Wei Zhongxian sent away all his cronies, leaving only an old eunuch who was deaf and mute to serve him tea.

The day before yesterday, he received a letter saying there was news about his granddaughter. This news made him very excited.

Wei Zhongxian has reached the rank of nine thousand nine hundred years old, and he is a highly respected minister, with one person below ten thousand people. Although he is not Long Live, he is no different from Long Live, and the civil and military affairs of the entire dynasty are under his control.

If there is any regret, it is that he is an eunuch and has no offspring. This is also the reason for his extremely twisted psychology. Under the influence of extreme insecurity, Wei Zhongxian combined with the Hakka family and killed all the children of Emperor Tianqi of Mingxi Zong.

But in fact, Wei Zhongxian only entered the palace at the age of eighteen, so he started very late among the eunuchs. Most of the eunuchs were castrated in childhood and entered the palace.

Wei Zhongxian has a big secret that few people know about. He even keeps it secret from the Hakka family.

Everyone in the palace knew that Wei Zhongxian was a name given by the emperor, and his real name was Li Jinzhong. But what they didn't know was that Li Jinzhong was not his real name either. His real name was Wei Si, a native of Beizhili (Cangzhou, Hebei). At that time, because of

He lost a lot of money gambling, sold his wife, and had nowhere to go, so he committed suicide in the palace and wanted to take refuge in the capital.

His wife was pregnant before he was sold. It was said that she was pregnant with a daughter, but her whereabouts were unknown later. During the first thirty years of his career as a eunuch, he was busy earning a little money to feed himself, and he also had to deal with hungry palace maids and eunuchs from time to time.

Because Wei Zhongxian entered the palace from the palace, the treasures were not cleared away, and some were left. They can be used when necessary, but there is no hope of continuing the family line.

From time to time, Wei Zhongxian would think of his daughter, whom he had not seen for many years. He was almost sixty this year, and his daughter had returned to Lijia Village. She would have been forty years old if she were still alive. But since the Li family suffered a massacre, no one has been seen, and no one has been seen.

If there is news about the murderer, his bloodline will be gone.

If his granddaughter had children early, he would be a great-grandfather.

So this time someone brought news about his granddaughter, and he was extremely excited. It was more important than taking bribes.

He turned down the minister's dinner. Although he knew that he would receive a lot of money from this dinner, blood was important and the money was only a matter of time. Sooner or later, it would all be his.

"Open the door!" Hearing the announcement of a visitor from outside, he quickly asked the old eunuch to open the door.

The person who walked through the door was a tall, thin and refined man, who turned out to be Cao Huachun!

"Cao Huachun pays homage to the 9900-year-old man."

"Mr. Cao, you are well. We worked together many years ago at Mr. Wang Anwang's place."

"Master Wei, it is my honor to have studied and communicated with you back then."

Cao Huachun smiled in his heart: "The teacher who introduced you back then was Wang An, but it was you who killed Wang An. Now you are still pretending to communicate under Wang An's name. You, Wei Zhongxian, are really shameless."

"What good news will Mr. Cao bring to Mr. Wei this time?"

"This starts with Lijiacun in Suning, Zhili during the Wanli period. At that time, Lijiacun was massacred by horse thieves. There were 18 households in the village, and no one was left alive. Does Mr. Qiansui know?"

"I am in charge of the government, in charge of the cabinet and the six ministries, and there are too many things to manage. I don't know much about this. I have to ask the local county magistrate."

"Master Wei has forgotten that two groups of people invaded Lijia Village back then, one was horse thieves and the other was Jin Yiwei. The horse thieves were sent by Wang An, and the Jin Yiwei were sent by Li Jinzhong, a popular figure around Li Xuanshi. If

I remember correctly, isn't this Mr. Li you?"

Wei Zhongxian gritted his teeth with hatred. He did not want the name Li Jinzhong to be mentioned by the world again, because this name was connected to many humiliating pasts.

"This Lord Li hid two children in Lijia Village. One was his granddaughter and the other was the daughter of Mingguangzong. At that time, Li Xuan, the concubine of Mingguangzong, gave birth to a daughter, but Li Xuan needed a boy to seize the crown prince.

The civet cat replaced the prince, and the girl was replaced by a boy, and Mr. Li hid the replaced girl in Lijia Village. Wang An guessed this and sent a singer to take back the little princess and use it as evidence against you and Li Xuanshi. Unexpectedly, you also have skills

I was a step ahead and called the Jin Yiwei to protect the little princess."

Cao Huachun paused and said: "Perhaps you don't want to save the little princess, but you are afraid that your deeds will be exposed and you want to kill someone to silence her." After saying this, Cao Huachun looked at Wei Zhongxian with meaning.

Wei Zhongxian's face turned pale. He thought that after destroying the village, this matter would disappear. Unexpectedly, it would come back to him today.

At that time, he selected three Jin Yiwei with strong martial arts skills to go to Lijia Village to rescue two girls. Unexpectedly, the three of them died together with the horse thieves in Lijia Village. It became a murder that shocked Zhili Prefecture. The local county magistrate wrote a memorial and reported it to Li Xuan.

It took a lot of effort to suppress it. Afterwards, he sent people to investigate carefully and found a little girl among the many corpses with a jade certificate of the little princess hanging on her chest. Therefore, it was confirmed that the little princess was dead, but his granddaughter was nowhere to be seen.

Wei Zhongxian was a little timid, but he immediately remembered that he was still nine thousand years old, slapped the table and shouted: "How can this be unreasonable? Are you here to frame me?"

Cao Huachun took a sip of tea and said after a while: "The little princess is dead, but your granddaughter is not dead and was rescued."

"Where is the girl now?"

Cao Huachun slowly brushed the lid of the tea bowl, took a sip of tea while blowing it, and did not answer the question.

Wei Zhongxian was angry in his heart. There should be no one in the world today who would dare not answer him or dare to snub the Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Years Old Master in front of him.

"Tell me where this girl is, and you can tell me the conditions." Wei Zhongxian said in a louder voice.

"I want to exchange one life for another. You kill that child."

"What child?" Wei Zhongxian asked in an elevated tone.

"The child you and Keshi hid."

"I don't know what you are talking about!" Wei Zhongxian smiled and replied in a non-smiling way.

"The heirs of the eight thousand-year-old princes died without illness, but is it that simple? I dug the tombs of eight princes with my own hands, but only found seven corpses, which means that one is still alive. I guess that the nine-thousand-year-old prince left it privately

One, carefully cultivate and ensure that the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty is always on the side of Lord Qiantose."

"You are so scheming." Wei Zhongxian was shocked by how scheming this person was.

Cao Huachun was not only scheming, but also capable of action. He had an insight into Wei Zhongxian's plan and knew that Wei Zhongxian wanted to be prosperous and wealthy for thousands of years. He must have some measures to ensure that Emperor Tianqi could still continue to control him a hundred years later.

Originally Wei Zhongxian and Hakka's idea was for Hakka to have a child with Emperor Tianqi and make him the crown prince. However, after a few years, there was no sign of Hakka's belly. Instead, Emperor Tianqi frequently had children in the harem, forcing Hakka to

Fighting fires everywhere with Wei Zhongxian.

An idea struck, and Wei Zhongxian thought of the story of Zhu Youtang, Emperor Xiaozong of the former Ming Dynasty.

Before Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty was born, Concubine Wan Guifei, the beloved concubine at the time, controlled the harem and killed all the princes one by one to ensure that her children had no competitors for the throne. However, Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youtang, was quietly born under the arrangement of fate.

He grew up under the protection of palace maids and eunuchs, and did not recognize Ming Xianzong and his son until he was six years old.

Wei Zhongxian found someone to save his life, and hid one of the princes. He was carefully taken care of by the Hakka family and trained from an early age. After many years of preparation, he was appointed crown prince to succeed the emperor Tianqi.
Chapter completed!