Lanke Chess Edge

Li Mushu stood up from his seat, slightly excited and worried, and said in a slightly trembling voice.

"Your Highness...if your guess is wrong, then..."

Hearing this, the Patriarch of the Chu Mansion, the counselor and another person all had goosebumps all over their bodies. Even King Jin was sweating on his back and his scalp was numb, but he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

"I know! This is a big gamble, just bet on this luck, and stand on my side, Yang Hao!"

"Boom..."

The thunder sounded, illuminating King Jin's slightly pale face.

"Clatter..."

The sound of rain outside was falling densely. The heavy rain that had been brewing since the thunder last night finally came. The flowers and plants in the Garden of Auspiciousness were all bent and bent by the torrential rain.

As the saying goes, there is an autumn rain and a cool one. Not long after the rain falls, people in Gyeonggi Province feel that the temperature has dropped significantly.

The person who knows you best is always your opponent. This sentence is also applicable to the battle for the crown prince. The King of Wu never underestimated the King of Jin. He is very afraid of his third brother.

Similarly, King Jin also values ​​his elder brother more, and is different from King Wu's overall layout of wanting to lead the ruling and opposition parties. After the old emperor's health failed, King Jin almost put most of his energy around his elder brother, because he He knew that he couldn't compete with his elder brother who had obvious advantages in competing for courtiers.

King Jin hasn't made any big moves for so long, or almost no moves, but it doesn't mean that King Jin really gave up.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. Even if there is no real evidence to prove the problems faced by the King Wu family, but only relying on the analysis in the Prince Jin's mansion, King Jin decisively made a conclusion on the opponent's state.

After making a decision, King Jin secretly issued a series of orders, and some agile masters took advantage of the heavy rain to disguise themselves and dispatched.

The key to this step is not only to instigate the people on the shore of King Wu to do it, but also to find ways to stay out of it. To put it bluntly, it is to create a fact that King Wu is really angry and desperate.

It would be best if King Wu had really planned to do this, but if the opponent could hold his breath, King Jin would have to give it a push.

. . .

It was night, and the pouring rain was still pouring. At the gate of Jin Wang's mansion, Jin Wang Yang Hao and young teacher Li Mushu were escorted by servants under umbrellas, and they went to the door and boarded the carriage together.

"Go, go to the palace."

After Jin Wang helped Li Mushu into the carriage, he said this to the driver, and under the escort of the front and rear guards, the carriage started slowly.

More than a quarter of an hour later, in the royal study of the palace, Emperor Yuande was reading a miscellaneous book in his hand, and the content was still about a fairy tale.

But even though he was reading fairy stories, the old emperor was still thinking about the affairs of the government and the public. The previous actions of King Wu disappointed Emperor Yuande.

At this time, an old eunuch walked into the imperial study and announced in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Jin entered the palace to seek an audience."

"Huh? It's so late, what is he doing here?"

"Uh, I said I came to greet Your Majesty."

The old emperor frowned, put down the book, Eunuch Li hurried forward a few steps, and helped him to stand up, while the maid beside him immediately stuffed the cushions behind his back.

"Let me in."

"yes!"

The old eunuch withdrew, and soon led Jin Wang Yang Hao into the imperial study.

"Erchen specially came to pay respects to the emperor!"

The king of Jin, just as he was inside, knelt down respectfully and bowed down.

"Get up."

King Jin on the ground raised his head and smiled, then stood up.

"It's a new day today, why are you interested in entering the palace to pay your respects? Sit down."

The old emperor teased, after the princes came out of the palace, almost no one came to pay their respects at night, of course, the old emperor himself had a bad temper and found it annoying.

"Thank you father!"

King Jin stood up, and a eunuch brought a chair beside him, and he sat down directly.

"In the past, I was afraid of my father, so I didn't dare to come. Now that I think about it, I should come more often to pay my respects."

With some emotion, King Jin said in a slightly lower voice.

"Where is Li Mushu, he is almost inseparable from you, didn't you come together?"

"I can't hide it from my father, the teacher is still waiting in the carriage, he said that the little young master dare not come to the imperial study to face the saint."

"Ah……"

The old emperor smiled, took a piece of candied fruit from the low table in front of the collapse, and then waved his hand to King Jin, and the maid next to him immediately walked up to King Jin with a plate.

The king of Jin was also polite, and directly took a lot of candied fruit, stuffed one in his mouth, and held the other in his hand.

"What? There's nothing to eat in Prince Jin's Mansion?"

The old emperor made fun of it again.

"Father is joking, but this is a gift from the imperial study, it is a gift from father, it is different, and I will give some to the teacher to taste by the way."

The old emperor looked up and down at King Jin.

"You said you should come more often to pay your respects, don't you think that you will not have much time to be alone, and you are afraid that there will be no chance in the future?"

At such a time, the ordinary courtiers might have been so frightened that their expressions changed drastically and they opened their mouths to defend themselves, but King Jin didn't speak immediately, and only spoke after a moment of silence, with a tinge of sadness on his face.

"Father is right, it's what I think in my heart. People say that the emperor's family is hard to have family affection, but I still remember it. When I was a child, my father used to 'fly' over with my son..."

The old cow still has the feeling of licking the calf. As a dying old man, Emperor Yuande could not be touched when he heard King Jin's emotional words at this moment. It was rare for him not to interrupt the chattering memories in King Jin's mouth.

"When I grow up, I'm afraid it's too much. It's been a long time since I have talked so much beside my father..."

King Jin's words came to an end after he left the palace and established the mansion.

The old emperor didn't speak the whole time, and when he looked at his son at this moment, his heart was full of emotions, so he simply patted his side for fear of limpness.

"Come and sit."

King Jin opened his mouth, stood up half of his body but did not move.

"What? Scared? Didn't you often sit when you were young?"

The old emperor said so, and King Jin no longer hesitated, put away the candied fruit in his hand, stood up and walked slowly to sit down before the soft collapse, the soft touch under the buttocks was as familiar as in memory, it was both a memory and a memory. yearning.

He didn't talk too much off-topic with his father, just chatted about family affairs and things about his childhood, and the old emperor even called Concubine Ren over.

Unknowingly, a long time has passed, and it is true that from the beginning to the end, he did not say anything related to the struggle for the throne, and did not even involve a trace of government affairs.

"Father, it's getting late, you should go to bed earlier, my son will come to greet you tomorrow!"

King Jin stood up and said goodbye.

"Hao'er~ You come to talk for so long every day, how tired your father is!"

Concubine Ren frowned and scolded her son.

"Hehe, it's okay, he can come whenever he wants!"

King Jin smiled and bowed to his mother, queen and father.

"Mother and concubine don't worry, the son-in-law mainly just asks for peace, while there is still a chance..."

"Hao'er! What are you talking about!?"

Concubine Ren's complexion changed, she cursed angrily, and immediately apologized to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, Hao'er didn't care, he..."

"Okay, okay, it's okay."

The old emperor waved his hand. He was in a good mood tonight. This was a fact, and he didn't care that much anymore.

Concubine Ren Gui breathed a sigh of relief, looked at her son and frowned.

"Hao'er, why don't you thank your father?"

King Jin seemed to have just come to his senses, and once again handed over his hand to thank him.

"Thank you, father, for forgiven my son's innocence. In fact, what my son said just now..."

King Jin looked at Concubine Ren Gui, sighed dejectedly and did not continue, and bowed down again.

"My son, leave!"

When King Jin left, Concubine Ren's face became worried. The downcast and sad expression before her son left made her feel uneasy.

"Your Majesty, Hao'er..."

The old emperor exhaled slowly, and patted his concubine on the back.

"It's okay, Gu won't let him have trouble..."

The old emperor now understands a little bit. King Jin has always been smart, unlike King Wu who is both good and bad. He has been silent for a while, and he probably knows that he has no hope.

But such a capable younger brother, will he let him go after King Wu ascends the throne?

. . .

It was night, and some special news reached Wu Wang's mansion, causing Wu Wang, who had been unable to sleep most of the night, to put on his clothes and come to the front hall.

"The third son entered the palace late at night?"

A man in a dark blue night suit clapped his hands and answered.

"Returning to Your Highness, it is indeed the case. The carriage set off at Xushi and only returned near Zishi!"

King Wu frowned like Sichuan characters.

"Is there any news worth mentioning in the palace?"

Although he discussed it with his officials during the day, King Wu subconsciously asked this question for a while.

"This...according to His Highness's order, the people around the Holy Majesty have stopped sending messages..."

As soon as King Wu clapped his hands, he walked back and forth in the hall impatiently.

"Then forget it!"

"yes!"

The visitor was ordered to retreat, and King Wu sat in the hall for a long time without returning to his room to rest.

The second day, the third day... King Jin entered the palace for several days in a row, and one day after that, the carriage drove upright outside the post house in Gyeonggi Prefecture.

Yin Zhaoxian never expected that the King of Jin would dare to visit him in person, but the prince had to welcome him when he came to see him, so he could only invite King Jin into the post house, but he opened the main door wide and invited the post post guards to serve tea.

Neither of these two incidents could be concealed from the old emperor and the king of Wu, and the reactions of the two were also different.

The old emperor learned the exact content that day, and he knew that it was King Jin who hoped that Yin Zhaoxian would keep the few scattered courtiers who were close to King Jin in the future, especially Gu Shaoshi Li Mushu.

Of course, this will not make the old emperor just believe it, but it cannot be said that there is no such possibility, and it is inevitable that he feels a little sad. For his son, it is true that "the end is approaching" in all aspects.

But after Jin Wang Yin Zhaoxian, Wu Wang couldn't bear it anymore, and once again secretly summoned his confidantes to Wu Wangfu to discuss.

King Jin's behavior made King Wu extremely anxious, and he couldn't help contacting the eyeliner in the palace again, and got the news that Concubine Ren also accompanied the imperial study several times, which made the officials of King Wu's mansion fearful and uneasy.

No one knew more about King Jin's ability than them, and some military officials even came to see King Wu several times by themselves.

In the early morning of September 17th, in a remote place outside the city gate of Gyeonggi Province, the young teacher Li Mushu and his family members were arranged in a large number of carriages, and the family members came here quietly several times, surrounded by some confidantes of the King of Jin master.

The old Li Mushu cupped his hands and faced King Jin with a sad and reluctant expression.

"Your Highness, the old man should stay!"

King Jin shook his head.

"Teacher, you should go back to Yanzhou. Even if the eldest brother really succeeds in the future, you are old and far away in Yanzhou, and Yin Zhaoxian is here, so you will be fine."

"What about you, Your Highness?"

"Me? Naturally, I'm waiting for the result of the victory or defeat. Is there still room for me to run?"

King Jin smiled and cupped his hands towards Li Mushu.

"Teacher, take care!"

Li Mushu's old eyes were cloudy, and he cupped his hands tremblingly.

"Your Highness, take care!"

King Jin personally stepped forward, helped Li Mushu into the carriage, and watched the chariot and horse team leave slowly, then turned and left, quietly returning to the city just like when he came.