Luo Chuan was supported by Lu Ji on the bed, gently rubbing his feet, his eyes were full of affection, looking at Lu Ji, but he didn't say a word. Lu Ji whispered to her: "You rub it yourself first, I have something to deal with." ”

Luo Chuan nodded at him and watched Lu Ji leave the compartment.

Lu Ji left the cubicle, entered the imperial study, straightened his black dragon robe, and coughed. Wen Ping immediately knew about it, and led the soldiers to escort a group of black-clothed people into the imperial study.

Lu Ji looked at the embarrassed black-clothed people, there were about thirty people, all unkempt, tied together by ropes, they all lowered their heads and did not speak, frowned, and asked, "Have you caught them all?"

Wen Ping hugged his fists and said: "The last general has thoroughly inspected the warehouse and the imperial dining room, and all the suspects have been taken!"

Lu Ji pulled out the sword of the Son of Heaven, picked up the jaw of one of the black-clothed men with the sword, and asked, "Who instructed you to assassinate me?"

The man in black seemed to understand that his identity was already furious, so he yelled at Lu Ji loudly: "No one needs to send it! Lu Ji, you kill our monarch, every one of us Jin people wants to eat Ru meat and sleep Ru skin!" After speaking, his neck was aimed at Lu Ji's Tianzi Sword, and he rushed forward directly. Hearing a "poof", the Sword of Heaven pierced his throat, and gurgling blood spurted out, splashing on Lu Ji's body and face.

Lu Ji was greatly displeased by such a toss, pulled out the sword of the Son of Heaven, kicked away the body of the man in black again, and said to Wen Ping: "Take them all down, torture them, and I will definitely find out the truth!"

Wen Ping let out a "whoosh" and left the imperial study with the remaining black-clothed people. Lu Ji waited for everyone to go down, only to feel the blood stains all over his body disgusting, and immediately took off the dragon robe and threw it on the ground, the armor outside the door was ordered by him, immediately walked in, cleaned up the dragon robe on the ground, and took a towel to wipe the blood on the ground. Lu Ji couldn't care about these armor soldiers either, and returned to the compartment.

Luo Chuan saw the blood spots on Lu Ji's face, thinking that something had happened to him, and hurriedly asked anxiously, "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Are you injured?"

Lu Ji smiled at her, wiped the blood on his face with his hand, and said, "These are the blood of the Jin people, and I have nothing to do." After saying that, he sat down beside her, looked at her feet, and asked, "Why does it still hurt?"

Luo Chuan touched his feet and said softly, "After resting for a while, it's better now." ”

Lu Ji suddenly held her hand, looked into her eyes, and said softly: "Since it's better, then I won't press it for you, you just have a good rest here, and don't walk around tomorrow morning." ”

Luo Chuan nodded, his eyes filled with tears again. Lu Ji was also a little overwhelmed when he saw her like this, and hurriedly said, "Why are you crying again?" stretched out his hand to wipe the corners of her eyes for her.

Luo Chuan shook his head and said, "The slave didn't cry, the slave and the maid are happy, Your Majesty has never cared for the slave and the maid so much as today!"

Lu Ji nodded and said, "You are good to me, bit by bit, I see it in my eyes, I am not wood, how can I have no feelings." Luo Chuan listened to his heartfelt words, felt relieved, and gently leaned on his shoulder.

Lu Ji patted her shoulder lightly and said, "It's already very late this night, you just rest early here, if you're afraid that you won't be able to sleep alone, I'm here to guard you." ”

Luo Chuan shook his head, although he was a little reluctant, he still raised his body and said to Lu Ji: "Your Majesty has a lot of things to do tomorrow, you better go back early and rest." ”

Lu Ji nodded at her, comforted her for a while, and waited until she was a little sleepy, then quietly got up and left the imperial study.

Not only is the royal study brightly lit, but so is Ning Yu's study in the palace. Inside the room, Ning Yu was dressed in a light blue brocade robe, combed in a neat bun, tied with a hairband inlaid with red jade, sitting on a chair in the center, holding a paper fan in his hand, gently knocking on the chair handle, and on both sides of him sat several men in black armor and black robes in Jin army uniforms, all looking at him without saying a word. Kneeling in front of him was a man wrapped in a black turban, dressed in black, with a embarrassed face.

"Are you saying that Lu Ji discovered and captured most of you?" Ning Yu asked, pointing at the man.

The man cried and said, "At that time, Wen Ping suddenly broke in with soldiers and forcibly captured the brothers, and I was able to escape because I went out to relieve my hands!"

Ning Yu listened and was silent. The men in military uniforms on both sides were a little impatient, and asked one after another: "Master, what do you say you should do?" Ning Yu smiled slightly and said, "What are you panicking about? If you can't kill Lu Ji at tomorrow's banquet, we still have a chance to kill him!"

One of the men asked, "Master, what can you do?"

Ning Yu stood up and said as he paced: "I have been in the Qing Kingdom for so many years, and I still know some of the rules of the Qing people. Whenever there is a grand celebration in the Qing people, they will hold a hunt, and this is especially true for the royal family. We are going to set up an ambush in the royal hunting ground and look for an opportunity to kill Lu Ji!"

Ning Yu said to two of the men: "You two immediately gather your brothers, go to the royal hunting ground to ambush, and once you see Lu Ji, shoot him immediately, understand?" Then, he said to the other man: "I am a drinking friend with Zalang, who is in charge of guarding the hunting ground, this person is greedy for money, you immediately bring a few boxes of gold to him, so that our brothers can retreat after assassinating Lu Ji." And they all took the command.

Unconsciously, the dawn of the morning unveiled the dark night, and the Qing Palace was already very busy, with lights everywhere, various color sheds were built, thousands of longevity banners were erected, and the words of praise for Lu Ji were written. The imperial relatives of the Qing court, all the ministers and foreign envoys gathered together, crossed the Chengtian Gate, and entered the Qinglong Hall to wait for the pilgrimage.

At this time, Lu Ji had already gotten up, and under the escort of the armor, he put on a brocade robe with red trim and black embroidered with the dragon totem, and put on a crown of eight people, which looked dazzling, and he shook his body in front of the mirror.

"Ji'er is really the emperor today!" I don't know when, Empress Dowager Xu has already entered Lu Ji's bedroom, followed by more than a dozen palace maids. Empress Dowager Xu also combed her hair in a bun, put on a phoenix crown, and wore a black and red trimmed brocade robe, which looked very dignified. As soon as Lu Ji saw the Empress Dowager Xu, he hurriedly saluted.

Empress Dowager Xu stepped forward to help him, looked Lu Ji up and down with smiling eyes, and said with a smile: "In the blink of an eye, my Ji'er is also like his father, really like a king!"

Lu Ji replied with a smile: "Mother, the child must not only be like a king, but also become a real king!" After speaking, he took a step forward, looked into the distance, and said, "The child must become the king of the world!"

Empress Dowager Xu was behind him, patted his arm, and said: "You have such ambitions, the queen mother is happy, the queen mother can be regarded as having an explanation to the first emperor, and our generations of Qing people can also be regarded as having hope." ”

The two of you said a word, I said a word, and after greeting for a while, the Empress Dowager Xu explained the relevant etiquette, and then left. Lu Ji, escorted by the armor soldier, walked into the Green Dragon Palace.

Hearing a crisp call, "His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty has arrived-", everyone in the Qinglong Hall hurriedly turned their heads, and saw Lu Ji striding with steady steps, wearing a dazzling brocade robe, surrounded by armor, and walked into the Qinglong Palace. The emperor's relatives, ministers and foreign envoys knelt down one after another, and shouted: "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" Lu Ji slowly sat on the dragon chair, looked at the ministers kneeling in the hall, sighed in his heart, raised his hand, and said, "You all get up!"

Xu Yin took the lead in stepping forward, bowed to Lu Ji again, and reported: "Minister Xu Yin congratulates Your Majesty on your 20th birthday, and wishes my Majesty the dragon and tiger to be angry and the Qing Dynasty prosperous!"

Lu Ji replied with a smile: "I am still young, and I still need the assistance of all the sages to prosper my Qing Dynasty!"

Immediately afterwards, the nobles and ministers of the Qing Kingdom all stepped forward to congratulate, and Lu Ji responded one by one.

After the nobles and ministers finished congratulating, the envoys of Yan State stepped forward to congratulate and said: "Long live Your Majesty of the Qing Dynasty, my Majesty Yan ordered to send 2,000 war horses, 60 gold ruyi and 5,000 pieces of various treasures, congratulations to Your Majesty on his 20th birthday, and wish the two countries Yanqing and Qing eternal friendship!"

Lu Ji nodded and said with a smile: "Your country is strong and prosperous, and the leaders are strong, and it is also my wish to be able to communicate with your country and live in harmony!"

Then, the envoys of the Ji clan saw that Yan Guo took the lead in congratulating him, and he was not willing to be left behind, so he also stepped forward to congratulate him: "On the occasion of Your Majesty's twentieth birthday, the Son of Heaven will specially entitle Your Majesty with a crown of nine crowns, and enshrine Jiang and Liang in Your Majesty!"

After hearing this, Lu Ji laughed in his heart, as the Son of Heaven, once he can't rule the whole world, he is not as good as the king of a country. The gifts given by the Yan Kingdom are all war horses, gold and silver, and treasures, all of which are needed by the nations, and the dignified Ji clan, the lord of the world, is only in name only, and what he has given is nothing more than an empty name, or the land he has occupied, but it is just a boat pushing the boat. But he only knew it and couldn't say it explicitly, so he left the dragon chair, bowed down, bowed to the south, and said, "Thank you, Tianzi Longen!"

After the envoys of the foreign countries congratulated them, they offered congratulatory gifts, and under the guidance of the eunuchs, they went to the banquet together with the Qing courtiers. Lu Ji didn't like this kind of etiquette, but he was interested at that time, so he ordered Xu Yin and Tong Duolun to entertain the envoys, and he himself led the noble children and young generals of the Qing court in advance to hunt in the royal Mulan hunting grounds.

Wearing the white tasseled helmet of the Qing army, covered with a layer of battle armor, and wearing a white robe reflecting the dragon totem, Lu Ji held a large eagle bow in his hand, stepped on the war horse, and was about to whip into battle. At this time, a soldier rushed over and reported: "Your Majesty, the prime minister has something to do." ”

Lu Ji glanced at the armor and asked, "What's the matter?"

The soldier replied: "The envoy of the Yan State is the chief without permission, which has caused the dissatisfaction of the envoys of the Ji family, thinking that this is against the law of etiquette, and the prime minister asks for instructions, should the envoy of Yan be ordered to give up the chief according to the law of etiquette?"

Lu Ji said with a smile: "No need, etiquette and so on, but it is in vain, such as today, the vicissitudes of the sea, it is not the world of yesterday." You reply to the prime minister, you don't have to interfere, if the Ji family still has the courage of the past, they will fight according to the courtesy, if not, why should we offend the Yan Kingdom for a vain Son of Heaven?"

King Gong Lu Min beside him asked, "Your Majesty, if we don't interfere, will we attract gossip from other countries?"

Lu Ji replied with a smile: "People in the world, who doesn't scold others? As long as our Qing Dynasty can be peaceful and prosperous, those gossips will be harmless." Everyone nodded one after another, praising Lu Ji as a man of great talent.

Lu Ji glanced at the surrounding generals and asked, "What about Kang Chao, why didn't you see him here today?"

Wen Ping stepped forward to report: "The last general has not seen him since yesterday. ”

Lu Min asked, "Does Your Majesty want to send someone to summon him?"

Lu Ji waved his hand and said with a smile: "I'm afraid he was drunk yesterday and is still sleeping soundly today, let's hunt for us, don't disturb other people's dreams!"

Lu Min said with a smile: "Your Majesty still knows General Kang, and his younger brother has heard that General Kang is a good wine, and he is often drunk. I remember that on the queen mother's birthday, General Kang drank dozens of jars of wine alone, and finally lay down on the spot, unable to wake up, and was finally carried back by his family!"

Lu Ji nodded, moved his muscles and bones, pulled the bowstring, and then put the eagle bow next to the saddle, pulled out the sword of the Son of Heaven, raised it high, and said loudly: "Today's hunting, I am with you! Today, regardless of the rank of the monarch and the minister, all those who harvest the prey will be rewarded for their merits, and those who hunt the most will be rewarded with thousands of households!" Thousands of Qing nobles, generals, and sergeants heard Lu Ji's words, their morale was uplifted, and they shouted loudly: "Long live! Long live!" The banners of the Qing army fluttered in the wind, the war drums were beating, and the whole hunting ground echoed the shouts of the Qing army.

With Lu Ji's order, the Qing army's iron cavalry rushed to the hunting ground like a tide, the horse's hooves stepped on, stirred up layers of dust, the horse's hooves were thick, and the shouts of the soldiers were intertwined, complementing each other, the Qing army's battle flag was agitated, fluttering in the wind, looking from a distance, the Qing army of the entire hunting ground was like a black dragon, shuttling between the forest and the sea, the momentum was majestic without losing its agility, and like a tiger out of the mountain, the roar was like thunder, everywhere it went, the birds and beasts were scattered, the momentum was like a broken bamboo.

Lu Ji looked at the Qing army iron cavalry that was constantly shuttling through the forest around him, and his heart was excited, and he laughed loudly: "From ancient times to the present, my Qing Dynasty has been enduring humiliation and stealing life, when can there be such a tiger and wolf army!" After speaking, with a wave of the horsewhip, the war horse was like a reined momentum, stepping out of the four hooves, running all the way, shuttling between the trees like thunder and lightning, Lu Ji only felt the wind in his ears, and the robe on his shoulders was agitated in the wind. Lu Min saw Lu Ji running wildly all the way, for fear that he would make a mistake, so he hurriedly beckoned the guards around him to catch up quickly, and he also struggled to whip the horsewhip and shouted loudly to Lu Ji: "Your Majesty, slow down!"

Lu Ji's interest at this time was like a raging fire, where did he care about the guards chasing behind him, the more they chased, the more he waved his horsewhip and increased his speed. His war horse is Xiliang's fine war horse, wild and uninhibited, able to travel thousands of miles a day, its speed is so fast that ordinary war horses that are not guarded can be compared, and they have already been thrown away under the wild gallop all the way.

"Huh-" Lu Ji was bumpy all the way, and he was also a little tired, so he hurriedly reined in the horse's reins and stopped. Looking at all directions, they are all tall trees, the trunk is thick, even if there are two or three big men, it is difficult to hold it, it is a hundred zhang high, it can cover the sky and the sun, and there is the sound of birds and birds singing in the forest from time to time. The surrounding vegetation was overgrown, thorns and vines were entwined with each other, high and dense, so that half of the horse's hooves were submerged. At this time, a touch of white burst out of the thorn bushes in the distance, and Lu Ji fixed his eyes to see that it was a hare, squatting motionless under a giant tree, and his red eyes were very vigilant in all directions. This made Lu Ji excited, and he smiled in his heart: "This is a god-given prey, I must not live up to it!" Immediately picked up the eagle bow, gently pulled out a golden feather, opened the bow and set up the arrow, closed his right eye slightly, aimed at the living creature with his left eye, tightened the bowstring, quickly withdrew his hand, only to hear the sound of "whoosh-" on the ground, the golden feather was like a spirit snake out of the hole, spit out a red heart, and bit the hare with lightning speed. The hare was hit by the golden feather, and blood flowed out, and the grass and trees did not move after a convulsion.

Lu Jizhi was proud, and with a wave of his horsewhip, he ran towards the hare. Seeing that he was about to pick up the prey, but there was the sound of arrow feathers cutting through the grass and trees in his ears, Lu Ji was startled, and when he looked sideways, a dark arrow was rushing towards him. In desperation, he immediately threw himself on his horse, and the arrow grazed his back, cutting through his white robe. Feeling a cold sweat on his back, panting, Lu Ji secretly rejoiced, if he hadn't reacted in time just now, he would have almost died here, and thought about it, I don't know how many cold arrows are waiting for him at this time, I must leave as soon as possible, otherwise sooner or later I will encounter a plot.

Thinking of this, he didn't care about the hare, lowered his body, quickly turned the horse's head, and withdrew in the same direction.

But when he heard a horse neighing, the war horse suddenly raised its front hooves, and Lu Ji almost turned over on his back. When the horse had calmed down, he looked back and saw that his good horse had been hit by a cold arrow in the thigh, no wonder. Lu Ji was trying to find a secret place to bandage it, but found that a man in black flashed behind him, holding a simple knife in his hand, masked, with a steady posture, walking among the vines, as if walking on the ground. Looking at their formation, they are all warriors with one enemy and ten enemies, Lu Ji knows that his martial arts are inferior, and without the protection of the tiger generals, he is no different from ordinary people. And now, his only war horse is also injured, I am afraid that it is difficult to walk, and now there is no one around to escort him, and he is really like a turtle in an urn. At this time, even if he regrets it, it will not help, as a king, he must have a king's death, but he didn't think that he would die here, I am afraid that he will not see the day when the Qing people go to the Central Plains, he sighed, pulled out the sword of the Son of Heaven, turned the horse's head, and planned to fight to the death.

The war horse suddenly didn't listen to his call, twisted the horse's head, Lu Ji smiled bitterly, and scolded: "Now it's really a tree that is falling and scattered, even you don't want to listen to me!" As soon as he finished scolding, the war horse suddenly roared, as if he was crazy, and took a vigorous step and galloped wildly. Not only Lu Ji was surprised, but the man in black who was about to catch the turtle in the urn was also very surprised, and hurriedly ran to chase Lu Ji's war horse, several of the men in black opened their bows and arrows, and shot more than a dozen arrows in a row, because the war horse ran extremely fast, not a single arrow hit.

The war horse carried Lu Ji all the way to gallop, although he got rid of those black-clothed people, he finally got tired, lost his front hooves, and fell to the ground, Lu Ji didn't know where he went, only saw a clear stream, and then rolled to the ground, lost consciousness for a while, and passed out.