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The fat prince quickly chased him out and grabbed Zhang Qu's sleeve: "Mr. Haoran, don't leave, Mr. Haoran, you're alone..."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince smiled wryly and said, "I don't want to catch those censors."

Zhang Qu took a deep breath, lowered his head, and said, "His Royal Highness is now acting on His Majesty's behalf, and what His Highness does is God's will, and the old minister dare not influence God's will."

His Royal Highness smiled wryly and said: "Mr. Haoran, don't say that, you are always the pillar of the country, what you say just sounds like..."

Zhang Qu sighed and looked up at His Highness the Crown Prince.

Well, just wait and see for a few more days.

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The East Palace is in chaos, but Li Xin has already ushered in the joy of housewarming. This house is his first house in the capital. The generals of Lin Wei Zuoying.

After what happened last time, Habayashi Wei Zuoying felt a little indebted to Li Xin. This time, Habayashi Wei was almost all present.

Even Hou Jingde, the general of Habayashi Wei Zuoying, came to the door with some gifts to congratulate Li Xin.

Such a three-entry house in the capital is not cheap. If one can live in such a house, one can be regarded as a successful person in the capital. Take Hou Jingde as an example. I can't afford such a house.

The big black-faced man sighed enviously to Li Xin: "Brother Li is really lucky. He set up a family business at a young age, unlike a brother who lives in an old house at such an old age. He is everywhere on weekdays. be taught by the elders."

Hou Jingde's old father was a general who made great contributions in the war of annihilating the country, and was later named Marquis of Zhongyong. However, this Marquis is like an honorary title, which is lifelong and cannot be passed on to Hou Jingde.

After the old Hou Ye retired, he had been lying at home recuperating because of his old injuries. Hou Jingde liked to drink, and his old father often beat him at home and scolded him for being worthless.

Li Xin squinted his eyes, pulled the big man to a secluded corner, and smiled: "Brother Hou, do you want to get promoted and get rich?"

Hou Jingde glanced at Li Xin cautiously, then grinned.

"Brother Li, Hou knows what you are going to say. You just want to recruit me into the gang for His Royal Highness Wei Wang. In the first few months, depending on the speed of your promotion, the old brother will follow His Highness Wei Wang as soon as his brain is hot." , but not now."

Hou Jingde shook his head and said: "Now that the crown prince has been established, it is impossible for Hou to take his life and property to rebel against you."

Li Xin pulled Hou Jingde's sleeve and laughed, "The crown prince will be abolished within three months!"

Hou Jingde's face changed suddenly, and after looking around, he said in a low voice: "Brother Li, don't talk nonsense!"

Li Xin squinted his eyes and said, "I just want to ask Brother Hou, if the crown prince is deposed, would you like to fall to Wei Palace?"

Hou Jingde was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Brother Li, I have no reason to fall for anyone..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Li Xin sneered and said, "That's right, Brother Hou, in your position, no matter who becomes the emperor, you will still be General Zuo Lang of Habayashi Guard, but..."

"But what about the future?"

Li Xin squinted his eyes and said: "In the future, the new monarch will send his confidants to take over your position. Brother Hou's position in the capital is not high now. If he leaves Habayashi Guard, where can he go?"

Li Xin lowered his voice: "If I remember correctly, before the old Lord Hou retired, he was a general from the second rank, but when he came to Brother Hou, he was only from the fifth rank."

Li Xin's voice was like a nightmare.

"Brother Hou is now in his 40s, what is his future?"

Chapter 268

Hou Jingde's expression turned a little ugly.

As the saying goes, you don't hit someone in the face, and you don't blame someone when you curse. Li Xin's words really touched his sore spot.

His old father, although not a hereditary marquis, was also a second-rank general in the army before he died, only inferior to Ye Mingzhong Xuantong's level of general, but in his generation, he is still a Habayashi guard General Zuo Lang.

A military officer from the fifth rank!

Even the youngest son of the Ye family easily climbed onto his head. Now that the Hou family has reached his generation, it can be said that the family is in decline.

This is also the reason for Hou Jingde's depression. It's not that he is incompetent, but firstly, he doesn't know how to drill, and secondly, his father retired too early due to injury, so that there is no one to take care of him. He doesn't have a marquis, so he is 40 years old. In his early days, he was still a general of Habayashi guard.

If things go on like this, in another 20 years, he will not be able to get into the top management.

The tall Hou Jingde carefully looked around, and then sighed to Li Xin: "Brother Li, if you work for His Royal Highness Wei Wang, you naturally have to talk to Wei Wang, but if you ask yourself, even if I follow Wei Wang, I can be promoted. Did you get rich?"

Li Xin blinked and smiled, "Why not?"

"Not to mention that His Majesty has already appointed a crown prince, even if, as you said, the crown prince is to be... well, the next crown prince may not necessarily be His Royal Highness King Wei."

Hou Jingde coughed, and said in a muffled voice: "You must know that among the four princes staying in Beijing, His Royal Highness King Wei is the youngest."

Li Xin said with a smile: "If age can determine the throne, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have been the Crown Prince ten years ago."

Hou Jingde took a deep breath, and finally shook his head and said: "Today Hou is only here to congratulate Brother Li, so I won't say anything extra. If Brother Li is alone like this, Hou will do any business with Brother Li, but Hou There is another family in a certain family, and I can't take their lives to gamble on their future."

"Goodbye."

Li Xin shook his head.

"Brother Hou, you and I have met for a while, can you sit down and listen to my brother?"

Hou Jingde stopped, and Li Xin pulled him to sit under the pavilion in his yard, then Li Xin pointed to himself, and asked, "Brother Hou, how long have I been in Habayashi Guard?"

It is now October of the 18th year of Chengde, and Li Xin is a Habayashi guard who only entered after the new year, which means that it has only been about ten months now.

"Less than a year."

"How long has Brother Hou been in Habayashi Guard?"

Hou Jingde took a deep breath and said with emotion: "It has been 16 years."

Hou Jingde worked in Habayashi Guard for more than ten years before becoming General Zuo Lang, and then served in the position of General Zuo Lang for five or six years.

Li Xin smiled: "Brother Hou, anyone can tell that I am far inferior to you when it comes to leading troops and training, and even worse when it comes to personal force. If it were normal times, I would stay in the Habayashi Army for more than half a year." , can be promoted from team vice to team leader, it's already pretty amazing, isn't it?"

Hou Jingde also smiled: "I first entered Habayashi Guard as a captain, and after three years as a captain, I was promoted to captain."

"But now I am on an equal footing with Brother Hou."

Li Xin glanced at Hou Jingde indifferently: "Brother Hou knows that I am working for the Wei Palace, so Brother Hou thinks that the Wei Palace, or His Royal Highness the King of Wei, has the ability to allow me to be in Yulin within ten months. Is General Wei Youlang in the position?"

Naturally there is not.

In fact, not to mention General Youro, even an ordinary Habayashiro in Habayashi Guard, the princes have no right to interfere.

This is personally led by the emperor, and no one can intervene except the emperor.

Hou Jingde's expression changed.

He understood what Li Xin said.