door, the carriage had just stopped.

Looking at the four carriages that he had never sat in, Sima Liang felt a lot. Although he can travel by this on weekdays, it is too conspicuous. So he didn't do it. This time, he was sat by the king of Dingnan, and he was inevitably a little unhappy.

Forget it, I don't have time to sit anyway.

When Sima Liang comforted himself, the curtain was pushed open.

A man wearing a black fur hat and a black robe and black cloak stepped out of it.

The other party has a lot of wrinkles on his face, but his black and shiny hair makes him look like he is only in his forties. But in fact, this king of Dingnan is already in his early fifties.

"Uncle Huang is good. It's been a hard work. Sima Liang walked to the carriage and helped the other party get out of the carriage.

"What's the hard work, it's a lot of work. Xiaoliu doesn't dislike my old bones. King Dingnan smiled kindly.

It looks kind, but I don't see that I've done so many things before. Sima Liang felt that there was something wrong with the information he had gotten.

After receiving the report a few days ago, Sima Liang went to check on the deeds of this Uncle Wang. Then he was dumbfounded. Although he had heard some of them before, he still couldn't imagine what happened after the investigation.

This king of Dingnan had previously competed with Sima Liang's father for the throne, and lost to the first emperor under an advantageous situation. I don't know how the first emperor arranged it, so he let the other party go to the southwest obediently. And then the mountain people over there suffered.

At that time, the southwest did not return to the country of Li for a long time. In addition, there are frequent civil unrest in Lebanon, and there is not much spare power to manage there.

Rebellion is the norm, and it is even more common for officials in office to disappear inexplicably. But after this king of Dingnan went, this kind of thing never happened again. At the same time, many of the rioters who had become a climate had also disappeared.

This situation is not difficult to guess, it must be the king of Dingnan. persuaded the mountain people with a knife edge, but it was still the kind that couldn't fight back. This kind of killing lasted for a long time. So much so that there is a title in the southwest, Dingnan kills the gods.

One of the farthest and most well-known incidents is about a cottage of thousands of people that disappeared for months before being discovered.