cold moon is king

After a few days, the news came that Lou Ma's envoy was about to enter the capital, and the palace began to restrict entry and exit again. Even if he had a token, he still needed the emperor's special order to allow him to leave the palace.

But the purchasing eunuchs have been out of the palace a few days ago, and will not be out of the palace for a while, Chu Jiangli took advantage of the early morning to pass the note to his father, Chu Zhenhe glanced at him, and silently hid the note in the wide sleeves.

The fifth prince suddenly changed his temper. He listened quietly in the hall, and occasionally made some insightful remarks. The third prince, Lu Jinchi, was still as quiet as ever, as if he was a transparent person.

The fifth prince has changed so much, and I don’t know if it was because of Concubine Yun Gui’s advice or for other reasons. The people from Chu Jiangli stared at it for a long time and found nothing. The only thing that can be considered special is that Lu Jinxu recently met with the third prince. It was quite close.

The mother and concubine of the third prince is Concubine Jing, and Concubine Jing's mother's family is a Taishi Ling with no power and power, and the third prince is not allowed to be reused by the emperor on weekdays, and has always been a dispensable existence.

Now he is suddenly walking around with the emperor's favorite, the hottest fifth prince. Could it be that after many years of silence, he finally has political ambitions?

After retreating from the court, Chu Jiangli was left alone.

There was silence in the imperial study room, only the noisy Cicada outside the room was calling. After Lu Anyan called him in, he buried himself in writing the memorial without saying a word, as if he had forgotten his existence.

Wan Fu'an secretly took a look at Lu Anyan's face, and rubbed the ink carefully, not daring to make a sound.

Finally Lu Anyan put down his pen, he frowned and glanced at a little ink stain on the memorial, and said in a deep voice, "Noisy."

Wan Fu'an hurriedly said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, this servant deserves to die. If you can't share your majesty's worries, then this servant will deal with it later?"

Lu Anyan raised his eyes, and his deep eyes fell on Chu Jiangli's masked face, "No need, everything has its destiny."

Wan Fuan fell silent again.

"Since Chu Aiqing has shown her true face to others, why is she still wearing a mask?" Lu Anyan seemed genuinely curious.

Chu Jiangli said: "Go back to Your Majesty, I'm just used to this."

"Take it off and show me."

Chu Jiangli stretched out his hand to take off the carved mask, his sharp eyebrows were unshielded like a sword out of its sheath, and the cold light shone slightly.

Lu Anyan was silent for a moment, and suddenly let out a smile with unknown meaning, "The prince is an idiot, he is different from his mother, he is very lucky."

Chu Jiangli couldn't figure out what Lu Anyan meant, so he remained silent.

"I also want to say something from the bottom of my heart today, Chu Aiqing is outstanding in talent and appearance, if the prince is not... you two are a match made in heaven, I still feel a little unreal - Chu Aiqing has really become my daughter-in-law .”

"Chu Aiqing, what are your thoughts since you married the prince?"

Lu Anyan's voice was not as heavy as usual, if Chu Jiangli were a little more stupid, he might really have thought it was a heart-to-heart conversation between the monarch and his subjects.

But Chu Jiangli is not stupid.

He frowned slightly, revealing a trace of inexplicable melancholy, but he said on his mouth: "Your Highness is fine, and I'm fine these days."

His expression looked extremely bad.

The reluctance he revealed pleased Lu Anyan very well, but Lu Anyan naturally would not trust him, "The prince was injured a few days ago, and Aiqing has been taking care of the prince. I heard that it must be very tiring to experience it personally. Bar."

"Fortunately, there are imperial physicians and palace servants to assist the minister, so I am not too tired."

"Oh, is that so? It's been hard work for Aiqing. I don't know—" Lu Anyan paused, "Which prince does Aiqing think is more appropriate for the envoy from Lou Ma to go to Beijing?"

Chu Jiangli raised his head in amazement, facing An Yan's scrutinizing eyes on the road, his eyes were clear, and he said as a matter of course: "Although the concubine and concubine are different, in terms of ability, it is more appropriate for the eldest prince to do it."

Lu Anyan frowned and said, "Elder Prince?"

"Yes, the eldest prince is superior to other princes in terms of age and experience, so he should be the best candidate."

Lu Anyan was quite dissatisfied with the eldest prince recently, but he didn't show it, but asked instead: "What does Aiqing think of the fifth prince?"

Chu Jiang's heart skipped a beat, could it be that Lu Anyan was really interested in this alien?

The bastard of blood intends to cultivate?

Moreover, Lu Jinxu was only 15 years old. Although he went to the battlefield with his father at the age of 15, the fifth prince was raised in a honeypot after all. He had seen Lu Jinxu's ridiculous appearance before, and he did not trust him very much.

"I've heard about the reason for Lou Ma's envoy to go to Beijing, but the Fifth Prince has a deep relationship with him. I think that we should avoid suspicion."

As soon as the words fell, the study room fell into silence.

Wan Fuan stood on one side holding his breath, completely pretending to be invisible.

"What Aiqing said is still true." Lu Anyan stroked the memorial handed over by the fifth prince just now with his palm, and said: "Then leave it to the third prince."

Chu Jiangli had already guessed this result, and responded in a low voice: "Third Prince, it is indeed appropriate to be humble and prudent, to care about the world, and to support the country."

After Chu Jiang left, Lu Anyan pondered for a long time about what he said just now with a gun and a stick. Wan Fuan quietly looked at Lu Anyan's expression while studying ink, and suddenly heard Lu Anyan ask: "Recently, the third prince how?"

Wan Fu'an thought about it and replied: "The third prince has been in his palace recently, but the fifth prince often goes to look for him."

Lu Anyan nodded slightly, then took out the next memorial and began to review it.

Wan Fu'an didn't know what the Holy Majesty was thinking, just like the incident many years ago, he didn't understand that the Holy Majesty loved that person very much, and he wanted to do it like this, so he could only sigh silently, being born in the emperor's family is all kind .

As expected, the matter of meeting Lou Ma Guolai was handed over to the third prince. Lu Jinchi was a little surprised, but he still quickly realized that his fingertips trembled slightly when he thanked the decree. All this fell into Chu Jiangli's eyes .

Now there are two big factions in the court, one is the eldest prince, and the other is the princeling party headed by Chu Jiangli.

It is also a struggle between civil and military officials.

Lu Jinchi's recent deeds are quite different from his previous aloofness.

Moreover, why is it the fifth prince?

Chu Jiangli looked Lu Jinyin sideways for a moment, then silently looked away.

Even if the civil servants in the court were dissatisfied, they could not express it, because the recent deeds of the eldest prince were too embarrassing, and if they were told out, they were afraid that others would laugh out loud, and they would also lose face.

There were even a few unremarkable civil servants who secretly delivered letters to Chu Jiangli, but the words in the letter were sincere, and they wished to embarrass the prince immediately. It was so touching that Chu Jiangli directly threw the letter into the fire pit.

As soon as the wind blows, they will fall to the other side. They are still hostile in the morning, but they will be the most loyal ministers in the next court.

Such wall grass——

He is not rare.

Hearing that the envoys of the Lou Ma Kingdom came to Beijing, the third prince was very busy with this matter, but the crown prince hid in the palace and played chess with his own crown princess. There was slight sweat on Lu Jinyin's forehead.

Until losing five games in a row, Lu Jinyin held the black stones in his hand, frowned, stared at the board for a while, and finally threw the black stones into the chess box angrily, and said sullenly: "I can't play alone, I can't play alone!" .”

Chu Jiangli put down the white stone in his hand, and couldn't help but smile on his face, "Actually, Huaibing is also pretty good."

Lu Jinyin shook his head, "I can't go alone anymore, I'm going to play chess with Shi Xing alone."

Chu Jiangli smiled and said: "Compared to me, Shi Xing's chess skills are even more outstanding. It's not too late for Huai Bing to practice chess with me before playing chess with him."

Lu Jinyin didn't say anything, he would rather fly the kite with Ling Qiu.

Of course, there are not many interesting things in the East Palace. Lu Jinyin only reads books and plays games, and he can't leave the East Palace even half a step, but he also heard the news that Lou Ma's envoys came to Beijing, and he was very curious about it.

He asked countless questions in one day, including whether Chu Jiangli had ever fought against Lou Ma, what the people of Lou Ma looked like, and if Lou Ma went to war with Daxia, would Chu Jiangli go there.

When he answered the last question, Chu Jiangli was also stunned. He wanted to go, but now he was not as concerned with His Highness as he was in the past, and he was even more concerned about His Highness.

Lu Jinyin looked at him in confusion, and asked, "Is Yueming going, is he going?"

Chu Jiangli was a little hesitant, so he could only evade: "It is up to His Majesty to decide whether to go or not.

Let the minister go, and the minister has to go. "

Lu Jinyin naturally knew this truth in his heart, but he still didn't give up and asked: "What if the father doesn't want Yueming to go?"

Chu Jiangli said: "Of course it's not my turn."

Lu Jinyin still couldn't rest assured. He knew that Chu Jiangli was full of family and country. Although he had a lot of weight in Chu Jiangli's heart, it was just...that it was not something Chu Jiangli could do to abandon the war for the sake of the love of his children. .

Even before the incident happened, he had already started to worry about these things. From the heart of a monarch and minister, he should also put the country first, but his selfishness is too heavy. Others can charge forward, but Chu Jiangli can't. Chu Jiangli was going to be behind him.

In this way, he is at ease.

No one was allowed to enter or leave the palace, but Shi Xue still came several times in the middle of the night, bringing the account books of the officials on the long list before.

It would be an understatement to say that these people are moths. The above figures can be added up to pay the military salary for several years. Chu Jiangli remembered that the military salary could not be paid before, and the soldiers had no choice but to eat the corned buns. The corned buns were so rough that they cut their throats. It's hard to swallow even cold water.

He believed that the long war at that time led to an empty treasury, but since then those moths have crazily gnawed at Daxia's muscles and bones, the flesh and blood of soldiers, can Chu Jiangli not hate it?

The soldiers in front are working hard, and these moths are hiding in the comfortable capital, sucking their blood.

If people know it, it will chill the hearts of the soldiers.

Holding the heavy account book in his hand, he turned his mind back and forth. After recording the names of a few key people, he ordered Nie Zheng to copy them down and black out the names of those people.

Shi Xue was puzzled, "Brother, you won't let them go, will you?"

Chu Jiangli looked at those names, his eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "Put some news out, keep an eye on these people, don't let them escape from Beijing, I'll keep them for other purposes."

There is still value in these people, it's a pity to kill them now.