Chapter 17: The Emperor's Collapse and the Birthday Banquet

Time entered the first year of Hongxi, and the throne changed, but countless merchants, craftsmen, and farmers did not seem to feel the slightest impact on their lives, repeating the work they had repeated for countless years, doing business, farming, and workmanship.

However, there was a major event on the rivers and lakes, the new head of the Huashan faction, Zhou Budo, married the granddaughter of Wudang Biyun, which shocked the Huashan faction, which was greatly damaged after the plague. The bigwigs on the rivers and lakes who coveted the rich industry of the Huashan faction have put away their minions and honestly managed their cultivation on their own territory. They seem to have smelled the smell of gunpowder in the air, as if they can be destroyed if they are not careful.

The righteous heroes who thought that the Sun and Moon God Church would recuperate after two great tribulations, broke through their glasses and let themselves start to ascend the throne, instead of stopping to recuperate, instead of calming down and licking their wounds, they went on a great expedition. After the arrival of the first year of Hongxi, for a while, there were already fights and fights everywhere in the martial arts, and countless sects were either swallowed up by the Sun and Moon Divine Sect one by one, or became a historical term from then on, and the disciples were adapted and integrated, and the head elder was forced to take the Three Corpse Brain Divine Pill, and from then on he obeyed the orders of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, and worshiped various places in the Black Wood Cliff every year. The white areas on the martial arts map were dyed black in an instant.

It is said that the vendetta in the local rivers and lakes is not stopping, and the Sun and Moon God Cult is getting bigger and bigger, and the imperial court just doesn't intervene directly, and what should be done secretly. However, the imperial court did not make any action at all, perhaps because the chief military officer Xue Lu, the commander of the Taibao Yangwu Marquis, Wu Cheng, the governor of the left capital, Gao Wencheng, the governor of the capital, and the commander of the Zhongdu Governor, Ma Xing, commanded the palace of the Servants, and Ma Xing, etc., to repel the Tatar invasion?

It's just that although Xue Lu and others led the troops to repel the entry of the barbarians outside the Saiwai, the army gathered in the border town did not decrease but increased. What's even more strange is that there is no news in the Di newspaper that the imperial court has mobilized troops to attack the desert, could it be that Xue Lu, Wu Cheng, and Gao Wencheng want to rebel?

Kyoshi, Imperial Palace Ouchi,

"Godfather, really... That's the Emperor. If it weren't for the fact that there was a big eunuch he recognized many years ago, who was the Shang Shan Supervisor, and this bowl of ginseng chicken soup was made by him himself, he really wanted to throw this cup of chicken soup to the ground and go to the emperor to denounce this eunuch.

"What nonsense? This thief wants to move back to the old capital, and when the time comes, will you want to have the property you have placed in the capital?" The eunuch in charge of Shangshan Jian scolded, "Besides, how did the old emperor leave in the first place? Don't be clear, the night before the accident, you chatted with Chang Kaisen for the night, don't you know? That Chang Kaisen said that the person who came into contact with him was an adult from the prince's mansion, this is still unclear? This kind of thief who kills the king is still sitting on the dragon chair with a face, and he is simply shameless. Phew, it's better for one of us to have no roots. ”

"But... But no matter how you say it, it's also the emperor..."Xiao Huangmen's two legs trembled, one was unstable, if it weren't for the quick eyes of the eunuch in charge of Shangshan, he would have fallen to the ground, and the cup of ginseng and chicken soup in his hand would have been spilled on the ground.

"What kind of emperor? It's just a traitor who kills the king and kills his father! The old emperor has great kindness to people who have no roots like me, not to mention a thief, that's it... Speaking of which..."Speaking of this, the eunuch in charge of Shangshan Prison suddenly got stuck and had no words, "No matter who it is, anyway, the old emperor is deeply kind to us, even if you don't want this mutilated body, you have to avenge the old emperor." If it weren't for the old emperor, your little rabbit cub would have been killed by prosperity a long time ago, and you would still have the world-high wealth today?"

Thinking of the old emperor's kindness to him, Xiao Huangmen's eyes were red, his legs stopped trembling, and his whole body stopped trembling, "Okay, I'll go." Godfather, my son's hometown has three younger brothers and two younger sisters. If something goes wrong, my son's life will definitely not be saved, and everything will be entrusted to you at that time. ”

"Good son, godfather didn't misunderstand you. Don't worry, your family, godfather will take good care of it, go ahead. The chief eunuch nodded and looked at this godson.

Taking a deep breath and spitting it out again, Xiao Huangmen tried his best to calm down his mind, carefully took the cup of ginseng and chicken soup, and walked to the door of the Qin'an Palace. Xiao Huangmen, who was guarding the door, breathed a sigh of relief: "You are here." "I didn't search, just opened the door and let him in.

After a while, Xiao Huangmen withdrew with a plate.

"Drink it?" asked the eunuch, the chief eunuch of Shangshan.

The son saw with his own eyes that he drank it, and there was not a drop left. Xiao Huangmen was no longer frightened, and he was no longer trembling when he spoke.

"Okay, then let him enjoy the honor for a few more hours. The chief eunuch said. He is deeply confident in his formula, if Hong Xi is a healthy person, he can't do anything, but who makes Hong Xi a big fat man...

It was day and night, and Zhu Gaochi, who had only been the emperor for ten months, died suddenly, according to the imperial doctor's examination, it was caused by improper diet, lack of exercise, and excessive indulgence. Because the crown prince Zhu Zhanji was in Nanjing, the court did not mourn, but ordered someone to go to Nanjing to report the news. But what they didn't know was that one night three days ago, a dark shadow that came out of Fangfu had already crossed the city wall and headed for Nanjing.

Everything seemed to be running as planned by the forces of the Sun Moon God Sect, the Huashan Sect, the Imperial Court, and the Hanlin Scholar surnamed Fang.

The intrigue in the court, and the bloody fighting on the rivers and lakes, did not seem to affect the 70th birthday of He Yuantu, the owner of Hejiabao Fort in Shanxi.

This He Jiabao is the first family in Jinnan, the owner of the fort He Yuantu, originally a person from the south of the Yangtze River, it is said that the ancestors also had a few extravagant characters, but the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the old man was unwilling to stay in the countryside for the rest of his life, and the young heart in his chest drove him to join the Red Turban Army, and later the Red Turban Army was annexed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and this old lady He also became the Wu Army and the Ming Army. Later, for some reason, this old lady He received a reward and withdrew from the Ming army, and when he returned to his hometown to inquire, the people in the family had already died in the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and he was disheartened and lazy, so he was transferred to Yuncheng in Jinnan under the arrangement of the robe that year.

With the reward given by the king when he was discharged from the army, He Yuantu He took advantage of the sparse population and the opportunity of Emperor Taizu Gao's immigration after the war in the Central Plains at that time, and placed a large piece of industry, and was the first to respond to Zhu Yuanzhang' Open the Chinese law', from the south of the Yangtze River to use the canal to communicate the capacity of the river, transport a large number of grain to the border town guard, come and go, it became a local first-class rich household, later in addition to transporting grain in exchange for salt business, because of the old relationship in the army of the old man He, the salt field up and down the people's food and clothing, but also from the old lady He's home workshop, granary purchase. After decades of accumulation, Hejiabao has become the first in Yuncheng and even the entire Jinnan, and the brothels, restaurants, and casinos in Yuncheng City are also his family's industries.

Of course, He Jiabao can control such a huge industry, not only the flexible and changeable wrist of Old Lady He and the old relationship in his army, but also the well-known set of sixty-four styles of 'Phantom God Palm Technique' in the Central Plains, the 'Seven Battle Knives' of the Forty-Nine Roads, and the unbreakable relationship with the Hengshan faction is the most powerful weapon to deter the heroes and heroes on the martial arts road of the Three Jin Dynasty.

The inextricable connection with the government, the friendship with the generals in the army, the Hengshan faction, the leading boss of Shanxi Wulin Road, or the collusion with the Wuyue Sword School, plus a passable martial arts, this makes He Jiabao in Jinnan no one dares to provoke easily, recently the grandson of the He family has been admitted to the Jinshi again, and He Jiabao is more and more beautiful.

No, on Old Man He's 70th birthday. The heroes and heroes of the three Jin Dynasty and even Henan, Qin, Yan, Zhao and Lu gathered in Hejiabao, and the heroes who came to celebrate their birthday came in and out at the gate of the fort, and the eldest son of the old man of the He family was full of smiles at the door, and he handed over the guests to pick up and drop off the guests.

Time flies, and before I know it, it has reached noon, and the heroes from all walks of life have sat down under the guidance of the He family, but the birthday banquet has begun.

As the leader of Shanxi Wulin Dao, which is closely related to Hejiabao, the Hengshan faction naturally sent a few disciples to congratulate his birthday, but this is also the reason why the Hengshan faction attacked the ** wooden cliff before and injured the vitality.

Old Man He also knew this, and he didn't dare to slack off, and personally arranged Master Mingxin to the first table. Even Old Man He, the old birthday star, did not dare to sit in the chief, but sat on the side. Master Mingxin was too reluctant to take the lead and persuaded for a long time, but He Yuantu did not sit down at the chief. Old Man He is not stupid, although the Hengshan faction is in trouble today, it is not even a disaster, it is just a small setback. There is the big tree of the Wuyue Sword Sect behind it, and it will only be a matter of five or six years to recover. In the future, when I recover, I will remember more or less when I think back to today's events. In the end, Master Mingxin had no choice but to sit down on the second seat. He Yuantu smiled bitterly, made a gesture to Master Mingxin, and sat in the chief.

As for the Hengshan Sanding, which was later named in the Central Plains, he was standing behind Mingxin Shitai, this is not that Old Man He is sluggish, if it weren't for the fact that the Hengshan faction has always only accepted women to get started, Old Man He can't wait to send his grandson up the mountain. Originally, Old Man He tried to talk about Dingjing, Dingxian, and Dingyi were all arranged at the second table, and even his three own sons rushed to the third table, but Master Mingxin understood in his heart that the monks were not allowed to eat meat, so he deliberately arranged for Sanding to stand behind him. (To be continued.) )