I did evil in the feudal land, but I was called a virtuous king

Li Jianan pretended to glance at Hou Gonggong's guards, and immediately showed a clear expression:

"I understand, it's inconvenient to talk about it here, right? Eunuch remembers our secret, as long as I'm in Beijing in the future, I will rely on Eunuch!"

Eunuch Hou frowned again, what is this all about?

What he didn't notice was that after hearing this, a guard's eyes became cold.

Li An beckoned to Eunuch Hou. Eunuch Hou didn't know why, but he still moved over for the sake of money.

"After I go back, tell Li Xu and the people in the capital, whoever dares to extend their hands to the southern border, I will cut off their hands!"

With that said, Li An handed a few tokens to Eunuch Hou.

When Eunuch Hou saw the token, his eyes widened in fear.

This is the token of the third prince Li Xu's dead man.

Eunuch Hou knew that the third prince, Li Xu, had sent many dead men over this trip.

The purpose is to secretly monitor Li An, and it is also possible that the third prince has already murdered Li An!

The tokens of the dead men are all here, which means that Li An already knows everything.

Eunuch Hou is completely panicked now, he is afraid that Li An will retaliate against him in his own way, and intercept and kill them halfway!

"Get lost." Li An meaningfully patted Eunuch Hou's neck.

Eunuch Hou was sweating profusely, and rushed back to the carriage as if he had received an amnesty, and said anxiously, "Go back to Beijing!"

The team hurried back to the capital, and Eunuch Hou looked trembling and bewildered all the way.

Xiao Shunzi, who was in the same car, didn't know why Eunuch Hou behaved like this, his eyes stayed on the box of silver.

"Hou Gonggong, the prince gave you a large box of silver, which must be several thousand taels?"

Hearing this, Eunuch Hou came back to his senses, and also looked at the box containing the silver.

He showed a thoughtful expression, if Li An really planned to intercept him halfway, there is no need to give him a box of silver, right?

Thinking of this, Eunuch Hou relaxed a little, and ordered Xiao Shunzi to open the box.

After the box was opened, the top layer was filled with white silver ingots, but when Xiao Shunzi put his hand down, Xiao Shunzi's expression changed drastically.

"Eunuch, the bottom is full of stones!"

"What?" Eunuch Hou's eyes widened, and he quickly reached in to check, and it turned out that they were all stones.

"Li An!" Eunuch Hou gritted his teeth!

……

Qingshui County, Ping An Bank.

"Liu Qing, you did a good job this time." Li An looked at Liu Qing with satisfaction.

This time the dead soldiers sent by the third prince Li Xu were all found by Liu Qing, and then killed one by one.

Li An also had to admire Liu Qing's intelligence ability is really strong.

"My lord, I want to add more people to the intelligence organization." Liu Qing cupped his fists.

Liu Qing not only wanted to expand the intelligence organization, he also wanted to help Li An train a group of dead soldiers.

Now Li An is surrounded by a dead man, for a member of the royal family, it is really too shabby.

Moreover, Li An handed over all the intelligence organizations to him, and he spent most of his time collecting intelligence outside, so it was difficult to protect Li An as closely as before.

Li An pinched his chin and thought for a while, he naturally knew the importance of information.

Li An nodded and agreed to Liu Qing's proposal: "Do you have a suitable candidate?"

"Now there are a large number of orphans in Qingshui County, and their parents died in the previous natural disaster.

Now these children live by begging and stealing! "

Children who have no father, no mother, and no worries and cares are the most suitable for training into dead soldiers.

Li An thought for a moment, and then said: "You can make arrangements, train for a period of time first, let them go if they want to leave, and send them to the school to listen to those who stay besides teaching them martial arts."

Liu Qing looked at Li An in puzzlement, why did he let them learn to train dead soldiers?

What Li An wants is not just dead soldiers who work for him, he wants to cultivate a group of confidantes who are only loyal to him.

……

In the capital, Eunuch Hou hurried back to the capital at last.

As soon as he returned to Beijing, he rushed to the imperial study: "Your Majesty, the old slave is back."

"Hmm." The old emperor nodded and didn't ask any other questions.

Eunuch Hou was stunned for a moment, why is it different from what he expected?

But since the emperor didn't ask, he took the initiative to speak. He hated Li An all the way, and couldn't wait for a second.

"Your Majesty, the King of Southern Border may have the intention of treason!" Eunuch Hou said solemnly.

Eunuch Hou charged Li An with the felony of treason as soon as he said it. This is to kill Li An directly!

"Oh?" The old emperor looked at Eunuch Hou with great interest: "How do you say that?"

"Your Majesty, this old slave is going to Qingshui County to announce the decree. The king of Southern Border despised the imperial power. Not only did he not accept the decree, he also..."

Eunuch Hou talked in front of the old emperor for a long time, nothing more than being tricked by Li An in Qingshui County, including those things that Li An didn't follow behind closed doors to think about it, and then he said it with embellishment.

All of these he said in unison that Li An disrespected the imperial power and was provoking Tianwei.

"En, um." The old emperor kept nodding while listening, but he didn't seem to be angry at all.

Eunuch Hou realized something was wrong while he was talking, why isn't His Majesty angry at all?

Chapter 34

"Your Majesty?" Eunuch Hou called tentatively.

"Well, is there anything else?" The old emperor nodded and looked at Eunuch Hou.

"Ah?" Eunuch Hou was stunned, and quickly said: "No more, Your Majesty, the king of Southern Xinjiang is now disrespectful and despises the imperial power, and even expands his army privately. Since ancient times, the chaos of the vassal kings has been vividly remembered. Your Majesty must guard against it!"

"Expand the army privately?" The old emperor smiled: "He just increased the army by 1000 people. It's no big deal. He is also the king of southern Xinjiang. How can he deter one side without military power?"

Eunuch Hou blinked, did His Majesty know about this?Still know so much detail?

Could it be that His Majesty has always sent people to closely monitor Qingshui County?

Eunuch Hou was overthinking this, in fact, it was Li An's letter to the old emperor who arrived in the capital before him.

The content of the family letter was very simple. Li An directly said in the family letter that the dead eunuch was looking for him and bullying his people. He was very upset, so he didn't accept the imperial edict, and took advantage of the old eunuch.

Li An first admitted everything he had done, and asked the old emperor to punish him as he wanted, and then he attached the performance report of Qingshui County.

Including the growth of the population, the improvement of the income level of the people, and the taxes collected in the first quarter, etc.

Seeing Li An's various achievements, the old emperor directly ignored what Li An did to his father-in-law, not to mention how excited he was.

When Li Anchu went to Qingshui County, it only took him one year to develop the impoverished and lifeless Qingshui County into a vibrant place where the people had ample food and clothing. Even an old man like him admired his ability.

Nothing is more convincing than ready-made performance.

Besides, Li An is the heir to the dynasty he is optimistic about. If he is bluffed by an old eunuch who pretends to be a tiger, he will ride on his head and do his best.

After that, how can we deter civil and military officials and rule the world?

Moreover, he issued an order to punish Li An mainly because the pressure from the court was too great. He wanted to help Li An suppress the matter but he couldn't suppress it anymore, so he had to issue an imperial edict.

He didn't intend to punish Li An, and naturally he didn't care how Li An treated his father-in-law.

On the contrary, the old emperor felt that Li An was becoming more and more like himself when he was young. Among the many heirs, the old emperor looked more and more at Li An.

Of course, if there is no letter from Li Anxian sent to the capital, and just relying on the one-sided words of Eunuch Hou, it is unknown what the old emperor would think.

"This trip to Qingshui County has worked hard for you, you can go down." The old emperor waved his hand.

Eunuch Hou opened his mouth, but bowed and retreated.

His eyes were still full of unwillingness, but he also knew that he could not deal with Li An by himself, it seemed that he still had to rely on the third prince.

Not long after leaving the imperial study, a guard stopped Eunuch Hou's way: "Eunuch Hou, the third prince has an invitation."

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, Eunuch Hou said excitedly: "Lead the way quickly."

A pavilion in the lake outside the palace.

A large number of guards have cleared the area around the lake, and a man with a handsome face is sitting in the pavilion.

"Your Highness." Eunuch Hou saluted Li Xu respectfully.

Li Xu nodded: "This trip to Qingshui County has worked hard for my father-in-law."

"No hard work, no hard work." Eunuch Hou had a flattering smile on his face, and immediately clasped his fists again: "Your Highness, you must be the master of this old slave, the king of Nanjiang is too bullying."

"En." Li Xu nodded indifferently, allowing Eunuch Hou to complain about the atrocities he suffered in Qingshui County, embellishing how he was abused by Li An.

The purpose is also very simple, he has suffered so many crimes this trip, why should your third prince reward me with some gold, silver and jewelry?

Otherwise, who will do things for you in the future?

However, facing Eunuch Hou's naked hints, the third prince's expression remained unchanged, and he said lightly: "I heard that when you left Qingshui County, Li An gave you a box of gold, silver and jewelry?"

"Ah?" Eunuch Hou was stunned, and he got angry when he mentioned this.

"The king of Nanjiang is really stingy. The gold and silver he gave to this old slave is only the top layer of silver, which is less than a hundred taels. The bottom layer is all stones."

As for the silver that Li An gave, it was not worth as much as the gold in the purse he was cheated out of.

"So, you accepted it?" The third prince's voice became cold.

Eunuch Hou realized something was wrong in an instant, and knelt down directly: "Your Highness, this old slave is loyal to you, and the money I collected was just to let the guards add some money for tea along the way."

"Don't mention this." Li Xu waved his hand.

Eunuch Hou breathed a sigh of relief.

"Tell Bengong about the secret between you and Li An."

"Your Highness, I have not been alone with the King of Southern Border, so how can I tell you a secret?" Eunuch Hou's forehead was already covered with cold sweat.

He finally understood why Li An had to say such a sentence out of nowhere when he left Qingshui County.

The purpose is to make the third prince suspicious of himself.

Li An is such a vicious scheme, he only hates himself, why didn't he think of this at the time?

"Your Highness, this is all a conspiracy of the King of Southern Border, and I hope His Highness will clearly observe it." Eunuch Hou said solemnly.

Li Xu glanced coldly at Eunuch Hou from the corner of his eyes, "I can't get in touch with all the dead men I planted in Qingshui County. Does Eunuch Hou know about this?"

"Your Highness, all the dead soldiers placed by His Highness were killed by Li An. When the old slave left Qingshui County, Li An personally handed over the tokens of the dead soldiers to the old slave. The old slave is about to report this matter to His Highness."

As he said that, Eunuch Hou took out a few tokens of the dead men.

Li Xu looked at these tokens coldly and did not speak.

After a long time, Li Xu said: "The slayer I sent was extremely skilled and cautious, how could he be killed by Li An overnight?

Ben Gong thinks there is a traitor among us, who does Eunuch Hou think this traitor could be? "

Li Xu looked at Eunuch Hou with murderous intent in his eyes.

Hearing this, Eunuch Hou was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, he knocked on the ground directly: "Your Highness, I don't know, please give me some time, and I will definitely help Your Highness find the traitor!"

"Boom, boom, boom~" Li Xu tapped the table lightly with his fingers, as if he was thinking about something.

Eunuch Hou's heartbeat also continued to speed up following Li Xu's movements.

"Did Li An ask you to bring me a message?" Li Xu asked.

"Your Highness, Li An did ask the old slave to speak."

"tell me the story."

"He asked the old slave to tell His Highness that he will cut off the hand of anyone who dares to extend his hand to the southern border in the future!"

"Hehe~" Li Xu smiled, and the contemptuous laughter gradually turned into an arrogant laugh.

"Li An, Li An, you really haven't changed at all. If you just stay in southern Xinjiang and be a happy king, it's fine. If you still dare to put your mind on the court, don't blame me, a bad brother. Remember the brotherhood."