Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

The capital is always the place with the best news. In the past six months, there has been a lot of news about King Shun, and the common people love to talk about it.

Someone recalled the high-spirited prince back then, what a glorious person he was, no matter how outstanding the son of a family was, he was inferior in front of the prince.

"Is it really King Shun's greed for ink's military salary? Why do I feel that this matter is full of weirdness? It can't be calculated by someone?"

"Hush... Who would dare to embezzle millions of military pay without a mastermind behind such a major case? As for whether it is King Shun, we will find out when the adults in the Ting Wei Department find out the cause of the case."

"I don't think there is anything wrong with it. This matter might really have something to do with King Shun. Otherwise, what a coincidence. Zhu Yongle has been in Yingchuan for three years, Tanmo for three years, and King Shun has been away for three years. What a coincidence."

"In the big treason case back then, King Shun was demoted from the capital. He must be unwilling. He was trapped in the poor place of South Vietnam alone, with no money and no one. If he wanted to regain power, he would definitely need a lot of gold and silver."

"But I heard that King Shun's property is rich. If you take any one out and calculate the profit, it will be an incredible amount."

"However, there are also people who say that King Shun snatched these properties from the rich merchants of the Nanyue family. I heard that there is a rich man in Nanyue whose surname is Lei. The prince met this person on the way to the south, and they fell in love with each other along the way. The two became friends. For the sake of money, the lord has controlled the entire Lei family, and the original governor of Nanyue was also from the Lei family, and now he has also been dismissed."

All kinds of news are gathered together to tell the truth and the fake news, and they are spread one after another. In the end, the real news is covered with several layers of fake clothes. How can ordinary people tell the difference?

Lei Luo has been very upset recently, every day different people come to him to inquire about news, some even offer a lot of money to bribe him, as long as he can stand up and appeal, condemn King Shun as domineering and robbing the family.

He wanted to put a label on his body: "The number one running dog under King Shun", so that everyone would know that it was impossible to find a breakthrough from him.

"Detonators! Something is wrong!" A subordinate hurried over, and before he had time to salute, he dragged him out.

Lei Luo ran after him in big strides, and asked as he ran, "What happened?"

"Our restaurant was smashed, and the rioters over there threatened to smash all the property that claimed to be King Shun, and said that the next thing to smash would be the grocery store."

"Who took the lead?" When Lei Luo heard this, he stopped in his tracks. He remembered the letter he had just received. King Shun had already expected this problem, and he sent the solution along with it.

"It's just a group of dandy kids in Beijing who have nothing to do. They are used to being domineering and domineering. They dare to do anything and dare to provoke anyone. They don't know who will incite them to make trouble."

"You don't need to ask, it must be the mastermind behind the scenes, whoever wants the prince to die, that's who."

The subordinate asked in surprise: "The detonator refers to the Ning family? Can they call those people? I heard that many of them are royal family and nobles."

Lei Luo shook his head and didn't say much. Recently, these news have been one after another, and the schemes have been plotted one after another. It doesn't seem like a Ning family can do it. In the letter, the prince pointed the finger at the Zhao family, thinking that the Zhao family is here. It played a role in fueling the incident.

If it is related to the Zhao family, it must be related to the third prince and Mrs. Zhao, so if you think about it carefully from the beginning to the end, you will be able to figure out many things.

"Go back, send me a letter to Fu's house..."

The turmoil in the capital did not spread to South Vietnam for a while, and the prince's wedding was getting closer and closer, and the whole of South Vietnam was in a state of joy. Even the government houses in various places were covered with red silk, as if they were going to welcome the bride like.

It took Liu Shu several days to redecorate the palace. Even the trees were wrapped with colorful ropes and hung with sweet bells. When the wind blows, they can play a moving piece of music.

Every time Li Xu walks in the mansion, he feels like he is in a wedding theme park. Looking at the smiling faces of people, he feels that he is not going to be a groom in a month, but a groom in a month.

"Isn't the arrangement too early? There is still one month left." Li Xu said to Manager Liu.

Liu Shu narrowed his eyes and laughed: "What you said, setting up the palace is only the first step, and there are still many things to do. If you don't get this done first, it will be easy to ignore when you get more and more busy." detail."

Li Xu wanted to say, I'm just getting married, I really don't need to pay too much attention to the details, as long as I can marry someone through the family, it's fine, but he knows that Liu Shu strives for perfection in everything, so he let him torment.

Kou Xiao just came back from the military camp. Today happened to be a big competition every ten days. From morning to night, the winner was finally decided. He personally hunted a dozen wild game for the winning team, enough for them to have a full meal.

The two met unexpectedly at the gate of the house, Kou Xiao dismounted, threw the whip to the guards behind him, stepped forward and asked, "Where is the prince going?"

Li Xu stopped and waited for him to come over. Seeing that he was hot and sweating profusely, he said: "You go back to take a shower and change clothes first, I'll go out for a while, come back and have dinner together."

Seeing his calm expression, Kou Xiao knew it was not a bad thing, so he didn't ask any more questions, and went straight back to the backyard.

It's true that Li Xu didn't receive any bad news, but sometimes no news doesn't mean it's calm outside, and many things can be guessed [-]% to [-]% of the time.

Li Xu knows that his reputation will definitely not improve in the short term, just like when he was exposed as the illegitimate son of the Li family back then, people who trolled him on the Internet could say no matter how ugly they were, but now, he listens to everything that is ugly No, it's all based on imagination, so I don't care at all.

Li Xu went to a private house, the neighborhood was messy and unplanned, and here, there was a stronghold set up by Ye Changqing.

If he hadn't been informed in advance, Li Xu would never have imagined that he would set up his base here.

The houses are dilapidated, and the air is everywhere. The left and right neighbors are deserted yards, overgrown with weeds. It is estimated that even thieves will not patronize such a house.

After Li Xu entered the door, he looked around, but he didn't see a person coming out of the room. He knelt down towards him, and only heard a familiar voice saying, "My subordinate Qin Zuxin pays his respects to the lord!"

Li Xu withdrew his gaze, stepped forward to help him up, glanced at him, and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's fine, you've worked hard this journey."

"My lord is serious. Hard work is not worth mentioning. The subordinates just wish they hadn't grown a pair of wings to fly back."

Hearing that he was still able to joke, Li Xu relaxed even more, and led him into the house. The house doesn't look shabby, it has everything that should be there.

Liu Shu wiped a chair and brought it over. Li Xu sat down and asked Qin Zuxin about the situation in Yingchuan City.

"The gates of the city are still closed, but access is not completely restricted, only the permission of the leader of the rebel army is required. The people in the city need to eat and drink, and the garbage Yexiang has to be transported outside the city. It is impossible to lock the gate completely. The subordinates were able to leave the city by pretending to be rice merchants purchasing from the city, but the number of people is limited, so we cannot bring everyone out."

Li Xu only needs to know that they are safe, and there is an advantage in not going out of the city right now.

"You keep talking."

"Yes, Vice General Ye has been investigating in the city for a long time, and he has basically concluded that the leader of the rebel army has nothing to do with the adults in the court, and the mutiny was not led by someone in the court, but an unexpected incident. Empress Chuan did indeed do a lot of suspicious things.

On the surface, he appeased the rebels and asked them to let the people and officials of the city go, but he secretly sent people to contact the core figures of the rebels and people with high prestige among the people. He did so, but later, a wealthy businessman in the city recognized that one of his attendants was the Ning family, which was very strange.

Vice General Ye became suspicious, thinking that the An Ning family had set up a suspicious formation to harm you, the prince, so he bought one of Mr. An's followers, and deliberately made friends with several rebels. He found out that this is not the case, Mr. An really wanted To take revenge on the Ning family, the entourage beside him is not the Ning family, but the Zhao family. It is the Zhao family's eyeliner in the Ning family. It is said that this person was trusted by the master when he was in the Ning family and knew many secrets of the Ning family.

What is certain is that the An family and the Zhao family have formed an alliance. The An family wants to deal with the Ning family. The Zhao family's target is you and Taiwei Xue. No, he didn't know that the Zhao family not only contacted him, but also the Ning family. conviction. "

Li Xu was a little dizzy, so he sat down and reorganized the ins and outs of the matter. It took him a quarter of an hour. After he figured out the ins and outs, he had to admire the Zhao family's vision and resourcefulness.

They always thought that Mrs. Ning was a woman with a lot of wisdom and closeness to demons, but after re-analysis, they found that she was just a pawn of the Zhao family. What she did should be instructed by the Zhao family. Come to Yingchuan to guide the movement of the rebel army, guide the public opinion of the people, and let things gradually fall on him. Zhu Yongle's death should be an accident, but the death of Chen Junshou was deliberately done by An Qingping. In addition to taking revenge on the Ning family, he also wanted to control The Yingchuan government let the government follow his lead, and by doing so, the rebels can ease their anger and listen to his persuasion.

An Qingping must have thought that he had always been the leader of this matter. He poured dirty water on the Ning family and the Xue family. As long as the subsequent things did not reverse, his goal would be achieved.What he didn't know was that the Zhao family and the Ning family were also having an affair, and he said that if the Ning family was moved, the best way to get rid of this crime was to find a better scapegoat. For the Ning family, who was the best? What about a good scapegoat?Of course he followed Wang Lixu.

With Zhu Yongle around, King Shun and Yingchuan had a connection, and since Zhu Yongle was dead, they could fabricate evidence to tie the two people together.In this way, the Ning family can get rid of the suspicion and let the enemy Shun Wang jump into this pit, which is really perfect.

Li Xu rubbed his swollen head, "When did the Zhao family have such a powerful person? This is to punish the king to death."

Qin Zuxin glanced at him carefully, and reminded: "My lord, in Yingchuan, many people have already found you guilty, and those rebels have also believed that Zhu Yongle gave you their military salary, and they also said that they must join hands Write a letter to ask the emperor to convict you, and when the subordinates leave the city, the messenger should also leave."

"Did they take away all the so-called evidence they found?"

"This subordinate doesn't know, but to convince the emperor, there must be a reason, right? The prince wants to get the evidence back?"

Li Xu raised his hand and muttered: "You said, the so-called evidence in their hands is from the letter written by the king himself?"

Qin Zuxin didn't understand what he meant all of a sudden, and blurted out: "I must have found someone to counterfeit your handwriting."

Li Xu looked at him, and asked again: "Have you seen this king's handwriting?"

"Ah? This..." Qin Zuxin thought about it carefully for a while, then shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it before, but I must have seen it at the county guard's mansion and the emperor."

"Yes." Li Xu nodded absentmindedly. Of course there are his handwriting in the Sheriff's Mansion, but they are all written by him with a quill pen. He has never used a brush to give instructions on official documents. It was burned by him, because he could not write exactly the same characters as the original owner.

Even Ji Hanyu's imitation of the original owner's handwriting is more similar than his, so all the memorials sent to the emperor were written by Ji Hanyu. No one knows that he can't write the original owner's handwriting at all.

Those people's counterfeit handwriting must be the original owner's. Who would have thought that he had already changed the refill when he left the capital?

Is this called God helping me too?When Li Xu thought of this, he had a little idea in his mind. When the evidence was sent to the capital, the emperor would definitely send someone to arrest him and bring him back to the capital for interrogation. Calculating the time, it might just be after he got married. .

Let Qin Zuxin go back to rest, Li Xu also went back home, looking at the red lantern hanging on the gate, Li Xu had the idea of ​​delaying the marriage.

Before Kou Xiao asked him if he wanted to postpone it, he said no, now he still wants the wedding to go ahead as scheduled, but there are too many things to do in the remaining time, if he wants to go to Beijing, he must make full preparations, otherwise it will be no different Deep into the tiger's den.

When he entered the door, he saw Kou Xiao waiting for him in the outer courtyard. He had changed into a set of crisp home clothes, slippers on his feet, and was cutting something with a dagger in his hand.

Li Xu leaned over and really couldn't see what it was, so he asked, "What are you doing?"

Kou Xiao shook his hand, looked up at him, his ears were slightly red, "I didn't do anything, just try to see if this new dagger is sharp."

That dagger was given to him by Li Xu, he and Kou Xiao each had one, it is not an exaggeration to say that it can cut iron like mud, how could it not be sharp?

He pretended to be disappointed and said: "Oh, I thought you were going to carve something for me. To be honest, the paper boat you sent before is too difficult to preserve. If you can carve a wooden one, it can still be used after decades. As a funeral object."

Kou Xiao's lips moved, he didn't know what he wanted to refute, but the last thing he said was three words: "I will try my best."

He still has self-knowledge, not to mention carving, if he goes down with a knife, the wood will be cut in two, which is considered good, and he doesn't know if he can carve a boat in his lifetime.

Li Xu looked at his guilty expression, and said with a smile, "I'm just kidding, you're an artist, so don't waste your time."

He held Kou Xiao's hand, interlocked his fingers, and joked again: "Your hands are very rough, you must not be able to do too delicate work."

Li Xu has seen a carver with exquisite craftsmanship. His hands are white and delicate. He can pick up the thinnest needle and carve words on rice grains, which is not something a rough man can do.

Kou Xiao knows that he is not good at making handicrafts, but he can do other things. He can’t carve a fake boat, so he can build the biggest boat and give it to Li Xu. When he has a chance in the future, he will take his family on a sea trip. What a pleasure!