Early in the morning, inside Prince Jing's Mansion.
The snow is still falling, it¡¯s already New Year¡¯s Eve. The palace became lively, and the manor owners from the Hubei fiefdom came to Beijing to pay accounts with a year's harvest and accounts.
King Jing was famously wealthy among the vassal kings. In recent years, relying on Jiajing's favor, he had acquired extensive land and occupied mountains, forests, and rivers. And because he hasn't returned to Hubei for several years, even he doesn't know how much property he has until now.
During the 40th year of Jiajing's reign, he was impeached by civil servants for occupying people's land. Over the years, King Jing finally restrained himself. However, private property continues to expand at a snowballing rate.
Although this is a good thing, it has caused hardship to the accountants in the palace. They stayed up for several nights and still did not check the accounts, and all of them were red-eyed.
Xu Wei was so tired that he was about to fall apart. As the chief staff officer of the palace, he had to deal with too many things. And King Jing has no talents to use here, so he has to do all the big and small things personally. A gentleman doesn't talk about profit, but if you want to make a difference, you can't do it without money, at least in the war to seize the throne. At this time, the amount of money sent out by King Jing almost became a mountain.
After a long night, I was exhausted, but my spirit was extremely high.
Xu Wei didn¡¯t go to sleep either. He simply sat in the study, lit a small stove, smashed the tea cakes with a silver hammer, and put them into a purple clay pot.
The fragrance of tea overflows, and the snow falls silently, which is quite elegant.
The red plum tree at the door of the study is in bloom, and the red color is dazzling.
"Ah!" King Jing came in yawning and said with a smile, "Mr. Xu is so elegant, getting up so early to enjoy the snow."
The tea had been boiled. Lin Tingchen, who was behind King Jing, stepped forward, lifted the teapot, and poured a cup for Xu Wei and King Jing each.
Xu Wei picked up the cup and warmed his hands. But he didn't have the strength to speak to King Jing.
Look at King Jing¡¯s appearance. I must have not slept well all night, and I don¡¯t know which girl I was hanging out with, but I thought I woke up early.
He looked at the red plums at the door again. Xu Wei suddenly felt frightened, always having a premonition that something was about to happen.
The plum blossoms are as red as blood.
Especially after Wu Jieshe ambushed and killed three of the spies he sent out a while ago, this feeling became even stronger.
??????????????????? As soon as I took a sip of tea, a spy walked in quickly and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, Mr. Xu."
This man was responsible for delivering news from Xiyuan and the palace. As soon as he saw him, Xu Wei became nervous and asked quickly: "If there is any news, please get up and talk."
"Yes." The spy stood up and said, "Your Majesty, Li Chengliang and his son left Xiyuan early this morning. They went to different places."
King Jing: "Who is Li Chengliang?" He felt that this person's name was familiar, but he couldn't remember it.
Xu Wei was completely speechless for such an important person. The prince actually forgot. Needless to say, Li Chengliang must have been inserted into Xiyuan by Wu Jie to deliver the news. The battle for the right to inherit the throne is related to the lives and fortunes of the royal family and Yan Dang. King Jing didn't seem to care. Some people have good intentions, but they are unwilling to do things down-to-earth and make plans.
Lin Tingchen saw that Xu Wei's face was ashen and he hurriedly whispered to King Jing: "Your Majesty, this Li Chengliang was originally a small officer in Liaodong. Recently, he was promoted by Wu Jie and entered Xiyuan as a replacement officer."
"He's just an off-duty officer. He doesn't have to be on duty. He only needs to check the post at the right time. No one else can control where he goes." King Jing took a sip of tea casually and praised: "Mr. Xu's tea is good, it's from Fujian."
Xu Wei was too lazy to pay attention to Prince Jing, since he entered Prince Jing¡¯s Mansion anyway. He took care of all the affairs here, so he pondered for a moment and asked the spy: "Do you know where Li Chengliang and his son went?"
Spy: "Mr. Xu, I don't know. Anyway, it's not all the way. There are places in the south and north of the city, and they seem to be in a hurry."
"In a hurry?" Xu Wei's eyebrows twitched, the tea cup in his hand trembled, and a few hot tea splashed out: "Go down."
When the spies went down, Xu Wei murmured: "Li Chengliang left Xiyuan just one day after he took office. It's still early in the morning Ordinary people take up new posts, so why should they endure it today? Look at the situation, today No, wrong!"
His voice became louder, and then he slammed his fork and cup on the table and shouted: "Something must have happened in Xiyuan. Your lord, please enter Xiyuan immediately. Hurry, go see your majesty."
King Jing was a little embarrassed: "It's not good to go now I go to see my father in the afternoon every day. If I go early in the morning, I might make him unhappy.""You!" Xu Wei stood up angrily: "Just go straight, what nonsense are you talking about!"
"My kingwell, let's go." King Jing was obviously a little afraid of Xu Wei, so he took a step back and had to respond calmly.
Then, Xu Wei ignored King Jing and said to Lin Tingchen: "Tingchen, didn't you volunteer to go to Duke Cheng as a lobbyist before? I stopped you before. Today is the time, the heat has come. , go quickly."
King Jing also shouted: "Yes, yes, Tingchen, go to Duke Cheng Guo immediately. As long as you persuade Duke Cheng, the whole of Beijing will belong to me."
Lin Tingchen was overjoyed: "Okay, I'll go over right now. Prince and Mr. Xu can rest assured that this matter will definitely be handled properly." He had been in King Jing's camp for some time and had never had a chance to perform. Only then did he take the initiative to go to Cheng Guogong to find a lobbyist. If you can win over Duke Cheng, you can properly follow the dragon's lead.
Looking at Xu Wei's expression, Lin Tingchen also realized that today's situation was a little different from the past, and secretly clenched his fists.
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After coming out of Xu Wei¡¯s place, Lin Tingchen confidently said to King Jing: ¡°Don¡¯t worry, Your Majesty, I can be sure that the Duke of Cheng will be on your side. Is Your Majesty going out now, just in time to go all the way?¡±
King Jing yawned: "What are you going to Xiyuan for now? I'll go take a nap first and then go there after lunch."
Lin Tingchen stuttered a little: "But butbut Mr. Xu asked the prince to go over immediately"
"Mr. Xu is not Mr. Xu." King Jing became a little unhappy: "It's not like there is only one Xu Wei in the world. He has never met your majesty, but he doesn't know the temper of Long Live Lord. My father's temper has become worse and worse in the past two years. The world is weird. Everything has to be according to his wishes. If he violates it even slightly, he will immediately be furious. Going to see him in the afternoon is a rule set by my father. How can I dare to disobey it? Besides, a while ago, Yan Ge¡¯s old colleague Ben The king said that the current situation is worse than silence, so we must follow Wanzai's temperament, and we must make him happy before we can talk about it."
After saying that, without any further ado, he went directly back to the palace, leaving the stunned Lin Tingchen aside.
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When King Jing and Lin Tingchen left, Xu Wei felt even more confused, but the tea was tasteless when he drank it.
There was no way to go to sleep, so I walked behind the guqin and stretched out my fingers to play a few times, but it couldn't form a tune.
Amidst the noisy music of the piano, the quietly falling snowflakes became chaotic.
Chen Hong also got up early, holding a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" and reading slowly.
"These days, how can the news of the deterioration of the master of Yuxigong's health be hidden from him, the owner of Dongchang Factory?
?????????????????? If you guessed correctly, Your Majesty, this is what happened in the past few days.
It¡¯s all being calculated.
The preparations that need to be made have been made, and all that is left is to wait.
As for the timing of activation, it must be grasped to the extreme. If you are too late, you must be prepared to be overtaken by others; but if you are too early and the army is sent out, you will have to bear the charge of treason, and then you will really be doomed.
As for King Jing, Zhuzi is not enough.
Let me, Chen Hong, arrange everything for you, Prince!
"Zengzi said: A scholar cannot be without great perseverance. The responsibilities are heavy and the road is long. Isn't it important to be benevolent when one considers one's responsibilities? Isn't it too far to end after one's death?"
Silently reciting this sentence, Chen Hong felt something in his heart and murmured: "Zengzi said: An ambitious person must be broad-minded and strong and courageous, because he shoulders a great mission, and the road to realize the mission is very long. Put it. Isn't it important to regard the promotion of "benevolence" as one's own mission? Isn't it also very far away to stop fighting until death? Who said that our chamberlains are no longer soldiers, isn't it just because of that knife?"
He put down the book in his hand, picked up the pen, dipped some ink, and wrote on the paper.
It was the eight -strand Times of this sentence.
Soon, I came to the crotch part.
I haven¡¯t written an article for several years, but this time I wrote it with great joy.
Chen Hong said to himself: "Who said we eunuchs don't study anymore? With my articles, even if I take the Jinshi exam, I will easily pass."
At this moment, a fan ran in: "Manufacturer, we are in urgent need."
"Wait, wait until I finish. Don't worry, it's almost over." Chen Hong shook his head towards the man and began to write the conclusion.
After a long while, he threw away the pen and let out a breath of joy: "Tell me, what's the matter?"
??Fanzi: "Early this morning, Your Majesty woke up and was in surprisingly good spirits. He read the poems for half an hour. At the same time, Li Chengliang and his son went out and went to Prince Yu's Mansion, Wucheng Bingma Si Yamen, and Wu City respectively. Festival House."
"Oh, that's it!" Chen Hong looked outside blankly.
Outside the study, a eunuch was sweeping away the snow: "Crash!" The sound spread far away.
"Tell him to stop scanning No, wait." Chen Hong's brows wrinkled and relaxed for a moment.
He slowly turned around and shouted three times with all his strength to a picture of mountains and flowing water hanging on the wall.
That person was shocked: "Factory owner"
Chen Hong suddenly turned around, with a bright look on his face: "Notice down and order the troops. Your Majesty has ordered that the East Jishi Factory will immediately station in Xiyuan and impose martial law!"
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