Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Tide of Dead Water (I)

Not to mention that Li Feng walked into the courtyard slowly to meet Ouyang Supreme, guessing his intention, let's go to Ying Tianfu first.

Outside the bedroom of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yunwen looked at Fang Xiaoru in front of him with a serious face, and asked in a low voice: "Teacher, are you sure?"

Fang Xiaoru's face was full of anger, and he nodded heavily: "Your Highness, the minister is sure." This is the news from the secret agent of Jinyiwei, and the assassin of my grandfather was indeed sent by the prince below, because my grandfather strongly advocated the establishment of His Royal Highness as the emperor. Those who are now befriending the generals in Yingtianfu and bribing them with a lot of money are also some people of suspicious origin. Your Highness, those uncles of yours are all staring at the capital and waiting for the result. ”

Zhu Yunwen's face was ugly, and he smiled bitterly: "Teacher, what do you say I can do? Now that the hearts of the people in the capital are fluctuating, all the ministers are watching, and those generals are even more unreliable, who knows if any of them are tempted? Outside, there are princes from all over the world, and the total number of troops in their hands exceeds one million, and there are only how many troops are in our hands? In case the emperor returns to heaven, how can we clean up this mess?"

Fang Xiaoru said confidently: "Your Highness, if you rest assured that you will leave the matter to the minister, I can guarantee that everything will be fine." The first step is to order all the guards in the pass to strictly prohibit them from letting any of the vassal king's soldiers pass through, so that we can strangle the passage through which the prince can transfer troops and give us time. Then, Your Highness will pay more visits to those ministers these days. The generals are unreliable, and those civil officials can also lead the troops, and His Royal Highness must firmly pull them by his side. ”

Zhu Yunwen was silent for a long time, then nodded, took out a small gold seal from his sleeve and handed it to Fang Xiaoru, and said indifferently: "Everything has Teacher Lao...... The imperial doctor said that the emperor's illness can be delayed for a few days?"

Fang Xiaoru gritted his teeth and replied in a low voice: "Your Highness, I'm afraid that the emperor will be on a big trip, just in the past few days, you have to be prepared." I have already contacted the palace chief An Gonggong, and His Royal Highness does not have to worry about the affairs in this palace. Although let those ministers who support King Yan and his princes make noise, anyway, we have already obtained the emperor's handwritten edict, and we are not afraid of what storms they can stir up afterwards. ”

Zhu Yunwen was shocked: "The emperor's handwritten edict, where did you get it? Why don't I know about this?"

Fang Xiaoru bowed down, and said with sincere fear: "Your Highness, I am afraid that if Your Majesty makes a temporary trip and does not make a final decision, the world of our Ming Dynasty will be turbulent." The minister is guilty, and this edict was written by the minister in imitation of His Majesty's imperial pen. In case when His Majesty returns to heaven, it will be clear who will take over the throne, then it will naturally be peaceful in the world. But if His Majesty does not make an explanation, then the world of the Ming Dynasty can only rely on His Royal Highness. ”

Zhu Yunwen's face showed a strange look, he glanced at Fang Xiaoru with a respectful face, and let out a long sigh: "That's it, that's it, just do what the teacher wants." Since Gonggong An has been connected with us, there is nothing wrong with this edict. Let those ministers go and shout, they want to appoint the fourth emperor uncle as the emperor, where will I put my imperial grandson? Hmph, they are not allowed to make noise to the emperor's grandfather, huh?"

Fang Xiaoru prostrate deeply on the ground and said respectfully: "Your Highness, rest assured, everything is in the calculation of the minister. This throne will never be able to run away...... When His Royal Highness takes over the throne, he will slowly cut off the military power of those vassal kings according to the minister's plan, then naturally the world will be peaceful, and everything will be in the hands of His Royal Highness. ”

Zhu Yunwen squeezed out a soft 'um' word from her nose, turned around and pushed open the door of the dormitory, and walked in. Fang Xiaoru slowly straightened his upper body, his face was full of iron, he looked at the northeast direction, and cursed in a low voice: "Zhu Di, I want you to be broken and beheaded." You dare to send someone to assassinate my grandfather, and my filial piety and you are not in the same place. ”

And at this moment, in the flower hall in the backyard of a mansion in Yingtianfu, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong looked at the silver ticket of 200,000 taels in front of him blankly, and suddenly looked up to the sky and let out a mocking laugh: "Wonderful, wonderful, I didn't expect that I, Li Jinglong, was worth a few silver taels." He stood up suddenly, his sleeves flicked, and a feminine force shattered the silver ticket, and he snorted coldly: "You go, tell your master, I, Li Jinglong, are not worthy of him to look up to him so much, I still have a few thousand stones, but I can also support the family." ”

After a moment of silence, the old man with a wisp of a small goatee in front of Li Jinglong chuckled: "Lord Li, why do you bother like this? This silver ticket is not an unsightly thing, we don't ask Lord Li to do anything, as long as Lord Li obediently sits in the mansion and quietly watches the flowers bloom." He smiled and took out another silver ticket from his sleeve, still in the denomination of 200,000 taels.

Li Jinglong laughed angrily: "Get out, otherwise I'll kill you now." He paused for a moment and sneered: "I, Li Jinglong, am only under the orders of the Son of Heaven, and others will not come to pollute my ears and eyes." ”

The old man smiled, carefully packed up the silver ticket, gently arched his hand, and walked out of the flower hall. He looked left and right, and just pulled up to the roof, jumping out like a civet cat.

Immediately, Li Jinglong came into contact with a mysterious guest at home, and the information that he accepted a bribe of 200,000 taels of silver reached Fang Xiaoru's ears. Fang Xiaoru was stunned for a long time, then sighed for a while, took out a small notebook, and crossed out Li Jinglong's name with a pen. He sighed in a low voice: "There are only a few people who can lead the army to fight, but now it is good, and there is another unreliable." ”

As he was talking, a middle-aged man in a robe walked in front of Fang Xiaoru, and when he saw Fang Xiaoru, he immediately ran over quickly, looked at no one on the left and right, and whispered: "Xiaoru, I have already said that to His Highness before, and His Highness seems to have made a decision, can he tell you now?"

Fang Xiaoru looked at the empty square, lowered his voice and asked, "Zicheng, what did you say?"

Zicheng, Huang Zicheng laughed in a low voice: "I saw His Highness sitting in the corner of the palace sighing loudly, and I asked him how he was." His Royal Highness said that he was afraid that his uncles would have heavy troops, and it would be difficult to control if the emperor returned to heaven. I told His Highness about the pacification of the Seven Kingdoms in the Western Han Dynasty, and didn't Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty settle down as soon as the soldiers attacked? His Highness is orthodox in this dynasty, and the emperor is noble, so what else can he worry about? Your Highness is happy at this time. ”

Fang Xiaoru laughed: "What a highness, he said to me in front of me today that everything is up to me, His Highness himself is upset and can't make claims, it seems that His Highness is even more powerful than us...... Well, I just received a report from Jinyiwei, this Li Jinglong, it seems that he is also unreliable, and if he wants to send troops at that time, he will have to look for a new candidate. ”

Huang Zicheng spread his hands and shirked his responsibility and said: "I'm just His Highness's companion, and I don't know anything about military affairs." If you have an idea, you can do it yourself...... Hmm, the old man will be funeral in a few days, right? Zicheng will go to give the old man a pillar of incense today...... Do you know who sent it to do it?"

Fang Xiaoru's face was full of hatred: "Yan Wang Zhu Di...... I won't let him go. ”

Huang Zicheng paused for a moment and said in a snort: "Filial piety, you have to think about this." Zhu Di's ironclad elite cavalry is the first in this dynasty, especially when he sits in Yanjing and fights with the remnants of the Yuan and Mongolian tribes for many years, the combat power of this army is stronger than the forbidden army of Yingtianfu. Don't cause trouble, if his 200,000 troops go south, I'm afraid the Beijing division will be unstable. ”

Fang Xiaoru showed a gloating look: "His army, hey, I just got a secret report a few days ago, his 110,000 elite army was cleaned up by the Yuanmeng Tartars, and the group of barbarians in the northeast are fighting with him again, and his army has long been exhausted." A few days ago, I issued a military order that the guards of Juyong Pass should not let the remnants of his army retreat from the grassland. Now that he doesn't have a single soldier under him, I'll see what he can do. ”

Huang Zicheng thought for a while, nodded, and said with a smile: "If something big can be done, the future filial piety should be at the head of the six departments, don't forget our old friends." ”

Fang Xiaoru chuckled: "Each other, each other, if we can support His Highness, make the world peaceful, and make the people rich and strong, everyone will have merit." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, arching hands to each other, Fang Xiaoru and a few guards hurriedly removed the palace gate, while Huang Zicheng walked around the square a few times, and walked quickly towards Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom.

Li Feng instructed his men to bring the kitten into the backyard, and asked them to find a tailor at once and make a dozen sets of clothes for the kitten within two hours. These brocade-clothed guards are much more capable than the gang members of the Golden Dragon Gang, they listen to the orders of the strong wind, and they don't do much nonsense, two people took the kitten to the backyard to bathe, and more than a dozen people rushed out of the yard and went to catch the tailor all over the world. These people had vicious eyes, and a little look at the height of the kitten showed that it would be impossible to fulfill the requirements of the fierce wind without twenty tailors working at the same time.

Li Feng himself threw the brocade robe with tears and snot on his body into the garbage heap, put on a coat haphazardly, and walked quickly into the hall used to entertain guests.

An old man with strange silver hair and neatly groomed hair, dressed in an azure robe, thin and dry, as clean as a hazelnut, was sitting upright on a prince's chair with a delicate teacup in his hand. The old man looked to be more than sixty years old, and he looked kind. The skin on his face was slightly darkened, and it was a matter of age. And one of his opponents is very eye-catching, the fingers are half longer and half thicker than normal people, and they are as shiny as jade, with a trace of pearl-like brilliance flashing in them.

Li Feng glanced at the old man, and found that he couldn't see through his skills, and immediately knew that this old man had also entered the innate realm, and his skills were entangled with the vitality of heaven and earth, so Li Feng couldn't see through it. He rubbed his hands together and laughed: "This is Ouyang senior, right? ”

The old man is none other than Ouyang Supreme, the first fort in the world is in charge of foreign affairs, and to put it bluntly, he is the chief manager of all things such as armed fighting, murder, murder and arson. Listening to Lifeng's words, he put the teacup beside him with an indifferent smile, stood up and saluted a little, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I don't have anything serious to do, but I was passing by Xi'an Mansion, and I heard that the brothers reported that Lord Li was here on business, so I came to take a look." ”

Li Feng respectfully invited Ouyang to sit down, sat down in the main seat, and ordered his subordinates to change hot tea, prepare a banquet, and so on. Ouyang didn't say a word, carefully looked at Li Feng, and watched him turn dozens of subordinate subordinates around like a windmill. After waiting for the fresh hot tea to be delivered for a long time, Ouyang took a sip of the teacup before saying: "I heard Cangyue say that I met a young hero in Suzhou Mansion and cured his internal injuries. ”

Ouyang arched his hand towards Li Feng and continued: "Especially Lord Li is clean and neat, never dragging mud and water, but he is also a person with a surname. Especially helped Cangyue drive the White Emperor Gate out of the southeast area, and the profits of our Cangfeng Fort over there have increased a lot, which is all the benefit of Lord Li. ”

Li Feng was uncomfortable and writhed in his chair. Would a person like Ouyang Supreme come to show goodwill to a young man for no reason? Especially listening to his repeated words 'Lord Li', he already understands his current identity when he thinks about it, so Ouyang Supreme's intention is even more interesting. Cangfeng Fort was the largest green forest leader in the Qilian Mountains back then, and to put it bluntly, he was the leader of the bandits. Later, he followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world, and the masters of the first vote made some contributions, so they won the title of the first in the world, and those masters also had good backgrounds one by one.

Let's just say that Gu Cangyue, because she saved Zhu Yuanzhang's life, got a position as the head catcher of Suzhou Mansion, which is a fat position. And this Ouyang Supreme, legend has it that he protected Zhu Yuanzhang back then, and he tore apart nineteen generals under Chen Youliang with iron claws, and in front of the two armies, he didn't know how many Mongolian officers he had killed, and he had a great reputation, so he had a high reputation in the army, and now he is a member of the military department, and one of the commanders of the guards under Ying Tianfu.

Would such a person pass by Xi'an Mansion for no reason? Perhaps, but would he come to visit such a person as Li Feng, who has no fame or status for the time being? Who would believe it?

So Li Feng said very modestly: "It's all blown to me by Big Brother Gu, in fact, everything is dominated by Big Brother Gu's strength." It's not how strong I am to help him recover his strength, but I just happened to get a 'jade ginseng', which is all the credit of the medicinal stone...... As for the White Emperor Gate, I'm just a ......"

Ouyang Supreme raised his hand lightly and interrupted Li Feng's words: "Manly man, you should be straightforward in your words and deeds, why should Lord Li say these humble words? To be honest, Lord Li has just arrived in Xi'an Mansion for only three hours, and the old man will come to the door, in fact, when Lord Li set off from Yanjing, someone told me that Lord Li would come here, so the old man came here directly to pay a visit to Lord Li...... Ying Tianfu had something to do temporarily, and it delayed for a while, so it was only half an hour since the old man arrived. ”

Li Feng picked up the teacup, took a sip of hot tea, and looked at Ouyang Supreme through the curling heat: "So, the seniors are specifically here to find the kid?"

Ouyang Supreme looked at his hands that exuded infinite magic power, and nodded with a smile: "That's right, I came to you on purpose." ”

Li Feng put down the teacup, respectfully straightened his body, and said with a smile: "Listen to the kid." ”

Ouyang Supreme watched as a few brocade-clothed guards brought melon seed snacks, reached out and grabbed a walnut, and after gently twisting the shell, he grabbed out a few fatty flesh. He carefully tore off the brown skin from the flesh, blew it lightly in his mouth, and then contentedly threw the white flesh into his mouth and chewed it a few times. He sighed in a low voice: "When people are old, they don't have the heroic energy they had back then." Eat well, dress well, find a little girl to hold in your arms, and your children and grandchildren can enjoy the happiness comfortably, which is enough. ”

The corners of Li Feng's two mouths were hooked high: "With the current status of the predecessors, what's so difficult about all this?"

Ouyang Supreme grabbed a few peanuts, blew away the skin carefully, and after carefully studying them one by one for a while, he slowly threw them into his mouth, and said vaguely: "It was originally like this, but now it can't be done." The old man has already resigned from that official position, hey, if you don't resign, the Ouchi Jinyi guard will come to the door to arrest people...... Alas, sitting at home behind closed doors, disaster came from heaven, and someone actually sent me 20,000 taels of silver for no reason, isn't this to kill the old man?"

Li Feng was dumbfounded, he could only grab a few melon seeds and knock them into his mouth, not daring to reply.

Ouyang Supreme squinted his eyes, and a blade-like light shot out of them, and he smiled: "If you want to say that the emperor of today, we fought the world with him back then, and we don't know his temper? Lan Yulan, the general, was beheaded by Hu Weiyong. And what about Hu Weiyong? Hehe, didn't the whole family be killed afterwards?"

Li Feng heard Ouyang Supreme talk about Zhu Yuanzhang's rights and weaknesses, and he didn't dare to pick up the topic for a while. This is a capital offense to talk about the emperor behind this. He could only say carefully: "Senior, be careful of your eyes and ears." Although the ones I brought are all subordinates of the Yan Wangfu, who can guarantee that there are no people from the Great Inner Jinyi Guard?"

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