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"Zhongjin," Liu Zhi said, the cold winter mist lingered around his mouth, and the clear voice caught Zheng Zhongjin's ears, which brought Zheng Zhongjin back to his senses.

"Your Majesty, I have met Prince Yong." Zheng Zhongjin bowed his hands and saluted, lowering his head and lowering his eyes to cover up the sudden skipping of his heart.

Liu Zhi didn't seem to notice it, but his jade hand lightly stroked his arm, blocking the salute: "Everyone in the world can salute to me, but you don't have to." After saying that, he turned and raised his foot forward: "Walk with me."

I haven't seen him for ten years, even if I was overwhelmed by this person's confidence on the way home, but at this moment, I couldn't bear to ignore him, and followed him half a step away.

It snowed in the morning, and there was inevitably a thin layer of snow covering the flowers and plants on the rockery in the palace. Now that winter is cold, the plum blossoms are in full bloom, but most of the gentleman flowers are planted in the harem. They are far away from here, so they are not easy to see, but they can be seen now. Yes, it's just the flower branches in pots placed one after another under the corridor.

Most of the industry has withered, and the previous color is not seen.

"The scenery in the palace is like this every year." Liu Zhi walked a few steps, showing a bit of boredom on his face: "When I first saw it, I only thought it was bustling, but if I saw it a few more times, it would only be bustling."

Zheng Zhongjin was silent for a moment, and replied: "It may not be bad."

"Zheng Zhongjin really thinks so?" Liu Zhi looked back at him, his gaze was full of affection that Zheng Zhongjin couldn't understand.

Zheng Zhongjin stepped forward, avoiding his scorching gaze: "The imperial palace is gorgeous, the world is safe, the borders are fixed, the whole country is peaceful, and it has never been bad."

Liu Zhi smiled, looking at Zheng Zhongjin's upright figure, the general's court uniform fit him very well, he had never seen his heroic appearance as a young soldier, now, the young soldier has become a young general, and he opened and shut his mouth with him. State affairs, Liu Zhi felt disappointed, but still asked him with a light smile: "Zhongjin, what do you want?"

Zheng Zhongjin turned around and asked him back: "I would like to ask Prince Yong, return to Beijing, what do you want? Is it really that position?"

Liu Zhi knew that he would ask this question, so he had a half-smile, half-answer: "As far as Yu Zhongjin is concerned, do I want that position, what's the problem?"

"Daqi has been fighting the Qiang people for nearly ten years, and the officials have been stationed in Baicheng for more than five years. After years of fighting, the treasury is empty. Now it seems that the northern border is relatively safe, but it is only before the heavy rain. The dark clouds are getting more and more oppressive. If at this time, the dispute between the party and the lords of the DPRK and China, if there is a careless move, a strong enemy will wait for it, fearing that the society will be worried, the official will be demoted, and there will be no talent for governing the world. Those who only want the country and the people, and the borders will be peaceful. Kill him."

Every word and every word of the young general came from the bottom of his heart. His dark eyes were firm and proud, and his demeanor that had been soaked in blood made people dare not underestimate him. Liu Zhi suddenly laughed softly. He was happy, and his chest widened a bit. , with flirtatious peach eyes, and asked again: "Do you really think that the prince can be a great cause?"

"Family affairs, the lower officials dare not lie." Although Zheng Zhongjin spoke fearfully, there was no sign of fear: "If there is no dispute between the party and the lord, the court may be able to change smoothly, and the lower officials only want to fulfill their duties as ministers."

"Zhongjin, what do you want?"

Zheng Zhongjin didn't understand the reason why he broke the casserole and asked the truth. After thinking for a while, he said: "What I want from the lower officials is that the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe, and the world will be peaceful and prosperous."

"Ah..." Liu Zhi sighed, "Zhongjin's request is very great."

Zheng Zhongjin frowned when he heard the words, and said: "As the emperor's family, what Zhongjin wants is not what His Royal Highness wants?"

Liu Zhi bent down, picked a dead branch from the high basin, and stretched out his hand to Zheng Zhongjin, motioning for him to reach out to pick it up.Zheng Zhongjin didn't understand what he meant, but seeing that he didn't understand, he wanted to keep holding it up, the wind was cold, and seeing his white fingers turned red from the cold, Zheng Zhongjin stretched out his hand to take it.

"I don't see plum blossoms in the cold winter, maybe you and I don't have a good relationship. Let's talk about giving them with dead branches. Just now Zhongjin asked me, and I will answer you." Liu Zhi rarely got serious in front of Zheng Zhongjin: "Knowing you at the age of 12, Zhi knows you are a great talent. , but the heart is not ruthless enough, and the way things are done is too regular, Zhizhi is careful to have the world in his heart, but Zhizhi has only you in his heart."

After hearing this, Zheng Zhongjin threw the dead branch in his hand, with an angry expression on his face: "His Royal Highness, please be careful with your words. What you said just now threatens to insult His Royal Highness's royal dignity. If you say it to the lower officials, it also insults the integrity of the lower officials."

"I know you're going to be angry," Liu Zhi's face remained normal, he didn't look at the dead branch he threw on the ground and broke into two halves: "But it's okay, since Zhongzheng has returned, I will do it. What you love to do, this matter, you If you don't like it, Zhi will never mention it again." After finishing speaking, Liu Zhi turned around, took two steps, turned around suddenly, and looked at him from a distance: "What Zhongzheng asks, Zhi will definitely agree to you, but there is one thing that Zhi doesn't want If you want to know how to rule, you will remember that Zhao Jixing and this king have the same wishes, only he is good at dancing long sleeves, keeping secrets and keeping silent, forbearing and not talking, what he says and does is not what a real man would do." Speaking of Zhao Jixing, Liu Zhi couldn't hide the loathing in his eyes, and said by this king: "If one day, Zhongzheng favors him instead of this king, I will treat you as if I have never met you."

From Zheng Zhongjin's point of view, these words are threatening, does Prince Yong really think that the world is as dirty as him?

In the end, Zheng Zhongjin couldn't listen anymore, and he left one step ahead, the official boots with thousand layers of soles stepped on the dead branches on the ground, rubbed them, and then shattered.

Passing by, Liu Zhi didn't look at him, but stared at the wrecked thing on the ground and smiled wryly.

When Li Ziyu found his master, he had been standing there for an unknown amount of time, and quickly helped him put on a thick snow-white cloak, and distressedly called out: "Your Highness, let's go back, it's getting dark."

Liu Zhi looked in the direction of the harem, and said softly: "In the past, my concubine said that I was as crazy as her. I didn't believe it, but now that I think about it, it's the same."

"Your Highness was born to Concubine Zhen, so what's wrong with the portrait of the same empress?"

"It's a pity that our mother and son are blind, and the people we like are cruel and ignorant," Liu Zhi laughed at himself: "I just saw the abyss ahead, but I can't take back my steps at all."

"Your Highness..." Li Ziyu wanted to comfort his master, but he didn't know what to say. As a eunuch, he really didn't understand love in this world, nor did he understand the distress in his master's heart.

"Liu Ye is just like Liu Yan. He is ruthless and short-sighted. Zhongjin is under their hands. He will suffer sooner or later. He has great talent in his heart, he has the world, but he also lacks. Since the king has promised him, he will definitely do it," Liu Zhi's eyes gradually brightened. In the dark, there seemed to be a bit of sternness in it: "Everyone thinks that this king is coming back to take that position, so let's take a look with them."

In the spring of the 24th year of the Apocalypse, the case of Beixiang's disaster relief and corruption of ink shocked the government and the public. The household department allocated 1000 million taels of silver and returned to Beijing for disaster relief at the end of spring. However, shortly after returning to Beijing, refugees from Beixiang moved south, blocking the bustling streets of the capital. Resentful in his heart, he was very shameless about Wang Shangqu's corruption, so he wrote up a note and sent it to the imperial court overnight.

Liu Yan read it and was furious. That night, he acted vigorously and ordered the Yushi of Youdu to investigate the matter strictly. Half a month later, dozens of corrupt officials from Beixiang, headed by Taichang Siqing, were sent to prison, half of them were The prince's henchmen, in this battle, Liu Ye's strength was hurt, and the ministers in the court suffered a lot. Those ministers who did not occupy the position became more respectful and cautious, and did not dare to walk around with the prince.

No matter how fiercely the crown prince and the emperor fight, Liu Zhi is always calm and turbulent, but he doesn't seem to care about it. After returning to Beijing for nearly half a year, he either enjoys the flowers or listens to the music. The visiting minister refused the door, acting like a prince.

If there is an exception, it would be Zheng Zhongjin, the hussar general. Liu Zhi often went to the Rongchang mansion to invite Zheng Zhongjin to come to the palace for a gathering, but he was rejected eight or nine times out of ten. I will post when I have time.

The ink corruption case in Beixiang was settled, but the atmosphere in the study of Rongchang Duke's mansion was solemn.

"His Royal Highness is not such a person who doesn't know how to measure. Why is there only 100 million taels of silver left? Wang Shangqu is not a person who doesn't know the importance, even if he is greedy, the amount shouldn't be so huge." Zheng Boke's face was condensed: "This Something is probably wrong."

"Yes, but it's too late to say anything now. I didn't know the situation in the capital in the north, but now it seems that His Majesty is so suspicious? It looks like he intends to punish His Highness the Crown Prince." Zheng Zhongjin thought for a moment: " Or is His Highness the Crown Prince too anxious and angered His Majesty?"

Zheng Boke sighed helplessly: "His Royal Highness is indeed in a hurry, especially when Prince Yong was ordered to return to Beijing. His Royal Highness is worried that His Majesty's move has ulterior motives. Besides, no one knows whether Prince Yong is involved in Wang Shangqu's case. After all, this person is really hard to see through, and regardless of Prince Yong, now the Holy Majesty is completely suspicious of the Zheng family, in the days to come, we have to be careful."

With Zheng Boke's words, the father and son fell into silence. After a long time, Zheng Zhongjin suddenly smiled and said, "Father, don't worry, the Holy Majesty suspects the Zheng family, but he doubts the military power in my hands. The family will be safe."

Zheng Boke looked up at his son, hesitant to speak.

"My son knows what my father means, but from my son's point of view, as long as the surname is Liu in this world, it doesn't matter who sits in that position?"

"But the Zheng family and him... have a great enmity with everyone. Even if that zhezi was ordered by someone back then, but that person is the Ninth Five-Year Master. The world is wrong, and he can't be wrong. Zhongjin, you can I understand." Zheng Boke's eyes were full of exhaustion: "If the Zheng family got off His Royal Highness's boat, there are only two ways, one is to take the place of the dead ghost, and the other is to be crossed by someone and demolish the bridge. It is definitely not a good way to retreat."

"Son..." Zheng Zhongjin was silent for a moment before saying, "Trust him."

However, this letter never reached Liu Zhi's ears. One month later, Prince Yong knelt down in front of the imperial court, holding the file in his hand, and said sadly: "General Mei's family was framed for treason. The great general's grandson begged his father to be rehabilitated for the Mei family."

As soon as he said a word, everyone in the court was shocked.

Everyone knows that Rongchang Gong Zheng Boke handed over the report of the rebellion of General Shenmei's family ten years ago.

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This ending might be a bit unexpected... well, I think...