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Chapter 378: Prelude to the turmoil in Jiangxi

Jiang Xia and his group of six arrived in Jiangxi. According to the original plan and estimate, Jiang Xia and Wang Shouren both believed that this time was to suppress the bandits.

Wang Shouren was originally the governor of Nangan, so after arriving in Jiangxi, he had to find the original governor of Jiangxi, Sun Sui, to handle the handover. Only in this way can he take office.

Sun Sui has reached his old age, and he should retire and return home even though he is counting on his life.

Wang Shouren also praised Sun Sui as a person.

Everyone knows the place of right and wrong in Jiangxi. Most officials in the court are unwilling to come to Jiangxi to tread the muddy waters here, and Sun Sui, as an old minister in the court, also has many old friends from the old days.

Someone once asked Sun Sui whether he had transferred him from Jiangxi to leave this place of failure. Otherwise, one day, King Ning rebelled, and he, the person who had always opposed Zhu Chenhao, would probably be the first to be used by Zhu Chenhao to sacrifice to his handsome flag.

But Sun Sui finally rejected his friend's kindness, and only asked someone to send his wife and son to Jiangxi. He still stayed in Jiangxi and kept paying attention to King Ning's movements at all times.

When he saw Sun Sui in Raozhou Prefecture, Wang Shouren saluted Sun Sui first and shouted: "Old Master Sun."

When Sun Sui saw Wang Shouren's excitement, he grabbed Wang Shouren's hand and said, "Okay, Yangming, it's good that you're here. Jiangxi is now in chaos, and I'm afraid you have to come to stop the upcoming uprising."

After saying that, Sun Sui saw Jiang Xia standing behind Wang Shouren, so he asked, "Yangming, this person is..."

Wang Shouren immediately turned sideways and led Sun Sui to Jiang Xia, and said with a smile: "Master Sun, let me introduce you to you. This one is Jiang Xia, the current Long Hunting Hou."

"Jiang Xia?" Sun Sui looked Jiang Xia, as if he was not very interested in him. He said, "I have heard of your name. The civil and military officials in the capital will probably discuss who is the most harmful to the eight tigers. But if you mention the slander, then you may be the leader."

This old thing... Jiang Xia couldn't help but roll his eyes. This old guy's words were too straightforward, and he didn't leave any room for tact and detour.

If it were in the past, Jiang Xia would have been angry long ago. Even if he didn't need to use his uncontrollable Qilin arm to stir up a few big-eared slaps, he would have to use his three-inch tongue to sarcastically sarcastic words.

However, before coming, Wang Shouren briefly told Jiang Xia about Sun Sui's deeds. Jiang Xia still admired such a person who was not afraid of the powerful and had to protect the country and the country's stability regardless of his own safety. After all, he himself did not have such sentiment.

So Jiang Xia was just embarrassed at this moment and did not argue with Sun Sui.

However, if Jiang Xia does not argue, Wang Shouren cannot let Jiang Xia be criticized by Sun Sui. After all, Jiang Xia came to Jiangxi for help because of his face.

Wang Shouren pressed Sun Sui's shoulders and said, "Master Sun, please forgive Yangming for his rude defense. Looking at what Marquis Jiang did when he was an official in the court, all of them were working for the prosperity of the country and the country. If he was said to be a treacherous minister, Yangming died and could not think of what treacherous things he did. Mr. Sun is also a person who distinguishes right from wrong. I hope you don't follow others."

Sun Sui glanced at Wang Shouren, then looked at Jiang Xia who was not talking.

He suddenly smiled and said, "Okay, I'm just testing our Marquis Jiang. Who is my Sun Sui? How could I have the same knowledge as those villains who slander others behind my back?"

Jiang Xia suddenly had three black lines on his forehead and said in his heart: "You are so funny, haha..."

Then Sun Sui seemed to comfort Jiang Xia and had a polite relationship. Then Wang Shouren took the initiative to ask Sun Sui: "What is the current situation in Jiangxi?"

Sun Sui's face immediately became serious, and he turned around and walked towards his study with Jiang Xia and Wang Shouren.

When he arrived in the study, Sun Sui first took out seven memorials and handed them to Jiang Xia and Wang Shouren. Jiang Xia opened and looked at it, and found that the content was the same. It was all about King Ning secretly raising bandits to harm the people of Jiangxi, and secretly casting weapons and armor to attempt to rebel.

Sun Sui said: "In recent days, the memorials I sent to the capital have been intercepted by the people sent by King Ning, and some time ago, I sent someone to send them back to me. In addition, when he sent these memorials back, he also sent me a basket of dates, a basket of pears, a basket of ginger and a basket of mustard greens."

"Dao, pear, ginger, mustard?" Wang Shouren immediately understood what King Ning meant, and he said, "King Ning is advising you to leave Jiangxi early and let you 'leave the border early'."

Sun Sui nodded and said, "That's true, but if I had left, I would have left long ago. How could I stay in Jiangxi until now?"

Jiang Xia looked at Sun Sui and suddenly felt that this little old man was also quite cute.

Sun Sui continued: "Now I entrusted my words to defend against other enemies and strengthened the cities around Nanchang. At the same time, I also wrote a letter to the garrisons in Jiangxi, asking them to send heavy troops to guard the key points of Jiujiang, and asked them to set up a magistrate to station Yiyang and supervise the troops of the five counties in the side to strengthen their defense. In order to prevent Ning Wang from robbing weapons, I entrusted the robbers to transfer the baggage to other garrisons. At present, the capital sent a large army to capture the rebels in one fell swoop."

After hearing this, Jiang Xia shook his head and said, "It's useless. With the emperor's temperament, as long as King Ning has not really launched a rebellion, he will not attack King Ning in advance."

Sun Sui glanced at Jiang Xia, was silent for a while before sighing. This sigh proved that he also felt that Jiang Xia was right.

Sun Shui said: "The next day, King Ning will hold a banquet in the mansion to celebrate his birthday, and I also sent a copy of the invitation to me. I will first check the news and touch the bottom of King Ning. I will ask Yangming to take advantage of the two days to check the whereabouts of Ling Shiyi, Wu Shisan, and Min Ersi. These three are the bandit leaders raised by King Ning. After arresting them, they will torture and question them. They will definitely get evidence of King Ning's intention to rebel."

Wang Shouren nodded and responded to the matter.

Until now, Sun Sui, Jiang Xia, and Wang Shouren still believe that Zhu Chenhao only had the intention of rebellion, and it was not time to really raise an army. However, Zhu Chenhao had already begun to gather troops and secretly prepared various uprising matters.

The next day, Sun Sui and Wang Shouren made a simple handover, and then took the deputy envoy Xu Kui to the Ning Prince's Mansion in Nanchang together. Before getting on the carriage, Jiang Xia also asked Sun Sui if he wanted to send someone to protect him.

Sun Sui snorted coldly and said, "No, I guess King Ning would not dare to do anything to me for the time being."

Besides, Sun Sui arrived at Prince Ning’s Mansion.

At this time, there were soldiers everywhere inside and outside the Ning Palace, which did not look like they were alive. They were like convening generals to hold oath-taking meetings before marching and fighting.

Seeing this situation, Sun Sui frowned and felt uneasy in his heart.

But in the end, he followed Xu Kui into the Ning Prince's Mansion.

After passing the front yard of the Ningwang Mansion, there is a huge garden. The garden is covered with towers, water pavilions, and pavilions and lofts. I have heard that the Ningwang Mansion has severely occupied private land. I didn’t expect that it would be so arrogant that Sun Sui frowned even tighter.

Fortunately, the garden is decorated with lights and round tables are also filled with dams in the middle, and some cold dishes and pastries are placed on the table, which finally has a little bit of a celebration of birthdays.

At this moment, many people had already come to the garden, most of whom were officials of all sizes in Jiangxi. Sun Sui glanced carefully and found that almost 80% of the officials above the seventh rank in several government offices near Nanchang, Jiangxi Province had arrived.

I don’t know who was just unable to get rid of the romance among these officials, so they came, and who were coming to flatter and had already colluded with King Ning?

Sun Sui thought so, and a loud laugh suddenly came from behind.

Turning his head and looking over, he saw King Ning coming in a python robe and saying to Sun Sui: "Mr. Sun, I didn't expect you to come too. I really gave me enough face."

Sun Sui frowned and looked at the clothes on Ning Wang.

It is said that this is a python robe, but something is wrong. Anyone who knows it knows that this python is very similar to a dragon. The only difference is that the python has four claws, while the dragon's claws are five claws.

Sun Sui carefully counted the python claws on the body of Ning Wang's python robe, which were five claws!

Five claws, that is not a python robe, but a dragon robe!

Sun Sui's face changed drastically, and he looked at King Ning's eyes with horror.

Zhu Chenhao smiled slightly, pointed to the place where the table banquet was placed and said, "Sir Sun, the banquet is about to start, please take a seat."

Sun Sui gritted his teeth. He originally wanted to point out that Zhu Chenhao was wearing a dragon robe that was a death sentence, but he thought that it was Ning's mansion. It was useless to say this, so he endured it and didn't say it.

Sun Sui was supported by Xu Kui to sit down next to a round table in the garden.

At this moment, Zhu Chenhao, accompanied by two strategists, walked to the front of the garden, next to a pavilion.

Walking up the stone steps of the pavilion, Zhu Chenhao turned around and looked at the officials sitting next to the banquet. He shouted: "Everyone, first of all, thank you for your appreciation for your face to visit my birthday party. I thank you here first."

After saying that, Zhu Chenhao bowed to everyone. Many guests below clasped their fists and said, "Your best, you're polite..."

Then Zhu Chenhao continued: "Before the birthday party begins, I will first say one thing, a shocking secret."

Everyone felt that today was probably not as simple as celebrating their birthday, so everyone looked at Zhu Chenhao.

Zhu Chenhao said loudly: "The Queen Mother has sent a secret decree to me, telling me that the emperor is not his biological child, but is held by the people. Now Zhu Houzhao's son already knows this secret. In order to protect his throne, he actually forced Jiang Xia to death. The Queen Mother told me in the secret decree that if she was undecided, it was Zhu Houzhao's son who was doing it, so that I must raise an army to fight against the rioters."

Zhu Chenhao's words were undoubtedly like an atomic bomb detonating in the crowd, and everyone present could not say anything surprised.

"Nonsense!" Sun Sui couldn't help it anymore, and stood up and pointed at Zhu Chenhao and asked loudly: "How can you get this? Please send me an edict!"
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