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Sunrise and sunset.

When they arrived in Yang County, the powerful squires determined which piece of agriculture and forestry belonged to them.

All the farmland exchanged was collected in the official field.

All the people in Yang County who have been busy all day are enjoying the hot porridge at dinner.

In Zhenzhou City, in front of Xia Guozhang, there was an urgent letter from Heifeng Village.

He glanced coldly at the young man delivering the letter.

The flow of breath, since entering his own mansion, he has looked around, with a covetous look in his eyes.

At first glance, he was a poor man, and the first time he entered the courtyard of a rich man's house, he did not have the slightest knowledge.

"Butler, take it down and arrange a table of meals for this messenger."

"Thank you, Mr. Xia."

The boy stared curiously at the urgent letter on the table.

"Doesn't Xia Guozhang need to reply?"

"Yes, but you've worked hard all the way here, and you'll be on the road when you're full of food and drink."

"Thank you, Xia Guozhang."

The young man couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This rich and noble family is exquisite.

When he saw the table full of chickens, ducks, fish and meat prepared for him, he couldn't help but imagine how much silver he would get when he ran errands and delivered letters for a while.

"Brother Gui is right, this is really a good errand."

Without any doubt, the boy plunged headlong into the sumptuous meal, and munched on it with both hands.

In the study.

Xia Guozhang picked up the letter and read it for a long time, and finally sighed regretfully.

Pick up a white piece from the middle of the board and throw it back into the box.

on the chessboard.

The white pieces mostly occupy the golden horns and silver edges, and the black pieces are sparsely distributed in the middle area.

As long as the white pieces take a few more steps, there is a tendency to destroy all the black pieces.

But Xia Guozhang looked at this must-win chess game, but felt that he was in a stalemate.

"The second prince is trapped in Jinling, and because of the donation of grain, he has angered His Majesty and many powerful families, and he can no longer sit in that position."

"Jinling has been included in the bag of the three princes, I originally thought that Zhenzhou and his party were the three princes who took the initiative to send the handle, no matter how well the political affairs are done, as long as the local snakes join forces, and then cooperate with the robbers."

"With a two-pronged approach, let Your Majesty see that the three princes are not up to the task, and naturally have the opportunity to remove the third prince from the position of the crown prince......"

Yang County was only three hundred miles away from His Majesty, who had fled north.

It was only three days before the hurried march came.

Your Majesty should now be aware of the failed assassination of Xi Chuxiang.

Even if he didn't dare to return south, he should send 10,000 soldiers and horses to deal with the trouble.

When the time comes, he who is fully prepared will be a meritorious man!

As long as Xia Gui cooperates with quelling the bandit trouble, he will come forward to appease the powerful and buy people's hearts.

It all comes naturally.

Who would have expected.

The group of local snakes in Yang County are even more useless than the magnates in Zhenzhou City who have been beaten.

Not only did he not block the decree issued by the three princes, but he donated food and materials and actively cooperated.

Farmland is exchanged for agriculture and forestry that no one has taken care of...... Did the heads of this group of people make the group of captives under the Third Prince stupid?

Xia Guozhang regretted that he did not personally go to "greet" the third prince who had not paid attention to it before.

I can't see with my own eyes how powerful this person really is.

It's better to take precautions and adjust as early as possible.

In the end, it's still a bad move!

"Master, the people from Black Wind Village have already eaten and fallen asleep."

"Find a mass grave and bury it."

"Yes."

The trick of the Yang County bandits is invalid.

Xia Guozhang regretted it, but he was helpless.

"Master, don't you need to reply to Xia Gui?"

"What letter to reply? The three princes are not fools, they know that there are robbers in Yang County, and now that they have settled down the internal affairs, don't they gather people to destroy the bandits? ”

Xia Guozhang never dared to underestimate the ability of this third prince.

can lurk under the noses of His Majesty and the Empress for more than ten years without showing the mountains and water.

The city must be very deep and very powerful.

The current situation in Yang County is even more supportive of this.

"That'...... Sir, what should I do next? Still stay in Zhenzhou or go back to Jinling? ”

The butler asked cautiously.

"You sent someone to send a letter to Your Majesty, explaining that the Western Chu Assassin Xiang had been killed by Zhao Dan of the Northern Qi Dynasty outside Jinling City, and the letter was almost in the hands of His Majesty in terms of days."

"Your Majesty will ......?"

Xia Guozhang knew what the housekeeper was going to ask, and waved his hand.

"Xiang Yudu is here, which shows Xi Chu's determination to kill the three princes."

"Your Majesty will never return south if you spare your life, what we have is time to waste with the three princes, Jinling has His Royal Highness here, plus there is already the world of the three princes, it is useless to go."

Xia Guozhang stood up as he said and knocked on his back.

"Let's go, next few posts, follow me to meet a few old friends."

The land snake in Yang County is unreliable.

That can only take advantage of the time when the third prince expands his territory to the east.

Take Zhenzhou and the northern road leading to His Majesty's vicinity.

If Your Majesty is unreliable, it is not a bad idea to use these forces to propose cooperation with the three princes at that time, and finally tear your face against the water.

It is expected that no matter how deep the three princes are, they will have experienced less of the world, and there are few helpers around them.

As long as he shows enough sincerity, he will definitely be able to impress the three princes.

……

Northeast of Yang County, three hundred miles.

The army guarding the royal family and the powerful stopped because of the lingering spring rain.

Every time it stopped, the people and some powerful people who had fled north with the royal family would gradually decrease.

And in the evening, when letters arrived from Jinling and Zhenzhou.

Zhang Chengqian saw that the memo sent by Dong You was written about the recent situation of Jinling City, and he didn't bother to check it at all.

Hurriedly swept over, and his eyes were fixed on the incident about the assassins of Western Chu told at the end.

Pupils shook violently.

"Your Majesty, Crown Prince......"

"It's a good life, then Zhao Dan has ruined Xichu's good deeds."

"That being the case, Your Majesty, shall we return south?"

Since the last time Empress Chen donated food, I don't know if she has become depressed or whatever, she has always been restless recently, and she always dreams that her second child asks her for help when she sleeps.

Knowing that returning to Jinling might be dangerous, but as a mother, she still wants to go back as soon as possible to help the second child fight against that damn Zhang Junlin.

"Nope."

Without thinking, Zhang Chengqian closed the fold and placed it on the candle to light it.

"Killing Xiang Yuzhi will give Western Chu more reason to send heavy troops to besiege Jinling, Zhao Dan thought he was helping Zhang Junlin, but he was actually harming him, and then Zhang Junlin couldn't stand the oppression of Western Chu, so he would save me and return to negotiate peace with Western Chu."

"When the time comes, I will be able to remove him as the crown prince openly and honestly, and then turn the tide!"

Although he didn't carefully check Dong You's praise of Zhang Junlin.

But I guessed it.

With his military exploits, Zhang Junlin, who stabilized Jinling, coupled with the influence of Mo Qing back then, is still there today.

This prince of the prison country, the people of Jinling have already agreed.

It is impossible for him to go back at this time at the risk of being angered by the Western Chu State, and then lay the position of crown prince for Zhang Junlin's aftermath.

"Zhang Junlin, don't you have the support of Northern Qi, I want to see if Northern Qi can fight Western Chu for you!"

……

"Ahh

"Ahh

Zhang Junlin, who was measuring the field, suddenly sneezed twice.

Looking up at the half-red and half-black sunset and night sky, I sniffed the moist air.

It's not that his nose is itching, and he doesn't know who scolded him behind his back.

Zhang Junlin looked at the two young men next to him who were bending down to pick up weeds.

When I saw that these two young people were very energetic, their waists were straight, and the straw sandals on their feet were clean and tidy.

His eyes flickered.

He walked towards the two youths.