Before the rich man passed away, he would remember to call his son and loyal servant to his side. Then tell his son to take good care of the family business. If there is something he doesn't know, ask the loyal servant more. This is on the surface.

In fact, before passing away, many wealthy people would not only assign a loyal servant to their sons to their sons, but also tell them some people they can rely on in secret. In order to prevent their loyal servants from rebelling against their masters, their sons would also have the power to fight back.

Even a mere rich man is like this. As a king of a generation, Zhu Houzhao, who is well versed in the power of emperors, wouldn’t he achieve success and leave only Jiang Xia for Zhu Zaijiang? The answer is naturally no.

In the westernmost corner of the Five Ganxi Institutes, there is a very inconspicuous palace courtyard. Generally speaking, few people come to this palace courtyard because the people living here are palace maids and eunuchs who are old enough to do anything, so they stay here to wait for death.

These palace maids and eunuchs have no relatives at home. In addition, they have grown up in the palace since childhood and are used to the environment in the palace, so they are reluctant to leave.

I don’t know if it’s because everyone living here is a twilight old man, so there is always a sense of death here, which makes people feel very disliked when they get close, and naturally a feeling of boredom will arise in my heart.

Of course, there are still eunuchs in charge of meals here on weekdays, so it cannot be said that they are rarely visited. It just means that there are few outsiders coming on weekdays.

But today, a man wearing a dark red straight long suit and wearing a thousand-layer cloth boots in Qingyun Shujin came here. The man was wearing a silver mask, and he could know his identity without introducing it.

Who else could be the one who could walk around freely and wear a silver mask in the entire palace? If it weren't for Zhu Zaijiang?

When Zhu Zaijiang walked to the entrance of Muyuyuan, his steps paused. From his struggling eyes, it could be seen that it was not because he did not like Muyuyuan's drooling air, but because he was a little confused about whether he should enter Muyuyuan.

It seems... there are people or things hidden in this Muyu Garden that have a great influence on him...

Zhu Zaijiang was hesitating for about a cup of tea, but in the end he raised his foot and stepped over the threshold of Muyuyuan and walked in.

The name Muyuyuan was named by a very knowledgeable eunuch during the Yongle period. Although the name is a bit poetic and picturesque, it can't help but make people feel sad when combined with the function of Muyuyuan.

When I walked into the garden, I saw the old eunuch holding the old palace maid's hand and talking about something. Occasionally, the old palace maid would laugh and be coquettish, and gently patting the old eunuch's shoulder like an eighteen girls. I don't know what the old eunuch said to the old palace maid.

Zhu Zaijiang walked all the way inside and reached the deepest part of Muyuyuan.

Behind an old locust tree, a small courtyard is completely made of yellow rosewood. This kind of wood grows slowly and is especially precious. It is generally too luxurious to use for furniture, let alone to build a house.

Outside the courtyard is a playground made of bluestone slabs. A vegetable garden is cultivated on the side of the playground. Next to the vegetable garden, an old man in gray cloth is sitting on a rocking chair with small leaves and red sandalwood, closing his eyes to calm his mind. I don’t know if he is awake or asleep.

Zhu Zaijiang approached, and suddenly the old man opened his eyes.

Strangely, the old man's face was obviously full of wrinkles and gray hair. But the moment his eyes opened, Zhu Zaijiang felt like he was being captured, and a cold air rushed straight from the soles of his feet. It seemed that if he tried harder that glance, he would be "showed" to death.

The old man said, "Doll, come here to the miscellaneous house, what's the matter?"

Although Zhu Zaijiang was startled by the old man's eyes for the first time, his mood calmed down immediately. With this look alone, he was basically sure that he had not made any mistakes.

Zhu Zaijiang took a breath slightly, then sighed. He took out his right hand behind him.

The old man didn't think anything was wrong at first, but his eyes soon focused on the ring of Zhu Zaijiang's index finger. The jade quality of the ring was not very good, but it seemed that last year should have been a few years. If it were special, the only special thing was the word "chung 8" on the ring.

There is another special place, that is, ordinary people wear rings on their thumbs, while Zhu Zaijiang wears them on their index fingers.

The old man looked at the ring blankly and murmured to himself: "'Zhongba Finger', I can finally leave this ghost place..."

After saying that, the old man immediately bounced up from the rocking chair, and his body seemed very agile. As soon as he stood up, he fell to the ground and saluted to Zhu Zaijiang, "I will meet the emperor, I wish my emperor a long life."

The sound of "Meet the Emperor" made Zhu Zaijiang feel an indescribable feeling of comfort in his heart when he heard it. At this moment, he suddenly realized that in his bones, he was actually so obsessed with the identity of the emperor.

Zhu Zaijiang waved his hand and said, "Let's flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Bayi stood up.

Zhu Zaijiang took out a token from his arms, which had the words "Dragon Protection" written on it. He handed the token to Li Bayi and said, "You also understand that I will not come to you unless I have no choice. Go and summon people. You are the only ones I can rely on now."

"Yes, I obey the order." Li Bayi bent his body respectfully and took the dragon protection token from Zhu Zaijiang's hand with both hands.

Then Li Bayi said: "Your Majesty, that servant will take his leave first."

Zhu Zaijiang nodded slightly. Before he could react, Li Bayi had already risen up on the spot and jumped to the roof of his small courtyard. Then he saw him move a few times and his figure disappeared.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Zaijiang finally couldn't help but smile in his eyes...

The two flowers bloom and each one appears, let’s talk about Shanxi.

After Jiang Xia took Taiyuan, he settled in the Qi Palace. He seemed to have no idea that he had only brought 18,000 people, not 108,000 people.

Jiang Xia seemed to have no reaction to Xiao Qing, who brought the army with a clear stand and a big fanfare, but instead built a large-scale construction in Taiyuan, as if he was ready to repair the Qi Palace.

Jiang Xia naturally knew the news that Xiao Qing came to Shanxi, otherwise it would be just a joke that he had worked hard to manage Qianmen for so many years.

Xiao Qing also knew Jiang Xia’s reaction. Otherwise, the identity of the new generation of the Xiao family’s lord is also a joke.

It was Jiang Xia's reaction that made Xiao Qing determine a plan in his heart.

The reason why he led the army to Shanxi with great fanfare was essentially to see if Jiang Xia would be nervous and scared.

Seeing him so calm, Xiao Qing confirmed that there was a ghost in Shanxi. In his opinion, if he had expected it, Jiang Xia should have brought only 18,000 people to Shanxi on the surface, but in fact he also arranged a secret army to quietly rush to Shanxi to lurk.

If you really go, you will definitely fall into the trap.

So Xiao Qing finally decided to use his own way to cure his body, so he simply divided his troops into two groups. He made great efforts and pretended to be the main army to go to Shanxi to stop Jiangxia from returning to Beijing.

In addition, we move forward in a low-key manner and take the real main force to go straight to the capital.

Taking the capital and killing Jiang Xia are both of them of great significance to Xiao Qing. At present, it seems easier to take the capital than killing Jiang Xia. However, whether this is the case, everything has to be debated later.

I remember Mu Xin’s classic poem “Slow in the past” has a sentence, “The sunlight in the past has become slow.

Cars, horses, and emails are all slow, and you only love one person in your life."

In fact, it is not only that. The marching journey in the past was also very slow, so I often heard that a battle lasted for several years. In fact, walking alone may have been around for nearly half a year.

Jiang Xia also ignored whether Xiao Qing was going to come to Shanxi to attack him or go north to attack the capital. He lived in Taiyuan with peace of mind, while building a large amount of construction, and at the same time he was interested in rectifying people's livelihood.

After more than seven years in charge of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Xia knew very well what to do about rectifying people's livelihood. He eliminated the bandits and bandits in Shanxi and re-created the people's household registration. Then he distributed agricultural species and tools, distributed transitional rations and money...

In just one or two months, Shanxi may not have had much movement, but huge changes have begun to occur near Taiyuan.

More and more people come to live near Taiyuan. In the past, just hearing how wise and powerful Jiangxia was, and loved the people as much as their sons. Now the people in Shanxi have truly felt all this.

Although the war was about to break out, suddenly, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have fallen into peace that was rare in recent days.

However, in this peace, Jiang Xia received a letter from the capital. Seeing the letter from the flying pigeon, Jiang Xia's heart suddenly ached, because the letter said that Cui Ziwei, who lives in Lengyue Palace, jumped into the well and committed suicide at night while the guards were not paying attention.

Jiang Xia naturally didn't care about Cui Ziwei's life or death. But in Cui Ziwei's belly, she was pregnant with Zhu Zaijiang's only flesh and blood. Once she died, Jiang Xia could imagine Zhu Zaijiang's heartache.

Jiang Xia quickly picked up his pen and wrote a letter, ordering people to send it back to the capital and hand it over to Zhu Zaijiang.

At the end of Chongguang Road in the capital, in a mansion. Zhu Zaijiang was looking at Cui Ziwei lying on the bed. He looked back at Li Bayi, as if asking, "Why aren't you awake yet?"

Li Bayi also looked back and there was an old man standing behind him. The old man bowed slightly and said, "If you go back to the emperor, it usually takes twelve hours to fully exert the antidote to turn the seven soul pills. Please rest assured that the empress will never have any problems."
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