Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

The source of the dead body in the palace could not be found for a while, and the banquet in the palace ended early, most of the guests were still calm, only some timid young people rushed out of the palace.

Lei Ming sent the guests away, but the running water mat at the door was not affected. Everyone heard that several unknown corpses had floated into the pond of the Wangfu, and they rushed to tell each other, and then someone really found a useful clue, saying that these people had He lived in his old house, obviously a foreign population.

Then someone said that these people came in from the south gate, and it took only three days to arrive in Minzhou, but there were seven people who came together at that time.

Kou Xiao followed this clue to investigate to the south, and got some news intermittently. He knew that the five people who died belonged to a group, and the other two went to meet them halfway. Both of them were wearing cloaks and hats, so they couldn't tell what they looked like.

The last useful news came from Qin Zuxin. He wrote a secret letter to Li Xu. The letter said that he came back from the shelter island and made a business of a thousand taels of gold, but he failed to see In the face of the island owner, it was his adopted son who came forward to make the business. I heard that the island owner has basically ignored the business. Otherwise, his character is not like a person who can use troops abroad, but his adopted son, with a violent personality. , Ambitious, the plundering of the past two years has been ordered by him.

When they left the island, the other party said that they wanted to borrow their ship to transport a batch of goods to South Vietnam. There were people here to receive them, and at the same time sent five people to accompany them. The destination of these people was the junction of South Vietnam and Lingnan. In order to win the trust of the other party, Qin Zuxin sent the person ashore and left without asking too much.

Li Xu showed the letter to Kou Xiao, "It so happens that there are five people, but judging from the date, the five people on Shelter Island have only been ashore for ten days, and the five people who died have entered the city three days ago. Seven days is enough time for them to go ashore. Does the border go to Minzhou?"

"You forgot, it was found out that the place where the two met them was near Zhangyi County, but they disappeared afterwards. Maybe they also came from the sea."

"There is a pier in Minzhou. If they come from the sea, they will probably disembark from the pier in Minzhou, and then send someone to ask."

Kou Xiao nodded, and clicked on the adopted son's name on Qin Zuxin's letter. "Wu Yun, if we get rid of this person, can we delay the time for the other party to send troops?"

"That depends on the attitude of Island Master Wu. If he insists on avenging his adopted son, he may send troops on the back as soon as Wu Yun dies."

"Even if this is the case, without this Wushao island leader leading the army, this battle will be easier to fight."

"I will write to Qin Zuxin and ask more about this person's weaknesses. Wuyun Wuyun, his name is very dark. He really is not a good person."

Listening to his childish comments, Kou Xiao hugged him with a smile, "He is a reckless pirate, he must not be a good person, our prince is a noble man, and he is definitely different from ordinary people."

"Don't put a high hat on this king. Speaking of Tianhuang nobles, the third prince seems to have not caused trouble to this king for a long time. This is not like his style."

"Could it be that he reached an agreement with Shelter Island to let Shelter Island send troops to South Vietnam?"

It's not that Li Xu has never thought about this possibility, but he feels that the third prince's hand can't reach that long. It's easier to hire pirates to assassinate him, but it will take a lot of effort to make Shelter Island use all its strength against South Vietnam price!

The imperial court is not at the end of its strength, and it cannot allow others to occupy the land of Dayan, so what if the owner of Wudao occupies South Vietnam?Will the imperial court's army still be afraid of a small island owner?

Soon Li Xu knew the reason. The civil servant who went to the capital to celebrate his birthday came back with bad news, "Your Majesty, the day when the official left the city happened to be the day when King Qi conferred the title of Queen. Your Majesty is going to Choose a concubine for him, I heard that people inside and outside the palace are busy with this matter."

For some reason, Li Xu remembered the matter of the ex-lord accepting the concubine. He and the princess had a good relationship as childhood sweethearts, and the queen had been committed to marrying him a daughter of the Han family as a concubine, so they got married when they were about the same age. It didn't take long The little princess was born, and the relationship between husband and wife is neither strong nor weak, feeling that family affection is more than love, but if the Han family rebellion did not happen, the original owner should treat her kindly for the rest of her life.

Li Xu went to look at the things that the emperor rewarded, the haze of the past few days finally dissipated, everyone likes good things, not to mention all valuable good things.

The little princess was also very happy, because the emperor not only gave her beautiful cloth jewelry, but also gave her a lot of playthings, obviously he cared about her.

"Father, I will sew a new set of clothes for the emperor's grandfather on his birthday next year."

Li Xu pinched her nose and asked: "How long have you and Xiu Niang learned how to embroider and tailor clothes? It's been abandoned recently, are you sure you will? Sewing clothes are too ugly, your imperial grandfather will definitely not wear them."

"There is still half a year left. I will continue to learn. I don't know what the imperial grandfather will reward next year. Can I tell the imperial grandfather that I don't want cloth jewelry, and give it to me in cash?"

Li Xu asked in surprise: "These cloth jewelry are made by skilled craftsmen in the palace. They are very delicate and cannot be bought outside. Don't you like them?"

"It's not that I don't like it, it's just that there are enough. These things are enough for Shu'er to use for a long time. It's better to convert them into cash to supplement the family."

Li Xu didn't know what expression to use to face her, he just said: "Don't be a housekeeper when you are young, your father can afford to support this family."

The little princess sighed decently, "Hey, if you are not in charge of the family, you don't know how expensive it is. We don't have any money left in the account of the palace, so poor."

Li Xu quickly explained: "That's because the money earned by the king is in various shops and factories, and we can withdraw as much as we need. Our family is not poor, really." Li Xu didn't want his daughter to think that he was useless. father.

"But Uncle Kou said that he is good at eating and spending money. Father, you will not be able to support him. But Father, why do you want to support Uncle Kou?"

Li Xu squeezed out a smile and said stiffly, "Your Uncle Kou is not raised by my father, and the entire Kou family army, your Uncle Kou has a family of his own, and has nothing to do with us."

"But he said that we are a family, and he still has to save a dowry for Shu'er. If Uncle Kou has his own child in the future, will he still treat Shu'er so well?"

"Do you like Uncle Kou?"

"I like it. I'm going to marry him when I grow up."

Li Xu was taken aback, and asked in horror: "Why do you think so? You are still young, do you know what marriage is?"

"I know, just like my concubine married my father and gave birth to me with my father. I think Uncle Kou is very powerful. If I marry him in the future, he will be able to protect me and my father. Moreover, Uncle Kou himself said that we have to wait for Shu The child has grown up."

Li Xu's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, he gritted his teeth and scolded Kou Xiao secretly, but he wanted to smile and say to the little princess: "Don't listen to his nonsense, he is ten years older than you, and he will be old when you grow up. Will become ugly, do you want to marry ugly?"

"Will it be so?"

"Of course." Just as Li Xu was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the little princess say, "But father, you are older than Uncle Kou. When I grow up, will you also become an ugly monster?"

No, I won't, Li Xu thought to himself, I just want to beat Kou Xiao into an ugly monster right now.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, Shu'er is going to be busy with so many gifts to be stored."

The nominal butler of the palace, the little princess, clapped her hands happily, and then ordered people to carry the things into the warehouse, her serious appearance was quite like a butler.

Li Xu turned around and looked for Kou Xiao, and he was not in a hurry to get down to business, he grabbed his collar and asked, "I heard that you want to marry my daughter, are you going to take everything from father to daughter?"

Kou Xiao turned pale with shock, "Where did you hear the rumors, how is this possible?"

"It's not the best, otherwise this king will castrate you." Li Xu then told him about the third prince's appointment as king and his wife, "The third child must be very busy recently, and seeing the congratulatory gifts we sent, I know that this king even eats soil." I'm sorry, I must not be in the mood to deal with this king and Nanyue."

Kou Xiao actually learned about this news earlier, but he just didn’t think it was necessary to tell Li Xu. The third prince’s appointment as king means that the emperor values ​​him and is ready to train him. According to the usual practice, only princes can participate in government affairs, and princes have no right to participate. government.

"What do you think of this matter?" Kou Xiao was afraid that he would be sad, so he asked more reservedly.

"It's a good thing. Based on what this king knows about the third prince, he is a person who is easy to inflate, and he is very ambitious and narrow-minded. If you don't give him a chance and praise him more, he is not so easy to make mistakes."

"Send someone to find out who is the first wife he is looking for. It's best to make a fuss about it, so as not to make him too proud."

"Of course the Zhao family hopes to send a daughter to marry, but King Qi is definitely not happy. The Zhao family is already a grasshopper on the same rope with him. It doesn't make much sense to marry again. He must want to win the daughter of a high-ranking official more. The kind that can shake the court."

"But the emperor will definitely not do what he wants. If something happened to the Han family, the emperor will gain a lot of wisdom after suffering a loss. He must choose a high-ranking family but no real power for him. Maybe it is a noble daughter of the Xungui family, or maybe She is the daughter of a civil servant in Qingliu."

"They certainly wouldn't want to."

Li Xu laughed, with a bit of slyness in his smile, "It's better not to be willing, so that we can make trouble."

"What do you want to do?" Kou Xiao seemed to be able to see the collapse of King Qi.

"This king has already said just now that he will support him, so of course the choice of the wife should be as he wishes."

"Those who don't know think you are brothers."

"Award."

"This matter can't be done with my few secret agents and Lei Luo alone. Do you want to send more people to the capital?"

Li Xu knew this, and he had a candidate, but he still asked Kou Xiao, "Then who do you want?"

"Mr. Jiang, he likes this kind of calculation the most."

"This goal is too big, and the military division is too busy, can the barracks leave him?"

"Then is there a better candidate than him?" To go to the capital to stir up troubles with King Qi of the Zhao family, one must not have any brains, and it is best to have a new face so that people will not be suspicious.

"Yes, Ye Changqing, he is very familiar with the capital, and he also has acquaintances in the official circles. He is now a dead man, his appearance has changed a lot, and his name has also changed. Others must not know his origin, and they can't find anything if they try to find out. "

Hearing what he said, Kou Xiao knew that he had made arrangements, so he didn't bother to ask.

The two have different styles of doing things, but Kou Xiao is very willing to listen to Li Xu, and there is no major conflict in business affairs so far.