Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

On the second day, Li Xu inevitably went to bed late, and when he woke up, he saw Kou Xiao leaning on the bedside to read the letter. He was naked from the upper body, and the quilt barely covered his waist, revealing half of his strong waist.

Li Xu was so envious of his figure, his favorite thing was to touch his abs, as if the abs could grow on him.

Kou Xiao noticed him opening his eyes immediately, and when he put his hand on his lower abdomen, he teased, "The prince wanted it early in the morning? It seems that the general didn't work hard enough last night."

Li Xu quickly took back his hand. He still remembered that there were a lot of things to do today. Zhang Yao was about to set off. He would take the twenty or so people he selected to go to the places that surrendered to him. After his personal inspection , and finally decide whether to keep people down, if they stay, it means accepting their surrender.

Li Xu sat up, put on his clothes and got out of bed, and went to the bathroom to wash up. His bathroom was very modern, with a sink, a mirror, and a shower. Even the toothpaste and toothbrush were made according to his requirements.

Kou Xiao came in after him, went to put some water first, and then leaned against the wall to watch Li Xu wash up. Originally, his living habits were very different from Li Xu's, but after being together for a long time, he gradually assimilated him. Now he Going out again, it is difficult to see the picture of the unshaven beard again.

"Let me help you shave." Kou Xiao stepped forward, lightly snatched the razor from Li Xu's hand, then lifted his chin so that he could look up at him, and then applied foam on his chin to replace it. He shaved off the little stubble.

Reciprocity, after tidying up for Li Xu, Kou Xiao stuffed his razor into Li Xu's hand, then lifted his chin slightly and waited for him to clean himself.

Li Xu couldn't help pinching his chin heavily, teasingly said: "You dare to summon me!" But he still shaved his beard clean.

The toothpaste Li Xu used this time was mint-flavored, refreshing and refreshing. The two kissed for a long time in the bathroom, as if the whole space was filled with the smell of mint.

There was a knock on the door outside, Li Xu pushed the person away, straightened his nightgown, and then went out to change.

It must be Liu Shu who knocked on the door early in the morning, but he rarely knocked on the door when Kou Xiao was still in the house, obviously something happened.

Li Xu opened the door, and sure enough, he saw Liu Shu standing at the door, holding several letters in his hand.

"My lord, this is the information report I received this morning. The servant saw that there are people from Yingchuan, Beijing, and Tongzhou. I'm afraid it's a big event and I didn't dare to delay it."

"Give it to me." Li Xu took the letters and walked to the study next door, "By the way, order two breakfasts, the king and General Kou will eat in the study."

"Here." Liu Shu turned and left, and soon came with two maids to deliver food. The breakfast in the palace was quite simple, two bowls of hot chicken noodle soup, a basket of steamed buns, a basket of bean paste buns, and more. There are two large portions of rice rolls.

Everything is very big, Li Xu is used to such a portion, he usually eats a bowl of noodles and two or three small buns to be full, and the rest is Kou Xiao's.

He quickly finished his meal before he began to read the letter. He first picked out the letter from Tongzhou. Tongzhou seemed unfamiliar and few people knew about it, but Li Xu kept it firmly in his heart because of his unusual attention. This is the Imperial Tomb. The location, the third prince was sent to the imperial mausoleum, and he was not allowed to return to Beijing without the emperor's call.

The third prince is not a very scheming man, but he has a capable mother, a foreign family with a prosperous family, and a powerful Yue family, but after the marriage of the two families, they complement each other on the surface, but in fact they are not too much. Big stakes.

At the beginning, the Xue family married the third prince's second daughter, and she was not very nice. The third prince naturally didn't like it. At the beginning, he was still concerned about the Xue family's face-saving treatment for her. After a long time, how could he take her seriously? .

Especially after the two concubines became pregnant, they didn't want to see their princess even more.

The Xue family probably got the news, and probably knew that their daughter could not be favored, so they simply found an excuse to take their daughter to a hot spring village in the suburbs of Beijing to recuperate. Zhou did not bring the princess with him.

The Zhao family had always been at odds with the Xue family, but after this incident, the third prince gradually separated from the Xue family, so this time the Zhao family plotted against Li Xu and dragged Taiwei Xue into the relationship, the intention of killing two birds with one stone was too obvious.

Inside the envelope was a wax pill, Li Xu separated it with a knife, and took out a rolled up note with only one line on it: The third prince is not in the imperial tomb, the one who is in the imperial tomb is a substitute.

Li Xu didn't feel too surprised, since the third prince would go to Cangzhou, he might go to other places, but he didn't expect that when the emperor's birthday came, he would not be there, maybe the emperor would not let him return to Beijing?

But even if there is an imperial decree announcing him to go to the capital, it is not difficult for him to change back temporarily, but where will the third prince go?

Kou Xiao ate quickly, cleaned up the food on the table with a whimper, rinsed his mouth and wiped his mouth after eating, then glanced at the note, frowned and said: "Sure enough, the series of actions of the Zhao family are premeditated , Such a big move is not small, how many troops does the third prince have in his hands now?"

Li Xu made some calculations and said, "The governor of Cangzhou is from the Zhao family, and the government soldiers must be able to move at will. There are also [-] Gyeonggi guards. It is said that Commander Mu was sent by the third prince. There should be many lieutenants in the Habayashi army." Submit to him, Lin Zhao once said that he can only control about half of the Habayashi Army."

"This is amazing. Needless to say, Gyeonggi Guards have a large number of people and are located in the capital. Cangzhou is also close to the capital. Once there is a change, it will only take a day to help. Even if there is nothing else, there are 15 people here."

Li Xu burned the note, picked up another letter and tore it open, and said as he read it: "You can't fight for strength, but the third child will not take the road of forcing the palace for the time being. There is Mrs. Zhao in the palace. He There is no need to be so extreme at the moment, so next, how to disintegrate the forces in his hands is our goal."

Kou Xiao dipped his hands in water, and wrote the words "Gingji Guards" on the table, "This place is not a single iron bucket, and at least three of the [-] Gingji Guards are divided up. The person you mentioned who took refuge in the Zhao family should be Muzi Ying."

Li Xu didn't deliberately inquire about this information. He thought of Kou Xiao's power in the capital, and he must have a clearer division of power in the army, so he asked him: "Isn't Mu Ziying the commander of the lieutenant? Could it be the right and left Zhonghou below?" Do not obey his discipline?"

"Yes, Mu Ziying was elected by the Zhao family. He was originally a man of the world, and he was reused because he saved the emperor's life. It can be said that it is a great kindness for a side branch to marry his daughter-in-law to help him successfully become a nobleman, and also help him take charge of the Gyeonggi Guard."

Indeed, this person was single-handedly supported by the Zhao family, and he was kind to the emperor, as long as it was not a big mistake, he would definitely not be punished for offending him.

"What about the left and right Zhonghou?"

"The Zuo Zhonghou should belong to Xue Taiwei. He has no conflicts with Mu Ziying on weekdays. The two of them are like brothers. If the spies hadn't happened to see his wife and Mrs. Xue's private relationship, they wouldn't have known about their relationship. This relationship.

As for You Zhonghou, ahem, don't worry about this, unless you kill him, he won't collude with Mu Ziying. "

Li Xu was sure of what he said, and asked curiously: "Is this You Zhonghou one of yours? Or does it have something to do with you?"

"When I was a child, I had a good friend. They practiced martial arts together and played together. They once said that they would make contributions and travel the world together. Later, he moved to the capital with his family. We lost contact for a while. When we got in touch again, he said He joined the Gyeonggi Guard, so I paved some roads for him, and he worked very hard himself, it was not easy to get to where he is today, and he basically helped maintain my spies in the capital."

Li Xu's face didn't change when he heard that, but his heart was already fluctuating. Isn't such a person just a childhood sweetheart?Did Kou Xiao realize at that time that he was more interested in men?

Maybe that was his first love, not necessarily!

Once a man becomes jealous, the vinegar bucket can be overturned. Normally, Kou Xiao is often jealous, but Li Xu rarely shows this. Of course, this has something to do with his personality, just like at this moment, he Obviously sour to death, but against his will, he praised: "To have such a deep friendship, it seems that you two hit it off."

The last four words seemed to be used in the wrong place, which made people feel a little discordant. Kou Xiao didn't think about that for a while, and continued: "Yes, he is very strong in martial arts. When we practiced martial arts together, we were almost tied. I don't know who is higher and who is lower now, he has revealed a lot of information to me, but it is not of great use to us."

"Oh." Li Xu nodded, instead of focusing on this person, he asked: "If Mu Ziying wants to completely control Jingjiwei, he will definitely attack the left and right Zhonghou, why don't you ask your friend to pretend to join him temporarily?" , don’t be taken as a thorn in your side.”

"You and I thought about going together, but I didn't let him pretend to join Mu Ziying, but let him pretend to join the third prince. Anyway, they are all in the same camp. Mu Ziying is just a vassal of the Zhao family. Somewhat inferior."

"It's still your thoughtfulness. By the way, isn't your good friend yet to win the championship? Isn't this too capable?"

"Hey, that's not true. He's ten years older than me, and he's about to reach his thirties now." Kou Xiao seemed to want to improve his image, and said a little shyly: "I didn't like being with my peers since I was a child." Playing with children, I think they are very naive, and I only like older ones, so I can chat more easily."

Li Xu repeated it with a smile: "I only like older ones? I don't know how much older? Is this king old enough?"

Kou Xiao's back stiffened, cold air rushed up from the soles of his feet, he stretched out his hand to hold Li Xu's hands, and said affectionately: "I like the prince, it has nothing to do with age, besides, this kind of liking is different from that kind of liking, you Don't confuse the public."

Li Xu shrugged, as expected he didn't hold on to this, he read the letter and handed it to Kou Xiao, "Sure enough, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, the situation in Yingchuan is really changing day by day, Ye Changqing said, Lin Zhao settled in Yingchuan City Later, they were boycotted by the whole army, they were not willing to give in to Lin Zhao, and even the people from the Yingchuan government were unwilling to get close to him, which made him unable to successfully take over the stall left by An Qingping."

"This shows that Yingchuan is under the control of An Qingping. I didn't expect this person to be so skillful that he could win the unanimous approval of the civil servants and military commanders. However, since the civil servants and military commanders are on good terms with An Qingping, they should also shake hands. Are you reconciled?"

"That's not necessarily the case. Except for the dead sheriff and lieutenant, those who are greedy for the army's salary don't believe that other high-ranking officials didn't deduct a little bit of money? It should be An Qingping who made big cakes for them and lured them into the game."

Kou Xiao understood the key point after thinking about it for a while. An Qingping should have taken refuge in the Zhao family, which is equivalent to supporting the third prince. Judging from the current situation, the third prince is still more likely to ascend the throne, so he Use this to win over people, most of them will be successful.

"Are they brainless? I also know that this is unrealistic. The Yingchuan mutiny, the few people headed by it will definitely die. How can the prince see it?"

"Let's take a gamble. If you win the bet, you will be successful, but if you lose the bet, they will have no loss." Li Xu thought for a while, and wrote a letter to Ye Changqing, telling him that Lin Zhao's personality is too straight and rigid, and it is difficult to win over officials. When he stood in front of the civil servant with his black face, the other party would probably be so frightened that his legs would limp.

But it is impossible to do nothing in Yingchuan. He suggested that Lin Zhao should gradually buy and divide the middle ranks of the rebel army, and recruit a group of people who have some status but are not outstanding. If there are enough people like this, he can at least have a relationship with the rebel army The power of war.

Kou Xiao saw that he wrote a lot of content eloquently, and joked: "Isn't the prince himself in danger? I'm afraid I won't have the energy to care about others in the future, right?"

Li Xu looked up at him and laughed: "You are wrong, the most important thing next is the important event in this king's life, and the rest can be postponed."

This wedding is destined not to be too perfect, but Li Xu still wants to do his best to perfect him and not leave any regrets for the two of them.