Honglu Temple.

It is an institution in charge of the palace ceremonies and ceremonies, responsible for national ceremonies, suburban temples, sacrifices, court meetings, banquets, feasts, canonizations, calendars, spring, transmission, music and many other matters.

The pilgrimage of foreign officials, the tribute of Zhufan, the return of the husband and the ministers of the hundred officials, Xie Si, if you see the resignation, are all played by the Honglu Temple.

According to the Ming system, Zhu Yuanzhang divided the princes into vassal kings.

After the feudal king became a feudal lord, he was not allowed to interfere in local political and military affairs, and he was not allowed to leave the fiefdom without authorization and make friends with local officials, so if the feudal king was fine, it would be difficult for him to return to Beijing for the rest of his life.

Zhu Yuanzhang was strictly thrifty, so naturally he would not have left the residences of the vassal kings in the capital, and they could not live in the palace.

This time, the king of Qi who was recalled to the capital lived in the Honglu Temple.

After returning from Jubaoshan, Zhu Yuanzhang took the King of Qi back to the palace, and after giving some explanation, he left him in the palace for a meal, and let him leave Beijing three days later.

Zhu Yunwen asked Zhu Yuanzhang for his life and was responsible for seeing off King Qi, Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated slightly, and agreed.

Day 2.

Zhu Yunwen led the team to see off King Qi.

However, the situation is completely different from what Zhu Yunwen originally imagined.

Because King Qi didn't pay attention to him the whole time, and even took the initiative to talk to him, King Qi was cold-faced, which was very different from the enthusiasm of that day.

Hot face sticks to cold ass.

made Zhu Yunwen depressed.

King Qi's two completely different attitudes made Zhu Yunwen puzzled, wondering if he had done something wrong......

Returning from Jubaomen, Zhu Yunwen unconsciously took a detour back to the palace from Datong Street.

A scene that made him even more depressed appeared.

He stopped at Xu Miaojin's shop for a while, and saw Huang Xiongying come out of it with Xiaobao.

This reminded him of that melody......

……

Huang Xiongying didn't know that someone was secretly observing him, so he took Xiaobao back to the winery.

The winery is now operating normally.

It can almost be said that there are as many sales as there are, and it has become a stable source of income for Huang Xiongying.

During this time, relying on salt and wine, Huang Xiongying has accumulated a lot of silver.

The money was enough for him to further his plans.

Today, he made an appointment with Li Jinglong, preparing to go on a long trip to Zhuqiao Town, Huai'an Prefecture to get a piece of land.

Early in the morning, Xiaobao was clamoring to say goodbye to Sister Xu, since the last time he went to Xu Miaojin's place, Xiaobao took Huang Xiongying there every once in a while.

When Huang Xiongying and Xiaobao returned to the winery, they found that a few people dressed as officials had come to the winery at some point, shouting something.

attracted many people to stop and watch.

Huang Xiongying stepped forward and heard an official shouting to the guys in the store: "Call your master out, our family has something to look for him!" ”

The guy is a new recruit, after all, he is a low-level worker, and he was a little panicked when he was drunk like this by the official.

"Small...... The little one doesn't know where the owner has gone......"

"Humph!"

The official snorted coldly, pointed to a jar of wine next to him, and said: "Your wine is not clean, there is a dead mouse in it, if you don't call your master out and give an explanation, your wine shop will be closed!" ”

"This ......"

The guy knew that these people were here to cause trouble, but he didn't know how to deal with it.

They don't know how their own owners have been doing business all their duty, so how can they provoke these errand boys.

"Good."

At this time, the official who took the lead spoke up and said lightly: "Since you want to be a turtle with a shrunken head, then seal it." ”

"Wait."

Huang Xiongying walked into the wine shop with a calm face.

"Boss, you're back!" The guy was relieved.

The official's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at Huang Xiongying: "You are Huang Xiongying?" ”

"Exactly down there."

Huang Xiongying said calmly: "Then dare to ask the official?" ”

The official looked at Huang Xiongying, and then glanced at Xiaobao, so frightened that Xiaobao hurriedly hid behind Huang Xiongying, but the official said with a smile: "It's okay to tell you, this official is Xunwei Li Zengzhi!" ”

"It's you!"

Huang Xiongying's eyes froze.

Cao Guogong Li Jinglong's younger brother, like the original dead ghost Zhou Ji, was Li Zengzhi who was on an errand in the palace.

I didn't expect this guy to come to the door.

Li Zengzhi smiled at the corner of his mouth, glanced at Xiaobao again, approached Huang Xiongying and said: "The surname is Huang, if you know each other, you will hand over the person to us, otherwise with a cheap businessman like you, we can make you ...... with some means."

Before he could finish speaking, a figure rushed up from the crowd.

"Smack!"

A slap slammed into Li Zengzhi's face.

Li Zengzhi was directly beaten and stumbled, and after stabilizing his figure, he shook his dizzy head, the muscles on his face twitched slightly because of anger, and he turned around violently and was about to burst out.

"Looking for death...... Elder brother! ”

When Li Zengzhi saw the person who beat him, the whole person was stupid all of a sudden, it was his brother Li Jinglong.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”

Li Jinglong didn't say a word, and slapped Li Zengzhi in the face a few times.

The originally noisy brewery instantly fell silent, and only the crisp sound of slaps remained.

Li Zengzhi was directly stunned.

"Brother, you ......"

Li Zengzhi covered his face, stunned.

His eyes were red, and he stared at Li Jinglong in a daze, and he really couldn't understand why his eldest brother, who had always loved him, slapped him in public for the sake of a cheap businessman.

"Why are you hitting me?"

"Shut up!"

Li Jinglong gritted his teeth and said, "Go back!" Or I'll kill you!" ”

After that, the gesture is going to fight again.

Li Zengzhi looked aggrieved and confused, and subconsciously glanced at Huang Xiongying.

didn't want to look at it, but it attracted a fierce kick from Li Jinglong: "Bastard, don't get out of here!" ”

Li Zengzhi finally reacted, he was afraid that he had provoked something that should not be provoked, so he didn't dare to say anything, and hurriedly got out of the way with people......

After Li Zengzhi left, Li Jinglong smiled and said to Huang Xiongying: "My brother is not sensible, and I hope that my son will not mind." ”

Huang Xiongying said lightly: "Take care of your brother, don't ruin the reputation of King Qiyang I." ”

Li Jinglong was shocked when he heard this, and just wanted to say something, but heard Huang Xiongying say: "Without further ado, let's go!" ”

"Okay."

Li Jinglong nodded, and then followed Huang Xiongying into the carriage that had been prepared outside the door, and headed outside Yingtian City.

on the carriage.

Li Jinglong thought about it again and again, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Huang Gongzi, my brother didn't have any excessive words and deeds just now, right?" ”

He had seen how Jiang Xiahou died.

Jiang Xiahou is the emperor's fellow countryman, an old man all his life, but because the dead ghost Zhou Ji provoked the lord in front of him, the whole family was punished.

Compared with Jiangxia Hou Zhou Dexing, he Li Jinglong is a fart!

The old emperor looked at him with kind eyebrows, but to kill him was like pinching an ant to death.

When Li Jinglong was full of thoughts in his mind, he only heard Huang Xiongying say lightly: "If it weren't for the fact that he is your Cao Guogong's own brother, I would have made him unable to eat and walk around!" ”

Hearing this, Li Jinglong's flustered heart relaxed slightly, and he asked tentatively, "If it weren't for me, how would Huang Gongzi plan to deal with that bastard?" ”

"Humph!"

Huang Xiongying snorted lightly and said, "Cao Guogong's hometown is the Huai'an Mansion we are going to now, right?" ”

This time, Huang Xiongying went to Huai'an to get land, and the reason why he brought Li Jinglong with him was because Li Jinglong's hometown was in Huai'an, and the fields of the Duke of Cao Guo were all there, so it was easier to take him with him.

When Li Jinglong heard this, he hurriedly nodded yes and said, "But...... Is there any connection to this? ”

Huang Xiongying replied: "You brothers invaded farmland and forests in Xuyi, the hometown of Huai'an Mansion, wantonly annexed Zhuangtian and recruited domestic slaves, can there be such a thing? ”

Swish!

Li Jinglong's back was covered with cold sweat all of a sudden.

How did the emperor know about these things?

Xuyi is the place where his Li family ancestors lived for generations, and after the founding of the country, the old emperor gave the place there to his father Li Wenzhong, and he inherited it.

Over the years, he did annex quite a few lands there.

But it was not snatched from the peasants, but the local government in order to appease him, modified the field book, turned the farmland and forests in the field book into wasteland, and then sold it to him for a small amount of silver.

All this, of course, will not be the two of them, and they are quite hidden, and they are far away in Huai'an Mansion, how can they be known by Huang Xiongying, who is staying in Beijing?

In fact, of course Huang Xiongying knew, because it was because of this that the Li Jinglong brothers were impeached by many ministers after Zhu Di came to power, and they were imprisoned for this crime.

Moreover, when Huang Xiongying asked people to go to Huai'an to investigate the plot, he went over to investigate by the way, and there was indeed such a thing.

Li Jinglong swallowed his saliva, and looked at Huang Xiongying's gaze changed.

I still underestimated this emperor's grandson.

If it weren't for the fact that he was wise at the beginning, hugged the thigh of the emperor's grandson, and relied on his younger brother to provoke this lord, he would be like Zhou Ji at the beginning, and the whole door would be punished and the fields would be confiscated.

You must know what the old emperor hates the most, and what he hates the most is that these powerful people are corrupt and take bribes and take advantage of the people.

And it's the emperor's grandson's complaint, and the two brothers will only have ghosts if they are finished!

Just thinking about it, I heard Huang Xiongying say lightly: "Also, don't think I don't know, you sold some of my refined salt to the government, and some of it was handed over to Li Zengzhi and asked him to transport it to Huaixi to sell it privately, isn't it?" ”

Rumble!

Li Jinglong seemed to be hit by five thunders, and his brain was buzzing.

"I ...... I ......"

Li Jinglong was shocked, incoherent, his legs were weak and he was almost on his knees, and slapped himself fiercely: "I'm confused, I should die, please Huang Gongzi save me!" ”

(End of chapter)