Devil’s Advent

The days of Prince Jin's Mansion in Yanjing were actually not bad.

Ji Laoliu was ruthless when he attacked Xungui, but he didn't attack Jinwangfu.

Anyway,

Yu,

Gotta have a face.

And the Yu family cherishes it very much. After entering Beijing, the former Jinhuang and the current Jinwang lived a smooth life, reading books, writing, and some gentlemen in the mansion accompanied him to play chess, write poems and chat. The theater troupe sang Jin-style tunes;

Wealthy people, that's really nothing to say.

In the first two years after he came to Beijing, he kept a low profile. Except for entering the palace by order or accompanying the Emperor Yan to participate in some ceremonies, the Prince Jin Mansion did not socialize with outsiders, and the outsiders did not dare to have too much interaction with the Prince Jin Mansion.

It's okay now, everyone can let go.

One of King Jin's sons also made a baby marriage with the family of a minister of rites in the capital, because both of them are good at rhythm, playing the piano and singing to each other, and after they were hearty, they made an appointment directly.

The King of Jin himself has successively accepted several concubines, many of whom belong to noble families in Yanjing, which also reflects the acceptance of the King of Jin by the Yan State class from the side.

In fact, the change of mentality can already be seen from the fact that Prince Jin's mansion dared to send someone to invite Lord Pingxi to the mansion for a banquet.

The main gate of the palace opened, and the carriage that Zheng Houye was sitting in directly entered the palace.

However, although it was a banquet, there were not many people, so what kind of person you invite must be accompanied by someone. Obviously, if you invite Ping Xihou, it is really unrealistic to find a large group of people who are qualified to accompany you. A group of people who are not on the stage will make people feel that you are deliberately neglecting.

Therefore, a steward of the palace personally greeted him with a lantern. After passing through the front hall and reaching the backyard, Jin Wang Yu Ciming, who was dressed like a scholar in a blue robe, came out to greet him in person.

"Xiao Wang has met Lord Pingxi."

King Jin saluted Pingxihou.

It is not uncommon for the prince to salute Hou Ye.

Zheng Fan smiled and walked over to help Yu Ciming up. At the same time, his eyes fell on the Empress Dowager Jin who was standing behind him in the room.

When the Empress Dowager gave birth to Yu Ciming, she was not very old. Now, she is actually about forty years old, which is the age when peaches are rosy.

"Master Hou, please."

"My lord, please."

This was a family banquet, so, apart from the two maidservants serving food and wine, only Yu Ciming and the Queen Mother, Zheng Fan and the Sword Master remained in the room.

After a salute, everyone took their seats.

As soon as he sat down, before the host could say anything, the Juggernaut raised his wine glass and looked at Yu Ciming.

Yu Ciming was stunned for a moment, nodded, picked up his wine glass, and before he could stand up, the Juggernaut drank it down in one gulp.

immediately,

put the glass down,

He got off the table and went outside.

He came here just to see the former emperor of the Jin Dynasty, the supreme emperor of the Yu family, and that's fine if he sees it;

Sit down and chat?

Consolation and greeting each other?

Complain about hometown feelings?

It's not necessary anymore, and it doesn't make any sense.

Yu Ciming smiled awkwardly, and said to Zheng Houye: "Master Hou, please forgive me. Last time Lord Hou came here, I was alone because I kept my ancestral temple, so I couldn't see you. Please forgive me, Lord Hou."

Zheng Fan waved his hand,

road;

"Your Majesty, it is polite to say so."

The two drank a glass of wine each.

Next,

It's just a very boring conversation.

King Jin expressed his concern for the homeland and people of Jin,

Zheng Houye said that he will definitely guard the land and keep the people safe, please rest assured King Jin;

Empress Dowager Jin laughed beside her, putting on airs of elders.

Just when Zheng Fan felt that the family banquet was becoming more and more boring, Yu Ciming got up, walked to the entrance of the hall, and said to the Juggernaut who was standing outside blowing the wind:

"I have it here, his coffin and some of his relics."

He must be referring to the younger brother of the Juggernaut.

Back then, the younger brother of the Juggernaut, as the general in charge of the capital of the Jin Kingdom, had a very good relationship with the emperor Yu Ciming.

Even, it belongs to the real Jindi wind.

The Juggernaut nodded.

"please."

Yu Ciming took the Juggernaut to the other courtyard.

As for the hall, only Zheng Fan, the Queen Mother, and two maidservants remained.

"Go, bring up the soup."

"Yes, Queen Mother."

"Go, hurry up for the snacks in the back kitchen."

"Yes, Queen Mother."

Well, the two maidservants were also sent away.

Zheng Fan couldn't help being a little amused, which mother and son are going to play?

Although Lord Zheng Hou likes to hear Ruqing call his uncle in his back house, although he is really satisfied with the beauty of this Empress Dowager Jin, moreover, the two parties have a relationship of giving Mr. Jiao as a present, which adds a touch of ambiguous.

but,

Zheng Fan is not the kind of person who likes to play and force that kind of tune, and he is still at someone's house.

His son is not far away. Of course, his son may agree or even facilitate it on purpose.

However, Marquis Zheng is not Dong Zhuo after all, besides, at this time his soldiers from the Marquis of East Jin have not entered the capital, and it is not his turn to act recklessly.

Empress Dowager Jin got up,

Empress Dowager Jin picked up the jug,

The Empress Dowager Jin bit her lip,

The Empress Dowager Jin took the initiative to come over;

Zheng Fan raised his hand,

road;

"Sit down."

Her Majesty sat down, relieved.

"Ci Ming, I don't know."

"Do not know what is this?"

"At the moment, there is no eyeliner here," said the Queen Mother.

Firstly, after all, King Jin has been here for a long time, and the people around him have also touched some; secondly, seeing that the Jinwang's mansion is so smooth, the secret spy department may have relaxed some supervision.

But Zheng Houye still put a red stone on the table from his clothes, and tapped it with his fingers.

When the blind man is away, he relies on his son to monitor, in case the wall has ears.

The magic pill trembled, then settled down.

"What do you want to say?" Zheng Fan asked.

"I told Ciming about it, so Ciming only knows that I stayed here to ask you a few words, Master Hou, and doesn't know about you and me..."

"You and me, what's the matter?"

"You and I………"

"You and me?" Zheng Fan pointed to himself, and then to the Queen Mother, "You and I, are you related?"

"No, no, just, just..."

Zheng Fan didn't think that he had met the queen mother once in the palace in Gyeonggi, and the other time when he came to Beijing last time. With these two aspects, the queen mother would have a deep affection for him;

The reason why she deliberately lowered her reserve and took away the dignity that belonged to the Queen Mother, and she definitely wanted something for herself after spending such a large amount of money on herself.

only,

It's a bit too much for the Queen Mother to do this kind of thing.

Perhaps, in the eyes of his son, he went to distract the Juggernaut and attract some eyeliners in the mansion by the way, so that he could leave a chance for his mother and Ping Xihou to have a secret talk, but what he didn't know was that his mother and Ping Xihou In between, there is also Mr. Jiao's involvement.

Between men and women, if you bring that kind of thing, it will either be very embarrassing, or it will not be embarrassing at all.

"Don't talk, let me guess."

The Queen Mother nodded.

"Stand in line?"

The Empress Dowager's eyes lit up immediately.

"Hehehe, hahahahaha..."

Master Zheng Hou laughed,

The queen mother looked puzzled.

Finally, Lord Zheng Hou stopped laughing and asked, "Isn't the current life in Prince Jin's Mansion not good?"

Standing in line is just to squat like a dragon.

You want to ask if it is useful to stand in line at Prince Jin's Mansion? Is Jinwang Mansion qualified to be on this team?

That's true.

After all, even though he lives in Yanjing now, he has changed from an emperor to a prince, but his ancestors are rich;

More than 800 years ago, the ancestors of the family opened the border together with the Ji family and the Xiong family.

Therefore, if the Prince Jin's Mansion now stands up and says which prince it wants to stand for, or expresses its support to a certain prince, that prince must be happy, even Ji Lao Liu will be happy too, which is equivalent to receiving the support from the old prince. Ancestral blessing.

Of course, it's just a blessing.

The barbarians like to let the priests dance before the battle, and the snowfield savages like to let the star messengers divination before the battle, but this does not prevent them from being beaten up one after another by the Zhenbei Army and the Jingnan Army.

Good omens, everyone likes it, but this thing is of no practical use, just like the current Jinwang Mansion:

Are there soldiers? No.

Do you have money? On this point, Lord Zheng Hou has the most right to speak. He even scraped off the golden body in the imperial temple of the Jin Kingdom back then and walked away.

As for influence?

The influence of the Yu family in Jindi is really far worse than that of Prince Cheng's Mansion. Even the inexplicable Helian family or the orphan of Wenren's family has much greater influence than the Yu family.

There are many bandits or rebels in the Jin area. When there is an incident, they will not use the banner of the Yu clan's clan, because Jin people will only feel bad luck when they see this banner. Go ahead.

"Prince Jin, what exactly do you want to do?"

"Ci Ming, he just wants...just wants to..."

"I don't know. Is the situation in Prince Jin's Mansion not good now? Do you have to get involved in this muddy water? Even if the credit is lost, what can you get in exchange for it?"

He has no ability to protect himself, no ability to overweight, and even no qualification to divide bets.

Is this really explaining what it means to focus on participation?

Relying on the merits of the dragon, let Yu Ciming return to Jin to become an official, a prefect?

This is really treating the Yan people as fools.

"What Ci Ming means is that he wants to plan for the next generation, and hope that the next generation can have a better future."

Zheng Fan shook his head helplessly,

reach out

Put it on the table.

The queen mother froze for a moment,

Look at Master Zheng's hand, then at Master Zheng's hand, then at Master Zheng's hand, Master Zheng's finger is beckoning.

The queen mother took a deep breath and put her hand on it.

Lord Zheng Hou was also polite, and began to touch after holding it.

He is not a pervert who is ignorant of etiquette and pure indulgence, but this kind of flirting is still acceptable, and it is considered as a consulting fee.

"Listen to my advice. So far, I don't know who wins and who loses. I advise my son...

Oh no, I advise your son to be more peaceful, and don't forget what he suffered last time. "

Last time's loss,

It was also Yu Ciming who wanted to gamble,

I don't want to continue to be the emperor of the Jin Kingdom or wait for the three families to completely carve up and abdicate;

But as a result of the bet, the state of Jin in his own name completely collapsed.

When the Queen Mother heard this, her hands started to feel cold. Fortunately, Lord Zheng Hou's hands were relatively hot.

"I know, I know." The Queen Mother nodded.

"It's good to do it for yourself."

Lord Zheng Hou let go of his hand, a little bit reluctant, but he had to let go.

Take the magic pill,

get up,

Go to the entrance of the hall.

After standing for a while, Juggernaut and Yu Ciming came back.

Yu Ciming had tears on his face, obviously crying.

The expression of the Juggernaut is still calm.

"My lord, it's getting late, I'm going back first."

"Xiao Wang sees off Lord Hou."

"No need, my lord, don't make it difficult for Ben Hou. Ben Hou doesn't want to be accused of domineering by the censor in a few days."

immediately,

Zheng Fan and Juggernaut got back into the carriage,

The carriage drove out of the palace, and this time, it was really going home.

inside the carriage,

Lord Zheng Hou looked at his palm;

The Juggernaut spoke first and said, "It's boring."

"Let me guess, is he showing affection and reason to you?"

"almost."

"The queen mother asked me which prince will win."

The Juggernaut laughed when he heard the words, and Zheng Fan also laughed.

Zheng Fan raised his hand, stopped laughing,

road:

"It's also quite interesting. I deal with people all day long, and when I meet a fool, I finally realize that this is still the world."

"It's all over," said the Juggernaut.

The Juggernaut has long since given up on Fuguo, even if his surname is Yu.

"Tomorrow when the eldest prince comes back, he and I are of the same generation, so I have to go out of the city to meet him."

King Zhenbei and King Jingnan will not go.

"Today, I had a fulfilling life." The Juggernaut said with emotion.

Although he didn't make a move, he still felt a little tired.

"Tomorrow is the last peace before the storm."

Tomorrow night, there will be a dinner in the palace.

By the time,

It must be singing and dancing, and the officials are in place;

The emperor, and the two princes, deduced what is the real iron triangle alliance, what is the real mutual dependence, the big Yan Zhushi.

The princes will also sit together, toast to each other, and toast to Dayan's future together.

The ministers sent piece after piece of flattery and praise.

Everything will be extremely beautiful.

Then,

At the Great Court Meeting on the second day, the real fight for the heir apparent will be presented in the most ruthless and bloody way.

Ji Laoliu just said,

Without his father keeping sideways, these few brothers are not enough for him to fight.

In the past, he hadn't fully mobilized, and he had been taking every step of the way or setting up his camp steadily, all because even if he made a general attack, in the end, his father's will came down, and he was just wasting his energy in vain.

Lord Zheng Hou is looking forward to it,

Looking forward to the day after tomorrow, Ji Laoliu's method will appear.

As for going to pick up the First Prince tomorrow, it's not for Ji Lao Liu, because the First Prince is in the same position as himself in this battle for the throne.

If we say that the emperor, King Jingnan and King Zhenbei are sitting on the upper chairs watching the gladiatorial fight; behind them are maids holding umbrellas, and there are plenty of refreshments on the tea table beside them;

So,

I and the first prince were just leaning on the railing, barefoot, looking at the excitement inside, and then making a little smirk.

Going to pick up the eldest prince is purely for the friendship of the year.

At the beginning when the Snow Customs was captured, the Eldest Prince was able to defend it because of his great efforts. He brought the radish seal carved by Xue San, and fooled many tribes on the snow field. As the blood of the Ji family, he could not He didn't accept the savage woman's sleeping, and when he came back, he actually brought back two large carts of savage women for the sake of the overall situation and the friendship between Yan and Ye.

Just rush here, Lord Zhenghou will come out of the city to meet him.

The Juggernaut said at this time:

"Seize the heirloom, why can't you just be a little more straightforward?"

Zheng Fan knows what Juggernaut means;

If you kill your competitor, don't you win?

Why use party struggle at the court meeting?

This may be the problem-solving thinking that Jianghu people are most accustomed to.

"It's not the same, but, yes, there must be, but, after all, it is the last resort."

Zheng Fan smiled,

road:

"Don't look at that guy when he was with me, he didn't have a straight face, and he didn't have any airs, just like a street ruffian, but he, in his bones, was actually very ruthless."

"Just like you?"

"..." Zheng Fan.

The sword master raised his hand,

road:

"Go on."

"It's almost the same, you think of it, he must have thought about it a long time ago, but when that time comes, he won't be polite.

Back then, Ji Laoliu was a headhunter in Nan'an County and wanted a girl from the He family. He figured it out and wanted to go back to the capital.

guess what? "

"What's the matter?" The Juggernaut wanted to hear the following, so he laughed.

"The young Seventh Prince fell into the water while flying a kite in the palace, and caught the cold, His Majesty went to visit his youngest son.

Then, what the Seventh Prince flew that day was the sentry kite that Ji Laoliu had given to his younger brother. "

The Juggernaut nodded upon hearing this.

"The fifth prince is now busy consolidating the embankment and repairing the river works. He is on the embankment almost every day. Do you remember that when we came out of Fengxin City this time and passed Yupan City before crossing the Wangjiang River, the garrison general of Yupan City , who is it replaced by?"

"I remember that Ran Min who killed his wife and begged for a higher position," said the Sword Master.

"Ran Min, a native of Nan'an County, was sent to death row back then. Originally, Ji Lao Liu wanted to work in my Sheng Le Army, but something went wrong and he didn't go.

But this man was really upbeat and got up again by himself.

I don't believe it, he, Ji Laoliu, really forgot about this death row prisoner who drank with him at the entrance of the county government office. Even if he had forgotten it, he should have remembered it long ago.

Then,

He became the garrison general of Yupan City, and there are thousands of riders under his command.

But if you need something, just say hello, and go straight up and down the Wangjiang River, the fifth prince on the embankment, hehe. "

The Juggernaut nodded again.

"The fourth prince leads the barracks. Originally, with the downfall of the Deng family, his mother clan has actually declined long ago, but there are still some people in the military department who are willing to help him.

People are very realistic, and this official is a reality in reality. The Deng family has become stinky shit because of the first defeat of Wangjiang. He himself, in the current situation where the crown prince and the sixth prince are competing for the heir apparent, has already stood aside. It never leaves.

There was even an old general from the Deng family who was able to take the initiative to defect to him and help him pull the battalion of soldiers and horses.

He himself doesn't think that the authorities are obsessed with it. He always feels that he has had a good time, and the Deng family was a towering tree back then.

But what he didn't know was that the remaining monkeys didn't want to eat peaches, but human flesh. "

Lord Zheng Hou opened the precious snuff bottle left by Ji Laoliu in the carriage,

waved around,

continue;

"And Wen Yin, who was used by the prince to recruit people from the Jianghu, was Ji Laoliu's deathbed. Although Wen Yin didn't know why he suddenly died suddenly, but for his main competitor, I don't believe that he would only put Wen Yin in his place. There.

When Ji Lao Liu was not yet ten years old, His Majesty hugged him and smiled and said that he was the most like himself;

When the Min family was wiped out,

The other princes are still busy pretending to be cute to please their father.

With tears in his eyes, he began to take over the financial resources left by the Min family.

Imagine, when the big kid and the little kid are playing together, the little kid is already using gold and silver to buy off the cronies around the big kid, and even put cronies for them;

Hehehe, hehehe.

Isn't it interesting?

The sword maid is a born sword embryo, but he, Ji Lao Liu, has no talent for martial arts, but his brain is indeed a child prodigy since childhood, or is it called, born a cheap embryo?

in addition,

Do you know why I believe what he said, that is, without His Majesty taking sides, his brothers would not be enough to fight.

because,

If you don't consider the variables that may appear in the Secret Service and the Lu family's force,

Ji Lao Liu,

fully capable in an instant,

Let his brothers,

All hiccups. "