Ji Chengying, the current emperor, secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the military symbols on the table.
Ji Chengying looked at Tang Chen who was kneeling below and asked: "Why do you have the military talisman of the Southern Expedition Army in your hand?"
Tang Chen said: "Back to the emperor, the great counselor sent his confidant to give the military talisman to the minister, and asked the minister to return it to the Holy Emperor on his behalf."
Ji Chengying nodded and said: "I heard that the great counselor is at Sihai Inn, and I also heard that Guijia is having trouble there. Is it true?"
Tang Chen replied: "I don't know the details yet, I will send someone to find out as soon as possible."
Ji Chengying yawned and walked up to Tang Chen and squatted down. Tang Chen was stunned, but he was used to it. As long as there were few people, the emperor would behave like this.
Ji Chengying came closer and asked: "Tang Chen, if there is really a Guijia in Sihai Inn, you can catch one for me. I want to see with my own eyes what it is."
Tang Chen immediately said: "Your Majesty, this is not a joke. Not only is Guijia powerful, it is also contagious."
Ji Chengying frowned: "Is it really contagious? In other words, it will turn other people into Guijia? I heard that even if people become Guijia, they are not much different from before, but I don't understand.
, then what on earth is this?”
Tang Chen explained: "Your Majesty, people who become Guijia will be different from normal people. Moreover, Guijia will look for similar people and will also lurk among ordinary people. If it weren't for the fact that they feed on humans, the people they eat will
Turned into a withered corpse, I’m afraid we don’t even know there is such a thing as Guijia.”
Ji Chengying nodded: "That is to say, for so many years, you have not found out for me what the hell Guijia is? Then what are you doing? Just getting salary and not doing anything?"
Tang Chen immediately said: "Your Majesty, atonement, the first person to discover Guijia was a different sect. I am afraid that only those from the different sect understand what that Guijia is."
"Heterodox?" Ji Chengying thought for a moment and said, "If I remember correctly, there is a rule for the alien sect, which is not to cooperate with the imperial court. Anyone who belongs to the imperial court will be regarded as a traitor. However, isn't the great strategist an alien?
Are we all from the same sect? There are also some heretics who have surrendered to the imperial court."
Tang Chen said: "Although the great counselor was born in a different sect, it was because his parents were from a different sect. The great counselor was adopted by the former great counselor since he was a child. Therefore, he is not actually a real sect. Therefore, even if
Even if you know Guijia, you may not be completely clear about it. As for those heretics who have surrendered, I am just the commander of the armored guards, so it is not convenient for me to interfere."
Ji Chengying stood up and stretched: "Okay, Pingshen, you can go, there is nothing else."
Just as Tang Chen stood up to leave, he heard the chamberlain outside the door shouting: "The Queen Mother is here."
Tang Chen had no choice but to kneel down immediately. When Ji Chengying saw the Queen Mother, she just made a kneeling gesture, then turned around and ran away.
The Queen Mother called Ji Chengying directly: "Where is the Emperor going?"
Ji Chengying turned around and said with a smile: "I'm going to bed."
The Queen Mother signaled the following palace maids to stay outside, while she slowly walked into the imperial study, glanced at Tang Chen on the ground and said: "Before your Majesty rests, you should order Tang Chen to thoroughly investigate the Guijia case at Sihai Inn. This case
I won’t be able to sleep peacefully until I find out.”
Ji Chengying could only say: "Tang Chen heard the order, I now order you to thoroughly investigate the Guijia case of Sihai Inn as the commander of the Iron Armor Guard. You don't have to report everything, so you can do it easily."
Tang Chen immediately said: "I accept the decree!"
After Tang Chen exited the imperial study, the Queen Mother walked towards the table. Looking at the unruly books on the table, she naturally raised her eyes and glared at Ji Chengying.
Ji Chengying stepped forward and said, "Mom, don't glare at me. I'm just acting this for them."
The Queen Mother said: "Even if you are acting, you won't watch these, right? How decent would you be?"
Ji Chengying said: "Nan Rong's music style is not ordinary. If I don't do this, he won't trust me."
The Queen Mother said coldly: "Is this why you have married so many concubines and sealed so many beauties within a few years of being on the throne?"
Ji Chengying smiled and said, "That's purely a personal preference."
The Queen Mother raised her hand to slap her mouth, but held back: "Fortunately, you still know how to go to court. If you don't even go to court in the morning, just wait and give up the throne to Ji Hanguang."
Ji Hanguang is Ji Chengying's twin brother. In fact, Ji Hanguang was the former crown prince and the crown prince of the Dachang Dynasty. As for why Ji Chengying became the emperor's younger brother, it was all because of a red dragon gold coin.
Ji Chengying disagreed: "Do you think I want to be this emperor? I get up early in the morning and go to the dark every day. I am afraid. When I read the memorials every day, I feel like I am gambling on luck. If the war does not go well, or there is a natural or man-made disaster, everyone in the court will inevitably be affected.
There was a wailing, and then those powerful officials had to jump out and set up a stage to act."
The Queen Mother closed her eyes and was unwilling to listen any more, but Ji Chengying walked directly to her side and continued: "If the solution cannot be solved in the end, or the solution is not good, I will have to issue a self-incriminating edict and take all the responsibility on me.
What kind of logic is this? The heavy rains are not because I wet the bed, the drought is not because I don’t drink water, and the frequent wars are not because I am not virtuous, but because some bastards want to make themselves kings."
The Queen Mother calmly said: "Son, the emperor is indeed not that easy to sit on. I just don't understand. Back then, your father was willing to kill each other for that dragon chair. But in your generation, you two brothers are not good at all.
Before you were willing to be the emperor and establish the crown prince, you two actually went to the Temple of Heaven to pray to Jiutian not to establish you as the crown prince."
Ji Chengying whispered: "That's not because you have cleared away all the other obstacles in front of our brothers."
The Queen Mother said angrily: "Who am I doing this for? Not for you two brothers. If your father's other women gave birth to children and developed their own power over time, you two brothers might not be alive today."
The Queen Mother directly referred to the old emperor's concubines as "other women", which shows that in her eyes, those women had no status.
Ji Chengying also knew that in the early years, her mother tried every means to prevent the concubines from giving birth to children. Even if she gave birth to a son, she would try every means to prevent him from getting sick and dying. It was all for him and his younger brother. To put it nicely, it was to prevent them from having children.
The two brothers had their hands stained with the blood of their loved ones.
Ji Chengying knelt down and said: "Queen mother, please calm down. From now on, I will leave you alone. I will do whatever my mother wants me to do."
The Queen Mother sighed: "It's not that you do whatever I tell you, but you want to use your own brains. Your father's death, coupled with the death of several ministers, will cause chaos in the world."
Ji Chengying said: "My son has always suspected that the death of those assistant ministers has a great relationship with the Nanrong family."
The Queen Mother said seriously: "Don't talk nonsense about this matter. Now the government is actually in the hands of Nanrong Qufeng. Although it seems that he does not have much power, all the ministries of the court take orders from him. There are not many people you can trust nowadays."
.”
Ji Chengying asked: "Tang Chen should be counted as one, right? He was the most trusted waiter outside the palace at that time."
"People can change," the Queen Mother said with worry on her face, "Although Tang Chen is loyal, he has always been the son-in-law of the Nanrong family. Although he married Nanrong Wenjun's daughter back then, it was because of his salary, but the most powerful person in the world is
What is changeable is the human heart.”
Ji Chengying smiled bitterly and said: "If you can't even trust Tang Chen, then there will be no one around me to help you."
The Queen Mother said coldly: "Really? What about Xuanbu?"
Ji Chengying was stunned, because Xuanbu was secretly established when the old emperor was in power. It was not until the old emperor was seriously ill that he told brothers Ji Chengying and Ji Hanguang about the existence of Xuanbu, and told the two brothers that no matter what the future was,
Whoever succeeds to the throne will be controlled by another person and secretly assist him.
However, on that night, Ji Hanguang, who was unwilling to be the emperor, took out a red dragon gold coin and asked Ji Chengying to guess heads and tails. Whoever guessed correctly would be the emperor, and the other person would assist, and let Jiutian decide who would come.
Inherit the throne.
As a result, Ji Chengying guessed correctly. Ji Hanguang was so excited that he rolled on the floor, while Ji Chengying was so dumbfounded holding the red dragon gold coin that he almost cried.
Thinking about it now, my father died that night, probably because he was so angry after witnessing this scene, right?
That's right, when the two brothers agreed to toss gold coins to determine the throne, they were right next to the old emperor's bed.
It's a good thing that the Queen Mother didn't know about this, otherwise she would have been furious. Thinking of this, Ji Chengying grinned at the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother stood up and said: "Xuanbu was left by your father. Anyone who knows the existence of Xuanbu can be trusted. Your brother controls Xuanbu. You can rest assured. Don't rush to deal with the Nanrong family now. Let's deal with it first."
Let’s investigate the Guijia case at Sihai Inn, I guess there is something fishy behind it.”
Ji Chengying said: "Yes, I know. Mother, please go back and rest early. It's already the fourth watch."
"Don't stay up late," the Queen Mother warned as she left, "it's easy to die suddenly!"
After the Queen Mother left, Ji Chengying sat there, looked at the Kowloon uniform hanging next to him, and began to curse his brother Ji Hanguang, because Ji Hanguang did not keep his promise at all. After letting the crown prince out, he also handed over the jurisdiction of the Xuanbu to his brother Ji Chengying.
, I stay in Prince Xi's Mansion all day long, often inventing some messy things, and I heard that I am still studying different magic techniques and alchemy.
Why did I guess it right in the first place? Ji Chengying put her head on the table and sighed.
The most important thing is that when the emperor cannot choose the woman he loves, the queen beside him is nothing but beautiful.
Jiutian, I, Ji Chengying, am not so superficial, I just want a soul mate!
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This night was destined to be a sleepless night. The emperor didn't sleep, and Tang Xiaohao, Sang Luo and Liao Yanqi who were in the inn naturally didn't sleep either.
In the early morning, when Tang Xiaohao walked out of the house with dark circles under his eyes, he happened to see Liao Yanqi, who also had dark circles under his eyes, walking out.
Tang Xiaohao gave a thumbs up and said: "General Liao, I didn't expect you also like smoky makeup, you have good taste."
Liao Yanqi not only didn't sleep that night, but also felt a hundred times more uncomfortable because the girl Yueyan lived next door and was about to stir up trouble all night long. Therefore, facing Tang Xiaohao's teasing, he just nodded numbly and got ready.
Go downstairs and have breakfast.
Liao Yanqi went downstairs but happened to meet Sang Luo coming upstairs. Liao Yanqi was about to salute when Sang Luo stopped him: "No, let's go down and eat."
Tang Xiaohao leaned against the railing, holding his chin and looking at Sang Luo: "I thought only General Liao couldn't sleep, but I didn't expect that the great counselor couldn't sleep either. I covered Miss Hanshuang's mouth last night. You shouldn't be able to hear anything.
Sound?"
Due to sleepiness, Sang Luo was very irritable and directly pressed the mechanism on the white paper fan to pop out the short knife.
Tang Xiaohao looked at the shimmering tip of the knife: "Are you kidding, are you so nervous? As the saying goes, if you get up early and smile, it will be good for her and me."
Sang Luo said coldly: "What you want to say is that if you get up early, it will be good for her and me, right?"
Tang Xiaohao pretended to be shy: "Don't make trouble, it's shameless."
Sang Luo suppressed his nausea: "If your father were not Tang Chen, you would have been exposed in the wilderness long ago."
Tang Xiaohao clasped his fists with both hands: "Promise!"
Faced with a bastard like Tang Xiaohao who is not afraid of boiling water, even Sang Luo, who is the most intelligent in the world, is helpless, not to mention that he clearly knows that it is a cover-up.
Just after Chen hour, Tang Chen came to the outside of the inn with a large number of armored guards. The armored guards belonged to the forbidden army, which was naturally different from the Shendu army guarding the Shendu city outside the imperial city. The black armor alone said everything - generally
If the soldiers were wearing such heavy armor, it would be difficult for them to move, let alone fight.
Each armored guard carries a long bow and quiver, and carries a long knife on his waist. Every step he takes makes the sound of metal colliding. Therefore, the surrounding Shendu soldiers only hear the sound and know that the armored guard has arrived.
After Tang Chen got off his horse, he stood outside the fence, holding on to the rope and just about to ring the bell, when Sang Luo came out.
Tang Chen immediately knelt down on one knee and said, "Commander Tang Chen, the commander of the Royal Armored Guard, pays homage to the great counselor."
"General Tang, no courtesy," Sang Luo deliberately kept a distance from the fence, "Have the military talisman been returned to the emperor?"
Tang Chen stood up and said: "After my subordinate got the military talisman last night, he immediately presented it to the emperor. The emperor then ordered me to investigate the Guijia case at Sihai Inn."
Seeing that Tang Chen did not mention the southern expedition army, Sang Luo knew that the matter would need to be discussed when he met the emperor. It was nothing more than praise and rewards based on merit, and then he placed the 150,000 troops in batches in various places.
In the army, avoid further trouble.
Sang Luo told him what happened after he came here yesterday, and Tang Chen felt guilty after hearing this.
Tang Chen cupped his fists and said, "This subordinate has no way of teaching his son. When this case is completed, I will definitely petition the Holy One to punish him."
Sang Luo said: "Young Master Tang just likes to play, and he only plays for fun. He didn't actually do anything, let alone broke the law. How can he be punished?"
Tang Chen knew that there was something in Sang Luo's words, and also knew that Tang Xiaohao could not hide it from the great counselor by pretending to be crazy all day long, so he just smiled awkwardly.
However, Tang Chen quickly remembered something and asked: "The great counselor said that the man you killed was a beggar?"
Sang Luo said: "Yes, and he is obviously from the Beggar Clan."
Tang Chen immediately thought of what Mu Yinghao did yesterday morning and was hesitating whether to tell him or not.
As the commander of the Iron Armored Guards, Tang Chen was loyal to the current emperor, but he was also the son-in-law of the Nanrong family. Mu Yinghao, the commander-in-chief of the Shendu Army, was also a retainer of the Nanrong family. Over the years, in order to balance this, Tang Chen
Relationships can be said to be painstaking.
What would Sang Luo think if he was told that Mu Yinghao was plotting against him?
Sang Luo noticed the troubled look on Tang Chen's face and said bluntly: "Master Ling told me everything that happened yesterday, as well as the fact that General Mu invited you to the military Yamen of Shendu."
When Tang Chen heard this, he knew that he didn't need to explain anything: "Now that the great counselor knows it, I will tell you my speculation. I think that the beggar who was killed by you and turned into Guijia should be the person who died the day before yesterday."
One of the five beggars."
Sang Luo agreed: "I think so too, and I have roughly guessed what happened based on what Young Master Ling said..." This chapter has been completed!