Now that the emperor, who is nearly fifty years old, is suffering from a stubborn illness that has not been cured for a long time, the struggle for imperial power among the princes has intensified.

The eldest prince Ji Cong, born to the queen, became the crown prince at the age of fifteen, and is now nearly thirty, with mediocre qualifications, but he is scheming, and his desire for power is also the strongest.

The second prince was born to the imperial concubine, one year younger than the prince, talented, talented, and talented. The other princes are either young or have no fighting spirit, so they are not worried.

As a result, this struggle was concentrated between the crown prince and the second prince, which was a game of imperial power, but also a game between two forces and parties.

In the court, more than half of the ministers support the second prince, and downward, many knights are also guests and friends of the second prince, and the knights of the rivers and lakes each have a large number of men and horses, even if the second prince has no military power in his hands, he relies on the strength of these doormen under his command, and with a wave of his arms, more than 100,000 people raise troops are trivial. As a result, the second prince has become a big trouble for the prince.

For those chivalrous warriors under the command of the second prince, the prince of the East Palace preferred to recruit them for his own use to consolidate his position, and the second directly killed them to weaken the power of the second prince.

The sky-shaking tiger Liu Fansheng is the eagle dog raised by the crown prince, specially used to eradicate dissidents for him, and now the target is directly aimed at those capable and righteous people under the second prince. And the Sky Shaking Tiger is obedient to the prince's orders, loyal, and has the prince as a mountain to rely on, his words and deeds are very arrogant, that is, ordinary officials are afraid of him, lest he accidentally invite himself to kill.

The Heaven-Shaking Tiger is more than strong, the strategy is insufficient, the killing is very decisive, and he is too lazy to bother to speak, and he directly removes it quickly, for a while, the knights of the rivers and lakes hate the Heaven-Shaking Tiger to the bone, so that more people throw themselves at the second prince, which makes the prince very annoyed. As a result, the prince used other people to take charge of the rebellion, and threw the people who had to be killed directly to the Sky Shaking Tiger, and the Sky Shaking Tiger became an executioner through and through.

In the study of the Prince's Mansion

Behind the desk sat a man in his thirties, with fair skin, sword eyebrows and phoenix eyes, cold eyes, a faint beard on his lips, and a brown brocade robe, exuding a noble air all over his body. This person is Ji Cong, the prince of the East Palace.

Opposite him, Liu Fansheng, a sky-shaking tiger with thick eyebrows and leopard eyes and a beard, stood respectfully.

The prince raised his eyelids and glanced at him, and said indifferently: "Heaven Shaking Tiger, Chen Fei was killed by you?" ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger replied: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Chen Fei is unwilling to submit to you, so the villain will destroy him." ”

The prince sighed lightly and said, "Heaven Shaking Tiger, Heaven Shaking Tiger, if everyone is unwilling to submit to this prince, do you plan to kill everyone else?" ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger was stunned and said, "Your Highness, didn't you let me only be responsible for killing?" I ......"

The prince raised his hand to stop him and continued, he stood up and slowly walked out from behind the table, although he was slightly fat, but standing with the burly Sky Shaking Tiger, he still looked a little small.

"Yuan Ze, who is specifically responsible for giving me a second-hand protégé, suddenly died at home not long ago. I don't have anyone to rely on right now. ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger asked, "Lord Yuan is dead?" Does Your Highness know who the murderer is? ”

The prince smiled bitterly and said, "Do you need to say this? It must have been done by someone from the second child's side. So, you've been alerting me lately, because you have a heavy burden on your shoulders. ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger said: "The villain swears to serve His Highness. ”

The prince said: "This prince knows that you are loyal to me, but you still have to use your brains to do things, Shaking the Tiger, you don't have no one under you, you also plan for me, how to pull Zhang Chengxiao over for me, hear clearly, not to kill him, but to win him over, understand?" This man can't be killed. ”

"University scholar Zhang Chengxiao?" The Sky Shaking Tiger blinked and said, "Zhang Chengxiao is an old stubborn. ”

The prince nodded: "I know he is stubborn, so I have to put more effort into it." My father grabbed the power and refused to let go, and has refused to let me meddle in the defense of the capital, this morning, Zhang Chengxiao again proposed to let the second child manage the defense of the capital, my father may have taken into account my feelings, but did not immediately agree, if the defense of the capital is really supervised by the second child, and the power is in hand, it will be even worse for me. ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger hugged his fists and said: "Your Highness's meaning, the villain understands, and when the villain goes back, he will plan it well." ”

The prince seemed a little uneasy, looked at the tower-like man in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Shaking the Tiger, you remember for me, to persuade Zhang Chengxiao that you need to take your time, you can't be in a hurry, and you can't kill him, he is an old minister, and there are many ministers in the court who have a relationship with him. ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger responded: "Yes, the villain understands that he will never kill Zhang Chengxiao." ”

The prince nodded: "Well, then you can go." ”

The Sky Shaker clenched his fist and stepped back.

Seeing him leave, the crown prince shook his head and muttered, "Everyone has been killed, do you want me to be the emperor of the light pole?" ”

……

The Sky Shaking Tiger returned to the mansion in the capital and said to the family: "Go and call Zhao Dehai to the study." ”

Zhao Dehai is a strategist under the command of the Sky Shaking Tiger, in his thirties, his appearance is mediocre, and his martial arts are also mediocre, but he has some bad ideas, and his kung fu is very good, and the Sky Shaking Tiger trusts him a lot.

After a while, Zhao Dehai arrived. He looks very thin, and his eyes always make people have the illusion that as soon as he opens his mouth, there is a weasel greeting the chicken.

He came to the study, hugged his fist respectfully to the Sky Shaking Tiger, and said, "Dehai has seen Liu Ye." ”

The Sky Shaker said: "Well, Dehai, sit." ”

Zhao Dehai sat down on the side and asked, "I don't know what Liu Ye ordered when he called Dehai to come?" ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants me to send someone to persuade Zhang Chengxiao to stand on the Prince's side, I don't know what you have in mind?" ”

Zhao Dehai said: "Master Liu, the people on our side are mainly solving 'incurable diseases' for the prince, as for the 'consultation', isn't there someone else?" Why do you want Liu Ye to do it again? ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger snorted: "Yuan Ze is dead, the prince is not worried about others doing this, so he handed it over to me, do you think who of us has the ability to do it?" ”

Zhao Dehai was embarrassed: "This Zhang Chengxiao is not an ordinary person, he is upright, stubborn, and by no means ordinary people can convince him, and Liu Ye, you are only responsible for killing people for him, if you talk about playing tricks, I'm afraid that no one of us can do it." ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger sighed heavily, and said, "Who said it wasn't, killing people was simple and straightforward for me, and it didn't take a lot of brains, but now His Highness has to ask me to do this, and I can't help it, otherwise, what do you think of Zifeng?" ”

"Purple Wind?"

Zhao Dehai hesitated for a moment and said: "Zifeng Gongzi is your disciple, although his kung fu is good, but he is arrogant, and he doesn't speak much on weekdays, this thing doesn't just need brains, but also has to be able to convince people, if he is allowed to do it, Master Liu, can you rest assured?" ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger took a breath and said with a sad face: "Yes, Zifeng has never talked much, so what can I do?" ”

Zhao Dehai rolled his eyes, suddenly got up, hugged his fists and said, "If Liu Ye is at ease, why don't you let Dehai try it?" ”

"You're going?"

The Sky Shaking Tiger looked at him noncommittally, "Dehai, you can't do martial arts, in case of danger, there will be no one to protect you." ”

Zhao Dehai said: "Don't worry, Master Liu, Dehai knows how to advance and retreat, if not, I will withdraw as soon as possible, anyway, they don't know who I am, I will change my name to Zhu Feng to be his protégé, or I can have a chance to talk." ”

"Pig manure?" The Sky Shaker Tiger looked surprised.

Zhao Dehai said: "Liu Ye made fun of it, it's not 'pig dung', it's 'Zhu Feng', in fact, this is the name of one of my distant cousins, and Dehai said it casually." ”

The Sky Shaker was a little crying and laughing, and said, "It's a shame that you came up with this idea and be a protégé...... Well, you try it first, if it doesn't work, you run, and we'll find another way. ”

"Yes, Master Liu."

While the two were talking, a family's voice came from outside the door: "Yo, Zifeng Gongzi, you're back." ”

"Well, has my master ever come back?" Sure enough, it was the voice of the Purple Wind Plateau.

"Master Liu is in the study." Jia Ding replied.

In the blink of an eye, Zifeng stepped over the threshold with the hem of his clothes in his hand and walked in.

"Purple Wind? When did you get back? Skyshaker asked.

Zi Feng clenched his fists and forehead expressionlessly and said, "Zi Feng has seen Master, I just arrived." ”

Zhao Dehai hugged his fist at Zifeng and said, "I haven't seen Zifeng for many days." ”

Zifeng nodded faintly at him.

A look of displeasure flashed in Zhao Dehai's eyes, but he didn't dare to do anything to the Heavenly Shaking Tiger's personal disciple.

The Sky Shaking Tiger said: "Zifeng, go out this time, the matter is done?" ”

Zifeng replied: "Yes, it's all done, everything that should be killed has been killed, it's just that a few days ago, I met the blue wolf Xiao Rui looking for revenge." ”

"Haha......"

The Sky Shaking Tiger laughed loudly: "Zifeng, what we are doing is the business of licking blood with a knife head, there are many people looking for us to take revenge in the future, don't be soft, kill it, and the province will leave trouble, you look at the old man and me, there are more people who want to kill me, but I don't live well today?" ”

Zifeng said with his forehead: "What Master said is that Zifeng is not afraid. ”

"That's right, my disciple of the Heaven Shaking Tiger is not afraid of the ground that day!"

The Sky Shaking Tiger proudly said to Zhao Dehai: "Dehai, what do you say about my disciple?!" ”

Zhao Dehai hurriedly replied: "Liu Ye's disciples are naturally the same as Liu Ye, and Zifeng Gongzi has the demeanor of Liu Ye back then, which impresses Dehai." ”

"Hahahaha......" The Sky Shaker laughed, looking at Zifeng's jade tree in the wind, he couldn't help but become more and more satisfied, and said: "No wonder I like this kid so much, well, reliable, calm and capable, it seems that my daughter's vision is good." ”

Zifeng said: "The apprentice went back to Xinzhou City this time, and when he arrived, the young lady and the family were in the courtyard, saying that there was a bad night attack and was beaten away by the young lady's white wings.

Hearing this, the Sky Shaking Tiger hurriedly asked, "Are the lady and the children alright?" ”

Zi Feng said: "With the protection of the young lady, no one in the house was injured, I have ordered the family and the guards to increase the night defense, and set up a net of heaven and earth, presumably the thieves have the courage to come and escape again." ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger slapped his thigh and praised: "Okay, Zifeng really didn't disappoint me, I still have something to do in the capital recently, and I can't go back for the time being, in the future, you can go back to the house more often when you are free, and you must ensure the safety of your wife." ”

Zifeng clenched his fists and said, "Yes, Master." ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger said to Zhao Dehai: "Dehai, this matter will be done as you say, you act carefully yourself, and report any progress immediately." ”

Zhao Dehai said: "Yes, there is nothing else, Dehai will go to prepare, and Dehai will leave." ”

……

After Zhao Dehai left, the Sky Shaking Tiger beckoned to Zi Feng, Zi Feng walked up to him, and he asked, "How is Miss doing lately?" ”

Zifeng: "Miss is very good, I just miss you a little." ”

"She misses me?"

The Sky Shaking Tiger was stunned, and asked in disbelief, "Zifeng, you didn't lie to me, did you?" Will she miss me? Every time she sees me, she ignores me, and when she says a few more words, she loses her temper, wishing that I don't want to appear in front of her, so how can she miss me? ”

Zi Feng said: "Miss told me that when she was a child, you personally taught her to ride a horse and shoot arrows, and once, she accidentally fell off the horse, and it was you who pounced on her and made her human flesh pad, so she was not injured." ”

The Sky Shaking Tiger exclaimed, "She actually told you this? Oh, this child seems to be fierce to me on the surface, it seems that she still misses me in her heart, Zifeng, she told you all these words, it seems that she really misses me as a father. ”

Purple Wind was silent.

The Sky Shaking Tiger was suddenly in a good mood and said with a smile: "Okay, good, you have worked hard, go and rest first." ”

Zifeng clenched his fists and said, "Yes, Master." ”

He exited the study and walked straight to the courtyard where he lived.