In front of a row of grottoes outside the tent of the camp, all the cave doors were opened, and one hundred and seventy or eighty mule and horse-drawn carts were lining up in front of the grotto gates to load goods.

On both sides of the valley, about ten miles away from the grotto gate material warehouse, more than 4,000 people were in ambush.

They are all horse bandits who come down from Eagle Claw Mountain, and they are good at fighting.

The leader is a masked man, who is the second leader of Eagle Claw Mountain, Chen Jingnong, the helmsman of the Western Xinjiang Branch of the Jiangzuo League.

They came down the mountain yesterday, with great fanfare, which made Cao Zhiping and them stunned for a moment, and hurriedly transferred the two cavalry battalions in the Shenwu Barracks to guard around the Yizhou Guancheng.

This is exactly a trick made by Chen Jingnong, a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

An hour later, when Yao Siniang and Zheng Yunfei left the camp with the last loading convoy, Scar Liu was lying on the table full of alcohol, snorting like a dead pig, unable to wake up for a long time.

And Cao Zhiping, who was in the city of Yizhou, learned that his arsenal was looted by the Eagle Claw Ridge horse bandits, and it was more than two hours later.

He was furious, and immediately sent a cavalry battalion in pursuit.

But the disaster was not a one-way line, but the cavalry camp encountered Chen Jingnong's ambush.

This time he suffered heavy losses, and he lost his wife and his soldiers.

Chen Jingnong and the others retreated, not to mention, and when they left, they were still stabbed in Cao Zhiping's chest again.

He sent someone to draw a picture of the address of Cao's mansion in the Grottomen Armament Depot and reported it to Zhang Jie, who came down to handle the case.

Zhang Jie went in person, and Cao Zhiping ended up with all the personal and physical evidence.

Now, the biggest test for Cao Zhiping is coming, to see how he deals with such a crisis.

……

Early in the morning, the East Palace Qinzheng Palace.

There are still five days to go before the end of the year, and Chang'an City is a busy scene.

Whether it is the mansion of a wealthy family or the homes of ordinary people, they are cleaning or preparing New Year's goods, and they have to spend the New Year if they have money or not.

The prince has been very busy these days.

King Ning and a few other kings arrived in the capital the evening before yesterday.

Yesterday evening, Yuan Zhi feasted the three kings in the Ziyang Hall of Taiji Palace, as well as their princesses, princes, and county lords.

He himself was drunk and was helped back to the East Palace.

In the past few days, the queen's anger has been getting bigger and bigger, and she has sent Biyu, the former chief female official of the palace, to send letters twice in succession to reprimand and insult the prince.

Seeing that the prince ignored her, she is now in public trouble.

In addition to making it clear to the East Palace, he also complained to the Zongren Mansion that he would punish the prince in the name of disobedience and filial piety and disobedience to the ancestral teachings.

Yuan Zhi is hard to argue, so he simply sang a fake show, and the queen was a needle-to-needle with the queen, and he turned his face and carried it.

The crown prince didn't even say it clearly, just to make the play more realistic and eliminate King Ning's attempt to sit in front of the elders of the Zongren Mansion and sit on the crown prince to defile the harem.

However, in the past ten days, I was tired and depressed, and I felt unwell, so I invited the chief imperial doctor Hua Chen.

"Chen Huachen, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Dr. Lihua, it seems that Gu is a little uncomfortable these days, you come and take a look."

Hua Chen got up, walked up the jade steps and respectfully asked for the prince's pulse.

After careful consideration for a long time, he got up and said:

"Back to Your Highness, your body is fine, but the pulse is slightly disordered, and the stamina is insufficient, please pay more attention to your Highness's rest, try to relax your mind, and have a little moderation in men's and women's sexual affairs.

Hua Chen's words still made Yuan Zhi's heart feel a lot more relieved.

As an outstanding representative of the Xinglin family, Brilliance's medical skills are not covered.

It would have been better if he hadn't spoken of moderation.

In the past ten days, Luan Feng and Xiao Cui have been very happy.

The prince didn't know what to do, so he came back to sleep in the Zhengyang Palace every night, and he was also changing his tricks violently.

At the beginning, the two hooves were like two white snakes, entwining the prince all night.

Both of them are now brave generals on the battlefield, and they can fight well, and they are desperate to ask for it on the bed.

I am afraid that after this village, there will be no more shops, and the prince will disappear without a trace, and no longer pay attention to them.

But every day, and the prince is like a blind bear breaking the bud valley, they gradually can't stand it, and sometimes they beg for mercy.

How did these two concubines know that the prince was depressed in his heart, he was trying his best to vent, otherwise, his mentality would collapse.

"Very good, is it okay with Lone's father?" Yuan Zhi's heart widened, and he asked with a pleasant face.

"Everything is as before, Your Majesty's dragon body has not deteriorated, but there is no improvement, it is still in bloodletting therapy, hanging in one breath, as far as it is concerned, it is the best result to be able to maintain it like this." Brilliance replied respectfully.

"Concubine Lan, how's it going?"

In the past ten days, Yuan Zhi has gone to Xianglan Hall less often.

I used to go almost every day, but now I am busy with affairs, and I am in a bad mood, for fear of affecting Concubine Lan's mood.

Hua Chen arched his hand and said, "Concubine Lan is recuperating well, and her state recovery should be predicted, please let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince relax." ”

"Okay, that's good. On both sides of the father and Concubine Lan, the people on Dr. Hua's side personally checked the pulse, checked the pulse twice a day in the morning and evening, recorded it in detail, and did not fake others. ”

Yuan Zhi said, turning his head to Gao Jin who was hanging next to him:

"Go, take five hundred taels of silver from the lonely treasury and reward it to Dr. Hua's medical team as a red envelope reward for everyone at the end of the year."

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness." Hua Chen thanked him respectfully and left with Gao Jin.

As soon as the two left, Sun Tiancang, the captain of the guard on duty at the door, came to report that someone asked to see him.

Hearing the name of the person who came, Yuan Zhi was really stunned for a moment, and then showed a playful smile.

"Announce them in."

After a while, the three princes, Zhao Wang Yuanluo, and the six princes, Jin Wang Yuanxuan, who were dressed in princely attire, came in from outside the palace one after the other.

The two walked to the center of the Qinzheng Palace, knelt down respectfully, and said respectfully:

"Brother Yuanluo... Brother Yuan Xuan, see His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

The crown prince is the prince, and the ceremonial dignity is second only to the emperor and the empress, and belongs to the monarch, while ordinary princes, including princes, belong to ministers.

Between monarchs and ministers, the difference is huge.

The final Jin Empire is also a country that attaches great importance to the etiquette system, so the two princes met the prince of the prison country in the Qinzheng Palace, and a whole set of processes is in line with the etiquette of the monarch and the minister, so that people can't find any fault.

"Two imperial brothers, sit without courtesy." Yuan Zhixu raised his right hand, which was regarded as a half-salute.

After they sat down, Yuan Zhi looked at the third prince Yuan Luo, who rarely showed up, and asked with a grin:

"There are rumors in the palace that you King Zhao are most afraid of seeing Lonely, and this time he suddenly took the initiative to find it, are you not afraid?"

King Zhao has already reached the age of eighteen, and he is nineteen years old when he turns the year, and according to the regulations of the final Jin Dynasty, he should have gone to the fiefdom of northern Hebei.

But this guy begged to stay in Chang'an.

He coveted the extravagant life in Chang'an City.

Yuan Zhi, he didn't take him seriously at all.