Night, Beijing, Puning Fang.

In a mansion, a middle-aged man with a rich appearance faintly seemed to notice something, and was suddenly awakened in his sleep.

Subconsciously looked around, and sure enough, he found that there was one more person in his room. A man wearing a pale cyan robe with a silver mask with blood on it.

The man now seemed to regard this place as if he were his own home, and sat at his table under the moonlight, drinking his wine.

Casual, laid-back.

"This friend, I don't know why I visited the place late at night?" The rich man quietly glanced at the person next to the pillow, and found that the other party had fallen into a deep coma at this time, and for some reason. Only then did he quietly reach out and touch the enemy-killing weapon hidden under the pillow, and at the same time opened his mouth to the masked man tentatively.

"Lord Liu, if I were you, I wouldn't have any superfluous actions at this time. The masked man did not answer the rich man's question at the first time, but took the lead in breaking his plan and said lightly: "Because you will never know if these actions will bury your life." ”

"This friend laughed," the rich man did not show a trace of embarrassment after being called to break his move, but smiled: "If my friend wants to kill him, I'm afraid the corpses below are already cold now." So if you want to come to a friend, you have something to look for, please say it directly, but if you can do it in the future, you will not shirk it. ”

"Lord Liu is really a smart person," the masked man said lightly, "Since that's the case, I won't talk nonsense." I will bring you a message for you, and say that someone will meet him in Pingkangfang Qunfang Courtyard when he asks him to meet him in the day after tomorrow. ”

Hearing these three words, the rich man's pupils shrank instantly, and after a long time, he smiled and said, "This ...... Friend, I really don't understand what you mean by that. ”

"I just said that Lord Liu is smart, but now why is he saying this distracting thing again," the mask man said lightly: "In short, I have finished what I should say, and I also hope that Lord Liu can make the most correct choice and not let himself regret the choice." ”

It seemed that he didn't want to entangle with this rich man anymore, so as the words landed, the figure of the masked man under the moonlight began to gradually blur, and then directly scattered into a breeze and dissipated invisibly. Only the rich man was left alone in the room, his face cloudy.

And this seems to be just the first one the masked man is going to visit tonight. Next, the masked man appeared in various squares in the capital one after another, until he had walked through the five houses, and then took a carriage in Pingkangfang and returned to the mansion of the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei in the capital.

On the other hand, it seems that the three sons of the Hou Mansion have been almost dried. Therefore, the next day, someone came to the three Bai Li, summoning them to meet them in the morning of tomorrow.

And this news was soon learned by the big and small officials in the capital, and some of them were ready to give the three marquis a good look, and the officials who came to win the favor of today's son were full of spirit today, and they prepared to make trouble when they were ready to wait for tomorrow morning.

The three princes of the Hou Mansion naturally knew what Dangzi and these officials thought, so they invited Bai Li and Bai Li to have a small gathering, unify the caliber, and specially find the staff of each province to make a few drafts, preparing to deal with the farce in the court tomorrow.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the morning time of the next day. And Bai Li and the others naturally came to the imperial city early, waiting for the summons of the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven didn't let them wait too long, but at the time of the tea, an attendant came to summon and brought Bai Li and others into the court and the Taihe Palace.

A nourishing greeting to each other, a conversation between a gentleman and a virtuous minister.

With the end of the nonsense between the Son of Heaven and Bai Li, one of the officials couldn't hold it back, and the first one stood up and began to participate in the three princes' disrespectful crimes. Unexpectedly, when the Son of Heaven had already invented the decree to summon, he still refused to obey the edict and came up with all kinds of reasons to shirk the court.

And in this regard, the three sons naturally prepared their words a long time ago, and they didn't even use white etiquette to go out, and the prince of Zhenxi Hou took the lead in refuting the words of the counselor one by one, and the other party who was straight to the argument was speechless.

However, that is obviously just a precursor, so many officials have been preparing for such a long time, of course, it is impossible to end it so easily.

Therefore, soon, more officials came forward, from the inappropriate behavior of the three princes over the years, to the bits and pieces after the three princes entered Beijing. It can be said that almost all the things that can be magnified have been taken away from the court, especially the case of Lu Ping of the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei, which was taken out by several courtiers, and has become a negative example of the Hou Mansion bullying people.

Bai Li was naturally not polite to this, and said directly, His Royal Highness the Seventh knew this matter better than anyone else, so he might as well call him to the palace to ask, and several courtiers were speechless in an instant. When it comes to the royal children, he doesn't dare to talk nonsense about it if they give them a few dares.

After all, today's son is not a good talker, and the means of selling his reputation and buying straight are not easy for him to do, he is really annoyed, but he will kill!

And seeing that the attacks of many courtiers were dealt with by Bai Li and others, there was finally an important minister who came down in person, and this person was an important staff member of the prince in the prince's period. Chao Jing, the imperial historian who is now in charge of the Imperial Historical Observatory, is an absolute supporter of the grand unification policy.

And his methods are naturally not as explicit as some of the previous courtiers, neither commenting on the actions of the princes of the three towns, nor criticizing the private virtues of the princes of the three towns, but directly talking about righteousness.

told the three princes of the Hou Mansion about the benefits of his great unification policy, the benefits to the imperial court, and the benefits to the people of the world. As well as because of the emergence of the princes of the three towns, the government decrees are not passed, the use of resources is overlapping, and the extreme waste is extremely wasteful.

After a long speech, he let him say all the good things, and then handed over the choice to Bai Li and others, and said with a smile: "I don't know the three princes, oh, the old minister was negligent, and one is the son, what do you think the old minister said just now?"

I have to admit that this Chao Jing is worthy of being a famous family, and his mouth is called a six, and the whole story is reasonable, and it is really difficult for people to refute this remark of standing on the moral high ground for a while.

And this also made the son of the high seat on the top of the throne couldn't help but bow slightly, and the two princes of the Hou Mansion frowned. Begin to scavenge the rumors that the staff in their stomachs have prepared for a long time, and see if they can find something useful.

There is no way, I can't help but worry about the two princes of the Hou Mansion. If someone really spreads this remark of the dynasty this morning, then what will the people think?

Will we think that great reunification is the trend of the times and should be taken for granted? Can't anyone who hasn't seen the princes of the Three Towns come up with a remark that can be put on the table and justifiably refuted?

However, after searching their stomachs, the two princes of the Hou Mansion suddenly found that the things prepared by their staff seemed to be so pale under Chao Jing's remarks from standing on the moral high ground.

After all, in the other party's remarks, whether it is military or people's livelihood, they have come up with reasonable and well-founded things, and Chao Jing used data that can be seen and touched, for the current imperial court, you princes of the three towns are redundant. Without you, the court and the people would have a better life.

It is undeniable that Chao Jing's words do have a certain amount of truth. Regardless of the founding of the country, with the governance of the third generation of the Son of Heaven, the national strength of the Great Zhou has made leaps and bounds at this time. For example, the twelve guards directly under the imperial court, and the Zhichong Mansion under its jurisdiction has changed from the thirty-six mansions in the founding period to the one hundred and thirty-two mansions at this time.

That is to say, the current imperial court can rely on its own strength, that is, their direct force, to resist or even suppress the surrounding countries such as the Xiongnu, Dongdao, Nanban, and Xirong.

Therefore, at this time, the role of the princes of the three towns is indeed not as great as in the founding period, but in some cases, it may also become a constraint on the implementation of some decrees of the imperial court.

But the truth is true, but this kind of generous behavior is really annoying. If you really think that the princes of the three towns are useless, then don't promise to divide the feud when you open the country!

Now that I have crossed the river and want to demolish the bridge, I really think that the princes of the three towns are dead things, and you can toss it.

Therefore, Bai Li coughed lightly a few times and then stood up, and said to Chao Jing, who was full of triumph in his eyes: "Lord Chao is worthy of being from a famous family, and this debate is really unique." The great truth is that the foreign minister is a sick man, so naturally he can't say that Lord Chao is too much. However, the minister also has a small story here that he would like to share with Lord Chao, and I hope that Chao will not be stingy and correct. ”

"Second son, please say," Chao Jing said quietly.

"In the past, Zigong visited friends in Xu during the Baijia period, and Lu met a person along the road on a sudden whim, and asked passers-by: Now that Xu and Lu are at war, if you have 100,000 money, can you be willing to donate all of it for military funds?

Passerby: Yes.

Zigong asked again: If you have 10,000 dollars, can you be willing to donate all of them?

The passerby continued: Self-sufficient.

Zigong asked again: What if there are thousands of dollars?

The passer-by hesitated, shook his head and said, "No."

Zigong was puzzled: Why is it possible to have 100,000 yuan, but 10,000 yuan, but not 1,000 yuan?

Passerby: Because I really have a thousand dollars.

Small stories, nothing big about it.

Bo Zhugong smiled.

However, the minister thinks that if he doesn't know the difficulties of others, but likes to be generous to others, this kind of person must stay away from him, because if he can't keep a thunderbolt over, it will not be good for you to be affected!"

"You, you ......" The seemingly irrelevant story, and the irrelevant sentences that followed, almost choked Chao Jing, who looked righteous and awe-inspiring, and said with an ugly face after a long time: "The old minister is familiar with the subset of scriptures and history, why did he never know that Zigong still has this story?"

"Didn't you?" Bai Li raised his eyebrows and said suddenly: "Oh, I'm sorry, Lord Chao, I forgot, this story...... I made it up. ”

"Shaft, shaft...... I'm mad at me!"