After the new emperor ascended the throne in the first year of Shaolong, he enthroned the former emperor, Zi Yin, as King of Qi, and issued an edict to build a royal palace in Dongcheng.

The Qi Palace, which lasted for more than a year and covered an area of ​​more than 30 acres, was finally completed in late February of the first year of Shaolong.

Concubine Zheng was confused. After Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his more than 30 relatives were sentenced to death, they were forcibly sent to Guangshan Temple to rest. In the end, Princess Yingyun moved to the newly completed Qi Palace with Zhao Yin, the young Qi King.

In addition to giving the prince Zhao Yin a high-level treatment in the residences of the vassal kings, guards, money and valley payments, and education, Emperor Shaolong appointed a series of royal officials including the chief of the royal palace, Sima, consultant, military officer, friend, secretary, Yishan, attendant, and lecturer, and also appointed the former emperors Qian Shangduan, Liu Shiwang, and Qiao Jien, who was nearly 70 years old, to serve as the three most important positions of the Prince of Qi’s Mansion, the envoy of the Palace, and the chief supervisor of the Palace, to assist Princess Yingyun in charge of the affairs of the Prince of Qi’s Mansion to show his kindness to the descendants of the Emperor.

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Of course, King Zhao Yin of Qi is a bloodline of the Zhao family and a young child. As long as no one is rudely discussing the appointment of a crown prince, the King of Qi's mansion is generally calm and cannot match the whirlpool of open and secret struggles in the court at this time.

The court officials had nothing to do with the Qi Palace, only the Prince of Wuwei and Princess Rongle (Zhu Palace) maintained normal contacts with the Qi Palace.

Zhu Zhi resigned as the magistrate of Hualing County and was idle after returning to Jianye. On that day, he brought his wife and youngest son who was about the same age as King Zhao Yin of Qi to visit the Qi Palace.

"The Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple interrogated Xichuan's case of stealing and selling official grain. Two days ago, the case was concluded - the person was stolen and captured. The magistrate of Xichuan called him what he called. He asked many people to plead with the county magistrate, but he could not escape the crime. However, he was sentenced to Liu Chong and the supervisor of Chuzhou, which was a big surprise. The court also had a quarrel over this..." Sitting in the pavilion of the small garden of the royal palace, the spring breeze was blowing cold, and Zhu Zhi talked about the most concerned things in the past few days.

"Just judged the charge?"

Yingyun picked up a dried fruit and stopped it on the lips of Sandang. After hearing Zhu Zhi's conviction, the main culprit in Xichuan's case of robbing and selling official food was convicted. He was also quite shocked and said in confusion.

"I have lost tens of thousands of stones of food and fodder. I don't know how many hungry people starved to death without help. They were just sentenced to the death. His Majesty did not ask about this matter?"

"...... Of course, Dali Temple cannot make any decisions about this matter," Zhu Zhi spread his hands and said, "But it was Wang Boqian and Yang Maoyan who insisted on doing this. Hu Kai and Wang Fan strongly opposed it. Zhou Xiang and Gao Xiang were not offended. Your Majesty seemed to have no choice, and the whole thing was settled."

"..." Yingyun looked at the koi in the Quchi thoughtfully, and said nothing.

Qiao Jien looked drowsy, but looked at Qian Shangduan, who was sitting aside with the flowers, changed his face.

Although Qiao Jien was not very concerned about the affairs in the court and seemed to be in the Qi Palace to retire, it is not difficult for him to guess the mystery behind this matter.

To put it bluntly, officials from Xichuan County stole the stolen grain and obtained the stolen goods, but could not be denied. However, Wang Boqian and Yang Maoyan insisted on conveying to the gentry in the world that Xu Huai was arrogant and domineering and persecuting the court's appointment. For the sake of the overall situation, the court had to surrender to the illusion of Jingxiang.

Yingyun seemed to quickly understand the mystery. He held his cheek and looked at Zhao Yin, the younger brother who was having fun with Zhu Zhi's youngest son in the garden, and said nothing more.

When the two children were tired of playing, Zhu Zhi and his wife and young son left the Qi Prince's Mansion, walked through the streets and alleys in the dusk, and returned slowly.

When Zhu Zhi returned to the mansion, he saw that his father Zhu Han had rarely parked many cars and horses in front of the house where the house was neglected since he was reborn as Minister of the Honglu Temple.

Zhu Zhi jumped out of the carriage, helped his wife down, and then carried his young son who had been sleeping in the carriage for a whole day. When he saw the manager Zhu Fu and two servants walking out, he asked, "Are the guests coming to the family? Who?"

"Come here!" Zhu Fu said.

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?????????????????????Xu Huai used the will of the late emperor to lure the Zheng father and son into the throne, and planned to establish a vassal state in Jingxiang. Zhu Han ordered Zhu Zhi to resign as the magistrate of Hualing and return to Beijing to work in an idle position, thus drawing a clear line with Chu Mountain.

After that, although his uncle Wang Fan worked in Beijing, except for Zhu Zhi and Zhu Tong going to visit him during festivals, the two families had no contact.

Zhu Zhi didn't expect that his uncle Wang Fan would visit him today. He was shocked and suspicious. He didn't know what big thing happened.

Zhu Zhi handed his youngest son to his wife and hugged him. He walked straight to Qingfang Garden where he was accused, but saw Zheng Shou, Wang Kong and others standing in the yard. The hall was filled with a high fever. His father was frowning and sat with Zhu Tong and Wang Fan and Zheng Tu.

"Why is my uncle here today?" Zhu Zhi walked into the hall, saluted Wang Fan, sat down and asked curiously.

"You just came back from the Qi Palace? How is Your Highness doing recently?" Wang Fan did not directly answer Zhu Zhi's question, but asked about the recent situation of King Zhao Yin of Qi first.

"Your Highness is all right - we have been having fun all day today. When we left, we were so sleepy that we could hardly open our eyes." Zhu Zhi said.

"After Xiao Linshi led the remnants of the Khitans to leave Tianshui, he retreated to the Taoyuan area west of Minshan Mountain for temporary rest. He sent a group of people to try to go to Lushui through the Tubo Duogansi area. After Xu Huai learned the news, he decided to send a group of people to go south in the name of a merchant group, enter Dali Kingdom from Guangnan West Road, and take the route to Lushui to respond,"

Wang Fan said the reason for this,

"The memorial was delivered to Beijing yesterday. Because I was worried that time would not be up, I might not be able to wait for the official approval of the court. The merchant group would set out directly from Biyang to go south; Xu Huai also sent a private letter to your father..."

Zhu Zhi glanced at the letter that had been opened before his father's case and asked in surprise:

"It is difficult to go from Taoyuan to Lushui as if it were ascending to the sky. What could the Khitans have to go from Taoyuan to Lushui? Why did Xu Huai have to send people to the banks of Lushui? Besides, Xiao Linshi, under the order of the late emperor, took office as the governor of Qinzhou and led his troops to guard Tianshui. However, since his fall with Gao Junyang at the beginning of last year, he no longer obeyed the control of Xiqin Road and led his troops to move westward to Tianshui, which means he no longer had anything to do with us. Now even if Xu Huai wants to send people to thousands of miles to meet him, the court will not allow it, right?"

Honglu Temple is in charge of the national concierge and has the right to intervene in negotiations and contacts with the Khitans. However, the problem is that after Xiao Linshi and Gao Junyang fell out, the remnants of the Khitans moved to the west of Minshan Mountain. In theory, Dayue has no obligation to rescue the remnants of the Khitans and respond.

Of course, except that his father Zhu Han was appointed as the Minister of the Honglu Temple, which actually did not affect the major policies of the court, except that Da Yue had no obligation to assist the remnants of the Khitan in theory, Zhu Zhi was still curious why Xu Huai had to travel thousands of miles and sent a group of troops deep into the barren land of Lushui to meet the remnants of the Khitan in the south.

Zhu Han sighed softly and handed Zhu Zhi the letter in front of the case to save Wang Fan from being able to explain.

After reading the letter, Zhu Zhi asked in surprise: "Is Xu Huai predicting that Chihu people will attack Dali with a distant army after the attack is unfavorable?"

"From the autumn and winter offensive launched by Chihu people last year, it is still difficult for them to go from the eastern line and break through the defense line south on the western line. Xu Huai also expected that if Jingxiang did not give up Rucai and Caizhou and shrink the defense line to Fangcheng Pass, the middle road would be the only direction for Chihu people to gather troops to attack in a large scale,"

Wang Fan said,

"Xu Huai's prediction of the middle lane battle is right or wrong, and this fall and winter will be verified. At the same time, Jingxiang Road is also making every effort to prepare for this. Jianye will be lazy. But in the southwest direction, if we do not prepare at all, what will we do when a side division of Chihu people fights to Jingjiang Mansion one day?"

"..." Zhu Zhi looked at his father Zhu Han.

Although the imperial court roughly decided by the emperor and the other parties, the matter was involved in the Dali Kingdom. His father Zhu Han, as the Minister of the Honglu Temple, had a certain right to speak.

He didn't know how his father would think of this matter for a moment.

"Since Jingxiang's memorial has arrived in Beijing, no one dares to hide it. I believe it has been submitted to the imperial case at this time," Zhu Han said calmly, "It depends on how Your Majesty decides this matter. As ministers, we will act according to the emperor's will."

"At this point, are you still dissatisfied with Xu Huai's many actions?" Wang Fan asked impatiently, "If Xu Huai did not do anything, the Chihu people gathered 300,000 to 400,000 troops this autumn and winter to force Ru Cai, how should Chushan resist? Will Your Majesty be open-minded and spare no effort to draw elite troops from all over the country to reinforce Ru Cai and Cai to defend against powerful enemies?"

"Who can predict what is impossible?" Zhu Han replied in a plain tone.

Seeing that Wang Fan and Zhu Han had a disagreement, Zheng Tu hurriedly said, "Your envoy wrote to Mr. Zhu, not because he wanted Mr. Zhu to help tell Xiang about the business group. It was because the court had to strengthen its defense on Guangnan West Road. If he could remind the Dali Kingdom to strengthen its military preparations, it would be great. You can't wait until the Chihu people go around the southwest to fight, and the court will make arrangements even more furious?"
Chapter completed!