On the official road, Chu Haowen sat in the carriage, constantly thinking about everything that happened this morning, the emperor who died soon, the prince who was outcast, and the villagers who secretly protected.

"There are assassins!" At this moment, an arrow suddenly shot into the carriage, looking at the bow and arrow that was inserted next to him, only two millimeters away from him, Chu Haowen was swallowed directly.

At this time, the outside of the carriage was already protected by more than a dozen soldiers with shields, and the rest of the soldiers were also under command to resist the attack of bows and arrows.

"Up!" After a rain of arrows, a general pointed to the direction where the bow and arrow came from and led people to rush in, and the people in the forest also gave up their bows and arrows and rushed in the direction of Chu Haowen with their blades in hand.

At this time, the soldiers guarding Chu Haowen had already set up a position and rushed towards the other party, except for more than a dozen people who were protecting Chu Haowen.

In an instant, the swords collided, the sound of fighting continued, and there were about two or three hundred people who assassinated Chu Haowen, and they were all first-class masters in terms of body style and formation, and they were not afraid of death, and the goal was clear, ignoring the entanglement of the guards and killing Chu Haowen directly.

But the guards of Chu Haowen are also first-class masters selected from the army, although the single fight is not comparable to the other party, but if the positional battle is carried out, then the hundreds of people on the other side will be playing lanterns in the pit.

And the soldiers guarding Chu Haowen are also fully armor-wearing, although most of them are leather armor, but against those who are not armor-piercing, they are equivalent to the god of war, not to mention dozens of soldiers in iron armor.

Soon, the people who assassinated Chu Haowen were beaten and there were only more than ten people left, seeing that the person who assassinated the person who did not become the leader withdrew back as soon as he greeted him, and the guards still wanted to chase but were stopped by the general led by him, "Don't chase it, the most important thing is to protect the prince." ”

Hearing the shouting outside, Chu Haowen tentatively asked outward, "General Chen, is it over?" ”

"Back to the crown prince, except for a few who escaped, the Stride Assassin has been killed." Hearing the reply from the outsider, Chu Haowen finally breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and walked out of the carriage.

The person who answered Chu Hao's question was the son of the Shangshu of the Household Department of the Dynasty, the Rapid Battalion of Thousand Households, and the Captain of the Sixth Rank of the Dynasty.

After answering Chu Haowen's question, Chen Zhongwu was preparing to let people clean up the battlefield, but as soon as he turned around, he heard someone call him, "General Chen, help me." ”

Looking back, I saw Chu Haowen with one foot hanging in the air, one foot on the frame, trembling with his back and wanting to get off the carriage. This move frightened Chen Zhongwu and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, what are you doing here?"

"Come down and go around." Chu Haowen didn't want to come down at this time, he had just finished the battle, and he would definitely be nauseous if he saw the corpses and the smell of blood all over the ground, but this was also an opportunity.

According to some conventions, if a soldier comes to the army as soon as he finishes the battle, the commander or the emperor personally comes to pay their respects and encourage them, and it is easy to gain the loyalty of the soldiers.

When the crown prince has become a foregone conclusion, then properly buying people's hearts is a very good way to protect themselves, after all, the palace routine is deep, and if you are not careful, your life will be gone, so you must seize all opportunities to buy people's hearts.

As soon as he got out of the car, Chu Haowen saw corpses all over the ground and more than a dozen injured soldiers, looking at the corpses killed by various weapons, Chu Haowen couldn't help but feel nauseous, and hurriedly turned his back and helped the carriage to vomit.

"Prince, you'd better go back to the car." Chen Zhongwu hurriedly patted Chu Haowen on the back and persuaded him to return to the car.

Chu Haowen, who vomited for a while and felt that his stomach acid was about to be vomited, hurriedly waved his hand, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

After relieving himself, Chu Haowen walked to a carriage behind him and patted the body, "It's okay." ”

"Ahh Brother Wen! As soon as Chu Haowen finished speaking, four pig-like sounds came out of the car, and then the four teenagers rushed out of the car, jumped out of the car directly, even if they fell to the ground, they didn't care, got up and hugged Chu Haowen and cried.

"Ahh Brother Wen! I thought I was going to die! ”

"Ahh Brother! The arrow flew right in front of my eyes! Oh, my God! It's scared to death! ”

"I almost died! Yes! Yes! ”

"Brother Wen! Go home! It's horrible! ”

These four people were Mo Feng was afraid that Chu Haowen would be too lonely to enter Beijing alone, so he selected Ming Yanche, Zhao Dezhu, Yu Qi, and Xiao Changsheng and asked them to accompany Chu Haowen to the capital.

The four of them hugged Chu Haowen and cried bitterly, constantly complaining to Chu Haowen, Chu Haowen also wanted to cry at this time, do you think I want to stay here? I don't want to be that bullshit emperor when I step on a horse! What can I do to step on the horse!

If it weren't for the fact that there were people beside him, Chu Haowen would have hugged the four of them and cried together, "Okay, okay, don't cry." Chu Haowen hugged the four of them and comforted them softly.

After comforting for a while, a few people stopped crying, but looked around, four people looked left and right, looked up and down, saw a little corpse without a head, turned their heads to look, hey! There's a big hole in the chest!

Looking at these corpses, the four of them stiffly twisted their heads in front of Chu Haowen, and saw Chu Haowen blinking his eyes and looking at them with a simple expression, followed by ..... Vomit~

"Alas~" Looking at the few people who vomited, Chu Haowen smiled, vomit, vomit, vomit, I vomited, don't everyone have to apply it, after all, is it difficult to do the same.

After tossing a few people, Chu Haowen came to the wounded, looking at the dozen or so wounded soldiers in front of him, tears flowed from the corners of Chu Haowen's eyes, he slowly walked to a soldier whose arm was cut off, and gently stroked his wrapped wound.

"Your Highness, what are you?" Seeing Chu Haowen like this, Chen Zhongwu asked puzzled.

"Alas, so many soldiers died for me alone, and so many people were seriously injured, I can't bear it! I can't bear it! As he spoke, Chu Haowen cried again, half of his words were from the bottom of his heart and half of them were acting on the spot.

If the person present was a hot-blooded teenager in his teens, these words would definitely make him empathize, and it would lead to some topics in the future, and finally he would be loyal to Chu Haowen and would look at it differently even if he couldn't die down.

It's a pity that standing next to Chu Haowen is Chen Zhongwu, who has been in battle for a long time and has lived in the official palace since he was a child, what kind of means to buy people's hearts have he never seen? As far as Chu Haowen was concerned, he saw it clearly.

Just when Chu Haowen continued to perform, he suddenly felt a big hand on his back, and then he was picked up, "Chen Zhongwu!" Chen Zhongwu, let me go down you! ”

Seeing that it was Chen Zhongwu, Chu Haowen fluttered his calves and roared wildly, but unfortunately people ignored him at all and threw him into the carriage, and then a voice sounded from outside, "His Royal Highness the Prince, let's put away those careful thoughts!" ”

In a forest not far from Chu Haowen and the others, hundreds of strong men were waiting for something, and suddenly a strong man ran over with more than a dozen people, and looked at them to see if these dozen people were the dozen or so people who failed to assassinate Chu Haowen and escaped at that time.

"What's going on?" A strong man at the head frowned and asked, and one of the leaders of the dozen or so people said weakly: "They are prepared, all of them are in armor, and the whole journey is on alert, and our assassination failed." ”

"!" The strong man punched the air hard, gritted his teeth and said, then glanced at the dozen or so people who fled back, sighed and couldn't help but feel tired, "Alas, forget it, since this time failed, let's do it next time." ”

After speaking, he was about to leave with everyone, but at this time, a voice sounded, "I guess you won't have a next time." ”

"Who! Who is it! The sudden sound made everyone vigilant.

"Look up."

The strong men looked up at the sound and saw dozens of people dressed in black standing densely on the branches above the heads of the people, and on the head of the strong men stood an old man in purple robes with a thin face looking at him with a smile.

Looking at the person on his head, the strong man sneered, "Who did I say, it turned out to be Chu Pingnan's secret guard." ”

Seeing that the other party knew his identity, the old man chuckled, "Oh? It seems that you have been in contact with us before. ”

"A bunch of dogs that bite people, who doesn't recognize them!" The strong man also sneered, and his words were full of disdain for the old man.

In the face of the strong man's sarcasm, the old man not only got angry, but thanked him with a smile: "Thank you for the compliment, since you recognize us, then you should also die." ”

As soon as the words fell, the strong man and his party fell to the ground foaming at the mouth, and after a few flutters, their eyes turned black and they burped.

Just when Chu Haowen was sitting in the carriage and depressed, an old man walked into the carriage.

"Old Mo, you're back." This person is the eunuch who took Chu Haowen away, Mo Feng, the emperor's personal attendant, and the old man in the woods before.

"How is Your Highness?" After entering the carriage, Mo Feng nodded to Chu Haowen and asked about his situation, Chu Haowen pursed his lips and began to complain, compared to Chen Zhongwu and others, Chu Haowen was very new to Mo Feng, and Ye Meng'an told him at that time that he could only appoint two new people in the palace, one was the queen mother of the dynasty and the other was Mo Feng who was sitting opposite him.

Although Ye Meng'an did not tell Chu Haowen the reason, after a few hours of contact, Chu Haowen felt that this person had a kind of love for his elders for his juniors.

"Old Mo! I'm crying! In the time you've been gone, I've been assassinated! It's just a little bit! I'm dead. ”

Looking at Chu Haowen, who was complaining to himself, Mo Feng smiled and touched his head, "Your Highness, if you cry so loudly, if those imperial histories know about it, they will be out of character to join you." ”

Looking at Chu Haowen who was complaining in front of him, Mo Feng felt a sense of reluctance in his heart, he didn't know if it was appropriate to let such a young child get involved in the whirlpool of the court, but after a blink of an eye, this reluctance finally dissipated, after all, his surname was Chu, and this was his life that he couldn't escape.

"How old is Your Highness?" Mo Feng withdrew the hand that was stroking Chu Haowen's head and asked kindly.

"Twelve."

"Twelve, it's still very young." After Mo Feng said something to himself, he looked at Chu Haowen and said, "Your Highness, you have some careful thoughts, the old slave still persuades Your Highness to put it away, everything is fake without strength." ”

After speaking, he stared at Chu Haowen coldly, of course Chu Haowen knew what he meant, and he didn't dare to look up at the other party's eyes, his two fingers were against each other, and he smiled awkwardly.

An hour later, everyone finally came to the city of Kyoto, Kyoto is located in the Guannei County of the Zhao Empire, north of the Wei River and south of the Qinling Mountains, the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the land is fertile, and the Great Zhao Taizu built the capital here because he was sealed in the previous dynasty.

Kyoto has nine gates, when the nine gates were first set up, Zhao only ruled the land of Kyushu, so each gate was set up to go to a state separately, but now there are thirteen states in the world, and the roads between the states have been connected to each other, and the function of the nine gates to connect the states has almost disappeared.

Minamiyamamon Gate is the only way to get to Sannan-gun from all over the country, and it is the only one-way road that connects Kyoto's nine gates.

"I am Chen Zhongwu in the fast camp, and I was ordered by the emperor to take the emperor's eldest son into Beijing, and open the door quickly." Chen Zhongwu reported himself in front of the door, and after waiting for a while, he found that no one paid attention to him, so he reported himself again.

Seeing that there was still no one responding from the city tower, Chen Zhongwu came to the carriage and reported to Mo Feng, "My lord, no one responds." In a moment, Mo Feng handed a gold medal out of the carriage and shot it above the city tower. ”

Chen Zhongwu took the token, grabbed the bow and arrow beside him and hung the token on the arrow, and shot a sword on the city tower, a moment later, the city tower suddenly killed everywhere, waiting for a while The city gate was opened, and a general covered in blood ran to Chen Zhongwu, "The last general, the deputy captain of the ninth brigade of the patrol battalion, was ordered to open the city gate to welcome His Royal Highness the prince into Beijing." ”

Entering the southern city, Chu Haowen opened the curtain curiously to see the prosperity of the capital, but when he opened the curtain, he saw corpses all over the ground, hundreds of soldiers' corpses stacked at the city gate and rising steps, and dozens of soldiers were checking the corpses to prevent someone from pretending to be dead.

After driving ten minutes from the city gate to Ganquan Street, after Minchang Street, everyone came to Yangtai Street and the fork in Xuanwu Road, Mo Feng took Chu Haowen into a carriage waiting here early, and then drove Chu Haowen into Xuanwu Road.

Xuanwu Road is located in the Xuanwu Gate, connecting Yangtai Street, Minchang Street, Huide Street, Wu'an Street, enter the Xuanwu Gate and enter the inner city, Chu Haowen opened the curtain and found that the buildings in the inner city are mostly high-platform pavilions, its appearance is gorgeous and noble compared with the low bungalows in the outer city as if it is two worlds, Chen Zhongwu is to take others to turn right into Yangtai Street. After driving for about a quarter of an hour, Mo Feng's voice came from outside the car, "Your Highness, please get out of the car." ”

Chu Haowen got out of the car and looked up, a red vermilion lacquer gate came into view, two Xuanwu beasts were guarding here above the gate, and a pair of black gold silk nanmu plaques were hung at the top of it, which were engraved with three eye-catching big characters Nan'anmen, dozens of warriors holding halberds and carrying long knives at their waists, and wearing gold lacquer mountain armor guarded in front of the door.

"After crossing this wall, I am going to become the most honorable person in the world." Looking at this tall and majestic city wall, Chu Haowen's heart seemed to have a thirst for power, his eyes gradually blurred, and he imagined in his mind that the empire would continue to grow stronger under his own control, and he would also become the greatest emperor in the history of the empire.

"There are some things Your Highness should not think about." Mo Feng walked behind him and patted him on the shoulder, pulling him out of his fantasy.

"Hahaha. Fantasy, fantasy only. Seeing that Mo Feng saw through his thoughts, Chu Haowen touched his nose in embarrassment.

"Let's go, get in here, and you'll never be able to get out again." Mo Feng sighed deeply, after entering this gate, this child's life is no longer in his own hands, whether he lives or dies will be decided by others, he stretched out his hand to Chu Haowen, and the two walked into Nan'an Gate side by side.

In the imperial city, Mo Feng held Chu Haowen's hand and walked side by side, Mo Feng didn't say a word to Chu Haowen along the way, every time Chu Haowen wanted to talk to Mo Feng, he looked up and saw Mo Feng's originally kind and kind face, but it was extremely gloomy at the moment, looking at that gloomy face, Chu Haowen immediately dismissed his intention to talk to him.

Just when Chu Haowen complained about Mo Feng in his heart, a little eunuch ran to Mo Feng and whispered something in his ear, only to see Mo Feng's face becoming more and more heavy, and after the little eunuch finished speaking, Mo Feng let him leave, Chu Haowen could feel that since the little eunuch left, Mo Feng's pace couldn't help but speed up a lot.

"The emperor is already having trouble breathing, and he is all sustained by the medicine of the imperial doctor." Recalling what the little eunuch said just now, Mo Feng knew that the emperor had reached the point where he had run out of oil and dried up, and his pace couldn't help but speed up a lot.

After a while, the two of them came to the outside of the Golden Dragon Palace, and at this time, hundreds of ministers outside the Golden Dragon Palace stood outside the door and waited anxiously.

"Your Highness, relax." When he was about to arrive at the gate of the Golden Dragon Palace, Mo Feng's footsteps gradually slowed down, and when he came to the Golden Dragon Palace, everyone saw Mo Feng's arrival, and they all got out of the way, looking at Chu Haowen behind Mo Feng, the expressions of the people present were different, some people were happy, some were puzzled, some people bowed their heads to salute, some people had fierce eyes, and all kinds of postures were different.

The two of them came to the outside of the Golden Dragon Palace, and the six black-armored armor soldiers outside the hall gate blocked the road, looking at the black-armored armor and black-armored warriors, Chu Haowen secretly became obscene, "So handsome, it won't all be my people in the future, hehe, it's fun to think about it." ”

Mo Feng took out a gold medal and shook it in front of the armor warriors, and when he saw the gold medal, the six armor soldiers got out of the way, and there was a black armor armor soldier every two steps into the hall, looking at these armor warriors, Chu Haowen had already thought about how to use those armor warriors in the future, and Mo Feng seemed to see through his obscenity, and patted him on the shoulder with his hand, "Your Highness, don't think about it, these people are dead soldiers, they are the most trusted people of the saint, and when the saint dragon returns to heaven, they will enter the imperial tomb with His Majesty and protect him forever." ”

After listening to Mo Feng's narration, Chu Haowen was secretly shocked, he didn't expect that this dynasty still had the habit of burying the living, so he couldn't help but stop, "Then in the future, will there be such a group of people?" ”

"Yes."

After a while, the two came to the inner hall, entered the inner hall Chu Haowen looked around, this palace is very wide and gorgeous, the cloud top sandalwood in the hall is the beam, the crystal jade is the lamp, in the center of a about six feet wide agarwood bed lies a thin but extremely majestic man, next to him stood seven or eight middle-aged people, an old woman sat on the edge of the bed and held the man's hand in one hand, holding a rosary in one hand and chanting words in his mouth.

"Slave and maid to the Holy One! Dowager! The two walked three meters away from the bed and stopped, Mo Feng let go of the hand holding Chu Haowen, knelt down and saluted the man on the bed, this man lying on the bed was the emperor of the Great Zhao Empire, Chu Haowen's biological father Chu Pingxiong.

Hearing Mo Feng's voice, Chu Pingzhe opened his eyes and turned his head, his eagle-like eyes looked Chu Haowen up and down, Chu Pingxiong waved his hand at Chu Haowen with difficulty, "Wen'er, come!" Come to my father! ”

Coming to Chu Pingxiong, Chu Haowen was still a little scared, after all, the eyes he looked at him just now were really frightening, but when he walked to his side, his eyes were extremely gentle.

At this moment, Chu Haowen began to look at the man in front of him, according to what Mo Feng said, his father once led five hundred cavalry to defeat the 20,000 cavalry of Northern Liao! After sharply reforming the economy, rectifying the rule of officials, and resting with the people is a great Mingjun!

"Don't be afraid, I'm my father." Feeling the cold temperature of Chu Haowen's hand, Chu Pingxiong smiled and patted his hand gently, and then said to the standing crowd, "You all go out first." After everyone slowly retreated, Chu Pingxiong looked at the old woman sitting next to him again, and the old woman exhaled and got up and walked out.

"Come, lift me up." After everyone left, Chu Pingxiong asked Chu Haowen to help him up and sit against the head of the bed, he quietly looked at Chu Haowen who was sitting next to him, his eyes were full of love, and the hall was surprisingly quiet for a while.

"Your mother, are you alright?" After a while, Chu Pingxiong slowly spoke, looking at Chu Haowen's eyes that were similar to Ye Meng'an, Chu Pingxiong seemed to see Ye Meng'an, a beautiful, intelligent girl, a girl he loved deeply.

"Mother, she's fine."

"Don't you hate me? Throw your mother and son in the mountains and come to this palace alone to enjoy. ”

"For me not to hate, Mr. Mo said, you are the emperor has to do this for the sake of the country, I have no reason to hate you, I hate you for my mother, because you have failed my mother." Chu Haowen shook his head, Chu Haowen didn't have any feelings about his father, and after Mo Feng's introduction all the way, Chu Haowen didn't have a bad impression of Chu Pingxiong.

But if it was for the sake of night dreams, Chu Haowen had a deep hatred for Chu Pingzhe for discarding his wife and not seeing him for more than ten years, and he came to the three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines alone, phew!

"You are a wise man, I believe that some of your actions are for the people of the world, the husband should have the great river flowing east and the sea, the surging ambition, how can you stay in the gentle land for your own desires."

Chu Pingxiong was still a little stunned by Chu Haowen's answer, but then he laughed, saying such ambitious words at such an age, his achievements in the future will definitely not be lower than his own.

"Would you like to hear the story of me and your mother?"