A spring a long time later.

In the beautiful city of Hangzhou, a young young man rode on the Daqing horse, followed by many companions as servants and guards, with a large formation. The young young man walked by the weeping willows in the West Lake, and from time to time raised his hand to lift the willow branches that rushed to him, with a smile on his face, but he did not have the pretending to be casual, but instead felt a sense of elegance and preciousness, and indescribable freedom.

There were occasional tour boats passing by on the lake, but there was no rumored beautiful woman waving her sleeves. A man next to the young master, who looked like a housekeeper, smiled with a sharp voice: "Everyone said there are many beauties in West Lake, why didn't they see it?"

The young master on the Daqing horse frowned slightly, probably because he felt that what the butler said was too disgusting. Another person who looked like a master said coldly: "The Baoyue Tower is open all over the world, but now someone wants to fish in West Lake every day, who dares to do this business in West Lake?

This is a bit weird and has a hint of uncontrollable coldness.

Today, Nan Qing is still the most powerful country in the world. Although the Kyoto Supervision Office has been restructured and even the position of president has been removed, His Majesty’s supervision of the administration has reached an unprecedented level of strictness. With the fullness of the national treasury, he has also learned the methods of a predecessor. The salaries of officials have been greatly increased. Although the matter of rampant in the countryside cannot be completely eliminated, in a prosperous place like Hangzhou City, can anyone dare to occupy the entire West Lake?

The young man sat on the big green horse frowned slightly, looked at the people who were avoiding their group in the distance, paid attention to their clothes and expressions, and put his mind elsewhere.

A few years ago, Emperor Qing's Northern Expedition, but when the war was about to begin, a shocking change occurred in the Kyoto Palace. Nan Qing rebel Fan Xian entered the palace to assassinate His Majesty. His Majesty unfortunately died. As soon as this happened, the world was shocked and the country was in turmoil. The Nanqing Iron Cavalry, who had already attacked Nanjing, had to withdraw his troops and return, and spared the food that had already been swallowed into his stomach. However, it still occupied a large area of ​​Northern Qi later.

The Northern Expedition of Nanqing was postponed. However, after the new emperor purged the dynasty, cultivated his confidants, and made the people of Qing Dynasty regain their confidence, the Northern Expedition was still not put on the table, and it seemed that he would continue like this forever.

However, the Northern Qi side did not relax its vigilance because of the turmoil in the south. Under the careful governance of the Emperor of the Zhan Family, the Northern Qi country was thriving. After a war, the national strength was gradually recovering. If this stalemate continues, I am afraid that Nan Qing will make another Northern Expedition, which will become particularly difficult.

All insiders, including the Nanqing court, were secretive about the details of the assassination incident that shocked the whole world, but they only nailed Fan Xian to the pillar of shame as quickly as possible.

No one has any doubts about this. After all, the new emperor is the son of His Majesty the Emperor. Although everyone knows that His Majesty and Fan Xian have brotherhood and friendship between teachers and students, it is impossible to let go of the hatred of killing his father.

What surprised everyone was just why the Nanqing court did not drag this shocking incident with the people of Northern Qi or Dongyi City, and took advantage of the anger of the whole country to carry out the Northern Expedition to the end. Instead, it deliberately or unintentionally picked the Northern Qi Dongyi out of this matter.

No one knows that the young master on Daqing's horse is the current Emperor of Nanqing, and naturally no one can recognize him. The master who is with him at this time is Nanqing's current number one master, Ye Wan, deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

If the people of Northern Qi discovered this news and knew that Emperor Nanqing and Ye Wan appeared in Hangzhou far away from Kyoto at the same time, they would probably send a large number of killers to try their luck. After all, if Emperor Nanqing and Ye Wanruo died at the same time, Nanqing's vitality would probably be hurt by half.

Now Emperor Nanqing is Li Chengping, the third prince born to the late emperor and Concubine Yi. He dared to stay away from Kyoto to visit Hangzhou for spring today, so he naturally did not worry about these safety issues. First, Ye Wan, who was by his side, was originally a very few ninth-grade strongman in the world, and second, there were many big masters hidden around him. The most important thing was that on the edge of this West Lake, Li Chengping did not believe that anyone else in this world could hurt him.

"Ten years ago, it should have been the sixth year of Qingli. I spent a whole year in Jiangnan." Li Chengping sat on Daqing's horse, looking at the gentle waters of the West Lake, and his eyes naturally became gentle. "Although I have been in Suzhou Huayuan for a long time, I have lived in the land and house by the West Lake for a few days. Now I think about it, this is the most relaxing day in my life."

"Your Majesty shoulders the peace of the world and the expectations of all people. You can no longer be as relaxed and happy as you were when you were young." Ye Wan said indifferently. At this time, the two were on the bank of the willow dike in West Lake, surrounded by people from the palace, and pedestrians avoided them from afar, so there was no way to avoid the words between the king and the ministers.

Li Chengping smiled slightly as he listened to Ye Wan's old and implicit advice, but did not express disgust. One reason was that he respected Ye Wan's loyalty to him, and the other reason was that Ye Wan was his martial arts master at the time... Although to this day, Li Chengping only regarded the man who had not seen for a long time as the only Mr. Di.

The group walked slowly along the beautiful willow embankment of West Lake, heading towards the mountainside, breaking the place to maintain the peace of the day for many days, and coming to an elegant courtyard with gray walls and black eaves and bamboo wind.

"I haven't come here for many years, but this yard hasn't changed much."

Li Chengping got off the horse and his face was calm. The gate of the courtyard had already opened wide and was ready to welcome His Majesty's arrival in a concealed manner. Standing in front of the courtyard where the central gate was still open, Emperor Nanqing tidied up his clothes and stepped in.

The mansion next to West Lake faces the water and is surrounded by mountains. The back is quiet, but there is not much wet feeling of mountains. The gentle wind of the lake water passes through the woods and penetrates into the mansion, making the voice of the speech in the study behind the courtyard become extremely gentle.

"Sir, I have all lost all my support in the past few years..."

"Sir, I don't understand..."

"gentlemen……"

The man who was called Mr. Li Chengping, the emperor of Nanqing, was silent for a long time and never spoke until a long time later. The voice sounded softly: "Since Your Majesty is here, let's take a rest in West Lake. The scenery in Jiangnan is beautiful and the climate is good, which is better than the heat, winter and cold in Kyoto."

Li Chengping's voice was also silent for a long time, and with a subtle resentment, he slowly said: "Sir, I... am the emperor of a country after all."

"Your Majesty. I know this very well, but... I am no longer a minister of Qing State, aren't I?"

"Sir, you will eventually give the court an explanation about the matter in the inner treasury. Now the Supervision Bureau has found out the whereabouts of that village. As an emperor, I can't pretend to be deaf and dumb."

"Your Majesty, if any of the adults are angry about this, you might as well let him come to me. I don't mind letting him know what the surname of this treasury is."

At this end of the conversation, there was a deadlock. The study room was leaning against the other side of the courtyard, with a window open, and the glass was penetrated. Fan Xian sat next to the Mingji under the window, moved his eyes away from Li Chengping's face, squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the peach blossom in the courtyard.

Several years have passed. Fan Xian has also disappeared from the world for several years, and has even disappeared from the discussions in the tea shops. There is no doubt that many people have forgotten the poets, powerful ministers, and the final rebellion of the Nanqing Dynasty. His face has not changed much. Years of time are not enough to add a wind and frost to the ends of his eyebrows. It is still as it was in the past. But his expression is becoming more and more calm and calm.

Li Chengping glanced at him. He slowly raised the teacup in his hand and drank it lightly, without deliberately hiding the worry between his eyebrows. Ye Wan, who had been standing beside him, squinted his eyes and looked at the man who was like the man from Tian’s family, and his brows gradually frowned. He had not seen this person for many years. Although he knew in secret that this person was nourishing in the world, Ye Wan could never accept this fact.

A rebel who assassinated the land of the late emperor could still live a quiet and stable life in Nanqing's land! This absurd fact made Ye Wan unable to suppress the anger in his heart. However, he knew that it was not the time of attack, but he still couldn't help but say slowly: "Mr. Xiao Fan, it is best to keep the duty of his ministers in front of His Majesty."

Fan Xian turned around and smiled, saying nothing, because he knew Ye Wan's temperament, and also knew his current status in the court. He also knew why Ye Wan had such a deep hostility towards him and his duty as a subject? If he really regarded himself as a minister of Nan Qing for his whole life, there would never be any such things in the palace back then.

Not only Ye Wan wanted to eat Fan Xian and sleep with her flesh, but in fact, most of the loyal officials in the Nanqing court had such a strong hatred for the disappeared Lord Fan. In order to calm this hatred, the Nanqing court in recent years had already destroyed the Fan family's family. All the Fan family's property was confiscated and not included in the national treasury, and handed over to the Prince Jing's Mansion for custody.

Because His Majesty's mother was born in the Duke of Liu, so the Duke of Guo was not dragged down by Fan Xian, and most of the Fan clan members had already left Kyoto, and their family property was confiscated, but they were handed over to the Prince Jing's Mansion, which could block the mouths of most ministers, but they could not really hurt Fan Xian.

Fan Xian smiled at Li Chengping gently and absolutely sincerely, and said, "I haven't met His Majesty for many years. Although I'm busy with court affairs, I'd better stay for two more days."

He ignored Ye Wan at all. This was a kind of self-sustainment, also a kind of indifference and confidence.

Li Chengping smiled slightly and said, "Okay, I haven't seen Sister Chen and that pair of live treasures for a long time."

Fan Xian also laughed and said, "Shuning and Liang Ge'er are afraid that they will follow Sisi to practice big words. Your Majesty will go first, and I will change my clothes." He smiled bitterly and said, "I'm really negligent when I'm sleepy today."

Emperor Nanqing Li Chengping and the famous general of the Qing army, Ye Wan, walked out of the study like two ordinary guests. Fan Xian did not accompany him in person. This treatment and this kind of situation are really hard to understand. However, Li Chengping and Ye Wan remained silent and showed no anger because the previous conversation in the study had completely demonstrated Fan Xian's attitude.

The butler of the West Lake Fan House led the way humbly. The butler had a pretty face, which made people feel happy and close at first glance. However, there were still a few acne marks on his face, which was a pity. However, with the warm and peaceful smile on his face, few people would pay attention to this.

Walking on the quiet and beautiful stone path in the house, Li Chengping looked at the back of the butler in front of him. He suddenly frowned slightly, feeling that the back looked familiar, especially when this person responded before, with a deep court style, which reminded His Majesty Nanqing of an insignificant person.

"Hong Zhu?" Li Chengping frowned slightly and shouted tentatively.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The butler of Fan Zhai froze slightly, then turned around and bowed respectfully.

Li Chengping looked at him with a strange look. After looking at him for a long time, Youyou said, "When sir left Kyoto, I just wanted you to leave me. I have been puzzled. I didn't expect that you could always be with him."

His Majesty the Emperor had countless thoughts, but in Fan's house, he didn't say much. He just waved his hand and asked Hong Zhu to take him to the side courtyard.

——I am the dividing line of the last chapter—

Emperor Nanqing, who was on a tour in a concealed manner, did not stay by the West Lake for long. In just three days, after two futile conversations with Fan Xian again, Emperor Li Chengping and Ye Wan left Fan's house next to the West Lake and moved towards Suzhou.

In the entire Nanqing court, only the top-level figures knew that Fan Xian was now living in seclusion on the bank of West Lake. Xue Qing, who is still serving as the governor of Jiangnan Road, naturally knew that after Li Chengping ascended the throne, he rotated the governor of the seventh route in the world, but he never moved Jiangnan Road. On the one hand, it was because Jiangnan Road was the top priority of Qing Kingdom, and on the other hand, it might not have the idea of ​​using Xue Qing, a powerful figure, to check and balance the idea of ​​living in seclusion in Fan Xian.

Amid the sound of horse hooves, Li Chengping looked quiet. After a long silence, he suddenly spoke: "Mr. I took Hong Zhu away from the palace. I thought it was true as the rumors said. Hong Zhu was the leader and eunuch that Mr. hates the most. I still felt a little reluctant... Now I find that Hong Zhu is actually his person."

Li Chengping frowned slightly, and changed his name to Fan Xian from Mr. to a straight name. Hong Zhu's identity exposed made the strongest king in the world feel a hint of uneasiness and anger.

"Who could have thought that he had so many people hidden in the palace? No wonder he could enter and exit the palace without any obstacles. He could not hide anything in the palace. Even his father was eventually defeated by his hands."

Ye Wan was silent on the side. Of course, he hoped that His Majesty the Emperor could order the court to launch the most thorough attack on the paradigm forces hidden in the dark. However, the changes in current affairs in recent years made Ye Wan clearly feel what kind of influence the little Lord Fan, who nominally retired, had on Nan Qing and the whole world, and it was basically impossible to cleanse the other party in this situation.

Li Chengping, who was sitting on the big green horse, suddenly sighed and said, "I know what you want to say, needless to say. I have been learning from my husband since I was a child. I know what kind of temperament my husband is, and my mother will never allow me to have any other ideas."

He turned his head to look at Ye Wan, thinking that in the court, this person is probably the only loyal minister who is the most capable of assisting him. As for the sir, how could he assist him? He just asked him not to cause any major trouble.

Are you a little unwilling to accept it? Fortunately, Li Chengping has been sitting on the dragon throne for a long time, but deep down in his heart, he still had the fear, fear, gratitude and... worship of Fan Xian when he was a boy. This kind of emotion is very complicated, so his eyes are also very complicated at this time. Looking at the beautiful spring scenery in the southeast through the green trees beside the official road, he said quietly: "Without a sir, I would not be able to sit on this chair."

Except for the literati and officials in the court, they still retained a strong murderous intent towards the name Fan Xian. In fact, the people in the world were not very angry with Fan Xian. Those things in Puze, the stools and feet, and the halls were engraved with the word "Hang" in Hangzhou.

Life by the West Lake is very comfortable. Fan Xian has lived a peaceful life for several years, but the peace of this spring was disturbed by the sudden visit of His Majesty the Emperor. His center of the earth seemed to have escaped from the calm state. On the morning after Li Chengping left, he began to wander in the garden with fresh dew.

A pair of children are already old and have already begun to enlightenment. Now they are working hard to practice big characters every day with Sisi. When they were in Danzhou, Sisi copied a lot of stone notes for Fan Xian. The small calligraphy was written in extremely beautiful hands. Fan Xian was not worried, but he felt sorry for the children who were about to get up so early.

Lin Wan'er walked up from behind him, took a single robes and put them on his ground. She said, "Be careful to catch a cold."

"When did I play mahjong yesterday?" Fan Xian looked at her hurriedly and said jokingly. Now Sisi is still responsible for the children's reading. Lin Wan'er has nothing to do except occasionally checking the account books of the Hangzhou Club, so she devotes her limited life to the infinite wall work, and enjoys it.

"These people in the family are not good enough, they will be dispersed after playing for a few games." Lin Wan'er responded with a smile. Now she is also a young woman in her twenties, but she is still so sunny and soft when she smiles, and her big pupils are still not covered in dust.

"When the second child comes back, let's see how he deals with you." Fan Xian said with a smile.

"When talking about Sizhe, I came yesterday. I brought my father's message. His Majesty was talking to you at that time. I was afraid that these things would be important, so I didn't bother you."

Yuchang is the tiger guard in black. He followed Fan Jian, the Minister of Revenue in the resigned place for many years and was the most trustworthy confidant of the Fan clan. Hearing this sentence, Fan Xian frowned slightly and asked, "What's wrong with my father?"

"It's nothing big, I just let us go back to Danzhou later. Grandma misses you, and Sizhe also wants to rush back from Shangjing City. I'm afraid I won't have time to come to Hangzhou first." Lin Wan'er replied softly.

Fan Xian said, "Then go back, that boy Sizhe..." For some reason, he sighed and said to Wan'er with a smile: "I thought about things beautifully at the beginning. When the third brother became the emperor, Sizhe could return to Beijing. Maybe he will be the Minister of Revenue in the future and help the third brother... However, now he is my younger brother, I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to appear in Kyoto in this life."

"Don't worry about these things first. But Yuchang asked on behalf of my father. What exactly does Shijia Village do to deal with them?"

"Take it slowly as planned." Fan Xian's smile gradually faded away, and he said calmly and seriously: "Since the court knows, why should I cover up too much? The third child still speaks as untrue as he was when he was a child. He was obviously worried, but he refused to speak out thoroughly. Since that is the case, I don't have to say too much."

"When it comes to Your Majesty, you have a problem with your attitude towards Your Majesty these two days. Didn't you notice Ye Wan's black face?" Lin Wan'er said with a smile: "Although you have different relationships with him, he is the Emperor after all, and at least he must do his best."

Fan Xian laughed twice, touched Wan'er's head, and after a moment of silence, he said seriously: "It took me half a lifetime to not kneel down, so naturally I can't make an exception for him."

Yes, in the world today, whether it is the emperor of Northern Qi or the emperor of Nan Qing, Fan Xian doesn't have to kneel down in front of them. If he kneels down, he is afraid that these two emperors will fall into some suspicion.

"The third brother is already old, so it's time for him to have his own thoughts." The couple walked to the depths of the bamboo forest and walked towards the white stone protrusion in the distance. As they walked, Fan Xian said, and a complicated smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Last year, Lao Dai was driven out of the palace by him. It was not because of my geography that Lao Dai saved his life, which was also considered as the third brother giving me some face."

"Hou Jichang was also picked up by him." Fan Xian walked through the bamboo forest, stood in front of the protrusion made of white stones, and said quietly: "This is not possible."

Although the words were simple, they showed an unquestionable power. Lin Wan'er stared at his side face in a daze, not thinking that his husband's words of interference in the government were so incredible. In the years after Emperor Qing's death, all the forces related to Fan Xian seemed to have been confiscated and dispersed by the court. However, people who really understand the inside story know that once Fan Xian is willing, he can still use extremely powerful power.

"Although Lao Wang retreated, Ziyue was still working in Beijing, so he would leave this matter to him."

"Didn't you never want to interfere with the Kyoto DPRK? Why did you do this this time? Are you not worried about angering Your Majesty?"

"It's about Ji Chang, and this is Your Majesty trying to anger me... As for the affairs in the court, I'm not qualified to care about it, but if he tries to test my bottom line step by step, I don't mind putting the bottom line forward." Fan Xian looked at his wife and said, "I know the third brother better than you, and the boys in the old Li family are not simple."

After saying this, he turned around and looked quietly at the protrusion made of white stone. In fact, it was a tomb, Chen Pingping's tomb, which was set up by him on the edge of the West Lake with beautiful mountains and rivers.

After Emperor Qing, there was no one in the world who could compete with Fan Xian, and Li Chengping could not do it. Fan Xian's power was too wide and too scattered, and even Emperor Qing, who was extremely powerful back then, had to be bound by Fan Xian and only had a war between two people, let alone Li Chengping today.

Fan Xian has the world's number one money shop in his hands, and eight ninth-grade strong men remain loyal to Jianlu. He still has countless eyeliners and confidants in the inner warehouse. The Ming family, which Xia Qifei is in charge, is still the largest imperial merchant in the Qing Kingdom. Fan Sizhe's business in Northern Qi is still the biggest inheritor of smuggling in the inner warehouse, and the little princess in the Northern Qi Palace is his biological daughter...

Concubine Ning was taken to Dongyi City a few years ago. The ones who went with her included the eldest princess, Masso, the lady from the Wang Grand Governor's family, Wang Tong'er. Two years ago, the eldest prince returned to Beijing to see him and met him as usual. However, the current Dongyi City was nominally attached to Nanqing, and in fact it was like an independent kingdom ruled by the eldest prince and Fan Xian.

Wang Tong'er moved to Dongyi City with the Prince's Mansion, and Wang Zhikun naturally could not continue to be in the position of the Grand Governor of Yanjing. After being stabbed by a shadow, General Ye Chong was heartbroken by His Majesty's death. After the Nanqing Rebellion barely maintained the court order for a period of time, he resigned and left. The Nanqing military, with the retreat of these two elders, began a metabolism. Ye Wan officially stood on the Kyoto stage, beside His Majesty's dragon robe, but this metabolism could not be completed at least in a short period of time.

Fan Xian was able to have a perfect equality and even better position with the emperors on earth. In addition to the above reasons, the most important thing is his past history and the strong military support he had.

People close to Fan Xian weave a big net in the world. One by one, one by one, no matter who wants to hurt him or one of them, they will be hit by Fan Xian. Everyone knows that Fan Xian’s strength and Fan Xian’s ruthlessness.
To be continued...