Lanke Chess Edge

During this period of time, it was a torment for King Wu, especially after knowing that Li Mushu was missing, especially when a group of masters disappeared together.

King Jin made frequent moves, which made the people in King Wu's family restless. Sometimes they could clearly see that their opponents were making continuous moves, but they didn't make any moves on their own side, so they would appear extremely passive psychologically.

Although several old ministers tried their best to persuade King Wu to calm down, and King Wu knew that he should calm down, the timing was too delicate.

After careful calculation, it happened that the change happened after the old eunuch Han Baishan was bestowed to death last time.

Even some confidantes of King Wu's family had to admit that the originally quiet King Jin suddenly made a series of actions, probably because he learned from some channel that the situation had changed in their favor.

Since King Wu can have eyes and ears in the palace, there is no reason King Jin can't, and some special news is also not surprising.

And Jin Wang actually has a very big potential advantage, that is Ren Guifei, and Wu Wang's biological mother, Queen Zhang, has already passed away, so Ren Guifei may be the source of Jin Wang's news.

In this case, aside from other things, the timeliness of information has become extremely important. The King of Wu spread out a large number of people and spent a lot of energy to inquire about various news. Keeping a close eye on every move of Prince Jin's Mansion, while the news from the palace only dares to stare at the outside.

During this period, one or two masters who were originally from the Prince Jin's Mansion were caught. Under the secret torture of King Wu's subordinates, they still refused to say any valuable information.

On September 23rd, it was another cloudy day.

King Wu was sitting in the hall, wiping the blade of his sword with a white cloth, and beside him were four confidantes who were both literate and armed. They came in a hurry, their buttocks were not hot yet, there was a private banquet in the palace tonight.

A servant of the palace slowly walked into the hall.

"Your Highness, that person recruited, saying that the King of Jin gave Anjia a sum of silver, and asked them to pretend to be ordinary people and live in the city for a period of time. If they were not recalled years ago, they would leave the capital with the silver..."

King Wu frowned, raised his head and asked.

"Why are you leaving the capital?"

The servant looked at King Wu's face and said hesitantly.

"Leave the capital, go back to my hometown to start a family and start a business, and no longer involve the affairs of the court..."

"Um?"

King Wu paused, looked around, and the other four also frowned.

"Then does he know about Li Mushu?"

"I asked, but Li Mushu's disappearance was still there, and that person didn't know about it."

An old minister on the side thought for a long time and said carefully.

"Your Highness, it seems that King Jin is dismissing his subordinates because he knows that he is not destined for the throne?"

The old minister had just finished speaking, and a military official immediately refuted.

"No! Didn't you hear what that person said? He might be recalled years ago. It must be that King Jin is preparing for some big move, or he knows something we don't know."

"That's right, I don't move sooner or later, but after the Double Ninth Festival, if I admit defeat, why didn't I act before, and why did I keep the recall? Why didn't you come to ask His Highness King Wu?"

This remark made the old official of Shangshu Province unable to refute, he just frowned and remained silent.

"Your Highness, I have checked the armory of the imperial army in the city. Except for some damage, there is no shortage of ordnance."

Hearing the words, the veteran Minister of Shang Shuxing immediately stared at the military minister who spoke.

"Who told you to do this?"

"it's me."

King Wu answered first.

"Master Zhang, don't worry too much. Master Zhou's elder brother is the General Staff of the Forbidden Army in Gyeonggi Prefecture. To find out the ordnance, you can just read it casually. At night, when you go back to the mansion, the family members have a drink and chat. No one will know."

The old minister opened his mouth, but didn't say anything else.

"Your Highness~~Your Highness~~ Li Mushu has appeared!"

Another servant of the royal residence hurried back from the outside, and King Wu stood up at once.

"where?"

Li Mushu is an old fox. With his intelligence, he could have been a high-ranking official, but in order to help the King of Jin, he has always been willing to be a prince and junior teacher to accompany him. Li Mushu's movements can almost be understood as the movements of the King of Jin.

Naturally, the person who came did not dare to hide it, so he immediately reported the news.

"About an hour ago, he appeared outside Jinwang's mansion. It was an ordinary carriage without anyone accompanying him. Called into the palace."

Hearing this news, the first two military officials stood up.

"Any more news?"

King Wu clenched his fists in his sleeves, and asked again in a low voice.

"temporarily unavailable!"

The servant looked at the situation in the hall and answered carefully.

King Wu took a deep breath and waved his hand.

"Go down."

"yes!"

After the people left, King Wu turned his head to look at the four people in the hall, said nothing, and went back to the seat above.

. . .

On the carriage entering the palace, King Jin looked at Li Mushu with a complicated expression.

"Teacher, why are you back again?"

Li Mushu looked relaxed.

"The family has been entrusted, so I came back halfway. I, Li Mushu, am old, and I don't have long to live. What are you afraid of? Why don't you accompany His Highness King Jin to see the result."

King Jin just grabbed his teacher's hand vigorously and didn't say any more.

When the carriage entered the palace, Li Mushu and King Jin went in together when they arrived at the imperial study room to meet the saint, which was the emperor's request.

After the dragon case, the old emperor, who was rarely in good spirits, was writing something in person.

King Jin and Li Mushu looked at each other after entering, and bowed together to salute.

"Minister Li Mushu." "My son Yang Hao."

"Greetings, Your Majesty!" "Greetings, Father!"

The old emperor raised his head and looked at them. He had no expression for a while. When the backs of the latter two started to feel hot, he just laughed "hehe" and continued writing on the table without speaking.

When the writing was finished, he looked at Eunuch Li beside him, and the latter got the signal, took the jade seal and pressed it on the yellow silk.

"Hao'er, your hard-working drama these days can be regarded as hard work!"

King Jin maintained the posture of bowing his hands, and his palms were sweating when he heard this.

"Son, son..."

"Okay, take it."

Emperor Yuande gestured to the old eunuch next to him, who took the yellow silk with a spool on the table, then walked to King Jin and handed it to him with both hands.

King Jin looked at his father and then at the old eunuch, carefully accepting the imperial edict.

I don't know whether the above content made him feel disappointed or happy.

"What? Not happy?"

"My son dare not... My son, I am very happy..."

"Oh...that's good, go ahead, isn't that why you are worried? Go out and smile more, you know?"

The old emperor smiled and swept his hands.

King Jin and Li Mushu looked at each other, took a deep breath, and saluted again.

"My son, please leave!" "Your servant, please leave!"

Seeing King Jin and Li Mushu recede, Emperor Yuande suppressed his smile and threw the wolf hair in his hand to the ground beside him.

There was a "pop~", the sound of the ivory sleeve hitting the ground was more like hitting the heart of the old eunuch beside him, making the latter's heart beat endlessly.

"Li Sizhe."

"The old slave is here!"

The old emperor turned his head to look at the old eunuch, and then at the pen he threw away on the ground.

"Hao'er is really good to Li Mushu, and the latter is also loyal to Hao'er and willing to die... Tell me, Hao'er is working so hard, isn't Gu a little too heartless?"

"Old, this old slave dare not make any unreasonable comments! Your Majesty has his heart cut off!"

"Hehe...hehehehe...Yes, self-severance, it was also this self-severance at the beginning, the celestial fate of being alone, it seems that the widow's self-severance may not be right..."

The old eunuch was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground.

"Your Majesty! This old slave has absolutely no such intentions, this old slave has absolutely no such intentions!"

The old emperor looked at the old eunuch on the ground and said coldly.

"stand up."

"yes!"

"Secretly spread the news, saying that the imperial decree to the King of Jin just now contains the content of the imperial edict. By the way, when those people finish passing the news, send them on their way."

"yes!"

The old eunuch swallowed, and took the order to leave.

At this moment, King Jin and Li Mushu were walking in the palace, holding the imperial edict in their hands.

Since his father asked him to laugh, King Jin had a happy smile on his face the whole way back, or he was really smiling from the bottom of his heart.

Although the content of the imperial decree was to pass on the Queen of Wu to protect his life, but the words that came out of the royal study to reflect on the father's words were a bit special, and even allowed the King of Jin to save some other arrangements.

. . .

Wu Wangfu, Wu Wang Yang Qing was very concerned about Jin Wang's entry into the palace, but he did not mess up.

In addition to the four ministers who were originally at the mansion, there is also a special guest on the way at this time.

In the main hall of the palace, there are different opinions about Li Mushu and King Jin's entry into the palace. King Wu listened to a few people talk and refute each other in a restless mood.

"Your Highness~~~Your Highness~~~"

A servant came running from outside with a loud voice, which subconsciously made the hearts of everyone in the hall jump.

"Your Highness, there are urgent messages from several places in the palace!"

In the current situation, the King of Wu rarely communicates with the eyes and ears of the palace, unless the matter is important to a certain extent.

King Wu immediately stood up, took a few notes and looked at them himself.

The more he looked, the paler his face became. After reading it, he didn't speak for a long time. After the note was circulated to everyone, the hall became completely silent.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, I only said that it is related to succession... But, it may not be..."

"Master Zhang... the third child came out of the imperial study room, smiling all the way out of the palace..."

King Wu clenched his fists, his nails pierced into his palms, and looked at the garden outside the hall with unfocused eyes. He happened to see a servant leading a fairy-like old man with long beards in.

The old man entered the hall and found that the King of Wu and all the courtiers were silent. He felt inexplicably creepy, but he still hurriedly saluted.

"Old man Du Changsheng, I have met His Royal Highness Prince Jin."

This one is one of the few celestial masters who stay in the capital, and is also recognized by many princes and nobles as capable people. Now that the emperor is no longer obsessed with longevity and elixir, celestial masters are left out in the cold.

"Du Tianshi, I heard that you have the power of qi, so you can see people's qi, and understand their fortunes and misfortunes?"

"Uh... the old man can indeed see some things, but this old man's insignificance is not worth mentioning to a real master of immortality, and his aura is ever-changing, and each person's aura will be different in each period..."

King Wu who was looking at the garden turned his head to look at him.

"That day, can the master see how the king looks like?"

Du Changsheng subconsciously looked at King Wu, and with his subtle magic power, he saw that the purple air was filled with gray mist, which was dark and unclear, and alternately with the rhyme of thunder.

"Your Highness at this moment... seems to be in a hurry, and it makes His Highness Ziwei very angry..."

"Ziwei Qi?"

"That's right, Ziwei Qi is the manifestation of Emperor Star Qi, and those who have this Qi have the fate of emperors!"

King Wu nodded.

"Then Tianshi Du has seen King Jin? How is he?"

"this……"

Du Changsheng looked at King Wu's icy eyes, felt a chill in his heart, and opened his mouth.

"His Royal Highness King Jin is also a prince, and he is more or less like Ziwei, but it is far less prosperous than His Royal Highness Wu!"

"Hehe, isn't it?"

King Wu smiled, turned around and walked back into the hall, picked up the sword on the table, this action made Du Changsheng at the door of the hall retreat subconsciously.

Fortunately, when Du Changsheng saw King Wu, he just swept his hands away, and a servant next to him took him to the banquet hall.

When Du Changsheng left, the veteran beside him said worriedly.

"Your Highness...you..."

King Wu turned to look at the sky outside the hall, closed his eyes first, then opened them again after two breaths, all the chaotic and irritable thoughts in his heart were also closed, he opened his mouth and gritted his teeth.

"Send dead soldiers from various prefectures to intercept and kill King Jin on the way!"

"At the same time, inform Zhang Jianying, Nanjun, and Beixuanying to prepare to raise troops...to force the palace!"