The devil is coming

Chapter 720: The spoils are divided, and the new king is full of ambitions
The Prime Minister of Dayan,
died;
Killed in the same way as a chicken.
A cut is made on the neck, and the curvature of the head and body is forcibly opened, so that the neck is always in the tension stage;
All that was missing was that there was not another bowl underneath to catch the blood for consumption.
You said it would be better for Dayan if you lived for two more years, I believe it;
You said that in two years you will commit suicide in the mourning hall of Litian City in white clothes, I believe it;
You said that Tian Wujing didn’t kill you because you were useful to the country, and I believe that;
I believe it, I believe it all.
but,
What's the point?
I won’t kill you today.
I feel sick,
I'm going to kill you today,
I'm comfortable.
If you feel comfortable, that's all. You still have to worry about your damn plans for the world and the country!
Do you know how I felt when I entered the back house of Jingnan Hou Mansion in Litian City and saw Lao Tian’s white hair sitting on the threshold of the mourning hall?
Every time I go back home in the past few years, how do I feel when I see that I can only play alone in the house every day, can only play with magic pills, and those few monsters, living a childhood life like a prisoner? ?
Righteousness in the world,
Feelings of family and country,
Sacrificing one's life for righteousness,
If you are willing to do it, do it;
I used to be a grandson, no matter whether it was pretending or real, after all, I was a grandson;
Now that I'm up and have the ability to make a deal and kill you, you still want me to wait?
Sorry,
I really can't wait.
"Master Prime Minister, please open your eyes and take a look. Look, the sun is shining brightly today. It's so nice."
Lord Zheng let go of his hand,
Zhao Jiulang's body fell on the eaves.
"I thought you would give him another two years. The Prime Minister almost convinced me just now."
Zheng Fan smiled, bent down, stretched out his hand to wipe the blood on Zhao Jiulang's white shirt, and said:
"What are you waiting for?"
The sword master nodded and said, "When you draw the sword, I actually feel quite happy."
"Really? Haha."
Lord Zheng stretched his waist.
"Li Liangshen, do you plan to take him back?"
"Do you know what he did back then? Did the blind man tell you?"
"Said."
"Well, to be honest, that crazy woman is actually pretty good to me. In fact, she and I don't have any direct disagreements. The only disagreement is probably when she summoned me when I was a civilian husband, and she didn't even notice my... With his extraordinary talents and future qualities, he did not recommend himself to me.
She missed a great opportunity. "
If the seven demon kings follow her into the Li family, then she, Li Qian, can really prepare to go to Muyi Tianxia now.
"Haha, this is just to praise myself, it's completely shameless."
"Right, it's a feud with me, Shatuo Queshi, but it's a real feud with Ji Chengjue, the new king.
On Ji Laoliu's wedding day, she actually dared to let Li Liangshen and the seventh uncle beside her assassinate him.
Ugh,
On the wedding night, Ji Laoliu's life hung on a thread the whole night. "
"About the same as this time."
What the Sword Master meant was that it was similar to killing Zhao Jiulang at this time.
Because Ji Chengjue never expected that that woman would be so crazy that she sent someone to assassinate him that night.
When people go crazy, they really don't follow logic.
The same was true for Zhao Jiulang. He did not expect that on the night when the new king just ascended the throne, Dayan Pingxihou would directly go out and assassinate him in the street.
Thousands of calculations,
That is also an algorithm based on a rule.
When that person doesn't follow the rules at all, you can't even count.
Ji Chengjue and Zhao Jiulang are both extremely smart and thoughtful people, but the more these people are, the easier it is for them to suffer big losses in this seemingly absurd situation.
this time,
The Sword Master somewhat understood Zheng Fan's measures to ensure his own safety at all times, because he had learned too much from his past mistakes.
"The new king wants to borrow my hand to kill him."
Because he knows that there is a sword master beside me.
"You dare to use him?" Sword Master asked.
"I keep my sword maid, why are I afraid of Li Liangshen? In fact, I understand him. He and I are both soldiers. In this season, every soldier in Dayan is eager to make contributions.
So does he.
Not afraid of death, but afraid of dying a coward.
Moreover,
Now, I am really the only one who can protect him. Otherwise, if we let him leave now, or separate from him, Wei Zhonghe and Lu Bing's masters will definitely pounce on him immediately and suffocate him in the capital. "
"Does this count as cutting off one's arm?" the sword master asked.
For a third-grade swordsman-in-chief to die at the hands of one of his own men, it was a bit of a loss no matter how you looked at it.
Zheng Fan shook his head and said:
"First of all, his Li Liangshen doesn't count as an arm. His arms must be at least as strong as mine now.
Secondly, a good gardener must be able to prune branches, and a good emperor must also be able to kill.
The stall left by the late emperor is large enough. Although it is the dead of winter in Dayan now, the branches are lush and the new emperor can prune them as he likes. When spring comes next year, it will be lush again.
okay,
Come into the palace,
The prime minister who killed the emperor had to give the emperor some face, and it was appropriate to revive him. "
Zheng Fan and Sword Master got off the eaves,
And then,
A Ming, who had been waiting below for a long time, went up to the eaves again, took out a water bag, and collected some blood next to Zhao Jiulang's body.
After coming down, I met Xue San.
"You also drink the blood of ordinary people?"
Xue San knew that what A Ming liked was the blood of the strong.
"There are two types of wine. One is a truly fine wine, which is true to the inside; the other is a wine whose reputation is greater than its inside."
"I know that common people like to drink the latter."
"Yes, sometimes ordinary people are also very happy, right?"
A Ming put the water bag away and said:
"After all, I just advanced, and I want to be happy."
"..." Xue San.
"Okay, I'll go into the palace, you go back first."
Zheng Fan said to the demon kings.
"Sir, what should we do here?" A Ming asked, pointing around.
Wrecks of carriages, corpses;
Zheng Fan waved his hand indifferently,
Road:
"Leave it to the crows."
.........
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
Ji Chengjue slept soundly, and then was woken up by Eunuch Wei.
When I became the emperor, I was not overly happy. When I went to bed on the first night, I didn’t dream about my father’s nightmare;
This sleep was quite solid and comfortable. I haven't slept so comfortably in several years.
After getting up, stretching and looking at the light coming through the window, Ji Chengjue said:
"Oh, by the way, last night..."
"Your Majesty, Master Zaifu, is dead."
"Ugh."
Ji Chengjue sighed, reached out and pinched his forehead gently.
Zhao Jiulang,
Still dead.
The instability in the court caused by Zaifu's death was secondary. The key was that Ji Chengjue knew that the implementation of the new law and the continuation of the new policy required Zhao Jiulang's presence.
It is an insult to the late emperor that Zhao Jiulang has no great talent and has been sitting in the position of prime minister and assistant during his father's tenure.
Dead, dead.
The surname is Zheng,
If I age prematurely, you will be responsible.
"Okay, wash up."
Eunuch Wei ordered two eunuchs and maids to come in and help His Majesty wash and change clothes.
When changing clothes,
Wei Zhonghe reported: "Your Majesty, Li Liangshen is not dead."
"Oh, not dead?"
"Yes."
"Didn't you say that the Sword Master's sword should be more powerful than Li Liangshen's?"
"Replying to Your Majesty, it is indeed the case. Last night, I was watching the sword energy between them on the top of the palace. Although Li Liangshen is strong, the sword master is even stronger."
The superimposed meaning of the word "geng" here is much stronger than the ordinary one.
"Tsk, he's not dead."
Ji Chengjue was a little helpless. He really didn't like Li Liangshen.
Because Li Liangshen not only looked down upon the man named Zheng, but in fact, he also looked down upon himself.
Talented people are proud of their talents;
But the man named Zheng is not more arrogant than anyone else?
But people know how to behave, so what kind of person are you, Li Liangshen?
At this time,
A young eunuch came in to report to Wei Zhonghe.
Wei Zhonghe reported back:
"Your Majesty, Lord Pingxi has invited you to see me, and he has also brought Li Liangshen with him."
"Hey, the one named Zheng is doing this to give me face. You can tell the imperial kitchen to add an extra portion of my breakfast, and I can share it with the one named Zheng."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
breakfast,
Use it in the imperial study room because Ji Chengjue didn't move out last night.
There is no common dining etiquette between monarchs and ministers.
But a small table,
On the small table, there are porridge, pickles, eggs, fried dough sticks and meatloaf.
Ji Chengjue sat at one end and Zheng Fan sat at the other end.
Li Liangshen knelt at the door of the Imperial Study Room,
Eunuch Wei stood in front of Li Liangshen. At the same time, there were many shadows wandering outside the imperial study to ensure that nothing like that would happen.
Compared with the situation here, it seemed very ordinary for the ministers and the emperor to have breakfast on an equal footing.
Eunuch Wei has long been used to it. After all, he has been invited to sit on the dragon chair, let alone a breakfast meal?
"Are you comfortable?"
Ji Chengjue peeled an egg with his own hands and placed it in the porridge bowl in front of Zheng Fan.
"Well, I feel comfortable." Mr. Zheng nodded.
"I'm going to have a headache next time."
"You are the emperor. If your life is too comfortable, will you feel guilty?"
"If you don't take someone like this and act like a good boy, I'll kill him for you, right? I pushed Li Liangshen over and you actually brought him back alive to me?"
"..." Li Liangshen said at the door.
Eunuch Wei moved his steps and moved from the side to directly in front of Li Liangshen.
"Haha, Your Majesty, I appreciate my talent. With such a good hand, it would be better to let him be the first to attack the city in the future than to die in the capital like this."
"Unkind, Zheng, you are really unkind."
Zheng Fan picked up the egg that the emperor had peeled for him.
Road:
"I'm afraid this chicken will cost more than twenty taels of silver, right?"
"Haha, hahaha." Ji Chengjue pointed at Zheng Fan and laughed, "Okay, I've been injured by my cornmeal buns, and I'm not a deep palace emperor who doesn't know the sufferings of the people. They don't dare to fool me like a fool. "
"Yeah, no one can settle accounts better than you."
"Okay, since you said so, let's take advantage of this opportunity to settle the score first."
Ji Chengjue used chopsticks to draw a line in the porridge bowl.
Road:
"Ran Min, the garrison of Yupan City, has been transferred to Nanmen Pass by my father. I want to use this person to attack the small countries south of Nanmen Pass. I don't want to use any big war, at least, I want to use this person to conquer the small countries south of Nanmen Pass. Apply more influence to these wallflowers and smooth their hair.
This Yupan City will be given to you to Pingxihou Mansion. You choose a person and a general to install it. "
Yupan City is placed under the Pingxihou Mansion, which means that the entire east of Wangjiang River is the territory of the Pingxihou Mansion.
It is equivalent to completely controlling half of the territory of the former Dacheng Kingdom from a legal and practical perspective.
"Xu Wenzu, I know that I am on good terms with you, so I will let him continue to be in Yingdu, but I cannot cede this Yingdu to you."
"mean."
"Hmph, when we attack Chu in the future, we can add to the territory we have conquered. We can choose some and add them directly to your fiefdom, and choose some more to implement the county system and return it to the center. In short, you will not suffer any loss. "
"Pfft...hehe..."
Mr. Zheng almost spit out the porridge in his mouth with laughter. He reached out and took the towel handed over by Ji Chengjue and wiped it before he stopped:
"God damn it, two to one plus five, why the fuck do you want to be so funny?"
"Isn't that what business is all about? It's up to you and me. Everyone will make money, and Dayan will naturally make money as well."
"Okay, okay, tell me what you want."
Lord Zheng knew that the benefits lay ahead, and the future promises and delivery of Yupan City meant that what the emperor wanted was behind.
"To the commander-in-chief of each department of the Jingnan Army, I will bestow favors and rewards, and I will be able to give you generous promotions, fortunes, wives, and children."
"Do you want to carve up the Jingnan Army?"
What Zhao Jiulang said before his death is becoming a reality. No one is better at doing business than Your Majesty.
"Tsk, don't speak so harshly. Contact the people you can contact. After all, Prince Nan is also in your home. Oh, by the way, after the war in the desert begins,
I will confer Tian Tian with the title of Commandery Prince and Treasure Commandery Prince. What do you think? "
"Co-written, I still have to bow and kowtow to my godson when I get home?"
"You are a military meritorious prince. You know which one is more noble. Besides, how long has it been since you became a prince? Zheng, even if you want to be crowned king, wait two years and go to the snowfield to kill a few chickens. Or go to Chu State and cut down a few ducks, and I will naturally grant you the title of Pingxi King, okay?
What I mean is,
No matter who is sitting on the throne now, even if it is a demented emperor, under the operation of the imperial court, he will inevitably consolidate the military power of the Jingnan Army.
As for me, I am afraid that if I take action directly, you will be unhappy, so I will discuss it with you in advance and let you know.
There will definitely be people who continue to lean towards you. That's your business. I don't care. What I mean is that the court will definitely do what it needs to win over and divide.
Will it work? "
Lord Zheng lowered his head and took two mouthfuls of porridge.
"I'm not in a hurry to make Chuanye the crown prince. After next spring, or summer, I plan to send Chuanye to your Pingxihou Mansion, and let him and Tiantian be playmates. Tiantian will still be his brother."
Zheng Fan said: "We are a generation behind, Tiantian is your uncle who passed down the inheritance, Tiantian and you are the same generation."
"Yes, yes, it's uncle, okay?"
"I am Tiantian's godfather."
"brute!"
"Haha." Zheng Fan nodded and said, "Okay, okay."
Even the emperor talked about this,
They even wanted to send the "good saint grandson" appointed by the late emperor, his eldest son and the unconsecrated prince, as a hostage to the Pingxi Hou Mansion.
Next, the imperial court wanted to win over the former commander-in-chief of the Jingnan Army in Jin. Lord Zheng, it was really hard to say anything.
This is a transaction, a transaction on the surface.
Again,
Unless Zheng Fan rebels now, there is really no reason to stop him.
"Zheng, it's not that I don't worry about you. What I'm most worried about is that if you don't reach out inconveniently, I will throw a rat weapon here. When the time comes, these soldiers and horses will be directly used by me to form vassal towns for Dayan in Jin. On the contrary, not good.
When there is another war in the future, you, Zheng Fan, will definitely be in command, and they will still be under your command.
If you regret it and want to rebel, it's just a matter of words. But don't we still have feelings for each other now? We haven't separated yet, so we should first file away the family's property and manage it properly.
As for me, that’s what I mean, I’ll just assume you agree. "
"Yes." Zheng Fan nodded, but reminded, "King Jingnan will be back."
"To tell you the truth, the person who wants King Jingnan to come back the most is me, not you. King Jingnan is more stable than you, in all aspects, you understand, right?"
"whispering sound."
"Hehehe." Ji Chengjue picked up a fried dough stick and handed it over, "Here, eat some more. If you still feel a little uncomfortable, here you go to Prince Jin's Mansion.
Now I am the emperor, not when my father is here. You should be careful in what you do. Who dares to say anything to you? "
"Ji Laoliu, can you please stop having so much filth in your mind?"
"What's so dirty? When we first met, didn't we just go to the red tent together?
Even the King of Jin, who has always been thoughtful, wishes he could call you Zheng Fan, "Father of the Lord". "
"It's breakfast, don't be disgusted."
"Okay, okay, oh, by the way, when Chuanye goes to your place next year, you have to treat him well."
"You should worry about yourself. Don't fall in love with your younger son inexplicably again. If you want to pass the position to your younger son in the future, I will have to go to the trouble of raising an army to help Chuanye fight for the throne."
"Cheng Chengcheng, you surnamed Zheng can't expect me to do well. You have been treating the affairs of the Tian family as a show from the beginning to the end."
"No, it's wonderful."
"You eat, you eat."
Ji Chengjue stood up, left the table, and walked to the door of the imperial study.
Li Liangshen was still kneeling there.
Wei Zhonghe stopped Ji Chengjue. No matter how close he was, he would have no time to block him. After all, the opponent was a third-level swordsman. Even if the sword was not at his side, the sword energy at his fingertips could still kill him instantly at close range!
Ji Chengjue pushed Wei Zhonghe away.
He sat down directly in front of Li Liangshen.
"You wanted to kill me back then."
Li Liangshen said nothing.
"I also wanted to send you away last night. It's a pity that you are still alive and you are back in front of me."
Li Liangshen knelt and continued to be silent.
"Oh, I'm not really open-minded."
Ji Chengjue clapped his hands,
"But you tried to kill me once, but failed; I also tried to kill you once, but failed too.
we,
That's even, right? "
At this time,
A young eunuch came to report:
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Fourth Highness has been summoned to see you."
Because the formal enthronement ceremony has not yet been held, the new titles among the brothers, except for the second eldest brother Min'an Bo, have not yet been decided. Therefore, the fourth prince is still called... Your Highness in the palace.
"Let him in."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After a while
The Fourth Prince Ji Chengfeng came over and knelt down to salute:
"I pay my respects to your Majesty, long live my emperor!"
"Fourth brother is here."
"Yes, I wonder what matters your Majesty summoned me to do that I need to do?"
"Oh, that's the thing. Fourth brother just told me a while ago that the work was too heavy and tiring.
Like this,
Starting today, the military responsibilities under Fourth Brother will be handed over to General Li.
Li Liangshen,
I think that you have made great achievements in defending the capital in the past few years, so I named you Dinghaibo, and took charge of all the garrison affairs of the Imperial Guards and Yamen in the inner city of Kyoto, and integrated them all.
Defend Kyoto,
Guard the imperial city,
Guard... me! "
(End of this chapter)