The person who came was none other than Cao Yu, one of the young eunuchs he took in back then.
It has been nearly a year since Cao Yu and others began to practice the evil sword manual. During this nearly year, more than a dozen young eunuchs have successfully entered the door, but their qualifications and understanding are different.
Weak, even these little eunuchs are practicing hard, but as time goes by, the gap slowly widens.
The most outstanding one among them is Cao Yu. Cao Yu seems to be born to practice the evil-proof swordsmanship. After getting started easily, his progress is rapid. It is no exaggeration to describe it as a thousand miles a day.
Even Li Huan praised Cao Yu's aptitude. Now Cao Yu has successfully practiced the evil sword technique. Except for his internal strength, which is a little bit worse, whether it is swordsmanship or body skills, anything that can make up for his weakness with diligence has been used by Cao Yu.
I made up for it by studying hard and practicing hard.
If Cao Yu is released, he can be regarded as the top second-rate player in the world. It can even be said that if he relies on the weird speed of the evil-proof swordsmanship, he will be able to fight against the first-rate players.
Able to assassinate the opponent.
Because of Cao Yu's great improvement in cultivation, he was gradually entrusted with important responsibilities by Li Huan. Nowadays, in the Li Mansion, the internal affairs are generally handled by Forsythia, while the external affairs are handled by Cao Yu.
Now that Cao Yu has come to see him, there must be something going on.
With his hands behind his back, Li Huan looked at Cao Yu who was floating down and said: "Cao Yu, didn't I tell you to keep an eye on Shouning Houfu? Why are you back at this time?"
Although Li Huan spends most of his time practicing, it does not mean that there are no people arranged at Shouninghou Mansion.
Even though he was intimidated by his vicious reputation, Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling brothers had been holding back in the mansion for so long that they had already gone crazy. Recently, they have been wanting to rush out at every turn.
That is to say, Li Huan. Others would not dare to stop him, so every time something like this happens, Li Huan will be alarmed.
Cao Yu said: "Sir, the two uncles are trying to rush out of the Hou Mansion again, and even shouting that if the Jin Yiwei people dare to stop them, they dare to have the Jin Yiwei people beaten to death and give them a bullying
The crime of a relative of the emperor."
When Li Huan heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and chuckled: "Oh, if you put it like that, they have gained a bit more courage. This is really strange. What confidence do these two people have to say such things?"
Cao Yu coughed slightly and said, "Sir, the reason why they are so confident is because today is the last day of the six-month confinement that Your Majesty said."
Li Huan was stunned for a moment. He really didn't pay attention to this. After all, in the past six months, he was busy practicing and watching Liu Jin fight with hundreds of officials in the court. Even if he had free time, he would mostly go to the palace to teach the emperor.
Practiced.
Now after listening to Cao Yu's words, Li Huan realized that half a year of relationship had passed like this.
After glancing at Cao Yu, Li Huan smiled and said, "Let's go, follow me and meet the two uncles."
Shouninghou Mansion
Shouning Hou Zhang Heling and Jianchang Hou Zhang Yanling, protected by a team of domestic servants, were attacking the team blocked by the Jin Yiwei.
More than a dozen Jinyi guards formed a human wall to block the door of the mansion, while Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling were shouting and cursing at the servants from behind who were attacking the human wall.
In the past six months, they had been taught a lesson by Li Huan several times, which made the two of them feel a psychological shadow towards Jin Yiwei, and they did not dare to offend Jin Yiwei too much.
Otherwise, they would not have let the servants attack the human wall with their bare hands. With their past temperament, they would definitely kill the Jin Yiwei.
Zhang Heling shouted: "Let Li Huan come to see me."
Because today is the last day of half a year, Zhang Heling seemed very arrogant. Even his fear and fear of Li Huan were diluted by the joy of being free, and he even shouted to see Li Huan.
Zhang Yanling shouted from the side: "Yes, let Li Huan come over to see us. This time I want to see if Li Huan still dares to stop us from leaving the house."
It's frustrating, it's so frustrating, thinking that their great uncle, Li Huansheng, blocked the door and held it inside the mansion for half a year.
At this moment, a voice rang out: "Oh, who wants to see Li?"
Along with this sound, Li Huan's figure appeared not far away.
They saw Li Huan riding on a horse, wearing the flying fish uniform given by the emperor, looking at Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling who were shouting with a half-smile.
When the two brothers who were originally clamoring saw Li Huan, they took a few steps back as if out of reflex and tried their best to hide behind the servants, as if they didn't want Li Huan to see them.
It's a pity that these servants were also scared out of their wits by Li Huan. Li Huan killed several servants who tried to leave Shouning Hou Mansion in front of them, and his bloody head rolled down the steps. It was a situation they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
But soon brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling encouraged themselves. Why should they be afraid of Li Huan? They should know that they can now leave the Hou Mansion.
Thinking of this, Zhang Heling shouted to Li Huan: "Li Huan, you can't stop our brothers from leaving the house today. You are going to be finished. We will definitely tell the Queen Mother about your bullying of us in the past six months. The Queen Mother will never spare you." .”
Li Huan's body swayed, and he appeared in front of the two of them in the blink of an eye. At the same time, Li Huan stared at the two of them with words without any emotion: "Really? It seems that Li gave it to you two. The lesson is not enough."
As he spoke, Li Huan reached out and grabbed Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling by their necks, then lifted them up.
Cough cough cough
Being held up by someone's neck, one can imagine the difficulty in breathing. The pain of suffocation caused the two of them to cough violently as a conditioned reflex. At the same time, they kicked their legs wildly and slapped Li Huan's arms with both hands, trying to pull him away. Li Huan broke open the opponent who was holding their neck.
It's a pity that Li Huan's single arm is strong enough to weigh over a thousand kilograms, so the two of them can't break it apart. Soon the two of them felt like they were suffocating.
Looking at Li Huan's cold and emotionless eyes, the two of them didn't know why, but they had a feeling in their hearts that Li Huan really dared to kill them.
Although they don't know why they feel this way, they are so sure.
Now the two of them were afraid. If Li Huan was really crazy and wanted to kill them both, even if the Queen Mother killed Li Huan to avenge them, what would be the point.
Soon, the two of them felt that their eyes were black and their heads were buzzing. The feeling of being on the verge of death made them completely scared.
Chen Yao on the side looked at the two people being grabbed by the neck and lifted up by Li Huan. He almost rolled his eyes and couldn't help but froze for a moment, with a look of worry in his eyes.
Of course, what Chen Yao was worried about was not Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling, but Li Huan.
If this really strangles these two uncles to death, even if the emperor protects them, Li Huan will not escape death.
It's not worth risking your own future for the sake of the uncle Guo who is disgusted by two people.
But Chen Yao also knew that since Li Huan did this, he must have his own reasons. He was just a subordinate and could not make suggestions on such matters.
Li Huan's expression did not change, and he was still holding the two's necks tightly. At this moment, Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling were already in a state of unconsciousness. At the moment of losing consciousness, their hearts were filled with endless regret and regret.
Fear.
What they regret is why they listened to other people's instigation and insisted on causing trouble for Li Huan. This is great. They have just recovered and can regain their freedom. Why do they want to provoke Li Huan with such a mean talk?
My life is on the line.
All the servants in the Shouning Marquis Mansion were so frightened that they fell to the ground when they saw their Marquis being strangled to death.
If Shouning Hou and Jianchang Hou died, their servants would definitely be ordered to die by the Queen Mother. Even if the Queen Mother was lucky enough not to kill them, given the many evil things they had done in the past, the two kings would be dead without them.
Thanks to my uncle's blessing, they may die without knowing how.
As soon as his hands were released, pop, pop, Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling fell straight to the ground without any movement, looking as if they were really dead.
Chen Yao took a deep breath, stepped forward and stretched out his hand to detect the breath of the two of them. He immediately trembled and said to Li Huan like an electric shock: "Sir, they... they have no breath."
At this moment, Shouning Hou's wife, who came after hearing the news, was walking over surrounded by several maids. Suddenly she heard Chen Yao's words and looked at the two Hou Lords lying on the ground. She felt her head buzzing.
, his body went limp and couldn't help but fall down.
Several maids scrambled to hold him up, and for a moment the Shouning Hou Mansion was in a state of chaos.
Although all the civil and military officials in the court are busy fighting with Liu Jin, it does not mean that no one pays attention to Li Huan.
It's just that fewer people are paying attention to Li Huan, or they can't spare the energy to deal with Li Huan for the time being.
Li Huan couldn't remember that today is the day when the six-month period has expired, but a thoughtful person can remember it.
At this moment, some people were watching the activities in Shouninghou Mansion from a distance. They wanted to see the two uncles who had been blocked in the Mansion by Li Huan for half a year under the emperor's imperial edict.
How will I take revenge on Li Huan in the future?
What they didn't expect was that Li Huan would be so bold. In front of everyone, when Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling clamored for revenge, he directly strangled the two of them to death.
Everyone who saw that scene turned to stone on the spot, with expressions of disbelief on their faces, thinking that Li Huan must have gone crazy.
Li Huan glanced at the two people on the ground, with a bit of disdain in his eyes. He flipped his hands and slapped their hearts with two palms. Suddenly, their hearts started beating loudly again after being hit by an external force.
Cough, cough, cough, a violent cough came from the mouths of the two uncles who had faked their death. This sudden change only shocked everyone.
Chen Yao opened his eyes even more and looked at Zhang Yanling who had come back from the dead in shock. Zhang Heling and the other two subconsciously said: "It's a fake corpse!"
Zhang Heling's wife threw herself on Zhang Heling, crying and laughing at the same time. She kept touching Zhang Heling's face and murmured as if she couldn't believe it: "The Marquis is not dead, the Marquis is not dead, it's really great."
At this moment, Zhang Heling said subconsciously: "Am I not dead yet?"
Suddenly, Zhang Heling thought of what happened at the moment before he fainted. He was actually strangled to death by Li Huan.
When he thought of this, Zhang Heling subconsciously looked towards Li Huan. When he saw Li Huan's cold and ruthless eyes, Zhang Heling could only tremble with fear.
Zhang Yanling was so dumbfounded that she still hadn't reacted. She was obviously frightened by Li Huan's cruelty.
At this moment, Li Huan suddenly smiled and said: "Two uncles, aren't you going to Renshou Palace to find the Queen Mother? It happened that Li also wanted to enter the palace to see His Majesty, so Li escorted the two uncles
Come into the palace."
"No, no, we won't go to see the Queen Mother, even if we kill her!"
Almost as a conditioned reflex, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling shook their heads repeatedly, rolled backwards and crawled into the palace, and said to Li Huan: "Go away, please leave quickly, we won't enter the palace, we won't enter the palace!"
Li Huan looked at the two people's reactions and said with a disappointed look: "That's a pity, but if the two princes go to see the Queen Mother, they must remember to call Li. Li also wants to see the Queen Mother."
Fan."
Zhang Heling's face turned pale, he looked at Li Huan in fear, and said secretly: You don't want to visit the Queen Mother, but you want to kill our brothers!
With a bang, the door of Shouning Hou Mansion was closed by a group of frightened servants. Brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling immediately sat down on the ground with their feet weak.
Zhang Yanling almost cried: "Brother, Li Huan is a madman, he is a madman, he really strangled us to death just now."
Zhang Heling's eyes were full of fear and he said tremblingly: "We can't afford to offend this lunatic. Whoever wants to deal with him can do it. Anyway, if I beat him to death in the future, I won't cause trouble for him."
Zhang Yanling nodded repeatedly.
Li Huan looked at the closed door, with a smile on his lips, and said loudly: "Let the brothers evacuate."
Following Li Huan, Chen Yao still had a look of fear on his face and said: "Sir, I have just checked and found that the two princes have lost their breath. Why..."
Li Huan smiled and said: "They just held their breath for a moment and were in a state of suspended animation. As long as they are awakened within a certain period of time, they can wake up from the state of suspended animation."
Chen Yao, who looked stunned, said subconsciously: "Then what if we didn't wake up in time?"
Li Huan said lightly: "Then he is really dead!"
Chen Yao let out a breath and said with a wry smile: "My lord is really not afraid that they will go to the Queen Mother to complain. If the Queen Mother finds out about this, my lord will shed a layer of skin even if he is dead."
Li Huan nodded and said, "So let's just let them be honest and not go to the Queen Mother to complain."
As he spoke, Li Huan glanced at Chen Yao and said, "Do you think after this, those two uncles still have the guts to cause trouble for me?"
Chen Yao couldn't help but recall Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling just now. They were so frightened by Li Huan that they didn't even dare to look at Li Huan. He subconsciously shook his head and said: "They are already scared out of their wits. How can they dare to cause trouble for adults?"
Li Huan smiled and said: "So this is the way to deal with evil people like them. Just make them scared once and for all. After you keep it, they won't dare to trouble you again if they have the courage to do so."
Chen Yao looked at Li Huan with admiration and said, "I would like to thank you for your teaching."
After glancing at Chen Yao, Li Huan looked serious and said: "How is the candidate you asked to choose? Have you made a good choice?"
Chen Yao heard the words and said hurriedly: "In reply to my lord, you asked your subordinates to select the three hundred elite guards. My subordinates have already selected them. Any one of them is one of the best in a hundred, and they are willing to go through fire and water for your lord."
Li Huan nodded slightly and said, "You can take care of these people temporarily and wait for my orders at any time."
Chen Yao responded.
In the imperial city.
Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan who walked into the imperial study room with a tired look on his face and said, "Isn't Li Qing been practicing in seclusion recently? How come you have time to see me?"
Just looking at Zhu Houzhao's tired look, we knew it must be caused by the chaos in the court.
Even though Zhu Houzhao strongly supported Liu Jin's New Deal reforms, both Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao underestimated the degree of resistance to the New Deal by North Korean and Chinese civil and military officials as well as local officials.
The court was even more chaotic. Even in order to give Liu Jin absolute support, Zhu Houzhao directly dismissed the cabinet boss Wang Hao who opposed the New Deal, but he could not suppress the rising opposition among the opposition officials in the court.
Voices.
Even because of the dismissal of Wang Hao, the cabinet minister, the opposition between officials in the DPRK and the Central Government has become more intense in the past few days. The imperial study room has been filled to the brim with memorials to impeach the main members of the eunuch party.
Not only were the officials in the DPRK and the Central Government opposed it, but the local officials of the three departments in the two capitals and thirteen provinces also wrote and memorialized, strongly opposing Liu Jin's new policy, and asking the emperor to order the abolition of the new policy, remove Liu Jin from the post of director of rites, and send him to prison.
, three divisions will conduct a joint trial to convict him.
Whether it was in the court or in the local area, the memorials flying into the capital like snowflakes only made Zhu Houzhao very angry.
Li Huan did not speak. He just stepped forward and picked up the memorials that were thrown on the ground one by one, then put them in order on the table. With a smile on his face, he said to the tired Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, why bother with these?"
People have common sense, weren't you already mentally prepared when you decided to launch Liu Jin for reform?"
Zhu Houzhao sat there with a bit of bitterness on his tired face and said: "Although I said I was mentally prepared, I didn't expect these officials to be so resistant to the New Deal. Couldn't they see that the New Deal has a negative impact on the world?"
What benefit do the common people bring to the court and our country, the Ming Dynasty?"
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao said with a bit of brilliance in his eyes: "If even half of the New Deal can be implemented smoothly, it will be enough to change the current sluggishness of our Ming Dynasty, and it is not impossible to revive the Ming Dynasty. But they...
…”
Li Huan's eyes revealed a hint of brilliance as he said: "Those people are a small group of the smartest people who have rushed out from countless people after going through college examinations, provincial examinations, general examinations, and palace examinations. If these people can't see
If the New Deal was beneficial to Ming Dynasty, then they would have wasted so many years of learning."
Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly and said: "Yes, they are the smartest and most knowledgeable people in our country, but why are they the ones who oppose the New Deal the most?"
Li Huan looked at the confusion in Zhu Houzhao's eyes and sighed slightly: "Actually, your Majesty also understands in his heart, but he just doesn't want to admit it."
Li Huan said with a bit of disdain: "Because in the eyes of these people, they only have family and not the Ming Dynasty, only individuals and no common people, only private interests and no public interests of the world. These people have long lost the way of the sages who worry about the world first and worry about the future."
He has the heart to enjoy the world, not to mention the spiritual state of being able to live in tens of thousands of mansions and shelter all the poor people in the world with happy faces."
After a pause, Li Huan looked at Zhu Houzhao, who had a gloomy look on his face, and snorted: "These people are just bed bugs lying on Ming Dynasty's body and sucking blood crazily. By sucking the people's fat and people's ointment, they have become fat and fat.
.”
Seeing Zhu Houzhao sitting there motionless, Li Huan suddenly shouted: "Is His Majesty afraid, or are you just letting these people make trouble and continue to harm the Ming Dynasty just because of their opposition?"
"I have never been afraid!"
As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao was in high spirits. He changed his previous decadent look and looked at Li Huan with sparkling eyes: "Li Qing, you are right. I will never let them continue to harm the Ming Dynasty."
Li Huan immediately bowed to Zhu Houzhao and said: "I would like to go to Fujian and the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to help your majesty find a way to break the situation."
Zhu Houzhao was not surprised by Li Huan's request, because Li Huan had mentioned it not long ago, but Liu Jin's party had the upper hand in the court at that time, which made Zhu Houzhao think that the situation was good and there was no need to find another way.
However, as the New Deal was implemented one by one, each interest was touched. Whether it was officials from the central government or local officials, the scale of the counterattack was completely beyond Zhu Houzhao's expectations.
Looking at Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao said with some hesitation: "Even in the capital, Liu Jin has been assassinated several times in the past two months. You are ordered to go to Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where there are such opposition
We sent you to the base camp, and where you went, Li Qing, your safety is in danger..."
Li Huan smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty still doesn't believe in my strength. I'm actually looking forward to what tricks these people can do."
Zhu Houzhao showed a bit of struggle on his face, and finally took a deep breath and said to Li Huan: "I agree."
Li Huan was overjoyed when he heard this and said, "I thank you, Your Majesty."
Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan and said: "Li Qing, for what reason will you go to Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang? If you just go there directly under the banner of inspecting the New Deal situation, I'm really afraid that you won't be able to get to Jiangnan."
Li Huan smiled and said: "This is easy, has your Majesty forgotten that I once mentioned to you that Han Ling and his family were wiped out in the Thousand Households of Jinyi Guards in Fuzhou?"
Mentioning this matter, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but said angrily: "How could I have forgotten? I never thought that Cai Wen, a sentencing envoy, would dare to wipe out thousands of households of our great Ming Dynasty royal guards, if you hadn't been dissuaded by Li Qing at that time.
, I then ordered Cai Wen to be escorted to Beijing."
A stern look flashed in Li Huan's eyes and he said: "I have a grudge against this person for killing my father, and I want your Majesty to issue an imperial edict to kill him. But it is easy to kill Cai Wen, but if you want to find a breakthrough like Cai Wen, you will have to do it."
It’s not that easy anymore.”
Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood Li Huan's intention. He couldn't help but high-fived and praised: "Okay, I didn't expect you, Li Qing, to be so far-sighted. In this case, I have nothing to worry about."
Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan and said: "I will issue an order tomorrow to confer Li Qing on you as the Governor of the Chinese Army Governor's Office, the Minister of Signing and the Imperial Envoy, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, patrolling on behalf of the sky, and the strict inspection of thousands of Han households in Fuzhou Jinyiwei." In the case of Ling Miemen, all the local garrison guards were dispatched and given the right to kill first and report later."
Li Huan had a look of astonishment on his face. Although he knew that if the emperor allowed him to go to Fujian to investigate the case, he would definitely be given great authority, but he did not expect that Zhu Houzhao would give him such great authority.
The governor of the Central Military Governor's Office signed the matter. They were high-ranking officials of the second rank. Most of them had honorary titles and held concurrent posts. It was obviously to facilitate him to exercise local control and mobilize local soldiers and horses.
And appointing him as the commander of Jinyiwei and taking charge of Jinyiwei completely rectified his name. Although in the past six months, Shi Yiwen had the good sense not to care about Jinyiwei's affairs, and he had no intention of competing with Li Huan. The entire Jinyiwei had no intention of competing. Knowing that Li Huan became the commander of the Jinyiwei, it was only a matter of time before he took charge of the Jinyiwei.
But everyone thought that Li Huan would at least stay in the position of commander of Jinyiwei for a few years, and after accumulating enough qualifications, he would naturally take over the leadership of Jinyiwei.
Unexpectedly, this time Zhu Houzhao actually planned to promote him to the commander of the Jin Yiwei in order to allow him to go to the local area to investigate the case better.
In addition to this, there is also the power of imperial envoys, the power to kill first and report later. That is the real level of officialdom, with the supreme power of life and death.
Taking a deep breath, Li Huan respectfully said to Zhu Houzhao: "I thank your Majesty, but it's fine for your Majesty to add a vassal to sign for the Governor of the Central Army Governor's Mansion, but that is absolutely not allowed for the commander of the Jinyi Guards."
Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan with some doubts.
Li Huan explained: "Your Majesty, how has your Majesty ever seen the chief officer of the six departments go down to do things in person?"
Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, then he immediately reacted and smiled: "I was negligent, but I forgot that once you become the commander of the Jinyiwei, it will be difficult for you to leave the capital as the leader of the Jinyiwei. In this case, I will not touch you for the time being. Since you have the official position of commander of the Jin Yiwei, let Shi Wenyi take care of the Jin Yiwei for you for a while."
Li Huan bowed to Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan with a look of reluctance on his face and said, "I wonder when, Li Qing, you are planning to set off?"
Li Huan smiled slightly and said: "Whenever your Majesty's decree is issued, then I will set off."
Looking at Li Huan's smile and thinking about the danger of this trip, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but have the idea of giving up for a moment, but in the end his reason prevailed and said: "In that case, today I will order someone to hold a banquet for you, Li Qing." .”
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