I don’t know what kind of thoughts he was quite enthusiastic about accepting adopted sons. Official history records that during his ten years of reign, he actually received more than 100 adopted sons. However, many of these adopted sons were just given a surname by Zhu Houzhao, but only two were favored, one was Qian Ning, and the other was Jiang Bin, who was far away in Xuanfu.

Qian Ning was originally the child of a poor family in Yunnan. When the eunuch Qian Neng was appointed as a military officer in Yunnan, Qian Ning was sold to him as a slave. Because he was so smart that Qian Neng could love him, he followed Qian Neng's surname to "Qian". After Qian Neng died, he rejected his family and Qian Neng's favor, and Qian Ning was able to be appointed as an official. Because Qian Neng had an old age with Liu Jin, Qian Ning met Liu Jin. He deliberately flattered Liu Jin, so he was later recommended to Zhu Houzhao as a guard. Because Qian Neng had a unique skill of "opening left and right bows" to shoot archery, he was loved by the martial arts Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao once took Qian Ning with him for everything, and later accepted him as his adopted son and gave him the "Zhu surname".

Several times when Zhu Houzhao was drunk when he was having sex, he slept on Qian Ning's belly. After the court officials found out, it was spread. Therefore, there was a period of time when rumors of Zhu Houzhao's good male sex were often circulated in the capital.

It is precisely because of this reason that Zhu Houzhao deliberately alienated Qian Ning to avoid causing misunderstandings from others. However, deliberately alienation does not mean that he is unfamiliar with feelings. After all, Zhu Houzhao is still a nostalgic person. This deliberate alienation makes Zhu Houzhao feel a little sorry for Qian Ning when she thinks of it occasionally.

Hearing Qian Ning say he lost, Zhu Houzhao picked up the wooden box containing treasure money beside him and handed it to Qian Ning. He smiled and said, "Okay, let's stop here today. Ning'er lost the most, I will compensate you."

"Thank you for your reward." Qian Ninghuan happily took the treasure money. He asked Zhu Houzhao with a smile: "Your Majesty, you haven't said why you are happy today. What is going on? Let me be happy for you if you say it."

Zhu Houzhao looked at Qian Ning and smiled and said, "I met a wonderful person not long ago. This man and I became brothers from different surnames as soon as they saw him. Originally, I thought he was just talented and skilled in fun, but I didn't expect that this man had a profound understanding. I encountered several difficult problems and he solved them in just a few words. The wonderful method is that even I have to criticize him. I will hold a cabinet meeting tomorrow to let them see how powerful my elder brother is."

"Emperor...Brother?" Qian Ning was stunned. He followed Zhu Houzhao for a long time and knew Zhu Houzhao's arrogant heart deeply. He never expected that Zhu Houzhao would recognize a person he had never known as his brother, and he still had a proud and proud expression when he mentioned this brother Zhu Houzhao.

Qian Ning felt a little sad. The emperor has become much distant from him recently. He originally thought that he had made some mistakes, but it turned out that the emperor had "come a new love".

Zhu Houzhao didn't know Qian Ning's thoughts. He stood up and said in a good mood: "Well, it's still late. I'll call the cabinet members to hold a cabinet meeting tomorrow. I'll be here today. Let's rest each of you."

"Greatly send me the emperor..." Zhang Yong, Liu Jin and Qian Ning knelt on one knee and saluted.

Just as Zhu Houzhao was about to leave, a leopard guard suddenly came in. The leopard guard knelt down to Zhu Houzhao and saluted: "Sir, please see the emperor."

"What's the matter?" Zhu Houzhao asked. He knew that under the entertainment room, the Leopard Guard would not come in. If he came in, he would definitely report something.

Leopard Guard replied: "Report to the emperor, Dongchang sent someone to send news that Jiang Xia, the owner of Xiaoyao Villa, was attacked by an assassin tonight..."

"What?" Zhu Houzhao screamed in surprise.

Before the Leopard Guard finished speaking, he quickly asked, "How is the eldest brother now? Are you injured?"

After a moment of indifference, Zhu Houzhao even spoke directly and called out the word "big brother".

Leopard Wei was slightly stunned and immediately replied: "Report to the emperor, Master Jiang is not injured."

"Huh..." Zhu Houzhao breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that I'm not injured, I'm scared to death."

Zhu Houzhao took pictures of his chest, calmed down his face suddenly became gloomy. Zhu Houzhao's eyes narrowed into a thin slit, and a light flashed in his eyes.

"Liu Jin, I ask you, who has the best martial arts skills in the Jinyiwei?"

Liu Jin thought about it and said, "Back to the emperor, the person with the highest martial arts skills is Zhong Bin, the deputy Qianhu of Beishi. This person specializes in swordsmanship and is extremely exquisite in one hand. However, he is cold-hearted and not good at talking, so even if he is the Nine Middle Ding, he is only a deputy Qianhu of the Qianhu."

"The strength of the Nine Middle School Ding." Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly, "The strength of the Nine Middle School Ding should be enough. From tomorrow on, you can send this person to Xiaoyao Villa as a guard and let him protect Jiang Xia in person."

"Yes!" Liu Jin responded.

Then Zhu Houzhao said with murderous intent: "Check for me and find out who sent the assassin this time. If there is evidence, no matter who he is, I will make him pay the price!"

"Yes, I obey the order." Liu Jin replied.

After Zhu Houzhao said that, he left. Liu Jin stood up and looked at Zhu Houzhao's departure with many doubts in his heart. He bowed to Zhang Yong and Qian Ning as a farewell, and then followed him out of the theater entertainment room.

On the way out of the leopard room, Liu Jin had several questions in his mind.

When Jiang Xia was assassinated, the emperor immediately sent a master to protect him. This proves that the emperor attaches great importance to Jiang Xia, and when he heard the emperor's last tone, he was obviously really angry. It seems that Jiang Xia must pay attention to this person in the future and be well trained. Maybe one day he will enter the court as an official and become a colleague of himself. Such a simple figure in the heart of the emperor, what if he set foot in the officialdom?

But why did the emperor send the Jinyiwei people to protect Jiangxia? If you talk about the masters, the masters in my East Factory don’t have to be the few in the Jinyiwei? Could it be that the emperor doesn’t believe me?

If anyone finds out the origin of the assassin who assassinated Jiang Xia, no matter who he is, he will have to pay the price. As Jiang Xia's identity, the only person who is likely to offend is probably Cao Yuan, Li Dongyang and others. What does the emperor mean? Did he finally make up his mind to attack that old man Li Dongyang?

There were too many questions, and Liu Jin couldn't figure it out for a moment. After shook his head, he simply stopped thinking about it. When he looked up, he found that he had arrived at the door of the leopard room.

The emperor's mind is indeed complicated and difficult to understand, but in fact, the most important reason why Zhu Houzhao directly ordered the selection of experts from the Jinyiwei to protect Jiang Xia was only one of the most important reasons, that is, to protect his identity from being leaked.

There are many masters in the East Factory, but most of them are eunuchs. Otherwise, they would have become flirtatious because they were with eunuchs for too long. Such people would definitely be disliked by Jiang Xia when they approached Jiang Xia. Zhu Houzhao did not expect that his little thought would make Liu Jin uneasy.

The relationships in the court were complicated. From a certain perspective, the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei can be regarded as a relationship of superior and inferior subordinates, but from a certain perspective, they seem to be in a system and unrelated to each other. In a simple sentence, the Jinyiwei is a spy agency, from princes to the people, and they have the right to directly supervise, lock, criminal investigation and imperial prison. And the Dongchang is also a spy agency, which can also supervise all officials, and at the same time they can also supervise the Jinyiwei. Therefore, there is a certain upper and lower subordinates between the two.

But it is natural for the two to form a system. The predecessor of the Jinyiwei was one of the twenty-two guards of the personal guards, and it was the emperor's closest guard. They were not only responsible for supervising all officials, but also responsible for protecting the emperor's safety and maintaining the safety of the forbidden palace. Although they were actually directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, they were nominally subordinates of the Governor's Office of the Five Army, so tracing the origin of the Jinyiwei can be regarded as a military system.

The East Factory was ruled by eunuchs, and the seal or pen of the Silijian in the palace also served as the factory supervisor. Therefore, the East Factory belongs to the eunuch system, and the Jinyiwei and it are naturally in different systems.

In short, although the Jinyiwei respects the Dongchang on the surface, it actually has a mutual restraint relationship with the Dongchang. So when Zhu Houzhao said that the Jinyiwei would send experts to protect Jiang Xia, Liu Jin would have so many doubts and uneasiness in his heart.

The Beisi is actually the abbreviation of the Jinyiwei Beizhenfusi. The Jinyiwei has two northern and southern ranks. Generally, the Nanzhenfusi is responsible for managing the administrative affairs of the Jinyiwei, while the Beizhenfusi is in charge of the imperial prison and has great power. As the saying goes, "Beizhen envoys, from the fourth rank, you should be respectful when you see the second rank." It means that although the Beizhenfusi is only from the fourth rank, officials of the second rank must be respectful when they meet him, which shows how powerful the Beizhenfusi is.

Zhong Bin is twenty-nine years old this year. He was originally an orphan. When he was seven years old, he was adopted by Zhong Chaoyang, the general banner of the Fourth Jinyiwei Institute. After Zhong Chaoyang died, he defeated Zhong Chaoyang and entered the Jinyiwei. Zhong Bin had an adventure when he was young and has learned martial arts from a swordsman since he was eight years old. After entering the Jinyiwei, he was taciturn and repeatedly excluded. Many dangerous cases were always handed over to Zhong Bin to follow up.

But it was also this how Zhong Bin was able to emerge in the Jinyiwei. His exquisite sword tips defeated the more with few defeats and entered the enemy camp alone to complete the task. As time went by, Zhong Bin has now become the recognized number one master of the Jinyiwei, but his taciturn and cold personality hindered his future. With the achievements he made, he was actually qualified to be a polite envoy. But until now he is only a deputy thousand-household in the fourth institute, with the official title of the fifth rank.

Maybe this official title looks quite good, but there are thousands of households under the rank of the deputy households, so Zhong Bin does not have much real power, and he is still alone.

This time he received an order from his superiors to come to Xiaoyao Villa to protect a man named Jiang Xia. Although he left without saying anything after receiving the task, Zhong Bin knew very well that this was another exclusion.

But finally, Zhong Bin has become accustomed to this, so it can be said that he is not surprised by these things.
Chapter completed!